And, Satan, you have been so exposed this week, till you know that you are a defeated being. Jesus Christ defeated you at Calvary. He raised up on the third day, for our justification, and He stands among us now. And our faith looks to Him, and away from you or anything that you've done. Leave these people, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
Those words seem more true today than they were when God’s prophet spoke them 50 years ago. This is the last sermon in the Denham Springs series, preached on Sunday afternoon at the High School auditorium, and a wonderful end to a tremendous week.
Here are a few highlights from “Possessing The Gate Of The Enemy After The Trial.”
You know that Abraham is the father of the faithful. And the promise was made to Abraham. And only being heirs with him, through Christ, is the only way we receive the promise, is through Abraham.
Now we, being dead in Christ, we are Abraham's Seed.
The Word is inspired, and you have to be inspired with the Word.
Now, man that possesses that faith, still will take God's Word regardless of circumstances. Now, if you can't do that, then you're not Abraham's Seed. That's the faith that Abraham had, his Seed.
Many think they got the Holy Ghost. Many claim to have the Holy Ghost. Many can show many evidences and signs of it. But, still, if it can't stay with this Word, it's not the Holy Ghost.
You believe every Word, then you are sealed after the test. When we believe every promise in the Word, then we are sealed by the Spirit, to confirm the promise. That's what, it's what Abraham, the way he did it. Then, and then only, have we the right to possess the gate of our enemy. You cannot do it until first you become that Seed.
And every true achievement is tied to an absolute, and my absolute is the Word. And everybody else is, that's--that's really born of the Spirit, their absolute is God's Word. I'm tied to It. I laid my hands upon It. And It took my place, and I've identified myself with Him. We knew that He promised to identify Himself with us. That brings genuine faith; not your own faith, but His faith; something that you don't control. He does it.
Until that Seal is placed upon you, then you have no right to call yourself a connected with your Sacrifice.
And what is the Seal of God? Ephesians 4:30, says, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until the Day of your redemption." Not from one revival to another, but Eternally sealed until the Day that you're redeemed back.
Well, then, anything redeemed has to come back to where it fell from. So if He come to redeem us, how could we, was one time didn't have to be redeemed, and we were all "born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies"? It shows that the real Christian is an attribute of God's thinking, before there was a world, or a star, or a air, or anything else. It's Eternal, and He come to redeem us back.
God has give you your healing, but you'll fight every inch of it. "Everywhere the soles of your feet sets, that I give you for possession." Footprints means "possession." It's all yours, every promise belongs to you, but you'll fight every inch of the way in now.
"More than conquers." Now we are dealing with a defeated enemy. Sickness is defeated. Death is defeated. Hell is defeated. Everything is defeated. Oh, my!
If you are in Christ! He said, "If ye abide in Me, and My Words abide in you; ask what key you want, ask what gate you want to take; ask what you will, and it shall be given to you. If ye abide in Me, and My Word abides in you, you can take any enemy's gate that comes before you." You're the royal Seed of Abraham.
That's the way God does. Love is corrective, and that's genuine love.
Genuine love is corrective, and brings you back to the Word of God.