Topic:Binding The Strongman
Text: Luke 14:28-30

There is a strong link between a strongmen and a stronghold. Strongmen are attached to strongholds. In the olden days, when someone captured a slave, he put the slave bound in what was called a stronghold. A stronghold is always a fence with a mighty wall round it so that the fellow would not be able to escape. Of course, there would be somebody guarding the place. When you want to set your beloved one free, there are three principal things to do.

Is to bind the fellow supervising the stronghold.
You have to loosen the bound person.
You have to pull down the stronghold around your beloved one so that, after freedom, he will be able to escape.

The question then is how do you get inside the stronghold to loosen the captive, pull down the stronghold and get out?

In Matthew 12:29 the Bible says: “Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s hose, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man: and then he will spoil his house.” Here, the Bible states that the first thing to do is to bind the strongman. There are all kind of strongmen. By the way, the strongman is not the devil. The strongmen is just one of his agents that he put in charge of his slaves. The time to bind the devil for a thousand years by an angel will come later. You do not bind the man but the spirit. It is the evil force controlling your beloved one that you must bind. When you bind the demon, you will be able to rescue your beloved one. If you simply talk to a strongman he will not budge. He is a stubborn personality.

The only language he understands is the language of binding and loosening. When you bind the strongman, you put a full stop to his activities.

Memory Verse: Matthew 18:18 - “Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”