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Christ was tempted on our behalf. WHY? Satan gains jurisdiction when a person, a Church, is lawless. Satan needed jurisdiction to attack Job so Satan asked God to remove the hedge.
When a nation is evil, the hedge comes down. The Hedges (The Constitution of the United States, The 2nd Amendment, Free Market, Family Structure) are coming down. Satan therefore, has gained jurisdiction. We played with the great protections surrounding us.
Once Satan gets the Hedge taken down, he gains jurisdiction. That is why it is important to maintain that hedge or the body will be destroyed.
We as a people need to repent. That is why we are all involved. Daniel, who walked out of the lions den safely, the man whose friends walked out of the furnace safely, a man who was blessed and beloved of God, took his stand with his brethren and said “we have sinned.” We are part of a body throughout the world. They need our understanding and help.
The churches don’t even realize their peril… and the country is imperiled.
Obey my commandments has been relegated to a museum piece. It is enough to bolster and equip your heart. The New Testament is defined by “I will put my law in your heart.” The New Covenant is defined as such.
So how can the church say the Law if for another era?
We need to call forth the church to repentance.
Satan will be trod under our feet… Satan’s kingdom gets judged. God will strike through His church. It will collapse under the churches siege but the church has to be equipped to lay siege.
Satan isn’t just going to lay down.
Q. 195. What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
A. In the sixth petition, (which is, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,) acknowledging that the most wise, righteous, and gracious God, for divers holy and just ends, may so order things that we may be assaulted, foiled, and for a time led captive by temptations; that Satan, the world, and the flesh, are ready powerfully to draw us aside and ensnare us; and that we, even after the pardon of our sins, by reason of our corruption, weakness, and want of watchfulness, are not only subject to be tempted, and forward to expose ourselves unto temptations; but also of ourselves unable and unwilling to resist them, to recover out of them, and to improve them; and worthy to be left under the power of them: we pray, that God would so overrule the world and all in it, subdue the flesh, and restrain Satan, order all things, bestow and bless all means of grace, and quicken us to watchfulness in the use of them, that we and all his people may by his providence be kept from being tempted to sin; or, if tempted, that by his Spirit we may be powerfully supported and enabled to stand in the hour of temptation; or when fallen, raised again and recovered out of it, and have a sanctified use and improvement thereof: that our sanctification and salvation may be perfected, Satan trodden under our feet, and we fully freed from sin, temptation, and all evil for ever.
Matt. 6:13; 2 Chr. 32:31; 1 Chr. 21:1; Luke 21:34; Mark 4:19; Jas. 1:14; Gal. 5:17; Matt. 26:41; Matt. 26:69-72; Gal. 2:11-14; 2 Chr. 18:3; 2 Chr. 19:2; Rom. 7:23-24; 1 Chr. 21:1-4; 2 Chr. 16:7-10; Ps. 81:11-12; John 17:15; Ps. 51:10; Ps. 119:133; 2 Cor. 12:7-8; 1 Cor. 10:12-13; Heb. 13:20-21; Matt. 26:41; Ps. 19:13; Eph. 3:14-17; 1 Thess. 3:13; Jude 1:24; Ps. 51:12; 1 Pet. 5:8-10; 2 Cor. 13:7, 9; Rom. 16:20; Zech. 3:2; Luke 12:31-32; John 17:15; 1 Thess. 5:23.
