1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:18,400 Preached on a lot of this stuff for over the years and you may 6 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:22,480 have been here you may have not you know a preached series and 7 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:26,520 sometimes very few make it through 3/4. 8 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:31,040 I'm not kidding I've watched I know I see things and so I have 9 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,880 to back up to finish series because and it's you know it's 10 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,240 not I'm not saying that bad. Some people are called out in 11 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,600 the ministry they they're not here and every Sunday or 12 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:42,520 Wednesday. But that's why I don't do a lot 13 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,480 of series but I did some of this stuff back in 20 during COVID 14 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:50,040 and crowds were live tonight. It's a little light spring break 15 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,840 going on, I guess too, but I preached on the present day 16 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,800 ministry of Jesus and that's that's that's kind of an easy 17 00:00:57,800 --> 00:00:59,160 one. We know what the present day 18 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:03,720 ministry is to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to to a lost and 19 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:07,240 dying world. The present day ministry is is 20 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,320 kind of left up to the church today and the people attending 21 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:13,880 the church and those that tend to venture out the doors of the 22 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:15,720 church. It's the present day ministry of 23 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:20,000 spreading the gospel, but social media does a lot of that today. 24 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,560 It's done a lot different than it was in years past. 25 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:26,800 And the second part of this series I preached was the 26 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,000 reality. And I preached this quite often, 27 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,040 pretty much every Sunday, the reality of the authority of the 28 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:35,280 name of Jesus. And we stayed on that for a few 29 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:37,960 weeks. But when you realize that there 30 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:42,200 there is a reality that Jesus does have the authority because 31 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,760 it was given to him upon this earth when he conquered sin, 32 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:49,200 death, hell in the grave. There was a great authority that 33 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:53,120 was put on his name. And it is a reality in our life 34 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,320 as we become a believer that we can, that we can look to the 35 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,520 reality of the authority of the name of Jesus. 36 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,080 And the third thing I preached on that and I best, I remember 37 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:07,120 there wasn't a whole lot here. And I just was digging through 38 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,120 some things this week and found this. 39 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,760 And the third part of that series I preached on was Jesus 40 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,840 victory over Satan. I want to look at this tonight, 41 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,960 Jesus victory over Satan. When you look around our world 42 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:24,520 and our country and bring it on down to our state, bring it on 43 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:28,120 down to our church, bring it on down to our schools, bring it on 44 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:32,040 down to our home, sometimes it doesn't look like a lot of 45 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:38,720 people have victory over Satan. See, Satan was the reason for 46 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:42,840 redemption. Satan was the reason that there 47 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:48,040 had to be a redemptive plan. Without Satan being defeated, we 48 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:51,120 would not be redeemed. As early as Genesis chapter 3, 49 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,600 we read about it and you can turn there. 50 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,200 You can read about it when you get home. 51 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,400 But there was something that happened that turned the whole 52 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:04,040 course of mankind for all time while up on planet Earth. 53 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:06,480 What? How many know what happened? 54 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:12,360 Mankind, womankind, however you choose to say it, there's 55 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,840 something that happened right there in Genesis chapter 3. 56 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,120 The enemy did something called deceived. 57 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,720 He deceived Eve, right? He deceived her. 58 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,640 He deception entered in and I want to look at this. 59 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:29,840 See, my belief is that the devil can deceive you. 60 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:32,040 There's no doubt he can deceive you. 61 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:34,160 We see this through television ads. 62 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:35,920 We threat see this through music. 63 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,840 We see this through drugs and alcohol, sexual immorality. 64 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:44,240 The devil can deceive you. We've all at some time or 65 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,040 another, been deceived by the devil. 66 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:49,720 We thought that that what the world had to offer or what 67 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,360 someone had to offer us was better than what God had to 68 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,560 offer us. So we were deceived into acting 69 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,960 upon what He was, what He was doing in our mind, which was 70 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,440 deceiving us. That's what happened to Eve. 71 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,280 That's what that's what happened to the fall of man. 72 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,240 But write this down. My belief is the devil can 73 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,080 deceive you. We know what can happen, but I 74 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,800 don't think he can make us do anything. 75 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,959 Hello. You ever had a teenage kid? 76 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,720 I mean, there comes a point you can make them do some things, 77 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,960 but there comes a point they just look at you and you realize 78 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:32,160 that, hey, to make the OR an employee, I can make them do 79 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,080 this, but it's going to take some force. 80 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,560 I recall what Randy said one time. 81 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,840 His daughter didn't think grinding it was too bad from her 82 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:41,680 car. So he took the keys and he taped 83 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:44,160 them to the ceiling fan that hung down over the kitchen 84 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:46,760 table. So every meal he put it on low 85 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:49,520 and she had to watch them ceiling fans go around with the 86 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:54,120 keys on them To remind her that hey, I still got a little bit of 87 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,000 authority, right? To remind her that, hey, I can 88 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,200 still stop some things in your life. 89 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,840 But see, there comes a time and it's this way in the spiritual 90 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:05,640 realm. You can't make people do 91 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,400 anything. You can preach them the gospel. 92 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,520 You those saying you can lead a horse, help me in the water, but 93 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,560 you can't make him drink, right? But my belief is the devil can't 94 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,640 can deceive you, but he can't really make you do anything. 95 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,160 And I, I get tired of people saying, well, the devil made me. 96 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,320 No, he didn't. You were deceived. 97 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:26,200 You believe the lie of the enemy because he's the author of lies. 98 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,880 He's a liar. He's the author of what 99 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,600 confusion. And when you believe the lie, 100 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,560 you get confused, you become deceived, right? 101 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,520 And and he can make things in this life look so good and 102 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,080 convince your mind that you can't live without it. 103 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,440 And yes, you will act up on it. So when we look at this, it's a 104 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:47,200 three fold thing over Satan. It's a three fold thing. 105 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,320 And I want to look at this third thing tonight. 106 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,760 We have the present day ministry of Jesus. 107 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:55,960 We have the reality of the authority of his name, but we 108 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,440 have victory over Satan through Jesus. 109 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:03,720 See the first way God chose to defeat Satan, the very first way 110 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:08,040 he had He had a, a, a spiritual being on planet earth that 111 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,960 people could not see that had came from heaven. 112 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:13,000 He had came from the throne room of God. 113 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:17,400 He was a he was a different type of spirit that probably God had 114 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:21,240 ever seen because he had blessed him to lead worship in heaven. 115 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,880 He was in heaven. He was in the presence of God. 116 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,080 He knew how God thought. He knew how God reacted. 117 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:29,800 He had he's been in the very present ever thought about that 118 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,840 in the very presence of God and yet he wanted to become like God 119 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:37,360 and God seen pride in heaven. He said pride cannot exist where 120 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,920 I'm at. So he cast him down and all 121 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:43,320 those that were he was trying to get in his little occult and he 122 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,160 cast them down to planet earth and there was fallen angels and 123 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,680 there was a lot of them. But the first way God chose to 124 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,320 defeat him and redeem him was where. 125 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,400 And you know, when I think about this, if I would have been God, 126 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:01,160 I am not God, but had I have been God, I think I would have 127 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:04,560 spoke and defeated Satan. And it's, and it's pretty 128 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,960 interesting to see how God did this because God could have 129 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,960 attacked Satan in the spirit realm because he could turn 130 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,840 water into wine. He could part the Red Sea. 131 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,520 He can make a staff, turn into a rod, turn into a snake. 132 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:22,520 God could do a lot of neat stuff, but he could have just 133 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:26,200 spoke at any time and Satan would have been wiped out. 134 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:30,200 God did not do it that way. Ever wondered why? 135 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:35,040 I've often wondered why he chose to come down to planet that to 136 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:38,840 the planet earth that he created and defeat him with the only 137 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:43,600 begotten Son on his own turf. That whosoever believes in him 138 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,920 can be born again and have eternal life and have it more 139 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,400 abundantly. So the first place that God 140 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,240 defeated Satan, and this was just ironic to me when I was 141 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:57,560 studying this out was with something that you and I fell 142 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:03,640 with every day, an earthly walk. We can say he defeated him with 143 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:05,120 Jesus. And that's true. 144 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:09,160 Jesus came as God in form of a man, the planet earth, right? 145 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:14,040 But what defeated Satan, the way that Jesus walked this earth for 146 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:17,000 33 1/2 years is what defeated Satan. 147 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:20,160 He had a mission to accomplish when he was here. 148 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,520 And and it's a type and shadow of what God has called his 149 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:27,280 children, Christians to do. And yet we fail miserably 150 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:30,320 because we're too worried about getting saved and just going to 151 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,640 heaven. And we don't even occupy come on 152 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:36,240 somebody until he comes, much less do anything for the Kingdom 153 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,720 and begin to open the blinded eyes and do the things that 154 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:43,400 Jesus did. But yet God chose to defeat 155 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:48,080 Satan with an earthly walk with a fleshly man, which Satan 156 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,600 tempted in every way, just as you and I are tempted, but was 157 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:56,800 without sin and got to sit down at the right hand of the Father. 158 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:57,960 I want to read a little bit of that. 159 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,080 I know we've read it before, but but it's it's, you know, it's 160 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:03,600 kind of like the ABC's. You forget the ABC's in your 161 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:04,480 life. What happened? 162 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,000 You forget how to read. You forget the ABC's in your 163 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:13,360 mind and you forget how to talk. So in in Luke chapter 4 it says 164 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:17,960 in verse one that Jesus being filled with the Holy Spirit, he 165 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,040 requires his believers to do this too. 166 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:24,320 In Acts you can read about it. He returned from the Jordan 167 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:27,600 after water baptism and he was led by the Spirit into the 168 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,520 wilderness. Being tempted for 40 days by the 169 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,360 devil. By the way, I'm preaching on 40 170 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:36,360 this Sunday. So you want to, you want to be 171 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:37,560 here. It's going to be a good one. 172 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:39,720 God, don't ever give it to me on Wednesday. 173 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,840 It's usually Saturday or Sunday. So I got to be, I got a week to 174 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,600 build on it. And in those days, he ate 175 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:48,680 nothing. And afterwards, when he was 176 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:53,320 hungry, You don't want to go to people when they're hungry. 177 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,880 They're vulnerable. They just want to eat. 178 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,440 They don't care about life. Many people, they don't care 179 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,280 about anything. When you get hungry, there's one 180 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:04,200 thing on your mind, Jerry, isn't it eating nothing else seems to 181 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,920 matter when you starve and especially if you hadn't had it 182 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,000 40 days. And the devil said to him, if 183 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:14,800 you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread. 184 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:16,680 He could have done it. What a great miracle that would 185 00:10:16,680 --> 00:10:18,000 have been. Look here, I'm going to feed 186 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,400 myself with these rocks. But yet he resisted that 187 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:23,760 temptation and Jesus answered him. 188 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:28,000 He said is written man shall not live by bread alone, but by 189 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,360 every word of God. You know, man has still not 190 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,880 figured that out. Then the devil, taking him up on 191 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,800 the high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world at 192 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,440 a moment of time. And the devil said to him, All 193 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,920 this authority I will give you, and their glory. 194 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:49,720 For this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I 195 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,080 wish. Well, that's tough, isn't it? 196 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,720 A lot of the good. See, Devil can give you some 197 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,120 things that look good to the eyes and to the flesh. 198 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:04,240 Therefore, if you will worship before me, all will be yours. 199 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,560 And Jesus answered and he said to him, and I thought about that 200 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:12,160 he, Satan asked for worship. What was he asking for to bow 201 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:13,120 down? That's right. 202 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:14,920 He was asked just just bow down to me. 203 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,920 Just recognize me. Just give me a little time. 204 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,160 Just don't do anything for God and you begin to bow down to 205 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:24,280 Satan. And Jesus answered, he said, get 206 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:26,760 thee behind me. Anybody ever told Satan that Get 207 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:30,600 thee behind me, Get thee behind me, Satan? 208 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,480 For it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and 209 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:36,280 him only shall you serve. Then he brought him to 210 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:38,240 Jerusalem. He didn't stop there. 211 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:41,560 And he set him out on the pinnacle of the temple. 212 00:11:41,560 --> 00:11:44,000 And he said to him, If you are the Son of God, throw yourself 213 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,640 down from here. For it is written, He shall give 214 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:51,280 his angels charge over you to keep you, and in their hands 215 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,120 they shall bear you up, bless you, dash your foot against a 216 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,040 stone. And Jesus answered, And he said 217 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,280 to him, It has been said, you shall not tempt the Lord to God. 218 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,840 Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed 219 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:11,320 from him until a uptream time, or for a season. 220 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,600 Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and 221 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,000 the news of Him went out through all the surrounding region, and 222 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,920 He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. 223 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:29,560 So see, the first way that He chose to fight Satan was with a 224 00:12:29,560 --> 00:12:34,000 fleshly man with temptations that you and I face every day. 225 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,440 And as I was meditating on this today, I said, God, what do you 226 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,080 tell Him? The Holy Spirit spoke this. 227 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:41,400 Write this down because I believe it was from God. 228 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:47,840 We must stop dwelling in the carnality of the thought process 229 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:51,360 of the mind. Can I say that again? 230 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:57,360 We must stop dwelling in the carnality of the thought process 231 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,240 of the mind. What does that mean? 232 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,080 I said. I begin to look at that. 233 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,960 Do we dwell? When you dwell on something, it 234 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:09,160 means that you live there. It means that that is a part of 235 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:10,360 you. You live there. 236 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:14,160 You're now with it and you don't ever get away from it unless you 237 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:17,600 act upon it. And most people, it's the when 238 00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:21,280 we say carnality, it is. It is fleshly desires. 239 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:24,680 It can be sexual immorality. It can be that the lust of the 240 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:27,160 eye can be all kinds. It's anything in the flesh. 241 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,280 It's carnal. We understand that. 242 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:34,400 So we must stop dwelling in the carnality of the thought process 243 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,680 of the mind. You know anybody like that, 244 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:41,000 before you say anything to them, you already know the series of 245 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,640 questions that you're going to have to answer because that is, 246 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,200 let's just call it their carnal DNA makeup. 247 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,760 The DNA that you see that, you know, is the nature of them that 248 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:55,120 they are going to react this way because they always do. 249 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,520 Hello, I'm on a ruffle some feathers now. 250 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:03,040 But you say something to them and you know exactly how they're 251 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,400 going to react. You know, you say, well, they 252 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:06,720 had a wreck. Did they get killed? 253 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:09,400 No, they were OK. Well, why was that? 254 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,000 They was OK. Yeah, they were OK. 255 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:18,240 But, well, you know, we we we say, well, I I seen somebody in 256 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:20,440 town and they was having a little. 257 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:23,280 Are they divorced? Are they having trouble? 258 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,800 We dwell in the carnality, right? 259 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,280 And see, Jesus didn't do this. He could have dwelled in the 260 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:31,880 car. Now he could have got hung up 261 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,800 on, wait a minute, I just come from heaven where God had all 262 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,320 this authority and I was sent to this earth. 263 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,160 And now I've met this man that says he's Satan, and it says 264 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:44,080 that he has authority over all the things I see to give them to 265 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,240 me, right? So he could have got hung up on 266 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,000 any of them things. But Jesus had learned not to 267 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,040 dwell in the carnality of the thought process. 268 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,440 If you're going to defeat Satan in this, in this earthly walk, 269 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:00,120 you're going to have to learn to not dwell in the carnality of 270 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:01,640 the thought process. Amen. 271 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:05,000 And I've been doing this a lot lately because as we go to the 272 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,880 doctors, we get different reports and, and things like 273 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:09,080 that. If you go to doctors, you're 274 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,280 going to get bad reports a lot of times. 275 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:14,120 But yet, you know the promises of God. 276 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,680 And I can't dwell in the carnality of that thought. 277 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,840 I have to turn my thought and say, OK, it may look like this 278 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,760 at what I'm hearing, but I, I know that God has never failed 279 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,080 me yet. And I know that God is supplying 280 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:27,800 a way out. And I look at that. 281 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,840 I look at the enemy, say God must have something good for my 282 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:31,720 life. Amen. 283 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,880 Anybody ever been to that place? I pray with people around these 284 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:36,680 altars. You couldn't even imagine the 285 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:40,040 place that you're at. But we just kept saying over and 286 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,480 over that God is going to bring me out of this and we see it. 287 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:50,520 What if God does see Jesus? He, he he went on and as he came 288 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,840 to Nazareth, where after he had done what I just preached to 289 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:57,840 you. We must stop dwelling in the 290 00:15:57,840 --> 00:15:59,200 carnality. Why? 291 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:05,680 Because the Bible is very clear that life and death, blessing 292 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:08,760 and cursing is in the power of the tongue. 293 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,800 It's in within what we say. So we must stop dwelling in the 294 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,440 carnality of the thought process of the mind because the mind is 295 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:18,600 not always right. Anybody figured that out? 296 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:22,400 We rely on our mind too much. If we can read it and we can see 297 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:24,960 it in our mind's eye, we can confirm it on Google. 298 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,160 Then it becomes a part of us that's carnal. 299 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:31,720 We operate how in the spirit realm, that's how we overcome 300 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:34,000 those things. So look what Jesus did as he 301 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,720 went out because he had because he had overcome these things. 302 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:41,760 He went into the synagogues and verse 16 through 17 and and he 303 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:44,480 was handed the book of the book of the prophet Isaiah. 304 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:48,120 And he began to read this book and he said this, he said the 305 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,800 spirit of the Lord. Look how Jesus didn't think the 306 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,400 spirit of the Lord. See, there's something in these 307 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,600 first, first 15 verses that had happened. 308 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,760 The spirit of the enemy had come up on him because he was tempted 309 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:03,600 for 40 days, but he didn't talk about what he was tempted by. 310 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:06,680 He turned it around and he went to the synagogue and he said, 311 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,280 the spirit of the Lord is upon me. 312 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:12,200 Anybody ever feel like the spirit of the Lord is upon you? 313 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,440 You should if you're a Christian, but you're not going 314 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:16,960 to if you're dwelling in the carnal. 315 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,599 Well, this is good stuff. You're not going to if you're 316 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:22,280 dwelling in the carnality of the thought process of the mind. 317 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:25,000 You're not going to feel like the Spirit of the Lord is upon 318 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:25,760 you. You're going to feel like 319 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:28,040 negativity is upon you. You're going to feel like the 320 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,640 last word that somebody that went through what you're going 321 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:34,040 through has spoken to your spirit or your mind and you 322 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:37,600 begin to believe it. See, you must stop dwelling in 323 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:41,920 the carnality of the mind. Jesus did not do this and this 324 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,640 is how God defeated Satan was in the fleshly walk. 325 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:48,640 We can do it y'all. The Spirit of the Lord is upon 326 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,360 me because he is anointed me to do what? 327 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:53,200 To preach the gospel to the poor. 328 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,240 He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim 329 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,400 liberty to captives. You know, when, when we are sent 330 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,440 to heal the broken hearted and sometimes we don't do that 331 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,040 right. We tell them how broken we have 332 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,600 been and, and all the things that we have been through and 333 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:10,520 maybe God didn't come through for us. 334 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:12,280 No, we're to heal the broken hearted. 335 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,360 But if you're not walking in the spirit of the Lord and you have 336 00:18:15,360 --> 00:18:18,600 not seen some victory, you can heal the broken hearted to 337 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:22,480 proclaim liberty to the captives to cover this side to the blind 338 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:29,120 to sit at liberty those who are oppressed to preach the 339 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:32,320 acceptable year of the Lord. Then he closed the book, he gave 340 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:34,520 it back to the tendant and he sat down. 341 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:37,760 What a message Jesus preached in the eyes of all who were in the 342 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:42,560 synagogue was fixed upon him and he began to say to them, today 343 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,960 the Scripture is fulfilled in you hearing. 344 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:49,320 But see Jesus walked this walk victoriously and I believe we 345 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,720 can too. I don't know why people want to 346 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,560 go around believing they can't. I want to believe I can. 347 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:56,360 Amen. I want to live every day that 348 00:18:56,360 --> 00:18:58,760 God's got something great in store for me. 349 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,880 I believe we can walk through life without being addicted and 350 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:03,840 afflicted. Jesus did it. 351 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,520 I believe the blood that was shed by him on Calvary still 352 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,280 sets people free if they want free. 353 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:13,800 And Colossians 211 through 15. Let's let's read what this said. 354 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,960 This is a very powerful passage of scripture. 355 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:20,240 Why can we do this? Why can we walk through this 356 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,000 life victoriously? But I'm going to I'm going to 357 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,760 make a promise to you. If you don't stop dwelling in 358 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:29,760 the carnality of the thought process of the mind, you will 359 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,360 never be free spiritually, never. 360 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:34,760 It does not happen. They 2 can't coexist. 361 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:40,280 But in first in Colossians chapter 2 and verse 11, it says 362 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:44,800 in him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made 363 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,800 without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the 364 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:53,760 flesh, by the circumcision of Christ buried with Him in 365 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:57,440 baptism, in which you also were raised with him through faith in 366 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,960 the working of God, who raised him from the dead. 367 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,080 And you being dead in your trespasses and the 368 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:07,000 uncircumcision of your flesh, He made a live together with Him, 369 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,480 having forgiven you all your trespasses. 370 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,760 Aren't you glad of that having wiped out the handwriting 371 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:16,840 requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us, 372 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:18,920 And He has taken it out of the way. 373 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:20,760 Man, we are. Every morning you get up. 374 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,920 You ought to thank God that the old law is taken out of the way. 375 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:27,080 You'd to even profess Christ, you would have to get up and do 376 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:31,360 all these things. But he said that he has taken it 377 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:34,000 out of the way. Right here's the key. 378 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,680 Having nailed it to the cross, in a few weeks we'll celebrate 379 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,280 that. Having nailed it to the cross, 380 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:46,240 having disarmed the principalities and the powers, 381 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:51,360 he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in 382 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:53,520 it. So let no one judge you. 383 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,320 And he what goes on to talk about the food or drink, the new 384 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:58,760 moons, the Sabbath, which are shadow of things to come. 385 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,880 Let no one cheat you out of your reward, taking the light and 386 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,720 false humility and the worshipping of angels, intruding 387 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,040 into those things which has not seen vainly puffed up with the 388 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,400 fleshly mind. You can go on to read about that 389 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:11,520 later. In verse 20. 390 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:14,760 It says, therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic 391 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:18,720 principles of the world. This is a good question to ask 392 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,520 yourself. Why, as though living in the 393 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:25,480 world, do you subject yourself to regulations? 394 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:29,920 That's a whole nother message. But see, Jesus did this because 395 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:34,800 he was ordered by the father #2 why can't we walk victoriously? 396 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,560 Hebrews chapter 2, verse 14 and 15. 397 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:42,320 It says that we are released from bondage #2 there's victory 398 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:46,320 in the sacrifice. And what Jesus did at the cross, 399 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,840 I said there's victory in that. And as much then as the children 400 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:53,600 have partaken of flesh and blood, he, like He himself 401 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,640 likewise shared in the same, that through death He might 402 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:00,920 destroy him who had power of death. 403 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,480 That is the devil. See, there's victory in the 404 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,360 sacrifice. Galatians 220 goes on and says 405 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:08,760 that I have been crucified with Christ. 406 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,640 It is no longer who I who live, but it is Christ who lives 407 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,360 within me. See the life that I now live in 408 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:18,200 the flesh, I live through the Son of God who loved me and gave 409 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,240 his life for me. He said it. 410 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,800 That's why it's finished. So why does so many keep 411 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,840 fighting a fight that's already been won? 412 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,920 Because see, there's victory in the sacrifice. 413 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,240 Say that with me, there's victory in the sacrifice. 414 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:35,880 In Second Chronicles chapter 20, we read about this. 415 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:40,240 There was a battle that was going on and I like the way that 416 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,840 this battle took place. It's I preached on it many 417 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:46,800 times. But in Second Chronicles chapter 418 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:52,000 20 and verse 5, Jehoshaphat, he, he stood in the assembly of 419 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,760 Judah and Jerusalem in the House of the Lord before the new 420 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,320 court. He was going through a battle 421 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:03,000 with Amon and Mohab, and he said, Oh Lord our God, our 422 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,840 fathers, are you not God in heaven? 423 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:07,840 Do you not rule over the kingdoms of the nations? 424 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:12,000 And in your hand is there not power and might so that no one 425 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,320 is able to withstand you? Are you not not our God, who 426 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,480 drove out the inhabitants of Israel? 427 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:24,760 And he goes on over and he says, you and our affliction, and you 428 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,760 saved us. And you will hear and say, verse 429 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:29,720 11. It says, here they are. 430 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,600 They're rewarding us by coming to throw us out of your 431 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,920 possession, which you have given us to inherit. 432 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,320 They were living in a place that God had given them, but yet they 433 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,040 were coming to take it from them. 434 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:46,040 Just like the enemy does us when we're to live in life more 435 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,960 abundantly, when we're to live in the great things that God has 436 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,320 given us. The enemy does what he comes and 437 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:55,280 intrudes on us. For we have no power against 438 00:23:55,280 --> 00:24:00,000 this great multitude that is coming against us, nor do we 439 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,600 know know what to do. But he says this. 440 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:08,200 He says our eyes are upon you key right there. 441 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:12,280 And he goes on down. He says, do not be afraid nor 442 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,880 dismayed because of this great multitude. 443 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,080 Anybody see a multitude, the church, if anybody should see a 444 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,640 multitude, that is against them. And we even have churches 445 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,600 joining in where churches are against churches now. 446 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,040 So there is a great multitude against us. 447 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,200 We must realize it. But he says do not be afraid nor 448 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:35,920 dismayed because this great multitude for the battle is not 449 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:40,280 yours, but God's man. That can take a lot of stress 450 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,120 off of you. You know, we we need to, we need 451 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:45,480 to. I'm telling you, the Lord just 452 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,320 give me that today. We got to quit dwelling in the 453 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,840 carnality of the thought process. 454 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,720 What a word. Because when we do, we take all 455 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,800 the battle upon us and it's a battle that you can't win anyway 456 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,840 without the power and the Spirit, Holy Spirit helping you, 457 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,080 right. So many Christians just keep 458 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:08,560 fighting this fight. He says do not be afraid nor 459 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,920 dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not 460 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,920 yours, but it's God. Tomorrow go down against them. 461 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,920 They will surely come up. I'm in verse 16. 462 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,680 They will surely come up by the ascent of Zeus, and you will 463 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,160 find them at the end of the brook before the wilderness, 464 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,560 Jerusalem. And then what he says here, 465 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,520 you're going to go down here, you're going to position 466 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:35,440 yourself. See, when I position myself, if 467 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,640 you were asked as a Christian tonight, how are you positioning 468 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,960 yourself? I wonder how many would answer 469 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,000 that. How do I position myself in the 470 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,320 onset of a battle? How do you position yourself? 471 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,760 What do you do? Well, some people say I pray 472 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,760 that's right, that's right, that's right. 473 00:25:58,360 --> 00:26:00,280 Anybody else? How do you position yourself? 474 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,720 Praise a great way, but has anybody ever prayed and not seen 475 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,200 a result? We all have. 476 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,080 But see the difference in this battle. 477 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,800 He's listening. He said my eyes, he First off, 478 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,280 he took his eyes off the battle. He put his eyes on God. 479 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,760 We keep our eyes on the battle, and then we pray to God to fix 480 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,920 what our eyes are already upon. When what you're looking at is 481 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,200 not what God's got in mind anyway, right? 482 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:28,960 Why? Because we're looking at the 483 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,040 carnal. We're looking at what we what we 484 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,120 see, just like I talked about Sunday. 485 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,440 But when you realize that the battle's not yours, and you 486 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,840 realize that if you're living righteous and you're living for 487 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:43,240 God and you're living holy, there's another scripture that 488 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,640 says the steps of the righteous man are ordered of God. 489 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,640 So every step I take, I believe is ordered of God. 490 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,000 My life is not my own, but I've been crucified with Christ. 491 00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:57,760 It's no longer I who live when I quit putting the carnality of my 492 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:02,440 thought process upon it. I become not afraid or dismayed 493 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,640 because of the multitude, because I realized the battle is 494 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,040 not mine. Hey, man, the battle is not 495 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:11,760 somebody in the battle is not mine. 496 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,360 My health is not in my hands tonight. 497 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,720 My health is not in the doctor's hands tonight. 498 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,160 I I know a lot of folks that walk in the doctor, they said 499 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,760 you got six months. They live 20 more years. 500 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,720 I know those people and you know what they what they'll all tell 501 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,800 you. I got my eyes off the doctor. 502 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,960 I got my eyes on God because my times are in his hands. 503 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,280 And then when you do that, he'll just give you some direction 504 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:39,840 when he knows your eyes up on him. 505 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:44,040 So you don't read of I wish there was accounts, but see the 506 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,960 great accounts of people that fought great battles and won 507 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:50,160 great battles in the Bible. We don't see the carnality of 508 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:54,360 the mind wrote about it doesn't say here that Jehoshaphat said 509 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:57,840 well, if I go down to the end of this Creek and I'll wait right 510 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,120 here to position myself, they're going to defeat me. 511 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,640 Those that God did great things that threw in the Bible, David 512 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,640 and all those people David had had committed adultery and 513 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,360 committed murder, but he kept fighting for God, right? 514 00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:13,560 That's why God could use him because he kept fighting. 515 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,520 It wasn't about what he had done. 516 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,840 It was about what he would do for God. 517 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,840 Amen. Somebody needs that tonight. 518 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,120 It's not about what you've done. It's what you can do for God. 519 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,800 But see, he says here, he said just go position yourself by the 520 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,880 brook before the wilderness at Gerbil. 521 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,760 You'll not need to fight in this battle. 522 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,640 We're wore out from fighting. He said just position yourself 523 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:45,920 and stand still and see the salvation of the Lord who is 524 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,840 with you. I had somebody tell me when are 525 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,720 you going through some mess? You know, it don't seem like 526 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,080 it's affecting. It'll seem like you pray in a 527 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,560 better way. I said ain't my battle, It ain't 528 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,080 my battle. Had a guy come to me one time 529 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:58,600 Wednesday night. We had way less than here. 530 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,080 Oh, there's these many people leaving the chest. 531 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,760 It's not my battle, that's God's battle. 532 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,400 I preach what God's called me to and I live like God's called me 533 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,120 to live. I position myself in the 534 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:14,280 finished work of the of of what the Calvary and what Jesus did 535 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,880 and I can see the victory. Though it don't look like 536 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,160 victory, I can still see the victory, right? 537 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,440 You must see the victory to receive the victory. 538 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,240 Most Christians can't see past the fighting to the victory, so 539 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,120 they never get to to be a victory. 540 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,000 Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. 541 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,200 It's hard to do. It's hard to do something wrong 542 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,680 when you're standing still. I wish got to tell me to stand 543 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,040 still. Sometimes I don't hear that a 544 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,160 lot. You know, when you're preaching 545 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,680 and reaching, you don't hear the stand still a lot, but I have 546 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,960 heard it in fighting battles. It's hard to do wrong when you 547 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,440 stand still and be still and know that He is God. 548 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:57,880 Always pray, but remember the victory is in what Christ has 549 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,280 already done. It's a finished work at Calvary. 550 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:08,600 Y'all ready for #3 There's victory in the new creation. 551 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,600 There's victory in the new creation, what God has made 552 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,160 through you and I. There's victory through that 553 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,840 because we can look at the lies. I look around this, but I see 554 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,120 lives that are changed. There's victory in the new 555 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,960 creation that God has made. Ephesians 2 and 10. 556 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:31,760 It says for we are his. What workmanship created in 557 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:36,840 Christ Jesus for what for good works. 558 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:42,480 Ephesians 2 and 10, which God prepared beforehand that we 559 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:47,280 should walk in them. There's something here when you 560 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,840 quit, get out of the carnality of the mind and you begin to 561 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,400 operate in the things of the Spirit. 562 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,760 There's something that's prepared for us that were to 563 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,200 walk in. He says they for we're his 564 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,280 workmanship created. Let's read that created in 565 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:04,200 Christ Jesus for what? For good works, which God 566 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,640 prepared beforehand that we should do what? 567 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,160 Walk in them. So how do I walk in them? 568 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,240 Go to 2nd Corinthians 5 and seven. 569 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:18,200 How do I walk in the good works? Kind of confusing. 570 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,560 It's kind of hard to walk in good things when all you see is 571 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,360 bad, right? It's kind of hard, but that's 572 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,200 where you got to come out of the dwelling place. 573 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:32,520 We have the carnality of the mind. 2nd Corinthians 5 and 574 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,280 seven. Here's how you do it. 575 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,680 You walk by faith and not by sight. 576 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:39,840 Think about what you're hoping for. 577 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,040 You're hoping for healing, walking, healing. 578 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,280 You're hoping for blessing, walking, blessing. 579 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,200 Don't speak cursing in your life. 580 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,600 Amen. Anybody ever been broke? 581 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,520 Anybody ever been broke? I was in the rodeo business. 582 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:53,920 I've drive. I've been broke a lot of times, 583 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:58,520 but I have refused to ever speak broke because when I speak it, I 584 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,160 bring it on myself. I'm not broke. 585 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,280 I'm just headed to the next thing God's got for me. 586 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,280 I may not see it yet. And you know what He always 587 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,800 comes through, always comes through. 588 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,800 If I were to look at broker spoke broke when we when we 589 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,080 first started the church and bought a building on our own 590 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,880 without any any real support and stuff at first, I'd have been 591 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,160 done a long time ago. But see, God taught me way back 592 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,640 there in the rodeo business how to walk by faith and not by 593 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:22,520 sight. A man. 594 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:28,040 We walk by faith and not by sight. 5 and 17. 595 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:29,600 Let's go on. Let's read a little more of 596 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,560 that. I think verse 8, we are 597 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,600 confident, yes, well pleased to be absent from the body is to be 598 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,360 present with the Lord. That should calm all of our 599 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,040 fears right there, should calm them all. 600 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:48,880 And in five and 17 it says therefore, if anyone, let's go 601 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,400 to 5 and 17. Therefore, if anyone is in 602 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:57,720 Christ, He is a new creation. Well, this, this scripture here 603 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:01,400 just makes me sometimes go to squalling and bawling and trying 604 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:05,120 to figure my life out because if anyone is in Christ, he is a new 605 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:09,280 creation. Old things have passed away, old 606 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,760 things since I was 17 years old. I've been trying. 607 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,000 I'm not. I didn't say I've done it. 608 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,920 I didn't say I've succeeded everything I've tried in the 609 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,760 scripture, but I've kept trying. I've kept digging. 610 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,520 Even when I fail, I try harder. Amen. 611 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,960 To become this new creation that I read about, I try to let old 612 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,960 things pass away. And it takes a lot of years 613 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,560 because the world's always creating new things and new ways 614 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,880 to lure us in, right? And it talks about in the Bible 615 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,600 that there's created ways to pull us back into things that 616 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,920 we've never seen, to say they're being created everyday things 617 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,520 that can become sin in our life. But therefore, if anyone is in 618 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,320 Christ, say it with me. He's a new creation. 619 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,640 What's new about you? What's new about you today that 620 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,520 wasn't yesterday. There should be something new 621 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,160 every day, he said. My mercies are fresh and a new 622 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,200 every day. It's kind of like every day you 623 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:05,600 get out that knife and you begin to whittle on that old stick and 624 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,000 you're going to narrow it and strip everything down and make 625 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,199 it all shiny. But sometimes a knife gets dull. 626 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:13,840 That's why we have to go hear sermons like this, to sharpen 627 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:18,080 the knife, to remind us so that we can keep peeling the things 628 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,719 away. If anyone is in Christ, he's a 629 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,719 new creation. Behold, all things have become 630 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:25,960 new. There's victory in the new 631 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,560 creation. What is the new creation? 632 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:33,719 It's you and I, and we're to be absolute masters over everything 633 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,719 the enemy throws at us. I believe that I don't like to 634 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,280 have to be drilled in and learn how to defeat him. 635 00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:42,679 We've been given the right to wear the whole armor of God. 636 00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:44,800 Go home if you're struggling. Read Ephesians 6. 637 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:49,159 We've been given the right to do what to where the whole armor of 638 00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:50,719 God. Read if you're struggling. 639 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:55,000 We have the nature of God dwelling within us. 640 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,520 But see, here's the cool thing. Satan never when I when I back 641 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:03,800 up to this three-step plan here I want to read them in closing 642 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:11,480 number one, he defeated Satan with earthly walk #2 there was 643 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,760 victory in the sacrifice and #3 there's victory in the new 644 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,760 creation. But back to what I said earlier. 645 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,920 Why didn't God just speak and destroy Satan been much easier 646 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:28,960 and just give us a good life. But Satan had never figured, see 647 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:34,280 when when they crucified Jesus as Satan never figured on having 648 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:43,480 to deal face to face with God himself when dealing with men 649 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,520 like Jesus. I don't think Satan never 650 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,520 thought God had that plan. He said, you know what? 651 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,920 I was with God and I failed. So all these humans are going to 652 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,560 fail. They're going to fall short of 653 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:57,080 the glory of God, which is true. But he had never planned on 654 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:01,520 dealing with Jesus. He didn't know God's redictive 655 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,080 plan. So when Satan deals with the new 656 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:10,200 creation, he's dealing with the third person of the Godhead, the 657 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:14,840 Holy Spirit filled child of God or a woman of God. 658 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:19,760 And as we close in Galatians 4 and six, it says because you are 659 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:25,000 sons of God, he has sent forth his spirit of his Son into your 660 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:30,760 hearts, crying out ABBA Father, therefore you are no longer what 661 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:36,720 a slave, but a son. And if a son and heir through 662 00:36:36,720 --> 00:36:41,520 Jesus Christ, there's only one one place that Satan belongs in 663 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:47,760 the life of a child of God. Where's it at behind us and 664 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:51,600 actually under us are under our feet because there's victory in 665 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,520 the earthly walk. There's victory in the 666 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,880 sacrifice. As you stand tonight, there's 667 00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:01,960 victory in the new creation, which you and I are. 668 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:08,320 Some cool stuff huh? I got a lot more on this but I 669 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,560 see y'all are getting tired so I'm going to be quiet. 670 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,880 How many can remember the words the Lord give me this afternoon? 671 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,960 We must quit. Would you close your eyes if 672 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,760 it's you and raise your hands as we close Tonight? 673 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:32,240 I must stop dwelling in the carnality of the thought process 674 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,760 of the mind. Think about that. 675 00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:40,760 How do you know if you're dwelling in the carnality of the 676 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,320 thought process of the mind? How do I, how would you know 677 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:44,560 that as well? How, what, how, what am I 678 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,280 dwelling in? I'm going to give you a good 679 00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:51,080 example. When you know, sometimes I, when 680 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,240 you're looking at something and you scrolling, anybody ever do 681 00:37:54,240 --> 00:37:58,480 that? And you're dwelling on something 682 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,760 in your mind and you might see something that's good, but at 683 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,600 that particular time, that's not what you're looking for. 684 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,880 You've done heard something bad about somebody. 685 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,040 I don't even have that. I don't even do that. 686 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,480 But I found a little bit of somebody will send me something 687 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,640 on Facebook. And if it's good and I know it's 688 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,960 coming from, I don't have Facebook so I'll, I'll have to 689 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,440 look on the 1:00 my wife's got and I can pull up what they sent 690 00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,520 me and read if it's real important, if it's something 691 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,280 good, I will. Thanks for listening to the 692 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,600 Cross Power Church podcast. May you know that true hope, 693 00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:34,640 peace, and salvation can only be found in Jesus. 694 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,840 If you're near Campbell, TX, we would love for you to join us in 695 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,360 person. You can find service times at 696 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:42,920 crosspowerchurch.com.