READ: LUKE
14:28-30
There is a
strong link between a strongman and a stronghold. Strongmen are attached to
strongholds. In the olden days, when someone captured a slave, he put the slave
bound in what was called a stronghold. A stronghold is always a fence with a
mighty wall round it so that the fellow would not be able to escape. Of course,
there would be somebody guarding the place. When you want to set your beloved
one free, there are three principal things to do. The first thing is to bind
the fellow supervising the stronghold. Secondly, you have to loosen the bound
person. Thirdly, you have to pull down the stronghold around your beloved one
so that, after freedom, he will be able to escape. The question then is how do
you get inside the stronghold to loosen the captive, pull down the stronghold
and get out? In Matthew 12:29, the Bible says: “Or else how can one enter a
strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man?
And then he will plunder his house.” Here, the Bible states that the
first thing to do is to bind the strongman. There are all kinds of strongmen.
By the way, the strongman is not the devil. The strongman is just one of his
agents that he put in charge of his slaves. The time bind the devil for a
thousand years by an angel will come later. You do not bind the man but the
spirit. It is the evil force controlling your beloved one that you must bind.
When you bind the demon, you will be able to rescue your beloved one. If you
simply talk to a strongman he will not budge. He is a stubborn personality. The
only language he understands is the language of binding and loosening. When you
bind the strongman, you put a full stop to his activities.
MEMORIZE:
MATTHEW 18:18 –Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be
bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
