God's Purpose for Working With SRA Survivors of Trauma

Recorded 5-25-1997, Pastor Doug Riggs gave this incredible message that needs to be heard and realized now more than ever.

Due to the somewhat poor quality of the recording, a transcript is included so one is encouraged to follow along.

Doug used Old Testament typology of Israel's deliverance from Egypt (the world) and the requirement to dispossess the enemy in order to take by force the inheritance of the land of Canaan (Christ) to give us a clear picture of where we are here and now at the end of the church age and the inheritance given to us not yet conquered and possessed.

"When we begin to move into the direction of taking possession of our real inheritance, it's then that we find the enemy in our midst. If we remain status quo, we don't even understand what our inheritance is in Christ, and we're not making any movement towards that inheritance, the enemy is silent. You won't stir him up... But you start talking about the corporate goal of the church of coming into full possession of their inheritance, and begin to work in a practical way for God's people to move into that fullness, then all hell breaks loose. Then we find out what spirital ground we're really on. To me, I've already made the decision it's unto death - it's possession of the inheritance or death. I'm not interested in something in-between - a compromise."

"The first generation of the church did not go in and possess their inheritance - they did not! So, the church has been wandering for 2,000 years in the wilderness corporately. This is not every individual, because there have been individuals that have gone in - and we read about these wonderful saints. But the corporate aspect of the church has never gone in."

"The rapture is not something just as an event on a calendar somewhere. There is a divine criteria that is set forth in the will of God, and all the prayers of the Apostle Paul in Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1st Thessalonians, 2nd Thessalonians, those prayers that he prayed for the church, as they are realized, and the prayer of our Lord Jesus in John 17, as those prayers are realized, a remnant of that church will go in and take possession. This generation has been selected for the opportunity to go in - to seize that opportunity and to take possession of God's inheritance. But there are many enemies! That inheritance - those unsearchable riches in Christ - there are fortified positions blocking our access. And these fortified positions are not in a piece of real estate. They are now inside the souls of God's people; the enemy has put these things inside."

"If you're going to take possession of your inheritance, then you have to disinherit the enemy! That's why we are in this work; that's why we're doing this. That's why every Christian counselor that is working with someone that was abused, especially where there is demonization and fragmentation inside; you are helping empower that person to go in and dispossess that which the enemy has occupied. And disposses it for what purpose? So the Lord can be there."

"Many churches are not dealing with it - sweeping it under the carpet. 'Don't talk about these things from the pulpit! Let's have our songs, three points, and a prayer' and 'Amen' and send everybody home. Let's follow our 3-point homiletical outline. Trash you homiletics! There's nowhere in the Bible Paul followed a homiletical outline! You only get that in seminary. That's where preachers get burried - seminary. It's worthless! You lift up the word of God and teach from the word of God - that's what you're called to do, pastors."

"God has allowed this (i.e.: SRA/DID) so that with those vast resources in Christ, we can begin to appropriate those riches and those resources so that we can go in and dispossess an enemy that's far greater and more intelligent than we are; on our own, we can't do it. So that postures us to begin to lay ahold of that which is supernatural - that which is given us, which is the Lord Jesus Himself."

"And now there's a new generation right on the brink; they have to be willing to allow the Lord to bring them into identification on a practical basis with Jesus Christ's death, burial, and resurrection, and go in and take possession."

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