UNENDING TESTIMONY
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What is your testimony among all the people you come in contact with daily?
If I was able to randomly pick someone that knows you to speak at your funeral what are the chances that they would say thing you wouldn’t want?
Then war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels also fought, but he could not prevail, and there was no place for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was thrown out—the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.
He is the dragon, which speaks of his wickedness and cruelty.
He is the old serpent, meant to remind us of Adam and Eve’s fall in the Garden of Eden.
He is called the Devil, It means to continually throw at something until you break through.
He is called Satan, means adversary.
“the one who deceives the whole world”
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say,
The salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God
and the authority of his Christ
have now come,
because the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them
before our God day and night,
has been thrown down.
Did you know you have an accuses?
He want to run to GOD every time you mess up and say look at what they have done now.
It is kinda like have a bother or sister. They love you run to Mom or Dad when you do something wrong.
They conquered him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
for they did not love their lives
to the point of death.
who is the they? (GOD’S people)
We are able to overcome by the blood of the Lamb!
If you say your not able to overcome one of two things is true.
There is no power in the blood.
You don’t have the blood covering you.
“by the word of their testimony”
Their testimony stood up to all the blame and shame that was brought.
Does your testimony stand up and prove who you are in CHRIST?
When they heard these things, they were enraged and gnashed their teeth at him. Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven. He saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. He said, “Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”
They yelled at the top of their voices, covered their ears, and together rushed against him. They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. And the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. While they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” He knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” And after saying this, he fell asleep.
Stephen overcame by the blood of the lamb and the word of his testimony.
See our testimony doesn’t stop at the point of salvation but should continue in how we live in Christ.
So the dragon was furious with the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep the commands of God and hold firmly to the testimony about Jesus.
Will you stand firm in the testimony of Jesus when war is wage against you?
If we never face any resistance are we on the right path?
(joke) Man driving on the wrong side of the highway.
If we never run into the devil it is because we are going the same direction.
Are you happy with the testimony you have right now? If not, what are you going to do about it?