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So there is you can show some kind of power, but there is a
limit to how much a man can show the power.
There is only a limit. But in the case of Samson, that
exceeds all human imagination, exceeds all human imagination.
He was really, really powerful, but at the same time he also was
a man of weaknesses, lots of weakness.
He is one of those about whom his birth was foretold.
The parents were without children.
And an Angel appears to Manoa's wife.
Her name is not mentioned in the Bible anywhere.
Who is Samson's mother? We don't know.
But Angel, care to appear to her and tell you are going to have a
son? You will.
He will be a Nazarite. No razor should come on his
head. He should not drink anything, no
wine, nothing connected with grapes and he should not touch
any dead body. You know, he has to keep himself
pure. All the list he gave and she
says to the husband, huh, Somebody appeared to me a man of
God and he said we are going to have a son.
Oh, is it so? How did he look like?
What did he say? He was very excited and he
prayed. Oh God, if you are the one who
appeared to my wife, will you please appear again?
You can read all that in chapter 13.
Chapter 14 He goes to Timna because he liked the girl he
picked quarrel with the people there and he gave them a Riddle
to solve and they saw the Riddle with the help of the lady.
He got angry, went and killed 30 people and gave their close to
the 30 people who were there with the bride.
First slaughter 30 people and then he goes back again to take
the wife. And by then the father gives the
girl to his friend because he said, I thought you hated her,
so I gave her to your friend in marriage.
Here I will get even with you guys.
So he caught 300 foxes, tied them tail by tail, put a torch
in between and lose them into the wheat field.
There was ripe standing grain, completely burned down.
They said, who did this? Oh this is the team night his
son-in-law or supposed to be son-in-law.
Samson has done it so and he goes and hides in a in a cave or
somewhere on a hill. I think the hill is Etam 15
chapter. I cannot find it now.
The Philistines went up to camp in Judah, spreading out near
Lehigh. Men of Judah asked, why have you
come to fight us? So basically these people,
Philistines wanted to fight the Israelites.
So they came. They said, why do you want to
come and fight with us? Because we want to kill the guy
who who does a lot of harm to us.
He set fire to our fields. We want to do exactly what he
did to us. The 3000 men of Judah, they go
to Samson and say, hey, don't you know that Philistines are
rulers over us? How dare you do this?
Now how many of us think the devil has power?
Tell me this morning that is what they are affirming.
What are the what are the people of Judah affirming?
3000 men are going to Samson and telling, don't you know that
Philistines are allowed over us? Now one more question, how many
people did Gideon have to defeat 130000 soldiers of median just
300 people. You have got 10 times more
people wanting to tie up Samson handover to the Philistines.
Shame, shame on Israel for doing that.
So many times we surrender to the devil just like that.
We think they will has lot of power.
He has been defeated. Let's all say he has been
defeated. Pardon.
Oh, he wasn't there in those days, correct.
But it is about us now, about us now.
So Christians are still in that same mindset where we think the
devil has complete control over our life.
No, if you are a believer, you are set free from the dominion
of darkness and transferred into the Kingdom of the light of His
Son, Jesus Christ. So we have to have this change
in our mindset. The devil is defeated until we
believe it strongly. He is going to come and punch
you. You got to tell him every day,
every waking moment, you will have to tell the devil.
You will talk back to him and say hey, you are defeated.
You are defeated. You are defeated.
You have no power to touch me. You have no power to touch my
family, my children, grandchildren, any anything.
You have no power when you stand like that.
He knows that he you know and he retreats.
That is how to live. So these 3000 people bound him
with new ropes and he said you don't kill yourself.
You just promised me that you won't yourself kill me, said no,
no, we are not going to kill you.
We will just bind you with new ropes and hand you over.
So he hands them over. In chapter 15, you see that when
the people are all coming towards, rushing towards Samson,
the Spirit of the Lord came upon him with power.
And then Egypt one once, once he flexed his muzzles, all the new
ropes just broke. That's the power of the Holy
Spirit. And then this man is
disorganized, unorganized. The people like you know, those
who do not do their bed in the morning when they get up.
He is one of those guys. He does not want to be
disciplined in his life. So he had no weapon.
He is not prepared for it. So he had to not defend himself.
He finds a fresh job, owner of a donkey.
What is he supposed not to touch?
He is not supposed to touch a dead body.
Now here he is taking hold of a fresh jawbone of a donkey.
Why am I stressing on fresh jawbone?
If you drive to lose some of its weight, fresh jawbone is very
strong, heavy to the jawbone. Kill 1000 people, 1000 people.
You had to keep this in mind because in the next chapter,
sixteen 1000 people will be let go.
There's 1000 people like Gaza were not killed because he
pulled the gates and escaped from there.
If those people succeeded in surrounding him, you would have
want something he would have found and he would have beaten
to death the people of city of Gaza.
It is God's mercy that he allowed Samson to pull the gates
and escape. So this is Samson's life is very
important to me personally, very important to me.
Even though I have believed in Jesus in 1977, in 2010, God
spoke to me about life of Samson.
When I say God spoke to me, it is supernatural and not that I
am reading the Bible, not that I am listening to some message,
No, no, no, I was in prayer and the Lord spoke to me.
It's a self limiting behavior. I said to the Lord, Lord, what
is self limiting behavior? And he said it's like Samson.
He said what is like Samson and he rushed through my brain.
All the story of Samson supernaturally that happened
next day as well. And next day I am expecting the
Lord to speak to me. I put my hand on the bed.
I want to bend my knees and touch the ground.
Before that, the Holy Spirit said Samson became blind before
they removed his eyes. So I went on my knees and said,
please explain a second time the story of Samson rushed through
my brain by the Holy Spirit. Now this is very, very important
to me. The story is very important to
me. Why all of us?
I'm not excluding myself. All of us are like Samson.
We are a mixture of flesh and the Spirit.
If you are a believer, Holy Spirit is dwelling in you.
But we also are struggling with the sin.
The more we overcome sin, the more you become a powerful tool
in the hand of God. You have to overcome rest of the
flesh, rest of the eyes, pride of life.
Then you become very powerful tool in the hands of God.
There are no two ways of serving God.
Sometimes He allows human flesh to dominate in some places, but
only to pull down everything. You can build a Tower of Babel
that's only up to certain height, and then God will
confuse it. You can know you can.
You can do many things in human power, human power and strength,
but one day it has to come down. Why?
Anything that lifts itself against the knowledge of God,
God is going to destroy it and bring it down.
So here we have in chapter 16. What really happening in chapter
16 is that I also want you to observe in chapter 15 last
verses Samson LED Israel for 20 years in the days of the
Philistines. And again at the end of 16th
chapter it again says they brought him back and buried him
between Zorah and Estal in the tomba Manova, his father.
He had LED Israel 20 years 2 times.
Life of Samson is summarized as he led Israel for 20 years.
Why 2 times? They should say it only one
time. At the end of his story, At the
end of chapter 15, he summarized his life.
He led Israel for 20 years. That means the story already
ended there, story already ended there.
He, whatever he could do in a right way, he has done the end
of the matter. In Chapter 16 onwards, it is
going to be a different story where he is going to see defeat,
where he is going to lose his eyes, where he is going to be
imprisoned, where he is going to be mocked and where he is going
to be made fun of and he is going to die with the
Philistines. And again the story ends with he
led Israel for 20 years. The two parts, one part is
living for God, another part is consequence of sin.
So in this chapter we see one day Samson went to Gaza where he
saw a prostitute. That is a that is a bombshell
point. That is the beginning of fall
for Samson before when he saw the young girl from Timna and he
tells the father get me for for me, get her for me because she
pleases me. Father says don't we have people
here in our country Don't have your own people to look at and
marry. Why do you look at the
uncircumcised? And there it's written they did
not know that it is a Lord who is stirring him up to give him
seek an opportunity to fight the Philistines.
But here it is not that. Here it is he wanting to fall in
sin, deliberate sin, deliberate sin.
To marry is not wrong, but to go to prostitute is wrong.
That is how the Holy Spirit is enlightening.
Here He went, he saw a prostitute, He went in to spend
the night with her. The people of Gaza were told
Samson is here, so they surrounded the place and lay in
wait for him all night at the city gate.
So they are waiting, but they said, OK, it is very, very dark
in this night. Let's not attack him.
We will wait for him to come through the city gate in the
morning. Once the gates are open, he is
going to go out. We will fight him and we will
kill him. Here they are waiting in all
night. They did not sleep, but this
man, he got up in the middle of the night.
What does it say here? They made no mood in the night,
saying at dawn will kill him. Verse 3 But Samson lay there
only until the middle of the night, say middle of the night.
This is living life in the flesh.
He was wanting to be secure. He want to enjoy life.
At the same time he want to be safe.
He said OK, they may plan to attack me in the morning, but I
am going to get up in the night and go.
So he got up in the middle of the night and came and what does
he see there? This huge doors, 2 massive
pillars on the two sides and bolted by iron or bronze,
whatever it was into the thing. And the whole structure is kept
to keep the city safe, the Gaza safe, so that enemy cannot enter
straight into it. And nobody can go out also until
it is open to keep the people of the city safe.
And he is now imprisoned already.
He is imprisoned already by the gates.
But this man, he looks at it and the Spirit of the Lord came upon
him. This is mercy.
Is not Holy Spirit saying Samson, you are well done, you
have gone to a prostitute is really good.
No, no, no, it's not that. He's not approving it.
There is more to be done through this life of this man.
So the Spirit of God was overlooking at that point in his
mercy. He didn't touch him, he didn't
kill him. He said he used him, he used
him. That's a act of mercy.
And he goes and pulls the pillars out, the 2 doors along
with the pillars, side pillars. Now how heavy are these gates?
Ask me the question, how heavy is the gate?
These massive doors, the two pillars, they are made out of
probably cedar wood, massive tree.
And then the whole pillar must be about 90 centimeters
perimeter round massive pillars and they will be weighing at
least 750 kilos each pillar. Just an estimate, these are
based on the excavations at Lakish and other places where
they found other gates for the city.
Based on that, we are able to conclude that this could be
similar. This could be similar and the
doors will very thick, very thick wood and then it will be 2
doors, 2 leaves closing on together and bolted with metal
so nobody can easily open it and go out.
And the whole weight could be coming anywhere between 3000 to
4000 to 5000 kilos. Let's go moderately 4000 kilos,
OK, anywhere between 3000 to 5000, let's go middle 4000
kilos. How does he lift?
Because the two beams are put into a limestone and locked in
so that they cannot be shaken by any enemy, and it requires more
than one person to put them in the place.
Now here he doesn't have a team, he doesn't have a big machine,
nothing. He just goes, grabs it and pulls
it. Whole thing up, puts on the
shoulder. Can we see the picture here?
Anusha, can we see the picture here?
Is it may not be very clear, but there is one more next one.
This I liked for some reasons. This is more true to the Bible
story because you see long hair. He did not cut his hair in the
previous one, the short hair. So I think that is not the right
picture. This is the right 1 S You can
see the hair and you can see him completely carrying the whole
gates, 4000 kilos on his shoulders.
And then what does he do? He walks up.
Gaza is on the seashore. So when you measure the height
of something, you will say how high is it from the seashore?
So now he is walking towards Hebron.
I think I did not put the map there.
When you put the map there, you see Gaza on the, the on the
coast. And then Hebron is about 90
kilometers, No, no, 9060 kilometers, 60 kilometers to the
east. And in order to go, you have to
go up. The road is always up, not down,
not flat. So he goes up to the nearby
hill. And when you climb the hill from
there, you can see Hebron. So where did he go?
What is a hill? We don't know.
The Bible is silent about it. But when you geographically,
geography, when you go and study it, there is one hill that is
nearest is about 30 to 35 kilometers and farther that if
you go, you are entering into Hebron.
So he goes up and that hill is nearly 450 to 470 meters high
from the sea level, from Gaza to the top of the hill, 450 to 470
meters. That is about 60 to 70 Storey
building. Now you carry the doors and the
pillars and the pores, everything all, and it goes up
for 3035 kilometers all night. He must have walked into the
daylight and must have gone up the hill and dumped it there.
How much power is that? Tell me, how much power is that?
Why am I putting so much of time on explaining how strong is
Samson? Because I want you to look at
one more Samson, like Saviour Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who
carried the cross. He carried the cross.
That may be just 70 or 80 kilos at the most. 190 lbs.
No, no, no, 100, 4150 lbs to 75 kilos roughly.
So he is carried the wooden cross and he went up the hill.
He carried the cross up the hill.
Compared to Samson, you may think that's not a big deal,
it's just 75 kilos. But what he carried, Samson
cannot carry. He carried the sin of the whole
world. He carries, you know, the whole
world. How much power does Jesus have?
He is the Creator. In the beginning was the Word,
The Word was God, and the Word was God, and the Word became
flesh and dwelt among us. We behold his glory full of
grace and truth, and that Jesus is God Himself.
But he put it aside. All that is God.
He put it aside. That's what Paul says in
Philippians chapter 2. Put all that is God.
He put it aside. And then He is carrying the
cross. But more than that, He was
carrying the weight of the sin of the whole world.
He was carrying the weight of the sin of the whole world, and
he went up the hill for you and me.
Samson carried the gate because he wanted to save himself.
But Jesus carried the cross so He can save the whole world, you
and me. Do you see the difference?
And Jesus has done so much, so much he accomplished.
And Jesus says, if I ask the Father, will you not give me 12
legends of angels? How many 12 legends of angels?
One legend in the Roman army is about 4000 soldier to 6000
soldiers. Let us again go in the medial
#5000 soldiers per one legion. That will be 60,000 angels in
the Old Testament. You have a story of Hezekiah
facing the army of Nebuchadnezzar and there were
180 thousand soldiers who came to attack the city of Jerusalem
and 1 Angel came and killed. How many people?
180 thousand soldiers overnight. In the morning you look only
dead bodies everywhere. One Angel killed how many
people? 180 thousand people.
If you have six, oh, oh, oh, oh, angels, how many people will
die? Nearly 11 billion people.
You got 8 billion people in the living in the world.
If Jesus asked today, Father, give me 12 religions of people,
angels, everybody will be killed and you still have 3 billion to
take care. Did Jesus do that?
That is the power, say, that is the power.
He did not use his privilege. He did not use His power to ask
the Father to send the religions of angels.
And that is the power. And compared to Samson's
physical strength, how how strong is Jesus?
The more you understand what Jesus did for you on the cross,
the more you will be able to worship him, the more you will
be able to love him. That is how we have to love.
That is how we have to worship him because we need to know who
is this Jesus? You know, sometimes we are
Christians for a long time, even when I was reading this portion,
16th chapter verses 1 to 3, I went into I was sitting in my
chair and praying. God teach me what does the
scripture mean? And then Jesus the Holy Spirit
put the thoughts into my mind about Jesus carrying the cross.
Oh, that was glorious because you know, like you chase a
rabbit hole. We call it.
So you chase a rabbit hole when when the Holy Spirit puts that
shows the rabbit hole, you follow it and then you see the
revelation just bursts out and then you go with it.
Your spirit is lifted up, your faith is becoming very strong
and you see light and the darkness leaves you and the
weakness goes. That is the work of the Holy
Spirit when there's a revelation happening in your spirit when
you read the Bible. So let's continue to see what
are the other things that he has done.
So he has carried it halfway, let's say a bit up to Hebron and
go up the hill and he dumps it there.
And that is the amount of power he had.
What is he declaring to the Philistines?
City gates stand for protection. City gates stands for control.
City gates stand for power. City gates stands for authority.
And they were trying to trap him with their authority, trap him
with their strength, trap him, limit him, finish him.
But when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, devils power will not
be able to stop you. The power of the devil will be
cancelled because the power of the Holy Spirit comes upon you.
But how many of us are wanting this power?
Do you want this Holy Spirit power so that the enemy can be
trodden down under your feet? That is who you are.
Jesus has carried the cross so that you can become a devil
Slayer. You can become master of the
devil. You can become one who can put
the Saturn and all the Kingdom of darkness to flight. 1 Man
with the help of the with the help of God can chase 1000
people. So if you can chase 1000 demons,
glory to God. That's what God wants to do
through you. He carried the gates to save
himself, but Jesus carried the cross so that you can become a
Samson, so that you can become a Samson.
But the church is sleeping. Church is sleeping.
When I say church is sleeping, I am not excluding myself.
I am also challenged to believe more, to believe more, to have
faith, more faith. That's what I'm trying to do,
have more faith, have more faith.
And I think I have arrived at some point only when I begin to
pray for somebody and I'm trying to cast out the demon and the
demon is looks like it is gone. And next day they say the demon
is back. I say what did I do yesterday?
So we are growing in the Lord. We need to have that hunger to
be more of the Holy Spirit. We feel the more of the power of
the Holy Spirit and I tell you we should become like Samson who
whose name you know we have. We have a saying in in our
Indian language that when elephant dreams of a lion, it
dies, his heart stops. If the elephant gets a dream of
a lion, it is heart stops, it dies.
They will should dream of you and die.
One second He close his eyes and he sees in the dream who is
coming, how woman is coming die. What a glorious thing that Jesus
has done for us. He wants everyone of us to
become like a Samson. That's why he went to the cross.
And then, Oh my goodness, thank you, Lord.
So when, when he's carrying the curve, when he's carrying the
gates to up the hill, what is he trying to tell him?
Tell the Philistines. He's telling the Philistines.
What is your strength? I am declaring it as weakness.
What is your power? I am declaring it as useless for
you because I have carried your whatever you put your faith in.
I am carrying them on my shoulders and dumping 35
kilometers away up the hill, not just on the plane ground.
What you're saying is my God is greater than your strength, your
God, my God is greater than your God.
They put their trust in their God, Dagan.
And during the in the book of Judges you see how Philistines
carried the ark of God during the Elis time and how Dagan got
the put and the dragon God fell down.
He was defeated already, and Samson is proving to them again
that the same God is alive and living and he will defeat them
again. And today Jesus Christ is
dreaming of only one thing, that you will defeat Satan.
You will defeat Satan. That's his plan and purpose.
When Jesus carried the cross, He laid down his life there.
When they crucified him on the cross, that blood that dropped
from his hands, from his brow, from his feet, from the side on
that rock of Golgotha. He has bought this earth with
his blood. He bought it.
Say he bought it. He bought it with his blood.
So you can be free and you will become a Samson.
The rights that Adam sold by eating the fruit to devil.
Jesus has cancelled it and took it back again.
And He is the King. He is the Lord when we are
worshipping Him, When you're singing to Him, there's no power
in our singing. Why?
There may be something in our mind that does not believe that
He is the King, is king of the kings.
When you believe it, that will show in your singing.
When you believe it, that show in our life, it will be seen.
You cannot hide it. Your faith will be seen by the
people around you. When they look at your life,
what do they see? Fear or confidence?
Do they see anxiety or courage? Do they see hopelessness or
faith? That will show your belief.
Your faith, what you believe about Jesus will be seen by the
things that happen in your life. When trouble comes, how do you
react? Sickness comes, how do you
react? The world is watching you, devil
is watching you, and we have to tell them.
The whole world will tell that we are not afraid.
So Samson humiliates Gaza, basically.
He has humiliating Gaza. The Philistines, he was
humiliating them. There are five cities, Gaza is
one of them. Ashkelon and other cities were
there. So he was humiliating them.
He was taunting the security. He was showing the identity of a
child of God who is a child of God.
He's showing them, hey Yahweh, most powerful one, I am his
servant. By ripping them out, Samson
symbolically says your strength cannot contain me.
What do we tell the devil in the morning?
Do we tell him you cannot touch me?
Do we tell him that you are defeated?
Do we tell him that he is useless?
Or are we going to say, oh, today, just don't touch me
today, Let me have a nice day. No, we are not bargaining with
the devil. One of the times we were, we
were trying to cast out a spirit and the demon was speaking
through saying let us make a deal.
And Sima was there and said you are not in a position to make a
deal. You are defeated.
We had to know who we are. We are the children of the most
high guard, King of Kings, Lord of Lord.
He's our father. And we don't bargain with the
devil. We kick him out.
We don't bargain with him, we don't bargain with him.
To possess the gate means what? In the Old Testament you have a
promise given to Abraham. Your children will possess the
gates of your enemies. That seed.
Your seed shall possess the gates of your enemy.
The word seed is referring to one seed Jesus Christ, One seed
Jesus Christ. And that's what Paul interprets
in the book of Corinthians. The seed is Jesus Christ.
So he is when he was carrying the cross up the hill and he was
crucified upon the cross. He was destroying the gates of
hell. He was destroyed the gates of
hell. He was buried and he rose again
during through three days that he was in the in that grave, his
body was in the grave. He went down into the depths and
he fought with the devil and he destroyed the Kingdom of
darkness and he rose up victoriously with the keys of
death and Hades. He is the king.
The more you believe in Jesus,
the more your faith is strong. What is your idea of Jesus?
We have to change. Every day.
It should be better every day. The more it becomes better.
The devil becomes lesser and lesser and lesser significant in
your life. If he is trying to put his
finger and trouble you, that means you are not shown him who
you are. It is very simple like that.
There was a lady, a rich lady who wanted to go by bus long
time ago when there were not cars and everything.
She was stopping and standing at the bus stop and the dog
followed her and she saw after some time the bus is coming and
she said honey go home. The dog will it was wagging his
tail going round and round licking her feet.
After some time he said you go home now and it puts his tail in
his legs behind and ran to the house.
They will also will follow you like that.
You need to show him your power. You need to show him who you are
until he knows it. Unless you show it to him, he
will not know it. He will be around you all the
time, wagging the tail, licking your feet, jumping on your
dress. No, no, you don't want that, do
you? Do you want the devil to jump
around you all the time, playing with you?
No, show him who you are, stamp the feet and then he will run.
Cool. And then we see when he's taking
the gates and walking up the hill, what is he telling?
The Philistine says, my Lord has promised to Abraham and he is
the king. And we this land has been given
to us. He led us through the Red Sea.
He helped us to cross the Jordan.
He gave us the land. And we are going to rule here.
We are going to rule here. You are not the rulers.
We are the rulers. We are the ones who are supposed
to possess. But you know what?
Samson belonged to the tribe of Dan.
Everybody said Dan, tribe of Dan.
But he was a one man army. He had no followers.
The 3000 men who came with that day to tie him up and hand him
over to the Philistines, if they said OK, Gideon had only 300.
We are 10 times more bigger. You be our leader.
Let's fight the Philistines. Philistines would have been
finished that day, but the people surrendered to the
Philistines, 3000 people. That's what I said.
It's a shame on them and that is what happened there is because
of that, they could not have ruled.
And after the life of Samson, it's only for 20 years.
He ruled. He led Israel for 20 years.
That's a very small time span of time, but Jesus is reigning from
the right hand side of the Father until eternity.
He shall be there until the conservation of the all
creation. He is King and He is waiting for
you to rise up like a Samson. He accomplished the victory for
you. He fought the enemy for you.
He defeated the devil. He defeated the principalities,
powers, rules of darkness, wickedness in high places.
He defeated them snakes, coffin, all the powers enemy.
He defeated the dragon, the old serpent.
He defeated the devil or Satan so that you can walk like Samson
and let the whole world know that you are a child of Jesus.
So our identity should change. Our identity should change.
So when he carried the gates, he was telling them you are
finished, we are going to but what happened after the life of
Daniel Samson is the Dynates did not have a place of their own.
Joshua allotted the places he said now go fight and occupy the
place. They did not do it, so they
didn't have a place. The life of Samson is not a
success in that sense. If he helped his own tribe to
possess the land that Robin a story of success, but he failed,
but yet because of his faith in Yahweh.
His name is included in the book of the heroes of faith in
Hebrews 11. Because of his faith, even when
he was thinking that everything is hopeless, everything is gone.
Even then he believed the last last thing he did was when he
was his eyes were removed. He was making a spot of him.
They brought him into the Dagas temple.
He tells the boy who was leading him, please help me to feel the
pillars on which this temple is resting.
So I want to rest a little bit. So the boy, he was blind, he
took his hand, put on the pillar and another pillar.
And he said, God, Remember Me one more last time.
I want to take revenge for my two eyes.
And he pushed with all his strength, and those two pillars
were moved and the whole roof came down.
There are 3000 people on the roof, and how many were inside?
Maybe another 2000. So let me die with the
Philistines. That was his last words.
Should that be your goal or my goal?
No. We are here to conquer.
We are here to rule. We are here to demonstrate the
power of Jesus, the power of resurrection.
We have to demonstrate the power of resurrection.
I have not even started the message yet.
Already my time is finished. That is funny, isn't it?
So you can look at it from the angle of spiritual warfare.
You can look at it angle of how it can be.
He lifted what was meant to limit him.
He broke the limit. What are containing him.
He broke it, He carried on the shoulders.
That's what you are supposed to know.
What is limiting you and break it or uproot it.
Know what is limiting you, break it or uproot it.
And then the gates that tried to hold him became the proof of his
calling. Your trouble, that health, that
challenge that the devil is throwing at you is to prove who
you are to the world and to the devil.
You are not to crumble under the weight of your problem, that
financial challenge, that relationship challenge.
It is not to put you down. God wants to see you shine or
rise up in his power of resurrection and walk in victory
so the world will know that you are a child of God.
When God says walk out, no gate can hold you.
I want to give a very small testimony before I finish it.
There's a book called Heavenly Man that's about a Chinese man
who was put in prison for preaching the gospel and he was
in the jail but refusing to eat the food.
He said he would give the food to other people who are in the
inmates. Hey, you can have my lunch, you
can have my breakfast, you can have my dinner.
And he was fasting and praying 7080 days or something like
that. And one of the days, after many
long years of being in the prison, one day the Holy Spirit
says to him. Get up, go.
So he came out of the cell and he finds the guards and
everybody. He just walks.
Everybody will be looking at
him. Do nothing about it.
And he came out of the jail and he came onto the road and he
took the help of some taxi and he went to his friend's house
and from there he was hiding and they were looking for him.
They couldn't find him. He took some different identity,
he flew to another place and then he saved himself.
Ultimately reached America, I suppose.
But what I am trying to say is when God says walk, devil cannot
hold you, he cannot hold you, He cannot put you down, He cannot
have the last laugh. No, it is you who will have the
last laugh. In the name of Jesus, shall we
pray? There's much to say, but I will
finish it there. Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Lord, for taking up
the cross for us. Thank you for carrying the whole
burden of the sin of the whole world.
Thank you for you made a provision for our sin to be
forgiven and to wash in your blood and to become clean.
And we thank you because we are becoming carriers of the
presence of God. We are becoming the temple of
the Holy Spirit. We thank you Father, we are your
children. Thank you.
That is our identity. Oh, we praise you.
We praise you for setting your love upon us.
We deserve nothing but your wrath, but you set your love
upon us to save us. Be worship of Jesus.
If the Lord is challenging you to walk like Samson, if you are
saying, I want to overcome the lust of the flesh, lust of the
high spread of life, I want to be full of the Holy Spirit.
I want to be full of the power of resurrection.
I want to demonstrate the power to the world.
I want to see the blind eyes open.
I want to see the deaf ears open.
I want to see the lame walk dead raised.
It's your opportunity to pray that prayer right now.
Stand where you are and say to the Holy Spirit, come.
And when you walk around the church, don't say I didn't
receive the Holy Spirit. Believe that He has come.
He's a gentleman. You say come, he will not shall
think about it. You say, Holy Spirit, come, fill
me now, fill me now, fill me now, fill me now.
Believe that He is coming into your heart right now, not
tomorrow when you go home, when you see the Facebook, you see
the another thing, something on the TV.
Don't say I'm defeated, say I am victorious.
I shall trample down every temptation.
Father God, I thank you for the children who want to be like
you, full of the power of resurrection.
I want to visit them right now. In the name of the Father and
the Son, Jesus Christ of another, the Holy Spirit, I call
upon you, my Lord Holy Ghost, blow on your children right now
as you did on the day of Pentecost.
Let the cloven tongues of fire I light up on the head right now.
Come Holy Ghost, come Holy Ghost, come Holy Ghost.
Come Holy Ghost, Come Holy Ghost, Come Holy Ghost.
Let a glory come, let a glory come.
Let a glory come. Let a glory come, let a glory
come. Touch your children now.
Fall upon them now in the mighty name of Jesus.
Power release Holy Spirit and power be filled with the Holy
Spirit and power now in the mighty name of Jesus.
Thank you Father for failing us. Help us not to disbelieve it.
Help us to believe that it has happened.
Help us to walk in the light of the truth that we are your
children indwelled by the Holy Spirit.
We worship you, we praise you God.
Thank you again for visiting us this morning in Jesus mighty
name and everybody says Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega.
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