For Jesus Christ Has Set Us Free! – Serious things satan does not want you to know.
First written on my Facebook page in 2014.
Satan does not want you to know this – expect to be distracted or disrupted from reading this. Expect a stirring in your soul.
Our ignorance (lack of being informed and properly instructed) of the spiritual battles we are in places us in a position of tolerating them and suffering with them unnecessarily. We cannot operate in what we don’t know!! If we are born in bondage and everyone around us is in bondage, what else are we to expect to know until someone breaks through the wall of unbelief.
So, until then, we often turn to medications, psychology, self-help and other “bandaids” to try to lessen the symptoms of our bondage. We try to accomplish freedom or mitigate lingering bondage with our own gadgets, medications and our own strength. They only have a limited effect on your symptoms, but it is the best thing the world can offer. Then we have to deal with dependency on them and all the gamut of side effects. It becomes a rigged “patch job” that gets us by. Though we may have been told that Yeshua can set us free, for some reason we choose to wallow in the mud of misery and struggles. We must be rationalizing it by thinking, Well, its been 2000 years so Yeshua must be diminishing in power like a battery that is running out of power.
Then, we have been conditioned and patterned by our past life experience to reach for a pill every time we have an ache or a pain. When we are tired we reach for a cup of coffee or a Red Bull. When sick, we call the doctor and go to the hospital. When we are broke and out of money we look for another job. When we need a break from stress we crack open a beer or pour ourselves a glass of wine. While some of this is not necessarily a bad thing, and may have logical and practical solution, it establishes a pattern of priority. Praying to Yeshua, becomes a last resort when we have exhausted everything else. We need to change our patterns and habits so that we go to Yeshua first, for everything and every need in our lives. He is rich, powerful and able to grant us everything we need and His heart jumps and a smile comes to His face when we come to Him first. Some of us have lost our “first love” or maybe never had it in the first place.
What satan and his demons don’t want you to know is that when we receive salvation through Yeshua Jesus Christ and His blood atonement, EVERY curse and spiritual bondage are legally broken in the spiritual realm. That is the KEY to all the freedom of healing and deliverance from ALL the lingering effects of spiritual bondage.
For example, the crown of thorns that was placed on Jesus head was symbolic of the fact that each of us has a thorny band around our head. It was the result of the fall of man, that we would work and toil with thorns and thistles and the sweat of our brow (Gen. 3:18-19). We see that Yeshua took this to the cross and broke the curse with His blood. It also tells us that if we trust fully in Him, we no longer have to strive in our own strength under the curse.
Galatians 3 (ESV)
12 But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
14 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Let us also see that the thorny band was around the head, that because of the curse, our minds have become worldly and dim. We can see that we are often tormented in our thoughts and psyche. Resulting from this we think depraved thoughts, have psychological disfunction and disorders, are filled with negativity, depression and despair. Sometimes we cannot see the light of day or have a rational positive thought. Various forms of mental illness are epidemic in our day, explained away with suggestions of chemical imbalances and genetic traits. While there are some practical things we need to take responsibility for like changing our thoughts, guarding our minds, eating healthy diets, renewing our minds by reading the Bible daily, there is the case of demonic bondage taking residence in our minds. Jesus took all of this to the cross. The bondage is legally broken. Our own thorny crown can be taken off and thrown to the wind. It becomes our responsibility to command our authority and freedom in Christ, shake it off and walk in newness of life.
Romans 12 (ESV)
2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Jesus effectively broke the curse. It becomes our faith filled responsibility to believe it, claim it, stand in it and walk it out. Suppose you bought a house on an auction block sight unseen. You went to the house and there were people living there. You showed them the deed that you are the legal owner and gave them an eviction notice.
Later, you went back after the time and the people were still there. They are illegal tenants that refuse to leave. They don’t want to leave as they have been there for years and it has been their home. So you have to call the sheriff to have them forcefully evicted. This is what we are talking about in spiritual terms. Jesus purchased us with His blood, but the former demonic tenants do not want to leave. You have to force them out and keep them out.
Yes, you will have demonic opposition trying to keep you down and hold you back! Yes, it requires effort on our part! To refuse this amazing gift of freedom would be like your father saying, “I just bought you a new car. Will you to drive down to the dealership and pick it up.” Would you hesitate or refuse to go pick up the new car? Hardly not! Not to shame anyone for not knowing what to do, but it is sad that we don’t take full advantage of what Jesus did for us on the cross. Jesus bought it and we so got it! Now that we know these things, lets jump into action!
2 Corinthians 10 (ESV)
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh.
4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, 6 being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.
Wow! We have to truly realize that though we cannot see Him, Jesus is ever present and with us. He is actually in a greater place to help us in our time of need because He is operating, not from a body of flesh on the earth, but from heaven.
Luke 9 (ESV) And He called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, 2 and He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal.
Luke 10 (ESV)
18 And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
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. 20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
John 14 (ESV)
12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I do
; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
13 Whatever you ask in My name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
Do we actually, REALLY believe this? Granted, there are some things we may ask for that Jesus does not give us. There are reasons for this that we must explore more deeply. One of them, of course, is to draw our faith to action. If He gave us everything we asked for we would become a bunch of spoiled rotten, couch potato do nothings! Sometimes we “have not because we ask not” or because we “wait not” and go do it ourselves in our timing and strength. No wonder there is so much failure. Despite what may seem like unanswered prayer, we stand in our full weight of faith that Jesus hears us and is acting on our prayer requests and will be in our BEST INTEREST, from His point of view. We learn to trust that He knows what is best for us at any point in our lives. He does expect us to keep our eyes and focus on Him as our Source for all things, just as sunlight is the physical source for all life on earth, yet we engage in faith partnership with action and responsibility for most practical things in life. Just as the Israelites had to gather manna every day, “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.”
Matthew 11 (ESV)
4 And Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John what you hear and see:
5 the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
6 And blessed is the one who is not offended by Me.”So again, I emphasize, satan does not want you to know that his legal hold on you is broken. He wants to keep you down so that it seems like the blood of Jesus is powerless and of no effect. He wants the world to see Christians still in chains of bondage so they will look elsewhere and turn to something else for relief. Satan wants to render you powerless and of no effect in the greater spiritual battle in the world. If he can keep you in ignorance of this fact, he will keep you down, then he can try to take your spouse and children. He can take your job. He can ravage your heath. He can keep you addicted to drugs and alcohol. He can keep you in poverty. He can steal you blind.
John 8 (ESV)
31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are truly My disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
33 They answered Him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. 35 The slave does not remain in the house forever; the Son remains forever.
36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 37 I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill Me because My word finds no place in you.
38 I speak of what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
The next thing Christians are not taught, is that satan does not just tuck tail and walk away when you get saved. Though he has lost, he will fight you and struggle with you to hold on to his former claim on your soul. He hopes that because you thought it would be easy, you will just give up the battle. Because of this fact, generational curses may also have to be specifically renounced, brought under the blood and shaken off. Bondages of addiction and sin need to be specifically confessed and released to Jesus. The more specific you are, the more focused and strategic you are, the bolder you are, the less demons will be able to maintain their stronghold over you.
You must be “activated” and “stimulated” with the truth from the Word of God, employing specific scripture passages just like Jesus did in the wilderness temptation. You will continue to use legal terms, “it is written,” and promises of God to “resist the devil.” Eventually you will begin to get the taste of freedom and want it all the more! As you continue to stand in faith, and command the authority of Christ in your life with all of the promises of God, the demons that have tormented you all your life will be forced to flee. You can and will be free, in Jesus name!! Mohammed’s name won’t work. Confucius can’t do it! Buddha is powerless to help you. Only Jesus Christ can set you free!
Finally, but very importantly, satan does not want you to know that you don’t have to do all of this in your own strength. Satan does not want you to know about the supernatural power that will manifest in your life when you press in on the Lord seeking the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This is a greater, secondary impartation that takes place after you have been saved. This is another reason many believers stay in bondage and sin. This is why so many churches are dry and dead; there is no life in them. They are void of POWER. They don’t seek the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Actually, there are church leaders and denominations that don’t want you to know this either. They see you as easier to control and manage if you are not set free through the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Things can get messy in their little tidy controlled world. Its time to break out of the shackles of oppression and man’s religion! Oh, that’s going to upset some folks!
Psalm 68 (ESV) 34 Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and whose power is in the skies.
35 Awesome is God from His sanctuary; the God of Israel—He is the one who gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God!
Acts 1 (ESV)
4 And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, He said, “you heard from me;
5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
Acts 19 (ESV)
And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland
country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. 2 And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
3 And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”
4 And Paul said,“John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.”
5 On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying. 7 There were about twelve men in all.
Ephesians 1 (ESV)
15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him,
18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which He has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His great might
20 that He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and
seated Him at his right hand in the heavenly places,
21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above
every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
22 And He put all things under His feet and gave Him as head over all things to the church,
23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
You now know the truth that can make you free!
Hallelujah to the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world and fills us with His power!