WHAT IS THE DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF THE WORD REBUKE?
- TO REBUKE MEANS TO REPRIMIND , OR SCOLD, OR CORRECT OR JUDGE
- THE BIBLE SAYS OPEN REBUKE IS BETTER THAN SECRET LOVE PROVERBS 27:5
- “OPEN REBUKE IS BETTER THAN SECRET LOVE”
- JESUS EVEN SAYS IN LUKE 17:3 “ TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES:IF THY BROTHER TRESPASS AGAINST THEE, REBUKE HIM, AND IF HE REPENT FORGIVE HIM”
- SO REBUKE CAN AIM AT SOMETHING GOOD OR POSITIVE
- BIBLE RECOMMENDS IT FOR CORRECTION IN THE HOUSE OF GOD 1 TIMOTHY 5:20
- “THEM THAT SIN REBUKE BEFORE ALL, THAT OTHERS ALSO MAY FEAR”
- LET THE RIGHTEOUS REPROVE ME IN PSALM 141:5, ECC 7:5
- ELDERS ARE NOT TO BE REBUKED 1 TIMOTHY 5:1, “REBUKE NOT AN ELDER BUT INTREAT HIM AS A FATHER AND THE YOUNGER MEN AS BRETHREN.” 2 TIM 4:2 “PREACH THE WORD; BE INSTANT IN SEASON, OUT OF SEASON; REPROVE, REBUKE, EXHORT WITH ALL LONGSUFFERING AND DOCTRINE.”
- DEPENDING ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES, REBUKE MAY BE LIGHT, GOOD FOR THE SOUL OR HEAVY,AND DANGEROUS
- IN REVELATION 3:19 “THE LORD SAYS AS MANY AS I LOVED I REBUKE”
- WHEN IT COMES FROM GOD A REBUKE IS A DANGEROUS THING, IT CAN THEN BECOME A CURSE
- DAVID PRAYS IN PSALM 6:1 “LORD REBUKE ME NOT IN THINE ANGER, NEITHER CHASTEN ME IN THY HOT DISPLEASURE” AND ALSO IN PSALM 38:1
- BECAUSE HE UNDERSTANDS THE CONSEQUENCES OF DIVINE REBUKE
- WE ALSO NEED TO UNDERSTAND IT AND USE IT FOR SPIRITUAL WARFARE
- PSALM 76:6, “AT THY REBUKE O GOD OF JACOB, BOTH THE CHARIOT AND HORSE ARE CAST INTO A DEAD SLEEP.” PSALM 80:15-16, “AND THE VINEYARD WHICH THY RIGHT HAND HATH PLANTED AND THE BRANCH THAT THOU MADEST STRONG FOR THYSELF.” IT IS BURNED WITH FIRE, IT IS CUT DOWN: THEY PERISH AT THE REBUKE OF THY COUNTENANCE.” PSALM 104:6-7 “THE LORD EXECUTETH RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUDGEMENT FOR ALL THAT ARE OPPRESSED”HE MADE KNOWN HIS WAYS UNTO MOSES, AND JUDGEMENT FOR ALL THAT ARE OPPRESSED.”
- BECAUSE DAVID UNDERSTANDS THE POWER OF DIVINE REBUKE HE OFTEN INVITES GOD TO REBUKE HIS ENEMIES
- PSALM 68:30 “REBUKE THE COMPANY OF SPEARMEN, THE MULTITUDE OF THE BULLS, WITH THE CALVES OF THE PEOPLE TILL EVERY ONE SUBMIT HIMSELF WITH PIECES OF SILVER: SCATTER THOU THE PEOPLE THAT DELIGHT IN WAR.”
- WHEN GOD REBUKES THE ENEMY OF HIS PEOPLE HE DOES SO WITH FIRE ISAIAH 66:15 “FOR, BEHOLD THE LORD WILL COME WITH FIRE, AND WITH HIS CHARIOTS LIKE A WHIRLWIND, TO RENDER HIS ANGER WITH FURY, AND HIS REBUKE WITH FLAMES OF FIRE.”
- WHEN GOD GOES OUT TO REBUKE THE ENEMY THERE SHALL BE DESOLATION
- NOW AT THIS TIME SATAN AND HIS AGENTS MUST BE REBUKED IN ALL OUR LIVES
- HIS FILTHY GARMENTS OF SHAME, CONFUSION, REPROACH AND DISGRACE MUST BE REBUKED, BY THE LORD
- ZECHARIA 3:1-4
- MICHEAL THE ARCH ANGEL REBUKED SATAN IN JUDE 9 “ YET MICHEAL THE ARCHANGEL, WHEN CONTENDING WITH THE DEVIL HE DISPUTED ABOUT THE BODY OF MOSES, DURST NOT BRING AGAINST HIM A RAILING ACCUSATION, BUT SAID, THE LORD REBUKE THEE.”
- WE ARE ALSO AUTHORISED TO REBUKE SATAN
- WE MUST LEARN TO REBUKE SATAN IN OUR LIVES
- WHO OR WHAT CAN BE REBUKED? WHEN WE NEED VICTORY
- THE HEATHEN PSALM 9:5 “THOU HAST REBUKED THE HEATHEN, THOU HAST DESTROYED THE WICKED, THOU HAST PUT OUT THEIR NAME FOR EVER AND EVER.”
- THE SEA PSALM 106:9 “HE REBUKED THE RED SEA, AND IT WAS DRIED UP: SO HE LED THEM THROUGH THE DEPTHS, AS THROUGH THE WILDERNESS”
- THE WINDS, MATHEW 8:26 “AND HE SAITH UNTO THEM, WHY ARE YE FEARFUL, O YE OF LITTLE FAITH? THEN HE ROSE AND REBUKED THE WINDS AND THE SEA; AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM.”
- THE PROUD , PSALM 119:21 “THOU HAST REBUKED THE PROUD THAT ARE CURSED, WHICH DO ERR FROM THY COMMANDMENTS”
- JESUS REBUKED THE DEVIL IN MATHEW 17:18 “AND JESUS REBUKED THE DEVIL; AND HE DEPARTED OUT OF HIM AND THE CHILD WAS CURED FROM THAT VERY HOUR.
- UNCLEAN SPIRITS WERE REBUKED BY THE LORD MARK 1:25
- JESUS REBUKED FEVER IN PETER’S HOUSE MARK 9:25
- NOW BEGIN TO REBUKE EVERY WORK OF DARKNESS IN YOUR LIFE IN JESUS NAME
- SIN
- INIQUITY OF YOUR FATHER’S HOUSE
- INIQUITY OF YOUR MOTHER’S HOUSE
- SICKNESS
- DISEASES
- POVERTY
- DELAYED MIRACLES AND JOBLESSNESS ETC
- PSALM 9
- REBUKE ALL THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY IN OUR LANDS AND CHURCHES IN JESUS NAME
- HEAVENLY FATHER REBUKE EVERY WORK OF DARKNESS IN ALL OUR FAMILIES AND FOUNDATIONS IN JESUS NAME
- REBUKE SATAN, ISIS, BIKO, HARAN, THE SEAS AND FLOODS IN JESUS NAME. PSALM 106:9, MATHEW