1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:06,840 You've tuned in to a mega church. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,600 We are people hungry to encounter God through worship 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,040 and His Word being witnesses to the world around us. 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:15,080 We pray this teaching blesses you and trust God will reveal 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:16,600 Himself to you in a new way today. 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,400 And if you need prayer for healing or breakthrough? 7 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:21,040 Want to find out more about Omega? 8 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:23,760 Get to our website or Facebook page through the links below. 9 00:00:30,020 --> 00:00:36,880 It's me today. I am Ramana, so let's make our 10 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,840 usual proclamation. The Kingdom of God is within me. 11 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:44,440 Amen. Amen. 12 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:52,040 Yeah, I'm just going to pray because by the Lord's grace, I 13 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:54,800 won't weep and cry my way through the next 30 minutes. 14 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,400 But let's just close it, bow our eyes and yeah, Lord, we just 15 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:00,560 come before you. We ask that as we open your word 16 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:02,720 this morning. God, I pray that you would make 17 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:04,959 our hearts receptive to what you have to say to us. 18 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:06,520 Lord, make us sensitive to your word. 19 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:10,080 Let the word that's been sown go deep into our hearts, that it 20 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,440 bear fruit, much fruit for the glory of your name. 21 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,640 In Jesus name we pray. Amen, Amen. 22 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,080 All right, so today I want to read from Joshua Chapter 7. 23 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:25,840 But before I get there, I'm just going to do a bit of context, a 24 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,360 bit of myth busting, if you will, and then we'll dive into 25 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:31,320 the word. And so it kind of prepares our 26 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:36,040 heart for the letters to say, I'm speaking today because we 27 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:39,160 obviously had a really great camp focusing on on the gifts of 28 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,120 the Holy Spirit, healing, things like that. 29 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,160 We all prayed for each other on Saturday night. 30 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,520 And now we're going to be moving into an another four week series 31 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,520 on healings and deliverances. And so I wanted to take the 32 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:53,080 opportunity to share my testimony about what God has 33 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:57,120 been doing in my life for these last six months, because it kind 34 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,400 of all ties in nicely and and to kind of whit your appetite for 35 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:02,880 what's going to come, what God wants to do among us and for 36 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,920 each and everyone of us. I believe the calling of God for 37 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,479 this church is a big part of that calling is deliverance, 38 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,640 deliverance ministry. And so before we begin, what do 39 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:17,760 I mean when I say deliverance? It's quite a buzzword people 40 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,160 throw at deliverance ministries all around the place. 41 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:25,560 But for at its most simple definition, deliverance is just 42 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,400 all the things that have clinged on to us since before we were, 43 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,440 before we came to the Lord are kind of tying us down, holding 44 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,200 us back, slowing us down. It's cutting those things off 45 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,520 us, Right. A really simple analogy, I 46 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:42,160 guess, if you will, is when Jesus raised Lazarus from the 47 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,680 dead, he was an alive he, the man was alive. 48 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:50,520 Did he have any business being wrapped in those grave clothes? 49 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,760 No, people that are alive have no business being wrapped in 50 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,680 grave clothes, Right? And so that's all Deliverance 51 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,440 is, is taking those things off from when we were dead and now 52 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,320 we're alive. We just have to disconnect those 53 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:06,720 things from our lives. And so that's the simple 54 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,360 definition. And why it's so important is 55 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,240 because we have a really high calling on our lives as 56 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:13,920 believers. The Great Commission, the Lord 57 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:17,000 commands us that we had to go out to heal the sick, to raise 58 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,520 the debt, to cast out demons, to preach the good news of the 59 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,480 gospel. Those are the foundations of 60 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,120 what we're called to do as a believers. 61 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:29,240 And we can't do that unless we are 100% yielded to the power of 62 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:30,800 the Holy Spirit in our lives, right? 63 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,000 And so deliverance is a process that allows us to yield 64 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,200 ourselves completely, to lay ourselves down fully before the 65 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,600 Lord. And so before I start, I just 66 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,360 want to deal with a couple of misconceptions that I had about 67 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:45,920 deliverance before I went through it and other people 68 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:50,920 might have. And the first being Christians 69 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:55,760 can't be in bondage or, or or under the influence of demons or 70 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:58,280 another way this is put is I'm saved. 71 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:00,960 Am I not already free? Why do I need to? 72 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:02,480 Why do I need deliverance? Because I'm already saved. 73 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,600 Like that's a valid question. And so I just want to draw a 74 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,080 couple of principles from the Bible. 75 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:12,320 The first being Luke 22, three, the example of Judas, right? 76 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,320 The Bible says then Satan entered Judas. 77 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,120 Now Judas was in the inner circle. 78 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,480 He was among the 12. Did he cast out demons? 79 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:24,000 Yes. Did he heal the sick? 80 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,640 Yes. Was he a follower of Jesus 81 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:31,120 Christ? But still Satan into Judas? 82 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:35,440 We're all susceptible in our lives to the influence of the 83 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,760 enemy unless we're really careful, right? 84 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:41,360 So that is example number one that, yeah, Christians, 85 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,840 believers can be in bondage or under the influence of the 86 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:48,240 enemy. Then we go down to Matthew 1623. 87 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,240 But you're like, Oh yeah, yeah, Judas, he betrayed Jesus. 88 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:55,040 He doesn't really count, right? OK, let's look at Peter, Matthew 89 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,200 1623. But Jesus turned and said to 90 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,520 Peter, get behind me, Satan. You are a stumbling block to me. 91 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,480 And this is again, a really good example of how the devil is 92 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,600 influencing the thought life of a really strong believer that 93 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,400 this is Peter. I'm going to build my church up 94 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,800 on this rock, right? This is the one of the 95 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,480 disciples. And again, you see, he's he's 96 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:17,800 easily under the influence of the enemy. 97 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,440 And lastly, Simon the sorcerer. This is a really interesting 98 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:26,640 example that I came across while reading a while ago because it 99 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:31,880 says in Acts chapter 8 verse 13, Simon himself believed and was 100 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,680 baptized and he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the 101 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:37,360 great signs and miracles that he saw. 102 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,520 So here's a believer who believed the good news. 103 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:43,600 He was baptized and he was following one of his disciples 104 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,840 and was amazed. But yet you see that he's later 105 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:49,960 on in that passage, he tries to buy the gift of the Holy Spirit 106 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,160 and Peter rebukes him and says, you, I think I kind of remember 107 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,560 the words X 18. We can go to X chapter 18. 108 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,440 Let's do that and then I can give you the exact words what 109 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:10,320 Peter says. 8 Acts chapter 8 verse 13 Simon the sorcerer in 110 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,120 verse 18, when Simon saw the Spirit was given at the laying 111 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,080 on of the apostles hands, he offered them money and said, 112 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,240 give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my 113 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:20,680 hands may receive the Holy Spirit. 114 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,920 Peter answered, May your Bunny perish with you because you 115 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,560 thought you could buy the gift of God with money. 116 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:30,000 You have no part or share in this ministry because your heart 117 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:34,800 is not right before God. Repent of this wickedness and 118 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,760 pray to the Lord. Perhaps He will forgive you for 119 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:39,280 having such a thought in your heart. 120 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:44,760 For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin. 121 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,800 This is a really key phrase, captive to sin. 122 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,320 There are things in our lives that we're captive. 123 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:56,560 We may be captive to addiction. Thought patterns are just 124 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:59,600 irrational things. But these are all signs of the 125 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,400 influence of the enemy. And there's someone who was 126 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,000 baptized and believed and was still captive to these things. 127 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,680 But this passage is also interesting. 128 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,160 Notice how Peter doesn't cast the demon out of him. 129 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:18,200 What does he do? Ask him to repent, right? 130 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:22,720 That heart of repentance and true repentance before God is, I 131 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:24,080 think, one of the key things to deliver. 132 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,080 It's not saying that casting out demons is not bad, but I'm 133 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,160 saying it doesn't always have to. 134 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:31,040 That's not the only thing. There's a whole bunch of other 135 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,400 stuff that involves true deliverance and true repentance. 136 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:40,320 I think is is really important. And the other things being that 137 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:44,360 if believers can't be influenced by the demonic, then Paul has no 138 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:47,200 right to tell us to take thought, to take every thought 139 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,120 captive him to be obedient into the obedience of Christ, to put 140 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,120 on the full armor of God. Why do we need to do all these 141 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,840 things? Because we live in a world 142 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:56,920 that's both natural and spiritual. 143 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,000 Spiritual attacks are always going to come at us. 144 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,200 And so we need to be vigilant, right? 145 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,640 And one last thing about if I'm already a Christian and how can 146 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:08,840 I be under the influence of the demonic is this analogy that I 147 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:12,320 think dad is, is is spoke about before of this house, right? 148 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:17,720 If you, when you buy a house, all of its problems don't 149 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,800 magically disappear because the ownership changed, right? 150 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,760 The, the, if you've got ants and termites in the roof, they're 151 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:25,480 still going to be there. The tap's still going to be 152 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:28,320 leaking. You have to fix those things. 153 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:32,640 Just because ownership changes doesn't necessarily mean all the 154 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:35,799 problems go away. There are definitely 100% times 155 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:39,120 when God radically saved someone and all of that stuff just boom 156 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:43,159 goes. But again, we have a part to 157 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:48,360 play cool. And the other thing, the other 158 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,680 kind of thing I want to tackle is that I've already been 159 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:53,120 through deliverance. I don't need to do it again. 160 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:58,920 Sanctification is an ongoing process. 161 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,320 Justification is a one time thing, right? 162 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:04,840 You've been justified by Christ. He's died for you and He's 163 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:10,720 forgiven you your sins. But holiness is ongoing you. 164 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,880 We are in a pursuit of becoming more holy, just as He is holy, 165 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:18,040 day after day after day. And so just because you did 166 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,520 something once doesn't mean you don't need to do it again, 167 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,400 right? Is there? 168 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,080 Do I have examples? Oh yeah, cool. 169 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,320 Matthew 1243 to 45. When an impure spirit comes out 170 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:30,400 of a person that goes through arid places seeking rest, then 171 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,440 it says I will return to the house, then the house. 172 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,800 And then when the spirit comes back, the final condition of 173 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:37,360 that person is worse than the first. 174 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:39,600 So this verse tells us two things. 175 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:44,680 One, deliverance is real demons do torment people and they can 176 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:47,600 leave. But also they can come back, 177 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,200 right? Matthew 1623 But Jesus turned 178 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,520 and said to Peter, get behind me, Satan, you are something off 179 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:56,200 to me. Oh, sorry, I forgot to take 180 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:58,040 those two things. I was doing this at like right? 181 00:09:58,160 --> 00:09:59,760 Don't remember the last two bullet points. 182 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:05,080 They're the same as the others. Deliverance is real, but freedom 183 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:07,640 must be guided and maintained. The same fervor with which you 184 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:09,840 fight for your deliverance must be the same fervor with which 185 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,120 you live and maintain your freedom, right? 186 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:15,160 OK. So I think we've done a pretty 187 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,160 good job looking at the Bible to say deliverance is a real thing. 188 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:24,360 It's scripturally sound, and we all may need it, I think, and at 189 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,240 some point in our lives. And so before I go into the 190 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:32,080 passage Joshua Chapter 7, I kind of want, I want to share with 191 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:37,760 you my testimony because I have gone through this in the last at 192 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:39,840 the start of the year in February, I had to go through 193 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:42,200 deliverance not by choice, but by necessity. 194 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:47,760 So I've spoken on Joshua 7 before, if some of you may 195 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:49,800 remember from the atrium. So this is a couple years ago. 196 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:53,960 So in 2023, I, I look, I look back through the podcast and God 197 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,840 had spoken to me about Joshua Chapter 7 because I had doubts 198 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:59,160 about deliverance. In my mind, my parents are 199 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:02,600 probably the best people in the country to go to deliverance, 200 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:04,760 but I had doubts and I would be with them praying. 201 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:06,280 And I was like, oh, I don't know, I don't see it in the 202 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:06,920 Bible. I don't know. 203 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:10,480 But God spoke to me out of Joshua 7 and it satisfied my 204 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:14,680 things. But as as every good believer or 205 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,280 as every good person, I proceeded to preach a sermon on 206 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,520 it before I applied it to my own life. 207 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,520 And so I neglected to apply it to my life for two years. 208 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:28,200 And so Fast forward now to to February 2025, at the start of 209 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,240 this year. I've been dealing with a little 210 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,960 bit of back pain since maybe the last 10 years. 211 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:44,160 Oops. I've been dealing with back pain 212 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:47,360 for the last maybe 10 years, since 2015, on and off, really 213 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,120 bad. I kind of just live with it. 214 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,440 It's whatever I was. Oh yeah, it's a little bit of 215 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:52,280 pain. I'll get over it. 216 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,320 It comes and it goes. And so it was starting to get 217 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:56,960 really bad at the start of the year. 218 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:59,720 And so I was like, ah, it's fine. 219 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,120 Didn't think anything of it. I didn't think it was spiritual 220 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:04,880 because it's just back pain. I mean, people have back pain. 221 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:10,120 So one Sunday afternoon after church, I lay down for a nap. 222 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:14,600 And then when I got up, I, I couldn't get up. 223 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,480 Like it was, it had just gripped me so bad. 224 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:21,320 I managed to get up, but then I fell because I couldn't stand in 225 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:24,480 the pain. There was no position in my body 226 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:28,960 that was not sending excruciating pain down my leg 227 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:31,840 and my spine. Like it was just like it was on 228 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,560 fire. I I have a pretty good pain 229 00:12:34,560 --> 00:12:36,120 threshold. Like I said, I've lived with 230 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:40,600 this for 10 years without much complaint, but this was insane. 231 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:46,160 I was on the floor just shaking in pain for about an hour and 232 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,560 then obviously I was like, I need to call mom and dad like 233 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:52,160 what's going on? They came and then the condition 234 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:54,120 that I was in, they were like, this is spiritual. 235 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,160 It's not, it's no longer physical, right? 236 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:59,120 And so I was like, OK, let's I need to go through deliverance. 237 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:02,440 And so we started this process of uncovering what were the 238 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:05,240 things that I'd opened doors to in my life since a very young 239 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:08,520 age, like stuff that I from from a very young age. 240 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:13,160 And it's not big things. I mean, I was, at that point a 241 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:16,720 believer for many decades, a couple of like since I was a 242 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,000 kid, right? Like, I've been baptized in the 243 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,040 Holy Spirit. I've cast out demons. 244 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,240 I've seen people being healed when I pray for them. 245 00:13:23,560 --> 00:13:26,480 I lead worship. I'm the son of a pastor. 246 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:31,320 All of those things were there and I was like, how can I be in 247 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:33,160 bondage, right? And so that's why I put off 248 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:35,120 deliverance for so long. I'm a pretty good Christian. 249 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:36,960 There's nothing terribly wrong with me. 250 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:39,960 And then this happened and I had to go through it. 251 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:43,120 And the Lord really brought me to that place of genuine 252 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,120 repentance. Little stuff that I'd done like 253 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,240 years and years ago, I would just weep and say, God, I'm 254 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:55,520 sorry. Like I've, I've hurt your heart, 255 00:13:55,960 --> 00:14:07,440 you know? So I went to the physio and they 256 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:11,400 did an MRI and they found two prolapsed discs in my spine. 257 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:16,000 And that kind of pain is pretty like one of the worst pains you 258 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:20,000 can feel. And so he'd booked me in for ACT 259 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:24,080 guided injection, like a steroid injection into my spine to kind 260 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,040 of just help deal with the pain because they're like, there's 261 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:28,640 nothing you can do unless you want to do surgery, but that's 262 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:31,400 what we're going to do. And so at the same time I was 263 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:35,400 going through Deliverance, I was on four different kind of like a 264 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,760 really high doses of pain medication and none of those 265 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,120 even helped. At night, I couldn't sleep. 266 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:44,400 I'd be biting my pillow just to roll from my back to my side so 267 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,760 I wouldn't wake Hailey. Like the amount of pain was just 268 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:51,520 excruciating. So all of this is happening. 269 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:56,360 I was on super high painkillers. Nothing is helping going through 270 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:57,760 Deliverance. And when I went through 271 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:02,600 Deliverance, within three days I was completely off all 272 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,760 painkillers. And I went back to the guy and I 273 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:07,800 was like, I, I don't think I need the painkillers. 274 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,160 And he's like, whoa, what about the injections? 275 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:12,160 I don't think so. He's like, let's not do it if 276 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:14,280 you don't need it. And I was like, OK, great. 277 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:21,480 And so, yeah, that was a really stark contrast of the just sheer 278 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:26,200 pain versus and then and then coming out of it, it took a 279 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:30,320 while to fully recover. Like that recovery spanned a 280 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:31,960 couple of months. And then as some of you may 281 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:36,560 know, right before camp, I had another attack of the enemy. 282 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,320 And every hour I had to lie down just to kind of give it rest 283 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,240 this weekend. And I was preparing the sermon 284 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:46,320 on Wednesday. And I was like, Lord, how am I 285 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,440 going to stand in front of these people and talk about this if 286 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:54,360 I'm still like this? And again, we went through some 287 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:57,000 we cast out some more stuff the last couple of days. 288 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,960 And I can genuinely tell you, like I woke up without any pain 289 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:05,720 this morning, like nothing like it's, you know, it's all God, 290 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:09,360 it's. And that kind of again speaks to 291 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:11,720 this test. The testament of you go through 292 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:14,720 deliverance once. But I'm going to be honest with 293 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:18,120 you, I was really slack once I got healed, I was like, cool, 294 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,840 I'm going to coast. I'm good now and then, you know, 295 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,120 like back then when I was in pain going through this, I would 296 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,120 be worshipping, praying, reading my Bible in the morning, 297 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,280 afternoon, night, constantly in the Word, constantly in his 298 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:31,840 presence. It was awesome. 299 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:34,880 But then it's, I think it's human nature that when something 300 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,160 kind of eases off, you're like, oh, OK, I can just chill out. 301 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:38,480 It's all right. I can take it easy now. 302 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,840 Like I'm good. And so I did that, shamefully. 303 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:43,720 I kind of took it, took my things out. 304 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,200 I was like, oh, you know, my reading the word got less and 305 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,960 less and less. And then you expose yourself to 306 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,280 the attack of the enemy when you take your foot off the pedal. 307 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:55,760 And so that's one of the, the key point I want to make is that 308 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,040 the the fervor with which you fight for your deliverance needs 309 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,600 to be the same amount of intensity with which you hold 310 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:03,440 it. We can't afford to take our foot 311 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,000 off the gas pedal because the devil is prowling. 312 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,359 He's waiting for a chance to get a foothold in our lives. 313 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:11,880 And we can't give him that chance, not when the call of God 314 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,560 for each and everyone of us is so high. 315 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:22,880 Right, so OK, let's dive into the word Joshua Chapter 7. 316 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:27,920 The blueprint for deliverance is is is is found in Joshua Chapter 317 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:31,320 7. Yeah, so I just got it here. 318 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,760 17th September 2023. God spoke to me about 319 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,760 deliverance and I have it recorded on a permanent record 320 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,440 on the Internet saying I called dad and said I want to book a 321 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,720 deliverance session in ASAP. And that didn't happen for two 322 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:44,280 years. And I think that's, that's the 323 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:45,920 enemy's voice saying you don't need to do it. 324 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,440 You're pretty good, you're fine. It's not that urgent. 325 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,320 You can do it another time. But let me give you a word of 326 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,960 advice. Do it before you need to do it. 327 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:58,440 It's always going to be better to do it before you have the 328 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:00,000 need. When before the enemy's got a 329 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,600 knife up against you. Don't, don't let it get that 330 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:03,640 bad. Just do it. 331 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:09,760 Just Nike, just do it. Don't be forced to do it. 332 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:12,880 Cool. So Joshua Chapter 7, it's this 333 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,040 passage about Akin. The right Israelites are 334 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:21,200 fighting AI and they lose the battle because this one man Akin 335 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,320 had taken, had disobeyed God and taken some of the plunder from 336 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,080 Jericho. And so some of I just really 337 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:29,240 quickly want to touch on some of the context for Joshua Chapter 338 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,960 7. And it's found in Joshua chapter 339 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:39,120 one, verse 2 to 5. It says Moses, my servant, this 340 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:41,280 is godspeaking. Moses, my servant is dead. 341 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,920 Now then you and all these people get ready to cross the 342 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,480 Jordan River into the land I'm about to give you to the 343 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:50,200 Israelites. I will give you every place 344 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,720 where you set your foot. As I promised Moses, your 345 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:58,000 territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the 346 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,720 great river, the Euphrates, all the Hittite country to the great 347 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,480 sea on the West. And this is the key verse. 348 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:09,560 No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your 349 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,520 life. As I was with Moses, so I will 350 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,400 be with you. I will never leave you nor 351 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:20,520 forsake you, right? What a great promise, Amen. 352 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:24,400 Like this is the Lord. If if God woke you up in the 353 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:29,800 middle of the night appeared to you and said no one will be able 354 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,400 to stand against you all the days of your life as I was with 355 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:34,000 Moses, so I'll be with you. I will never leave you. 356 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,000 What like this is our promise as well. 357 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:38,480 This is the Lord's promise to us. 358 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:41,160 But imagine if God woke you up and said these things to you, 359 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,600 right. You're you're on cloud 9. 360 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:47,400 Nothing is going to beat me devil not I'll be strutting my 361 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,080 stuff up and down. You know I'm easy. 362 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:55,000 And so that's the context of what the Lord had spoken to 363 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,440 Joshua. These are the things that he was 364 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,560 carrying, the promises of the Lord he was carrying. 365 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,680 And so they crossed the Jordan, They come to Jericho. 366 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,960 And Jericho is one of the largest cities in, in, in the 367 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:09,200 country. It's the population, I think I 368 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,000 don't have it here, but it's one of the largest cities in the 369 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,680 promised land. And we all know the story, 370 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,720 right? They send spies and to kind of 371 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:16,680 scope it out. Then they come, and Joshua 372 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,600 fought the Battle of Jericho, and the walls came crumbling 373 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,560 down. And they destroy it. 374 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:28,880 But one of the key things God said in that battle was when he, 375 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:30,800 when they destroyed it, God gave them a command that all the 376 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,200 gold, silver and articles or bronze and iron are to be taken 377 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:35,520 to the treasury of the Lord's house. 378 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:37,440 The people weren't to take any of that stuff. 379 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:39,560 It was meant to go to the Lord's house. 380 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:42,440 And obviously they weren't to kill anyone in Rahab's house 381 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,240 because of what she'd helped the people with. 382 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:50,960 And so when they did this Aiken, which then brings us to verse 383 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:52,840 one. But the Israelites acted 384 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:56,920 unfaithfully in regard to the devoted things Akin son of Kami, 385 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,000 the son of Zemri, the son of 0. The tribe of Judah took some of 386 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,840 them. So the Lord's anger burned 387 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:06,360 against Israel. So what did he take the he took. 388 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,720 We find the answer in verse 21. A beautiful robe from Babylonia 389 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:17,120 and some gold and some silver. And he hid it in his tent as I 390 00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:19,760 was preparing last night. I want a tangent a little bit, 391 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,760 but I think it's important because the Lord really 392 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,920 convicted me of this. And I think it's really 393 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,240 important for us as a church to come to a West. 394 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,160 So I just wanted to decide tangent a little bit and focus 395 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:36,720 on this rope from Babylonia. Contrast this with the life of 396 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:42,880 Daniel. OK, he, Daniel, was rooted, 397 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,040 planted in Babylon in the King's temple. 398 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:50,000 He could eat whatever he wanted. He could wear whatever he 399 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:54,040 wanted, drink whatever he wanted inside Babylon. 400 00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:57,880 But yet he made a statement. I will not defile myself. 401 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:04,880 He made a priority of holiness in the culture that wasn't holy. 402 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,880 He chose not to defile himself with the things of Babylon. 403 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:16,000 Here you have Akin not in Babylon, in the protection and 404 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:22,000 in the camp of the Israelites. Yet he didn't make that 405 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,360 distinction of not defiling himself with the things of 406 00:22:25,360 --> 00:22:28,560 Babylon, right? It's two really contrasting 407 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,000 things and it highlights our need for holiness. 408 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,280 We need to be like Daniel, not akin. 409 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,800 Even if, though, even though we're in an environment, even 410 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,280 though we're, we associate with people that are from Babylon, 411 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,240 off Babylon, we must, we have to be like Daniel and say, I will 412 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,280 choose not to defile myself. I choose to be holy because 413 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:49,160 holiness is really, really important. 414 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,640 He yeah, Daniel decided to stay pure and not be defined by it. 415 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,880 And because of that, he would he shine for God. 416 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,600 In contrast to Akin, who is not in Babylon, not in the 417 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,840 environment of oppression, yet covers the things that are from 418 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:04,400 Babylon and brings death and destructions. 419 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:09,040 Christians are losing the battles, their battles in life 420 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,400 because they desire the things of Babylon. 421 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:18,240 And it's not big things. It's very like minute little 422 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,080 things. We need to be so careful about 423 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,680 the things that defile us, the things that we read, the things 424 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,240 that we love, the things that we put our hands to, the things 425 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,160 that we watch, the things that we see, the things that we hear, 426 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:35,480 right. I remember years ago now when 427 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,200 I'd made the conscious decision to stop listening to secular 428 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:43,520 music because I don't want to defile myself of all the 429 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,640 connotations, the words, the themes that come out of of the 430 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:50,640 world. And I made that choice. 431 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:57,960 And now Fast forward another 10-15 years, we have social 432 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,520 media now we have Facebook, we have Instagram, we have YouTube. 433 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,000 And the Lord convicted me last night. 434 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,680 He's like, you made such a strong stance about music, but 435 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,560 what's your stance about social media? 436 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:15,680 Because people swear on there. Like, I got sent something 437 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,560 really vulgar by someone a couple of days ago and I didn't 438 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,520 think much of it until last night again. 439 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:22,920 And the Lord brought it to my attention. 440 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,720 And I was like, hang on, why am I opening myself up to all these 441 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,000 other things when I've made a conscious decision not to want 442 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:33,640 to be defiled, right. It's things we watch like Haley 443 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,360 and I make a really strong effort before we watch any movie 444 00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:40,200 as to IMDb it and check is there any nudity? 445 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:41,920 Is there any? Is there any sexual stuff? 446 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,320 Because if there is not, it's off the table. 447 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:49,080 And it, it astounds me how often Christians are they talking 448 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:50,400 about these movies that they go and see. 449 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,440 And I'm like, why? Why are you defiling yourself 450 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,880 with the things of Babylon, right? 451 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,760 We need to make a stand of purity in a generation that's 452 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:04,920 going to complete opposite way. That's the first step to staying 453 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:09,240 free. Same thing with social media. 454 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,480 So much junk. I've deleted it now, but so much 455 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,560 junk that just you're scrolling through. 456 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,040 You're they say it's engineered like a slot machine to keep your 457 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:20,560 dictates. You're pulling down, but not 458 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,920 only that, you're pulling down on your innocence, right. 459 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,000 You don't know what's going to pop up the next time you flick 460 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,240 something. You don't know if you're going 461 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,440 to watch someone die, if you're going to see someone say 462 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:30,920 something vulgar. You have no idea. 463 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,360 You're just flicking it. It. 464 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,680 It completely baffles my mind and and, and my plea to this 465 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:40,640 generation, you young people, is God what God has given you. 466 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,840 Guard your eyes, guard your ears. 467 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:47,360 It's not worth opening yourself up to the enemy. 468 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:49,840 It's not worth the divorcing yourself from God. 469 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,800 It's just not worth it. So that's my side tangent. 470 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:58,600 Where was it? The robe of Babylon here, verse 471 00:25:58,600 --> 00:25:59,880 1. So he covered it some things and 472 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:02,000 he took them. What he took was the robe of bet 473 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,520 from Babylon, some gold, some silver. 474 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,520 Verse 2 Now Joshua sends some men from Jericho to AI, which is 475 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,840 near Beth Avon to the east of Bethel Bethel and told them go 476 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:13,400 up and spy out the region, right? 477 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:14,840 It worked for them the first time. 478 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,080 Send some spies in, see what we'd need to do and let's go and 479 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,960 do it. Now when they returned to Joshua 480 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,160 verse three, they said not all the people have to go up against 481 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:29,840 AI, sent 2 or 3000 men to take it and don't weary all the 482 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:31,640 people for only a few men are there. 483 00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:38,040 So about 3000 men went up. So they have defeated the 484 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,360 biggest city in the land and now it's AI which is much smaller. 485 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:44,120 The population of AI is about 12,000 people. 486 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,640 The Israelites had 600,000 fighting men at that point. 487 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,720 And so by the time you'd taken women and children, they were in 488 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,880 the millions, right? And so the spies go and they say 489 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,720 it's a small town, we don't need to take all 600,000 people, take 490 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,800 3000. And so they send up 3000 and 491 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,720 then verse 4. But they sent and 3000 men up, 492 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:08,400 but they were routed, routed, routed by the men of AI. 493 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:12,840 Some translations say they were soundly defeated by the men of 494 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:17,960 AI. They chased the yeah, who killed 495 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,000 about 36 of them. They chased the Israelites from 496 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,360 the city gate as far as the stone quarries and struck them 497 00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:28,880 down on the slopes. So the recommendation to send 498 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,800 2000 or 3000 people could have either been from faith. 499 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,720 We've just taken down Jericho without raising a single, you 500 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,000 know, like we just walked around it. 501 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,920 So God is with us. Let's just send 3000. 502 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:41,480 Or it could have been self-reliance. 503 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:44,840 Just in the physical. It's 12,000 people. 504 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,840 Let's just send 3000, finish the job, right? 505 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,480 Whether it was faith or self-reliance, most likely I'm 506 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,960 going to say self-reliance, which is again, something that 507 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,160 we all kind of tap into. Like, I can handle it. 508 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,640 This isn't a big deal. This temptation isn't that big. 509 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,200 I can handle it. Like this is not right. 510 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:05,560 But who knows that even if they had sent 600,000 men, they would 511 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,760 have still lost the battle, right? 512 00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:11,520 Why? Because they disobeyed God. 513 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,520 There was those things that buried under the tent of Akin. 514 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,640 You could send as many men as you want, but if you're not 515 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:21,080 obedient to God, if you've opened yourself up to the attack 516 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,320 of the enemy, you will always stay defeated. 517 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:32,920 That's that's the principle. The whole group. 518 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,480 Yeah, yeah, exactly. Coming to that next, because the 519 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:42,360 Lord says in verse, so Joshua Taurus clothes fell down. 520 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,320 The Lord said Israel is sin. He didn't say Aiken is sin. 521 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,080 The whole nation was brought down because of this one man. 522 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,520 And in our lives, sometimes it's not just the stuff we do, not 523 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,400 just the stuff we hide or the sin that we're in. 524 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:58,320 It could be the sin of someone in the family generations up 525 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,040 that still had us has a stronghold over us, right. 526 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:06,240 And so deliverance is a process that deals with those things is 527 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,520 so Israel could not be defeated by the Canaanites. 528 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,760 It was impossible. God had said I'm going to be 529 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,000 with you. No one will be able to stand 530 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,480 against you. That was God's promise. 531 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,960 Alienating themselves from God's power is what brought defeat. 532 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:22,160 And so no one could defeat Israel, but Israel could defeat 533 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,560 itself, right. The enemy has no power to defeat 534 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,360 you in your life. It has no power to stop what God 535 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,040 has spoken over each and every one of us. 536 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:35,120 But we have the power to defeat ourselves when we align 537 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:36,720 ourselves to the lie of the enemy. 538 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:42,680 And that's another thing that we need to be really aware of. 539 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,680 What are the lies that I'm believing? 540 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:46,560 What? Yeah. 541 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:58,440 Can't do anything. Yeah. 542 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,840 So that would have made no difference how many people they 543 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,040 would have sent up. But one thing was really certain 544 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,200 to me as I was reading the passage, that they were 545 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,640 completely oblivious to the lack of the presence of the Lord. 546 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,920 And as I was reading that, I was like, man, they had no idea the 547 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,080 difference between Jericho and AI. 548 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,400 They just thought it was the same. 549 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,360 There was no awareness of God's hand, his mercy's presence going 550 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,640 before them. And it kind of reminded me of 551 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:28,880 the story of Samson, right? You have this mighty man of God 552 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,840 and he, he goes through, he's dabbling in sin and the first 553 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,200 time with Delilah, he gets up and beats all the people, it's 554 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,120 fine. Second time beats all the people 555 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,960 that are just bounding him up, it's fine. 556 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,520 Third time, it doesn't happen that way, right? 557 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,800 And he was completely unaware that the Spirit of God had 558 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:49,040 lifted him. And so it highlights, I guess, 559 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,920 the need for us to live. If we are to live a clean and 560 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,680 pure life before the Lord, we need to have a sensitivity to 561 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,440 His presence. We need to have a sensitivity to 562 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,480 his Spirit. And that can only be achieved in 563 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,960 the secret place because we can't afford to go into battle 564 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,080 not knowing if the presence of God is departed from us. 565 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,560 Like that's not an option, especially especially in these 566 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,840 end times. Like the Lord is coming back 567 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,320 soon. We are part of that end time 568 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,240 army. We can't afford to live a life 569 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,000 void of the knowledge of his presence, right? 570 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:28,120 We have to cherish his presence so that we know when he's with 571 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:29,800 us. We know when we've wronged him 572 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,760 so that we can come back and repent quickly. 573 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:33,960 Keep a short record with the Lord. 574 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,600 Yeah. Don't be like Samson. 575 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:45,160 So verse 4, they were soundly defeated that were they're 576 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,640 routed by the men of Israel, by the men of AI. 577 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,040 Another thing I found really interesting reading this was 578 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,000 that only 36 people died out of 3000. 579 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:59,600 Is that a sound defeat? I would say that's a pretty 580 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:01,480 good. I'd say that's borderline 581 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,000 victory. Like I mean that those kind of 582 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,240 victory stats like I'd expect to win a battle and lose 36 people 583 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:08,520 out of 3000. That's 1.2%. 584 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,360 That's not a huge deal. But then you look at the 585 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,880 reaction verse 6. Joshua tore his clothes, fell 586 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,800 face down to the ground before the ark of the Lord, remaining 587 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,640 there till evening. The elders of the Israelites did 588 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,320 the same and sprinkled dust on their heads. 589 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:27,440 This was a massive deal for them. 36 people dying was a huge 590 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:33,000 issue, right? So, and the principle that comes 591 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,520 out of that is that sometimes we look at things in the natural, 592 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,960 we're like, that's not a big deal. 593 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,960 It's only a little thing. It's not affecting me in any way 594 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:47,560 whatsoever. It's insignificant to my life in 595 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,480 the spiritual. It's a massive defeat. 596 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:55,640 It's opening you up to a massive defeat, right? 597 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:57,840 Does that make sense? Am I? 598 00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:58,480 Am I? Yeah. 599 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,640 Like so much stuff in our lives that we were like, it's not a 600 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,520 big deal. It's only, it's only social 601 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,080 media. It's only this, It's only this. 602 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,120 I'm only I I don't even do it that much. 603 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,160 You know, it's not, it's not that big a deal. 604 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:14,960 But actually, no matter how insignificant it is to you in 605 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,160 the spiritual realm, it's actually a really big deal. 606 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,480 The Bible calls it a sound defeat. 607 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,880 The enemy has soundly defeated us and we're not even aware of 608 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:39,760 it most of the time. Yep, verse 5 city gates. 609 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:43,160 At this, the hearts of the people melted and became like 610 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:44,760 water. So Israel, the hearts of the 611 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:46,280 Israelites melted and became like water. 612 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,160 Do you know what's interesting is that that's the exact same 613 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:53,040 phrase used earlier in Joshua to describe the state of the people 614 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:57,560 of Jericho and the land when the spies go to Raheb's house, she 615 00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:09,920 says. The fall of verse 3, chapter 2 616 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,239 verse 8 Before the spies lay down for the night, she Rahab 617 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,120 went up to the roof and said to them, I know that the Lord has 618 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,679 given this land to you, and that a great fear of you has fallen 619 00:34:19,679 --> 00:34:24,560 on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear 620 00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:29,760 because of you. When we void, when we separate 621 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:35,280 ourselves from the plan of God by these hidden things in our 622 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:41,600 lives, what was meant for your enemies takes a hold of itself 623 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,920 on you. Being melted with fear is a is a 624 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,280 job of the enemy to do. It's not yours to do. 625 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:52,560 But when we divorce ourselves from God, we take on what we 626 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:54,560 weren't meant to take on in the 1st place. 627 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,840 We weren't meant to take on a spirit of fear. 628 00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,680 You know, like we've been saying, so Matthias, recently 629 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:03,880 the Lord has not given you a spirit of fear, but of love and 630 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,120 compare power and a sound mind. Exactly right. 631 00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:11,760 We take on things that we weren't created to take on. 632 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,000 And that's one of the the the key things of deliverance is 633 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,480 that you're you're you've taken on things in your life that you 634 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,560 were never created to do. And that's one of the reasons 635 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:24,680 you're not seeing breakthrough. So they go on to seek the Lord 636 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:29,480 and they're really upset. Verse 11 is what Owen had said. 637 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,640 So the ark of the Lord carry on. Nope, that's not wrestling, but 638 00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:34,440 it's Israel. It's sin. 639 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:35,840 It's not Aiken sin, but the nation. 640 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,240 It's sin. And this is that analogy of the 641 00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:40,240 little yeast, right? That spreads through the doe. 642 00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:43,920 You just need one person to sin. And so the Lord's command is to 643 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:48,640 deal with sin severely, quickly and strictly. 644 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,840 We can't afford to tolerate it in our lives. 645 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:55,040 You have to cut it off as soon as it comes because the danger 646 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:56,520 is it'll spread through the camp. 647 00:35:56,520 --> 00:36:00,440 It'll spread through the church and so you see it all throughout 648 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,680 Scripture steal with sin quickly. 649 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:08,040 Don't let it linger. And so now the crux of the verse 650 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,040 crux of this passage is verse 12. 651 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,280 Joshua got up early the next morning. 652 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,080 Yep, let's read it. Joshua got up early the next 653 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:26,040 morning and the priest took the act of the Lord. 654 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:27,960 The seven priests comes, went forward marching. 655 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:36,960 Sorry, I'm on the wrong chapter. I was like, sorry, sorry, sorry, 656 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:37,600 sorry. Yeah, yeah. 657 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,560 Israel has sinned. They've violated my covenant, 658 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,240 which I commanded to keep them to keep. 659 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,920 They've taken some of the devoted things they have stolen. 660 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:46,720 They have lied. They've put them in their own 661 00:36:46,720 --> 00:36:49,560 positions. That is why the Israelites 662 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,480 cannot stand against their enemies. 663 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,800 They turn their backs and run because they have been made 664 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,040 liable to destruction. I will not be with you anymore 665 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,920 unless you destroy whatever among you is devoted to 666 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,720 destruction. But that verse 12, This is why 667 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:12,880 Christians cannot stand against demonic powers. 668 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:23,640 Why sin? Yep, things buried in our tents, 669 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:31,840 buried in the tents of our forefathers, clear as day. 670 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,840 The importance of deliverance. Why are you not seeing victory 671 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:39,360 in your life? Why are you being why are we not 672 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,320 able to reach the we know we're singing this morning, God, we 673 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,280 want to see revival. We want to see revival. 674 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,840 It's really good and and that's a heart's cry, but it starts 675 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:54,720 with holiness, starts by not tolerating even the smallest 676 00:37:54,720 --> 00:38:05,590 amount of sin. That's why we're powerless. 677 00:38:07,430 --> 00:38:09,950 Holiness is going to be the start of revival. 678 00:38:13,630 --> 00:38:18,230 So he says go consecrate the people, tell them consecrate 679 00:38:18,230 --> 00:38:19,870 yourselves in preparation for tomorrow. 680 00:38:19,870 --> 00:38:21,990 For this is what the Lord God of Israel says. 681 00:38:22,550 --> 00:38:25,880 That which is devoted is among you, Israel. 682 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,640 You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove it. 683 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:32,200 You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove it. 684 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,920 How do you remove it? We'll find out. 685 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,000 So they go through a process of, of kind of starting broad and 686 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:45,160 then narrowing it down by tribe and clan and family and house 687 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,680 and in person and it comes through. 688 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,720 So this is, this is a divine process, right? 689 00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:53,200 The Lord is directing them how to narrow down. 690 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,000 So the law. So the key #1 the Lord will 691 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,080 highlight to you what needs to be removed from your tent. 692 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,840 It's a spiritually guided process. 693 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:07,240 It's not a man made process. The Lord will guide you where 694 00:39:07,240 --> 00:39:08,760 the sin is. And so they do this. 695 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:13,280 Then Joshua said to Aiken, My son, give glory to the Lord the 696 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,160 God of Israel, and give him the praise. 697 00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,200 Tell me what you have done and do not hide it from me. 698 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,320 And Aiken replied, It is true. I have sinned against the Lord 699 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,760 the God of Israel. This is what I have done. 700 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:30,040 When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylon, 200 701 00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,680 shekels of silver and a wedge of gold weighing 50 shekels. 702 00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:36,440 I coveted them and took them. They're hidden in the ground 703 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,600 inside my tent with the silver underneath. 704 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:43,720 So he repented. He said I have wronged God. 705 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,080 That's the first step of repentance is admitting that you 706 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,760 have wronged him doesn't stop there. 707 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,640 You have to go on and actually change. 708 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:59,160 I can't say God, I'm sorry. And then keep on doing the 709 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:00,400 things that I've done. All right. 710 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:02,960 So repentance. So God has highlighted who needs 711 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,240 to happen. And so they send the messengers 712 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,440 in his tent. Then they find the silver there 713 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,400 in the robe, whatever. Then Joshua took it. 714 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,120 All of Israel took Aiken Sinozera, the silver, the gold, 715 00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,160 the robe, the gold wedge, his sons and daughters, his cattles, 716 00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,480 his donkeys, his sheep, his tent. 717 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,720 And all that he had to the valley of Achor. 718 00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:22,400 Joshua said you've brought this trouble. 719 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:23,920 Why have you brought this trouble on us? 720 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:25,400 The Lord will bring trouble on you today. 721 00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,800 And all of Israel stoned him and after that stoned the rest. 722 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,320 They burned them over ache and the heaped a large pile of 723 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,080 rocks. So for you to go through 724 00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:37,640 deliverance properly, for you to be fully free, you need to be 725 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,280 stoned and you need to be burned. 726 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:45,760 Amen. No, no. 727 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,120 But who? Who took our punishment for us? 728 00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:54,040 Jesus. He was beaten. 729 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,920 He was crucified. His blood has purchased our 730 00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,680 freedom. It's because of him and his 731 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,560 sacrifice that we can actually be free from those things. 732 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,920 The process of going through deliverance and repentance, 733 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,280 unearthing those things that we've hidden knowingly or 734 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,240 unknowingly, they can be unknowingly too. 735 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:15,960 All of that and the, the end product of all of that is 736 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:20,840 disconnecting it with the blood of the Lord Jesus, grasping onto 737 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,200 his sacrifice, grasping onto the things that he's done and 738 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,960 saying, Lord, it's not me, but it's by your grace, It's by what 739 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,040 you've finished on the cross, right? 740 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:34,200 And so all of this, the way the curse is lifted is through the 741 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:38,680 death and resurrection of Jesus. And so that's the endpoint of 742 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:42,960 deliverance is we dig up all these things guided by the Holy 743 00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,720 Spirit. They get brought before the Lord 744 00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:49,800 and Christ. The death of Christ covers the 745 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,520 blood of Christ covers those things and disconnects us from 746 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,880 them we've made alive. We have no business being 747 00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,240 attached to those things unknowingly or knowingly. 748 00:41:58,240 --> 00:42:03,400 It's a very like it blew my mind how clear this process was 749 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:07,640 outlined in the Bible, right? Wars in like battles in the Old 750 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:11,200 Testament are a prophetic of spiritual warfare. 751 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,480 And so this is spiritual warfare. 752 00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,360 Deliverance is spiritual warfare. 753 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,080 Asking God to uncover those things bring to your mind to 754 00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:22,880 show you the things hidden in the tent is spiritual warfare 755 00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:28,480 and I am convinced we all need it. 756 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:35,160 And good news for us is that we have people who have given their 757 00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:40,920 lives in obedience to the Lord and they wholeheartedly pursue 758 00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:45,560 him and will fight with you until the stuff is gone. 759 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,960 It's not every pastor will do that, but these guys do it. 760 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:55,280 And I'm so grateful for them because when I was in my the 761 00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:59,440 darkest night of pain, torment, they were there. 762 00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,360 And, and. And it's not just me. 763 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,040 I've heard them say it to other people. 764 00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,400 We will fight with you until this thing is gone. 765 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,160 I'd heard them say it to countless people. 766 00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:09,840 And then they said it to me. And. 767 00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,960 And I understood the weight of those words. 768 00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:15,600 Said it to you. Yeah. 769 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:22,600 They will fight with each and everyone of you until it's gone 770 00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,440 because they're hardest to see you free. 771 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:30,480 They're hardest to see you excel in the things the Lord has 772 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,880 called you to. And that's the call of this 773 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:34,680 house. You're not here by accident. 774 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,200 You're not here because you found this on the Internet. 775 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:38,720 You're not here because someone invited you. 776 00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:41,400 You're here because God called you here to this house. 777 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:46,440 You're not here by accident. Now the next step is don't make 778 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,400 the mistake I did and push it until it becomes a thing you 779 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:53,120 need to do. Deal with it, move on. 780 00:43:53,240 --> 00:43:55,760 It's not a big deal. There's no shame involved in 781 00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:59,200 deliverance. All have sinned and fallen short 782 00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:02,040 of the glory of God, right? There's no shame. 783 00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,560 They're not writing things down and remembering things. 784 00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:06,680 No one's judging you, none of it. 785 00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,080 And so my encouragement is as we go through these next 4 weeks, 786 00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:11,840 as we're learning about the things of God, about 787 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:15,280 deliverance, about how to fight in the supernatural, it starts 788 00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,080 here. This is the baseline. 789 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,680 I want this and I think this is the heart. 790 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:24,280 This is the baseline of the church that everyone is free. 791 00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,800 Everyone has torn off those bandages. 792 00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:30,680 The grave clothes have come off. That is the foundation from 793 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:35,320 which we can build on that foundation of holiness, of 794 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,920 repentance of of a right heart before God is what this church 795 00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:41,400 needs to be built on. It's not going to be built on, 796 00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:44,760 on just, oh, it's not that bad. I'm I don't need to be holy. 797 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,320 Other people are holy. You know, my parents are good 798 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,040 enough like they do all the good things. 799 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,680 I don't need to you know, that was you know, it's it's our 800 00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,720 responsibility as a church to do this. 801 00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:56,880 And so I encourage you. What are the things in your life 802 00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,560 that you're not seeing breakthrough And some really 803 00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:04,720 common things are like lust, anger relationships. 804 00:45:04,720 --> 00:45:07,440 How how is your relationship with your wife or your spouse? 805 00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,480 How are your relationship with your kids and your family? 806 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:10,800 Does the enemy have a hold there? 807 00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:15,680 Serious illnesses like reoccurring back pain or 808 00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:20,120 nightmares, You know, all of these things are signs that the 809 00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:21,640 enemy has some kind of influence. 810 00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:23,640 I'm not saying it's full blown because you're not possessed, 811 00:45:23,720 --> 00:45:25,600 right? We think of demon position as 812 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:29,400 the man in the Garcians who is completely naked and running 813 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,120 around wild and things like that. 814 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,520 That doesn't happen. It's a lot more subtle 815 00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:36,920 Oppression. Yeah, it's oppression. 816 00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,320 There's enemy has an influence in your life. 817 00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,360 He's got a little hold and he's he's looking to see how much 818 00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,720 will you tolerate. I tolerated it for a long time, 819 00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:50,040 tolerated last, tolerated pain for a long time because it 820 00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:54,320 wasn't that big a deal. But it's a sound defeat. 821 00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,440 It opens your life up to things that you weren't meant to carry. 822 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:06,200 Yep. So I hope this morning. 823 00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:11,480 To wake you up, to shake you a little bit, to hopefully make my 824 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,240 point there. And I might be preaching to the 825 00:46:14,240 --> 00:46:18,680 choir here, but that deliverance is in the Bible. 826 00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,240 It's God's. It's one of God's plans to make 827 00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:27,400 you free to live a life that's worthy of your calling because 828 00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:32,320 you've been called by God. Amen. 829 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,040 Cool. So make an appointment, make a 830 00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:37,800 time. I'm serious. 831 00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:42,880 Make a time. Go through it well, you have 832 00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:43,840 nothing. You have nothing to. 833 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,160 Lose, but you have everything to gain. 834 00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:50,640 My spiritual life has not been the same the 20 years I've been 835 00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,360 a Christian. The last six months have just 836 00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:58,680 been on a whole nother level. Like I just, I cannot explain to 837 00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:02,440 you how much it has shifted my life, how much it's shifted my 838 00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,080 spirituality, how much it's shifted my connection to God. 839 00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:08,760 The way I, I, I, I spend time with him, the way I read the 840 00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:12,240 word, the way he speaks to me, it's completely, completely 841 00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:14,240 miles different than what it was. 842 00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:18,160 And that's coming from a kid who was, I was honestly like, not 843 00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:20,720 that bad. I love, I worship the Lord in 844 00:47:20,720 --> 00:47:22,960 the night. Like I would hear from him, but 845 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:26,640 I'm telling you this is a whole nother level that God has for 846 00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:29,040 you. There is a whole nother level 847 00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:32,080 that he has for you. And it starts with these basic 848 00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:36,000 principles, cutting the things off, digging the things that are 849 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:40,840 in the tent, asking him to show you Cool, I've taken. 850 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,960 Way. A lot of time, really. 851 00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:45,880 Sorry. Cool. 852 00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:49,160 I'm just going to pray and we'll wrap it up, Lord. 853 00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,080 We thank you that you're a. Gracious God. 854 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,720 The Almighty God, Creator of the universe, the Creator and 855 00:48:00,720 --> 00:48:04,600 Sustainer of all things. You've called us by name. 856 00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,960 You've given us a calling. You've enlisted us in your army. 857 00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,240 God mediocrity. Mediocre. 858 00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:15,160 Christianity is not an option for us, and so we repent of all 859 00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,640 the times that we've let it become the thing that's driven 860 00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:21,280 us. Just going through the motions, 861 00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:24,200 going to church, coming back, going home. 862 00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:31,720 Lord forgive us, and Lord we pray enlighten us in the coming. 863 00:48:31,720 --> 00:48:34,080 Days in the. Coming weeks, God, show us the 864 00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:35,920 things that have been hidden in our tents. 865 00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:38,120 Show us the things that have been hidden in the tents of our 866 00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:42,720 fathers, our forefathers, Lord, give us the knowledge and the 867 00:48:42,720 --> 00:48:46,640 wisdom to uncover them. Bring them before you and break 868 00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:47,200 them. God. 869 00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,800 Give us the humility to ask for help when we need it. 870 00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:54,840 And Lord. We thank you that freedom. 871 00:48:55,280 --> 00:49:01,040 Is your plan for us? Thank you Lord, in Jesus name we 872 00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:02,280 pray. Amen. 873 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,680 Thanks for joining us at Omega if you need. 874 00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,480 Prayer for healing or breakthrough, or simply to find 875 00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,240 out more, please head to our website or Facebook page in the 876 00:49:14,240 --> 00:49:14,920 links below.