 Okay, welcome back. So we looked at, we've been looking at the basis for healing and deliverance and we looked at the finished work. We always call it the finished work because there's nothing left to be done, there's nothing undone. If you recall the Lord Jesus, you know the sayings on the cross, one of the things that He declared was it is finished. It is finished, meaning it is completed. So there's nothing that is left undone at the finished work of the cross. That is why we say it is the de-finished work, it is completed and we also studied when He declared it is finished, it was a triumphant declaration. It was a triumphant victorious declaration saying it is finished, it is done and also it meant in accounting terms, there's nothing left undone. It's like it is completed, right? Okay, then we also know that that affected us and because of which we are, you know, a person who puts his or her faith in the Lord Jesus is born again, right? We know that there's some deep spiritual change that happens and because of which and we call that whole experience as born again and which makes us new creations in Christ Jesus. Okay, second Corinthians 5 verse 17, all of us know that verse, if anyone is in Christ, okay, if anyone is in Christ, so it applies only for those who are in Christ Jesus. So why do we, you know, so how does one come to that place of being in Christ, that is to, you know, by faith accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, be born again. So it says, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, means something new and the Greek word you say is kainos, which means something that is fresh, something that is unused. Okay, so that condition or state happened in our spirit man, right? He is a new creation, old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new, all things are of God, etc. So this new creation life that we have is a life that is overcoming life. Okay, it's a life with a new identity. Okay, so we don't identify with who we were, what does it mean to identify, see ourselves as, acknowledge, right? So we don't identify ourselves with who we were or as the old creation. Okay, now, you know, we need to understand it correctly in the sense, some people say, okay, all that was in the old. Okay, everything that happened, you know, that is, that is not, that is not valid. In fact, one person says, one person actually wrote to us and said, my birthday is this, please change in your, please change in your records. So it means he's actually quite a senior person, you know, nearing 70 or something. But according to, you know, that calculation, he is like, maybe, you know, in his 40s or late 40s. So, you know, so he's saying, don't consider that as birthday. So we're not saying that everything that is of the past, everything that is of the old creation, you know, that we should not acknowledge, you know, there are some wonderful things that would have happened that God would have spoken, you would have had some God encounters, you know, has an old creation itself. So, but the fact is this, that we were born again, right? We became new creation, something we that did not exist before, you know, came into existence because we are in Christ, right? So with that new identity comes new authority. With that new identity also comes the truth, the fact that, you know, we are, we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, right? It's, so the new creation life is an exciting life because it's a life that is led by the spirit of God, right? It's a life of living in the spirit. So when we are hosting the presence of God, when we have the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, when we are justified and we live a life of consecration, etc. You know, everything changes, right? Now, that is also the basis for healing and deliverance. That is the basis for walking in authority. That is the basis for, you know, having access to whatever Christ has purchased for us, right? Whatever Jesus has, you know, extending towards us, okay, the new creation life, okay? Then we also talk about the authority that the Jesus, the Lord Jesus gives each one of his followers, our disciples, okay? Mark chapter 16, verses 17 and 18, we see in, you know, Luke chapter 10 also, Luke 15 also, right? So we see here, and these signs will follow, I'm sorry, Luke chapter 10, 19, not Luke 15. Mark 16, 17 and 18, these signs will follow those who believe. In my name, they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues, they will take up serpents, if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them, they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover, okay? So when it talks about, we're talking about deliverance, and we're talking about, you know, receiving healing and restoration, one of the ways through deliverance. So here it talks about these signs will follow those who believe, the Lord is saying, he's talking about believers, and he's saying that in my name, they will cast out. So what does that mean? That means that when he says in my name, that is the authority of his name, but also it means that as a substitute, right? You are there representing him in his place, doing what he would do if you were physically there, right? So in my name, they will cast out demons, okay? So this is something, this is a privilege and the responsibility that is for us, right? The authority to cast out demons, the authority to not permit, okay, not give permission for demons to wreak havoc or any damage in our own lives, or in the lives of our loved ones, right? To limit, to say, okay, this is it. You do not have permission. You do not have any more right and authority to do this. Like we have been given the authority to override all the authority or influence that the demons have, okay? So that's the thing, you know, some of these gadgets have a manual override, okay? Some things, it's an automatic thing. Like even a car, automatic or the, nowadays you have this self-driving car. We don't have it in India. Thank God. But you know, some of the nations, but it has an manual override meaning, okay, you plugged in, okay, and you've said, okay, from this destination to this, this is the place, from my house to the Bible college, okay, I've set it, I've put it on the, whatever, Google Maps, and then the car drives, okay? So I don't, I just said, but I have the authority to override that instruction. It's called a manual override where I take control of the car, right? It's a manual override. So here, we have been given the authority. Now the, whatever has happened, whatever, those have been opened that is giving authority for the demons to, you know, create what they do, still steal, kill, and destroy in other people's lives, maybe in our own lives, but we have been given that authority to override that authority, to go over that authority and say, you know, you don't have permission, okay? So that's, that authority has to be exercised, okay? And that authority is the basis for healing and deliverance, okay? So every believer has been given the authority, so we need to understand the authority and also exercise, okay? Okay, then what else do we have? We have been anointed by the Holy Spirit, okay? We have the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, but we have been empowered or anointed by the Holy Spirit. And this anointing is what breaks bondages and removes oppression of any kind, okay? Now Isaiah 61 talks about, the prophet is writing about what the Messiah will do. He's saying that Spirit of the Lord is appointment and so on. And this is what the Lord declared, you know? Isaiah 61 is what the Lord declared when he was sitting in the synagogue and he, you know, he was given the scroll from Isaiah, same place and he read it, looked for, records it for us. He read it and then he declared and said, you read a portion of it and then he declared and said, today this is fulfilled in your hearing, okay? So this, let's read about it, okay? Let's just look into, okay, what is this anointing do? He's talking about the Spirit of the Lord is, the Lord has, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me for he has anointed me. He has empowered me, anointed me, you know, consecrated, empowered, anointing refers to the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, right? So he has anointed me to do this. What does he say? Isaiah 61 verse 1, Spirit of the Lord is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to those who are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning. So which means in the place of, you know, that's what it means, right? To give them beauty for ashes means in the place of ashes, beauty, right? In the place of mourning, the oil of joy or gladness, right? So it says the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the Spirit of heaviness, in the place of Spirit of heaviness, in place of the Spirit of heaviness, the garment of praise and so on, okay? So this is what the anointing of the, this is what was brought about by the anointing of the Holy Spirit, okay? So the Lord Jesus walked in the anointing of the Holy Spirit and this is what he did, this is what he ministered, right? Good news and everything. And so it's the same for us as the followers of the Lord Jesus, as those who have been given authority to do things in his name that we are anointed to do the same things, right? To preach the good news, to heal the broken hearted or bring healing to the broken hearted and everything else, right? And this is the exchange that happens because of the anointing of the Holy Spirit, right? Consolation or comfort, verse 3, right? Consolation and comfort by the Holy Spirit. And in place of ashes or, you know, complete hopelessness, there is beauty and in the place of mourning, mourning means, you know, it's just a place of desolate, you know, intense sadness. In that place or in place of that, the oil of joy, right? And then the garment of praise, a covering of praise in the place of the spirit of heaviness. No, it's a spiritual, it's a part of darkness, like it's a spirit of heaviness. So in that place or in place of instead of the spirit of heaviness, the Lord is clothing with the garment of praise. Okay, so the garment is something that you wear and you just, you know, it's on you. You walk around with it. It's a covering. It's a covering of beauty. It's a protection, protective covering. It's a garment of praise and saying amen to that. Okay, we're just hearing a goat outside. So, yeah. Okay, so we see all this brought about by the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Okay, then we also read about the, the indrafted word. Okay, the word of God itself. Okay, James 1 21, lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word or the old English says the engrafted word, the implanted word which is able to save your souls. Okay, which is able to save your souls. So the implanted word, the engrafted word, which means the word that is actually brought to us by the Holy Spirit. Okay, or I know I take the word and I meditate on it and so on. It is able to save, do something for my soul. Okay, so we're talking about the soul trend, mine, my imaginations, my will, whatever I'm, I'm experiencing in my emotions. It is able to influences, it is able to bring some kind of change to that well. What is it? The word of God. But look at, look at it. You know, it says lay aside, the instruction is lay aside all filthiness. Okay, lay aside all this wickedness and receive with humility, receive with meekness the implanted word. Okay, so that's the instruction. Okay, so it's not word also and that also, right? Because one thing is creating a lot of damage to our emotions, to our soul. You know, this is all the wickedness, all immorality and everything. That's that is actually damaging our soul. Okay, and, and we see that, you know, in the Psalms, we see that he who's, you know, committing morality, he actually or adultery talks about, he sins against his own soul. There's damage to the soul. Right. So here we see that saying this implanted word is able to save your soul. Okay. Also, another scripture that we can look at is, let me see if I can find the reference. Okay. Of course, Peter chapter one and verse 22 says, since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible through the word of God, which lives and abides forever. Okay. So verse 22 says, since you have purified your soul, so there's nothing that can purify our thoughts, our imaginations, our emotions, like the word of God. Okay, saying, okay, you want that to be clear, you want that to be sharp, you want that to be purified and made whole, obey the truth. Saying you have purified your souls in obeying the truth. So here James talks about how the implanted word is able to save our souls. Okay, I was referring to first Peter one verse 22 23. Right. Okay. Right. Okay, so there's something that is required of us. So which means that I cancel all intentionally, I cancel all dedications or, you know, a tie is something that it's like a covenant. It's like an agreement. When we say tie, when you say a covenant, when we say an agreement. So I break that. So I understand, okay, this is what God has provided for me through the cross, through the anointing of the Holy Spirit, because of his word, because of the new identity that I have in Christ. I have all this. So what must I do? What should be, you know, what should be my action? What should be my responsibility? Okay, so the thing is to make a decision to whatever agreement I might have with the demons or devil. Okay, so you might say, okay, I did not make any agreement with the devil. We might say, okay, I did not consciously make any agreement. I did not say I agree with you Satan, or I did not pray to Satan. I did not do that. Okay. But then we agree with Satan when we disagree with the word of God, right? When we disagree with the truth, we are implying that, yes, I agree. When we give in to the works of the flesh, we are actually agreeing, right? When we make certain confessions, that the Lord doesn't say about us. The Lord doesn't say that this is, you know, this is who you are. But then when we say this is who I am, we are actually agreeing with whatever Satan says about us. Maybe the Satan brings, I mean, Satan brings in some kind of lies. Maybe Satan brings some kind of accusation. Maybe Satan brings some kind of temptations or anything. Whenever we agree, whenever we give in, we are actually agreeing, right? We are making an agreement. So for us to break off all those agreements, okay, one thing is to ask ourselves, what lies am I believing? Okay, what lies am I believing? Just go to the presence of God. Go to the presence of the Holy Spirit and say, you know, you just scan me, Lord. You know, just how you do a CT scan or something, you know, just scan me, Lord. The Thomas asks, right, says, see if there is any wicked way in me. See if there's anything, you know, I don't see it, but Lord, you see, is there anything hidden? Is there anything, you know, that's visible to your eyes? But for me, it seems to be, you know, everything's okay. Right? So we ask the Lord, Lord, what is it you scan, you tell me, what is it that I'm believing that is causing me to behave, that is causing me to have this kind of, you know, these mindsets, what is it that I'm believing? Okay, so and the Lord will show, the Lord will reveal and say, okay, this is, this is the truth. You know, sometimes we know, you know, I know this is the truth, but this is what I'm saying about myself. Right? I know this is the truth, but this is what I'm believing about myself. I'm not fully agreeing. This is what I'm believing. So to, to ask ourselves, what lies am I believing? Because a lie will always keep us implicit. We want to go above, we want to rise above, we want to walk, run and soar in Christ, but we're not able to, not able to take off, because the lie is actually tying us down. Truth will liberate us, free us, and let us, you know, just free us to be all that we want to be in Christ. But a lie will hold us back. Right? It could be in the form of a fear. It could be in the form of a lowest team. It could be in the form of worklessness about ourselves. It'll always anchor us back to the flesh. It'll always anchor us back to, you know, some of the things that we want to rise up against. So it's good to ask Lord, you show me, right? What are these lies that I'm believing and to break those lies, right? To break and cancel that agreement that I have with that lie. Okay. So maybe that we can do as a, we can take it up and do it as an assignment, you know, so to say, okay, what is it that I'm believing? Sit with just a pen and paper and then just ask the Lord, oh, you can even go through scriptures, you know, some of the scriptures that talk about who we are in Christ and say, you know, do I really believe this? The Bible is stating that the Lord is declaring this about me, but then heart of hearts, you know, deep within, do I really believe that? So it'll be a good exercise for us to do it. Okay. So I just want to encourage us to do it. Okay. What are some lies that I'm believing about myself? What is the word of God say? Okay, what is the truth that the word of God is? Okay. Okay. Let's, any questions? Yeah. Anything that you want to add? Okay. Okay. So this, you know, Ephesians 4, 27 talks about not giving the devil a foothold, right? Ephesians 4, 27 says, you know, don't let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place for the enemy. And that word, which is used there, verse 27, nor give place is like a dwelling place or a foothold, you know, a foothold where, you know, a foothold is a place where you secure yourself so that you can move in, you can move higher. It's a foothold. So Paul is declaring, you know, not give the enemy a foothold, do not give the enemy a foothold. Okay. So the Lord has, on his part, the Lord has provided for us. He's, we have the provision, we have the authority, we have the anointing. Okay. But if we have given the foothold, then we ourselves need to take responsibility and take action, right? The Lord will reveal and say, okay, you know, this is where you have given a foothold. And this is what you need to do. But that action, that choice and that, you know, moving forward in that action, it belongs to us. Okay. Okay. Let's look at the fourth one, which is, which is about receiving healing and deliverance. Okay. Receiving healing and deliverance. Okay. There are a few things here. And after this, you know, there's actually a 10 step, you know, a 10 step process or journeying into healing and deliverance. Yeah, that is also something that we can do. And also it's a good, you know, 10 step process for us. I mean, for us to actually do an inventory every now and then, it's like, you know, you take an inventory, you do as it's like doing a cleaning, house cleaning, you know, every now and then just to look into our lives. And then, you know, it's a good thing for us. But also it's a good thing to lead any other person, right, to journey into healing and deliverance. Maybe they're facing certain things and their emotions to teach them and to take them through this. Okay. So it talks about a truth. And it talks about and also ends with a prayer, you know, these 10 steps that that we can look at. Okay. So but, but before that, let's look at So how we can broadly how we can receive it, right, receive healing and deliverance. First of all, through sanctification and consecration. Okay, through sanctification and consecration. So yeah, so sanctification meaning that you set yourself apart, you know, that's the so when you set yourself apart from what is contaminating, from what is pulling you down, then certain things have to just automatically leave. Right. If it's an influence of the enemy, it loses its hold because you're sanctified yourself. Just like how Peter talks about first Peter one, he says you have purified your soul in obeying the truth. How did that purity come? You obeyed the truth. So you obeyed the truth. Automatically, there was cleansing happening in the realm of our soul. Your desires became pure. Your imaginations became pure. Your thoughts became pure. Your thought life, everything was impacted because you obeyed the truth. Okay. So so that's what happens whenever there is sanctification, whenever we consecrate ourselves, if we set ourselves apart, and they say, Okay, I'm going to live walk in a higher level of consecration. Okay, I'm gonna, you know, this is what the world standards are, but I'm going to work by the words standard. Okay. The world will justify certain things by saying, Okay, you're only human, you know, men will be men, boys will be boys. You know, you, you can make all kinds of things to say, Okay, it's okay. It's okay to live a certain way. It's okay to, you know, behave in a certain way or have certain choices. Right. But the thing is that when, when we live, when we have a higher level of consecration in our lives, then automatically, there is this cleansing, there is this breaking off of any agreement with the enemy. There is whatever influence, you know, it's, it's broken off. You know, the thing is this, that delimitance, you know, it can happen as a, sometimes it can happen as a power encounter, like there's loud manifestations and et cetera, and you know, struggle. But it can also happen as a very quiet truth encounter, where the truth unseats the lie and breaks off the agreement or breaks off the tie. Right. Like, sorry. Yeah. Because of the healing. Right. Right. Correct. A lot of, a lot of examples like that. Healing healing and delimitance also, you know, like many lives. And yeah, so some of them were kind of repeated encounters with truth. Right. It didn't. So some testimonies that we heard were that, like, you'll never think that, okay, this person was, you know, I met when I went there to, especially to places like Pachperi and all in Balota Bazaar. So you'll never think, okay, this person was in that kind of severe bondage, you know, almost to the point of living what we would say, you know, a life of, a life of insanity. You know, we'll just write them off and saying, okay, they belong in mental institutions, you know, insanity. But they encounter with the truth. They encounter with the truth, completely change them. And, you know, just like how the Bible talks about the gathering demoniac, you know, says he and he was found clothes and in his right mind. After the, after the Lord dealt with the demons, he was found clothes and his right mind. But he was running around, you know, among the graves and doing all kinds of things, but he was found clothes and in his right mind. So that shift that happens because of the truth, because of, you know, the encounter with the truth of God's Word. Right. Okay. So, so for us personally, a life of continuous sanctification and constipation and then, and we realized that, hey, this heaviness that I was experiencing is now gone. Right. This kind of restlessness, this kind of repeated, you know, thought that was trying to, you know, this repeated thought about worthlessness or whatever. It is troubling me that is gone now. Why you decided, okay, I'm not going to do certain things. I'm not going to watch certain things. And I'm going to live, you just increased your level of consecration and sanctification. Right. And then you realize that, okay, these things that actually troubled me, bothered me repeatedly. A power is it's like taking the power plug off. It's not running anymore. Okay. Right. Okay. Healing and deliverance also happens to through the anointing, which means God's presence, God's anointing. Okay. So emotional healing and deliverance happens in the presence of God, where there is prayer, there is worship, there is, you know, there's prayer and worship and ministry and that's happening. And then in the presence itself, people expect our real experience. Okay. Then I remember a person in church, young person coming and saying that, you know, whenever I come in so heavy, right, because of things at home, the home environment, it's been so heavy, so dark. But the minute I come, and then we have the worship, you have the praise and worship and just being here, there is so much of release. Right. So much of release. So the presence of God, the anointing of the Holy Spirit, right, the power of the Holy Spirit, which, you know, we can't reason out and, you know, it's just the presence of God. It's a supernatural work, right. So there is that weight taken off, there is that healing that happens, emotional wholeness that happens just by being in the presence of God, right, because of worship, because of prayer, and because of this active ministering of the Holy Spirit. Right. So now, the thing is to sustain it with teaching and understanding and walking in the revelation and authority. Right. Okay. Now, thirdly, healing and deliverance to active resistance. It means I discern, I rise up in faith and I resist. Okay. This is the enemy. James 4.7 says submit to God, which means yield and surrender, resist the devil and he will feel free from you. Okay. So I submit to God. I, you know, wantedly, intentionally submit myself, surrender myself, bring under the Lordship, under his Lordship, bring myself under his Lordship, which means that, you know, intentionally you're saying, Lord, I surrender. That's one thing. I'm surrendered to your ways. I surrender to everything that you're, you know, leading me. But the other thing is also to bring under ourselves, under the authority of God's Word, that is also surrender, surrendering to God. Right. In agreement with God's Word, in obeying God's Word. So you're surrendering. You're submitting to God. What is the second part? One is submit. What is the other part? Resist. Okay. Submit is to yield and resist is to push back. Right. You're not yielding. It's a very opposite of submission. Okay. The problem is that we need to know whom to submit to and whom to resist. Right. Because you're not resisting. If you're, if you're resisting God and if you're actually submitting and yielding to the enemy and saying, oh, this must be God or this must be, you know, then we are in a very bad shape. Right. And in fact, the same verse talks about how we should not resist God. Right. Or God resists the proud. Right. We see that. God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Okay. So, so yeah, just wanted to bring that, you know, about resisting. So here we are called to actively resist the devil. Okay. Actively resist the devil. First Peter 1 verse 13. Gird up the loins of your mind. Okay. So what does that mean? Gird up the loins of your mind. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Bring your thoughts. Yeah. It's actually girding up is just tying whatever is loose. Yeah. Gird up means to, to tighten up. Okay. Something is loose and lying all over. It's to actually arrange it and you, you're bringing it together. Right. And the picture is like, is of a belt, belt or, you know, gird up the loins. You know, I remember once going in a train and I saw this picture. I mean, I saw, I was looking out of the window and I saw this, this child carrying a water pot, you know, from where carrying a pot full of water. But I sense that you're not able to walk because his shots was very loose. Okay. Almost to the point of dropping off. So he's just standing there, you know, unable to move because it's all loose. So sometimes our thoughts paralyze us, cripple us. We are unable to move forward. Want to do something or act. Our thoughts are loose all over the place. There's no focus. You're unable to move forward. So he's saying, okay, gird up the loins of your mind, be disciplined, pull up the thoughts, tie it together like how a belt would help us, right? Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Christ Jesus. Okay. So that's the action. Gird up, right? So be active, be resist. You know, in other words, he's saying, don't be passive. Don't be passive in your mind. Let your mind be sharp, right? So don't let everything or anything just go through saying that, okay, some thought, some suggestion, you know, just goes to be discerning, right? Is this thought that is this suggestion that's coming, you know, is it from God to be discerning? If it's not, you know, even if something that's describing you, just reject it. Don't accept it. And that's, that's how we gird up the loins of our mind, right? And we actively resist. Okay. So I guess we'll stop here. Any, any questions, any things that, anything that you want to add? So we will, in the next class, we'll go through, you know, those 10 steps. It's like a, it's like a journey towards, you know, healing and deliverance and 10 steps, right? And each of these steps have some truths that we need to acknowledge. And of course, a prayer or a declaration that we make. Any, any questions at all? Okay. So it's a lot, a lot of things that we need to do practically, right? So you need the truth. We, I mean, we know the truth. But now we actively walk in it. Yeah. So whether it's actively resisting, whether it's consecration and sanctification, or, you know, in the presence of God and the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and there's healing and deliverance, these are something that we can intentionally walk into, right? Okay. Okay. We'll, we'll stop here. No questions. Okay. We'll, we'll stop here and then we'll continue the next class. Thanks. Thank you.