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Now enjoy this message. Say the reigning spirit.
Say the reigning spirit in First Timothy, chapter 4, verse one,
First Timothy chapter 4, verse one, it says but the spirit.
And again if you look at your translation, it's going to be a
capital S because where they place the capital S, they're
talking about the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit is not
the only spirit. OK, it's not the only spirit
says, but the Spirit explicitly says that in latter time some
will fall away from the faith. Look to your neighbor and say
it's not going to be me. Now you got to start having that
confession and you got to live with determination because the
Holy Spirit says that in latter times some will fall away from
the faith. It will happen.
That means people, you know, that were on fire for God,
serving God, wanted to. I mean, just doing everything
for God. Now they're doing nothing.
And when you talk to them, they sound more like the world than
they sound like the the church, but yet they'll throw little
phrases out. Well, God knows my heart.
Well, I love God. Well, I don't have to do that.
And then they'll start throwing scripture like the devil did to
Jesus, but it'll be out of context because they're trying
to manipulate scripture to keep their carnal life and feed their
flesh because the Spirit said it's going to happen.
And one thing that fuels this, if you go ahead and eradicate
this, you'll be it'll be more difficult for this to come to
you. And that is kill selfish
ambition. All right, got to kill selfish
ambition. But it says, the spirit
explicitly says means it's going to happen.
It will take place. It's going to take place.
And in the latter time some will fall away from the faith.
That means they were in the faith.
It's not marginal people. These aren't people that were
around the faith but never got in.
These are people that are in. They'll fall away.
Why? The answer in this verse tells
us, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines
of demons now seducing spirits you don't see.
Demons you don't see, but they exist in an unseen realm.
But they do speak through people.
They do. And unless you hear the Holy
Ghost rightly dividing the word of God, you and have no.
You want to come preach this for me?
OK. Woo.
Hallelujah. I know you've heard it.
Yeah, but you ain't up here on the platform.
I got this one. I got it.
Woo, I got it. She was getting pumped up.
I'm like, man, this is going to be A tag team if I don't say
something. She is slap preaching right now.
Pastor Marsha, know where it going she stirred up.
Y'all need to catch up with this deal, OK?
You get rid of selfish ambition and you sell out to the cause of
the Kingdom. You're going to put yourself in
a great place, all right? Because again, seduction means
it touches something that makes you feel good.
That's the thing about seduction.
I mean, again, it's pretty obvious if if the if the devil
threw out for a female, for a male, someone that you had no
attraction to and look really messed up because of all the
stuff they've gone through and they try to say, hey, come sleep
with me, be like bro, forget about it, you know, I mean
there's no attraction, nothing. And we want to act like, you
know, when these spirits come, there'll be no, no, there'll be
an attraction. And what it is, it's attracting
to something fact. The Bible literally says this.
And Jenny says, let no man say they are tempted to God because
God can't tempt anybody. But a man's only tempted when he
is tempted because of something that he's kept in his flesh,
because he didn't crucify something of his flesh, which
means it's alive in the flesh and the devil can tempt you on
that. Which means then when you're
tempted because you kept something alive in your flesh,
then it created lust. And when lust became what gave
birth or was conceived, it gives birth to sin.
So you got to kill the flesh daily got crucify that thing.
Because if you don't do that, then seductions coming and
seduction again. The devil seduced and deceived
Eve not with with something that felt profitable.
It seemed good. And David warns about this.
Solomon warns about this, about you need to keep your mind with
the word listen, the adult, the the, the, the, the woman, the
adulteress is come. They're coming after you to
seduce you to that which you've allowed to stay awake in you.
Are you hearing me? So because they pay attention,
meaning you won't, you'll give appetite to it.
And it's easy to give appetite to doctrines of demon when you
want to accept a good news about God that releases you from
responsibility. Most believers in our nation
love the message of no responsibility, which means I do
what I want to do. I'm not responsible anyway
because of God. And they're being seduced to
stay carnal. They're being seduced to remain
fleshly, and then they're deceived.
They're OK with God. So there are spirits in play.
Are you hearing me? There are spirits in play.
And because God wants us to minister on the reigning spirit,
he wants us to know which spirit actually reigns so that when you
know of the other spirits, those voices, you will not follow.
Amen. Amen.
The Bible tells us even the Devil himself, Satan himself
comes as an Angel of light and when he comes he comes quoting
scripture. Just because you get a scripture
doesn't mean it came from the Father or the Holy Ghost.
That's why first John four one and four.
The passion translation says it this way.
John, saying this, delightfully love friends, don't trust every
spirit, but carefully examine what they say to determine if
they are of God, because many false prophets have have mingled
into the world. Are you hearing me?
So again, we have an epidemic in our society where people, and I
bet if I got a show of hands of people right now that you're
listening to other ministers on YouTube.
And because of that you can subject yourself to something
that feels good. Sounds good, but yet could be
drawing you away. This is why God instituted the
local church, where there would be a pastor to help oversee your
soul in order to be able to train and instruct you so that
you would not, you would be at less risk of falling into
deception. Now let me tell you who's going
to go to deception. Fast Rebellion.
Those who don't want to submit to anyone.
Well, I got the Holy Ghost. Well, yes, you do.
And I know what the Holy Ghost would say at very specific times
in your life. Your pastor's right.
But because we don't want to submit to man.
Well, you're not. You're submitting to the Holy
Ghost and the Ministry gift that he placed on the individual to
watch over your soul. Are you hearing me?
So we are not to trust every spirit, and I don't care if they
say thus, saith the Lord. I don't care if they say I was
praying and you came up in my spirit.
Well, what spirit gave you that? Because nobody's word to me as a
substitute for the Holy Ghost in me that will only bear witness
to the truth of God's Word, rightly divided.
And if it is not that I'm not listening.
But if you're not trained in righteousness, well, maybe I'm
getting ahead of myself. But in case I'm not, if you're
not trained in righteousness, you cannot.
The Bible tells you, cannot discern good and evil.
Being born again does not qualify you to be able to always
avoid the wrong voice. It is only training, say
training. Come on, say training.
Training in righteousness. So being born again is your
enlistment. It's you raising your right hand
and say, I do solemnly swear to uphold to the constitute of the
United States of America. And whatever my commander says,
you're saying I solemnly swear my allegiance to the Kingdom of
God and the government of God and the commander in chief,
which is King Jesus, Whatever he says I'll do and I'll defend
that nation against any foreign or domestic enemies.
Are you hearing me? I'm using my left hand.
But you know what I'm saying? My left, Your right, and now
you've volunteered to be subject.
You got to quit being AWOL. When formation's called, you
attend. I won't get it all that
Hallelujah. But there's only one spirit.
We follow us. The Holy Ghost.
Verse two. Here's the test for those with
the genuine Spirit of God. They will confess Jesus as
Christ who has come in the flesh.
Everyone who does not acknowledge that Jesus is from
God has the Spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard
was coming and is already active in the world.
Little children, you can be certain that you belong to God
and have conquered them. For the one who is living in you
as far greater than the one who is in the world, you have the
reigning Spirit. I said you have the reigning
spirit. I said you have the reigning
spirit. Are you hearing me?
Now, obviously this passage of Scripture says you know you're
going to know because they don't confess Jesus as Lord.
But I'm going to tell you right now, the demons know Jesus as
Lord. There was a little girl that a
spirit was in that she fortune telled through familiar spirits.
Because when you're in the world, demonic activity is at
hand, and those familiar spirits are not all knowing, but they
definitely know the ones they're attached to.
You know what they know about the ones they're attached to.
What color is their hair, what they wore on Thursday, 'cause
they were there in the spirit around them.
And if that person happened to be by you that day, guess what?
They'll know what you were wearing.
So then when that person comes and said, now on Thursday you
were wearing this and you didn't realize it, you automatically
assume it's God when it was a familiar spirit speaking to
someone through someone, and it was accurate.
Paul was in a town preaching the gospel of the Kingdom.
And this girl who had a couple of owners saw him and said this
by the Spirit, not the Holy Ghost, but the spirits that were
upon her because they knew who Paul represented.
Come on, do it. Let me connect some dots for you
on this. Remember, there were seven sons
of Steven in the book of Acts. They went to do an exorcision of
someone and they say we adjure you in the name of Jesus, the
one who Paul preaches about. And those seven spirit that want
the spirit that was on the guy raised up and said, Jesus, we
know Paul. We've what heard about So then
later on when Paul's in this community ministering that
spirit on that girl says, oh, we've heard about this guy He
preaches from the Son of the Most High.
So when she says he comes to preach from the Son of the Most
High, she is accurately advertising who Paul's
allegiance to. But it was not per the Holy
Ghost. It was of a demonic spirit.
Paul went three days here in this and in that.
Finally the Holy Ghost and Paul says tell that spirit to shut
up. Now why would that take place?
The reason it would take place is because God does not want to
increase the influence of that girl.
Because if Paul plants a church in the community by the power of
the reigning spirit, then when he left and a immature beginning
church is working, then she could infiltrate with that
demonic spirit and begin to say, I saw you wearing and I saw this
that and they would assume it was the spirit because they're
not yet trained in righteousness.
So the Lord's like we're going to eliminate that spirit.
Since it was so bold to advertise about me, these
spirits know. What did the spirit say
concerning Jesus when he ran across the man madman at Gadara?
Have you come to to torment us before our time?
The Son of the Most High? So Paul rebuked that spirit, the
lesser spirit, 'cause he had the reigning spirit and said shut
up, come out. And now she had no insight into
a spirit realm at all. And the advertisers from the
seducing spirit side was cut off.
Are you hearing me? And in our world right now,
there are a lot of operating on YouTube that have no buildings.
They actually don't have followers at all.
They have no accountability to a flock and they are operating in
a power, but it's not of the reigning spirit.
It's not the reigning spirit. And let me just say this to you.
If you're sowing towards them, you just invited them to come to
your house. How do I know 'cause where your
treasure is? And the minute you sow towards
that ministry, that's false. The familiar spirits associated
with that ministry says they want me to do a house call.
How in the world could someone of the faith fall away?
Mark, Chapter 9, verse 17 to 27, The one and the one of the crowd
answered. Teacher, I brought you my son,
possessed with a spirit. With what?
With a spirit that makes him mute.
And whenever he sees this him, he slams him into the ground.
He foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and stiffens out.
I told your disciples to cast it out, and they could not do it.
And he answered and said to them, O unbelieving generation,
how long will I be with you? How long shall I be put?
Shall I put up with you? Bring him to me.
They brought the boy to him. And when he saw him,
immediately, immediately, immediately, immediately,
immediately, the spirit threw
him into a convulsion. And falling to the ground, he
began rolling around and foaming at the mouth.
Now let me just stop here for a second.
You know, it doesn't take much if you have any spiritual
awareness that there are many people in our county that have
spirits, especially those that have been in drug and alcohol
addiction, because drugs and alcohol are the are the open
door policy into the realm of the spirit because the Bible
tells us to be sober minded. That's not just spiritually
speaking, 'cause there are multiple ways to maintain
sobriety in your mind. One in the natural is that you
don't allow things to mess with your mind.
Because when you're drunk, when you're drinking, when you're
doing drugs, when you're doing things that are legal to do but
it gives you a buzz. You are.
You now are opening a door for spirits to infiltrate because
you don't have the capacity to bind or to take captive that
which you are losing functionality in.
Randy Clay, would you stand up for a second over here?
Randy Clay, you know, he was diagnosed with cancer.
And what particular year was that in December that, you know,
you got on so much morphine that he'd was out 2010.
So in 2010, December, I go to the hospital, the guy can't
talk. He was given a dosage of
morphine. I think 1000 milligrams, I think
it was at the time, huh, Different numbers.
OK. So I'm just going to tell you,
like it was, they were medicating him for transition
because they were convinced he ain't going to make it.
It's that bad. Melanie by the Holy Ghost goes
to down to the pharmacy. You can be seated down to the
pharmacy, looks at the pharmacy, says does he really have to take
this much? And they're like, well, no, you
know, obviously doing this, just ease of pain.
She said, well, let's do less because, you know, he's not even
coherent. So they did.
He comes back. Well, you know, when he comes
back, he can begin to confess again.
He lost his confession and his ability to stand in faith
because he was medicated, So he lost the ability to personally
fight. Now his family's fighting as a
church. We're fighting, but he's lost
that capacity by the Holy Ghost. She empowered him to have his
confession back and he sits with us today without cancer.
Kidneys, functioning, defying all medical science that they're
like in 2010 according to medical doctor and science and
all the care that they could give him.
He's done. Let's help him get to the other
side. God said I'm not done.
Are you hearing me? So Jesus, my point is, is that
the disciples, you as Saints can be around spiritually influenced
people, yet based upon where you at, you do not move those
spirits at all. They're not intimidated when you
show up. We need to get to a level of
training that if you're walking down Saint George St. and
somebody's talking to themselves multiple times and ranting and
raving, that all of a sudden they would yell out you who
served the Most High. And then at that point all you
got to do is ask. Because again, Paul didn't
rebuke that girl the first day, didn't do it the second day.
And you asked you want me to do something about that?
Lord, say Amen. They comes to Jesus though, and
what happens immediately? Verse 21.
Then he asked the Father how long has this been happening to
him? And he said from childhood it
had often thrown him both in the fire and in the water to destroy
him. But if you can do anything, take
pity on us. Jesus is not well with that
statement. If we were in that day, let me
tell you what this not would have not looked like.
Oh, that's interesting. If you can, huh.
I mean really, honestly. All things are possible with him
who believe. I mean, I love people.
I guarantee it didn't sound like that because the Lord has a
disdain. We have to get this in our
spirit. The Lord disdains anything that
comes against God's word as emphatic truth absolute.
In fact, he would have said if you can, as a rebuke, and
obviously the man received it as a rebuke because he said to him
if you can't all things possible to him to believe immediately
the boy, the boy's father cried out, says I do believe help, my
unbelief, you're not asking for help unless you've just been
corrected. Now some people get correct and
don't even want help, but that's a different story.
We're not going to talk about that.
But he was doing this for his boy.
He's like man, God can do it. What am I doing?
Verse 25. When God When God Jesus saw that
the crowd was rapidly, rapidly gathering, he rebuked the
unclean spirit said to you deaf and mute spirit, come out, I
command you come out of him and do not enter him again.
And after crying out and throwing him into a terrible
convulsion, it came out and the boy became like a corpse, that
most of them said he's dead. But Jesus took him by the hand
and raised him up and he got up. Now notice what Jesus didn't do.
Because again, he has no selfish ambition.
He didn't wait for the crowd to actually show up so that he
could show off. We going to go downtown and we
going to cast out devils. You need to come and watch.
Hey, turn on your video and let's put this on YouTube.
Come on, come on, come on. I mean, if you got an entourage
going with you and documenting everything you're doing, I don't
care if it's healing the sick. Jesus, when the crowd says I
better get this done quick because I'm not here to draw
attention to myself, because I can understand it can become
problematic. Are you hearing me?
But once he rebukes, the first response looks like it didn't
work because what did he say? How long does it may have a
sense of boy? What happens when it throws him
into convulsions? Put him in the fire?
Put him in the water? Tried to kill him.
So the minute he rebukes it, it throws him down again, goes into
convulsions. Looks like that spirit is
winning. However, Jesus is not moved
because he has the reigning spirit and he knows this
spirit's subject to me. And when it does its thrashing
and all that, it's really just him leaving in the 1st place,
though he's demonstrating the same actions he did when he
never left, and then all of a sudden he becomes like a dead
corpse. Wow, the spirit killed him?
No, The reigning spirit removed the one that was tormenting him.
When we begin to operate in the reigning spirit, your first
initial sight of you declaring, decreeing and operating by the
one that's greater in you than he that's in the world.
There may be a spiritual realm that's been holding your
finance, a spiritual realm that's been dealing, you know,
attacking your emotion, a spiritual realm that's been
wreaking havoc in certain areas of your life, like with
addiction. And the minute you declare and
decree with the reigning spirit, I'm free of that.
Then you have your greatest attack that it looks like that's
spirit isn't is going to win, but you have the reigning one
and it will leave mark chapter 5 verses one through 13.
Again, this is the madman of Gadaria.
I won't read it all, but notice the unclean spirit that says
that that they had him in the tombs in this mark account and
no one was able to bind him even in change.
This means this person had so many spirits possessing him that
he had supernatural strength. In fact, the untrained could
have called him a Samson type. Samson could break bonds like
nothing. And here's this guy
demonstrating same kind of supernatural strength, but it
wasn't from the Holy Ghost. But when Jesus shows up.
Jesus, a man anointed of God, emptied himself of his glory,
became God in the flesh. He emptied himself so that he
becomes demonstrates what a son of God in the suit of a man, the
son of man anointed of the Holy Ghost can do with that
authority. The dominion we always had from
the beginning that's restored back to us.
And he then, duh, takes the time then to speak to this.
You know, he goes, What business do you have with us, Jesus?
Have you come to torment us before our time?
He says. What is your name?
He said my name's legion, for we are many.
And he said they begged them. Please don't send us out of the
region. Why?
It's an indicator for us that spirits function in regions.
They are assigned territory. They are not omnipresent nor all
knowing. They are in territories and they
don't want to leave the territory.
Yet the reigning spirit had the ability to get them out of the
territory. Now when I say that the reigning
spirit has the ability in a context because if there are
communities that court these spirits, he can displace them
from bodies, but he may not be able to displace them from
areas, it's gonna be very difficult for Sin City to have
the spirit realm displaced when they attract them.
It's very difficult for New Orleans, who's in the Voodoo,
very difficult Mardi Gras. It's very difficult for Key
West, very difficult for New York, very difficult for a lot
of places. But now what's going on in Saint
Augustine and they don't act like, you know, but Saint
Augustine's really significant because Saint Augustine was
actually the First Capital of Florida.
And it is, at this juncture, the oldest city of the United
States. So there's some significance
here. But why is D Washington, DC like
it is because there's regional spirits, you know, that he casts
them out into the spawn swan. And the guy I'm reading these
because I'm just letting you know we have the reigning spirit
as we continue to move through this pretty quick.
Now it says that's in Matthew chapter 12, verse 28.
And I'm going to continue this next week.
But if I cast out demons by the spirit of God, then the Kingdom
of God has come upon you. What I want to leave with you
today is we have the reigning spirit.
And I'm going to do some things that this year that I've never
done before, never done in all the 20 years of Anchor Fay
Church, I've never done this. There are some subjects that I'm
going to minister on. I thought I had them quick at
hand, but I may not have them. I'll just have to go off memory.
I'm going to minister on angels. We do not worship angels.
Angels work for us. And you're not more spiritual if
you see one, just to let you know.
But that doesn't mean you couldn't.
And we're not trying to see them.
They're in the room now. Are you hearing me?
Hallelujah. We're going to minister on
seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.
We're going to talk about the demonic realm.
That way you'll have better discernment.
Now, I'm not here to glorify the devil.
I'm here to expose his work in a very I'm going to talk about the
blasphemy of the Holy Ghost this year, because it's the
impartable sin in this age and the one to come, and you cannot
blasphemy the Holy Ghost being lost.
Only a born again believer could do that, but they'll have to
qualify a certain way as well, and we'll talk about that.
Are you hearing me? Luke 1120 says.
But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, this is where
demons rank up with Jesus. If I cast them out, how?
By the finger? With my pinky now, I'm not here
to minimize that the spirit realm is not powerful.
I am here to let you know that the power you have makes it
extremely less powerful in comparison.
Again, it's like what Roman said through one man's transgression,
sin. Enter the world.
That was a big deal, he said. But how much more?
In essence, when you compare what Jesus did on the cross
through his death, burial, resurrection, and gave us the
gift of righteousness, it's not even comparable, although Hell's
mouth opens wide, although the work of Jesus in comparison is
nothing compared to the work that the first Adam did.
So there's power in the demonic realm, the realm of the in the
realm of the spirit that is not of God.
But God's power is greater, he said.
If I cast out a demon by the finger of God, then the Kingdom
of God has come upon you. John 1231 says now judgment is
upon this world. Now the ruler of this world will
be cast out. Matthew 816 When evening came,
they brought to him many who were demon possessed and he cast
out the spirits with a word I said with a word I said, with a
word I said, with a word I said, with a word I said with a word I
said with a word I said with a word I said with a word.
I am so tired of the false Deliverance Ministries that act
like they going up and warring in the heavens like they some
dog on heavyweight fighter doing out of word.
They're gone. They're so untrained in dealing
with the realm of the spirit. Out of word.
Add a word. They can't even compete.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Yeah. Am I going to say that?
Yeah. OK, I'll wait.
I'll hold it. OK.
Mark 134. And he healed all them and
healed many who were I'll of various diseases and cast out
many demons. And he was not permitting the
demons to what? Shut up?
That's a pretty amazing thing actually, because these demons
have set by their own free will the choice to not be with God to
fall. Yet he can say shut up and they
can't even talk. Wow.
Now don't think he can't do it to a human.
Now you may have the will to talk, but he can get your mouth.
Shut up. Just ask Martha's husband.
I don't want you talking anymore till the boys born.
Don't need your doubt and unbelief on what I'm trying to
do here. I mean, you know better.
So you can shut up. What's his name going to be?
John. I can talk again.
Just say Amen. He goes on and says this.
He wasn't permitting the demons to speak.
Why? Because they knew who he was.
This is great. The reason why many some will
fall away is because demons advertise for God.
That's how they seduce you. They make their conversations
sound godly. That's right.
But it allows you to keep a bit of you.
Unless you keep living like that.
Revelations 21 and 3. Then I saw an Angel coming down
from heaven. Behold the key.
Say the key. I saw an Angel.
So what? How many?
An Angel coming down from heaven.
What's his name? Don't know.
Didn't give us his name. Do we know there's names of
angels? Yeah, we know Michael.
Do we know Gabriel? Yeah, we know them.
We know their name. We got some names there, but
they don't mention Michael. Don't mention Gabriel.
But an Angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the
abyss. And a great chain in his hand.
What's he got in his hand? He's got a chain.
This one Angel has a chain. And he laid hold of the dragon.
An Angel, an an Angel that is not created in the image of God
like we are. An Angel that doesn't actually
have the Holy Ghost bearing witness with its spirit that
it's a child of God. An Angel, one takes a chain,
lays hold of the devil. The dragon, the serpent of old,
who is the devil and Satan and by himself binds him.
Come on. Binds him up for 1000 years and
throws him single handedly into the abyss.
I don't know if this angel's just doing working out.
I mean, I don't know what he's doing right now, but all I know
is when he comes down, he already knows you can't get away
from me. He binds him, throws him into
this abyss, shuts and seals it over him.
So he would not be able to what deceive the Nate that's while on
the planet the nation's any longer until the thousand years
were complete, and then notice I he'll be in this abyss.
We call it the bottomless pit. He'll be in there for 1000
years, and I don't care how much the devil schemes from all of
his time of eternity past to this moment of the documented
1000 years, he'll never be able to figure out how to escape on
his own. And none of the other spirits
that can be in operation 'cause it doesn't say he cast all of
them. They can't get him out.
Come on, that's real. Oh, that's real.
But he'll be released for a short time, say short time.
And the next time they go after him.
Oh, it's over. I said it's over.
This is why Jesus ain't
intimidated. This is why the Father's not
intimidated. Why the Holy Ghost not
intimidated. This is why you should not be
intimidated. Because greater is he that's in
you than he to send the world. He's giving you the reigning
spirit. I said he's giving you the
reigning spirit. I said he's giving you the
reigning spirit. Why?
Paul said in First Corinthians 2 four through 5, I said my
message, my preaching, were not a persuasive words of wisdom,
but in demonstrations of the Spirit, Not a spirit, but the
Spirit and of power, so that your faith would not rest on the
wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
We need to learn how to accurately discern and flow with
the Holy Ghost and operate. I do believe there's an
increase. This is why you, more than ever
in 2024, must earnestly desire spiritual gifts.
That is, gifts given by the reigning spirit, the Holy Ghost,
that we can flow rightly and accurately in tongues.
Interpretation of tongues and gift of prophecy in the Word of
Wisdom, the Word of Knowledge and discerning of spirits and
gifts of healings and the working of miracles and the gift
of faith 'cause he's given us that spirit that people say you
are from the only God, the God, the spirit.
Are you hearing me? Hallelujah.
I said Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Thank you Jesus. Oh praise the Lord.
Say praise the Lord. Say praise the Lord.
I think I'm going to close with this and come back because we
got next week. I'm going to close with this.
Ephesians chapter 6, verse 12 through 15.
I'm going to close with this scripture.
I have some others, but I can pick them up next week.
Ephesians 612 to 17. It says your hand to hand combat
is not with human beings but with the highest principalities
and authorities operating in rebellion under the heavenly
realms. For they are a powerful class of
demon gods and evil spirits that hold this Dark World in bondage.
OK, because of this you must wear all the arm of God provides
so that you protect, right? It's going to protect you as you
comfort the the slandered, for you are destined for all things
and will rise, I said Will rise victorious, will rise
victorious. Put on the truth as a belt to
strengthen you. To stand in triumph, put on
holiness as the protective armor that covers your heart.
Stand on your feet alert. Then you'll always be ready to
share the blessings of peace in every battle.
Take faith as your wrap around shield, for it is able to
extinguish the blazing arrows coming at you from the Evil 1.
Embrace the power of Salvation's full deliverance like a helmet
to protect your thoughts from lies and take the mighty razor
sharp sore spirit, sword of the spoken word of God.
Pray passionately in the Spirit as you constantly intercede with
every form of prayer. At all times, pray the blessing
of God upon all His believers. Our battle's not with flesh and
blood, but again, our battle is not to win.
Our battle is occupation. We've already won.
I was talking with Marissa this
past week on trademarks, gave me some great insight on
trademarks, she said. Pastor Earl trademarks have two
functions. You can be a shield or a sword.
A shield that protects your brand, which means if anybody
shows up with that name, then you can legally go after them
and say you can't use this brand and you're going to win.
It protects you and that's all your.
But then you can use it as a sword, meaning you get your
name, trademark and you can go in and anyone using any version
you that already, you cut it out and move it out of the way you
go and attack them, tell them they have to decease and desist
on that I want you to know the spirit in US is a sword, that
what we're doing is we've been given the name above every name.
Our call is to go into communities and not just defend
ourselves, but to go in and cut down the power of the enemy.
We are to go in and say that name is not as powerful as our
name. That way of living is not as
powerful as our way of living. That way of doing is not as
powerful as I. In fact, we're not going to have
that here. We're going to resist that.
We're going to come against it. We're going to bombard that.
We're going to show up. We're going to be there.
We're going to be. We're going to be there in
places you didn't even know we were there.
Because I don't even have to show up on the the House floor
of Tallahassee to begin to start cutting away at legislation.
Although when I get there, because I've done so much
cutting, my words can reverberate to be able to defend
life and certain policies that are better for our our state and
give more people opportunity to come to know Jesus.
The gates of hell cannot prevail against the Church.
So you have to understand that when Jesus Christ gave us His
Spirit, in essence He gave us this ability in the in the realm
of the Spirit. Shut up.
You got to get this when you the devil has sold the church alive.
They've told the church you're out here, you're running around.
You do whatever you want. You can do all this.
And if you make Jesus Lord, then you're stuck right here on this
podium. Yeah, I know God's offering you
a different life. And I know that you know can go
to heaven, but you can't do you're so confined following
Jesus. You're so confined.
And we believed it. We're like, well, I would much
rather be confined and you know and I can't do stuff and at
least know I'm going to heaven. So I'm going to live in my
little bitty box of Jesus. You know, everybody else, you
know, living such a life of freedom.
They get to do whatever they want to do.
But I know, ha ha ha, all you out there, you're going to go to
hell, but I get to go to heaven. You really need to get in here
with me. But that's not what it looks
like. You're already stuck in here.
This is your boundary. You're stuck in death And Jesus
saying get out of that box, come on over into real freedom.
Get out of that lower low class stuck in a rut, can't get
anywhere existence. Get out of that prison and get
into true freedom. For whom the sunset free is free
indeed. Then when we come into a
community, we are like to say, wow, look at all that is God,
look at the ocean, look at the trees, look at these buildings,
look at all that God has given us.
And then we say look at that prison cell.
We're going to show up and we're going to break this.
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