SATAN'S YOKE BROKEN
BY HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD
By Pastor
Max Solbrekken, D.D.
“And it shall come to pass in that
day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke
from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.”
(Is. 10: 27)
AUGUSTINE, Bishop of
Hippo, stated: “The New is in the
Old concealed and the Old is in the New revealed.” Much of the Old
Testament is hidden from the eyes of believers in Christ because they have
failed to search out the Holy Scriptures.
Jews have ignored the New Testament and missed the correlation between
the two Testaments. The Holy Bible is not complete without both Old and New
Testaments!
People have asked: “Why do you believe that the Bible is the Word of God?” “There are hundreds of reasons why the Holy
Bible is God's Word, however, I need only one. Jesus Christ, God the Son from
Eternity Who is the Living Word believed the Holy Scriptures to be the very
Word of God. Since the Creator of all things was in total agreement with the
Old Testament, even quoting it to Satan in His Wilderness Temptation, how could
I not believe Him?”
St. John stated: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God and the Word was God. All things were made by Him and without Him
was not anything made that was made. In Him was life and the life was the life
of men. For the law was given by Moses, but Grace and Truth came by Jesus
Christ. He used the word Logos in
referring to the Word of God, Who is Jesus Christ!
“And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among
us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,
full of grace and truth. No man hath seen God at any time; the Only Begotten
Son which is in the BOSOM
of the Father, He hath declared Him.” (John
1: 1,2, 14)
JESUS BAPTIZES WITH THE HOLY
SPIRIT!
The Bible says: “John answered, saying unto them all,
I indeed baptize you with water but one mightier than I cometh the latchet of
Whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: He shall baptize you with the HOLY
GHOST and with FIRE.” (Luke 3: 16); “The
next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God
which taketh away the sins of the world.” (John 1: 29)
John the Baptist was considered the greatest prophet and the forerunner
of the Messiah. He was six months older than Jesus of Nazareth. God had given
John the Baptist a sign of how he would recognize the Messiah. And as He was being baptized, the Heavens
opened and the Holy Spirit in the form of a Dove settled and remained upon
Jesus. An audible VOICE came from Heaven, saying, “Thou art My beloved Son; in Thee I am well pleased.” (Matt. 3:
11-17; Luke 3: 21, 22; John 1: 26-34)
The Yoke of Satanic Bondage is broken off our spirit, soul and body by
the ANOINTING of the Holy Spirit! The yoke of fear, torment, guilt,
condemnation, pain, sickness, disease and unrest must leave because of the
Anointing of the Holy Spirit!
The BLOOD of Jesus Christ, shed for us on Golgotha cleanses, purges,
washes and frees us from all anxiety, nervous tension, oppresion, satanic
attacks of sickness, disease and death. Jesus said, “Ye shall KNOW the Truth and the Truth shall make you FREE. If the SON
therefore shall make you free ye shall be free indeed.” (John 8: 32, 36)
Jesus Himself is the TRUTH, and His Word the Logos gives us the assurance that He will love us, care for us
and protect us: “...And, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the (age) world.” (Matt. 28: 20);
“… For He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” (Heb.13: 5).
In the original, Jesus used a double imperative here. It should read: “I will never, no never leave thee. I will
ever, no never forsake thee.”
The word always is a measure of time while
the word alway is a
measure of distance. He declared that He would be with us the “whole distance, all the way”
until we see Him face to face! Hallelujah. The words of an old Sunday school
chorus comes to mind: 'With Jesus in
the vessel, we can smile at the storm, smile at the storm, smile at the storm.
With Jesus in the vessel, we can smile at the storm as we go sailing Home.' Whatever
enemy we face, we have ultimate peace, assurance and victory!
VICTORY THROUGH THE BLOOD!
The Victory is ours: Victory over the world, the flesh and the devil!
Victory through the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant. Victory through the
Eternal Word of God. Victory through the Blessed Holy Spirit. Victory through
the Matchless Name of Jesus Christ! We have victory through our Lord, the
Liberator of Lost Humanity, the Emancipator of the Human Race, the Saviour of
the world, the Great Physician and the Baptizer with the Holy Ghost and Fire!
We are
fully armed with the precious promises of God, the sword of the Spirit, and purged
by the Blood of the Lamb, endued with the power of the Holy Spirit and hid with
Christ in God the Father Almighty – One True God, world without end!
The Bible declares: “No weapon that is formed against thee shall
prosper: and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt
condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their
righteousness is of Me, saith the Lord.” (Isa. 54: 17)
The yoke shall be destroyed because of the Anointing and it is God Who
anoints us with His Holy Spirit. St. Paul wrote: “For all the promises of God
in Him are yea, and in Him, Amen, unto the glory of God by us. And now He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;
Who hath also sealed us, and given us
the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.” (2 Cor. 1: 20 -22)
“But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. But
the ANOINTING which ye have received from Him abideth in you, and ye need not
that any man teach you: but as the anointing teaches you all things, and is
TRUTH, and is NO LIE and even as it hath taught you, ye shall ABIDE in Him.” (1
John 2: 27)
Jesus said: “Behold I give unto you POWER to tread on serpents and
scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and NOTHING shall by any means
hurt you.” (Luke 10: 19). I stand foursquare on God's Word and all the promises
of Jesus Christ!
WE ARE YOKED WITH CHRIST!
Prophecies in Holy Scripture relevant to the times they were
given, are sometimes a type for later events as well! This is the case with
Isaiah 10:27. The local setting referred to the heavy burden of tribute imposed
upon HEZEKIAH by the king of Assyria recorded in 2 Kings 18: 14. It could also
refer to God's deliverance from the future Babylonian captives, which is a type
of our deliverance from the bondage and burden of sin, fear, guilt,
condemnation and satanic tyranny, through Jesus Christ our Lord!
In his exposition of Isaiah 10: 27, JOHN GILL states that the Jewish
Targum refers it to the Messiah: “The
people shall be broken from before the Messiah”, Who was anointed with the oil
of gladness above His fellows and for Whose sake, and by Whom the Yoke of sin,
Satan, and the law has been destroyed.
“VITRINGA interprets it of the Spirit of
God, and His powerful operations, Whose gifts and graces are often compared to
Oil and Ointment and makes the words parallel to Zechariah 4: 6.”
Our Lord Jesus said: “Take My Yoke upon you and learn of Me; for I am
meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest for your souls. For My yoke is
easy and My burden is light.” (Matt.11: 29, 30)
What was He saying? When you are yoked to the Devil, he makes you carry
the burdens of sin, guilt, condemnation, fear, lust, hate, pride and
perversion! He bogs you down with sickness, disease and death! Jesus tells us that His yoke is easy and His
burden is light. Why is that?
JESUS CHRIST has already carried the load for us. As He prayed in
Gethsemane, His sweat drops were as it were great drops of blood. He was
carrying our load when they cursed Him, blasphemed Him, scourged Him and nailed
Him to the 'cursed tree'.
He did
all the heavy lifting for us on the whipping pole in Pilate's Judgment Hall and
on the CROSS on Golgotha. And when He cried, “It is finished”, He had paid for
all our sins, fear, sickness, disease and eternal damnation!
After His resurrection and ascension to the Throne of God, JESUS poured
out the Blessed Holy Spirit upon His Church to INDWELL us and give us power
over the world, the flesh and the Devil! The Evil One is Defeated for time and
eternity and we are FREE; bound to our Lord Jesus by love's strong cords -
yoked together with our Saviour forever! All hail the power of Jesus Name for
time and Eternity! Hallelujah and Amen.
MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION!
Through the blessed Holy
Spirit Who indwells us, we have been given the Ministry of Reconciliation! St. Paul writes: “And all things are of God, Who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ,
and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in
Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto
them; and hath committed unto us the Word of Reconciliation.
“Now then we are
Ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in
CHRIST'S STEAD, be ye reconciled to God. For He hath made Him to be sin for us,
Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” (2 Cor 5: 18-21)
The Bible says: “But if our
Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world
hath BLINDED the MINDS of them which believe not, lest the light of the
glorious gospel of Christ, Who is the image of God should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus
the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.” (2 Cor. 4: 3-5)
We are MINISTERS OF CHRIST, spreading His Gospel to the ends of the
earth. As Ambassadors, we represent Jesus Christ to the world, through our
conduct of word and deeds! We are the Only Bible some people will read!
Again, St. Paul writes: “For other foundation can no man lay than that
is laid, which is JESUS CHRIST. And ye are Christ's and Christ is God's. Let a
man so account of us, as of the Ministers
of Christ, and Stewards of the MYSTERIES of God.” (Eph.3: 11,23; 4:1; 1
Tim.4: 6).
St. Paul corrected a backsliding church: “O FOOLISH Galatians, who hath
bewitched you that you should not obey the TRUTH...This only would I learn of you,
Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? He
that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it
by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?” (Gal. 3: 1, 2,
5)
St. Paul wouldn’t have been able
to use that argument today, because the majority of churches and ministers have
never witnessed a miracle or someone receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Miracles occurred frequently in the churches during the time of Apostle's
writing to the Galatians.
How can we call ourselves
Believers, if we reject Christ's word and commandments? St. Jude admonishes us
to, “Earnestly contend for the FAITH
which was once delivered unto the saints”. (Jude 3) Since the church had
already slipped so far away from the true Gospel of God at the time of Jude's
writing, what about now?
ANOINTING BREAKS THE YOKE!
Everything that has been created and the
miracles that the Prophets did were done by the Spirit of God. Jesus was
led into the wilderness by the HOLY SPIRIT to be tempted by Satan and to
overcome him using the Word of God! Jesus began His earthly ministry
immediately after He was baptized and received the Holy Spirit.
“And Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in
their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the Kingdom, and healing all
manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. And His fame
went throughout all Syria, and they brought unto Him all sick people that were
taken with diverse diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with
devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and He
healed them.” (Matt.4: 23, 24)
The Bible states: “How God
anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power Who went about
doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil.” (Acts 10:
38)
MICAH the prophet stated: “But truly I am
full of power by the SPIRIT of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to
declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.” (Micah 3: 8). The
prophet EZEKIAL declared: “The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried
me out in the SPIRIT of the Lord,
and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones.” (Ezekiel
37: 1).
PHILIP,
a deacon in the church in Jerusalem went to the city of Samaria and
preached Christ unto them, and the whole city embraced the Gospel when they saw
the miracles, signs and wonders the Holy
Spirit did through his ministry.
SUPERNATURAL WORKS OF GOD!
The Bible says: “And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying,
Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto
Gaza, which is desert. Then the SPIRIT
said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him
read the prophet Esaias...” (Acts 8: 26-30)
“And he commanded the chariot to stand still: And the went down both
into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. And when they were come up out of the water,
the SPIRIT of the LORD caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more:
and he went on his way rejoicing. But Philip was found at Azotus...” (Acts 8:
38-40)
ST. PETER saw great miracles of healing
and deliverance in his Ministry. Here is the record of the Holy Spirit working
in his life: “While Peter thought of the vision, the SPIRIT said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee, Arise
therefore, and get thee down, and go with them doubting nothing: for I have
sent them.” (Acts 10: 19, 29)
The commentary on BARNABAS states: “For he was a good man, and full of the HOLY GHOST and of faith: and much people were added to
the Lord.” (Acts 11: 24).
The Holy Record states: “As they ministered and fasted, the HOLY GHOST
said, Separate Me Barnabas and Saul for the work where unto I have called them.
And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them they sent
them away. And they being sent forth by the HOLY GHOST, departed…” (Acts 13:
2-4)
All through the Book of Acts, we read of the Ministry of the HOLY SPIRIT
in the life of St. Paul and other apostles, prophets and leaders of the Church.
Oh, how we need that today in our midst. How weak the Church has become! Some
theologians and preachers say that God has changed His method of reaching the
lost and dying and that He no longer works supernaturally in His Church.
That
is a LIE from Hell. Show me where He has abrogated, retracted, changed His Will
or amended His Word. Away with such lies, blasphemy, modernism, false cult
teaching! Shame on the lazy, overfed preachers who do not search the Holy
Scriptures and do not FAST, PRAY or SEEK the Lord Jesus Christ for His
ANOINTING and Holy Spirit power!
Here is a word from the late D.L. MOODY for lukewarm, backslid
preachers: “Shame on the Christianity
of the 19th Century. It's a weak and sickly thing. Would to God we
had a few men like Daniel living here today!” What would D.L. Moody say
today?
Here is what Jesus Christ, the head of the Church said: And unto the
angel of the church of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the
Faithful and true witness, the beginning (The
One Who began Creating) of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would that thou
wert cold or hot. So then because thou art LUKEWARM, I will spue (vomit) thee out of My mouth. As many as I love, I
rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore and repent.” (Rev. 3: 14-16,
19)
ST. JOHN was on the Isle of Patmos, exiled for the Word of God. The HOLY
SPIRIT moved dramatically in his life. He writes: “I was in the SPIRIT on the Lord's Day, and heard behind me a
great VOICE, as of a trumpet, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the
last…
“And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as
dead. And He laid His right hand on me, saying unto me, Fear not: I am the
first and the last: I am He that
liveth, and was dead: and, behold, I am alive forevermore, Amen; and have the
keys of Hell and Death.” (Rev. 1: 10,11,17,18)
NEVER FORGET, GOD IS IN CHARGE!
Jesus said: “But ye
shall receive power, after that the HOLY GHOST is come upon you; and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem,
and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” (Acts
1: 8)
After His resurrection, Jesus stated: “These are the words which I spake
unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which
were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms,
concerning Me. Then opened He their
understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures.
“And He said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ
to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that REPENTANCE and
REMISSION of sins should be preached in His name among all nations, beginning
at Jerusalem.
“And
ye are witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send the PROMISE of My Father
upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power
from on High.” (Luke 24: 44-34)
Ten days later, the Resurrected Christ poured the Holy Spirit upon the
120 waiting believers, and before the Day of Pentecost had ended, three
thousands souls had surrendered to Jesus Christ!
Our Lord had fulfilled both the Great Day of Atonement by dying on the Cross for the sins of
the world and the Year of Jubilee,
by pouring out the Holy Spirit on His Church and inaugurating the Gospel Age!
In the Great Commission, Jesus commanded: “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He
that believeth and is baptized shall be saved and he that believeth not shall
be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My name shall
they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up
serpents (like St. Paul in Malta); and if they drink any deadly thing (some Pentecostal preachers in
Soviet Prisons), it shall not hurt
them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
“So then after the Lord
had spoken unto them, He was received up into Heaven, and sat on the right hand
of God. And they went forth, and
preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the Word with
SIGNS following.” (Mark 16: 15-18)
PENTECOSTAL IN FIRST DEGREE!
The Holy Record states: “Now Peter and John went up together into the
temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from
his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple
which was called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple.
“Who seeing Peter and John about
to go into the temple asked an alms. And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him
with John, said, Look on us. And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive
something of them. Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have
give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
“And he took him by the right hand, and
lifted him up and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. And
he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking,
and leaping, and praising God. And all the people saw him walking and praising
God.” (Acts 3: 1-9)
Multitudes came together when they saw that the crippled man had been
healed. Peter preached a powerful message
focusing on the resurrected Jesus of Nazareth and the powerful name that made
the crippled man well. He said:
“But ye denied the Holy One and the just,
and desired a murderer to be granted unto you. And killed the Prince of Life,
Whom God hath raised from the dead: whereof we are witnesses. And His NAME, through faith in His NAME
hath made this man STRONG, whom
ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by Him hath given him this perfect SOUNDNESS in the presence of ye all.” (Acts
3:4-16)
St. Peter challenged the great crowd to forsake their sins and to seek
forgiveness from God: “And now, brethren, O wot that through ignorance ye did
it, as did also your leaders. But those things, which God before had showed by
the mouth of all His prophets, that Christ should suffer, He hath fulfilled.
“REPENT ye therefore, and be CONVERTED that your sins may be blotted
out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And
He shall send Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you. Whom the Heaven
must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God had spoken
by the mouth of all His prophets since the world began.” (Acts 3: 17-21)
What was the outcome of that great Sermon? Five thousand men were converted
to Christ: “Howbeit many of them which heard the Word believed, and the number
of the men was about five thousand.” (Acts 4: 4). Believers in Christ were
detained, beaten and warned not to preach about Jesus Christ.
Peter and John answered: “Whether it be right in the sight of God to
hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the
things which we have seen and heard.” (Acts 4; 19,20)
Having been released by the Religious Leaders they went back to their
own company and reported what the chief priests and elders had said to them.
They all lifted up their voices to God:
“And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto Thy servants
that with all boldness, that with all boldness they may speak Thy Word. By
stretching forth Thine hand to HEAL: and that Signs and Wonders may be done by
the name of Thy Holy Child Jesus. And when they prayed the place was shaken
where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy
Ghost, and they spake the Word of God with boldness.” (Acts 4: 29-31)
WITNESS OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION!
“And with Great Power gave the apostles WITNESS of the resurrection of
the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.” (Acts 4: 33)
St. Paul stated: “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I
live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the
flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for
me.” (Gal.2: 20)
“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye
are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ Who is our LIFE,
shall appear, then shall we also appear with Him in glory.” (Col.3:2-4)
“What? Know ye not that your
body is the temple of the HOLY GHOST which is in you, which ye have of God, and
ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in
your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” (1 Cor. 6: 19,20)
The Bible says: “For our God is a CONSUMING FIRE.” (Heb.12: 29); “It is
a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.” (Heb.10: 31). The
most important thing we need today is the Mercy of God and the Fear of God. Then we will see the Fire of the Holy Spirit melting hearts and changing minds,
with a genuine Holy Ghost Revival moving in all churches across our land! May
God help us all to obey the call of God and by His grace “do the first works." Amen.
