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標  題: How To Win Your Unsaved Loved Ones (4)
發信站: 信望愛團契電子佈告欄 (Mon Oct  2 21:09:45 1995)
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$$ The Role of Authority......

    Some years ago I was studying what the New Testament has to say about 
the authority of the believe.I wasn't even thinking about my unsaved 
relatives. While reading in Second Corinthians 4, however, I saw where Paul
said that the god of this world, Satan, has blinded the minds of those who
are lost. I began to see something.

    An inward something inside of me said, "Do you think a sane, sensible 
person would drive his car down the highway at 80 to 100 miles an hour, run 
right by flashing red lights and signs that said 'Danger Ahead' or 'Bridge
Out,' and run off the road and kill himself?

    I answered out loud, "No, no. I don't think so."

    Then I realized that a drunk or doped person would do this. Why ? 
Because the god of this world had blinded his mind.

    It is well known that automobile accidents frequently happen to people
who have just had a family feud or fuss. They aren't paying attention to 
their driving because their minds are befuddled. Similarly, the devil has
blinded the minds of the unsaved, for no ratinal human being would rush 
through life and plunge off into hell.     

    Reading there in Second Corinthians, I began to see something I had 
never seen before: We need to break the power of the devil over our unsaved
ones, because the devil has their minds blinded.

    You need to get this same revelation if it's to work for you. It won't
work for you just because Brother Hagin did it.

    Any time I received a revelation from God, I try it out before I start 
preaching it. I want to see if it works. If it won't work for me, how is it 
going to work for you? The Bible says, "Prove aii things; hold fast that 
which is good" (1 Thess. 5:21). I'll even try it in the hardest places first; 
I won't start on easy ones.

    When I saw this truth, I reasoned, If that's true ( and I knew it was 
because it is the Word of God), if I can make it work on my brother Dub,
I can make it work on anybody, because he's the "black sheep" of the family.
Many of them are sinner, but he's the worst case. If it will work on him,
it will work on anybody!

    I had been lying across the bed studying when I made this decision. I 
rose up with my Bible in one hand and I lifted my other hand to heaven. I 
said, " In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I break the power of the devil 
over my brother Dub's life, and I claim his deliverance. That means 
deliverance from the devil and full salvation in Jesus' Name. Amen."

    I had prayed and occasionlly fasted for Dub for 15 years. None of it 
seemed to work. In fact, he seemed to get worse. But once I prayed that 
prayer, breaking the power of the devil over Dub's life, that settled it for 
me. I wouldn't even touch it in my thought life; I wouldn't even think about 
it. 

    About a week went by. Then one day a voice said to me, "Oh, come on 
now. You don't believe old Dub will ever be saved, do you ?"


$$ Reason vs. Faith .......

    I started to think about the situation. And this is a critical point on 
salvation, on faith, on receiving what you need from God -- whatever: As 
longas Satan can hold you in the arena of REASON, he will whip you every 
time: every battle, every conflict. But if you will hold him in the arena of 
FAITH, you will defeat him every time!

    I started to think about it for a moment. Then I shut my mind off and 
wouldn't think about it. (You can train yourself to do that; I started 
doing it as a teenager.)

    From way down inside of me -- in my spirit -- something sort of bubbled 
up. It came out of my mouth, and I started laughing -- right out of the 
inside of me.

    I said, "No, no, I don't think Dub will be saved. Never have though 
that.. I know it. You see, Satan, I took the Name of Jesus (Satan won't argue 
with you about that name) and broke your power over Dub and claimed his 
deliverance -- deliverance from you, and his full salvation."

    If the devil could have gotten me started thinking, Well, I hope he gets
saved... I don't know whether he will be or not... maybe he will -- I would 
have been whipped. But I just shut my mind off and refused to think about it.

    Within two weeks, Dub was saved.
 

-- 
Lord, You save every tear when I cry. 
Knowing You love me leaves me. Wondering why you do ? 
For I know You know I don't really love you. 
For if I love You I would lay my life down. 
And if I love You I would share what I've found in You. 
Lord, show me every way that I don't love You.