The Canaanite Nations Are on the Land — Milton Green

Following Jesus as the Ark Who Removes the Canaanite Nations

The Canaanite nations are on the land. And the only way you can get them off of it is to follow God. You have to follow the ark. It's Jesus. You don't know how to get them off. Besides, you don't get them off.

Ezekiel 34 and the Sins That Give Darkness Ground

He does. It's the whole thing Hebrews, I mean Ezekiel 34 is talking about. All these sins up there, you see these things up here? Jealousy, envy, anger, worry, fear, greed, unforgiveness, pride, rebellion, bitterness, all these things.

Do any of these sins and things that are in your life, in your practice of broken God's law, this is what I'm wanting you to see in the Word this week. That's how the powers of darkness get their ground in you.

Spiritual Warfare Beyond the Flesh

They come to tempt you. They get you to put these thoughts in your mind. See, what does the Bible tell you in 2 Corinthians 10 verse 3? That, you know, when we repent and walk with the Lord, we no longer war after the flesh.

The Fall Through the Knowledge of Good and Evil

Isn't that right? Why does the Bible say that we no longer war after the flesh? Because, see, when you're warring after the flesh, you're putting up the... See, the flesh is a weapon to Satan. Anger, unforgiveness, resentment, see, that's the problem that Adam had, Eve had in the very beginning, is come to eat off the tree of knowledge and good and evil.

See, they're only supposed to do good. But once you come over to eat off the tree, which is the nature and character of Satan, then you got to know what evil was. Isn't that right? So you and I don't know evil.

Repentance and the New Creation

We only know good. So we no longer war after the flesh. We're to have the nature and character of God, who let His reign come on the evil and the good alike. Amen? So then, when you and I repent from the nature and character of Satan, you know what actually you're doing?

You're laying your life down. You say, I give up all selfishness and self-centeredness and self-love. I'm living my life to please the Lord. I'm going to live... I no longer live myself, 2 Corinthians 5, but I want to live for Him who died for me.

And then I become a new creation. Old things have passed away. Old things have become new. As Jesus Christ is in the world, so I am, because I walk the same way He is, because I lay down all selfishness.

Denying Self and Taking Up the Cross

That's the way we come in. So then I repent. Now, here I'm turning right here, and I have a change of heart. I used to walk at the character and nature of Satan, but I laid that life down. Amen? Now, what does it say?

Jesus said, whoever wishes to come after me, let him deny himself at the selfish nature of Satan. You're going to take up your cross. It didn't say he's going to say some words and it's all over. No, you're going to take up your cross.

Suffering in the Flesh and Choosing Against Sin

How do you take up your cross? 1 Peter 4, 1 and 2, like the Lord Jesus Christ, you're going to suffer in the flesh, but cease in sin. And you come to each one of these sins here, pride, anger, unforgiveness, resentment or anything, you're going to choose against them because you love God more than you do them.

Overcoming Through the Nature of God

You're choosing the nature of God rather than the nature and character of Satan, so you'll overcome them. You will overcome. You will overcome, and he who overcomes is going to sit on the throne with me.

Is that what your Bible says?