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Our Glory is His Further Glory

Some time ago I watched this video about how various characters in the Bible are "types" of Christ, like how Isaac being offered as a sacrifice was a picture of Christ dying on the cross for our sins. The point of the video was to demonstrate how Jesus is the better fulfillment. However, at the very end of the video he says something obscure, "The Bible isn't about you." I hear other phrases like this, "Life isn't about you" or "Christian, the Church doesn't exist for you." If the "Bible wasn't about us," then why should we read it? Where does it ever say that in the Bible? (I can find quite a bit of evidence to the contrary). These phrases have a nice way of sounding "spiritual," but the problem with these mantras, is that they perpetuate the enemy's lies of insignificance, false condemnation, self-hatred, and purposelessness -- which feeds the very attitudes Jesus has come to eradicate. Too much of the Ch

Why Christians Need Deliverance: Notes

Notes: Why Christians Need Deliverance “Possessed” - implies ownership; “you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. 1 Corin. 6:20. “For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,” - Col. 1:13 “Oppressed” might be a better word – a word that means affected by, or in some way deceived by or being manipulated by the powers of darkness. “Can have a demon” 1 Corinthians 10:20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God.  (2 Cor. 6:14-16) And He sent messengers on