'DISARMING AND DEFEATING DEMONS'

Rev. Canon George Sinclair

by Rev. Canon George Sinclair                           

 Pastor of the Church of the Messiah, Ottawa, ON.
 www.messiahchurch.ca 

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Podcast of CFRA broadcast on Sunday, May 7th,  2017:

http://proxy.autopod.ca/podcasts/chum/6/53265/good_news_259_may07.mp3

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Broadcast Notes:

Today we give a shout out to Wills Transfer, whose donation allowed this show to go on the air. Thank you!

This talk is a shortened version of a sermon that I gave at Church of the Messiah, Ottawa:

https://messiahchurch.sermons.io/sermons/the-disarming-and-defeat-of-demons-in-the-the-death-and-resurrection-of-jesus-christ

 

Disarming And Defeating Demons

Colossians 2:6-15  -- English Standard Version (ESV)

Alive in Christ

⁶ Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, ⁷ rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

⁸ See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits^[a] of the world, and not according to Christ. ⁹ For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, ¹⁰ and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. ¹¹ In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, ¹² having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. ¹³ And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, ¹⁴ by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. ¹⁵ He disarmed the rulers and authorities^[b] and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.^[c]

Footnotes:

1. Colossians 2:8 Or elementary principles; also verse 20
2. Colossians 2:15 Probably demonic rulers and authorities
3. Colossians 2:15 Or in it (that is, the cross)

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NOTES:

1.       Human beings are not alone. Invisible beings do exist, and they do influence human beings.

2.      To become more powerful, people seek “spirits”.  But “spirits” are really demons, and they will only hurt you.

3.      My past, present and future “debts” (caused by my wrongdoing), were nailed to the cross, so they are paid in full by Jesus Christ’s death on my behalf.

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Rev. Canon George Sinclair

Church of the Messiah

www.messiahchurch.ca
613-235-0596
messiahchurch.office@gmail.com

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