Dr. Gerald Jeffers: Better - 11/27/2017

[Music] you're engaging your Bibles right now as we're in the book of Hebrews chapter number eight and in verse six King James version of the Bible Hebrews chapter eight verse six I want to thank the sound people particularly the ones doing the scriptures they know me used to getting the scriptures in advance but a lot of times the way the Lord works with me he gives me on the fly so they're having to fly with me so if they're a little slow getting him up you be patient as well because they're they're not having it the way they're used to having it so thank you sound people for working alone we appreciate that Hebrews chapter eight verse six and it says but now he had obtained a more excellent everyone say excellent a more excellent ministry by how much also he is the mediator everyone say of a better of a better covenant which was established upon everyone shall better batter promises did you catch these things that he just listed you have a more excellent ministry you also have a and you also have a Wow now the thing we have to start becoming concerned about and by the way I'm going to talk to you tonight on from the book of Hebrews we're gonna do a little study just on the book of Hebrews tonight and the key word from the book of Hebrews is better in case you didn't realize it but the thing we have to be concerned about is this he's comparing the Old Covenant to the New Covenant and he's telling us everything we have is better than if it's better why did many times they have better experiences with God than we do could it be that we're not taking advantage of the better and they with less experienced more somebody lift your hands say Lord increased my hunger increase my thirst increased my passion increased my desire give me a passionate pursuit of your presence I want more I want better I want greater I want to know you I don't want to just go through mundane Christianity I want in the maze of mediocracy I don't want to ponder the pool of popularity I want more because you've granted me more you've given me more you've stated I have more now help me to utilize the more we thank you for it right now father we speak it as done by your grace in your mercy in Jesus name we pray amen before you're seated would you greet somebody in the house of the Lord today and say God loves you so much come on turn around hug somebody shake someone's hand smile at somebody tell them God loves you so much you might be the only smile they've seen all day long some people as they're doing that if you would get from me Hebrews chapter 1 verse 3 in the amplified classic Hebrews chapter 1 verse 3 amplified classic that's all right you can keep greeting each other you're fine I was just helping the sound people be a little prepared we also want to thank God for pastor and sister Tamil which you put your hands together for them amen thank you for who you are man the Bible tells us to give honor to whom honor is due we seem to get real nervous when we honor people but it is scriptural to honor you can't honor God and not honor his representatives say Amen we just had such good fellowship with them we love them and just so down to earth people we appreciate them a man and to Pastor and sister Peters we thank God for them amen we just so have enjoyed fellowshipping with them getting to know them as well and it's been a privilege and an honor to my lovely wife Amen anointed vest so appreciate her amen and all of you the people of God that are here tonight let's deal with this on as it is from the word of the Lord the book of Hebrews before we get into the scripture let me just give you a quick background for what we're concerned with the book of Hebrews the book of Hebrews is very unique in quite a few different respects number one it is the it is the only book and if you have your Bibles you will see this from verse one as you can keep it right at verse three but for those of you that have your Bibles which I'm sure you do so no question there but from verse one Hebrews one and one from the King James you will see this it says God who's at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the father's by the prophets did you know it's the first word it's the only book where the first word opens up with God within the entires Bible and so the writer of Hebrews is very very versed in the Old Testament extremely knowledgeable there's a debate on who wrote the book because the Pauline epistles memory the the letters epistle means letter the epistles that were written by the Apostle Paul Paul me always opens up his letter with his name as you can see this doesn't open up with a name so there's debates on whether Paul wrote it or not some actually feel maybe a Paulus wrote it because the policy was also very versed in no Testament Scriptures whoever wrote it wanted to get across to the Jews that the reason why you need to let go of Judaism he's because you got better I know you did this for 2,000 years and it was good we're not speaking against it it was good but now there's something far better so what he says God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the father's by the prophets he said this he has spoken unto us and these last days by his son so he starts off by comparing mediators he said in the Old Testament they spoke by prophets right now is just doing what the prophets they spoke by prophets in the New Testament God speaks to you from his son someone say I have a better mediator all right so what makes this better mediator we won't turn there are those you taking notes just write it down first Timothy chapter 2 verse 5 first Timothy chapter 2 verse 5 okay if you're gonna learn saints of God you're gonna have to come to church like you're going to school okay reason why a lot of us don't know much Bible we don't invest much you want to learn you take notes you you know I mean you you write you you go over the notes you a you you get this stuff in you all right hanging around churches not enough to become who God wants you to be you're gonna have to invest in the things of God amen so first Peter chapter 2 verse 5 simply begins to tell you this that there is one mediator between God and men the man Christ Jesus so we have a better mediator because he's the god man what are you trying to say it means Hebrews actually tells you this I'm just gonna let you take down some notes we're gonna stick with the scripture a moment but I'm gonna let you take down some notes so you understand what he's saying and Hebrews chapter four you're gonna see that he starts telling us in in verse 14 that we have a great high priest and he tells you that he's been touched with the feelings of your infirmities God man so much man that he had to go to sleep so much God that he was forever awake so much man till he ate food so much God he was creating the food he was eating so much man till he drank from Mary's breasts so much God till he drank the he was creating the milk he was drinking so much man till he was being held up by Mary's arms so much God till he's holding the world Mary was walking on this was a mystery in flesh not the second person of a Trinity you say what's the difference we in the second person of Trinity and the fullness of the Godhead well let Jesus explained that to you those you taking notes again st. John chapter 17 verse 3 Saint John chapter 17 verse 3 Jesus says this this is life eternal that they may know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent the knowledge of God is life eternal you don't simply have life eternal by having the Holy Ghost and baptism in Jesus name your life eternal is based on the knowledge of God how much do you know him so the god man he was under able to understand all of our pain all of our infirmities and yet he had the ability to deliver us no other mediator possessed that say Amen now he comes the verse 3 I want you to catch this this is very pivotal in the amplified brings it out so well he is the sole expression this is talking about the son Christ Jesus he is the sole expression of the glory of God the light being the out rang or radiance of the divine he is the perfect imprint and the very image okay see if you don't understand these things you don't stand why God says certain things God tells you they shall not make any graven images before me I was don't make an image and pray to that image why because God said I'll make my own thank you very much because the one you make doesn't talk doesn't think doesn't walk that doesn't represent me so I'll make my own that walks talks has dominion has authority so listen to what he says and he's the perfect imprint and the very image of God's nature upholding maintain it you got to hear this upholding maintaining guiding propelling the universe by his did you he said his word upholds guides maintains you do you know that man science is behind God science always follows God have you ever noticed that everything is becoming more and more speech activated did you notice how the universe is run by words everything's held up by what he says that's why God tells you to watch your speech watch what you're saying over yourself because everything's if you keep calling yourself stupid if you keep saying I'll never get this if you keep saying we're always gonna be broke you're going to get what you're saying universe is upheld by words it's propelled by the word so this mediator is sovereign sovereign means he's an absolute control concerning all things at all times so he said as great as Moses was as great as Elijah was they were not the son of God and more importantly they were not God to himself in other words they were not suffering this mediator that's been given to you understands why you're crying even when you don't understand this mediator understands the way you feel even when you can't explain it this mediator knows why you're struggling it relates to your humanity and your tiredness relates a man and understands your hunger and your sleepiness this mediator understands your struggles in humanity and yet this mediator has the power to pick you up and bring you to where you need to be somebody lift your hands and shout thank you let's move to verse 4 let's Moody verse 4 I don't know how much of Hebrews we're gonna be able to cover but not tonight sir not unless you want to go out bad morning this rider loads us up in fact Hebrews contains the most Old Testament Scriptures if we combine all of the epistles together outside of the book of Romans Hebrews contains more Old Testament Scriptures than all the other epistles combined this writer indulged into the Old Testament and begin to train us into an understanding now let's go to verse 4 taking place taking a place in a rank by which he himself became as much superior to angels as the glorious name title which he has inherited is different from and more excellent than theirs I don't know if you notice what he just did there he first started talking to me about the prophets being a mediator he then jumps to the art or being an Oracle he then jumps to the ultimate Oracle it's angels he now is getting ready to show you watch this the one that speaks to you now is greater than angels know a lot of you need to know that because you keep praying to see an angel and the ones as in sight of you is greater than a name you act like it's some big deal seen angel whence there's somebody inside of you that has a higher rank I higher up God give us revelation if you want to ask to see anybody ask to see him he's been given a greater name than they had he inherited the name the name Jesus means Jehovah has become my salvation the name of the Old Testament God Jehovah let's go to Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 and we'll come back to this Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 alright you can leave this up on the screen for us Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 we're just going to have to cover some scriptures around scriptures right this is Scripture we love to quote we're coming into the holiday season and this is one of our favorite scriptures that we love to quote once again if you're not careful you caught a lot of stuff and you can miss really what's being said unless God helps you Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 for unto us a lot a child is born unto us a now please note it's singular everyone say singular we're talking about one son a son a is given and the government shall be upon his shoulders whose shoulders is the government upon his which is the son who you missed that already see you're quoting it and you're not getting it because if you got it the government wouldn't be on your shoulders it would be on when you worry the government's on your shoulders when you're fearful and you're trying to analyze it and you're trying to figure it out the government's on your shoulders the government belongs on see one reason why God has you to lift your hands is so you can get that off your shoulders and give it back to the one I belong the government shall be upon his shoulders and his name singular shall be called know the name of the son shall be called wonderful counsellor the mighty God the way women what's the name of the son what's the last name we just gave oh the name of the son is the everlasting father you keep quoting this and don't see it's one God the name of the son is see he inherited his name the name of the Father everlasting father means father eternity and principies these are five names of God these are five levels and five stages which God will take you through which in your Christian walk each name represents a different stage that God is dealing with you on I'll cover it real fast wonderful that's the way he always starts off when you finally experience him my god he like huh one person said the only thing I did wrong was stared of holiness a little bit too long but did you hear the second name yeah because after being wonderful now he's gonna get all up in your kool-aid and one discuss the flavor Oh once getting wonderful he now turns the council on what's gets all up in your business he wants to talk about your daddy he wants talk about your mama he wants to talk about the heartaches you have he wants to talk about your feelings and why you feel that way and some of you want to make a peace treaty with God I don't go there you don't go there we'll be fine he won't do that counselor oh then what he did was he do he moves to mighty God because after he's uncovered all your problems and you realize my god I'm a mess he goes mighty God I can handle it I know how to stretch your mess into a message and I know how to stretch the message into a messenger and make you a messenger of the mess I'm mighty God and then what happens is what I've always wanted I did all of those first three things to get you to then this one father of eternity or everlasting father I did this to get you into relationship I did all this in order for you to come into relationship with me and then Prince of Peace I want you to learn how to have peace within your mind your emotions and your spear and then I'll cycle back around again and start the process all over again there's five names because the number five deals with grace because it's by grace these names are applied into you and you begin to get to know him somebody lift your hand say Lord I want to get to know you I need to know who she kita I may may make he shattered I ma ma ma ma che Tay I need to know you I need to know you I need to know you hmmm alright let's go back to Hebrews let's go to chapter 2 of the book of Hebrews verse 9 Hebrews chapter 2 verse 9 alright we're gonna skip through some of this because there is a whole lot here in chapter 1 he really continues with his sovereignty because what you need to know is I don't care what you're facing what you're dealing with if it's sickness finances if it's you're having difficulty on your job if someone in school is giving you a hard time if one of your family members seem to even become you difficulty it doesn't matter what it is when you recognize that he is sovereign no one stacks up to him now if you compare the problem to you you have no choice but to become overwhelmed but if you compare the problem to him the problem has no choice but to become overwhelmed see the understanding is this that many of us the difficulty we're really having is we keep going to God telling God how big our problems are we need to go to God our tell go to the problem tell it how big our God is your God is far bigger I don't care what you're gonna face your God is far larger that means this person may be giving you a hard time but there's somebody far greater than that individual say man now I want you to see this because we're getting down into humanity again without humanity this is not possible what we're getting ready to read I need you to understand this God could have just stayed up in heaven and say I love you he could have instead he chose to become one of us now you have to understand one of the reasons why you can't slap a spirit have you ever seen spit in the wind he knows what it does to you see you can curse God as a spirit it's gonna come right back to your face he's too vast so he took on a body so that when you spit on him it stayed on his face hmm I understand snow a lot of shouting right now I get it because you know what's coming next that's why if you're gonna be like him you two are going to suffer everybody wants all these great ministries oh my god it might lose me you don't want to pay nothing god you're supposed to drop it on you you're supposed to come up and someone's supposed to pray for you and you're supposed to walk away dented asleep or Christian it costs God his life to become your Savior now what is it costing you to know God most of it you won't lose friends you're too afraid to come out of your comfort zone I don't like that I don't want to do that it's amazing God will come from heaven to earth to deal with you you won't even cross a Pew to shake someone's hand is God trying to put you on some guilt trip no what God trying to do is reason with you as a lover all right let me let me show you this before we get here we'll come back to this in a moment go to Psalms 22 a moment verse 6 so you can switch the screen to this police Psalms 22 verse 6 you're gonna have to see this because some of you don't really understand what was like for Jesus to become a man so prophetically Jesus tells us what it's like to become human but I am what now the word worm here translates maggot maybe you'll remember what we used to do in the early centuries of Medicine they would take maggots and put them inside of people's cuts and wounds to eat out the infection Jesus said if you want to know it was like for me to become a man it would be like you becoming a maggot no one's signing up nobody going me nobody wants to be a maggot now you understand God this was a tremendous demotion down the ladder do you really understand what he's saying what he's saying is I am the maggot that went into your wound to eat out your infection big enough to know you small enough to serve you I went inside your wound and ate out your infection you say where do you get that from we get that from second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21 see he ate out the infection of sin sin was an infection to be sin was eating me up sin was destroying me someone shot I got a better mediator as great as Moses was graze Elijah Elijah they could not do this 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21 if he would shift their to please we can look at that also me amplified 2nd King James says but he that knew no sin was made sin that we might be made the righteousness of God but look at this for our sakes he made Christ virtually to be sin see he ate it out and became it he didn't become a sinner he became sin was the difference a sinner will refer to a particular type of individual but sin is universal to everybody so he became sin so that in and through him we might become and dude with viewed as being in examples up the righteousness of someone lift your hand say I'm the righteousness of God do you understand what he's trying to get across here I gave you a better covenant I gave you a better promises I gave you a better mediator therefore you are better you are the righteousness of God stop letting the devil make you feel that that's being proud God said I made you my righteousness it means you're in right standings with me it means you got the power to think right the power to talk right the power to act right and the power to be right he said that I may be endued with viewed as being an examples of the righteous of God what we ought to be approved acceptable in right relationship with him by His goodness all right let me come back to Hebrews chapter 2 verse 9 in the amplified now is we're getting there I want you to understand this Hebrews chapter 2 verse 9 in case you don't understand what we're really dealing with we're dealing with covenant covenant is the entire Bible saints of God if you don't understand covenant you don't understand the Bible the word Testament means covenant God is a covenant keeping God covenant means a binding agreement between two or more parties or individuals and parties covenant is agreement God operates by covenant covenant will either make you alive or covenant will kill you that's why you must understand a no covenant that's why God said in hosea chapter 4 verse 6 you can write it down when i turning there hosea chapter 4 verse 6 God said my people are destroyed by the what you're not destroyed by the devil you're not destroyed amen because someone molested you you're not destroyed because you don't have enough money you're not just sure because you have sickness in your body you're not destroyed amen because someone doesn't like you you're destroyed by what you don't know about this covenant you want to you want to know what the devil actually does the devil tempts you so that you will violate the terms of the Covenant and then covenant judges you okay I mean some y'all look at me like a goat looking at a new gate so let me help you so go to Romans chapter 8 so you can see this outcome I'm trying to get to 9 here y'all you know the scenic route you don't know me scenic route okay Romans chapter 8 verse 6 let's look at this in the amplified classic I want to see I want to show you what I mean by what Satan tries to get you to violate covenant and then what the results are I want you to see it now the mind of the flesh I like this because the amplified can explain flesh when the Bible Nomi talks about flesh it's not talking about your skin it's talking about the nature or character that is in you that is opposite to God okay so now the mind of the flesh is gonna break down which is sense and reasoning which is not influenced by the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost did you catch that whenever you start making decisions whenever you start operating in feelings and logic that's not being influenced by the Holy Ghost this is called the mind of the flesh or King James would call it the carnal mind hmm one person called it the carnal mind because it's real sticky no so what the devil tries to get me to do is operate by my five senses and by the laws of this natural world if I choose to do that watch the results what's the results of this it says that it is what the Covenant judged you so I'm in the house of God I don't feel like praising them you ever had that all right the rest of y'all we beat this bit of lying we all have times when we know what we ought to do we just don't feel like doing it I don't feel like lifting my hands I know I should lift my hands I don't feel like opening on my mouth right now I'm tired my feet hurt so I began to reason and justify that I can either just sit there or better yet I can stay home God said that brings death to you because the mind of the Spirit says he's worthy the mind of the Spirit says you have strength because he gave you strengthen the mind of the Spirit says I will I didn't say I felt like it I will bless the Lord at all times and his praise shall continually be in my mouth I must will myself to praise him I didn't say I felt like praising him I said hi somebody open up your mouth somebody lift your hands somebody will yourself to praise him I don't feel like praising him but I will listen to what he said now he said it's death death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin both here and Hereafter so what he tells you is whenever you violate covenant and particularly operating your carnal mind you will not only experience death in the afterlife you will experience death now and you will experience all the miseries that come from sin well what does that mean okay death to your joy that's why depression death to your peace that's why confusion death to your faith that's why doubt death to your love that's why fear remember perfect love cast out fear not faith fears not the opposite of faith fears the opposite of love doubt is the opposite of faith so he said whenever you start violating covenant and you start going by your five senses and you start going by your moods and you start going by your logic you will experience death lift your hands and say lord teach me to live by KUHF and had to come on teach me to learn covenant and teach me how to live by covenant you got to teach me to learn covenant and teach me to live by covenant now let's go to back to Hebrews chapter 2 verse 9 I want you to see this Hebrews chapter 2 verse 9 as you can see we're not even out of the 2nd chapter and we've skipped quite a bit in Hebrews we're jumping around but I want you to catch this Hebrews chapter 2 verse 9 but we are able to see Jesus who has ranked lower than the Angels for a little while you say what are you talking about it means he took on flesh flesh and blood which made him a little lower than angels even though he was superior to angels chapter 1 already told us he was superior okay maybe you're really not getting it you know happens a lot of you once God elevates you to a position you know not a humble your self and go back to something else you think that's not right so nuts God will call you to be a minister or pastor and all of a sudden you have to go in and clean out the toilet that's not that she'd be doing this on normal basis but sometimes that happens do it with praise do it with worship he was of high estate he conned and send it to men of low estate and took on the form of a servant say man so he said he was crowned with glory and honor because of his having suffered death in order that by the grace unmerited favor of God to us sinners he might experience death for every individual King James says he tasted death for every person he said now what does that mean alright if a bee comes and and stings me now it starts flying towards a pastor looks like a bee flies like a bee but what happened after it stung me it lost its stinger so although it has all the premise of a bee it can no longer hurt him so Jesus let death sting him and then said oak death where is thy so now when death comes to sting me you don't got no stinger he tasted it he took it I don't have to let my debt my joy die I don't have to let my peace die I don't have to let my fake because this joy I have the world didn't give it oh god help us that these aren't just cliches and these aren't just sayings but let them become reality to us so when you're all by yourself and you and you're in your living room and your bedroom and there is no preacher and there is no praise and worship singer and there is nobody to encourage you you rather lift your hands and say I know in whom I have believed and I am persuaded that he is able somebody shot he's able somebody stand up on your feet one moment and shout he's a ball praise him like you know he's able [Applause] before you're seated give someone a high five and say whatever you're dealing with God's got it he already tasted death for you he already experienced it for you God's got it I can tell we're not gonna get through a whole lot of this but can I just jump down the moment verse 14 now this writer is taking his time to show us that everything's better Moses couldn't taste death for us Jeremiah couldn't taste death for us these were awesome prophets not even the Angels could taste death for us they could not take that for us he took it for us that's why God doesn't want you to be afraid to die say man the devil will try to make you afraid of death that's why we look-- need to look at verse 14 I want you to see this this mediator he's trying to show how everything's superior everything's better so he's gonna show you what this mediator did for you this mediator since therefore then his children share in flesh and blood in the physical nature of human beings he himself in a similar manner / took of the same nature would you read out loud with me now that by going through death he might bring to not make of no effect him who had the did you he made the devil of no effect see some of you you guys get something you give the devil away too much credit through death he disarms the devil how do you disarms because he takes the keys rose you taking notes revelations chapter 1 verse 18 leave the scripture here revelation chapter 1 verse 18 the Bible says that Jesus has the keys of hell and death I don't care if you feel like right now you're in a living hell I hear some keys slapping on a thigh while it's walking in your direction he's got the keys to let you out you might feel like your marriage is a living hell you may feel like your debt is a living hell you may feel like your job is a living hell and you understand me letting you out doesn't always mean delivering you in the sense of getting you out of that situation sometimes what it means is developing you to where you're mature enough to where don't bother you no more can't take your joy no more can't have your peace no more verse 15 verse 15 watch this he destroys the devil who had the power over death Jesus took care of four major enemies on the cross I'll listen him real quick because we don't have time to cover them he took care of the devil we're gonna see in verse 15 here he took care of fear of death he took care of sin got that he took care of the devil he took care of the fear of death he took her sin and then he took care of death itself four major enemies Jesus destroyed on the cross for us that's why God's looking at you going what do you mean you can't praise me I handled every enemy that will be able to keep you down from opening up your mouth from lifting your hands and from giving you giving me praise you can lift your hands you can't you can't open up your mouth everything doesn't have to be right in order for you to praise me praise me on Craig cuz I'm good for it praise me like it's already done praise me like I've already handled it because I have already handled it right before I get to verse 15 can I just get to this go to st. John chapter 19 verse 30 st. John chapter 19 verse 30 I just want three words out of it you can put it on the screen if you would force please Saint John chapter 19 verse 30 I just want three words can you guess the three words no not it may be finished not it's in the process of being finished so I like the way the amplified does you see that exclamation point afterwards it's in Phatak it's done it is finished your healing finished peace of mind finished you say how do I access the stuff speech aren't you learning from everybody else in the world you learn to talk they're getting up you can turn on your lights by speaking it drive your car Lula by speaking to it everything's becoming speech activated because man is starting to catch up with God when Moses see that's why you don't get it when Moses hit that rock in the wilderness when he smoked that rock the first time that was totally God God said smite the rock and the water shall come forth the second time what did God say speak to it because it was a type of Christ the first time Christ was smitten for us he was crucified for us he is smitten no more you will never kusa fie him again now you speak to him and he flows to you [Applause] the Bible says in 1st Corinthians chapter 10 that rock was Christ and then he said the rock followed them surely goodness and mercy shall have one shout it's finished I'll come back let's go to verse 15 Hebrews chapter 2 verse 15 Hebrews chapter 2 verse 15 and also that he might deliver completely set free all those who were through the hunting fear of death were held in bondage throughout the whole course of their life there are six fears that we deal with we break them down into this so we can understand them a bit better 6 deals with the number of man there's six fears all fear comes from the fear of death all fear all fear is a type of the fear of death fear failure what's for your failure you're afraid you're gonna die in the situation fear of being hurt why are you afraid of being hurt because I can't take another emotional blow like that it'll kill me fear of the unknown fear of the future fear of faces or people and finally the fear of death was the dimming the fear of the unknown and the fear of the future glad you asked the difference is the unknown makes reference to the present and the past while the future just makes reference to the future there's some things that you're afraid other people may find out about you from the past there's some stuff that you found out about your past that made you afraid that's fear of the unknown so he died to take care of all of those fears everyone shout I've got it better so what are you trying to tell me what I'm telling you in a nutshell is this let me come to colossians chapter 2 colossians chapter 2 let's go to verse 14 colossians chapter 2 verse 14 let me just come down and come to this listen to this you gotta hear this would you read this out loud with me having canceled blotted out the handwriting of the note the bond with its legal decrees and demands which was enforce and stood against us hostile to us this note with its regulations decrees demands he set aside cleared completely out of our way but nailing it there was a legal decree against you in the court of heaven because you had sinned and the wages of sin is he took that legal decree and nailed it to the cross and got it out of your way and said now you're free you're free to praise me you're free to walk into your destiny you're you're free to become who I made you deaf can't stop you fear of death can't stop you sin can't stop you the devil can't stop you because I have set you free I have made you free and he whom the Sun is made free he is free let me get to verse 15 let me get to verse 15 listen to what he said verse 15 God disarmed once he took away the decree of the devil he disarmed the devil what do you mean disarmed him it means he left the devil with a gun but he don't got no bullets you say now wait a minute brother I disagree with you because I've gotten shot by the devil you probably have but many times you loaded the gun you say what were you getting that from glad you asked proverbs chapter 18 verse 20 and 21 we're not turning there just to write it down proverbs chapter 18 verse 20 21 I'll just quote verse 21 life and death are in the power of the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof so you keep talking that you're afraid you just put a bullet in his gun you keep saying I can't do it you just put another bullet in the gun he disarmed him look what he did he disarmed the principalities and powers that were ranged against us made a bull display a public example of them in trying thing over them in him and in it in the cross watch this what Paul is talking about is a tactic that the Romans would do when they conquer when a Roman general would conquer another general of another nation they would bring him to the center of the city and he would start the process of ripping the metals off of his chest and putting it onto his own chest or displaying it on the wall of his house how many know that we were trophies of disgrace on the chest of the devil but Jesus took us off the chest of the devil and put us on his chest and now I'm a trophy of grace somebody shot I'm a trophy of grace then what happens is he strips him down naked this is a tactic of humiliation God shrimp the devil embarrassed him between all of the heavens and all of the earth there was no doubt of who was king of kings and Lord of lords then he puts a rope around his neck and drags him down the center of the city does everybody can see he is defeated do you understand that God literally tracks Satan throughout his creation and declared that he is Lord every knee shall bow somebody shout yes then what happens is simply this my friend once he has done this get me to Romans chapter 16 verse 20 Romans chapter 16 verse 20 once he has done this he calls for his generals and he tells his generals to put your foot or I should say his leaders to put your foot on the neck of this enemy to show that he is totally Concord did you hear what the Apostle said and the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet because now that he's defeated him he said you come here huh put your foot right on the devil's neck and declare you will not rule in my house you will not rule in my body you can not rule on my job you cannot rule in my mind this is my mind and when I go down to pray and it starts to wander don't you get frustrated and get up you look at your flesh and you look at the devil and say this is my mind and God gave me control over my mind and I will pray I will talk to God because I have been given [Applause] stand with me come on praise and worship team just come straight up praising worship team or if there's just a singer this is just my wife come home honey we the praising worship team more my honey is the praise and worship team all by herself listen your God did not die for you to be defeated he didn't die for you to get whupped on he didn't die for you to be paralyzed by fear so that you're afraid to do what he said you're afraid to step out in your ministry you're afraid to use your gift you're afraid to be who he wants you to be your God destroyed all of these enemies handed you a better covenant got the legal document out of your way that was holding you back and then said I give you power after that the Holy Ghost comes you shall receive the Greek word is Dunamis we get our word dynomite it means the ability to can do but watch this its power to witness this is not door to door knocking this is not home Bible study the Greek word there we get our word martyr from it it means after the Holy Ghost comes I give you power to die to yourself I'll give you power to die to your own will I'll give you power to die to your own fleshly desires so they no longer can stay in your way I give you the power to do what I said [Music]

Channel: Worship Center of Jesus Christ

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Length: 54min 42sec (3282 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 07 2018