By pastor Pedro Montoya
May the peace of the Lord be with you and your household tonight. I give thanks to the eternal God, to the Almighty, to the Creator of heaven and earth for times like these that the Lord allows us to expose ourselves before His word and before the power of His Holy Spirit, to be instructed, but above all things to be corrected, in such a way that each one of us may walk according to the will of the Lord.
The purpose of the life of faith is not how much we know. The purpose of the life of faith is how much pleasure the Lord has in each of our lives. We have been formed by the eternal God, the Almighty, to bring praise to His glory, and when a man of God, when a woman of God learns this and lives by it, that is when they are walking under the will of the Lord.
Introduction: Deliverance as Part of Salvation
We have begun a series of teachings about salvation, and we have been studying in recent weeks that deliverance is part of salvation. We cannot view deliverance as additional knowledge, extraordinary knowledge, but additional to salvation. No. The Word teaches us in the Gospel of Matthew, in chapter 12, and you can read it, the Lord Jesus said: “If I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of heaven has come upon you.”
Salvation is an integral part of the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, if Jesus said that if He by the Spirit of God cast out demons it is because the kingdom of heaven has come upon you, it means that deliverance is also part of salvation. To be saved but not enjoy the benefits of deliverance is to have truly embraced the virtue of the Lord’s grace, but still serve as happened with the children of Israel when they walked through the desert, still serving the Baals they had known in Egypt.
The man of faith, the woman of faith must learn to walk in the salvation and in the deliverance that the Lord gives us.
First Attribute: Holiness
We have been studying in the last two teachings about how authority is obtained to rebuke demons. In the previous teaching we studied a first attribute that has to do with holiness. We defined, according to the Holy Scriptures, that holiness has to do with the absence of contamination. The Apostle Paul explains it clearly in Second Corinthians, chapter 7, verse 1: “Since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from all contamination of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”
Second Attribute: Walking in Revelation
In tonight’s teaching we are going to study a second attribute: What do I need to gain authority before demons? Second attribute: walking in revelation.
Walking in revelation is extremely important because when the man, when the woman is walking according to the revelation that God has given, together with the revelation God gives them the knowledge to rebuke demons.
Demons are not rebuked simply by raising one’s voice or simply by saying “I rebuke you,” and we can use other terms: “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus” or “the blood of Christ Jesus.” They are not rebuked that way. Demons rather will not heed just because we use terms. They will heed the one who has and walks in the revelation of the Lord, because it is the revelation that grants each of us the authority to rebuke demons.
If you review Matthew chapter 10, when Jesus called His disciples, those who were eventually constituted as the apostles, it clearly says in verse one that He called twelve to be with Him (number one, and this has to do with revelation) and number two, to have authority over demons and to rebuke them.
So the second attribute to gain authority before the forces of darkness is walking in the revelation that the Lord gives us.
What is Walking in Revelation?
In tonight’s teaching we are going to study and understand what walking in revelation is, because today a knowledge has prevailed that does not originate, certainly, in the Holy Scriptures, in the sense that what the Lord had to reveal He revealed completely and it is in the Holy Scriptures, and God reveals nothing more. This pronouncement does not really proceed from the Word of the Lord. Why? Because God continues working and God continues manifesting and God continues revealing. He reveals Himself to His people.
If you review Psalm 25 in verse 14, it says that “the secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him,” and it adds something more: “and He will show them His covenant.” It means then that revelation is the nature of God.
The Nature of God is to Reveal Himself
God gives to man, God gives to woman what they need to establish the work for which He has called them, and within that giving is precisely revelation. God uncovers to them what they need to establish the work to which He has called them.
God does not inform. God does not give knowledge to satisfy people’s curiosity. When a man and a woman come to the Lord and say “I want to know more about the Lord, I want to know more about His Word, I want to know and have more knowledge of the Lord,” we are approaching by the wrong path, I must tell you. We are approaching by the wrong path, because God is not information. If we are not going to do anything with what we want to know or want to learn, God is not going to give it to us.
Revelation has a characteristic: God gives, as the apostle says, food to the one who eats, God gives seed to the one who sows. God does not give food or bread to one who is not going to eat, one who is not hungry. God does not give seed to sow to one who does not want to sow.
It is not about having knowledge. Revelation is not synonymous with knowledge. Revelation has to do with what God has established and by which He wants each of us to walk. And this has to do with revelation.
The Nature of God: Speaking to Man
Before properly entering to define what revelation is, I want to establish that in the nature of God, God speaks to man, God speaks to woman, God manifests Himself to man, God manifests Himself to woman.
In chapter 29 of the book of Deuteronomy in verse 29 we find this word: “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.”
It is God’s nature to speak to man, to manifest Himself to man, to speak to woman, to manifest Himself to woman. It is God’s nature, not responding to the person’s plea. No, it is God’s intention to reveal Himself, to manifest Himself to men.
In the same book of Deuteronomy, in chapter 30, in verses 15 and 16, it says: “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and the Lord your God may bless you in the land which you go to possess.”
It is God’s nature, and this is something we must understand in principle. No one can receive revelation if we are not clear that it is God’s nature to reveal Himself, to make Himself known to people.
Look at what it says in the book of the prophet Isaiah, chapter 55, verses 8 and 9: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
With these texts, and we can continue citing many more, we realize that it is God’s nature to reveal Himself, to make Himself known to man and to make Himself known to woman.
In the book of Hebrews, in chapter one, in verse one it is established: “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son.” It is God’s nature.
We cannot, we should not say “Lord reveal Yourself, reveal Yourself, reveal Yourself,” because He has revealed Himself, because He has manifested Himself. It is His nature. Why then have we not properly seen the work of God? Many times we have not seen it because we really have not understood what revelation consists of and what the Lord wants from each of us.
Defining Revelation
I am going to proceed to define what revelation is, because many times we have had quite deformed concepts of what revelation is. We have believed, a great majority, that revelation has to do with hidden knowledge, with mysterious knowledge, that no one knows, that no one is aware of, but suddenly the Lord makes it known to us.
That is not revelation. That is occult sciences, and it is precisely exploited by the forces of darkness. Because many people go after that, they believe that revelation is something or an exclusive knowledge that no one knows, that only they know.
Let me tell you: when God reveals, He does not do it exclusively. When God reveals, the purpose is for many to walk by that knowledge. It is not something exclusive. If we say that I know something and only I know it and that I cannot divulge it to others, we are really not talking about the revealed knowledge that God gives to man. It will be revealed knowledge that comes from darkness, but that does not proceed from the Lord.
Revelation is so that we may walk by it. It is so that we all may walk and move through that revelation.
What is revelation? Revelation has to do with what God has established and by which man must walk. A very simple definition is in the Holy Scriptures: it is what God has established. It is not negotiable. God does not present it so that man may ponder it and if he likes it he can walk by it. No, it is not negotiable.
What God has established He makes known to man, and man must adjust to what God has established. Woman must adjust to what God has established. Revelation is nothing more than God’s disposition for man, for woman, so that they may walk by it.
Three Processes of Revelation
In this teaching I have sectioned the teaching into three processes so that we can have understanding about how revelation arises, what revelation consists of, and what God wants us to do with revelation.
First Process: The Spiritual Degradation of Man
The first process has to do precisely with the spiritual degradation of man. Why don’t we have revelation? Why do we not know revelation? Why can we not walk in revelation? It is because man has fallen into spiritual degradation.
Spiritual Blindness
I am going to go to Second Corinthians chapter 4, verse 4. Observe what it says: “In whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.”
The god of this age (and you know perfectly well, and if you don’t know, today you know very well, the god of this age is Satan) blinded the minds of unbelievers so that the light of Christ should not shine on them.
Someone could say: “Ah well, but that text is referring to those who have not believed in the Lord. That text is referring to the ungodly, to sinners, to those who are outside a church.” And I must tell you: no. This text is referring to everyone.
Why does it say “unbelievers”? I must tell you something: an unbeliever is one who does not believe, and you know that perfectly well. And you know perfectly well that within a congregation there can be more unbelievers than sometimes outside a congregation.
An unbeliever is not the one who is outside a church. An unbeliever is not the sinner. An unbeliever is not the ungodly, although it can include all of them. But an unbeliever is one who is not willing to walk in what God has established as the path that each one should walk.
Therefore, the enemy’s way of operating is to make us fall into doubt about what we are receiving from God. You see it clearly in the book of Genesis, in chapter 3, when the serpent hired by Satan to make Eve fall and eventually Adam, says to her: “Has God indeed said…?” What that means is to introduce doubt, to introduce suspicion that there is something here I don’t know and that I have been deceived.
The first thing the enemy seeks to do is make us doubt what the Lord has told us. That is why it says there that the god of this age blinded the minds of unbelievers so that the light of Christ should not shine on them.
In this first process, which is the process of spiritual degradation, the enemy precisely makes man fall, makes woman fall into unbelief. And when man, and listen well to this, and when woman falls into unbelief, they become blind. There is spiritual blindness and, therefore, they cannot see what is happening or what God is doing in their life. They cannot see it. Why? Because there is blindness, a blindness fell, and it is spiritual blindness.
What is being presented to us here is that the reason why many (and I am referring, of course, to men and women who have confessed ourselves as believers, followers, disciples of Christ Jesus) cannot walk in revelation, is precisely because there is spiritual blindness. There is blindness, and they question everything, doubt everything, criticize everything, point out everything, set everything aside.
In the book of Acts of the Apostles, chapter 17, when the Apostle Paul had been persecuted from Philippi, arrived in Thessalonica, Berea, finally stopped in Athens. When the apostle decided to preach to the Athenians, the Word says that when he was speaking about the resurrection of Christ Jesus, immediately they said: “We will hear you about this another time.” They put in doubt what the apostle was declaring to them, and it is exactly what happens in the life of every man and the life of every woman.
I am saying this precisely so that each of us may evaluate ourselves: Am I in that condition? Am I in that situation? Do I question everything? Do I doubt everything? Do I point out everything and set it aside and question it?
It means then that there is spiritual blindness. As long as man has that spiritual blindness, as long as woman has that spiritual blindness, revelation cannot fit in.
Overcoming Spiritual Blindness
What must we do? I want to go now to the book of Matthew, in chapter 4, verse 16, which is a reference from the book of the prophet Isaiah. It says: “The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light has dawned.”
What must we do to be able to overcome spiritual blindness, to be able to overcome the spiritual degradation into which we have fallen or in which we have moved for many years?
Expose ourselves. Expose ourselves before the Word. Expose ourselves before the Spirit of God. And not doubt what we are being told. And not question what we are being told, but open the possibility, or rather, open ourselves to the possibility that what we are hearing is the only way.
I am going to read it again: “The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light has dawned.”
Many of us can say: “Yes, but that text is referring to Christ Jesus.” Yes, indeed. But you know perfectly well that many people have been told about Christ, but they do not come to Christ Jesus. And there are many believers to whom the mighty works of Jesus have been told, and many end up saying: “That was from the past time. That was for the Jews. That is for another era, not for us.”
From the very moment we close the possibility that this Word can be for me today, I will not come out of the spiritual darkness in which I have lived practically all my life.
What must we do? I must expose myself before the Word. I must expose myself before the Spirit of God. I must allow the light to enter my life, the light to be established in my life. And that means not only having accepted Christ Jesus. That means: this Word is for me. Does this Word have fulfillment in my life or is this Word only for another?
When I see the possibility that this Word applies to my life, then the light is being established in places or in regions of the shadow of death.
What must we do? Not question. It is to expose ourselves before the Word. It is to allow the Word to illuminate, it is to allow the Word to cleanse, the Word to purify. Why? Because it is the only way so that then that spiritual blindness can disappear and we may know and walk in the revelation of the Lord.
A Progressive Process
I want to give you another text: Second Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 17. This is a text that we all know, all without exception know it, but that we have understood partially. I read it: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
We know it: “Old things have passed away, all things have become new.” But a few seconds ago I said: to a certain extent we have understood it partially. Why?
Because although it is true what Jesus did on the cross of Calvary is a specific act, it is a complete act, it is a total act. Nothing was lacking in what Jesus did on the cross of Calvary. Nothing was lacking. He fulfilled everything, completed everything.
The problem is us, because it is not applied in the same way as Jesus did it at Calvary. Jesus completed everything, but when we come to Jesus, it is not completed in the same way as Jesus did it on the cross of Calvary, but rather it is being completed to the extent that we are exposing ourselves before the Word.
This text, and I am going to read it again: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” How should we understand it? We should understand it this way: old things are passing away and here all things are being made new. That is how we should understand it.
I repeat, and I want this to be very clear because it is important: It is not that Jesus did it partially. Jesus did it totally, He did it completely. The problem is us, that when we come to Christ Jesus, in us it is not done totally and completely as Christ Jesus did it on the cross of Calvary.
Therefore, we must be clear that it is to the extent that each of us is exposing ourselves before the Word, to the extent that each of us is seeing the possibility that this Word applies to our lives and submitting to it, to that extent old things will be passing away.
I want to show you through the Word itself. Let’s go to Romans chapter 12, verse 2: “Do not be conformed to this world,” and now take note of what follows. If you are accustomed to underlining your Bible, this is the part we should underline: “but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Old things passed away, all things have become new. Christ Jesus did it totally, Christ Jesus did it completely, but it does not happen with us in the same way. Why? Because not all of us expose ourselves completely before the Lord. Not all of us expose ourselves completely.
You are going to discover, if you have not discovered it already, that many men, that many women give certain parts of our lives to the Lord, and there are parts that we reserve for ourselves.
I am going to repeat it because this is very important: many, not to say all of us, give certain parts to the Lord, but we reserve for ourselves many other parts. And that reserve of parts in our lives is what does not allow all old things to pass away.
Are we understanding it now? Because many of us have not confessed everything to the Lord. Many of us came to Christ Jesus: “Lord, I accept You, I recognize that You are Lord and Christ, I accept You as my Savior.” But we reserved things. We have not confessed them to the Lord, and therefore, as we have not delivered them, those areas are dark areas, and precisely because of those dark areas we have not been able to walk in revelation.
I am going to read verse 2 again: “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
We must renew things. How do we renew our lives? How do we renew them? To the extent that we are bringing to light those dark areas, those things that have remained dark, that no one knows, that no one is aware of, and we prefer that they continue always like that until we depart from this life.
“Old things passed away, behold all things have become new.” To the extent that each of us is exposing ourselves before the Word, to the extent that each of us is submitting to the Word (“this Word is for me, this Word I must walk, I must submit to this Word”).
Another text I want to show you: Second Corinthians, chapter 4, verse 16: “Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.”
Being renewed day by day. How is it renewed? To the extent that we expose ourselves, to the extent that I submit to the Word.
“This Word is very good for my neighbor. This Word is excellent for my brother. This Word is what my such and such relative needs to know.” No, no, it is not like that. This Word is for me. This Word is for me. And I am not walking by this Word. I am not following this Word.
Are we understanding it? To the extent that I expose myself before this Word and submit to this Word, to that extent old things will be passing away.
Why have we not been able to walk in revelation? Because many of us are looking to one side and we are looking to the other side, we are looking here, we are looking there, but we are not looking at what concerns each one of us.
The Apostle Paul said it clearly in Philippians: “I do not claim to have attained it yet, but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind” (that is, not paying attention to those things), “but I press on toward what the Lord is presenting to me, because all those past things I already brought to light. I did not leave them forgotten, I did not leave them hidden. All past things I brought to light, all I gave to the Lord. And in the cases or moments where I had to make amends before others whom I offended, I went to each one of them.”
This is precisely breaking the process of spiritual degradation. As long as we do not do that, we are going to be as blind as when we were in the world. Because life in Christ Jesus is walking in revelation, so that then we may gain authority so that all the forces of darkness may be put under the feet of Christ Jesus.
Second Process: Restoration
Let’s move to the second process. I want to take you to Second Corinthians chapter 6, verse 17: “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.”
We move to the second process. The second process has to do with restoration, with restitution. It has to do with returning to the place, to the position where God has truly always wanted to have us.
You know Ephesians chapter 4, verses 22 to 24: “Put off your old self and put on the new self, created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.”
What must we do to enter this process of restoration? I read verse 17 again: “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.”
The World Within the Church
I must tell you something, and it is that unfortunately the contemporary church (and this, even though we don’t like hearing it) has allowed the world to enter within it. And that is how many men and many women walk today.
The contemporary church, the people of God, has allowed the world to enter within them and they are walking with baggage that is part of the world. As long as we walk this way, we are going to continue in spiritual blindness. As long as we maintain the elements of the world within us, we are going to continue walking in spiritual blindness.
Today there are many people who are seeking God (and when I say they are seeking God, they are seeking legitimately, with a sincere heart, with an upright heart), but they cannot see nor can they experience the work of God. Why? Because they are doing it their way, because they are disobeying this Word. They do not want to remove the world from within themselves, and as long as that happens, nothing is going to happen.
“Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean.”
Today the people of God are walking with components of the world within themselves.
Examples of Worldly Contamination
I am going to present several examples so that we may see and weigh truly how the people of God are living.
Fortune-telling: There is a good quantity, a good percentage of God’s people who are living under concepts of fortune-telling. Do you know what fortune-telling is? There is a large quantity of men and women of God who are walking under concepts of fortune-telling.
I am going to present an example: Have you noticed when there are men and when there are women (and I am speaking of God’s people, of course) who when they are talking mostly about the benefits they have achieved (“I got a good job, I got a good career, I am doing this, I am doing that”), they knock on wood? Do you know it?
That is from the world, and that is fortune-telling. A man of God does not have to do that. A woman of God does not have to do that. Why? Because the world entered and has told them: “So that this doesn’t come to you, you have to do this.” Knocking on wood is a fortune-telling concept, but there are many people within the church who walk that way.
You have seen newborn children, I am referring to babies within God’s people, who wear a red ribbon tied on their hand. You have seen it. That is fortune-telling, but they are within the church. And they are confessed men and women who have turned away from sin, but they are living in fortune-telling.
“Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord, and do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.”
As long as we continue walking in the customs, in the lifestyles that this world has imposed on us, we will not be able to walk in revelation. For what reason? Because the god of this age blinded the minds of people so that the light of Christ should not shine on them.
Witchcraft: There are people, there are God’s people who are walking in witchcraft. Although it may be difficult for you to believe what I am telling you, there are people who are working and who are walking in witchcraft. Why? Because they have integrated customs of witchcraft and have integrated them within their models of life.
Haven’t you noticed what merchants do when they get the first sale of the day? Review it. That is witchcraft. The world has entered, but we do not want to remove the world from us. We call upon the Lord, but we continue in the practices of the world. One cannot walk like this.
A man or a woman who is not walking in the revelation of the Lord is a man, is a woman who is bound by Satan.
The Christmas Tree and Pagan Customs
This time of year-end, particularly in Latin America, is loaded with many elements of witchcraft, is loaded with many elements of spiritism, is loaded with much contamination.
I must speak about the Christmas tree. The Christmas tree is apostasy, that is pure apostasy. But how many men and how many women within the gospel maintain these customs.
I must tell you, brothers and sisters: I was accustomed at one time in my life to put up a tree. Yes, I must say it. But when the Lord revealed Himself to my life and gave me to understand what a Christmas tree means in the house of a man of God and how abominable it is to the Lord, then that custom was cast out.
I told you one or two episodes ago that I saw an image (someone presented it on social media) an image where it had been divided into two sections: on one side was a Christmas tree, and the other side was a cross. And that is abomination to the Lord.
In this time, brothers and sisters, in this time of year-end, it is a time of much contamination, of much spiritual contamination, precisely because of the elements that have been integrated.
A Christmas tree does not originate nor does it refer to the birth of Christ Jesus. Many try to present it that way, but that act originated in the Roman idolatry of the Roman empire, dedicated to the Roman god of the sun. The Catholic church introduced it to attract all those who joined, to keep them within its fold, and from there it has passed to all denominations.
Jesus was not born on that date. Jesus was not born on December 25th. Some can say: “But what does the date matter? Actually, what we are doing is celebrating the birth of Christ Jesus.”
Under those terms it cannot be, because we are entering into what the world has established and we are embracing what the world has established. Therefore, we are not rescuing anything, nor are we celebrating, as some say, but rather we are being contaminated by the kingdom of darkness.
And we return again to Second Corinthians chapter 4: the god of this age blinded the minds of unbelievers so that the light of Christ should not shine on them.
Therefore, we must understand that as long as we submit to what the world has established, spiritual blindness will not leave our life.
The Call to Separation
Another text I want us to review is in the book of Isaiah, chapter 55, verse 7: “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.”
“Let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.”
We must abandon all these customs. We must repudiate them. We cannot carry anything from the world to serve the Lord. We cannot. It does not work like that.
Do you know what revelation is? I just explained it to you a few minutes ago: revelation is what God has established, and it is not negotiable.
This is the way, says God. This is the way man must approach Me. This is the way woman must approach Me. And man cannot say, woman cannot say: “Well, I am going to innovate, and accept me because those are my terms.” We cannot do that.
Precisely because of doing that is that the Lord repudiates us. Why? “Because you were neither cold nor hot, but lukewarm, I will vomit you out of My mouth.”
And this is something we must understand. Many say: “But God what He looks at is the intention of my heart. God knows that deep down I really want to serve Him.”
Yes, God looks at the heart. First Samuel says so. But that does not mean that He is going to attend to you precisely because of the intention you had. He is going to attend to you because of the action you were willing to carry out.
The life of faith is not about intentions of the heart. “I have good intention, the Lord knows it, the Lord knows it.” But if we do not move according to what is in our heart, if that is real, it is really as if we had done nothing. It is as if we had done absolutely nothing.
Cain and Abel: Two Ways of Approaching God
Another text in the book of the prophet Ezekiel, chapter 18, verses 30 to 32: “Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord God. Repent, and turn from all your transgressions, so that iniquity will not be your ruin. Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies, says the Lord God. Therefore turn and live!”
Why can we not or have we not been able to overcome spiritual blindness? Why have we not been able to come out of spiritual degradation? Because we do not want to remove the world from our lives. We want to continue walking serving the Lord with all the customs that the world has imposed on us, and that we like, and that have delighted us for years. And we want to walk with all of them.
Keep in mind that human history began precisely with two men, Cain and Abel, both presenting themselves as an offering to the Lord. One was accepted, the other was rejected.
Let’s keep this in mind: it is not “as I am, accept me Lord, accept me because I have good intention and I do it with all the disposition of my heart.” No, no, no.
Revelation is what God has established. God established it. Submit yourself to it. It is not “submit Yourself God to my disposition, submit Yourself God to my intention.” No, that is not revelation.
Walking in revelation is: I submit to what God has established.
- If God has established that this is abomination, I must see it as abomination.
- If God has established that I cannot walk under customs of fortune-telling, I must understand that I cannot continue doing that.
- If God has established that I cannot walk under customs of witchcraft, under customs of sorcery, under customs of spiritism, under customs of mysticism, I must understand that it is abomination to the Lord.
And I must remove it. My customs must be transformed.
There are people who still resort to the horoscope. There are people who still resort to luck. Every time we access something that is founded or based on luck, that is founded or based on something random, that is having resorted to luck. Probabilities, possibilities, that does not go with a man of God. That does not go with a woman of God.
But if I do not understand that it is abominable to the Lord and I want to, I cling to continue maintaining it, I am becoming an abomination also before the Lord. Because He abhors that practice, and if I embrace it, I am also becoming an abomination to the Lord.
It is convenient that each of us review our customs, our words, that we review our vocabulary, that we review our actions, that we review our deeds. And you are going to discover that there is a good percentage of fortune-telling conduct, of spiritualist conduct, of witchcraft conduct, of sorcery conduct still within the people of God.
All of that I must understand. This is abomination to the Lord, and therefore I must see it the same way.
Third Process: The Establishment of Revelation
When I begin to see things as God sees them, now I must affirm it in my life. Now I must walk with it. When I walk by it, that is when revelation has been confirmed, has been established in my life.
I want to go to the book of the prophet Micah, chapter 6, verse 8: “He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?”
God has already established the way man should walk. God has established it. I must then walk, submit to that Word and begin to walk. I must do justice, love mercy, and humble myself to walk with my God.
Another text: Jeremiah, chapter 9, verse 24: “But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight, says the Lord.”
Does God reveal Himself to man? Does God reveal Himself to woman? And the answer is: yes. God has revealed Himself and continues revealing Himself, because it is God’s nature.
God tells us what He abhors, and God tells us what is the path by which we should walk. The two texts I just read, the Lord emphasizes to us: justice, judgment, mercy. “For in these I delight, says the Lord.”
Walking in Holiness
In the New Testament, in First Peter, chapter 1, verse 14, we find this word: “As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct.”
And in last week’s teaching we studied that holiness has to do with cleansing from contamination, it is removing all contamination, everything that does not please the Lord. I must remove it.
To the extent that we remove contamination of flesh and spirit, as Second Corinthians 7:1 says, to that extent we are sanctifying, we are perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord.
Conclusion: Gaining Spiritual Authority
What do I need to gain authority before darkness?
Second attribute (tonight’s teaching): I need to walk in revelation.
To the extent that I submit to the Word, to that extent I am gaining authority. And if not, let’s review Matthew chapter 4: “It is written, it is written, it is written.”
To the extent that I walk by what the Word establishes, to that extent I am gaining authority before darkness.
May the eternal God, the Almighty, in my prayer, may the eternal God, may the Almighty open your understanding so that tonight spiritual blindness may be removed. That spiritual blindness that has told you: “There is no need to be so drastic, or to be so radical.” May that blindness be removed that has told you: “There is no need to be so fanatical. God looks at the heart, God looks at the intention of the heart.”
Have you realized, have you realized through the Word and through the testimony of the Spirit of God, that God is waiting for something more than simply a good intention? God is waiting for something more.
May the eternal God, the Almighty, remove that blindness.
In the name of Jesus I bless you. May the peace of the Lord be with you.
Amen.
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