September 2, 2020
Wednesday PM
Luke 4:31-41 Then He went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbaths. 32 And they were astonished at His teaching, for His word was with authority. 33 Now in the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon. And he cried out with a loud voice, 34 saying, “Let us alone! What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Did You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”
35 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, ‘Be quiet, and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him in their midst, it came out of him and did not hurt him. 36 Then they were all amazed and spoke among themselves, saying, “What a word this is! For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.” 37 And the report about Him went out into every place in the surrounding region.
38 Now He arose from the synagogue and entered Simon’s house. But Simon’s wife’s mother was sick with a high fever, and they made request of Him concerning her. 39 So He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. And immediately she arose and served them.
40 When the sun was setting, all those who had any that were sick with various diseases brought them to Him; and He laid His hands on every one of them and healed them. 41 And demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!”
And He, rebuking them, did not allow them to speak, for they knew that He was the Christ.
In the New Testament we aren’t taught to pray for the sick. Were taught to cast sickness out! Jesus rebuked the devil, and he had to obey. Jesus rebuked the sickness, and it had to leave. Devils knew who Jesus was (verse 34.) Heaven has anointed and authorized us with authority, just as Jesus had. The devil doesn’t want us to know that. They know they must obey.
The number one reason for failure in the body of Christ is that they don’t know the Lord. When you get born again, you don’t instantly KNOW Him, you MET him for the first time. You can never have faith and trust a person you don’t know.
Mark 4:37-41 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. 38 But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”
39 Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, be still!” And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. 40 But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?” 41 And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!”
The devils obeyed, the fever obeyed, and the elements obeyed. Why? Because He is the authorized one!
Obey – a military term speaking of soldiers who fall in line at the voice of their commander and chief.
Jesus did not pray to the Father to fix the problems. He knew He was anointed and authorized. HE rebuked and the problem obeyed. “Peace be still” – in other words what was inside of Jesus, came out. The same peace that was in Jesus calmed the storm. When we learn who we are, and what we have at our disposal, we will accomplish the same thing.
John 14:1-3 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are manymansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
There are two types of knowledge. One is natural human knowledge. It comes from the outside in. The other is revelation knowledge. It comes from the inside out. Thank God for the Holy Ghost!
We fear death but we have already done all the dying we are going to do! When you were born again, your old self passed away. Our Spirit is eternal after accepting Jesus into our heart!
Hebrews 1:1-3 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
The highest seat of authority in the universe is at the right hand of the Father. That is where we are. We are there with Jesus. He can’t take you any higher! He can’t give you more than He has already given you! He has given us His own right hand! God wants to teach us who we are! You get over being bullied by knowing who you are! Somebody is going to run your life! If you don’t find out who you are in Christ, the devil, demons, darkness, sickness, and defeat, will run it for you. They will tell you what you can and can’t do. The devil is nothing more than a bully. Your past, people, society, everything will try to tell you who you are. We must find that definition in the Word of God! You have to know what has been written, and what stands written about you! It only matters what God says about you! Jesus knew what was written about Him. When you know who you are, you can rise up because you know you are a son of God just like Jesus was a son of God. We are the authorized ones down here now, just like Jesus was the authorized one. Demons have to obey you! Sickness has to obey you! The elements have to obey you! To pray to God for Him to do something about the devil is a waste of time. Why? He is already defeated! God has already done what you are asking for! Jesus has already done everything He is going to do about the devil.
2 Peter 1:1-10 Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who have obtained likeprecious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;
We have the same faith and privileges that Jesus and Peter operated in! Verse 9 is important. Do not become short-sighted. Your past does not matter. The old you doesn’t matter. Its been wiped off the books! The devil will run your life with old circumstances. And we let him if we are short-sighted. We have to see beyond the natural realm. Heaven has given us everything here to rule and reign over the enemy.
Romans 5:17 For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)
In other words, you will operate in the same authority as Jesus did. You will reign over demons, You will reign over a fevered brow, you will reign over the elements! We can believe anything we want to! Let’s choose to believe what God believes! That’s what faith is! How to rule and reign in life is found in the Bible! We have the gift of Righteousness! This has to become a reality to us! We must have clear vision about this! Are you reigning over life? Or is life reigning over you? Are you reigning over devils? Or are devils reigning over you? We have to put our foot down.
Revelation 1:4-6 John, to the seven churches which are in Asia:
Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth.
To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, 6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
He has made us Kings & Priests! We are to rule and reign in life!