Mt 16:18

This is the rock on which I will put together my Church, a Church so expansive with energy that not even the gates of hell will be able to keep it out.  (THE MESSAGE)

The title of this message is, ‘CHRIST Has Crushed The Giant‘. I’ve titled it this way because I sense we have placed too much emphasis on spiritual warfare by what we have to do rather than on what Jesus Christ has already done.

When Adam and Eve succumbed to satan’s temptation in the garden of Eden, God placed a curse on the serpent:

Gen 3:14-15 God told the serpent: “I’m declaring war between you and the Woman,between your offspring and hers.He’ll wound your head,you’ll wound his heel.”  (THE MESSAGE)

God is never caught out by circumstances and He immediately injects a message of grace, hope and victory into the situation. He prophesies of a coming day when the seed of the woman will crush satan’s head.

It was a woman through whom mankind was defeated and it would be a woman through whom mankind would experience victory.

This prophecy was fulfilled (Lk 1:27-33) when Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ.

From the moment Jesus was born, ‘war was declared’. Satan knew by what Gabriel had said to Mary that Jesus was to be the seed of the woman that would inflict a fatal wound upon him and finish his kingdom, once and for all. (Lk 22:53)

This is why satan, working through Herod (Mt 2:16) tried to kill Jesus in infancy. He knew, once Jesus grew to adulthood, his days were numbered.

God protected Jesus at this time because He wanted the battle between Jesus and satan to be of the time and choosing that  would best serve His plan of salvation.

In my next blog I will be using the story of David and Goliath as a type of the battle on the cross between Jesus and satan.

This YouTube video shows the time in the garden of Gethsemane when Jesus stomps on the head of the serpent with His HEEL.

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