Spirit of fear
Fear of failure
Please read this whole story to the end because if you understand this you will start the tearing down of the stronghold you have put up called the fear of failure.
This is Satan’s most effective tool against people being free from the bondage of the sin.
We guard our minds with Salvation but if we can’t believe what Christ did on the Cross is enough for us, then we will have no hope and no faith, our minds will become a stronghold against Christ.
We guard our minds with Salvation but if we can’t believe what Christ did on the Cross is enough for us, then we will have no hope and no faith, our minds will become a stronghold against Christ.
(For the Lord your God is a merciful God),
He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your
fathers which He swore to them.
In Order to help you understand
what Christ did for you we need to understand Blood Covenant.
I am going to share a sermon I heard decades ago by
I am going to share a sermon I heard decades ago by
Pastor Heather Mullen.
The story of Fibby
(Mephibosheth)
The story starts in the Book of
1 Samuel 15- 20
This will be a Kim Paraphrased version of the story please read it
yourself.
Most people will know the story of David and Goliath. Killing of the Giant made David special to
King Saul. He gave David his daughter Michal to marry, he put him over the
armies and the people began to love David more then King Saul.
It was King Saul’s son Jonathan that loved David greatly, their
friendship grew and grew until eventually cause them to make a blood covenant
together.
However before this in 1
Samuel 12 The Children of Israel rebelled against Jehovah as their King and told
God that Saul was to be named king. So God gave them a king Saul was anointed
king by the Prophet Samuel.
When King Saul was disobedient to the the law of Moses and gave a sacrifice
to God that was against the instructions God had given laid out for sacrifices in the law of Moses.
1 Samuel 13:13-14 And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you. For now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”
Then in the Next chapter Saul tries again to please God or bribe God
with His own greatness (This again is similar to the Balaam spirit we talk
about last month.). Saul because he was
king thought that he was so important that God was subject to him. So Saul made this rash oath.
1 Samuel
14:24 “Cursed is the man who eats any
food until evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies.”
This is the beginning of the end for Saul because Jonathan who had not
heard the oath his father had made and finding honey ate it.
When he heard of his father's oath he said my father has caused trouble in the land,look how bright I look for being well fed off the honey, if the people had eaten of they would be able to serve the kingdom better.
In the end Saul asked the people if Jonathan should die and they said “no” and He saved Jonathan. Breaking an oath to the Lord. Jonathan was Saul’s first born son and was heir to the throne if Saul died.
Saul again disobeyed God when he spared King Agag when God has told him ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop down on the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the Lord?”
20 And Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”
Here again is that Balaam spirit that they can please God by doing their own thing rather then Obey God and His law.
22 So Samuel said:
God here tells Samuel to go to the House of Jesse to anoint a new King. After going through all the other brothers of Jesse and God saying NO, NO,NO, to all the big strong handsome sons Samuel asked if he had any other son? They reply "only the youngest boy he is tending to the sheep"when they bring Him to Samuel he anoints David as king.
1. Blood a sacrifice must be made
They take an ox and sacrifice it by cutting it down the middle laying it out then both of them walk through the center of the bull back and forth.
2. While doing this they made a covenant a unbreakable promise or a vow that said what is mine is yours what is yours is mine. I will forever be at your service and I will love and care for your family forever as I would my own life this is for now and future generations. Blood covenant was the strongest vow a person could make and it was forever.
3. A symbol of that Covenant would be given in this case Jonathan give David His royal robe, and his armor.
So when Saul set out to kill David, It was because of this covenant. He was Angry that Samuel had anointed David and now it actually was legal because of the covenant.
Although David had countless opportunities to kill Saul, David would not kill Saul, first because he knew it was unlawful to raise a hand against God's anointed and because He had made this blood covenant with Jonathan. When the people started to praise David above both King Saul and Jonathan, Saul set His mind to destroy David. Jonathan in Chapter 20 is greatly torn because of the Kings determination to destroy David. and makes an agreement to a strategy to tell David if it was safe to stay or not, it was not and so David left and went into the Caves and hid and the distressed , the depressed and the poor men join him.
King Saul was determined to destroy David now because he learned of the Blood Covenant basically allowing David to have the throne in Jonathan's place if he died. After quite a long battle between David's motley crew and Saul's armies. Saul realizes that he is defeated. It takes up all the chapters between 1 Samuel 20-31 and then Saul and Him Son's die. The battle was over and King Saul said to his armorbearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised men come and thrust me through and abuse me.”
But his armorbearer would not, for he was greatly afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword and fell on it. 5 And when his armorbearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword, and died with him. 6 So Saul, his three sons, his armorbearer, and all his men died together that same day.
The armorbearer would not kill them because it was not according to the law which said you will not lay a hand against God's anointed. So Saul and his sons killed themselves. A man came and fell before David and lied, saying he had happened upon King Saul and Sons and they had asked him to kill them so he did. Again here is that Balaam spirit we talked about before, the man thought David would reward him for Killing The king and all of his sons. But that is not what happened.
David said to him, “Your blood is on your own head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the Lord’s anointed.’” The man was put to death.
Then David was appointed King over Israel.
2 Samuel 3:3
Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. But David grew stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.
Every time a member of Saul's family was killed David mourned over them for the sake of the covenant that Jonathan had made with him. When David had gotten the Kingdom in order his thoughts went back to The Blood Covenant.
David asked if there was any of Jonathan's household still alive and in 2 Samuel 9 they tell Him about FIBBY (Mephibosheth)
a son of Jonathan that was crippled trying to flee and was put in hiding. You have to realize that Fibby was terrified when the soldiers came to get him and take him to the King he thought his life was over but here is what David did:
6 Now when Mephibosheth(Fibby) the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, had come to David, he fell on his face and prostrated himself. Then David said, “Mephibosheth?”
And he answered, “Here is your servant!”
7 So David said to him, “Do not fear, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your grandfather; and you shall eat bread at my table continually.”
8 Then he bowed himself, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look upon such a dead dog as I?”
9 And the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “I have given to your master’s son all that belonged to Saul and to all his house. 10 You therefore, and your sons and your servants, shall work the land for him, and you shall bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth your master’s son shall eat bread at my table always.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
11 Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king has commanded his servant, so will your servant do.”
“As for Mephibosheth,” said the king, “he shall eat at my table like one of the king’s sons.” 12 Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Micha. And all who dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants of Mephibosheth. 13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem, for he ate continually at the king’s table. And he was lame in both his feet.
Fibby became greatly blessed and his honor became great he was saved by the blood covenant. There are many covenants between God and His people, the the greatest was the Death of Christ shedding His blood to cover our sin's making what is His mine and what is mine His. Even His household for generations were restored all that had belonged to their grandfather and the servants too were blessed.
and see how this has really freed you from failure. The put up your hand again and tell those lies in your head talk to the Hand cause the head ain't listening.
When he heard of his father's oath he said my father has caused trouble in the land,look how bright I look for being well fed off the honey, if the people had eaten of they would be able to serve the kingdom better.
In the end Saul asked the people if Jonathan should die and they said “no” and He saved Jonathan. Breaking an oath to the Lord. Jonathan was Saul’s first born son and was heir to the throne if Saul died.
Here is
when things get worse.
1 Samuel 15 Saul again disobeyed God when he spared King Agag when God has told him ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop down on the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the Lord?”
20 And Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”
Here again is that Balaam spirit that they can please God by doing their own thing rather then Obey God and His law.
22 So Samuel said:
“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
He also has rejected you from being king.
As in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
He also has rejected you from being king.
Saul would not have found this a threat because, The law required the heir to the throne be the first born son of the King; However, the relationship between Jonathan (Saul's first born son) and David was something Saul had not counted on. David and Jonathan made a blood covenant because they were like brothers.
Here is how
a Blood covenant works.
There are three parts to a Blood covenant.1. Blood a sacrifice must be made
They take an ox and sacrifice it by cutting it down the middle laying it out then both of them walk through the center of the bull back and forth.
2. While doing this they made a covenant a unbreakable promise or a vow that said what is mine is yours what is yours is mine. I will forever be at your service and I will love and care for your family forever as I would my own life this is for now and future generations. Blood covenant was the strongest vow a person could make and it was forever.
3. A symbol of that Covenant would be given in this case Jonathan give David His royal robe, and his armor.
So when Saul set out to kill David, It was because of this covenant. He was Angry that Samuel had anointed David and now it actually was legal because of the covenant.
King Saul was determined to destroy David now because he learned of the Blood Covenant basically allowing David to have the throne in Jonathan's place if he died. After quite a long battle between David's motley crew and Saul's armies. Saul realizes that he is defeated. It takes up all the chapters between 1 Samuel 20-31 and then Saul and Him Son's die. The battle was over and King Saul said to his armorbearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised men come and thrust me through and abuse me.”
But his armorbearer would not, for he was greatly afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword and fell on it. 5 And when his armorbearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword, and died with him. 6 So Saul, his three sons, his armorbearer, and all his men died together that same day.
The armorbearer would not kill them because it was not according to the law which said you will not lay a hand against God's anointed. So Saul and his sons killed themselves. A man came and fell before David and lied, saying he had happened upon King Saul and Sons and they had asked him to kill them so he did. Again here is that Balaam spirit we talked about before, the man thought David would reward him for Killing The king and all of his sons. But that is not what happened.
David said to him, “Your blood is on your own head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the Lord’s anointed.’” The man was put to death.
Then David was appointed King over Israel.
2 Samuel 3:3
Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. But David grew stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.
Every time a member of Saul's family was killed David mourned over them for the sake of the covenant that Jonathan had made with him. When David had gotten the Kingdom in order his thoughts went back to The Blood Covenant.
David asked if there was any of Jonathan's household still alive and in 2 Samuel 9 they tell Him about FIBBY (Mephibosheth)
a son of Jonathan that was crippled trying to flee and was put in hiding. You have to realize that Fibby was terrified when the soldiers came to get him and take him to the King he thought his life was over but here is what David did:
6 Now when Mephibosheth(Fibby) the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, had come to David, he fell on his face and prostrated himself. Then David said, “Mephibosheth?”
And he answered, “Here is your servant!”
7 So David said to him, “Do not fear, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your grandfather; and you shall eat bread at my table continually.”
8 Then he bowed himself, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look upon such a dead dog as I?”
9 And the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “I have given to your master’s son all that belonged to Saul and to all his house. 10 You therefore, and your sons and your servants, shall work the land for him, and you shall bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth your master’s son shall eat bread at my table always.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
11 Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king has commanded his servant, so will your servant do.”
“As for Mephibosheth,” said the king, “he shall eat at my table like one of the king’s sons.” 12 Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Micha. And all who dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants of Mephibosheth. 13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem, for he ate continually at the king’s table. And he was lame in both his feet.
Fibby became greatly blessed and his honor became great he was saved by the blood covenant. There are many covenants between God and His people, the the greatest was the Death of Christ shedding His blood to cover our sin's making what is His mine and what is mine His. Even His household for generations were restored all that had belonged to their grandfather and the servants too were blessed.
THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT
This is The Blood By Carmen I suggest you by it on
I tunes if you like it!
Because of the Blood Covenant that God made with us with His own son's life actually His own life he made a covenant, an oath a vow that whoever would be covered by the blood would be saved and have eternal life and this was for
I tunes if you like it!
Because of the Blood Covenant that God made with us with His own son's life actually His own life he made a covenant, an oath a vow that whoever would be covered by the blood would be saved and have eternal life and this was for
all future generations.
It is so important that you understand this because it will be the most important reason and weapon you can use against the battle of your mind Just what Jesus did for you. That God has made an unbreakable promise to you that your sin is forgiven you have His mercy and no judgement will be upon you, if you just remain covered with this Blood Covenant. You are free from the law. As you soak this up till next week think about the Roman's road the last post 
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