ENFORCER
Last week we talked about what Jesus accomplished on the cross for us. Now it is up to you and me to enforce what Jesus purchased for us, to fight the good fight of faith and to rest in the finished work of the cross, doing whatever the Holy Spirit tells us to do to enforce the victory won over our enemy the devil and all of his demonic activities..
Enforcement is what it is all about, and if you don’t know anything about what God through His Son Jesus has purchased for you, you are a pawn in the game of life just like anybody else out here in this world without God. The authority that God has given you over the devil and his works and demonic forces is not passive or automatic. It must be enforced on your enemy. Through ignorance the Body of Christ has allowed the devil to steal their authority and whip them with it and control the rest of the earth with it.
We are going to review two of the scriptures we discussed last week. In Galatians 3:13 we are told that Christ has redeemed us or released us from the curse of the law. In order to find out what the curse of the law is, go back to Deuteronomy 28 and read what the curse is. It basically covers three areas: sin, sickness and disease, and poverty. In our present study, we are focusing on sickness and disease. Jesus has redeemed or released us from the curse of sickness and disease. In Psalm 107:2 we are told as the redeemed of the Lord to say so: We have been delivered from the hand, the power, the strength of the enemy. How did God deliver us from the hand of the enemy? He sent His Word (Jesus the living Word and His written Word as well) and delivered us from our destructions (Psalm 107:20).
Now, Jesus is in heaven, seated at the right hand of the Father and He is saying to us —- “You are sharing in My triumph over the enemy.” As we discussed last week, we get to be a part of the parade of triumph over the enemies of darkness (Colossians 2:15) Every day we get the privilege of demonstrating the victory Jesus has won for us. We are the reinforcers of that victory in our own lives. We share Jesus’ triumph. We bring glory to God by reinforcing that triumph. We make known, reveal the sweet savor of Jesus’ triumph in our own walk.
Jesus won the victory over sickness and disease. By faith, we appropriate, receive the spoils (the goods taken from the enemy) by Jesus’ triumph. Jesus took back our health for us. The enemy wants to keep us in bondage to sickness and disease. Jesus rescued us and gave us freedom from the bondage of sickness and disease, which is bondage to our enemy, satan. Now, it is up to us to keep the health that Jesus has purchased for us with His own blood and body.
Romans 8:38
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
One who is more than a conqueror receives what the conqueror got, without the battle. God tells us in His Word that the battle is the Lord’s; God’s grace has given us the victory. Our battle is to maintain what the conqueror Jesus gave us and not let it be stolen from us. Our battle is a different battle; it is the battle which rages in our minds and emotions and wills (our soul). We must deliberately determine (our wills) that we stand our ground and don’t give an inch to satan when we are hurting and have symptoms running rampant throughout our bodies. We must daily and deliberately confess, read, meditate, think on, ponder (our minds) God’s Word instead of our own fleshly thoughts, which are non-productive to enforce satan’s defeat and Jesus’ victory. We must deliberately, on purpose, determine that our feelings (our emotions) do not control us. Instead we determine that God’s Word and Spirit lead us.
Jesus has graced or given us the victory of health and healing. It is our privilege and responsibility to enforce that victory.