PASTOR DARRYL BAKER

Matthew 24:4
And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you.”

Dr. Lester Sumrall was truly a great man of God, and the Lord used him in many ways. One of the areas the Lord gave him great insight was in dealing with demons. I will never forget Dr. Sumrall teaching on one of the key ways satan deceives believers is by using other people to do so, and they often don’t even realize he is using them because they are deceived. How can we guard against being deceived by others whom satan will use? Here are some key things to look for.

Anyone not submitted to spiritual authority, including leadership. Satan hates authority, so he can easily use those who are not submitted to deceive others. Also going to someone who thinks they know more then your pastor. A God ordained pastor has been anointed by God to guide you through the scriptures, and those trying to take the place of your pastor do not have that anointing. If you are looking for someone to tell you what you want to hear, you are very open to deception.

For example, the children of Israel listened to the 10 spies with an evil report and ignored what God had said confirmed by Joshua and Caleb. Aaron did not obey Moses and chose to go with the crowd to make a golden calf. The majority are rarely right. The Corinthians listened to the counsel of others and turned on the apostle Paul who was their spiritual father. Realize satan primarily uses people who are not anointed or not properly submitted to leadership to lead believers astray. As Jesus warned, “Take heed that no one deceives you.”

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Colossians 1:27
To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

The glory of God is His very presence. His glory is in us because He has given us the Holy Spirit. It is His very presence, the anointing of God, that removes the burdens and destroys the yokes of bondage from off of our lives. For us to experience the power of God’s presence working in our life there are three things we should not do. Do not quench, resist, nor grieve the Holy Spirit.

To quench the Holy Spirit is like putting water upon a fire and putting out that fire. There are believers whom scripture tells us have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof. Quenching the Spirit is choosing to willfully live a life of disobedience toward God. When we do, the Holy Spirit is being quenched by our lifestyle, and we are denying His work in changing our lives.

This can lead to resisting the Holy Spirit, which means as the Spirit of God now tries to lead us away from wrong living by the inward witness we resist Him. The more we do our conscience is seared and becomes numb to the inward witness of the Spirit, and He then becomes grieved because we are no longer responsive to Him. So don’t walk in willful disobedience toward God, and this will help you to walk in an awareness of His glorious presence that removes burdens and destroys the yokes of bondage.

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Exodus 3:14
And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.'”

The name of our God is the great “I AM.” He Is not the “I was,” nor the “I will be.” Many only think of God in relationship to what He has done, or in what they hope He will do, but He is always present tense, for He is the great “I AM.” To walk by faith in who He is to us, we must acknowledge Him for who He is, present tense, for faith is now. Faith in God sees things in the present tense, not what has been or what one hopes will be.

In Psalm 35:3 the Word tells us He is our salvation. It does not say He was, nor that He will be our salvation. The word salvation is defined as, welfare, prosperity, deliverance, and victory. He is not going to be those things to us, He already is those things right now. God is saying to us I AM your welfare, prosperity, deliverance, and victory. When you start seeing Him as these in your life today, you can experience what He has for you.

Romans 4:17 tells us that God calls those things which do not exist as though they did. If you want to see the great “I AM” manifested in your life, you must take hold of what His Word says is already yours and start declaring it as yours now. You are blessed, healed, delivered, and set free. See Him for who He is, declare it so with your faith, and you will see manifest in your life the great “I AM.”

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Colossians 1:13
For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,

When God made the earth and all that is in it and then made man placing him in a beautiful garden created just for him, the Bible says it was very good. There was no evil, no sickness, no sorrow, and no pain. All that is evil came from satan gaining access into this world through Adam and Eve’s act of disobedience. Darkness represents all that is evil. But praise God, Jesus through His shed blood rescued us from this darkness.

Once we are born again, we can now walk out of darkness and into the light of freedom through what Jesus did for us, no longer in bondage to the work of satan. To walk in our liberty from the darkness of this world, we must go to the Word of God and learn about what Jesus has delivered us from, for God’s Word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path, and it will guide us into the Truth that will set us free.

Psalm 119:130 tells us that God’s Word is the doorway that lets light in. Every time we open God’s Word we let in more light. The more we open the Word, the more light we let in. For those who will open that doorway and accept what scripture reveals Jesus has already done for them and act upon it, they can walk in the liberty Jesus has provided, coming out from the darkness into His marvelous light.

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Psalms 119:89
Forever, O LORD, Your word is settled in heaven.

The most important thing to seeing God’s Word work in your life is getting it settled in your heart. To often believers may even know what God’s Word says, but not having it settled in your heart causes people to waiver. God’s Word is already settled in heaven. What He has said is absolute and therefore should be fully believed. When His Word becomes settled in your life, then you will listen to and go only by what His Word says, no matter what your circumstances say.

So, the challenge is how do we get God’s Word settled in our hearts. Let me share with you four things that Smith Wigglesworth, who was a mighty man of God shared that he did in is own personal life. Wigglesworth said, “There are four principles we need to maintain. First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third, believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.”

You must maintain these four things in your life. Reading God’s Word should be a daily diet for the believer. To consume the Word means you meditate on key scriptures that tell you who you are, what you have, and what you can do until they consume you. Then you must believe in what it says, which leads to acting upon the Word. You cannot incline your ear to things contrary to God’s Word. You must incline your ear only to what God has said. When His Word becomes settled in your heart, you will see it work for you.

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1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

When you think of all the work man has done on the earth to achieve some goal in life, to obtain earthly rewards that will one day pass away, as Solomon declared in Ecclesiastes 2:11, “Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.” It is a sad life to be lived to only obtain earthly rewards.

But when you look at this scripture in 1 Corinthians 15:58, we find out how we can live a life with true meaning, knowing we did not waste our precious time here on earth only on things that perish. When we understand once we are born again our true purpose of why we are here, helping others to know and walk with God, and we abound in the work of the Lord, you can live everyday with a great understanding of fulfillment knowing your life has true purpose and meaning.

This is living and loving life the way God intended. Knowing Him and making Him known. Those who choose to make this their focus in life, developing their walk with God daily and sharing their faith with those around them, getting involved with the work of their local church, working so they have something to give to God’s work, their labor is not only never in vain but will be rewarded with the many lives they have changed. In doing so you are touching lives for eternity. Make your focus in life laboring for God, and you can live your life knowing your time here was not in vain.

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Philippians 2:12-13
12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

Our obedience to God is how we work not for but work out the salvation we have been given. As we choose to yield and be obedient to God’s Word, He empowers us to obtain our victory over the world in which we live, for the word salvation means to be delivered. We are in the world, but not of this world. This is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith. Faith is obedience to God’s Word.

Smith Wigglesworth who was a great man of faith would say faith is an act. If you go to Hebrews chapter eleven known as the hall of faith, you will find that all these people who were spoken of by God as having faith simply did what God told them to do. For example, Noah was told to build an ark, so Noah built an ark. Abraham was told to leave his family and go out into the wilderness, and so he did, etc.

Jesus has already purchased all we need through His shed blood which is found in the salvation He has given us, but we must by faith work out that salvation. When you walk by faith, it is God who is at work in you to do that which is pleasing unto Him. As you walk by faith, walking out what His Word teaches, His Word is at work accomplishing in and through you all He has provided through salvation. By faith, work out the salvation He has given to you.

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Hebrews 3:19, 4:2
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
 
Here in Hebrews, we learn that the children of Israel did not enter into God’s promise for them because of unbelief. God told the children of Israel He had given this land to them. God did not deny the fact that there were giants in the land, but that He would drive them out before them. The children of Israel did not see themselves the way God did. They said they were like grasshoppers in the sight of the enemy. They lost sight of how big their God is, and what He had said was already theirs. This caused them to not obey what God had told them to do to go in a possess what was theirs.
 
In chapter 4 verse 2 we learn that the Word they heard from God did not profit them because they did not mix what they heard with faith. This resulted in unbelief. So how do we mix the Word we hear about what Jesus has done for us known as the gospel (good news) with faith? We take what we hear proclaimed to us, the promises we have in Christ, and we then start agreeing with God. To agree with God means we simply say what God has said.

When you look at the promises we have in Christ that are a part of His finished work, those promises scripture teaches us are already ours, even if we don’t yet see it in the natural. Just as the promise land God said was already theirs, not going to be one day. Scripture teaches us in 2 Corinthians 1:20 that all of God’s promises in Christ are yes, to which we must give our amen, which means so be it. So we take what we have heard Jesus has provided for us and we mix faith with it by now agreeing with God’s Word, declaring it as already ours. When we do, we in agreeing with God will see His Word come to pass.
 
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Galatians 5:1
IN [this] freedom Christ has made us free [and completely liberated us]; stand fast then, and do not be hampered and held ensnared and submit again to a yoke of slavery [which you have once put off].

Anytime a believer in Christ is trying to get right with God, they do not understand as the church at Galatia did not fully understand, that you cannot by your own merit be made right with God. Righteousness is a free gift that we receive. Anyone who accepts Christ as their Savior has received this gift of righteousness or you have not been born again. Those who are trying to get right with God by their own works are living under a yoke of slavery.

This does not mean that once we have received this gift it is bondage to now walk in obedience to the Word of God, which would be doing what is right in God’s sight. Because we have become right with God, we now have this new man on the inside who desires to do what is right. As we yield to our spirit man, we do what is right outwardly because our spirit who is recreated in the image of God desires to do so.

We do what is right in God’s sight not to get right with Him, but because we already are right with Him. It is this inward choice to obey God and His Word that helps us to not give in to the ways of the old outer fleshly nature. When we walk in the spirit, choosing to do what our new nature desires which is in line with God’s Word, we do not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. So, choose to do what is right in God’s sight not to get right with God, but because you already are right with Him.

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Galatians 3:29
And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Through Christ we are heirs according to the promise given to Abraham. We are one with Christ and therefore heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus, redeemed from the curse of the law. Abraham was given a promise by God to be made righteous, receiving right standing with God. In receiving this right standing with God, the Lord also promised to bless Abraham.

By our faith in Christ, we become partakers of that same promise. Once born again we receive our right standing with God through His gift of righteousness. This right standing with God has given us the right to our inheritance because we are now sons and daughters of God. As scripture teaches us, if God did not spare His own Son for us, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things. Often believers don’t receive what is rightfully theirs because they do not think they deserve what God has provided.

You don’t receive what He has purchased for you because you deserve it, but because you have been made the righteousness of God. It is now yours by birthright. We receive what God has given to us through Christ by acknowledging it (declaring it is so) and acting upon His Word. His promises are not received because we deserve them, but because we believe they are a gift from God given to us, His children.

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