And now may the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart be acceptable
in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and
my Redeemer.
Amen.
I was really happy to come to know
that some of the dear ones present have
been desirous that I might turn back to
my favorite theme, Romans, Romans 6, and
I don't have to be urged to turn
to Romans.
I think it is well, friends, for the
matter that's been upon our hearts is perfect
love for Jesus.
It springs, after all, from this source, Romans
6.
I have entitled Romans 6 an
Everest.
Romans 7, perhaps we will enter tomorrow evening
upon Romans 7, a valley of tears.
Strange, isn't it?
We will discover why tomorrow.
And Romans 8, a thousand hallelujahs.
Indeed, a thousand hallelujahs.
Romans 6 really isn't just one passage, it's
all the word of God, yes, but I
was about to say Romans 6 isn't just
one passage among many, many.
It's a veritable Everest.
Our English Christian brethren, friends, speak of it
as the Magna Carta of our Christian liberty.
Before we can enter upon Romans 6, we
must turn back over the pages of the
epistle and begin at the beginning.
Very elementary, yes, but to truly appreciate the
meaning of Romans 6 we must follow Paul
right through these doctrinal chapters in the unfolding
of his, may I call it, argument.
My brethren realize that the position of the
epistle, this being the first in the series,
does not obey the law of chronology.
No, it wasn't the first written.
There's another law, one akin to that which
determines the procedure of an architect, of a
constructor, in the raising of some great edifice.
First, the foundation.
Here Paul lays the foundation stones upon which
all rest.
Here we have the apostle defining
the gospel.
I am not ashamed of the gospel of
Christ.
He writes, for it is the power of
God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to
the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Now, the apostle proceeds as physicians who want
to proceed.
Before a diagnosis, before any thought of treatment,
of medicine, there must be a thorough examination
of the condition of the patient.
Heart and lungs, blood, organs.
And then the diagnosis.
And then medicine and treatment.
So the apostle subjects his patient to a
thorough examination.
There are really two.
The Gentiles and the Jews.
For Paul, of course, first of all a
Christian, but still a Jew, there were two
great families in the world.
On the one hand, the Gentile folk.
You and I are Gentile.
And on the other, the Jewish folk.
He turns, first of all, to the Gentile
world and all the discovery he makes.
There are things here one cannot read without
blessing, with shame.
But of course the apostle must be true,
a realist, in his analysis and in his
diagnosis.
Men with men, women with women, in the
most shameful perversions.
And then the idolatry of which he speaks.
We have a saying there in Mexico, the
man who doesn't know the Lord, God, will
worship any old stick.
Well really, if it had been sticks, it
wouldn't have been so shameful.
So Paul tells us that there in the
Gentile world, people were worshipping four-footed beasts
and serpents.
And he goes on to say, as it
is in the 20th verse of the 1st
chapter, that the pagan world was really without
excuse.
You might say, but why the Bible was
not in the hands of the Gentile world,
to which Paul addresses himself?
Later, of course, we know.
Why without excuse will Paul think of the
universe?
Paul thinks of creation.
Ah, and if in his day, how much
more in our day?
For now it is known as it was
not in that day, that there just no
limit.
There are three hundred million universes, as the
world's being like the grains of sand on
the shores of the sea.
As was stated the other evening, universe with
its laws and with its order and with
its beauty and with its glory and open
book.
The invisible things of him, the Lord God,
from the creation of the world are clearly
seen, being understood by the things that are
made.
The invisible, by the things that are made.
Even his eternal power and Godhead, so that
they are without excuse.
Because that when they knew God, they glorified
him not as God, but neither were thankful,
neither were thankful, but became vain in their
imaginations and their foolish heart was dark.
Paul turns then to his brethren.
Behold, if I were called a Jew.
Now, of course, his fellow countrymen expected from
Paul a less severe judgment.
And in a sense, rightfully chosen people, in
their hands the law of God, taught over
the centuries by the great men of God,
prophets sent to Israel.
Their temple, one of the wonders of the
ancient world.
The ceremonial sacrifices ordained of God, back in
the days of Moses, faithfully performed from day
to day, the chosen people.
But let us see.
It would appear that Paul was even more
severe in dealing with his own.
Behold, I was called a Jew, beginning with
the seventeenth verse.
And restest in the law, makest thy boast
of God, and knowest his will, and approvest
the things that are more excellent, being instructed
out of the law, and art confident that
thou art thyself a guide of the blind,
a light of them which are in darkness,
an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of
babes.
Which has the form of knowledge of the
truth and the law.
Very well.
But now the matter changes.
Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not
thyself?
Thou that preachest, a man should not steal,
dost thou steal?
Thou that sayest, a man should not commit
adultery, dost thou commit adultery?
Thou that appoist idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Thou that makest thy boast of the law,
through the quaking of the law, dishonors God?
Now that terrible falsehood doth, ah, they never
forgave him.
For the name of God is blasphemed among
the Gentiles too.
Oh, how they hated him, and how they
persecuted him.
Forever in his heels, like a pack of
dogs.
And when finally he bowed his head into
their hands there in the temple, they would
have thrown him to shreds, had it not
been for a Roman captain who plucked him
from the hands of the infuriated multitude.
To carry him to a Roman castle.
And then that legal, legal mockery.
That process all before a Roman judge is
accused by his own.
And the moment comes when, to save himself
from his own people, and to fulfill his
God-given mission, he must appeal to Caesar.
He must find protection under the Roman flag.
I appeal to Caesar.
To Caesar thou shalt go.
Well, you know the story.
Paul puts all the world under conviction of
Satan.
There is not one.
He goes on to say that it's just
all his sin.
And comes short of the glory of God.
And now we leave that dark picture, that
negative side of the question.
And now we enter upon the field of
the gospel.
We know from the scriptures, friends, that man's
sin postulated for the Lord God a great
problem of a governmental nature.
For his law reads, the soul that sinneth
it shall die.
In all sin, what shall he do?
He does not desire.
Oh, on the contrary.
How greatly he desires that men might be
forgiven and justified and redeemed and brought back
into the family of God.
But his law, his word, his government, his
throne, his righteousness, of course, demands
the death of the sinner.
He cannot pass over the demands of his
law.
Oh, a problem of infinite dimensions, postulated by
man's sin.
There, within the government of God.
Now, parents understand.
Ah, yes, we come now to something, in
comparison, we might say very, very tiny.
And yet the same governmental problem is forever
presenting itself in our homes.
I cannot forget the testimony of one who
arose to address a gathering such as this
in the shadow of what we tell him
is a little one, his parents passing on.
Taken up as he was by grandmothers.
He went on to say to all poor
grandmothers, well, it comes to me in Spanish,
que dolor de cabeza.
Some law or other seems to me more
expressive, and I note by your response that
you all understand only too well.
For he went on to say, I was
once come home from school with things that
were not mine, a knife, a tablet, a
pencil, fountain pen.
And he said that grandmother did all that
she could possibly do, pleading with him that
he might forego this vile habit, all in
vain, until one day grandmother threatened him.
You see, my boy, this needle, well, grandmothers
will want to be there knitting with their
needles, sewing.
If you come again from school with something
that's not yours, I'll thrust it into a
flame until it's at high heat, and I'll
thrust the needle through your hand.
Do you understand?
He went on to say that he understood
only too well, and for a month nothing
was touched.
And then again he came with something that
was not his own, and that grandmother observed
it at once.
My boy, what do you have?
You remember what I said, yes?
Well, now we'll have to fulfill the sentence.
As you will continue and finally spend your
days in prison, we will have to fulfill
the sentence.
And she thrust the needle into a flame,
and when it was at high heat, raised
his hand only to lower it, he went
on to say, and to raise her own
hand and to thrust the needle through.
Ah, the man went on to say, I
could smell burning flesh.
It was the most tremendous moment of my
life.
I could feel in that instant how Grandmother
Faustus regarded my sin.
He wanted me a mighty moral revolution.
Years have gone by, now I'm a man,
and I can testify from that moment on,
my hands have been cleaned.
Grandmother saved me, she healed me through her
sacrifice.
I say parents understand this problem of infinite
dimension in the government of God.
Now, theologians are not always prone to give
their consent.
I recall one with whom I spoke in
Buenos Aires, no.
God is love, yes.
There was no need, there was no need.
Yes, God is love.
Ah, but he's a God of order, and
he hates sin, and his word has been
given, and his word must be fulfilled.
Now, the Bible itself tells us, we have
it in Deuteronomy, and we have it in
the Psalms, that God cannot justify the wicked.
What happens to the judge here on earth
who justifies?
And there are judges for one reason or
another.
It might be money, it might be pressures
from friends, influences.
There are judges who justify the wicked, but
they cease to be judges to become wicked
themselves.
No, God cannot justify the wicked, but he
found a way, our friend, it's so wonderful,
he found a way whereby he might justify
the wicked and yet be just.
Now, that really is the theme of Romans.
He found a way.
So that in justifying the wicked they might
not fall upon his throne, his government, his
law, even the faintest trace of a shred
of reproach.
And that's the gospel.
Now, Paul states it in this fashion.
All have sinned and come short of the
glory of God being justified freely.
Here it is.
By his grace, through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus, whom God has set forth
to be a propitiation through faith in his
blood.
Here is where theologians are wont to stumble.
Ah, it comes in such a blow to
our pride.
Our pride.
Whom God has set forth to be a
propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare
his righteousness.
Yes.
For the remission of sins that have passed
through the forbearance of God, to declare, I
say, at his time his righteousness.
That he might be just and a justifier
of him which believeth in Jesus, the wicked,
which believeth in Jesus.
Well, this brings us to the great doctrine,
does it not, of justification by faith.
Which Luther took up, you will recall, in
what passion it was sounded forth, proclaimed afresh
to the world.
Therefore being justified by faith.
But I want for us to pause just
a moment.
Yes, by faith.
But not faith, please observe, as the procuring
cause.
Now, what do we read in verse nine?
Being now justified by his blood is the
procuring cause.
That is to say, it springs from the
cross.
The files and heads of our justification, the
shed blood of our adorable Redeemer.
Faith, yes, of course.
But let's not confound our faith with the
procuring cause.
For I find no other word to express
the fact that it springs from
the shed blood of Jesus Christ our Lord
for every sin.
I think it was that great British preacher,
McKinney, used to say of mine, I find
no other word to express the fact that
it springs from the shed blood of Jesus
Christ our Lord for every sin.
I think it was that great British preacher,
McKinney, used
to say of mine, for the gift, the
gift our justification, it springs from the cross
of Christ.
Justified by his blood.
Let's get that truth, please.
In other words, it's not that because of
some great merit in our faith that we're
justified.
The merit is all in the crucified risen
Lord, so
we can rest.
We don't have to look and see if
we have enough faith.
And so stumble, as many do.
Look away from your faith to the crucified
and rest in his bleeding, in his wounded
eyes.
We've come now to Romans 6, perhaps taking
a little bit too much time for the
introduction.
Now in Romans 6 the problem is of
a different nature.
You know up to Romans 6, it's our
sins.
From Romans 6 on, it's our sin.
That is to say, our sin as a
governing principle.
Our sin as a law.
Paul speaks much from Romans 6 on of
the law of sin.
For sin not only engenders guilt, it breeds
slavery.
It constitutes itself in a law.
Ah, and it's just as illusory.
He couldn't override that.
He couldn't silence Satan.
How dare you say that?
Here it is.
Let me illustrate.
The principles involved, friends, are really very simple.
We all recognize them.
In our relationships, let's presume, here on the
campus of the Rio Grande Bible Institute, I
commit a great fault.
One of the students would say, Charles, I
don't know whether there's a Charles over there.
Charles goes to the president of the Rio
Grande Bible Institute, my dear brother Ehlert, with
an accusation.
Charles saw.
Charles knows.
He goes to the president with an accusation.
Can the president of the Rio Grande Bible
Institute silence him by the mere exercise of
his authority?
No.
Who are you to accuse the preacher?
To me.
He can't do that.
If he does, things are going to get
worse.
Charles may have to leave the institution.
Charles may go out on the street and
tell everybody he meets.
No, this matter can only be arranged on
the grounds of moral, ethical procedures.
Let's presume, I don't like the illustration, but
I want this thing to be pinpointed, focused,
so that you can just see it.
Let's presume that it's a matter of money,
only that you might be able to see
it.
I owe Charles $500, and I'm not willing
to pay it, not even to recognize the
fact.
Charles goes to the president of the Bible
Institute.
Now, he can't silence him by a mere
exercise of his authority, but he can silence
him by working justice.
How much did you say Mr. Hegel owes
you $500?
Here's your $500.
Thank you.
Well, now Charles is silenced.
There's nothing more Charles can say.
The debt has been paid.
I repeat, I don't like the illustration too
well, but there it is.
Charles was silenced on moral grounds, and
the devil was silenced, the accuser of the
brethren, who according to this word, day and
night, you'll recall the book of Job.
These are strange things, I don't understand them,
but here they are, and I believe them.
Job!
Accusing!
Satan accusing Job!
No!
He's not the righteous man, you say.
You bought him!
Why, he's the richest man on earth!
Look how you've blessed him!
You take away these blessings, Lord, this man
will curse you.
But you know the story, how the Lord
accepted the challenge, and it was made manifest
that Job's love was pure.
The Lord hath given, the Lord hath taken
away, blessed be the name of the Lord.
It's alright.
Satan was silenced.
And here we read that the accuser of
the brethren, oh, this broken law, God's law,
which gave him ground, and God couldn't override
it with all his power and glory.
To accuse man before God, day and night.
But the Lord found a way to silence
him, and it's a way that will be
throughout all eternity, reasoned for, hallelujahs, on the
part of the redeemed.
It was done so wonderfully, in perfect keeping
with the demands of justice.
There will never be found in all the
ages to come the slightest trace of a
flaw in God's government.
That law which demands the death of the
sinner, fulfilled in a man, the last Adam,
the Son of Man, the Son of God,
he tasted death for every man.
Now it's on that ground that God silences
the devil.
Now is come salvation and strength in the
kingdom of our God, ah, yes.
Now the crucified risen Lord, whose precious
blood cleanseth from all, now is come salvation
and strength in the kingdom of our God,
and the power of his Christ, for the
accuser of our brethren is cast down.
The Savior said it, you know, when he
turned his face toward the cross, now shall
the prince of this world be cast out.
And so it was.
In view of this fact, oh, this wondrous,
nothing greater, the Savior is in a position
to say all authority has been given unto
me, to man saying that, brethren.
The last Adam, federal head of the race,
it's a man that says this, ah, I
believe in his deity, the God of man.
All authority has been given unto me.
Go ye therefore, friends, how we need to
write deep into our entire evangelistic undertaking this
fact, else it will be superficial, all authority
has been given unto me.
Go ye therefore in the light of this
fact to enforce the throne rights of your
King.
Liberating souls from the thralldom of the prince
of darkness, he still stops over the earth.
The hour of his doom has not yet
come.
We read that he shall be cast into
the lake of fire, but he still stops
the earth with his host of evil spirits.
But he's a defeated foe.
I'm going to say it again here tonight.
The weakest Christian, why, that babe that was
born last night out here in a mission
station, only a day old, he has more
power.
I should use the word authority, it's not
a question of power.
He has more authority than the prince of
this world.
Why, he's linked up with the risen Christ,
and he shares his authority.
He has the right to take upon his
lips that name which is above every name,
the name of Jesus.
That devils tremble and flee before that name
risen.
We are living in an age of unprecedented
satanic oppression, I need not tell you that,
that's well known among Christians everywhere.
Ah yes, friends, it would appear that the
enemy, knowing that his time is short, has
come with great wrath.
And we are commanded, as it is in
the sixth chapter of the epistle to the
Ephesians, to buckle on the armor of life
and to stand.
Till we stand the while of the death.
We have the right to say no.
I'm in charge here.
Now, I'm just going to have to tell
that story again, you dear brethren, I see
it on your faces.
My good brethren, the members of the faculty
here have heard this story every year that
I've come.
Brother, listen, I'm getting down pretty deep into
that burn, you're talking about me coming back.
Yeah, you know the story, but I'm not
ashamed to repeat it, it's worth a million.
Why, it was written right up here in
Texas, I've forgotten the name of the village,
by General Wainwright before he died.
He felt he must write and tell the
story of his sufferings.
Five years there in that Manchurian concentration camp,
the abuse of the prison keepers, sickness, loneliness.
Never a word reached his ears regarding the
events in the outside world.
Hunger.
Five years.
And then one day General Wainwright was just,
oh General Wainwright was a dying man.
He came from the sky, a little plane,
and settled down there in the concentration camp,
outstepped the colonel of the allied forces.
Where is General Wainwright?
I've been sent to speak to General Wainwright,
you'll find him over in that corner of
the camp, colonel.
General, I have been sent by the allied
forces to tell you that the Japanese have
been defeated, in three weeks we've signed the
peace.
The general couldn't take it in at first,
it was too much.
And the colonel flew away in his little
plane, but the general was able to take
it in.
And the general was able to get up
onto his feet.
Boy, that would raise any man, dare I
say it, from the dead.
Well, near dead.
In majestic fashion, he got to his feet.
Three hours later, he says the prison keepers
came, not knowing what had happened, to deal
with him as they had always dealt with
him.
Why, he was dirt under their feet.
Their greatest pleasure of using the general.
But they observed great change.
The general on his feet, in a majestic
fashion, I am in charge here, sir.
Ah, yes, oh, this man knows, this man
knows.
The game was up.
Yes, general.
These are my orders.
Yes, general.
And from that hour on, the general says
he was king in the prison.
You know, there are just millions of Christians
that haven't taken it in yet.
See what I mean?
That the devil's a defeated foe.
That the game for the devil's up.
They don't know it.
Why, I was preaching to a group of
pastors down in the south of Mexico two
or three years ago, Tabasco.
And after it was all over, I usually
touch on this, one of the pastors wrote
to me.
He said, oh, how I thank you.
Why, I never knew that it was true
that the devil's a defeated foe.
My brother, that's the gospel.
For this purpose, John says, the Son of
God was manifested to destroy the works of
the devil.
Everything else was secondary.
And so, friends, you see in the greatest
conflict of the ages, between two thrones, in
the greatest conflict of the ages, who won?
Ah, that lonely man.
Yes, that lonely man.
Hang on a cross to God now.
Won on the ground of
the fulfillment of living righteousness.
Get that, please.
The devil can't point to a broken law.
It would nail to the cross.
And furthermore, what is it that gives ground
to the devil?
Our pride.
And you know the Savior put an end
to pride on the cross.
He forged a new humanity, the new creation.
And there's no room for pride there.
And so you see, when he took the
old creation to the cross, the old man
was crucified together with Christ.
He just cut from out, out from beneath
the devil's feet, all ground.
All ground taken away.
Put into an end the old creation, over
which Satan does have power, because its governing
principle is pride.
And bringing into being the new creation, over
which Satan has no authority.
Yes, we can say with Wainwright, if we
stand with Jesus, united to him, united in
his death and in his resurrection, because if
I'm standing on the ground of pride, I
can't rise up and overcome Satan.
Why, he'll laugh at me.
He says, all the ground's mine.
But if I'm standing on the ground of
redemption, one with the crucified, ah.
I can do as did General Wainwright.
I can say, I'm in charge here.
And it works, brethren, it works.
Indeed it does.
You can move mountains.
That's what that verse means over there in
Mark 11, 24, 5.
To say to this mountain, that's what it
means.
He's not talking about the kind of mountains
we have around Mexico City.
Mountains, ah, in the scriptures, dominions.
You can say to this mountain, he's out.
Ah, Satan flees.
Satan flees.
He can't stand up before the victory wrought
on Calvary.
It avails.
And brethren, there's nothing we so need today.
Oh, nothing so tragic as for missionaries to
go to the foreign field without these weapons.
I did it.
Ah, I know what it cost.
Brethren, the agony, the shame, the suffering.
Well, thank God, he wrought and he brought
these weapons to me in time.
But I wouldn't do without them for a
day, for an hour.
The authority of the believer in view of
the victory wrought on Calvary by a man.
The Son of Man.
The Son of God.
Now the victory's yours.
And we're told that we're more than conquerors.
Through him we'll love this.
Victory's yours.
And you can apply it day by day
in a thousand different ways as the occasion
arises and you become aware of the working
of the principle of the darkness of this
world.
I wonder if I may just give you
one illustration.
It's five minutes to nine.
I'm thinking cheaply as I give this of
the missionary students here.
Some three years ago, maybe four now, I
was in Costa Rica where that language school
you know is found.
Some two hundred, at that time I think
something like a hundred and ninety, close to
two hundred missionaries preparing for the Latin field.
At the close of the service a young
man came up to speak to me and
he said, I want you to come and
have dinner with us very well.
Lovely family, the little ones, the good wife.
He was an artist with a crayon.
He could, with a few dashes, there was
the face of the Savior.
After dinner he said, you know what's happening
here?
Rocks as big as your fist.
He showed me one afterwards.
Rain down on this house and in the
garden.
My children play there.
What shall I do?
Well it struck me at once, this must
be the work of the enemy.
This isn't just some fanatical folk.
This is the work of the enemy to
frighten this man, drive him from the field.
David, I think it's the enemy.
So I went through the scriptures with him
to show him that the enemy is a
defeated foe.
And it was all Greek to him.
This missionary on the way to the field.
He didn't understand.
But he was willing.
I said, will you say amen to what
I'm going to do?
Yes, I'll say amen.
He didn't understand, but he would say amen.
And so going through the word and showing
him how through death the Redeemer destroyed him,
why the power of death, that is to
say, shattered his authority.
Through his death he destroyed.
Prince of darkness.
And so it was just a tiny prayer.
But a prayer of authority against the enemy
to take hands off that home in the
holy name of Jesus.
And to leave that home in peace and
to flee.
Amen.
He said, I feel better.
Yes, you feel better now.
Your fear is gone.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
Two nights later I was preaching in a
downtown Methodist church there, San Jose.
In walked the whole family, all smiled.
And I noticed the little ones wanted to
get up and sit with me.
They looked like folks.
At the closing of the service, the father
came and spoke to me.
He said there hadn't been a rock since.
Praise God.
Later on in the week it was Sunday
night.
Another church, the Central American Mission.
The whole family all smiled.
Father came forward.
There hadn't been a rock since.
Praise the Lord.
And the good wife said to me, can
I write this home to friends in North
America?
Well, you do as you like.
I don't know whether they'll understand this sort
of thing.
A year later, a year and a half,
when was it?
A year ago when I was in Buenos
Aires.
There he was, taking part with me in
a Victorious Life conference.
David.
It works, friends.
It works.
Even if you're down and you don't know
whether the enemy's behind it, you can say,
well, now if the enemy is behind it,
I owe the victory of Calvary, and I
bind the strong man and cast him out.
You'd be amazed at the things that clear
up.
The mountains that move.
Hmm?
All authority has been given unto me in
heaven and upon earth.
Go ye therefore.
I wonder if we've ever gotten the full
import of that therefore.
Now, that's the real, that's the biggest reason
for your going.
You know, it irritates me, Saul.
I wrote an article about these things years
ago, and a missionary leader back here in
America, on some missionary board, wrote to me,
oh, no, he said, these things clear up
when civilization comes.
Huh?
You're sitting up there in that swivel chair
of yours, and you're telling me a thing
like this.
This is superstition.
It all passed away with civilization.
Listen, it gets worse with civilization.
It gets worse.
And here's my verdict regarding that.
Yes, all these benighted souls in the islands
of the sea, millions, it's true, they are
mistaken as to their methods by which they
seek to appease evil spirits.
But they are not mistaken regarding the fact
of satanic oppression.
We wrestle not with flesh and blood, but
with principalities and powers, the governors of the
darkness of this world, wicked spirits in my
place.
And there's only one way.
There's only one method.
There's only one weapon.
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal
but mighty through God for the pulling down
of strongholds.
It's the victory won on Calvary.
Stand on the ground of the blood.
Stand on Romans 6, where we are told
that the old man was crucified.
Just get close to the crucified and stand
by faith with him in his death.
And then give your orders.
Say, I'm in charge here.
Oh, he'll try to frighten you.
Oh, it'll be just standard.
I'm in charge here, and these are my
orders.
And he flees, and mountains move.
Gracious Father, how we thank Thee.
Oh, it cost our Redeemer so much to
come all the way from glory and then
to go all the way to Calvary that
as a man he might shatter this alliance
with the Prince of Darkness and put an
end utterly to his authority.
How we praise Thee that it's a fact,
Father.
We have nothing to fear.
It's been done.
Praise God.
And we only have one request, Father.
Teach us to lay hold of these weapons.
Why, Father, it breaks our hearts to see
what the devil's doing today.
And we're the Christians to rise up as
soldiers and say, No, I'm in charge here.
Lord, raise up children of the cross who
have walked around in the armor of light
and stand before the enemy and say, I'm
in charge here.
These are my orders.
We ask it in that worthy name, Father,
that is above every name.
In the blessed name of Jesus, our Savior
and Lord, Amen.