1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:04,480 Hey, welcome to the City Point Church podcast. 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,280 Thanks for joining us. Every day is an opportunity to 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,280 take hold of. So we hope this message inspires 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:13,560 you and build your faith, but it helps you have more of a God 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:15,800 perspective for your day. Enjoy. 6 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,880 If you declare out loud today, my heart is open. 7 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:26,040 My ears are alert to grow and change. 8 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:32,640 I will never be the same after today's message. 9 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:39,240 In Jesus mighty name. In the powerful, wonderful name. 10 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:48,080 In the wonder working name. In the healing name, In the 11 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:52,800 victorious name. In the name that's above my 12 00:00:52,800 --> 00:01:01,480 family, the name that is over my community, it's the name above 13 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:09,080 all names, Jesus Christ, Amen. Amen. 14 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,120 I would love you to stay standing for my message today. 15 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,800 But if you get up and down a few times, that's OK. 16 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:21,240 Why don't we be seated this morning? 17 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:29,280 And it's going to be a good day. It's already a good day. 18 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,240 Who woke up this morning? It's a good day. 19 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:36,680 Who woke up Richard this morning? 20 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:40,200 You sure did. You sure did. 21 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,400 We exist to see spiritual and social transformation of our 22 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:47,320 city. Amen. 23 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:53,160 Today, I want to talk direct. You're not ready for this. 24 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:55,960 I'm sure I'm in the right church. 25 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:57,640 God, you said it was City Point law. 26 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:08,280 Today I want to talk directly into Halloween and I want to let 27 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:14,080 you know why we the church, Saints, Christians, believers in 28 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:21,480 Jesus do not participate in this satanic celebration because it's 29 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:27,760 both spiritual and social effects on our community need to 30 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:31,080 be changed and stopped in Jesus name. 31 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,920 At the end of our message, we will pray together as a church 32 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:37,760 over our great community. We're going to do this you're 33 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:42,640 going to participate with with us today and I'm going to supply 34 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:47,360 us all with a few steps to take as Christians to make knowing 35 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:51,600 that our district is under the lordship of Jesus Christ. 36 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:55,240 Who who's ready to participate in that? 37 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,800 The Holy Scriptures aren't shy in these topics. 38 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:06,040 And I think us as a church, we ought to just jump at this. 39 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:10,600 We just need to stamp, stamp on this stuff, put it under our 40 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:14,120 heel. We don't play with it, we don't 41 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:18,680 entertain it, but we put it back in its rightful place, which is 42 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:22,680 under our heel. It's under the Lordship of Jesus 43 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,080 Christ. Let me tell you and I'd I decree 44 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:31,520 today that this community will no longer be bound by the 45 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,960 schemes and the plans of the enemy, because I know that this 46 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:39,760 church has risen up to take on this battle. 47 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:44,000 But I know that there is something that we understand is 48 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:49,480 that we don't battle for ourselves and by ourselves, but 49 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:53,440 with all of the Kingdom of heaven, with the power of God 50 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:55,320 and with the authority He's given us. 51 00:03:55,320 --> 00:04:01,440 In fact, Ephesians 612 says, for we do not wrestle against flesh 52 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:06,520 and blood, but against principalities, against powers, 53 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:11,000 against the rulers of the darkness of this age, and 54 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,120 against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly 55 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:16,440 places. Amen. 56 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:20,040 I mean, you believe that today you're prepared to be in the 57 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,520 battle skin in the game. Who wants skin in the game 58 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:25,360 today? Amen. 59 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:29,760 So we've got the powerful there. So I've titled today's message, 60 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:37,320 avoid wicked customs. Avoid wicked customs in your 61 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:45,120 Holy Bible, in your scriptures, in Deuteronomy 18 verses 9 to 62 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:50,280 14, it's titled In the King, our New King James Version, it's 63 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:53,480 actually titled Avoid wicked Customs. 64 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,440 Isn't that amazing? I think they saw into the future 65 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,920 of my message today and said that is a good title. 66 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:06,520 We need that in the Bible. Avoid wicked customs when you 67 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,440 come into the land which the Lord your God has given you. 68 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:11,920 Who's in the land that the Lord their God gave them? 69 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:17,760 We aren't here by mistake. You are not in this city by 70 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:21,400 mistake. You're in this city by divine 71 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:27,040 plan for you to participate with the plans of heaven to see the 72 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:31,320 Kingdom of darkness broken and ended over this. 73 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,200 This, this is the city of Jesus Christ. 74 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:37,000 Amen. When you come into Caboolture, 75 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:41,960 the land which the Lord your God gave you, you shall not learn to 76 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,160 follow the abominations of those nations. 77 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:51,160 There shall be not, not be found among you anyone who makes his 78 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:56,840 son or his daughter pass through the fire, Or one who practices 79 00:05:56,840 --> 00:06:03,120 witchcraft, Or a soothsayer, Or one who interprets omens, Or a 80 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:07,960 sorcerer, Or one who conjures getting pretty straight to the 81 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:13,960 .1 who conjures spells, Or a medium, or a spiritualist, or 82 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:18,080 one who calls up the dead For all who do these things are an 83 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,920 abomination to the Lord. And because of these 84 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:26,720 abominations, the Lord your God drives them out from before you. 85 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:35,840 Thank you Jesus. You shall be blameless before 86 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:39,440 the Lord your God, for these nations, which you shall 87 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:44,720 dispossessed, listened to soothsayers and diviners. 88 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:50,360 But As for you city point N, the Lord your God has not appointed 89 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:52,960 such for you. Amen. 90 00:06:55,720 --> 00:07:02,040 Let me tell you today that if you have been part of this, have 91 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,920 worked in this or work in these fields in any way, shape or 92 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:10,840 form, the grace of God is sufficient for you every 93 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,040 morning. His mercies are new every 94 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:17,080 morning, the Bible says. But today is a day of an of 95 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:20,680 awakening for us as a church for you and your life. 96 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:26,480 And the cool thing about the about the Holy Spirit is he 97 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,160 convicts the Sinner of sin, but the righteous, the righteous of 98 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,280 righteousness. And so today there may be 99 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:37,200 conviction in you, but it's not about God saying you're a bad 100 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:41,000 person or that you're going to hell or anything like that. 101 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,640 It's just complete, not truth. But what it is, is it's the Holy 102 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:48,360 Spirit making us aware so that we can change your ways because 103 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,560 we are now part of the Kingdom of heaven, the Kingdom of light, 104 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:53,400 and not the Kingdom of darkness. Amen. 105 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:58,040 So after reading that scripture that I just read, would you say 106 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,600 that Halloween is OK for Christians to be part of? 107 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:07,520 No Halloween has religious origins and this is where I 108 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:11,200 think the church has been deceived and something that we 109 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:16,280 need to understand here today. Halloween has religious origins. 110 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:22,440 Halloween means a holy evening. You get the word holy in there 111 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:27,000 and it's got oh that must be religious holy evening shortened 112 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,320 from All Hallows Eve, which we've heard these words before. 113 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:36,559 Halloween is the evening before All Saints Day, which is a 114 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:41,159 religious holiday honouring Christian martyrs. 115 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,120 So traditionally this is coming up on the screen. 116 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:49,480 On the 31st of October is Halloween, on the 1st of 117 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:54,320 November is All Saints Day and on the 2nd of November is Souls 118 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:57,800 Day and you may have heard those terms before. 119 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:03,720 Halloween on the 31st of October is grounded in the two festivals 120 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:09,800 of All Saints Day and Souls Day. Now, All Saints Day on the 1st 121 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:14,240 of November is a celebration and it celebrates. 122 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:20,400 It's also known as Sowin Day and it goes back dates back to the 123 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:25,360 4th century in Rome. The holiday was officially added 124 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:29,760 to the universal church calendar in the 9th century. 125 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:34,040 As the holiday spread to Christianised areas, traditions 126 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:38,920 merged with local cultures in ancient times and marked the end 127 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,760 of the harvest and the coming of winter, a time when the veil 128 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:46,880 between the living living and the dead was believed to be 129 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:50,280 especially thin. This is just rubbish between the 130 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:54,920 physical world and the spirit world, allowing more interaction 131 00:09:54,920 --> 00:10:00,400 between humans and denizens of the other world. 132 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:05,600 It also kicked off on the evening of October 31. 133 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:10,200 Can you say out loud the devil deceiver is a deceiver? 134 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:13,760 There's no such thing as a thinner curtain. 135 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:17,080 The curtain was torn when Jesus was on the cross. 136 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,040 Souls Day on the 2nd of November. 137 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:28,120 In Roman Catholicism, Souls Day is a day for commemoration of 138 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:32,720 all the faithful departed, the baptized Christians who are 139 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:37,400 believed to be in purgatory, which is not biblical because 140 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:41,800 they died with the guilt of lesser sins on their souls. 141 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:46,520 Roman Catholic doctrine holds that the prayers of the faithful 142 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:51,520 on earth will help cleanse these souls in order to fit them for 143 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:56,440 the vision of God in heaven, and the day is dedicated to prayer 144 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,640 and remembrance. It sounds holy, It sounds good. 145 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:05,160 We wish maybe that it was the case, but it's untrue, it's 146 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,360 unscriptural, and it's not what God has decreed. 147 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:13,000 These are contrary to what the Bible teaches. 148 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,160 Say my Bible. That's right. 149 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:18,720 It's your Bible that teaches us contrary. 150 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:25,760 So we then have things like trick or treating, which is a 151 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:31,880 secular version of the medieval Christian religious practice of 152 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:38,160 souling, when souling children and the poor went from door to 153 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:44,000 door to ask for soul cakes in exchange for prayers for the 154 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:50,320 dead on All Souls Day. So in exchange you would receive 155 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:55,080 a soul cake and you would pray for their people in purgatory. 156 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:00,040 What about Jack O lanterns? There's an there is an Irish 157 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:04,080 custom of lighting Jack O lanterns to water away evil 158 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:08,200 spirits. This is demonic stuff started 159 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:13,240 with turnip, the root vegetable, and then America American 160 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,160 pumpkins replace them. So that's how we get the 161 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,720 pumpkins in Bunnings, in bunnies in Bunnies. 162 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,240 And then dress UPS. We'll see more of this in a 163 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,840 minute on the video. But they began to wear masks in 164 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:36,880 other disguises to avoid being recognized by the ghost thought 165 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:43,640 to be present. There's no such thing as Casper 166 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:49,240 the Friendly Ghost. It's a demon from the pit of 167 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:53,640 hell. It is, it's what it is. 168 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,440 So they were dressing up so that they wouldn't recognize them. 169 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:06,400 It was in this that witches, hobgoblins, big word fairies and 170 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,480 demons came to be associated with Halloween. 171 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:15,840 The period was also thought to be favourable for divination on 172 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,320 matters such as marriage, health and death. 173 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,880 In order to split, split marriages. 174 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:25,200 This is this is what Halloween's about. 175 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:29,240 It's demonic, there's witches involved, there's curses all 176 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,240 over things. So I have a question for you 177 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,360 church today. Is Halloween OK for Christians 178 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:42,400 to be part of? Firstly, praying to, praying 179 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:51,120 for, or interacting with the dead is not OK Biblically, the 180 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:56,480 outcome of a person's destiny is determined by the decisions they 181 00:13:56,480 --> 00:14:02,520 do or don't make to follow Jesus while alive right now on planet 182 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:05,840 earth. And let me tell you here today, 183 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:11,920 the life that you're living right now is the accumulation of 184 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,840 all the decisions that you have made till this day. 185 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:21,240 The life that I am living right now, your addictions or 186 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:24,200 addiction, we can't, we can't just pass the buck. 187 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:30,480 The addictions are decisions that we have made and allowed 188 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:33,800 into our life. And you might say, well, Pastor, 189 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,360 great, you're not really sure. You don't really understand my 190 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,480 life. See, I understand this, that 191 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:45,160 healing's not possible until responsibility has been taken 192 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:50,160 up. And there are some things in our 193 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:55,480 lives that happened to us that start to form the world in which 194 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:59,240 we live in. I understand this OK. 195 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:03,720 But as believers in the Kingdom of God, with the living Word of 196 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:09,360 God that transforms our lives, each one of us has a decision at 197 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:15,280 some point on that journey that we can make to say, God, I 198 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:20,960 choose to give this thing over to you and do whatever is 199 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:24,960 required to see my inner healing happen, which might be 200 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:30,080 counselling or spiritual help or prayer with pastors, so on or so 201 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:32,760 forth. At the end of the day, at the 202 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:40,840 end of the day, no one and no devil has authority over your 203 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,360 life more than you allow them to have. 204 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:48,400 And I understand. I mean, I really understand 205 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,080 first hand. I understand in my life, in my 206 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:57,360 world that things happen even in the womb that will affect the 207 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:03,600 outworkings of our lives. I understand that parents might 208 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:09,840 say or do trusted authority, might say or do things that will 209 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:13,280 have ramifications over our lives. 210 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:18,240 I understand that in the church there is people of authority 211 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:22,560 that when they say things or speak things over our lives, 212 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:28,120 there is ramifications that that person then has to walk. 213 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,600 And the hope is, is that all people in all forms of authority 214 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:36,960 would speak life, would speak Jesus, and would speak things 215 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,920 that would lift you up. But the reality is, is that is 216 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:45,240 not always the case. But also part of that reality is 217 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:48,760 they walk away from you and you're left dealing with it. 218 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:55,320 And sometimes we don't have the mental or spiritual capacity to 219 00:16:55,320 --> 00:17:00,000 deal with what just happened. And so therefore it has this 220 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:05,319 shadow over our lives. God is not naive to these 221 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:09,200 things. Jesus lived a life just like you 222 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:11,960 and I. He is not naive to the reality 223 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:17,480 of the pressures, the curses, the burdens of life. 224 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:23,720 He's not naive also to the fact that things happen that form and 225 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:29,200 shape our identity, yet those things happen to us not of our 226 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:33,400 own decision. That's why the Scripture has 227 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:40,000 these crazy out there verses that say things like, by the 228 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:46,160 grace of God, just in these peace, the enemy will soon be 229 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:50,520 trampled under your hill. It's why he says that by the 230 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:55,800 stripes of Jesus Christ on the crossed, we will be healed. 231 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,400 He's not just talking about physical healing, He's talking 232 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,920 emotional healing, spiritual healing. 233 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:06,320 And what I want to say and declare here today is that these 234 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,200 these words in the Bible aren't weak. 235 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:15,480 They are more powerful than anything that has ever been said 236 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:19,080 over your life. You can walk out of this room 237 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:27,000 today redeemed and set free. But let me just not be all nice 238 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:32,480 and Christianese in saying that. Because the reality is, is I 239 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:38,720 want to go the next step and say you have everything within you. 240 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,800 It's in you. It's God, part of your DNA, part 241 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:48,640 of your RNA, gifted from God. You have the strength, you have 242 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:52,680 the Holy Spirit. You have what it takes to move 243 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:57,040 on from. I know that I am set free to I'm 244 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:59,680 going to walk the steps of this freedom. 245 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:07,240 You have what it takes to pick up the phone and say I need help 246 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:09,840 and you have an education in this area. 247 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,960 Help me. You know, Pastor Mel and I just 248 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:18,400 this year in our leadership world, we to grow as leaders. 249 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,480 We said to we said to each other, we need help. 250 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:26,640 And so we called and we called up someone way bigger than us. 251 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,000 And you know, we're just like little, little peas, you know, 252 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,480 compared to who they are in in the Kingdom. 253 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,640 And we said we need help because we want to grow as leaders 254 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,240 because we have a great community and we need to help 255 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:40,080 our church influence this community. 256 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:46,320 And so, but it cost money, real money and more than our budget 257 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,400 is. And so we had to step out in 258 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,800 faith and crazy stuff. Not only are we paying that 259 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:58,160 bill, we just seem to be doing so much more in our weekly world 260 00:19:58,160 --> 00:19:59,840 this year. It's crazy that we haven't been 261 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:04,880 able to achieve over past years. Let me say this, God cares for 262 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,560 you so much. Would you have the faith to make 263 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:11,160 that phone call? To reach out to that person in 264 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,280 spite the cost, because everything costs and just say, 265 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:18,600 God, this is so important to me and I know that you care about 266 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,320 me so deeply. God, would you make this 267 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:25,600 possible even financially? And why don't you just see a God 268 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:30,240 do an amazing miracle, not only not only in provision, but in 269 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:31,160 your life? Amen. 270 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:34,000 You believe that? So God is a total God of 271 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,520 healing. He's not just a declaration God. 272 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:41,320 He's not just a God that has all the great words to declare, but 273 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,040 we don't actually see the results. 274 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,800 No, no, no, God goes way deeper than that. 275 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,560 There's too many people in this church to know that to be true. 276 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:54,480 Amen, Amen. So the outcome of a person's 277 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:57,760 destiny is determined by the decisions they do or don't make 278 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:00,880 to follow Jesus Christ. All that we do or don't make 279 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,920 here today. Let me read you some Bible 280 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:10,040 Hebrews 927 and as it is appointed for man to die once, 281 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:14,040 but after this is judgment, there's no purgatory. 282 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:18,760 First Corinthians 10/21 you cannot drink the cup of the Lord 283 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:24,280 and the cup of demons. You cannot partake in the table 284 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:28,160 of the Lord and the table of demons. 285 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,200 He like he's just going there in the Bible, Amen. 286 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:37,600 Ephesians 511 Take no part in the unfruitful works of 287 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:43,720 darkness. Say no, we will take no part in 288 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:48,520 the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead we will 289 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,680 expose them. Say I will expose them. 290 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:59,360 Well, you just said it, Ephesians 427 and give no 291 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:02,680 opportunity to the devil. How many opportunities will we 292 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,240 give him? None. 293 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:05,800 He's under my heel. Amen. 294 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:13,200 First Thessalonians 522 Abstain from every form of evil. 295 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:19,440 Not some, but every form. It might not actually look to 296 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:23,560 you like it is, but it's got the form of. 297 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:28,240 Therefore we will not go near Isaiah 520. 298 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:36,080 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness 299 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:41,320 for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for 300 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:47,320 sweets and sweet for bitter. This is why we as Christians do 301 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:51,480 not partake in Halloween is because we aren't putting bitter 302 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,160 for sweet. There is nothing sweet about 303 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,240 this. I'm here today to let you know 304 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,640 that it's bitter and to show you why it is bitter. 305 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,200 Amen. First Thessalonians 521 to 22. 306 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:09,800 But test everything. What everything hold fast. 307 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,720 What is good. We hold tight to the good 308 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:14,200 things. We don't let them go. 309 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:18,840 We don't even loosen our grip. This is why we walk around with 310 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,200 bibles. This is why TJ walks like this 311 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:25,000 all the time, all right? He's literally holding fast to 312 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,760 what is good because he understands if he's not gripped 313 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:32,880 to the goodness of God, the enemy will just try and come in 314 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:39,480 and make bitter look sweet. But test everything. 315 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,760 Hold fast what is good, Abstain from every form of evil. 316 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:47,920 There it is again. So why stay away from Halloween? 317 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,120 It's very easy. It's one line and it's found 318 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:56,040 Ephesians 427 and do not give the devil a foothold. 319 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,120 A foothold. This, probably this word 320 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:05,960 foothold probably changes our thinking about this. 321 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,720 It does for me because a foothold is very, very small. 322 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:15,480 And if you're a wall, you know, rock climber, you know, the wall 323 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,920 climbing things with the little pegs, I don't know what you call 324 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:19,320 that. What do you call that? 325 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:21,520 Rock climbing? Yeah. 326 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:22,280 Good. That that'll do. 327 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,880 So if you're a little, if you're a little peg on a wall climber, 328 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,120 what you realize is 1 peg is there. 329 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,680 And the other peg is just way too far for me, Right. 330 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,640 But it's not for everyone else. But I just fall on peg one. 331 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:44,000 But sometimes we go, I'll give the devil this foothold because 332 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,480 the distance is really big. I'm not going to lose my faith. 333 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,840 It's just this photo. It's just Halloween. 334 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:56,000 It's fun for the kids. And so you dress them up like 335 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:05,080 Ariel or Casper or you're like, I'm not into the dark gothic 336 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,080 sort of stuff. I'm going to dress them up like 337 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,000 angels. I'm going to make it holy 338 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,200 because originally it was holy and so I'm going to dress them 339 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,720 up like Christian angels, good looking angels. 340 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:23,080 Let me tell you what you've just done is you've got your child 341 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:32,440 and you've covered their identity in a deceitful costume 342 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:38,480 that looks like an holy Angel but has wrapped the God identity 343 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,800 into an identity to enter this celebration. 344 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,560 You can repent right now if you want. 345 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:53,720 That's all good. We can't give the devil a free 346 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:58,560 foothold in our lives. The keyword there is we just 347 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,480 can't. We just can't afford to. 348 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,400 And if we have, it's completely good. 349 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:10,680 Once again, the peace of God overcomes the enemy, the blood 350 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,880 of Jesus on the cross. Just what? 351 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,480 He'll just wash it away if you just allow Him. 352 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,640 It's just that simple. Today can be a new day for you. 353 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,640 Amen and your family. If this is anything you've ever 354 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,800 played with, it might look fun and OK. 355 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,080 You may not see what is happening right away, but your 356 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,800 choice to participate in the Devil's playground gives Him 357 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:35,080 permission to begin a devouring process in your life. 358 00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:39,240 The Bible says that he is here to steal. 359 00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:45,440 Stealing is a foothold. That's what stealing looks like. 360 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:51,120 When a robber breaks into someone's house, they're just 361 00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:53,520 after jewelry. They're not after your whole 362 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,840 house. You've got lots. 363 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,680 These rich people live in Caboolture. 364 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,280 They're just all walking in this blessing thing. 365 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,400 You know, I'll just go in and take their jewelry out of their 366 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,600 house. They're not, they're not, 367 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:12,960 they're not looking to hurt you. It doesn't look like they're 368 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:17,240 there to devalue. They're not going to break 369 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,640 things and mess things up. They just want to find the 370 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,360 jewelry and just that. You've got plenty. 371 00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:25,080 We will leave. We'll leave even some they break 372 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,120 in to take a foothold in your life. 373 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:34,400 But if your house has ever been broken into, you realize that 374 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,000 that more happens when you come home and you see that window 375 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,880 open and your jewellery on the floor. 376 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:46,120 More happens in that situation. Instantly, security in your life 377 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:50,400 has gone out the window. You no longer feel like that 378 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,160 house that you've been working for for 20 years is enough. 379 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,280 The next thing that will happen is you'll probably have an 380 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:01,680 argument with your spouse and no one will even know why. 381 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:04,880 We're just all fuming. We're just, we're just, we're on 382 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,080 edge. We're just all on edge. 383 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:13,120 You will have a sleepless night. Both of these would just be 384 00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:15,480 laying there. Just can't be trying to pray. 385 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,120 And then what starts to happen is you'll start to double guess. 386 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:27,280 God, it's just gone quiet. Who's been broken into before. 387 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:31,040 It feels like everyone might have you start to double guess. 388 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,160 God. God, I prayed your protection 389 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,880 over this house. Do my prayers work or do they 390 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,880 not? Does God even hear me? 391 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,960 You start asking these, these big life changing identity, life 392 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:49,080 changing questions. See, that's what a foothold of 393 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,200 the devil does. All they did was took some 394 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,400 jewelry. That's all they did, took some 395 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:58,040 jewelry. But you thought they weren't 396 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:05,400 invited. Where was the invitation when 397 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:09,640 you got your child and you changed their clothes? 398 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:15,640 The devil goes thank you, I have a foothold. 399 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,760 And then the devouring. He wants to steal. 400 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,440 Stole the identity. We don't do dress UPS. 401 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,760 We don't do dress UPS. But what we do do is we just 402 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:32,200 have lollies because people are coming and they're coming to a 403 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,880 good Christian Holy Spirit filled house. 404 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,240 So we just have lollies. It's not their fault they're 405 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,320 children, right? It's not their fault their 406 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,000 parents sent them out and the kids, they, you know, they're 407 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:47,760 only 10 or 9 years old knocking on, knocking on strangers 408 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:53,240 houses. And, and So what we do is we 409 00:29:53,240 --> 00:30:03,000 just provide a foothold. I mean, lollies, we're, we're 410 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:09,720 just, we're just, we're not part of it, but we're entertaining 411 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:15,680 it. I would never do it with my 412 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:21,120 children, but obviously it's OK if you do it with yours because 413 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,320 I'm here for you. Foothold. 414 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:31,600 So the devil comes to steal and then what he does he do to kill? 415 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:37,800 What does that mean in you? Why? 416 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,960 What are you saying? Is God really, does he really 417 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:41,880 hear my prayers? He's killing you. 418 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:48,640 He's killing your faith with unreasonable things, things that 419 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:53,520 he's killing your relationship. You're arguing and you don't 420 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:57,160 even really know why because we're all on edge and he's like, 421 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:03,200 he starts to kill you on the inside and this and you're just 422 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,480 like, I don't know why this is happening. 423 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,280 I don't know why I struggle with this. 424 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,360 I don't know why I just get so angry so quick. 425 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:12,160 I don't know why. I just turn. 426 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:16,040 I don't know why these things, and it's because we've given him 427 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:20,480 footholds in areas of our life when we didn't quite really 428 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,520 realize because no pastor had even preached it before in the 429 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,480 church. And so today is no day of 430 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:27,640 awakening. Amen. 431 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:34,400 But after he kills your faith, he then goes, and I want to 432 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:39,840 destroy you see, for the devil. This is in the Bible, by the 433 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:41,200 way. I'm just quoting the Scripture 434 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,080 after he kills you. He's not happened. 435 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,880 Happy with that. You know why he's not happy with 436 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,920 just killing your faith? Because he knows the power of 437 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:59,160 the Lord Jesus Christ. If I'm correct, Lazarus was 438 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:08,520 dead. But Rose, again, if I'm correct, 439 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,320 there are people looking at me right now because I know a lot 440 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:19,520 of people's stories who were once dead and one encounter with 441 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,200 God. He breathes life. 442 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:28,920 The devil knows this. So his next and final step is 443 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:33,440 destruction. Absolute destruction. 444 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:37,160 Mental destructions. Emotional destruction, Life 445 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,720 destruction. He'll take your finances. 446 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,040 He will. He will rob your relationships. 447 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:46,000 He will rob your family and then fill you with so much guilt you 448 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,280 can't repent. He will fill you with so much 449 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:53,040 guilt you will believe that you can't go to Jesus. 450 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,480 Yet Jesus is the only one whose arms are always wide open. 451 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,280 He doesn't judge like we judge ourselves. 452 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,840 His whole perspective is so different. 453 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,640 He doesn't look at you and go, oh, you did Halloween. 454 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,600 There's three footholds. That's too much. 2 is my limit. 455 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,720 He doesn't. He doesn't go, well, you believe 456 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:25,560 you can't go to me. Oh man, if you believe it, your 457 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,800 reality is your truth. He doesn't. 458 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,480 He doesn't operate like this. God just looks at you and he 459 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,160 just sees his child. That's all he sees. 460 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,920 It's called the prodigal son. He just sees his child and he 461 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,240 just goes, oh, would they just turn their heart to me? 462 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:44,800 Would they just blink at me? That's all I need. 463 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,840 Just a mustard seed of faith. I could move mountains for them 464 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,720 if they would just hope. They don't even have to call it 465 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:54,600 faith. Just hope. 466 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,240 Hope, hopes. I'll work with hope. 467 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:02,720 He's just looking at you and all he sees is a child lost or a 468 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:07,600 child found, a child in darkness or a child in light, a child 469 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,840 deceived or a child redeems. And his every thought, the Bible 470 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:16,880 says is on you. No matter where you are, his 471 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,560 every thought is on. Isn't that amazing? 472 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:20,840 Isn't he a good, good, faithful God? 473 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,760 So your choice to participate in the devil's playground gives him 474 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,520 permission to begin a devouring process. 475 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:32,199 But it's good for me to preach. Would you like to see another 476 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,280 pastor? John Romaez, who is an ex 477 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:40,600 warlock. He would sit with the devil face 478 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,280 to face and talk with him. This is where he was at. 479 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,280 He was extremely powerful in the Kingdom of Darkness. 480 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,679 This is the guy that would would transport. 481 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,440 He would transport. He talks about Halloween. 482 00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:59,520 He used to curse. Halloween is, Yeah, yeah. 483 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,160 It's just his story. You can see it all on YouTube. 484 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,960 It's all legit. I've checked it all out, and 485 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:10,680 he's just absolutely amazing. But he was so deep from a very, 486 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,000 very young age. Bad things happened to him. 487 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:17,480 He sold his soul to the devil, and he worshipped the devil and 488 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,720 used to. Actually, very few people have 489 00:35:19,720 --> 00:35:23,360 been able to do this. He used to actually sit with the 490 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,760 devil. The devil would come into his 491 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,160 lounge room and they would sit and scheme together. 492 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:37,400 And this was also until he found out the darkness wasn't the 493 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:48,680 strongest power. Listen, the devil himself, I 494 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:54,440 told John that he had no power or authority to touch a born 495 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:59,040 again practicing Christian. Keyword practicing. 496 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:04,720 That's very Catholic of me. But let let me tell you, weak 497 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:08,920 Christians that don't operate in the power of the Holy Spirit, 498 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,920 that's what I would class as a weak Christian, OK? 499 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,960 The enemy would scheme against those sort of people. 500 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,920 He would have plans, the foot, the foothold kind of kind of 501 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,480 concepts would always be knocking on their doors. 502 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,240 But Christians that operate like this church, that pray in the 503 00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:28,600 spirit that have faith beyond their capacities. 504 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:35,000 The devil himself told John you cannot come against these people 505 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:41,160 and used to tell him to, to just move away into or to hold from 506 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:45,160 operating their scheme until that person had left that place. 507 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,360 Let's check out this video for 5 minutes for yourself and then 508 00:36:48,360 --> 00:41:23,600 we're going to pray. Well, isn't that amazing? 509 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,320 And I would love us to do something right now. 510 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,600 I love us if if we could all just stand to our feet. 511 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,720 Pastor TJ is going to lead us in a a prayer. 512 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,800 This is a revival style prayer. Is that alright? 513 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:40,000 And if you if you have participated ever in Halloween, 514 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,040 I would love you just to right now, just you know under your 515 00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,920 breath to say you know God, I renounce every connection to 516 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,960 that in my past. My past is my past. 517 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:53,080 Today is a new day in the Lord and you reign in my life and 518 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,200 this isn't a salvation issue for you. 519 00:41:56,520 --> 00:42:00,920 OK, It's just about opening doors or or giving footholds to 520 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:04,960 the enemy so you can just renounce that by just saying I 521 00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:09,120 break every tie of everything that is ever been in my family 522 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,640 or my life through all my history. 523 00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,000 I break it right now in the name of Jesus. 524 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,720 And then I would love you to turn your prayers for this 525 00:42:16,720 --> 00:42:19,120 community. T JS going to lead us in praying 526 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:23,520 for revival for this community. But listen, the blood covering 527 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:25,680 of Jesus Christ over our community. 528 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:29,040 Halloween's a counterfeit and requires blood. 529 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,480 We all know that right? But the blood of Jesus is the 530 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,200 blood that sets people free and washes sins away. 531 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:40,040 And we're going to pray for a spirit revival of our community. 532 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,560 I don't think our community really quite understands what 533 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:48,520 the 31st, 31st of October is in 2025. 534 00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:53,640 It's a turn year where revival goes out and not darkness. 535 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,360 Amen. So we're going to declare this 536 00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,440 over. Pastor TJ, take us away. 537 00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,320 Just put your hands to heaven right now, Church, We're going 538 00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,960 to get to pray. We're not praying from fear, but 539 00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:06,440 we're praying in from victory. You are seated in heavenly 540 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,280 places. The Bible says in Acts one that 541 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:13,240 they were in one accord in unity together, praying constantly. 542 00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,600 So if you can speak a heavenly language in this place today, 543 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,800 would you lift up the name of Jesus? 544 00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:22,560 Let's go. Father God Almighty, we lift up 545 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,560 your name over this community. Father God, any dealings we've 546 00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:30,920 ever had in this part, we denounce, We repent, Father God, 547 00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:35,280 but fourth now, we pray the blood of Jesus over this place. 548 00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:39,640 We break the curses over this place by the blood of Jesus. 549 00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:44,600 Father, we come before you now and we say every knee shall bow, 550 00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:48,040 every tongue will confess to the name of Jesus. 551 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:51,320 We declare Morton Bay over this place. 552 00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:54,760 Father, the blood of Jesus and the victory of Jesus. 553 00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,880 There will be revival. We put a stake in the ground, 554 00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:02,600 Father God, and say this town is for Jesus, this church, Father 555 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:06,080 God, God will be raised up and the community will be blessed 556 00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,840 because of it. Father God Almighty, we break 557 00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:12,640 every demonic force. We pray over our homes, we pray 558 00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:16,080 for the schools, we pray, Father God, over our neighborhood. 559 00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,760 Because God, your blood has the victory. 560 00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:24,640 Your blood has the victory, God, your blood has the victory over 561 00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,920 this community. And we are seated in heavenly 562 00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,960 places knowing that Christ is the one. 563 00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:35,640 We lift you up Jesus, we lift you up Jesus, we lift you up 564 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:39,840 Jesus, and we thank you for it that we've declared and agreed 565 00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:43,720 to think and it shall happen. And we all agreed, said. 566 00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:45,760 Amen. Amen. 567 00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:46,880 Amen. Thank you. 568 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:51,120 Thank you, Pastor TJ. And why don't we be seated? 569 00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:57,480 I I suppose the question from now is Pastor Grey, it's great 570 00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:02,120 to pray, but what can we do? What can we do from here? 571 00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:05,400 So I'm going to give us three things as a church that we are 572 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,720 going to do. And it requires your 573 00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:10,880 participation. This isn't I'm doing because I 574 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:14,440 can only do one street, but between all of us, that's 575 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,720 hundreds of streets in our community, Amen. 576 00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:20,200 And even suburbs you can take this way further. 577 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:23,720 So three things for all of us. If you're a note taker, would 578 00:45:23,720 --> 00:45:25,840 you take this maybe in your phones? 579 00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,000 You might want to write it down. I don't want you to forget. 580 00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,480 So obviously Halloween's on the 31st of October. 581 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:36,520 So we've got two weeks and there's three things for all of 582 00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,640 us to do in preparation for the 31st. 583 00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:45,920 This is to be done in your street and the entrances of your 584 00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,480 suburbs. So if you're in Central Lakes, 585 00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,280 there's about two or three entrances. 586 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,240 You can do it there for the whole suburb, but I would like 587 00:45:53,240 --> 00:45:55,960 you to personally also do it for your streets. 588 00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,000 OK, so #1 is coming up on the screen. 589 00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:04,120 We're going to anoint #2 we're going to declare the blood of 590 00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:08,480 Jesus, and I'll teach you how. And #3 we're going to fast 591 00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:11,160 together #1 we're going to anoint. 592 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,840 We're going to declare the blood of Jesus and we're going to 593 00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:19,160 fast. OK, so #1 let's anoint our 594 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,800 streets with oil. Now. 595 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:26,160 I am literally talking about Woolworths oil, OK? 596 00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:28,120 And this might be good for Woolworths as well. 597 00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:34,120 Not for sales but for spirit declaration First. 598 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:38,760 John 3/8 It says for this purpose the Son of God was 599 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:43,960 manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 600 00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,040 Now where does anointing come in? 601 00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:55,440 The word Christ literally means the anointed. 1 John is saying 602 00:46:55,440 --> 00:47:00,480 the manifestation of the anointing in Christ had one 603 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:07,360 purpose, to undo, to dissolve, and to destroy the devil's 604 00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:11,240 operations. Make no mistake, when Jesus 605 00:47:11,240 --> 00:47:13,560 came, it's just not a good story. 606 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:19,360 He came to dissolve and to destroy the works of the enemy 607 00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:25,040 for you and I Amen. So the power of the devil was 608 00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:31,280 broken by the coming and the anointing of Jesus Christ, which 609 00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,920 is the anointed 1. So listen, here's our homework. 610 00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:39,520 So over the next two weeks, let's get oil from your cupboard 611 00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:43,440 and anoint your street entrance with oil. 612 00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:46,200 We've done this for this church building a couple years ago. 613 00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:48,960 And so this is what I'm literally talking about. 614 00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:52,920 However bold you want to get, all right, you can get oil from 615 00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:56,800 your cupboard and literally just go like that if you want across 616 00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:00,240 your street. Or you can get a whole bottle 617 00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,040 and you can just walk it across your street. 618 00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:06,960 You know what this means? Every car and every person that 619 00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:11,480 walks across this anointed threshold comes under the 620 00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:15,960 anointing, the power breaking. The Bible says that the 621 00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:20,440 anointing breaks the yoke, that no matter what they're doing, 622 00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:22,480 they think they're doing it in innocence. 623 00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:27,520 And as they outwork this broken foothold, broken foothold, 624 00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:29,240 broken, they can receive their lollies. 625 00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:33,480 They can do what they want, but the enemy will have no authority 626 00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,120 over your street. OK. 627 00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,320 And then I'm believing for more than that. 628 00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,400 I'm believing as they walk across your oil. 629 00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:45,600 This is the faith we have that they are getting conviction of 630 00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:51,680 sin, all conviction of righteousness that as they walk 631 00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:56,520 across that they are literally walking across what Jesus the 632 00:48:56,520 --> 00:49:01,240 Christ came to break on planet earth and we are partnering with 633 00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:02,240 him for that. Amen. 634 00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:07,120 So you can do that over your suburb entrances, down the ends 635 00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:09,200 of your streets, streets as well. 636 00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,280 Do it over your driveway, pour it over your head. 637 00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:14,600 I don't care. Just don't drink it unless it's 638 00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,600 pure virgin. You know that? 639 00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,200 Yeah, olive oil, you can drink that. 640 00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:22,440 You should have a teaspoon every day. 641 00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:28,520 It's good for your liver anyway #2 declare the blood of you. 642 00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:30,880 Don't believe me, do you? Go through Jewish history, 643 00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:34,720 you'll see it. Declare the blood of Jesus. 644 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:40,720 Colossians 113 to 14 says He has delivered us from the power of 645 00:49:40,720 --> 00:49:46,480 darkness and conveyed us into the Kingdom of the Son of His 646 00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:52,760 love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the 647 00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:56,440 forgiveness of sins. We're breaking the powers of 648 00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:58,920 darkness. He's conveying us into the 649 00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:04,240 Kingdom of God and redeeming us through the blood and the 650 00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:07,280 forgiveness of sins. Listen, the blood redeems and 651 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,960 delivers us from the power and the authorities of darkness. 652 00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:15,720 Redemption by the blood means the devil has no legal claim 653 00:50:15,720 --> 00:50:20,320 over those who are washed in it. The blood transfers believers 654 00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,560 from Satan's dominion to God's Kingdom. 655 00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:28,640 Now you might say grey, like how do we do blood? 656 00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:32,520 You know, I kind of get, you know, the symbol of oil with 657 00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:35,560 anointing, but how do we do the blood thing? 658 00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:40,680 Well, the first verse I read today was that we don't fight 659 00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:45,520 against flesh and blood, but against principalities and 660 00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:48,280 powers. So how do you bling bring the 661 00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:53,040 blood of an eternal God into our now existence? 662 00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:56,440 It's through prayer. It's through prayer. 663 00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:59,720 It's a spirit, it's a spiritual entity. 664 00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:05,720 It's the blood of Jesus that was shed, but don't forget he rose 665 00:51:05,720 --> 00:51:10,280 again in human form and the Bible teaches in human form. 666 00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,640 Jesus now sits on the right hand of the Father. 667 00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:18,480 That blood that Jesus shed when he was on the cross because of 668 00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:22,880 no sin that Jesus had, His blood was eternal blood. 669 00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:28,840 In other words, now that blood still exists, but it's now in a 670 00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:34,120 spiritual manner in heaven. And so through prayer, you and I 671 00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:40,000 access the power of the blood of Jesus that was shed physically 672 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,160 on planet earth but has eternal entity. 673 00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,120 Does this make sense? So how do we plead and access 674 00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,680 the blood? We do it through faith in our 675 00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:52,640 prayer. So church, over the next two 676 00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:56,560 weeks, let's walk down and up and down and up and down our 677 00:51:56,560 --> 00:52:01,360 streets praying and declaring the blood of Jesus over our 678 00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:05,840 streets in every home. It looks like Father God right 679 00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:10,040 now as I walk down the street of 15 of Mcandrew St. in 680 00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:14,600 Caboolture, I declare the blood of Jesus just as it washes my 681 00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:18,280 sins away, just as it is eternal from the cross. 682 00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:22,800 Lord God, I declare that the blood of Jesus is washing and 683 00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,440 covering this street and this community. 684 00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:29,720 And Father, anyone that comes under the umbrella of the blood 685 00:52:29,720 --> 00:52:34,440 of Jesus will be set free. They will be redeemed, Father, 686 00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:39,040 the schemes and the plans of the enemy, they are broken in the 687 00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:42,840 existence of the blood of Jesus. From one end of anointing to the 688 00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:46,040 next end of anointing. This street in every house and 689 00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:49,880 my house and my people, Lord God, are covered and washed and 690 00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:52,880 clean in the blood of Jesus Christ. 691 00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:56,960 It's an eternal blood, Lord God, and we break the powers of 692 00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:59,560 darkness, principalities and powers. 693 00:52:59,720 --> 00:53:04,480 We fight this battle right now, although I and flesh I am part 694 00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:08,760 with God and I am fighting a spiritual black battle in the 695 00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:12,240 mighty name of Jesus. That's how you do it. 696 00:53:12,240 --> 00:53:14,360 Amen. You receive that today. 697 00:53:14,720 --> 00:53:16,240 Who believes that you can do that? 698 00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:20,120 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, but I would have done 699 00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:24,480 it privately too and said why could we not cast it out? 700 00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:26,960 They were trying to cast a demon out of a person. 701 00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:33,600 Verse 21 says this kind does not go out except by prayer, which 702 00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:37,360 we just did, and fasting, which we will also do. 703 00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:44,280 Fasting is not just self denial, it's spiritual warfare. 704 00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:48,040 Oh, now we're talking. Come on Pentecostals, ever 705 00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,520 knowing how to get into spiritual warfare? 706 00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:53,160 This is how you enter it, through fasting. 707 00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:58,440 When combined with prayer and faith in Jesus, fasting breaks 708 00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:02,840 demonic oppression. It releases deliverance. 709 00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:07,040 It brings release. It's not all about breaking the 710 00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:10,720 powers off. It's also releasing God within 711 00:54:10,720 --> 00:54:11,440 you. Amen. 712 00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:15,360 It's releasing everything God has given to you, Saints, and 713 00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:17,840 it's releasing it out into the community. 714 00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:21,880 This is what fasting does. It empowers us to walk in the 715 00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:25,080 authority and victory of Christ. Man, that's so true. 716 00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:29,560 Let me tell you, I fast all the time and every time I fast I 717 00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:34,080 just feel like I am like I just feel like devil get out of my 718 00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:37,280 way because I'm on a mission for the Kingdom of God. 719 00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:41,680 I just get such a grunt in the spiritual realm because an 720 00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:46,000 authority that is only divine and from God comes over me. 721 00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:49,560 You've never experienced that unless you fasted. 722 00:54:49,720 --> 00:54:52,160 So church, this is the call to fast. 723 00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,840 Amen. So over the next two weeks, 724 00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:58,000 let's fast food. We're not playing games here, 725 00:54:58,000 --> 00:54:59,640 we're not fasting computer games. 726 00:54:59,960 --> 00:55:04,080 We're fasting our bodies. We're fasting food for one full 727 00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:05,360 day. Who could do that? 728 00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:09,880 Who could do one day for one day and find your own day? 729 00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:11,280 You can do this wherever you want. 730 00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:14,120 Make it work with your family and fast. 731 00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:18,400 Let me tell you, if you wake up in the morning and the kids are 732 00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:22,280 crazy and you go to work and you haven't yet had breakfast, don't 733 00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:23,640 go. Oh, I'm going to fast today. 734 00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:25,680 You're already halfway through, right? 735 00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,480 Find a day, plan the day and say I am fasting tomorrow. 736 00:55:30,720 --> 00:55:33,800 Let me tell you'll be hungry while you're sleeping during the 737 00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:37,120 night because your body, body knows that you're about to fast 738 00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:38,200 for Christ. Amen. 739 00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:42,720 And it starts to hit you. Find your own day fast that the 740 00:55:42,720 --> 00:55:47,480 schemes of the devil will be powerless over your street and 741 00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:50,240 that Jesus will be revealed to people in your street. 742 00:55:50,240 --> 00:55:54,360 You can do that or your suburb. So just to reiterate for you to 743 00:55:54,360 --> 00:56:00,080 writing it down anoint declare the blood of Jesus and fast 744 00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:03,520 you've got two weeks. Can you do this do this together 745 00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:06,720 church, Amen. And just in finishing, I just 746 00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:10,600 want to say let's avoid wicked customs, Amen. 747 00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:14,920 No part of who we are because our identity is in Jesus Christ. 748 00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:18,480 You know, you might have been listening to this and you're 749 00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:21,400 just like, whoa, whoa, I came on a crazy day today. 750 00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:30,040 Yeah, you came on a crazy day. And let me tell you that in all 751 00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:34,680 of this, why would I preach this to a church congregation? 752 00:56:35,720 --> 00:56:40,880 It's because the enemy just sometimes he just works so 753 00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:45,560 simply and calmly because the world is a little bit crazy 754 00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:48,800 right now. And we've had times in histories 755 00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:52,720 where the where the world has just been like, you know, just 756 00:56:52,720 --> 00:56:55,000 what's going on, where's God and all that. 757 00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:58,480 But the world is really crazy and I think it's really crazy. 758 00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:01,880 It's crazy in a different time than what it's ever been in a 759 00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,200 different way to what it's ever been in history. 760 00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:09,360 It's a little bit crazy because the signs of the end are drawing 761 00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:13,280 closer than what I've ever drawn before and some real ridiculous 762 00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,360 sort of stuff is happening on planet Earth. 763 00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,600 Just jump on YouTube for 5 minutes, look at news, hit the 764 00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:20,840 news tab. That's the only reason why you 765 00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:24,880 would go on YouTube, by the way. And you click the news tab and 766 00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:28,240 you know in 5 minutes you'll just see the stuff going on in 767 00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:31,080 the church. The Bible talks about wars and 768 00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,960 rumours of wars. It talks about the third temple 769 00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:36,480 being rebuilt, you know, just before Jesus comes. 770 00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:38,640 And we're starting to see all these signs. 771 00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:43,840 And so what's happening is the spiritual atmosphere that we all 772 00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:48,400 live and walk in daily is just starting to get battle ready. 773 00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:52,600 It's starting to get Armageddon ready. 774 00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:54,920 It's starting to get end times ready. 775 00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:59,320 And the the devil is just like at work like never before. 776 00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:03,280 It's all OK, God's in heaven sip in a latte because the battle's 777 00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:05,920 already won, right? Jesus has already died. 778 00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:08,240 So the ultimate battle's already won. 779 00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:11,360 God's just out working time. OK. 780 00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:16,680 But with all of this comes this spiritual pressure that often we 781 00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:19,360 don't know, but we just have to live in and walk in. 782 00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:23,800 And so I just say all that because when you don't have 783 00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:28,480 Jesus in your life and you've never, you've never taken stock 784 00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:30,680 of your life and said, you know what? 785 00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:34,760 I am bowing down to something. Some things I just don't know. 786 00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:38,760 I'm bowing down to government. I'm bowing down to society 787 00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:40,760 pressure. I'm bowing down to culture. 788 00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,600 I'm being led by things. That's how you know if you're 789 00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:46,960 bowing down, you're being led by things, which is generally 790 00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:50,160 culture. But you have the authority and I 791 00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:53,480 know that you have the strength that if you're not right with 792 00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:58,080 Jesus to take stock of your life and go, I will bow down to 793 00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:04,000 nothing or no one who hasn't formed me in the 1st place. 794 00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:09,680 And in that, taking stock of your life and your eternity, you 795 00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:14,800 can say I don't understand everything about God, but I 796 00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:21,080 can't deny that he is real. You might struggle to even think 797 00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:22,800 that he might. He created you. 798 00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:26,560 Maybe you're atheists or you believe in things like Big Bang 799 00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:28,880 Theory and and all, and all of that sort of stuff. 800 00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:34,960 And you might not understand yet or have a comprehension of how 801 00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:38,240 things could just exist and how could God be real. 802 00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:43,480 But one thing everyone in this room knows is that the spirit 803 00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:47,840 realm is real. There is not one person in this 804 00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:52,280 room can't deny that. If you've had a bad dream, if 805 00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:55,800 you've gone to bed scared, or if you've ever had fear. 806 00:59:56,360 --> 01:00:00,600 This is all spiritual stuff. And when you are aware that the 807 01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:04,800 spirit realm is real, you have to conclude that there is an 808 01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:08,200 ultimate. You have to conclude that there 809 01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:13,440 is one above all. And to that, that is God, my 810 01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:17,920 God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the one and only true God. 811 01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:21,440 And you, you can see that around you. 812 01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:25,200 And once you accept that, your life becomes transformed. 813 01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:27,760 How do you see it around you? Well, the Bible says the 814 01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:29,680 evidence is all around a rainbow. 815 01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,680 Crazy rainbows are just crazy trees. 816 01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:38,480 They form oxygen for you and I to leave evidence of a a God 817 01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:41,720 that's outside of all things is evident all around. 818 01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:44,600 But look at the church. Look at this wonderful church. 819 01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:48,840 All of us that have given our lives to Jesus, we live better 820 01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:50,320 for it. We live free. 821 01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:55,080 We aren't dictated to by dreams and movies and and the enemy. 822 01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:57,720 There is a freedom. The evidence is in this room 823 01:00:57,720 --> 01:00:58,280 here today.