Jesus the Light 21 Delivered from Darkness 2
There is no magic charm, no witchcraft against Israel. Now people will say about [God’s people] Israel, “Look what God has done!” Num.23:23
All sorcerers, oracles, and herbalists cannot save even themselves from the fiery wrath of the living God. Their power is weak, evil, and false. They and all who follow their directives, prophecies, and rituals will be destroyed along with them.
Isa.47:12-15 says: “Keep on, then, with your magic spells and with your many sorceries, which you have labored at since childhood. Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will cause terror.
“All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you.
“Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the power of the flame. Each of them goes on in his error; there is not one that can save you.”
Many times a traditional worshiper will fear curses coming upon him if he abandons the old ways for the Narrow Way of Christ Jesus the Lord. He may know very well that he is a sinner and in need of salvation, but fear may keep him from truly repenting and confessing Christ. But the Scriptures assure us that curses, juju, and generational sins do not affect true believers.
Pov.26:2: “Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause shall not alight.”
There is no cause for a curse to come upon a true child of God. No matter what the curse, the power of God is greater to protect His child from that evil.
Deut.23:4,5 says: “They hired Balaam to pronounce a curse on you. However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you.”
Here was an international professional sorcerer of great reputation hired to curse the people of God. But God is in control of all things, even curses, not the devil. The Lord turns even the curses of evil men unto good for His people, to those who serve Him alone apart from compromise with idolatrous ways. Why? Because of His great love.
Hear Balaam himself who had been hired to curse Israel, admitting that his curses are powerless against the true people of God. Though he wanted to curse them, he could not. There is no sorcery against the true people of God, for the Lord our God is with us. True believers need not fear curses, charms, incantations, generational sins, or juju.
Balaam’s own testimony in Num.23:20-23 is this: “He has blessed, and I cannot change it…The Lord their God is with them…There is no sorcery against Jacob, no witchcraft against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘See what God has done!’”
Schemes and incantations spoken against the true people of God fall to the ground harmless. Ritual language and charms have no power to harm God’s real children. Why? The simple answer is this; God is with us. Isa.8:10: “Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; Speak the word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.” And “greater is He that is in you than he who is in the world” -1 Jn.4:4.
The curses of men and of the ancestors do not fall upon the true servants of God. Rather, all who truly belong to the Almighty rejoice and are blessed. This is the message of Ps.109:28: “Let them curse, but You bless; When they arise, let them be ashamed, but let Your servant rejoice.”
No curse or incantation has any effect upon a true believer because God has not commanded it. He is in control of all that comes upon His children. Juju is powerless against all those Christ has redeemed for Himself. Lam.3:37: “Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass, when the Lord has not commanded it?”
Believers in the true and living God are always called upon to completely abandon their traditional idolatrous practices. There can be no mixture between the two.
A true believer cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons at the same time [1 Cor.10:14-22]. Idols and everything connected with them must be abandoned before one can truly sacrifice to the Lord God.
Josh.24:14-20: “Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served. Serve the Lord! Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, the gods which your fathers served? But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” No compromise can exist between idols and the living God.
The everlasting portion of gods and those who serve them is fire. Often idols, charms, and fetishes associated with them are burnt by those who have repented from the evil of idolatry.
Acts 19:18,19: “And many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds. Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. So the Word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.”
There can be no mighty work of God when idolatry in all of its forms is not utterly rejected. When it is, the believers are protected by the Lord from spiritual assault and their testimony prevails in the land.
Ex.22:20: “He who sacrifices to any god other than to the Lord alone, shall be utterly destroyed.” Ps.96:4,5: “For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised; He is terrible above all gods. For all the gods of the nations are demons, but the Lord made the heavens.”
Jer.27:9,10: “As for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, or those who claim to call up the spirits of the dead, your sorcerers who speak to you…for they prophesy a lie to you…and I will drive you out and you will perish.”
Dear Listener, Listen to Col.1:13: “He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.”
Gods do not exist; they are things of nothing, the superstitious imaginations of sinful hearts. There are no gods. There are only demons masquerading as gods and the Lord Jesus tolerates no arrangements with demons.
God Himself is the One who has delivered all who have been redeemed by Christ. He delivers from all powers of darkness. His work is complete and final. No man can add to that. No true believer in Jesus Christ needs deliverance; God has already accomplished that work.
And that work is so complete that these real followers of Christ have been removed completely from any remaining bondage to the power of the kingdom of darkness. They are translated into a new kingdom, the kingdom of King Jesus, His beloved Son.
And no power of evil spirits, principalities, or the prince of darkness, Satan himself, can touch them in that kingdom of light and life. Any attempt to assault Christ’s servants will be met by King Jesus. Col.2:15: He has “disarmed principalities and powers and made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through the cross.”
“If the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed” -Jn.8:36.
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