put on god's armor in the evil part -part 3
05 November 2023
Pastor Lawrence
Lord, Your grace is unlimited and You freely give me
It is a privilege and honour as man, I can remember my great Lord and Savior
God is not counting my sin against me. Let go! Realise the mercy and grace of God is extended to me. God is Holy, not against me because of the cross. Remember what Jesus done on the cross, its proof and overwhelming truth for me
2 Corinthians 5:19
that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Before Jesus die, He said John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.
He laid down His life for me, everlasting love
Christ and Him crucified is the wisdom and power of God
Proof that He loves me
Crucified for me, He loves me
God is good
2 Corinthians 9:7
So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
God loves not just a giver but a cheerful giver, not just giving, it is the attitude by which I give to the Lord
It takes a revelation to give cheerfully
Understand how much love have given to me first
out of His own, I give back to Him
Understand all that I have, come from Him in the first place
Starts to have revelation and a joy to give unto Him
In giving, I am sowing the seed
I have revelation, there is a joy when I give
Pastor Prince
In New Testament, Jesus gave gifts as He ascended to the church
5 fold ministry => Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher
New testament prophet => does not direct me as old testament prophet directs to. He does not direct, he confirms. Holy Spirit is in me. Lord brings someone to confirm, more confirmatory
Lord will put law in my heart and write them on my mind
Hallow from halloween means Holy
Martin Luther nailed 95 theses on the church door of Wittenberg in 31 October 1517, reformation day
Important able to share with children that world have turn whole thing around, turn it to halloween day
old English => hallowed be your name
Celebration of life
This evil creature demon come to me for one objective => to steal, kill and detroy
Jesus come that I may have life, and that I may have it more abundantly
demon they don't care, they put disease, mental sickness to old and young people, there's no love for me, he hates me because I am made in image of God. demon can't go to God directly, so he goes after me
Martin Luther obtained favor with God, studied New Testament, verse that flash his heart => "The righteous shall live by faith"
I am righteous not by my works or performance, I am righteous by faith, I am righteous by what Jesus have done
This is what I celebrate reformation day, 31 October, make this day celebrating with my family, make time to remember the reformation, I am in new reformation to bring people back again
Celebration for those who have eyes to see, the world is in darkness, we need to go to the world and reach the gospel of Jesus Christ
I am in a Church of destiny, God raised me for this purpose, call to preach All supply, goodness and mercy of God, I have seen throughout this years all because of Lord Jesus Christ and of finished work of Jesus Christ. Everyone have calling of God
We need each other but don't have same function, we are all equally important, we need to celebrate each other call
neither should hand say to mouth 'I don't need you', you can't do talking with your hand
Full time calling, 5 fold ministry => Prophets, Apostle, Pastor, Evangelist, Teacher
Calling comes with equipping/ anointing
Ephesians 6:10-18
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—
Be strong in the Lord and in the upward power (I can see it) comes from the inward strengthening power (I can't see it)
How do I do that? Put on armor of God (whole armor)
2 Corinthians 11:14
And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
devil don't come to me and say that he is devil
Every minister that preached the gospel by works or performance, Righteous by work => angel of light
devil do all sort of things to steal from me
devil never more deceitful and cunning, he can shoot symptom in body, drop something in one's mind and you will accept and have it
The one that puts thoughts in your mind and remind you of the symptoms or your sickness: the devil has lied to you and you went through the treatment by his lies.
The idea of stealing is that you have it
Something a person have that he wants to take away
John 10:10a
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy
Kill already than destroy. destroy testimony and reputation of the person
1st level of principalities (principle), evil spirit are principalities
-> the one that put bad thought in one's mind, the one that tempts one makes one feel the symptom of disease, fiery darts 'you see how your wife talks to you'
devil lied to you, treatment of spouse based on lie
Behind principle is power
Dynamo, dynamite => dunamis (ability)
Exousia => Authority
Jesus says to me: "I gave you authority or dunamis over all the power of the enemy"
*Luke 10:19
Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Nothing shall by enemy hurt me
Nothing shall by any means hurt me
wind, devil crowning time is to make people feel they don't exist
Spirit/ wind => in Hebrew Ruah (breathe)
Holy Spirit=> ruach ha-kodesh
evil spirit => rûaḥ rāʿâ (like wind like spirit)
Rebuke the wind in Jesus' name
Spirit of infirmities, woman bow down for 18 years, Jesus cast out the spirit of infirmities
Jesus cast deafness and dumbness spirit out
In the name of Jesus, it is easy to get rid of
Not every disease is caused by devil.
Not every dumbness or deafness is from the evil spirit.
You only cast demons that are afflicted by believers.
Never cast out devils out from unbeliever (if they are not prepare to receive Jesus)
Matthew 12:45
Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.”
evil spirit cast out but brings in back 7 more if it finds the house is empty
Jesus cast out disease and cast the demon out, disease oppressing them can cast demon out
If they are possessed, point them to Jesus first
demonically oppress from outside, can pray for their healing
Jesus did cast it out those oppress in demon
Those possessed, I must point them to Jesus first
The Lord will not allow people to be so possessed, they cannot by their own choice come to Jesus
demoniac man in Bible, Luke 8:26-29, Mark 5:1-20
he ran to Jesus, fell into his feet, he knew his deliverance is from Jesus
demoniac activity => cutting himself, he is crying day and night
Mark 5:5
And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.
Father says to Jesus: he is Your next assignment
Jesus said: "Go", all demon left
I used => Go in Jesus' name
he is clothed seated and in his right mind
I am clothed in righteousness, seated at rest with Christ and in my right mind
I have to use Jesus' name as all authority given by Jesus
Go in therefore, Mark 16:17-19
7 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;
18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
19 So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
Jesus said He have authorise me
Ephesians 6:12
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
they have the right to do something in my life
the right have been taken away
Principalities power that authority have been taken away the the Lord, Colossians 2:13-15
13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,
14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.
15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
Jesus did not come to make bad people to become moral or good
Jesus came to let dead people live
It is not stop doing wrong and start doing right, it is come alive and born again
It is life out of death
handwriting => personal handwriting with fingers of God, 10 commandment written
who wrote the law? God
God knows man can't live under the law
Leviticus 19:17
‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
Christ redeemed me from curse of law by being a curse
reverse psychology => human nature (flesh)
Law brings out man sinfulness, you will not lust, the more you say you will not lust, you will lust. I will not angry with him but later angry
maybe I'm improved, I am more patience
I am delivered by the law
Romans 7:15-18
15 For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.
17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I
18 know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.
Don't be conscious under law, look to Christ and I end up loving my spouse
Done from within, desire
Christ is my holiness.
Book of James => law stands as composite whole, sin against 1 law broke all laws
The only way to be justify is through Christ
Live from my heart
written law in my heart and put them in my mind
activate because I know I am forgiven
Hebrews 8:12
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
No-one can wipe out God;s handwriting
Jesus nailed on the cross, God nailed the law
Live and walk in the Spirit
World => Physical more real, more conscious of temporal. The things that are temporal is I can see
Anything spirit is eternal, spirit is forever
more conscious of spirit, spirit brought-forth material world
Spirit more real than physical
Jesus comes again, first thing I experience, brand new body
Forever I shall be with Lord and not floating around
I will have glorify body, never grow old, no sickness/ no disease, not subject by tiredness, forever strong and forever healthy
value of money changes
There is a provision that I can't see that never change
Jesus looks up to the invisible realm, Heaven with 5 loaves and 2 small fish, all of them are fed and they are full. Theres 12 basketful leftovers
Colossians 2:13-15
13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
principalities and powers => Jesus disarmed the power
devil have no right, Jesus cancelled all his right
devil thinks he is right because man sin against God, God says soul that sin shall die
Jesus is lawyer at Father's right hand
devil is adversary against me, he can accuse you to you, putting thought into one's mind about another person
Technically devil have no more place before God
Time of Job in Hebrew => the devil cleans by blood of Jesus
Anger not base on facts, I make myself angry by wrong believing
someone word does not produce anger in me, must know something than I get angry
disarm principalities and power
the right to bring and things, evil spirit, it is because of the law
devil used God's law to condemn me
demoniac away from friends, Jesus said: "Go home"
Mark 5:19
And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.”
The devil have no more authority in my life
he striped down from all authority from my life
devil defeated but he make me feel he is winning
they use God's law to condemn me
when under stress, it is easier to bring disease to one's life
World War II
Tomoyuki Yamashita was the Army Commander of the 25th Army that captured Malaya and Singapore during World War II. The capture was the most decisive victory of the East over the West.
Deception:
The stage was set for two competing commanders to use their limited forces and military bluff, the outcome of which would be Britain’s largest military disaster since Cornwallis’s capitulation at Yorktown in 1781. Poor planning and leadership of British defenses coupled with an under-equipped garrison and Yamashita’s military deception during the campaign’s climax precipitated Singapore’s surrender on February 15, 1942.
Ephesians 6:13
Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
"Stand" => stand on my ground
I already have victory, I am standing on holiness ground, favor ground, wisdom ground, victory ground, health ground
enemy trying his best to tell me that I don't have it
fiery dart, he is trying to take what is mine
By His stripes, I am healed, I am the healed
Romans 8:37
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
he have no power over me, I reckon it alive so that is why it is alive in me
2 Samuel 23:11-12 KJV
11 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the Lord wrought a great victory.
enemy attack church with gates, gates are defensive/ defense
Church is invading/ conquering
The church is conquering, the devil plays defence
A good offence is actually a good defence
1 man, Shammah slewed the Philistine, not him is the Lord, Lord wrought a great victory
Lord is waiting for someone to stand, to believe Him and stand my ground, nobody can take my ground away from me
All God wants is I stand my ground
regardless what comes against me (enemy too big, bad thoughts and ..), I am the healed of the Lord, By Your stripes, I am healed
Abraham => he consider not his own body but God's words and promises
Consider not my body, dont position myself for oldness, don't say old, stand tall
Ephesians 6:14
Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
girded/ loins in Bible so and so came from David's loins, Abraham's loins, a picture of reproductive area
Armor of God, the things I put on:
1) having girded your waist with truth => it's done already
2) having breastplate of righteousness => it's done already
3) the gospel of peace => it's done already
4) the shield of faith => it's done already (full length, covers entire body, pick it up and hold it up)
faith => 1 thing only, justification by faith Galatians 3:24-25
24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
The faith => justification by faith
tutor => law
Shield of faith => Keep on believing that I am justify by faith, only shield that will hold
All (1 to 4) is defensive, I don't have shied I am still protected
In old King James, When he gave the Lord even breast/ animal touch the mountain, it shall be trashed through with darts
Hebrews 12:20
(For they could not endure what was commanded: “And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow.”
fiery darts at Mount Sinai
Don’t touch Mount Sinai, we are in Mount Zion.
devil measured me by the law but Jesus has disarmed him by the law, it is done already
Ephesians 6:17
Everyday I confess => I am the righteousness of God in Christ
I have to receive:
5) the helmet of salvation
The way I receive helmet of salvation, God's promise, 2 Corinthians 10:4-5
4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
=> warfare in mind
bring the captivity
mind can't focus, I am under attack
Focus, concentrate, listen the first time
How do I receive helmet of salvation? Helmet of hope 1 Thessalonians 5:8-9
8 But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.
9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Hope of salvation
Hope define by well known greek expert => Confident expectation of good in my future
Those who lives 9- years old and above are those who are optismistic
I am made the righteousness of God in Christ
I wait for hoops of righteousness
Once I am righteous, I can have my hope
devil is a bully, he attacks when I am sleeping, making me tossing and turning, staying awake
Pray always => key to receiving the helmet
When I am saved, this is what I can expect, helmet that protects me from all bad thoughts
6) the sword of the Spirit => offensive
I receive the sword, I receive by praying in the Spirit (Praying in tongues)
7) praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit
Ephesians 6:18 YLT
through all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints --
"through" => Dia (through the means of, by means of)
YLT brings out the very first word "through"
"time" => Kairos
Pray at every opportunity, pray in the Spirit
Receive sword of rhema
Rhema is spoken word of God
I receive the living voice of God living me, guiding me and speaking to me
"It is written"
He uses the sword of Spirit, devil got pointed everytime
Receive by praying in the Spirit
1) having girded your waist with truth
2) having breastplate of righteousness
3) the gospel of peace
4) the shield of faith
6) the sword of the Spirit
7) praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit => most important
Praying transcend time and space
I am praying for my future, praying for myself, praying for what I have done
Sword comes out in Jesus's mouth, sharp edges sword
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
What is sharper than 2 edges sword? cut 2 ways, kill more
The word of God is sharper than 2 edges sword
Isaiah 59:14-21
14 Justice is turned back,
And righteousness stands afar off;
For truth is fallen in the street,
And equity cannot enter.
15 So truth fails,
And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
Then the Lord saw it, and [a]it displeased Him
That there was no justice.
16 He saw that there was no man,
And wondered that there was no intercessor;
Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him;
And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.
17 For He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
And a helmet of salvation on His head;
He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,
And was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay,
Fury to His adversaries,
Recompense to His enemies;
The coastlands He will fully repay.
19 So shall they fear
The name of the Lord from the west,
And His glory from the rising of the sun;
When the enemy comes in like a flood,
The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.
20 “The Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,”
Says the Lord.
I stand up for what is good, I am attack because prey
Isaiah 59:17 => Put on armor of God
God's own armor, vengeance against the enemy
end times => west being revive but end times happen from the east (rising star, "Japan")
Isaiah 59:21 => Fulfilled in New Testament
Romans 11:26-27
26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:
“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”
Exactly quoting Isaiah 59
Taking away the sins
when he wrote it, Jesus have died and rose from the dead for all my sins
God take away my sins, I pray in Spirit, speaking in tongues
I am dress, I have God's word in my mouth, God ordained me to be
Don't let world have more, let me feel I am subnormal. It is the other way round
At night can't sleep, depressive thoughts can't sleep, stay awake and I am going to pray in Spirit
Holy Spirit pray brought me for perfect healing
It is amazing that greater prayerer praying for me
Thank you Jesus!
Amen!