"And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto His heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory forever and ever. A-men." 2 Timothy 4:18
Stop right there and read that verse again, “The Lord, Jesus, will deliver us from every evil work, and Jesus will preserve us unto His Heavenly Kingdom.” Jesus proclaimed that satan came to steal from us, to kill us, and to destroy us! So what, who cares about what satan came to do, we care what Jesus came and did! What would Jesus do (WWJD)? He will keep us from evil and He will preserve us, that is what Jesus will do! Praise God, how awesome is that, Jesus will deliver us from every evil work! The Truth is God is for us, who or what can be against us? The Truth is God has made us more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us! No weapon formed against us will prosper, our darkness is as the noonday, and we are preserved and sealed with the Holy Spirit of God! Let satan try to do what he came for, Jesus is our Shepherd, the thief will be ran off each and every time!
But what if we are killed for testifying about Jesus? “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” 1 Corinthians 15:55
What if we are throne into jail and persecuted for believing? “And to him they agreed: and when they had called the Apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.” Acts 5:40-42
There is not one area in a believer’s life that satan can win at, not one! If he could than we would have to throw 2 Timothy 4:18 out, it would be false, because God would not deliver us from every evil work.
"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth you, Who also will do it." 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
Paul, Peter, John, all of the Apostles, and all of the Prophets in the Bible suffered persecution, Jesus teaches us that we will too, but God will deliver us from every evil work. I hear it preached all of the time, the struggles that we have with satan, people there is no struggle with satan! If you have said yes to Jesus and have allowed Him to be the Lord of your life, satan is no longer a threat to you! You have been sealed with the Holy Ghost, so tell me how it is that satan can penetrate the Holy Ghost to harm you? Tell me if Jesus is our Shepherd; how it is that satan can get by Him? Tell me how it is that if God is preserving us and keeping us from evil until Heaven, that He can fail? Satan is not an issue for the believer, he wants to make you think he is, but if he is, than all of these verses we have read are lies! We will wrestle with satan, but it will be as the conquerors that we are through Christ! We will go into all of the world and run satan and evil off from every area that we are led in! From the sidelines satan will attempt to stop us, but there is no weapon that he has and there is no one that he is control of that can come against us as we stand united with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords!
Will we be persecuted for the testimony that we are used by God to share, absolutely, but God will deliver us from it and we will win, and God will receive the praise and glory and others will see it and God will be praised! Death has no victory over us, to be absent from the body is to be present with Christ! Persecution has no victory over us, we are more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us. We win, each and every time. I know it’s not preached, I mean we hear sermons that ask why do bad things happen to good people? But through persecution we grow in the strength of the Lord. When we are weak, He is strong and His strength is perfected in our weakness! We win each and every time. No one who has said yes to Jesus, who has truly accepted Him as Lord, ever looses, ever! All things now work for our good! “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28
We are preserved blameless, sanctified wholly, delivered from every evil work, preserved until Heaven, sealed with the Holy Spirit, thoroughly furnished, without blemish, glorified with Jesus’ glory, we have His mind, His Spirit, His anointing, all so that we may be perfect until the day that He is revealed. That is what God say’s and it is Truth, and it is righteousness, and it is fact! It’s what you are born of and if you have said yes to Jesus it is in you, you can’t help but believe it, it’s what you are. We may not fully understand it, we may still be immature, but this is the seed we have been born of, it’s in our spiritual makeup, our Godly DNA!
We are one with Jesus who sanctifies us, God makes our way perfect, He established our hearts unblameable before Him in love, our righteousness is of God, He has quickened our mortal bodies and He has predestined us to be conformed to the very image of Jesus! We are completely and thoroughly furnished unto ever-good work. God will keep us and preserve us until we get to Heaven. These scriptures are for us today and in Jesus’ Name they are going to be lived and enjoyed and shared, no longer just talked about, but lived!
Stop right there and read that verse again, “The Lord, Jesus, will deliver us from every evil work, and Jesus will preserve us unto His Heavenly Kingdom.” Jesus proclaimed that satan came to steal from us, to kill us, and to destroy us! So what, who cares about what satan came to do, we care what Jesus came and did! What would Jesus do (WWJD)? He will keep us from evil and He will preserve us, that is what Jesus will do! Praise God, how awesome is that, Jesus will deliver us from every evil work! The Truth is God is for us, who or what can be against us? The Truth is God has made us more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us! No weapon formed against us will prosper, our darkness is as the noonday, and we are preserved and sealed with the Holy Spirit of God! Let satan try to do what he came for, Jesus is our Shepherd, the thief will be ran off each and every time!
But what if we are killed for testifying about Jesus? “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” 1 Corinthians 15:55
What if we are throne into jail and persecuted for believing? “And to him they agreed: and when they had called the Apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.” Acts 5:40-42
There is not one area in a believer’s life that satan can win at, not one! If he could than we would have to throw 2 Timothy 4:18 out, it would be false, because God would not deliver us from every evil work.
"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth you, Who also will do it." 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
Paul, Peter, John, all of the Apostles, and all of the Prophets in the Bible suffered persecution, Jesus teaches us that we will too, but God will deliver us from every evil work. I hear it preached all of the time, the struggles that we have with satan, people there is no struggle with satan! If you have said yes to Jesus and have allowed Him to be the Lord of your life, satan is no longer a threat to you! You have been sealed with the Holy Ghost, so tell me how it is that satan can penetrate the Holy Ghost to harm you? Tell me if Jesus is our Shepherd; how it is that satan can get by Him? Tell me how it is that if God is preserving us and keeping us from evil until Heaven, that He can fail? Satan is not an issue for the believer, he wants to make you think he is, but if he is, than all of these verses we have read are lies! We will wrestle with satan, but it will be as the conquerors that we are through Christ! We will go into all of the world and run satan and evil off from every area that we are led in! From the sidelines satan will attempt to stop us, but there is no weapon that he has and there is no one that he is control of that can come against us as we stand united with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords!
Will we be persecuted for the testimony that we are used by God to share, absolutely, but God will deliver us from it and we will win, and God will receive the praise and glory and others will see it and God will be praised! Death has no victory over us, to be absent from the body is to be present with Christ! Persecution has no victory over us, we are more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us. We win, each and every time. I know it’s not preached, I mean we hear sermons that ask why do bad things happen to good people? But through persecution we grow in the strength of the Lord. When we are weak, He is strong and His strength is perfected in our weakness! We win each and every time. No one who has said yes to Jesus, who has truly accepted Him as Lord, ever looses, ever! All things now work for our good! “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28
We are preserved blameless, sanctified wholly, delivered from every evil work, preserved until Heaven, sealed with the Holy Spirit, thoroughly furnished, without blemish, glorified with Jesus’ glory, we have His mind, His Spirit, His anointing, all so that we may be perfect until the day that He is revealed. That is what God say’s and it is Truth, and it is righteousness, and it is fact! It’s what you are born of and if you have said yes to Jesus it is in you, you can’t help but believe it, it’s what you are. We may not fully understand it, we may still be immature, but this is the seed we have been born of, it’s in our spiritual makeup, our Godly DNA!
We are one with Jesus who sanctifies us, God makes our way perfect, He established our hearts unblameable before Him in love, our righteousness is of God, He has quickened our mortal bodies and He has predestined us to be conformed to the very image of Jesus! We are completely and thoroughly furnished unto ever-good work. God will keep us and preserve us until we get to Heaven. These scriptures are for us today and in Jesus’ Name they are going to be lived and enjoyed and shared, no longer just talked about, but lived!
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