Worship Call 0645 Recovery from Darkness

Friends, walk with an eternal perspective! Luke 10:18-19 And He said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I give you power to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you." This is a powerful passage which believers must claim! The Greek for the word "heaven", "oo-ran-os", implies not only heaven, but also eternity. The enemy was removed from the eternal places, and his power is only temporary in this world. Our power does not come from this temporary world, but from eternity, from the eternal throne of God. If our focus is on eternal things, and we claim our authority from heaven, we can exercise power over the enemy. His attacks are temporary and refer to our short life on earth, because his place in God's eternal realm was abolished and he was cast down. Drawing on the authority and eternal power of God, through Yeshua (Jesus) we can really tread on serpents and scorpions, overcoming the enemy's power. Whatever Satan sends our way is temporary and must submit to the authority we walk in when filled with the Holy Spirit. Robert, Satan's removal from heaven is good news for us. He has lost his place in the eternal realm. This makes the trials and tribulations of our life on earth much less significant. They are "light and momentary" compared with the eternal glory which awaits us...a fleeting moment, for the enemy, has been cast out of eternity and his destiny is the lake of fire! Your family in the Lord with much agape love, George, Baht Rivka, Elianna & Obadiah Edgewater, Florida

And this is another fine day in the Lord

There is an objective to the Spiritual life. Our eternity with the person of the Lord starts at the moment we enter into the Family of God as new creatures in Him. This life is a high calling. it is a life that is lived in the spirit and apart from the spirit we are living as did the protocol son outside and away from a relationship with the Lord.

Ephesians 4:9–16 (NASB95) — 9 (Now this expression, “He ascended,” what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.) 11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. 14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; 15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

At any one moment the believer is either in the spiritual state or the Carnal state.

the spiritual state is when one is led by the Spirit of God. In such a state one is growing and maturing in His relationship with the person of the Lord. the Spirit of the Lord is walking us through our time on this earth while in the body to completeness to all the fulness of Christ. We have a spiritual garden where communion with the Lord on a moment by moment basis.

The Carnal state is outside of this garden. We are removed from it by sin. We step out from a fellowship with the Lord and into the darkness.

Stepping out of this environment we are no longer under the dictates of the spirit. and it also opens the door for company as it is Satan’s minions that seeks to team up with the flesh in order to keep the believer off balance and out of the light.

when the authoritative restraints are removed the boundaries that keep Satan at bay are removed and the believer rather than being influenced by the spirit of God is now subject to the doctrine of demons or false doctrine.

The believer’s spiritual life comes to a halt.

His relationship with God becomes as one like the protocol Son. Still a son, but estranged from the relationship with His father.

Two conditions exists when walking in darkness.

Quenching the spirit

1 Thessalonians 5:19 (NASB95) — 19 Do not quench the Spirit;

Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 4570 ζβέννυμι, σβέννυμι

4570 ζβέννυμι, σβέννυμι [sbennumi /sben·noo·mee/] v. A prolonged form of an apparently primary verb; TDNT 7:165; TDNTA 1009; GK 2410 and 4931; Eight occurrences; AV translates as “quench” seven times, and “go out” once. 1 to extinguish, quench. 1A of fire or things on fire. 1A1 to be quenched, to go out. 1B metaph. to quench, to suppress, stifle. 1B1 of divine influence.

This is stifling or suppressing the ministry of God the Spirit. The Spirit’s ministry is all for our benefit. but when we chose to walk outside of the authority bounds of God, The spirits ministry is almost dormant within the life of the believer. We cannot stop God from doing bringing about the Kingdom. His plan will continue to move forward with or without your cooperation, but what you do when you go about your way apart from the dominant control of the God the Holy spirit is take yourself out of God’s plan.

this is the putting your light under a basket. The Christian life is empowered by the Holy Spirit with the cooperation of the one whom He indwells. WE have become as disobedience Children and in our disobedience we are no long in tune with our mentor and our teacher.

There is also the grieving of God the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 4:30 (NASB95) — 30 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon 3076 λυπέω

3076 λυπέω [lupeo /loo·peh·o/] v. From 3077; TDNT 4:313; TDNTA 540; GK 3382; 26 occurrences; AV translates as “be sorrowful” six times, “grieve” six times, “make sorry” six times, “be sorry” three times, “sorrow” three times, “cause grief” once, and “be in heaviness” once. 1 to make sorrowful. 2 to affect with sadness, cause grief, to throw into sorrow. 3 to grieve, offend. 4 to make one uneasy, cause him a scruple.

HE is grieved by our absence. He stands apart from the life by which he mentors.

remember their are two in a relationship and when one steps away both in that relationship are hurt.

The spirit is a Personal Rational Being. His desire is for a relationship with you.

Volition is the environment by which Love works in. the Proper exercise of our volition expresses true love for God even over our own temptations. thus we have the free will to walk in the light under the mentor ship of God the holy Spirit where there is rest in Him. or we can step outside of that relationship and walk according to our fleshly desires in obedience.

But not without cost.

a perpetual stay outside of the environment which we were designed for, will result in the breaking down of our lives as a potted plant quickly fades and dies in a dark room away from the light.

Our lives were not meant for the environment of darkness.

in it we begin to accumulate greater stress from one crisis after another as we suffer from self induced misery.

eventually the believer will then meet the discipline from God.

Hebrews 12:3–6 (NASB95) — 3 For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. 4 You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; 5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by Him; 6 For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He scourges every son whom He receives.”

in the darkness we begin our drifting away and the longer we remain walking in the darkness our hearts become more hardened and our lives become more anchored in the darkness.

The light fades and the scary thing is that if one drifts so far that the believer may never find his way back or recover fully in his walk with the Lord.

Hebrews 6:1–8 (NASB95) — 1 Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. 3 And this we will do, if God permits. 4 For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. 7 For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God; 8 but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.

Perpetual stay outside the temporal bounds of God leads to

Self induced misery

Discipline from God

sin that leads to death

The only answer to the believer who leaves one’s temporal shelter of the Lord, is to turn around to change ones mind.

It is for the believer coming to the reality that it is not the problems weighing on the individual that is the problem. It is where the person is in his relationship with the Lord. it is in darkness that he resides.

Such is the Parable of the protocol son.

Luke 15:11–24 (NASB95) — 11 And He said, “A man had two sons. 12 “The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that falls to me.’ So he divided his wealth between them. 13 “And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living. 14 “Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began to be impoverished. 15 “So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16 “And he would have gladly filled his stomach with the pods that the swine were eating, and no one was giving anything to him. 17 “But when he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have more than enough bread, but I am dying here with hunger! 18 ‘I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight; 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me as one of your hired men.” ’ 20 “So he got up and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. 21 “And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 22 “But the father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet; 23 and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; 24 for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate.

The Son never stopped being a son.

The son left the bounds of the relationship between he and his father to go out and live in the world.

When the world became unbearable for those in the world the Protocol son found no home and love and no compassion for he was not of the world and the world offered him none.

The Father however never stopped Loving HIs son. the son never stopped being the son.

The story is more about the Father than it is the son.

it is the Father who gladly receives back his wayward son.

1 John 1:9–10 (NASB95) — 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.