Living Hope Fellowship Church...Sermons From the Pastor
REDEMPTION
OF THE BODY
by Pastor Kevin Badgley
Luke 9:28-31. "And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering. And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias: Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem."
The more I read the word of God, the more I see what God has ordained to be through his son, by his Spirit for the bride, his Church. Then I realize how far below that standard she is. We are given power, according to John 1:12, "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:"
I believe that the church of the living God, the bride of Christ, is supposed to be filled with Sons of God. Some months back we preached about the difference between a child of God or a servant of God and a son of God. A son of God is the full accomplishment, the full attainment of all the attributes, characteristics, and even the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that this is the manner of the church, the bride, that will depart when the trumpet sounds. For years many have believed that they would take on that image somewhere between when their feet left the ground and before they met Jesus in the air. There is no scripture for this. Rather, there are scriptures that prove we must be ready and prepared without spot or wrinkle, ready to hear the trumpet and to meet Christ at his coming.
I believe that the bride of Christ should be in full sonship, being sons of God. They will have hearing to hear the trumpet. No one has mentioned much about the fact that they've got to have hearing ears to be able to even hear the trumpet of God. If they have not heard smaller things, how shall they hear of a greater thing, which is the trump of God? The trump of God will call up the church and pull them out of this world before tribulation. God wants his people to have ears to hear, eyes to see, and hearts to understand. They'll become like Jesus, the Word, to be able to hear the trump when it does sound. They will be without spot or wrinkle, ready to meet him in the air.
God wants a church without spot or wrinkle! We preach perfection in the saints. I heard a man say that he didn't like it whenever they said "sinners saved by grace". He liked it better whenever they said "sinning saints". That's just the flip side, a turn of words. There is no such thing as a "sinning saint". I'll say it again. There is no such thing as a sinning saint. You are either a saint, or you ain't! We are called and we have believed the promise of God. We begin to take on the attributes of Jesus Christ. We partake of faith that's in his name. The blood has washed us clean from all of our uncleanness. That faith will set us apart from the things of the world and make us ready to meet Jesus. As we live on and progress in the Lord we become more and more sanctified. It is not optional. It is required, that we might be ready to hear him when the trumpet sounds.
Man has interjected his own thinking on these matters. The continuing permeating gospel of "nobody's perfect" has taken the church world for centuries. When you preach perfection you come under great condemnation. They say, who are you, thou holier than thou, smoke in God's nose? BUT, Jesus said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." He would not give us a command that he would not give us power to accomplish, if we keep on pressing "toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."
God wants us to get in the place with him that it is no longer us that live, but it's Christ that lives in us. "And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered...". In Matthew 17:2 and in Mark 9:2 it says he was transfigured before them. I believe that Jesus is our example. Do you believe that all things that he did, we're supposed to be doing, as his bride?
Did you ever notice that the longer a couple is married, they start looking like one another? God help some of us! The longer the bride is married to the bridegroom, the more she becomes like him. She takes on his attributes, takes on his ways, takes on his sayings, his word, takes on the ways of the husband that rules as the head over the bride. Now, in this world, that can work to bad, but in the spirit of the living God, it is a necessity. Jesus is our example. Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."
He also said, "And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you..." That's the Holy Ghost. He sends the Holy Ghost to begin a work of destruction of your old nature, where it is no longer you living. You will die daily, piece by piece. "...though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day." This is the simplicity of the gospel of Christ.
But because man was too lazy to do it and didn't do it, he invented doctrines that are contrary. He invented thinking that says "nobody's perfect" and "God's still working on me" and other sayings that are not Godly. These are some sayings in the world that men regard as scripture more than the scripture. The Bible says, "But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."
Jesus was a man. The Spirit of the living God was in him, yet God reduced him down to a man. He was the Word of God, He was God, but he was also a man. He took on the attributes of the Father, yielding over more and more, and was without sin. Soon he was totally consumed of the Father till one day the apostles said, "...Lord, show us the Father..." Jesus said, "...he that hath seen me hath seen the Father..."
In the church of the living God, people as individuals, and the church as a whole are supposed to be able to say, "If you've seen us, you've seen Jesus, the manifest one of glory." Not that the church is our savior, but Christ has taken them over and consumed them. It is no longer self, flesh, or worldliness of the church that's living, but Christ, the power of God, and the holiness thereof. I believe those will be the only ones going in the rapture. You say, this is a hard thing, I don't believe we can attain it. Jesus said you can. JESUS SAID YOU CAN! HALLELUJAH! Indeed, we must.
Jesus is our example. As we pray, read the word, understand and obey it as we go, fast and seek God, we should be having our countenance altered. We've got to get in Christ. Have you ever seen someone that all they did was what the other person wanted to do? It might have been a husband/wife relationship or it might have been two good friends. It seems like one almost controls the other one. We've seen this whenever devil power is working as well. In the natural, sometimes a person will actually almost have no will of their own and say, just what ever you say, whatever you want to do. How much greater a fashion could it be, if we say to Jesus, whatever you say, that's what I'll do. Pretty soon, it won't be your will being manifest. It won't be your words being spoken. It won't be your life being lived. It'll be Christ. This type of preaching is very unpopular. Most of the time it's not been done.
Go to Romans 7:24. We see the frustration in Paul right here that we all feel when we hear this kind of message. Romans 7:24, "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" Christ lives in us, the hope of glory. The power of the most high God lives in us if we have the Holy Ghost. If that hope of glory is in there it must grow! It must overtake the vessel. It must completely consume the tabernacle and it'll be sold out to God. Your tabernacle is your body, and your mind, and your will. Paul was expressing the same thing we go through. Did you ever get in your prayer closet and try to stay longer than 15 minutes? I generally find that the more bound I have been in times past, the less time I was able to spend there. The more bound you are, the less time you can spend there. But the more time you do spend there, and the more shaking, and wrestling. and getting the flesh in subjection to the Spirit of the living God, the longer you CAN stay, and greater is the manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Many times it seems we didn't have time for prayer! We let something else get in the way. We tried to preach the next morning and we couldn't preach a headache off of a toad frog! There have been times we've spent all night in prayer and fasting, seeking and believing God, binding the devil and saying yes to the Lord. We were holding on to the horns of the altar till we shook--from the very wrestlings of the flesh and the warfare with the devil. The next morning we had victory in the service. We saw devils come out and we saw souls come to Jesus. That is the difference that seeking God makes! That is the difference that taking on the fashion of Christ's countenance makes in a Christian's life.
If we had more than just an experience, but rather a day to day walk, to where all we did was walk in the presence of Jesus, what could be accomplished! We have life in us but we are wrapped up in a body of death. It wants to satisfy itself! Watch what happens as you satisfy self--you take on death. Jesus told the devil, when he was dealing with him through Peter, "...Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men."
The devil cannot manifest in someone that is sold out to God. The devil can manifest in flesh that is not yielded to Jesus. No wonder there is no power in the church to cast out devils and the sick are not healed. No one is sanctified with the fashion of their countenances turned to God to where it is no longer them. If you are no longer alive and at home, and it's all Jesus, then everything he wants done gets done. Then there is no wrestling, no fighting, and no arguing. It is so. The devils don't crawl out. They are thrown out.
Romans 8:11, "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you." Spirit has a capital S; that's the Holy Ghost, the presence of God. It has been said that quicken means to make alive or revive. I believe it means more than that. I believe it means to transfigure and let the countenance be altered to the things of Christ. When you stretch forth your hand, it won't be your hand. It will be God's hand by the faith of his Son Jesus.
Look at verse 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." He that liveth will not be you because you are a body of death. It'll no longer be you living; it'll be Christ living in you. By the Spirit of the living God you've got to mortify the deeds of the body. Mortify means to make of no use, to kill, to destroy the works of, to render useless or helpless. God gave us power to mortify our flesh, our carnal mind, and our willful, worldly ways. God gave us power to become sons of God. If a man, woman, or young person says they have the Holy Ghost, but they are still walking in carnality, I've got to wonder about that! They're treading on dangerous ground because the Spirit that raised Christ from the dead has the power to put you in the grave. He has the power to mortify your fleshliness and your self will until you are gone. Then it's only Christ that's moving in you. If you are filled with that Spirit of holiness and power, then you should be yielding to it and becoming more like Jesus.
Verse 14, "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." The church is not led by the Spirit of God entirely. If it was, you'd see God. Any church that professes Christ or any power thereof, but does not preach against sin, and does not condemn even the basic sins according to God's Word, is not walking in the same Spirit I'm talking to you about today. They are walking in an antichrist, ecumenical spirit. Man is always seeking after signs and the devil gives him plenty. The Lord told me once it isn't hard to fool man, he's blind already. It is by the Lord's mercy that we are not destroyed. If you are ignorant of some things, but you are walking in holiness, upright before the Lord, He will straighten you out along the way. He will not allow you to be deceived. BUT if you play with God and back up on him, messing around with what you know to be the truth, God will hand you over to a deceiver. You will go further and further from the truth. It will make no difference if signs and miracles are following...if there is no holiness, no man will see the Lord. There are lying wonders. God's wanting a people that are taking on the fashion of Christ's countenance. Most of the church world does not have any idea what this is.
If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. First by promise, and then as we go along the way, we have the manifestation thereof. Salvation is not progressive; sanctification is. If you are pressing toward the mark and not playing around...and you die or the trumpet sounds along the way...he'll take you because your faith will be counted for righteousness. You can live a hundred years for God but if one day you curse God and the trumpet sounds, YOU AIN'T GOING!
You are a new creature in Christ Jesus, but look what the creature is doing. Romans 8:19, "For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God." Earnest expectation of the creature is the hope of glory in you by the Holy Ghost, the new man, created in the image of Christ. The Holy Ghost doesn't like living in you. We're human beings. We're nasty. We are unclean, but he will come in and set up an abode in the heart and clean it. He will set the mind free. He'll give a place for God to rest a portion of his Spirit that he might beget you unto the full sonship of the Lord Jesus Christ. You start out as an embryo. You can grow up into a mature Christian of God, totally consumed by the power of God.
Today it will not suffice to crawl around on your hands and knees as a baby Christian. You won't cast out devils like that. God is merciful. God is pure, God is holy and longsuffering, but he wants us to grow day by day. He gives us manna from heaven, and the Word of God, and the moving of the Spirit to get us into a place where we can take on the presence of Jesus. We had better not neglect so great a salvation.
Romans 8:20, "For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,". That vanity is the fleshly worldliness of a man. God put the Holy Ghost in there. It will sanctify you and do a work in your soul until such time as you reject God's word. Then it can fly away. If you continue in the sanctification, you will come to the fullness of Christ and the Holy Ghost will rejoice in you.
Romans 8:21, "Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." That bondage of corruption is the 'body of death" spoken of in Romans 7:24. As you pray and the fashion of your countenance is beginning to alter, becoming more like Jesus, there is more liberty of the Spirit of the living God to move, to speak, and to operate. Signs get more powerful. The confirmation of the Word is greater. He begins to speak more to you and you begin to minister out and soon it's in a glorious liberty. I'm looking today for that glorious liberty that Christ has promised to them that love him.
1 Corinthians 2:9, "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." In the Old Testament it says to them that wait on him through fasting and prayer.
Romans 8:23, "And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body."
Is it possible that we can have the redemption of the body here? A lot of people say, well, I don't believe hardly how much scripture there is for it. A lot of people have taken scripture and say, well, that's after the rapture, that's when we get in heaven. Is that when you stop sinning...when you get to heaven? A lot of people believe it and preach it. I believe we're supposed to take on the attributes of the Lord Jesus Christ before we go. "So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God." Romans 10:17. How are you going to hear the trumpet if you're not consumed by the Word of God that gives hearing to hear it?
The Spirit of the living God is in you, working in you...if you are a saved, born again, Holy Ghost filled Christian. He is looking forward to you praying through, getting the glorious liberty, and getting out of your carnality and self will. The Holy Ghost is there so that you can obtain the image of the person, joy, and power of the Lord Jesus Christ as he was when he was walking on the earth 2,000 years ago.
We are waiting for the redemption of the body. Philippians 3:20-21, "For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself."
Our conversation is in heaven...that's our talking in tongues. Change our vile
body............
...remember the "fashion of his countenance was altered." What's the
"working"? That's the power of God. That's praying in the Holy Ghost
found in Jude 20, "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most
holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,".
Hebrews 2:6-9, "But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for very man."
The more you pray, seek after God, and emulate the Lord Jesus Christ, who has bought us with his blood, the more you become like that one who has put all things under his feet...all principality, power, winds, and the sea. You'll take on his image, his power, his love and mercy, and his anointing! You'll no longer be alive. You'll be dead and you can say, it is no longer I that liveth, but Christ that liveth in me. It's not my body to use. It's not my mind. It's not my mouth to speak. It's not my ears to hear or eyes to see. It belongs to God. He's using them right now. That's a yielded vessel to God.
Jesus wants to manifest in his people as individuals and as a body. Can you imagine 100 people 100% sold out to Jesus? That's 100 people manifesting the power of God. There wouldn't be a devil in this hemisphere that would hang around. Get two or three to agree like that! Many say today, I can't get delivered. Everybody else gets delivered but me. You don't need deliverance from the devil; you need deliverance from you. The devil can't hang on to anybody that's not hanging on to himself already. Your trouble is not the devil as much as it is self will, pride, and fleshliness. The devil manifests in flesh. You get rid of that flesh; you'll get rid of the devil. He'll then have no place in you. This is so simple a child can understand it.
First we're conformed to the image of his death. Then we are conformed to the image of his resurrection. Glory to God! He's put all principality and power under his feet and he said, "Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you." Totally sold out to God...you know why the devil couldn't fight you and win any more? because you ain't home and it ain't you he's fighting. He's trying to fight Jesus and he already lost 2,000 years ago. He can't get to you because you're covered in the blood. You're covered in God. You're covered in Jesus!
I'm going through! The problem is, I'm going "through it" as I'm going through! I've been complaining for days to some about my "death" and the resurrection of my enemies. I found a shortcut. Glory to the Lamb, God showed it to me. He said, SON, FOR YEARS YOU AND MANY LIKE YOU HAVE PRAYED TO GET THE MANIFESTATIONS THAT JESUS BROUGHT. SON, WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO STRAIGHT TO JESUS AND GET THE MANIFESTATION OF JESUS IN YOURSELF AND THESE WORKS WILL FOLLOW THEM THAT BELIEVE. These signs that are consumed of the Lord Jesus Christ will be following them all over the place. They will be filling out and the shadow will heal the sick and cast out devils. Pieces of your clothing can go a million miles three times and still have power and anointing on that cloth to cast out a devil. It doesn't matter how long they've been bound. He said, IF YOU'RE FULL OF ME, THEY'RE GOING TO GO OUT. Hallelujah!
I have tried for years to do, unsuccessfully, what Kevin wants to do. I have fought, argued, bickered, and I've done everything else. NOW, I'm gonna try what HE wants to do. I'm going all the way IN to what he wants to do, and the WAY he wants to do it. A lot of people will say amen to the first one but not the second...IN but not HIS WAY. Sometimes man doesn't go for God's ways. God' ain't very polite sometimes, according to man's standards. Jesus got in their faces and said, "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" That wasn't very polite was it? In one place the disciples came up to him and told him that he had insulted the Pharisees. He told them, "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." That wasn't very polite, was it? The more like Jesus I become, the less polite I'm gonna be.
I've been complaining about my death, but the Lord said, SON, IF YOU HAVE TAKEN ON THE IMAGE OF HIS DEATH, THE NEXT STEP IS THE IMAGE OF HIS RESURRECTION. But, we keep on resurrecting death. We keep on resurrecting the body of this death. I Have Rights! I have rights! The other night I pointed my finger at God. I was praying and I said, "God, if you want it done, you do it." I could hear him up there saying, that's just what I have been wanting to hear. It's funny, the ways you pray through sometimes! It wasn't funny then though. I was so stressed out I kept looking for blood to come out of my pores. The scriptures say, "Ye have not yet resisted unto blood..." but nowhere in there did it say you wouldn't.
He said, NOW, IF YOU YIELD TO ME, I'LL TAKE OVER YOU. Have you ever seen somebody that was devil possessed? I'm talking about possessed with a capital P. Somebody that is really sold out to the junk...you can just see the devil. If somebody would yield over to Jesus that much, what would happen?
Some people say, I'm losing my mind. Good, you're on your way. I told the Lord the other night, "God, I can't take no more." He said, YOU'RE RIGHT, YOU CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE. I TOOK IT ALL. 1 Corinthians 2:16, "...we have the mind of Christ." But you got to let it manifest. Well, I can't. No, you won't. You don't want it to because it humbles you and it makes you look ridiculous sometimes. God's ways are not our ways. God isn't very polite sometimes. We want to be polite...you don't tell people they're going to hell...my goodness...that's not polite. The wisdom of men is foolishness to God. God wants us to take on the countenance and the express image of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is in the express image of God. We can never be God but we can be like Christ. In fact, he has commanded it. It is not an option. It's not well, close enough for who it's for. It's for you. You better think again.
It's like the fellow whose Daddy-in-law told him, "Here, you are in the contracting business with me, build this house." He skimped and saved and built a $100,000 house, but didn't have $20,000 in it. He skimped and put junk in the materials. He was going to make big bucks off of his Daddy-in-law. When he got it done, the Daddy-in-law handed him the keys and said, "It's your house."
The house you are building, you've got to live in. If the devil ain't out, guess where he's going with you? I don't care who you are. God is no respecter of persons. There's one person he does respect though, and that's his Son Jesus Christ. If you take on the full image of Christ, he'll respect you. The prophet said, Lord have respect unto this prayer, and he did. He stood between a nation of sinners...mouthy, murmuring backsliders...and said, God, if you kill them the Egyptians will say you took them out just to kill them. God repented of the evil that he said he would do to them. THAT was a man that was sold out to God. He was meek above all the men of the earth, but he was able to stand before God and intercede for those round about him
God wants a people that have conformed to the image of Christ. Romans 12:1-2, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." Be ye transformed, transfigured, translated, to the image of Christ. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, putting on the mind of Christ by the power of God...the redemption of the body. Do you understand?
Jesus wants to come back. He will only come back for a vessel ready and prepared for the Lord. He won't come back for nothing. He won't come back for a big toe. He won't come back for a chin hair. He won't come back for a nose or an eye. He wants a whole body. That's the redemption of the body. As we pray, yield over to God, and fast and seek God, and obey God's word, we will take on his presence and our tabernacle will be for Jesus. The anointing will be there. You won't have to bind the devil off of it either. No devil will want anything to do with it.
This is what God wants for his people. Mortify the members. The first thing God takes when he fills you with the Holy Ghost is the member that gives you and him the most trouble-the tongue. Some people have said that when they were baptized in the Holy Ghost they couldn't talk in English for days. As for myself, when I get into deep or long prayer, I find that it is far more pleasant to speak in God's language than mine. It's also easier. It flows like a river of life. It edifies; it builds up; my faith is increased; I begin to laugh because the joy of the Lord comes on me. You get kind of crazy. Keep on, and you're liable to be prophesying or God will even speak to you through it.
That's the kind of people God's coming after. He's looking for a body. If you've accepted Christ, he's found a body. He will sanctify that body before he stands in it in the fullness of his stature. Let me put it in layman language. If Jesus is 100 pounds and you've got about 2 ounces, that's all you will operate in. Some people are really thrilled because they operate in 50 pounds. That means you're only half baked. Colossians 2:9, "For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." Hebrews 4:15, "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." If you yield over to God, you take a sinless high priest into your body. You'll have a high priest over the temple of God. You can enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus Christ that will preach you a sermon. Abel's blood preached unto God. Jesus' blood is preaching to you right now. How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?
"To wit, the redemption of the body..." Some people say, well, I don't sin in the Spirit and I'm winning the battle in the mind, but my body is just bananas. THEN you need to get another dip! That wasn't very polite was it? If you can't control your lusts, desires, and habits, you need redemption of your body because you're not running it, it's running you. The problem is when the mind goes to defending it. Well, I'm weak. In 2 Corinthians 12:9 Jesus said, "...My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness..."
The perfect time for you to get strong in the Lord is at the time when you are shaking the hardest, resisting against sin. That's the time when you can get a hold of God. Spend a few more moments fighting, holding on to the horns of the altar until you think you are going to be drug away. Then hold on a little more and the thing must leave. "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." God is wanting a people ready and prepared.
Some people say, I think I'm losing my mind. That's an excellent time to take on the mind of Christ. You say, I think my body's failing. It's an excellent time for you to get the redemption of your body and get ready for Jesus. You must yield over to God 100%. Ephesians 4:27, "Neither give place to the devil." GIVE NO PLACE TO THE DEVIL! Well, I think you can have a little bit. That's the place the devil is in you. Well, I don't think you have to do this and that. The Bible says you should and there's the devil...he's got you. He told you that lie, you believed it, and you've been damned. He came in. I started out OK, but now I don't think I'm making it. That's because you're lazy.
As he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Jesus. There is a way. There is only ONE way. You must get rid of anything that stands in that way. The devil is not going to stand in the middle of the broad and easy way. He'll grease the path. He only stands in the straight and narrow way, to keep you out of it. The Holy Ghost will reveal to you the fact that there's a devil standing there. "Submit yourselves therefore to God..." Then you CAN resist the devil, but if you don't submit yourself to God, you can't resist the devil. Yield over to Jesus, and you'll be able to resist the devil. He must flee from you.
We've talked about the redemption of the body and the church conforming to the image of Christ, that we might attain to the fullness of the Lord Jesus. We must be in Christ and then we can stand before the throne of heaven and get all the petitions prayed met. Don't let this word that's been sown be stolen from your heart.
Scripture References: Luke 9:28-31, John 1:12, Ephesians 5:27, 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, Matthew 5:48, Philippians 3:14, Matthew 17:2, Mark 9:2, Galatians 2:20, John 14:12, Luke 24:49, 1 Corinthians 15:31, 2 Corinthians 4:16, Matthew 15:9, John 1:1-3, John 14:8-9, Romans 7:24, Matthew 16:23, Romans 8:11-23, 2 Thessalonians 2:9, Hebrews 12:14, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 4:5, Hebrews 2:3, Romans 7:24, 1 Corinthians 2:9, Romans 10:17, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Philippians 3:20-21, Jude 1:20, Hebrews 2:6-9, Mark 16:17-18, John 14:30, Ephesians 4:27, Luke 10:19, Matthew 23:33, Matthew 15:12-14, Hebrews 12:4, 1 Corinthians 3:19, Isaiah 55:8-9, Ephesians 4:13, John 7:38-39, Colossians 2:9, Hebrews 4:15, Colossians 3:5, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 2 Corinthians 12:9, James 4:7, Ephesians 4:27.
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