This message covers the content that changed my friends life in part 1, and what happens when we say yes to Jesus. The ministry of the Holy Spirit is the answer to all of our inadequacies in the Christian life.

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Heritage Academy

Dee Casper

How to Overcome the Devil- Part 2

Oh sweet Jesus, thank you for these precious young people.

Thank you for all these families who sacrificed for this day to come about.

But above all, thank you that you are the 1 who made this possible.

I'm just asking that you would come and abide with us a while.

That you would do for these people what I cannot do.

And that we would not soon forget the gift that we receive from heaven today.

This is my humble plea and I ask this in Jesus' name.

Our theme text again for the weekend is found in Revelation chapter 12.

Revelation chapter 12 beginning in verse 10.

And the text and things should be on the screen as well for time's sake.

Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, now salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ have come.

For the accuser of the brethren who accuse them before our God day and night has been cast down." Again, this is in direct response to the event at Calvary.

"...and they, the saints, overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

And seeing the power of the cross transform their lives and grant them new identities, they no longer want to cling to the life they had before because they found something better.

Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them, but woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down to you having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time." Satan or the accuser of the brethren has specialized in attacking us at the identity level, in confusing us regarding our identities.

And we closed last night by mentioning that Christ's perfect life, sufferings, death, and resurrection provide us that new identity.

And we saw that happen in the life of a dear friend of mine.

And what did my friend hear that brought this into his life?

The same thing that cast Satan down an encounter with the cross Jesus overcame the devil to enable you to do the same This is why Christ overcame to empower humanity to rise above the attacks of Satan.

And I want to give 2 brief quotes here from the 1888 materials that were helpful to me to understand the importance of lifting up the cross before the people.

Neglected part of the ministry which will be found the great instrument in the conversion of souls and in leading to the high standard of holiness which every church needs in order to become a living church.

There must be a life-giving power in the ministry.

Life must be infused into the missionaries in every place, that they may go forth giving the trumpet no uncertain sound, but with heaven-sent awakening power.

Such as can be found only in the preaching of Jesus Christ, his love, his forgiveness, his grace.

And this is the second quote that was the perfect answer for this friend of mine.

The want in the religious experience, what's lacking and what we desire, is the acceptance of Jesus Christ as presented in the gospel.

I was teaching at a school of evangelism a couple years ago.

I taught in the morning, someone else taught in the afternoon, but the class they were teaching was on Calvary, on the cross.

And I thought, well, I'd love to hear this.

So I stick around, and this individual didn't grow up in church, didn't grow up as Seventh-day Adventist, they were converted, they were an atheist basically growing up.

But as this young person, God by the the power of the gospel and the undying love of Jesus, this person became a follower of God.

And soon into their conversion, they were going door to door, and I don't know if they were selling literature or handing out literature, I forget.

They get to this door, they knock on the door, and they say, hey, I've got this book for you, man.

So he comes inside, says, so what's the deal man?

Says, I've got this book and it talks about the fact that Jesus died for you.

And this man begins to tell this young Christian a story about his guru.

He was an Eastern religionist of some sort.

Wanted to tell him a story about his guru.

The views of the guru he had about religion and the views of the people in his village were vastly different.

And eventually what they did was something that I'm not gonna go into a lot of detail because there are children present and I just don't think it would be wise to do so.

But they began to chain a man to a tree and inflict severe amounts of harm upon his body and did it in such a way that his death would take days to accomplish.

Continue to prolong this torturous, awful experience.

Animals are investigating him all along the way.

And this guy is weeping as he's telling this story to this young Christian.

And he says, what my guru went through was way worse than what your Jesus went through.

And this young Christian doesn't know what to say.

They didn't tell him this answer in the Bible studies.

They didn't give him any supply to answer this, and he's just sitting there feeling completely lost, really, in knowing what to do.

And the only thing he can muster to say is, Sadia, still want the book?

And the question that this person, who's now a converted minister of the gospel and is teaching at the School of Evangelism, the question that he raised to the attendees of the School of Evangelism was, if it's just a matter of how painful his death was, what makes the death of Jesus any more meritorious than the death of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr., or anyone who died for the good of humanity?

Now I'm not questioning the death of Jesus today.

But it's a fair question because we are evangelists.

We are people who should be sharing the gospel with people.

But what gospel is it then that we need to be sharing?

What if people have suffered worse than Jesus?

Why is Jesus's death any better than theirs?

Jesus says in Matthew 24 14 that this gospel will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations and then the end will come.

I've covered this here before even about a year ago, but it seems to me with the language that Jesus is employing here that if A happens then B is going to get happen.

Are you left with that impression to some degree?

So when this gospel, and he's very specific, whatever gospel that he's preaching and that he's talking about and that he endorses, when that's preached and all the world's as a witness, then Jesus will come.

I have a very simple question for you this morning.

There's something that Jesus is needing from us is the impression that I'm left with.

I don't think that as Jesus is lacking a desire to come, I believe that Jesus is waiting on the correct impetus to bring that coming.

Revelation chapter 14 says that the everlasting gospel is going to go to every nation, tribe, tongue and people.

It's the last thing to happen, this message of mercy to go before the world.

Revelation 18 is a repetition of the third angel's message.

She says that the message proclaimed by the angel flying in the midst of heaven is the everlasting gospel.

She says it's the same gospel that was declared in Eden when God said to the serpent, I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed." So the gospel that Jesus is talking about and the gospel is preached at the end of time is the same gospel that was preached in the garden.

Also in Eden, tunics of skin are required.

Something has to die, something has to suffer to in turn clothe the people of their shame and their nakedness because iniquity has made its way into their experience.

How to Overcome the Devil- Part 2

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