Christmas Made satan Your Footstool
Wow! A gift from God for you at Christmas! What a gift! A footstool to rest your feet upon here on Earth! This is another result of Jesus’ birth, about which you may never have thought.
See your end from His beginning
- Psalm 110.1-2 is a picture of Father God welcoming His Son home to Heaven. Listen to His words in verse 1.
- Where are you in this picture? Apostle Paul identifies followers of Jesus in Ephesians 1.22-23. So, even if you are the skin on the sole of Jesus’ foot, you will be seated with Him at God’s right hand! What a thought!
Jesus did the hard part and made it easy for you to finish.
- How would He make Jesus enemies – satan’s agents of darkness – a footstool? The word ‘rod’ in verse two is the same image as in Revelation 19.15. Note the same purpose. Apostle Paul adds light through Ephesians 6.17. Jesus explained this ‘sword’ in John 12.48-50.
- Psalm 110.2 says that God ‘shall send the rod of Your [Jesus’] strength’ into the Earth. It is for you to use against Jesus’ enemies, which are your enemies, too, as Jesus said in Matthew 10.22.
- Apostle John pictured you as overcoming satan in Revelation 12.11. (Apostle Paul gives another picture of this in Ephesians 3.10.)
- What is the ‘word of [your] testimony’: Jesus! He is the One Who took ‘captivity captive’ (Psalm 68.18b; Colossians 2.15)!
- He is the One Who was God dwelling among us (Psalm 68.18e; Isaiah 7.14)!
- He is the ‘Word that became flesh and dwelt among us’ to bring ‘grace and truth’ to us (John 1.14, 17)!
The name that satan fears: Jesus!
- Why? It is God’s name!
- In the Lord’s Prayer (not the Model Prayer), Jesus reveals that His name is the name of God! See John 17.6, 11, & 12 (New American Standard Bible); ‘Your name which You gave me’ (as Gabriel had told Joseph and Mary; Luke 1.31; Matthew 1.21). Jesus said He had ‘revealed’ God’s name to the disciples and had ‘kept’ them ‘through’ the power of that name – ‘Jesus’.
- Apostle Paul discussed ‘Jesus’ in Philippians 2.9-11 and declared why satan is afraid.
- Further, Paul discussed your understanding of this in Romans 10.8-10.
- So, using the word ‘Immanuel’, God announced that He would live among His people. And, using the word ‘Lord’ from Exodus 6.3, God assured man that He would use His great power to deliver man from satan’s deceptions.
- Jesus, Himself, assured you of this in John 16.24.
Every time you speak the name ‘Jesus’ against satan, you make him a footstool for your and Jesus’ feet! Don’t be shy or intimidated to use the word of your salvation!
Praise God!!!
Copyright © by Maurice L. Painter, 2011.