INTRODUCTION
“OPPRESSION” - BACKGROUND
In the beginning, the earth was without form,
(confusion) and void, (empty) and
darkness
(dark, misery, sorrow) was upon the face of the deep. (Gen 1) It was in
those prevailing conditions and atmosphere that God created man in Genesis.
Consider that within that darkness, there existed a king of darkness who
reigned in high (heavenly - spirit) places with other powers,
principalities, rulers and spiritual wickedness, all beyond human
perception.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
That same darkness was here before God created man here.
It was not written expressly that there was already a spiritual entity
present there. Consider that God created man and inserted man and woman
into a place where the devil’s influence of darkness already existed. This
explains why this earth realm was without form
(confusion), why this earth realm was void(emptiness) and
why this earth realm was darkness (dark, misery, sorrow).
Consider that Jehovah God placed humanity into a place where the Devil and
his angels were already in existence. Consider that this physical-
spiritual darkness existed and still exists just beyond man’s natural human
faculties of perception.
Consider that all Oppression upon or within this Earth realm has one
fountain-head. Consider that all Oppression has one source. Consider
that all oppression comes from one entity. Consider that from that one
source, comes all oppression, whether it is physical, mental, emotional,
cultural, racial, sociological, political, psychological or spiritual.
Consider that all oppression stems from one source. That is the Devil!
OPPRESSION’S HISTORY IN SCRIPTURE
The term Oppression (oppress) appears over 100 times in scripture. It’s
first occurrence is in Exodus when God tells Moses in Ex 3:9 that he has
heard the cries of Israel because of their
oppression by the Egyptians.
The most significant NT usage of the word oppression is
used by Peter, under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, as he opens the
kingdom of God and the door of salvation to the Gentiles that day in the
house of Cornelius.
In Acts 10:38, Peter said: God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy
Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that
were oppressed of the devil ; for God
was with him.
Oppression is linked to the Devil and to the darkness domain of this world.
Scripture calls this darkness the kosmos or the world. Every believer
should understand that a spirit is behind this world, behind this kosmos.
Behind this orderly, decorative, arrangement system of things, just out of
human sight perception.
Believers should also understand that Satan, the devil, is called the
Prince of the Power of the Air (Eph 2:2), the
god of this world
(age) who blinds the minds of unbelievers. (2Co 4:4) Consider that all
humans are born into this physical earth with physical sight, but without
spiritual sight; ie, all humans are born spiritually blind. The whole world
kosmos lies in wickedness, (1Jo 5:19) darkness and blindness as an
adversary, as a wrestling, warring opponent to the kingdom of light and
it's inhabitants.
Jesus said in his present time AD 30+-, that the
Prince of this World
was judged and cast out.(Joh 12:31) This
spirit of antichrist
was already in the world (kosmos) in AD 90. (1Joh 4:3) Believers also
know that the whole (complete, through-out) world
(kosmos) lies in wickedness. (1Jo 5:19) We also know that God in Christ at
Pentecost poured out upon this world (kosmos) system another Life giving
Spirit, the Holy Ghost, to help believers to combat
the spirit of the world (kosmos) (
1Co 2:12)
In spite of all the darkness of evil that was present,
God so loved the world (kosmos) that he sent and gave his only begotten
son, Jesus Christ, that whosoever believeth in him (Jesus) would not
perish, but have everlasting Life. (Joh 3:16)
So God Saves us out of the Satan’s dark wicked world system by giving us
another abundant Life and Spirit through a regenerating new birth of the
water and the spirit. (Joh 3:3-5)
So lets make it just a bit clearer to the spirit of this World that is
listening. We are saying to the spirit, that lies within and behind the
whole world (kosmos) system, (the orderly arrangement of earthly things),
to that earthly spirit which blinds all humans to the truth upon their
physical birth, to that same spirit we are speaking clearly, so that it
understands what we are saying.
If you understand what we are saying, then you should understand that when
you are being bullied at school, you now know who is
behind that oppression. When a political dictator rises
up with oppressive power over a people, you now know who is behind
him or her. When a man oppressively dominates his wife
and children, we perceive the spirit which drives that oppression.
When one group of people persecutes another group, we now understand the
source of that oppressive spirit.
When a tyranton the school playground, or in
life is at work to keep you down, you now know what entity or spirit is
ultimately encouraging and managing it all. When you are
being accused
and slandered“outwardly” from others or
“inwardly” from within your own mind, about your past failures, your
short-comings, hour weaknesses or yours sins; you should know now that the
devil is the driving source behind all of that oppression. When another
person, employer, or spouse keeps trying to dominate you, you should
comprehend what spirit is manipulating them.
You may be right now dealing with disturbing, dejecting, ridiculing
thoughts or voices in your mind oppressing you. You should know their
demonic, dark source is “diabolos”; the devil, which means : “accuser and
slanderer”. All oppression is sourced, financed, and encouraged out of
the darkness of this kosmos; the wickedness of this earthly realm.
Oppression is the devil’s arena, his posture, his essence, and his nature.
But. All praise to the Son of God. All praise to Jesus, who still
continues to go about doing good, healing, curing, and making whole
all that
are oppressed of the devil
. (Acts 10:38)
One definition of an oppressor is someone who treats people in a cruel
and unfair way, and prevents them from having the same opportunities,
freedom, and benefits as others
. That is devil’s bailiwick or his jurisdiction.
Oppression may come through some person; but it
is being driven by that one spirit nature of the oppressor. Oppression may
come to you in your mind and your thoughts; but it is still being
motivated and delivered into your mind by the oppressive spirit
of the darkness of this world.
When we drive away, or cast out the spirit of the oppressor, then we are
healed : Body, Soul and Spirit. When mental oppression is cast out, it is
a physical healing of sickness or disease. Even gross, extreme demonic
activity is cured in Jesus Christ. If you can believe it. Jesus still
goes about today, doing good, healing all that are oppressed of the devil
in any and every form.
“OPPRESSION” & KING DAVID IN “PSALMS”
David the warrior hero and King of Israel experienced “oppression”,
pointing to an inner and mental attack upon his mind,
rather than outward and physical one.
King David said in Ps 42:9,.. I will say unto God my rock,
Why hast thou forgotten me
? why go I mourningbecause of the
oppression of the enemy
?
(an inner condition)
Ps 42:10 As with a sword in my bones,
mine enemies reproach me
; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? ( NO matter how He
hears this from his enemy, it reaches into his inner being.)
Ps 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul
?
and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I
shall yet praise him, who is the
health of my countenance
, and my God. (ultimately it is an inner condition)
Ps 55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy,
because of the oppression
of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate
me.
(It does not matter the medium or the means of the communication; (the
delivery mode) it has no effect until of that voice reaches his mind.)
Oppression may show up as a simple fever (Peter’s mother-in-law) or a soul
wailing in misery, cutting themselves in anguish, as the Gadarene
grave-yard demoniac.
I personally believe Oppression shows up most often as an inner mental
anguish. David mentions hearing that voice of the enemy in Psalms. If you
are alive and breathing, you have heard that oppressive voice also.
Apostle Paul spells this out clearly in 2Co 10:3-5 where he says that even
though we humans walk in the flesh, we have a warfare that is not a fleshly
warfare. And that we believers in Christ Jesus have mighty non-physical
weapons to fight with so we can pull down and demolish, the strong-holds
(castles) built in our minds. In fact, we are to cast down these mental
imaginations that exalt themselves in our thoughts against the knowledge
(science) of God. He goes on to say that we are to bring every thought,
imagination into the captivity of Jesus Christ.
It may show up in simple illness, disease, psychological bent, or a
debilitating worrisome anxiety or a gross demonic activity. Whether it is
mental, social, or physical, it is all being driven by your ultimate enemy,
the devil, as he piggy-backs his attacks onto other seemingly un-related
conditions. From minor inward forms to major outward physical
manifestations; oppression is the ultimate force that shows up to imprison
and harass every one : saint and sinner alike.
Peter’s mother-in-law was sick if a fever. Jesus touched her. The fever
left. That same evening other sick people and those possessed with devils
came and Jesus healed them in Mat 8. Jesus healed the man of the tombs who
was possessed with many demons which had caused him enough misery to cut
himself, and live in the tombs of a grave-yard.
All of these incidents represent in some degree a form of Oppression of the
Enemy, the power of darkness. It covers David’s Psalms’ depression of his
soul being cast down, being physically sick, and also covers the affliction
of demonic spirits. They are all examples of OPPRESSION that Jesus came to
deliver each of us from.
The Father’s Business of this New Covenant Age was demonstrated in fullness
as Jesus the Christ (anointed one) went about doing good, healing all that
were oppressed of the devil (Acts 10:38)
That brings us to our topic today – DEALING WITH OPPRESSION.
WELCOME TO JESUS COUNTRY
Welcome to Jesus.Country… where we See King in his Beauty in a far
off Land… Isa 33:17
Welcome to Jesus.Country… where the Lips of the Righteous Feed
Many….Pro 10:21
Welcome to Jesus.Country… where…God’s Word is A Lamp unto our
Feet….Psa 119:105
Welcome to Jesus.Country… where the Word of a King is, there is
Power. …Eccl 8:4
ARMOUR UP TODAY
because you are…“wrestlingagainst
spiritual wickedness”(Eph 6)
(whether you know it or not)
because you are…
“involved in fighting
the good fight of faith”-(1Ti 6:12, 2Ti
4:7)(whether you know it or not)
because you are…
“ involved in a war
not after the flesh”-2Co 10:3
) … in a spiritual war (whether you know it or not)
because you have…
“ are weapons
ofwarfareavailable to you
” 2Co 10:3-4,) (whether you know it or not)
because you have… “armour …PROVIDED TO YOU….(Eph
6)
because you are in a wrestle (whether you know it or not) – you
are in a fight (whether you know it or not) – you are in a war
(whether you know it or not)– and you and I, we need all the
weapons Jesus has provided for all believers to come out on the winning
side in this warfare which all believers are involved
(whether you know it or not)
.
Remember… “In relation to Jesus” our shepherd :
we are his sheep.
But, “In relation to the world” : we are
soldiers
fighting in a war against the oppressive spiritual powers of darkness, which
want to overwhelm, to capture, and
imprisoneach believer. (whether you know it or not).
That’s the devil’s work of oppression. But, Jesus came to heal that are
oppressed of the devil. (diabolos – the accuser,
slanderer)
Illustrations of this conflict exists all through-out the Old Testament
stories of individuals, and nations battling God’s natural people Israel.
The OT war-fare repeatedly illustrates this same NT truth to us. This has
been true for every generation of God’s New Testament born again, Holy
Ghost filled inhabitants, and believers in Jesus Christ, who dwell in the
mountain of the Lord’s House.
Welcome to Jesus Country! Where we fought a good fight of faith
to get here and will continue to
fight the good fight of faith
to stay here.
”MEANING” OF OPPRESSION
Lets Sum it Up … “WHAT’S GOING ON!?
Eph 6: 10-18 - does that for us. Listen In.
Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord,
and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that
ye may be able to stand against the wiles(the
trickery, lying in wait) of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle(we wrestle)not against
flesh and blood, but (we wrestle)against
principalities,(we wrestle)against powers,(we
wrestle)against the rulers of the darkness of this world,(we
wrestle)against spiritual wickedness in high places.
(whether we know it or not)
Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you
the whole armour of God
, that ye may be able to with-stand (oppose,
resist) in the evil day, and having done all,
to stand.
(to abide.) remember: (the whole world –kosmos lies in wickedness. 1Jo
5:19)
Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having your
loins girt about with truth,
and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Eph 6:15 And
your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Eph 6:16 Above all, taking
the shield of faith
, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the
wicked.
Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and
the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Eph 6:18 Praying always with
all prayer
and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto
with all perseverance and supplication
for all saints
;
The WHOLE ARMOUR of “7” Pieces
-Loins/ with Truth
-Breastplate/ Righteousness
-Shield/ Faith
-Feetw/ Peace
-Helmet/ Salvation
- Sword Spirit / Word of God
-Praying Always
/ for all saints
OUR FOCUS is Acts 10:38
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost
and with power: who went about
doing good
, and healing all that were
oppressedof the devil; for God was
with him.
doing good(philantrophy),
healing(curing)
all(any, all, every, whole)
oppressed(to exercised dominion
against)
of the devil;(diabolos, false accuser,
slanderer)
for God was with him .
It’s the Father’s Business that Jesus was and still is about!
GOD’S INTENTIONS ARE TO BLESS
If Any Man, No Respect of Persons…
Acts 10:34…at House of Cornelius
Rom 2:11(Eph 6:9)… no respect of persons
Jam 2:9...respect of persons is sin
1Pet 1:17... God …without respect of person
Rev 3:20 … I stand at the door and knock, ...if
any man
hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him and sup with him and
he with me.
Rev 22:17…Come .. Whosoever will
take the water of Life freely..
(Must MOVE away …)Gen 12 :
“Abram”) Move to another Country – to another Land – You will have to be
willing to move spiritually to another spiritual land; Away from Kin – Away
you’re your Father’s House - Away from your Brothers-Sisters. That’s the
Requirement. --- God said and still says;… It is My Intent to BLESS YOU,
to Make You A Blessing, … to everyone. Abraham moved literally. Believers
must move spiritually.
ACCORDING TO FAITH - - - “YOUR / MY” FAITH
A word from God came to King Asa, centuries ago and still applies today. In
2Ch 15:2 the prophet said unto King Asa, …Hear ye me, Asa,
and all Judah and Benjamin;
The LORD is with you, while ye be with him;
and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but
if ye forsake him, he will forsake you. Jesus
said it this way – Take Up Your Cross Daily and Follow Me!
You have faith to do this. The book says you have faith in Ro 12:3; …God
hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. That means every man, and
every woman has faith. Each human is built that way. All around the
world today, man is using that faith within numerous religious and
non-religious systems and deities. You and I are using our faith right now.
It's no wonder that Jesus Christ said, “I am the way. All others are
thieves and robbers.” Joh 10:8 They have come to steal, kill and destroy.
Jesus said “I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man comes unto the
FATHER but by me”. Joh 14:6
My faith is my faith. I should use it appropriately as the creator
intended.
In Mt 9:29 Jesus said to those blind folks he touched,
According to your faith be it unto you.
Jesus answered a foreign woman in Mt 15:28
; O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as
thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
To another man Jesus said in Mr 10:52,
Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And
immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
These people had faith and used their faith. You and I have faith.
(whether you know it or not) So lets use our faith to believe.
Ro 10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confessionis made
unto salvation.
FAITH WORKS!
“FORWARD” OR “REVERSE”
How can I increase My Faith?
How can I have a more healthy Faith!
FAITH COMES BY…
Ro 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of
God.
The next step of faith is to believe that the Bible is the revealed Word of
God to man within both the Old and the New Testaments. That will move you
to the next level of the spirit.
“OPPRESSION”
(Definition – Etymology - Synonyms)
One Definition of Oppression is …
the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust
manner
TODAY WE HAVE DEFINED DIFFERENT TYPES OF OPPRESSION; such
as social oppression, racial oppression, cultural oppression, political
oppression, religious oppression, institutional oppression, gender
oppression and economic oppression, etc.
SOCIOLOGICAL CULTURAL OPPRESSION…. as “the social act of
placing severe restrictions on an individual, a group or an institution
[which] occurs at all levels and is reinforced by social norms,
institutional biases, interpersonal relationships and personal beliefs.”
Someone has defined Oppression as the malicious or unjust treatment of, or
exercise of power over, a group of individuals, often in the form of
governmental or cultural authority. Oppression may be overt or covert,
depending on how it is practiced.
The systematic abuse of power by one group at the expense of another.
Oppression can involve restricting access to resources. Oppression can be
based on many ideas, such as gender, race, class, or poverty.
SYMPTOMS of OPPRESSION
(of it’sexercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel,
or unjust manner)
It may be easy to see that all of the acts of oppression within human
societies stem from the one spiritual source of all oppression : Lucifer,
the Devil and his kingdom of spiritual darkness.
TheKingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ is filled with Jesus believers
who have been set free and healed from Oppression. Jesus went about doing
good, healing all oppressed of the devil. Jesus' ministration of healing
and deliverance was focused completely upon and within each individual.
Jesus did not speak to culture, society, or politics, except as its conduct
transgressed Gods laws given to man-kind. He came to set the captives free
from their inner prisons of their sinful, rebellious nature.
Body chemistry imbalances, stressful life events, medication addictions,
and physical health problems.
One song-writer said, bring all your needs to the altar, bring all your
cares to the Lord, he is so willing and able to help you, bring all your
cares to the Lord.
In the NT, people brought their sins against themselves, against others,
their transgressions, their bondages to sin, their sicknesses, and diseases
to Jesus.
Maybe you need healing today from trouble
concentrating, remembering details, making decisions; feelings of guilt,
sadness, worthlessness, and helplessness;
Maybe you need healing today from … pessimism and
hopelessness;
insomnia, or sleeping too much; crankiness, irritability; restlessness;
and loss of interest in things you once enjoyed.
Maybe you need healing today from…bipolar disorder, depression,
worry, anxiety, a suicide spirit, sexual lusts, homosexuality, gender
confusion, anger, hate, murder, drug and alcohol addiction.
Maybe you need healing today from the greatest sin of All ?
“Unbelief” in Jesus Christ.
Remember one definition of Oppression is:
the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust
manner.
Are you tired of hell's cruel, dominion and dominance in your life. Bring
it all to Jesus.
Oppression’s exercising of dominion is built within the nature of this
world around us. Looking into a simple chicken coop you will see a
dominating pecking-order existing even between chickens! Something of the
darkness is pecking on you today! Peck! Peck! Peck! Exercising dominion
against you today! Trace it back to it’s ultimate origin and you will find
that the devil is the origin of Oppression in this earth! Jesus still
comes to set us free from the oppression of the devil.
OUR FOCUS TODAY : looking at “OPPRESSION”
The English word “oppressor oppression” is
used over 100 timesin the Bible. It first appears
in Exodus 3:9 during the burning bush encounter, when God tells Moses that
he has seen the oppression(distress,
affliction) of his people by Egypt. God was describing their daily life
of social, cultural, political and spiritual oppression by the Egyptians.
Later God commanded, the Israelites, to not do the same to strangers in
their land. He said in Ex 22:21 to never vex, nor oppress
(press, afflict, crush, force, hold fast)
any strangers in their land, as the Egyptians did to them.
(Ex 22:21)
BIBLICALLY - DEFINING “OPPRESSION”
Ac 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and
with power: who went about doing good, and Healing
all that were …. OPPRESSED … of the
devil.
OPPRESS-ED” (greek) in Acts 10:38 means ..to
exercise dominion against. …it comes from two words……
kata
– coming down, dominating … and… dunamis – force,
power
“ OPPRESS-OR” - a dominating tyrant is one who
rules over and bullies their subjects….To exercise control over one, … to
use power to oppress.
OPPRESS-ION : latin root : "to press against,
squeeze, or suffocate" ……is of the
devil
; …
Once you take this step in understanding, deliverance begins operating
within your mind and spirit.
“ HEALING OF ALL OPPRESSED “
Jesus Demonstrated Healings…In
Body, Soul, and Spirit.
Physical Sicknesses … every type of disease from
minor to major … deaf & blind & crippled
Spirits Sickness… demons … demon possessed
…
- Syro-Phonecian’ daughter,
- Crazed man of the Gadarene tombs,
(enough spirit-demons to drive 2000 hogs to their death).
- Mary Magdalene…delivered of 7 devils
Jesus was as Samson; a one man wrecking crew, to every malady of sin,
sickness and disease. Every!
OPPRESSION and THE MIND
MENTAL – IMAGINATIONS
We are focusing first upon Oppression Penetrating the
Mind, … your mind , … my mind, … in
the imaginations of the mind
. (1Co 10:5) Thoughts,Ideas,
Voices
, Feelings, Emotions
You may be having ideas in your mind, such as these…
…I am Inferior, …I am a Failure, … I am worthless, …Once I had value,
but now I am of no value as a person, … I am not as good as another,
… I’m never going get over this hurdle, … I can’t be forgiven for what I
did, … I am too weak, … I am not strong like someone else.
All of these thoughts are imaginations of the mind. Humans, confess having
these thoughts in their Minds. The mind, your mind, my mind, are under
attack every day, by the powers of darkness of this world, 24 hours of
every day. It goes on while you are awake and while we are sleeping.
SideBar …
What was the point of attack
upon Eve by the serpent ?
However the serpent spoke to her; audibly or as a thought in her mind,
she heard a voice, a thought, or an idea within her mind. The idea
lodged in her mind: God’s not telling the truth! You won’t die! (like
God said) The communication was : the fruit is good for food, the fruit
is pleasant to the eyes, the fruit will make you wise. (It was clearly
an attack upon her human nature, upon the lust of her eyes, upon her
flesh nature and her pride of life.
Eve did not know what we know now! We know that, Lucifer is the god of
this world (2Co 4:4), the prince of this world (kosmos) (Joh 12:31,
14:30, 16:11, Eph 2:2), and the King of darkness.
CONSIDER - MEDITATE UPON THESE VERSES
2Co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the
minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel
of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Joh 12:31
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the
prince of this world
be cast out.
Joh 14:30
Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the
prince of this world
cometh, and hath nothing in me.
Joh 16:11
Of judgment, because the prince of this world is
judged.
Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the
course of this world
, according to the prince of the power of the air, the
spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Man’s basic human nature loves to live in darkness, shadiness, and
obscurity without spiritual light. It was that way till the day God
intervened and said, “Let there be lIght”!
Joh 3:19 And this is the condemnation, (tribunal
justice) that light(luminousness ) is come into the
world (kosmos - orderly arrangement, adorning), and men
loved darkness (obscurity,
shadiness) rather than light,
because their deeds were evil.
MINISTRY TO THE MIND - EMOTIONS - FEELINGS
(Each of us should remember that Our Mind is the
control center of our natural-human physical life.) Your mind
operates consciously and un-consciously.
Our state of the mind does
determine the emotional state of our feelings).
(Each of us should remember that “this earth” was “in the beginning”
under the influence of…
confusion(without form), in the emptiness
(void), and misery, sorrow, and ignorance (darkness). (Gen
1:2)It was into these conditions that God intervened and
said “Let there be light!”.
So it becomes a priority for humans to Keep their minds and emotions
free
of….The Dark Oppressiveness of the earthly influence of…the
confusion(without form), the emptiness (void), and
misery, sorrow, and ignorance (darkness) which is still
here influencing every human of Adam’s race, everyday around the globe.
Daily around the earth this oppressiveness exist in it’s ... Abusive -
Brutal - Bullying - Coercive - Controlling - Conquering - Dominating -
Harsh - Negative - Persecuting - Subduing and Tormenting Spirit of
Tyranny which operates daily from the darkness of this world –
kosmos.
But, Jesus the son of God came in Joh 1:4 …and
In him was life and the life was the light of men… The light shines in
the darkness and the darkness comprehended
(seize it , possess it) it not. Jesus is Light and his Light brings
the Demonic Spirit of Oppression out of the shadows back into the light..
GOD HAS A MINISTRY TO ... “The MIND”
Isaiah 26:3
Thou wilt keep
him(guard, protect, maintain, preserve)
in
perfect peace(safe, prosperity, health, welfare)
whose
mind (conception, purpose, imagination, frame,)
is stayed
(to prop, lean upon, take hold of)
on thee:
because he
trusteth
(hie-to move in a hurry-hasty way) for refuge)
in thee.
THE GREATEST BATTLE YOU'LL EVER FIGHT
WILL BE IN YOUR MIND
Conscious, sub-conscious and autonomic body processes are all controlled
from the mind. Every circumstance in your life can affect the mind which
is the central control center your being.
INTROSPECTION IS DEADLY THE SPIRIT!
There is a political axiom used in this 21 st century. It
says if you will repeat a lie
over and over, it will eventually take root and people will believe it. A
ssault upon assault until I or you begin to believe it. I
happens the same way within the mind. The lie keeps coming over and over.
Eventually, a person will start believing the slander, or the
false accusation. One
accusation laid upon another accusation.
One slander upon another slander isrepeated over and over.
It is the spirit of a Bulling Tyrant. Just like in a chicken pen! There is
a pecking upon pecking until you submit. It is oppression and dominion.
Guess what the definition of the word “devil”is?
Guess! Devil comes from the greek word “diabolos” which means :
...Accuser! ...Slanderer! Man-kind and you brother and sister are has
being Slandered and Accused on a daily basis by the powers of the darkness
of this world.
REPEATED ASSAULT TAKES PLACE in the MIND! Bullying has a repetition
aspect. Repeated Over and Over.
Keep repeating the Lie till they believe it! … is an element of
propaganda, of bullying, of the Slanderer, of the Accuser! …
When we Believe the Lie
in our Mind, the effect of the lie
moves from the mental realm into the physical realm, where it begins to
have a real physical outward effect upon ones’ character, personality, and
mental reality.
Remember,… Satan’s Ultimate Goal is to be the chief
rooster of your life. His aim is capture you. His ultimate goal is to
make you a prisoner of his dominance. In essence, he wants each of us to
become a prisoner - hostage for the rest of your life. He uses his
lying slanders and his
lying
accusations to bring us into and under his dominance. But Jesus came to
heal all that were oppressed of the devil.
WHY “MIND” OPPRESSION ?
IT IS SATAN'S TOOL
Some background.
First. Every human is a body, a
soul, a spirit.
1Th 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God
your wholespiritandsouland
body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
Second – both Man and Woman in Genesis were created
a body, with a human nature (soul, personality) and the breath of life
spirit came into man and he/she became a living soul. (Gen 2:7) Adam and
Eve had a body, soul, and spirit which had fellowship relationship with the
creator.
They were told that the day you eat of the mixture tree (good & evil)
you will die. They ate. They died! They did. God did not lie. They kept
walking around, but their soul lost it's life Spirit fellowship with God in
the cool of the day. Their Spirit died that day and lost it's Spirit
fellowship with God. They stopped being a “spirit driven man” and became
a“flesh-soul driven man”. That was their death.
The governor-ship of the man was transferred from the
spirit,
which had fellowship with God's throne, to the
Soul
(flesh, humanity). Man died in his/her relationship with God, the
Father.
Now the soul(natural man’s attributes)
reigned over the human.
The spirit no longer reigned. They continued as humans but with a
different governor. Now the flesh soul governed. Every soul of Adam’s
race born from that point on inherited that same state, and continued with
the Soul-flesh nature ruling over the house (soul, body, spirit). Man’s
Spirit lost it’s position of (ruler-ship, fellow-ship) to the Soul.
Man would need a reconstituting or reconstructing of man’s back to Spirit
ruler-ship over the soul. That happens for each individual in Jesus’ New
Birth introduced to Nicodemus. That's being “Born Again”. A “Birth of
the Spirit” makes this happen. Fellowship of the Spirit returns to each
believer by this new birth in Christ Jesus. Man is empowered again to
keep his soul under subjection. This new Life of the Spirit is available
for every human who believes in the 2 nd man, the last Adam :
the Lord Jesus Christ.
Adam and Eve’s Mind was the access point of the sin that
elevated the soul over the spirit. And because of that incident, man’s
spirit died in his fellowship with God and all mankind since that day
inherited that fallen state of being born with
blindness upon their mind
and a spirit which needs to be re-born.
2Co 4:4 God of this world(kosmos) has Blinded Minds
A birth of the Spirit is a re-birth of Man’s Spirit. This being born
again from above, returns the Spirit of Man back into the potential
Driver’s Seat as potential ruler over man’s flesh nature house which has an
innate rebellious nature against God. A New-Birth ushers Man’s spirit into
a return to Spirit Fellowship with the Spirit of God, our heavenly Father.
Yet, the soul does remain within each of us with a desire to want to be in
control. But the soul that sins, it shall die. When? It’s when a man
allows his soul: his lust of the flesh,
his lust of the eye
, or his pride of life to reign or govern his decision
making. The remedy for death is always Life and the only Life is the
Spirit of the Lord Christ Jesus!
CHRIST'S MINISTRY & OPPRESSION
“CHRIST” - MINISTRY BASICS(Isa 61 &
Luke 4)
Christ’s original ministry was not only of his day 2000 years ago, but
continues to exist unto this present day outside the restraints of time,
race, culture, and nationality.
In him was life and the life was the light of men. And the light
shines in darkness and the darkness comprehended
(seized, apprehended, possessed)it not.Joh 1:4
Darkness continues to fail to stop, arrest or capture the Light.
Christ’s continuing and nearly 2000 year ministry is described in.. (Luk 4
& Isa 61)
Compare the two passages:
Lu 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me..
-to preach the gospel (to announce good
news)
-to the poor;(distressed, cringing, pauper),
-he hath sent(to send out)
-to heal (cure, make-whole)
-to
preach (herald)
-deliverance
(freedom, liberty)
-to the captives
(prisoners of war), and
-recovering of sight (restoration of
sight)
-to the blind
, (opaque-physically, mentally)
-to set at
liberty (freedom, deliverance, forgiveness, pardon)
-them that are bruised
, (crushed, broken, cracked)
-To preach
(herald, proclaim, publish)
-the acceptable
(approved, acceptable) year(year) of
-the Lord. (in supreme authority, controller,
Lord, God, Sir)
Isaiah 61 says the same thing.
Isa 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath
anointed me to preach good tidings,
- unto the meek;
(depressed in mind & circumstances)
-to bind up (to wrap firmly)
the broken-hearted
, (crushed, broken to shivers, - heart, thoughts, feelings)
-to proclaim
(call out, pronounce, publish)
-liberty (freedom)
-to the captives
,(transported into captivity)
-opening of the prison
(opening of the dungeon)
-to them that are bound; (yoked, hitched, fastened
in any sense)
-To proclaim(call out, pronounce, publish)
-the acceptable(acceptable, delight, favour)
Isaiah 61:3takes it even further…
To appoint(convey)
-unto them that mourn (lamenting-express sadness)
-in Zion,
-to give (ascribe, assign)
-unto them beauty (embellishment)
-for ashes,(ashes)
-the oil (olive ointment) of joy
(cheerfulness)
-for mourning,(lamentation-express sadness)
- the garment (vestment)
-of praise(hymn) for the spirit
(exhalation)
-of heaviness (feeble, obscure, dark);
-that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the
LORD, that he might be glorified.
So, to sum it up in everyday language. The ministry of Jesus Christ was and
is always about
…
"bringing good news to the poor, liberty to imprisoned captives,
returning sight to the blind, and restoring freedom for those who
are oppressed"
.
JESUS’ SIGNATURE – TRADE-MARK(Acts 10:38)
ACTS 10 :38 -
“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power:
-who went about doing good,
(philantrophic)
-and healing
(to cure, making whole)
-all
(all, any every, whole)
-that were oppressed
(to exercise dominion against)
-of the devil
; (diabiolos: accuser, slanderer)
-for God was with him.”
“WHOLE-NESS” 1Th 5:23 ( Body – Soul – Spirit)
1Th 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you
wholly;
and I pray God your whole
spirit
andsoulandbody be preserved
blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Remember there is supernatural endowment of spiritual power to the
person that “Keeps their mind on him.
Isa 26:3
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on thee
: because he trusteth in thee.
Preaching / Believing the Word brings wholeness in ….??
The Spirit of God wants to deal with our wounds … our afflictions … our
sickness …
to make us everyone whole, …
authority in the name of Jesus …
wholenesswithin our
minds
,
wholeness in our bodies
,
wholenessin our
relationships
, (families)
wholeness in our soul
wholeness in our spirit…
Whole …. Means …. “Complete to the End”
JESUS’ UN-CHANGING MINISTRY PURPOSE – Isa 61
Isa 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD
-hath anointed me(rub with oil)
-to preach good tidings (announce good news)
-unto the meek
; (depressed in mind & circumstances) he hath sent
me -to bind up
(to wrap firmly)
-the broken (crushed, broken in
pieces)
-hearted , (heart)
-to proclaim
(call out, pronounce, publish)
-liberty (freedom)
-to the captives
, (transported into captivity) and
-the opening of the prison
(opening of the dungeon)
-to them that are bound
; (yoked, hitched, fastened in any sense)
Isa 61:2
-To proclaim
(call out, pronounce, publish) the
acceptable(acceptable, delight, favour)
-year (whole year long)
-of the LORD, (Jehovah)
-and the day of vengeance
(revenge) of our God;
-to comfort (to sigh, breathe
strongly)
-all that mourn ; (lament)
Isa 61:3
To appoint (convey)
unto them that mourn
(lamenting express sadness)
in Zion,
to give
(ascribe, assign)
unto them beauty
(embellishment)
for ashes , (ashes)
the oil
(olive ointment)
of joy (cheerfulness)
for mourning, (lamentation-express
sadness)
the garment (vestment)
of praise (hymn)
for the spirit
(exhalation)
of heaviness (feeble, obscure, dark);
that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the
LORD, that he might be glorified.
God’s Perpetual Ministry Luk 4:18-10
Christ’s original ministry was not only of his day 2000 years ago, but
continues to exist unto this present day outside the restraints of time,
race, culture, and nationality.
In him was life and the life was the light of men. And the light
shines in darkness and the darkness comprehended
(seized, apprehended, possessed)it not.Joh 1:4
Christ’s unending ministry is described in..
Lu 4:18
…The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he hath anointed me
to preach the gospel (to announce good news)
to the poor;(distressed, cringing, pauper)
he hath sent(to send out)to heal
(cure, make-whole) the broken-hearted, (crushed, broken
to shivers, - heart, thoughts, feelings)
to
preach (herald) deliverance(freedom,
liberty)
to the captives
(prisoners of war), and
recovering of sight
(restoration of sight)
to the blind
, (opaque-physically, mentally)
to set (set apart) at
liberty
(freedom, deliverance, forgiveness, pardon)
them that are bruised
, (crushed, broken, cracked)
Lu 4:19 To preach (herald, proclaim, publish)
the acceptable
(approved, acceptable) year(year)
of the Lord
. (in supreme authority, controller, Lord, God, Sir)
..So…in everyday language…. The ministry of Jesus Christ I the same,
yesterday, today, and forever… and that is to …
"bringing good news to the poor, liberty to captives, recovery of
sight to the blind, freedom for those who are oppressed"
(Luke 4:18-19).
JESUS' SIGNATURE MOVE
HEALING ALL “OPPRESSED” OF THE DEVIL
( Acts 10:38 )
Lets take that verse apart. The word ..“oppressed”:
(isa compound Greek word) (from two Greek words) …
… kata – coming down, dominating
… dunamis – force, power
"oppressed" (from scripture): …
to exercise dominion against,
"oppressed" from mankind): …the
exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner
Another companion word to.. “OPPRESSED” is the common word we used
today :
“OPPRESSION”-It comes from a Latin word which means "to press
against, squeeze, or suffocate". Guess who is doing the
squeezing, ..the pressing, and the suffocating. The power of the Devil :
Diabolos ( the slanderer, accuser)
Who heals and delivers us? Jesus the Christ!
Who is doing "free of charge" good for and to us? Jesus the King of Kings!
CHRIST’S PHILANTROPHY - Mat 10:1,7,8
(Jesus was and is still giving it all away for free!)
Jesus said to the disciples when he sent them out to participate and
practice what he had been preaching …
Mt 10:7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of
heaven is at hand.
Mt 10:1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples,
he gave them ..
-power
(exousia - sense of ability, privilege, force, capacity, mastery,
delegated influence, jurisdiction, right, strength, authority)
-against unclean
(lewd, demonic)spirits,
-t o castthem
out
,(to eject, drive out, expel, send away) and
-to heal (to relieve of)
-all manner
(the whole, always, every)
-of sickness (disease, infirmity) malady)
-and all manner(the whole, always, every)
-of disease
. (greek - malakos) - (soft, fine clothing, effeminate,
catamite, - boy for homosexual purposes])
(same word appears again in
(BLT sexual sin-sandwich -1Co 6:9)
fornication, adultery, sodomy)
Mt 10:8 Heal (relieve of disease)
the sick
(feeble), cleanse(make clean)
-the lepers (leprous)
-raise
(rouse, awaken) the dead, (corpse)
-cast out
(eject, drive out, put forth out)
-devils
(dahee-mon'-ee-on-daemonic beings) :
-freely
(gratuitously - literally without cause)
-have received,
(to get hold of)
freely
(gratuitously -literally without cause)
give.
(bestow, deliver, minister, grant)
PRINCIPLES TO LIVE BY
(1Heb13:8) (Rom 12:3) (Acts 2024) (Acts 10:38)
JESUS CHRIST IS CONSTANT
Heb 13:8Jesus Christ the same,
yesterday, today, and forever
DOING GOOD - HEALING ALL
Acts 10:38 Jesus is doing good,
Healing all that are oppressed of the devil.
GOD HAS NO FAVORITES
Rom 2:1 God is
no respecter
of person
EVERY MAN IS BORN WITH FAITH
Rom 12:3 God has dealt to every man
the measure of faith.
IT IS ACCORDING TO YOUR / MY FAITH
Mat 9:29
According to your Faith
it will be to You!
EARTH IS LIVING IN CHAPTER 2024 OF THE BOOK OF ACTS
Book of Acts Chapter 2024 – is being written now.
THE BIBLE HAS LIGHT FOR OUR PATH
Psa 119 :105 God’s Word is a Lamp unto your feet.
SEEK THE BOOK & READ
Isa 34:16 Seek out the book of the Lord and Read
ANYONE WITH A THIRST & AN EAR TO HEAR
Rev 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear!
Rev 22:17 ...let him that is athirst come.
And whosoever will let him take the water of life freely.
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Every individual in this world, is using their Faith, right now at this
very moment. I am using my faith right now! You are using your faith,
right now. Everyone is. Some are using their faith positively going
toward Jesus. While others are using their faith negatively, in reverse,
going away from Jesus. Forward or Reverse?
So… Whatsoever we believe is what we receive? Each and every person is
receiving right now! Every person is receiving right now according to
their faith.
Ask yourself this question? What testimony of Christ will be written today
of my LIFE, of your LIFE within the “Book of Acts Chapter 2024”?
We Know what Jesus is doing. He is still going about doing good healing
all that were oppressed of the devil! Acts 10:38 The next question is
what am I doing?
CHRIST'S PHILANTROPHY…
Disciples Given It Freely - Freely Give It Away
(To “ All Forms” of Oppression)
“oppressed” (compound word of two greek words…
“dominating”, and “power” .
Together the two words depict a picture of.... “
the oppressive power of a wicked tyrant, who rules cruelly rules over
his subjects, bullying, despotism, dictatorship; and tyranny.
“devil”
(diabolos)points to an entity who attacks repeatedly
with slander and accusation until he successfully penetrates an
individual's mind with the full intention of ruin, destruction and
captivity.
So, … diabolos, the devil, the spirits of darkness, attack your mind with
lies of slander and lies of accusation until they penetrate ones mental
defenses or are repelled. His desire is to enslave us and capture the high
tower of your personal mind.
One thought-voice might say, maybe he is telling the truth. He can't.
There is no truth in him. He is the Father of lies. A liar from the
beginning. Joh 8:44
He may attack other parts of your body, of your life; but his central ,
primary target is the mind, your mind, or my mind, – the control center of
your being, the citadel of your personal castle. Diabolos, the devil
repeatedly accuses you in your mind. He
repeatedly strikes you with slander. He attacks
and attacks again.
He says things about you that are not true. You must become aware that He
wants your control center. Your mind. Your emotions. Your thoughts. He
will bully you, Until he gets through. Or until he is repelled with an
spirit force that over-whelms him.
That is one reason why all believers are called to
Passover.
It is at Passover where believers exhibit faith, and to apply the blood of
the Lamb of God – the blood Lord Jesus Christ to the door posts of their
being, of their life, of their spiritual house. Passover is where Sins are
remitted, canceled, washed away, and forgiven in the blood of the Lamb.
The Passover Lamb. This is done by faith.
This was done by each family in Israel that night in Egypt to break the
Egyptian “death” power that was enslaving them in Egypt.
When I see the blood I will pass over you.
You are then free to walk out of your Egyptian bondage under God’s Mosaic
leadership.
The Mosaic leadership brought them out of Egypt, through the Red Sea
baptism and trained them in the ways and the laws of God for living a
blessed life.
But it was the Joshua Spirit who would take them into their Land of
Promise, into their new inheritance. In Joshua, they went on the
offensive. It was an exercising of faith to press into the strong-hold.
An empowering under Joshua.
Not only does Jesus brings us out, breaking the bands of sin and slavery
but he also empowers us, puts a faith-force within us to enter into his
glorious promise land. Welcome to Jesus Country.
Welcome to Holy Ghost Country. Welcome to Pentecost. Welcome to the
empowering of Christ Jesus' Spirit within; the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
And you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost comes upon you. Acts
1:8 It is Holy Ghost filling of believer’s that ushers each into
empowerment of Jesus Spirit ministering to others who are oppressed of the
devil. Laying hands on them in the name of Jesus, speaking the name of
Jesus over them, and breaking the entangling chains of the devil’s
oppressive bondage and setting men and women free in Jesus Name.
He set it Luke 10. This the harvesting work of Jesus Christ’s laborers.
I send you as lambs among wolves into the harvest. It’s harvest time.
JESUS– SENT OUT “70”
LUKE 10 (3 RD Year)
Preach to every house that will receive you. Preach the good news that
the kingdom has come to you.
Heal the sick that are therein. Tell them the Kingdom of God has come to
you. He that hears you hears me. He that despises you, despises me.
I give you power over all the power of the enemy. I give you power to
tread on serpents and scorpions. Nothing shall hurt you. If they hate me,
they will hate you. Rejoice because your name is written in heaven, not
because the spirits are subject to you.
Blessed are your eyes, which see things that you see.
YOU HAVE AN UNCTION
My little children …(2:1,12,18)
1Jo 2: 20 But ye have an
unction(chrisma, anointing, endowment, a smearing of the
Spirit)from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
Therefore, if I an man be in Christ, the anointing is a part of him;
is upon him or her. That means the same anointing that was upon the 70
is upon believers. The same anointing that was upon the 12 is upon
believers. The same anointing that was upon Jesus is upon you. The
same unction, but not the same office,but the same
anointing. …the same spirit… the same abundant Life… the same unction
…the same empowering of the Holy Ghost. Jesus and the 12 apostles had
their office. Stephen and Philip had their office. Aquila and
Pricisilla had their office. Timothy and Titus had their office.
Just as Jesus delivered the bruised he wanted his disciple believers to
speak a word of deliverance to those who are bound by the oppressive
one. Each believer is to help others break the strong-holds in their
minds and upon their souls. A voice, ...hands, … anointed, … chrisma …
to set the captives free.
Little Children - Same Anointing – Same Spirit – Same Ministry Purpose
The Purpose of the Spirit is …. (and still is …)
Lu 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath
anointed
me to preach (proclaim) the gospel (good news
message) to the poor; (pauper, distressed) …he
hath sent me to heal (to cure) the
brokenhearted, to preach(proclaim)
deliverance
(freedom) to the captives,(prisoners of war) and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at
liberty (freedom) them that are bruised,
(crushed)
Lu 4:19 To preach (proclaim) the
acceptable
(approved, accepted) year of the Lord.
NEED MEDICINE – NEED A PILL - NEED A "GOS-PILL"
Do you think you have been experiencing any of this in your mind? In
your thoughts? In your emotions? In your feelings?
If and when… We need some medicine… I need a pill. Proverbs gives us
the answer…
Pr 4:20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear
unto my sayings.
Pr 4:21 Let them not depart from thine eyes;
keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Pr 4:22 For they are life(alive)unto
those that find them
, and health(curative, medicine)to all their
flesh.
Only the Word of God equips us. Only the
Word of God
strengthens us. Only the Word of God inspires Us. Only
the Word of God Medicates Us and Fortifies Us.
Take a Pill today for your situation. Take a Gos-pill. Take the
gospel. It will cure what ails you. Armour Up!
WHAT IS MAN? Not two … but three!
Historically Man has been defined as a dual or two, … as
Mind
and Matter! Soul and Body
! Natural Man – Spiritual Man.
Inward Man
- Outward Man. The Spirit of Man vs
Spirit of God.
In Genesis, breath (spirit) came to the body
and became a living soul. Dual is portrayed in the
Body and Soul,but if look at the breath we also
seeSpiritas a third. In the NT we do see dual living of
life after the inward man (Rom 7:22) or after the
outward man.(2Co 4:16) We also see a dual
distinction again in (1Co 2) : the natural
manandthe spiritual man.
That men are of two distinct types is explained further in 1Co 2:9-12.
The Spirit of Man vs the
Spirit of God
…
1Co 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen
, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the
things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1Co 2:10 But God hath revealed (takes cover
off) them unto us by his Spirit: for
the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Now lets look at the Spirit aspect.
1Co 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit
of manwhich is in him? even so the things of God
knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
1Co 2:12 Now we have received, not
the spirit of the world
, but the spirit which is of God; that we might
know the things that are freely given to us of God.
1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's
wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost
teacheth;comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
In Thessalonians, we see further,
1Th 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you
wholly
; and I pray God your whole
spirit
and soul and body be
preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Let’s go back to Genesis. God said the day you eat you will die. Look at
Adam & Eve. They ate and yet they are still breathing. They are
still living souls. But now they are dead. What died?
How did they die? Their body did not die. Their soul natural living
personality did not die. Their Spirit died! Therefore all men from that
point were born into this earth realm with a part of them dead. Consider
a dead spirit, without communion, fellowship or relationship with our
creator Father.
Ps 13:2 How long shall I
take(consider, regard) counsel (advice,
counsel) in my soul, (breathing creature)
having sorrow
(affliction, grief, sorrow) in my heart (interior organ) daily?
how long shall mine enemy (hating adversary)
be exalted
(rise, raise, mount up) over me?
Their Spirit died! That’s why man needs to born again in
his Spirit! New birth, being born again, being born of the Spirit, a
spiritual birth brings man’s spirit, not his soul nor his body, but brings
man’s Spiritback into a living relationship with our
heavenly Spirit Father. The Father of Spirits! (Heb 12:9)
Man was prohibited (because of his Dead Spirit) from the spiritual Tree of
Life in the garden until Christ came and became
the Way
back into fellowship with his new birth, born again spirit program of
Abundant Spirit Life.
The words soul and spirit both have
“breath” in their definition. It maybe confusing to us to clearly define
the distinctions between the two. But not to God. He sees the distinction
clearly between soul and spirit.
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful,
and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing
asunder of souland
spirit,
…
So close yet not the same. God can tell the difference. His word divides
or distinguishes the difference.
Synonyms … Etymology of Oppression
Found in Acts 10:38…. When Apostle Peter speaks to the Gentile home &
house-hole of an Italian Roman centurion Cornelius, …who has sent for a
preacher named Peter…
Ac 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and
with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were
oppressed of the devil; for God was
with him.
“ oppressed” ;(G2616) (from 2 greek words
… kata (to exercise dominion against)
… dunamis(force, power)
“ oppressed” ---(compound word meaning leading
to a dominating tyrant, one who rules over and bullies their
subjects.
DEVIL…(Grk:G1225)
Diaboblos
….(false accuser, devil, slanderer)... just as the "dom
inion" pecking order among chickens, the exercise of repeated pecks
continue
until dominion is exercised by one or by the resister.
Hell's minions want to affect you, take you captive, to slander you, to
accuse you, to defame you, by penetrating your defenses by continual
assaults, to ensnare with a net.
Etymologysource of the word “
Oppression”….in Latin says …The word “oppression” come from
a Latin word, full meaning is to press upon, press against, over-burden,
weigh-down, over-whelm, over-power,
burden with cruel, unjust, unreasonable restraints
, to treat with severity, to oppress, crush, put down, smother, subdue,
torment…
Synonymns for oppression
include; … abuse, brutality, coercion, compulsion, conquering, control,
cruelty, dictatorship, domination, force, harshness, harassment, hardness,
injustice, iron hand, maltreatment, over-throwing, repression, suffering,
subjugation, torment, tyranny, bullying.
OPPRESSION - FROM - WITHIN -&- WITHOUT
Internal Attacks from Within… Out of the blue...
#1 - Internal Attack … upon your Mind by thoughts and imaginations
#2 - Attack upon your Emotions and feelings
#3 - Dreams
External Attacks from Without… other persons, events,
situations,
#1 - Through other human voices... words, written or verbal
#2 - Dis-appointing Life Experiences
There is An Immediate Consequence or Affect of the Oppressive Act...
Faith is Released…in response to the attacking voice,
thought, or imagination
If Positive Faith :we rise above the attack in rest and
peace in Christ
If Negative Faith :we go under, we are taken captive to
the thought or idea
Anytime I believe the lie of a strong delusion that comes into my mind,
thoughts, or imagination, then a damning influence takes my spirit down or
captures my faith in the voice, the thought, or the idea that was
presented.
I need to remember that the word Devil means “accuser, slanderer”. That
is the destroying angel's central defining nature of his personality. He
is a liar from the beginning within the very essence of his nature. Any
time he is speaking, He is lying.
When we believe the Lie, it becomes a living reality in
our mind, in our emotions, our feelings, and in our thoughts. At that
moment our personality and behavior is affected. It may or may not become
noticeable to those near us. At the point of the thought, it then falls
upon us to either receive the lie or to repel the lie. At that moment we
find ourselves in a spiritual wrestle and fight. It is Life vs Death.
Spirit vs Flesh. God's Word thought reigning in me vs a flesh voice
reigning.
Caution: this is not mind over matter. It is Christ 's Living Spirit Life
within us over-coming Lucifer's lying slandering and accusing thoughts or
words by words of faith, proclaiming victory by recognizing the false
thought-voice and repelling it in Jesus name.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that
they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who
believed not the truth
, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2Th 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you,
brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning
chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit andbelief
of the truth:
STRONG-HOLDS & RECOVERY
(2 Co 10:4-5)
2Co 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty
through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
2Co 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth
itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ;
Now let’s break it apart… by defining the phrases…
2Co 10:4 For the weapons (implement) of
our warfare (military service)
are not carnal
,( fleshly or temporal) but mighty(from
dunamis : force, power… ) through God to the
pulling down (to take down, to disassemble, to demolish)
of strong holds; (walls fortified castles,
fortresses)
Where are these “strong-holds”? …that we are to demolish, ...disassemble,
piece by piece? They are in the mind!
”Mental strongholds”
to oppress you, as they attempt to build mental fortresses (walls of lying,
slander and accusations). Which each believer is empowered by faith in
God's Word and Spirit to tear down and dismantle every lying imagination.
Take it apart! Pull it down! In Jesus Name!
"IMAGINATIONS” & “THOUGHTS”
(2Cor 10:5)
Scripture Shows us where these strong hold fortresses, castle walls take
place, or appear. It's In the Mind!
2Co 10:5
Casting down
(with violence, demolish) imaginations,
(reasoning, thought)
and every high thing (elevated thing, barrier)
that exalteth itself (raises, poise itself)
against the knowledge(knowing, science) of God,
and bringing into captivity (lead away captive)
every(all, any, every, whole)
thought
(perception, intellect) to the obedience
(attentive hearkening, compliance)
of Christ;
“IMAGINATIONS” ….
TWO TYPES of
….
a. "logical" strongholds …
b. "iIlogical" strongholds …
Recovering Our-Selves from the Snare
(2Tim 2:24-25)
2Ti 2:24 And the servant(bondman)
of the Lord
must not strive; (quarrel, fight) but be
gentle (mild, kind) unto all men, apt
to teach, (instructive) patient,
(enduring ill)
2Ti 2:25 In meekness(gentleness)
instructing
(educating) those that oppose themselves;(set
themselves opposite) if God peradventure(lest
at any time) will give themrepentance(reversal
of decision) to the acknowledging (recognizing,
full discernment) of the truth; (truth)
2Ti 2:26 And that they may recover themselves (become sober again,
recover self) out of the snare (trap) of the devil,
(diabolos - slanderer, accuser (who oppresses exercises dominion
against) who are taken captive (made a prisoner of war) by him at
his will. (choice, determination)
HOW TO DISMANTLE DEMOLISH
Depression is one thing ….
Oppression means…(… to press upon, to press against, to
overburden, to weigh down, to over-whelm, to over-power
To burden with cruel, unjust, unreasonable restraints; to treat with
severity, to oppress, afflict, crush, put down, smother, to subdue, to
torment.
Synonymns for Oppression include …
2Co 10:4 (For the weapons
of our warfare
(well-planned strategic…attack) are not carnal,
(not fleshly, nor material, natural realm)
…
but mighty (explosive unparallel energy… full might
of an advancing army)
through Godto the
pulling down
( take down, disassemble, extinction, demolish, bit by bit, to pieces )
of strong holds; (castle, fortess, fortified, a
prison inside a fortress…a)
(a place of arrest, captivity, confinement, or imprisonment)
STRONG-HOLD-CASTLE-FORTRESSES ….
In the MIND
Strong-holds in the Mind, …in My Mind? …
Castles-Fortresses in the Mind!?... in My Mind?
The Tyrant the Devil Moves Into a Our “Mind Fortress” …
A fortess strong-hold in the Head --- A lie heard for weeks, months,
years …
WHAT IS A STRONG-HOLD?
Believed the Lie –
A chain came !
A Strong-hold Came!
Tyrant the Devil – Moves In
Thick Walls – that even others can’t get through!
A Prisoner – A Hostage – Within Our Own Mind!
A Lie that you are Defending Protecting Supporting within Your Mind!
Each of Us has the “Power to Dis-Mantle – Demolish it”
Renewing our Mind …
WHICH HAVE TO BE DIS-MANTLED – DEMOLISHED - BROKEN UP – PULLED DOWN – IN
THE MIND -
Side-bar – (The mind controls the human)
Some functions are automatic autonomic
Some functions are somatic … voluntary …
Satan wants control of the part where the Will, & Reasoning Is …
The Battle of the Mind!
Battle of Emtotions!
Battle of your Thinking!
(Imprisoned…. to our logic, to our mind, to our
thoughts, to our … logical / or …
illogical
steps.)
-Fill the Pots with Water
-Jesus walked on the water
- Spoke Peace to the Storm
- Multiplied Bread & Fish
- Touched a Dead widow’s Only Son -
Remember -Ro 12:2 And be not conformed to this
world: but be ye
transformed(metamorphosed) by the
renewing
(renovation) of your (you, your own)mind(intellect),
that ye may prove(test, discern, examine)
what is that good (good), and acceptable
(well-pleasing), and perfect (complete),
will
(desire) of God.
Why? a “Cross Every Day”?
Luk 9:23 take up your cross daily and follow
Because every day you are still a body, a soul and a spirit.
Adam & Eve lost the 1 st …Battle of the Mind
You eat it you won’t die;
“The Devil’s Access to the Mind”
(Is Always Built on a LIE)
(Built on Bodies’ Natural Flesh Senses)
… good for food, (lust of flesh)
... pleasant to the eyes, (lust of the eye)
…make you wise, (pride of Life)
(1Jo 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the
lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is
of the world.)
HOW to CAST DOWN …
2Co 10:5 Casting down (demolish, cast down,
pull down
, lower with violence,) imaginations, (computations,
reasonings, thoughts)
and every high thing ( elevated place, elevated thing,
barrier)
that exalteth itself (raises itself up) against
the knowledge (gnosis: act of knowing,
science) of God, and
bringing into captivity ( to make or lead away captive, )
(every thought to the obedience (attentive
hearkening, compliance, submission, obedience, te heed the command /
authority) (of Christ;
Oppression of the Devil is always raising itself up against what God has
said…
Thought: the Devil knows more about what God said than you do …
The Weapons of Our Warfare are …(Eph 6:14-18)
(a great place to start … the spirit will reveal more as you walk and
live in the Word & Spirit of God..)
Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins
girt about with truth
, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Eph 6:15 And your
feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Eph 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith,
wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the
sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Eph 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the
Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication
for all saints;
Am I OPPRESSED? … external without pressure… an
outside spiritual source…
“OPPRESSION” - Usage & Definitions
Oppression…(definition) …the
exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner
Oppression…(etymology)
..from a latin word… to press upon, to press against, to overburden, to
weigh down, to over-whelm, to over-power…To burden with cruel, unjust,
unreasonable restraints; to treat with severity, to oppress, afflict,
crush, put down, smother, to subdue, to torment.
Oppression…(synonymns)
Abuse – brutality – coercion - cruelty - dictatorship - domination -
injustice - maltreatment – persecution - tyranny
conquering – control – force - hardness – harshness - injury -
severity - subjection - torment - iron hand - overthrowing - subduing
“OPPRESSED”(Acts 10:38) Grk : means
–
the exercise of dominion against
“DEVIL” - Grk means …
Diabolos – Accuser, of the Slanderer
“OPPRESSED”…(
the exercise of dominion against)
of the Devil…
(of Diaboblos….of the Accuser, of the Slanderer)
Severe “spirit“ LEVEL - Oppression” in the
demoniac
????
Possessed (with Devils …. Mat 8:16..
Is this … a Severe case of “ Oppression”
in the demoniac of Gadera (Mark 5) or “
Possession”
Come to Jesus – He’s Your Source of Help!
… a man with an unclean spirit,
… chains could not bind him (often broke them)
… no man could tame him
… crying and cutting himself (physical self-abuse)
… yet, saw Jesus, came to worship Jesus
… In the name of God,…Don’t torment me
… Come Out Spirit … We are many …
THE DEVILS ARE SUBJECT TO US
Lu 10:17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the
devils (daemons) are subject
(a military term depicting a soldier falling in line when give an order
– a submission to authority)
unto us through thy name.
(daemons - evil spirits, demons, devils) The ancient world believed
that demons populated the lower regions of the air and were the primary
cause of disasters and suffering. They also depicted a person who was
thought mentally sick or insane, with a mental sicknesses or physical
infirmities that are spirit-inflicted. )
That describes another form of OPPRESSION or dominion being exercised
against a person.
CASTING OUT OF SATAN
Lu 10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan
(devil) as lightning fall from heaven.
Joh 12:31 Now is the judgment
(tribunal-condemnation) of this world (kosmos):
now shall the prince of this world be
cast out
(ejected, driven, plucked, thrust, put forth, sent away)
Isaiah spoke of Lucifer, the devil's fall or casting out in 14:12
…
Isa 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst
weaken the nations!
Ezekiel spoke the Devils casting out also… 28:13-16
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; ….
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth;…
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till
iniquity was found in thee….
Therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I
will destroy thee…
GIVEN POWER OVER SATAN
Lu 10:19Behold,(bewilderment, shock,
amazement, wonder)I give unto you
power(exousia: delegated authority)
to
tread(to walk on, trample, crush, to advance by
setting foot on)
on
serpents(snake..ie Satan)
and scorpions,
(creature with poisonous sting) and
over(above, of rest, of direction,position-advantage)
all
(any, every,, the whole… position of advantage, superiority)
the power
(dunamis-force, position of advantage)
(another Grk source-“ power - superhuman power that
comes with enormous energy and produces phenomenal, extraordinary,
unparallel results, depicting the full might and power of an advancing
army
(ie... the ..ministry of Jesus Christ)
of the enemy
(hateful, openly hostile, deep seated hatred, irreconcilable hostility,
bent on inflicting harm)
nothing
(not even one thing)
shall by any means(a double negative,
not at all) hurt(injure) you.
“ COMMUNING WITH THE DEAD “ ….
“STOP RESURRECTING THE DEAD”
We need to “ STOP COMMUNING WITH THE DEAD”
…
every time we do we are in a sense fellowship our dead old man,
trying to resur
rect him.
When we do … It brings up some feature or aspect of the Past!
King Saul did it. It’s always Bad News. It’s always Deadly!
Baptism unto Death
Ro 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were
baptized into Jesus Christ
were baptized into his death?
Ro 6:4 Therefore
we are buried with him by baptism into death:
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead b
y the glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in newness of life.
When we look at “I” or ”SELF”, we are looking at, …IN GOD’S EYE, in God’s
ECONOMY, …SOMETHING THAT IS DEAD. IT's contribution to LIFE is over! IT
can not make any CONTRIBUTION TO THE LIVING!
When believers are buried with Jesus in the watery grave of baptism they
are acknowledging the death of their self into Christ. Buried with him,
because we died in him. It makes absolute sense that the apostles of the
New Testament always water baptized believers in the Name of Jesus Christ,
never in the protestant baptism of 'Father, Son and Holy Ghost'. Because
we are being identified with Christ alone. Jesus died. The great eternal
Spirit of the Father did not die.
SO WHEN I LOOK AT the DEAD …(so when I look at the dead Ronnie )
… I am looking at Death
… I am looking at something that has DIED and that stinks.
… In a way, I AM COMMUNING WITH THE DEAD. IT’S A TRAP!!
The dead have nothing for us.
It is NO WONDER that the OT is filled with prohibitions, NO's!
…against fellowship with witches,
…against conjuring up the dead!
... against communing with the dead!
I would like for you to consider for a few moments what happens to any
person's state of well being when they fall into …the trap,
… the ditch,
… the entanglement
…the prison,
…INTO OPPRESSION
…when you ….LOOKING and fellowshipping their SELF!
From my own experience, the hoards and imps of hell are always waiting in
the wings to speak to me about my self….
To belittle me…
To criticize me…
To blame me…
To depress…
To margininalize me…
To oppress me…
To capture me…
To imprison me…
To dominate me...
To accuse me...
To slander me...
To exercise dominion against me...
It is always the devil's work....of I, … I, and ….I! Hell loves it!
All believers should remember that in my flesh for me
(and in your flesh for you)
there is no good thing. Remember, the flesh (yours and mine) is in love
with itself. The flesh nature of man is enamored with it’s SELF.
The flesh man is always lurking, waiting for your next blunder, your next
moment of distress, to point you back to YOUR SELF. Flesh SELF is always
trying to get the upper-hand by, ….
- reminding you of your past and present :
- failures,
- negatives,
- reversals,
- sins
- to stir up feelings of distress, anxiety, worry, ...belittling you
- stirring up defeat and despair. Your flesh Self loves despair.
Your Flesh is Your Natural Adamic Man. A new license of flesh freedom has
been released upon the earth in the mixture spirit prompted by man's self
driving lusts. Perverse sin has been around since Sodom and Gomorrah.
Sexual gender sin and confusion is now taken to new heights or lows under
the prompting of self-absorbed spirits of sin.
Self esteem has been taken to new heights or new lows. Christians must
guard themselves from FLESH-Self's assault to exercise dominion of your
castle. It is all driven by the devi. The great oppressor.
His Aim is to discourage you, to defeat you, and bring hope-less-ness and
confusion upon your human spirit. He wants to take from every child of God
their blessed inheritanceof peace and abundant life in Jesus Christ.
WHICH STANDARD BANNER AM I FLYING OVER MY LIFE
“Oppression" is good title for this banner of hell that
tries to fly occasionally from each individual’s Personal Life’s Banner or
Flag-Pole
in most believers.
What are we to do? Sometimes we see it coming and rebuke it early. In
other times during the every day stresses of life, physical health,
marriage, children, finances, aging, grand-children, the flooding-in of
culture, and on it goes. Each of us are built a little differently with
different natural human personality strengths and weaknesses.
Yet, the flood comes upon one and all.
Before I retired from public education a new wave of SELF-ESTEEM came into
existence. It has now progressed so far that society is now pressured into
giving esteem to aberrant and deviant personality traits that were
previously shunned. Even Now society and a growing portion of Christianity
accepts the perverse, and mental illness as normal. Hell is having a
barn-dance!
Flesh is being exalted to new heights.
Anytime hell manages to move a child of God's focus from Christ, from God’s
Word, from God’s point-of-view unto a Self Focus; then spirit victory
diminishes and defeat raises it’s head. Self deviously slides back into
reigning, back into the driver’s seat of believers until we come to our
senses in Christ and cast him (Self) down again.
That is one way the flesh, or self works to oppress a child of God.
Ultimately it is … Focus on Christ or Focus on Self.
It is our right, our privilege, our inheritance, and our victory.
Jesus said ….
-the flesh is weak, the spirit is ready, predisposed, available ….
The spirit makes alive… the flesh profits nothing.
Self-Esteem is bad. Self-esteem is sin, unbelief; - missing the mark.
Communing with the dead is sin.
Communing with Self is sin.
Communing with the dead takes your focus off of Jesus and puts it back on
Self.
Back on self efforts, self accomplishments, self defeats, self abilities,
self communing. When we commune with our old self, we are communing with
that portion of humanity which has a death sentence upon it.
Touching the dead transfers death-ness unto us. It always, always brings
the child of God down. Self-esteem never elevates the child of God. It
oppresses, disenfranchises, discourages, deflates, disheartens,
disillusions, and defeats every time.
See Num 19:13-14 about OT laws and consequences of touching or being in
the tent of a dead person.
So…
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in his wonderful face,
And the things of earth (self, flesh) will grow strangely dim..,
In the light of his glory and grace.
SON - LIFE …. New Testament ….
The Death of “I”
Ga 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless
I live; yet not I(
NOT
SELF-FLESH-ADAMIC-NATURAL-ADAM LIFE), but Christ liveth in
me: and the life which I now live in the flesh
I live by
the faithof the Son of God, who
loved me, and gave himself for me.
Ga 5:24 And they that are Christ's
have crucified the flesh
with the affections and lusts.
Php 3:10 That I may know(be aware of, perceive,
understand) him, and the
power
(force, might, strength)of
his resurrection
, and the fellowship(partnership, communion,
distribution)of his
sufferings(hardships), being made
conformable
(jointly formed, rendered like)untohis death.(to
die);
Death
Col 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek
those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the
right hand of God.
The “PAST” which exists here “BELOW”, …. IS NO LONGER OUR REALITY.
Self-Absorb-ness of the flesh is conquered in Christ Jesus.
Self-absorbed is an adjective used to describe
a person who is pre-occupied with their own wants and needs
. When used in this term, the word “absorbed” means:
deeply preoccupied or totally wrapped up in something; in
this case, ones self. Self-absorbed is always used
negatively. Self-absorbed is never a beneficial thing.
Some other popular “self-absorbed” terms are :
narcissistic, egomaniacal, self-centered, egocentric, wrapped up in
oneself, selfish, self-serving, self-involved, self-seeking and vain.
1Co 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save
Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Contradiction of Lucifer
The LIVING Epression of “I”…(Self-Will)
Isa 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O
Lucifer,son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the
ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Isa 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will
ascend into heaven, I will exaltmy
throne above the stars of God: I will sitalso
upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Isa 14:14 I will ascendabove the heights of the
clouds; I will be likethe most High.
Contrasted With Jesus … the SON …
Mt 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye:
Our Father
which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Mt 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done
in earth, as it is in heaven.
Mt 6:13 …. For thine is the kingdom, and
the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Joh 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but
what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever
he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
Joh 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing:
as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek
not mine own will, but
the will of the Father
which hath sent me.
There is a definite contrast between Jesus and Lucifer! Isaiah 50 speaks
of Jesus.
Isa 50:4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I
should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he
wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the
learned.
Isa 50:5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious,
neither turned away back.
Mt 26:39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed,
saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me:
nevertheless not as I will,
but as thou wilt.
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Falling into a trap of self-introspection and
self-criticism
is not humility; but it’s the natural bent of the natural man. It is
SELF-ish-ness!
OPPRESSIVE VOICES of SELF …is a trap, a
ditch, an entanglement…..self-criticism ….self-introspection
….self-minimizing …self-belittling …self-inferiority … are all aspects of
the natural - self - flesh nature of man and woman.
The voice of blame, ….belittling … poor-self-worth …self-degradation … IT
LOOKS LIKE HUMILITY …. But it is REALLY an attribute of the FLESH. It is
Flesh!
Self is dead in Christ! Don’t go there.
It is COMMUNING WITH THE DEAD!
… And It looks so pious or religious as it tries to pass itself off as
humility and humbleness.
Learned behaviors are difficult to break because in times of great natural
distress, we humans tend to slip back into previous learned
human-self-flesh-natural mind sets, or adamic human personality traits.
Oh for a Greater Awareness of the Spirit ….
Spiritual Gifts … come about from the WORD &
SPIRIT…spending more time
in submitted …yielded prayer
…and in the WORD …which gradually helps us become
MORE AWARE
of the SPIRIT’s Directing,the
SPIRIT’S Guiding,
the SPIRIT’S Comforting, …the SPIRIT’S Character. It
all takes us….
further & further into the Nature of Jesus
Christ.
Spiritual Gifts ….THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT …are Free
…. They ALL come with the SPIRIT. Becoming AWARE
or CONSCIOUS of, or the KNOWLEDGE of … these abilities and capabilities of
the Spirit, is quite another thing.
Spiritual Maturity in the Spirit Life is Spiritual
Growth. Spiritual Growth is
COSTLY and EXPENSIVE. Many lessons to learn!
MY CROSS … Your Cross …
A Cross to Bear … !