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Overcoming the Enemies of God
There is a season where enemies of God will no longer be given a place, this is a season of rest. The right hand is not a permanent seat for the Son of God; He is occupying that position until he subdues His enemies. (Ps. 110:1)
To execute vengeance on the enemies of God, we must possess the armours of God. These armours are vestures dipped in blood, filled with compassion to carefully deal blows to every enemy of God within us. (Lk. 21:22, Ezek. 25:14)
Though Jesus Christ is seated, He occupies the ministry of the right hand and is a mediator to bring down the enemies of God. The enemies of the church are our members within us. The work our Lord Jesus Christ is doing is a work of empowering the church. (Heb. 2:11)
The horn in the book of Dan. 11:8, was overcoming the saints; thus Jesus could not sit and rest. Children of Abraham are those who have the law of Christ in them, they are peacemakers. They are men in their learning of Christ, but children in their adoption into Godhood. (Gal. 3: 7, Matt. 5:9)
The place of the right hand is the place of carrying out two ministries; the ministry of intercession and reconciliation. The two go hand in hand, for without intercession, reconciliation (restitution) will not be possible. (Heb. 10:12, Heb. 1:3)
There are two positions of the administration of God; the position at the right hand, and in the midst of the throne. By reason of His person, He is in the midst of the throne as the Eternal God, but the operation of the right hand (everlasting arms) is where the Son of God is sitting until all victories have been secured for the people of God. (Rev. 5:1-6, Rev. 7:17)
The full-blown operation in the midst of the throne is a place where there are no more enemies, conflicts or contradictions. This is the dominion of Eternal Life; a dominion of rest. The place of Eternal Life is a place where warfare has been won, and full victory belongs to God. (Rev. 5:6)
Every believer must come into the faith that Jesus authored and finished. This faith procured the righteousness of God and has the capacity to turn a heart of stone into a heart of flesh. (Heb. 12:2)
The ‘new spirit’ is the law of the new heart. The promise of the faith of Jesus is to produce a new man; one with a new heart, who is no longer connected to his natural father or mother. (Gen. 2:24)
The law of sin and death makes us enemies of God. However, a man that has the heart of flesh is one that has made peace with God. (Rom. 8:7, Eph. 2:13-15)
When we don't arrive at faith, we cannot make peace with God. There is no middle ground in our journey as believers; if we are not journeying towards God, we are departing from the Living God. (Heb. 11:5)
We cannot come to God without being made a living soul, the first portion that will be renewed and made living in us is our mind. This is for us to be made children of peace as they are the ones that can please God. (Matt. 5:9)
For us to be free from the law of sin and death, we must not be at peace with our flesh (natures of our lineage), and we have to engage in warfare against them for us to be rid of them completely. (Matt. 10:37-38, Jn. 3:6, Gal. 2:20)
Enmity with flesh is in the mind of man, this is his carnality. To make us spiritually minded, we must obey the teachings of Christ to undo the teachings of doctrines of devils and seducing spirits in us which make us depart from the faith. (Eph. 2:13-15, 2 Cor. 10:4, Heb. 11:6)
We cannot serve God if we still have our carnal minds intact, our minds must be re-programmed by righteousness and made spiritual. To be spiritually minded is to see through the lenses of a spiritual man. (Eph.4:23, Rom. 8:6)
Carnality is a bondage and ‘filthiness of the flesh’ is an expression of it. No Christian likes to be called carnal, they may not be doing the works of the flesh and still be carnal because flesh as the enemy of God is still at work in us. (2 Cor. 7:1)
‘Flesh’ is the law that runs the flesh (body) but it can be changed to the law of faith or the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. Once this law is changed, our external infirmities will also be cleansed. The first victory we must have must be over this law. (Matt. 23:26, Rom. 8:7, Jam. 4:4)
Flesh is not man’s law; it is a fallen angelic law. Principalities, powers and rulers of the darkness are the frameworks that make up ‘flesh’. It has become a spiritual gene in man; works of the flesh are the least expression of flesh. (Eph. 6:12, 2 Cor. 10:3)
Being at variance with our flesh is not striving with our natural parents and siblings, rather, that is carnality. Our Lord Jesus Christ ceased from flesh when He obeyed the wisdom of the cross, and He became a pleaser of God.
The enemy of God hides in our genealogy and bloodline. Flesh is the enemy of God; but there is another enemy concealed in the depths of our blood, and this is what keeps us at variance with God.
Man is a carrier of flesh and blood and without being delivered, he can never have access to the kingdom of Christ. Flesh and blood are the gates of hell that prevent man from inheriting God. (Heb. 12:4, 1 Cor. 15:50)
Blood is not merely a red pigment, it is a testament/light/information that runs flesh. The light that runs the flesh is the blood. If we can overcome flesh, gaining victory over spiritual wickedness will be achievable. (Eph. 5:5, Heb. 12:2, Lk. 22:20)
God does not sum up a man primarily by his actions and activities, but by the contents of his heart. What God calls flesh is the arrangement of the mind and the arrangements of flesh in us make us at enmity with God. (Rom. 8:7)
Flesh cannot be overcome by our sheer wish or desire to change, neither is it by the works of flesh. Only by the power of God can a man be made free from flesh.
Flesh is a nature that the enemy has worked so deep in us that it can even spoil our walk in Everlasting life. Thus, it is vital for us to fulfil the curriculum of doing Christ well. We cannot move to the next allocation of our walk with God if we do not love one another with a pure heart fervently; we must do this work well. (Lev. 17:11, 1 Pet. 1:22-23)
Filthiness of the flesh is the will, desire and choices that the soul makes. When sons of men desired the daughters of men in the book of Genesis, God regarded them as flesh because they desired what is against God’s choice. (Eph 2:3)
God’s intention is not only to deal with the filthiness of the flesh, but also the filthiness of the spirit. Hidden things of dishonesty are filthiness of the spirit; works done by spiritual wickedness in heavenly places bringing ignorance which blinds us from seeing clearly, the domain of everlasting life. (Eph. 5:3-4, 2 Cor. 7:1, Eze. 42:11)
Servants of God must be equipped with the manifold wisdom of Christ to lead a soul. The wrath of man cannot deal with/conquer flesh, it takes the revelation of the righteousness of God to deal with fallen spirits that have deposited their works in the souls of men.
Armies of the Living God are not a company of children; they are Sons. Every believer is carnal at the beginning of the race, however, we must be rid of our carnality before we can qualify to be enlisted as part of the armies of the Living God.
Armies of the Living God are those who have been trained in Christ, become the children of God and have grown to discern good and evil. Men of full age are those who can function in this army. (Gal. 4:1-2)
We can be said to have attained the mind of Christ if we have learned to look into the things of God. Fervent charity severs us from the law of flesh, then we would be ready to face the next enemy of God.
The armies of the Living God are strong warriors raised to pull down every thought, bring them to the obedience of Christ and avenge all disobedience. (2 Cor. 10:3-6)
A man might have overcome flesh (worldly lust) and become a man of peace but still be a friend of the world. Hell is this present evil world, thus, it is possible for a man of peace to still be an enemy of God if he is still in friendship with this world. (Jam. 4:4, 1 Jn. 2:15)
Hell has strata and its peak is spiritual wickedness in heavenly places. The fire of hell is the passion that fuels the life called ‘evil’. Except a man has gained the wisdom called Christ, he will surely settle for hell. (Lk. 16:23)
Hell can be described, not primarily as fire or a burning place but as the wiles of the wicked. God did not create hell, it was the law inside of lucifer that got converted. (1 Jn. 5:19, Eph. 6:11)
The demonstration of authority is not exhibited in signs or miracles but in the ability to reconfigure the fullness of hell in men until they are transformed and completely yield to God.
An ungodly man is a man without law, who continually leans on his own understanding. A godly man is one who is under the government of the law of the spirit of Life in Christ. (Ps. 1:1-3)
Ungodliness, unrighteousness and worldly lust are the things of the world. The kingdom of this world can still tempt prophets who are holders of Christ's testimony. The will of God is for us to be delivered from this present evil world; without this, we cannot desire the world to come. (Rev. 11:6, Gal. 1:4, Ps. 24:1-3)
The soul of man naturally tends to settle; this is the sin of every man. However, anyone who will inherit Everlasting Life is one who is not easily satisfied with a level of righteousness, but has a strength of pursuit to journey to the end. (Matt. 18:9, Rev. 3:17)
Until we drop our earthly suit, we must keep on striving for perfection. The true God; immortality must be our aim, and our pursuit of Life must not diminish until we hit the mark. We must never be satisfied until we have all of God. (Phil. 3:13-15)
It is not enough to put on fine linen (incorruptibility), we must strive to put on a garment that is undefiled and does not fade away. Our garments must be white enough; the light of the Everlasting must be able to shine on us without our nakedness being exposed. (1 Tim. 6:16)
The golden reed in Rev. 21:15 is the yardstick of measurement of our stature in the spirit, in comparison to the stature of the Son of God. Until we measure up, we must not relent. (Rev. 21:15)
The manifestation of God is the revelation of the standards and commandments of God, which we must follow faithfully until we see God. When we see God, we hide because it exposes our iniquities. (Ezek. 43:10)
The armies of the Living God are those who operate by the revelation of the Son of God. God is particular about His church; He has purposed that the church must exercise and walk in the totality of the victory of Jesus.
Candlestick churches are vine churches (branches of the Father). They are near the corridor of Eternal Life; they are meant to be pruned to bring forth fruit and much fruit. (Rev. 3:18)
Our hearts must continually yearn for God's mercy, beckoning on Him to show us what is in the Son of God; for it is in His light that we see light. (Ps. 36:9)
Lies are evil works that can only be demystified by the light of Eternal Life. If we do not live by the light of life, the works we do with our hands can become our god. A man that does not have his eyes opened will make agreement with lies and have a refuge of falsehood. (1 Tim. 4:1-2)
Every man is supposed to be rich towards God. However, the enemy has a program described as deceitfulness of riches (deceitfulness of this world) which is aimed at making a man rich in wickedness. (Mk. 4:19, Matt. 12:22)