No Weapon Formed Against You/Dr Pat Holliday/Dr Sabrina Sessions/ Marshall Perot

No Weapon formed Against You

The devil comes to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10). And while he continues to try to bring death and destruction to your life and mine, he has no power to succeed! Jesus says to you and I in Lk 10:19, “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and NOTHING SHALL BY ANY MEANS HURT YOU.” I like the word NOTHING here. It is similar to the verse in Isa 54, where He says, “NO weapon formed against you shall prosper.” It is all-inclusive and definite! It covers every aspect of our lives: whether it be weapons of terrorism, weapons of fear, weapons of sickness and disease, weapons of debt, weapons of emotional pressure – NO weapon can prosper!

God’s previous covenant. In Exod 12, the children of Israel are commanded by God to kill a lamb and put the blood over the doorposts of their houses so that when the plague of death came to strike down the first born of each house, it would PASS OVER them. “…And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you…” (Exod 12:13). God honored the blood of a lamb. He brought divine protection to the children of Israel through the blood of the PASSOVER lamb. This is understood as a blood covenant. 2. Next, we need to understand God’s new covenant, which applies to us. In I Corinthians 5:7, Jesus Christ is called “our Passover lamb.” So He is to us what the Passover lamb of Exodus was to the children of Israel: divine protection and deliverance from plagues, destruction, and bondage. 3. Then, we need to understand the difference between these Passover lambs, or these covenants.

In Heb 8:6, it says that Jesus has obtained a “more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a BETTER COVENANT, which was established on BETTER PROMISES.”