G.O.D. = Game Over Devil [podcast]

Ousting the Enemy!

WHO’s READY FOR SOME VICTORY?

Your issue is with the God you have sinned against, and not me, a mere messenger of His.  Blaming everyone except the sinner who caused your separation from your Maker will only dig yourself deeper in misery. The sin you are living in has given full control of your life to Satan who has come “to steal, to kill, and to destroy” (John 10:10). The following information will equip you to know what the LORD requires of you to be back into His graces, in a vital union with the Savior.

Sin and Satan were defeated by Jesus when He died and sin and Satan are defeated in our lives as we submit to the LORD in dying, laying down our lives so He can reign supreme! (Hebrews 2:14-15)

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” James 4:7

Submitting yourself to the LORD means turning back to Him in repentance and putting your whole faith in Christ (Hosea 14:1-2).

“But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” Hebrews 11:6

Following Jesus means trusting Him, obeying, worshipping and loving Him and not yourself any longer. It’s time to change masters.

“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Matthew 22:37-40

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus

“And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. 24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.” Luke 9:23-24 

Here our LORD instructed us that if we are going to following Him, we must do so “daily” by way of the cross – the crucified life.

Evading, ignoring the cross is evading victory! (1 Corinthians 15:57)

You are only a threat to Satan and his kingdom as the explosive resurrection power of Christ is raising you upward out of the posture of death and burial! (2 Corinthians 4:10-12)

Embracing the cross – the crucified life – is procuring to yourself the full blessings and victory Jesus died to grant!

“God salvages the individual by liquidating him and then raising him again to newness of life.” A.W. Tozer

When you are in the cross, your life is being lived by the grace of and for the glory of Jesus Christ!

The depth you allow God to bury you determines the height of His resurrection, His raising up in your life! (2 Corinthians 4:10-12).

The joy of dying is that it is absolute, it is without exception – that GOD is going to raise you up! (2 Corinthians 4:10-12)

AS long as you are going down – into death and burial – Christ is raising you up!  

My own iniquitous “old man” sinful nature shall prevail until the “new man” is “put on” and kept on by the daily cross life! (Ephesians 4:22-24; Colossians 3:1-10, etc.)

“But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.” Romans 13:14

God has a blessed resurrection gift reserved and waiting for all who are dying downward! It’s time to “Taste and see that the Lord is good” (Psalms 34:8).

The person who’s been born again and yet is not walking in the crucified life – is miserable. Yet those in the cross are full and overflowing with Christ’s resurrection joy! (John 15:11; 16:22)

G.O.D. = Game Over Devil

IF you are not hearing Jesus’ call for you to take up the cross, you are not hearing the unchanging voice of God.

Outside of the cross lifestyle, sin and Satan shall continue to prevail in your personal life. Read Romans 6 each morning this week.

Downward Dying = Upward Rising

“And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:” Isaiah 37:31

“Though Death”!

Listen closely beloved. Notice that God’s Word tells us here that Jesus defeated the devil by dying!

Jesus conquered, overcame by dying! And, we follow Jesus by doing the same!

“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;” Hebrews 2:14

Jesus defeated Satan by dying. Satan’s power is vanquished forever and the performance of such in the individual saint’s life occurs when he dies downward.

If you are not presently crucified with Christ you cannot experience His victory in your personal life.

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20

From this day forward, child of God, speak this Bible truth aloud from your heart and lips.

UNLEASHING the power of Christ’s cross on the devil and the world around you requires a death and burial of the self-life (2 Corinthians 4:10-12).

“Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.” 2 Corinthians 4:10-12

You can’t be raised out of the grave until you have submitted to the death and burial that puts you there! Selah.

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