223: Roger Lewis – The Strongman and the Spoiling of His House

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This week’s talk is by Brother
Roger Lewis.

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It’s called the parable of the
strong man and the spoiling of

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his house.
This was a I think it’s an

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evening lecture from what I can
tell.

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It’s presented on zoom in.
Is suggested to me by Brother

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via text.
He sent me the link to it on

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YouTube it was a classic Roger
Lewis talk.

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It’s he has a I think a really
distinct style.

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We’ve his his he’s been on the
on the on the podcast a few

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times now and this this talk
Falls right into that mode.

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His kind of usual Exposition for
the first half, maybe 65% the

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talk and then starts really
pounding.

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NG the exhortation point that
this talk makes, which I thought

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was excellent.
Just the essentially, and

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obviously, he’s says this in a
lot more detail, but The Binding

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of the strong man is a type of
the work that Jesus has done in

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defeating sin but also a type of
the work that we need to do in

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specifically addressing our
usual sin Tendencies.

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And I really thought the That
those points quite well, this

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talk, I listen to it in my car
but it is one.

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If if you have the time to get
your Bible out and to make the

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notes because he, it’s very fun
to hear the the Old Testament

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references that he draws out.
So, if that’s available to you,

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I would suggest that again.
I said this was a suggestion by

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a friend, thank you.
And we really feed off those.

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I wish somebody we should maybe
The show kind of what our inner

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process looks like but there’s a
whole list now on our working

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Board of the different
suggestions that people have

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sent in to us through the email,
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We when we first started the

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show we were kind of listen we
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talks to find ones that we could
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So anyway thanks thanks again to
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Here is the strong man and the
spoiling.

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His house study.
Luke 11 by Brother, Roger Louis.

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We’re going to look this evening
at this little Parable in Luke

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chapter 11, which we might
describe as The Binding of the

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strong man and the spoiling of
his house.

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Now that Parable is found in all
three of the synoptic gospels.

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And at first sight, it seems to
be the same Parable, but I think

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when we look more closely at the
text, it suggests that that

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Luke’s account is set at a
different time to the other

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twos, clearly worded in a
different way.

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And in fact, no distinct.
Those differences adds to our

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appreciation of The richness and
the detail of of what it was

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that the Lord was teaching.
So, our study tonight is going

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to be based upon Luke’s account,
but we will briefly cross to the

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other gospels along the way.
Now there was, of course, a

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background to the parable.
There’s always a background to

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The Parables and finding that
context is the key to properly

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interpret, the mystery of who
the strongman might be.

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And what the Spoiling of his
house might involve.

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So, do you notice what the
record says here in Luke 11

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reading from verse 14?
It C is and he was casting out a

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devil and it was done and it
came to pass when the devil was

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gone out the dumb speak and the
people wondered would devil.

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Here is diammonium the demon and
Matthew actually say is that

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this man was both blind and
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In other words, he was so
damaged by the extent of his

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Affliction that people were
amazed at the success of Christ.

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They were astonished that he was
able to heal such a tragic case.

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Well, at least some of the
people were amazed.

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But not everybody.
Because you notice that the next

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verse says, verse 15 but some of
them see and he casteth out

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Devils through Beelzebub.
The chief of the devils and it

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was a hateful as spiteful
insinuation and it didn’t just

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come from anyone.
Because Mark’s gospel tells us

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in marks 3 verse 22 and the
scribes which came down from

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Jerusalem, said he Beelzebub.
And by the prince of devils, he

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cast out devils.
You see, they couldn’t dispute

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the miracle itself.
So they were forced instead to

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discredit or try and discredit
how the Lord might have

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accomplished it.
And it wasn’t just a false

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suggestion.
It was a very foolish one as the

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Lord would show because what
they Proclaim, what they

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suggested, in fact, defied logic
and common sense, it was the

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suggestion of those who were
desperate to discredit the

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Lord’s power.
Because the one thing that they

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could not bring themselves to
admit, was that it might be from

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God himself.
And I think there’s an

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implication and the gospel
records.

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When we read them carefully that
in fact, they didn’t say these

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words and verse 15 directly to
Christ.

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I think what they did is they
mingled with the multitude and

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insidiously surreptitiously.
They whispered the idea from ear

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to ear From person to person.
That the Lord was in League with

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the devil, didn’t say it out
loud to the law that Matthew

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says, he perceiving their
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It was a blatant Endeavor to
undermine the work of the father

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in the Sun.
Now you notice in verse 15.

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The record says it uses the word
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blz bull finishing with an l and
not Abby.

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And the word blz bul means
literally, lord of the house.

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And I think what follows in
Christ’s words is a deliberate

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allusion to the meaning of that
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That the Jews use the term as a
title, to represent the power of

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Satan bills evil there, which is
opposed to God and his ways.

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Well, now, the Lord’s going to
answer that unjust insinuation.

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And so, he says this in verse
17, It says, but he knowing

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their thoughts said unto them.
Every Kingdom divided against

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itself is brought to desolation.
And A house divided against a

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house.
Fourth.

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You see Nations a kingdom and
Families Our House.

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Do not deliberately embarked
upon a course of

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self-destruction.
Civil War in a kingdom and

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sibling rivalry in a family.
Can only ever be destructive to

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their future, both can only
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harmony.
So to suggest that Christ used

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the power of Satan to overthrow
the kingdom of Satan.

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Was to argue that Satan fought
against his own realm.

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Now, Satan, of course, means
adversary, but he would hardly

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be an adversary to himself.
And so, the Lord says in Luke 11

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verse 18, if Satan also be
divided against himself, how

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shall his kingdom stand?
Because he say that, I cast out

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Devils by Devils by Beelzebub,
why would Satan see?

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Seek to publicly demolish, his
own kingdom in the sight of

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others, all know, there was a
much better.

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Explanations is the Lord if
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threat, it clearly was Because
another kingdom had challenged

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it.
And notice how Christ says,

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because ye say that I cast out
Devils by his big by builds

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evil.
In other words, he replied by

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using their own argument, to
show its fundamental weakness

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and it’s fatal flaw.
Actually marks is and Mark 3,

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verse 23 called them unto him
and said unto them in Parables,

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how can Satan cast out Satan and
that teaching?

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I’m by Parables, will lead us
eventually into the parable of

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The Binding of the strong, man,
and the spoiling of his house

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which will follow shortly in
this record.

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And so Jesus says in verse 19,
Luke 11 verse 19 and / blz will

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cast out Devils by whom do, your
son’s cast them out?

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Therefore, shall they be your
judges?

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Now, evidently in these times,
there were certain Jews who

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pretended to exorcise demons and
they probably did it for

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financial gain.
We read of one such account in

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Luke 9 verse 49 when it says
John answered and said, Master,

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we saw one casting out devils in
thy name and we forbad him

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because he followeth not with
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There’s another one and x, 19
verse 13.

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When it C is uncertain of the
beggar bomb, do use exorcists

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took upon them to call over them
which had evil spirits, the name

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of the Lord Jesus.
And there were seven sons of one

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skiver, a Jew and chief of the
priests which did so.

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So, here were protégées of the
Jewish leaders who perform such

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wonders.
There were probably encouraged

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by the Pharisees themselves who
enjoy And the influence and the

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recognition of brought them,
they had Wonder workers at their

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disposal that they never
suggested that these miracle

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workers that these ones were in
League with Satan.

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So he was the problem, you see,
they either had to admit that

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these Miracles by their own
followers, prove that they also

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were working with Satan, which
is what they’re claiming of the

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Lord.
Or they had to admit, they were

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fraudulent.
Oh, they had to concede that.

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There might be, in fact must be
a higher power which made such

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Miracles possible and it was
that higher power which the Lord

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was cleaning. as he made evident
in the very next verse, Because

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Jesus says in verse 20, but if
I, he says with the Finger of

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God cast out Devils, no doubt
the kingdom of God is come upon

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you.
Now, interestingly, the record

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in Matthew says that if I have
met Matthew 12 verse 28 says,

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but if I cast out Devils by the
spirit of God, then the kingdom

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of God has come up to you.
And that was true as to the

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power that Christ.
Will, that was the spirit of God

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that the Lord used.
But the Gordon.

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Luke shows that Christ used a
different expression because

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Luke says that the Lord said, if
I with the Finger of God cast

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out devils and that was a
deliberate Old Testament.

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Illusion, you see, in the days
of Moses, The Magician’s of

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Egypt tried to copy his plagues.
But when it came to the plague

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of the lice, they couldn’t, they
found it impossible to duplicate

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and they confess their inability
to do the same thing.

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And and these were the words
they use to confess their

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inability to copy Moses, Exodus
8 verse 19.

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So you madinat Sees In The
Magician’s send unto Pharaoh,

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this is the Finger of God.
In other words, they Knowledge

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that this miracle was beyond
human power to perform that it

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could only be accounted for on
the basis of divine intervention

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and it was this phrase that
Christ will use in his answer to

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the scribes.
In Luke chapter 11, what a

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splendid passage for the Lord to
allude to in his response to

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those who could only pretend to
copy his works of healing.

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So what then did his miraculous
his own miraculous cures

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indicate.
Well, he says, so in the, in the

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verse 20, he says, if I with the
Finger of God cast out Devils,

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no doubt the kingdom of God is
come upon you.

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So what are the Lord mean, when
he said that brothers and

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sisters in what way, could he
say that by this means the

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kingdom of God, had come upon
them?

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Well, I suggest that the answer
is that in Luke’s gospel,

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particularly in Luke’s gospel,
the term kingdom of God is often

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a reference to Christ himself.
This is come back and look at

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those two or three of those just
to establish that connection in.

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Luke chapter 10, and verse 9.
The record says that the Lord

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said to his disciples heal, the
sick that are therein and say

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unto them.
The kingdom of God is come nigh

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unto you as a reference and fact
to himself to the Lord.

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Jesus Christ here in, in Luke
11, we’re going to have the same

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thing verse 20.
If I, if I perform Miracles, the

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kingdom of God has come upon you
that that that is a reference to

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the manifestation of Jesus
Christ in their midst.

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Luke chapter 17 says in verses,
20 and 21.

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And when he was demanded of the
Pharisees, when the kingdom of

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God should come He answered and
said the kingdom of God cometh,

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not with observation.
Neither shall they?

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Say Lo here, or Lo there for
behold the kingdom of God is

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among you.
He says right now, it was among

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them because he himself was
there, Luke 17 verses 20 and 21

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and in Luke chapter 21 and verse
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The way called will say.
So likewise, when you see these

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things come to pass, You know,
ye that the kingdom of God is

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nigh at hand and right there.
And right now, the Royal Majesty

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of the kingdom was in the amidst
buzzer sisters in the form of

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our Lord.
Jesus Christ himself and the

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cures that Christ affected were,
but a taste of the past that he

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would command in the Kingdom age
at self the reality of the

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kingdom of God, had come upon
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In the form of its king.
The challenge was would they

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recognize it and bow before him?
Actually notice what it does.

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Say in Luke 11, verse 20.
Just reading that last phrase a

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little more carefully.
He says, if I have done such

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things by the Finger of God,
there no doubt.

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The kingdom of God is come upon
you but then still phrase come

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upon you.
If fessenden if hymas means

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literally to come before.
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It’s the same word.
And the first of this alone

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Ian’s 4:15 when it says that
that we which here and there

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will not prevent not go before
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So, this was a special warning.
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There’s was the first
opportunity to submit to the

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king.
It’s come before you ahead of

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everybody else.
But they would be others to

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follow from the Gentiles who
might be more prompt and their

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response to acknowledge the
king, then the Jews themselves

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and here in lay the challenge of
Christ.

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And now, finally, in Luke’s
gospel, we will come to the

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parable of the strong men and
his house.

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But before we examine Luke’s
account, we need to read what

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the other.
An Optics record in the wording

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of this particular Parable.
And we’re going to take this is

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not that we record from Mark’s
account and Matt chapter 3.

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So come back with me.
If you want to Mark chapter 3

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and it’s just see Max.
We called now similar to

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Matthews in terms of what they
say about the parable of the

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strong, man.
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In Mark chapter 3 and reading
from verse 27, the record says,

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no man can enter into a strong
mans house and spoil his Goods.

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Acceptable first bind the strong
man and then he will spoil his

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house.
Now, if you notice something

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interesting to notice here,
brothers and sisters, is that

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this Parable is not quite what.
It seems, you see this is not a

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parable about the plunder of
theft.

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It’s a parable about The Spoils
of War.

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You see, the thief broke in to
steal in the night.

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While the household, are they
asleep?

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But the Conqueror defeated his
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And then took Goods which were
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You see the strongman in this
Parable was wide awake, when the

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Invader came, he stood ready to
repel him.

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He stood ready to safeguard?
What was his?

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Now the house of a strong man
could ever be wrong, unless the

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strong man had first been beaten
in contests and tied up tight.

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Now, of course, the strongman in
the paranal is symbolic.

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Who ultimately had the ability
to hold all humankind enthrall,

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who ruled as Master commanding,
the absolute Obedience of all

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his subjects who finally possess
the power of death, there could

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be only one answer, this was
sin.

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Kingson.
The princely power of King sin.

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Personified.
Here is the strong man of the

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parable and if that was so and
the Kingston were the strong

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man, then the goods in the
strongman’s house, We’re

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actually people.
People Bound by the grip of

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sickness.
People Bound by their bias

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towards sin, and people finally
Bound by death in the grave. now

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the point of the Lord’s Parable
was that his miracles of

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healing, proved that he’d
already taken some of the goods

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from the strong mans house, and
he could only have done so, If

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he had the power to bind, the
strongman, his healings were the

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proof, it was an irrefutable
claim.

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And what’s interesting is that
this parable of Christ, We

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Believe had an Old Testament
that ground where the ideas of

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The Binding of the strong man
and the spoiling of us house.

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Were both to be found.
So if you come back to the Old

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Testament records remote to
Isaiah Before T done.

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We suggested this was the
persons that the Lord was using

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as the basis for this Parable in
Luke chapter 11 and in the other

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synoptic records because in
Isaiah 49 and reading verse 24,

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we come across these words.
It says there shall the prey be

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taken from the mighty or the
lawful captive delivered.

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But the Hebrew word for pray
here.

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Male caller, is the Old
Testament equivalent for the New

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Testament.
Word, spoil, the other part.

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So it literally means plunder,
both words mean the same thing.

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And the word mighty here in
verse 24 of Isaiah 49, Gabor and

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means fundamentally a strong
man.

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And now suddenly, the illusion
is clearer in effect.

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What the prophet crime is in
Isaiah 49 verse. 24 is shall the

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spoil be taken from the
strongman.

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In Reading from the revised
standard version or the captives

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of a tyrant be rescued.
And he is the very basis we

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suggest of the Lord’s Parable,
which we are looking at in the

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gospels and the prophet gave the
answer to his question in the

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very next verse when he said
these words and Isaiah, 49 verse

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25.
But thus saith Yahweh even the

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captives of the mighty shall be
taken away and the prey of the

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terrible shall be delivered
rival contained.

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Within that contain doth thee
and I will Save thy children.

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Now, you see in Isaiah’s day,
the reference of Isaiah 49

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verse. 25 was ^ Babylon.
It would, that would take Israel

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into captivity, a captivity that
seemed irreversible into a

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bondage that seemed unbreakable.
And yet declared the prophet,

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even the captives of the mighty
shall be taken away and the prey

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of the terrible shall be
delivered.

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It says the prophet Against All
Odds.

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The strongman would be
overpowered and those under his

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sway, would be delivered.
Now, how could this possibly be

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so?
Well, says, the recall denies

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Are.
God Alone had the power to do

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so.
And so he says in this verse I

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will contend, I will save So,
Yahweh seeing one who was

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stronger than the strong man of
develin and his people were

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delivered.
But that rescue out of that

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Merlin was a foreshadowing of
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Yahweh took his son, whom he
made strong for himself and sent

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him to do battle with the most
powerful, strong man of all the

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power of sin and death.
And now see how Lux own account

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of this, Parable will now draw
on Liza end in Rich these ideas.

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So, if you come back now to Luke
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Let’s now look at Luke’s record
looks own account of this.

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Parable of the strong, man.
This is how Luke writes about

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the parable.
Luke 11 verse 21.

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C, is whether strong man.
Keep of his Palace, his goods

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are in peace.
Actually in the Greek it’s the

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words home is schooled us.
The strong man.

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When these strong man keeps his
Palace, you see he is the

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strongest of them all sin.
Personified, as a mighty men and

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Invincible Champion.
A strong man who has hitherto

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never never once been beaten in
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He’s more than just a strong
man, because this first says

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he’s described here as a strong
man armed, the revised Standard

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Version says fully and he’s
ready to do battle with any who

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might strive to enter his house.
In fact, even the word keepeth

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here in verse 21 for Less owe to
God, means to keep by way of

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protection.
So the strongman has a palace

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filled with his Goods, which he
keeps under lock and key.

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And so secure is as Palace, so
strong, the guard that is good,

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the safe and secure which is
probably what the word piece

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really means in this place. but
in reality, so those checked

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within his Palace, It felt more
like the bondage of a prison

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house.
And then verse 22 says, but when

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a stronger than he shall come
upon him.

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Now, what a marvelous expression
brothers and sisters when a

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stronger than he shall come.
Do you know the world had waited

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for this man from the days of
the Garden of Eden?

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Soon, entered the world and
immediately held all within its

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grip and kept all under its
guard.

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There was no way out of the
strongman’s palace.

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Until our Lord came.
And what he did was to prove

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that he was stronger than the
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She’s like this is how it’s
described that contest in

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Hebrews chapter 2, which we
shan’t turn up at Hebrews 2,

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verses 14 and 15 series for as
much then as the children are

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partakers of Flesh and Blood.
He also himself likewise took

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part of the same that through
death he might destroy way Mouse

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ears, wind a powerless Robert
him says that he might paralyze

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him, that had the power of
death.

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That is the devil.
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Free them who through fear of
death were all their lifetime

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subject to bondage.
Do you think the world had

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waited for this man brothers and
sisters?

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We all waited for him and
because he was Stronger, he

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overcame the strongman and
reached right into his Palace to

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spoil his Goods.
In fact, The verse says, in Luke

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11 verse 21 verse 22, when a
stronger than he shall come upon

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them.
He shall overcome him and the

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word overcome, and the KO means
of course, to conquer and

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Prevail.
And that’s exactly what our Lord

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did.
John 16 Verse 33 cities in the

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world ye shall have tribulation
but be of good cheer.

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I have overcome the world.
In Revelation 3 verse 21 that

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says to him that overcometh.
Will I grant to sit with me and

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my throne?
Even as I overcame and a.m. set

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down with my father in his
throne you see this is what the

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Lord and come to do.
His great mission was to

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overcome the strong men in his
own house and to take something

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from him.
As the verse goes on to say,

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Verse 22.
Not only shall he overcome him,

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but he will take from him all
his armor wherein he trusteth.

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Now, it’s interesting that that
word armor in the Greek as the

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word pain of clear.
It literally means full armor.

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It’s the word used.
Incidentally, in Ephesians 6,

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verse 11 and verse 13, where
it’s translated hole.

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And Vines is of the Greek word
panoply.

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It says, among the Greeks, the
pain appear was the complete

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equipment used by heavily armed
infantry.

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See this strong man was covered
in armor.

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From top to toe, he was armed to
the teeth.

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And yet.
He’d been defeated and the proof

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of his defeat.
Was it all that armor?

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We when he trusted?
Had been taken by another the

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stronger than he.
Now that is a Bible Eco.

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Isn’t it brother and sisters
that reminds us?

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Don’t you think of another time
and another circumstance?

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When a man Took the armor of he
whom he had defeated now

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whereabouts.
Is that in the record?

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It’s in the first of Samuel
chapter 17, come back to the

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Battle of David and Goliath.
And and just notice how

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beautifully the record of of
David’s conquest of Goliath is

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clearly one of the Old Testament
passages that our Lord must have

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had in mind as he gave the
parable of the strong, man, and

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Luke Chapter 11, so the record
say is and perhaps reading first

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of Samuel 17 verse 54
connection, it says the so David

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prevailed over the Philistine
with a sling, and with a stone

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and smote the Philistine and
slew him There was no sword in

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the hand of David there for
David ran and stood upon the

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Philistines and took his sword,
took his sword and do it out of

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the sheet there of and slew him
and cut off his head, there with

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them.
When the Philistines saw their

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Champion was dead, they fled.
So how was David introduced to

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the nation of Israel?
And the answer is, why is the

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man who was stronger than the
strong, man, and able to bind

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him?
And when David did that the

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effect upon his own people was
absolutely electric.

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You see, they saw that the
champion of the flesh that Gabor

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of the strongman was utterly
defeated.

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And in that moment, they were
transformed from those gripped

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by the despair of facing
inevitable, bondage to those who

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never contemplate in Freedom
from their oppressor.

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And that’s what Samuel goes on
to say, verse 52.

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I’ll first of Samuel 17 says the
men of Israel and of Judah arose

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and shuttered and pursued the
Philistines until our come to

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the valley into the gates of
ekron.

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And the wounded of the
Philistines fell down, by the

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way, to shut, array, and even
unto death, and untick Ron.

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And suddenly the whole nation
was emboldened to fight with

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their hero.
David, Whose example inspired

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them.
In fact, there’s 53 says the

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children of Israel turned from
chasing after the Philistines

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and they spoiled the intents.
You know, you couldn’t rightly

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unjustly understand that David
might have claimed The Spoils of

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War that day has rightfully.
Here’s, don’t you think To the

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victor the spoils after all?
It was he who had slain the

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strong man And the we could see
isn’t Samuel, that David was

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content on that day, not to take
all to himself.

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But to share The Spoils of
Victory with the people they

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spoiled, their tents says the
week award.

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But do you notice what David did
claim?

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He wanted two things for himself
and so we’re told in verse 54,

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David took the head of the
Philistine and brought it to

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Jerusalem.
He took the head of the

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strongman and buried it in the
city where the final Victory

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against sin would be fought and
won.

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The skull of Goliath probably
came to rest at Golgotha, the

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place of the skull.
You see David recognized that

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his victory over the giant was a
foreshadowing of the battle that

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the Lord would win against the
strong man of sin in that very

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place.
But this 54 also see is, did you

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notice?
And he put his armor.

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In his tent.
He took Goliath’s Armor, All six

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pieces of it and placed it in
his tent.

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As the proof of his victory.
It was the armor.

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We’re in Goliath had trusted
that it failed to deliver him

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from David Stone.
Now, he is surely, was the very

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scripture that Christ had in
mind and how encouraged he must

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have been.
My David’s marvelous Victory

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against all the odds.
In fact Christ, when he made

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quotation from this episode said
this is what Luke says when a

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stronger than he shall come upon
them and overcome.

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He taketh from him, all his
armor, wherein he trusteth all,

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yes, bones.
As I think the Lord had David

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story in mind, don’t you think?
So, he was a champion just like

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David who was prepared to share
the rewards of his victory

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because the Lord went Say, he
taketh from a mall as armor.

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And divideth his spoils.
And I wonder whether the Lord

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had another Old Testament
passage in mind and a famous one

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at that when he added those
words and divideth the spoils.

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Now we as that find, that wasn’t
sisters, isn’t that eyes eyes?

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Prophecy of the suffering
servant, in Isaiah 53.

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Come and have a look at the last
two verses of Isaiah 53, because

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I think we can hear in the
Lord’s words are further

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allusion to this famous prophecy
about his own sacrificial

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suffering and death.
Now, here’s what it says, in

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Isaiah 53.
This is 11 and 12.

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He shall see of the travail of
his soul and shall be satisfied.

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By his knowledge shall my
righteous servant justify many

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for he shall bear their
iniquities.

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Therefore will I divide him a
portion with the great and he

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shall divide the spoil with the
strong because he poured out his

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soul unto death and he was
numbered with the transgressors

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and he bare the sin of many and
made intercession for the

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transgressors.
See at such an astonishing in

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The prophecy of Isaiah 53, isn’t
that ancestors?

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It’s all about submission and
suffering about sorrow and death

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00:38:41,300 –> 00:38:47,900
and yet suddenly the chapter
ends with the victory, march of

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the triumphant Warrior who
shares The Spoils of his amazing

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Victory, with those who are
associated with him, the many

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who matching in his strength
have associated with him.

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In the battle.
Just as the Israelites did with

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David in his day, And that’s
this phrase out of Isaiah 53.

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He shall divide the spoil.
That’s woven into Luke’s account

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of The Binding of the strong man
and the spoiling of his house.

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That’s how Luke will conclude
the parable.

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When he says, in Luke 11 verse
22, he taketh from him, Alma’s

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armor were in each fastest and
divide of his spoils.

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But now come back to Luke’s
gospel and see how he draws the

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final excitation out of this
story for the purposes of the

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Lord’s hearers in the Lord’s own
time.

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Back in Luke chapter 11, we read
these words and I think they’re

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absolutely connected with the
parable.

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The parable seems to finish and
Luke 11.

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Verse 22, but not quite.
So I think because in Luke 11

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verse 23, the Lord then said he
that is not with me is against

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me and he that gathereth not
with me, scattereth Now, these

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words are taken from Brother
John Carter’s book Parables of

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00:40:26,200 –> 00:40:28,600
the Messiah, in his brief
comments on this.

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Parable in Pages, 81 and 82, dr.
Carter put it this way.

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In commenting on this.
See that’s not with me is

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against me and he that gathereth
not with me, scattereth by the

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Carter said soon was strong.
But not invincible.

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There was a stronger than he who
could bind him as a captive and

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liberators captives.
The power of Jesus to do, it was

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shown in the removal by him then
and there of the effects of

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Satan’s power over the demoniac,
but since the work of Jesus is

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thus seem to be related to the
conflict of sin and

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righteousness in the world.
Men are not allowed to be

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neutrals.
To espouse the cause of

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00:41:23,100 –> 00:41:28,900
righteousness is a duty.
Neutrality is a help to the

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enemy.
The Pharisees accused Jesus of

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00:41:32,600 –> 00:41:38,500
alliance with Satan, his
rejoinder is a warning Jesus

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00:41:38,600 –> 00:41:43,100
clearly was in opposition to
Satan since he had destroyed

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Satan’s works.
If the Pharisees were not with

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Jesus, they must be on Satan’s
side.

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It was a terrible counter
thrust.

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See his brother Carter.
You see the Lord had already

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proved that.
He was stronger than Satan and

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opposed him that.
Now what the Lord has really

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00:42:06,200 –> 00:42:12,200
saying and verse 23 years, if
you’re not on my side, then

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you’re on Satan side was the
blunt answer of Christ and what

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00:42:16,400 –> 00:42:21,400
a call to Arms.
The Lord statement is whose side

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are we on brothers and sisters,
Now, you’ve just come to the end

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of the day.
When on Sunday, we come to

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memorialize what Christ has
accomplished.

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00:42:35,400 –> 00:42:38,300
What we do, come to the table of
the Lord button, such as we come

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to remember.
And to celebrate that Christ,

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was stronger than the strong man
of sin and death.

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And that, if he wasn’t there,
even such as where would we be?

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We come to confess at that
table, that we’ve been unable to

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bind the strong, man.
And that our Lord is the only

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man who’s ever been able to
overcome the power.

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And soon part of the power of
the memorials is that enables us

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to reaffirm every week that we
can’t do it. but that we wish to

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declare our association with the
man who has It’s a natural

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wonder and praise to recognize
that.

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Not only did Christ winter, the
strongmen powers, but he

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Advanced into the very suitable
of Satan and from his Palace, he

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led captivity captive and that
work of Deliverance.

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Brings such a sense of relief to
those who are burdened by

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symbol.
That it is as real, as the

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opening of a prison door to the
long incarcerated prisoner.

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But the Real Wonder of his work.
But insistence as this as little

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as this little Parable concludes
is that our Lord is prepared to

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00:43:53,400 –> 00:43:56,900
divide with us.
The spoils.

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That he invites us to share in
his Triumph.

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Over the strongman.
But he also asks us verse 23.

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To join him in the battle.
He will only divide the spoils

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with those who have followed him
in the way.

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So how do we do, how do we own
that will tell you what is

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achieved, you see we will never
bind the strongman in the way

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that Christ did.
It’s important that we recognize

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that his work was unique, he was
God’s special strong one.

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He was endowed with gifts, he
was imbued with powers that no

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00:44:41,400 –> 00:44:47,400
other man or woman would ever
have Was done once and for all

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00:44:47,400 –> 00:44:51,000
time in the work of Christ.
But what he did is set an

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example for us to follow.
So that his sacrifice is one of

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representation and not
substitution.

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We honor Christ brothers and
sisters by trying to understand

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00:45:05,400 –> 00:45:10,300
how he bound the strongman and
then seeking to emulate him,

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00:45:10,300 –> 00:45:14,700
despite our lesson power lines.
So the question is, as we move

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from the Parable to the
practical.

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How did Christ bind the
strongman the power of the

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diable loss in his own life?
Well, this is what he did.

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He filled his mind with his
father’s thinking at his

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father’s will and he exhibited a
strong bias towards obedience

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and righteousness.
He used the word as a weapon to

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child in those moments in his
life when he felt the power of

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00:45:50,100 –> 00:45:53,200
the pull of the strong, man, he
was in all points tempted, like,

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as we are says, Hebrews yet
without sin, he never wants to

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00:45:56,200 –> 00:45:58,800
come.
He never once yielded, he never

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00:45:58,800 –> 00:46:03,000
once was enticed because the
thinking, Of the spirit.

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00:46:03,000 –> 00:46:05,400
So dominated his mind as to rule
it.

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Well, this is the process that
we’ve got to try and emulate

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00:46:08,500 –> 00:46:11,700
will fall short of his victory
bubble sisters, but we’ve got to

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00:46:11,700 –> 00:46:17,700
try and copy him all the same.
so now think of a sin that

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00:46:17,700 –> 00:46:23,300
besets you One that you’ve
struggled with, in the past,

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00:46:24,000 –> 00:46:26,700
we’ve all got them, but there’s
no systems.

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00:46:28,800 –> 00:46:32,900
Can you think of a Sim its grip
to in your life?

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00:46:34,900 –> 00:46:41,200
now, think of the most powerful
Bible verses that confront that

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00:46:41,200 –> 00:46:49,900
sin and teach what God really
desires, Then write those verses

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00:46:49,900 –> 00:46:54,900
out and memorize them and recite
them until they were ingrained

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00:46:55,800 –> 00:47:00,000
in your thinking.
Know what the first triggers

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00:47:00,000 –> 00:47:04,900
towards that sin are in your own
life and practice bringing the

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00:47:04,900 –> 00:47:08,000
sword of the spirit and the
combat by referring, to those

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00:47:08,000 –> 00:47:11,200
verses, to about the thought and
we direct your attention to a

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00:47:11,200 –> 00:47:14,400
better path and do it, as soon
as the moment arises and not a

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00:47:14,400 –> 00:47:20,100
moment later, develop a bias
towards obeying.

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God a desire to love
righteousness.

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And hate wickedness.
Now will we fail?

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00:47:30,900 –> 00:47:36,300
Of course we will but we will
know nevertheless that we’re

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00:47:36,300 –> 00:47:39,800
walking in the footsteps of Our
Lord.

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And we will strive to march with
him in this battle until the

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00:47:45,700 –> 00:47:50,700
kingdom comes.
How much better will the kingdom

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00:47:50,700 –> 00:47:53,200
age be?
When the strong one of God, will

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00:47:53,200 –> 00:47:56,900
rain and symbol be so greatly?
Diminished that godliness can

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00:47:56,900 –> 00:47:59,700
flush Christ.
Invites Us, by the way to join

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00:47:59,700 –> 00:48:03,000
us and that work in the age to
come to be with him.

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00:48:03,300 –> 00:48:07,200
But notice how wonderfully that
work as described in the

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apocalypse.
If you come to Revelation

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00:48:09,400 –> 00:48:15,200
chapter 20, We’re told this in
Revelation, chapter 20 and and

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00:48:15,200 –> 00:48:18,000
something there’s just one
little phrase that that jumps

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out of the narratives, that
reminds us of the story of our

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00:48:21,700 –> 00:48:25,900
Parable.
This evening, Revelation chapter

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20 C is in verse 1 and I saw an
angel coming down from heaven,

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having the key of the bottomless
pit and a great chain in his

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00:48:36,600 –> 00:48:41,500
hand.
And he lay he laid, hold on the

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00:48:41,500 –> 00:48:46,600
dragon that old serpent, which
is the devil and Satan.

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And bound him a thousand years
and cast him into the bottomless

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00:48:52,000 –> 00:48:54,400
pit and shut him up and set a
seal upon him that he should

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00:48:54,400 –> 00:48:59,300
deceive the nation’s no more
till the Thousand Years should

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be fulfilled.
So the work of the Saints and

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00:49:01,900 –> 00:49:06,000
the kingdom will be to assist
Christ in restricting and

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00:49:06,000 –> 00:49:11,300
subduing, the power of sin.
But it’s a work described.

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00:49:11,300 –> 00:49:15,900
In these words says verse 2, he
laid hold on that old.

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00:49:15,900 –> 00:49:22,300
Serpent Satan and bound him a
thousand years and as soon as we

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00:49:22,300 –> 00:49:25,800
hear that phrase in Revelation
chapter 20, our minds

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00:49:25,800 –> 00:49:28,300
immediately do they not have
them such as go back to Mark

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00:49:28,300 –> 00:49:31,900
chapter 3 verse 57?
No man can enter into a strong

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00:49:31,900 –> 00:49:37,900
mans house and spoil his Goods
except he will first.

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Bind the strong, man.
He is an echo of that parable.

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In the book of the Apocalypse to
show that the work of binding,

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which the Lord commenced in the
victory of his first-ever themed

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will be continued throughout the
kingdom age.

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Until finally, the strongman of
Sinners fully overthrown.

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That we won’t be invited to work
with him and binding, the power

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of sin and the kingdom. unless
we followed him today in

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seeking, to bind the thinking of
the Flesh in our own lives, Our

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struggle against sin.
Is part of our preparation for

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the kingdom age. but the promise
of the word is that we can

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accomplish in Christ, what we
cannot accomplish in our own

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strength.
How thankful we should be button

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sisters for the wisdom of the
word and for the teaching of our

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Lord, Jesus Christ.
In such a powerful and

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memorable, parable.
Is this one of The Binding of

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the strong, man and the spoiling
of his hits?

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In the words of the hymn that
puts it this way?

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Soldiers of Christ arise and put
your armor on strong in the

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strength, which God supplies
through his beloved Son, strong

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in The Lord of hosts.
And in his mighty power, Who in

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the strength of Jesus trusts.
He’s more than khakhra.

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