00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 8th December 2015 Authority to tread on snakes and scorpions. Authority to tread on snakes and scorpions. Brothers and sisters, this authority that Jesus has got
for us has won for us at a tremendous price.

00:22 At a tremendous price. Personal price. Tremendous personal price.

00:26 Leaving the riches and the comfort and the joy and the glory of heaven and his own glory and come down to be as a man and suffer more than any man can. Take on all the sins of all mankind and to die for each one of us so that he can set us free from
captivity. Captivity of Satan and other things.

00:48 Captivity of Satan and tradition and religion and fear and confusion and all that. So many things. Set free completely and then give us power to live life and do his will so that we prepare ourselves to co rule with him for eternity.

01:11 It’s a fantastic thing, it’s a powerful thing. But it’s a tremendous price he had to pay. He didn’t just get up one morning and just do this.

01:20 It was a tremendous sacrifice. And that is why we must think of the sacrifice. You know, sometimes we say, just look at the cross.

01:30 It’s just not a cross. It’s not in the cross anymore. He sits at the right hand side of Father God.

01:36 But he really had to suffer both emotionally, spiritually traumatic, physically crushing, soul crushing pain, soul crushing, all kinds of things we cannot imagine. We can only begin to have glimpses of imagination of what he, the Son of the living
God, loves us so much that he decided to suffer like that. And yet because of that suffering, when we think of what he suffered, we don’t want to sin.

02:07 We don’t want to sin. We want to do what he to please him. We want to please him.

02:13 Brothers and sisters, in Luke 10, 18, 20, I’m reading from the Catholic version, the 70 returned with joy, saying, lord, in your name, even the demons submit to us. 18 he said to them, I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. Like
a flash of lightning.

02:33 See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing will hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this that the Spirit submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
Now, brothers and sisters, this scripture is parallel to the other scripture in Mark 16:17.

02:58 And these signs will accompany those who believe. By using My name they will cast out demons and they will speak in new tongues. We have done that scripture before many times.

03:08 So it’s Paralleled now He had sent 70 disciples out. And they came back rejoicing. Oh, fantastic.

03:18 Even the demons submit to us. Then he says, look, don’t be rejoiced. Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this that the Spirit submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.

03:30 There were 500 disciples that over the period of time they were following him of Jesus, not the twelve. Twelve who just finally remained. And one, of course, fell away in addition, who was son of perdition.

03:42 Now 500 of disciples left Jesus one evening because they were offended when he said, will you. You can only enter the kingdom of heaven by eating my blood and drinking my blood and eating my flesh now. And he asked Peter, after that, will you two
leave me? Are you too offended? And Peter answered, or he told the disciples, there, will you two leave me? The remaining 12, are you too offended? And Peter answered, where can we go, Lord? There are only words of eternal life in you.

04:18 Now remember, these are very powerful statements coming from Peter. There is only eternal life in you. There is only eternal life in Jesus Christ, not in activities and all that thing.

04:29 We will come to that a little later. Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth, brothers and sisters. That is why the power of Christ, the entire thing that God made me do or daily make me do is to turn you to Jesus Christ.

04:43 Be rooted in Jesus Christ, not rooted in anything else, not rooted in tradition, not rooted in whatever your heart and mind thinks. But what’s the written word of God? The written word of God, when in spirit becomes spirit, is actually Jesus Christ.
The written word of God is Jesus Christ.

04:59 And once the written word of God becomes spirit, become rhema, they say, become spirit. You know, it will incite insight. You incite, incite.

05:08 It will move you. It will move you. It will stir you.

05:12 Because God is spirit. Jesus Christ’s words are spirit. It will separate from bone, from marrow.

05:20 Oh, it will give you power, brothers and sisters. It gives you life. Now let’s look at this thing, this, this scripture which says that authority to tread on snakes and scorpions.

05:35 Authority to tread on snakes and scorpions. Of course, we know they are also evil spirits. Evil spirits.

05:44 Just like we cast out evil spirits in Mark 16:17, they also trample of snakes and scorpions. And we know it’s a reflection of demons and demonic beings. We have authority now.

05:59 Authority means going to use it. It’s not automatically going to happen. It’s not that I believe in Jesus Christ.

06:05 And these evil spirits are just going to leave you and go away. Because Jesus Christ is going to send its army to fight for you right now against the evil spirits. No.

06:15 Now remember, our battle is not flesh and blood. These we have dealt before. It’s not flesh and blood.

06:21 Its principalities and powers of wickedness in high places is spiritual wickedness. Spiritual forces do not fight man. Because man we love all mankind because they are human beings.

06:35 They are also captives like us. So we must understand our battle is spiritual battle. Brothers, today, as you said, if you look at this next scorpion, it is spiritual battle.

06:45 So must you must pick up. When you say must pick up the cross and follow me. One is to cast out evil spirits.

06:54 Because the evil spirit of religion, religious spirits, religious spirits cannot get you to heaven. Only Jesus Christ can get you to heaven. Religious activities cannot get you to heaven.

07:04 In fact, religious activities will capture you. We will come a little later on. This will capture you and you will become the activity after activity after activity.

07:11 You will become far from Christ. Many times religious activities going on. You don’t think of Jesus Christ.

07:19 That’s what happened to all the religious activities in any festival or whatever. Now religious activities are actually. God hates religious activities.

07:28 And God hates the fellows who are hypocrites and make you do activities. Activities, activities. Not getting you into Christ.

07:34 Not reminding you of the power of Jesus Christ. Not reminding you of the need to be in Christ and turn to him. Brothers and sisters, today you must cast out evil spirits that from us first, Anger, hatred, unloving spirits, fear, confusion.

07:55 Because fear and confusion keep on coming. You don’t trust Jesus Christ to settle you. The heart, your heart.

08:00 You’re made of three parts. Your spirit mind is born again, born of the spirit. But your heart and mind will work in their own way.

08:06 We must go against the heart and mind until they are change. The repentance is a thinking change. Way of thinking must be changed to be renewed in the spirit of your mind.

08:17 The thoughts must be of Jesus Christ. Now what he said we lean on his word. Just like Apostle John was leaning on the chest of Jesus Christ and getting his heartbeat.

08:27 Everything from the heartbeat. That’s the one on the heartbeat of God. Please don’t listen to that, brothers and sisters.

08:32 We can get the heartbeat of God by leaning on the word of Jesus Christ. By trusting on Jesus Christ and his word. Amen.

08:39 Now there’s also another significant statement. For snakes and scorpions. He called the Pharisees, you brood of vipers.

08:48 You brood of vipers, you brood of snakes. The Pharisees. The Pharisees are religious leaders.

08:53 They are like priests. There are Also Sadducees. Sadducees are also religious leaders, but they come from a wealthy family group.

09:01 They’re all wealthy, wealthy people controlling the. Captivating the whole population captive. Therefore, there will always be argument between the Sadducees and the Pharisees.

09:11 The Pharisees are more like middle class, business people and also spiritual leaders, also keeping the people captive. And then there are scribes. Scribes are people who write down the law and keep the record of the laws.

09:25 This senator’s passing and all that, like a parliament, you know, the religious people have some kind of a council, this council passing laws of religious laws. And all these seducers are the ones who. The scribes are the ones who scribe it.

09:37 They transcribe the word, you know, from there. Now, brothers, it says in Matthew 23:15, I’m reading from the new King James Version. Woe to you.

09:49 Woe means destruction to you. Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. He calls the whole group, you know, hypocrites, scribes and Pharisees.

09:59 For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte. And when he is one, you make him twice as much the son of hell as yourself. He’s already telling you fellows, you scribes and Pharisees are all sons of hell.

10:13 You’re not son of. You’re not the followers of Jesus Christ or followers of God. You’re sons of hell.

10:18 Now he’s telling, look here you crossed travel the land and the sea to win one convert. After winning one convert, you make him twice the son of hell as yourself. And Therefore, in Mark 12:38, 40, reading from the Catholic edition, he said, as he
taught you.

10:37 38, as he taught. He said as Jesus taught. He said, beware of the scribes, the fellows who write there recording the laws.

10:44 And also they know the laws who like to walk around in long robes, long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor. At banquets, they devour widows houses because they
tell you all kinds of this way, that way. And then sapu still take over.

11:06 They use the law to take over for themselves widows houses and all that people’s money, people, they suck up people’s money for the sake of appearance. They say long prayers, they will receive the greater condemnation. So we don’t have to bother
about this, but we will stay away from this kind of people.

11:24 Stay away. Get to Jesus Christ. Don’t even get to me.

11:28 I can’t save you. My job is to tell you to get to Jesus Christ. And this way, that way, this scripture, that scripture likewise.

11:36 Don’t bother about the human beings. We respect them, we love them. Even the scribes of these days, there are Pharisees and Sadducees and scribes of these days, there are.

11:48 They may be differently dressed in some congregations, some denominations, they may dress simply, but they will put some kind of badge among themselves to show that they are better, they are more qualified, they are double PhDs or something. They
will put out all that to show. And they’ll say, this much of learning he has done.

12:05 And they use a PhD doctorates and all which is given by the world. The world gives such doctrines. Jesus was not carrying any Ph.

12:18 D. brothers and sisters. He was ticking, speaking the truth, and he walked with power.

12:36 That’s why Jesus says in another scripture, the people have some form of godliness, but without the power thereof. That’s why when you have godliness, some form, some religious activities, you may have church camps, you may have this. But the church
camp is not taking people to Christ.

12:47 If at the church camp is not all about Christ, it sounds little bit about Christ. And the rest of it is dipti dadul, jolly. And all kinds of things go wrong in church camps.

13:14 Because there are not enough pastors or whoever to watch over these teenagers. Some of them become sexually immoral and some of them have become pregnant in church camps, brothers and sisters, this is a danger. So when we are organizing these
things, organizing with the holiness of Christ, with the fear of the Lord, love of Jesus Christ, to make sure that each of these teenagers are rooted in Christ, each of these girls and boys are going towards Christ and not being drawn.

13:21 So many come to church camp for other purposes. And you can’t help them. Because this generation got a lot of temptation.

13:35 In the TVs, in the computers, in the video games, in the video games they’re playing also there’ll be sexual connotation, individual games on and on. And their mind became like straight. You can think like video games only Thomas.

13:43 So the American army, they made the rule some time ago. I don’t know whether the rule still exists. They were not experts in video games.

13:57 I mean, certain kind of experts, very big experts in video games. They may recruit the cap for their own hands. But many fellows who are addicted to video games, they will not take you in the army because they found it difficult to retrain them.

14:04 So video games are dictates. It catches your mind and fixes you. Now, here there are scribes and Pharisees and seducers.

14:15 Of these days they may not. Because there are also some people wearing long robes and walking around wanting all this respect in the marketplace and honor and all that. Jesus Christ hates all this.

14:23 He calls them hypocrites. And they like to say long prayers, but they actually stealing money. They will big swelling words.

14:31 You know, they’ll tell you. In fact, I saw one some translation saying big swelling words. They’ll con you, they’ll cheat you and all.

14:42 And then one I saw in the Catholic edition saying bombastic words. I was impressed with that. Bombastic words to con you to follow them, not Jesus Christ.

14:49 This is a problem, brothers and sisters. Now this next scorpion also can refer to that because. And you have authority.

14:55 He says, why even they’re trying to con you. You must see the truth. You have the power to see the truth.

14:59 The truth is Jesus Christ. I am the way. The truth and life don’t follow man.

15:07 Follow. Yeah, we respect them. Even good preachers and teachers and really caring, loving people.

15:13 Loving leaders. You care for them, you respect them. You do whatever you can for them.

15:19 But you follow Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. If anybody is not telling you to follow Jesus Christ.

15:29 Whenever the church matters are involved, it’s all little bit of Jesus and everything else. But is all about Jesus must be. Of course there will be a little bit of other things.

15:41 Now they will make you doubly the Son of hell. Why they make you so much activity for this boy or this man who knew proselyte knew convert make activity of the activity. Religious traditions.

15:45 Go for pilgrims here. Go for pilgrims. Jesus said, why you’re running all over the place.

15:49 That is why. The angel who was at the. At the grave.

15:57 When I think it was Mary Magdalene who who came to the grave first he said. Or even the disciples come. He said, why are you looking here? He’s risen.

16:02 He is risen. The grave is empty. So there are people going on and on and on.

16:07 More important, I must go to Israel. I must see the grave. Brothers and sisters, if God allows you to go, you got a funds.

16:13 Please go. But if you use the funds to help the poor and the needy and all, you’re better off. Because Jesus Christ is no more there.

16:16 He’s risen. He’s sitting on the right hand side of God. Father God.

16:17 And he’s in you. He is in you. Can you make us thinking of this? He is in you.

16:28 He is in me. We are in him. Brothers and sisters, do not follow tradition after tradition and lose Christ.

16:36 That’s the message today. Do not follow tradition after tradition and lose Christ. You have authority to tread snakes and scorpions, including false teachings.

16:41 And all these, including false teachers. You can tread them in the spirit. You can break away from them.

16:46 In the name of Jesus Christ. Step on them in the spirit. Step on the teachings.

16:50 False teachings. Only teaching of Jesus Christ is true. Go and lean on his word.

He is Jesus. In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray, Amen.