Aspects of Redemption (12/15/2002)

The Redemptive Name of Jehovah in Exodus 6

Read the last portion of the book of Ruth. That last verse is quite astounding when it says. And the women her neighbors gave it the name saying. There is a son born to Naomi and they called his name Obed.

He is the father of Jesse the father of David. What an amazing lineage of the Lord Jesus Christ. The next mention of the word redemption in the Bible as we discussed also last time I was with you was in Exodus chapter 6.

So if you would turn there with me today Exodus chapter 6 in verse 6 We'll have a few verses in just a moment out of John chapter chapter 1 in chapter 3 also Exodus chapter 6 in verse 6 and And 7 and a few verses in that little passage give just a near-perfect outline of The biblical teaching of redemption and the different aspects of it.

So let's read verse 6 follow along with me. Wherefore say unto the children of Israel I am the Lord and I will bring you out From under the burdens of the Egyptians and I will rid you out of their bondage and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm and with great Judgments.

Jehovah as the Self-Existent, Personal Redeemer

Last time we noticed the fact that this whole thing begins with him giving us his name. He says at the beginning of verse 6. Wherefore say unto the children of Israel I am the Lord. Now this you've noticed before when it's all caps.

All four of the letters are capitalized in the word Lord that is Jehovah. Now what's interesting about this? Is that in fact his name has not been called this up until this time. Look at this go back up to about verse 2 in this little passage.

It says in God spake unto Moses and said unto him. I am the Lord. And I appeared unto Abraham and Isaac and unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty. Now do you see God is telling him that I appear to them under a different name?

Because in the Bible the names of God are a way that God reveals himself to us. So as time went on and progressed through the Old Testament period and even into the New Testament God gives himself dish different names that give us different ideas about his character and about his being and So he said I appeared to your fathers by the name God Almighty.

But by my name Jehovah was I not known? By them. So we see here that God is in the midst of revealing himself in an expanded way a way he had never revealed himself before this time and so Moses is Understanding this now this God Almighty in the Hebrew the word God comes from the word L and it simply means strong one and that really is the first way God revealed himself to his people because if you realize if you go back to Abraham's day the main problem was that they thought there were many many gods and So God thought God Decided to reveal himself as the strong one and a lot of the emphasis was on the word one.

That there is no other I am the one God. But also the word strong Carried in this meaning L the strong one and that's how he revealed himself to Abraham. But he was also called God Almighty to Abraham.

So he was called El Shaddai and the word Shaddai means all-powerful the Almighty. So he had been revealed to his people as the all-powerful Almighty strong one. Until this time and now he comes to his people.

At a time when they are under the bondage of Egypt Egypt throughout the Bible pictures the world system in the bad sense of that word the world system in the sense that Satan has come and confused it and perverted it in all of its institutions and so Egypt was a picture of this the Pharaoh is a picture or a type of Satan himself and So the children of Israel being in bondage was a picture of the fact that they were a slave to their own Sin for it was sin that brought him to this place and so now they're about to be delivered from bondage and God for the first time reveals himself with a new name.

I shall be known now as I am Was one of the ways he said it but it was Jehovah. Now. Let me give you the meaning of Jehovah. It comes also From the first part of the word is jaw, which means the self Existent one and That is the part where in Exodus 314.

He said tell them I am hath sent thee I am that I am the self-existent one and The second part of the word Jehovah comes from Hava which means to be known. So when you put Jehovah together you get the idea of the self-existent one who reveals himself.

So for the first time in the history of Israel, he is not only the all-powerful one but he is your All-powerful one or my all-powerful one the one who has revealed himself to me and to you so now he is revealing himself as a yes a powerful God, but a personal God an Emphasis here is on relationship More strongly than it had ever been revealed before so we see that Even Schofield says that the word or the name Jehovah is distinctly the redemptive name of deity.

So as we see the idea of redemption coming into play as God begins to teach us about all that it means He gives himself a new name now that has to tell us. This is an Terribly important doctrine. For God to say I'm going to give you redemption and in the midst of that I'm going to call myself a different name so that you can understand me in a deeper way I'm not just the strong one.

I am now the strong one Who is also? Self-existent, but who also reveals himself to you in a personal way. So redemption you have to have a personal God to be redeemed. You have to have a personal relationship with a personal God to have redemption.

And so that's very important that we pick that up from verses 2 and 3 verse 4 says and I have also Established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan the land of their pilgrimage where and they were Strangers so now this is going to now be their home.

And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel. Whom the Egyptians keep the word keep is very important in Bondage and I have remembered my covenant now. We start to see this picture that God gives us in the Old Testament.

That's going to picture spiritual truths in our own lives first of all to understand Redemption we have to understand that there was first bondage that there was first a time in our lives. When we were kept under bondage in other words We did not have much of a choice at all in it.

Although our thoughts were to go along with it, unfortunately. But the truth is something bigger than us and more powerful than us was in control of us and it was Satan and the world system as Pictured by Pharaoh in Egypt and we were kept under bondage.

With there was not a time when we came out of it. There was not a time when we had quote victory from sin in our lives and this is before salvation, of course and so this is pictured so in such detail in this story of the children of Israel being kept by the Egyptians in bondage and God says this personal Jehovah God Says I heard your groaning.

That's personal that means he was right there in the midst of them and perhaps they didn't realize it. Because sometimes we're when we're in the midst of the greatest burdens and not most difficult times in our lives.

We just sense that God has turned his back on us and he's not there and that's why we're going through it. That's not true. He was there and he heard the groanings of the children of Israel as they were under this strong hard Bondage and sin is always that way young people.

You need to especially listen to children teenagers young people. Is that sin is always hard. It always is a bondage. It always is a slavery. It always brings hurt and pain not only to ourselves, but to everyone around us.

And so we need to understand that without God without a personal relationship with God we will be kept in bondage. God remembered his promise as well that he had made to their fathers. God is a faithful God.

You see how he reveals himself now as the self-existent one. Who is the faithful one? Now it brings us back to verse 6 where we started out a moment ago and I will bring you out. Now there are several aspects to redemption.

The first one, of course, I guess you would call it the introductory aspect or the underlying aspect is that he is Jehovah. I am your personal God but the first real point in the idea of redemption is explained very well in the first phrase here in verse 6 where he says.

This little phrase where he says and I will bring you out I Will bring you out. So the first aspect of redemption is that God has to do it. We cannot Free ourselves from this type of bondage. We're held bondage before salvation.

We're held in a such a bondage that there is no escape. There's no hope of escape. There's no reason to think of escaping. It would be as if you imagined yourself in the most horrible dungeon the deepest dungeon with the slickest walls and with no opening at all and being chained there.

With absolutely no hope of escape ever on your own. Only if someone greater and stronger and freer Could come and get you out of there would be your only hope of ever escaping this dark place. That's the life of sin that lost people find themselves in and that all of us before our salvation were in this dark dungeon of sin and despair kept in bondage never escaping.

Never coming out and the first thing God our Redeemer says is I Will bring you out so there has to be a bringing out. It's really one of the first things we notice when we're saved. There are many things we notice when we're brand-new Christians, but one of the first things we notice is there's a bringing out from under a burden.

There is a freedom a feeling of a lifting of burden and A sense that we have been brought out from a group or a place and we're in a new place and even our old friends Don't like us as much anymore. Because we've been brought out this word in the Hebrew.

Where he says I will bring you out in verse 6 is the Hebrew word y 'all saw which means to pluck out. Now I want you to picture this and think about this because this is not as you know taught today in salvation.

Very much at all. It is not taught that our salvation is A God a personal God who is the strong all-powerful one? But who is also the self-existent one who reveals himself to us that this salvation that we have is of him as he reaches down into a lost dark world and plucks us out as If to pluck us out of a dungeon.

That we could never escape from Salvation therefore cannot be of man. It has to be of a Redeemer. His name is Jehovah. Jesus was known as Jehovah in the Old Testament. A lot of people don't know that they think Jehovah means the father.

But more often it actually is a reference to the eternal Son. There has to be a bringing out and you can't do that to yourself so any idea in salvation that has to do with a a list of things we can do to be saved or a list of things we must do or That it involves the earthly church or that involves any human endeavor.

Is a lie from hell. It's a lie that's designed to keep us in bondage. Turn with me. We're gonna come back to this passage. But turn with me to the book of John and see if you don't see an amazing parallel with this idea in the Old Testament.

So many years ago as God reveals himself for the first time as Jehovah with the idea of the Redeemer the redemptive name of God and he begins the whole process by saying I Will pluck you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

I will y 'all saw you. I will pluck you out. See if that's not similar to some of the things we see in the book of John first in John 6 44. This is not a Calvinistic idea by the way. Jehovah Revealed this to Moses many years before Calvin was born.

John 6 44 no man can come to me Jesus says. Except the father which hath sent me draw him and I will raise that person up at the last day. The word draw in the Greek language is similar to the word y 'all saw in the Old Testament Hebrew.

It is the word help who Oh. Which means to drag? So God reveals himself to Moses as saying that there will be no redemption for you unless I reach down with my strong hand and pluck you out of bondage and The Holy Spirit revealed through the Lord Jesus Christ in the book of John as it's written for us that there will be no salvation for you unless the father reaches down and Plucks you out or draws you or drags you away from that world system as pictured by Egypt that bondage that we were in in chains and Told to make more and more bricks and as Moses approached Pharaoh's you remember he said well I'm not even gonna give you straw anymore, which was what helped make the bricks easier to make them.

He took the straw away and said but I want the same amount of bricks made. He put a greater bondage on them. Isn't it interesting all that it pictures as? As a person Begins to think about the Lord as is pictured by Ruth as No, Naomi as you remember was a type of the Holy Spirit drawing her towards Bethlehem where Jesus was pictured to be always moving her in that direction and as the Holy Spirit begins to move a person a Lost sheep who is just as lost as a lost goat goat, by the way.

I don't know what a goat is a goat. Just that's kind of like a goat and a sheep, isn't it a goat? Just as lost just as much in darkness and It requires this drawing this leading along and The Holy Spirit begins to bring this person to the place where they're going to meet Their Boaz face to face which is a picture of Jesus the Redeemer same process the same plucking out or bringing you out from under the burdens of Egypt found in verse 6 of Exodus chapter 6 is found in John chapter 6 verse 44.

No, man can come to me except the Father which hath sent me draw him. I look back to John chapter 1 in Verse 12 if there's any doubt in our minds That this salvation is not from man. This salvation is not from ourselves it's not from our mom or dad or preacher or the soul winner or the altar worker.

Or the church the physical when I say the church, I mean the physical organization of the church in this world today. If we think this is where salvation comes from We need to reread. Look at John chapter 1 verse 12, but as many as received him To them gave he power to become the sons of God.

Now I I Want to you to do this hold your hand right there in John and turn over to Acts. You can tell this is not in my notes look at Acts chapter 10 and verse 44. While Peter yet spake those words the Holy Ghost fell on all them.

That heard the word now the Jews were amazed because they didn't think God would save a Gentile. And they were of the circumcision which believed were astonished. As many as came with Peter because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit now the scripture now turned to chapter 13 in Acts in verse 48 and When the Gentiles heard this they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord.

They had heard the gospel message and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. Now go back to John chapter 1 verse 12. But as many as received him. You see that's the same group. That it talks about in the book of Acts those that were ordained believed as.

Many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name. Now look at verse 13. Which were born and it tells us first how you're not saved. You are not saved of blood.

It is not passed down through your human family lines. You are not saved because your grandpa was a preacher. I've heard that so many times out witnessing. Are you are you saved? Yes, sir. Matter of fact, my grandfather was a preacher and so was my dad.

As if that makes them saved the second way you're not saved is by the will of the flesh. Nobody ever wanted to get saved in the flesh. Now I grant you that on the human side. It can appear that it happened that they wanted to because there is this drawing of the Holy Spirit as he begins.

But it's not drawing. It's dragging that implies they didn't want to. It's like we want to stay in the dungeon and They're lifting. God lifts us up out of there and we're pulling against it not wanting to come out.

That's the way that's more like what it is. It's not like men are looking to be saved. So they're not born of the blood. They're not born of the will of the flesh. There is no will of any man. Yourself your parents your loved ones your preacher.

No man can will you into being saved? And yet that's the very thing that's taught in our soul winning classes is Let's Get them saved. It's even worded that way. Let's get them say go out and get them saved come back and report it get them in the water.

But it's not of the blood. It is not of the flesh. No, it says another thing. It's not up. It's not of the will of man. It doesn't matter what men want you to be saved none of it has to do with it. Look what it says which were born the last praise of God.

Why is that true? Because God is the Redeemer. God is the one who can save us from bondage. God is the strong one the self existent one the one who is higher and Stronger than this one named Satan who holds us in bondage.

Now one more John chapter 3 verse 7 and we'll go back to our passage if there's anything Left in us that thinks that salvation is of man. Then let's read John chapter 3 and verse 7. Marvel not that I said unto thee ye must to be born again.

The wind Blows where it wants to blow. That's what the word listed means. The wind blows where it wants to blow and You hear the sound of it. But you cannot tell where it came from and you cannot tell where it's going to go next.

This is exactly how is it is with everyone that is born of the Spirit. This is exactly how it is with everyone that's born of the Spirit. You cannot control the wind you can feel it. You feel it on your own life.

You can sense it. You don't know where it came from though or where it's going next and you can't control where it's going next. Because it goes where it wants to go and that is a picture of the Holy Spirit of God who goes under his own sovereign will.

Nothing controls his will but himself. You might say from the human side. There is something that controls his will and that would be The great counsel that happened before anything started any time or any physical matter was Created the great counsel of the Father and the Son and of course the Spirit of God being there determined.

Where the wind would blow? But it blows where he determined and where he wants to go. This is the way salvation is. Psalm 25 15 turned there for a moment. I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

I will bring you out from under the burden of the Egyptians. The first step in Redemption is that God has to bring The one who is bonded in bondage out. Beautiful picture of it in Psalm 25 verse 15. My eyes are ever toward the Lord for he shall pluck.

It's the same word. The same Hebrew word that's used where it says I will bring you out is I will pluck my feet. So you see it is the word to pluck out. He shall pluck my feet out of the net that is redemption.

Because this is a picture of the Fowler who is out capturing birds. And he's going to eat the bird and he puts a trap out there for the bird and when put some bird seeds out there. And when the bird comes he pulls a rope somehow and the net comes up and catches the bird now.

That's a smart Fowler if he can do that. Brandon if we could figure out that it might be fun way to hunt. This is what was done in those days somehow. Maybe this is an a lost art. I don't know. But this is what was done and this became a picture of how Satan Has a trap set for humans and they step into the trap.

He pulls the rope and the net comes around them. They're now in bondage. But David says my eyes are ever towards capital L capital O capital R capital D. This is the redemptive name of God. My eyes are ever toward Jehovah.

For he shall pluck my feet. I'm already in the net and he plucks my feet out of the net. Turned in to me and have mercy upon me for I am desolate and afflicted you see how this pictures. The state that Satan places us in the troubles of my heart are enlarged.

You see now this takes it the physical and now brings it into spiritual applications of it. The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring thou me out of my inner distresses. Look upon my affliction and my pain and forgive all my sins.

Now look at verse 9 where you may not be there. But we're in Psalm 25 19. This is amazing. Because relate this to Israel and the enemy Egypt now this turns its spiritual. He says consider mine enemies.

For they are many and they hate me with cruel hatred. Pluck my feet out of this net because they're kind of come and devour me that Satan and his demons. What an amazing picture. Oh keep my soul and deliver me this deliverance is the first step in redemption to be.

Plucked out deliver me. Let me not be ashamed for I put my trust in thee. Let integrity not rightness preserve me for I wait on thee. Redeem Israel. Oh God out of all of his troubles now turn one more place.

The Second Coming, the Branch, and the Plucked Brand in Zechariah 2–3

Zechariah chapter 2 verse 10. Who is our enemy? Our enemy is not Egypt. We're not held in bondage by the Pharaoh and by Egypt. We were held in bondage by Satan by Satan and his demons and The world philosophical systems that he has set up in this world all around us with the pornography and and The bad philosophies that are taught in our school systems and in our colleges.

All of those are part of Satan's world system. The politics Political systems that are set up the wars all of it. Man is held bondage by these things. But who does that? Who does so who does Egypt picture these spiritual enemies Satan and his demons?

Now takes a while to found find Zechariah. So I had to get on a little rabbit trail to help you out there, but you're probably there. Zechariah chapter 2 now verse 10. Seeing and rejoice. Oh daughter of Zion for lo I come and I will dwell in the midst of thee saith the Lord.

Now this gets to another aspect of redemption that we're not teaching today. We will get to it next time. But I just want to point out this is talking about redemption and Many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day.

This gives a foreview of the kingdom age. And Actually even right before the kingdom at the second coming when it says that day that is the second coming when Jesus comes back and he separates the sheep from the goats and There will be many Gentiles people in all manner of Gentile nations and all of the Israelis who are still left alive at the end of this tribulation period and Many of the Gentiles will be saved in a moment and that this is a reference to this He says in that day shall be many will be joined to the Lord.

They will be my people and I will dwell in the midst of thee and thou shalt know that the Lord notice this is Jehovah the Lord of hosts and the the phrase Lord of hosts in the Hebrew means the God of Armies it's a military term.

Had sent me unto thee now, isn't it interesting in that phrase that you see that God is talking. In verse 10 God is talking and You go into verse 11. God is still talking and at the end of verse 11. God says God is going to send me.

Explain that one. You cannot explain that unless you understand the triune nature of God that he subsists and and exists as The father but also as the distinct Eternal Son of God and That they each have the seven fold Spirit of God in the eyes of the Lamb and in the front part of the throne of the father is the Holy Spirit picture.

Only if you understand God that way, can you understand this passage? Because he says and many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day and shall be my people. So it's God talking Jehovah God is talking my people.

I will dwell in them. Jehovah God says I will dwell in the midst of them and now shall know that the Lord of hosts. That's the father have sent me that's the Son and Jehovah shall inherit Judah. That's Jesus the Son of God the everlasting eternal Son of God.

God in the flesh. God manifest in the flesh. Verse 12 and the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in the Holy Land. I Hate to tell the Arabs and all the Gentile nations in Europe and even some of our misguided Politicians over here such as our Secretary of State that the Arabs are not going to inherit this land.

I Don't care if you love an Arab or not. He's not going to inherit the land either of the Palestinians. But it tells us right here that Jesus Jehovah Yeshua will inherit Judah which is his portion in the Holy Land.

And now that includes that's not by the way, the modern Israel the Holy Land includes most of what the Arabs own to Jordan. It would come down and include the Sinai Peninsula. Part of Egypt it would include Lebanon all of Lebanon.

It would include all of Syria. I. This is bad news for these guys. Good news for us. His portion of the Holy Land and shall choose Jerusalem again. Be silent. Oh all flesh before Jehovah for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.

He is in the third heaven. He's coming from the hurt third heaven. He's going to be placed back on the planet and from our viewpoint. It's as if he's raised up again from where he was and This is the second coming described.

I want you to jump down to verse chapter 3 for a minute and I want you to see this Amazing picture of redemption that is found right in this passage right in this context. You see it jumps forward to the second coming which is a redemptive act by the way.

Comes back into the physical like it happened in the Old Testament. It comes back in the physical. To show us physically how it works to teach us the spiritual truth of how it works on the inside with us today.

You can look back at the Old Testament. You can look forward to the second coming in the kingdom period you get the physical viewpoint that teaches the spiritual truth. It shows Jesus comes in the air and it says.

You don't have to worry if someone tells you I'm coming invisibly or I'm coming out in the in the desert. Or I'm coming into a secret place. He said that's not really me. I don't come that way. He said when I come I come like the lightning from the east to the west and I'm going to come and rain fire on all of the enemies of the Lord Jesus and His land in the promised land his people which will include also the Gentiles that will be saved and I'm going to destroy them.

With fire I'm going to destroy these enemies and in destroying the enemies. I am redeeming my people. It's a redemptive act that it pictures in chapter 2. But now in chapter 3 it's going to picture this from a spiritual viewpoint of how redemption is in our lives today.

During this last part of the church age. Verse 1 of chapter 3 and he showed me Joshua the high priest now Joshua is going to be a type or a picture of the believers. We are all believer priests today, so he's a picture of us.

The high priest this is like a picture of the church the saved people in this age the church age us Christians here. Joshua is a picture of us standing before the angel of the Lord. The angel of the Lord is Jesus and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.

Now don't tell me for a minute that Satan doesn't come to play in the life of the believer because just as surely as Jesus Christ the angel of the Lord is Standing at the side as the advocate for the believer.

Satan is standing at his other side as the accuser. Now look at what it says at the end of verse 1. Standing at his right hand of Joshua, which is picturing the church here to resisting. That's the job job.

God gave him to do. God gave him the job to resist us because resistance brings growth and strength and we become stronger through this. But he would never leave us there with him alone. The Lord Jesus Christ is right there and as long as you are in Christ.

Then I would agree with my friend. It's as if he's not there. It's as if Satan is removed. But only if you're in Christ if you're in the flesh. Guess who's back? The demons. Can bother you? Even as a Christian.

If you're in the flesh. So here's the battle pictured in one verse. All of spiritual warfare is pictured but it goes on it gives a more vivid picture. Here we have the accuser of the brethren the resistor of the brethren standing at our right hand.

He is right here at the midst of us. Right here with us, but we are in Christ. The angel of the Lord is standing there. But look what happens here and the Lord said to Satan. Now this is not something we can do and there are many Misguided people and many of the books you have to be careful if you read books from the Christian bookstores.

It teaches spiritual warfare. Very few of them are sound. I can direct you through to a few sound ones. But maybe two or three. Most of them are not sound because they teach that you can rebuke the devil or you can say devil.

You know be gone and stuff like that. No, that's not what happens here. Look what happens here in the Bible that's the best book you can find in the bookstore, by the way to teach these things and The Lord said unto Satan now, this is interesting again here we find The Lord God saying The Lord God rebuke you now you can't figure that out unless you understand God exists as the Father and as the eternal Son of God and the Holy Spirit being omnipresent.

The only way you could ever figure this out. Because look what he says and the Lord said this is the Son the Lord Jesus said the Lord. That's the father. Rebuke thee. Oh Satan. Even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem who did that the father.

Actually, the son was a part of it in the great council. That Lord rebuke you. The one who chose these very people that you're standing at their right hand resisting him the one who chose them for himself.

He will resist you and he will rebuke you the devil. Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire. He's pointing at the one who's been chosen. This is a picture of us ladies and gentlemen. Satan is at our right hand accusing us boys and girls when you do wrong.

When you do something wrong, the first thing that's gonna happen is you're gonna feel terribly guilty and. Then Satan is gonna come and make you feel dirty and filthy and tell you you can't pray to God because God's clean.

Children you listen to me. I'm telling you exactly how it works. You won't know that that's Satan. But you'll just have a feeling that says oh you can't pray to God right now because you're you just did something bad.

That's a lie. Because that's exactly the time you need to pray to God is when you've done something wrong. You need to come back to God just like you do your parents. What do you do with your parents right after they spank you?

You say I'm sorry. Sniff. Gets out of control a little bit. That's a nap. You don't want some more of that stop you may cry, but you may not scream and all that good stuff. That's the time to say I'm sorry.

So don't let the devil ever tell you you can't talk to the Lord because that's the time to talk to him. But he Satan is there resisting and the Lord says to Satan the Lord rebuke you. That's the only one who can rebuke him.

Not even the angels will rebuke Satan. Even the Lord that hath chosen. Yes. Yes, that's right even the Lord that hath chosen us the one who chose us from before the Foundation of the world is the one who will rebuke our accuser.

Because we and he here's how he rebukes him. He remisses amazing thing, but this is real. This is reality. There's communication that goes on between the Son of God and Satan and the Son of God Reminds Satan as he accuses us.

He says wait a minute. I know these are like firebrands. I know these deserve to burn like all the rest of them deserve to burn in hell forever. But they have been plucked. What does the word pluck mean in Hebrew?

Drawn pluck. It's the word for redemption. I Brought you out away from the bondage of this one right here is picture. Are these not brands plucked from the fire? Satan even has to acknowledge it. Satan has to acknowledge the truth when God tells him the truth.

He has to back down at that point. He has to go away. He has to be removed from you. Now I will say this you can't you do have a part in this in that the Bible tells you to resist the devil. But that doesn't mean that you turn to the devil and say get away from me don't ever try that.