So he's in the court and happily reads it out, and he has a right to afflict you. This is why many people live burdened, pressured, depressed, can't get victory, repeated cycles of sin, living with infirmities and all kinds - they live defeated, because they haven't known how to get into that place and apply the blood and shut the devil up!
People come and tell me they're oppressed of devils. Listen! Jesus said you stomp on them, tread them under feet, and I've given you something to do it with! I have dealt with his list of accusations at the cross of Jesus Christ. The Bible tells us He removed the list that was against us. That's our inequities going back generations. He removed all the sins, all the transgressions, and He stripped away the devil's power to accuse, and triumphed over gloriously. Well that's what He's done. What have you done?
It's what you do that determines whether you walk in victory, because your actions activate this to become real in your life, see? Think about it. Think about it. So you have to speak, so we have to speak - so number one, the devil's watching. Number two, the Holy Ghost is watching. He's watching. How do we know He's watching? Because His role is to watch you. One of His roles is to tell you any time you go off the tracks. One of His roles is to tell you any time you go off, so He must be watching everything you say and do. You think oh, I let him out of my eyes for a little bit. He even went overseas, I didn't notice what he did, you know? It doesn't work like that. God's everywhere. He knows exactly what you do, so the Holy Spirit also knows all that you've done, and here's the tricky part. There's also an angel, the Scribe Angel [Laughter] and this is the bad one. He's a good fella, but just got a very simple job, and his job is just to record what you said and did. Whoa, really! Oh - on the way out of church, oh! Write it all down!
He's got a book. It's got your name on it. You open up that book, oh-ho-ho - and believe me, it will be open one day. See? And it's got in it everything you said or did. My goodness me, that's a bit of a concern isn't it? [Laughter] So it seems in the spirit world, everyone's got their eyes on you. That's a bit of a shock. I kind of thought I could sneak in and sneak out and sneak off and have a private fag and no one would notice [Laughter] and sneak around the pub and have a little drink and no one would notice and, you know, sneak a little look at something I shouldn't be looking at, you see? That's what people think - but all the time the spirit world is whoa! The devil's rubbing his hands, all the ammunition he's got to fire off against you, and demand the right to have a go at you!
He did it to Peter. Jesus said that. He said Satan has demanded the right to come against you, but I've prayed your faith doesn't fail in the middle of it - and boy did he get a hiding too! He got a massive hiding, publicly humiliated, but you know, it's because there was something there in his heart, there was pride. So everyone is watching what you're doing. How exciting! And everything is written down. So here we go, we'll get to how it works out.
So your confession, you must speak from your heart, you know? Bible says we confess with our mouth and speak with our heart towards salvation, so I've got to be sincere - so mumbling - oh, I'm sorry - that doesn't really quite cut it. It doesn't cut it with anyone. Kids come up and say oh, sorry - you know they're sorry because they got caught out! [Laughter] It's not a very deep sorry is it? It doesn't really change either. A lot of us come to God and say I'm sorry. We're sorry because we're in a mess, rather than deeply sorry because of the consequences. Okay, here's the next thing and then we'll show you how your confession activates Jesus' High Priest ministry.