BINDING THE STRONG MAN
Mat 12:29
“Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can rob his house.”
INTRO:
I. ENTERING INTO THE HOUSE OF THE STRONG MAN
A. The Strong Man
i. Satan;
ii. Fallen Angels;
iii. Demons
B. The House
i. The Visible World
1.Family;
2. Friends;
3.The World
ii. The Invisible World
1. Where Prayers are being fought for
2. Where Answers are being detained
C. Access to The House
D.Does He have access toward us?
i.Job 1:12 “The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
ii. 1 Pe 5:8 “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.”
iii. Rev. 12:10 “…For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.”
E. Do we have access to him?
i. 2 Cor 4:6 “For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.”
ii. Mr 16:17 ‘And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;”
iii. Mat. 10:8 “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.”
iv. Luke 10:19 “I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.
II.TYING UP THE STRONG MAN
A. The Importance to live in Christ – Acts 19:14 “Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. 15 One day the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?” 16 Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.
i. The demons know Jesus and tremble – James 2:19 “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.”
ii. They know who we are “I know about Paul”
iii. They want to know about you “Who are you?”
B. The Need:
i. Salvation –
ii. Live in Integrity – 2 Tim 2:15 “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.”
iii. Believe in His righteousness – Rom 5:1 “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,”
iv. Follow Peace – Heb 12:14 “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:”
v. Take the Authority – Luke 10:19 “I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.”
vi. Apply the Word – Eph 6:16 “Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”
C. The Ministry of Binding and Loosing – Mat. 16:19 “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.”
i. What do we bind?
1. Satan – Jn. 12:31 “Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. 32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.”
2. His demons – Col 1:14-15 “having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.”
ii. What do we loosen? – Luc 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed,
1. The Poor In Spirit
2. The Prisoners of sin
3. Spiritually Blind
4. Oppressed
III. ROBBING HIS HOUSE
A. Taking 7 times the amount away of what he took
i. Prov. 6:31 “Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.”
B. Receive 100 times more
i. Mat 19:29 “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. 30 But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first”
C. Taking away all his weapons
i. Luke 11:22 “But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted and divides up the spoils.”
D. Taking away what he has taken – Acts 26:18 “to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
i. Open their spiritual eyes
ii. Turn them from darkness to light (Convert)
iii. Receive forgiveness of sins
iv. Special place in Him
v. Sanctify them
Conclusion:
