 all right welcome back you just present the notes okay any questions anyone like to share any thoughts any questions and I've been talking continuously like to share anything if you if you would like to share a thought or if you have anything in mind if you share it and go ahead now please oh okay all right so let me just present the notes let's get into the next chapter okay the power and the blessings of the cross again we've been talking about this the power of the cross breaks the dominion of sin and Satan over our lives look at this this is very important to understand that the power of the cross doesn't cover doesn't you know it doesn't cover or it doesn't partially destroy now the power of the cross breaks the dominion of sin and Satan over our lives how the moment you and I as believers we become believers we believe in the cross we believe in what Jesus did for us the dominion that means the authority the rule the reign the power of sin and Satan over our lives has been defeated right yet the question could be why is it that so many believers are struggling with sin and and you know always in demonic strongholds in their life it is because now the work is already done but what we're doing is we're allowing the enemy to come and work in our lives the person's life doesn't mean the cross is not powerful the power of the cross doesn't diminish it is our responsibility to understand the power of the cross and grow from the power of the cross so how do I do that now the enemy may come and he may say you know for example there's a alcoholic who has become a believer that he has said okay I've decided that I will break this you know this dominion over my life I've been doing this for the last 20 years so now he believes he made a prayer he said Jesus forgive me I believe in the cross I believe that you paid the price for me so thank you for releasing me out of this bondage of alcohol he prays and he sleeps the next morning he wakes up the first thing that comes to his mind is whatever the next drink now it doesn't mean that the power of the cross was there only for that moment no he has already prayed it's already accepted the power of the cross now is the time to walk in that dominion right to walk in that authority so what would you and I do we can say Payton your dominion of sin is over it has been destroyed over my life so Romans 12 right we're not being conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind spirit is new I've been changed God has removed that sin nature so now it's all in the mind the enemy is coming and attacking my mind so Lord I need to conform my thinking how do I conform my thinking I get into God's word I put on the helmet of salvation I think of things of God I think I changed my you know my thought process everything is is towards the things of God I'm reading God's word I'm ministry I'm spending time in God's word many many a time people have come and asked me but that's that's because you know you're at home how you're in full-time ministry right you only have these things you know only opening the Bible the whole day what about us who go to work 95 at work I'm in the corporate sector you have God's word you have God's word inside of you you have all you need is one word they shall overcome him by the blood of the lamb and the word of your testimony that's more than enough to destroy every temptation to destroy every sin every scheme every attack of the enemy we shall overcome him by the blood of the lamb and the word the workplace you don't need in this world sorry 10 right how did Jesus walk he walked in dominion he walked in authority over Satan you know when he walked on water he proved to the devil I don't go by your laws he took five loads of bread and two fish he prayed he fed the thousands prove to the devil I don't have to listen to what you're saying and he prevented the people were sick and afflicted with sin and diseases he healed people and people were possessed Legion possessed by demons he just came the demons came back in you see that you see that dominion that Jesus walked in the authority where the demons themselves have you come so early to you know to destroy us don't do that please cast us the Bible it's very interesting Jesus told them to keep quiet he told those demons keep quiet don't talk about me and they kept quiet you see that authority the same authority is what has been given to you and me we live out if we live our identity Adam we live under control of sin and Satan but if we live our identity out of Christ we live free from dominion of sin and Satan now I'm not saying that we will never see no returns right but you know we will still live in authority we can go back to God ask forgiveness get our life right back in order right sometimes I have got upset you know my children are writing death just finished their final exams and I said come on you need to stop playing and I was quite stunned and I said you need to stop you sit and study it why is it I got upset with them and after sometimes said okay their children you know they by nature they they know they want to play I felt really bad and I said God I should have got upset so I got angry I said God forgive me help me do you know be more patient with them to understand that they are kids right for us usually you know normally for me it is if it's time to study you study if it's time to do something else you do something else sometimes there's impunctuality when I love I don't like to be late it's just not in me right from the beginning so it's gotta be on time so that our times have gone to places half an hour before because it in my mind what if the trial gets punctured or what is something that what if the car breaks down at least I can keep the car and you know just rush to the pace at least I can be there on time sometimes I'm there half another year a family think that I've gone crazy but it's just it's there in me right and sometimes I get upset that others don't do it that the way I want to do it and so there are things that may come up right then we say God help me to live free from this and there are times when I'm not saying being punctual punctual is not important it's very important all these are characters that we need to live a godly life yet this can take us to an extreme where we end up sending it's okay so we can just go back to God ask forgiveness and live free from the domain of sin we must understand identification and here's what identification is Jesus with us in his birth is now for example God the father and this is for example this you know this painting a picture God the father doesn't know what it is to be hungry he's not God the father is not you know because he's God he's creator he knows everything but he's not hungry now the moment you tell Jesus I'm hungry Jesus understood he identifies it why because he was hungry he lived for he stayed without food for 40 years God the father may not have wept this is trying to get a picture now Jesus wept so when we cry and pray to God Jesus identifies that I know how it feels to cry I know that hurt that you're feeling I know how it feels that people mock you and people you know slap you on the face ridiculed you Jesus identifies with that Jesus identified with us in his birth so that we could be identified with him in his death in the mind of God we were with Jesus on the cross someone we were not even born but in the mind of God we were in Jesus we were with him on the cross what happened to Christ on the cross happened to you and me because we were in him how can I how can we understand this if I sin I must pay the price for myself right so in the mind of God this person is a sinner and as a righteous just God I have to punish that sin but now after the cross God is looking at us and he's saying you were with Jesus on the cross although we haven't gone on to the cross we have been nailed on the cross nothing even happened to us but in God's mind he were on the cross we have we have paid the price but it is Jesus who paid the price for us we were with him so here's the fact that we need to drive home the cross gives us power over sin and Satan over death the cross gives us the power the devil knows when you know the power of the cross he recognizes it when you and I walk in that authority he recognizes it when we don't walk in the authority of them you know the Holy Spirit and the authority of the cross knowing what the cross has done for us it begins to manipulate us he begins to deceive us if there are doubts he will increase those doubts if there is fear he will increase those fears if there's unbelief he'll do as much as he can to increase that unbelief so what is it that you and I must do remember remember that portion in the scriptures where this mother came and said to Jesus Jesus you know that my son he keeps jumping he's he's possessed he keeps jumping into the fire he keeps trying to kill himself and many times we've tried to save him we went to your disciples but the disciples could not you know cast him out cast the demons out and here what does Jesus say he says this kind will only go through fasting and prayer and we must understand the context of that it's very important to understand the context here he's when we read through the King James verse and he says why did you doubt your unbelieving generation why did you have you know why did you unbelief why was there unbelief he tells the disciples so here when he's saying fasting and prayer it's not like fasting and prayer for removing the demons he's talking about fasting and prayer to remove the unbelief and fear that is in our life that's in our hearts right and when we fast and pray what happens we are aligning ourselves to the things of God and so every fear every unbelief everything that the enemy or not only the enemy sees our fear is natural it just comes from it's a natural response but that's when when we pray and fast and pray and unbelief and fear just goes away it is filled that place of fear and unbelief is filled with God's presence on the cross Jesus Christ broke sins power over our lives he broke the power of sin see as a believer you and I don't have a sinful nature right when we were born we have a sinful nature as I said you don't teach a child to lie they just know it they just learn it that's the sinful nature second Corinthians 517 therefore if anyone is in Christ anyone is in Christ he's a new creation the old things have passed away so this old man this old sinful nature was nailed and crucified on the cross right anyone is in Christ he's a new creation so what happens when we become believers is this spirit inside of us the Holy Spirit the indwelling presence of the indwelling Spirit comes and this old nature has been removed off right but there's no more old nature it's nailed and crucified to the cross and now we have a new nature a new Spirit inside of us the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit now that Holy Spirit inside us has the power you know what did Jesus say I'm not leaving you as often but I'm sending the Holy Spirit who will be like me you like it is like I am working with you right so the Holy Spirit enables us to walk over the dominion the power of sin over our lives we're no longer slaves to the enemies right that's that's what the old nature has gone now it's only here that the changes need to be done only in the mind we have a new man the spirit we are new we are born again the mind that's what comes from in 6 6 we must know this how do we know this you gotta know it this is what the word says but now I don't have a sin nature so I don't have to live in sin I can go back to the cross and know that I'm righteous and I can live a holy life you gotta reckon this to be true now here's the reckon meaning this is an absolute fact here's where the devil comes and remember the devil is the father of lies you would really say the cross is yeah you know the cross happened many years ago do you still believe that what have you gained by becoming a believer what have you gained you've gained nothing you've gained you know when when you were living a life of of sin there was no problems in your life you're enjoying yourself but now you become a believer and then all you have is problems or there are challenges that you're facing do you think that's all of this is required and so that's what the enemy does he tries to mess our thinking up he tries to and he did this to Jesus he quoted Psalms 91 saying if you throw yourself it says that he'd send his angels in charge of you to keep you the devil quoted Psalms 91 right so you must reckon you and I must reckon this to be true okay this is what it is I may not feel it there may be hundreds of people or thousands of people around me saying that the cross is just nothing it's not even true it's just history it's not God and all of these things but you say you know you reckon it remember the man who was born blind to tell us who who gave you the eyesight I told you the man came he said he prayed for me he said go and wash I wash I could see and he says you see the messiah in the end what is the blind man's I see all that I don't know one thing I know I was blind now I see that you cannot change who whether he's a messiah whether he's a Jew whether he's a Roman all of that I don't know whether you like him whether you don't like him I don't know but one thing I know blind man's testimony was beautiful one thing I know I never seen anything in my life I was blind one hour back now I can see everything all the other things is your you your wish what you feel whether he's messiah whether he's a prophet I don't know all that I was blind but now I see this is the approach that we must take Jesus died Jesus Christ died on the cross for me and he broke the power of sin over my life I know I reckon I know this is true but you can't you know but the cross where there's the proof you don't need proof the proof is Jesus died Christ Jesus died on the cross for my sins that's the proof right and he must walk in this no not shaking it when we say walk meaning we live out every day in this understanding but very important these three points we must know we must reckon and we must walk there's not enough to just know many apologists of other faiths know about the cross but many of them don't reckon it to be true Muslim apologists don't believe they know about the cross but they don't believe it to be true fine here's that's why these three go together you know it you know it as you reckon it as absolutely true and we must walk in it okay then on the cross Christ Jesus annulled Satan's power over our lives annulled meaning he made it nothing and eat it Colossians 2 14 and 15 we talked about it right on the cross he destroyed he disarmed the powers of darkness here's what happened on the crosses just so powerful a man dying on the cross people mocked him ridiculed him spat on him just such a terrible offensive death naked on the cross but in the spiritual all the hordes of hell all of the work of the devil every demon and hell were all sat in shame this grace defeated and they knew that they have been defeated this can you picture that you know some as you just so so much more just wearing a cross around your neck it is so much more than that it had Lord Jesus had has destroyed the devil we must understand that we have winners and we have dominion over Satan through the cross so Satan has no authority over us except what we permit him to have that is very very important to understand if we open those in our life we permit the enemy to work in our lives what happens we invite him to come and work and when he says we are a temple of the Holy Spirit so we can't sit on the fence we can't say okay I'll do this and I'll do this it's not permitted because Satan has been destroyed on the cross and you are the temple of the Holy Spirit how can the Holy Spirit and say the words of the enemy work together here Satan has no authority over us but when we give him place he will come and work if we allow jealousy and pride to continue and continue in our life what'll happen that continue it'll just keep going on so we must understand that whatever sometimes if we're walking in pride walking in hatred unforgiveness it is what we have allowed the animator can we forgive anyone we can forgive everyone why because forgiveness is what is there the whole basis of the cross is forgiveness Jesus is looking at his tormentors and he's saying Father forgive them they don't know what they do it now this is not just a sentence just to fill up some space no Jesus meant what he said he's saying Father forgive them and so that's a that's a that's more than enough reason for us to walk in forgiveness no but you don't know what he did to me you know I know people who have not spoken to their brothers or sisters for over 30 years have not spoken to that why because of the land dispute so you know you think about this the enemy has caused such a own blood brothers have not spoken with this hatred to each other has spoken to people they are believers they come they believe us that I know from other places they have fasting prayer they have they have life group they have Sunday morning everything they do at the moment you talk about this no he did this wrong to me how many years ago 10 years ago or she did this wrong to me what was supposed to be my name has been gone to them and hatred now who's a loving that we are loving that so what happens Satan comes and words but God is saying forgive just as I know for giving love love one another right so if we are lucky enemy to work in our life he'd be more than happy to come and do this stuff in our life but remember that Christ work has destroyed and I'm not Satan's power over our lives the blessings that flow through canvary oh what blessings just a simple reminder here the same way we we receive all of these blessings by faith the blessings that flow through Calvary just as how we receive forgiveness of sins through faith in Jesus Christ all these blessings are for us number one forgiveness of sins and restoration unto God ask God for forgiveness God forgive us and he forgives us he's faithful and just to forgive us and he restores us on to God healing from every sickness and disease as I have 53 we read about it right and we saw that on the on the price that he paid he took up every sickness on the cross the doctors have a report it may be a cruel report it's fact this is a fact but God has a different report I said I don't go by fact I go by fate I go by what I want to do God is bigger than any doctors report I can share many many examples I was bigger than the doctors they're not saying the doctors are not important they're very important but when you know I read this somebody sent this to me when it when the situation becomes impossible then God begins to start working when I when a sickness or a disease becomes impossible that's why God begins to start working just hearing this testimony of one elderly gentlemen this happened in the west where you know man who is you know not a believer but the Christian family and was going to church on Sundays and one day he was just feeling sick and very and so he went to the hospital to get a check and probably in his early 50s and doctors did a check on him and said you are riddled with cancer all across your body from your neck to your feet it is you're riddled and it is full of it's entered the bones it's entered every place you got probably four or five months so he went back home he only told his two teenage sons this is what it is and just to make the testimony shorter he said God I know that I've not been praying I know that I've not been living a holy life or any good church on Sundays but extend my life give me give me life I will live for you just a simple prayer he probably he didn't know how to pray you know the testimony so I didn't know how to pray and I just said a few words and I said God I know that you can heal me and if you heal me then I'll give my life to you and it's a simple five-minute prayer he went to sleep he woke up he went back to the doctors got his you know whatever the medications and the work to be done the doctor said we can't do anything now but we can just give you some medicines to help you and all that but then the doctors I think gave him about three or four months and after some time he went back to the doctors and they did another pet scan the pet scan show there was not a trace of cancer now tell me this the doctor said he has four or five months it's gone into his homes the next pet scan which is probably which is probably one or two months later the doctor said they couldn't find a race of it even the bones were crystal clear now who can do this who can do this this it is you think of it it can only be God the doctors said to him there's no explanation for all of this and God is bigger than any doctor Jesus can heal us completely he doesn't need a doctor's prescription he doesn't need the doctors report his report last forever if he decides it is done right so what Jesus did in his ministry he cast out devils he did all that he did as a foretaste of what you and I can receive and we are sanctified by the cross I'm sure we all heard this word sanctified means we are made holy we're set apart we're consecrated by Jesus sanctified himself right then we have wholeness shalom the word shalom we saw this in Hebrews 53 five wholeness body mind spirit soul every area we are whole we have authority and dominion over the enemy and then we have the blessings of Abraham in the Covenants we talk about the blessings of Abraham right Abraham's blessings included righteousness by faith friendship with God financial and material prosperity healing and wholeness a lot lots right all the blessings of Abraham are applicable to us when God told Abraham I will bless you right the autonomy the autonomy 28 talks about a new covenant I'm sorry the all the blessings of the of being obedient in the new covenant sorry in the old covenant then he says we have a new covenant he was eight six a new covenant with better promises and better blessings and here's the thing right we are applicable and applicants to the old you know the Abrahamic blessings you don't want to be 28 now Jesus to the through the process has some greater better blessings in the new covenant but remember there are blessing Steelers that we must fight against basically the enemy who will come and try to you know try to destroy our fate try to make us weak at theory and here's what I'd like to say feeling weak feeling tired feeling the review is not a sin by nature we feel we feel tired like it's natural God understands that God understands the seasons that we go to but he expects us to hold on to the covenant blessings to the covenant of his word and he expects us to fight yes when we fall down what does he say I will lift you up I will bail you up oh I was listening to this wonderful wonderful small portion from Miles Monroe he was sharing on leadership and he talks about the eagle and Miles Monroe says this and the all other birds the eagle is why is the eagle the king of the bird family all other birds when there is a storm they scatter they run away they fly away and find the find a cave or find a safe place to hide themselves from the storm but it's not so with the eagles because what the eagles do is the moment they are they see a storm right the eagles have been built differently they have on their neck a bone called opinion now this bone is used only when eagles are flying high and they're tired and they release that bone and the burn locks and and they just rest their wings and so they're not tired so they when their wings are probably painting or tired from flying and flying they lock that bone and the and the you see the wings are just straight and it's rest here's what the eagles do when the eagle see a storm all the other birds fly away but the eagles wait for the storm and when the storm comes the eagle say it's time to rest so they go into the storm and when they are in the storm they lock that bone and they rest and the wind of the storm releases them higher above the storm higher than the storm just it just takes them to a higher space this is such a powerful example I will bear you up with wings like eagles so when you and I face a storm remember we are eagles we don't run away from the storm but go through the storm we rest in the storm and know that God is with us you will rise us up with wings like eagles we will run and not be bearded so through every storm that we are going in we can rest and know that God is with us it's a powerful bird I love studying about these birds and the lion have so much to share about these are wonderful there's a reason why God chooses these animals there's a reason why those eagles wait for the storm they get into the storm they stay still stand still and see the salvation of the Lord it's all through the scriptures we see that right alright so any questions any thoughts as we think I think we'll stop here get into the next portion we continue from the next class we're in chapter so completed chapter 2019 next class will start from chapter 20 from the cross to the throne so next class we'll try and complete this entire section on the cross and post that we get into something like to the blood also we should be able to finish in a couple of sections itself right alright so okay Andrew is asking for the submission date so Andrew I purposely didn't put a submission date but you can go ahead and submit it as soon as you can maybe by the end of this month should be good but please submit it right please submit so it's very important to submit your midterm assessment because then I can mark you for that and for your final term it's very important to do that so please begin to work on it and once you're done just send it across to us right alright thank you so much everyone have a good weekend and I'll see you next Friday God bless you all