Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give him 15.

The title of today's post is Unravelling the Schemes of the Enemy.

I mentioned the word Luo in yesterday's post.

You all going to be Greek scholars. You keep reading these posts and listening. What I stated regarding this subject is vitally important.

I want to pick up on it again today. In review, I said, an interesting word is used in 1 John 3.8 that adds

insight into what happened at the cross. The verse reads, for this purpose, the Son of God was

manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Destroy is the Greek word Luo, which has both legal and physical meanings.

Understanding its full definition will greatly enhance our knowledge of what Jesus did to Satan and his works.

The legal meaning, by the way, I think this one's the most important.

The legal meaning of Luo is to pronounce or determine that something or someone is no longer bound.

Secondly, to dissolve or void a contract or anything that legally binds.

Jesus came to dissolve the legal hold Satan had over us and to pronounce that we are no longer bound by his works.

He voided the contract, breaking Satan's dominion over us.

The physical meaning of Luo is to dissolve, melt, break, beat something to pieces, untie something that's bound.

In Acts 2741, the boat Paul traveled on was broken into pieces, Luo by the force of the storm.

2. Peter 3, 10, 12, we're told that one day the elements of the earth will

melt or dissolve Luo from a great heat. It's very significant to know that Jesus used

this same word, Luo, to describe what we, the church, are to do through spiritual warfare.

Matthew 1619 tells us, I'll give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven.

Whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.

Whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

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