CHAPLAIN’S CORNER Pastor Ron Baptiste Founder of Covenant Confirmers Ministries Inc. www.covenantconfirmers.org Covenant Confirmers Ministries; a “Certified Recovery Congregation” Founder of TN. Biker Medical Clinic Inc. www.Tennesseebikermedicalclinic.org Messages Available on Podbean https://covenantconfirmers.podbean.com Live You Tube https://www.youtube.com/user/ covenantconfirmers1/live
SPIRITUAL WARFARE There are some Old Testament truths being taught in the New Testament Church today concerning “Spiritual Warfare,” they just don’t line up with the New Testament reality. But because they have been passed down through generations of denominational doctrines, people just accept it as gospel without studying it out in God’s Word. Most Christians believe that Satan is the 2nd power to God because he was once a powerful angel. But the truth is; the only power he has is what we give to him, before man sinned in the Garden. satan couldn’t harm us without our consent or our cooperation. Job.1:6-12 (Old Testament) “…Satan answered the lord, from going to & fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it.” Vs. 12 “…all that he has is in thy power; only himself put not forth thine hand.” Satan could do nothing without God’s permission. 1 Pet.5:8 (New Testament) “…the devil AS a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom he MAY devour.” Satan is an imitator, like a wolf pack, he seeks out the weak. In the Old Testament Gen.18:20-26 Abraham stood in the gap between God and man at Sodom & Gomorrah. In Exodus 32:7-14 Moses was standing in the gap between God and man after God’s people had corrupted themselves by “turning aside from God, making a molten calf, worshipping & sacrificing unto it.” Abraham & Moses were acting as a “Mediator;” a person that stands between two parties that are in conflict with each other while bringing both into an agreement. Some believers today believe that all these diseases, pandemics, environmental disasters, violence, and a fallen economy, is a judgement from God. Today we have many believers feel that they are called into a prayer ministry for America, begging God to spare America from His judgement. New Testament; 1 Tim.2:5 “For there is one God and ONE MEDIATOR between God & man, the man Christ Jesus.” Jesus has paid the price for God’s judgement. If the devil can run you into your “prayer closet,” keep you “binding him up,” and “casting him out,” then you can’t be doing what God has
called you to do; “Go ye therefore into all the world…” satan has you in a “cat & mouse” game while you become useless to the Kingdom of God. The price for America was paid in full at the cross, what America is experiencing is “Seed time and harvest.” We are destroying ourselves! The best way we can fight & win this “Spiritual Warfare” is by winning the lost to Christ, discipling other believers in Revelation knowledge and spiritual truths, and yes, proper prayer by the Word of God. Remember; “for there is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus,” and you’re not it! Come out of your prayer closet, everybody else has, you can fight and pray at the same time. Until next time, keep your face in the wind and your kickstand up. To be found faithful, Pastor Ron
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