The Stronger Man’s House Part 2
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21 When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:
22 But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
Introduction
We found out that the Stronger Man was Christ, and He cast out the strong man, the devil.
Judas cast out devils, but He did it by the power of God.
19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
If I cast out devils by the Word of God,” which, He was the Word of God, “who does your denominational children cast them out by?” Now, and God alone can cast out a devil, we know that, God alone. For, the strong man has to be stronger than the one in his house. They had power to do it. 65-0725M - “The Anointed Ones At The End Time”
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
You are “of God”. You are His sons and daughters.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
147 “Oh, wonder if I can just hold out. Oooh, if I can just hold out now!” Hold out nothing! It isn’t whether I held out, it’s whether He held out. I’m in Him now, see.
148 Well, you say, “Well, if I’m in Him!” Now you—you Presbyterians say, “Ah, we always believed That.” But your life proves that you’re not, unless you walk the kind of life that He walked, you believe the same Gospel He preached.
149 You say, “Ah,” Baptist say, “sure, I believe in Eternal security.” And go out here and smoke cigars and run to dances, and women cut their hair, paint their faces and act like I-don’t-know-what? Your fruits proves that you don’t believe It. When I say, “Do you believe in Divine healing?” “Oh, Doctor Jones said it was so, that was in the days back.”
150 Now, you hypocrite! What’s the matter with you? You poor deluded child. You’re so far off the Gospel till it’s a pity. You’ve been sidetracked on some muddy road on some burning dump. Don’t you see here what He said? That, every spirit that confesses that Jesus is not come in the flesh right now, is of the wrong spirit. The Bible said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. What He said then, He is now, He’s for always that way. 60-0522M - “Adoption #3”
We preach that the son of man is come in a bride body, that’s why we don’t pamper and coddle, we preach the Word.
13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
183 When looks like everything has gone wrong, God is giving you a trial. He’s got confidence in you. He don’t have to baby you around. You’re not a hotbed plant, a hybrid. You’re a real Christian. God is giving you a test, see what you’ll do about it. Amen. No wonder Peter said, “These fiery trials, why, count it a joy. It’s—it’s more precious to you than gold.”
184 And many times we hem and haw, “Oh, well, if I just…” Well, that, well, that’s something God give you, to overcome. He—He—He knows you’ll do it. He, He’s—He’s put His trust in you. 63-0421 - “Victory Day”
The stronger man came down in Revelation 10, and He was the Word. He came down with a little book, open in His hand. He came to claim His house.
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
10 And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
64 So therefore, no matter what a church would say, what anyone else would say, if you’re born of the Spirit of God, you become part of the Bible. God told Ezekiel, he, the prophet. He said, “Take the scroll and eat it,” then the prophet and the scroll became part of each other. And that’s the believer when he receives the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit wrote the Bible, and the Spirit of God is the Word of God. 65-0919 - “Thirst”
He said there’s a buzzer that goes off when you hear something that isn’t in the Word.
319 Notice, God told the prophet, said, “Eat the scroll,” in the Old Testament. The prophet of the New Testament, He said, “Eat the little book.” Why? That the prophet and the Word would be one! 65-1127B - “Trying To Do God A Service Without It Being God’s Will”
He was the Word from the beginning, we were not the Word, we bypassed our theophany, but we become the Word by receiving His Spirit and eating the Open Book.
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
261 Notice! Now, then, you are a son of God, in the house of God, you are a part of God’s economy. Romans 8:1, “Then there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” For they are dead to the world, alive in Him, and living in this present day, making the Word that God has used them, or foreordained them, placing their name in this Bride Book. And when the Waters comes upon that seed that’s in the heart, raises it up to the Bride of Christ. Oh, my! Just perfect as it can be. In every age it’s been that way.
262 The Lutherans, under justification, the feet, raised it like that; Wesley, under sanctification. The Pentecostals under the arms, the works and deeds and so forth, had to be Calvinists…or had to be Arminian, had to be legalists. But now we come to the Head, the Capstone. “Grace! Grace!” the Capstone cried.
263 The Headstone crying what? “Grace! Grace!” Passed from death and creed, into a living Word of the living God. God’s only provided plan for His age, His sons in the Word age quickened by the Spirit like a spark that’s lit off of something to make it alive; and seated now in Heavenly places (in present tense), already alive and subject to every promise in the Word. Then what does that do? You being a part of God’s gene, a part of the Word, other men a part of God’s Word, seated together, manifest the entire Body of Christ, because there’s no leaven among you. No leaven among you, just the Word only, seated in Heavenly places, in the door where He put His Name: Christ Jesus.
264 No leaven among you, that brings the entire fullness of the godhead bodily among you. Couldn’t do it in Luther’s age, couldn’t do it in Wesley’s age, couldn’t do it in Pentecostal age; but in the day when the Son of man will be manifested, revealed, brought back the Church together with the entire Deity of God amongst His people, showing the same visible signs, manifesting Himself like He did at the beginning when He was manifested on earth in a form of a Prophet-God. Oh! Glory! Promised by Malachi 4, promised by the rest of the Scriptures. Where you worship at? The house of God, seated (in present tense). 65-1128M - “God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship”
268 A prophet is God’s reflector. How many knows that? The reflector doesn’t reflect itself, the reflector isn’t the reflection. There has to be something strike the reflector to make it reflect. So a prophet is a chosen vessel of God that cannot reflect nothing at all but he’s in direct line with that reflection, God, to reflect the image of Christ, the Word. See, nothing else can do it.
You are a reflector, that’s the reason the prophet had to eat the book. That’s the reason he had to eat the scroll. He had to reflect that Word for that age. You got it?
269 Notice Enoch, God’s perfect reflector in type. When God was through—through with him, He just translated him, took him up. The mechanics that he had reflected become dynamics with the Spirit, and took him up.
270 Same in the days of Elijah. Elijah, even to his bones, where that reflection…Reflector of God in his body being made manifest the Word of God. They laid a dead man on it, he sparked to life again. We are flesh and bone of Him, as long as we are the Bride of Christ. Do you believe that? All right. He died for us, and we died to ourselves and are buried in His Name, that we would “no more be of the world, but in Him,” of which both the family in Heaven is named after Jesus Christ. That’s Ephesians 1:21. For both Heaven…the family in Heaven. What’s the family in Heaven named? Jesus. What’s the family on earth named? Well, that’s the house of God where the Blood’s at. Is that right? That’s the door, that’s the gate, that’s the place He put His Name, and the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us. It’s the Word reflecting and sparking off the age that you’re living in. That’s what He was, that’s what Moses was, that’s what Jacob was, that’s what the rest of them was, sparking off that Word of God, the reflector that God was reflecting Himself. And come to that perfect image of God, Jesus Christ, God’s Masterpiece, Who was struck that He might take the rest of them for a Bride that’s been reflectors.
271 Moses was in Him. Joshua was in Him. And if you are in Him, you was in Him before the foundation of the world, the family of God; you suffered with Him, you died with Him, you went to the cross with Him, you raised with Him; and now you’re still with Him, setting in Heavenly places, reflecting the Message of the age to the world, the Light of the world. 65-1128M - “God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship”
You are the stronger man’s house, his household, his family. We are called to reproduce Christ, the fulness of the Word in our generation.
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
μένω (menō). vb. remain, stay (i.e., lodge) with. Among its wide breadth of uses, menō can refer to dwelling, living, or lodging.
Similar to English “stay,” menō is sometimes used as a simple expression for dwelling in an abode or sharing quarters (e.g.,
43 So, if we are trying to follow the Message of the hour, or at least this part of the Message, we should live constantly in the Life of Christ. See? Cause, if it don’t, you lay around, and know that these things that you’re supposed to do, and don’t do it, the Bible said, “He that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it’s sin.” Then you become doty, rotten, when you’re separated from the Life of God. So, strive with all that’s in you, to stay in the Life of Christ, that you would be fruit-bearing. 63-0825M - “How Can I Overcome?”
Stay in the life!
How do we do that? By Abiding in Christ! Worshipping in the place where He put His name.
The only way to stay in the life of God is eat the Book.
37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
The Word assures us of the promise, because It is the promise. The Word is the Promise, and the Word is the God, and the Word is—is ours. And we become the Word, and the Word becomes us. “If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you,” then, see, it just becomes one great big family. See? It assures us. Because why? Well, it’s part of us. It becomes part of us. 63-0901M - “Token”
In His house is love, joy, peace.
