Hunter Strategy (VI) Pastor´s Study Apostle Sergio G. Enríquez O. Guatemala, May 26th Year of Abundance
The enemy uses different strategies against the people of the Lord, one of the is surrounding, just like he did with the Earth in the book of Job Job 1:7 KJ2000 And the LORD said unto Satan, From where come you? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it. This strategy will keep being used until the end of the days, as we read in the next verse. Rev 20:9 KJ2000 And they went up over the breadth of the earth, and encircled the camp of the saints, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. In the same way, this strategy has being used against Israel; basically along their history, and it will be in that way, as the Lord Himself prophesized. Luk 21:20 KJ2000 And when you shall see Jerusalem surrounded with armies, then know that its desolation is near. According to the Scriptures, the enemy uses emissaries to surround, and he does it with lions, bulls, dogs and bees; which are prototypes of pseudo-ministries, because the real ministries of the Lord Jesus Christ have received the function of surrounding His bride, but to protect her, that is why the enemy always tries to go first; however if the enemy has surrounded with something negative to ours, we have the authority to break it, just as Paul did with Barjesus when he visited Sergius Paulus. It is quite important that we evaluate if we have attitudes of these four emissaries of the enemy because we could be damaging the souls of the sheep that the Lord gave us to take care of. We can find a clear example of this with Shimei, he was called “dog” when he spoke against his covering (David) at seeing his disgrace (2 Sam 16:7-9). Another characteristic of the dogs is that they search the crumbs (Mt 15:27), which means that they do not want the bread of the doctrine; they also lick the sores (Lk 16:21) but they do not heal them, this means not talking with the truth to the sheep, but only telling them what they want to hear. A clear characteristic of bulls is the anger and they are useless to plow and they are stallions, with this we could say that a problem of violence in a person is linked with the sexual matter, because to control both things self-control is needed. On the other hand; the bees are compared with the Amorites (Dt 1:44), and at analyzing the root where it is derived this word, it means someone who curses. Although we are truly ministers of the Lord, it is necessary that we be careful with our attitudes because even Moses himself being Hebrew had appearance of Egyptian (Ex 2:19) probably not only for the way we dressed but the way he use to talk, fight, etc., in the same way our attitudes could confuse others, when according to the Scriptures we were called as braves to surround the Bride of the Lord. Son 3:7 KJ2000 Behold the couch, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
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Hunter Strategy (VI) Pastor´s Study Apostle Sergio G. Enríquez O. Guatemala, May 26th Year of Abundance
The word valiant comes from the Hebrew word “Guibor” which means a powerful man, this means that if we were called to be brave, the Lord will also give us power, which is blessing but also comes with a great responsibility, because we could fall into the same error of Samsom who thought he was indestructible because of the power he had; he continued sinning without feat the consequences because his gift was great, his violent character was big too. Our job is surround the sheep, but also teach them that they must defend themselves because in that way they will not depend always on us; we need to teach the seep to go offshore; to the deep of the Word of God and so they can always have a “rhema” they can share. Psa 22:16 KJ2000 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. This is a messianic psalm, we know that everything that happened to the physical body of Jesus Christ happens to us too; the mythic body, which is why we will be surrounded also by gang of evildoers. The word gang comes from the original Hebrew “edáh” which means congregation, which means that pastor could be in charge of a congregation of evildoers or that inside his congregation there might be a lot of evildoers that are not precisely evildoers but have attitudes of an evildoer. The word evildoer comes from the Hebrew word “raá” and we found in other verses that shows us the attitudes of an evildoer. Pro 17:4 KJ2000 A wicked doer gives heed to false lips; and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue. This verse tells us that an attitude of an evildoer is listening gossips, it is worst listening that telling them, because if no one would pay them attention nobody would follow that contamination. Num 20:15 KJ2000 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians afflicted us, and our fathers: I the previous verse the word raá is translated as “afflicted”, which is necessary that we analyze the way that the Egyptians use to afflicted the Israelites. One of those ways of afflicting them was slavering them, which is why it is important not allowing the slavery in our congregations, because we could be pushing our sheep to do things that are not commanded by the Lord, and in the same way let us take care of our ministerial helps to not enslaver the sheep in our name. God has called us to serve for love and to live in freedom, but understanding that this has limits that must be respected.
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