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We're going to speak today about Jehovah Nissi.
Jehovah Nissi.
I want you to go to Exodus, the
17th chapter.
Exodus, the 17th chapter, please.
Now, what we're going to do this morning
and what we've been doing for the past,
this is the third in a series, and
we will go, this will be a series
of probably eight or nine messages, and be
very, very boring to you if you have
no hunger for God.
If you don't want to know who he
is, I'll lose you in the first 10
minutes.
But if you have a hunger for God,
if you want to know who he is
in your crisis, if you want to know
what he's provided for you, how he comes
in your time of need, then you have
to know who he is.
You say you know the Lord, but do
you know him in all the expressions he
has given to us?
We're to dig into the word and study
it and find that, and it's very, very
vital.
I know how life-changing it has been
for me.
Now, these names are Hebrew names that were
given to the Hebrews.
It's in Hebrew.
These are Hebrew names of the nature and
the goodness of God and how he wanted
to be discovered by men in their needs,
and every name, every expression that God gave
came in a time of crisis, and we're
going to see another crisis where he revealed
another side of his nature.
We said it's like a diamond.
You see all these rays coming from that
diamond.
The 17th chapter of Exodus, beginning to read
in verse 8, if you will please.
Then came Amalek and fought with Israel at
Rephidim, and Moses said unto Joshua, choose this
out men and go out, fight with Amalek.
Tomorrow I will stand on the top of
the hill with the rod of God in
my hand.
So Joshua did as Moses had said to
him and fought with Amalek, and Moses and
Aaron and her went up to the top
of the hill.
It came to pass when Moses held up
his hand that Israel prevailed, and when he
let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
But Moses' hands were heavy, and they took
a stone and put it under him, and
he sat there on.
And Aaron and her stayed up his hands,
the one on the one side and the
other on the other side.
His hands were steady until the going down
of the sun, and Joshua discomfited Amalek and
his people with the edge of the sword.
The Lord said unto Moses, write this for
memorial in the book and rehearse it in
the ears of Joshua, for I will utterly
put out the remembrance of Amalek from under
heaven.
Moses built an altar and there and called
the name of it Jehovah Nissi.
And he said, because the Lord has sworn
that the Lord will have war with Amalek
from generation to generation.
Jehovah Nissi, the Lord is our banner, is
the Hebrew meaning.
Heavenly Father, we revel in the word.
We see chaos in many religious circles today
because there's not been a foundation of the
word of God, and so error and foolishness
has taken over.
And we pray, Lord, that you establish this
people in the word of God, that we
will not be tossed and turned by every
wind and wave of doctrine, that we will
be steeped in the word of God.
We'll be on the foundation.
Lord, you you have desired to reveal who
you are so that in our time of
need, our faith would be strengthened and we
would not be we would not waver.
We would not be tossed.
This is what it means to be on
the rock.
This is what it means to understand who
Christ is for Jehovah is our Christ.
Lord, we give you thanks.
Open up Jehovah Nissi to us.
The meaning, the understanding of it as it
as it applies to us today, not just
in Israel and past, but Israel of the
heavens, the new Jerusalem in Jesus name, we
pray.
Amen.
Then came Amalek and fought with Israel.
Now, Amalek is the first nation in the
Bible that declared war on Israel.
And in turn, it's the first nation God
himself declared war on.
He said, I will utterly put out the
remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
The Lord has sworn that the Lord will
have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
Now, who is this Amalek that a holy,
righteous God would go on record and declare
from the heavens, I declare war on you
this day.
And from now on and forever, I declare
war on you until you are utterly destroyed
in the remembrance of you wiped off from
the earth.
Now, folks, that ought to tell you there's
something here more than meets the eye.
There's something here far deeper than just the
battle on the Vale of Ripperdam many, many
years ago.
The Israelites are going to win this particular
skirmish, but the warfare is going to continue
right on through it again, war with Amalek
from generation to generation.
So you see, this has more to do
than a single battle, more to do with
it has more to do than just Moses
on the hill and Joshua in the battlefield
fighting Amalek.
This is representative, it's a type of the
spiritual warfare of the church of Jesus Christ
even today.
It typifies what you and I are going
through and all the secrets of spiritual warfare.
Most of them were found right here in
this account.
The scriptures, it is very, very clear that
in the margin, it says, because his hand
is against the throne of God, this battle
was the devil trying to put his hand
on the throne of God, the eternal purposes
of God and bringing forth the Christ child
to be savior of the world and in
turn destroy him.
I want you to follow me closely this
morning.
You know, Amalek was the grandson of Esau,
the twin brother of Jacob.
This is the man who despised the holy
things of God, who sold his birthright for
a mess or pottage of soup.
A man, the Bible says, whom God despised
because of his wickedness, because of his despising
the offer of love and grace of God.
Malachi chapter 1, 3 and 4 says, I
hated Esau.
I laid his mountains of his heritage waste
for the dragons of the wilderness.
He said, I turned them over to a
wilderness where there were dragons.
They shall build, but I will throw them
down.
They shall call them the border of wickedness
and the people against whom the Lord have
indignation forever.
Now you consider the grace of God, the
mercy of God from the beginning of time.
God is as merciful in the old testament
as is in the new.
He's not changed.
He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And keep in mind that God is gracious,
loving his mercy.
Listen again to what God says.
Think of it.
The people against whom I will have indignation
forever.
Keep in mind the grace of God when
he said that this can represent no one
else than Satan and all of his children
that he possesses.
So you see the war that's happening here
now is an everlasting war.
Amalek represents the devil with the purpose of
killing the seed that would bring forth Christ.
Now, if you, once you see this, you're
going to understand this story, you've never understood
it before.
And if you go back to Mount Moriah,
you see Abraham lift the knife and he's
ready to plunge it into his son Isaac
as a sacrifice at God's command.
You remember the angel of the Lord stopped
him and there was a ram provided and
there was a sacrificial lamb that was killed
by Abraham and the devil was there and
he knew well what that represented.
He knew who the lamb was.
He knew it.
And from that moment on, Satan declared war
on the throne of God, declared war on
the eternal purposes of God having to do
with the forthcoming of a Messiah.
Who but the devil could have inhabited Pharaoh
and commanded all the man children, all of
the boys be cast in the river.
He was possessed by the devil.
This is the same warfare trying to kill
the seed.
He was hoping to kill the seed.
The Messiah was going to come through this
nation.
Now here in Exodus 17, the devil sees
Israel coming into Canaan with the purpose of
going into the promised land.
And the devil knows because he was there.
He heard it.
God said it directly to him.
There's going to come a seed that will
crush your head.
It's going to come for the man child.
And the devil knows that.
And he knows that it's going to happen
in this land, that when they settled in
this place of rest, this is where that
man child is going to be born.
He was going to come to destroy the
devil in all of the forces of hell.
This is his arch enemy.
He knew that the seed, this body would
bring forth the seed.
It was going to come forth a mother,
and then a grandmother, and a great grandmother
is going to have a child, another daughter,
and these daughters.
Eventually, one of these daughters, one of these
young women is going to bring forth the
Christ.
The spirit of Satan instigated a war here
at Rephidim for one purpose was to wipe
out all of Israel so that the seed
would die.
He was after Christ.
He was not after the Jew.
He was not after Israel.
He was after the Christ that Israel would
give birth to.
This is a war between heaven and hell.
His hand was against the throne, a perpetual
war, Satan against him who sits on the
throne.
Now, we hear again of the Malachites.
The Bible says, remember, it's a war after
war after war.
It's a perpetual war.
That war's still going on, and I'll show
that to you in just a moment.
You remember in Numbers 14, when Israel was
told to go back into the wilderness, God
said, I'm not going with you anymore.
I'm not taking you in.
I'll take your children in, but you're not
going in.
You go back to the wilderness.
You're going to have 38, 39 more years
in the wilderness of despair.
And they, in presumption, went up the hill
to fight, and the Bible says clearly the
Malachites came down and smote them and discomforted
them.
We hear of Amalek again 400 years later
when Samuel told Saul, now go and smite
Amalek.
You see, Amalek keeps rising.
Go smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that
they have and spare them not.
Now, you recall that Saul saved Agag, the
king, and he allowed the people to save
the best of the spoils.
God said, I want you to kill every
woman, every man, every child, because this is
the enemy of Christ.
This is he who is set on destroying
the sea.
And he spared King Agag, and, of course,
you remember Samuel hacked him up and destroyed
him.
Remember in 1 Samuel 27, 8, we hear
of David and his men invading the Malachites.
Again, in 1 Samuel 30, the chapter, remember
when David's up in a battle and his
family's settled in Ziglag, the Malachites came, the
scripture says.
The Malachites came and burned down his city
and kidnapped his family and all the family
of the soldiers and disappeared.
See, Amalek keeps coming.
Of course, David goes after the Malachites and
he destroys, and yet 400 men escape.
Because the battle's going on, it's a generational
battle.
400 young men escape.
Years later, in the reign of Hezekiah, the
sons of Simeon go against the Amalekites, and
the scripture says, they smote the rest of
the Amalekites that had escaped.
Here we find the fulfillment of the prophecy.
God says, I will fight you until there's
nothing left of you.
And God fulfilled that literally here when the
sons of Simeon went against the Amalekites and
destroyed the remnant, the Bible says.
But the spirit of Amalek continued.
The spirit of Amalek, and there were still
descendants of Amalek.
There were descendants that were not there in
the nation itself, but it spread around the
world.
In fact, one of the most notorious of
all rose to great power when there was
a great Persian Empire.
This empire controlled most of the then-known
world.
And a man arises in power, and his
name is Haman.
The Bible calls him the hater of the
Jew.
The amazing thing is, this man seduces the
king into making a declaration that every Jew
on the face of the earth will be
killed.
The amazing thing is, Haman is a descendant
of an Agag king.
He was an Amalekite.
It was the war, the same generation of
war.
Listen very carefully.
Letters were sent by posts into all the
king's provinces to destroy, this is the whole
known world at the time, to destroy, to
kill, and to cause to perish all Jews,
young and old, listen to it, little children
and women, in one day.
Now folks, you know this is not one
Jew, hater, having a personal vendetta because one
Jew named Mordecai wouldn't bow before him.
This is more than a one-man crusade.
He's not going to kill the whole nation
because one man won't bow before him.
Oh no, no, no, this is an instrument
of the devil.
This is an Amalekite spirit again, out to
destroy the sea.
The devil said, I'll kill every Jewish child,
every Jewish woman, there'll not be any chance.
I'll kill them all.
But you know, God had his own instrument
by the name of Esther.
And all those Jews around the world, the
post was sent, fast and pray, and for
three days they fasted and prayed.
And you know, the rest of the story,
the devil was soundly defeated, and not one
Jew was killed.
Not one Jew lost his life.
What an amazing story.
What a victory that was.
Hallelujah.
God used one young lady to accomplish the
eternal purpose.
Remember what God said, the Lord will have
war with Amalek from generation to generation.
We go back now to the battle of
Rephidim, where we started.
I want God to open your spiritual eyes
to understand that this is the Holy Ghost
teaching us lessons about our own spiritual warfare.
Because we have a mad, roaring devil coming
down these last days, seeking to devour whom
he can.
Listen to what Paul the Apostle said, now
all these things happened unto them for examples.
All these wars, all these stories, happened unto
them for our example.
They are written for our admonition, upon whom
the ends of the world are come.
First Corinthians 10.6. Now these things are
our examples.
He said, that's how you learn.
That's why I love the Old Testament.
I learned New Testament truth from the Old
Testament.
I learned the principles from the Old Testament.
It produces character.
It shows us the name of God, and
it makes Christ more real to us, because
we understand when we preach all of these
about the names of Jehovah, we're talking about
the revelation of who Jesus Christ is.
And listen to what Paul's really saying, all
these things have happened unto them to teach
us, so that we can learn.
But what are these lessons?
What are we learning from this battle at
Rephidim?
I've learned, I'm learning very clearly that it's
still the spirit of Amalek, that devilish spirit
of Amalek, that now wars against God's people.
You know, the Bible said we're still in
a spiritual war.
It says, for we wrestle not against flesh
and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against
the rulers of darkness, against spiritual wickedness in
high places.
Amalek came and blindsided Israel.
First they came from the back side, from
the rear, and they killed off many of
the infirm and the weak, who could not
keep up with the movement of the tribes
and the clans.
And then suddenly he declared war on Israel.
Total war was declared.
Moses commanded Joshua, choose out men and go
fight Amalek.
Joshua quickly put together a makeshift army.
They had no weapons, they had no chariots,
they had no shields.
And he put together this makeshift group of
men and Moses said to Joshua and that
motley crowd, go and fight Amalek.
Amalek had years of training, Amalek had weapons,
they had chariots, they had everything needed.
Certainly the odds are against Israel.
What does the Bible say when the enemy
comes in like a flood?
The Spirit of the Lord will raise up
a banner, a standard or a banner, Jehovah
Nissi.
Now what do you do?
What are the options?
Do you just give in and despair and
do you just say this battle that I'm
in is too big for me and that's
what many Christians are doing?
They're giving up, they said I can't handle
it anymore and my Bible says you go
fight.
You fight the good fight of faith.
Now folks I want to tell you something.
I want you to look a little closer
at this crowd of men, this army of
God.
They're inexperienced, they're the most messed up bunch
on the face of the earth.
They're messed up.
These men that are going now to fight
Amalek had just a few days before were
ready to stone Moses because there was no
water at Rephidim.
These are those who attempted God saying is
the Lord among us or not?
How do you go into battle saying is
the Lord with us or not?
These are the men who are going to
go fight.
Scripture said they were murmurous complainers, they wavered
between weak faith and total unbelief.
They'd accused God of abandoning them and putting
all of their families and their cattle in
jeopardy.
He said why, these were the men said
why did you bring us up out of
Egypt to kill us, our children and our
cattle?
Murmuring, unbelieving, miserable ingrates and we're no better.
Oh what an army God has to fight
the devil and I'm a part of it
and that's what makes it as miserable as
anything.
God takes people and he shows them miracle
after miracle, grace after grace and yet we
murmur and complain it's the next crisis.
Where's God?
Why is God letting me go through this?
I had it easier when I was a
sinner.
Yeah because you were stoned you didn't know
where you were.
What marvelous grace.
Think of the grace that God could use
you and me to become more than conquerors
to him who loved us.
God still loved these people.
He had every right to kill every one
of them, wipe them off the face of
the earth and bring up another people for
Moses but he says no I'm going to
take what I've got and he takes what
he has.
He takes us murmuring, complaining, bellyaching people who
talk about faith and we raise our hands
and we shout and search and go out
and the first little demon that we meet
we crumble and begin to complain oh God
he's too big for me.
Moses said you go fight and I'm going
to go stand on top of the hill
with the rod of God in my hand.
So Joshua in his army starts in hand
-to-hand combat while these three men walk
up a hill with a piece of wood.
Now you keep that in mind of another
man who walked up a hill with some
wood.
Moses Aaron and her.
Moses goes to the top of the hill.
Now came to pass when Moses held up
his hand that Israel prevailed and when he
let down his hand Amalek prevailed.
Now what's that all about?
You can pray with your hand down if
this refers if this is what most commentaries
would have you to see in this alone
that this represents the prayer and intercession of
God's people.
Now that's implied there's no question that that's
implied.
In fact Jesus said this time come forth
but by prayer and fasting.
When you're fighting the devil you need to
fast and pray.
The secret of any blessing on this church
has been the fasting and prayer and this
new call that Pastor Carter has made in
February is one of the most important calls
to this church in its history and you
really don't have a burden for this church
of the things of God you really don't
know even if you get under that and
believe that that changes things.
There's no question that that is a part
of what God is saying to that time
and to that place and to that people.
It does represent prayer and intercession but it
does not represent the prayer and intercession of
God's people primarily because God's people are already
fighting.
Joshua and the people there was only one
man there on that hill.
I wonder if some of you already know
where we're going.
Moses himself, listen to me please, this whole
episodes about Jesus in our spiritual warfare.
This is about Jesus who walked the hill
with his wood.
That rod is the cross of Jesus Christ
in pipe.
That's the cross of Jesus Christ and if
I be lifted up I'll draw all men
to myself and it was the lifting up
of Christ on that wood.
Moses himself somehow knew that he was a
type of Christ.
It doesn't mean that he when he lifted
up the rod he was thinking himself and
to all Israel see this this is a
type of a cross that's going to come
forth one day many many years later.
A Messiah will be lifted up and the
power will emanate from that because folks on
that battlefield there was something supernatural happening whenever
they looked to that rod because he held
up a rod.
When he held up his hand he was
holding a rod.
I believe it was held this way and
you see the cross there and when he
held it up Israel prevailed.
When his hands went down I want you
to remember, listen very very closely, Moses was
not thinking see when I sit down that
represents the time that Christ is seated in
the right hand of the Father though that
was the type.
He's not saying that personally he's not thinking
that but the Bible says Jesus said Abraham
saw my day and he was glad in
it.
Moses himself knew that there was some kind
of representation because Moses said the Lord thy
God one day will raise up unto you
a prophet from the midst of thee out
of thine own brethren like unto me unto
him you will listen.
Moses saw his day.
Abraham saw his day.
All the prophets and all the righteous men
of the Old Testament saw his day coming.
Jesus said they long to see the things
that you see and hear the things that
you hear.
They saw it only in type.
He said you live in the reality.
Moses represents Christ on another hill called Golgotha.
The rod represents the cross and you see
Jesus standing there as did Moses looking into
the future beholding a great conflict that the
church would face from generation to generation until
he returned.
The Bible said Moses hands were heavy.
If you look forward to Gethsemane you'll see
not the type or shadow but you'll see
the reality where Jesus became heavy falling on
his knees under the burden of sin.
He said sit here to his disciples while
I go and pray yonder and he began
to be sorrowful and very heavy.
Moses hands became heavy while Jesus stood on
this earth as man and he ministered.
He ministered with heaviness just as did Moses
as a type of Christ here on earth.
When Moses lifted up his hand the rod
was lifted up and as the rod was
lifting up the people looked to it.
The surge of power emanated to the battlefield.
Somehow when they just looked at that rod
they were empowered.
Supernatural power.
But then in this weariness the scripture says
they took us, oh by the way the
scripture says the preaching the cross is to
them that perish foolishness but unto us who
are saved it is the power of God.
The cross, the power of God, the rod
of God.
And they took this stone and put it
under him and he sat down there on.
Listen to what Hebrews says.
When he by himself purged our sins he
sat down on the right hand of the
majesty on high.
Hebrews 10 12.
But this man after he offered one sacrifice
for sins forever sat down at the right
hand of God from henceforth expecting till his
enemies be made his footstool.
When Moses sat down from that time on
there was no evidence of the battle being
lost.
There was no prevailing of Amalek anymore.
The Bible says and Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and
his people with the edge of his sword
the moment Moses sat down.
Jesus himself said his strength came from the
Holy Spirit, his Aaron and her.
This is the end of side one.
Moses built an altar and called the name
of it Jehovah Nissi.
The battle's over now and he's saying I
don't want you to forget and I don't
want history to forget that we were victorious
here because we serve Jehovah Nissi.
The Lord was and is and always will
be the banner.
The Lord.
This had nothing to do with our strength.
This had nothing to do with our human
ability.
Had nothing to do with anything we said
or promised.
Anything we could do to earn the favor
of God.
This was strictly the banner.
This was the work of God himself.
Now I want you to follow me.
I want to prove to you beyond a
shadow of a doubt that this whole story
is about Jesus.
Isaiah saw it.
He knew well the Pentateuch and he knew
the prophets up to his time.
I want you to go with me, please.
This is amazing to Isaiah, 11th chapter, 11th
chapter of Isaiah.
When I saw this, I could hardly hold
my peace.
11th chapter of Isaiah, verse 10.
And in that day, there shall be a
root of Jesse, which shall be for an
enzyme that's banner shall stand for a banner
of the people.
It shall be to who?
To it shall the Gentiles seek and his
rest shall be glorious.
In that day, there shall be a root.
Who is the root of Jesse?
Jesus Christ, son of David.
That was David's father.
This is so clear.
He is the banner.
Jesus Christ is the banner.
And to him, in it, the Gentiles shall
seek and his rest shall be glorious.
He's going to bring a people in to
rest.
The Bible says that he's going to give
victory over Amalek.
He's going to get victory and there's going
to be rest and peace as there was
this moment.
Now, folks, if you remember here in Exodus,
the 17th chapter, Exodus, the 17th chapter, when
he said Jehovah Nissi, he tied it in
very clearly to every generation.
Did you?
Could you?
I need you to skip back.
I hope you have your finger back in
the 17th chapter of Exodus.
Go back to quickly.
Very please quickly, if you can.
Verse 15 and 16.
And Moses built an altar and called the
name of Jehovah Nissi for he said, now
that ties the revelation of Jehovah Nissi into
this next sentence, next verse, where he said,
because the Lord has sworn that the Lord
will have war with Amalek from generation to
generation, the revelation of Jehovah Nissi has to
do with this warfare.
You see that he ties it in for,
and he's bringing it all together.
Now back to Isaiah, the 11th chapter and
verse beginning at verse one now, and there
shall come forth what out of the stem
of Jesse and a branch shall grow out
of his roots.
The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon
him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding the
spirit of counsel and might and spirit of
knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
He shall make of him quick, understand, make
him a quick understanding in the fear of
the Lord.
He shall not judge after the sight of
his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of
his ears, but with righteousness.
So who are we talking about?
But, but with righteousness shall he judge the
poor and reprove with equity for the meek
of the earth.
He shall smite the earth with the rod
of his mouth and with the breath of
his lips.
Who is the breath of his lips?
That's the Holy spirit.
He breathed on them.
They received the Holy spirit lips, which shall
slay the wicked.
The righteous shall be for the girdle of
his loins and faithfulness of the girdle of
his range.
Oh, folks, Isaiah salt.
I want you to see it.
I have seen it.
I saw it when, when I was studying,
I couldn't find it in any commentary.
I said, Lord, these things have to do
with us.
You said we're to learn from a, what
are you saying?
Folks, when you have it all said and
done, you can look at it from the
back side.
You can look at from our side, from
the backside, you, you hear the Lord.
If you hear Moses saying, this is the
banner, this is the banner.
And you have over here, Paul saying, look
back.
So when you're looking back, when you're looking
forward, it all says, everything is Jesus in
the old Testament, every battle, everything is Jesus.
He's teaching us about who our Christ is.
Glory be to God for barely.
I send you.
Jesus said that many prophets and righteous men
have desired to see these things, which you
see, they've not seen them into here.
These things, which you hear, he said, but
having seen them afar off, they were persuaded
of them and they embraced them.
Hallelujah.
Are you persuaded that you have a God
that's going to see you through all your
warfare?
No, I've got to hurry on.
What Moses, I believe is saying to our
generation is Jehovah Nissi delivered us from the
devilish power of Amalek.
As long as the spirit of Amalek comes
against you, Jehovah Nissi will still be your
banner down through the found all the, to
the very end of time.
Now you said, what about the victory of
the cross at the, at the cross, Jesus
personally was victorious over the enemy.
The devil was totally defeated in his plan
to abort the eternal purposes of God through
Christ Jesus.
He was placed by resurrection beyond the reach
of the devil.
He totally defeated the plan of Satan to
destroy the seed.
Totally.
The victory was Christ.
It was his, his victory was there, but
the by week, he is in glory.
Now he's beyond the reach.
He, he absolutely crossed the devil's plan.
The devil could not kill him.
The devil could not keep him in, in,
in, in death.
He broke the bonds of death through the
power of the spirit upon him.
The devil couldn't keep him from going to
the father.
That was the victory.
The victory of the cross is still ours,
but we're in a battle.
We are still here and we are his
body here on earth.
He is the head and he's in heaven.
He's away.
He cannot be touched by the devil, but
we are here.
And the Bible said, we're in a warfare.
That's why he said, put on the weapons
and the warfare and the whole armor of
God.
And he said, fight the good fight of
faith.
It's all through the new Testament.
We're still in a war.
Amalek is still alive.
His spirit is here.
I asked you, are you in some kind
of a spiritual war here this morning?
Are you battling a temptation or a lust
or a spirit of guilt and fear and
condemnation?
It's Amalek or the spirit of Amalek tried
to attack your home and your marriage, your
career, your job to come against you personally,
to bring depression and weariness.
And has he tried to seduce you into
fornication, to adultery?
Has he tried to seduce you into materialism
and the love of pleasure more than the
love of God?
Folks, listen to me, please.
Everything changes when you have a biblical view
of your warfare.
And that's why so many people are giving
up because they don't have a true biblical
view of the warfare.
You've got to understand when the devil comes
against you like a flood, he's not just
interested in trying to get you to become
a fornicator and adulterer or a thief or
a murderer or a lover of pleasure.
That's not his goal.
That's not the purpose of his seductions of
our flesh.
Our flesh leads us astray when they're seduced
by these tricks and devices of the devil.
And some of you are being seduced, some
of you are in trouble, some of you
are fighting a battle.
But the devil is not trying to get
you to end up in some kind of
an adulterous affair.
He's not trying that.
That's not his purpose.
He does that for one reason.
You are in a battle.
It's not your battle.
It's a battle between the devil and the
throne.
And you represent the seed.
He's still after the seed.
How does he get to Christ but through
his seed?
How does he ever expect to bring him
from his throne until he destroys all his
seed on the face of the earth?
If he could destroy every Christian, he's won
the battle.
Whether Christ is in glory or here he's
won.
Understand your battle and mine is not the
devil mad at me.
He's mad at the Christ in me.
The devil's after one thing.
To get you so discouraged that you don't
have the strength and the power that God's
abandoned you, hasn't given you the power to
resist.
He is there trying to give, make you
a deserter of the banner of Christ.
That you'll get so down on yourself, so
discouraged, saying, I can't go a step further.
The devil's got his purpose.
Forget how he did it.
He conceded in getting you to lose your
faith, stop worshipping Christ, and to abandon the
banner of Jesus.
Folks, it changes everything when you know the
battle's not yours.
It changes everything.
The devil's trying to terrify you to get
you to faint and to desert Christ.
And many, many have deserted Jesus saying, I
tried and it was too hard.
I hoped, I prayed, I did everything.
I thought the Holy Ghost was there.
And folks, the devil succeeded in it.
Yes, he may use lust and temptation, all
of these things, but his primary purpose, his
everlasting purpose, is to get you to leave
the army of the Lord and to stop
representing who he is on earth.
He wants to kill you as a part
of the seed, one soldier at a time.
You see that?
Listen what the scripture says, O Israel, you
approach this day to battle against your enemies.
Let not your heart faint, fear not, do
not tremble, neither be terrified because of your
enemy.
For the Lord, your God, is he that's
going with you to fight for you against
all your enemies to save you.
David, why was David fearless against the giant?
Because he said, listen to it, the battle
is not mine, it's the Lord's, because you
have defied the living God.
You've touched the throne.
Hallelujah.
Jehovah Nissi, to me, is Christ my banner,
the captain of my salvation.
Do you know something?
In this battle, the secret of Jehovah Nissi,
I have not seen it anywhere, I've not
read anywhere, I'm not trying to claim some
special revelation.
I'm just telling you what it means to
me, what I've seen in the Spirit and
how it has changed and blessed my life.
I am kept in this warfare primarily by
two things.
I am kept by that rod on that
hill and the blood that was shed there,
that every one of my sins are wiped
out, and that I have the possibility and
the promise of the sprinkling of the blood
of Jesus Christ upon every sin I will
ever commit.
If I will simply come to the rod
and look to Christ and look to the
cross, I have complete forgiveness as long as
I live, and as long as I trust
that blood, I'm empowered by the Holy Ghost.
Secondly, this is Jehovah Nissi to me.
Our banner is seated at the right hand
of the Lord, and the moment our banner
was seated, he became our high priest and
our intercessor.
He sat down to pray for us.
Folks, right now, whatever spiritual battle you're going
through, run to the blood.
Put it under the blood and remind yourself
and remind the devil.
Jesus said he prayed for his disciples.
He said, I pray for them which thou
hast given to me, and I have lost
none of them except Judas.
If his prayers prevailed while he was here
as a man, how much more do they
prevail now that he's in glory at the
right hand of the Father?
Who is he that condemns you?
It is Christ that died, rather, that is
risen again, who's even at the right hand
of God and is making intercession for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ?
Who?
What devil, what demon can separate us from
the love?
We are victorious.
Jehovah Nissi is praying for us.
Hallelujah.
Will you stand?
Hallelujah.
And none of them shall be lost.
None whom he prays for shall be lost.
Hallelujah.
My Jesus, my banner, my Jehovah Nissi has
been praying for me all through this message.
He prays for me daily.
He doesn't sleep.
At night when I'm asleep, he's still praying.
He's still interceding.
The banner, those marks in his hands.
Hallelujah.
That's Jehovah Nissi.
If all you can remember of Jehovah Nissi,
this Hebrew name of revelation of God's nature,
God's power, he's my intercessor, Jehovah intercessor.
Folks, it's the most amazing thought.
You know what the Bible said?
The men of old saw these things and
were persuaded of them and embraced them.
I saw this.
I heard it.
I believe it.
I'm persuaded of it.
And I've embraced it.
So that from now on, in every battle
that I go through, every temptation, the enemy
comes at me.
I know that this is not my battle.
And I know that the Lord loves me.
And now Lord's going to, even though I've
murmured, complained and failed, God, I go to
him, the blood, I go to the cross.
I go to the sprinkling of blood.
You can do that this morning, right now,
in this house.
And then, with great confidence, I'll have a
high priest seated at the right hand of
the Father, who knows my name, who's counting
every hair on my head, knows everything I've
gone through because he's gone through it, and
he's standing with me.
He is praying.
Who's going to tell me the Father will
deny his own Son his request?
Hallelujah.
What is he praying?
That your faith fail not.
You trust Almighty God to see you through.
Heavenly Father, I rejoice in your word.
I thank you for your word that has
strengthened my poor soul, who's changing me and
changing all of us.
More and more into the image of Christ,
knowing that it's just, when it says there's
power in his name, we just haven't known,
Lord.
Now open our eyes and our ears and
understand who our Jesus is, and that at
this name every knee shall bow, and every
power, every enemy shall be his footstool.
Hallelujah.
Lord, I pray for those in that warfare
now.
Amalek has come against many that are hearing
me right now, against their homes, their children,
their marriages, and their jobs, and the temptations
in their own life.
Lord, and lust, and things that the devil's
trying to throw at them, trying to declare
war on their soul.
God, help us to remember it's not our
battle, it's yours.
Set people free this morning.
If you're here this morning, you said, Pastor
David, I'm in that war, I'm in a
warfare, I'm in a battle, I'm in a
struggle, and I need freedom.
Maybe you're backslidden.
If you don't know Jesus, I invite you
to come with those that are coming now.
In the annex, I'm going to ask you
to go forward between the screens.
Just step forward.
Pastor Neil Rhodes will be with you in
just a moment.
I want to pray for you first, though.
Just step out, and here in the main
floor, up in the balcony, you go to
the exits, stairs on either side, come down
any aisle.
This is a day to come and really
believe Jehovah Nissi.
Believe it, that he is your intercessor.
You come to him now, come under the
banner of his prayers, come under the banner
of his blood and of his prayers and
his intercession.
If you're going through a battle in your
home, we're not trying to just pack this
altar.
God knows my heart.
That's the last thing I want to do,
just try to pack an altar.
We're here to reach those who know the
devil's coming at you, he's trying to destroy
you.
You know that.
If you're here and you say, Pastor Dave,
I know the devil's been after me, trying
to truly destroy me, my home, my life.
This is something, this revelation will not come
to you except by faith.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the
word of God.
Now listen to me closely.
The Bible says very clearly that Jesus is
ready to forgive.
He's wanting to forgive.
He's not waiting for you to make him
promise or anything else.
He's ready to forgive, he's ready to confess.
He said if we confess our sins, he's
faithful just to forgive us and cleanse us
from how much unrighteousness?
All unrighteousness, no matter what it is, no
matter when it happened, all unrighteousness.
And then when you do that, you're going
to have to embrace.
You know what embrace means?
I accept that, no matter how the doubts
and fears come in, no matter what my
mind tells me, no matter what anyone else
says, I'm going to anchor my soul on
this.
The Bible says that Jesus is my banner.
He's in glory right now, interceding for me.
Hallelujah.
You come to the blood and then you
convince your heart and tell it to the
devil if you want.
Devil, you may be coming at me with
everything out of hell, but I got one
mightier than you.
In me, praying for me, interceding at the
throne of God, and God's going to see
me through.
I am not going to desert Jesus.
I'm his seed.
I'm his body, bone of his bone and
flesh of his flesh.
Devil, you're not going to get to Christ
in me.
You're not going to kill the Christ in
me.
Hallelujah.
Pray this with me from your heart and
in the annex.
Will you pray it?
Lord Jesus, I thank you for your word.
You send your word to heal us.
You sent your word to heal me today.
Cleanse me, Jesus.
All my sins and iniquities, blot them out
by the sprinkling of your blood.
And by faith, I have confessed and I
am cleansed by the blood of Jesus and
the victory of your cross.
And now, Lord Jesus, I believe what I
heard.
You're in heaven at the right hand of
the Father with my name on your heart
and on your lips.
And you're praying for me.
You're interceding for me.
And you said, all who I've prayed for,
none shall be lost except the devil himself.
None shall be lost.
Hallelujah.
None shall be lost.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Lord.
We give you glory.
Lord, I pray now that the Lord who
convicts us and saves us is the same
Lord who keeps us.
Lord, next week we're going to talk about
the Lord Jehovah, the Lord of hosts.
Oh, God, you've got a host of angels
now ready to go with these people.
Camp around about them.
That they dash not their foot against a
stone.
Glory be to the name of our God.
This is the conclusion of the message.