The Overcomer that know their God - Ps. Susan Tang

The series was taught at the 21st National Prayer Advance organized by Ps. Jean Lim and the Glory Place Prayer House.
The notes were compile by me some additional comments. Ps. Susan allows circulation of the audio CD. If you chose to receive a copy of the messages kindly send me an email.Timely messages for the End Times.
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Overcomer that knows God

Hos 6:
3 Then shall we know , [if] we follow (pursue) on to know the LORD

Micah 5:
5 And this [man] shall be the peace , when the Assyrian shall come into our land : and when he shall tread in our palaces , then shall we raise against him seven shepherds (clergy) , and eight principal (laity) men . 6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword , and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver [us] from the Assyrian , when he cometh into our land , and when he treadeth within our borders .

Principal - life poured out as a libation before God. Willingness to be entire His, not given to any thing or to others. Willingness to even die for the God whom he or she loves.

God is raising up overcomers among the clergy as well as the laity and the gap is closing between the two. These are the ones that will stand against the onslaught of evil in the last days.

People who poured out their lives unto the God

David was one recorded in Scripture that poured out the Lord. He saw the preciousness of the water which were gotten at the hazard of men's blood, much more we value the shed blood of our Saviour, not neglecting so great a salvation. So David poured out a precious water and not indulging it. Self has been removed.

And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
(2Sa 23:16)

Similarly Samuel (1Sam5), Jesus (Isa 53:12), Mary (Matt 26) and Paul (2 Tim 4:6) who were willingly poured their lives out unto God. Not unto a ministry (as powerful as they had) nor unto people nor unto things, but unto the Lord. What are we pouring our live unto these days? Our church? Our families? Our children (He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. (Mat 10:37)). Our careers? Our selves? Martin Luther identified that the greater enemy is not the devil but self. Can we say of our lives that the life we now live we life by faith in the Son of God?

2 Tim 4:6
6 For I am now ready to be offered (poured out) , and the time of my departure is at hand .

Greatest strategy against the enemy in the end times are life poured out to God. God requires a faithfulness until death. Lives lived before God, not men nor ministry.

Building of a life poured unto the Lord

The bride revealed in Revelation; John beheld a city built by God (Babylon was built by man). Let God build into me. Men build things of gold & precious items, wood, hay, stubble (1 Cor 3:12) which men see value in. Cain was the first city builder. When Christ builds, the gates of hell cannot prevail. When men builds floods can come and destroy.

Rev 21:
9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues , and talked with me , saying , Come hither , I will shew thee the bride , the Lamb's wife . 10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain , and shewed me that great city , the holy Jerusalem , descending out of heaven from God ,

Jesus said that the floods have to come to test the 2 houses. On sand is fast, on rock takes a long time. Before the flood both houses are the same, different foundation. Praise God that Jesus builds His church that the gates of hell can't prevail. Who builds into our lives? Will our lives stand the floods? What is our foundation? Is it upon the Rock?

Jesus building us mostly will be in the mundane things of life. Slow but builds goodly character.
Building an overcomer is the same. It is the building in Christ and Him crucified. Those who will drink the same cup that Jesus drank. However the disciples were not the 'right' stock, but as we yield to Christ daily in due time we will rise to the occasion to drink the cup all the way to Calvary. The infused life of Christ begin with daily yielding. Then the resurrection power will take full force.

The poured out life beating back the flood of evil

Normally a father wouldn't curse a son. Ham's character aligned to his destiny as Noah knew. Cursed to be servant of servants.
Ham was cursed because of delight in nakedness, for God hates nakedness. Ham and Canaan did something to Noah, because he realized it. One of Ham's descendants was Nimrod known for sensuality and incest.

Culture of nakedness crept into the church. This is because of deficit in the knowledge of God.

In fact God warns that He will allow the disobedience to be stripped naked.

Even God don't want altars on high ground to not reveal nakedness.

Exo 20:
25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone , thou shalt not build it of hewn stone : for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. 26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar , that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

Nakedness is form of God's judgment, make shameful.

Hosea 2:
3 Lest I strip her naked , and set her as in the day that she was born , and make her as a wilderness , and set her like a dry land , and slay her with thirst .

A demon possessed were naked in the Bible.

Demonic culture (another gospel) has 4 features: materialism, sensuality, infidelity and atheism.

Sensuality creeping into the church in various forms arousing the flesh in the form of worship and 'what-can-I-get-out-of-God' attitude. Every blessing is to fed the insatiable flesh life.

Homosexuality, semi-nakedness are marks of beast. How has the church stood against this flood of evil in Malaysia lately? What stand have we taken to fight back this demonic culture.

Divorce is begining to be rampant in churches today.

It takes the 7 shepherds and 8 principle men to beat back the Assyrians (descendants of Ham).

Poured out lives are hidden from men's eyes

Elijah made the mistake of looking for God in the external, dramatic, atmosphere (earthquake, wind, fire). God rebuked him in a still small voice. We have quiet down to hear, inward disposition to hear. We need to develop a spiritual ear to hear.

Our values and priorities bespeak our vision and mission. Jesus says His meat to do the will of God, where is our nourishment. If we are at the place of God's will we will feel inner satisfaction. Same with Cain leaving the presence of God and became an insatiable wanderer.

1 Kings 19.
The still small voice shook Elijah up!

Elijah and Elisha was said stood before God. Samuel ministered before God. Therefore we can live without secret sin and don't impress anyone!

Hosea speaks of the spirit of harlotry, infidelity in the church

The whore is contaminated Christianity deceiving great peoples, theologians, etc. Sin of Jeroboam. Counterfeit worship. Religion of convenience and compromise.

Rev 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials , and talked with me , saying unto me , Come hither ; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters : 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication , and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication . 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness : and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast , full of names of blasphemy , having seven heads and ten horns . 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour , and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls , having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication : 5 And upon her forehead [was] a name written , MYSTERY , BABYLON THE GREAT , THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH . 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints , and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus : and when I saw her , I wondered with great admiration . 7 And the angel said unto me , Wherefore didst thou marvel ? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman , and of the beast that carrieth her , which hath the seven heads and ten horns .

Don't be mezmerized by excellent external! False church make martyrs.

God favor Simeon and Anna's who hid themselves from public eyes and ministered before God as watchman.

Hos 6:
5 Therefore have I hewed [them] by the prophets ; I have slain them by the words of my mouth : and thy judgments [are as] the light [that] goeth forth . 6 For I desired mercy , and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings . 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant : there have they dealt treacherously against me.

We should learn that God's heart can be broken, desiring mercy over judgment.

Hos 4:
1 Hear the word of the LORD , ye children of Israel : for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land , because [there is] no truth , nor mercy , nor knowledge of God in the land . 2 By swearing , and lying , and killing , and stealing , and committing adultery , they break out , and blood toucheth blood .

People who break out having no restrain, only the cross can restrain us. Annoiting alone can't restrain us which accounts for many 'annoited' individuals falling into the flesh of adultery and excesses.

The value of the land devalue because of the peoples sins. We have to add value to our land by fighting off the flood of evil.

Hos 4:
3 Therefore shall the land mourn , and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish , with the beasts of the field , and with the fowls of heaven ; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away .

Minds of children taken up by others and not God. News can say that 1 in 5 children have mental problems.

Hos 4:
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge : because thou hast rejected knowledge , I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God , I will also forget thy children .

45% of men in UK hooked on pornography, even honorable men. In order to curb teenage pregnancy, oral sex taught in schools.

It's God's people, not the pagans. Sadly God have allowed to even extend hell.

Isa 5:
13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity , because [they have] no knowledge : and their honourable men [are] famished , and their multitude dried up with thirst . 14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself , and opened her mouth without measure : and their glory , and their multitude , and their pomp , and he that rejoiceth , shall descend into it.

Why is cross life important

The cross life causes us lose appetite for sin.

The cross life is a crucified life. Devils know if we the cross life. The incident with the 7 sons of Sceva showed it. Of course they knew Jesus who was crucified, Paul was identified with Christ as being crucified with Him.

Gal 2:
20 I am crucified with Christ : nevertheless I live ; yet not I , but Christ liveth in me : and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God , who loved me , and gave himself for me . 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God : for if righteousness [come] by the law , then Christ is dead in vain .

False teaching on grace leads to a self conscious life. It wrongly describes the law.
The law is to us is a covenant. Same as marriage covenant, it's no longer a law if the man die to other women.

Psa 105:
10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob (unchanged) for a law , [and] to Israel (transformed) [for] an everlasting covenant :

The day the that the Jacob life is in us it becomes law that condemns, to a Israel it's a covenant. Same person! But God forms a Isreal to realize the covenant. The covenant brings life!

Isa 43:1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob , and he that formed thee, O Israel ,

The cross is how we deal with problems. The problem in the last days is lovers of self (improvement, image, love self) which Jesus ask us to die to. Self needs the restraining power of the cross. Let God form us through the cross to become His price.

The people who think of the cross as stupidity, they belong to the perishing order. We find power when we die to ourselves.

1 Cor 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness ; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God .

The Son of God received riches, honor and glory by being slain on the cross. The Jacob man even cheated his father and brother as short cut. Breakthrough only comes as transaction at the cross. No other short cut.

Slain to receive! The cross slays the self. God don't trust Jacobs only Isreals.

Rev 5:12 Saying with a loud voice , Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power , and riches , and wisdom , and strength , and honour , and glory , and blessing .

The cross helps us to jam the brakes on sin, which empowers us to behave even privately. The cross is power against demons! Devils know our lives.

True knowledge of God comes through the cross

Having a relationship with self produces selfishness, self pity, self righteousness, etc. Don't have relationship with self. Adam and Eve after the fall began to look at self instead of looking upward.

Even marriages need the cross to prevent divorce. How to prevail life, ministry etc is only the cross? How to handle life without facing death?

If we are rejected, lonely, spat at, etc learn to identify with Jesus who lived through it. Only the cross can put distinction from the world and nobleness in the church. Today's Israel is apostate because of lacking the cross and God's dealing isn't complete. When Israel is driven out, will we house the Jews in those days? God will judge us for that.

The Apostlic pattern is the cross. What made Paul cry? Many are not enemies of Jesus, but of the cross. The church that want a cross-less Jesus. Paul's example is being crucified with Christ.

Phil 3:17 Brethren , be followers together of me , and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample . 18 (For many walk , of whom I have told you often , and now tell you even weeping , [that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ :

There will be a resurgence of the days of Noah. Be prepared through the cross that when the doors close by the Hands of God, we will be in the protected side of the door.