Binding The Strongman Series

2. The Blood Gives Healing. Isaiah 53:5 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

• Physical

• Emotional healing.

• Mental healing.

• Financial healing.

The blood of Jesus cannot dry up neither can it lose its power.

3. The Blood Gives Deliverance. Hebrews 2:14-15 14Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil - 15and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

The blood gives us deliverance, freedom from sin and Satan.

Now, we have the blood of Jesus by faith. That is an external application by faith. We always say and apply the blood of Jesus. This is the first weapon.

Today I want to lead you to the second weapon used in this heavenly battle.

Revelation 12:11 11They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

2. Word of the testimony.

When we think about testimony we think about our lives; the way we lead our lives and how God has helped us live successful Christian lives. But as I was meditating a little more about it the Lord led me to Isaiah 64:6. Isaiah 64:6 6all our righteous acts are like filthy rags. That means how much ever we live holy and whatever we do for Christ without God’s mercy it is all filthy rags, good for nothing. Therefore the testimony to fight the devil is not our lives.

Now see, Exodus 31:18 18 When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

In other words the stones in which the 10 commandments were inscribed by God were called the tablets of Testimony. Now, testimony is something which God gives. I want you to see where it was placed.

Now in the tabernacle there was something called the Ark of the Covenant where the Jews kept the 2 tablets of 10 commandments called as the tablets of Testimony.

Exodus 25:10-15 10 "Have them make a chest of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. 11 Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it. 12 Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other. 13 Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 14 Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the chest to carry it. 15 The poles are to remain in the rings of this ark; they are not to be removed. 16 Then put in the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.

The ark was a symbol of the presence of God. God said put the testimony (tablets) in the Ark of the Covenant. The testimony was the Word of God in the presence of God.

1 Corinthians 3:16 16Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? In the New Testament the presence of God lives in us. Now see what God says in Jeremiah. Jeremiah 31:33 "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.” In other words the presence of God is in us like the Ark of the Covenant and like the tablets of the Word of God (10 commandments) in the Ark of the Covenant God’s laws or God’s testimony is written in our heart.