READ: ROMANS 7:10-25
The word
‘deliverance’ has been largely misunderstood by the church. Somehow, some
people have over-blown the issue and made the issue of deliverance sound more
important than other issues like Christian living, faith, commitment to the
word of God, the power of the gospel, etc. deliverance is good but things must
be placed in proper perspective. God ha the ability, if you will allow Him, to
make sure that your feet will not be moved either by your enemies or even by
yourself. When we talk about deliverance, many a time, we think of deliverance
from our enemies but the first deliverance that God should do for many of us is
deliverance from ourselves. Many of us are our own enemies. If God can deliver
us from ourselves, then there will be no problems with the outside enemies. In
2 Timothy 1:12, Paul said: “For this reason I also suffer these things;
nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded
that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.”
What did Paul commit into the hands of God? He committed his soul. He asked the
Lord to deliver him from himself because he could not take care of himself. In
Jude 24, the Bible says, “Now to Him who is able to keep you from
stumbling, and present you faultless before the presence of His glory with
exceeding joy,” There is Somebody who is able to keep you from falling.
The Bible says, in Hebrews 7:22-25, “By so much more Jesus has become a surety
for a better covenant. And there were many priests, because they were prevented
by death from continuing. But He, because He continues forever, has an
unchangeable priesthood. Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost
those who come to God through Him, since He ever lives to make intercession for
them.” Because Jesus lives for ever and on the right side of the
Father, interceding for us, He can save us to the uttermost. He has the ability
to make sure that we do not fall or backslide. He has the ability to deliver us
from ourselves.
MEMORIZE:
JUDE 24 - Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and present you
faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
