In this engaging episode of ‘Victorious Faith,’ Cherri Campbell delves into the significant reasons why Jesus came to earth, exploring His mission to grant us authority and peace. Drawing from biblical scriptures, Cherri explains how we are the stewards of God’s authority on earth, tasked with binding and loosing in alignment with heaven. She highlights the importance of guarding our hearts and minds with peace and the transformative power of Shalom.
Good morning. Praise the Lord. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Welcome to Victorious Faith. I am Cherri Campbell. This morning I’m going to continue sharing with you the Christmas message that I was sharing with you last week that I preached in one of our Victorious Faith Christmas services called Why Did Jesus Come? So join me now in our live service for the continuation of this message, Why Did Jesus Come? Luke 10, 19, I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy. And Matthew 18, 18, I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. What you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. And I’ve told you before, the word bind also means, in the Greek, it means to forbid and prohibit. And the word loose also means to allow or let loose. to release, to let loose, to allow. So there are translations of the Bible that actually say it like that. Whatever you allow, or actually whatever you forbid on earth is forbidden in heaven. What you allow on earth is allowed in heaven. So who is allowing things on earth? We are. God made us the police of the earth. His church, the ecclesia, not the lost sinners because they have no authority. They’re still slaves. Sinners are still slaves to Satan. But the church, the ecclesia, have been authorized by God in his name and given the badge of authority to police the earth and to bind demons and all works of Satan. So whatever is allowed on earth, we are allowing it, not God. People who say, God, why did you allow it? He has given it as our territory of jurisdiction. We are the one allowing things on the earth, not God. And we are the one to bind, forbid, and prohibit things on earth. And then they will be bound in heaven. In other words, God says, I’ll back you up. You say it, you command it, you bind it. You bind the devil and I’m here to back you with my power. He’s given us his authority and he backs us. But we are the one who bind and loose, allow or forbid. Then number 28, Jesus came to give us peace. And in the Hebrew, that word is shalom. John 14, 27, peace I leave with you, my peace I give you. John 16, 33, I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. Philippians 4, 6, and 7, do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your request to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. The peace of God, passing all understanding, will guard your heart and mind. He gives us peace. He gives us shalom. He comforts us. Hallelujah. At number 29, Jesus came to give us the victory. 1 Corinthians 15, 57. But thanks be to God, he gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. That means that we can always have the victory. We might fight battles, which we do. We will fight battles. But he always gives us the victory. Praise God. And then number 30, he came, Jesus came to be our Lord and Savior. Now those are two different things. Savior means he saves us. Lord means he becomes our ruler. Luke 2, 11, the angel proclaimed to the shepherds in the field, today in the town of David, a savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord. He is our savior and Lord. Now, just because you make him his savior doesn’t mean that he’s automatically your Lord. He’s only your Lord when you surrender, when you follow, yield, and obey him. Amen. Now, number 31, Jesus came to demonstrate the love of the Father. John 15, 9, as the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. He demonstrates the love of the Father. Jesus, number 32, Jesus came that we might know the Father. John 17, he’s praying to the Father in verses 25 and 26. Father, righteous father, though the world does not know you, I know you and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them and will continue to make you known. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. And John 1 18. No one has ever seen God except the only son who is close to the father’s heart has made him known. So God, Jesus came to make known the father. Otherwise the father, God was a stranger. but he made him known to us. Hallelujah. 33, Jesus came to be the light of the world and to deliver us from darkness. Matthew 4, 16, the people living in darkness have seen a great light. On those living in the shadow of death, a light has dawned. John 12, 46, I have come into the world as a light so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness. John 8, 12, when Jesus spoke to the people, he said, I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. Colossians 1.13, who has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear son. That’s why we should never be in darkness, either mentally, spiritually, or physically, because Jesus came to deliver us from the power of darkness. Darkness no longer has a hold on us. Hallelujah. Praise God. Amen. And then number 34, Jesus came to bring the kingdom of God to the earth. Matthew 6, 10, Jesus prayed, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. In Matthew 1, 14, I mean, I’m sorry, Mark, Mark 1, 14 and 15, when Jesus came into Galilee preaching the gospel of the kingdom, he said, the time is fulfilled. The kingdom of God is at hand. It’s at hand or it is here. The The kingdom of God is here. Luke 11, 20, the kingdom of God has come to you. And I have a whole series on the kingdom of God. You can listen to that on my YouTube channel. But Jesus came to bring the kingdom of God. He came to colonize earth because the kingdom of God was in heaven only. But he expanded the kingdom of God to the earth. That is colonizing earth. Just like when Great Britain went to India and other parts of the world, they colonized. Great Britain came to the United States or came to America at the time. We were not the United States and colonized North America. Well, Jesus left heaven and came to earth to colonize earth, to make earth a colony of heaven, to bring the kingdom, which is the government and rule and laws of God from earth, from heaven to the earth and to replicate heaven on the earth. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. And then number 35, of course, Jesus came to preach, teach, and heal. And you know all those scriptures, Matthew 4, 23 and 24, Mark 1, 38, Mark 4, 18, Luke 4, 43. But Jesus came teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. He came preaching, teaching, and healing. Number 36, he came to teach us how to use our faith and authority. He came to teach us how to use the laws of the kingdom. And I have here an example of Mark 11, 22 to 24. Jesus cursed the fig tree. Peter looked and said, look, master, the fig tree you cursed has withered from the roots. And Jesus taught them how to do the same thing. And that’s what all of his teaching was. If you have a red letter Bible, all of that red letter is teaching us how to be like him, how to walk in the spiritual laws of the kingdom in faith, in authority, use our words, sowing and reaping, etc. Number 37, Jesus came to be the author and finisher of our faith. Hebrews 12, 2, let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Number 38, Jesus came to send the Holy Spirit. John 14, 16 and 17. And I will ask the Father, he will give you another counselor to be with you forever. The Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him because it neither sees him nor knows him, but you know him for he lives with you and will be in you. Hallelujah. John 14, 26. But the counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have said to you. John 15, 26. When the counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me. Acts 1.8, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. So Jesus came to send the Holy Spirit to us. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. And number 39, Jesus came to give us glory. Glory. 1 Corinthians 2.7, we speak of God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden, that God destined for what? Our glory before time began. The Amplified Bible says it like this. The Amplified Classic says, God destined for our glorification. To lift us into the glory of his presence. He destined for our glorification so that we would be lifted up into the glory of his presence. Hallelujah. 2 Corinthians 3.18. We also with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory are being transformed. formed into his likeness from glory to glory or with ever increasing glory so he destined us for glory hebrews 2 9 and 10 we see jesus who was made a little lower than the angels now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death so that he might taste death for everyone in bringing many sons to glory so our destiny is glorification to be glorified In his presence. Hallelujah. And I stopped there at 39. There were others, but I didn’t feel a witness to go any further. Of course, you can probably add on to this list from now through eternity. Things that Jesus did. We won’t even learn them all at once. We’ll learn them through eternity. All that Jesus did for us. But I thought it interesting when I felt complete that this list was complete. I had 39. And then when you think of 39 in biblical numerology, what do you think of? The 39 lashes. And so I just quickly looked it up and thought, why were there 39 lashes? And actually, the Old Testament law said 40. Deuteronomy 25.3 says that nobody was to be lashed more than 40 times to fulfill the law for punishment of a crime. But that’s what the Jews did. They would always… The law was here. We would bring that border in a little bit. We don’t want to come close to the edge. So they always made the edge a little bit closer. They wouldn’t cross it. And so actually 39 lashes for punishment. And Paul wrote, he said he received 39 lashes or 40 minus one three times. But what was that for? It was Jewish tradition that permitted 39 lashes for punishment, 40 to fulfill the law, less one to show mercy. So that shows that Jesus came to fulfill the law to show us mercy. And I thought, wow, how awesome is that? We have a list of 39. Like I said, through eternity, we’ll be adding to that list. But we have a list of 39. And it was Jesus came to completely fulfill the law and to show us mercy. And that’s all of it in a nutshell, summarizing why he came to deliver us, set us free from sin and the power of sin and from Satan and death and hell and the grave and the curse of sin and death. Now, I wanted to read this to you. This is something that a prophetic word that was given to Tim Sheets. He’s a pastor and apostle in Ohio, a pastor of a church in Ohio. But the Lord gave him a prophetic word, which was based on Acts 2, 16 through 18. And the book of Joel, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel. In the last days, God says, I will pour out my spirit on all people. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams. And actually right there, your sons and daughters, this is what authorizes women to preach. In the last days, there will be women preachers because God said he would pour out his spirit on the sons and daughters. In the past, it was only on the men, but now it’s on the sons and daughters. That authorizes women to preach. Not that we needed it because Jesus already authorized us. There’s other scripture for that, that we are authorized by Jesus. But this is another one. What you just heard was the continuation of a Christmas message that I preached in one of our victorious faith services called, Why Did Jesus Come? And we will continue this message again tomorrow. So join me again tomorrow. And remember, God loves you. You are blessed and highly favored by the Lord.
