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Songs of Degrees, Part 10
Prevailing Power
Songs of Degrees: This is a sermon
series about Psalms 120 through 134. The Songs of Degrees, or the
Songs of Ascents, are meant to teach us about our upward journey
toward what God wills for His church. There are 15 of these songs
and there were 1,500 years between the ministry of Moses and the
earthly ministry of Jesus Christ. When God gave Moses the plan for
the Tabernacle, it was the beginning of His plan to restore man, to
rescue man. This plan, we know, was fulfilled by the death,
resurrection, and ascension of our Lord and Savior.
Satan fights unity in
the body of Christ by accusing one Christian to another. He does
that because he fears unity based on the pure truth of the Living
Water. Jesus said that each believer would have a fountain of Living
Water flowing from within. As believers join together in true unity,
that Living Water gets deeper and stronger and the devil can’t
overcome it. Unity produces the prevailing power that the church
needs in this hour.
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Psalm 129
| A Song of degrees. Many a
time have they afflicted me from my youth, may
Israel now say: |
| Many a time have they
afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not
prevailed against me. |
| The plowers plowed upon my
back: they made long their furrows. |
| The LORD is righteous: he
hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. |
| Let them all be confounded
and turned back that hate Zion. |
| Let them be as the grass
upon the housetops, which withereth afore it
groweth up: |
| Wherewith the mower filleth
not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his
bosom. |
| Neither do they which go by
say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we
bless you in the name of the LORD. |
Psalm 129 |
Matthew 16
| When Jesus came into the
coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his
disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the
Son of man am? |
| And they said, Some say
that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and
others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. |
| He saith unto them, But
whom say ye that I am? |
| And Simon Peter answered
and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the
living God. |
| And Jesus answered and said
unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for
flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee,
but my Father which is in heaven. |
| And I say also unto thee,
That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will
build my church; and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it. |
| And I will give unto thee
the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and
whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be
bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose
on earth shall be loosed in heaven. |
| Then charged he his
disciples that they should tell no man that he
was Jesus the Christ. |
Matthew 16:13-20 |
Genesis 7
| And the waters prevailed,
and were increased greatly upon the earth; and
the ark went upon the face of the waters. |
| And the waters prevailed
exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high
hills, that were under the whole heaven, were
covered. |
| Fifteen cubits upward did
the waters prevail; and the mountains were
covered. |
Genesis 7:18-20 |
John 4
| Jesus answered and said
unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and
who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink;
thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would
have given thee living water. |
| The woman saith unto him,
Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the
well is deep: from whence then hast thou that
living water? |
| Art thou greater than our
father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank
thereof himself, and his children, and his
cattle? |
| Jesus answered and said
unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall
thirst again: |
| But whosoever drinketh of
the water that I shall give him shall never
thirst; but the water that I shall give him
shall be in him a well of water springing up
into everlasting life. |
| The woman saith unto him,
Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not,
neither come hither to draw. |
| Jesus saith unto her, Go,
call thy husband, and come hither. |
| The woman answered and
said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her,
Thou hast well said, I have no husband: |
| For thou hast had five
husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy
husband: in that saidst thou truly. |
| The woman saith unto him,
Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. |
| Our fathers worshipped in
this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is
the place where men ought to worship. |
| Jesus saith unto her,
Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye
shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at
Jerusalem, worship the Father. |
| Ye worship ye know not
what: we know what we worship: for salvation is
of the Jews. |
| But the hour cometh, and
now is, when the true worshippers shall worship
the Father in spirit and in truth: for the
Father seeketh such to worship him. |
| God is a Spirit: and they
that worship him must worship him in spirit and
in truth. |
John 4:10-24 |
Ezekiel 47
| Afterward he brought me
again unto the door of the house; and, behold,
waters issued out from under the threshold of
the house eastward: for the forefront of the
house stood toward the east, and the waters came
down from under from the right side of the
house, at the south side of the altar. |
| Then brought he me out of
the way of the gate northward, and led me about
the way without unto the utter gate by the way
that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran
out waters on the right side. |
| And when the man that had
the line in his hand went forth eastward, he
measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me
through the waters; the waters were to the
ankles. |
| Again he measured a
thousand, and brought me through the waters; the
waters were to the knees. Again he measured a
thousand, and brought me through; the waters
were to the loins. |
| Afterward he measured a
thousand; and it was a river that I could not
pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to
swim in, a river that could not be passed over. |
| And he said unto me, Son of
man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me,
and caused me to return to the brink of the
river. |
| Now when I had returned,
behold, at the bank of the river were very many
trees on the one side and on the other. |
| Then said he unto me, These
waters issue out toward the east country, and go
down into the desert, and go into the sea: which
being brought forth into the sea, the waters
shall be healed. |
| And it shall come to pass,
that every thing that liveth, which moveth,
whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live:
and there shall be a very great multitude of
fish, because these waters shall come thither:
for they shall be healed; and every thing shall
live whither the river cometh. |
Ezekiel 47:1-9 |
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