 The reason the Son of God appeared was to just to destroy was to destroy the works of the devil 1st John 3 8 that through death Hebrews 2 14 that through death he might what put to death the one who has the power of death That is the devil Hebrews 2 14 but then Paul writes this the God of peace Will soon crush Satan under your feet Rome in 1620 So John says this that the reason the purpose behind Jesus coming to earth was to fulfill the divine role of being the destroyer of Satan's works and then the author of Hebrews tells us the means by which Jesus will obtain this victory Jesus will use his own death to defeat death Now how is this possible because our Jesus is both the lion and the what the lamb and Then finally the apostle Paul names the devil He calls him Satan and with all that he wrote to the saints in Rome He only used one sentence to convey one thing about him that he will soon be crushed under our feet Here's the crazy thing. He says this that the God of peace is the one responsible for that crushing How beautiful is that how poetic is that? Now you may be asking yourself. Hey Tim, are you aware that it's the Christmas season? Isn't it supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year right right? I'm aware of that you may be asking yourself Tim isn't Christmas all about love joy and peace And I would say I agree with you with all three of those things, but here's my reason It's about love joy and peace because love himself came from heaven to earth and his children His sons and daughters should have joy that he Jesus will one day crush Satan Under our feet that he came to destroy the works of the devil and we should have peace saints Knowing that the devil death and Hades will be thrown into the lake of fire. Merry Christmas radiant church Merry Christmas Listen Christmas is a magical moment, but let us not forget this that Christmas is also a missional moment It's a missional moment and today I want us to remind ourselves as we look at the story of God found in the Bible About how God accomplished this mission for our good and for his glory So if you have your Bibles, and I hope that you do please turn to Matthew Matthew chapter one Matthew chapter one we're gonna read one verse verse 18 Gospel Matthew chapter one verse 18 Where the God says this now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph before they came together She was found to be with child From the Holy Spirit the title today's message is this Jesus wins Jesus wins. Let's pray father We love you Jesus We adore you Holy Spirit we desperately need you God you are God and we are yours Give us now ears to hear your word But also make us joyful doers of your word in Jesus name in the whole church said Amen. Amen Now I believe for us to fully grasp and appreciate what Matthew is writing in his gospel We have to go back to the beginning we have to think about what happened We're all started in the book of Genesis so that we can see that this is something Major right, so let me do a little recap real quick Genesis one God speaks and things happen He don't have to lift the finger to do work. Amen, so he speaks things happen, right? Our world is created and since God is good Reality reflects his nature and his character so much so that Genesis 1 31 says this and God saw Everything that he had made and behold it was very Good, and then you have Genesis 2 God creates Adam and Eve, right? He creates the human race both in his image and his likeness and gives them dominion to rule over Everything that he created which was very good, but here we go Genesis 3 We're introduced to the serpent who challenges and even questions the very words of God He deceives Adam and Eve sin enters the world and impacts every inch of creation What was once very good is Now very broken Let me give you your attention in Genesis chapter 3 verses 14 and 15 Let's see what God does the Lord God said to the serpent Because you have done this cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field on your belly You shall go and thus you shall eat all the days of your life verse 15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman in between your offspring and her offspring He everyone say he He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel If you ever wonder where the gospel started it started right here in the book of Genesis Right here in verse 15 God promised to wage war and crush the enemy through a promise warrior Who and don't miss this will come through the womb of a woman Her offspring her seed God told the serpent the serpent that day that listen a day Is coming when a baby will be born and he will defeat you The timing of this conversation you got to get this is important to note. This is Before God explained to Adam and Eve the consequences of their sin This is before Adam and Eve are cast out of the garden. What does our God our father do before he addresses? The sins of humanity he prophetically and emphatically says Satan you are done He prophetically and emphatically says hey victory is coming It's coming. It's guaranteed The serpent is a liar and a deceiver the Bible says that he is the father of lives But one day a baby is coming and we know his name is Jesus and we know that he is truth And he will deliver people from their sin and he will execute the accuser of the brethren Merry Christmas So when Matthew writes now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in his way when his mother had been Betrayed to Joseph before they came together She was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. This is the turning point that all of time has been waiting for This is the reality of what God prophetically said back in Genesis chapter 3 When you get to Matthew chapter 1 your bones should shake Because you better believe Satan knew what was going on This is the turning point listen what Paul says in relations for he says but when the fullness of time had come God sent forth his son born of woman under the law to redeem those who were under the law so that we might receive adoption as sons God the father sent his son the Redeemer to purchase our salvation and our Adoption when the fullness of time had come the appointed time meaning this that God deemed that time just Right Just right When speaking of this time this turning point mark says this in his gospel He says now after John was arrested Jesus came to Galilee Proclaiming the gospel of God saying the time is fulfilled the kingdom of God is at hand Repent and believe the gospel Now the commentary of John's arrest is very important for us to really understand what Jesus is saying here in the text Right John. This is John the Baptist whose birth was miraculous as well. And what was he born? What was he put on earth to do to prepare the way of who? The Lord to prepare the way in the Lord and here comes this man named Jesus and he says this the time is fulfilled The kingdom of God is at hand repent and believe the gospel To pray pharies where one author said he said this there is a shape to time There is something that has been going on up to now that has been Anticipating this moment and what Jesus is saying is that the time the moment that has been anticipated has now come because I'm here Essentially what Jesus is saying is oh, yeah, you'll remember John and he said I'm here to prepare the way prepare the way the Lord I am the Lord that he was preparing for Jesus arrives on a scene that he calls himself the way So if you really put two and two together John the Baptist was preparing the way for the way and the way shows up In his name is Jesus In his name is Jesus Jesus this birth is what all of history has been waiting for a while Because Jesus is the offspring the seed of woman who was promised by God to come when he was speaking to the serpent in the garden Jesus wins Jesus wins So question does Satan just sit back does he just let the choir of the angels sing Does he just let gifts be done to how does Satan respond to the birth of Jesus? Well, Matthew tells us in Matthew 2 it says now when they had departed behold an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream And said rise take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt and remain there until I tell you For Herod is about to search for the child to destroy him And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt and remained there until the death of Herod Question who do you think was behind Herod's work here? You think there's just an idea he had mmm. I'm gonna kill some babies No, well, who do you think? Was behind this? Paul says in Ephesians 6 for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against rulers and against authorities Against cosmic powers over the present darkness against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but church. Let's not misinterpret what Paul is saying He's not saying that Satan won't use flesh and blood to fight against us So what does Satan do Satan used Herod to try to kill Jesus? This evil is clearly seen when Matthew says this then Herod when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men became furious and He sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all the region who are two years old or under According to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men Man if this seems dark to you or if you ever wondered or questioned if God is still in control When confronted with the evil of this world, let me remind you of this Jesus wins Jesus wins see when an angel told Joseph to flee to Egypt to protect Jesus, right Matthew says this This was to fulfill what the Lord has spoken by the prophet out of Egypt I'll call my son when speaking of what Herod did to all the children Matthew also writes Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, this is the key the devil Satan tried to destroy the works of God and he put Herod and his Minions to work but what Satan didn't know when he was working to destroy God He was actually destroying himself because God already said it was going to happen Satan was actually fulfilling prophecy when he was trying to destroy the Prince of Peace It had no clue Jesus wins church. I'm getting excited right now Jesus wins the devil cannot prevent the birth of Jesus Jesus wins Jesus knew this as well People question if Jesus knew his authority He knew his authority Jesus knew how powerful he was and authority that he had Listen to what Jesus says about himself and the gospel John He says for this reason the father loves me Because I laid down my life that I may take it up again No one takes it from me But I lay it down on my accord and I have the authority to lay it down and I have the authority to take it up Again this charge I received from my father church Jesus wins The devil cannot control the death of Jesus the devil cannot stop the resurrection of Jesus The devil is now and one day will be obliterated by Jesus Jesus wins Jesus wins. Let us not forget who Jesus really is church Let us not forget and I'm not talking about the second coming hunger game revelation Jesus who comes back and just wrecks everything I'm talking about the baby born in a manger the baby who is the son of a carpenter the one who is the son of a young woman I'm talking about that Jesus who's straight out of does anything good come out of Nazareth Jesus He was powerful. He was man, but he was the God man. He wasn't a man waiting to come to earth He was God who had to put on flesh. Can I get an amen? This Jesus wins This Jesus wins Let me show you that he knew who he was right on earth mark wrote this and immediately there There was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, right? We're about to see an exorcism go down right here in the Bible And he cried out What have you to do with us Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are the holy one of God But Jesus rebuked him saying be silent and come out of him in the unclean spirit Convulsing and and crying out what the loud voice came out of him and they were all amazed so they questioned among themselves saying What is this a new teaching with authority? He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region and Galilee Tim how do you know that Jesus wins Jesus men so much they even demons tremble in his presence Jesus wins so much don't miss what mark said that even unclean spirits must obey his word Jesus wins Jesus wins Jesus wins in every way at all time Every time for all times Jesus wins Jesus never once bowed the knee to Satan Think about this church. Let me talk about you ready. I'm gonna talk about me, but I'm gonna talk about you because I have the mic So I'm gonna talk about you How easy is it for us to sin how easy it is for us to lose our way Think about it. Jesus never budged Never bowed the knee Never sinned once Never sinned once why because Jesus wins you all remember when Satan tried to tempt him When did Satan take him up on a high mountain try to tempt Jesus the Bible says that Jesus was doing something right? Jesus was doing his Sikh service right after 40 days and 40 nights of fasting the devil comes and he tries to tempt Jesus he tries to tempt him, but Jesus doesn't even budge once Jesus wins church. How do I know that? Because Satan even on his best day can't even make Jesus fall when he's on his worst day Jesus wins Jesus wins The gospel we have to remind ourselves declares our salvation, but it also declares Satan's defeat listen We're not saved if he's not defeated church We're not saved unless he's done Tim where are you finding that listen what Paul says in Colossians 2 and you I'm gonna talk about you and you who are dead in your trespasses In an uncircumcision of your flesh with the God do God made alive together with him Have been forgiven us all of our trespasses by canceling the record of debt that sit against us with this legal demands Did y'all hear the gospel right there? Let's keep going this he set aside nailing it to the cross He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame by triumphing over them and him Jesus removed the validity behind oh Jesus removed the validity the power behind Satan's accusations of the sons and daughters of God Why by taking our place dying on a cross declaring us forgiven and when he did this the Bible says he's shamed the devil That's not something that some t-shirt came up with that scripture He's shamed the devil He's shamed him Let me show you this in Revelation chapter 12 says and the great dragon was thrown down that ancient Serpent who was called the devil in Satan the deceiver of the whole world He was thrown down to the earth and his angels were thrown down with him And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying now the salvation and the power of the kingdom of God and authority of his Christ have come for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down Who accuses them day and night before our God and they have conquered him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their Testimony for they love not their lives even unto death Therefore rejoice oh heavens and you who dwell in them but woe to you oh earth and sea for the devil has come down To you in great wrath because he knows that his time is short Satan lost his case Against the sons and daughters of God because we have victory in Jesus Jesus wins We are victorious in Jesus his Desire Satan's desire for us to be penalized for our sins won't come to pass because Jesus paid it all And he paid it in full Jesus paid for your salvation and the scripture says now there is no condemnation for those who are what in Christ Jesus When Satan tries to stand before God and accuse you Jesus only has to show him the scars in his body say I already paid for that Jesus wins Jesus wins Listen Satan May kill our bodies But he can't touch our souls and the reason we see and experience the wrath of God based off all that I just read the wrath of Satan based on what I just read it's because he knows his time is what? He knows his time is short. Here's the crazy thing though If it's true that Jesus wins Hopefully you're getting a theme here if it's true that Jesus wins It's also true that we win if it's true that Jesus wins is also true that we win That we win well, how do we win first Peter says this humble yourselves therefore under the mighty head of God So that the proper time he may exalt you casting all your anxieties on him because he cares for you Be sober-minded be watchful your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion Seeking someone to devour let me stop right there some of you you need to stop playing with your sin Because if you don't kill it it will kill you Say he's not trying to play with you. So stop playing with him and stop playing his game He is looking to destroy you so Jesus came to destroy him Jesus wins church. You had victory. So don't play with this guy Don't play with them. He's seeking to devour the Bible is not being a it is not Exaggerating right now. The same just doesn't want you to have a hard time The same just don't want to like mess up your calendar Ruin your sale mess up your outfit. He wants to take you out Listen church stop playing repent and believe the gospel Repent turn and believe need to believe in the serpent slayer because if you don't buy by both those stuff I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna say it Nope, I'm not gonna say it. No Listen listen, it says resist him speaking of sake and firm in your faith knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being Expressed by your brotherhood throughout the whole world and after you have suffered for a little while the God of all grace Who has called you into his internal glory in Christ? Will himself restore? Confirm strengthen and establish you to him be dominion forever and ever amen How do we win? How do we win? We humble ourselves We cast aside our pride Because we know we have no chance Against the devil his demonic forces unless we're under the mighty hand of God That's why Paul says in Ephesians finally be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might Put on the whole armor of God That you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil Listen church is not our strength It's not our power nor is it our armor. It's the Lord's and How gracious is it that we have a father who is willing to share his strength his power and his armor to all of his children So that we can stand against the devil Jesus wins that means we win That means we went One of my spiritual fathers Who prays for me daily he sent me a text this week on Tuesday He didn't know what I was teaching on or anything we haven't spoke in a couple of weeks And I want to read to you what he what he sent me listen He calls me sonny so it starts like this is a sunny You are living in perilous times. Are you well? Just remember that we are called sheep in the scriptures because no matter how tough we are in the flesh and sunny You are tough We are no match for the spirit world But it's not about our strength. It's about the strength of our shepherd Watch what he says the sheep are easy to defeat But touch a sheep and you will have to deal with the shepherd of the flock and That will be the end of the intruder praise God church Merry Christmas Jesus wins Jesus wins Church we resist the devil we will suffer but God will restore us God will confirm us God will Strengthen us God will establish us and in one story. We see this in scripture is what happened to Peter Don't remember what happened to Peter when Jesus was about to be arrested and he told Peter you're gonna deny and Peter's like No, I'm not Peter Peter. Shut up Peter. Like just Jesus is right bro chill But listen it gets really crazy man. This is spiritual battle. This is spiritual warfare. Listen what Jesus tells Peter He says Simon Simon behold Satan Demanded to have you I Need you to get this. He's not exaggerating Satan came to God and said I want Peter. I want him He didn't ask he demanded Well, why is that? Why does he want Peter? We all remember when people asked when when Jesus turned to disciples says who the man say that I am and some said he Was Elijah some say he was on the prophet but Peter says you are the son of God You're the true living God and Jesus turns to Peter says oh man flesh and blood did not reveal this to you But my father this is spiritual revelation. This is a father showing you who who I am and upon that profession of faith I'm gonna build my church because this is the solid ground. This is the rock So Satan wanted Peter not because Peter was the rock but because of what Peter professed about the rock Satan wanted to uproot the foundation of the church that Jesus is Lord that Jesus is the son of God And he comes to Jesus and sings this I want him What does Jesus say? But oh, I love when God. Oh, yeah, but I Have prayed for you that your faith may not fail and When you have turned again Strengthen your brothers Satan comes says I want Peter. I want to sift him like we and Jesus No, sir I've prayed for you Peter and When you turn meaning yeah, you're gonna deny but guess what because I prayed for you your denial of me That's not override what I say about you And you're gonna deny me, but you're gonna turn. Oh, you're gonna turn And when you turn I got a job for you to do you're gonna strengthen your brethren And I'm gonna use you To change the world Satan may want us Satan may want to destroy us But by God's grace The same Jesus that prayed for Peter is the same one that prays for us today He is our high priest who sits at the right hand of the father and he daily makes intercession for each and one of his kids Jesus wins Jesus wins listen eat if Even if man, I gotta say it Even if Satan kills us through persecution or some other means Even if he destroys this flesh this body Listen to what Jesus says I Give them eternal life And they will never pair I give them Eternal life and they will never perish and no one will snatch them out of my hand My father who has given them to me is greater than all And no one is able to snatch them out of the father's hand and I and the father are one Come what may I will obey Jesus Come what may I will obey Jesus. Why cuz Jesus wins and In it even if he kills me guess what I win cuz for me to live is Christ, but to die is gain And it's to hope we're called to be the light of the world. We should not be afraid of the dark That's why I'm spending a whole Christmas message on Satan because I'm not afraid of the one that Jesus will destroy Greater as he does in us then he who's white in the world the gospel says you are caught out of darkness into marvelous light Live like it Enjoy it. I am tired of people saying 2020. It's the worst year if you think 2020 is hard You have no idea what's coming cheer up Saints is going to get worse Are you kidding me? Do you read the Bible? Jesus promised suffering and we're like we're suffering. It's like I promised it. What's the problem man Where's the victory? Where's the victory is this not the year the Lord is this not the day that the Lord is made showing I rejoice and be glad in it I don't care about the coronavirus the pandemic or an election because my eyes are fixed to heaven It's not fixed on things of the earth Jesus wins that should give you Happiness That should give you joy and she give you a persevere in peace He will soon crush Satan under our feet Under our feet if you're here tonight, you're wondering if I'm okay. I'm okay We had a Christmas party for church the staff. It was great My wife and I just moved into our new home. Oh, it's great 2020 actually is a great year for us And some of you are offended by that because you're not seeing the victory that Christ has won for you and It's hard for you to rejoice with those rejoice because you're so stuck on your weeping that you can't see victory Listen, Jesus wins Jesus wins, but we do have an enemy We do He's real. He knows time is short and listen if 2020 is going to show us anything. It shows us that he has been busy What's time for us to go to work and It's time for us to rise up as the saints of God as the sons and daughters of God and to take back with the enemy has Stolen from us and radiant church. It begins in the house of God Let's all stand prayer partners come to the front. I want us to end just by praying In legit praying Not just closing a service prayer like we're turning this into a prayer session Jesus said that his house should be called a house of what of prayer. We are going to pray and We pray we're gonna believe that heaven is gonna hear and we're also gonna believe that That our enemy is going to be upset because we have a real enemy We have a real we need to pray with that war mentality because this is war This is a holy moment. That's about to take place We're about to pray against the evil one against the schemes of the enemy And we're gonna pray that God's will will be done and that his kingdom will come in this place as it is in heaven We're gonna pray that heaven would evade And you're not gonna just watch me as if I'm the pope and he listens to me more than you no no no no He hears you Son and child of God. He hears you you watching online. You're not just gonna watch you gonna pray We're gonna seek the Lord for the next couple of years. You're just gonna pray and we're gonna pray and we're gonna pray And listen, we're not gonna pray just waiting for something to happen We're gonna pray because our victory has already happened. Jesus is already went to the cross He's already went to the grave, but the grave is now empty We're not gonna pray so that we can experience victory. We're gonna pray because we have the victory We're gonna pray And if you're here today and you don't have a relationship with God listen I'm put I'm drawing the line in the saying Jesus said either for me or you're against me You do not hear hear the gospel call. You do not want to be on the losing side. You do not So if you have doubt Or you know you haven't confessed that Jesus is Lord you have not bowed the knee and given your life and your allegiance the king of kings and Lord of Lords tonight Well today watch it online. Hey today. I Invite you To come down and say man. I don't know what this crazy preacher's been talking about. I Don't get it all but I need to get Jesus And we have some prayer partners here who will love to tell you more about him But if you need prayer for anything as I pray and as you pray just come up and receive prayer Right now close your eyes by your heads and begin to pray right now begin to thank God for the victory That he is one Seriously lift your voices This is nothing cute. This is war lift your voices fill your homes with the voice of the saints With songs from heaven and thank Jesus for the victory Thank him for saving you Plead the blood of Jesus over your life Over your spouses over your family Over your future. Yes father. We praise you father God we say we love you God. We thank you for who you are God we thank you for sending your son Jesus. Jesus. Thank you for coming Jesus thank you Thank you for coming. Thank you for being willing to be a servant. Thank you for being willing to die on the cross Thank you Jesus for being willing Jesus thank you for winning Jesus thank you for fighting Jesus thank you for praying God. Thank you for interceding for us right now as we pray Come on church pray pray pray we pray we pray may your kingdom come may your will be done We pray that you would make us dangerous against the kingdom of darkness Holy Spirit we ask that you fulfill us with a bonus and a passion Lord God to to go into the dark places to go to the lost places and to proclaim the gospel That brings life that brings peace that brings joy God to a world that desperately needs it God we say here we are send us Here we are God send us use us God we're no longer afraid God we declare you have not given us the spirit of fear but of power love in a sound mind Look how we take up the armor of God God and we say we charge we move forward We say we are yours. We say the earth is yours We say Lamb of God receive the reward of your suffering We say that every tribe every tongue in every nation should know that you were Lord. Oh, Holy Spirit fill us right now Empower us right now. Give us all a holy fire God a holy conviction that changes our lives. Would you mark us this and this day mark us. Oh God we repent And we believe We repent We believe We believe Come on. Tell them you believe in them Say God, I believe I believe I believe in who you are. I believe in what you've done I believe in the victory that you have won. Tell them I believe I Believe but help me if I have any unbelief God give us faith. Give us faith. Give us hope Pray church keep praying. This is wartime. Keep praying keep praying. Oh Satan you cannot have us because Jesus prayed for us Satan you can't have my kids saying you can't have my family saying you can't have my future because Jesus prayed for us. Oh God Satan you can't have us. We belong to the Lamb of God. We belong to the Lion of Judah We belong to the priests of precipice. We belong to the King of Kings. We belong to the Lord of Lords Yes, God father we humble ourselves under your mighty hand under those Nail pierced hands. We humble ourselves under your mighty hand We ask you that you would exalt us as we cast our anxieties our cares our doubts and our fears when you Give us the strength to resist the evil one Give us the strength to walk with you to be with you to live for you and you alone and the holy precious powerful and victorious name Jesus name we pray and the church said Amen. Amen. Amen.