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[Also published in Nuggets for the Needy]
Omega Message – December 1987
Mavis M. duCille
The greatest achievement of man on earth is to live Christ, that is really knowing Him. For this purpose was man made – To be His expressed image – “That I might walk in them (and talk) in them.”
The devil however, lied to Eve in the garden; man disobeyed and lost the fight against him. Jesus came and opened up a different front for man – “…A true and living way in His blood.” The sad thing is that Satan is still lying, because he is a liar and will always lie. He is older and wiser now, and in spite of Calvary’s victory over him, he does not quit, and will not, until man takes back or regains that which was lost.
This road of redemption seems a lifetime, but we know that our REDEEMER LIVES, and because He lives, we shall live. The process of change must go from victory to victory, until the final and sudden change. God made man to be a habitation for himself which He will not share with another. For this cause everything must be driven out, so that God can tabernacle within man.
Praise God, that our High Priest has already entered within the veil, opening the way for His Body. He overcame Satan until “…there was no more place found for him.” – Total and complete victory over him. The word states in Revelation 12:7 that Michael and his angels fought along with the saints to overcome the devil, and that there was no more place found (in the saints) for him. The devil has to be cast out before Salvation and power can be experienced by us in its fullness.
It is a fact that Satan still finds a place in man, but thank God, we are getting wiser in Christ. (Samson’s seven locks grew while he was still grinding at the mill and the Philistines were still having fun). God is strengthening a people so that they can reject the work of the devil in their lives, so that there be no more place found in us for him.
This whole position is equal to the children of Israel tramping around in the wilderness for forty years when they could have entered the promised land a week or two after leaving Egypt.
At Rephidim, Israel received water from the rock. Jesus Christ Himself was that rock which provided life giving water. They journeyed to Sinai, received the law, and broke it in rebellion. Israel chose a golden calf instead of the true and living God who had brought them out of bondage. Man has a very short memory, but many of them were deceived to believe that the calf was a symbol of God, even as today many are worshipping statues of the Queen of heaven (Semiramis), and the gods of Greece for the saints, thinking in their vain imaginations that they are worshipping God.
There is indeed a grievous parallel between the people of Israel in the wilderness and the present day church system. People seem to be the same. God’s gift to us should have changed us (and indeed does change us), therefore we have the power to pull ourselves out of the natural conditions which motivate natural men.
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