READ: PSALM
107:23-30
Some events
may take place in a man’s life which will make him to despair. Everything may
appear bleak and look like there is no way out. At such a time you have come to
the limits of mortals. The only way out is to look up. For so many centuries,
Satan taunted, and captivated many with the fear of death. Then, it appeared
death or the grave was the end of a man. At the slightest opportunity, Satan
compelled the human race to serve him or die. Hence more people fearfully
complied with his dictates. But that was until Jesus showed up.
When Jesus was born and started His ministry, He began to set every class of captives free. Satan was annoyed. He warned Him not to intrude but Jesus ignored him. Not long after, Jesus sought out some who had died and raised them up from the grave. He began to tell Satan, ‘Your time is up’. But Satan refused to hearken. When he saw how Jesus had suddenly turned his greatest weapon, fear of death, into nothing, he began to arrange His death. He planned with death and hell to kill the Saviour and imprison Him forever. They caught Him and finally killed Jesus. But that became their greatest undoing!
Jesus, after his death, went to the headquarters of Satan’s kingdom in the region of the dead and took the keys of death and hell from Satan. This was a great loss! Besides this, as He resurrected, all the departed saints from Abel to the thief at the cross whose bodies death and the grave had held for so long, were released. Their graves opened and they were physically seen as they were transported to Heaven (Matthew 27:50-54).
The keys of death and hell were eventually handed over to the Church. This means Satan has lost the power to kill you at will. It also means there is a way out of whatever situation you find yourself. That terminal disease is not your end. That sickness will not kill you. That barrenness is not forever. That yoke of poverty will soon be broken. That curse cannot keep you bound. Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life so death is not your end! Anything that is dead or dying in your life can be revived. Your dying business will live again. Your failing health will recover. You will exceed whatever limits Satan, men or circumstances have placed on you because Jesus Christ is alive for evermore. Call on Him today!
When Jesus was born and started His ministry, He began to set every class of captives free. Satan was annoyed. He warned Him not to intrude but Jesus ignored him. Not long after, Jesus sought out some who had died and raised them up from the grave. He began to tell Satan, ‘Your time is up’. But Satan refused to hearken. When he saw how Jesus had suddenly turned his greatest weapon, fear of death, into nothing, he began to arrange His death. He planned with death and hell to kill the Saviour and imprison Him forever. They caught Him and finally killed Jesus. But that became their greatest undoing!
Jesus, after his death, went to the headquarters of Satan’s kingdom in the region of the dead and took the keys of death and hell from Satan. This was a great loss! Besides this, as He resurrected, all the departed saints from Abel to the thief at the cross whose bodies death and the grave had held for so long, were released. Their graves opened and they were physically seen as they were transported to Heaven (Matthew 27:50-54).
The keys of death and hell were eventually handed over to the Church. This means Satan has lost the power to kill you at will. It also means there is a way out of whatever situation you find yourself. That terminal disease is not your end. That sickness will not kill you. That barrenness is not forever. That yoke of poverty will soon be broken. That curse cannot keep you bound. Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life so death is not your end! Anything that is dead or dying in your life can be revived. Your dying business will live again. Your failing health will recover. You will exceed whatever limits Satan, men or circumstances have placed on you because Jesus Christ is alive for evermore. Call on Him today!
MEMORIZE:
REVELATION 1:18 –I am He that lives, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for
evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
