The Kingdom of God is manifest to the degree that darkness is overthrown.
But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Matthew 12:28
If a narrative is false, if theft is involved, if lying is involved, if betrayal is involved, if abandonment is involved, if abuse is involved… it’s most likely got a demonic influence behind it.
James 3:13-17
By the fruit you will know the root and you’ll know it has a demonic root.
Matthew 12:33-35
We wrestle not against flesh and blood.
Ephesians 6:10-18
The devil has come down having great wrath, knowing his time is short.
Revelation 12:9
The Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.
2 Timothy 2:24
Over and over again the Bible is trying to tell us we are fighting a spiritual battle in life, in culture, in the realms where man functions. There are demons motivating, moving, and inspiring the behaviors of people. Therefore, we are not hopeless.
We have the highest authority, now hidden in Jesus, the perfect man, so we can bring about a victory, with Jesus over darkness. We are partakers of His righteousness (by faith) and his authority by faith. There is a victory to demonstrate over darkness, but we have not been doing it.
We have been allowing unclean influence to take over our media. Allowing our City councils to be taken over. Our Schools and university’s to be taken over. We have been allowing our local, state and national government to be taken over.
Don’t you know Satan has seen the slumbering, self absorbed focus, and the unbelief of the common Christian?
We have to shift our thinking as how to address the problems of the day. To shift into seeing we do have power to bring about a change. We have to see ourselves as more of a Congress of power.
We are the congress of Jesus!
Let’s read our primary Text:
I give you the name Peter, a stone. And this truth of who I am will be the bedrock foundation on which I will build my church—my legislative assembly, and the power of death will not be able to overpower it! 19 I will give you the keys of heaven’s kingdom realm to forbid on earth that which is forbidden in heaven, and to release on earth that which is released in heaven.
Matthew 16:18-19 The Passion Translation.
See what He says here about the “church”. He says we are the ecclesia, the governing body politic, the body of Christ. We are the legislators and we legislate from Heaven.
Ekklesias were regularly summoned to actively participate in legislation, declare war, make peace, negotiate treaties, make alliances, elect officials, and more. These were extensions of the Emperor. This is how we as the Ekklesia are called to function, as rulers under the supreme Ruler – King Yeshua.
We are the congress, the legislators of the spirit realm.
The ecclesia who jointly reign with Christ. We refine important prayers, decrees, proclamations. These prayers are more like laws, judgements, decrees. We submit these to a committee for review and maybe they are improved upon. They come back from committee for declaration and agreement.
These prayers aren’t just prayed once at a prayer meeting, they are written down. They are spoken again and again. These are markers, immoveable, the law, an extension of the Victory of Jesus and His government of peace.
Pictures of the Reigning Authority now Given to the Ecclesia
The king extended the golden scepter to Esther. So Esther arose and stood before the king. 5 Then she said, “If it pleases the king and if I have found favor before him and the matter seems proper to the king and I am pleasing in his sight, let it be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces. 6 For how can I endure to see the calamity which will befall my people, and how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?” 7 So King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given the house of Haman to Esther, and him they have hanged on the gallows because he had stretched out his hands against the Jews.
Esther 8
The King’s Decree Avenges the Jews
8 Now you write to the Jews as you see fit, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s signet ring; for a decree which is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s signet ring may not be revoked.” 9 So the king’s scribes were called at that time in the third month (that is, the month Sivan), on the twenty-third day; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, the satraps, the governors and the princes of the provinces which extended from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to every province according to its script, and to every people according to their language as well as to the Jews according to their script and their language. 10 He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s signet ring, and sent letters by couriers on horses, riding on steeds sired by the royal stud.
Esther 8