The Lord’s Battle — October 1, 2023

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Introduction: Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, October 1, 2023 The Lord fights the battles. He fights for us. To ensure this, we must be obedient to Him in faith and believe His word and He will fight for you. I can do all things through Christ that fights the battle for me. The battle that we fight is the battle of the word and the battle of faith and He gives us power over all of the power of the enemy. Jesus has won the battle. Therefore, rebuke the devil and tell him Jesus has won the victory for me. Stand fast with that; you’ll win the battle, no matter what. Don’t be discouraged, be encouraged by the bold effort of the Holy Spirit. Just remember who is with you. Just think who the eternal One, who the Creator, is, and just think who is with you. “I will never leave you. I will not forsake you. And I will act according to your faith and how you believe me. I will be with you.” “THE ELECT SPIRITS WHICH WERE PART OF GOD, BEFORE THE ELECT BODY WAS CREATED”. If you were part of God before you came to this earth, how can He leave you? If you can believe it. That “is why it is called eternal life, it always was and always will be with God”. Colossians 3: 4: “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.” If Christ is your life, how can He leave you? If you can believe it. Hebrews 13: 5: “for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” The Lord will be with us for eternity. When the translation takes place, your flesh will be changed into eternal glory. “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality” (1 Corinthians 15: 53). Our flesh will change back into that point of light, whether you die in that grave or resurrected, there is a change coming. And that flesh will change back to that point of light, but it’s enhanced, it’s glorified. Now, one day, by not rejecting the word, but believing the word, one day, you are going to change back to that point of light, but it will be enhanced and glorified. A point of light sent by God; God’s children if you believe this. Here on earth, it is the Lord that is with us. When we get to heaven, we will be the ones that will be with the Lord. Revelation 3: 21: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne”. The Lord has many mansions for us. He will receive us unto Himself, that where He is, there we may be also (John 14: 2 – 3). We will be in the Lord’s Holy City, “where time blends into eternity’; “and those mansions are the glory of God built within Him. They are the presence of Jesus; those things are just spiritual. Amen, that you live in.” You will be blessed. Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, October 1, 2023 We listened to a sermon titled “The Lord’s Battle”, CD # 994, Part Two, preached by Brother Neal Frisby. In the sermon, Brother Frisby said: The Lord battles; He fights for us. All through my ministry, the Lord has been silently moving and fighting all of the battles for me. I think it’s wonderful and I thank Him for that. When He calls somebody and He wants them to do something, He knows what that life patterns will be until the day that He phases him and throughout eternity. There is nothing hidden from Him that that man won’t do by the power of God that He’s called him to do. He sees everything he is confronted with. He sees how the satanic forces may push against him, whether it’s financially or however it might be, He sees all of those things. In all of that, the Lord goes before and silently. He’s always fought the battles. He has won every victory. He has not lost one fight. Glory to God. And He’s going before His people today and He’s going before you. In the hour we live in, it’s not easy sometimes. Just remember who is with you. Just think who the eternal One, who the Creator, is, and just think who is with you regardless of your just insufficiencies and so forth like that, sometimes that might come upon you. The Lord will bless you and He will help you. The Lord fights the battles. He fights for us. To ensure this, we must be obedient to Him in faith and believe His word and He will fight for you. We fight a spiritual warfare and when we pray, we must act and we must believe. He goes before us in a fiery front. He will stop even the earth, if need be, to win the battle for us. Joshua 10: 12: “Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.” Joshua had faith. I mean, tremendous faith; now for him to reach up into such a dimension as that. That’s moving into all kinds of dimensions of faith and powerful faith. This is real. This is the eternal Creator that prepares all things ahead of time and knows exactly when to move. Joshua 10: 13 – 14: “And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.” He had incredible faith. And Israel, because of that great faith, he was able to hold them; “for the LORD fought for Israel”, and they won the battle. You are dealing with the Infinite. And to Him, it’s easier than us, saith the Lord, for you to breathe back and forth, because we make an effort. No effort to Him, He’s eternal. How powerful He is. And He’ll fight your battles and He’ll go before you. But you are tested. Satan will run up and put that front up there. The Lord is there at such a time and if you know how to wait on the Lord and rest in the Lord, unless He tells you to move quickly or something like that, then the Lord will fight the battle. He knows exactly what He’s doing. And there is a timing to events with the Lord. 1 Chronicles 14: 14 – 16: “Therefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees. And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines. David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer.” In the latter rain revival, and also events, in providence, in the predestination, in your life is timed, many of those. We revolve around the gifts of the Spirit. And the Holy Spirit moves, you might say, like an orbit in the heavens. These gifts are moving and you can be healed at any time or events take place in your life at any time. But there are certain events that God alone knows. It’s not revealed and those events are timed and they are timed daily through your life. Whereas, others you revolve around, things can take place all the time by the gift of miracles, power of miracles up here and so forth like that. And the latter day revival that the Lord is going to bring, and is bringing to His people, is timed to the ultimate and He knows just when to move. And have the Holy Spirit begin to move in on His people and blowing those trees. And when He blows in the trees of righteousness, exactly what Isaiah called the elect of God, and when He begins to move in the Kingdom of God, He will blow up that time. And I will guarantee you, every Christian that has faith in their heart will win the battle. It takes endurance and it takes steadfastness. It’s not easy sometimes, but, oh, it is worth it all. 1 Timothy 6: 12: “Fight the good fight of faith”. Notice, it says, “good”; the struggle of warfare that Paul was in. He won. Time for him to go home at the time. He that will be ready must fight, he must war a good warfare, God being before him and will be with him as he prays. “I will never leave you. I will not forsake you. And I will act according to your faith and how you believe me. I will be with you.” 2 Timothy 4: 7 – 8: “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” Romans 8: 37: “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” And Paul beat him. More than a conqueror means, it not only beat him in his time, but he was fixing to beat him with his word that was put in the Bible. And his word, the pen of fire, has set up the church, set up the foundation, revealing how the gifts work, showing how salvation or baptism works. And in each age of the church age, they had what he wrote and every age, Paul’s writings defeated the devil like a sword of the Spirit. “I am more than a conqueror”. There’s nothing you can do with that, can you? I can do all things through Christ that fights the battle for me. There’s a time to forbear and there’s a time to move, a time of the Holy Spirit, the latter rain, the outpouring, the things in your own life, all of these things, is in God’s hands. Our faith, and we revolve with God, Him in us and all around us, in and out of us, everywhere, He’s there. We do not fight with carnal weapons at all, but we must fight with faith and power. The battle that we fight is the battle of the word and the battle of faith and He gives us power over all of the power of the enemy. 2 Corinthians 10: 4: “(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)”. We fight the battle upon our knees, being sober. We fight it by watching. We fight it by being in prayer. We wrestle with the evil principalities and powers (Ephesians 6: 12 -17). God has principalities and powers too. And His principalities, His powers and what He ordain is much stronger than what satanic powers are. When you have the Lord going before you in your midst, it is no match when He starts turning, that is all the rope for Satan. He that will be ready, watch thou in all things (2 Timothy 4: 5). Stand fast in the faith, don’t drop. Don’t let your faith waiver, don’t let it depart from you, but stand fast. Always hold fast to the faith. Don’t let any doubts steal it. Don’t let Satan in any way test you out of it. Don’t let him drive you out of it because he will try all kinds of things. Stand fast in that faith. Hold to Him and that’s the way your battles are won and God will go before you, whether it’s shortly or quickly or whether it is in providence that He moves, He will still win that battle. It is in His timing. 1 Thessalonians 5: 5 – 8: “Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.” The sons of the night mean darkness, that’s moving in every direction that they can move in, but we are the sons of the day. We have the day star with us and He can guide us in the darkness of the night. But let us who are of the day be sober, lest temptation overtake us and we are sneered in the wheels of the devil, the whiles of the devil. The Bible said that He puts before us a blessing or He puts before us a curse. You can go and believe and prepare for the blessings of the Lord or you can turn down the blessings of the Lord and you go right out and be like the sons of the night and take a curse upon you. And by that is, all kinds of problems, even death and sickness and all kinds of things can occur out in there. But just think, we have the choice. God knows which ones are going to take that choice. And this day, you can choose a blessing. The Lord, He carries the burden. He is the one that goes with us. The Lord has won the battle. The race is not easy, but it’s worth more than it all. Satan will try to trap you, but Jesus has won the battle. Jesus has won the battle. Therefore, rebuke the devil and tell him Jesus has won the victory for me. Stand fast with that; you’ll win the battle, no matter what. Don’t be discouraged, be encouraged by the bold effort of the Holy Spirit. Remember, we have the Captain of the host with us, and we’re the host that’s going to heaven. There is coming an outpouring. And then the timing of the outpouring, the miracles that He will perform, His great exploits, some we’ve never seen before, will begin to take place by the power of the Lord and He will go before us. And no matter how much of a standard that the world, and that Satan puts up, no matter how much he pushes, we have won the battle already. Amen. We have to stand in this time zone, only waiting to go into the other dimensions. We have to stand and occupy into this time zone, but we have won the battle; potentially, we are in eternity. God’s eternity don’t stop because we are in this time zone; that’s Him talking. So, instilled in your heart, this sermon, not only in the time that we live in the present, but this message is going to be for the future too. And daily, and moving in, towards the revival of the most High God that prepares the translative faith and the power of faith that puts you into the eternal life completely. So remember, the Lord is going to fight the battles. He is going before those that believe Him. And those that have faith in their hearts, He is all around you. And sometimes, when you are lonely, sometimes when you are in despair, sometimes it may seem like it’s powerless or whatever you are confronted with, remember, He is right there with you. It is only Satan that puts that block. It is only Satan that tries to make you think He’s a million miles away. That is impossible for the Lord to be away from you. He’s everywhere and at the same time, saith the Lord. You tell Satan, when he says God isn’t near you, tell him that is impossible now, Satan.

I started the sermon: Romans 8: 37: “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” And Paul beat him. More than a conqueror means, it not only beat him in his time, but he was fixing to beat him with his word that was put in the Bible. And his word, the pen of fire, has set up the church, set up the foundation, revealing how the gifts work, showing how salvation or baptism works. And in each age of the church age, they had what he wrote and every age, Paul’s writings defeated the devil like a sword of the Spirit. “I am more than a conqueror”. There’s nothing you can do with that, can you? It means at this end of time, all that the Lord has given Brother Frisby, whether in sermons, scrolls, etc., agree with what Paul wrote, and agree with the entire Bible. The Lord has brought through Brother Frisby deeper revelations of what Paul wrote because it is the same Holy Spirit bringing forth His word. It means if you truly understand the writings of Paul, you will enjoy the writings and sermons of Brother Frisby. Just remember who is with you. Just think who the eternal One, who the Creator, is, and just think who is with you. “I will never leave you. I will not forsake you. And I will act according to your faith and how you believe me. I will be with you.” The Lord will be with us for eternity. I read from Scroll # 43: THE ELECT SPIRITS WHICH WERE PART OF GOD, BEFORE THE ELECT BODY WAS CREATED – The real you (the spiritual part) was with God before it was appointed a body upon the earth through seed. There is a fleshly seed and a spiritual seed which was united! The real eternal spirit which God gives His saints had no beginning and has no end and is like unto God! That is why after death our body is changed into the inner immortal spirit, that is why it is called eternal life, it always was and always will be with God! And He breathed it into each of us (Gen. 2: 7) “Behold saith the Lord do ye not know this Scripture? Ye were with Me when the Morning Stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy!” (Job 38: 6,7) Our flesh body came upon earth by birth uniting with His spirit which was always with Him! And when we repent (salvation) we keep this spirit in order to always live with Him!! Read (Isa. 1:9 – Eph. 1:4) (Satan’s seed is a group, also the Lord has created a place for them.)

If you were part of God before you came to this earth, how can He leave you? If you can believe it. That “is why it is called eternal life, it always was and always will be with God”. Colossians 3: 4: “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.” If Christ is your life, how can He leave you? If you can believe it. Hebrews 13: 5: “for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” When the translation takes place, your flesh will be changed into eternal glory. “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality” (1 Corinthians 15: 53). In the sermon titled “God’s Greatness”, CD # 1241, Brother Neal Frisby stated: Our flesh will change back into that point of light, whether you die in that grave or resurrected, there is a change coming. And that flesh will change back to that point of light, but it’s enhanced, it’s glorified. Now, one day, by not rejecting the word, but believing the word, one day, you are going to change back to that point of light, but it will be enhanced and glorified. A point of light sent by God; God’s children if you believe this.

The Lord will always fight for you. The Lord fights the battles. He fights for us. To ensure this, we must be obedient to Him in faith and believe His word and He will fight for you. I can do all things through Christ that fights the battle for me. The battle that we fight is the battle of the word and the battle of faith and He gives us power over all of the power of the enemy. Jesus has won the battle. Therefore, rebuke the devil and tell him Jesus has won the victory for me. Stand fast with that; you’ll win the battle, no matter what. Don’t be discouraged, be encouraged by the bold effort of the Holy Spirit. Psalm 23: 4: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” “thy rod” (word) and “thy staff” (power) comfort me. Here on earth, it is the Lord that is with us. When we get to heaven, we will be the ones that will be with the Lord. Revelation 3: 21: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne”. John 14: 2 – 3: “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” The Lord said, “where I am, there ye may be also.” Jesus was the one talking here, and yet, He is the Father; He is the mighty God (Isaiah 9: 6). He is the Holy Spirit (Matthew 1: 20 – 25). In the sermon titled “Stones And Gates”, CD # 1247, Brother Neal Frisby stated: The beautiful city of paradise where time stands still. There, in the Holy City, finally, after the millennium, where time blends into eternity. You are in paradise where time stands still and you move on in where there is no more time in a beautiful city. And He has mansions and those mansions are the glory of God built within Him. They are the presence of Jesus; those things are just spiritual. Amen, that you live in. God is so great, made out of the things that are from heaven, the things that are of God.

We will be in the Lord’s Holy City, “where time blends into eternity”; “and those mansions are the glory of God built within Him. They are the presence of Jesus; those things are just spiritual. Amen, that you live in.”

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