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    The Believer’s Authority in the Earth
    The Believer’s Authority in the Earth
    The Believer’s Authority in the Earth
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    The Believer’s Authority in the Earth

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    1 Peter 5:8-9 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. (9) Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.”
    All unbelievers are in Satan’s kingdom, and he holds sway over all of them to a greater or lesser degree, and so none of them pose any threat to his reign in the earth. But there is a group of people in the earth today, over which he holds no sway, because they are not in his kingdom, and that is the church of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is precisely because believers are not subject to the devil, that they are the greatest threat to his reign in the earth. And so, Satan does everything in his power to destroy the church of our Lord Jesus in the earth, which is why the above passage refers to him, as our adversary. In this passage, the Holy Spirit reveals a number of truths to us, about our adversary, how he operates, and how the believer can deal with him. This book examines what God’s word says, on the subject of the believer’s authority over the devil in the earth.

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    PublisherMichael Maher
    Release dateJul 27, 2018
    ISBN9780463167823
    The Believer’s Authority in the Earth
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    Michael Maher

    From childhood, Michael E.B. Maher has always known that the Lord's call was upon his life for the ministry. When he was saved at the age of twenty-two, almost immediately the Lord Jesus began to deal with him about entering the ministry. However, it was only many years later that he committed to the Lord to answer the Lord's call to the ministry. And so, in 2014 Michael Maher Ministries was begun. From the beginning, the mandate given to Michael from the Lord Jesus was to preach the word. And so, this ministry preaches the word of God on every available platform around the world.

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      The Believer’s Authority in the Earth - Michael Maher

      The believer’s AUTHORITY

      In the earth

      Michael E.B. Maher

      Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations in this teaching are from the New King James Version of the bible.

      Revised Edition 2023

      ISBN:

      Books by Michael E.B. Maher

      Foundation Doctrines of Christ

      Repentance from Dead Works

      Faith Toward God

      Doctrine of Baptisms

      Laying on of Hands

      Resurrection of the Dead

      Eternal Judgement

      Man, the Image of God

      The Will of Man

      The Spirit of Man

      The Conscience of Man

      The Mind of Man

      The Body of Man

      Gifts of the Church

      Spiritual Gifts

      Ministry Gifts

      The Revelation Gifts

      The Power Gifts

      The Speaking Gifts

      End of the Ages

      The Last Three Superpowers

      The Last Days

      The Seventh Seal

      The Millennial Kingdom

      The End of the Age

      Standalone

      There is Sin to Death

      Prayer

      Being Unforgiving

      Being led by the Spirit

      Born Free from Sin

      The Two Gospels Explained

      Being led by the Spirit

      Of Such is the Kingdom

      Rich through His Poverty

      Suffering as a Christian

      Growing Strong in Spirit

      The Believer’s Authority in the Earth

      The Prayer of Faith

      Predestined to His Purpose

      Holy Spirit Encounters

      The Bible Creation Account

      The Blood of Christ

      The Church and the State

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      The church’s adversary

      Chapter 2

      How Jesus destroyed the devil

      Chapter 3

      Our authority over the devil

      Chapter 4

      Dealing with our adversary

      Chapter 1

      The church’s adversary

      The god of this world

      Isaiah 14:3-17 It shall come to pass in the day the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve, (4) that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: How the oppressor has ceased, The golden city ceased! (5) The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the ruler; (6) He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He who ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted and no one hinders. (7) The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing. (8) Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, Saying, 'Since you were cut down, No woodsman has come up against us.' (9) Hell from beneath is excited about you, to meet you at your coming; It stirs up the dead for you, All the chief ones of the earth; It has raised up from their thrones All the kings of the nations. (10) They all shall speak and say to you: 'Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us? (11) Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your stringed instruments; the maggot is spread under you, and worms cover you.' (12) How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! (13) For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; (14) I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.' (15) Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit. (16) Those who see you will gaze at you, And consider you, saying: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms, (17) Who made the world as a wilderness And destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house of his prisoners?

      In this section we want to discuss the biblical truth that Satan is the god of this world and what the ramifications of that truth are. Many people ask the question that if God is love then why is there so much pain and suffering in the world? As we will see in this section, the answer to that question is that God is not the God of this world, but rather Satan is. The above quoted passage of scripture referring to the King of Babylon is in fact referring to Satan. We know that because the Lord calls the King of Babylon, Lucifer and describes to us the event that took place when the Archangel Lucifer made his attempt to become like God. And so in this passage the Lord reveals a number of truths to us about Satan. Firstly, we see that Satan is indeed the ruler of this world, for this passage describes him as the ruler of the nations who makes the earth tremble, shakes kingdoms, makes the world a wilderness and destroys its cities. This passage goes on to declare that the whole earth will be at rest, when Satan and his angels are finally removed from the earth. And so we can clearly see from this passage that Satan is in fact the ruler of this world. Secondly, God gives us some insight into the manner in which the devil reigns in the earth, for this passage describes him as being a wicked ruler who continually strikes the people of the earth in wrath, ruling the nations in anger, shaking kingdoms and making the whole earth tremble. This passage reveals to us that Satan’s sole agenda is one of destruction, for it describes his weakening the nations, destroying their cities, and making the whole earth a wilderness. We also see that Satan is the one who initiates strife and wars between nations, for in this passage we see that once Satan and his angels are finally removed from the earth, the nations declare that no one attempts to destroy them any longer and the whole earth is quite and at rest. This brings us to the third truth revealed to us in this passage, which is the punishment that awaits Satan when he is finally removed from the earth, for this passage describes Satan’s decent into the lower parts of hell to suffer torment at the end of the age. Satan and his angels know full well that they are already condemned and that they are destined for eternal destruction. And so their whole agenda for the little time they have remaining, is to destroy as much as they can and take as many people with them as they can. And so there can be no doubt that everything destructive in this world is initiated by the god of this world, which is Satan.

      Luke 4:5-7 Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. (6) And the devil said to Him, All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. (7) Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours."

      We have seen in the previous passage of scripture that Satan is the god of this world. The question is then asked, how did Satan become the god of this world? To answer that question we need to go back to the events that took place in the Garden of Eden. We all know the account of how the devil tempted Adam and Eve to disobey God by eating the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam’s act of disobedience was in fact an act of rebellion against God’s rule. And so in effect when Adam rebelled against God he changed his allegiance from serving God to serving the devil, and thus he delivered this world into the hands of the

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