Devotion 744

“Power”

Reference: Ecclesiastes Chapter 4

Power can be looked at in terms of authority. The policeman has power or authority to stop the vehicles on the road.

In physics, power is the product of force and velocity.. Work is force used over distance, and power is the rate at which work is done.

There is manpower, which is the work output of a man or woman. There is also horsepower, which is the work output of a horse. The horse was the means of travel in the early days of creation,  and then when civilization came, they went from horse to steam engine. Today we have automobiles, cruise ships, airplanes, and even rockets. Those are all physical powers, but we also have spiritual powers.

There are three main spiritual powers:
1. The power of Satan
2. The power of faith in the blood of the second Adam
3. The power of God

 The power of Satan is through unbelief. Before Satan came into the garden of Eden, there was perfection. There was God and his children. The moment Satan came in, he sowed Eve with unbelief, and that unbelief affected Adam. They lost their faith in the word of God, and that unbelief led to sin. Sin led to disease, and disease led to death. It was through unbelief that Satan was able to get the first Adam to break his covenant with God. This is the cause of all death in man and woman. This is the power of Satan. No matter what a man or woman does, their physical body going to die. That's how powerful Satan is. At the time of Noah, the whole world drowned in a flood because of unbelief. It was only Noah and his family that escaped the flood. Everybody in the world at that time drowned and went to hell. This is the power of Satan, because he blinded them with unbelief.
The only thing more powerful than Satan is the opposite of unbelief, which is faith. In the word of God, faith in the blood of the second Adam. Just as unbelief leads to sin, and sin leads to disease, and disease leads to death, faith in the blood of the second Adam brings resurrection. That means:
- faith in the blood of the second Adam is more powerful than unbelief.
- faith in the blood of the second Adam is more powerful than sin.
- faith in the blood of a second Adam is more powerful than disease
- faith in the blood of the second Adam is more powerful than death
- faith in the blood of a second Adam is more powerful than Satan
 
Then there is the power of God. God is all-power, almighty. He is the one that tells the sun to rise and to go to bed at night. He is the one that spoke the universe into being. He is the one that tells the ocean you can only come this far onto the land and cannot come any further. The power of God is in His Word, and when a man or woman places their faith in the Word of God, they become one with the power of God.

The writer of Ecclesiastes talks about power.

Let's read.

Ecclesiastes 4:1 "So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter."

Satan is the main oppressor of man. He has power, but he is not all power. Man's power over Satan is through faith in the blood of the second Adam. This is how the sick get well, and the hopeless receive hope. The oppressed is oppressed no more because he or she has received the answer to Satan the oppressor.

We continue our reading:

Ecclesiastes 4:2-12 "Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. [3] Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. [4] Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit. [5] The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh. [6] Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. [7] Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. [8] There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail. [9] Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. [10] For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. [11] Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? [12] And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken."

A man or woman is powerful when they yoke themselves to God through His Word. God is His Word. When we believe the Word of God, we become one with God, one in Word. This is the source of all Spiritual. power. The Word of God is what created the whole universe. When we are one with God, His Word will create for us things that we cannot even imagine.

We conclude our reading:

Ecclesiastes 4:13-16 "Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. [14] For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor. [15] I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. [16] There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit."

Unbeliefs make an individual powerless. They remain in the blood of the fallen Adam all their life. In the end, it is resurrection into damnation.

Faith in the blood of the second Adam makes the individual powerful. They become one with God through the blood of the second Adam. They have power even over death. That's why the second Adam said, "I am their resurrection and their life. He that believes in me shall never die." A man or woman who has placed their faith in the blood of the second Adam has passed from death unto eternal life. They have received power over all things, including the ultimate curse, which is death.

Receive the power of God. Believe and confess Christ, the second Adam, as we revealed Him from the first Adam. God is all power, in Christ!