more than conquerors
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More Than Conquerors
Cosmic Warfare & the Church
‘Conquering’ is __________ ?
Has Mount Everest been ‘conquered’?
Were the Nazis’ “conquered” at D-Day?
What follows…
• Jesus @ War
• The World @ War
• The Church (and You!) @ War
“The Son of God appeared for this
purpose: To destroy the works of the Devil.”
1 John 3:8
The First Battlein the Wilderness
Jesus has “over-powered the strong man”(Lk 11:21-22)
“If I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come
to you.
21When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe. 22But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes
away the armor in which the man trusted and divides up the spoils.”
Luke 11:21-22
Storm the gates of hell! (Matt 16:18-19)
“And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my
church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the
keys of the kingdom of heaven; Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you
loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
Matthew 16:18-19
Healings and exorcism
“On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 11and a woman was there
who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could
not straighten up at all…Then (Jesus) put his hands on her, and immediately she
straightened up and praised God.
“16Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for
eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?"
Luke 13:11-16
Miracle Type Mark Matt Luke John
In all four gospels
1. Feeding of 5,000 nature 6.35f 14.15f 9.12f 6.5f
In three gospels
2. Walking on water nature 6.48f 14.25f 6.19f
3. Peter's mother-in-law healing 1.30f 8.14f 4.38f
4. Man with leprosy healing 1.40f 8.24f 5.12f
5. Paralyzed man healing 2.3f 9.2f 5.18f
6. Man with shriveled hand healing 3.1f 12.10f 6.6f
7. Calming the storm nature 4.37f 8.23f 8.22f
8. Gadarene Demoniac(s) exorcism 5.1f 8.28f 8.27f
9. Raising Jairus' daughter revivification 5.22f 9.18f 8.41f
10. Hemorrhaging woman healing 5.25f 9.20f 8.43f
11. Demon-possessed boy exorcism 9.17f 17.14f 9.38f
12. Two blind men healing 10.46f 20.29f 18.35f
27. Crippled woman healing 13.11f
28. Man with dropsy healing 14.1f
29. Ten men with leprosy healing@distance 17.11f
30. High Priest's servant healing 22.50f
Miracle Type Mark Matt Luke John
In two gospels (Mark, Matt)
13. Canaanite woman's daughter exorcism@distance 7.24f 15.21f
14. Feeding of 4,000 nature 8.1f 15.32f
15. Fig tree withered nature 11.12f 21.18f
In two gospels (Mark, Luke)
16. Possessed man in synagogue exorcism 1.23f 4.33f
In two gospels (Matt, Luke=Q?)
17. Roman Centurion's servant healing@distance 8.5f 7.1f
18. Blind, Mute, and Possessed man exorcism 12.22 11.14
Only in one gospel (Mark)
19. Deaf mute healing 7.31f
20. Blind man at Bethsaida healing 8.22f
Miracle Type Mark Matt Luke John
Only in one gospel (Matt)
21. Two blind men healing 9.27f
22. Mute and possessed man exorcism 9.32f
23. Coin in fish's mouth precognition/nature? 17.24f
Only in one gospel (Luke)
24. First catch of fish precognition/nature? 5.1f
25. Raising Widow's son at Nain revivification 7.11f
26. Exorcism of Mary Magdalene exorcism 8.2
27. Crippled woman healing 13.11f
28. Man with dropsy healing 14.1f
29. Ten men with leprosy healing@distance 17.11f
30. High Priest's servant healing 22.50f
Only in one gospel (John)
31. Wine miracle at Cana nature 2.1f
32. Official's son at Capernaum healing@distance 4.46f
33. Sick man at Pool of Bethesda healing 5.1f
34. Healing of the Blind Man healing 9.1f
35. Raising Lazarus revivification 11.1f
36. Second catch of fish precognition/nature? 21.1f
“I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven!”(Lk 10;18)
“As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2in which you used to live when you followed
the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those
who are disobedient
Ephesians 2:2
It’s a war between worlds!
What this ‘means’…
• There are casualties of war
• There is no ‘neutral ground’
• Things are not always ‘fair’
• Victory doesn’t just ‘happen’ – we have to fight for it (duh)
• We should stop asking, “Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?”
“Good people” should expect bad things!
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this
world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
John 16:33
“Behold, I make all things new” (Rev 21:5)
“The process of redemption is not concerned simply with the
reformation of the moral person…but (also) the
extension of the benefits of divine victory to all parts of the
created order.”
Colin Gunton, Actuality of Atonement
We live in a state of tension…
• Rom 16:20• Rev 21:1• Eph 1:23• Col 1:16-20• Phil 2:9-11, 3:21• 1 Jn 3:8, 4:4, 5:4-5
• 2 Thess 3:2-3• Matt 6:13• 1 Tim 4:1-7• 1 Cor 4:4-6• 1 Thess 2:18• 1 Jn 5:19• 2 Cor 4:4• Eph 2:2, 6:12• 1 Pet 5:8
Certain Victory On-Going Battle
“…everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome
the world, even our faith.
Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes
that Jesus is the Son of God.”
1 John 5:4-5
Your heart is a battleground…
We are
more than conquerors through Christ when we…
Forgive one another
(2 Cor 2:10-11)
“I have forgiven you in the sight of Christ for your sake, in order that
Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware
of his schemes.”
2 Cor 2:10-11
Resist the temptation Resist the temptation to violenceto violence (of (of allall kinds) kinds)
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil
with good.”
Romans 12:21
Build bridges of love (1 Cor 9:20)
“To the Jew I have become like a Jew…”
1 Cor 9:20
Pray unceasingly ‘on all occasions’ (Eph 6:18)
Civilian Soldier
Afraid to talk about Jesus(Passive Religion)
Brags about Jesus via actions
(Aggressive Spirituality)
Stick to the cool and smart
Search out the ‘un-cool’ and needy
Speaks Judgment Plots Goodness
“Do I have to go to church?”
“Do they have to go to church to see
God?”
Guilt and Tension“Have I been sinning?”
Love and Liberty!“Have they been feeling
loved?”
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.” Rev 21:1
Love our Planet,
Cherish our World
(John 3:16)
Offer hope to the hopeless,
inclusion to the outcasts
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