Deliverance

DELIVERANCE  

            God brings deliverance when we trust in God alone for victory.

1 Samuel 14:12, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.

            More times than once in the Word of God, we see God bringing the victory when a man or woman’s faith is wholly in God. On the flip side, when they don’t hold the reigns of faith they go down in defeat. In 1 Samuel 14, we see this very principle on display when Jonathan tells his armor bearer that the Lord hath delivered the Philistines into their hands. This shout of victory was proclaimed before the victory had been won. This is Jonathan’s faith in God on display for you and I.

            Today, you may be facing some of the largest battles you have ever faced. Cancer, divorce, or even a wayward child can seem to be overwhelming at times. Child of God, the Lord will deliver you out of the hands of the enemy if you hold the reigns of faith tight! Don’t give into the temptations of the devil! Don’t give up in the good fight of faith! Because God brings deliverance when we trust in Him alone for victory!

WE NEED TO BE DELIVERED!

When a man who professes to be converted says that he goes into the world and into sin for pleasure, it is as if an angel went to hell for enjoyment. –Spurgeon

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. Romans 7:24-25

Many Christians are bound up in their sin because they have not yielded their life to the Spirit living in them. While the natural man cannot get out of yielding to the flesh, the carnal man has the means in which to be set free but continues to live in sin. What makes the difference? What gives victory in a lost man’s life? What sets the captive free from the bondage of sin? What gives the carnal man the freedom from sin he desires? Jesus Christ is the only hope for peace the natural man or the carnal man has.

Are you living in sin? Do you battle with your flesh? Is there a war raging inside you that no one else knows about? Jesus can deliver you! Yield you life to Him! Give in, give up, and give it all to the Lord!

Free, Free, Free...I said FREE!

What we mean by salvation is this-deliverance from the love of sin, rescue from the habit of sin, setting free from the desire to sin. –Spurgeon

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Galatians 5:1

This morning, I am reminded of the fact we are free from the grips of sin. Not by anything I have done but by His grace we have the power to say no. We have the power to choose right. We have the power to be delivered from temptation.

How is that preacher; when we yield our mind, our body, our will over to His. Consider this scripture: “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.” Galatians 5:16-17