Our Position in the Spiritual Realm
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Three part series: 1) Understanding the Spiritual Realm 2) Our Position in the Spiritual Realm. 3) Engaging in the Spiritual Realm.
Three part series: 1) Understanding the Spiritual Realm 2) Our Position in the Spiritual Realm. 3) Engaging in the Spiritual Realm.
How do you see yourself in the spiritual realm?
How do you see yourself in the spiritual realm?
17 The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
What is there joy in?
What is there joy in?
In who’s power are they subjected to?
In who’s power are they subjected to?
18 And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
Three possibilities of reference 1 - Jesus is referring to Satan’s fall in Eden as described in Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:12-19. 2 - Jesus is referring to Satan’s fall in his first coming as described in Revelation 12. Third - Jesus is referring symbolically to the work of the 72 casting out demons Luke 10.
Three possibilities of reference 1 - Jesus is referring to Satan’s fall in Eden as described in Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:12-19. 2 - Jesus is referring to Satan’s fall in his first coming as described in Revelation 12. Third - Jesus is referring symbolically to the work of the 72 casting out demons Luke 10.
19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.
We have been emphatically been given authority by Jesus.
We have been emphatically been given authority by Jesus.
When we stand in his power nothing shall hurt us.
When we stand in his power nothing shall hurt us.
6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,
7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,
10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
Walk in Christ work as a Child of God.
Walk in Christ work as a Child of God.
20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
Rejoice in what? - names written in heaven.
Rejoice in what? - names written in heaven.
Focus where? On Jesus saving us. Our identity in Jesus.
Focus where? On Jesus saving us. Our identity in Jesus.
In the spiritual realm stand in you position of authority in Christ.
In the spiritual realm stand in you position of authority in Christ.