We addressed the leadership of Joshua and this scene once before in OLD TESTAMENT EXAMPLES Of SPIRITUAL WARFARE: JOSHUA.
PART ONE
Below is the segment (with some moderate revision) dealing with this event taken from the article link above:
Jericho and its leadership recognized the authority of Israel by the feats that the LORD accomplished for them; likewise Satan and his own forces recognize (but war against) the authority of the church by our spiritual rebirth and the indwelling of God’s Spirit in each of His saints. It’s imperative for the enemy to dissuade us believers that we have any such power bequeathed to us by the LORD Jesus Christ – (see MATT 16:18).
This is why it’s vital that each believer called of God to engage in this warfare be well versed, trained and established by faith in the truths of our spiritual authority and subsequent victory.
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Examining JOHN 15 – Part 2 of 3
INTRODUCTION: We Christians don’t adhere to a spiritual school of laws and principles. We don’t subscribe to a philosophy or a religion in the typical sense. Christians – those who’ve been born again have undergone a spiritual transformation based not on meditation practices of the esoteric sort, nor by any human means.
We have been born again, born spiritually as a result of simply believing the Gospel and walking that belief out by an active allegiance to Christ, surrendering our will, our lives, everything that we are.
Subsequently, every aspect of the Christian life draws from the very Spirit of Christ as our source of power, conviction, discipleship. Just as a branch draws from the vine in order to produce fruit.
In this second part of JOHN 15, we explore more of what this entails.
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There are enormous volumes of information we may and often do absorb each day and so when we read such admonitions as "a must read" we may overlook the material as so many make this claim.
I appeal to godly parents, pastors, school principals and teachers, law enforcement and all Christians to read this article - for the sake of our children, the next generation.
Once it was college students who left the faith that they were raised in; that was back in the 80's. In the 90's these were high school students. Now it's even the junior high level students who have forsaken the Bible in spirit, if not in letter. They may have a form of belief in the Bible, but it isn't biblical belief, and it's not centered around a living, breathing reality of Jesus Christ on a personal, daily level.
How could we have allowed our children to stray so far? Why aren't we engaged in spiritual battle for them and this entire generation of youth?
Greg Reid provides a heart-felt and anguished plea for us to stand fast and engage the power of the enemy by the Spirit of the LORD. He talks about spiritual warfare and the need to train our children to fight against Satan and his kingdom of darkness with real spiritual weapons at our disposal by the grace of God.
Read this article; share it; give heed to its admonitions and let us repent of the spiritual negligence of our own walks as well as our children's. May we, by the grace of God, reach out to the youth of this generation, and take back that which the enemy has stolen! AMEN!
Also: Check out this important book written by Greg regarding children sexually exploited and abused: The COLOR of PAIN
~~ James Fire <///><
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INTRODUCTION:
PHILIPPIANS 3:10-11
10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
From the Jamieson-Fauset Brown Commentary:
On verse 11. “If by any means” – not implying uncertainty of the issue, but the earnestness of the struggle of faith (1 COR 9:26,27), and the urgent need of jealous self-watchfulness (1 COR 10:12).
“…attain unto the resurrection of the dead…” – The oldest manuscripts read, "the resurrection from (out of) the dead," namely, the first resurrection; that of believers at Christ's coming (1 COR 15:23; 1 THESS 4:15; REV 20:5,6). The Greek word occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. "The power of Christ's resurrection" (ROM 1:4), ensures the believer's attainment of the "resurrection from the (rest of the) dead" (compare PHIL 3:20,21). Compare "accounted worthy to obtain the resurrection from the dead" (LUKE 20:35). "The resurrection of the just" (LUKE 14:14).
As the apostle stated elsewhere, if there is no resurrection of the (righteous) dead, then life is miserable, having existence only in a world under the curse of sin (1 COR 15:19). But we most assuredly have this blessed hope!!
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Dr. Mark Eastman and Chuck Missler have published a book, ALIEN ENCOUNTERS, (which I have) that explores the Biblical implications of the increasing reports of UFOs and their occupants, and their potential prophetic significance.
Another book which might be of some interest to some of you is ALIEN INTRUSION by Gary Bates; I have read it, and recommend it most enthusiastically. I wrote a two part report on this book, and you can read them on The TRUTH UNDER FIRE here.
We believe that angels did in fact co-habitat with human females and that their union produced a hybrid species not fully human, nor fully angelic, but a weird genetic amalgam of the two.
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Jacob (Israel) and his kin entered into Egypt as a family and left as a nation. Ever since Jacob heard that his son Joseph yet lived – and more than that, was second in command of the world empire of that time, he and his sons went down into Egypt and were greatly honored in life (and in Jacob’s death) by Pharaoh and his Court.
It was because of the severe regional drought that Jacob and his family found it necessary to leave Canaan to begin with, yet their intention to stay in Egypt was only temporary (until the calamity was over), but they became accustomed to life in Goshen – the most fertile area in Egypt and so what was supposed to last perhaps only a single generation lasted much longer.
Inevitably, the friendship between Egypt and Israel deteriorated with a new Pharaoh that didn’t recognize Joseph as savior of the realm. Suspicion and paranoia rose up in Pharaoh’s heart (EXOD 1:9-10), and cruel, harsh slavery was the result.
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