Today we continue on our last week topic, titled: The Mighty Conqueror. If you missed our last review on this new series kindly click the link below:
Link to Last sermon Review on The Mighty Conqueror I
Brethren, Christianity is not a religion, it’s salvation, and it’s beyond just being saved. Deeply rooted in the word of God is a necessity for every prospective candidate of the rapture. We ought to know what we believe and prove our scriptural belief by the word of God. This is because nothing can make us spiritual except the word of God. Praying doesn’t make you spiritual. if it does, then virtually everyone should be spiritual; but being spiritual goes beyond praying every day. A spiritual man must produce fruits, and one of it is prayer life. So, anything outside seeking the word of God to produce spiritual fruits is mere activity, and anyone not doing the needful is probably caught up in a religious spirit. What will transform you is nothing but the word of God.
The reason we are being conquered by the devil is that we have failed to empower ourselves with the word of God. A man full of anxiety is obviously conquered by the devil – What ever a man gives his heart to must surely conquer him. An example is the devil, he was standing right in the presence of God but chose to give his heart to deceit. He subsequently lost his place with God; the same way many of us have lost our place with God because of what we have given our minds to.
We have two types of conquerors: God and the devil. God, who is the mighty conqueror, gave room to the devil to also conquer after his fall. it simply means a man is either conquered by God or by the devil, depending on what such a man allows. The devil is allowed to conquer men who don’t have time for God. – If you don’t have time for God he will not have time for you.
To get a good grasp of this topic, we need to understand the root of how the devil lost his name; from being called “Lucifer” to the “devil”. Brethren, the change of name, and ultimately change in position of the devil gave him a new business, one of perversion (Perverting the word of God). Which is basically, to deny the credibility of the word of God. He became an enemy of God, conquering men and making them turn their back to God. His first mission was accomplished in the garden of Eden (the beginning of his conquering), where he took off their covering (word of God) and exchanged it with leaves (Religion). The devil threw them naked before God, and he’s still on the same mission of throwing believers naked before God, and careless Christians are in to be conquered.
Today the devil is still conquering and he does that by lies. The church now is in a mess because the devil has conquered, giving them mere religion; but thanks be to God who gave us the Almighty Conqueror (Jesus Christ), who conquered the devil. The devil came after him thinking he was going to conquer him too, but the reverse was the case. The devil was conquered because Christ was(is) the word of God. He bruised the head of the devil (conquered him) by expressing Love.
If you want to follow Jesus Christ and not be a mere religious person, you have a price to pay. Jesus Christ also paid the price after conquering the devil (John 15:13), and that price was paid by him giving his life to be our Almighty Conqueror. This was love expressed in its totality. And we as joint-heirs with him ought to take up this attribute, provoking one another in love, making sure uplifting one another is a lifestyle, and not lacking in our midst. This is the perfect act of Christianity; it’s not just coming to church.
In conclusion, Jesus Christ didn’t stop at conquering the devil for us, he also empowered us to wrestle against the devil, because he knows the devil is never going to rest. The true church of God has been empowered to overcome the devil. Romans 8:33-37 is one of the comforting scriptures for us –
33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us
The lord has made us more than conquerors over the devil. It has nothing to do with your past sin, or what you were before now, the Lord has blotted out our past sin, nailing it to the cross. We now appear before God as the righteousness of Christ Jesus.