Part 3 (Evils of this world)

I could write a book on this alone, so this is highly simplified.  Some of it, you’ll have to research on your own.  God created Adam and Eve, and gave dominion of the earth to them ( Genesis 1:28 ).  They sinned, God’s Gifts are without repentance,  He never took dominion back after the original sin.  Mankind’s spirit, was given over to the world of darkness.  The link to God (who is a Spirit) was severed.  However, having dominion over the earth was still retained by mankind. Therefore, God (by His own decree), has to work through mankind, to fulfill His Will.  The devil, has to work through mankind, as well.  I challenge the reader, to find one time in the Old Testament, that God did not work His Will through a person.  Moses had to stretch forth His staff to part the red sea.  Hit the rock three times, for water to come out.  Walk around Jericho everyday for a week and then yell, for it to fall.  Yes, the directive came from God to a person, but the person had to act.  Moses had to command the ten plagues, etc….

The devil  has no power apart from mankind, flesh and blood.  But because mankind’s spirit was turned over to the kingdom of darkness, most of mankind would simply do as the devil commanded.  They had no protection from the devils “fiery darts” of suggestion or possession.  The in-dwelling of Holy Spirit did not happen until Jesus’ resurrection.  In the Old Testament satan, Lucifer and the devil are only mentioned 16 times. In the New Testament 89 times, why? Because until the in-dwelling of the Holy Spirit (Being born of the spirit) man had no protection from evil.  The exception was those who the Spirit of God rested upon.  The Biblical hero’s, prophets etc…..Mankind has natural (God given) authority over the earth.  The devil uses that authority to steal, kill and destroy.  This is a point I wish to drive home,  he was the prince of the world, because he could so easily control our actions through our thoughts and for those not In Christ it is the same today.  This is why evil exists and will as long as one person has an unrenewed mind.  We give the devil way to much credit.  Ever wondered why when Jesus cast out legion, they wanted to go into the pigs?  Because flesh and blood pigs has more authority on earth than they do. 

Proverbs 4:23 “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”Psalm 19:14Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. Matthew 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. James 3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

All of the above verses speak of how what a man believes and speaks, controls the atmosphere around him. There are a thousand such verses in both the Old and New Testaments.

Now, the Father used those He chose, to accomplish His Will. To bring salvation to us! The prophets of Old prophesied for three main reasons, as proof of Himself, as warnings of what is to come, and to speak into existence the person of Jesus into man (who already existed as THE WORD). In Luke 1:20 Zacharias, was struck dumb, because of his unbelief.  Because his words, could have undone God’s plan. Why is Jesus the Son of God and Son of Man? Because only God could fulfill the task at hand. But because of natural (God given Authority) authority only a Son of Man had the authority to fulfill all the miracles, He was to do. Our Messiah had to know the perfect Will of God, and speak only His Perfect Will, for fulfillment of the Mosiac Law, but had to speak from mankind’s authority to have it done. Jesus won back for mankind; spiritual authority (In His Name).

Matthew 16:19

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind (declare to be improper and unlawful) on earth must be what is already bound in heaven; and whatever you loose (declare lawful) on earth must be what is already loosed in heaven.

Matthew 28:17-19Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

¹⁷ And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. ¹⁸ And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. ¹⁹ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

In Jesus we now have spiritual authority, we already had authority on earth, but no spiritual authority.  In other words, we had to be given the spiritual authority, by Jesus to loose what is already in Heaven, prosperity, health, healing, all spiritual blessings! And to bind (on earth) what is already bound in Heaven ie…..evil. 

I stated all that to be perfectly clear.  Evil existed before the New Covenant, because mankind’s spirit was dead and we had only earthly authority, without the spiritual authority.  Now, Jesus gave us everything we need to abolish evil off of this planet. The problem……….we don’t use it!! We are deceived into thinking that sickness, disease and death are normal. Research in the Old Covenant Abraham’s death, Jacob’s most of the men of God’s deaths.  Scripture states Gave up the ghost! Jesus gave up the ghost!  Death required our permission!  It still does with the exception of persecution for His Name’s Sake.  Sickness and disease under the New Covenant require our permission as well, but we accept these things by 1) Our speech 2)an un-renewed mind 3)by default 

Our Speech- James 1:7-9

Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

^“7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. ⁸ A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. ⁹ Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:” Romans 8:6”For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

Being double-minded is speaking with an  unrenewed mind, a mind not in harmony with God’s Will.  Example “I feel a cold coming”, yet asking for healing. Carnally minded, is to only rely on circumstances the physical world/our earthly authority, to believe that sickness is normal and we can do nothing about it. Sin is normal and we are slaves to the world.

To be spiritually minded is: Colossians 3:2 “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”

What is in heaven….God’s Presence/His Spiritual authority is there sickness in heaven……death….evil…..poverty? Then according to Matthew 16:19

“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind (declare to be improper and unlawful) on earth must be what is already bound in heaven; and whatever you loose (declare lawful) on earth must be what is already loosed in heaven.” We now have the spiritual authority to bind what isn’t in heaven and release what is in heaven.  We need to operate from heaven to earth! Thy Kingdom Come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven!  This is a mind renewed to the Will of God. Things happen when we speak according to what He is speaking.

We speak from what is in our heart: from what we have fed the inner man. To change our speech, we must change what we feed the inner man!!  Just as important we need to yield to Holy Spirit to change us.

Proverbs 4:23 “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”

Psalm 19:14Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

What does the majority people feed their inner man? We feed our inner man through our senses what we hear, watch, speak and think.  I will stop at this point, the next topic we will talk about; is this and prayer for healing!