Hi. This is Dave Olson.
I'm the senior leader of Hartman church located in Ankeny Iowa.
I hope the following message, challenges and courage's and
ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us.
We're going to jump into something this morning and it's
really going to be the beginning kind of a high level overview of
a subject that we're going to be getting into and the days to
come and really, it's going to become the inlet to two
different tributaries. We're going to get down to
different series. I believe that there will be,
but I just kind of want to give a big overview.
Now if this is your first time here, Don't Judge Me by what I
say this morning. Okay, if you think I'm a
heretic, hang with me. I'm going to Route it in
scripture and and then, you know, we don't always talk about
such weird stuff but we just just hang with me and give me a
chance to make a case here this morning.
But what I want to talk about is bringing I want to shed some
light on Darkness. I want to look at how Darkness
operates in the Earth. Paul said, we are not ignorant
of the enemy enemies devices. I'm not so sure, all of us could
say that. I'm not sure all of us could say
with Paul and such a confident way that we're not ignorant.
And so we want to look at how evil operates.
I mean just give you a little background and what's prompted
me to talk about this, you know, some of you have gone on saw the
movie. I don't remember what it's
called. Come out in Jesus name, or is
that, is that the name of it? I got it the first time, and I
haven't seen it yet. But, you know, I've heard great
things that, you know, people are going through Deliverance in
in the movie theater. And that's awesome this week, I
went to hear a gal, and she spoke on Deliverance.
And, and there are emphases that come through the body of Christ
cyclically. And that's a good thing.
God, God will begin to emphasize things that the church needs to
hear it a given time, but I want to make sure as a church, we
understand the concept of Deliverance, I want to, I want
us to understand how Deliverance works.
You can operate in Deliverance and it can be very messy and a
long drawn-out process. And after all the dust is
settled, the people end up I can bondage again because there are
certain things we don't do or we can learn how to do Deliverance,
the biblical way, and it's a much easier process.
It's a much cleaner process and it also will keep people free.
And so we're going to look at we're going to look at
deliverance and I think we're going to go into a series on
that and this will be the introduction for that.
Then I want to get into a series on what Dean Briggs and Mark,
breathe. Wha what they taught us.
I want to get into that. And really these two things
fold-in together, well really. They felt fold in well with our
life groups, the emphasis of our life groups recently, because in
our life groups, we've been talking about the nature of the
spiritual realm and how to be spiritual men and women and how
does the spiritual realm work? And how do we engage the spirit
and that leads us into the whole concept of we are a trinitarian
being. We are Spirit, soul and body.
God is uniquely created, man. With the equipment to engage,
both the spiritual realm and the Physical Realm and we need to
learn to operate in both. The fact is when God created
both, have the first verse in the Bible, in the beginning, God
created the heavens and the Earth, they were created
simultaneously because they're to function in unison together.
And God uniquely made man with the equipment to engage in both
the spiritual realm and in the Physical Realm.
He gave us a human spirit with which we engage with God, the
Holy Spirit and with which we discern what's going on in the
Unseen realm around us. And he gave us a body.
So that we could function in this Physical Realm, this
physical world, then he gave us a soul, as kind of the liaison
between the two, so we're to receive revelation.
Of what's going on. We discern in our spirit
process, it in our soul, make decisions in our soul and give
orders to our body, to carry out, the will of God to engage
the spiritual Realm. But if we don't understand that
and we don't understand how to develop our spiritual senses,
then we're left at a disadvantage.
The fact is we are very attuned to our physical senses, but very
often, very ignorant of our spiritual senses and God wants
us to develop those spiritual senses.
There are practical things we can do.
To grow in our ability to engage the spiritual realm.
Now you're kind of getting an idea why we're going to have to
go into two separate series, is because there are so many things
we could get into on this subject.
But what I want to talk about this morning is I want to talk
about the three entrances of evil into human history.
The three entrances of evil. Let's pray.
Father Lord, I ask God that. You would speak to us this
morning. Lord, that this would become a
classroom and Lord that your teaching would fall.
Like rain that you would Open the Eyes of our understanding
and instruct your sons and daughters Lord that we would
learn and we would grow up into the wisdom and the knowledge
that you have for us. Lord, and father, I ask that you
would Grace me, not only to share truth but to share it in a
way that's Judging, by the time we're done in Jesus name, amen.
I know this could be a bummer, bummer of a subject.
Just going to read read some some notes because of the nature
of what we're going to talk about.
I want to stay on track here. This morning the senko, the
second temple Jews that was around six hundred year period.
It was about 512 about 512 to 70 80.
So 512 years before Christ, to 70 AD that was the second temple
period and that was a time of a lot.
A lot of theological activity among the Jewish people.
The second Jewish the second Temple Jewish period.
That's what it's referred to by Scholars.
They hammered out, they had a very clear Theology of three.
You could even say three Falls, you know, we talked about the
fall of Adam and Eve when Adam and Eve and Hernandez in the
entrance of evil, through the Disobedience of Adam and Eve and
that was one of them and that is the one were most familiar with
is evangelical Christians, but there are also two other
entrances of evil or to other forms of fall that Acted
Mankind. And what we need to understand
is when we understand that we can begin to realize that there
were three entrances of evil dealing with three separate
groups of our beings, if you will, and I'll only one impact
this. And there's three different ways
that we bring the remedy to those three entrances.
Okay. So there was the fall of Adam
and Eve in Genesis chapter 3. And by the way, the cross deals
with all three of these matter of fact, is you delve into these
second and third entrances of evil, a lot of times theologians
will get into this but we don't talk about this much in the
church unless we're just kind of we get into these kind of little
offshoots of weird Theology and that's the way it's treated and
so we kind of back away from these things.
The fact is however, that this is very important stuff and it's
good. And in order for us to Stand in
order for us to engage and become the answer that Calvary
has provided, we've got to understand how to engage these
three levels of evil. Okay, so there's I'm gonna need
the grace of God this morning, there's Adam, and he's fall and
Genesis chapter 3. That was the fall of, Man, that
was personal evil where man, where Adam and Eve believed a
lie about God and opened their heart to sin.
So man's nature became sinful, that was internal sin.
In the internal nature of man was fallen and corrupted.
And therefore man, what had to be redeemed?
Personally, that was internal sin but there were also two
other episodes in which sin entered the world and and some
of them they aren't as controversial as they.
They used to be because there's different theological views on
this. The second one is Genesis
chapter 6, where the Watchers went in to the daughters of men.
That strange passage. That says there were Watchers,
they were A species of Angel. If you will that was assigned by
God, to come into the Earth, but they came in and says in Genesis
chapter 6 they recognize the beauty of the daughters of men
and they went into them and the the sons of which became the
heroes of old. And ceiling at what in the world
do you do with that? A lot of times, we don't do
anything, we skip over it because it sounds so weird.
But here's the problem. If we skip the weird parts of
the Bible we're going to skip some big sections of the Bible
and there's a reason God put that in there.
Jude refers to this first Peter refers to this and there's extra
biblical material that also refers to this fall.
This sin of the Watchers and there was a different type of
evil that entered the world at the sin of the Watchers.
Whereas through Adam and Eve, there was internal sin.
And man's nature was altered by. He was, he died spiritually and
had to be redeemed and born again through the Watchers.
There was an external evil. All that entered, the world not
only did they. They cohabitate with the
daughters of men in and produced a hybrid Sons Sons that were the
Giants of old and they were the heroes of old Goliath was one of
them. Not only did they produce that
but but we also know that they brought hidden knowledge or
Forbidden Knowledge occult knowledge because they
understood how the spiritual realm operated.
Now there is material that we don't understand about this
scenario in human history, the Bible gives us hints, there's
extra biblical material, that is not part of the Canon of
scripture and we need to understand this because
sometimes when people talk about this scenario, they began to
quote Note apocryphal books, there's nothing wrong with that.
As long as we understand, the apocryphal books were not a part
of the Canon of scripture, the apocryphal books, how many of
you are familiar with the apocryphal books?
The word apocryphal has taken on some different meanings over
time. Now, it means it's kind of
suspect, we're not sure the source, it's corrupted, don't
don't read that. A lot of that meaning came
through the referee Reformation. The problem is that is not how
the The original 12 nor the early church, fathers viewed,
those appraoch, offal writings, they didn't necessarily believe
they were part of the Canon of scripture.
I don't believe they should be part of the Canon of scripture,
but what they did view it as is accurate history.
They looked at it as an act, it was a representation of the
world view of the Jewish people at that time, and that was the
world, the context, the mindset, the world view out of which the
apostles wrote, the Jurors and the early church fathers and the
early church fathers referred to some of these books.
Even Jude quotes one of the apocryphal books.
First Peter alludes to it. And you can see as you begin to
understand this second entrance of evil, there's things that
Paul wrote that suddenly being makes sense.
For instance, when Paul said that women should worship with
their head covered because of the Angels, You ever wondered
what that was about? It's a reference back to this
fall. This Watcher entrance, we're not
going to get into that. If you're interested in some
material to read on that some solid theologians, I'll, I'll
give you some recommendations. If you come and see me So we
need the reason I bring this up is there are things that we can
derive from these apocryphal books that gives us the
framework of the biblical writers.
It doesn't mean that we trust everything that was written in
those books, matter of fact, Martin Luther one of the
reformers, what he did is he when he would publish his
Lutheran Bible, they have the Old Testament, the New
Testament, and in between, they had a different section of the
apocryphal books. They didn't look at them as
inspired or God. Breathes like the rest of the
book, The Bible, but they did recognize that there was a value
to it because it provided the biblical worldview, we know from
The Book of Enoch, one of the apocryphal books because
originally the name the word apocryphal literally meant that
it bore the name of an author. That wasn't bore the name of
someone that wasn't the author. So there's Scholars.
Don't believe that Enoch wrote the Book of Enoch.
Now, there may have been a large amount of of oral history that
was passed down from Enoch. But the person who put the pen
to it during the second temple, period was not Enoch.
He was long gone. He lived a long time but not
that long. And so that that's originally
what that word meant and that doesn't undermine the veracity
of the book again. I'm not saying it's inspired of
God and God breathed in the sense, it's without error.
But I am saying it just because it's called Enoch, it wasn't
written by in it doesn't undermine the veracity because
the book of second Samuel was not written by Samuel because
Sammy was dead by the time it was written the all the all the
I mean he wasn't that prophetic he didn't, you know, well he was
still alive right about everything that was going to
happen. and after his death, it bore his name because it was
from that era of Samuel's Ministry.
And so the Book of Enoch tells us that they also brought
Forbidden Knowledge now in recent years back.
As early as recent as the 1940s, there has been Unearthed some
documents and an ancient language called ugaritic and it
was the language of the Hittites and it's been fascinating as
they found this as they've Unearthed.
Language and and Scholars have begun to be familiar with this
language and begin to translate it, how closely it lays over the
Hebrew language, they Adam ology of it, a lot of the same
worldview and we see this. Also as you get into Persia into
Babylon, there's a lot of the same worldview.
Matter of fact, you get into Greece in mythology and the war
of the Gods and Samson being, you know, the strong man, the
great warrior. That was the product of God.
God in heaven and a woman on earth and he was a hybrid.
All of that mythology comes out of this passage and this common
shared history of the ancient world.
We put it at say it again. It's a shared history that all
of these ancient societies had stories of now, Pagan or
atheist, anthropologists will say see they're all just
borrowing from each other. It's all mythology and
Superstition just because they all had a similar story.
Does it mean that they were all making up and someone made?
And they were all sharing the same religion.
Any more than if you see a car wreck and you talked to five
different people as Witnesses older, their stories pretty I
believe they must be making it up.
No, it's it where they agree is where you can be pretty
confident. There's some truth behind that.
Correct. The same is true with literary
interpretation. So as you get into these ancient
cultures, they all have their story of a flood and the flood
was a judgment on these Watchers going into the daughters of men.
That was the purpose of the flood.
The only difference is where they diverge and they disagree
is the Jewish people had something different.
They believed about that and much of Jewish scripture was
actually written as a polemic against what these other
societies believe it. Because he's other societies
believed that this was a positive thing and the hero of
their story were the Watchers who were coming down and trying
to help mankind by giving them wisdom.
They would not have had had they not arrived but the Jewish
scriptures being in touch with the most high God, they
understood that this was these were Rogue entities that came
under the Judgment of God. And the fascinating thing is you
get into Persian literature, Babylonian literature ugaritic
lid, Literature all these. They all have this story, even
the Grecian literature of Mythology, you know, Greece
Grisha mythology, and all that stuff.
They all have a story of some type of rebellion like this.
And the top God in their, their theology judged.
These beings and put them in Chains, which is what first
Peter and Jude tells happened. The difference is the Jewish
people understood this was rebellion and that Forbidden
Knowledge introduced tremendous chaos into the world, it harmed,
man. The Babylonians they saw
themselves as the recipients of the Hidden wisdom and and all
the, you know, the Magi the were who are Majesty ins all of them,
they were they would study the stars but they would also this
oral history there were trying to pass it down and keep hold of
this. Forbidden wisdom.
It was occult wisdom. It's forbidden.
Some of it works but it will destroy you.
There's a way that seems right to a man, but in the end there
is of his death and were to follow the spirit of God, to
learn of the spiritual realm, study the scriptures, and not to
get outside the boundaries that God has given us and the
boundaries are very clear. You don't get into the occult,
you don't, you don't try to contact the dead, you don't get
into Witchcraft. And those were the things that
the Book of Enoch tells us that these Watchers brought to the
Sons and Daughters of men. They the And of weaponry and
tremendous sexual perversion, which altered Humanities to the
point where it says every thought was evil continually.
So God said, I'm going to wipe this thing out.
I found one righteous man and even the wording of the Hebrew
insinuates that he. It very well could be
interpreted. There's two different ways that
it could be interpreted that he was one of the final strains of
mankind whose bloodline was pure and wasn't contaminated by this
hybrid, blood of the Watchers. And so God preserved Noah.
Did I say Abraham Noah preserve Noah through the flood.
And so we have in chapter then chapter 11 of of Genesis they
try to build the Tower of Babel. This is that we're entering into
the third fall. Okay so we have the first fall
individual personal evil Adam and Eve believed a lie fell into
sin. They personally Needed
Redemption, their Spirit man died.
They needed to be born again. Their Spirit needed to be
infused with the life of God once again.
And that's what the born-again experience is.
Our spirit man, coming back to life.
First Corinthians 6, as he was joined to the spirit, becomes
one with him in spirit. So we're the theological term is
regenerated. The genetic code of God is
actually infused into us so much.
So that Paul rebukes. The Believers of the New
Testament, said you're acting like Mere Men.
You're to be the god. Men.
You're Not Mere human beings. You've been infused with the
spirit of the Living, God. You're born again, Sons, and
Daughters of God. Now, all of that is, you know,
we're familiar with that biblical theology in the Evangel
Evangelical Church. What's interesting is when you
begin to look at through the lens of the second fall and the
Watchers came into the daughters of men to, to raise up a new
race, their own sons and daughters.
And so, what was God's answer? To impregnate a young virgin to
bring forth his son to bring forth a new human race, redeem
Sons, and Daughters of God. And so when you begin to
understand this second type of fall, you begin to realize that
much of what Jesus did was addressing this.
And not just this. Yes, he was addressing this.
We need to be born again, but he was also dealing with the cosmic
evil that infected that all that, that, that demonic
knowledge, that came into the Earth.
Rome. He was dealing with that, but he
was also dealing with the third entrance of evil and the third
entrance of evil is in Genesis chapter 11.
We remember when Nimrod at the, After the flood, they were to
spread across the world and, and inhabit the Earth.
But what they did is they gathered around Nimrod whose
name has now become an insult. But he was at says, he was a
great warrior before the Lord. The Septuagint says, he was a
great warrior against the Lord. And he built a ziggurat.
It wasn't just at our, it was a ziggurat, it was a man-made
Mountain because in the ancient world the mountains were the
place of the Gods and they looked up and it was it was
where Heaven met Earth. You would Ascend the mountain at
which some point which the clouds that you'd walk right
into the clouds. You'd walk into the heavens.
Even Moses went and met God on the mountain.
Matter of fact in Ezekiel Eden is referred to as a mountain.
And so what Nimrod was trying to do, I just love that.
His name isn't an insult that Nimrod that Nimrod and Nimrod he
was trying to build a ziggurat, a man-made Mountain to replicate
the the sin of the Watchers. He wanted to attract that.
And so what did God do? He came down and confuse them
and disperse them across by language.
Across the nations of the Earth. This is what Paul is referring
to when he comes. Remember, when he's on Mars Hill
and he preaches and he said, you gotta you gotta an idol to an
unknown. God, this is the god that I
Proclaim to you, God has chosen the times and places in which
men should live, it's a reference to that dispersion God
assigned places to mankind. Because it was his strategy to
take the world back. So Deuteronomy 32, let's look at
that Deuteronomy 32. If I can find that Passage Look
at Deuteronomy 32 verse 8 now depending on the translation you
choose will determine how this is translated because there's
some texts ancient texts that are different.
The masoretic text reads this way and the ESV which is really
a very, very respected. It's probably looked at as the
scholarly version today it's a lot of a lot of Scholars really
gravitate towards the V. Many of you remember Pastor Bob
that was with us. Bob had to academic master's
degrees and you know, was read Greek and so forth and he loved
the ESV said it was a very accurate translation.
This is how the ESV translates it and it's also how the
Septuagint translates. It the Septuagint.
By the way, is the Greek version of the Old Testament.
Alexander the Great. Had it commissioned.
Because he had conquered Egypt. He wanted, he started this city.
Humbly called it Alexandria. After his own name and wanted
that to be the location of the most ultimate library in human
history. Every document in human history
would be translated in then, put in there translated into Greek.
So we got a bunch of Hebrew Scholars to take the Hebrew
scriptures and translate them into Greek in the value for you.
And I is that these men lived very close to the time of that
original language. And so they were familiar with
the Linguistics in the nuances and so when they translated it,
In Greek. Now we have a Greek text to
compare with the Hebrew text and to look at them both and it
helps us narrow down. The meaning of words that could
mean two different things. And so that's why you'll hear
people talk about the Septuagint, that's why it's
valuable. So, listen to what it says in
verse 8, when the most high gave the nation's their inheritance,
when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the people
according to the number of the sons of God But the Lord's
portion is his people. Jacob his allotted Heritage.
What in the world is that? It's a reference to Genesis
chapter 11 when God dispersed mankind.
And he sent them across the nation's and it says he divided
mankind, he fixed the borders, the people's, according to the
number of the sons of God, who are the sons of God, we see them
show up in a numerous passages. In scripture.
We see him show up in Job, chapter 1, the the sons of God
came before the throne and God God was talking to them and the
Satan was there. And he said, you know, where you
been, he said, I've been roaming through the Earth.
It says the sons of God convened.
There's numerous passage that refer to them.
One of the most famous of which is Psalm 82.
We're going to get there in a moment because that is a strange
passage that God addresses what he said he did here.
Now, Jenna's are Deuteronomy 32 was Moses laughs.
It's called the song of Moses. It was kind of his last address
to the people of Israel. He'd been leading them.
He wasn't allowed to go into the promised land, because he had
violated what the Lord told him to do with great responsibility
with great. Revelation comes great
responsibility, and the Lord was severe with Moses.
He wasn't allowed to go in before his death.
Although he showed up in the New Testament with Jesus, so he got
in halleloo. So but Moses is addressing
Israel. And he refers back to what
happened in Genesis 11. He said God divided the nation's
that happened at Genesis 11 Scholars, agree that that's what
he was referring to. Some translations will say and
he divided the nation's up among the sons of Israel, which would
not make sense because Israel did not yet exist because it's
the not until the next chapter that he introduces Abraham.
Why? Because what he's doing in
Genesis 11, he said fine I told you to go across the Earth.
I'm going to divide you up among the Earth and I'm going to start
a nation for myself. And who was that?
Man? The very next chapter and Abram.
From Ur hears, the voice of the Lord.
Go to a place. I will tell you about and he
gives him what's known as The abrahamic Blessing.
He said I will bless you and you will what be a blessing to what
all the nations of the Earth? And so God kept Israel for
himself and delegated. The oversight of these other
nations to these sons of God. Okay, but look at Psalm chapter
82. There's been a lot of scholarly
writing done on these. These passages in recent Years,
A lot of it is Big because of a scholar that recently died by
the name of Michael heizer. I love his stuff.
I know some of you have read his stuff, but there's other
Scholars as well. And a lot of it is come, there's
it because of the discovery of who, Riddick writings, they
realize how much that dovetails with The Jewish writings and its
really set, kind of opened up some things.
And, and so, look at Psalm 82 verse 1, God has taken his
place. In the Divine Council, in the
midst of the Gods, he holds judgment.
How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the
wicked Selah? Give Justice to the weak and the
fatherless maintain the right of The Afflicted and destitute
rescue the weak and the needy and deliver him from the hand of
the wicked. Then he rebukes him.
They have neither knowledge nor understanding they walk about
and what in darkness, all the foundations of the Earth are
shaken. Now you can read that verse 5 as
a a compassionate declaration over what's become of the sons
of men or a rebuke to the sons of God, verse 6.
I Ed speaking of God saying you are God's sons of the most high
all of you. Nevertheless like men you shall
die and fall like any prints verse 8 arise o.
God judge the Earth for you shall inherit all the nations.
What in the world is he talking about?
In verse 1. It says he takes his seat in the
council among the gods and he refers to these Gods as sons of
gods. Now don't let that make you
stumble and think, well, the Bible's talking about
polytheism. It's talking about created
beings that are of divine divine nature, an elevation, they are
created, but they are considered the sons of God.
God has a family in the heavens and he has a family on Earth
son's on the Earth. The sons of God on the Earth.
But in this, when God takes his seat in the council, we see this
count this Divine Council seen show up in a number of passages.
Again. In Job, chapter 1, we see one,
we see it in. I want to say it's First Kings.
Where the Lord was it? Oh, I forget his name.
He was a prophet not, he's only mentioned it, one passage and
The righteous king of Judah is going to war with the
unrighteous king of Israel Ahab and so he says let's ask a
prophet of God and the prophet of God says go ahead and do
whatever you want. God's going to give you Victory
and Ahab. Rebukes him says, how many times
do I gotta tell you? Don't just tell me what, what I
want to hear? Tell me what God is.
God, is really saying, and then he says, I saw a vision and
there was, it was a Divine Council scene where God is
sitting among these beings. And he says, how are we going to
tempt a half? And a spirit comes up and says,
I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of His prophets and he
said, that's what we're going to do.
And that's exactly what happened.
That's a Divine Council seen. Now that in and of itself has
all kinds of questions that arise within our hearts, doesn't
it. We're not going to do with that
today. So what we have are these Divine
Council scenes but in this passage, what's going on is God
is rebuking those that He gave charge of the nation's.
So what we have is God saying listen, how long are you going
to cater towards the powerful and ignore the destitute and he
rebukes them and he closes it says you are all gods but you
will die like men. He's talking about the Judgment
that's going to come on. These Beings.
So in Deuteronomy chapter 32 and Genesis 11, he delegates the
Nations to them and Psalm 82. He rebukes them and says, I'm
going to strip you of your power because you have not operated in
the way that I intended for you to operate and in Colossians it
says that he stripped the principalities of their power
and made an open spectacle of them.
So he carried out the sentence that he decreed over them in
Deuteronomy 9. In Psalm 82.
He carried it out at Calvary and talked about it in Colossians
chapter 2. This is a different rebellion
and it explains why then there's these what what the book of
Psalms calls these sons of God. The book of Ephesians calls
principalities and Powers. We see this same theology show
up in Daniel. And when Daniel is writing about
this, and talking about these encounters, matter of fact, in
Daniel, we see these Watcher Angels show up and we know that
some of them are doing God's bidding.
So, not all the Watchers rebelled there were at least a
class of Spiritual Beings. The Babylonian people had a
framework for a Divine Council. You can find it in all their
writings. The ooga Riddick writings, the
Persian writings of Babylonian writings, there is language of
this Divine Council and the Hebrews had the same theology.
The problem was the other cultures had a corrupted version
of it and that is why the Hebrews referred to their God as
the most high God. It's not that they believed in
polytheism. They just use that terminology
in a different way than you and I do.
And so they were beings to which God delegated authority.
So we have the personal rebellion of Adam and Eve which
we inherited. We were born dead in our
trespasses and sins. Jesus died on Calvary to redeem
us from that personal fall, and to give us a new nature, so that
we could be born again Sons and Daughters of God, there was the
second fall of the Watchers who were judged.
That's why people will read in 1st Peter and say well if these
these Fallen beings were sentenced to chains and their in
Chains of Darkness. Then where are these demons
coming from? And where all, you know, what
are we dealing with now? If they're in Chains, It's
because these Watchers were not demons, they were the fallen
Guardians, so to speak, and they are in Chains.
They're not roaming about And then we have these Rogue rulers.
We know now as principalities that rule over municipalities
and geographic regions. Their Authority is designated to
them by Geographic boundary lines.
It's interesting, you never see. Jesus rebuked a principality.
Well, he walked the Earth in his ministry.
There's a reason for that. You do see him casting out
Devils demons and so we need to understand.
Now you're some of you are looking at me and I don't blame
you. You're like Pastor, what does
all this have to do with me struggling with, you know, my
anger. Let me get there.
What will make this really practical?
Okay, This fall. Affected your nature.
And you were born again, but now you need to grow up into that
nature and you need to put off the old nature.
You can't cast that old nature out.
You don't, you know? I'm a rebuke that Fallen nature.
I cast you out. Good luck with that.
This is a process and not an event and you've got to learn to
deal with your flesh. You've got to learn discipline.
This doesn't come out by Deliverance.
Okay. This one, this is where
Deliverance comes in because we have the Book of Enoch tells us
in some of the early church fathers quote, this so
understand, we don't see this directly in scripture.
There's a question. A lot of people believed that
demons were the fallen angels that is not the case.
The fallen angels. Are these spirits that are
ruling over regions and the Watchers that are already in
Chains. Demons Are Not Angels.
Enoch tells us and the early church fathers quoted this.
This was the Theology of the early church that the demons
were the disembodied spirits of this hybrid race known as the
Nephilim. These, these Giants that were
half Angelic being and half humanoid and God judge them, but
they didn't go to hell because they weren't purely human.
So, these disembodied Spirits, so Enoch uses this type of
language hungering, they cannot eat thirsting, they cannot
drink. So they long to find a human
host through which they can satisfy their longings.
They're looking to embody another person inhabit them to
lure them into the perversion. They once enjoyed so that they
can momentarily enjoy that sin. Once again, they ride, you like
a, like a beast of burden until they wear you out and destroy
you. And then they look for another.
That is the demons demons. We cast out.
Demons, we take authority over. You can't take, you don't take
authority and cast out your flesh.
You overcome it, you discipline yourself, you renew your mind.
Well, maybe we'll get into this in a Sunday soon.
The trinitarian nature of man, we need to understand.
We feed our spirit, we grow our spirit man.
We grow up into him. Who is the head?
But we discipline our flesh. We tell it.
No. Tom reached out to me yesterday.
Pastor IHOP's having, this 21-day fast for Israel.
Are we in or not? And I've known about it, and I
felt called to it, but I'll have to admit.
My flesh has been But I leaned over to my wife this morning
after worship and I said, I am fat.
I need a fast, but that's not why I'm going too fast.
I need to, I need to discipline my body.
I need to drag it around, I need to tell it.
No, hey, you do what I say? Because there was a time where
my body did that to my spirit, you're going to go with me and
I'm like Now my spirits gone better, you're gonna do what I
say? Hopefully, my spirit My Flesh,
sounds like that dragging around and every now and then just tell
it what to do. We need to discipline our flesh
and then in our so we need to renew our mind.
We need to learn not to follow our emotions but have them
follow us, not a preach, not this morning, but one of these
days and Then we need to discipline our well, so that the
soul can become the liaison for what's going on in heaven.
Our spirit receives from God and executes, his decisions in our
body and we live a blessed life and we give it away because when
we follow him, I'm not saying that there won't be no problems
by matej. There's a whole lot less
problems. Okay, life works.
When you follow him, And so we discipline our flesh, our that
nature. We've got to learn to live in
that higher nature are in this area.
We rebuke demons, we cast them out.
We're going to talk about how that happens because I'm
concerned about some of the teaching I'm hearing flying
around about deliverance. And you can see some movement,
you can see some dramatic manifestations but people will
not remain free unless you do. Eel with the legalities of its
entrance you've got to deal with the legal ground and so we're
going to unpack that and this is just kind of the intro.
Okay over here, we don't cast out principalities I don't
rebuke principalities. We do wrestle with them.
Paul says There is an engagement with them in the region, where
we take our stand and there's even an engagement and worship,
which will take us down the other land that Mark and Dean
were talking about where we are. Declaring the wonders of Heaven.
We're declaring The Works of God were pressing the crown rights
of King Jesus In Worship. We're declaring his victory over
them the public shame that he exposed them to because they are
now squatters Our Rogue residents over regions that need
to be displaced by the Earthly sons of God, displacing the
spiritual sons of God and will look at all that works.
But the problem is, when people think you cast out
principalities at best, you're certain of you.
Sure you're going to war with a squirt gun and at worst, you can
get yourself in some Pro trouble.
And if you think you can cast out your flesh, well, good luck
with that. So we need to understand that
we're three entrance entries points of evil and each one
deals with a different group. This one it be us.
You remember that old comic book, you know, what was it?
There was an old comic. It said we found the enemy and
he is us. We're the enemy to be dealt with
here. This one, it's these, low-level
demons demons are not Fallen. Angels, their disembodied
spirits of these hybrid men and they bow at the name of Jesus,
we don't beg them, we don't ask them, we tell them, they are
under our feet, their low-level Spirits, they've been stripped
and they're just they're under the Judgment of God and we don't
put up with that and we'll talk about can a Christian need
Deliverance. They most certainly can.
But how does that work? If you if you believe Al pastor.
I think that's a radical hang with me.
We'll get to that in a few weeks and I'll I'll make a Biblical
case for it. Part of it gets into Spirit,
soul, and body. Part of it gets into legally and
living in something experientially.
That's legally, ours, and all of those things, the nuances of, of
our Redemption. We need to understand those
things because our ignorance will cost us.
And there are a lot of people that are driven to things in
there, they're consumed and tormented and they don't need to
be because they're not dealing with the Demonic entry in their
life and we want to close those things.
And we do want to be a people that displace.
Those Rogue rulers over our region, but we need to
understand how to do that. We need to understand how the
spiritual realm works, and we need to understand these are not
demons. Is that are in the heavens.
There are a couple of passages in the Old Testament that refer
to them as demons and those are poor translations.
However, When you get into the New Testament, the the
terminology of demon does kind of expand.
And so, we are dealing with the Demonic realm.
When we talked about the kingdom of darkness, or the Demonic
realm, it has to do with those principalities and powers and
those low-level some people call them Critters, those demons,
those things that we need to, we need to sometimes when we pray
and deliverance over someone and someone's Go.
You know they're demonized and they're getting delivered.
Sometimes I'll just bend down there and start to quote
scripture in their ear to torment, the Tormentor on their
way out. Hallelujah.
We don't need to put up with those things.
We need to live righteously live under the blood and deal with
it, but this is a whole different deal and this is
engaged in a different way and we God wants to give his people
to Victory. So let me close with this.
The, the final verse of Psalm chapter 82, was it said, it
says, let me read it to you. Arise o.
God judge the Earth. I would propose to you.
That is an allusion to the resurrection itself.
That in the resurrection, he stripped them of their power.
For you shall inherit All Nations?
God said I'm taking him back now.
Here's the deal. You and I are the ones, the
agents through, which the Judgment comes on our Flesh, on
the demons, and on the principalities and powers in the
Nations. You and I are the vehicle of
God's power and authority his judgment on all three entities.
But we've got to understand so we can get our minds around it
and that we are not living in ignorance of these things.
And then we can lay claim, the Great Commission, go into all
nations. What did Jesus say?
All authority has been given unto me.
Therefore, go preach the gospel to All Nations That is a real.
What he's doing is he's he's making good on his declaration
to Abraham and he's making good on his declaration.
In Psalm 82. We now go into all nations, as
I've learned this. The last number of years, when I
go into another country, I'll go stand on the balcony of my hotel
before we're going to preach somewhere and I don't scream it,
you know. No one else has to but I just I
just go in there and I just began to declare I've arrived as
a son of the most high God and I bear his kingdom and I've come
to undo the works of the enemy. I've come in with the
proclamation of the Gospel of the kingdom, and I've come in to
take this nation back. This brings a whole new
dimension. When we talk about missions,
we've got to deal with those principalities and Powers, but
it's not through an arrogance where we just start.
Slinging hash, and rebuking, principalities we come in under
the word of the Lord, as sent ones, when we are sent, I'm
telling you, there's a big, that's why, you know, when we
when John and Laura came up here today, they feel called to go to
Brazil. They have done Ministry there
before this. This is not just a whim like oh
I've heard it's nice. This time of year, let's go to
Brazil. Eenie meenie miney mo, let's do
Brasil. There's there's a calling to go
there but that's why we also send them.
Because we understand that there is, there is something about
going into these regions that are still occupied by those
Rogue entities. And we come in and we begin to
preach the gospel and it undo does the work of the enemy?
I would propose to you that the passage that says one day,
there's the dragon is remember in Revelation it.
Throw his throne to the Earth and it says he perceives that
his time is short and he had great wrath.
Remember that he's thrown to the Earth?
What is that? He no longer occupies.
The Heavenly Realms. There is going to come a time
before this thing called human history wraps up where the
church the ascending church is going to occupy its position in
Heavenly Realms. You are seated in Heavenly
Realms with Christ It's yours legally but we need to move into
it actually. And it comes through US
corporately ascending, as the people of God and occupying our
place of judicial Authority and as we do the enemy is displaced.
Revival is nothing more and nothing less than the the Enemy
being displaced and those influential positions for a
season. And when that happens, there is
time for great Kingdom advancement, and we've got to
fill those spaces before. The enemy can come back, look
into that house that large house of a region.
Find it, swept clean, but uninhabited and come back in.
And so we're going to look at these themes over the next
number of months and we're going to we're going to work out a
theologist. Now if I'm serious.
If anything I said to you worries you today about my
theology come and talk to me because I want to make sure
we're rooting this in the scriptures.
This is a thoroughly scriptural theology but for some of you
it's like I've never heard anybody getting up open, talk
like that neither by. So let's let's talk this
through. We're going to we're going to do
a deep dive. I'm going to go precept upon
precept, build this in the word of God because I believe we're
entering a time where we're going to need to know more than
ever. How to exercise the Dominion
purchase for us at Calvary? Amen.
All right, let's tell you what,
let's do this. Let me close with this because I
got 8 minutes. This is amazing.
It. Now you're worried.
Oh, he's going to go 20, I know him.
Your flesh, you know, it is signs and wonders that the, the
flesh. We need to discipline it.
We need to confront it. We need to repent.
We need to ask God to help us with these.
A lot of times what we struggle with in our flesh, is the result
of woundedness in our soul. And so in trying to relieve our
self of emotional pain, we try to get into the saccharine
temporary saccharine, sweet experience.
Sense of sin. And then we pay the price and if
you're a Believer and you're doing that, your conscience is
killing you. You don't want to do that but
you find yourself sliding into those things and it may be that
you even need a level of Deliverance but we need to deal
with those underlying issues so that we're not so susceptible
emotional woundedness leaves us vulnerable to the enemy.
It's like a boxer in a ring when you can have one boxer that's
stronger. He's more skilled as a boxer but
he may, he may be soft. He cuts easy.
And that will end the guy's career because the other boxer
who may not be a skill, that may not be as strong understands if
I can cut him. I will keep hitting that that
cut until they'll call the fight because his cut will open up.
Some people are better at absorbing Cuts than others.
And the fact is the enemy will try to cut you early in life and
keep pounding on that, wound to cause you to bleed and take you
out of the fight and we want to deal with that.
And so if you know that's you, we want to pray for you.
I'm going to ask the the prayer team to come forward right now
and just come across the front. If you know, and I've got I've
got some things I need to deal with that.
That I know what makes me vulnerable.
It keeps me on the edge of Temptation woundedness, keeps
you on the edge of Tatian. It's not an excuse but I'm
telling you, God has compassion, and he wants to touch you in
that area, and it may be that you have an open door that
you've been involved in some things in the past that has
opened the door to the Demonic and God wants to deal with that.
And we're going to get more into this in the days to come.
But if you're already aware man, I've got some, I've got some
things that there's some demonic things, and what we're going to
do is just interview them and ask them the key.
Questions about demonic open doors.
If you know that you've got something, we're going to invite
you to come forward. You're all looking at me like
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