WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.600 When Jesus was about to go back to heaven, 2 00:00:04.600 --> 00:00:06.200 he gave us this command. 3 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:07.200 He said, 4 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:10.800 All authority has been given to me on heaven and on earth. 5 00:00:16.400 --> 00:00:20.200 So, authority in the Greek is exousia. 6 00:00:20.200 --> 00:00:22.400 It means the power to rule, 7 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:26.800 the power of one who commands that must be obeyed. 8 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:31.400 In John 17, 2, he has given him authority over all flesh. 9 00:00:31.400 --> 00:00:33.800 All authority has been given to Christ. 10 00:00:33.800 --> 00:00:38.600 Christ has all authority over heaven and earth. 11 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:40.800 But Satan has also been given authority. 12 00:00:40.800 --> 00:00:43.000 So, who has more power here? 13 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:46.400 And I'll tell you, when you read and look at some of the information 14 00:00:46.400 --> 00:00:47.600 that's out there in the church, 15 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.200 you could get the idea that they're almost equal. 16 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:51.800 Well, they're not. 17 00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:55.000 Christ has complete power over the enemy. 18 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:59.800 And actually, Satan is a puppet that is being used, 19 00:00:59.800 --> 00:01:03.200 actually, by God to accomplish his purposes. 20 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:07.400 Very interesting, though, in Luke 4, 21 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:09.400 in the temptation of Jesus, 22 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:14.600 what the devil says to Jesus is quite striking. 23 00:01:14.600 --> 00:01:19.200 Because he seems to have all the authority in this exchange. 24 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:22.800 Let me read it to you. It's Luke 4, 5-8. 25 00:01:22.800 --> 00:01:25.000 Then the devil, taking him up on a high mountain, 26 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:28.400 showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 27 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:29.800 And the devil said to him, 28 00:01:29.800 --> 00:01:35.600 All of this authority I will give you and their glory, 29 00:01:35.600 --> 00:01:37.800 for this has been delivered to me. 30 00:01:37.800 --> 00:01:40.800 And that's the key word here. This has been delivered to me. 31 00:01:40.800 --> 00:01:43.600 And I will give it to whomever I wish. 32 00:01:43.600 --> 00:01:48.600 Therefore, if you will worship before me, it will all be yours. 33 00:01:48.600 --> 00:01:50.400 And then Jesus answered and said to him, 34 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:52.600 Get behind me, Satan, for it is written, 35 00:01:52.600 --> 00:01:54.600 You shall worship the Lord your God, 36 00:01:54.600 --> 00:01:58.600 and Him shall you serve only. 37 00:01:58.600 --> 00:02:00.000 Now, why is this interesting? 38 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:04.200 Well, it's interesting because Jesus never refutes 39 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:08.199 what Satan says when he says, I have all this authority. 40 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:11.200 So somehow in a supernatural way, 41 00:02:11.200 --> 00:02:16.400 Satan was able to take Jesus up to a high place 42 00:02:16.600 --> 00:02:20.600 and you could see the kingdoms of the earth 43 00:02:20.600 --> 00:02:22.800 in some supernatural way. 44 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:24.600 And he was offering that to Jesus. 45 00:02:24.600 --> 00:02:26.600 So when we look at governments 46 00:02:26.600 --> 00:02:30.200 and we look at powers across the globe, 47 00:02:30.200 --> 00:02:32.600 you know, in the world we're living in with Big Tech, 48 00:02:32.600 --> 00:02:37.200 Big Pharma, Big Gov, Big Business, 49 00:02:37.200 --> 00:02:39.000 there could be an argument made 50 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:42.000 that Satan is in control of these different areas. 51 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:44.600 And one of the reasons we do Empower You 52 00:02:44.600 --> 00:02:47.400 and one of the reasons why I planted the road at Chapel Hill 53 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:51.600 and Colorado Springs is a kingdom of God revolution 54 00:02:51.600 --> 00:02:55.000 because we believe that the power and authority of Jesus 55 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:59.200 is greater than the power and authority of Satan. 56 00:02:59.200 --> 00:03:02.600 And unless that power and authority is confronted 57 00:03:02.600 --> 00:03:06.200 and dealt with, Satan has control. 58 00:03:06.200 --> 00:03:08.200 But it's my conviction and my belief 59 00:03:08.200 --> 00:03:10.800 that we have power through Christ 60 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:14.200 to overcome Satan in every area 61 00:03:14.200 --> 00:03:16.400 that if we will be a people 62 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:18.600 that are walking in the authority of Christ 63 00:03:18.600 --> 00:03:20.600 through the filling of the Holy Spirit, 64 00:03:20.600 --> 00:03:23.600 through the authority that we have from God's word, 65 00:03:23.600 --> 00:03:25.800 we can take down the enemy. 66 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:28.200 So let's look at a few passages 67 00:03:28.200 --> 00:03:34.200 that deal with the authority that God has over Satan. 68 00:03:34.200 --> 00:03:36.000 So first I wanna look at Job. 69 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:40.200 So there's the case of Job where Satan comes 70 00:03:40.200 --> 00:03:43.600 and he brings to God Job and he asks, 71 00:03:43.600 --> 00:03:48.600 and this is important, he asks for permission to attack Job. 72 00:03:48.600 --> 00:03:51.600 This is Job 1, 6 through 9. 73 00:03:51.600 --> 00:03:54.400 Now there was a day when the sons of God 74 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:56.800 came to present themselves before the Lord 75 00:03:56.800 --> 00:03:59.000 and Satan also came among them. 76 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:02.600 And the Lord said to Satan, from where do you come? 77 00:04:02.600 --> 00:04:04.200 Satan answered the Lord and said, 78 00:04:04.200 --> 00:04:06.600 from going to and fro on the earth 79 00:04:06.600 --> 00:04:09.400 and from walking back and forth on it. 80 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:10.600 And the Lord said to Satan, 81 00:04:10.600 --> 00:04:13.400 if you consider my servant Job, 82 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:15.400 that there is none like him on the earth, 83 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:17.399 a blameless and upright man, 84 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:20.000 one who fears God and shuns evil. 85 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:23.000 So Satan answered the Lord and said, 86 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:25.600 does Job fear God for nothing? 87 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:32.000 So here's the thing is that Satan had to come to God 88 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:36.400 to have permission to attack Job. 89 00:04:36.400 --> 00:04:39.800 And so it shows the authority of God over Satan. 90 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:42.000 And I would say that to any believer, 91 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:46.200 that when Satan is attacking you or demons are attacking you, 92 00:04:46.200 --> 00:04:47.200 God's still there. 93 00:04:47.200 --> 00:04:49.400 He still has authority over that. 94 00:04:49.400 --> 00:04:52.400 And to the extent that you're walking in righteousness 95 00:04:52.400 --> 00:04:54.800 is the extent in which you're protected from the enemy 96 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:57.400 through the power and the protection of God. 97 00:04:57.400 --> 00:04:59.400 Job hasn't done anything wrong. 98 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.280 and God allows Satan to attack him, 99 00:05:04.280 --> 00:05:08.560 but Satan had to go through God to be able to attack him. 100 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:10.080 In the case of Peter, 101 00:05:10.080 --> 00:05:13.360 Satan had to ask Jesus for permission 102 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:18.360 to go after Peter in Luke 22, 31 through 32. 103 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:19.440 And the Lord said, 104 00:05:19.440 --> 00:05:23.220 Simon, Simon, indeed, Satan has asked for you 105 00:05:23.220 --> 00:05:25.660 that he may sift you as wheat, 106 00:05:25.660 --> 00:05:29.160 but I have prayed for you that your faith should not fail. 107 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:30.720 And when you have returned to me, 108 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:32.760 you will strengthen your brethren. 109 00:05:32.760 --> 00:05:35.860 So again, Satan had to come through Jesus 110 00:05:35.860 --> 00:05:37.680 to be able to attack Peter. 111 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:42.680 So God has placed his authority over all the saints. 112 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:47.200 God's not gonna allow any temptation or attack 113 00:05:47.200 --> 00:05:51.520 to come your way that you're not strong enough to withstand. 114 00:05:51.520 --> 00:05:53.440 1 Corinthians 10, 13. 115 00:05:53.440 --> 00:05:56.360 No temptation has overtaken you, 116 00:05:56.360 --> 00:05:59.560 except such as is common to all men, 117 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:01.240 but God is faithful, 118 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:03.200 who will not allow you to be tempted 119 00:06:03.200 --> 00:06:05.200 beyond what you are able, 120 00:06:05.200 --> 00:06:06.360 but with the temptation, 121 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:08.240 he will also make the way of escape 122 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.680 that you may be able to bear. 123 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:13.040 So God's got his protective hand over you. 124 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:14.080 He's watching over you. 125 00:06:14.080 --> 00:06:19.080 He's strengthening himself through you and he protects you. 126 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:21.680 So what is the purpose of Satan and demons? 127 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:24.320 Let me give you seven purposes that I see 128 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:26.880 are why we have to confront 129 00:06:26.880 --> 00:06:28.400 with authority Satan and demons. 130 00:06:28.400 --> 00:06:33.400 Number one, it shows us the power 131 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:36.200 and the results of sin and rebellion. 132 00:06:36.200 --> 00:06:38.640 It shows us the imperfection of man 133 00:06:38.640 --> 00:06:40.440 and the perfection of God. 134 00:06:40.440 --> 00:06:43.080 Only one who is perfect. 135 00:06:43.080 --> 00:06:46.480 So first of all, the reason God allows demons, 136 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:49.360 I believe on the earth is to show us the power 137 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:51.960 and the results of sin and rebellion in our life 138 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:54.560 so that we'll make the right choice to follow him. 139 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:58.520 Number two, it gives us a choice between good and evil. 140 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:03.380 There's something about us having to make that choice 141 00:07:03.380 --> 00:07:04.920 that we're not robotic, 142 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:07.240 that we have our own will 143 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:09.520 and we make a choice to follow good. 144 00:07:09.520 --> 00:07:10.760 We're not puppets. 145 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:13.680 In a way, Satan is kind of a puppet of God 146 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:15.800 or a stooge of God, but you're not. 147 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:17.640 You and I are creating the image of God. 148 00:07:17.640 --> 00:07:19.200 Satan's not creating the image of God. 149 00:07:19.200 --> 00:07:20.520 Demons are not creating the image of God, 150 00:07:20.520 --> 00:07:22.360 but we're creating the image of God. 151 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:26.260 And God wants us to make the choices of good and evil. 152 00:07:26.260 --> 00:07:29.920 Number three, we see our need for a redeemer. 153 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:33.960 So by the presence of evil, 154 00:07:33.960 --> 00:07:38.080 it creates within us a desire for redeemer. 155 00:07:38.080 --> 00:07:41.060 Number four, we start seeking the kingdom first 156 00:07:41.060 --> 00:07:42.360 and we're excited about heaven 157 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:43.880 and the earth is not our home. 158 00:07:43.880 --> 00:07:48.320 So there's that part two of the hardships 159 00:07:48.320 --> 00:07:51.800 and the struggle on this earth are preparing us for heaven. 160 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:53.900 It gives us something to look forward to. 161 00:07:55.080 --> 00:08:00.080 Number five, we're being formed into Christ likeness 162 00:08:00.640 --> 00:08:02.400 through the battle. 163 00:08:02.400 --> 00:08:06.000 So it's something about the battle that's good for you. 164 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:07.320 You know, I was an athlete. 165 00:08:07.320 --> 00:08:09.840 Many of you have been athletes and you've lifted weights 166 00:08:09.840 --> 00:08:12.000 and you've run, you've gotten in shape. 167 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:15.800 And there's a good side to training. 168 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:17.440 And so same with the Christian life. 169 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:19.080 The Christian life is a battle. 170 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:23.280 It's hard, it's difficult, life's malevolent. 171 00:08:23.280 --> 00:08:27.360 And God uses even the enemy to strengthen us 172 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:30.880 to learn how to fight and trains us for battle and warfare. 173 00:08:30.880 --> 00:08:34.640 Number six, resistance brings clarity to our faith. 174 00:08:34.640 --> 00:08:37.720 That the resistance that we deal with, 175 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:40.799 with our flesh and the devil in this world 176 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:44.240 actually brings clarity to what we believe. 177 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:45.160 And then number seven, 178 00:08:45.160 --> 00:08:47.120 we learn to put on the full armor of God. 179 00:08:47.880 --> 00:08:50.200 And that's found in Ephesians 6, 10 through 18. 180 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:52.280 The full armor of God, 181 00:08:52.280 --> 00:08:54.460 of putting on the helmet of salvation, 182 00:08:54.460 --> 00:08:56.320 the breastplate of righteousness, 183 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:59.280 the shield of faith, the sword of the spirit, 184 00:08:59.280 --> 00:09:00.320 the belt of truth, 185 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:03.240 shodding our feet with the gospel of peace, 186 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:07.740 all strengthens us to be men and women of God. 187 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:11.300 Well, the key authority, 188 00:09:11.300 --> 00:09:14.040 the key power that we have over the devil 189 00:09:14.040 --> 00:09:16.160 is through the cross. 190 00:09:16.160 --> 00:09:18.660 That's the beginning of the end for Satan on the earth 191 00:09:18.660 --> 00:09:20.840 is what happened at the cross. 192 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:24.500 So it was at the cross, at the death of Christ, 193 00:09:24.500 --> 00:09:27.200 that Satan thought he had destroyed Jesus 194 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:29.920 and that he had destroyed his authority on the earth. 195 00:09:29.920 --> 00:09:32.640 He actually entered into Judas, 196 00:09:32.640 --> 00:09:36.120 it says in Luke 22, three and John 13, two, 197 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:39.120 in order to come against the disciples 198 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:42.820 and to incite the Jewish authorities to kill Jesus. 199 00:09:42.820 --> 00:09:45.400 But God has complete control. 200 00:09:45.400 --> 00:09:48.640 This is all playing in to God's hand. 201 00:09:48.640 --> 00:09:51.340 And 700 years before Christ, 202 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:55.200 before the Roman form of execution on the cross, 203 00:09:55.200 --> 00:10:00.200 God the father prophesied the death of his son in Isaiah. 204 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:07.000 So, let me read this, this is 700 years before Christ died on the cross, in Isaiah 53, before 205 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:12.980 there's actually the form of crucifixion that we have in the Roman Empire. 206 00:10:12.980 --> 00:10:19.820 We see God already planning the cross and the redemption of the earth through the cross. 207 00:10:19.820 --> 00:10:25.460 Isaiah 53, He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with 208 00:10:25.460 --> 00:10:28.340 grief, speaking of Jesus, the Messiah. 209 00:10:28.340 --> 00:10:30.980 And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him. 210 00:10:30.980 --> 00:10:34.220 He was despised and we did not esteem Him. 211 00:10:34.220 --> 00:10:41.020 Surely He was born, He bore our griefs, He carried our sorrows, and yet we esteemed Him 212 00:10:41.020 --> 00:10:43.660 stricken, smitten by God and afflicted. 213 00:10:43.660 --> 00:10:48.420 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities. 214 00:10:48.420 --> 00:10:55.980 The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. 215 00:10:55.980 --> 00:11:01.280 All we like sheep have gone astray, we've turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord 216 00:11:01.280 --> 00:11:05.860 has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. 217 00:11:05.860 --> 00:11:11.020 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth. 218 00:11:11.020 --> 00:11:16.380 He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shears is silent, so 219 00:11:16.380 --> 00:11:18.180 He opened not His mouth. 220 00:11:18.180 --> 00:11:24.860 Verse 8, He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who will declare to this generation? 221 00:11:24.860 --> 00:11:29.380 For He was cut off from the land of the living, for the transgressions of My people He was 222 00:11:29.380 --> 00:11:30.620 stricken. 223 00:11:30.620 --> 00:11:35.660 And they made His grave with the wicked, but with the rich at His death, because He had 224 00:11:35.660 --> 00:11:39.740 done no violence, nor was any deceit found in His mouth. 225 00:11:39.740 --> 00:11:43.720 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him. 226 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:46.680 He has put Him to grief. 227 00:11:46.680 --> 00:11:52.440 When you make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His 228 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:59.760 days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. 229 00:11:59.760 --> 00:12:10.640 So God the Father killed Jesus the Son to forgive us of our sins by the perfect sacrifice. 230 00:12:10.640 --> 00:12:19.920 Christ, through His perfect life and His death, was the perfect sacrifice for all of 231 00:12:19.920 --> 00:12:20.920 our sins. 232 00:12:20.920 --> 00:12:24.880 There's no other way we could have been completely forgiven of our sin. 233 00:12:24.880 --> 00:12:31.960 So all authority is in Christ because of His life, His death, and then on the third day 234 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:33.800 His resurrection. 235 00:12:33.800 --> 00:12:43.840 What happened between the first day, what we now classically call Good Friday, and Easter 236 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:45.520 or the resurrection? 237 00:12:45.520 --> 00:12:48.080 What happened during those three days? 238 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:53.760 Well, first of all, we know that something happened because of the events that occurred 239 00:12:53.760 --> 00:12:57.480 as Jesus breathed His last. 240 00:12:57.480 --> 00:13:02.200 And when He breathed His last, it was pretty crazy. 241 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:07.440 In Matthew 27, 45 through 53, we read this. 242 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:12.980 Now the sixth hour until the ninth hour, there was darkness over all the land. 243 00:13:12.980 --> 00:13:20.080 And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabbatani, 244 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:23.920 that is, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 245 00:13:23.920 --> 00:13:30.160 So there was this separation from God the Father where because of the sins of the world 246 00:13:30.160 --> 00:13:35.720 falling upon Jesus in some mysterious way, there was a breakage between the Father who's 247 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:40.400 righteous and now His son who's carrying the sins of the world. 248 00:13:40.400 --> 00:13:42.380 Our passage goes on. 249 00:13:42.380 --> 00:13:47.680 Some of those who stood there when they heard that said, this man is calling out for Elijah. 250 00:13:47.680 --> 00:13:52.200 Verse 48, immediately one of them ran and took a sponge and filled it with sour wine 251 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:55.880 and put it on a reed and offered it to him to drink. 252 00:13:55.880 --> 00:13:58.520 The rest said, let him alone. 253 00:13:58.520 --> 00:14:02.560 Let us see if Elijah will come and save him. 254 00:14:02.560 --> 00:14:06.560 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up His spirit. 255 00:14:06.560 --> 00:14:14.480 Then behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, and the earth quaked, 256 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:21.320 and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints who 257 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:27.200 had fallen asleep were raised from the dead, and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, 258 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:30.400 they went into the holy city and appeared to many. 259 00:14:30.400 --> 00:14:34.240 Now that's super weird. 260 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:39.960 And I believe there's a simple explanation of what happened is that at that point, Christ 261 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:50.040 went down into Hades and took the keys of death and the keys of Hades away from Satan 262 00:14:50.040 --> 00:14:55.440 and that there was this interaction in which the saints of old were resurrected from the 263 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:56.920 dead. 264 00:14:56.920 --> 00:15:00.000 And Revelation 118 gives us insight into that. 265 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:07.000 It says, I am he who lives, Christ speaking, I was dead and behold I'm alive forever, 266 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:10.720 amen, and I have the keys of Hades and death. 267 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:18.180 So at the death of Christ, he marches in to an area called Paradise and Torments. 268 00:15:18.180 --> 00:15:26.220 So in Luke 16, with the story of Lazarus and the rich man, we see that you can see across 269 00:15:26.220 --> 00:15:33.660 this gap or this chasm between the area of Torments and the area of Paradise. 270 00:15:33.660 --> 00:15:40.420 And so Jesus came in, he announced his resurrection in Paradise and in so doing he took the keys 271 00:15:40.420 --> 00:15:45.820 and I believe what happened is the believers of the saints of old, the Old Testament believers 272 00:15:45.820 --> 00:15:52.300 who truly had believed in the Messiah from a distance, in other words they had not had 273 00:15:52.300 --> 00:15:57.300 the experience of the cross of course yet, but they believed they were raised from the 274 00:15:57.300 --> 00:15:58.300 dead. 275 00:15:58.300 --> 00:16:04.260 So there was this cataclysmic power encounter between death and life that happened at the 276 00:16:04.260 --> 00:16:08.900 cross and a whole new dispensation was opened up. 277 00:16:08.900 --> 00:16:14.380 Paul writes in Ephesians 4 and 9, now this he ascended, what does it mean but that he 278 00:16:14.380 --> 00:16:18.460 also first descended into the lower parts of the earth. 279 00:16:18.780 --> 00:16:24.940 So Jesus descended into the lower parts of the earth between the day of his death and 280 00:16:24.940 --> 00:16:33.740 the resurrection and there was a power encounter that was even an earthquake and Jesus took 281 00:16:33.740 --> 00:16:41.340 the keys away from Satan at that point, there was new life released in the area of Paradise 282 00:16:41.340 --> 00:16:47.500 and so doing there was actually some that were raised from the dead and the veil that 283 00:16:47.580 --> 00:16:53.260 covered the temple was ripped in half, there was a new way to a personal vital dynamic 284 00:16:53.260 --> 00:16:55.740 relationship with Christ. 285 00:16:55.740 --> 00:17:03.580 Paul in Romans 5 says, much more than having now been justified by his blood we shall be 286 00:17:03.580 --> 00:17:06.780 saved from the wrath through him. 287 00:17:06.780 --> 00:17:14.099 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his son much more 288 00:17:14.099 --> 00:17:22.260 have even reconciled we shall be saved by his life, it's amazing passage, Paul is saying 289 00:17:22.260 --> 00:17:29.220 that it's the death of Jesus that opens up new life for us through the work of the cross 290 00:17:29.220 --> 00:17:36.660 and exactly what we just read is exactly what was happening in physical form, the veil that 291 00:17:36.660 --> 00:17:43.620 separated the holy place from the holy of holies was ripped from the top to the bottom 292 00:17:43.620 --> 00:17:51.780 and that veil was about 13 inches thick and it was ripped from the top, God ripped it, 293 00:17:51.780 --> 00:17:57.940 God opened up the way to an intimacy with Christ, that's the kind of authority the cross 294 00:17:57.940 --> 00:18:04.420 has through Jesus Christ's death that we now have to live a new life if we accept and put 295 00:18:04.420 --> 00:18:11.780 our faith in him, Colossians 2 we read, and you being dead in your trespasses and the 296 00:18:11.860 --> 00:18:18.500 uncircumcision of your flesh he has made you alive together with him having forgiven you 297 00:18:18.500 --> 00:18:24.420 all of your trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of the requirements that was against 298 00:18:24.420 --> 00:18:33.060 us which was contrary to us he has taken it out of the way having nailed it to the cross, 299 00:18:33.060 --> 00:18:40.820 now listen to the next verse, having disarmed principalities and powers he has made a public 300 00:18:40.900 --> 00:18:50.580 spectacle of them triumphing over them in it, so the cross of Christ has taken all our sins 301 00:18:50.580 --> 00:18:57.700 all of the accusations of the enemy against us and it has been taken out of the way folks, 302 00:18:57.700 --> 00:19:05.380 it is out of the way the principalities and powers the demonic spirits ruling affecting 303 00:19:06.020 --> 00:19:13.380 your life have been taken out of the way you are set free from the demonic now you may 304 00:19:13.380 --> 00:19:20.420 understand that theologically but you've also got to believe that that's key that's key to power 305 00:19:20.420 --> 00:19:26.820 over the enemy you have authority from Christ because of what he did not because of what you 306 00:19:26.820 --> 00:19:31.460 did when you put your faith in Christ you're saying I'm putting my faith in what Christ 307 00:19:31.460 --> 00:19:36.980 did at the cross he has disarmed the principalities and powers and men and women 308 00:19:36.980 --> 00:19:43.620 you can walk in the freedom and the joy and the forgiveness and the kindness and the love 309 00:19:43.620 --> 00:19:50.180 and the power of God if you'll believe that and walk in that every day one of the best 310 00:19:50.180 --> 00:19:59.540 things you could do is read and reread on a regular basis Romans 5 6 7 and 8 Romans 5 6 7 and 8 the 311 00:19:59.540 --> 00:20:00.100 bible 312 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:05.800 That's what it's talking about. That's what Colossians 2 is doing. It's giving you in a capsule form 313 00:20:05.840 --> 00:20:12.880 What Romans 5 6 7 and 8 are saying is that you have all the authority of Christ in you and you can tell any 314 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:17.120 Demon belief you can tell Satan to get out of your life, and I've done it 315 00:20:17.800 --> 00:20:22.720 Hundreds of times where I know I'm under temptation. I know the enemy's coming to me 316 00:20:22.760 --> 00:20:26.680 He's presenting things to me to try to take me off course 317 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:32.360 And I've told him to take a hike because I know my authority in Christ, and I want you to know that 318 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:38.460 that the finished work it is finished is what Jesus said is 319 00:20:39.320 --> 00:20:42.600 Applicable to your life when Christ died there was an earthquake 320 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:47.220 People were risen from the dead because at that point everything changed 321 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:51.000 That's when the revolution began the kingdom of God 322 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:58.400 Revolution began at the cross and you have authority over the demonic and as we move forward in this study 323 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:00.160 I'm going to show you how to 324 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:06.880 Take control of your life and get demons out of your life and walk with a new kind of freedom and joy over your life 325 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:09.160 God bless you 326 00:21:14.560 --> 00:21:16.560 Got a little bit fired up