Authority of the Believer (3)
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It is all about the “Until”
It is all about the “Until”
I want to encourage you this morning to press on. Paul tells us emphatically
14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
The word Press on comes from the Greek word
Dioko-To Chase or to Hunt down until captured
If the goal is Jesus, and the avenue is freedom than we need to press into our freedom which will get us closer to Christ.
But it’s all about the until...
Until I see the salvation of my loved ones. Until I capture my healing and Satan stops trying to plant doubt. Until my finances are freed. Until fear is broken off. Until I receive my miracle.
You must be persistent. satan wants to wear us down. He wants us to get tired. He wants us to give up. He can’t stop it but he will do everything in his power to delay it until we stop perusing it.
Until I see it I must be persistent
Persistent in my appeal. Persistent in my approaching God. Persistent in my faith.
What is Breakthrough
We talk about Breakthrough a lot as Christians, but do we truly know what it is and how to get it?
The definition of breakthrough is
An offensive military assault that penetrates and carries beyond a defensive line.
First rule in fighting is protect what’s important. When I teach my kids to defend themselves the first thing I teach them is hands up. You need to protect what’s important. My face is important. Then I protect my heart and my kidneys with my elbows.
9 Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved. They will come and go freely and will find good pastures.
Jesus is illustrating something here. A shepherd in those days laid themselves at the entrance of the corral in order to defend the sheep. Jesus is saying if you want protection you have to enter my Kingdom and I will sleep at the gate.
I am a Pastor, Husband, Father.
If you want to attack the church I am asleep at the gate. You have to go through me.
If you want to get to my wife. I am the gate you have to go through me first. If you want to attack my family. I am the gate you have to go through me.
If the demonic wants to attack people. They first have to go through me. So I need to know how to protect those whom I love. and breakthrough is the the key.
So I am going to teach you how to fight. I can’t punch this bag all day if I am just hitting it.
An offensive military assault that penetrates and carries beyond a defensive line.
Christians shouldn’t be the type to wait to be attacked. If I am seeking breakthrough I have to punch through the enemy.
I can hit the bag all day just by making contact, but nothing moves. They key to throwing a proper punch is actually to aim or punch to the imaginary person behind the person.
You want to punch through the object
When you do that you achieve your breakthrough. All too often we stop at what we achieve then wonder why we lose it eventually.
Because to break through you MUST travel past the opening.
You must not only hit it, you must get completely passed it. And that takes time.
If you want to break into a greater area of freedom, then you must continually push through your barrier and call out the Devil.
If you want freedom you can’t be afraid of confrontation. You can’t be afraid of work or of change.
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.
First we need to put on the full armor of God. We can’t be a christian body running around with just our Helmet of Salvation.
The Greek word for stand is
histemi-Be an unmovable force
Achieving what God has for you isn’t passive—it’s proactive and aggressive.
We wrestle, but we are guaranteed the victory. we are Guarenteed the breakthrough if we push.
1 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.
3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,
5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’ ”
6 And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says.
7 And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
8 I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
I get asked all the time what is childlike faith. You know what being child like is- specializing in annoying and breaking people down until they get what they want.
My Annie will, without fear or hesitation, ask someone to borrow their ipad 50 million times until their no turns to a yes.
Jesus is saying you have the power to receive your Yes you just have to be as annoying as a toddler that desires something.
My Annie found a icecream shop in the toy book they send. She asked for it for Christmas probably about a dozen times. After that she just starting point at it saying guess what I’m getting for Christmas—an Icecream shop. She genuinely has the faith and believes she is getting this toy she so desperately wants.
Guess what she is getting for Christmas-an Icreamshop
11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
God desires us to have good things, but sometimes we have to pursue it
UNTIL
we get what is promised to us.
If you don’t know what god has in store for you—ASK HIM! He will reveal what written in the books of Heaven about your destiney so that you can askfor the right things. If you want your freedom and that freedom will bring you closer to God than ask him for it.
Sometimes the healing you desire is immediate. Sometimes the healing is progressive through treatment. Sometimes healing is ultimately going to Christ in death. But God will use WHATEVER he can to bring you closer to Him. But you have to be willing to push toward Him Until..then continue to push through Him to keep it. No runner stops at the finish line. usually if you’re runnig a race. Every runner I see pushes past the finish line. The finish line is the goal, but they understand to get tot the goal and maintain the win you have to exceed the finish line. You hav eto push further than the finish line.
Get what’s promised to you. Get your blessing. Push and don’t stop.