Why the Nations Rage? Pt.2
Pastor Joey Bishop
I. Psalm 2 TPT
A. God Shackles (Chains) evil through His people and holds them back from overcoming the world.
B. God laughs at their feeble attempts! Why?
1. He has an army!!!
II. How God’s army (people) push back evil!
A. Prayer
1. 1 John 5:14:15 “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.”
B. Genesis 1:28 “Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
1. Be Fruitful – Fertile, productive
2. Multiply – to increase greatly by number or quantity.
3. Fill – by multiplying
4. Subdue – overcome, to bring under control.
5. Have Dominion – Dominance or power though legal authority!
III. Three more ways God’s people push back evil!
A. Faith
B. Kingdom Language
C. Kingdom Works
IV. Faith
A. Faith is not a tool in your spiritual toolbox, it’s a perspective. (mindset) i.e. Using your faith for a new car
1. Colossians 3:2 TPT “Yes, feast on all the treasures of the heavenly realm and fill your thoughts with heavenly realities, and
not with the distractions of the natural realm.”
2. 2 Corinthians 5:7 NKJV “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
3. Romans 10:17 NKJV“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
4. Hebrews 11:1 TPT “Now faith brings our hopes into reality and becomes the foundation needed to acquire the things we long for. It is all the evidence required to prove what is still unseen.”
5. Hebrews 11:6 TPT “And without faith living within us it would be impossible to please God. For we come to God in faith knowing that he is real and that he rewards the faith of those who passionately seek him.”
6. Luke 1:37 TPT Nothing is impossible attitude!!!!
7. Romans 1:16-17 NKJV “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.
V. Kingdom Language
A. Faith in God’s word will produce a Kingdom Language from your mouth!
1. Luke 6:45 NKJV“A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.”
i.e. Spirit + Soul = Heart
2. Proverbs 18:21 TPT“Your words are so powerful that they will kill or give life, and the talkative person will reap the consequences.”
3. Colossians 4:4-6 TPT “Walk in the wisdom of God as you live before the unbelievers, and make it your duty to make him known. Let every word you speak be drenched with grace and tempered with truth and clarity. For then you will be prepared to give a respectful answer to anyone who asks about your faith.”
4. Mark 11:22-24 TPT“Jesus replied, “Let the faith of God be in you! Listen to the truth I speak to you: If someone says to this mountain with great faith and having no doubt, ‘Mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the midst of the sea,’ and believes that what he says will happen, it will be done. This is the reason I urge you to boldly believe for whatever you ask for in prayer—be convinced that you have received it and it will be yours.”
5. Matthew 21:21-22 TPT“Jesus replied, “Listen to the truth. If you have no doubt of God’s power and speak out of faith’s fullness, you can be the ones who speak to a tree and it will wither away. Even more than that, you could say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and be thrown into the sea’ and it will be done. Everything you pray for with the fullness of faith you will receive!”
B. Kingdom Language words are of
1. Faith
2. Hope
3. Love
4. Joy
5. Peace
6. Encouragement
7. Life
8. Strength
9. Courage
10. Victory
VI. Kingdom Works
A. Faith produces faith filled words (Kingdom Language) which produces kingdom works.
1. James 1:22 TPT“Don’t just listen to the Word of Truth and not respond to it, for that is the essence of self-deception. So always let his Word become like poetry written and fulfilled by your life!”
2. James 2:14-26 TPT (Read from screen)
3. Philippians 4:13 NKJV “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
4. Ephesians 2:10 TPT “We have become his poetry, a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny he has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it!”
VII. Conclusion
A. God’s army has
1. The right mindset (Faith)
2. The right language (Kingdom)
3. The right works (Kingdom)
B. Matthew 16:18 TPT , NKJV “I give you the name Peter, a stone. And this truth of who I am will be the bedrock foundation on which I will build my church—my legislative assembly, and the power of death will not be able to overpower it!” “I will give you the keys of heaven’s kingdom realm to forbid on earth that which is forbidden in heaven, and to release on earth that which is released in heaven.””
“And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in
heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.””
NKJV 19-16:18 Matthew