God's Law Enforcement

Matthew 16:18–19 NKJV

18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

So, we are given keys, and we can forbid and permit.

Why can we forbid & permit?

WHATEVER we bind, WILL BE BOUND

WHATEVER we loose, WILL BE LOOSED!

Authority matters MUCH MORE in the Spirit than in the natural.

The authority that flows from the throne is absolute. It cannot be resisted by any spiritual force.

this tells us, tons of things happening to us, are the result of something spiritual! We don’t even realize it. in fact, this is one of the enemy’s tricks! To get us to forget how many things are spiritual! How many of the things we see are nothing but a manifestation of some kind of spiritual attack!

When we step into the Christian life, everything changes.

We now live by statements like this:

what is seen is temporary and what is unseen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:18 NKJV

18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

We now live by this: we walk by faith not by sight.

2 Corinthians 5:7 NKJV

7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, BUT principalities, powers, and rulers

Ephesians 6:12 NKJV

12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

The weapons of our warfare are NOT CARNAL!!!

2 Corinthians 10:3–5 NKJV

3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

NOW, because of all this, we’ve been seated TOGETHER with Christ! Now, everything under Him is under us.

Why did He seat us with Him?

Do you understand what He did?

Jesus came, defeated everything the enemy was doing, won back dominion, and now holds all authority in heaven and on earth. Then commissioned us with destroying the works of the devil, making disciples, and spreading all this faith.

He has said to us: I’ve won victory over everything the enemy could ever do, now go stop Him.

The enemy is destroying my people, now go stop him, and tell others they can do the same, and here’s everything you could ever possibly need to do that.

We are God’s force! If the enemy’s working, it’s ‘cause we’re allowing it.

Our prayer time, is law enforcement time.

STEVE JOBS:

“Steve Jobs told employees a short story when they were promoted to vice president at Apple. Jobs would tell the VP that if the garbage in his office was not being emptied, Jobs would naturally demand an explanation from the janitor. "Well, the lock on the door was changed,' the janitor could reasonably respond. "And I couldn't get a key."

The janitor's response is reasonable. It's an understandable excuse. The janitor can't do his job without a key. As a janitor, he's allowed to have excuses.

"When you're the janitor, reasons matter," Jobs told his newly-minted VPs. "Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering."

"In other words,' (Jobs continued,) "when the employee becomes a vice president, he or she must vacate all excuses for failure. A vice president is responsible for any mistakes that happen, and it doesn't matter what you say."”

ILLUSTRATION TIME:

This guy is extremely busy. He’s rich, knows a lot of really powerful people, had lots and lots of resources but TONS of people ask him for help all the time.

You’ve heard stories of him helping people before but he doesn’t help everybody and you’ve asked him for help before and got nothing.

Also, you’ve heard tons of stories about other people asking him for help and they got nothing.

Now, you’ve got a business, but the business was your idea. You started it with your savings, and a gang of really strong, really evil guys, comes by every day with baseball bats, breaking your windows, stealing money, and harassing your customers.

Now ask this extremely busy guy for help, remembering all the stories of the people who asked him and got nothing.

He gave us EVERYTHING WE NEED! There is ONLY ONE CATCH:

you have to look past what you see.

God wants everyone:

Living in a correct understanding of God, themselves, & the devil

this brings rest, peace, confidence, thanksgiving, praise & joy

It removes all fear

It gives you never-ending purpose

It destroys all condemnation

Living in dominion over the earth & the enemy’s works & power

Living in a consistent love relationship with Jesus.

What do we have power over:

principality, power, might, dominion, & every name that is named

banks, big tech, governments, etc...

trauma

diseases

anger

control

fear

weapons formed against us

tongues that rise against us in judgment

wiles (strategies)

strongholds

arguments

the gates of hell (the forces of hell)

oppression

the POWER of the enemy