BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Some people claim the devil couldn’t have given that power and glory to Jesus, that it wasn’t his to give. But it was, otherwise it would not have been a temptation. He’d gotten it from Adam through the Fall. Jesus however didn’t take satan’s bait. He said no to the devil’s temptation where Adam had said yes. Then, anointed by God with the Holy Ghost and with power, He “went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him” (Acts 10:38). When Jesus started His ministry on earth, about the only thing God’s people had ever heard preached was the curse. But Jesus preached and ministered THE BLESSING. When He encountered the woman in the synagogue who’d been bowed over for 18 years, He didn’t say God had cursed her. He talked about THE BLESSING of Abraham and said, “Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?” (Luke 13:16). Then He healed her. That’s what Jesus always did. Throughout His earthly ministry He exposed the devil as the destroyer and undid his works—and He didn’t stop there. He went to the Cross and through His death and Resurrection He stripped the devil of his power. He took back everything Adam lost in the Garden of Eden, redeemed us from the curse and became a curse for us, so THE BLESSING can come on us and we can receive by faith every promise given by the Holy Spirit. It’s no wonder the night Jesus was born the angels just went absolutely wild out there in front of those shepherds. They knew what was really happening. They knew Jesus was the sinless son of God. That He is THE BLESSED One incarnate. When they were shouting, “Unto you a Savior has been born in Bethlehem,” what those angels were saying was, “THE BLESSING is back! God’s good will is returned to men!” V POINTS TO GET YOU THERE: 1) Jesus redeemed you from the curse when He went to the cross. (Gal. 3:13) 2) THE BLESSING has been God’s will for mankind ever since the Garden of Eden. (Gen. 1:28) 3) The curse was not God’s idea; satan produced it by convincing Adam and Eve to sin. (Gen. 3:1) 4) All human heartache and destruction is satan’s work, and Jesus came to destroy it. (Acts 10:38) 5) Through His life, death and resurrection, Jesus defeated the devil, overcame the curse and restored everything Adam lost in the Fall. (John 10:10) ********************************************* ********************************************* ********** ADVERTISEMENTS ********** Discover that everything you could ever need is provided in your redemption. Kenneth Copeland shares Bible truths about what salvation really provides not only in heaven…but day by day here on earth. 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Probably more than you care to admit. This may surprise you, but it’s also probably more than God wants you to think about it. God wants us to use money as a tool to bless others—all the while keeping it at the bottom of our list of things we care about. For many of us, this takes a mind shift. Jesus knew that was the case, and that’s why He told a parable to show us the purpose of money—and the priority it shouldn’t have in our lives. That parable is found in Luke 16: “And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward” (verses 1-2). This steward had obviously not been doing a good job when it came to watching over the goods and money of his rich employer, and he was given a good, old-fashioned audit. Read verses 3-8: "Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord? And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely." BVOV : 9

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