Supernatural: Part Four

Speaker: Pastor Lee Cummings
Date: September 4, 2021

Angels. Demons. Spiritual Warfare. The Holy Spirit. Worship. Prayer. Join us in our series called Supernatural as we learn more about these aspects in the Kingdom of God. Together, we’ll uncover the supernatural.

Not only is there a clash between worldviews – there is a battle between two Kingdoms. Check out this sermon from Pastor Lee Cummings on the weapons that both from and fuel the Kingdom of God within us and from us.

Focus Scriptures

Luke 11:14-23 (ESV)
“Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke, and the people marveled. 15 But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons,” 16 while others, to test him, kept seeking from him a sign from heaven. 17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls. 18 And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. 19 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. 20 But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. 21 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are safe; 22 but when one stronger than he attacks him and overcomes him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divides his spoil. 23 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.”
 

Colossians 2:15 (NKJV)
“Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.”
 

• Not only is there a clash between Worldviews, there is a battle between two Kingdoms

• This flashpoint is the theater of spiritual warfare – Where God’s Kingdom is exerting itself over the domain of spiritual darkness and it’s occupying force

• Jesus came inaugurating the Kingdom of God = reign of God in the earth

• Ultimately, Jesus defeated the power of Satan at the Cross, and by His resurrection – inaugurated the Kingdom of God – but not in it’s fullness

• We must have a warfare mindset or become a casualty of the clash

• There are weapons that both form and fuel the Kingdom of God within us and from us:

• The sermon on the mount is the new constitution of the Kingdom of God

• 4 specific disciplines that form and fuel our inner man:

• A. Giving – Is a prophetic, counter-cultural protest of Kingdom allegiance

• B. Praying – Is a subversive invitation for the rule of God into the world through the gate of your life

• C. Fasting – Is a supernaturally seditious statement to your flesh of what you truly hunger and thirst for

• D. Worship – Is a systematic dismantling of the idols of society and self and enthronement of God