(Don’t ever let the Devil intimidate you again. You are in a Covenant relationship, cut in the Blood of Jesus Christ, your representative and your final sacrifice. And because of His sacrificial death, you are an heir of the promises and a joint heir with Christ. – – – (Galatians 3:29 – Romans 8:17)
When we think of the Bible, we think of it as a Book of Promises—promises that are available to every “whosoever” will receive. We should also think of it as a Book of Covenants. Covenant promises are made and sealed in blood.
We regard the Bible as the Word of God, printed on paper, that offers us salvation, deliverance, hope, encouragement, and healing, physical and spiritual.
It is a book of revelation, revealing the nature of God.
It is a book of love.
A book of victory, victory for every Believer.
And if there are victories, there also have to be defeats. So the Bible is also a Book of defeats. Not for the believer, but for the devil. Sometimes, we miss that point. In any battle, there is a winner, and if there is going to be a winner, there is also going to be a loser. Who is the biggest loser of them all? The devil. The Bible is a book of defeats for the Devil.
Let me tell you something: if you do not get anything else out of this, always remember . . . . God always wins! He has never lost a battle and never will. Losing is not one of His attributes. If we will let Him, He will fight our battles for us. Sometimes, when fighting our battles for us, He is hindered by our getting in the way. We tend to think that God is sitting on the sidelines waiting for us to win the game, but God doesn’t sit on the sidelines, and He doesn’t play games. Besides, the battle is not ours. (2 Chronicles 20:15) We can say that with authority because the fact that we don’t fight our battles alone is part of a Covenant Relationship.
In a blood covenant, there are at least two parties involved. One of the steps taken in a Covenant is for both parties to agree to the terms of the covenant and then swear an oath to that agreement. One of the things that makes a Covenant so unique is that one person promises the other to come to their defense if their help is ever needed.
Every Born Again person is in a covenant relationship with God through the cutting of the flesh of His only Son, Jesus. That’s what Calvary was all about. Jesus was not only the covenant sacrifice but, because He passed all the tests and didn’t sin, He qualified to be our representative in the Covenant with God, the Father.
When Covenant partners enter the covenant they make a small cut their wrist or palm and mix blood by holding the cuts together with each other. In the Eyes of God that makes the two of them “one”.
We should have entered into the Covenant ourselves but we could not because our blood is tainted, or corrupt, with the sin of Adam. So we needed Someone who was all Man but all perfect and without tainted blood to represent us in cutting the Covenant with God. That Someone was Jesus.
So, this is a divine covenant that is also a blood covenant. God, the Father, is a Party in the covenant. Legally speaking, God is always Party of the first part in any situation. But in this Covenant, you are the other part, the party of the second part and represented by Jesus Christ, the perfect Man.
So, being in this covenant with God, when we are attacked by the enemy, the devil, God comes to our defense. Where is that in the covenant?
First of all, remember that spiritually, every Born Again person is a “grafted-in” Jew.
Galatians 3:29 says: “And if ye be Christ, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” (It reads best out of the Living Bible)
What were the Children of Israel promised in the Old Covenant?
Here is one promise in Isaiah 43:1, “But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. 2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. 3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour”
That is a promise under the old covenant. Today we have a better Covenant!
Under the Old Covenant sins were covered by the blood of bulls and goats. On the Day of Atonement, the High Priest would sacrifice a goat and then he would take the blood and enter into the Holy of Holies where the Ark of the Covenant rested. He would sprinkle the blood on the Mercy Seat and that was to cover the sins of the whole nation for a year. But there were faults in that system. For one thing, a man chose to sin but the goat that was sacrificed was just a dumb animal and he did not choose to die for anyone’s sins. But it was the best they had at that time. Before he killed the goat the High Priest would place his hands on it and then lean heavily onto the goat. This symbolized the transference of all the sins of the whole nation. Then he killed the animal. It covered sins for a time but it did not take away the guilt of sin.
Jeremiah 31:31-37 tells about a new covenant: “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, this new Covenant will be built on better sacrifice, and better Blood and it will yield better promises.”
Just a side note. Remember that I said the High Priest would lay his hands on the sacrificial goat on the Day of Atonement? That symbolized the transferal of sins from the people over onto the goat. If you have your Bible, turn to Isaiah 53:6, which says, “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
The word “laid” means the same as when the High Priest laid his hands on the goat. Our sins were transferred to Jesus while He was on the Cross.
Now, what happens when two parties enter a covenant together and one is attacked by the enemy? His covenant partner rushes to his defense. We are in Covenant with God. When we get into trouble what happens? The Lord comes to our defense and fights our battles. And when God gets in trouble what do we do then? Nothing. We can’t help God because, well, He is God. He always wins. So, in times of trouble, it is always a one-sided deal. It is always God helping us.
Every time the devil comes against a covenant child of God the outcome is already certain. The devil loses, and the child of God wins.
There are a lot of stories in the Word of God that illustrate defeat for the Devil. One of my favorite ones is the story of Joseph, the son of Jacob. There are a lot of lessons to be learned from the story of Joseph but the most powerful one is that God will never leave or forsake a Child of Covenant.
We sometimes wonder where God is in our time of trouble. We look at circumstances as they appear instead of what the word of God says they can be. We take a negative view of those circumstances and see them as proof that God is off somewhere else, probably ministering to some famous evangelist. But God has promised He will never to leave nor forsake us (Deuteronomy 31:6) and He is no respecter of persons. (Romans 2:11) He will dwell on the inside of any “whosoever” by the presence of the Holy Spirit.
Joseph knew all about negative circumstances. When he was 17 years old his brothers plotted to get rid of him. (Genesis 37:22)
Joseph had a beautiful coat his father gave him, and it made his brothers jealous. Not only that, but Joseph was always dreaming and telling his dream to the others, which added to their hatred of Joseph.
So, one day Joseph goes out into the desert looking for his brothers who are watching the flock of goats for their father. They see him coming and decide to do away with him. Rueben, the oldest talks them out of killing Joseph. So, Joseph was thrown into a pit (a dry well) while his brothers sat around eating and planning what to do with him.
Then a caravan of Arabs pass by and the brothers see a possibility of making a little money from selling Joseph as a slave. About this time Joseph was probably wishing he was an only child. His brothers are plotting to kill him. But I can imagine Joseph down in that pit and, instead of worrying, he is praying out, “O God, is this any way for a child of Covenant to be treated? Deliver me from the hands of my brothers”. Or, he could have been sitting down resting, knowing that he was a child of covenant and that God would take care of him. Well, things went from bad to worse. Or so it seems.
Joseph was sold off for 20 pieces of silver to the Arabs. They took him to Egypt where He was sold off as a slave to a man named Potiphar, who was the captain of the Pharaoh’s guard. It was obvious that something was different with Joseph. He was smarter than the rest of the slaves. Not only that but, he was always praying (which proves he was smarter). He found favor with Potiphar and was put in charge of his entire household. Everywhere he went, people knew something was different with Joseph, he even caught the eye of Potiphar’s wife. She tempted Joseph to lie with her but Joseph refused and ran out of the house. She caught hold of his coat and called the guards and then she lied by saying Joseph had tried to rape her. Of course, they are going to believe the boss’s wife before they believe Joseph. So Joseph was thrown into prison.
Joseph has gone from a pit to a prison. If it had been any of us we would have been wondering, “Where is God”. In prison, it was soon learned that Joseph had a gift of interpreting dreams. He correctly interpreted the dreams of a two prisoners. One was a baker and the other a servant of Pharaoh. The servant ended up serving the Pharaoh once again, just as Joseph said he would. The servant had promised Joseph that when he was restored to good standing with the Pharaoh, he would speak to the king about releasing Joseph. Two years went by, and the servant forgot all about Joseph being in prison. Then, one day, the Pharaoh had a dream that needed to be interpreted. It was then that the servant finally remembered Joseph and told the king that God was with Joseph and could interpret the dream that was haunting him.
Joseph was brought before the king and he interpreted the dream by telling him there would be “7 years of plenty” in the land, followed by 7 years of famine. He suggested that the king put someone in charge of storing grain during the years of plenty so it would carry them through the bad years. Pharaoh liked the idea and he put Joseph in charge. In one instant Joseph became the second most powerful man in all of Egypt. Now think about it.
Joseph went from the pit to prison and from the prison to the palace. Why?
Turn to Acts 7:9, This is Stephen speaking to a council in his defense for preaching the Gospel,
“And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years. 7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place. 8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: (now the descendants of Abraham are in a covenant relationship with God, that makes them the apple of His eye) and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs. 9 And the patriarchs (the brothers of Joseph), moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, 10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.”
There are two words in those verses that spell out the difference between a covenant child of God and anyone who doesn’t know God. In every challenge coming from the Devil to the Covenant child of God of today, two words spell the difference between victory and defeat. They are two of the most powerful words in the Bible. Those two words are, (in verse 9) “But God”.
Look back at verse 9, “And the patriarchs moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him”.
Those two words, “but God”, are used 43 times in the Bible and are the Holy Spirit’s answer to every attack, every stronghold of the Devil in the life of a child of the new covenant.
“But God” is the bottom line. It is the last word. “But God,” says it is all over but the celebrating!
No matter where you go, whether it is in a pit, prison, or the White House, “But God” is there and ready to serve, protect, and uplift a covenant child of God.
“But God,” says that you can boldly walk into the enemy’s camp and take back what he has stolen from you. I want you to know that if you are Born Again, then you’re a Covenant child of God, and it’s never over until God has had His say.
Whenever the Devil comes to you with a lie that you are not going to make it, remind him that you are in Covenant with the most high God! And that is reason enough for you to hang in there . . . .the jury is still out on your situation . . . . all the votes are not in yet. . . . God has not had His final say in the matter.
The Devil tries to tell you he still has power over you. “But God,” says that greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world! (1 John 4:4)
The Devil says you are sick . . . . But God says, “By his stripes, you were healed”. (Isaiah 53:5 )
The Devil says you are defeated . . . But God says, you’re more than a conqueror! (Romans 8:37)
The Devil says you cannot do anything . . . But God says you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you! (Philippians 4:13)
The Devil says you do not have anything and you never will . . . But God says that He shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory! (Philippians 4:19)
The Devil says he will put so much grief on you that you will give up . . . .
But God says, “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn”. (why?) “This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD”. (Isaiah 54:17)
The Devil comes to you and says, “Remember all those sins you used to do? Sometimes you still sin and would like to sin more often?” Then he says, “You’re not REALLY saved.”
But First Corinthians 6:11 says, “. . But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”
Why can you claim a part of that heritage? Because you are a Covenant Child of God through Jesus Christ!
The Devil works overtime to discourage us and to defeat us. I want to make it clear that this Book called the Bible is a Book of Covenant Promises sealed in Blood, and they are meant for every Child of God. Those promises spell out defeat for the Devil in every situation. The world would try to make you believe that the Devil is powerful and in charge. “But God” . . . are the two words that prove them wrong. Those two words will haunt the Devil day and night.
One of the greatest stories of a man who knows he is in Covenant with God and takes advantage of it is Jonathan, the son of Saul. Before we turn to the scripture, here is the scenario:
Saul has an army of about 2000 men. He was about to fight the Philistines until Saul’s army saw how many men were in the Philistine army. There were 30,000 chariots, 6000 horsemen, and so many soldiers on foot that scripture says they were like sand on the desert.
When Saul’s army saw how greatly outnumbered they were they turned and ran. Saul was left with 600 men. Saul was on one mountain, and the Philistines were on another one. There was a great ravine separating the two armies. Saul is scared to death. Saul operates on what he sees, not on Covenant Promises. Being in Covenant with God hasn’t even entered his mind. He sits under a pomegranate tree and wonders what he will do. Woe is me.
Then he gets “religious” and asks for the Ark of the Covenant to be brought up to the front lines. He’s going to use it like a good luck charm in hopes it will give him victory.
Then he made a burnt offering to the Lord. That was a big mistake because he made the offering himself, and only a priest was authorized to do that. Saul’s faith was in himself and “things”, notably the Ark of the Covenant and the burnt offering. He has forgotten, or maybe he just ignored the fact, that he is in Covenant with God through Abraham. But there’s someone who hasn’t forgotten. This is not about David. He hasn’t even entered the picture yet. This is about another person who knows about Covenant relationships.
1 Sam. 14:1 says, “Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.”
What Jonathan is telling his armor bearer is that just the two of them are going to attack the Philistines! Now, the rest of the Israelites don’t have any real weapons. The Philistines had been in control of the land, and they didn’t permit any blacksmiths in the land of the Israelites. King Saul and his son, Jonathan, were the only two who had weapons, and they were swords. These two men are symbolic of two types of believers today. They both had swords, or the Word of God, to use in their defense, but only one of them used it.
So Jonathan and his armourbearer sneak out of the camp and go to the side of the Philistines. His armourbearer must have had some doubts about the two of them taking on the whole Philistine army. Let me repeat those numbers to you again: The Philistine army consisted of 30,000 chariots, 6000 horsemen, and so many soldiers on foot that scripture says they were like sand on the desert. Jonathan isn’t just a kid with a lot of heart. This is a covenant child of God who knows he is in covenant with God and is about to exercise his covenant rights.
I see Jonathan as a type of Jesus and the armourbearer as a type of Believer. Jonathan led the way, and the armor bearer followed in faith. Jesus leads the way, and the Believer follows in faith. The armourbearer carried the sword. We carry the sword, the Word of God, in our hearts.
So, here is Jonathan, a covenant child of God, marching across the valley to the enemy camp, probably laughing and saying, “Those poor Philistines don’t stand a chance!”
Jonathan’s faith depended on covenant promises made by God.
One of those promises given to Moses by God was Deuteronomy 31:6, “Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”
Back to 1 Sam 14:6: “And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised…” (Thats the key to victory right there. The Philistines were pagans, not under the Covenant with God) “….it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few. 7 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart. (That is certainly a statement of faith by his armourbearer)
From that point on, the Philistines were beaten. Jonathan and his armorbearer climbed up the steepest slope right into the middle of the enemy. What do you think the Philistines were doing at this point? This is just an outpost or lookout. They hadn’t alerted the rest of the camp because two Israelites should not be any problem. Of course, they do not know anything about them being in a Covenant with God. So, they are looking down, and they have all the weapons they need. They shoot arrows down at them, they throw spears and even rocks. But something keeps them from hitting Jonathan and his armourbearer. Here is Jonathan, climbing up this steep mountain with both hands, grinning,g and he just cannot wait to get to the top.
Jonathan reaches the top and immediately kills 20 of them. In the meantime, God caused an earthquake to shake up the Philistine army, and they turned against each other.
Saul heard the fighting going on across the valley and could see the Philistines killing each other in confusion, so he took his 600 and went over to finish the job.
Another promise in the Old Covenant is Joshua 23:10: “One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.”
Leviticus 26:3-8, “If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4 Then I will give you rain in due season, . . . . .7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.”
Saul and the 600 hundred of his army were all in the same covenant with God that Jonathan was, but there was a great difference. Jonathan put his faith in it, but King Saul only had faith in himself.
I want to tell you something: when you are in a Covenant with God and are going up against the enemy, it doesn’t matter how many there are in your camp. If you’re a Covenant Child of God, the numbers don’t apply. Age does not apply. Gender does not apply. How much you have in the bank does not apply. The only thing we have to do is what Jonathan did, he stepped out in faith on Covenant promises.
The Devil has tried to stop the plan of God in various ways, but let’s turn to Exodus 13:17.
Here we find the Children of Israel leaving Egypt after God has dealt with Pharaoh.
“And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: 18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed (meaning in ranks of five) out of the land of Egypt.” (Exodus 13:17)
The Children of Israel did not just walk out of Egypt, and they did not just wander in the desert for 40 years. They were led by God every step of the way. The men all had the seal of the covenant by circumcision, but they were a backslidden nation. They had all but forgotten God during their 300 years of captivity in Egypt. God put them down at the foot of Mt. Sinai while He gave them the blessings and curses of the Covenant. It would have appeared that they were in a hopeless situation. But they had something the rest of the world did not have: a Covenant with God, and that made all the difference between victory and defeat. Between sickness and health. Between bondage and freedom. Between poverty and prosperity. The Devil tried every way in the world to stop them from leaving Egypt BUT GOD made a way.
We were in the same predicament. The Devil tried to stop every one of us, and he is still trying. Before we were born again, we were not just backslidden, we were on our way to Hell. Then we heard the Word of Go,d and it went from our brain to our heart. We got saved, and that step of accepting Jesus as our Savior automatically entered each of us into that new Covenant with the Lord. Spiritually, at that point, we were perfect and without sin. We were just as spiritually perfect as man was created to be.
Genesis 1:26 says, “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
Adam was created to have dominion over the earth and every creeping thing. But Adam sinned, became imperfect, and lost dominion. He became a slave of Satan. And that is what became of us as we were born into this world. We were in captivity just as the Children of Israel were. We were under the dominion of the Devil. And, just as the Devil tried to stop the Children of Israel from leaving Egypt, he tried to stop us from leaving his kingdom of darkness. There is a passage of scripture that tells this.
Turn to Ephesians 2:2-6.
“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: (We used to be heirs of the Devil because he was our father. All we could inherit under those conditions was a place in Hell) 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. (Now comes the answer in just two words) 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus”
And now, because he has quickened us, or made us alive and transferred us from the kingdom of darkness to light, we have been promoted to sit in the heavenly. We have gone from the pit to promotion. Man was made to have dominion over every creeping thing. We lost that dominion through Adam but gained it back through Jesus, and now we have dominion over the biggest creep there ever was, the Devil.
Look back to that phrase “made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus”. It does not take a rocket scientist to tell you that you are sitting where you are now and not in Heaven. There have been times when listening to radio and tapes I have heard it taught that we are here on earth in the natural but, spiritually speaking we are sitting together in the heavenly places. And that is true.
But let me share something with you. That phrase, “sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus,” is an absolute. What is an absolute? Sometimes, you will hear someone use the word to describe something. For instance, they might say, “That is absolutely the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen”. But there is another way of using the word “absolute”. According to the dictionary, to refer to something as an “absolute” means that it is “something of an unquestionable finality”.
In other words, it is cut and dried, it is a done deal, and there are no two ways about it.
When Paul was writing to the Ephesians, he said, “But God hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” He said it in the past tense. In other words, it is already done. That is how certain, how positively secured your position is, in Christ Jesus! We are not physically sitting in heaven yet, but it’s just a matter of time and that time is getting shorter by the hour.
By the way. Have you ever wondered what we are doing while sitting in Heaven? Should we not be on our face before the throne of God?
But God says in Revelation 3:21: To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
The Devil has always tried to hinder God and His people.
“But God” are the two words that cut him down to size. Those two words let him know you are in Covenant with God.
At one time, the Devil said, “You are dead in sin, and you’re my slave”.
But God, through Jesus, made us alive and made us sit together in heavenly places, heirs of the promise and joint heirs in Christ.
The Devil said that you could not leave his kingdom. You need to go back to your old friends and drink your problems away.
But God, through Jesus, said, “Come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”
The Devil said it is not over. He is not done with you yet.
But God, through Jesus, says, “It is finished” (John 19:30). Hallelujah!
The Devil thought he could stop the plan of God but failed every time. He thought he could stop the people of God, but every Born-Again Believer testifies to his defeat.
Lastly, he thought he could stop the power of God.
On that hill called Calvary 2000 years ago, three men were crucified. Two were convicted thieves, and the third One was innocent of any crime.
If you have your Bible, turn to Psalm 22. This is an account given of the crucifixion of our Lord long before He was born. He has already been nailed to the Cross and lifted up. Here He is praying to His Father. Beginning with verse 11:
“Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. 13 They gaped upon me with their mouths as a ravening and a roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. 18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. 19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. 20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.” {my darling: In original Hebrew means, “my only one”} {power: In Hebrew means, Hand).
On that day on Calvary’s Hill, the Devil and his demons were gathered around that cross, believing they had the Son of God where they wanted Him. At one time, Jesus said: All power is given unto me in heaven and on earth. (Matt. 28:18). The Devil had tried in the past to stop the plan of God. He tried to stop the people of God, and now he is trying to stop the power of God. The Devil had seen Jesus use that power in healing people, delivering them from demons, and even raising people from the dead. Now the Devil is standing before the Cross wringing his hands and gleefully shouting, “I have Him! I have finally put an end to Him. Now, whose power is the greatest?”
Even the disciples were convinced that it was the end of Jesus as He was laid in a tomb and sealed with a rock. But God!
Acts 13:29
“And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre. 30 But God raised him from the dead:”
The devil thought he had heard the last from Him, but now Jesus says in Revelation 1:14,
“I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.”
A final word: Don’t ever let the Devil intimidate you again. You are in a Covenant relationship, a Covenant cut in the Blood of Jesus Christ, your Representative, and your final Sacrifice. And because of His sacrificial death, you are an heir of the promises and a joint heir in Christ, which means that all the promises in the Bible now belong to you. Learn those promises, and when the Devil comes at you with his lies, put him in his place and say, “But God says . . . . . . . . . . “