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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. Hallelujah. For the Lord is good. He doesn't just do good, but he is good. And out of the goodness that he is, he does good. Amen. Hallelujah. And his mercies are new every morning. Amen. We are here today because of his mercy, his goodness. Amen. Hallelujah. Well, praise the Lord. Turn around to three or four people and say to them, God is so good to me all the time. And you can be seated. Hallelujah. Well, what about this worship team up here? Hallelujah. David and them do so much to prepare for this week. And it's evident we get to enter into the labors of another. Right? Hallelujah. Thank you, David. Thank you, Tony. Thank you to the whole group. Praise the Lord. Turn with me, if you would, tonight to Psalm chapter 107. Psalm, chapter 107. And this will be out of the King James translation, but Psalm 107. The word in revealing a name that the Word gives regarding the enemy, the Word reveals him as the accuser of the brethren. So now we know his strategy to accuse. Right? And I don't care who you are. I'm ringing back up here so you can adjust that for me. I don't care who you are. The devil's going to show up that way, and he's not gonna accuse you with something that's not pertinent to you, because then you're not going to be susceptible to his accusation. He always accuses you with something significant to you. Right? And so he's counting on you to connect his accusation with your behavior. Right? He's counting on you to accept the accusation because you recognize something of the accusation. Meaning he will accuse you with your faults, your failures, your weaknesses, your sins, your missed steps. Right? And he intends to harass you with that. And he will just send words your way, and those words will just keep cycling. He doesn't even have to stay present. The words will just cycle around your head if you don't stop them. And the blood of Jesus is the force and the power that stops those accusations. Amen. And the devil wants to help you or cause you to identify yourself by his accusations, but too late. We're already identified in Christ. We do not identify based on the accusations because the accusations of where we missed it no longer describe us. Because that old man was crucified, buried, and left in the grave. And the new man was raised amen the devil's always going to try to point you back to the old man, but you are the new man in Christ, and all things are made new. Amen. And you say, well, Pastor Nancy, the things that the devil works to accuse and trouble me about are not just things that happened before I was born again. So it's hard for me to allocate that to the old man. But you can learn, of course, before you were born again, the old man taught you a way of thinking. The old man taught you a way of responding. So that's why we have to put on the new man, so that we put on new thoughts, new responses, new behaviors, even. Amen. And that comes out of who we are in Christ. Amen. So we have to see ourselves and establish in ourselves that the accusations of the enemy don't. Are no longer pertinent to us because we are now righteous. We are right with God. And we're not right with God because we've done everything right. We're right with God because Jesus did everything right. So the devil will point to what you did wrong and say, well, that's why I have a savior. Amen. That's why I qualify for a savior, because I didn't do everything right, but now I am credited as one who did everything right because he is my rightness. My behavior can't be right enough, but his rightness is my righteousness. And to stop, we have to catch this sin consciousness and get it stopped in our life because it's the enemy's tool against your life and against the plan of God and against your progression and against you walking and living as rich as you are. Amen. So if you're going to have strong faith, you must be skillful in your righteousness. What's that mean? You must talk. I'm right with God. The blood of Jesus has cleansed me. The blood of Jesus made it as though I never missed it. And you must learn to talk that with overwhelming accusations trying to sit on your head. And anytime that God is endeavoring to take you further, that is the enemy's cue to come in like a flood with the accusations. Well, you're this and you're not that. And you've done this wrong and you've done that wrong. But I guarantee you, he's got no. He's got no ground to stand on, to point fingers, because no being has failed like him. Right. And so we have to become skillful. That means we must establish in us. We must meditate on that. I am not earning something From God through my behavior, but because of who I am in Christ, it elevates my behavior. I come up to who I am. I don't try to behave so I can come up. Amen. Amen. I have been raised. I am up. And therefore from that place of rightness, that righteousness elevated me, and I am welcome before the throne. I am a child of the throne. I belong at the throne. I belong in the Father's presence, and I can live and conduct my life from that awareness. Amen. Amen. But I showed Pastor Debbie the title for my message tonight is called Healing and Deliverance for Fools. Anybody ever been a fool? I have. And if you will recognize I was being a fool, God can help you. You said, are you calling God's people fools? No. We're righteous, but we've done foolish things, taken foolish thoughts against our lives. Amen. To believe the accusation of the enemy is to believe a foolish flow. Amen. And it's foolish for us to come under a flow of depression, oppression because of the accusations of what no longer describes us. Amen. So if we're going to have a robust faith, we must realize that our righteousness, who we are in Christ, is the foundation of our redemption. If we don't get that established in us, we can be confessing things, but have a troubled mind our whole lives. There's one precious minister, a leading minister, and made the statement, I'd be preaching and there would be thousands of people in my services, and said as soon as I walked away from the pulpit bombarded with thoughts of accusations, thoughts of, you did that wrong. You shouldn't have done it that way. You shouldn't have said it that way. And said, I learned early on I had to establish myself in righteousness so that I could occupy the place God raised me to and assigned me to without being troubled in that place. If the devil can't stop you from being in that place, he wants to trouble you in that place so that you dread that place. Amen. But we have some. We have some. We have our artillery is the word Amen. And we don't overcome these things by trying to do better. We overcome these things by speaking the better. Covenant. Amen. Amen. That's it. Amen. Did you get that? We don't overcome what the enemy throws at us by trying to be better, but to speak the better. Covenant. Amen. So are you with me in Psalm 107 in verse 17? Well, let's look at verse 20. He sent his word and healed them and delivered them from their destructions. How many times have we quoted this? We should quote this. This is something we need to be readily acquainted with. But I love who it's really intended for. Verse 17, Fools, because of their transgression and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. The devil wants to land on verse 17 and cause you to camp there. He wants to keep you mindful of where you missed it, how you don't measure up, how you could have done better, should have done better, and should be further along in it. But verse 18, again, 17 fools, because of their transgression and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat. What's that mean? They come into such a bad condition physically that food is not part of. They can't even eat. And then it says, and they draw near unto the gates of death. What's this mean? They're on a road that's gonna arrive them at death, and they're close to it. They have sunk so low and says, and they draw near unto the gates of death.
