Let's Get Back to the Cross

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I gave some pastoral advice to one brother who called me today, and he wa sunaware of how to even rebuke the devil. He said he'd never done that, and always wondered what it was, feeling only the church "hierarchy" could do such a thing. I shared with him the truth that Christ identified with all of us, not just church hierarchy, when he died on the cross. This was a death to sin, satan and the power of the world. We need to, in turn, identify with Christ. Whenever we face satanic powers coming against us, we have a right to rebuke hell and overcome it.

The man asked me how it was possible to rebuke something from the enemy that we have not been overcoming in the past. I informed him that when we claim the bloo and appeal to the work of the cross in comimng against any enemy, we are not standing on the grounds of our goodness or righteousness or power, but on the grounds of Christ's qualities. That is what "in the name of Jesus Christ" means. So it does not matter if we have been failures, so lonog as we identify with Christ's death on the cross and are thereby appealing to the work of the cross for our right to victory, the enemy cannot resist and God wil empower our claims to see us enjoy the victory we need.

Thank God for identification with Christ!