The Revelation 20:3 | Episode # 1171

April 13, 2026

Hope Alive: Applying God’s Word to Your Daily Life

The Revelation 20:3

I am Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and had been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. The purpose of studying scripture is that you might know the character of Jesus Christ, and that you might see the world from the Father's perspective. That you gain wisdom that changes your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open His word to you and allow you to see Him and to know Him. To know His will, that you might glorify Him and that you might walk in faith and power each day, especially today. In Jesus name.

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This is Chad Harrison, and you're listening to Hope Applying God's word to your daily life. Hi, this is Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and have been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open up his word to you and allow you to see him and to know him and to know his will, that you might glorify him and that you might walk in faith and power each and every day, especially today in Jesus name,

He says then he cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up. Notice I did tell you got to shut the ends of it and suck all the air out, right? I'm just saying that he did shut it up and he set a seal on him so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. All right, I want you to listen. The Holy Spirit sealed Satan up so that he couldn't speak, that he couldn't say anything, that he couldn't do anything. I want you to hear me. I want you to hear me. The Bible says that you are sealed with the Holy Spirit. And your seal is. Is. Is. Is the insignia of God. It is the mantle of the Holy Spirit. And when that mantle of the Holy Spirit is in its fullness, you say, pastor, when is it in its fullness? Well, it's in its fullness when you are welling up the Holy Spirit. When your mantle is in its fullness. I want you to hear me. The spiritual knows it. They can see is powerful, and even the demons tremble at it. You talking about me, Pastor? You, you, you. I say this all the time. Some of y' all wish I could grab you by the ears and yell in your face until you got it. And you go, well, that sounds mean. It's not mean. The minute you get it, you realize I am. I got it all. I got it all. It doesn't matter what your second grade teacher said. You following me? When I wrote that name, that note to Julie in the first grade, I luvu with just a U. It didn't matter. She wrote back, I H a t u. It didn't matter. That don't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what anybody says, including what you say about you. It only matters what God says about you. What does God say about you? What does he say when he says he Places name upon you. That means all of his character, nature, he's placed on you. He sealed you with it. It's so powerful that Satan can't speak for a thousand years. The seal of the Holy Spirit so powerful that Satan has no power for a thousand years. That same seal's on you so that you might reveal his name. For a thousand years, Say, well, Pastor, I've never seen it work in my life. Keep working, keep going, keep moving, keep believing, keep begging. Reach, reach all the way to the end of the list. Go past the 401k. Don't worry about Y2K. Not going to say the next line, Kathleen. It says, but after these things, he must be released for a little while. You go, hold on. God's going to let him go again. Listen, you can't have full spiritual growth without something resisting it. I'm going to use a football analogy. I may have already used this in some form or fashion this week. I don't know which setting I used it in, but a football team that practices. When I was practicing football, I loved to have the on air practice. You go, what is that, Pastor? That's where everybody gets in a line and we get down and we run a play on air. There's nobody in front of you. It was great. You'd get in your stance and then you look so good doing what you're supposed to be doing. We scored touchdowns on every play. Nobody tackled us. My guy, I blocked him every time. My snaps were perfect. Nobody was trying to stop me, okay? If we practiced like that every week on Friday nights, we would have gotten slaughtered. You know why? Because you can't practice on air. Well, sometimes when you're beaten up and you're broken, we would practice on dummies. That wasn't the dumb guys on the team, okay? That's not them. Dummies are the big, cushiony things that look like men. We practice on them. You go, well, what would you do? Well, you'd come off the ball and you'd hit and drive the dummy. It's not as hard as a person, but it's not on air. You go, well, why would you do that? Well, because we were hurt and we didn't want to get hurt, but we wanted to have some resistance. But when we really wanted to get better, when we really wanted to get good, we do. I want you to listen to one on ones I loved one on ones. The toughest one on ones I ever were in were at Jeff Davis High School. And you go, why were those the toughest well, when I played at Princeton, I was playing against Division 2 football players, okay? Jeff Davis. When the first 22 were on the field, there were about 10 Division 1 football players on the field, okay? And then There were another five or six Division 2 football players on the field. And so when we went one on ones, it was tough. We fought, we scratched until we played Lee or maybe one or two Vigor. We didn't play anybody tougher than us because we had the best talent. And so when we went one on one with the toughest, we got better. We didn't do it every week, we didn't do it every practice, but every once in a while we would get out there and we would go big on big, one on one. And when we went one on one, you got better. Let me say this. When Jesus told Peter, satan has desired to come and deal with you personally. He's saying, you've reached the level that you can be like me. Because what happened when Jesus was baptized and the Spirit came upon him and God put the stamp on him of his obedience? You go, what are you talking about? When he went to be baptized, the Bible says the Spirit of the Lord descended upon him like a dove. And God said, this is my beloved son. He's mine, in whom I'm well pleased. All right, you go, well, he just said he was pleased with him. Bible says without faith, it's impossible to please God. God said that Jesus had fully well pleased him, which means he had full faith. Seems like a great moment, doesn't it? What happened right after that? The Bible says that the Spirit of God drove him into the wilderness. Why? Because it was time to. To go big on big. One on one had to happen. And when he went one on one with Satan, he won. Because he was the word made flesh. He won. And when he went to the cross and he came out of the tomb, he defeated he who was sin. He defeated sin and death. Why? Because he went big on big. He went one on one. Now, I want you to hear me. If you are going to experience God in his fullness, you must, at some point in time, go big on big. You got to. You got to. And let me tell you something. You. So you say, well, I've been losing a lot lately. I know. It's okay. You ain't Jesus. You're not going to do it perfectly. You go, but why is Satan always after me? Well, because you keep running rather than lining up and fighting. You go, but he beat me up real bad and made me look real bad. Yeah. He exposed your weakness. Do you think God allowed him to expose your weakness for your ruin? No. He let him expose your weakness for your benefit. I never got better going against somebody I crushed. I always got better going against somebody. That was tough. I went against the best nose guard in the state of Alabama at Jeff Davis. And I went against the best nose guard in the Ivy Leagues at Princeton. They were on my team. They whooped me a whole lot, but every once in a while, I'd win. You know what? That's okay. That's okay. You ain't gonna win all the time. You don't. You're not held to the standard of Jesus. You ain't having to go to the cross and bear the sin of the whole world. All you gotta do is take your cross. All you gotta do is deal with your sin. Once you've done that, you have full power and authority. You have full power and authority. Let me finish. Well, I can't go no farther. Listen to me. Satan's going to come after you. He can be whipped by just any old angel. Are you following me? You go. Well, they're more powerful than us. The Bible says that they were made above us, but we were set above them. Okay. Which means you have authority over. You have more authority than they do. You have more power than they do you. You are able to be filled with the Holy Spirit and sealed with the Holy Spirit. So should you win. Yes. Can you win if you don't know how to do it? No. Are you going to have to enter the. The battlefield to do it? Yes. Yes, you are. Should you be fearful about it? You should fear God. Worship God. You should not fear the enemy at all. That is giving him power he has not earned, nor does he have. And understanding that is of great importance. Yes, sir. He was talking about the safety. Jesus told Peter, Satan is. Our sister is weak. But I pray that your faith will overcome. He says. I pray. Jesus said. Jesus said. Go. Say it again. He said, I prayed that your faith will succeed. I pray that your faith will be full. Will succeed. Will overcome. Notice Jesus is interceding for Peter by the way he sits at the right hand of God and intercedes on your behalf even to this day. Okay. Just because you lost yesterday, just because you lost last year, just because you're le. Losing right now. Doesn't mean it's your lot in life to lose. He is preparing you for your victory. You have victory. You were made for it. We are overcomers. And more than that, take your victory. Take your victory. Listen to me. It is good. It is good. Take your victory. Take it.

As you go today. I pray that the Lord will bless you and keep you. That he'll make his face to shine upon you and that he will give you hope and peace today. In Jesus name.