Gate breaker vs Grave breaker Judges 16 1-3

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So there is you can show some kind of power, but there is a

limit to how much a man can show the power.

There is only a limit. But in the case of Samson, that

exceeds all human imagination, exceeds all human imagination.

He was really, really powerful, but at the same time he also was

a man of weaknesses, lots of weakness.

He is one of those about whom his birth was foretold.

The parents were without children.

And an Angel appears to Manoa's wife.

Her name is not mentioned in the Bible anywhere.

Who is Samson's mother? We don't know.

But Angel, care to appear to her and tell you are going to have a

son? You will.

He will be a Nazarite. No razor should come on his

head. He should not drink anything, no

wine, nothing connected with grapes and he should not touch

any dead body. You know, he has to keep himself

pure. All the list he gave and she

says to the husband, huh, Somebody appeared to me a man of

God and he said we are going to have a son.

Oh, is it so? How did he look like?

What did he say? He was very excited and he

prayed. Oh God, if you are the one who

appeared to my wife, will you please appear again?

You can read all that in chapter 13.

Chapter 14 He goes to Timna because he liked the girl he

picked quarrel with the people there and he gave them a Riddle

to solve and they saw the Riddle with the help of the lady.

He got angry, went and killed 30 people and gave their close to

the 30 people who were there with the bride.

First slaughter 30 people and then he goes back again to take

the wife. And by then the father gives the

girl to his friend because he said, I thought you hated her,

so I gave her to your friend in marriage.

Here I will get even with you guys.

So he caught 300 foxes, tied them tail by tail, put a torch

in between and lose them into the wheat field.

There was ripe standing grain, completely burned down.

They said, who did this? Oh this is the team night his

son-in-law or supposed to be son-in-law.

Samson has done it so and he goes and hides in a in a cave or

somewhere on a hill. I think the hill is Etam 15

chapter. I cannot find it now.

The Philistines went up to camp in Judah, spreading out near

Lehigh. Men of Judah asked, why have you

come to fight us? So basically these people,

Philistines wanted to fight the Israelites.

So they came. They said, why do you want to

come and fight with us? Because we want to kill the guy

who who does a lot of harm to us.

He set fire to our fields. We want to do exactly what he

did to us. The 3000 men of Judah, they go

to Samson and say, hey, don't you know that Philistines are

rulers over us? How dare you do this?

Now how many of us think the devil has power?

Tell me this morning that is what they are affirming.

What are the what are the people of Judah affirming?

3000 men are going to Samson and telling, don't you know that

Philistines are allowed over us? Now one more question, how many

people did Gideon have to defeat 130000 soldiers of median just

300 people. You have got 10 times more

people wanting to tie up Samson handover to the Philistines.

Shame, shame on Israel for doing that.

So many times we surrender to the devil just like that.

We think they will has lot of power.

He has been defeated. Let's all say he has been

defeated. Pardon.

Oh, he wasn't there in those days, correct.

But it is about us now, about us now.

So Christians are still in that same mindset where we think the

devil has complete control over our life.

No, if you are a believer, you are set free from the dominion

of darkness and transferred into the Kingdom of the light of His

Son, Jesus Christ. So we have to have this change

in our mindset. The devil is defeated until we

believe it strongly. He is going to come and punch

you. You got to tell him every day,

every waking moment, you will have to tell the devil.

You will talk back to him and say hey, you are defeated.

You are defeated. You are defeated.

You have no power to touch me. You have no power to touch my

family, my children, grandchildren, any anything.

You have no power when you stand like that.

He knows that he you know and he retreats.

That is how to live. So these 3000 people bound him

with new ropes and he said you don't kill yourself.

You just promised me that you won't yourself kill me, said no,

no, we are not going to kill you.

We will just bind you with new ropes and hand you over.

So he hands them over. In chapter 15, you see that when

the people are all coming towards, rushing towards Samson,

the Spirit of the Lord came upon him with power.

And then Egypt one once, once he flexed his muzzles, all the new

ropes just broke. That's the power of the Holy

Spirit. And then this man is

disorganized, unorganized. The people like you know, those

who do not do their bed in the morning when they get up.

He is one of those guys. He does not want to be

disciplined in his life. So he had no weapon.

He is not prepared for it. So he had to not defend himself.

He finds a fresh job, owner of a donkey.

What is he supposed not to touch?

He is not supposed to touch a dead body.

Now here he is taking hold of a fresh jawbone of a donkey.

Why am I stressing on fresh jawbone?

If you drive to lose some of its weight, fresh jawbone is very

strong, heavy to the jawbone. Kill 1000 people, 1000 people.

You had to keep this in mind because in the next chapter,

sixteen 1000 people will be let go.

There's 1000 people like Gaza were not killed because he

pulled the gates and escaped from there.

If those people succeeded in surrounding him, you would have

want something he would have found and he would have beaten

to death the people of city of Gaza.

It is God's mercy that he allowed Samson to pull the gates

and escape. So this is Samson's life is very

important to me personally, very important to me.

Even though I have believed in Jesus in 1977, in 2010, God

spoke to me about life of Samson.

When I say God spoke to me, it is supernatural and not that I

am reading the Bible, not that I am listening to some message,

No, no, no, I was in prayer and the Lord spoke to me.

It's a self limiting behavior. I said to the Lord, Lord, what

is self limiting behavior? And he said it's like Samson.

He said what is like Samson and he rushed through my brain.

All the story of Samson supernaturally that happened

next day as well. And next day I am expecting the

Lord to speak to me. I put my hand on the bed.

I want to bend my knees and touch the ground.

Before that, the Holy Spirit said Samson became blind before

they removed his eyes. So I went on my knees and said,

please explain a second time the story of Samson rushed through

my brain by the Holy Spirit. Now this is very, very important

to me. The story is very important to

me. Why all of us?

I'm not excluding myself. All of us are like Samson.

We are a mixture of flesh and the Spirit.

If you are a believer, Holy Spirit is dwelling in you.

But we also are struggling with the sin.

The more we overcome sin, the more you become a powerful tool

in the hand of God. You have to overcome rest of the

flesh, rest of the eyes, pride of life.

Then you become very powerful tool in the hands of God.

There are no two ways of serving God.

Sometimes He allows human flesh to dominate in some places, but

only to pull down everything. You can build a Tower of Babel

that's only up to certain height, and then God will

confuse it. You can know you can.

You can do many things in human power, human power and strength,

but one day it has to come down. Why?

Anything that lifts itself against the knowledge of God,

God is going to destroy it and bring it down.

So here we have in chapter 16. What really happening in chapter

16 is that I also want you to observe in chapter 15 last

verses Samson LED Israel for 20 years in the days of the

Philistines. And again at the end of 16th

chapter it again says they brought him back and buried him

between Zorah and Estal in the tomba Manova, his father.

He had LED Israel 20 years 2 times.

Life of Samson is summarized as he led Israel for 20 years.

Why 2 times? They should say it only one

time. At the end of his story, At the

end of chapter 15, he summarized his life.

He led Israel for 20 years. That means the story already

ended there, story already ended there.

He, whatever he could do in a right way, he has done the end

of the matter. In Chapter 16 onwards, it is

going to be a different story where he is going to see defeat,

where he is going to lose his eyes, where he is going to be

imprisoned, where he is going to be mocked and where he is going

to be made fun of and he is going to die with the

Philistines. And again the story ends with he

led Israel for 20 years. The two parts, one part is

living for God, another part is consequence of sin.

So in this chapter we see one day Samson went to Gaza where he

saw a prostitute. That is a that is a bombshell

point. That is the beginning of fall

for Samson before when he saw the young girl from Timna and he

tells the father get me for for me, get her for me because she

pleases me. Father says don't we have people

here in our country Don't have your own people to look at and

marry. Why do you look at the

uncircumcised? And there it's written they did

not know that it is a Lord who is stirring him up to give him

seek an opportunity to fight the Philistines.

But here it is not that. Here it is he wanting to fall in

sin, deliberate sin, deliberate sin.

To marry is not wrong, but to go to prostitute is wrong.

That is how the Holy Spirit is enlightening.

Here He went, he saw a prostitute, He went in to spend

the night with her. The people of Gaza were told

Samson is here, so they surrounded the place and lay in

wait for him all night at the city gate.

So they are waiting, but they said, OK, it is very, very dark

in this night. Let's not attack him.

We will wait for him to come through the city gate in the

morning. Once the gates are open, he is

going to go out. We will fight him and we will

kill him. Here they are waiting in all

night. They did not sleep, but this

man, he got up in the middle of the night.

What does it say here? They made no mood in the night,

saying at dawn will kill him. Verse 3 But Samson lay there

only until the middle of the night, say middle of the night.

This is living life in the flesh.

He was wanting to be secure. He want to enjoy life.

At the same time he want to be safe.

He said OK, they may plan to attack me in the morning, but I

am going to get up in the night and go.

So he got up in the middle of the night and came and what does

he see there? This huge doors, 2 massive

pillars on the two sides and bolted by iron or bronze,

whatever it was into the thing. And the whole structure is kept

to keep the city safe, the Gaza safe, so that enemy cannot enter

straight into it. And nobody can go out also until

it is open to keep the people of the city safe.

And he is now imprisoned already.

He is imprisoned already by the gates.

But this man, he looks at it and the Spirit of the Lord came upon

him. This is mercy.

Is not Holy Spirit saying Samson, you are well done, you

have gone to a prostitute is really good.

No, no, no, it's not that. He's not approving it.

There is more to be done through this life of this man.

So the Spirit of God was overlooking at that point in his

mercy. He didn't touch him, he didn't

kill him. He said he used him, he used

him. That's a act of mercy.

And he goes and pulls the pillars out, the 2 doors along

with the pillars, side pillars. Now how heavy are these gates?

Ask me the question, how heavy is the gate?

These massive doors, the two pillars, they are made out of

probably cedar wood, massive tree.

And then the whole pillar must be about 90 centimeters

perimeter round massive pillars and they will be weighing at

least 750 kilos each pillar. Just an estimate, these are

based on the excavations at Lakish and other places where

they found other gates for the city.

Based on that, we are able to conclude that this could be

similar. This could be similar and the

doors will very thick, very thick wood and then it will be 2

doors, 2 leaves closing on together and bolted with metal

so nobody can easily open it and go out.

And the whole weight could be coming anywhere between 3000 to

4000 to 5000 kilos. Let's go moderately 4000 kilos,

OK, anywhere between 3000 to 5000, let's go middle 4000

kilos. How does he lift?

Because the two beams are put into a limestone and locked in

so that they cannot be shaken by any enemy, and it requires more

than one person to put them in the place.

Now here he doesn't have a team, he doesn't have a big machine,

nothing. He just goes, grabs it and pulls

it. Whole thing up, puts on the

shoulder. Can we see the picture here?

Anusha, can we see the picture here?

Is it may not be very clear, but there is one more next one.

This I liked for some reasons. This is more true to the Bible

story because you see long hair. He did not cut his hair in the

previous one, the short hair. So I think that is not the right

picture. This is the right 1 S You can

see the hair and you can see him completely carrying the whole

gates, 4000 kilos on his shoulders.

And then what does he do? He walks up.

Gaza is on the seashore. So when you measure the height

of something, you will say how high is it from the seashore?

So now he is walking towards Hebron.

I think I did not put the map there.

When you put the map there, you see Gaza on the, the on the

coast. And then Hebron is about 90

kilometers, No, no, 9060 kilometers, 60 kilometers to the

east. And in order to go, you have to

go up. The road is always up, not down,

not flat. So he goes up to the nearby

hill. And when you climb the hill from

there, you can see Hebron. So where did he go?

What is a hill? We don't know.

The Bible is silent about it. But when you geographically,

geography, when you go and study it, there is one hill that is

nearest is about 30 to 35 kilometers and farther that if

you go, you are entering into Hebron.

So he goes up and that hill is nearly 450 to 470 meters high

from the sea level, from Gaza to the top of the hill, 450 to 470

meters. That is about 60 to 70 Storey

building. Now you carry the doors and the

pillars and the pores, everything all, and it goes up

for 3035 kilometers all night. He must have walked into the

daylight and must have gone up the hill and dumped it there.

How much power is that? Tell me, how much power is that?

Why am I putting so much of time on explaining how strong is

Samson? Because I want you to look at

one more Samson, like Saviour Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who

carried the cross. He carried the cross.

That may be just 70 or 80 kilos at the most. 190 lbs.

No, no, no, 100, 4150 lbs to 75 kilos roughly.

So he is carried the wooden cross and he went up the hill.

He carried the cross up the hill.

Compared to Samson, you may think that's not a big deal,

it's just 75 kilos. But what he carried, Samson

cannot carry. He carried the sin of the whole

world. He carries, you know, the whole

world. How much power does Jesus have?

He is the Creator. In the beginning was the Word,

The Word was God, and the Word was God, and the Word became

flesh and dwelt among us. We behold his glory full of

grace and truth, and that Jesus is God Himself.

But he put it aside. All that is God.

He put it aside. That's what Paul says in

Philippians chapter 2. Put all that is God.

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He put it aside. And then He is carrying the

cross. But more than that, He was

carrying the weight of the sin of the whole world.

He was carrying the weight of the sin of the whole world, and

he went up the hill for you and me.

Samson carried the gate because he wanted to save himself.

But Jesus carried the cross so He can save the whole world, you

and me. Do you see the difference?

And Jesus has done so much, so much he accomplished.

And Jesus says, if I ask the Father, will you not give me 12

legends of angels? How many 12 legends of angels?

One legend in the Roman army is about 4000 soldier to 6000

soldiers. Let us again go in the medial

#5000 soldiers per one legion. That will be 60,000 angels in

the Old Testament. You have a story of Hezekiah

facing the army of Nebuchadnezzar and there were

180 thousand soldiers who came to attack the city of Jerusalem

and 1 Angel came and killed. How many people?

180 thousand soldiers overnight. In the morning you look only

dead bodies everywhere. One Angel killed how many

people? 180 thousand people.

If you have six, oh, oh, oh, oh, angels, how many people will

die? Nearly 11 billion people.

You got 8 billion people in the living in the world.

If Jesus asked today, Father, give me 12 religions of people,

angels, everybody will be killed and you still have 3 billion to

take care. Did Jesus do that?

That is the power, say, that is the power.

He did not use his privilege. He did not use His power to ask

the Father to send the religions of angels.

And that is the power. And compared to Samson's

physical strength, how how strong is Jesus?

The more you understand what Jesus did for you on the cross,

the more you will be able to worship him, the more you will

be able to love him. That is how we have to love.

That is how we have to worship him because we need to know who

is this Jesus? You know, sometimes we are

Christians for a long time, even when I was reading this portion,

16th chapter verses 1 to 3, I went into I was sitting in my

chair and praying. God teach me what does the

scripture mean? And then Jesus the Holy Spirit

put the thoughts into my mind about Jesus carrying the cross.

Oh, that was glorious because you know, like you chase a

rabbit hole. We call it.

So you chase a rabbit hole when when the Holy Spirit puts that

shows the rabbit hole, you follow it and then you see the

revelation just bursts out and then you go with it.

Your spirit is lifted up, your faith is becoming very strong

and you see light and the darkness leaves you and the

weakness goes. That is the work of the Holy

Spirit when there's a revelation happening in your spirit when

you read the Bible. So let's continue to see what

are the other things that he has done.

So he has carried it halfway, let's say a bit up to Hebron and

go up the hill and he dumps it there.

And that is the amount of power he had.

What is he declaring to the Philistines?

City gates stand for protection. City gates stands for control.

City gates stand for power. City gates stands for authority.

And they were trying to trap him with their authority, trap him

with their strength, trap him, limit him, finish him.

But when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, devils power will not

be able to stop you. The power of the devil will be

cancelled because the power of the Holy Spirit comes upon you.

But how many of us are wanting this power?

Do you want this Holy Spirit power so that the enemy can be

trodden down under your feet? That is who you are.

Jesus has carried the cross so that you can become a devil

Slayer. You can become master of the

devil. You can become one who can put

the Saturn and all the Kingdom of darkness to flight. 1 Man

with the help of the with the help of God can chase 1000

people. So if you can chase 1000 demons,

glory to God. That's what God wants to do

through you. He carried the gates to save

himself, but Jesus carried the cross so that you can become a

Samson, so that you can become a Samson.

But the church is sleeping. Church is sleeping.

When I say church is sleeping, I am not excluding myself.

I am also challenged to believe more, to believe more, to have

faith, more faith. That's what I'm trying to do,

have more faith, have more faith.

And I think I have arrived at some point only when I begin to

pray for somebody and I'm trying to cast out the demon and the

demon is looks like it is gone. And next day they say the demon

is back. I say what did I do yesterday?

So we are growing in the Lord. We need to have that hunger to

be more of the Holy Spirit. We feel the more of the power of

the Holy Spirit and I tell you we should become like Samson who

whose name you know we have. We have a saying in in our

Indian language that when elephant dreams of a lion, it

dies, his heart stops. If the elephant gets a dream of

a lion, it is heart stops, it dies.

They will should dream of you and die.

One second He close his eyes and he sees in the dream who is

coming, how woman is coming die. What a glorious thing that Jesus

has done for us. He wants everyone of us to

become like a Samson. That's why he went to the cross.

And then, Oh my goodness, thank you, Lord.

So when, when he's carrying the curve, when he's carrying the

gates to up the hill, what is he trying to tell him?

Tell the Philistines. He's telling the Philistines.

What is your strength? I am declaring it as weakness.

What is your power? I am declaring it as useless for

you because I have carried your whatever you put your faith in.

I am carrying them on my shoulders and dumping 35

kilometers away up the hill, not just on the plane ground.

What you're saying is my God is greater than your strength, your

God, my God is greater than your God.

They put their trust in their God, Dagan.

And during the in the book of Judges you see how Philistines

carried the ark of God during the Elis time and how Dagan got

the put and the dragon God fell down.

He was defeated already, and Samson is proving to them again

that the same God is alive and living and he will defeat them

again. And today Jesus Christ is

dreaming of only one thing, that you will defeat Satan.

You will defeat Satan. That's his plan and purpose.

When Jesus carried the cross, He laid down his life there.

When they crucified him on the cross, that blood that dropped

from his hands, from his brow, from his feet, from the side on

that rock of Golgotha. He has bought this earth with

his blood. He bought it.

Say he bought it. He bought it with his blood.

So you can be free and you will become a Samson.

The rights that Adam sold by eating the fruit to devil.

Jesus has cancelled it and took it back again.

And He is the King. He is the Lord when we are

worshipping Him, When you're singing to Him, there's no power

in our singing. Why?

There may be something in our mind that does not believe that

He is the King, is king of the kings.

When you believe it, that will show in your singing.

When you believe it, that show in our life, it will be seen.

You cannot hide it. Your faith will be seen by the

people around you. When they look at your life,

what do they see? Fear or confidence?

Do they see anxiety or courage? Do they see hopelessness or

faith? That will show your belief.

Your faith, what you believe about Jesus will be seen by the

things that happen in your life. When trouble comes, how do you

react? Sickness comes, how do you

react? The world is watching you, devil

is watching you, and we have to tell them.

The whole world will tell that we are not afraid.

So Samson humiliates Gaza, basically.

He has humiliating Gaza. The Philistines, he was

humiliating them. There are five cities, Gaza is

one of them. Ashkelon and other cities were

there. So he was humiliating them.

He was taunting the security. He was showing the identity of a

child of God who is a child of God.

He's showing them, hey Yahweh, most powerful one, I am his

servant. By ripping them out, Samson

symbolically says your strength cannot contain me.

What do we tell the devil in the morning?

Do we tell him you cannot touch me?

Do we tell him that you are defeated?

Do we tell him that he is useless?

Or are we going to say, oh, today, just don't touch me

today, Let me have a nice day. No, we are not bargaining with

the devil. One of the times we were, we

were trying to cast out a spirit and the demon was speaking

through saying let us make a deal.

And Sima was there and said you are not in a position to make a

deal. You are defeated.

We had to know who we are. We are the children of the most

high guard, King of Kings, Lord of Lord.

He's our father. And we don't bargain with the

devil. We kick him out.

We don't bargain with him, we don't bargain with him.

To possess the gate means what? In the Old Testament you have a

promise given to Abraham. Your children will possess the

gates of your enemies. That seed.

Your seed shall possess the gates of your enemy.

The word seed is referring to one seed Jesus Christ, One seed

Jesus Christ. And that's what Paul interprets

in the book of Corinthians. The seed is Jesus Christ.

So he is when he was carrying the cross up the hill and he was

crucified upon the cross. He was destroying the gates of

hell. He was destroyed the gates of

hell. He was buried and he rose again

during through three days that he was in the in that grave, his

body was in the grave. He went down into the depths and

he fought with the devil and he destroyed the Kingdom of

darkness and he rose up victoriously with the keys of

death and Hades. He is the king.

He is the king. The more you believe in Jesus,

the more your faith is strong. What is your idea of Jesus?

We have to change. Every day.

It should be better every day. The more it becomes better.

The devil becomes lesser and lesser and lesser significant in

your life. If he is trying to put his

finger and trouble you, that means you are not shown him who

you are. It is very simple like that.

There was a lady, a rich lady who wanted to go by bus long

time ago when there were not cars and everything.

She was stopping and standing at the bus stop and the dog

followed her and she saw after some time the bus is coming and

she said honey go home. The dog will it was wagging his

tail going round and round licking her feet.

After some time he said you go home now and it puts his tail in

his legs behind and ran to the house.

They will also will follow you like that.

You need to show him your power. You need to show him who you are

until he knows it. Unless you show it to him, he

will not know it. He will be around you all the

time, wagging the tail, licking your feet, jumping on your

dress. No, no, you don't want that, do

you? Do you want the devil to jump

around you all the time, playing with you?

No, show him who you are, stamp the feet and then he will run.

Cool. And then we see when he's taking

the gates and walking up the hill, what is he telling?

The Philistine says, my Lord has promised to Abraham and he is

the king. And we this land has been given

to us. He led us through the Red Sea.

He helped us to cross the Jordan.

He gave us the land. And we are going to rule here.

We are going to rule here. You are not the rulers.

We are the rulers. We are the ones who are supposed

to possess. But you know what?

Samson belonged to the tribe of Dan.

Everybody said Dan, tribe of Dan.

But he was a one man army. He had no followers.

The 3000 men who came with that day to tie him up and hand him

over to the Philistines, if they said OK, Gideon had only 300.

We are 10 times more bigger. You be our leader.

Let's fight the Philistines. Philistines would have been

finished that day, but the people surrendered to the

Philistines, 3000 people. That's what I said.

It's a shame on them and that is what happened there is because

of that, they could not have ruled.

And after the life of Samson, it's only for 20 years.

He ruled. He led Israel for 20 years.

That's a very small time span of time, but Jesus is reigning from

the right hand side of the Father until eternity.

He shall be there until the conservation of the all

creation. He is King and He is waiting for

you to rise up like a Samson. He accomplished the victory for

you. He fought the enemy for you.

He defeated the devil. He defeated the principalities,

powers, rules of darkness, wickedness in high places.

He defeated them snakes, coffin, all the powers enemy.

He defeated the dragon, the old serpent.

He defeated the devil or Satan so that you can walk like Samson

and let the whole world know that you are a child of Jesus.

So our identity should change. Our identity should change.

So when he carried the gates, he was telling them you are

finished, we are going to but what happened after the life of

Daniel Samson is the Dynates did not have a place of their own.

Joshua allotted the places he said now go fight and occupy the

place. They did not do it, so they

didn't have a place. The life of Samson is not a

success in that sense. If he helped his own tribe to

possess the land that Robin a story of success, but he failed,

but yet because of his faith in Yahweh.

His name is included in the book of the heroes of faith in

Hebrews 11. Because of his faith, even when

he was thinking that everything is hopeless, everything is gone.

Even then he believed the last last thing he did was when he

was his eyes were removed. He was making a spot of him.

They brought him into the Dagas temple.

He tells the boy who was leading him, please help me to feel the

pillars on which this temple is resting.

So I want to rest a little bit. So the boy, he was blind, he

took his hand, put on the pillar and another pillar.

And he said, God, Remember Me one more last time.

I want to take revenge for my two eyes.

And he pushed with all his strength, and those two pillars

were moved and the whole roof came down.

There are 3000 people on the roof, and how many were inside?

Maybe another 2000. So let me die with the

Philistines. That was his last words.

Should that be your goal or my goal?

No. We are here to conquer.

We are here to rule. We are here to demonstrate the

power of Jesus, the power of resurrection.

We have to demonstrate the power of resurrection.

I have not even started the message yet.

Already my time is finished. That is funny, isn't it?

So you can look at it from the angle of spiritual warfare.

You can look at it angle of how it can be.

He lifted what was meant to limit him.

He broke the limit. What are containing him.

He broke it, He carried on the shoulders.

That's what you are supposed to know.

What is limiting you and break it or uproot it.

Know what is limiting you, break it or uproot it.

And then the gates that tried to hold him became the proof of his

calling. Your trouble, that health, that

challenge that the devil is throwing at you is to prove who

you are to the world and to the devil.

You are not to crumble under the weight of your problem, that

financial challenge, that relationship challenge.

It is not to put you down. God wants to see you shine or

rise up in his power of resurrection and walk in victory

so the world will know that you are a child of God.

When God says walk out, no gate can hold you.

I want to give a very small testimony before I finish it.

There's a book called Heavenly Man that's about a Chinese man

who was put in prison for preaching the gospel and he was

in the jail but refusing to eat the food.

He said he would give the food to other people who are in the

inmates. Hey, you can have my lunch, you

can have my breakfast, you can have my dinner.

And he was fasting and praying 7080 days or something like

that. And one of the days, after many

long years of being in the prison, one day the Holy Spirit

says to him. Get up, go.

So he came out of the cell and he finds the guards and

everybody. He just walks.

He just walks. Everybody will be looking at

him. Do nothing about it.

And he came out of the jail and he came onto the road and he

took the help of some taxi and he went to his friend's house

and from there he was hiding and they were looking for him.

They couldn't find him. He took some different identity,

he flew to another place and then he saved himself.

Ultimately reached America, I suppose.

But what I am trying to say is when God says walk, devil cannot

hold you, he cannot hold you, He cannot put you down, He cannot

have the last laugh. No, it is you who will have the

last laugh. In the name of Jesus, shall we

pray? There's much to say, but I will

finish it there. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, for taking up

the cross for us. Thank you for carrying the whole

burden of the sin of the whole world.

Thank you for you made a provision for our sin to be

forgiven and to wash in your blood and to become clean.

And we thank you because we are becoming carriers of the

presence of God. We are becoming the temple of

the Holy Spirit. We thank you Father, we are your

children. Thank you.

That is our identity. Oh, we praise you.

We praise you for setting your love upon us.

We deserve nothing but your wrath, but you set your love

upon us to save us. Be worship of Jesus.

If the Lord is challenging you to walk like Samson, if you are

saying, I want to overcome the lust of the flesh, lust of the

high spread of life, I want to be full of the Holy Spirit.

I want to be full of the power of resurrection.

I want to demonstrate the power to the world.

I want to see the blind eyes open.

I want to see the deaf ears open.

I want to see the lame walk dead raised.

It's your opportunity to pray that prayer right now.

Stand where you are and say to the Holy Spirit, come.

And when you walk around the church, don't say I didn't

receive the Holy Spirit. Believe that He has come.

He's a gentleman. You say come, he will not shall

think about it. You say, Holy Spirit, come, fill

me now, fill me now, fill me now, fill me now.

Believe that He is coming into your heart right now, not

tomorrow when you go home, when you see the Facebook, you see

the another thing, something on the TV.

Don't say I'm defeated, say I am victorious.

I shall trample down every temptation.

Father God, I thank you for the children who want to be like

you, full of the power of resurrection.

I want to visit them right now. In the name of the Father and

the Son, Jesus Christ of another, the Holy Spirit, I call

upon you, my Lord Holy Ghost, blow on your children right now

as you did on the day of Pentecost.

Let the cloven tongues of fire I light up on the head right now.

Come Holy Ghost, come Holy Ghost, come Holy Ghost.

Come Holy Ghost, Come Holy Ghost, Come Holy Ghost.

Let a glory come, let a glory come.

Let a glory come. Let a glory come, let a glory

come. Touch your children now.

Fall upon them now in the mighty name of Jesus.

Power release Holy Spirit and power be filled with the Holy

Spirit and power now in the mighty name of Jesus.

Thank you Father for failing us. Help us not to disbelieve it.

Help us to believe that it has happened.

Help us to walk in the light of the truth that we are your

children indwelled by the Holy Spirit.

We worship you, we praise you God.

Thank you again for visiting us this morning in Jesus mighty

name and everybody says Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega.

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