Breaking Controlling Powers by Roberts Liardon

Breaking Controlling Powers by Roberts Liardon

Author:Roberts Liardon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Deliverance
ISBN: 9781880089736
Publisher: Albury Publishing
Published: 1990-12-31T22:00:00+00:00


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Positive Biblical Control

Let's look at a biblical story concerning strong leadership and a rebellious spirit that tried to prevail against it.

The Leadership of Moses

In the book of Numbers, Chapter 16, we find a very interesting situation. In the camp of the Israelites, there arose a man named Korah, a descendant of Levi, who went among the tribes complaining about the leadership of Moses. He thought Moses had taken too much power and authority upon himself as leader of God's people. In other words, Korah thought Moses was a "controller."

When Korah had secured enough backing from other disgruntled children of Israel, he and his followers approached Moses, God's chosen leader. In studying verse 2 of this passage, I find very interesting the type of people Korah recruited to join his cause:

And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown.

Korah did not have God behind him, so he had to recruit the most famous men among the tribes of Israel in an attempt to give himself validity.

When these dissenters—including many of the other Levites who served in the temple worship—had assembled together, they approached Moses and Aaron. There Korah presented his accusation against these men of God:

.. .Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord?

And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face.

Numbers 16:3,4

Do these words sound familiar? "You are taking too much upon yourself, because everyone in this church is as holy as you are. Why are you lifting yourself up before the people? We can hear from God just as well as you can!"

These Israelites did not recognize the divine, positive control that had been given to Moses and Aaron by God Himself. Instead they were driven by jealousy, motivated by their desire for power, blinded to the truth by religion and rebellion.

Divine leadership involves a heavy price that must be paid in order to walk in the fullness of it. If it were not for the grace of God, the weight of it at times would be almost unbearable. The main price that must be paid by a leader concerns the daily life he or she must lead before the people. To walk in the fullness of divine authority. — to exercise justifiable control—the leader is required to live in a certain way.

Divine leaders must pursue the way of righteousness and holiness. They must have a strong desire for God and hate evil with all of their hearts.

The devil wants to control the human will. If he can control a person's will, he can control the person. Compromise will weaken an individual's ability to take a strong stand against Satan.

When you and I are strong and refuse to bow to evil and wrong, there will be those who will try to find something wrong with us in order to destroy our character, undermine our stand, and overcome our strength.



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