May 10, 2015 - Carter Conlon - Are Your Feet Where They Should Be?

are you feet where they should be Matthew chapter 4 beginning yet verse 5 then the devil took him up into the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and he said to him if you are the son of God throw yourself down for it is written he shall give his angels charge over you and in their hands they shall bear you up lest you dash your foot against a stone jesus said to him it is written again you shall not tempt the Lord your God now the fact that Satan would attack the Son of God with this portion of Scripture actually is quite significant for he's using something from the scriptures that he actually heard audibly from the mouth of God in the Garden of Eden there was a curse pronounced on him there was a judgment pronounced on him immediately following the moment where he tempted Adam and Eve to operate outside of the revealed will of God causing them to believe that they could do this without consequence and that they and themselves could become as judges or as gods as it says in the King James translation knowing what is good and what is evil and charting their own course and somehow still arriving at a utopian end which of course we believe to be heaven and in the Garden of Eden audibly the devil heard this audibly now we we have the Word of God in writing so it's important to understand this God pronounced this over him and he said so the Lord in Genesis I'm just going to read these scriptures to you because I have a lot to go through today and just for times sake just give me your best ear genesis 3:14 so the Lord God said to the serpent because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and more than every beast of the field on your belly you shall go and you shall eat dust all the days of your life and I will put enmity that means it's of hostility between you and the woman between your seed and her seed he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel you'll eat dust all the days of your life now that's twofold the way I understand that is a duality to it number one understanding where were Satan had been and the access to the throne of God and his view of the holiness of God and of the heavenlies he would be cast down from that place and his dwelling would be on the earth he would become the Prince of course of the power of the air and he himself said to Jesus all these kingdoms of the earth of mine and I give them to whosoever I will he would be cast down to this little ball of dust called planet Earth but also in Genesis chapter 2 and verse 7 the scripture says the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground not only would Satan be cast down to Planet Earth but he would spend his days devouring those created from Adam humanity you and I created from the dust until a people would arise and would triumph over him whose feet will be upon him and trampled his thoughts that he could conquer both God and those created in the image of God this was the curse pronounced on him you'll be cast down you'll eat dust all the days of your life yes you will devour remember the scripture says from Adam to Moses death was raining on planet Earth of course until a people rise who would tread upon this thought that you could rule them that you could devour them that you could be supreme over them and have those created in the image of God for all of eternity these people are going to be given they would be given the victory through one who would be sent to conquer him so I'm working a thread here so give me your best attention if you can in Psalm 91 there's a scripture which could only really fully be fulfilled in Christ and subsequently those who are called his people it says in verse 10 no evil shall for you nor shall any plague come near your dwelling for he shall give his angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways in their hands they shall bear you up lest you dash your foot against a stone now this is this is the scripture the devil took he heard it audibly and of course in 791 it's written down in the Word of God but there's another verse says you speaking of Christ I'll tread upon the lion in the Cobra the young lion and the serpent you shall trample under foot remember when Jesus when God spoke to the devil in the book of Genesis chapter 3 verse 15 speaking of Christ it says he will bruise your head and you will bruise his heel now the word bruise means to cause a gape or to break a wound really in other words when he comes when the Son of God comes when that one comes that Anointed One that I'm going to send to the world to die for the sins of this world he's going to wound your head and you're gonna wound his feet amazing isn't it when we see the cross and realize that nail went through the feet of Jesus Christ on that cross how the Word of God must be fulfilled every promise of God it's inescapable nobody can get away from the Word of God or the promises of God now knowing that God had spoken these words I believe that Satan must have diligently watched and waited for the arrival of this one The Anointed One who in his mind would be the final challenge to his darkened kingdom in other words if he would be thinking no doubt if I could overcome this one I can continue forever to devour those that are created in the image of God and no doubt throughout history just like with the children in Bethlehem in the days of Herod he would have moved in an effort to destroy life and ward off this coming confrontation with the one that God would send which is the reason of course why the firstborn were cast into the river and in the New Testament while Herod's armies killed all the babies two years in in Bethlehem the devil himself knew that God was going to send somebody in Matthew chapter 3 where we began today now Satan was undoubtedly in the vicinity when Jesus was baptized of John and God the Father made audible declarations concerning him in chapter 3 of Matthew beginning at verse 11 he says John said I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance but he was coming after me is mightier than I whose sandals I'm not worthy to carry amazing isn't it John himself knew there's something about the feet of this man was coming something about the holiness of his feet his journey that I don't feel worthy to even touch his feet or carry his shoes he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire his winnowing fan is in his hand and he will thoroughly clean up its threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him and John tried to prevent him saying I need to be baptized by you and you're coming to me but jesus answered and said to him permit it to be so now for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness then he allowed him and when he had been baptized Jesus came up immediately from the water and behold the heavens were open to him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon him and suddenly a voice came from heaven saying this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased I have no doubt the devil was in the vicinity occupying the hearts of those that he had already devoured and taken away the light and the hope that they could be made whole through the sacrifice of Christ in John chapter 1 John said i baptize with water but there's one among you whom you did not know it's he coming after me is preferred before me whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loose verse 29 it says the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world John chapter 1 verse 34 he says and I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God this is the one the God said he was going to send to defeat the works of darkness this is the one whose feats is so holy that I don't dare touch his sandals this is the one who sinlessly will go to a cross and pay the price for the wrong that humanity has done against a holy god I bear witness john said that this is the Son of God now Satan must have known this was the one sent to conquer him he felt that he must defeat him yet scripture seems to indicate he didn't know exactly how this plan was going to unfold and that's the thing about spiritual darkness people who are not enlightened by the Spirit of God can read the Bible and never understand it or twist it into something was never meant to say Paul said in first Corinthians chapter 2 verse 8 none of the rulers of this age knew for had they known they would not have crucified the Lord of glory had they known had there been a full understanding of how this plan was going to unfold remember it was Satan himself wind dwelt the heart of Judas and moved that man to betrayed the Son of God so had he known how this plan was going to be fulfilled he would not have been part of crucifying the Lord of glory immediately after the baptism of Jesus the Bible tells us the Spirit of the Lord led him into the wilderness where the devil was going to test him in Matthew chapter 4 verses 3 and 4 tell us he tempted Jesus to use his power to satisfy his own needs we spoke about that a few weeks ago knowing full well that if he could get him to fall into that temptation he never would have gone to the cross if that was his theological focus he would have used his power to escape hardship and difficulty in trial in Matthew chapter 4 verses 8 and 9 and he tempted him to make peace with evil and take a less difficult way to ruling and rainy if that's all it's about if you've just come to rule and reign then just do it my way don't be so narrow and you can have everything you've come for just make peace with evil but the only time Satan uses Scripture is in our opening text and it's really significant it's the only time he's the scripture to tempt the Son of God because it correlates directly to the word that God himself had spoken over him and Eden and he knew it he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel the devil took him to the holy city set him on the pinnacle of the temple instead of you're the son of God throw yourself down for it is written he will give his angels charge over you and then their hands they will bear you up lest you dash your foot against a stone and in my opinion this is the inference if you think your foot is that powerful then prove it if you think you can tread upon me then jump down and see how strong your feet really are because the Word of God says angels will hold you up in case you dash to your foot and broke it upon a stone and so if you do jump and you're not held by the power of God then your whole mission is a fraud for a fast own can break your foot the devil was inferring in my opinion just think of what I can do to you if your foot can't survive landing upon a stone it will never survive landing upon my head because he knew the word that had been spoken over him Jesus turns to the devil himself and says it is written again you shall not tempt the Lord your God in other words the words of God are true he cannot lie he is not a man that can lie and every word of God will be fulfilled in its appointed time you will not put God to a test if you don't believe God if there's a measure of unbelief in the heart then the mission that God sent me on Christ would be saying to the devil himself will not be fulfilled it is only unbelief that causes the very thing that God has set you and I apart for to honor him in this generation it is only unbelief that will cause us not to fulfill it if the devil can succeed in getting one ounce of unbelief into your heart about the faithfulness and trustworthiness of the Word of God he will take your mission from you and you will become largely ineffective though you might do miracles though you might speak about the kingdom of God your mission will not be fulfilled because unbelief is a poison and once it gets into you it spreads throughout your body it spreads throughout your mind that causes you to begin to doubt the Word of God I thank God for that response you will not put God to the test he doesn't need to be tested because he can't lie what he said he will do that's exactly what he's going to do and that's important there are many who have fallen to using their power for their own good there's others who have made peace and some who will make peace in the days ahead with evil to stay in power it's a tragedy but it will happen people will begin to embrace practices in the house of God which they know are wrong just so they can stay in power but Jesus told us I will build my church and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it I believe that with all my heart I will build my church if you belong to Christ Jesus says I will build you I will build my kingdom inside your life I will build my character inside your heart I will set you upon a foundation that cannot be overcome I will be God to you I will be God in you and I will be God through you and there's no power of Hell that can triumph over that Jesus Christ did triumph the devil wounded his feet but he rose from the dead three days later and those wounded feet were placed on the neck of Satan himself in absolute triumph Ephesians 4:8 says when he raised was raised from the dead he took captivity captive and gave gifts unto men he took the devil himself captive and all of his hordes of hell and all of his darkened works don't you ever believe for one second that evil is going to triumph evil is not going to triumph because evil has already been defeated by the Son of God hallelujah to the lamb of God when Jesus said those faithful words to the devil on the cross it is finished that reign of terror that season of Satan unhinging Li devouring the sons and daughters of God that season was over and away was made not only did the Son of God put his feet on the very head of the devil himself and show him your reasonings in your logic are faulty in the sight of a holy God you thought you could exalt yourself but there is only one God and there's only one name can be exalted for all of eternity he took captivity captive in Luke chapter 10 verse 19 jesus said these words behold I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all of the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you behold I give you power I give you power I give you power I give you power and you power to trample on demonic powers to trample on those things that would come to disturb your heart destroy your home take away your testimony rob you of your song cause you to think that suicides have better option than living for God those things that would come to take you into captivity and cause you to believe that you can never break their cards from off of your life what caused you to have wounds in your heart that you think will never be healed prison doors with bars so thick you think you'll never get out but Jesus said I give you power to trample on these things and over all the power of the enemy not some of his power all of his power and nothing shall by any means hurt you you and I can declare the victory of God and we can declare it today you and I can stand up and do what those outside the kingdom of God cannot do when Joshua went into the promised land they fought against Kings that were sent to oppose them and it's a type of you and I as the body of Christ and when those kings were conquered Joshua our Christ type in the Old Testament called together all of those who were warriors and leaders in the camp of God there were five kings that stood to oppose them to stop them from inheriting and he said put your feet on the necks of these your enemies I thank God for that with all my heart and so it was when they brought out those kings to Joshua the Joshua called for all the men of Israel and said to the captains of the men of war who went with him come near and put your feet on the necks of these kings and they drew near and put their feet on their necks and Joshua said to them do not be afraid or dismayed me and of good courage for thus the Lord will do for all your enemies against whom you fight body of Christ be strong and be of good courage and don't be dismayed the Lord has given you power and he's calling us back to himself once again he's calling his own people back to that place of victory that place where we are already more than conquerors through Christ who loved us that place as David said by my god I have run through a troop and by my god I have left over a wall by the strength of God a bowl of steel can be broken by mine arms and that gentleness has made me great we're not called in this generation to go down with a whimper we're not called to use our power for our own good we're not called to make peace with evil we are called to stand in the power of our God and see the enemies of righteousness brought down it's time to shout the victory one more time it's time for you and I to make that declaration that it can only be made by the children of the true God it is finished it's time for people to rise up and take dominion over all the works of hell in your home it's time for mothers to begin to pray and move the hand of God again it's time to begin to speak right to the enemies that are trying to rob your children of the testimony in the life of God it's time to stand up one more time it's time to be who God tells us we are the devil comes and says do you really believe that do you really believe that if you pray God will answer your prayer do you really believe your children will come home do you really believe that I will let go of your sons and daughters I've got them in the school system I've got them in the colleges and I've got them on the streets do you really think I will let them go it's time to stand up and say say then you shall not tempt the Lord your God every word God has spoken he will fulfill and he told me he said have faith in God for verily I say unto you that whosoever shall say unto this mountain be removed and be cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart that these things shall come to pass he shall have whatsoever he says the Word of God tells me that every tongue that rises against me in judgment I can condemn this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord God's Word tells me that there is no mountain there's no valley there's no Hill there's no enemy there's no opposing force there's no demonic power there's nothing here there's nothing that can't come there's no angels there's no powers and no principalities that can separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus God's Word tells me that one righteous man one righteous woman can put ten thousand serpents and scorpions to flight that's what God's Word tells me God's Word tells me that if the people of God will begin to pray God will hear their prayer God will forgive their sin God will begin to heal their land God will bring in to bring wholeness into their churches that's what God's Word tells me now you can drop down into unbelief if you want that's your choice and if you live in unbelief you'll always get what unbelief gives nothing feel free to call me a fool if you will but I choose to die on the side of faith I'd rather go into the promised land and fight and lose than go and not go in and fight it all the devil comes to people and he spends his whole time trying to devour you you see his Oh like you zation is not against you it's against God don't forget that when he tells you you'll never amount to anything he's not accusing you he's accusing God of not being faithful to you or somehow unable to work in your life or somehow that your your coming to a place that you've started to believe things and he says well if you really think that's true then prove it jump down put God to a test all trying to sow that seed of unbelief in your heart so that you will draw back and never take a risk for the kingdom of God jesus said it's written you will not tempt the Lord your God you will not put him to a test I believe one time I heard pastor Teresa preach on this passage of Scripture is he said the devil had just gone too far at that point and when Jesus lift up lifted up his head it wasn't the Lamb of God it was the Lion of Judah now looking at him when Jesus opened his mouth and spoke the devil knew he'd better back away this far no farther you will not tempt the Lord your God and so my question at the beginning of this message was are your feet where they should be in Christ your feet are supposed to be on the necks of your enemies in Christ depression should be under your feet discouragement should be under your feet addiction should be under your feet physical addictions mental addictions all under your feet despair should be under your feet unbelief should be under your feet every weapon of help formed against you and your family should be under your feet the thought that you have no future should be under your feet the thought that you have no part to play in the kingdom of God should be under your feet everything of Hell should be under your feet and you and I have the right to stand up and say I will be everything that God's called me to be it may not be easy but God will not fail me and when I get to the end of this journey and I'm on my deathbed my hands going to be raised to heaven giving glory to God for what he has done and encouraging others to go on and go go forward in this battle against darkness oh god help us to get hold of this especially now in this time in which you and I are living it might conceivably become one of the darkest times in history the scripture seems to indicate it actually we'll all but there's a light there's a city that's set on a hill that cannot be hidden there's a glory that cannot be extinguished there's a power that can't be put away there's a testimony that must be reckoned with you need to look the devil in the face when he tells you you can't you're walled you never will say you shall not tempt the Lord your God no I won't you're right devil you're right I won't but I'd like to introduce you to somebody who now lives inside of me in this temple I'd like to introduce you to the one who rose from the dead and crushed your head under his feet you bruised his feet but he pleased your head and you have no right you have no right to tell me you have no right to tell me what I will or won't be because my life is no longer in your hands and you can't devour me anymore I now belong to the Living God hallelujah to the lamb of God glory to the name of Jesus glory to the name of Jesus my challenge to you today is to rise up take your authority take your place in Christ go into the prayer closet and pray like you've never prayed before read this book because every word of God will be fulfilled God told the devil right in Eden I'm sending somebody to triumph over you you will wound his feet but he will lend your head and even though the devil studied it knew where it was to quote it from Psalm 91 still couldn't figure it out because to those who live in darkness the ways of God are beyond finding out but we are not children of darkness we are children of light we are children of the day we're children and whom God has chosen to take up a residence and so rise up and take your place in the kingdom of God let him be everything in you and through you that he has determined to be and to do and don't listen to the lie there are no will nots in the kingdom of God with God all things are possible so I want to give a simple altar call today put the devil under your feet I want speaking out to those whose mothers who've got to take spiritual authority in your homes and believe God for your children I'm speaking to people who are suffering from depression addiction despair old life habits you can't break lifestyles you can't get away from lies that just fly like an arrow of terror at night through your mind fears so deep that sometimes you dare not speak them to other people because they wouldn't understand a sense of worthlessness and hopelessness which didn't come from God he doesn't place that on his people that comes from the devil himself he is the dust devourer he is the one sent to swallow the inheritance of God but there's a foot on his head now and God says I give you power I give you power to take that authority and believe the words that God will speak into your life so if you're here today and you're struggling with any of these things I want to challenge you today we're going to stand in just a moment just to come forward in the annex you could step between the screens the North Jersey same thing and your campus and those that are at home online just you could stand right where you are for those in the main sanctuary you could just come to the front of this auditorium and we're going to take authority you are going to put the devil under your feets not the preacher going to do it for you you're gonna do it you're going to come and say no more of this you're not devouring my home my mind my testimony my life any longer you're defeated there's a head there's a foot on your head and so I walk into that victory and I claim that victory in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that's going to be your testimony today there's going to be the best Mother's Day you ever had in your whole life that goes for the guys too let's stand if the Lord's drawing you just step out balcony go to either exit main sanctuary just come to the front of this auditorium we're gonna take authority in a few moments over the works of darkness thank you Jesus for your word today we thank you that your word is a lamp to our feet a light to our path so in accordance with your word we lift our hands to you today we lift our hearts to you today come on folks lift your hands lift your hearts to God take your rightful place as a child of God begin the exercise the authority he's given you as his son as his daughter take authority over every ally of the enemy over every stronghold over every addiction we're gonna put our feet on the neck of every addiction every devil every demon every lie every principality that's trying to ruin our lives ruin our relationships ruin our homes ruin our futures in the name of Jesus lift your voice to God lift your voice to God online this morning lift your voice to God in the annex in North Jersey lift your voice to God take authority name that addiction and proclaim that Jesus is Lord over that addiction Jesus is Lord according to his word we take our rightful place devil you are not going to win over us any longer we take authority over every lie we take on so many overs every hallelujah come on name that thing name it before God take authority over it today today today today the buck stops here today the buck stops here today no longer the Devils are longer will he ruling right in this area no longer will he captivates you no longer will he bite you no longer will you spoil your relationships will he spoiled your home will you spoil your house what cleaner has come what greater has come and he lives in you in the name of Jesus we take authority over every pebble we take authority over every lie we take authority over every addiction we take authority over every captivity for you took a captive Lord your word says you took captivity captive as we heard this morning we thank you for sorry to tread on serpents and scorpions over every lie of the enemy father we thank you for the victory we have in you victory over every devil victory over every demonic hold every demonic oppression victory over depression victory over despair victory over hopelessness victory over every skeleton in our closet victory victory victory the devil is a liar God is who we believe the report of the Lord we believe the report of the Lord we believe the report of the Lord and God we give you praise we give you the highest praise you said everything will pass away every addiction every song hole every demonic hole will pass away but the Word of God abides forever hallelujah come on now give him a shout of praise today hallelujah we thank you for freedom we thank you for the answer Lord we sing the right song on the right side before the answer comes we can appraise you before we see anything with our eyes we're gonna bless you the devil's not gonna get our songs we're gonna honor you and we thank you in Jesus name

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Length: 37min 22sec (2242 seconds)

Published: Sun May 17 2015