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DEALING WITH BAR-JESUS

Text : Acts 13:6 ISV 

 *They went through the whole island as far as Paphos, where they found a Jewish occult practitioner and false prophet named Bar-jesus.* 

We have already established that Bar-jesus represents anyone or anything that comes in the name of Christ with the aim of perverting the Gospel of Christ. 
Act 13:8 says "But Elymas the occult practitioner (also known as Bar-jesus) continued to oppose them and tried to turn the proconsul away from the faith"

The devil has positioned different Bar-jesuses at various junctions of your life. You need wisdom to recognise and avoid them.
 
When Paul saw what Bar-jesus was doing,  the first thing that was recorded about him was that he was filled with the Holy Spirit. 

It takes higher authority to deal with lesser ones. No one can deliver himself from the claws of false teachers and prophets except by the Spirit of the Lord.
(Acts 13:9 ISV) But Saul, also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked him straight in the eye.

 *It takes the Holy Spirit In the life of a man, to look at sin and temptation straight in the eye and shun it.* 

The next thing Paul did was to speak against the evil. It's not enough to recognise evil as evil, you must speak against it.

Isaiah 54:17 says No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; *and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.* *This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.* 

You must stand to condemn every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment with the authority in the name of Jesus. 
 

 *BIBLE READING* : Acts 13:5-12.

 *PRAYER FOCUS* 

1. I condemn every tongue  rising against me in judgement in Jesus name. 

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