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THE DELIVERANCE MINISTRY
has no defense against it. The Bible says, the later end will even be
worse for the individual if demons come back! This leads me to the
area of consecration.
A deep consecration unto God
It is incredibly vital to consecrate people unto God after deliver­
ance. We read in Exodus 29 about Moses consecrating Aaron and
his sons into their priestly office. All Christians hold the office of a
priest (1Peter 2:9). Notice that it took Moses as an authority figure
to consecrate Aaron and his sons. Aaron could not consecrate him­
self. Consecration is a deep cleansing that takes someone to a
place of being released into new levels of anointing and ministry.
Moses used a washing with water, sprinkling of blood, and anoint­
ing with oil. We see this pattern in 1John 5:7­8 when it says, “For
there are three that testify: the Spirit, the water, and the blood.” The
oil represents the Holy Spirit, the water speaks of water baptism,
and the blood speaks of the blood of Jesus.
The water
Baptism is seen as a death and resurrection. This is true. The act is
symbolic of our dying, being crucified with Christ to the old man,
and being resurrected as a new man. True resurrection life, power,
and anointing is found after we undergo a baptism of death. The
outward act of water baptism is really a dead ritual unless this prin­
cipal is understood. Romans 6:3­4 says, “Or don’t you know that all
of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his
death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into
death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through
the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.” Philippians 3:10
says, “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and
the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his
death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection of the dead.”
In scripture the Jordan river is a place of death and receiving
anointings. The death of self has to happen before we can really
enter into the resurrection life anointing. The level we die will be the
level we walk in resurrection power. Jesus went under the water at
the Jordan, and when he came up out of the water a clothing of the
Spirit of God and power came on him. In 2Kings 2 we see Elisha
tearing off the old garment to put on the new mantle as he was will­
ing to follow Elijah to the Jordan. Many Christians in the west are so
selfish and spoiled by the luxurious living around them. They ha­
ven’t been to the Jordan. Would you sell everything you own and
move to a foreign land where you knew you would probably be
martyred for your faith? A dead person will go even to the death for
Christ. Have you laid down your life for the gospel? A person who is
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