Revival 2010: Heart To Heart

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Operation Hope International

Randy Skeete

Who Issued Your Passport?

Our loving Father in heaven, we thank you, dear God, for this priceless privilege of coming into your presence.

We thank you, Father, for the privilege of worshiping in a country that allows us to do that without persecution or molestation.

Now, Lord, as this word is presented, I ask you in the name of Jesus, grant me the right words to speak, the right spirit with which to speak these words, that the truth may be undamaged, the truth may triumph, Your people blessed and Your name glorified.

Touch each of us according to our needs and Your will for our lives.

Matthew chapter 12, reading from verse 22.

If you do not have a Bible, move close to someone who does have 1.

Do you have Matthew, the very first Gospel?

Matthew was a thief before Jesus Christ met him.

So if there's a thief in this congregation, Let Jesus Christ touch your heart and he will transform you from a thief to a powerful disciple.

He met Christ and he gave his life for the gospel There is no life that Jesus Christ Cannot change if that life is given to him Matthew chapter 12 reading from verse 22 The Bible says then was brought unto him 1 possessed with the devil, blind and dumb.

And he healed him in so much that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.

And the People were amazed and said, is not this the son of David?

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, this fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub, the prince of the devils.

And Jesus knew their thoughts and said, every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation.

And every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

If Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself, how shall then his kingdom stand?

Which is a very reasonable question as Jesus defends the miracle that he performed.

And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out?

Verse 28, but if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.

It is well known, The healing of the man who was blind and dumb.

But this passage records more than simply a miracle of Jesus Christ.

It records a war on a small, localized scale.

It records mutual hostility between 2 armies facing each other, 2 powers, indeed 2 kingdoms.

I repeat, 2 kingdoms were at war in the miracle that transformed that man's life from blind and dumb to speaking and seeing.

Listen to the words of Jesus Christ reading from verse 25 of Matthew chapter 12.

And Jesus knew their thoughts and said, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

If Satan cast out Satan he is divided against himself how shall then his kingdom?

What is Jesus Christ telling us in those words?

And a kingdom is no kingdom unless there are what?

He said of himself in John 14 6, I am the way, the truth.

Satan has a kingdom and his kingdom has subjects.

In verse 28 Jesus goes on to say, but if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God then the kingdom of God is come unto you.

What we have are 2 kingdoms, the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan.

I told you that this miracle was really a war.

When Jesus Christ healed this man, that man was in the kingdom of Satan.

You cannot be a child of God and be possessed by devils.

You can be a child of God and be troubled and harassed, but you cannot be a child of God and be possessed by devils.

When you're a child of God, you are possessed by the Spirit.

And so this man, blind and dumb, was a captive in Satan's kingdom and Jesus Christ launched an attack, broke into Satan's kingdom and released that captive.

That is why Jesus said in verse 29 of Matthew 12 or else how can 1 enter into a strong man's house and spoil his goods unless he first bind the strong man And then he will spoil his house.

What Jesus Christ was saying, what you saw me do was the binding of Satan.

You saw me breaking into Satan's house, meaning his kingdom.

You saw me launching an attack on Satan's kingdom to release 1 of his captives.

The reason why Jesus Christ has to break in and release people is because Satan does not let you go.

Go to Isaiah chapter 14, reading from verse 12.

Our double titled messages, who issued your passport or the United States has 3 precedents.

I can hear your pages turning have you found Isaiah 14 yet?

Reading from verse 12 the Bible says, how art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer son of the morning?

How art thou cut down to the ground which this weekend the nations?

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven.

I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.

I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north.

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds.

Yet, thou shalt be brought down to hell to the sides of the pit.

This is God speaking now that you will be brought down.

And God is saying, but I will bring you down.

They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying is this the man that made the earth to tremble?

By the way 1 day the children of God and the children of Satan will see Satan.

And when we see him, we will say, is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms, that made the world as a wilderness and destroyed the cities thereof and listen to how verse 17 ends that Opened not the house of whom?

Don't let anyone distract you tonight When Satan has you, he does not let you go.

Unless he is forced by a greater power, And the only power that's greater than the power of Satan is the power of God, whether in the person of the Father, of the Son, or of the Holy Ghost.

I repeat, when Satan has you, he does not let you go.

You cannot decide to leave Satan's kingdom, you cannot do it.

Now you can make all the decisions you like, but you cannot carry it out.

A human being cannot leave Satan's kingdom.

Which means with Satan, there is no freedom.

But in the kingdom of Christ, you can leave anytime you like.

You can decide Jesus, I've had it with you, I'm gone.

Of course, when you say that, you only have 1 other place to go and that is Satan's kingdom.

Understand me clearly, not McDonald's, Satan's kingdom.

In his the kingdom of Christ, let me repeat you can leave any time you like Christ will cry he cannot force you to stay in the kingdom of Satan you cannot leave And so Jesus has to break you out.

There are people who are trapped in Satan's kingdom.

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