JESUS WON ALL OUR BATTLES

 

A popular notion that has been accepted as a joke among Christians yet a poisonous thought in our hearts is the statement: “Even when Jesus walked this earth, He didn’t do it all.” This saying, which may sound familiar to those conversant with the Akan language, is often used as a joke. However, what we fail to understand with such expensive jokes is the fact that when an ignorant man hears it without understanding it as a “mere joke”, it becomes a foundation for the kingdom of darkness to build vital demonic doctrines that will eventually destroy the listener. How can the lie that Jesus didn’t do it all become a “joke” that amuses the Christian? How is the Christian able to open their mouth to spew out this lie and think it is funny?

John 19:28-30 (NKJV)

[28] After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!”

[29] Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there; and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth.

[30] So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.

The above passage is your answer for those wondering where it was stated that JESUS had accomplished all things. Everything prophesied by the saints of old—be it Abraham, Moses, Jacob, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Malachi, etc.—was performed to perfection by Jesus before He could boldly shout the words, “IT IS FINISHED!”

Brothers and sisters, I know you have been told to suffer to accomplish all things as Jesus did, but I want to give you another perspective on what you thought your shepherd said.

1 Samuel 17:45-47 (NKJV)

[45] Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

[46] This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

[47] Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD’s, and He will give you into our hands.”

In the above passage, which happens to be the last words of David to Goliath before his death, David, again by the Spirit, makes available a simple truth—“NO CHILD OF GOD CAN WALK VICTORIOUS WITHOUT THE LORD’S INTERVENTION.” David was trying to make Goliath understand that the victory he would celebrate over his dead body would only be possible because the Lord had already given him Goliath. This story of David and Goliath serves as a powerful illustration of the truth that our victory, like David’s, is ultimately the Lord’s. The Lord has already given us victory over every possible problem that can be orchestrated by the smartest demon or occult power to exist today, tomorrow or centuries to come. Wait! Didn’t you read what David added, “The battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.”

If you need clarification at this point, then you are following. I want you to know that even David, a man under the covenant of the blood of bulls and goats, was the one who shared this insight. He understood the power he wielded as a choice member of the nation of God. If God says that victory is his, then victory is his. How much more you who is of the covenant of the blood of Jesus?

Fellow brothers and sisters, it is ignorance that would make a Christian think that it is okay to suffer for the very things that Christ has won and freely given to them. Jesus’s last words are His last words to every battle that every Christian born today, in years to come, will encounter. Am I saying the Christian is meant to be silent? No! Christians have every right and boldness to stand against anyone who wants to override their victory in Christ.

Let’s not forget what David did after making it clear to Goliath that he would be victorious. The Bible states that David began to run towards the tall, ugly thing that was scaring the whole nation of God, Israel, and the supposed strong anointed king.

Why are you running away from those family issues that have been sponsored by demonic powers over centuries when Jesus won the battle thousands of years ago?

Who told you to go and try to win the war? How are you trying to win a battle already won centuries ago?

Who deceived you into believing the lie that your long hours of prayers, several times of protruded fastings, daily Bible study, and series of praise and worship are the reasons why you would or have won a generation battle?

Who bewitched you?

What has clouded your mind?

Your Bible study, fasting, prayers, worship and praises have been keys to making you decrease so the Lord will persistently increase His authority and glory in your life. Who said that the enemy is afraid of you, a mere mortal made with clay and exists in time? The enemy is scared of the GOD who has made an abode in you, not you, the man who was once his humble slave. If your fasting, Bible study, prayers, worship, praises and giftings make you feel powerful instead of the GOD in you taking the glory, please renew your mind. Our victory is found in one person, JESUS, and the man or woman who has had intimacy with Him will always testify of His signs and wonders in and around their life.

Barrenness, madness, homosexuality, lesbianism, corruption, lying, depression, joblessness, poverty, spiritual ignorance, occultic powers, witchcraft, and demonic manipulations, among many others, all ended on the cross of Jesus. He ended their reign in the lives of His children the very moment He said, “IT IS FINISHED.” Why are you now allowing the things God defeated to conquer you again? How is a master now a slave to an enslaved person? How is Goliath now jubilating over David’s dead body? Who rewrote history?

Colossians 2:14-15 (TPT)

[14] He canceled out every legal violation we had on our record and the old arrest warrant that stood to indict us. He erased it all—our sins, our stained soul—he deleted it all and they cannot be retrieved! Everything we once were in Adam has been placed onto his cross and nailed permanently there as a public display of cancellation.

[15] Then Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and principalities of darkness, stripping away from them every weapon and all their spiritual authority and power to accuse us. And by the power of the cross, Jesus led them around as prisoners in a procession of triumph. He was not their prisoner; they were his!

How is the shrill voice of a chained toothless bulldog causing you to partake in a 100m race you haven’t been tasked with? (…to be continued)

Remain in the blessings of God as you remain in Christ.

MD.