Spiritual Warfare 444 – The Steps Of The Conqueror

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Spiritual Warfare 444 – The Steps Of The Conqueror

Bob Neumann, 12/2004

For years the AMERICAN ANTI-CHURCH has made big money on their game of SPIRITUAL WARFARE. They have peddled their wares far and wide for years. Tens of thousands of people have taken courses and attended conferences. Yet after all that has happened the state of THE SPIRTUAL STATUS of the AMERICAN NATION is abysmal. Crime is still endemic, Violence is everywhere, Drug use expands, and IMMORALITY is everywhere.

Now TAKE THE CHURCH. Half is liberal humanist… Half is some type of moderate/ conservative. In either half UNCLEAN and FAMILIAR spirits abide and prosper in either OPEN/BLATANT false doctrines and teachings, or HIDDEN/COVERT manipulation, control and seduction.

All of these crimes the ANTI-CHURCH and the AMERICAN SOCIETY in which it sprang up has been INDICTED shall now stand before THE JUDGE OF ETERNITY. IN HIS COURT THERE ARE NO PLEAS FOR LENIENCY BECAUSE HE JUDGES AND MAKES WAR IN RIGHTIOUSNESS.

Five times we have turned to Psalm 18 to understand how we, DAVID’S SEED can journey in his footsteps. Now this sixth lesson is actually the POST GRADUATE course of the curriculum. It is putting the first five lessons learned to actual use.

So we start with the next image in DAVID’S LIFE….

³⁷ I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

David came to a point where he left the caves and ATTACKED ISRAEL’S ENEMIES. Here he speaks of PURSUING his enemies…chasing them down, hunting them out. No longer is he “hiding” no longer is he in the defensive position. Simply withstanding the plots and attacks are enough. Now he is HUNTING DOWN…running down his enemies and eating them…. “till they were consumed”.… DEVOURED.

³⁸ I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

Here is an interesting image. David’s foes were so badly wounded they lay helpless on the ground. Neither in verse 37 or verse 38 DOES DAVID SAY I SLEW MY ENEMIES ….KILLED ‘EM ALL….WHIPED THEM ALL OUT. MAYBE IT WAS BECAUSE HE HAD ENEMIES THAT COULD NOT BE KILLED….because they were SPIRIT…and not FLESH AND BLOOD.

³⁹ For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

Once again we see DAVID acknowledging HIS STRENGTH is HIS GOD and not himself. He declares that THE GOD IN WHOM HE HAS PERSONAL REVELATION AND RELATIONSHIP subdued those who were a danger to DAVID.

⁴⁰ Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. Imagine your enemy at your feet, neck exposed, awaiting the execution richly deserved. David found his enemies just that way. SO…they cried for mercy…

⁴¹ They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

At this point DAVID had OVERCOME his FOES. He had complete victory. HE HAD CONQUERED. All because he had put HIS TRUST IN HIS GOD. Even “the fallen” called out to DAVID’S GOD…and GOD does not answer. “BUT LORD…LORD….”

⁴² Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets. BEATEN BADLY AND CAST OUT…sound familiar…

²⁶ His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:

²⁷ Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

²⁸ Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.

²⁹ For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

³⁰ And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

The WICKED SERVANT gets the same treatment DAVID gave his ENEMIES…. SELAH….AMEN

⁴³ Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Now David speaks of the strivings with the people. Here David is talking of the NATURAL WORLD… David had defeated his foes in both THE NATURAL and the SPIRIT…because HIS GOD gave him the victory. EVERY KNEE BOWED TO DAVID…and HIS SEED.

⁴⁴ As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

⁴⁵ The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places. They hear and obey. They accept DAVID’S AUTHORITY over them. They are submitted to HIM as GOD’S SOVEREIGN. Even strangers who have fled out of the land FEAR his dominion.

I wonder how fearful of THE ANTI-CHURCH are the POWERS OF DARKNESS? Do PRINCIPALITIES tremble when NICOLAOTIN OVERLORDS try to shout them down?

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

³⁶ As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

³⁷ Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

VICTORY IN JESUS…TO OVERCOME…is wonderful.

BUT IS IT ALL WE ARE CALLED TO DO?

Each SHEEP and each CHILD and each servant must choose for themselves.

selah

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