Tearing Down Community Strongholds

You want to sleep in peace Dr. Tony Evans is rare for workers with leaders as anxious heavens, this is the alternative Tony author, speaker and pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas and president of the alternative.

Sometimes it seems like nothing we do makes a difference in Satan is an expert at using that attitude to keep our neighborhoods. Under his control.

Let's join Dr. Evans as he explains how you and your church can break out of isolation, to be the salt and light your community needs.

Today we want to look at what kind of stronghold city nation's can be held hostage in this realm of spiritual spiritual presume something that is responsible for every battle on earth, we are told by Paul the apostle we wrestle not against flesh and blood places so can make a mess of what is down the salt daily and that is why when you battle on any one of the categories personal, family, church, or even in our society where we do not start layout, we could very well be wasting our time down the because we were not against flesh and blood with me. First of all, the problem in Colossians chapter 1. What we read about Jesus Christ in verse 15. The image of the God Jesus Christ is the only man the firstborn of all creation by Christ. All things were created in heaven, whether throttle or domain authority were created by all throws the principalities and powers throws the menu, principalities and powers to get together energy for the principality of power to operate and doing things through institutions being controlled like string bass outside of themselves and listen to me if you got a problem on your job. We convulse if you gotta throw problem in the state of the city government or national government.

If you gotta throw problem any signs of life. The first thing that can cost you up against. The first thing to do is get on math so that they can help you down the site. Satan's control so other community institutions because communities are collections of people and therefore the management of those community institutional in nature, industry and government created by God but we know that those good things can become a principal operator.

The visual operates with a institution and that is the powers that be under the influence of the evil one term in Exodus chapter 1 that we know the story of Exodus, the children of Israel hostage or institutionally pagan place called Egypt and unrighteous throw Pharaoh. He had unrighteous demons controlling the idols of the gods of Egypt had unrighteous regime unrighteous laws. It wasn't just oppressive environment seven son of Israel were fit for an increase in the multiplied and became exceedingly mighty. The land was full of those who did not know Joseph all the people of the sons of Israel. We interesting statement by a mighty king about a people only had Shepherd books and have been fighting weapons widely with them.

They multiplied an event of also doing themselves a godly joyride to me in the path reported that over them with hard labor and storage cities. Israel helps out the enemy. They build storage places as well all watt installment and ask exactly what the devil wants you to do to make life so miserable like Pharaoh to be a slave to have no victory and even wind up helping Satan out you wind up building storage places the Pharaoh labor charge help save now buy out the powerlessness, the theology of the one to get my theology up to the thing was between the trial and the bird give thanks for everything we say thanks for everything that is of God. If my child thank you much more drugs you have the power to deliver my child drugs. So what you want to do is find God for what he can do through a trial but you know God burden the government will excuse the responsibility Israel had become content to be slaves to me.

In fact, verse 14 says they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and all kinds of labor in the field all their labors which they rigorously imposed on them. They want to publicly thank you Lord we miserable the enemy's agenda. So don't let Satan to you in the given thanks to God for putting that off. Satan wants to keep you in the spiritual kitchen want to become a soldier of the cross spiritual kitchen to keep you from becoming so ill not have to worry about you leaving his kingdom Egypt so long when you know how to operate in the cave because we accept unchangeable God good news.

By the way of business. Chapter 2 verse 23 men came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died in the southern Israel side because of their bondage that was all. Life is so miserable how you doing okay under the circumstances Bayside because of their bondage.

But please notice the cover 23 and cried out and made a cry for help because of their bondage to God, so God and God remembered with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and God saw the son of Israel and noticed there.

They transport the problem with that secular community to God and stairs and he said let me come down here and get in this and the story of Israel. The leverage from Asia did not begin until they cried to. I contact was made that was not a change in the actual owner they were dudes in the giving up until they remembered God too many times we are really agency and not an army. We just want People that we don't want to set people free. And God wants to set people free, not secondly, the power over these kind of community strongholds is just like the power of any of you in Christ is beginning Colossians 2, he says, in Colossians 214 having canceled out the certificate of data consisting of the grieving against the end which were hostile to us. He is taken out of the way, having nailed it to the cross, when he had just the ruler, but having mouth authority you remember in chapter 1 authority to lead all the ones that have been a public display of them having all over them. By this. Chapter 2 Paul said what he created in chapter 9 chapter 120 grid said bluntly, chapter 2, by virtue of his work on the cross so even drones, dominions, authorities and powers no longer have the final say so. Jesus has overcome the demonic influence was that man means we gotta get people who are Christians in places like that will bring Jesus Christ the bear and righteousness to exist in the oceans because Jesus Christ by virtue of its cost. The spiritual part of it come down here and overcome the physical part, 2000 spiritual body. Ephesians 1 Paul prays that what he says. I pray verse 18 of the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope of his calling as of the glory of inheritance in the same one of the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe these are in accordance with the working of the strength of his life which he brought about in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at the right hand in heavenly places where verse 21 far above all authority and power and dominion, Colossians, and everything that his name not only in this age but in the aged, get 22, 23, put all things in subjection free and gave him as head over all things to the church which is his body all in all of the body not doing anything that had a job. The body's job is to go ahead. That is implemented now execute what is been accomplished by Christ on the cross in our community. The going down is because Christians is been all the time in church will be the church but it means we have not taken the kingdom of God beyond the four walls so that God's people everywhere, demonstrating the everywhere in the playoffs.

But Jesus is because if they were, we would be seeing a greater impact in our culture. For Christians, when Dr. Evans comes back in just a moment to have some specific phosphorus about what the church should be up to. So don't go away.

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You will get your family.

Unless Jesus is in the center of this church we will get our church prayer. Finances discharge makes Jesus the center of the community. The community helped he must think in the middle that is all eyes focused Dr. 2011 with the promise that when Christ is your focus. You can be in overcome her in this world. Today's message wraps up Dr. Evans series on spiritual warfare and there's a lot of material we haven't had time to present on the year.

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There's a lot we can learn in times like these. Tomorrow he'll explore how we can recognize the things God provides for us even when they look like they're coming from somewhere else right now though he's back to share a final thought and offer an important invitation. A lot of people exist, but don't feel like they're living the good news of the gospel is Jesus came to give you life that is the experience of God's reality operating with you. That's what the Bible calls eternal life. We get to heaven as a location eternal life is inexperienced and he gives it to you for free. That's what grace is about.

It's a gift you can't earn it. You can buy it, you can't be religious enough to get it, but you can receive it. And so God offers the opportunity for you right now to receive the forgiveness of sins and the free gift of eternal life, which will set in motion a whole life long experience of growing in the knowledge of God. Let's get this thing started right now by you going to Jesus Christ and saying to him, Lord Jesus.

I believe you died on the cross in my place for my sin. I now accept you as my personal substitute come into my life I receive you now as my only Savior I received the gift of eternal life that you promise to give me if I came to you for thank you for your salvation in Jesus day the alternative Dr. Tony have made possible by the generous