Spiritual Warfare in the Bible (2)
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Legal Rights
Legal Rights
There are a lot of questions that are based around why people get attacked any why things happen. I’m going to attempt to talk about at least one or two of the reasons.
One of the biggest reasons we are attacked is due to legal rights. Sin is a contract or open door. The bible says choose this day whom you will serve. I’ve been a Christian and a pastor for a long time now and I’ve struggled with the idea that God granted Satan access to job, but he also sent a spirit to Ablimilech and a tormenting spirit to Saul.
14 Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him.
23 And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,
For a long time these verses rocked my world until I started to understand them. I would avoid them, but understanding them has helped me to draw closer to Christ.
The Key is in the Context
Abimelech sought to rule over a portion of the northern kingdom of Israel during the days of Judges. Instead of seeking God and waiting on God to position him he killed all 72 of his brothers giving him access to the throne. 3 years after this the spirit was sent.
9 So Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings.” And he offered the burnt offering.
13 And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.
In both cases these men took matters into their own hands and attempted to force their will unto God. They both didn’t trust God to do what God had purposed to do, but they purposed sinned and went against what they knew was right.
Now in context to Job
We know God used Satan to remove a character flaw Job held deeply. We know that there was only 1 sinless man-Jesus. We may not full know the sins of Job, but we know Job challenged God and God rebuked him. Upon repenting for His pride Job was restored 2x what he lost.
In both the case of Job and Saul we see that God specifically withdrew himself from them so that they could be attacked. In Abimelech’s case on would probably question if he ever was close to God to begin with. The reality is
Sin Separates us from God
We see the physical seperation from God in the garden with Adam and Eve which resulted in their eviction from the Garden and the ceasing of the nightly walks with God.
2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
The good news:
In Spiritual warfare it’s important who does the speaking.
24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
Christ’s blood speaks and we need to know what it speaks and the power it speaks because that’s our power to break contracts. How many have signed up for a time share. I swear those contracts are about as hard to annul as sin itself. It takes special lawyers who dabble in those contracts to find loop holes to work. The only way to overturn a time share contract is to find the right loop hole.
Jesus’ blood is the loop hole to our sin contact. The blood of Jesus speaks forgiveness of sins and thus closes the divide that our sin caused-bringing us closer to Christ with every step we take.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Faithful speaks to God’ covenant keeping nature and just to his legal nature.
The idea is this: If we want to silence our accuse, shut the mouth of the immitation lion than we have to agree with what the blood of Christ is speaking in our lives.
When we are doing Spiritual warfare you cannot kick the demonic influence to the curb until you find out why he has a right to be there and then apply the blood of Jesus to that contract-thus voiding out the contract.
We see this play out in the Old Testament
1 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
3 And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”
4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.
7 And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”
8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”
The term unclean lips is showing the condition of his heart. His mouth is displaying the sin, the uncleaness, of his life.
Once he was cleansed with coal, because Jesus’ blood wasn’t shed yet, he could hear clearly from God, but he couldn’t get into the presence of God with sin on his soul.
1 Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.