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When I was first saved, and just getting into some of the understanding of God's word. I thought I could bind up spirits that were hindering my brother and sisters in the body of Christ.
I knew that Jesus said, if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. When I herd that in God's word, I would get with someone who had the Devil coming against them and we would agree in binding the spirits that the Devil sent. I bound hindering spirits of our church service and spirits that would make people sick, all kinds of spirits. I didn’t know how many evil spirits there were, but I knew I had to bind up every one that I came in contact with.
It seemed to me that the spirits that I had bound were getting loose some way. When I first started I could just see all those spirits bound up some where. Then I realized that some how they were getting free. Now don’t that sounds like what a baby Christian would do. Any way that was where I was at in the understanding of God's word.
When I called on the Lord to show me what I was doing wrong he lead me to the following two verses of scriptures.
Matthew 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Matthew 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
I started wondering about the gates of hell not prevailing against the Church, and what side of the gates of hell we were on. Were we on the inside of the gates of hell trying to break through to the Kingdom of God, or were we on the out side of the gates of hell. If we were on the out side of the gates of hell (or on the side where God was), what did it mean about the gates prevailing against us.
The more that I studied about the gates of hell and binding and loosening spirits, the more I wanted to know what God was trying to teach me. God led me unto these scriptures
II Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to hell, and delivered [them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
When I read these scriptures I understood that the word was saying God bound the evil Angels in chains of darkness. I ask God if He had chained these Angels in chains of darkness. What did the word mean about me binding or loosening them?
The Keys to the Kingdom was my key to the understanding of these studies about the gates of hell. This Key is the key of knowledge the knowledge of God’s word. When we yield our vessels to evil Angels we loose them from the heavenly realms. If we do not yield our vessels to evil Angels they stay bound in the chains of darkness. Satan and his Angels can not be loosed from the heavenly realms or chains of darkness unless they have a vessel that will yield to there will.
Let me explain this by something else that I studied in God’s word. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so those things, which are seen, were not made of things, which do appear. (Hebrews 11:3 KJV) Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. God spoke everything into existence that we see. So it is safe to say that God spoke into existence the doorway into life. Life as we know it, God calls the sheepfold.
God prepared a body for Jesus, because the only way you can come into the sheepfold lawfully is through the doorway God has prepared. John 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. Jesus teaches us, all that came before Him were thieves and robbers.
We all come through the doorway of life the same way Jesus did, through the womb of our mother. Satan is a thief, he come to steal the souls of men and women. Satan can only do his evil work in the sheepfold by stealing someone’s will. He has no body, no hands, and no mouth to speak, unless he possesses a person and uses them to do his will in the sheepfold.
God’s word teaches us that the spirit of antichrist is in the world today. To yield to a spirit that is not Christ like is an antichrist spirit. (Evil Angel) It takes two to fight but only one to be crucified, so let us be crucified in Jesus and not let evil Angels use our vessels.
The Lord gave us the keys to the kingdom of heaven, and what so ever we loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven and whatsoever we bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven. God's word tells us that the gates of hell will not prevail against his church (The Bride). We have the keys to overcome the gates of hell. We Keep Them Locked!
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