Grace Old and New Tetament saints

The BIBLE teaches that where Grace is operating in a born again life it is teaching me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly, righteously and godly in this world.  If His grace is in me then it is producing the likeness of Christ in me and through me. The power of God is born out of His omniscience and that omniscience is dynamic and identifiable in the born again. The true Christian bears the image of the God born man described in Scripture so we have a way of knowing who the true Christians are.

ABOUNDING GRACE PRODUCES GOOD WORKS
Corinthians 9:8   And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: 2.

ABOUNDING GRACE INCREASES IN KNOWLEDGE AND DISCERNMENT
Philippians 1:9.  And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

ABOUNDING GRACE ESTABLISHES US IN THE FAITH WITH THANKSGIVING
Colossians 2:7.  Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
ABOUNDING GRACE TEACHES US TO PLEASE GOD
 1 Thessalonians 4:1  Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

ABOUNDING GRACE MAKES US FRUITFUL IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST!
2 Peter 1:8.  For if these things be in you, and abound, they make {you that ye shall} neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.  
From God's Word we see that automatic conditionless grace that cancels sin apart from repenting of it and forsaking it is NOT at all what the Word of God teaches. BUT, sin that is confessed and forsaken is FORGIVEN! 1 John chapter one.

 BUT .  .  .  .  .

The late Charles Stanley used this text on his broadcast, (July 31, 1998), taught this verse in such a way that it could be construed he was saying, God's grace automatically and unconditionally cancels all sin as I go along in life and commit a sin. He emphasized (without qualifying sin or grace) that where sin abounds God's grace abounds even much more. "In other words," Charles Stanley said, "No matter how much sin you have in your life God's grace is always greater." If the person listening to Charles Stanley had a conditionless concept of Grace he or she is going to believe that a Christian can sin and grace automatically cancels their sin no matter how much they disobey God's Word and how much I have rebelled against His grace teaching. But the Bible says, Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?   Hebrews 10:29. The Scripture also makes it very clear that if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

It’s very true that God’s grace is much greater, much more powerful than the sin of man, and that His grace can and will forgive any sin a man may commit, BUT, if I consciously transgress God’s moral law - that is, I am quite aware I have done wrong and displeased the Lord, then there are conditions to that must be met if that sin is forgiven! It begins with confessing the sin and admitting it before the Lord and asking His forgiveness. And then there is a second condition regarding sin we confess. It is made clear in this simple statement that, Sin confessed but not forsaken is not forgiven! When we confess our sin before God that implies that we are forsaking it and that we feel it wrong and was wrongly committed.

To continue committing sin after we have once confessed it as wrong makes confessing wrong a trite ceremonial thing with no redemptive or life changing lesson learned, no eschewing of the evil we have confessed.

According to Charles Stanley, no matter how much I sin, God's grace is much greater and that sin is covered by that greatness of God's grace. It may seem he is paying a wonderful compliment to God and His grace - BUT if it is not according to the Word of God it makes no points with God no matter how much you flatter Him (God) with false compliments.

1 John 1:9.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 
If grace and sin are not defined correctly, in explaining this passage of Scripture in Romans 5:9, the hearer will think, "Oh, well, if I sin grace is greater than my sin and cancels it no matter what sin I commit or how much I sin." It leaves the Christian open to looseness with the false idea that grace is an automatic cover for my sin, that God provided grace to automatically cancel sin in my life under all circumstances as it happens. But, grace is not an automatic cancellation of sin! There are many conditions to the function of grace in my life for grace to operate efficaciously (effectively and according to God's purposes) in my life. Let us look at some reasons why the Bible does not teach Grace as an automatic cover that is some kind of an ever present power that forgives sin automatically always standing by to cancel my sins..

1. There are two zones of Grace. These two zones of God's favor operate in two different ways at two different times and in two different ways in our Christian life.

The first Grace is what we experience AT the cross when we are forgiven and this grace is conditionless. Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5.

The second Grace experience is the favor of God through Christ AFTER the cross and is conditional. Romans 10:10; Ephesians 2:10; Titus 2:11-12.

Grace AFTER the cross makes me a possessor of the divine presence in my heart or inner man. Once I possess the mind of Christ I take on the responsibility to respond and to obey Him because His love constrains me to do righteously. AFTER I am a Christian Grace is a teacher of righteousness to my heart and good works and the likeness of Christ are my goals through obedience to His teaching.
Titus 2:11-14.

Those who are Baptized in the Holy Spirit have more grace than those just baptized into Christ.

2. I'm sorry, but some popular and articulate radio preachers simply do not understand the difference between the two operations of God's grace.

When Grace is not defined correctly and we fail to rightly divide the Word of truth we can end up with the idea that all of God's wonderful favors toward man are all conditionless. No! The grace that saves me IS conditonless, but the Grace that keeps me saved AFTER conditionless blood redemption is conditional as Scripture teaches clearly in many instances and illustrated in above listed Scriptures. When a bible believer thinks of God's grace as being only conditionless his doctrine becomes seriously flawed and many people will be misled into believing that if they are sovereignly chosen then grace automatically covers their sin, no matter how much they sin or how little effort they put into their Christianity and they become deceived until the day of death!

3. Forgiveness is granted through the operation of Grace. The one condition of salvation is that I acknowledge my sinful state and repent. Sin that is not confessed is not forgiven. If grace gives a Christian automatic cancellation of sin then it immediately  a disfunctional grace because repentance is omitted by this teaching. The Bible is very clear in many places that repentance is vital to God's saving grace.

Matthew 3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew 9:13 But go ye and learn what {that} meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Matthew 11:20 Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:

Mark 2:17 When Jesus heard {it}, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Mark 6:12 And they went out, and preached that men should repent.

Luke 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

1 John 1:7-9   But if we walk in the light [truth], as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (8) If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. (9) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.. We make bold the words that are conditional.

4. To teach that grace is conditionless and automatic canceling all sin in your life so long as you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ is disproven by many Scriptures as seen above. Grace (AFTER the cross) always produces the fruit of goodness and  righteousness when it is operating in a Christian life.  It is teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts. Titus 2"11-12.  But, IF we sin, we have an advocate, a legal representative) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 1 John 2:1. That is the Biblical way of obtaining forgiveness and maintaining our standing in Christ.

Being Obediend is it Bondage or Freedom

When we use the word bondage we must immediately equate that value with it's opposite value, freedom. When using the word bondage we are referring  to being under the control or a governing authority that takes away our freedom to do what we want to do or have the right to choose for ourselves.  On the other hand, freedom simply means to be able to do what you want  to without any any constraint from an outside source to do what you want to. So freedom simply means to be able to do what you want to do.  But, 

(Galatians 5:17). the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

There is not just one you, but two you's!!

When you are walking in the Spirit the flesh cannot do what it wants to do! Liberals fall into false doctrines and practice a logic rather than what God's Word teaches them. When you are free in the Spirit, your flesh is under bondage to the Holy Spirit and will walk circumspectly and comply with all the Word of God  teaches about proper and holy behavior.

But if you are walking in the flesh then the spirit is put under subjection to the will of the flesh. One nature (flesh or spirit) can govern and the other then falls under bondage to the nature in control. To understand freedom and bondage you must first establish this foundational doctrine that we have two natures and not just one. If you do not embrace this doctrine and you fall under the governing influences of a fleshy religion, you are an apostate and you will be led astray in many ways by many false teachings. Once you embrace a solid Biblical doctrine it will save you from many errors and give you spiritual discernment regarding life in Christ.

Freedom and bondage are probably two of the most misunderstood spiritual terms in Christendom. Especially in a materialistic society where indulgence, extravagance and perverted evangelical doctrine that embraces these errors and worldly life styles. These dangerous enemies of authentic Christian life style as it is taught in the Word. We have brought the trends into the church rather then warn the church against them. Liberals have so twisted the meaning of the word bondage that they actually believe that bondage is something bad when actually Scripture teaches the very opposite!

Every man, woman and child has two natures. Matthew 26:41. The flesh nature is where sin has it's domain and operates from. Jesus said plainly.  It is the spirit that quickeneth (reviveth); the flesh profiteth nothing: John 6:63.  Paul wrote to the church at Rome (8:1),  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Then to the church at Galatia (5:16) he wrote,  Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. There are many references to the two natures that all men possess. Note that Jesus mentions the two natures, flesh and Spirit,

These two Scriptures make several doctrinal truths very clear; (1) That  all men possess these two natures; (2) That these two natures have different value systems and affinities as relating to the world around us and (3) that one of these two natures is the sin (flesh) nature and the other is the Spirit born and Spirit led nature. Once we get these three facts solidly settled in our minds, only then do we begin to enter the real truth about bondage and freedom.

I would like to be the very first Christian who believes that without holiness (hagiosmos), that is the active pursuit of perfecting holiness (separation from the world unto God) to admit without any regret that I believe in the necessity of placing the disciplines of proper behavior and restrictions on the flesh and bring my body under subjection. 1 Corinthians 9:27.  My thought life is to be under submission to and control of the Holy Spirit. 2 Corinthians 10:5. What the Word of God teaches in these verses and many, many others is that you (the flesh) cannot do the things you (the flesh) wants to!  To live a spiritual life your body and it's appetites MUST be under bondage, or control, or be governed and constrained from doing what they want to do, and involves more than going to church - it involves every conscious act and your every thought, every value and every little thing - and especially anything that is specifically or remotely inferred in the Word of God.

If you're flesh nature is allowed to indulge and express itself you are still under bondage to the sinful flesh nature and you have not been born again and made a new creature. That is bondage plain and simple. Paul said, 

Corinthians 9:27) But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection:  (1 and,

. (Galatians 5:17)  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would
     That is bondage and it is a vital part of your salvation!

So, by the power of the Spirit we mortify, we put to death the deeds of the flesh.  IN PLAIN LANGUAGE THE FLESH IS UNDER BONDAGE TO THE HOLY GHOST WHEN YOU ARE WALKING IN THE SPIRIT.

LIVING THE HOLY LIFE, SIR, IS TO HAVE THE SINFUL FLESH NATURE UNDER THE FLESH INHIBITING CONTROL OF THE HOLY GHOST. SO THAT IT CANNOT CARRY OUT IT'S SELFISH AND REBELLIOUS THOUGHTS AND DEEDS THAT CAN DAMN YOUR SOUL TO HELL!

When the flesh is under bondage to spiritual laws, the Spirit is enjoying freedom.
So freedom in the Spirit only comes through the bondage of the flesh to the Spirit.

Bondage is the one half of living a victorious Christian life. But if a Christian is deceived and sold out to carnality and fulfilling the lusts of the self loving flesh, he or she is under the deadliest kind of bondage! Social drinking, paycheck pools, pastors playing golf for a pot of money they all contribute to; Adultery, fornication and indiscriminate physical contact with men and women of your church (?) in the name of love and fellowship; gossip and spreading of rumors without substantiation, squandering money, extravagance in clothing while the children in Sudan are being eaten by vultures, going naked on beaches in bikinis with vile sinners lusting after your body - shame, shame, shame. You may call that "freedom" but you are under the bondage of flesh and the carnal laws lusts of the flesh nature living a lie - a worldly life and not a holy life!

Spiritual behavior is good but it is only the positive spiritual side of our Christianity. Liberalism tells their people nothing about the negative inhibitions Scripture places on the FLESH NATURE, that's your body. The body and the spiritual value system must both be active parts of your spiritual two-fold spiritual life. The FLESH must be under His governing control. 

Liberals insist that we who inhibit carnality and the flesh from doing what it wants to  is under bondage. Well you are right! We who believe in sanctification have come out from the world and the things the world does to gratify its pride and lust, but they who do such things are under bondage to the sinful flesh. This may be because when people come to Christ today in liberal churches simply are told to come to Jesus and believe with no mention of repentance.

Yes, we may have our flesh under bondage but that is as it should be! But to give your body freedom to express itself and indulge in a worldly system until we can tell no difference between the church and the world is a bondage of the worst kind! When saints act and look like sinners it means your spiritual nature is still under bondage to the spirit of this world.

The Bottom Line
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

You see, bondage of the sinful flesh nature is essential to the valid salvation experience!

If you're flesh is not under bondage (being inhibited from indulging in flesh pleasures) then you do not possess freedom in the Spirit!

Keep watching this page because we have another ton of truth to be dropped on this subject ...
Stand by all Christians with a desire to be holy and pleasing to God.

 Who Is Selling Bondage As Freedom?
Exposition of the apostate church from Scripture

The Majority Is Always Wrong!
 Whole movements and whole generations of the church have been wrong!
Whole nations have been wrong - and now the majority church is wrong.

Gods Court Room

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Legal Authority

Everything that happens in the Heavens and Earth  in the Literal and spiritual realm has to have Legal Authority in Heaven from God's WORD.

Deut. 30:19 (KJV) 

    I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

We have the choice to choose but it will take a lifetime to grow and mature in the word in Knowledge , Wisdom , Understanding and the Fruit pf the Spirit. Most will never accomplish this mark and we allow these curses to attach themselves to us.

2 Tim. 2:13 (KJV)  If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

This scripture has nothing to do with salvation or the Holy Spirit within someone: But rather that  God  will not Deny his Word.

John 1:1-5 (KJV)  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. “  God cannot Deny Himself  ”    [2] The same was in the beginning with God. [3] All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. [4] In him was life; and the life was the light of men. [5] And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

“The absence of Light is darkness and the absence of God is darkness and will result in sin. If we don’t walk in the Light then we are walking in darkness ”

 John 12:35-36 (KJV)   Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. [36] While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.

John 8:12 (KJV)  Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

If we follow the words of Christ and Obey them then we are in the Light.

Matthew 6:23 (KJV) 

    But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

1 John 2:4 (KJV)   He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

If we claim to Have Christ and don’t obey his words then the light that is in us is darker than those that know nothing about Christ. Then Satan has Greater Legal Authority to destroy us.

John 3:21 (KJV)      But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

The Word tells us in;

Malachi 3:6 (KJV)   For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

God will not change his Word for me or for you. It don’t matter how we interpret scripture ,what our beliefs are or our doctrines Gods word will not change to fit them.

John 12:48 (KJV)  He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

When we stand before the Lord we will be Judged in a court of Law by the Law of God.

James 2:12 (KJV)   So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

Romans 2:12 (KJV)   For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

John 12:48 (KJV)  He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

By God / Those that are disobedient and those don’t abide by his Word will be judged at the Great White Throne Judgment.

Rev. 20:11 (KJV)  And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

Those that are obedient to his word will be Judged at the Judgment seat of Christ for their good and or bad works.

2 Cor. 5:10 (KJV)  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Judgment

Predicted in the Old Testament 1Ch 16:33; Ps 9:7; 96:13; Ec 3:17.
A first principle of the gospel Heb 6:2.
A day appointed for Ac 17:31; Ro 2:16.
Time of, unknown to us Mk 13:32.
Called the

Day of wrath. Ro 2:5; Rev 6:17.
Revelation of the righteous judgment of God. Ro 2:5.
Day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 2Pe 3:7.
Day of destruction. Job 21:30.
Judgment of the great day. Jude 1:6.

Shall be administered by Christ Joh 5:22,27; Ac 10:42; Ro 14:10; 2Co 5:10.
Saints shall sit with Christ in 1Co 6:2; Rev 20:4.
Shall take place at the coming of Christ Mt 25:31; 2Ti 4:1.
Of Heathen, by the law of conscience Ro 2:12,14,15.
Of Jews, by the law of Moses Ro 2:12.
Of Christians, by the gospel Jas 2:12.
Shall be held upon

All nations. Mt 25:32.
All men. Heb 9:27; 12:23.
Small and great. Rev 20:12.
The righteous and wicked. Ec 3:17.
Quick and dead. 2Ti 4:1; 1Pe 4:5.

Shall be in righteousness Ps 98:9; Ac 17:31.
The books shall be opened at Da 7:10.
Shall be of all

Actions. Ec 11:9; 12:14; Rev 20:13.
Words. Mt 12:36,37; Jude 1:15.
Thoughts. Ec 12:14; 1Co 4:5.

None, by nature can stand in Ps 130:3; 143:2; Ro 3:19.
Saints shall, through Christ, be enabled to stand in Ro 8:33,34.
Christ will acknowledge saints at Mt 25:34-40; Rev 3:5.
Perfect love will give boldness in 1Jn 4:17.
Saints shall be rewarded at 2Ti 4:8; Rev 11:18.
The wicked shall be condemned in Mt 7:22,23; 25:41.
Final punishment of the wicked will succeed Mt 13:40-42; 25:46.
The word of Christ shall be a witness against the wicked in Joh 12:48.
The certainty of, a motive to

Repentance. Ac 17:30,31.
Faith. Isa 28:16,17.
Holiness. 2Co 5:9,10; 2Pe 3:11,14.
Prayer and watchfulness. Mk 13:33.

Warn the wicked of Ac 24:25; 2Co 5:11.
The wicked dread Ac 24:25; Heb 10:27.
Neglected advantages increase condemnation at Mt 11:20-24; Lu 11:31,32.
Devils shall be condemned at 2Pe 2:4; Jude 1:6.

Everything is based on Legal Authority. What Legal authority you Give God to work for you and what legal authority you give Satan to destroy you. 

There is a courtroom in Heaven

·        God the Father is the Judge

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Hebrews 12:23 (KJV)  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

 ·        Jesus is the Advocate your attorney. 

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1 John 2:1 (KJV)  My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

 ·        Satan is the accuser or the prosecution Attorney.

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John 5:45 (KJV)  Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.

All Judgment is giving according to the Book of Law which is the true Word of God and we are given righteous Judgment.

The word tells us in

Romans 5:12 (KJV)  Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Because of this all have sinned and without a scape goat or a substitute we will all perish in our sins.

Jesus was that Perfect sacrifice/ substitute for our sin and was the Fulfillment of the Passover.

Jesus wasn’t  from the seed of Adam/man but of the seed of God implaced in Woman by the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 1:20 (KJV)   But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

Luke 1:35 (KJV)  And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

John 1:14 (KJV)  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Romans 6:23 (KJV) For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The judgment of sin is eternal Death and separation from God.

Jesus Knew no sin.

2 Cor. 5:21 (KJV)   For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Since Jesus Knew no sin because he wasn’t from the seed of Adam / Man  but of God and never gave way to the temptations of the flesh or of the Devil, then Satan Had no Legal authority from sin to touch him.

Then how could Satan gain that Legal Authority.

First we must look at what Gives Satan Legal Authority

·        Sin-

 Romans 6:23 (KJV) For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

All sin has a death penalty upon it . It takes true repentance of that sin to be redeemed from it.

Isaiah 59:2 (KJV)  But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Sin separates you from God and gives Satan “ The Accuser” Legal Authority to destroy you and Jesus “The Advocate”  cannot speak on your behalf to the Father “The Judge”

God cannot go against his Word he has to abide by it.

Ezekiel 18:24 (KJV)  

But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. “The Old Testament saints weren’t saved by the Sacfrices/The Law ; but they where saved by Grace by faith unto righteousness unto Jesus the Rock that followed them. 1 Cor.10:4”

 ·        Disobedience 

 We can look at Jonah, Saul,  Israel ,And many others.

2 Thes. 1:8 (KJV)   In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

1 Peter 4:17 (KJV)    For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

·        Lack of Knowledge-

Hosea 4:6 a. (KJV)  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge.

We Give Satan Legal authority to  destroy because of our Ignorance of Gods Word and Ignorance of Satan’s Devices. 

·        Lack of wisdom

 ·        Proverbs 10:21 (KJV)  The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

The Foolish die because of lack of wisdom.

·        Lack of understanding

 Proverbs 10:13 (KJV) 

    In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

 ·        Not My Will Father but thy will be done-

 Luke 11:2 (KJV)   And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

Satan couldn’t touch Jesus until he said this prayer

Luke 22:42 (KJV)  Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.  

We give Satan Legal Authority when we Pray Gods will and it is Gods will that we suffer for his name sake.

Philip. 1:29 (KJV)   For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

The sufferings we go through are to make us stronger in righteousness in the Lord.

1 Peter 3:14 (KJV)  But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

We can see that it was the will of God that the Blind man was blind. But was to be used for the Glory of God.

John 9:1-5 (KJV)   And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. [2] And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? [3] Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. [4] I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. [5] As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

God will use what it takes to make us stronger and to Glorify himself.

 Matthew 18:18-20 (KJV) 

    Verily I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. [19] Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. [20] For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

“ The Original Greek reads

 (Matthew 18:18-20 (KJV)  Truly I tell you I guarantee what I’m about to tell you; Whatever you declare to be improper and unlawful on Earth must be what is already forbidden in Heaven,)”

Just because we bind and rebuke something on earth don’t mean it will be bound or rebuked it has to be Lawful.

If we aren’t obedient it will not happen because it don’t line up with the word. If we lack faith or if we have sin it will not happen. Some take a lot of Prayer and fasting and so on”””

What is God trying to tell us?

1^st. He is trying to tell us that  whatever  we ask for we must have Legal authority to ask for it before we can receive it. 

How do  we give God Legal Authority in our lives?

·        We must be born again

John 3:3 (KJV)  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

This is the first step but far from the last. 

·        If we sin not

 1 John 5:18 (KJV)  We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God “properly of the father”  keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth  “properly to attach oneself ”   him not.

If we sin not then Satan’s authority is taken away and he cannot attach himself to us .  

·        By being obedient  and walking in Love. –

 John 14:23 (KJV)  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Proverbs 8:21 (KJV)  That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

We are to endure or stand on the Word of God and grow stronger .

James 1:12-13(KJV)   Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.  

·        We can Gain Legal Authority as our faith Grows

 “ See the complete teaching on the seven Levels of faith ” 

·    1.Faith unto Salvation

Romans 12:3 (KJV)

 ·  2.  Faith unto works

In this level you will make sacrifices for the Lord

James 2:17-24

 · 3.   Faith unto Sacrifice

Romans 12:1 (KJV) 

·  4.  Faith unto Obedience

1 Samuel 15:22 (KJV)

 ·5.    Faith unto Prosperity

Romans 1:17 (KJV)  

John 1:2 (KJV)  Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.                                                                                                       

This is Prosperity for the soul ,health and Finances .God don’t wish that we prosper and be in good health unless our soul has prospered first.

If you walked in perfect health and your soul had not reached that point then you could get your eyes off of God because you wouldn’t feel you need him .

· 6.   Faith unto Miracles

1 Cor. 12:9-10 (KJV)    

7.·    Faith unto Victory

1 Peter 1:6-9 (KJV)   

·        By bearing good fruit

 Ephes. 5:9 (KJV)  (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

Galatians 5:22-25 (KJV) 

    But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, [23] Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. [24] And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. [25] If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Galatians 5:16 (KJV)  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

The more we walk in the Spirit the less we walk in the Lust of the flesh and take away the legal authority Satan has over us .

 How do we loose Legal Authority 

·        By being disobedient-  

1 Peter 4:17 (KJV)    For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

2 Thes. 1:8 (KJV)   In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

·       By Fear-

 What Job feared the most came upon him and allowed Satan to have Legal authority to attack him.

Job 3:25 (KJV)  For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

Fear will allow tormenting spirits to work against you.

1 John 4:18 (KJV)   There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

·       By sin-

 Romans 6:23 (KJV)   For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

·       Lack of Knowledge-

 Hosea 4:6 (KJV)  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

We are ignorant of the word of God and many reject studying Gods word because they either don’t believe - don’t think they have too  - or because they might have more required of them if they do all will be destroyed.

Another way we are destroyed through lack of knowledge is in our diet .The word of God tells us what to eat and what not to eat. Satan has Legal authority to put sickness and disease upon us because of this.

Many people have Generational curses that have to be broken. “The Legal authority HAS TO BE TAKEN AWAY  that came from the bloodline this has to be broken.”

Such as Mental conditions , Health problems , perverted spirits and so on.

Sickness is Satan's Work

1.      Satan smote Job with "sore boils" (Job 2:7)

2.      God "turned the captivity of Job" (Job 42:10)

3.      Jesus healed a "dumb man possessed with a devil" (Matthew 9:32-33)

4.      Jesus healed a blind and dumb man "possessed with a devil" (Matthew 12:22)

5.      "If Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself ... I cast out devils by the Spirit of God" (Matthew 12:26-28)

6.     A woman's daughter was "grievously vexed with a devil" (Matthew 15:22)

7.     "Jesus rebuked the devil" (Matthew 17:18)

8.      A man "had a spirit of an unclean devil" (Luke 4:33)

9.     "The devil had thrown him in the midst" (Luke 4:35)

10.   A boy had a demon the disciples could not cast out, but as Jesus approached, "the devil threw him down, and tare him" (Luke 9:42)

11.   After Jesus cast out the dumb devil, "the dumb man spake" (Luke 11:14)

12.   "There was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years" and was bent and couldn't straighten herself; Jesus declared that Satan had bound her (Luke 13:11-16)

13.   "The thief cometh not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10)

14.    "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" (Acts 10:38)

15.   Jesus called Paul to turn people "from the power of Satan unto God" (Acts 26:18)

16.   Regarding an unrepentant immoral man, Paul said he would "deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh" (1 Cor. 5:5)

17.   When Jesus sent the twelve disciples out by twos, "they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them" (Mark 6:7-13)

18.    Jesus commissioned the seventy to "heal the sick"; they returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through Thy name" (Luke 10:9,17)

19.    Jesus partook of flesh and blood, "that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil" (Hebrews 2:14)

20.   "For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil" (1 John 3:8). The works of the devil include demons causing many physical infirmities and sicknesses. See Demons or Unclean Spirits.

Hebrew:  shechiyn (OT:7822), to burn; inflammation.  It is translated boil (Job 2:7; Exodus 9:9-11; Leviticus 13:18,19,20,23; 2 Kings 20:7; Isaiah 38:21); and botch (Deut. 28:27,35).  It denotes a tumor on the flesh accompanied with severe inflammation.  Job's affliction caused him restless nights.  His skin broke out with running ulcers so severe that he would bite himself because of the pain.

We are told by his stripes we where healed but this is only according to the Legal authority. One Legality here is Faith. The other is the Souls condition.

3 John 1:2 (KJV)  Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

If we are healed and then fall right back into sin then a worse thing can come upon us because of Legal authority.

John 5:14 (KJV) Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.  

·       Because of our Lack of Understanding of the Word.

 HOW SATAN DECEIVES THE WORLD

Paul said, "And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed Into an angel of light.  Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works" (2 Cor. 11:14,15).  This makes it clear that counterfeits of Satan in doctrines and manifestations will be substitutes of truth and as near to the light and truth as possible in order to deceive seekers after truth.  So it will pay everyone to be careful about what he believes and what supernatural power he yields to.  There are definite ways outlined in Scripture by which one can detect what kind of spirit is seeking control of him. Satan will use the Word against you and try to change it or the meaning of it just enough to deceive you. He did this with Eve in Gen.3:1-6.

And he Tempted Jesus with the Word but he was unable to deceive him

Mt. 4:1-11

“see my teaching on the Mingling of the seed”  – Tree of Life /Tree of knowledge of Good and evil

·       Lack of wisdom of how to use what God has given you.

 Proverbs 10:21 (KJV)  The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

Romans 1:21 (KJV)  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

1 Tim. 6:9 (KJV) But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

·       By not bearing good fruit

 Matthew 7:19 (KJV)   Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

If we aren’t bearing good fruit then we are bearing bad fruit or bad works.

Works of the Devil

1.   Sin—rebellion (Genesis 3:2 Cor. 11:3)

2.     Works of darkness, including moral sedition and sex perversion (Ephes. 5:11; Ephes. 6:12; Acts 16:18; Romans 1)

3.   Works of wickedness (Col. 1:21)

4.   Spiritual blindness (2 Cor. 4:4)

5.   Stealing the Word of God (Matthew 13:19)

6.   Deceptions and false religions (2 Cor. 11:14; 1 Tim. 4; Rev. 12:9)

7.   To kill and destroy (John 10:10)

8.   Sowing tares, tempting, and sifting saints (Matthew 4:3; Matthew 13:25; Luke 22:31)

9.   Promoting counterfeit worship and miracles (2 Thes. 2:8-12; 1 Cor. 10:20)

10. Causing storms (Job 1:18-19; Ephes. 2:2)

11. Ruling nations (Matthew 4:8-9; Daniel 10)

12. Executing death (Hebrews 2:14-15)

13. Accusing the brethren (Rev. 12:10)

14. Hindering prayers (Daniel 10:12-21)

15. Opposing the gospel (Ephes. 6:1-18)

16. Supervising demons (John 12:31), fallen angels (Rev. 12:7-12), and fallen man (Ephes. 2:2; 1 John 3:8; John 8:44)

17. Causing sickness and disease (Matthew 4:23-24; Matthew 9:32-33; Matthew 15:22; Acts 10:38)

18. Causing infirmities (Matthew 8:17; Luke 13:16; John 10:10; Acts 10:38)

19. Causing lunacy and mania (Matthew 4:23-24; Matthew 17:14-21; Mark 5:1-18)

20. Urging suicides (Matthew 17:15; John 10:10)

21. Agitating lusts (John 8:44; Ephes. 2:1-3)

22. Lying and false prophecy (1 Kings 22; Matthew 24:11,24; 2 Cor. 11:13-15)

23. Propagating false doctrines (1 Tim. 4; 2 Tim. 4; 2 Thes. 2; Rev. 13)

24. Oppressing men (Acts 10:38)

25. Persecuting Christians and warring on saints (Ephes. 6:10-18; 1 Peter 5:8-9).

Christ died to destroy and cancel all these works of the devil for believers in this age, and to give complete mastery over them (Col. 2:14-17; 1 Peter 2:24; Luke 10:19; John 14:12; Mark 16:17-18).

But Satan gains authority over our lives in many of these because we become unfruitful.

1 John 2:15 (KJV)  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. There is no in between we either serve God or Satan; one or the other is our father.

·       Unforgiveness

 Mark 11:25-26 (KJV)  And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. [26] But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

 ·       We curse ourselves and others with our lips and give Satan Legal authority.

 Matthew 15:11 (KJV)  Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

James 1:26 (KJV)   If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain

James 3:5-6 (KJV)  Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! [6] And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

Proverbs 18:21 (KJV)  Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Matthew 12:36 (KJV)  But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Everything we say we will be judged for it .Not only this but Satan can use all that you say against you and Others.

If you claim to be sick then Satan will agree with you and it gives him legal authority to inflict you. The more seed you sow along with water and fertilize the faster and more sick you will become.

If you claim to have a Mental problem “ nervous, anxiety or so on  then Satan has Legal Authority to give it to you. If you draw a check for any of these just to have income “ which many Christians do “ then Satan has the Legal right to give you a Mental problem and you cannot be healed unless you repent and claim your healing with faith to be healed. These are just examples. 

What ever we confess that is what God can act on or Satan.

As well as what is in the heart.

We must understand that what Gods word says “not our opinion or doctrine” Is the Law of God and that we have to abide by it rather we have the Knowledge ,wisdom or understanding of it or not.

If we don’t then their will be consequences to it.

Just because we have been Born again don’t mean that we can do as we please; or that Satan cannot touch us with sickness, disease , infirmities ,poverty and many more things.

Faith

Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)