 alright welcome back let's continue with the same topic of overcoming the next chapter has to do with more details about the weapons of our warfare so we know that God has given us weapons spiritual weapons against Satan let's read about it in 2nd Corinthians chapter 10 verses 3 to 5 and I'll request Akhil to please read that passage it talks about spiritual weapons 2nd Corinthians 10 3 to 5 although we walk in the flesh we do not war according to the flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds passing down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ okay so we understand here that for the attacks of Satan against us God has given us spiritual weapons we cannot use natural weapons to deal with Satan and so God gives us spiritual weapons now our job is to identify what are these spiritual weapons and then learn to use that weapon isn't it that's what we do even in the natural if there is danger then let's take for example soldiers they would need to know what weapons are available to protect themselves and then those weapons are given to them they undergo training they learn okay how do I learn to to attack the enemy how do I learn to shoot with this maybe a gun that is given to them so there's a training that they undergo to use the weapon so the same thing applies for us we just saw that there are spiritual weapons that God has given us against Satan because only weapons will not work all our other tricks of the trade will not work against Satan so we have to use the right weapons we have to use the spiritual weapons and what did we read in this passage that those thoughts for the pulling down of strong holds so the destroying of Satan's attacks is possible by spiritual weapons that also tells us one is that spiritual weapons are there second is spiritual weapons are effective they do the work if we are thinking about destroying the enemy's game plan then when I use a spiritual weapon it is effective it will tear down it will destroy so then I need to learn how do I use it you know which one do I use and really see victory in that particular situation so spiritual weapons must be used against Satan to enforce our victory weapons are both for defense as well as to attack if you want to attack the devil also we can using these spiritual weapons so let's consider what are those weapons firstly we will talk about the armor we've done that quite well in the earlier section the armor of God which protects us provides us with defense as well as you know we can use the sword to attack or the shield of faith can also be a source to attack the devil so firstly put on the armor now think about a believer who does not have the armor we've explained so I'm not going to go into the every part of it like helmet belt of truth and you know breastplate of righteousness gospel chef the shoes of the gospel faith and so on now think about a believer who does not have the armor what would you what would you say if you notice the believer with no armor huh even before fighting a week in the position even before you engage even if before you defend you're already very weak if you're not having the okay so if you're not wearing the armor even if you're not engaging in war you're weak before before you oppose the enemy you're already weak right so if you don't have an armor now do we think that we can be without the armor when should we put on the armor okay this is a better question when should we put on the armor all times why all times put it when the when you're going for war keep it at home hang it hang it at home we are always at war okay this is brother kofi okay you said we're always at war okay all right yes shani oh no I was just answering the question yeah we need the armor answer um well my answer is always and also you ask a question about why what happens to the believer doesn't have armor who doesn't have armor they be attacked yeah so those who don't have the armor will obviously be attacked and so even shani is saying always so Lucy is saying always but my question my second question is why always because you're not under attack so why you want to carry heavy armor you know scripture say right like Goliath's armor was so heavy so many KD's why you want to put on armor it's quite tiring good very good see if we are soldiers and if we are we know that there is an enemy the smart soldier is always ready okay that's how it works and that is the reason at all times we have to put on the armor we can't wait obviously Satan won't tell right okay can I take an appointment I will come tomorrow at this time I will attack you with this weapon and be quiet no enemy does that they watch for a time when we are off guard that is the best time for the enemy whenever he finds that we are taking it easy we're taking it light you know and we are not even thinking about standing or putting on the armor nothing then he feels like oh wow how I can get them because they are not alert so that alertness is needed from a soldier at all times same thing is applicable to us as believers picture it as soldiers that's why Paul said put on the armor we are in warfare and no good soldier will take a rest or a nap carelessly right first one we are not supposed to and so always be on guard anytime any moment Satan can come to attack us so that is the way put on the armor always Shani I see your hand up but I'm assuming you were probably trying to answer the earlier question yeah okay got it yeah thank you all right so there are other answers here in the chat section Susie Lucy says Satan walking like a roaring lion to attack Shekhar says we are at war zone okay Deepu we are in the battlefield oh nice so everyone's thinking like a soldier all of us our soldiers over here great so that's true we've got to think like a soldier and be ready at any moment okay so put on the armor is applicable all the time all the time so every part of the what what would we do to protect the head helmets with the helmet okay want to protect your heart what should you put breast blade of righteousness okay so the the the knowledge that I am the righteousness of God Satan will come and keep accusing no God doesn't like you he has not forgiven you his forgiveness is not complete you are still guilty when we entertain these things what happens my heart is at risk you're exposing your heart there's no breastplate he can quickly get you right there are dangers of playing with the devil so we can't afford that if we are a smart soldier we cannot afford that we've got to put on the breastplate of righteousness the belt of truth know the truth of God's word think about a believer who doesn't know the truth of God's word you don't know what God's word I'm a believer I could say I'm a believer 10 years I'm a believer but then how much of the word do we know how much of the word are we applying if we are not doing that then we're exposing ourselves to attack got it so these are the things that we must be aware of then sharing the gospel having faith that's a believer who's ready so put on at all times means I have to work on all these things maybe I'm not strong in my identity in Christ maybe my faith is not strong enough maybe I my prayer life is weak maybe I'm not able to fast work on it work on everything and then what happens I'm putting myself in a position where I'm strong Satan will come he will attack there's no doubts about that he's waiting when can I come when can I attack but even if the enemy attacks when we are dressed with the armor we can overcome the enemy right so at all times have the spiritual armor on now let's see which are the other weapons which we can use against the devil faith so if there is a believer who's carrying faith it's very difficult for Satan to get them very difficult shield of faith right we said that so Satan comes with a lie and you know he he may say something that okay this business will not work out or you know your ministry will not work out immediately we start to use our faith we say no God has called me to this business God has called me to this ministry and then begin to quote scripture right you begin to speak the word of God and you say no God makes me fruitful the Lord anoints me the anointing on my life breaks and destroys the yoke of the enemy over the lives of people that I minister to so when I start speaking like this I'm speaking my faith and Satan can't stand it right so faith is very important very important in every phase of our lives it's especially when we are by ourselves you know sometimes we are in this kind of a setting and we feel like oh great you know every day I'm listening to the word every day I'm being filled with the word but what about seasons of our lives where we are by ourselves we don't have this going on but hopefully in those seasons we have the daily disciplines of spending time in the word pray fasting so as an individual that I'm doing that regularly I'm still strong I'm still walking by faith and the enemy cannot get me okay so having faith in God especially in difficult times especially you know maybe when we are feeling like oh there's too much pressure I'm all by myself faith is what will help us overcome in those moments so use faith as a weapon against the devil next one is the word of God word of God we saw it's a sword take the sword keep saying no Satan whatever he says just keep saying you know it is written it is written it is written I remember a friend of mine she used to say if you start quoting scriptures like that no Satan will get irritated you feel like oh I go find someone else whenever I come to this person they start speaking the word and you start quoting scriptures I'm so fed up of listening to all these scriptures I'll go find someone else okay so that's a habit which we need speak the word speak the word about different circumstances situations we see in the book of Revelation it talks about in Revelation 1915 the Lord Jesus and the sword is coming out of his mouth so it's very helpful because it's teaching us how to use the sword when we say sword of the spirit we have a question how to use the sword use it from your mouth because a sword is coming out of the mouth of Jesus so it's not your usual way of using the sword the sword has to be used from the mouth okay in the case of the word of God so speak the word speak the word so we've got to become believers who are declaring the word in all situations and circumstances I know it's not easy at least for me it was never easy because you know memorizing saying the scripture sometimes we at least me I know I struggled but get used to it little by little you know build that vocabulary from the scriptures if it's helpful make a list of scriptures and keep it ready our church app if any of you has gone to our church app there is a section called as a toolkit so when you go there there are declarations there are scriptures readily you can go like let's say healing if I go to that healing section there'll be lot of verses about healing so if I am traveling or I don't know what the scriptures to say if it's not in my head I can use something else these days you have an app you have you know sources like you know integrated to your phone and all so just use that if it comes to that just use it if you're not so good with your memory okay but hopefully it'll become a part of your memory as well so speak the word of God and it has to come out of the mouth now we also see in Deuteronomy 13 verses 11 to 14 of speaking about the word of God we are told that the word is very near you it is in your heart and it is in your mouth so God has made his word available imagine if I asked you to do something which is difficult you know if I tell you every you know you have to read this book I give you a reference name of one particular book and maybe the book is very expensive and the book is not available you have to go search on Amazon and it's available in some other country and you have to buy it you have to source it it's very difficult or transported to our country it may the instruction that I gave you is a difficult one because you cannot get it but go what God is saying is the word is very near you it is in your mouth it is in your heart how difficult is it to speak it's accessible right like accessible meaning I can get it easily and so use it speak the word of God it's it's not the access is not difficult at all and especially for our generation you can get different versions of the Bible on your phone isn't it so much is possible today resources ample resources you can even go to APCW the website I keep going back to it there are sermons from 2004 so let's say you want to study a little bit about believers authority there are there are you know different sermons that have been preached under the subject so one can go and study all of those sermons all the scriptures all the you know like the explanations and all and it's very helpful everything available on in one place so to make an excuse and say oh I can't use the word of God it's not acceptable in today's world you get it you get everything that you want in the click of a button right so we have to train ourselves that's the whole point so train ourselves to access material good material not just any material and then meditate on it the more you meditate on it it starts to go inside build faith and it comes to our mouth right and you have access to the word then you start to speak the word so that is the way the word can be used as a weapon against the devil um okay yes I think there's a question yes yes shani yeah I have a question you were saying something about second notes about something about Jesus the sword yeah you're thinking about that can you explain that also can you explain what revelation 1915 about we misspeak a double-edged sword can you explain that and look one last just one last question that I have is that what if somebody's sick and they can't speak as they're so sick is them saying those scripture those those are the scriptures in your mind is that as effective as speaking out if they are not able to yeah thank you thank you shani so firstly about revelation 19 and verse 15 that's what we quoted and it says now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword that with it he should strike the nations and he himself will rule them with a rod of iron he himself treads the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God so this is a portion that is describing the course of events that will take place and you know we know that there will come a time when the Lord Jesus himself will fight the armies of the nations okay and there are all those details about the Armageddon and the millennial rule and later on the judgment of Christ and all so it's at the point where we'll have the Armageddon we find that the way Jesus fights that battle is through the word that he speaks and we've noticed in this verse 15 shani that the way he attacks the nations is through his word and that is explained in it's like pictorial language so it's I mean I don't know how to put it but it's figurative speech where we are told that there is a sword coming out of his mouth and our understanding is the words that he speaks so through the words that he speaks he demonstrates his authority his power and he destroys those opposing nations so is that helpful about Revelation 19? Yeah that explains that was kind of I didn't quite understand the double-edged sword of the spirits but I think that explains it. Yes and the next question you asked is what if someone is not able to speak it okay now if someone's not able to speak it firstly I think God understands if someone's sick or someone has an issue where they cannot their voice doesn't come forth and secondly I think in such a situation where there's a genuine reason why the person cannot speak the thoughts right or the convictions that we carry as thoughts they matter even if we don't speak it if we think it I believe it's powerful but I cannot give you a scripture and verse for that okay thank you yeah that explains it I'm sorry what you say I said it's my perspective okay so so even though you can't speak it having it in your mind you know saying in your thoughts it's just as effective yes I believe so okay great thank you I remember there was one incident where you know someone suddenly had a heart attack and that person they they were conscious but not you know like strong enough to think speak they could see everything that is going on around them and they spoke about a prayer that they prayed in those moments like imagine the person cannot speak but the person has faith in their hearts and then they you know prayed the prayer and they they spoke the word from their hearts and how the Lord rescued them from that situation and they were able to overcome it so God definitely is much more righteous than us he understands in those moments when we are not able to speak but we have those same thoughts in our minds and we are declaring the word I believe it's powerful it is powerful like what we speak sure so let's move on from there so the word we speak is a weapon and the believer needs to carry the word with him if if yeah sure go ahead out of context because you just mentioned a small example yeah there were many years back you know when I was asked to sleep and for some reason I'm disturbed and I just wake up midnight and it was a thing like you know there's a gripping on my mouth you know I couldn't say just Jesus it was just like really like struggling yes and in a sleep and then I get up and it takes some time and then it's like release and then you say Jesus and just feel a little sigh of relief so what was that type of a lot of context but no no it's not out of context I mean I would I feel like that would be a demonic oppression so and by the actions of that spirit you we could say it it's something like a mute spirit trying to hush us from not speaking the word of God so in such circumstances we have to take authority and you know you rebuke the spirit you cast it you resist it you have to speak to the spirit and you have to command it I command you to leave in the name of Jesus you know I'm set free so you could begin to declare those kind of scriptures but I I believe that's what it is it's not you but it's an external operation sure uh yes yes uh Warren yes it's there just to just to carry on from what brother was saying you know there were times when it doesn't happen now but in the past when you know you wake up it's mean not the classic as a sleep paralysis but you know it was more I think what you are saying it was more like a spiritual attack because you know you wake up and you want to say something and you like even you want to you know praise God or say the scripture and you actually can words don't come out yes but uh I mean of course I've learned one thing that you know the more you get into the word the more you get it to walk in faith then these attacks sort of diminish you know you'll find them less and less as you go you get stronger in your faith yes yes yeah that that's true Warren so we could have had experiences where you know in our sleep or when we're just trying to wake up similar to what Akhil shared we're feeling oppressed we're not able to speak the word um and it is demonic and we have to learn to overcome that so yeah and you see Satan also inter intercepts the way um we've been saying that the mind is the battlefield isn't it the mind is important for God the mind is also important for Satan so when God spoke to Abraham God didn't give him any um any proof like in the sense of an object and say okay you keep this token okay I my promise is true I'll come back to you and you'll have what I told you there's there was no such token that he gave him but in the mind of Abraham we saw how you know Abraham believed God and then Abraham in his imaginations he he went there where God was telling him okay so then when we think about faith when we think about trusting God believing God journey with God our thoughts our imagination the same things our thoughts imaginations the right reasoning and that becoming set in our mind is very important okay so our mind is important for God our mind is also important for Satan because that's where he can win the battle and so he will bring temptation and deception all that in our minds so the point that what is the point that I'm trying to make for work yeah we were talking about oh yeah Warren intercepting so then what happens is uh since Satan can can put those evil thoughts right we see that even God can that's where we get dreams visions where God puts his thoughts into our minds so when we recognize that this is from God we accept it and then we can pray through we can declare it we can write it down but when Satan is intercepting that's when we get like nightmares we get dreams or suggestions in the mind like what we are talking about we feel like oh there's somebody stopping us somebody is doing this doing that so it is possible that Satan does that he can also bring in those thoughts but it's up to us what we choose to keep what we choose to reject we have to be very active in that so in the morning if you wake up and you feel like see uh and there are the scriptures also say that dreams come because of preoccupation sometimes we are so we're thinking about exams all the dreams are about exams how the bell is ringing and how the you know the examiner is pulling away the paper because you're thinking about the activity so it's not necessarily God or Satan so when you wake up in the morning we have to think like okay where is it from if it is from God then you start to pray through if it is just a dream like that let it go but if it is from Satan even a prayer like you can pray this prayer you can say whatever I saw I cancel it in the name of Jesus you can pray that prayer I cancel Satan whatever you are showing me I'm cancelling it in the name of Jesus it will not happen in my life it will not happen in the life of my loved one can pray a prayer like that and just destroy the suggestions of the enemy so that also is very helpful so use your weapon and you just destroy the plan which Satan is putting in our minds just a little bit about sleep and dream and things like that okay let's move on so we've spoken about the word of God speaking the word of God in all situations now there's another weapon which we can use and that is the blood of Jesus this the devil does not like the reference to the blood of Jesus because the blood of Jesus speaks of Satan's defeat so every time we say the blood of Jesus Satan gets very angry he doesn't like it at all and that's a weapon which we can use against the devil the blood of Jesus let's read one scripture revelation 12 verse 11 revelation chapter 12 and verse 11 and Sagar will read it for us revelation chapter 12 verse 11 and they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony and they did not love their lives to the death okay how does it begin and they overcame by the blood of the lamb so the blood of the lamb lamb is referring to Jesus so the blood of Jesus we notice that there is overcoming power in the blood of Jesus and that is what we want to use as a weapon the blood of Jesus to overcome the devil so what are all the works that the blood of Jesus has done for us and continues to do for us there's a whole list here I'll quickly read through it okay but we can always take time go back and meditate in fact we can sit with this for hours and praise God for the work that the blood of Jesus has done for us so scriptures teach us that the blood of Jesus cleanses us there's no other blood that has the power to wash away our sins right before Jesus came and he died what was going on there were many temple practices and many animals used to be sacrificed for the sake of the blood they wanted the blood to make an offering can you imagine for years and years the shedding of blood kept happening but no blood could wash away the sin of mankind but the bible teaches us that when the Lord Jesus shed his blood that is the only blood right which has the capacity to wash away our sin so that is the power of the blood of Jesus now when we take this truth before Satan we say I am washed by the blood of Jesus he doesn't like it because he wants us to be guilty he wants us to carry the burden of shame but we are saying look the blood of Jesus set me free I am no longer guilty right I am set free by the blood of Jesus so the cleansing work of sin is done by the blood of Jesus and that's very powerful very very powerful so the blood of Jesus has cleansed us the blood of Jesus justifies us it has reconciled us to God it brought us near to God that's what scripture says how did we come close to God we could not if you go back to the temple practices only the high priest could go into that holy of holies once a year can you imagine if you and I want to go in no chance you cannot but today every believer you know can have we are saying intimacy with God how to have intimacy with God the blood of Jesus it brought us near to God so that is the work which the blood of Jesus has done for us it brought us near to God it gave us boldness to enter the holiest so earlier if people entered the holiest without the blood they would die because blood is needed on the ark of the covenant the scriptures tell us the blood used to be poured that's when the presence of the Lord will come and meet with the high priest today we have the blood of Jesus because of which we can enter into the presence of God we don't have to be afraid right every single believer what a privilege that we can come near to God through the blood of Jesus and so this is the work that the blood has done so earlier I mentioned to us that when we say use the weapon of the blood how to use the weapon of the blood of Jesus word we know speak the word believe the word speak the word how to use the weapon of the blood of Jesus you plead the blood of Jesus on yourself okay plead the blood and by faith you cover yourself with the blood okay that's true yeah so we need to have faith in what the blood has done and speak of that so having understanding of what the blood has done sometimes what we could do as believers is we can just say like I don't know if you've heard it but I've heard it sometimes when there's like a demon manifestation or something like that people just say blood of Jesus blood of Jesus just repetition of that thing off of that weapon you see yeah we are speaking of the power of the blood of Jesus which is good but the effective way is if we know what the blood has done for us imagine we are just saying blood of Jesus and we have no idea what the blood has done for us whenever there is ignorance it's it's not helpful against Satan but when we know what the blood has done for us then we become you know it's lethal Satan cannot take it because he knows that we have understanding of what the blood stands for so that is what we need and that's why I'm saying though I will read through everything please take time meditate in it try to understand what does it mean the blood has cleansed me the blood has brought me near the blood has reconciled me to God the blood gives me boldness to enter the whole is understanding understand what the blood has done for us then it is effective against the devil okay all right so what else has the blood done for us the blood is the blood of the new covenant we need blood to seal the covenant isn't it and in this case the new covenant Jesus shed his own blood and he sealed it for us so this is the blood of the new covenant I have a new covenant with God and it was sealed by Jesus himself who shed his blood so that is the understanding of the blood of the new covenant sanctified by the blood redeemed by the blood purchased by the blood cleansed in our conscience from dead works by the blood redeemed from a vain way of living by the blood overcoming the enemy by the blood Jesus has become the Passover lamb who shed his blood and protects he protects us the way the Passover lamb in Exodus protected the people you remember they took the blood and they painted it on their doorposts same way today blood of Jesus is my protection so some of you said cover yourself with the blood of the lamb so that is how we do it we have faith in the protection that comes from the blood of Jesus then the blood of Jesus atones for our sins the blood of Jesus was sprinkled on the mercy seat okay and you know we understand that that whole thing of the blood being sprinkled on the mercy seat and the presence of God coming near us then the blood of Jesus is what establishes the eternal covenant the blood bears witness on the earth and it is the shedding of the blood that gives us white robes we read that in revelation and later on we are going to see all the believers come before God and scriptures talk about people from every nation every tribe every tongue wearing white robes so white robes refers to righteousness how can the people be made righteous except by the washing of the blood of Jesus so everyone is accepted everyone is made righteous through the blood of Jesus so this is the work of the blood of Jesus and one needs to understand what the blood has done for us when we understand it it becomes a weapon okay so even in the case of deliverance we'll go to it later when we are casting out demons right we can speak all these things we can begin to talk the blood has cleansed us the blood has set us free from guilt and shame you know the blood has drawn us near to God we overcome you by the blood of Jesus so when you're speaking like this you're weakening the hold of the enemy moment by moment and we can expect those demons to actually leave okay so speak what the blood has done instead of just a repetition of let's say the blood of Jesus or any other term like that all right so i'm thinking maybe we will stop at this so that you can take some time to think through about the blood of Jesus the next one is also very powerful the name of Jesus and we will deal with it in the next class we need some time to really understand that so i'm just going to stop here but if there are any any questions or anything to discuss let's take it up yeah it bears witness yes there are three that bear witness on earth the spirit the water and the blood and these three agree as one the spirit the water and the blood yeah yeah it bears witness okay let me just plainly say that i don't think i have an accurate answer for that so we'll need to look that up yeah sorry akhil yes any anything else okay um um yes shani yeah it's just um i know it says in a bible by his stripes we are healed is that one example about the blood of how but because i'm looking on the list here 19 is that is that one reference in terms of how the blood of jesus in regards to healing okay um it's a reference that we can speak of with regard to healing it does not really i i don't think it's like a direct reference for the blood okay okay yes yes warren uh sorry warren i wasn't sure if you had intended to unmute so that's why i kind of muted you back please go thank you thank you sister i don't know with regards to that you know by a stripes i'm healed or my stripes we are healed uh when we were starting out our journey as believers many many years ago my brother and i you know we didn't have we didn't have much knowledge about uh the scripture we didn't and we only knew certain verses that we would apply and this is one of the verses we would apply for every situation because we didn't know anything else and to be honest it's one of those things especially my brother used to do it all the time no matter what the situation was by your stripes i'm healed by your stripes i'm healed and to be honest you know it god came every time he came uh and delivered us from that situation so but i agree with you because it was you know there are people who are ignorant who will not you know want to learn more and that that's when it is like you know it's it sort of loses its power but for us because we were just starting our journey we had that faith in that word the word of god no matter no matter whether if it was relevant to the situation or no i think that that was important that we had the faith no yes true true so i mean god is so good isn't it even if we only use that one scripture when we are starting out it works every time but as you rightly stated when we are journey with the lord he does expect us to grow and become stronger i always like to go back to the john 15 example where he's the true wine we are the branches and god is expecting growth he's expecting fruitfulness he's expecting lasting fruit so eventually it has to come and that's god's expectation all right yes thank you thank you for those thoughts and um we can pray and close off for today uh the next class yeah next class the next Tuesday so we will have the class so let's pray then and i want to request somebody from the online batch to please lead in prayer father sorry go ahead go ahead brother jai everybody father we thank you for for your words thank you for your instructions thank you lord for all what we've been able to learn today we give you all the praise and all the glory we even act so loud that even as we go and continue with our next sessions lord we act and commit our ways commit our thoughts and commit our minds load into your hands we act so loud that you grant us understanding and wisdom we act all these in the name of your precious son lord and savior jesus christ amen amen amen thank you thank you uh you're very god bless and thank you everyone god bless you have a great week ahead bye for now