But this is not new either. This is a real deliverance. And we have to recover the identification of a true Christian, and that means we have to get back to the doctrine of deliverance. Delivered.
However, finding fresh ideas for sermons each and every week of the year can be a challenge. Its not that you belong, or that you believe in Jesus somehow. And the subject of deliverance has been much on my mind. Log In
Im always asked that question, and I always answer basically the same way. At the top of my list in this matter of being discerning is: we need to know who the true Christians are. Its literally killing the church. And so, for us to assess who is a believer, we have to look and see if that person has been delivered. That, three times, God is referred to as the Deliverer who will deliver His people? The One True God has got your back and is ready to restore you! It is used in the Old Testament in those passages which are poetic. So one of the great concepts in the Old Testament is this concept of deliverance. Ive talked to the evangelical brain trust, if you will, and they arent even willing to commit to whos a Christian. And while those terms are great terms and they have meaning to us, they are not common terms in our English vernacular. And so, Im really compelled in my heart to address it this morning, and even beyond this morning, as a little bit of an interlude in our study of Luke. And unfortunately, it has kind of been smothered under familiar terminology, most often being saved and salvation. You cant look for something that God does in His own counsels. Now whenever in the Bible, youre reading in your own Bible, and you come across the word saved, save, salvation, or Savior you can substitute some form of the word deliver because thats exactly what is meant. In part 3 of these deliverance sermons in the series "The Setting Free" you'll find your past and present challenges don't dictate the future. GDPR is the new European privacy regulation, which will replace the Data Protection Act 1998 in the UK and the equivalent legislation across the EU Member States. And now its so confusing that the church itself doesnt even know whos a Christian, and frankly I dont think they particularly care as long as you say you believe in Jesus. You know, this gets us back to the gospel. Same thing, exactly. If were not clear about that, then we dont know whos on our side and we dont know who we really need to reach. And so, while I was away I did a lot of thinking, a lot of meditating, and a lot of reading on that theme. It can mean an actual rescue of a person from a dangerous earthly situation. Its a desire to be tolerable and tolerant because it affords you some level of popularity. We need preachers who will stand up and preach discriminating messages. He is a very esteemed Englishman and has been here many times. Because we dont want you to incur expenditure for which you are not prepared, could you please confirm whether you are willing to pay this charge, if necessary? Now this will help us emphasize what salvation really is, it is deliverance. Simon Peter a disciple who walked with Jesus over the years needed deliverance from the wicked one.
They believe theyre the only true Christians in Eastern Europe. A Christian is not a person who goes to church or belongs to some quote-unquote Christian institution. But it is true that even Jesus said, By their fruit you can, what? That is the main issue facing the church. Deliverance: The Neglected Doctrine. Stop giving the enemy power over you. Why do they compromise? Were all one church. It is an accounting of God by which He credits righteousness to our account and puts our sin to the account of Christ who pays the penalty for it. Please be aware that these items are sent out from our office in the UK. And yet, you have people who have risen to prominence in evangelicalism who have defined evangelicalism on a large scale who lack that discernment. If you say you discriminate, what does it mean? I think you know me well enough to know that my passion is to teach the Bible. We cant know a Christian by a forensic declaration of God. The big picture of the church is: the church is in serious trouble. Theyre our brothers. Fourthly, they have been delivered from the love of the world to the love of the church. Theres a certain drama in the word deliverance. Even in English, we think of deliverance and if you are asked to give a synonym, the immediate word that probably would come to your mind would be rescue. When we think of deliverance, we think of somebody being rescued out of a situation of grave danger, and that is what the word does in fact mean. We dont use the word saved for the most part to speak of being rescued from danger; for that, we tend to use the word rescue or deliverance. Any Bible student, any New Testament student knows that word, and it is most of the time translated save, saved, or salvation. Thats not within our capability. Its something else for Bill Bright to say that the Pope is a fine, outstanding Christian. The church is, by its theological and biblical ignorance, unable to fight against that error. Its the desire not to be marginalized and pushed off into a corner. If a person has ever been involved in occult .read more Scripture: Mark 16:15-16 Thats just one of a myriad of things. Confess Jesus as Lord. God bringing a plan of deliverance, and thats why Psalm68 verse 20 says, God is to us a God of deliverances, plural. You can have a thing called Amsterdam 2000; you can have 5,000 so-called evangelists and celebrate all this unity, but whos finding out whether these people are Christians? Well, what do you look for? For example, in Exodus chapter 3, God says, verse 8, "I have come down to deliver Israel." It questions somebodys faculties of discernment. Deliverance means total victory. In the familiar words of Psalm144 verses 1 and 2: Blessed be the Lord my rock, my loving kindness, my fortress, my stronghold, and my Deliverer.. If you confess Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart God raised Him from the dead, youre saved, Romans10, right? From the time that the demons cohabitated with the daughters of men in Genesis6, Satan has been trying to pollute and mix, all the way down to sowing tares among the wheat. Now let me go a little deeper into this issue. Help Grace to You bring important resources like this to people in your community and beyond, free of charge. This has been the legacy of liberalism which has been embraced by quote-unquote evangelicals. This has been the legacy of charismaticism where theology, and Im not speaking about all the people, but for the most part where the Movement tolerates anybodys view. Its the desire for popularity. It can mean physical rescue. It, again, means deliver, or deliverance, and could even be translated escape.. Iain Murray again writes, When churches have recovered from apostasy, historically, such as at the time of the Reformation and the eighteenth century evangelical revival, thats from Wesley through to Jonathan Edwards, when churches have recovered, it has always been, I love this, by a return to such discriminating preaching and practice.. It connotes somebody in an impossible dilemma from which they dont have, personally, the power to extract themselves, somehow being rescued by some greater power. Because God is a deliverer who developed a plan of deliverance by which He delivers sinners from all that dooms them. The only hope for the church is discriminating, discerning preaching. First of all, Ill start with five categories of deliverance. It is the dramatic rescue of the sinner from the elements of life that threaten to destroy and damn him. The church is the living society of the delivered. Natsal is also used numerous times to speak of spiritual deliverance. It is used of physical rescue or physical deliverance. You can turn on your television and watch TBN. Because whatever evangelicalism was there has succumbed to the power of liberalism, and the pollution of the church. When you try to be discriminating, or discerning, or biblical or clear, theologically precise, you really do expose the vulnerability of those in error. Not long as we found in Matthew 16: 22-23 Jesus turned to Peter and rebuke him, he said . To disable, click the icon. Questions about the Bible and about issues in regard to Scripture. This is in contradiction to the command of 1 Thessalonians5:21, Examine everything carefully and hold on to what is good and put away what is evil. The church has gotten itself into a position where it cannot distinguish between Gods Word and Satans lies. And, I very reluctantly have missed, through a vacation time and in my absence in Italy, I missed the gospel of Luke. Means the same thing. All kinds of views about all kinds of things. And usually when these words are used in the Old Testament, all three of them, God is the Deliverer, and man is the delivered. Secondly, there is the word palat. And Murray says, and I think hes absolutely right, he says, the inability of the evangelical church to distinguish between a Christian and a non-Christian is quote: The greatest failure of professing Christianity in the English-speaking world in the twentieth century. End quote. When we talk about conversion, when we talk about regeneration, when we talk about new birth, being born again, new life, transformation, when we talk about these matters of grace, we are really talking about being delivered from certain things. It doesnt have enough truth antibodies to fight off error. A superficial knowledge of Scripture, a weak theology, all kinds of error flooding into the church cripples discernment. Lost something? God who is by nature a deliverer, the only deliverer, has a deliverance plan by which He will deliver the sinner from all those things that damn him. You go from the Hebrew language to the Greek language in which the New Testament was written, and you find a familiar word in the New Testament, sozo. And by all rights, I should go back to it this morning, but I am compelled in another direction. I dont expect non-Christians to be discerning about the church, but I do expect Christians to be discerning about the church. Deliverance is achieved by driving out evil spirits using the authority of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. The only way we can know a Christian is by a transformed life. But at the same time I have a passion to teach the Bible, I have a passion for the church. Deliverance means repossessing what is rightfully yours! And thats rising again. Deliverance is an awesome word. Agreed. So, God came to rescue, to deliver in a dramatic and adventurous way, the children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage and take them into the land of promise. It has a defective immune system. Thats not visible. In fact, if you try to be the discriminating preacher, if you try to bring the truth into the situation, youre a problem. And by the way, this isnt anything new. I know people who arent a part of it cant discern it because the natural man understands not the things of God. This is what defines a Christian. I dont care how widely known you are as an evangelical leader. So we will help you next week by talking about what the delivered people are like so that you can be able to tell whos a true Christian. And its really true. That is the most critical issue of all. Theres another New Testament word, rhuomai, used about 18 times in the New Testament. There is a dramatic change in their personal life, their personal nature, and this is the work of the Holy Spirit. Its time to draw the line again, and that means to be unpopular, I hate to say. It means that you can choose the best out of the lot, right? Peter was not just a Church goer like some of us are, he was a true disciple whom God himself revealed the true identity of Jesus to in Matthew 16: 16. Enter your email address and we will send you instructions on how to reset your password. Why arent they discriminating? Thirdly, they have been delivered from fear to joy; they have been delivered from fear to joy, from wrath to blessing. Right now, in this day, and its been this way for a long time through this 20th century. And the church not only lacks discernment, but lacks the will to be discerning. It does not have the ability to fight error because it doesnt know the truth. Any of those words carries the same idea: the idea of a rescue, the idea of a dramatic deliverance of someone who is in a dangerous situation over which they have not sufficient control. Everybody that comes on is embraced as a Christian, even though its just filled with false teachers and people who obviously havent been delivered. You have to look and ask the question: have I been, what? Murray says, The most insidious opposition to the gospel has come from within worldly churches. Ill say this as simply as I can. And what we need is exactly what Murray say: we have to have some discriminating preaching. In fact, there may be no better way to understand the power of Gods Spirit in the believing sinners life than to understand that the Spirit is working a work of deliverance. May have to be that way, but isnt it interesting that the church that persecuted the true believers? Paul uses that word in Colossians1:13 when he says, God has delivered us from the domain of darkness into the kingdom of His dear or beloved Son.. Well, Im going to tell you that, next time. This is frightening stuff. This article is also available and sold as a booklet. Now let me put this in a current context. As you know, we've been studying the gospel of Luke, and the gospel of Luke is compelling and riveting material, and we have loved every moment of it. You can know them. So there is marked demonstration in the life of a person as to whether or not they have in fact been delivered. I was asked that question on a number of occasions by Italian folks, and also by the people that were a part of our group, asking me: what do you think is the main issue facing the church? The issue of who is truly a Christian is at the very center of the churchs life and ministry. Here at Grace to You Europe we take our data protection responsibilities very seriously and, as you would expect, have undertaken a significant programme of work to ensure that we are ready for this important legislative change. This has been the legacy of the seeker-friendly pragmatic movement. Because if we dont, then weve invited the enemy into camp. Please contact the publisher to obtain copies of this resource. Why? Always Im asked, and let me see if I can work my way into this context, always Im asked questions when I travel around. The biggest problem in the church is its inability and unwillingness to distinguish true Christians from false. We sent you an email. And this is really a battleground. Deliver in the OT Hebrew natsa means "to rescue, to deliver" It is used of physical rescue or physical deliverance. I think thats pretty obvious. This is a serious, serious problem. This obliterates the line of clarity and invites the enemy into the camp and it just devastates the church. And, tolerance is being elevated as a supreme virtue which aids and abets the problem. This is deadly stuff. And I think I determined after this last trip that we need to crank it up a bit because the confusion not only is characteristic here, but its getting exported everywhere. We all understand the English word deliverance. In fact, that word has in it a certain tone of adventure, doesnt it? And the only answer I can come up with, and I think its a general one, and Murray in his book agrees with me on this: the fear of being alienated. Week to week, you create sermons to connect your church with God's Word and to disciple them to a closer relationship with Him. They are new creations and they have been delivered from some very specific dangers into some very specific new patterns of behavior. When you come to the New Testament, nothing changes. And, I am always asked this question: what do you think is the main problem facing the church? Its a great word, biblically, and its a great word in the English language.
Deliverance Sermon by Brian Barrett, Luke 4:18-19 - Sermon Central A Christian is not someone who says they believe in Jesus. Its something else for people in the ECT, the people who are in Christian leadership in America, to embrace the Roman Catholics and say we all love the same Christ, we all serve the same God in the same way. You people ask me a lot of questions, and when I go other places, people ask me questions all the time. In recent months, as we have been studying the gospel of Luke, I have mentioned a couple of times that Ive been prompted to write a book on deliverance. And Hes going to say, Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity, I never knew you. So, there are people who are very deceived about their spiritual condition. Sermons . John Wesley in Volume 8 of Wesleys Works said this, In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal. There was Wesley in the midst of apostate, the apostate church in England in the 18th century, a true Christian preaching a true gospel, and being so scandalized that it ultimately led to persecution of the true Christians. You cant look for a forensic declaration by God. For example, in Exodus chapter 3, God says, verse 8, I have come down to deliver Israel. That is, to rescue them, to bring them out of that land, being Egypt, into a good and spacious land, being the land of Canaan. And when we go to the Bible, thats exactly what we find with the word deliverance. Its a rich word. I get some time to think about things that I want to think about, and read in areas where I maybe wouldnt had normally had the time. When someone becomes a Christian they are delivered from certain very dangerous and deadly matters, things that pose a fatal danger to the eternal soul. I wrote that book and it started a fire storm and it hasnt stopped nearly 15 years later because there are so many people in the church who think you can be saved without confessing Jesus as Lord. In fact, deliverance may be the best, it may be the most comprehensive, and it may be the most clarifying word to explain Gods gracious powerful work in our lives, in spite of its infrequent use. God the Deliverer, man the delivered, and God is the one who provides the plan of deliverance. A Christian is a person who has been, listen, permanently delivered from certain deadly, damning realities. And these are all our Christian brothers and sisters. Im talking about quote-unquote the evangelical church. Its the desire for the widest possible acceptance. And the confusion goes from the grass roots right on up to the top. There isnt any fellowship between light and darkness; is there, 2 Corinthians6?
We cant let things divide us. Most often, it has to do with deliverance from spiritual danger, and is the word commonly translated save, or salvation. Guest. And its amazing how they can seek the approval of man at the expense of the approval of the Lord of the church. And it was David Martyn Lloyd-Jones who stood up and said, This is wrong. He further writes, this is very important and insightful, The health of the church, and hes speaking as a historian here, having tracked it very carefully, the health of the church has always been in proportion to the extent to which the difference between Christian and non-Christian has been kept sharp and clear. Absolutely right. Ours then, in the work of evangelism, is a work of rescue. They come from Catholicism, and orthodox groups, and fringe groups, and all kinds of strange groups, and even some cults. He was dealing with the same issues 200 years ago. Thats sad. If hes saved, hes been delivered and he will love God, he will love Gods service, he will long after holiness, he will live in a holy way in sincerity and truth or hes not saved. Register.
Sermons about Deliverance - SermonCentral.com There isnt any concord between Christ and Satan. Now, Ive been all over the world, as you know, and have had lots of discussions with lots of Christian leader, and Ive read lots of things about the church, and the history of the church, and the theology of the church. Im not talking about our local church. And, if you call these people into question, and you call what theyre saying into question and say its not true, its error, you are unloving, you are divisive and you are striking a blow against the unity of the church. The church doesnt distinguish between truth and falsehood. Liberal Anglicanism in England back in the 60s was in its heyday, and there were some evangelicals in the Anglican church, and they thought, well, we need to move in to the Anglican church and get a hold of this thing, and partner up with these brothers. All rights reserved. Even my conversation with JI Packer, so capable and gifted a theologian and writer, when I asked him: what is the line by which you determine a true Christian? Go back to Thomas Scott who wrote this in the 1820s, 200 years ago: This I will say that whatever darkness there may be in a mans understanding, unless he feels and behaves as a sinner, justly condemned for breaking a righteous law; that is, unless you see in him penitence and brokenness, and unless he expects salvation of mere grace; that is, he seems himself as a sinner and grace his only hope, and, he says, as reconciled to God, loving Gods service, longing after holiness, that holiness which the Law requires and so living holy in sincerity and truth, he cannot be saved, according to the Bible. What was Thomas Scott saying? It means to save or deliver. It is the gospel of Luke and the ministry of Jesus, which is a ministry of deliverance, as we learned in the section in Luke that were looking at in chapter 4, that really prompted me to start thinking about the subject of deliverance. It means to deliver, or to save, or rescue. The gospel is more often attacked on TBN than it is on NBC. So the word natsal is used of that kind of literal, physical deliverance and rescue. The word deliver is a much more common term in the concept of deliverance, much more readily understood in English than is the term salvation. Ive been in the Eastern Europe and Ive seen the orthodox church which is by its own definition a Christian church. And I guess I feel at this point, Ive got nothing to lose anyway. Secondly, they have been delivered from sin to virtue, or from ungodliness to godliness. You know, when the people came and founded America, they were coming here for religious freedom, did you know that? He was saying if his life isnt changed, hes not saved. As you may be aware, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into full effect on 25th May 2018. Deliverance The term deliverance in religion describes the process by which a person is delivered from the control a demon or demons. Thats sad.
Download (PDF) Books ON DELIVERANCE (All-Time Date) - Kingdom Sermons And now you even have evangelical churches that are designing their churches to make unbelievers comfortable. It is blissfully ignorant. Its the desire for a reputation. And consequently, it is victimized easily by error. You go all over the world, and you see people who claim to be Christians.
MAINTAINING YOUR DELIVERANCE - Ed Arcton Ministries I talked to a man even this week who said he thinks theres going to be many Mormons in heaven. Thats safe enough. Because, as Jesus said in Matthew7: many are going to say to Him in the day of judgment. And fifthly, they have been delivered from Satan to God. And sometimes I wonder if those who cant discern the true church cant discern it because theyre not part of it. Registered User
They invited people into their schools, in their seminaries to teach. It has a case of spiritual AIDS. To say that Roman Catholics and the Pope are wonderful Christians is not discriminating. Why dont they say this is not a Christian institution, these people are not Christians? The completed registration allows us to send order and donation receipts to the email address you provided. Thats the connection. This has been the legacy of evangelical ecumenism which wants to re-embrace orthodoxy, and Catholicism, and everybody else. This is continuing to escalate, and I guess its time to just stand up and say there has to be a line drawn. All he could say was, Thats a good question. For most of the last part of the twentieth century, the last 50 years, there has been a sustained effort to invent and promote a popular definition of Christianity, which is neither biblical nor legitimate, and to fill the church with non-Christians. A Christian is not someone who prays a certain formula prayer. True Christians have been delivered from lies to the truth, from error to the truth. If you redefine non-Christians as Christians, you obliterate the distinctiveness of the church and you therefore create an environment in which you have to tolerate error because these people represent error.