Hello, and thank you for joining me once again on Unlock the Bible now.

I'm Brother Scott Mitchell and happy you could join us again for another message out of God's

word. I pray that something that we say today would be a blessing to you, which strengthen your

faith and cause you to walk closer with the Lord Jesus Christ. Today we're going to talk about

behind enemy lines, but before we begin, I'll invite you to join me for an opening prayer.

Heavenly Father, we thank thee for our Savior, Jesus Christ.

We thank thee that thou's provided us a perfect sacrifice, the propitiation for our sins,

that we might have eternal life through his shed blood.

We ask and pray that everything we do and say

will bring glory and honor to His name and to thee. We thank thee for the Holy Spirit and pray that

you would teach us by the Spirit those things you would have us learn. And we ask it brings all

praise and glory to thy name. And we ask it in Jesus Christ's precious name. Amen. Satan is called the God of this world

for good reason. He controls the world through his human proxies. The children of God operate in a world

controlled by our enemy as we preach the cross of Christ. We will see that the kingdom of heaven was offered to Israel

and rejected. Since that time, it went into mystery form, and several parables speak about this mystery.

As of this moment, the kingdom of heaven has been taken from God's people,

and a false God sits on the throne intended for Jesus Christ.

Let's examine how we now serve our Savior behind enemy lines.

And we start with the passage in Matthew chapter 11, verse 12.

And from the days of John the Baptist until now,

the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence,

and the violent take it by force.

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