Praise God.
Welcome to our Sunday morning meeting here.
We're going to turn to the Word of
God this morning again, carrying on from last
Sunday morning.
We're going to look at Revelation chapter 12
again, and this is part two of our
message here, dealing with the blood of Jesus
and the last days.
Last week we began to look at Revelation
12, and we saw in that vital chapter
that three things come together and converge together
in that chapter.
The first thing is a unique prophecy, which
I believe is for this hour, a remarkable
prophecy of the accuser of the brethren getting
cast out of heaven.
The second thing that happens is the warfare
that goes on, a spiritual invisible warfare that
goes on in the heavenlies between Michael and
his angels and Satan and his angels, and
there is no more space or room found
in heaven for them.
They are cast out onto the earth.
But there's a third thing that converges with
these two other events, and it's a victory
by the blood.
It's born again believers, the church of Jesus
Christ, rising up and overcoming the accuser of
the brethren by the blood of the Lamb.
We're turning here this morning to the Word
of God, to Revelation chapter 12, just reading
from verse 7 until verse 11.
Revelation chapter 12 verse 7, and it says,
and there was war in heaven.
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon,
and the dragon fought against his angels and
prevailed not.
Neither was their place found any more in
heaven.
And the great dragon was cast out, that
old serpent called the devil and Satan, which
deceiveth the whole world.
He was cast out into the earth, and
his angels cast out with him.
And I heard a loud voice saying in
heaven, now is come salvation and strength and
the kingdom of our God and the power
of his Christ.
For the accuser of our brethren is cast
down, which accused them before our God day
and night, and they overcame him by the
blood of the Lamb and by the word
of their testimony, and they loved not their
lives unto the death.
Let's pray here this morning as we come
to the Word of God.
Father, I thank you for the power in
Jesus' blood.
What would we do with such an adversary
as this old serpent, as this dragon, as
the devil, as Satan?
How would we stand against his accusations, this
old serpent that was in the garden with
Adam and Eve?
How would we stand against his lies, his
accusations, his falsehoods, if we didn't have the
blood of the Lamb?
Yet here this morning, by grace alone, by
faith through that blood and the finished work
of Calvary, we know that we have gained
a victory over the accuser of the brethren.
And my God, in faith, we know here
this morning, Lord God, there is an hour
where you yourself are going to cast Satan
down and he shall accuse the saints no
more.
There is coming an end to every accusation,
to the throwing of accusations against your saints.
And Lord Jesus, we ask, let it be.
Amen.
Let it come to pass.
We pray for it.
Let your kingdom come and your will be
done on earth, even as it is in
heaven, in Jesus' mighty name.
Amen.
We come here to part two of this
message from Revelation chapter 12, and we've called
this the blood of Jesus and the last
days.
It's so vital that we see the importance,
the power, and the place of the blood
of Jesus in these last days.
If ever we needed to be gripped, that
we are in the midst of the beginning
of sorrows, that we are in those days
that are setting the stage for all the
prophecy to come to pass.
We need to be gripped by this.
And as we do, we need to see
the vitalness.
We need to see the power and the
virtue that is within the blood of Jesus
Christ.
We come here to part two, the blood
of Jesus and the last days.
We dare not face these last days.
We dare not face the year that's ahead
of us unless we overcome by the blood
of the lamb.
It must be through the blood, by the
blood, with the knowledge of the blood and
faith in the blood.
It says here in Revelation chapter 12 and
10 concerning the accuser of our brethren being
cast down, which accused them before our God
day and night, verse 11, and they overcame
them by the blood of the lamb and
by the word of their testimony.
And they loved not their lives unto the
death.
I want you to see here the marvelous
truth of scripture here, that we overcome the
accuser of the brethren only by one way.
Chapter 12 here is marked by the accuser
of the brethren.
We see the casting down for the first
time in 6,000 years of history.
For the first time in 2,000 years
of church history, we see the accuser of
the brethren that has accused the saints of
God morning, day and night, morning and night.
He has accused the saints of God.
He has been regular and faithful in his
ministry against the saints of God.
And here we read in this chapter, for
the first time in 6,000 years, he
is cast out of heaven and he shall
no longer make any accusations against the saints
of God.
Notice here how we overcome and get a
victory against the accuser of the brethren.
It is by two things, by the blood
of the lamb and the word of our
testimony.
Notice here that to gain a victory against
Satan, against the accuser of the brethren, it's
got to be by the blood.
The accusations of Satan, the accusations against you
in your Christian life, you cannot stand against
them unless you go to the blood.
It's only by the blood of the lamb.
Do you see that when the accuser comes
against us, when the devil comes against us,
you have got to be driven to the
blood of the lamb.
Notice here, it is the blood of the
lamb.
It is the lamb of God.
We are laid back as we face the
accuser of the brethren.
We are driven to return to Calvary, to
look to Calvary again, to remember what happened
on the cross when Jesus was offered as
a lamb without spot or blemish.
Since we overcome, we gain a victory.
We triumph over the devil.
We subdue him under us.
We gain a victory over the accuser, but
only by the blood of the lamb.
It's by the blood, through the blood, because
of the blood that we gain a victory
against the accuser of the brethren.
But it goes further and it says, and
by the word of their testimony.
By these two things, we gain a victory
against the accuser of the brethren, by the
blood shed by the lamb of God on
that old tree called Calvary, by that precious
blood, but also by the word of our
testimony.
What is the word of our testimony?
It is the spoken word.
It is literally a testimony carried.
It is something that you as a believer,
you can speak out and you testify to.
It is the word of your testimony.
That word testimony there means evidence, true record.
The facts are a personal report.
In other words, through the blood and through
our personal testimony of what that blood has
done in our life, a real experience of
the blood.
There is evidence.
I know the blood has given me a
victory.
I know the blood has forgiven my sins.
I know the blood has brought me into
relationship with God.
I'm made righteous.
I'm justified by faith.
I'm made clean through the precious blood of
the lamb.
I'm walking in a relationship with God, but
by the blood of the lamb, since this
is how you gain a victory against the
accuser of the brethren.
I want you to realize this morning, as
we come to this message, that our adversary
is a vicious enemy.
He is the accuser of the brethren.
When we come to the Bible, we read
that the devil comes to real Christians, real
saints, to tempt them.
He comes to try and sift them or
to cut them down.
He comes to deceive them with lies and
falsehood.
He comes to buffet them or to thump
them with his fist.
He comes to hinder them and to stop
them where they are so that they can't
advance in the will of God.
He comes to gain an advantage over them
and also to gain a foothold in some
area of his life, knowing that this devil
is real.
And when we speak about the devil, we're
talking about his kingdom, all his minions, fallen
angels and demons, which are synonymous.
We're talking about the full structure of his
kingdom.
When I say the devil comes, I'm not
talking about him personally in every incident, in
every case, but I'm saying every Christian encounters
the kingdom of Satan, the powers of darkness,
wicked spirits, lying spirits, tempting spirits.
I assure you, the real Christian has to
face the darkness.
There is something more than this physical world.
There is a spiritual realm and we are
in a spiritual warfare since knowing all that
the devil comes to do and his kingdom
does.
We've got to know what it means to
be washed in the blood of the lamb
and to be born again.
It says in Colossians chapter one and verse
13, listen to what Christ has done.
Who has delivered us from the power of
darkness.
Have you been delivered from the power of
darkness and have been translated into the kingdom
of his dear son?
This is the work of Jesus Christ in
the born again experience.
When you're saved by grace, when you put
your faith in the blood of the lamb,
these two things happen.
Jesus himself delivers you out of the kingdom
of darkness.
You're not in his kingdom anymore.
You've been delivered.
You've been brought out and he translates you
into the kingdom of his dear son.
This is what God does to us in
salvation.
We're brought out of one kingdom and we're
brought into another.
We're brought out of the kingdom of Satan
and we're brought into the kingdom of the
son of God.
We have been delivered.
Since I'm not in between, I'm not half
in and half out.
You're in Satan's kingdom or you're in the
kingdom of his dear son.
It is one or the other.
Listen, you've got to know what it means
to be truly born again and washed in
the blood of Jesus.
When we go to one John, John speaks
about this very much in his letter.
Listen to what he says.
He says concerning those who are born of
God are begotten of God.
In other words, they're born again.
Listen to what it says.
Those that are born of God, they keep
themselves and the wicked one touches him not.
A real born again Christian, do you know
what he's going to do?
He's going to keep himself.
He's not going to play around with sexual
sin or drugs or alcohol.
I assure you, the real Christian is going
to keep himself.
It is a mark that you're born again,
that you keep yourself, you guard yourself, you
separate yourself from the darkness of this world.
Saints, be a Christian in this world.
The new birth is a mighty thing.
You are born of the spirit of God
and you keep yourself from the devil.
You guard yourself.
You don't just accept his lies or you
don't just yield to his temptations.
There is a keeping of yourself.
Oh yes, I know there's failures along the
way, but saints of God, get up and
keep yourself here this morning.
If you're really born again, you can keep
yourself.
You can guard yourself.
You can watch yourself from the onslaught of
hell.
And it says the wicked one touches him
not.
If you're born again, if you're in Christ
Jesus, the wicked one touches you not.
Do you know what that Greek word means?
And it's very important.
It means the wicked one does not attach
himself onto you.
He cannot cling to you.
He cannot hold you fast.
He is not there holding you, refusing to
let go or to have such a grip
on your life that you can't get free.
Do you know what?
I reject the teaching of demonized Christians.
There are no such thing.
Satan can't dwell in you at the same
time as the spirit of God.
You're either in the kingdom of Satan or
you're in the kingdom of God, but you
cannot be both.
You know, the church is filled with people,
preachers having demons cast out of them.
The church is more like a hospital than
a military army.
But I want to show you for these
last days, let the real church of God
arise.
They're not having demons cast out of them.
They're casting demons out.
They're not there licking their wounds.
They're going out to heal the wounds of
others who are out there in this sin
lost world.
I want to assure you that real Christians
are not indwelled.
The devil cannot touch them.
The evil one can.
They can be tempted.
They can sin.
They can fail along the way.
They're buffeted many times.
But I assure you through the blood of
Jesus, they gain a victory over the evil
one.
The devil cannot touch you.
He cannot so grip himself onto you.
Do you know what the word also means?
It means to appropriate or handle for your
own purpose.
The devil can't use the same for his
own purpose.
It means to permanently harm.
This word is vital because the devil cannot
touch someone who is really born again and
washed in the blood of Jesus.
If ever we needed to understand that, it's
in this hour and this generation.
Since you the redeemed of the Lord, if
you're born again, if you're washed in the
blood here in this church, if you know
Jesus Christ, do you know what?
I want you to realize there's power, power,
wonder working power in the blood of the
Lamb.
And you know what?
There's a blood washed church that's going to
function in one of the darkest hours in
church history.
This is a remarkable hour.
We have come to the end of the
church age.
I believe we're right in the last chapter
of church history.
We are the last church that's going to
be upon the earth before the coming of
the Lord.
I believe we're at the end of it
all.
And you know what?
We've got to know the power of Jesus'
blood.
There is a victory.
It's got to become personal.
It's got to become our testimony.
There's got to be evidence that we have
a victory over the blood of the Lamb.
When Jesus warned the church of the signs
that they are going to see just before
the end, the signs that would indicate that
the last generation has come, in Matthew 24,
he gives 10 significant signs and warnings that
would indicate the beginning of sorrows are here.
In other words, a period of time that's
going to intensify, that's going to grow stronger,
that's going to become more obvious.
Listen to what he said in Matthew 24
and 9.
Ye shall be hated of all nations for
my name's sake.
Do you know what?
Our world right now is changing.
Every single nation, you're going to be hated
for Christ's sake.
That didn't used to be the case.
There were nations where you'd be respected for
being a Christian, for following Jesus Christ.
But Jesus predicted that this would be one
of the last signs of his coming to
make the church look up for the redemption
drawth now, to look for the coming of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
Do you know what he said?
All nations are going to hate you, you
the church, the redeemed of the Lord, because
of the name of Jesus Christ.
There's going to be a radical change in
our culture, our society, our politics.
All of this makes us look up.
Saints, I'm not in defeat this morning.
I'm not scared this morning.
I'm not trembling this morning.
I was born for this hour.
Jesus warned me about this hour.
He gave indications.
He explained it and he showed me what
the church is to be.
We are going to live and we are
living in an hour when the real people
of God are hated for his name's sake
in every single nation.
He goes further and he says, and then,
so at a time where the nations are
literally beginning to hate real believers, and then
shall many be offended.
Talking about those in the church, they're going
to be offended.
They're going to trip over it.
They're not going to be able to handle
this hatred.
They're going to say, this shouldn't be happening.
Everyone should love me.
I just want to love Jesus.
They're going to get offended.
People in the church who were happy a
year ago are suddenly, as this hatred arises,
they're going to become offended.
And listen, Jesus said, and shall betray one
another.
Offense will lead to betrayal and shall hate
one another.
I believe this pinpoints people who are professing
to follow Christ, to love Christ, to be
in the church, but our whole world is
going to soon change.
The whole culture of this generation is going
to so dramatically begin to change.
There's going to be a progression from offense
to betrayal, to hatred, step by step.
We are going to see a Judas generation
in the church arise.
People are going to shock you.
People who said they once loved Jesus, you're
going to be shocked at what they're going
to do.
They're going to sell out Jesus for a
lousy 30 bits of silver and shall hate
one another.
Do you know what hatred is?
It is to love less, to have no
emotion, no natural feeling, and betrayal leads to
that.
Betrayal always leads to no feeling.
Before you betray a man or a woman,
you have to be in a condition where
you just don't feel anything anymore.
You'll sell them out, betray them, be unfaithful,
not be a real Christian.
I assure you, there is something at work
in your heart.
It also says in Matthew 24 in verse
12, and because iniquity shall abound, because it's
going to multiply, it's going to explode.
What is iniquity?
It is lawlessness.
It's the Greek word for lawlessness.
In other words, an utter contempt for law.
It means a breaking of all law.
God's law, man's law, the tradition of law.
It is a throwing away of all boundaries,
all distinction, of all regulation.
It is going beyond God's law.
That's what Jesus said this last hour would
be like.
Iniquity is going to abound.
It's going to multiply.
This lawless spirit that we are watching right
now in our nations, I mean the riverbanks
are busting.
There's no more restriction.
There's always been iniquity.
There's always been homosexuality.
There's always been sin.
There's always been abortion.
There's always been depravity.
But you know what?
It's burst in its bounds.
Welcome to the last of the last days,
to the last chapter of church history.
You need to be equipped, and this message
is to start you to be equipped.
This isn't for the light.
This isn't for the frivolous, but this is
for those who truly love Jesus Christ.
It says there, and Jesus warned 2,000
years ago.
He warned us clearly.
He said an hour is coming.
I'm giving you the signs that give reach
the last days, that you're living in the
last hour.
I'm showing you clearly that because iniquity abounds,
because it begins to overflow in every nation,
every area of society, the love, and that
word love is agape love.
The love of many is going to grow
cold.
It's going to wax cold.
Agape love is going to become filial love.
That's in the church, and it's talking about
real genuine born-again believers, those that are
born again, washed in the blood.
You know what he says?
The love of many is going to grow
cold.
I want to give you a serious warning,
but I want to give you the remedy.
The remedy is the blood of Jesus Christ.
Nothing will keep you as fervent as the
blood of Jesus.
Nothing will keep you as fresh as the
blood of Jesus Christ.
I'm telling you this morning how to gain
a victory over the accuser of the brethren.
Who is it behind this rise of iniquity?
Who is it behind this flood of abomination
in this hour?
It is the accuser of the brethren.
Who is this accuser of the brethren?
We're told in Revelation 12 and verse 9,
this accuser who is going to get cast
on.
Saints, I've told you how dark it'll get,
but I'm telling you of a church that's
going to rise up in such an hour,
in such a climate, and by the blood,
they're going to gain a victory over the
accuser of the brethren.
What the devil means for evil, to annihilate
the church, to corrupt the church, to pollute
the church, to compromise the church, there is
going to arise a church that's going to
gain a victory over that same accuser.
It is going to rise up in this
last hour.
It says in Revelation 12 and 9, and
the great dragon was cast out, that old
serpent called the devil, and Satan, which deceiveth
the whole world, he was cast into the
earth, and his angels were cast out with
them before the final prophecies are fulfilled, before
the rise of Antichrist.
There's going to be a church that overcomes
by the blood of the Lamb.
Saints, I'm talking to you this morning.
We are that generation.
We are that church.
Prophecy is about to come to pass, and
I assure you our time is restricted.
Our time is limited for this casting out
of the accuser of the brethren, the rising
up of the church to overcome by the
blood, for Michael and his angels to triumph
against the accuser of the brethren.
All of this is coming in very fast,
and I believe we're there.
We are going to be put in a
situation where we'll have no choice but to
lay hold of the blood of the Lamb,
and by a personal experience, overcome the accuser
of the brethren.
Notice here concerning the accuser of the brethren.
It gives two animals and two names.
The two animals are the dragon and the
serpent.
In this chapter, chapter 12 of Revelation, the
dragon is mentioned eight times.
He's only mentioned 13 times in the entire
book of Revelation.
He's not called the dragon anywhere else in
the Bible, but he is called the dragon
here.
In other words, the devil is defined as
a dragon more in Revelation 12 than any
other chapter of the entire Bible.
Look at him in this chapter.
We see his tail drawn down a third
of the stars of heaven.
That means a third of the angels that
become demonic spirits.
We see him there waiting to devour the
man-child.
We see him in heaven fighting Michael.
We see him trying to destroy the woman
and pursuing after her.
Then after that, we see him making war
with the remnant of her seed.
This dragon has seven heads and 10 horns.
This dragon is the one who is just
about to empower a political, economic, and religious
system.
It's going to arise on the earth.
Once he's cast onto the earth, he's going
to empower and inhabit a demonically controlled political
system across our world.
That's who the dragon is, but it's not
the dragon we're dealing with here.
We're dealing with the serpent.
The serpent is the one who comes before
the dragon.
We read of the serpent three times in
this chapter.
We read of him, of his face, and
of his mouth.
Notice that very carefully about the serpent in
this hour that we live in.
The serpent who is the dragon, who is
the devil, who is Satan.
As a serpent, his mouth and his face
is very important.
When we look for the serpent, we go
back to Genesis chapter three and verse one.
It says, now the serpent was more subtle
than any beast of the field.
That means cunning, crafty, shrewd, to be smooth
in your words, to be crafty in your
actions, your plans, your motives, all of the
devices that you put into operation.
We are dealing with a serpent that was
in the garden of Eden.
We are dealing with a serpent that had
a dealing with our first parents 6,000
years ago.
I want you to realize that the serpent
has been coming against a chosen man, tempting
them, deceiving, lying, manipulating, standing against him for
6,000 years since the garden of Eden.
The name Satan and devil here are also
important.
Satan is taken from the Hebrew and has
the meaning of adversary.
He stands against, he resists, and this name
Satan is used 14 times in the book
of Job.
If you want to understand who Satan is,
how he operates, what his task is, remember
name denotes character.
If you want to understand what God means
by calling him Satan or exposing him as
Satan, do you know what?
Go to the book of Job and see
how Satan dealt with Job.
You are looking at what it means to
be Satan.
You're looking at a definition of his character
and his nature.
He is also called the devil here, which
is the Greek word diabolos.
That word diabolos means false accuser or one
who comes to slander.
It's not just one who accuses, but he
makes false accusations.
It comes from the verb word or the
action word diabolos, meaning the act of accusing
someone or to throw darts.
It actually is where you'd have arrows or
darts and you would throw them.
That's where it comes from.
The accuser throws words and that's where we
get the word diabolos.
He is throwing accusations.
He is throwing slander.
He is throwing mud.
He is the theme in your character.
Since I'm telling you who the serpent is,
who this accuser of the brethren is, here
in Revelation 12, he is revealed in all
of his fullness.
He is defined in his character, in his
calling, in his history.
The cover is pulled back and we see
who the accuser is.
Do you know why you need to know
this this morning?
We are so ignorant when thoughts come to
our mind, when somebody speaks to us the
wrong thing or a wrong teaching, when we
see things go on in our world, we
don't realize who is operating there.
We are so blind and ignorant so often
to who it is that's working in the
dark.
I assure you this word devil is used
34 times and even once of Judas in
the gospel.
It is a real thing that we are
facing here as the devil hurls and throws
a verbal assault against who?
The brethren, the blood-washed believer in the
Lord Jesus.
I've got three points for you here.
Now that I've laid a foundation, I want
you to hear this.
We're in the last days.
We're in the last hour of church history.
There is a vital role for us to
play in the world.
We may look small and insignificant, but I
assure you a believer that discovers and renews
his knowledge of the blood of the lamb
is going to find himself in a place
of experiential victory in this hour.
Since the battle is coming to us, whether
you like it or not, you better hear
what I say.
You better be instructed by the spirit of
God because there is coming a flood of
the accuser of the brethren, the like of
which you and I have never yet seen
in our generation.
It's going to engulf every nation, every government,
all legislation.
It's going to come against our children in
the schools.
It's going to affect you in the workplace.
It's going to affect you from the highest
realms of authority to the lowest.
I assure you the accuser of the brethren
is bringing the battle to us, but it
is time for the church to rise up,
to stand by virtue of the precious blood
and to gain the victory over the accuser
of the brethren.
What the means for evil, God is going
to use for good.
What the devil thinks is going to floor
us and wipe us out is going to
be used to stir us up, to stand
up as the redeemed of the Lord.
I've got three points here for you this
morning as we look a bit closer at
this.
Number one, he is a personal accuser.
I want to show you three different realms
of how the accuser comes and how we
gain the victory, but I want you to
see this one first.
He is a personal accuser.
You see, I want you to stop and
consider this for a moment, that the accusations
of the one in Revelation 12 who's going
to get cast down, those accusations that are
going to come to an end, it's a
personal accuser that you're looking at.
You are looking at your personal accuser.
You see, the accuser of the brethren is
an accuser of you.
If you're a born-again blood-washed believer,
you are a brother.
He is an accuser of the brethren, of
the brotherhood of Jesus Christ, those born again
by the grace of God.
He is an accuser directly of you.
And notice with me here, we know from
scripture that the accuser of the brethren, he
will have a direct line towards you.
He will tempt you.
He will speak to you.
He will attack you.
Since if you find yourself in a place
of condemnation and guilt through your own personal
sin, you've sinned against God, it is time
to turn to the blood of Jesus.
If you're in this gathering and you're listening
to my words this morning, and there's condemnation,
and there's guilt, and there's thoughts, and there's
feelings, and you feel afar off, it is
time for you to overcome the accuser by
the blood of Jesus.
You may say, I deserve this.
Yes, you do.
But it's time to rise up by the
grace of God and say, God, forgive me.
I'm so sorry for sinning against you.
Will you wash me?
You've just gained a victory over the accuser
of the brethren.
It says in 1 John chapter 3 and
20, for if our heart condemn us, God
is greater than our heart.
Some of you think because your own heart
condemns you, that you need to stay in
that case.
You know what?
God is greater than your own heart.
Your conscience may be condemning you.
Your own heart may condemn you because of
something you've said, or something that you've done,
or something that you've thought.
I want to show you God is greater
than your heart.
The blood of Jesus Christ washes you from
all sin.
There is a victory in the blood of
Jesus.
You may be in a battle against the
accuser.
He's pointing out your past sins.
He's pointing out your lack of sanctification.
He's pointing out something in your life this
morning that you've been struggling with.
You want to be like Jesus.
You want to walk with God.
But there's one thing you've been wrestling with.
You know what?
The accuser of the brethren, he'll be there
to accuse you.
He will come and accuse you.
He'll say, what sort of Christian are you?
You'll never change.
You'll never be free.
You'll never grow beyond this.
You'll never get the victory over me.
Saints, can I tell you, when the tempter
comes, the accuser, it is time to lay
hold of the blood of Jesus.
You need to turn around to that devil
this morning and say, I'm washed by the
blood of the Lamb.
I'm forgiven by the precious blood of the
Lamb.
I can gain a victory by the blood
of the Lamb.
I'm not the worthy one.
I'm not the perfect one.
But the Lamb of God died at Calvary.
His blood was shed for me that I
may go free.
I want you to see that the accuser
of the brethren has a direct attack to
you.
You may think it's your own thoughts.
You may think that you're condemning yourself, but
he is a condemner.
He is a liar.
He is a murderer.
How do we know the difference between the
devil condemning us and the Holy Spirit convicting?
The devil says, you're done, you're out, and
there's no hope for you.
You know, over the past three months, I've
had a number of emails and conversations with
individuals, backsliders who once knew Jesus Christ, and
they said, I've sinned and I cannot be
forgiven.
I don't think God can forgive me.
Maybe I've sinned away the day of salvation.
Do you know the Holy Spirit, when he
convicts you of sin, he always leads you
back to the blood.
And he says, there's power in the blood.
There's power in the blood.
There's forgiveness in the blood of Jesus.
You say, but you don't know me.
I want to tell you, one of Christ's
own apostles, Peter, the apostle, chosen by Christ,
raised up.
You remember Christ one day prophesied, Peter, there's
a day coming, you're going to deny me.
Peter said, never.
All the rest might, but I will never
deny you.
You know, it was only days later, he's
standing warm in his hands by the fire,
the world's fire.
There's Roman centurions there.
There's little handmaidens and he's there in the
coldness of night, standing with the ungodly, standing
amidst their conversation, warm in his hands, seeking
to get warm by the fire of this
world.
In that environment, he denied Jesus Christ three
times.
What a heartbreaking thing.
Do you know what happened next?
He was heartbroken.
He went out and he wept.
I can assure you the accuser of the
brethren came to him.
Do you know what he done next?
He went and took those other fishermen apostles
and he said, come, let's go fishing.
You know what he gave up in the
ministry and he went back to his fishing
nets.
When Christ next finds him, he's out there
fishing again.
He's turned away from ministry, gave up on
preaching.
Why?
Three times he denied Jesus Christ and said,
I do not know him.
Do you realize that the devil came in
on that as the accuser of the brethren?
Don't you realize the devil must have said,
I've got Peter now.
Peter will never recover from this.
You say, how do you know that the
devil was there?
Jesus said, Jesus had said previously to Peter,
Peter, Satan has asked to sift you like
wheat, but I prayed for you that your
faith will not fail.
He didn't pray that he wouldn't fail.
He prayed that his faith wouldn't fail.
Peter did fail.
And I assure you the accuser was there
to say, you're finished.
You're finished.
How can you call yourself a Christian?
But that man had a new meeting with
the Lord Jesus Christ.
I tell you, Christ came looking for him.
He is the good shepherd.
He goes looking for that one sheep that's
gone astray.
If he'd done that for Peter, he'll do
it for you.
I can assure you, my friend, there is
an accuser of the brethren.
That great man of God on the day
of Pentecost stood up and preached on 3000
are born again.
Don't tell me there isn't a victory over
past failure.
Don't tell me there isn't power in the
blood.
Don't tell me that you can't rise up
out of the pit of guilt and of
condemnation of hopelessness of having gone back to
your fish and nets.
Since when you see Christ again and all
that he's done for you, you'll stand up
and preach again under the power of the
Holy Spirit.
That's always a personal accuser.
Satan comes to accuse you personally, but notice
further, he doesn't only accuse you to you,
but he accuses God about you.
He accuses God and listen, he goes to
God when you're innocent as the accuser of
the brethren.
Satan is a false accuser.
He doesn't just go when you sin or
you fail or something happens.
Satan goes to God to accuse you when
you haven't done anything wrong.
You say, where do you get that?
I find it in the book of Job.
If you go to the book of Job,
you'll find this as clear as day.
It is God himself who points out to
Satan, the righteousness of a man of God,
who eschewed sin, that there was no one
on God's planet who was quite like Job.
Well, you know what Satan said.
Then Satan answered the Lord and he said,
does Job fear God for naught?
Do you know what he's doing?
He is accusing Job to God.
This is what Satan still does today to
the saints of God.
He makes accusations that are not true.
He even creates and invents scenarios of what
you would do in certain situations if God
allows it to happen in your life.
You know, Satan goes to God and he
challenges him and says, you know, this no
good saint of God, you just let him
have a bit of suffering and he'll deny
you.
That's what he's saying here about Job.
He says, does Job fear God for naught?
He said, why wouldn't he fear you?
He's challenging Job and he's saying that fear
of God isn't the real fear of God.
It's a fear that's birthed out of greed.
Actually, all he is is a greedy, selfish
so-and-so.
Satan begins to accuse Job unto God.
So it's not only the accuser accuses you
to yourself, he accuses you to God.
He goes to God.
Listen further.
And he says, put my forth thine hand
and touch Job and all that he has
and he will curse you to thy face.
What a challenge that this is Satan the
accuser saying to God, just you touch him,
let some things go wrong in his life
and I know he'll curse you to your
face.
This was a righteous, godly believer, a man
who walked with God, who had integrity, who
could control his speech and yet there is
the devil unseen to him, unknown to him,
invisibly at the throne of God saying, if
you allow these things to happen to Job,
he will curse you to his face.
Do you know that the devil makes such
accusations about you?
Do you know God has allowed certain things
in your life to prove that there's more
in you than the devil accuses you of?
Don't you realize that there's things in life,
trials and troubles and things we don't understand
that it is the devil accusing you at
the throne of God and yet God allowed
all of this.
You know why?
There is something real in you that he
is going to manifest.
He's going to bring it forth.
He knows that you're not serving him for
greed.
It's not out of a fear taught by
man, but there is real integrity.
There's real integrity.
The accuser of the brethren studied Job very
carefully.
He studied his lifestyle, his conduct.
He noticed the hedge in and around Job's
life.
He studied his family very carefully.
He counted his possessions.
He knew where it all was.
He was able to attack it and he
also noted the work of his hands and
his influence on that generation.
Oh, what a thing to challenge and yet
it was all in God's plan.
God actually had a plan in drawing Satan's
attention to him.
It wasn't out of God's control.
God was using the accuser.
God was using Satan.
God was using the devil in Job's life.
It's hard to accept that I know.
It's hard to see and understand that and
yet at the end of the story, what
we see of Job is he comes forth
as gold out of the trough.
God will never allow the accuser to stand
and accuse you without having a plan and
a purpose in it.
We read about another man who he wasn't
an innocent man who the devil accused, but
actually there was an issue in his life.
Listen, the accuser also accuses God when there
is something in your heart and life.
In chapter three, we read a very important
chapter there.
Zachariah is all about the people of Israel
after the 70 year captivity.
They make that long journey from Babylon back
into the city of Jerusalem to begin to
rebuild the house of God, the temple of
God.
There are two leaders.
Zerubbabel is the political leader, the governor, the
one with royal blood in his veins and
by his side is the high priest called
Joshua, a man of God, a spiritual man.
These two men led the people of God
back.
They're two leaders who love God and want
to walk with God, but in Zachariah chapter
three, the prophet comes to Joshua with a
open vision, a prophecy for him.
Listen to what it says in Zachariah three
and one.
And he showed me Joshua, the high priest
standing before the angel of the Lord.
And I believe that's Jesus Christ, the angel
of the Lord.
He was standing before him and Satan standing
at his right hand to resist him.
I want you to see here, here is
the high priest, the most religious and spiritually
alive man in the nation.
The man that's going to lead them back
to restore the house of God, a man
who longs for revival.
He is a leader who desires the spirit
of God to move.
But you know what?
As he stands before the Lord, at his
side stands Satan and Satan is there at
his right hand to resist him.
The word resist means to attack, to accuse,
or to condemn.
The devil is standing beside him, accusing him,
accusing him.
I believe he's accusing him before God.
I believe Satan was standing as these men
make their way back to have another revival,
to rebuild Jerusalem.
You know where Satan is?
He is standing at the right hand of
Joshua.
Joshua cannot see it.
The prophet has to reveal it.
The preacher has to make it clear.
But there is Satan at his side, accusing
him, accusing him.
You know what I believe he was saying?
How can you use a man like this
to bring revival?
How could you use a man like this
in a position of ministry?
How can you use a man like this
to restore the house of God?
I believe he was accusing Joshua before the
presence of God.
And yet Joshua did not know until the
prophet revealed it.
Do you know what happens here as Satan
is accusing him and resisting him?
Listen to what the Lord says.
The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan.
You know what?
He is dealing with the accuser of the
brethren, just like Christ prayed for Peter that
his faith would not fail.
Here is the Lord standing with Joshua.
Do you know what?
Thank God the Lord doesn't leave us in
the hands of the accuser.
He says, the Lord rebuke thee, O Satan.
And it says in verse three, now Joshua
was clothed with filthy garments and stood before
the angel.
You know, this is one of the holiest
man in the nation.
And yet in the vision, we see filthy
garments.
There was an issue here, maybe a lack
of sanctification, maybe some issue with his wife
at home, maybe some issue, he's trying to
work through it in his own heart, maybe
something with his children.
I don't know, but his garments were filthy.
And you know what?
Satan took opportunity and he says, God, you
can't use this man.
You can't lay your hand on this man.
But do you know what the Lord done?
Yes, the Lord reveals the filthy garments.
Maybe this was something in Joshua's life he
wasn't even aware of.
Maybe his heart was sincere and pure and
he wasn't aware of issues going on in
his life, of some blemish that the devil
was using.
You know what the Lord, the Lord's never
scared to expose and reveal something that is
hidden.
God does reveal sin or filthy garments.
Listen to what the Lord says, take away
the filthy garments.
I believe this high priest was trusting to
the blood of the lamb.
I believe this is him overcoming by the
blood of the lamb.
I believe this is him gaining a victory
against the accuser of the brethren.
What does the Lord say?
Take away his filthy garments.
And he said, this shall pass.
This high iniquity will pass from me and
I will close thee with the change of
Raymond.
He given new clean garments.
That's what the blood of the lamb does.
Next of all, he given a new fair
miter for his head.
You know what was written on the miter
of the high priest?
Holiness unto the Lord.
What a remarkable thing that amidst the battle
with Satan, the accuser of the brethren, just
as Satan comes to accuse the lamb of
God, our great high priest, our advocate comes
to bring deliverance.
Since he'll meet with you this morning, he'll
give you new garments.
He'll give you a new hat for your
head.
He'll anoint your head with the oil of
gladness.
He rebukes Satan on the basis of his
own righteousness.
He changes this man of God and close
him in holiness.
And then he instructs him, if you walk
with me, if you obey me, then I'll
bless you.
That is the first point here this morning.
The devil is a personal accuser.
We see it with Peter, with Joshua, with
Job.
Sometimes he brings false accusation.
Sometimes true accusations.
And sometimes he's trying to prophesy something into
place.
This is the accuser of the brethren.
Sometimes he is accusing you of what is
real in your life.
Sometimes he just lies about you.
The accuser of the brethren, how do you
overcome him?
By the blood of the lamb.
You accuse him.
You overcome him when the accusation is true.
Are you there this morning and the devil
is accusing you?
How dare you sing the songs of Zion?
How dare you pray this morning?
How dare you approach the Lord this morning?
How dare you break bread this morning?
Someone like you, you know what, you can
gain a victory this morning.
By saying, oh God, forgive me, cleanse me,
wash me.
Maybe there's nothing in your heart, but the
accuser's coming, saying you're proud, you're arrogant.
Maybe he's accusing God about your lack of
sanctification and your growth in Christ.
Overcome him by the blood of the lamb.
I do want to be like Jesus.
I do want to mature.
I do want complete victory.
Then rest in the precious blood of the
lamb.
The accuser that we overcome by the blood
of the lamb and our word of our
testimony is overcome by the precious blood.
It is the blood, the lamb of God
that gives us the victory.
Second of all, a brotherly accuser.
A brotherly accuser.
He's not only a personal accuser.
He is a brotherly accuser.
What do I mean by the accuser of
the brethren being a brotherly accuser?
Do you realize he will go to your
brothers in the church and accuse you?
He will go to them.
He will speak sentences or points up and
out.
He is an accuser of the brethren, but
also he can go to you.
He can come to you with thoughts, with
feelings, with ideas, pointing things out, and he
can actually begin to accuse your brother in
Christ without foundation.
Like with the first point, sometimes it may
be true.
Sometimes it is utterly false.
First of all, where there is no issue,
you can become an accuser of your brother
at the instigation of Satan stirring you up.
You know what?
And there is no issue.
There's no biblical issue.
There's nothing they're doing wrong.
You may not like the way they look,
the way they dress, the way they speak,
or their humor, or their temperament.
Your heart might rise up against someone, and
yet if I ask you, what's the issue?
You can't even point it at anything.
You know, in Mark chapter 7, in Christ
speaking, he speaks about an evil eye.
Do you know what an evil eye is?
It is to be an accuser of the
brethren.
An evil eye is to look on someone
else with an evil heart or with a
wrong heart.
It's placed alongside fornication, adultery, and murder.
If you are there with an evil eye
against a genuine believer in Christ, and yet
there's no good reason, and you don't deal
with it biblically, but yet you look on
them, you have attitudes, you have thoughts, and
you tolerate it, and you never deal with
that.
You don't come to the blood of Jesus.
You don't plead the blood of Jesus over
the situation.
Do you know what it's called?
It's called an evil eye, and it's like
murder.
Do you realize how much rises up in
the church?
And really, it's the accuser of the brethren
behind it.
Do you know the devil loves to divide
and to conquer?
Do you know he loves to set a
real Christian against another real Christian?
He'll stir up David's brothers to accuse him
of pride in his heart.
That's why you've come to the battlefield.
He'll stir up Joseph's brothers with envy towards
their brother, saying, look at this arrogant little
boy.
Look at his attitude.
He's trying to rule over us.
I assure you there is an accuser of
the brethren.
He not only goes to God to accuse
you, he not only accuses you of your
own sin, but he actually comes to you
to try and split you from your brothers
and your sisters in Christ Jesus.
I want to exhort you here for a
moment.
Be very careful of the thoughts that come
to your mind.
Test everything by the word of God.
Only deal with your brother and sister according
to the written scriptures.
It says in Exodus 20 and verse 16,
thou shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbor.
You shall not bear false witness.
Again in Exodus 23 and one, thou shalt
not raise a false report.
Put not thine hand with the wicked to
be an unrighteous witness.
Do you realize if you make a false
accusation and you can claim the covenant of
the blood, but if you make a false
accusation against a brother and you harbor it,
or you share it with others, and you've
never dealt with it in a right way,
do you realize it is something that God
detests?
It is something that God is against to
bear a false witness.
In other words, lie or to misrepresent or
to claim that things are in their heart
that are not in their heart.
Friends, you don't know what is in a
man's or a woman's heart unless their words
explicitly reveal it or their actions reveal it.
And then it's in the open.
You don't know what's in someone's heart and
you better take heed to yourself rather than
delving into other people's lives.
Be very careful.
There is an accuser of the brethren that
would love to divide Christians and be also
very careful.
Do you realize the accuser of the brethren
likes to stir up backbiting, slander, gossip, lying,
false accusation.
He loves to do it in the home.
He loves to do it in the church.
He loves to do it amidst brethren.
It says in Proverbs 6 and 16, these
six things does the Lord hate.
In other words, they're an enemy.
He hates them.
Six things.
Yea, seven are an abomination unto him.
Why would he say he hates six, but
there's seven that's an abomination?
Well, he goes on to list six things,
idolatry and other things that God hates.
But there is a seventh.
Listen to what the seventh is.
He that soweth discord among brethren.
If you ever find a Christian and he
goes about sowing discord, sharing things, and he's
never dealt with it in a right way,
in a biblical way, he's just causing division
in the church.
I want to show you the devil is
using that man.
The accuser of the brethren is using that
man.
No, let me say something more.
I want to tell you that that man,
what he's doing, sowing discord or division among
brethren, that God says he not only hates
it, but it's an abomination.
It's an abomination unto him.
I mean, there's nothing worse.
It is worse than murder.
You think murder is bad?
God says someone who sows discord is far
worse.
Now I know we live in a generation.
It says don't judge.
You're not allowed to judge.
Now I'm not of those because I've done
a whole teaching, 15 messages on how to
judge biblically.
I'm not of those who say you can
never accuse your brother because the Bible says
there's a time when you ought to point
out your brother's sin.
There's a time when we ought to judge
one another.
In fact, it says in John 7, 24,
Jesus talking, he says, judge righteous judgment.
Again, in 1 Corinthians 5 and 12, Paul
the apostle says, ye judge them that are
within the church.
In Deuteronomy 1 and 16, it says, and
I charged your judges at that time saying,
hear the causes between your brethren and judge
righteously between every man and his brother.
Since there's an entire teaching that says we
are meant to judge, there are verses that
show that we ought to make an accusation
where there is something viable, but you better
be very careful that you're on scripture ground.
It says in Galatians 2 and 11, but
when Peter was come to Antioch, I, Paul,
withstood him.
Meaning I was against him.
I resisted him.
I opposed him to his face publicly because
he was to be blamed.
This is Paul publicly to the face of
Peter in a church at Antioch.
You know why?
Because Peter was compromising and bringing something into
that church.
I assure you there's a right time to
deal with issues in the body of Christ.
We read in Romans 16, 17, now I
beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions
and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you
have learned and avoid them.
Notice here, he says only avoid or separate
yourself from those who make divisions and offenses
that are contrary to doctrine.
In other words, it might be right to
divide yourself or cause an offense when it
is according to scripture or on the basis
of scripture.
You know, sometimes if you don't separate from
a brother, you're sinning.
Other times, if you do separate from a
brother, you are sinning.
How are you meant to know whether it
is a sin to separate or a sin
not to separate?
You've got to know doctrine.
You've got to know what the Bible actually
teaches.
You've got to understand it.
You know what?
There are divisions that are sinful and there
are divisions.
Christ, when he preached, he caused a division
and yet it was right.
This is the second great point here.
And I believe in the last days in
the generation, brothers are going to betray you
and become Judas's in this hour.
People in the church are going to get
so offended with what's changing in our world.
They're going to begin to betray one another.
Do you realize we better be careful not
to be an accuser of the brethren.
I believe we're going to see many rise
up in this hour who are going to
become accusers, false accusers and liars of the
brethren.
And you know what?
It's the devil working in them.
But third and lastly, the devil is a
divine accuser.
This might sound strange, but I want you
to hear as we close here, and we've
got to overcome this kind of accusation and
this form of the attack of the accuser
of the brethren.
He not only accuses you, not only your
brother, but he is a divine accuser.
You know what he does?
He accuses God to you.
He accuses God.
He not only stops at accusing you, he
accuses God.
He points the finger.
He actually will come to you with thoughts,
with ideas, with imaginations, and he will accuse
God.
If you're not aware of this, you need
to wake up to this this morning.
The devil, the accuser of the brethren will
not only point the finger at your brother
and encourage you to hold a grudge or
a bitterness.
You know what?
He'll come to you and he'll say, God
is not doing good by you.
Now, I want you to see here that
Jesus Christ in the book of Hebrews, time
after time, is called our brethren, or we
are his brethren.
He took on us our flesh.
He took on a human body to become
our brethren.
And in fact, in Hebrew, it says he
is not ashamed to be called or to
call us his brethren.
He is not ashamed.
Can you imagine that Jesus Christ is not
ashamed to call you and I brethren?
You know why?
We're redeemed by the precious blood of the
lamb.
But look, I want you to see that
the accuser of the brethren will accuse God
to you.
Going back to the Garden of Eden, when
Satan, the serpent, approached Eve.
Listen to what he said.
Yea, hath God said.
First of all, he asked a question.
Well, that's all he done was raise a
question.
You know, when you get the devil coming,
question of the Bible, you know who you're
dealing with.
He is an accuser.
He'll start doubting the word of God.
Then I'll lead to an accusation against God
himself.
But you know where it begins?
Before the devil, the accuser of the brethren,
before he ever brings an accusation, before he
speaks to you and says, look at God
and accuses God of something.
You know where he starts?
He starts with the written scripture, with a
promise or a certain teaching.
He actually draws your attention to the promises
of God or what God has spoken.
That's where he begins.
And he begins to say, hath God said.
Do you know what he says straight after
that?
In Genesis chapter three and verse one, he
utterly denies.
Ye shall not surely die.
He goes from simply raising a question.
Hath God said.
He raises a question over the word of
God, whether it's true or not in your
life, in your experience.
And then he begins to say, you will
not die.
It will not happen.
It's not true.
Then in verse five, for God does know.
In other words, Eve, God knows, and he
hasn't told you.
He's hiding something from you.
He's trying to keep something good back from
you.
You know what the devil is doing?
He is accusing God.
He is accusing the Lord Jesus Christ.
He's saying your God isn't good.
He isn't kind.
He isn't answering your prayers.
He isn't merciful.
He is a hard task master.
The devil comes to accuse God.
Do you realize how many times the devil
has accused God to you?
I mean, the accuser of the brethren, and
you think it's just you.
When you think it's just you, you don't
respond.
You don't overcome.
You don't gain a victory over the accuser
of the brethren.
You know what?
You need to begin to fight.
When the devil comes to raise a question
over the word, you need to be very
careful in that hour.
Like Eve, she didn't realize she's being led
by the news down a certain pathway.
For God does know that in the day
ye eat thereof, your eyes shall be open
and ye shall be as God's, knowing good
and evil.
You know what?
You're going to be as wise as God.
You're going to have knowledge like God.
You're going to have divine wisdom, but God's
word is keeping you away from that.
Or what about in Job chapter 2?
You remember Job's wife?
You see, God had told Satan, you can
touch Job, but don't touch his flesh.
Do you know his wife?
They're one flesh.
Satan actually couldn't kill Job's wife.
They're one flesh.
He was forbidden and he dare not cross
that line.
But it doesn't mean that he didn't use
Job's wife.
You see, if the devil can't take something
off you, he'll use what you have there
in the house.
If he can't split this church, then he'll
use things within the church or use individuals
that stay in the church.
If he can't split up a marriage, then
he'll use the partners to say certain things
to each other.
If he can't get you to a divorce
court, then he'll just raise up accusations within
that very home.
That's what the devil done with Job.
You see, he took his children, his wealth
and his health, but he couldn't touch that
lady.
He couldn't kill her.
But do you know what he done?
He used her as a mouthpiece.
I'm talking about accusations from Satan against God.
Do you remember what she done in turning
to her husband and what she said?
Listen, then said his wife unto him, does
thou still retain thine integrity?
Curse God and die.
Do you know where we first hear that
statement of curse God and die?
In the mouth of the accuser of the
brethren, in the throne of God, in heaven,
Satan is there in heaven, accusing Job.
He will curse you and die.
Now on earth, in Job's home, Job's wife
has picked this up.
She is looking at everything happening to his
life, from the loss of children through to
the loss of his health.
And you know what?
The accuser of the brethren has not only
gone to the throne of God, but has
come to her and she is now speaking
the words of the accuser of the brethren.
Maybe that began with a thought and she
is accusing God and she is accusing the
man of God.
And she is saying, do you still retain
your integrity?
Curse God and die.
Don't you realize lady that the devil is
using your lips as the accuser against God?
That God is good?
I want to tell you, God is good.
Even in the midst of Job there, scraping
the boils on the ash heap.
God is good.
And Job knew enough not to deny God
and to hold that tongue.
You know, I want to tell you, the
accuser of the brethren will come to you
and say, God isn't being good to you,
or faithful, or providing for you.
He's not kind and he's not answering your
prayer.
Do you know who you're dealing with?
The accuser of the brethren.
And you know, there's only one way to
respond, not with arguments, but with the blood
of Jesus Christ.
How do I gain a victory over the
accuser when he accuses God's word and the
character of God and the person of Christ?
Do you know how I do it?
By the blood of the lamb.
I look to Calvary.
Do you doubt that he loves you here
this morning?
Then look to Calvary's lamb again.
Do you doubt that he's kind and he's
considerate?
Look to the bleeding lamb this morning.
Do you doubt that he's answering your prayer?
Are you here with your sins forgiven?
He's answered your prayer.
All of your sins are forgiven.
You're made clean and white in the blood
of the lamb.
You're free by the grace of God.
Don't let the devil accuse God in your
mind, in your heart, or in your emotions.
Amen.
Will you bow here?
Pray with me as we close this gathering
this morning.
Father, I pray in the mighty name of
Jesus Christ.
Lord God, I pray for all of us
here this morning that we are going to
gain a victory by the blood of the
lamb and by the word of our testimony.
Loving not our lives, even unto the death.
I pray that everyone in this meeting this
morning is going to gain a victory against
the personal attack of the accuser of the
brethren.
That we are going to gain a victory
over the accuser who accuses our brother or
our brothers who accuse us.
I pray through the blood that we're going
to gain a victory.
Third and lastly, I pray that you'd help
us by the blood of the lamb, by
the grace of God, to gain a victory
over the accuser when he comes and accuses
you, challenges your word, lies about your character,
lies about your goodness in your work in
our lives.
I pray, O God, give us a victory
this morning in this meeting.
Give us a victory over the accuser of
the brethren in Jesus' mighty name.
Saints, I'm telling you this morning, this morning
you need to draw the bloodline.
This morning you have to say enough is
enough.
That's it.
No further.
I've allowed thoughts against my brother.
I've allowed thoughts against God.
I've tolerated thoughts against myself.
But this morning it must be quenched in
the precious blood of the lamb.
Praise God.