The Disciple as an Eagle. Part 6.

In spite of the fact that the eagle lives very high, it does not have to worry about other animals, other birds, and it is not even bothered by many hunters. But the eagle has one enemy and that is the serpent. The favourite meat or food of the serpent is the egg of the eagle.

Somehow, the serpent has a way of when the eagle has laid its egg and slowly , quietly and cunningly, it will climb the tree with the intention of getting the egg of the eagle.

Just like the serpent, the devil would wait until your eggs are laid, just when you are about to hatch, when you are about to get the reward of your labour, then he wants to attack.

The Eagle has two ways of dealing with the serpent. One is by pecking it to death. It will keep on pecking , jumping away and pecking again until the head of the snake becomes one bloody mess.

How will a disciple peck at the head of Satan? Just like the way Jesus did during the temptation, by pecking with the Word of God. In Matt. 4:3-4,

“And when the tempter came to Him, he said, if thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, it is written , man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God”.

Jesus pecked at the devil with the word of God.

That was the first peck. Then the devil presented a second attack. The devil took Jesus to the pinnacle of the temple in the holy city, and asked him to jump down. He too attempted to peck Jesus now. The devil said ” it is written , He shall give charge concerning you to his angels, to carry you in their hands, so that you will not dash your feet against the stone”. The devil too was trying the pecking method, he was trying to quote from Psalm 91, even though he quoted wrongly. But Jesus pecked Him again and said again,

It is written…

And from verse 8-10, the Bible says the devil took Jesus to an exceeding high mountain. You can now see the serpent and the eagle on the mountaintop. The devil now told Jesus to just bow down to him and he will hand over the world to Jesus. But Jesus pecked him again. He said,

It is written once again. You see, the Word of God that is quick and powerful is also called the Sword of the Spirit. And you use it to peck and to peck and to peck. So when the devil come to you with temptations, you will reply by saying it is written. In fact, Jesus Christ said that if there is a mountain in your way, the way you remove that mountain is by speaking to it, saying to the mountain,

“Be thou removed . Be thou cast unto the sea.”

And it shall be so. So keep on pecking by saying,

“It is written.”

But how can you say it is written, if you do not know what is written? You can only quote what you already know. That is why we say the disciple must eat the Word of God. He must memorise the word of God so that when the enemy comes, he would pull out of the treasure within him and he would say , “It is written”.

In the olden days, the witchdoctors memorised all their incantations. They never write anything down . It may take them sixteen years but they will memorise every bit of it and they never forget any. Now if these people who were agents of the devil can memorise everything they needed to know, why should we not memorise the word of God too. SO you too must memorise the Word of God too. SO, you too must memorise the word of God so that you will have words to use to combat the enemy when he comes. Many of us now , the slightest quotation we need , we go back and look at the concordance but many at times, the devil will come when you will not have time to go back and look at the concordance.

In James 4:7, the Bible says,

“Submit yourself therefore unto God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you”.

It is the true word of God that is forever settled. But I am sure some of us have wondered, why is it then that i have submitted to God, I have resisted the devil , but he seemed not to be fleeing from me. He is like a stubborn goat. The secret is found in 1 Peter 5:8-9. The Bible says,

“Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion , walketh about, seeking whom he may devour, whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world”.

James 4:7 says,

“Resist the devil and he will flee from you”.

1 Peter 5 now tell you, you have to resist him steadfastly until he flees”.

So, when you are dealing with the devil, it is like dealing with your fingernails. As soon as you cut your nails, they begin to grow again, as soon as you finish cutting, they have started growing again.

But some of us will say , why must I keep on resisting the devil? Well you may answer the question that I would want to put to you. “Why do you take your bath everyday? Why do you brush your teeth everyday? I am sure your answer would be that so that you would not die. If you keep cleaning your body on a daily basis, I do not think it is too much an effort in the spiritual to resist the devil steadfastly. Keep on pecking until the enemy is completely destroyed.

Dropping the enemy on the Rock of Ages

The second way that the eagle deals with the serpent is by picking it up with its beaks, it will grab it by the neck and will begin to fly with it until it sees a rock below, and then it will drop the snake, knowing that as soon as it hits the rock, it is going to break into pieces.

I am sure you know who the rock is. You know who the Rock of Age is.

1 Cor. 10:4,

“And sis all drink the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them; and that rock was Christ”.

There is non other than Jesus Christ. In fact, the Bible tell us there is a certain rock that if you fall on it, you will break. If it falls on you, it will grind you to powder and that is Jesus Christ Himself.

So the eagle drops the serpent on the rock and we the disciples are supposed to drop the devil on the Rock of Ages. Now there is one thing we need to know here. Many a times the eagle has already noted where a rock is. You know while it has been flying about hunting for food, it has discovered that there is a rock here. It will take note of it till the day that the rock is needed. We as spiritual eagles know where the Rock of Ages is. We know who he is.

According to Psalm 90:1-2, the Bible says,

“Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or even thou hast formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God”.

We know him. We are already acquainted with Him. We know where He is. Now when the eagle is flying, at times it may see a heap of soil covered with some leaves. It may look like a rock to somebody who is not careful, but the eyes of the eagle are very keen. It knows ordinary soil from real rock. And I am sure, as a disciple, you know the actual Jesus Christ. You know the difference between the real Jesus and the Jesus of Oyingbo. And you know the real difference between Jesus and all the pretenders.

In Psalm 46:1-2, the Bible says,

“God is our refuge and strength , a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and thou the mountain be carried into the midst of the sea”.

When trouble comes , and you find the pecking might not solve the problem, then you do what the eagle will do again. Drop the enemy on the rock of ages.

In Jude 9, when the angel Micheal and the devil came face to face, what Micheal said was that,

“Yet Micheal the Archangel , when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against Him a rolling accusation , but said, The LORD rebuke thee”.

In other words, he says, I am not going to struggle with you. I will just drop you on the Rock of Ages.I will let the Rock of Ages deal with you. “. This is a very owerful way of dealing with the enemy.

Do not forget Phil. 2:10, which says,

“God has given Jesus Christ a name that is above every other name, that at thew name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things on earth, and things underneath the earth”.

Through thee will push down our enemies, And through thy name we will thread them under, that rise up against us”.

If you have ever watched boxers before, you will know that jabbing is a very good weapon, and nobody is ever knocked out with jabs. It takes a knock out punch to knock out somebody else.

So it is good to drop the enemy on the Rock of Ages so that he breaks to pieces once and for all.

In 1 Samuel 17:45, David said to Goliath,

“…I come against thee in the name of the Lord…”

That day, he saw the end of Goliath. And i pray that you will see the end of Goliath in your life today. When you want the enemy to be destroyed once and dor all, use the name that struck down Goliath, the name of Jesus. If you hand over the enemy, If you drop the enemy on the Rock of Ages, The Rock of Ages will break the enemy to pieces.

And if you read Psalm 20:1-8, part of it says,

“…The Lord hear thee in the days of Trouble, and the name of God of Jacob defend thee, send thee help from the sanctuary and strengthen the out of Zion”.

And if you go on and on and you read it, you find where it says,

“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the LORD our God . They are brought down and fallen, but we are risen, and stand upright”.

To knock down the devil, to silence the enemy permanently, you need the name of the Rock of Ages. When you have been jabbing and jabbing and you are tired of jabbing, then you can say, The LORD rebuke you. Just drop the enemy on the Rock of Ages.

I know there may be many devils disturbing you right now, some might be harmful habits or sins that will just not let go. Some might be sickness or poverty and may be you are tired of jabbing all of them, why dont you right now drop them on the Rock of Agesand see what would be the result.

Go ahead. Talk to the Lord.

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