Sunday Service 10-25-09
Living the victorious Christian life?
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NOTES FROM SERMON HEARD AT:Spirit of Fire Evangelistic MinistriesPastor Jerry BeginTo listen to the sermon, visit:http://www.spiritoffire.org/To Comment on this sermon, look for the small "comment" button at the bottom of this Sunday's sermon. If you go to the bottom of the whole blog to comment, you will have scanned through notes of several earlier sermons.

Israel gave up

Deu 6:1-17
(1) Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
(2) That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
(3) Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
(4) Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
(5) And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
(6) And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
(7) And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
(8) And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets bewhich thou buildedst not,
(11) And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
(12) Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
(13) Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
(14) Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
(15) (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
(16) Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
(17) Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
tween thine eyes.
(9) And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
(10) And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities,

Deut 8:28
Israel is head and not tail. If you love God and obey His commandments, you are blessed. If not, you are cursed.

We have submitted to the world too much, trusting in the world too much, and slowly taken over into slavery. Sold our birthright.

How do we live a victorious Christian life?

Joseph became head of Egypt so all the nation could be protected, then after his death, it was downhill because they did keep the sanctity our lives.

We are like a frog in slowly boiling water, dying from ignoring the heat. (Finances, greed,

Israel went into slavery because they did nothing. One of the greatest proof of doing nothing is with the Nazis. The Nazis sent Jews to US and Canada, and we sent them back to slaughter.

Do you know what your children are being taught in school? What the local government is doing? Did we do anything when abortion was introduced, when prayer was removed from school?

The Israelites gave up and did nothing when they were brought into slavery.
They make laws and we don’t do anything.

Ask yourself: Am I doing anything to preserve and keep the righteousness of God that He gave me? If I have been given the righteousness of Christ, am I not supposed to protect that?
What am I doing to preserve that wonderful gift of righteousness of God?

We are:
Redeemed- exagora - exit , to translate you from the market place (this world), to the Kingdom of His dear Son.
Saved- the sin that has power over you has no more power over you
Made Just- we are guiltless

Are we looking for things in Church that are not essentials?
In Jesus’ day, mothers taught their children. Father’s trained. We have lost those trainings. Consider what we have lost by letting things pass and not preserving. Skills are not passed down through generations anymore.

Ask yourself: What have I done to protect the righteousness that was given to me? What have I done to continue that righteousness in my life, making sure when the flesh is not so righteous to bring it under righteousness?

Do you understand you have an opponent?
Are you looking at the fact that now the enemy has enslaved you and has become your friend?
(story of the rattlesnake and the Indian on the mountain to pray- you promised you weren’t going to bite me- you should have known who I was before you picked me up).

Remember the story of the Indian on a spiritual journey to the mountain top. When there he met a rattlesnake that begged him to take him down to the bottom. The snake promised not to bite him. After crossing through many obstacles and perilous adventures, he finally brought the snake to the bottom of the mountain, at which point it turned and bit him. As the Indian lay dying, he asked the snake why he broke his promise. It replied, “You knew what I was when you picked me up.”

There are demonic forces. We believe that we don’t have to do any spiritual warfare.

Jesus went 40 days in the desert being tempted. Throughout the Bible we hear about demons.

Consider the video games- immoral, violence, demonic

We are not doing spiritual warfare. God has always called His people to defend their spirituality, reality.

Are you aware of what the kids are playing? watching? listening to?
Watch what they are watching. Computer games are fine if they are supervised, and you put rules and guidelines.

Are we doing something? Are we going to stand up for the righteousness that is given to us through the Lord Jesus Christ?
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SPIRITUAL WARFAREAs of this moment, we are going to put on our spiritual armor and we are going to fight.
STUDY THE NOTES. RECEIVE REVELATION SO THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.


Italicized are from the notes given out at Sunday’s service:
God has revealed through the scriptures the way to living a victorious life. Life provided many challenges in which we are able to find success and see victory over them. To live this victorious life we need to equip ourselves with the training and use of spiritual weaponry. It is not enough to have the weapons, but learn to use them during the times of these challenges. We are to prepare ourselves so that we may conquer and defend that which belongs to us in the Kingdom.

Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

1Co 15:57-58
(57) But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
(58) Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

1Jn 5:4-5
(4) For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
(5) Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

Jesus is called Lord of Hosts (armies, angels and Christians)- we are at war. There has never been when the enemy is destroyed.

Mat 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

We are in boot camp. Jesus is the drill sergeant.
We are more than victorious already.

Warfare

God does desire to restore mankind and to have dominion. We have fallen to sin and now we are to overcome the carnal and world with warfare. When Israel left Egypt to the promised land, God caused His people who knew no warfare or the skills to do battle, so that they would conquer that which is their and to keep and defend it. After the people entered into their promised land, the children were made to learn the art of war to keep that which God gave them in promise.

When God took Israel out, He led them around a place where they would not have to face the enemy at the beginning because they would run back to Egypt.
The disciples were sent with nothing so they would know that God provides.

Jdg 3:1-2
(1) Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
(2) Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;

God kept some enemies aside to test the Israelites who had not experienced war in Canaan. They were going into the Promised Land. He did it only to teach warfare so that we would keep that which we were always meant to have and keep that which was given.

Paul encourages Timothy to wage a good warfare to the task set before him in prophecy. Timothy was to use the art of spiritual warfare to enable him to conquer and establish his ministry. As Timothy and all saints, we are all called to stand equipped and ready to find victory and success through the truth of the word. We are all called to establish the Kingdom reign on earth and conquer the enemies of God.

If you want spirituality in your home, take dominion. Battle scars will happen, but take dominion.

Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

The devil doesn’t want you to believe that God loves you.
Submit yourself to God. Resist the devil and he will flee.

IT IS ALL DEPENDENT ON YOU, THE SARGEANT CAN GIVE YOU THE DRILLS, BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT.
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