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Your heart, not your body, but your heart has been circumcised by God when we believe

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in Him.

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And it's as if we died with Him through His resurrection, but then we've been raised with

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Him through His resurrection into the power of God by us putting our faith in Christ,

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our faith in the power of God.

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As we finish up this series, I want to finish up on the high note of the cross and the resurrection

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of Christ and the power of what Christ did through Him going and being nailed to the

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cross and then rising again on the third day and how that canceled out the power of Satan.

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I'm in Colossians 2, if you have your Bible and you want to follow with your Bible, I'm

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in Colossians 2 starting at verse 6.

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So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as your Lord, continue to live in Him, rooted

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and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

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See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends

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on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.

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For in Christ all the fullness of the deity lives in bodily form and you have been given

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fullness in Christ, who is the head, and this is a key phrase here, who is the head over

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every power and authority.

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So as we walk in the fullness of Christ, walking in the reality that the fullness of God lives

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in bodily form through Christ, lives in us and He has power over all powers and authorities.

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He's the head over all powers and authorities.

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In Him, verse 11, you are also circumcised in the putting off of the sinful nature, not

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with the circumcision done by the hands of men, but the circumcision done by Christ,

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having been buried with Him in baptism and raised with Him through your faith in the

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power of God who raised Him from the dead.

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In other words, your heart, not your body, but your heart has been circumcised by God

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when we believe in Him and it's as if we died with Him through His resurrection, but then

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we've been raised with Him through His resurrection into the power of God by us putting our faith

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in Christ, our faith in the power of God.

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When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God

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made you alive with Christ.

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He forgave you all of your sins, having canceled the written code with His regulations that

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was against us and that stood opposed to us.

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He took it away, nailing it to the cross and having disarmed the powers and authorities,

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He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

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So when we put our faith in Christ, Christ by virtue of going to the cross has taken

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all our sins upon Himself, all the accusations that were in the law that are written against

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us, they were all nailed to the cross and in so doing, He disarmed the powers and the

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authorities of demons and Satan over us and then He triumphed over that through the cross.

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So the picture here is a conquering king coming into a town with his POWs, with his

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prisoners of war, through the triumph, he made a public spectacle of them.

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The picture here is a medieval army chief coming in with those that he's captured and

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announcing that he has power and authority over them and in the same way, Christ has

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triumphed over them, He has disarmed, He has defeated for all time powers and authorities

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and when we talk about powers and authorities here, we're talking about demonic authorities,

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we're talking about rulers and heavenly hosts in the dark realm.

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Christ has triumphed through the cross.

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Well then, in Ephesians, he goes even further in explaining what happened through the cross

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and through the resurrection of Christ and in Ephesians.

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1 he's talking about prayer and he prays this prayer in verse 15 for this reason ever since

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I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints I have not

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stopped giving thanks for you remembering you in my prayers I keep asking that the God

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of our Lord Jesus Christ the glorious father may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation

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so that you may know him better I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened

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in order that you may know the hope which he has called you the riches of his glorious

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inheritance in the saints and his incomparably great power for those who believe that power

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is like the working out of his mighty strength which he exerted in Christ when he raised

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him from the dead and seated him at the right hand in the heavenly realms far above all

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rule and authority power and dominion and every title that can be given not only in

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the present age but also in the one to come and God placed all things under his feet and

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appointed him to be head over everything for the church which is his body the fullness

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of him who fills everything in every way so this power of God has lifted you and I

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up into the heavenly realm in a real spiritual sense over all powers and authorities and

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the same power the same power that works through the resurrection of Christ now works within

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us and we have all authority men and women you have all authority over all principalities

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and powers you have all authority over the demonic you have authority over Satan and

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now that's also been given to the church because you're the church but when the church comes

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together in worship when the church comes together in taking communion when the church

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comes together to hear the preaching of the word there's power in that and that power

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is the fullness of Christ it's the fullness of Christ within that gathering that pushes

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back demonic powers even in an area or region so Paul continues in Ephesians 3 he says this

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Ephesians 3 10 his intent God's intent was that now through the church the manifold wisdom

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of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms according

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to his eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord so when we preach

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the gospel when we come as kingdom people into any situation the intent is that through

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us through the church the manifold wisdom of God may be known to powers and authorities

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we have that authority working in us so when Jesus was preparing to leave the earth knowing

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that he was going to build the church here on earth in Matthew 16 he says one of the

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most important statements especially related to having power and authority over the demonic

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and he says I will build my church this is Matthew 16 18 and 19 I will build my church

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and the gates of Hades will not overcome it I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven

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whatever you bind on earth we bound in heaven whatever you loose on earth will be loose in

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heaven Jesus saying that when we become Jesus followers as a part of a local church we've

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been given authority through the keys of the kingdom the keys of the kingdom to ask to seek

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to find that when we bind something on earth in prayer when we believe God for something here on

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earth it's bound in the fourth dimension it's bound in the heavenly realm also when we lose

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something when we release something here on earth it's released in the fourth dimension and the gates

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of hell shall not prevail against the church men and women I don't know where you go to church

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if you're part of a fellowship but you need to be in a spirit-filled word-rooted powerful church

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wherever you live because God has given this kind of authority and this kind of power to the church

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and our churches should be through the keys of the kingdom advancing the light the love the

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forgiveness and the power of Christ in every community all over the globe and it is happening

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With over 2 billion followers of Jesus across the globe, with churches getting planted,

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especially just innumerable amounts of churches being planted in China, India, South America, Africa, it's amazing.

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Even in our own city, we're seeing churches planted. It's very, very exciting.

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So we are a kingdom people with the keys of the kingdom.

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The key is learning to use those keys.

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So if you're not a part of a prayer gathering where you guys pray, here at The Road, we pray at noonday every day.

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I should say Monday through Friday from noon to one.

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And we come and we bring the keys of the kingdom and we ask God for stuff.

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And we know that when we're asking, when we're seeking, we're knocking, we're pushing back the gates of hell.

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And gates were always a defense, a defense opening over forts back in Jesus' time.

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So Jesus is speaking of a church that's attacking the gates of hell.

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It's a defense measure.

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So Satan and demonic power should be on the defensive because the church is being so offensive.

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That's through prayer, that's through evangelism, that's through discipleship.

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All of those areas are a part of advancing the kingdom.

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So I challenge you, be a part of a church that's advancing the kingdom.

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I challenge you, you're the church, that wherever you go, you would know you have power and authority over the enemy.

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Not because you're so special, but because God's special.

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Because of what he did through his son Jesus, through his death on the cross, and through the resurrection of the cross.

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So when you walk in the ways of the kingdom, God's going to anoint you, he's going to empower you with his kingdom, authority, and power.

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So walk in that, grow in confidence, that's why we're doing these series.

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That's why I just keep checking out all the different episodes and all the different series that we're doing through Empower You.

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Because that's the point, empowering you to change the world.

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Empowering you to make a difference against darkness, against satanic power.

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So I hope this is helpful to you, share it with others.

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Let's be the empowered church, let's go forth knowing the power and authority of Christ.

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The power and authority of the cross, the power and authority of the resurrection, that is in us.

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Walk that out, knowing that the gates of hell shall not prevail against you.

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So God bless you man, and you guys go forth in a mighty way.

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