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Now enjoy this message. Let's start in Ephesians chapter
6, verse 11. Tonight, Ephesians 611, and
we're going to read 11:00 and 12:00.
And it says this, it says, but put on the full armor of God, so
that you'll be able to stand firm against the schemes of the
devil for our struggles not against flesh and blood, but
against rulers, against powers, against war, forces of darkness,
against spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places.
God gave me this context, and we're going to discover it even
now, because I believe there's more that he wants to mine out
that I haven't even mined yet. And we're going to even get more
tonight as we minister. But I went.
To the to the state today Capitol.
And once again had the opportunity.
Today was their first session divided.
So they just opened session yesterday.
Everyone was together in the House because the House is
bigger. And Governor Ron DeSantis flew
in and he addressed all of them. And then today they're starting
their sessions, the Senate and the House.
And so the lady who is The Who takes care of the chaplain of
the day, she says this, you're my first one.
I said, well, I'll be your best one and everybody else you'll
judge after me. And so you know, she goes, well,
do we go in here? I said, well, the last time I
was here, we went this way. I'm glad that you've done this
before. I said, I am too.
And I'm glad I understand some protocol because I don't want to
get up in here and look stupid. And so anyway, with that being
said, we came in, we had a good conversation, you know.
And again, this is all for 60 seconds.
I added a paragraph so I get a little bit more because when I
pray in the at the government, you need to understand this.
It is a sermon, OK? I pray scripture and we leave
things because I know the Holy Ghost causes things to come to
their remembrance. How many of you have
photographic memory? Anyone at all have photographic
memory that you hear it once you can keep it.
OK, great. Not everybody has that, but you
know the Holy Ghost does. And so even if the human being.
Doesn't the Holy Ghost does. So when I did that prayer, it is
forever able to be recalled to the memory of every senator and
aid that was in the room and anyone else watching on TV.
Everyone. So the words is it worth driving
6 hours to to deliver 60 seconds of scripture?
You. Bet it is.
You bet it is. Right now my tradition is, is
then I hang out because, you know, I don't technically like
to pray and leave. But in this circumstance,
because I got called within 24 hours, I said, you know, today.
I'm going to have to go back so I won't be able to stay.
I obviously saw our representative, Senator Travis
Hudson, got this talk with him. He came to me, We chit chatted a
little bit. I thanked him for calling me up
off the bench. Because I answered the call, it
allowed him to be the sponsor of the day again and so I hope to
give him plenty of exercise for a little bit, right?
With that being said, again, I'm going back January 29th to meet
with the legislators, so I'm not surprised I got the call because
the next because. I'm going at the end of the
month to meet with the legislators.
A meeting's been set up for us to do this.
The Holy Ghost now can recall you were just here.
Say Amen. Why is this important?
Because God's called us to impact the nation.
But here's the thing. Our battle, our struggle once as
we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against rulers,
against powers, against world forces and darkness, against
spiritual forces and wickedness in heavenly places.
Spiritual realms come through government.
They take territory through government, because government
is God's legal way of power, you say?
How is that? Because he's a Kingdom and the
enemy? Through seducing spirits and
doctrines of demons has been able to sway the US Church based
upon a letter written from Thomas Jefferson to a clergyman
concerning them writing the Declaration of Independence.
Of a statement called the separation of Church and State.
That we have created the idea of Church to be so separated from
government, or that it has no context of government, that
we've given free reign for the enemy to set up principalities
because we're the church here. The government?
No, the church is government because the church is the
Kingdom of God. All we have to do is go to
Isaiah, Chapter 9. Y'all know it well here, verse
six, right? A child will be born, a son will
be given, and the the government is going to rest on his
shoulders. Who are the ambassadors of that
government or to that government?
We are so again if we are not engaging in areas.
But again, my battles not with the Republicans, my battles not
with the Independent, my battles not with the Green Party, my
battles not with the Democrats. Are you hearing me?
My battles? Not with that.
My battles with principalities and powers and I want to show
you tonight how we are to navigate because again, our
teaching this year, and we're going to talk about it more on
Sunday. God said that this is our year
of the reigning spirit. We're going to understand the
realm of the spirit, and these teachings cannot be exclusive to
Sunday. There's too much to cover for it
to be exclusive. And I'm not running a series per
SE, but I'm just saying they're going to become so intertwined,
you may get back at the end of 2024 and say we had one long
sermon in one sense, OK? And so here, verse 11 tells us
that if we're putting on this full armor of God, it gives us
capacity to be able to stand firm against.
What the schemes of the devil? Because he goes on and says
this. These struggles are not human
beings. It comes from this ruler of
darkness that has rulers, powers, world forces and
darkness and spiritual forces and Wiccan in heavenly places.
The enemy has an order. He is not chaos.
The devil is not chaotic. He's methodical, He's planned.
He actually is extremely patient because in essence, the word
devil, which is more of his description, not his name.
It is like taking, you know, a water.
They used to do this in torture and they would put a person
down. They would let it just drip,
drip slowly drip, just keep dripping right till it just
drives him crazy. Well, what he does with thoughts
is he keeps sending it. In essence, he keeps pounding
the thought, pound the thought, pound the thought till it can
penetrate. You.
And he'll just keep sending them.
The good news is if you have on the full armor of God, you have
a helmet that is should go ping ping.
And when I say ping, it's it's not because you're not thinking
ping. Second Corinthians tells us that
we are to take every thought captive.
OK, but I want us to look from a perspective with Jesus, because
Jesus did something really awesome, and because he did
something really awesome, he's letting us know you don't do
what I did. In this context, it looks
different. Let me tell you when I say that.
Because you say, well, Jesus said the worst that I do, even
we will do in greater works. Well, are we going to go and die
on a cross for the sins of humanity?
Obviously we're not. So are we going to be able to do
that work? Nope.
There's another work Jesus did that you're not doing, so you
shouldn't use his tactic. Everything Jesus did is not for
us to do because there were things He did, because it was
his assignment, Because you may die for the sake of Christ, you
may shed blood for the sake of Christ, but your shedding of
blood does not literally save someone's life from eternal
damnation. It may save their life in the
natural, it may give them longevity in the earth.
It may even because of that action cause them to accept
Jesus as Lord. But it's the blood of Christ
that saves them, not the blood you shed for them.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? OK, so then let's turn over to
Luke chapter 4 and Luke chapter 4.
We'll start in verse one. OK?
I want us to read this context, so I'm just going to read the
1st 11, So we'll have it. OK, It says it's.
Jesus, full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was
led around by the Spirit in the wilderness for 40 days, being
tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those
days. And when it had ended he became
hungry. And the devil said to him, If
you are the Son of God, tell the stones to become bread.
And Jesus answer it is written, Man shall not live on bread
alone. And he led him up to show him.
All the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time the devil said
to him, I I will give you all this domain and its glory, for
it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I
wish. Therefore if you worship before
me, it shall be yours. In Jesus answer it is written,
You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.
And then And he led him to Jerusalem, and had him stand on
the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, If you are the Son
of God, throw yourself down, for it is written.
So I'm going to use Scripture. Now says the devil, he will
command, and his angels concerning you to guard you, and
on their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not
strike your foot against the stone.
He goes on and says to him, You shall not tempt the Lord your
God, right? And it says the devil left him
right and look for what a more opportune time?
Now, so there's obviously a couple more verses than I that I
quoted here, but, you know, in that context.
So the first thing we need to recognize is that Jesus never
encountered the devil. Empty.
OK, I'm going to say that again. Jesus never encountered the
devil. Empty.
So first and foremost, if you are born again, born of God, and
the Holy Ghost is in you that bear to bear witness with your
spirit, you are child of God. That doesn't mean you're full,
because Jesus was perfect, meaning his spirit was right
with God. But the Holy Ghost came upon him
and gave him power. So he he did not even go to the
devil till after John baptized him, the heavens opened up, the
Holy Ghost came upon him. He was then endued with power,
and when he was full of the Holy Ghost, 'cause, he could hear the
Holy Ghost. Prior to that, the Holy Ghost
was already teaching him Scripture.
He was mind blowing to the scribes when he was teaching at
13 years old in the temple. But when it came to power, he
did not go until after the Holy Ghost came upon him.
And when it did, he was full of the Holy Spirit being LED into
the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
And the Bible tells us he was tempted on all accounts.
Jesus was tempted on all accounts.
You were never to be tempted on all accounts.
It's not your assignment to go get tempted on all accounts.
Jesus did it. Any temptation out there Jesus
faced. You don't have to face every
temptation, though you will face some.
You're going to face some, OK? He faced them all.
Now when he faced them, he faced them in fasting because he
didn't eat. Said he ate nothing in those
days. Now he didn't realize he was
hungry until it was done. Which means he was so full of
the Holy Ghost that even though the devil tempted him with food,
he was able to always respond. How it is it is written?
Are you hearing me? Obviously in this account we see
the 2nd temptation is the big prize anyway because Jesus is
coming to do what was mentioned in Genesis chapter 3.
In Genesis chapter 3 is the fall of man.
And what did man fall from? He did not fall from heaven.
He fell from dominion. Because man was not created in
heaven or for heaven. He was created to rule in this
realm under God. God said let us make man in our
image according to our likeness, right?
Genesis 126. And let him have rule or
dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, over
all the cattle, over everything. In essence, you're the king of
the kingdoms of the world. The way the world functions, its
system, you are to do it underneath my spirit, leading
from my realm in heaven, your realms on earth.
And we will converse, we will have relationship.
Our two areas are exact because you're in my image and you're
functioning, functioning in it as I do here.
And as long as man would have done that, we would have no
issue, right? And so he needs to know that man
loves him. So he says, listen, you can eat
from any tree of the garden, but of the tree, of the knowledge of
good and evil, you shall not eat.
For that you eat, you will die. So if Adam had never eaten the
fruit, where would he be today? Right here.
He would not be going to heaven. Now let me just pause because we
have guests. I'm not saying that when you
die, you don't go to heaven, you just stand the earth.
That's not true. To be absent from the body is to
be what? Present with the Lord.
Where is Jesus presently? He's in heaven.
He is. Is he staying there?
He is not. If you read the Bible he
actually shows back up on the planet.
We have a 1000 year millennial reign with Christ of which he
does not exit. We do get a new heaven and a new
earth. OK, so but Adam does eat the
fruit. And Luke tells us when he says,
look at all these kingdoms, look how this place is functioning.
Because this is what you're after, right?
And look, I'll just give it to you.
All you got to do is bow down, bow your knee to me.
Just submit. I I'm the ruler of this.
It's been handed over to me. Who do you get it from?
Adam. So once again, God, because he
gave man rulership, cannot take it as God.
That's right. This is why God has to send his
seed through the woman in Genesis 315.
When he talks to the serpent, what he called him, He's called
him the serpent because obviously the scriptures
references that. He said he went to the serpent.
He says what have you done? He said he.
Well, I didn't say what you've done, he said to him, he said
that you're cursed, you know, and then he goes and he said I'm
bringing my seed through the woman.
You're going to bruise his heel, but he's going to crush your
head. And we know the Bible says Jesus
came to destroy the works of the devil.
What is the devil's work? Rebellion to God's word.
It's a hatred for the things of God.
It's disobedience. And he is.
Crushing it so that you don't have to disobey or rebel ever
again. Are you here?
And that good news. That's good news.
So Jesus is on assignment to do something.
Now Jesus's assignment requires him to die.
It's a requirement and he tell if he he communicates.
This. He says I'm going to die, but on
the third day I'm going to die, but on the third day.
Now why does Jesus have to die? Because Romans tells us that the
wages of sin, Romans 623, that the wages of sin is so when Adam
transgressed through one man's transgression, sin enter the
world. Sin must be paid.
God's the only one who can pay it, because silver and gold
can't do it. Your bulls and your sheep can't
do it. Sacrifices aren't going to work.
Natural ones. There's only one way that this
can be eradicated, paid in full, once and for all.
And that is the precious blood of Jesus.
That's why Jesus told them in Matthew 16.
He said, you know who do people say that I am?
You're this prophet. Who do you say they am?
You're the Christ. You're blessed, Peter.
You know, because the Father, not flesh and blood, not
revealed this, but my Father in heaven, he goes, now listen, I'm
going to die at the hands of the Pharisees and scribe.
But on the third day I'm going to raise up.
Peter doesn't listen to the latter part.
He only hears he's going to die. He pulls him to the side and he
says, Jesus, may it never be. You're not going to die.
And Jesus says, what? Get thee behind me, Satan, for
you've set your mind on the interest of man.
You're letting your emotions about me control your actions.
And here this is the problem. When you try to define Jesus for
you, then you try to make Jesus conform to your emotions about
situations. But Jesus is not going to
conform to your emotions. He's only going to stay with the
plan. He says You set your interest on
the mind of man instead of the mind of God.
In essence, I'm not going to go here.
In fact he was so purposeful that when his disciples are
leaving because he preaches A sermon about drinking blood and
eating flesh. OK, not you know as a type in
shadow they they are blown away by that leaf he turns.
His own disciples have been traveling with him seeing all
the miracle signs and wants to say you going to go to.
So at the end of the day what I'm doing is not stopping.
He even tells Peter You going to deny me three times but I'm
going. Are you hearing me now?
We have to. Then you have to understand
Jesus is required by his by a plan to have to do something.
He goes to the devil. In essence, Jesus is letting him
know I'm here, I'm here. But notice the devil did not
destroy you. Ain't that interesting?
The devil didn't say I'm a you're you're problematic.
I'm going to have to kill you right now because.
Although our battles with the spirit realm, we're not
physically fighting the spirit realm, and Jesus can't win the
battle strictly in the spirit for the earth 'cause if he
could, why does he have to be a man?
So Jesus goes and picks a fight. Because here's the thing, this
is crazy thought, but it's truth.
Jesus needs the devil to kill him.
So I'm gonna have to go after some people because those
people, the spirits, function through.
Amen. That's.
Good. Now it wasn't Caesar.
Matthew 23 One through three it says this Jesus spoke to the
crowds and said to his disciples, saying, the scribes
and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of
Moses. Therefore, all that they tell
you do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds, for
they say things they do not and do not do them.
I never heard Jesus one time speak bad about a Roman soldier.
I never. I can find nowhere in the four
pages of the gospel that Jesus had words of that would seem
attacking to anyone except in one sense except the
Syrophoenician. Woman that would seem attacking
when he says, you know, heating is the the bread of, you know,
God's children, he said you don't throw it to the dogs.
And she says even the dogs eat from the crumbs from the
master's table and he says your daughter is, well, that was a
good answer, right? That's pretty amazing.
But outside of that, he's not running down sinners.
He's not even. And and when I say Sinner, we're
talking Jewish people because he was there for the Jews, He
wasn't there for the Gentiles, although ultimately he's there
for the Gentiles. But he's not dealing with the
Gentiles. He's not here for the House of
Israel, OK, Because how they going to respond to me is how is
going to open the door for us, OK.
But at the end of the day, I have to die.
Now here's the problem. Jesus has.
I can't because I don't have any sin and the wages of sin is and
he never sinned. So in essence he's like the
first Adam that if he never had eaten the fruit he'd still be
alive today and we would go see. So Jesus is in the same
condition and in order for the fulfillment of prophecy, he
needs a group of people who are willing to function in cahoots
with principalities and powers to the point of violence.
And it is religious sinners. Now I say sinners because
they're all cut off, but you understand Pharisees and scribes
actually had a contest called They were priests.
The context of having an anointing, these are covenant
people. But these are covenant people
that like the tradition of how they interpret the word.
Then how God does it? Although they have access to
rightly divide, and because they have access to rightly divide,
but willfully refuse it. Because they love the powers of
the world and they want how the principalities and powers
function with the Gentiles. That they compromise their
responsibility, that they should be training Israel the right
things of God through the Law of Moses, but instead are like the
government that has principalities and powers in
Rome, that are taking from people, abusing people,
manipulating people, taking advantage.
And they've pulled it into their religion.
And these are the ones Jesus goes after.
He goes on the same chapters, jump down to verse 13.
He makes this statement, he says.
But woe to you scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites, because
you shut off the Kingdom of heaven from people.
For you do not enter in yourself, nor do you allow those
who are entering in. Notice what he says, that he
calls them hypocrites. I mean, this is really attacking
speech. Two people who have placed
themselves in their nation in a seat of power.
These people have access not only to their own government,
King Herod, but they have access to Caesar Rome.
They are working all of the governments that are being
influenced through principalities and powers.
If we go on and and I I'm not going to read them all, but in
verse 14 of this chapter, verse 15 of this chapter, verse 23 of
this chapter, verse 27 of this chapter, verse 29 of this
chapter, all of these verses say this.
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.
He's like on a rant and they're in the building.
I mean, he's not mincing words. He's calling them what they are.
They're fake news in a modern vernacular.
Are you hearing me? Now?
I'm not saying that to say people who say that are like,
Jesus, 'cause that's not true. I'm just using a modern
vernacular, OK? If you go on, then he ends up
getting really specific. In the 33rd verse in Matthew
2333, it says this usurpants you brood of Vipers, how will you
escape? The sentence of Hell Woo.
Tell me about just making somebody mad.
He's picking. I mean, he's asking I dare you
to kill me, 'cause Jesus knows who he is.
But he understand Jesus is a fighter, unlike all fighters,
because he fights according to the rules that which is laid
out. He's following what he knows
about him from the Law and the Prophets.
He knows who he is and he knows his assignment.
I'm going to have to lay down my life for the.
World. But I can't do it in and of
myself. I'm going to need those that are
in the principalities and powers that have real power 'cause it's
been given to them by the 1st Adam.
For me to take that back. I've got to engage the ones that
are being influenced by that because my battle is really not
against the flesh and blood, it's against that principality
power and I need them to Take Me Out.
Jesus was never trying to sit on a natural throne because every
time they tried to, he said not Tom.
I'm out of here because I know the hearts of man.
They want me to be king, and if they knew I took that power, now
I'd have to throw them all into the lake of.
Fire. There'd be no redemptive value,
right? But Jesus gets even more tight.
He says in John chapter 8 and John chapter 8, verse 42.
Look at Jesus. Jesus says now this you have to
understand. In order for you to understand
who he's talking to, you would have to jump all the way back up
to the 13th verse. Okay, because he's in a whole
dialogue and there's some individuals he's talking to.
He's dealing with the Pharisees, OK in this.
But then in there is in a mingled of some, some Jewish
people That just means people of the nation of Israel who have
heard Jesus and they're deciding we're going to believe him and
we're going to quit believing the Pharisees.
We're going to actually start believing in him.
And so he's having some dialogue with him.
In fact, prior to this he's saying now listen as he's saying
to them, he said listen, if you'll continue in my word and
have my word, then man, you'll be my disciple.
He's talking, but in the Pharisees Foresees are upset
about that. So they keep engaging him.
In essence, they keep nagging at him because they hate him.
He goes on and says this, He said, if you were said to them
the fairy. He said, if you were, if, if God
were your father, you would love me.
For I proceed forth and have come from the Father, for I have
not even come on my own initiative.
But he sent me. OK, he said.
Why do you not understand what I'm saying?
It's because you cannot hear my word, he said.
You are now. You are of your father, the
devil. That's why I called them Vipers.
He said. You serpents, you brood of
Vipers. He said you are of your devil,
your father the devil. And you do.
And you want to do the desires of your father.
He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in
the truth, because there is no truth in him.
Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, and
he is a liar and the father of lies.
But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me, he said.
Which one of you convicts me a sin?
Now he's talking because he's like you show up here and
there's no conviction, but when you look at me, your sins
exposed, oh, he's calling them out, right?
He said if I speak truth, why do you not believe me?
He who is of God hears the words of God.
For this reason you do not hear them because you are not of God.
Drop the mic. I'll go heal somebody now,
right? Well, how did this make them
feel? They hated it.
They hated it so much that they came together and they said we
got to kill this guy we're. Going to kill this guy.
We're going to kill this guy. We're going to kill this guy.
Now listen, Jesus ran enough off
just with his own preaching. He goes on, you know, and gets
something else. You drinking my blood and eat in
my flesh or have nothing. And the people following me is
like this is too thick now I can't even hang with this.
And so they begin to pull away. And it didn't take them long for
the principalities and powers that were operating through the
Pharisees to sway, even those that now they were able to get
to Judas. Because Judas, the whole time is
scared, is scared is all he cared about was I want to be
with the guy that's going to be the king, and this dude doesn't
ever want to take the throne. So it's like, you know, I mean,
people are really starting to hate him.
I mean, we're not. I mean the merit we were in and
I was going to be a part of this Kingdom, like close contact.
I mean, I'd be a part of all the money, the taxation, everything
that goes with the king. I mean, I'm set up for life, but
the guy won't get in position. So I'm going to go make an
allegiance. With the other side.
And he did. That for 30 pieces of silver
betrays him. Right now Jesus is fighting.
This is his strategy of war before he.
He knows I have made him mad enough.
I have. I have come against them enough
now that they are acting and my time has come.
And so he. Goes to the garden to pray
because he says now. I'll continue to fight this way,
Father, if this is what you want, because I know that this
cost me you, I'm going to be separated from you.
I'm going to take on sin, and I don't want that.
So if there's any other way, let's do this right now.
Talk to me right now. I want your ram in the thicket,
right. And as the Lord's no Rams
coming, son, no Rams coming, he said.
Not my will. Your will be done.
And they show up right? And they beat him.
And all the while Jesus doesn't talk and they accuse him and he
don't talk and they what are you going to do about your accusers?
He's like bro fuss. So then he opens his mouth.
I am woo man. That done it right there.
What more do we need? Blasphemy.
He's gone, right? And so then the.
Soldiers because they're all in cahoots.
Why are they in cahoots? Because principalities and
powers are functioning through humanity, and Jesus is using
this in order for him to defeat the works of the devil.
They put him on the cross because think about it, Jesus is
bled so much but yet he has not bled out.
I mean, he can't go till he goes.
He just needed the pathway because now you've you have
condemned and put the action that any normal human being
would be dead. But I'm giving up my spirit
voluntarily. Here's the price We get over to
Colossians Chapter 2, verse 14 and 15.
It says this having canceled this amplified classic and
blotted out, wiped away the handwriting of the note bond
with its legal decrease in demands, which was enforced and
stood against us. In essence we all have sinned
and fallen short of the glory of God.
We all deserved to be judged by the King himself, of which we
would be all be found guilty, and we would be rightly cast
into the lake of fire, which is the second death.
But he paid that price, got it out of the way, so that if we
would call on the name of the Lord that note, that certificate
that says paid in full could be applied to our lives.
So he goes on and says this. This note with this regulation
decrees and demand. It is a legal note.
It is legal binding, spiritually speaking.
OK, for eternity forever OK. It says that this note of
regulated decrease in demand he set aside and cleared completely
out of the way by nailing it on the cross.
God disarmed the principalities and powers that were that were
ranged against him and made a bold display in public example
of them in triumphing over them in Him and in the cross.
So in essence, when Jesus conquered, when he went to the
grave, in essence he made a demand.
Give me the keys, because I'm innocent.
So he takes the keys, he leads, leads captivity, captive.
He goes to the Devil as he's going through the Heavens Realm
in order to take his blood to the mercy seat.
He then disarms in essence. You know, I don't know that term
is is too complicated for me to say, but the term is.
Is that it? He goes and he strips him of his
power. He says where you had power, now
I have power. Where you had power, I have
power. And every place he had power, he
stripped him in the whole realm of the Spirit.
Because where are principalities at?
Not in hell. The Devil doesn't have his
headquarters in Hell. He's in heavenly places, but he
stripped him of that. That means Michael knows.
Gabriel knows. All the heavenly hosts know the
ones that are singing around the Lord right now saying holy,
holy, holy is the Lord knows. The devil knows all of his
principalities and powers and rulers and darkness and witness.
They all know that they've been stripped of the right to be able
to maintain power over those that are like God.
They have no right. Which brings us to our context,
because why is Christians trying to go fight the devil?
You are never called to go pick a fight on the devil forever.
And when we see the scripture our battles not against we
wrestle not this word wrestles kind of cool because if you look
it up in the Greek it means 2 opponents that are going to in
essence wrestle to the point that one gets put to the mat
with the hand on their throat. In essence, Jesus took the devil
out, put his foot on his throat, and then when he ascended, he
said church, just put your foot there.
Just put your foot there. Come on, just put your foot
there. Now you understand that is a
defeated, vanquished position. When Jesus goes up, he has given
you. When you get in Christ, then you
just put your foot right where his foot is and he's already in
essence, the battle's over when you when if you used to watch
wrestling. I did a long time ago, not
today, because it's just way too out, even more so.
But in essence, Jesus leaned over because you know it's the
tag team. He tags you in, you come and he
said go ahead and put your foot here.
Then he says I'm gone and he leaves the match because I want
you get a part of this and just stand there when you've done all
the stand stand and we have immature believers saying I'm
going to take out the devil. You were never called to go pick
a fight on the devil. We going to go pick a fight on
the devil. No, you're not.
Because if you go pick a fight, that tells me you let him up.
You've let him up, 'cause look what Jesus happens to say in
John 1714 and 15. It says this.
I have given them. He's talking to the Father, says
prayer before he said. Now Father, I have given them
your people. You better love the word more
than anything. If you want explosive spiritual
life, you better. Love the word more than
anything. Knows what he said.
I have given them. Your word, he said.
And the world has what hated them, because they are not.
Of this world. Even as I am not of this world.
Then he goes on and says this. Look what he says.
I do not ask you to take them out of the world.
My goal is not for them to die and come to heaven.
Although when they die, they'll come to heaven.
We'll be here for a little bit before we come back.
Because again, you got to read the back of the book to realize
what's all really going on. And it's not just we win.
It's really bigger than that. You do win.
That's the simplicity. So much so that you don't
understand you're coming back and you're actually going to get
more. I don't do war.
Yeah, you do, if you would. Jesus.
Because Jesus coming back to take some people out.
There's a special op going on. Read the book and there's blood.
Just say blood and you'll be all right By then.
You'll be able to handle that stuff.
All that makes me. No, you won't be queasy.
You'll be a glorified body. You'll be good.
It'll be all good. All right, but he said, I'm not
asking you to take them out of the world.
But what's he say? Keep them from the evil?
He's not saying, look, they're like me.
They got my word. Keep them in the world and go
tell them to go beat up the devil anytime they want to like
I did. No, he says, keep them from it.
Don't get don't have them. Get engaged in strict combat
'cause I did. That.
Just remind them, keep your foot on the neck.
He says this again in Second Corinthians chapter 3, verses
one through three. He says This he says, Finally,
brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord will spread
rapidly, be glorified just as did also with you, and that we
would be rescued from perverse and evil men.
For not all have faith again. Evil, perverse and evil men are
those not flesh and blood, but this is principalities and
powers that they still are under because they're still in the
domain of darkness and they're stuck over there and so they're
still influenced by it and we can be what delivered from them.
Now there's a whole lot of way of being delivered and most of
us go at about it the wrong way. But I'll and I'll say a couple
things about that verse four though he said, but the Lord is
faithful and He will strengthen and protect you.
What from the Evil 1 cause At the end of the day he said that
we are to occupy. To occupy means stay in the
position I left you in, he says. It's in Ephesians chapter 4,
verse 27. This is the King James Version.
I'm going to read you some more, he said Not neither.
Give place to the devil, the amplify says.
Do not give the devil an opportunity to lead you into sin
by holding a grudge or nurturing anger or harboring resentment or
cultivating bitterness. It one translation says Leave no
such room or foothold for the devil.
Give no opportunity to him, Don't let him off the mat.
Are you hearing me? One says.
Don't give the opportunity to the devil.
The passion says don't let the slanderous accuser the devil and
opportunity to manipulate you. Now here's where people fail.
We already have been positioned with our foot on the neck.
We don't wrestle with flesh and blood because we are the victor
and the devil is under our. Feet, right.
That's where we're at. And as long as we do not allow
those that are still in his domain and the words that they
still use of because he's talking from down there to them
and he's using them to try to get you to do this.
Because this is what happens when you start going, oh, you
want some of this, You let him up.
Flesh and blood becomes distraction.
Now let me tell you the same people that are violent in
Jesus's time are violent in this time, and I can't tell you how
many believers it's just. Pathetic.
Say it with me. Pathetic.
Say it with disdain. In your facial expression.
Pathetic. Come on, dude.
Y'all smiling. Pathetic, that is.
That's pathetic. Pathetic, right?
It's pathetic that Christians are attacking Christians.
Don't you know that Jesus is like I know who will try to kill
you? It's religious individuals that
love their definition of me instead of the definition you're
telling them of being rightly divided.
So I realize the first people I am not going to get into a match
with is a person who says they know the word, they're mature,
they've done all these exploits, but yet I don't see any fruit.
Come on, that's good. And as a result of that, if I
come and attack, then I am setting that person up to want
to kill me and I'm not tasked for them to kill me.
I'm tasked to live at peace with all men as far as I can.
More believers are taking time to fight with other perceived
believers instead of just going out into all the world because
at the end of the day. I remember one time, Pastor
Marcus, remember this, stand up. Y'all so y'all know who Pastor
Marcus is, In case nobody knows, so Pastor Marcus and I.
You know? And Marlene, where are you?
You're in the room because you know, you were part of this.
Stand up. So, Marlene, it wasn't her
fault, OK? It wasn't her fault.
So let me preface that. And it wasn't even her good
friend's fault, but it was her good friend's boyfriend.
Was the issue. So in the good intentions you
can be seated. My mother-in-law invited me and
my wife and Marcus was with me over to the house because she
had a friend who had a boyfriend that loved God and he.
Was kind of the rebel in the Baptist Church.
Because he believed. In the gifts of the Spirit.
So I walked into the house, right?
I walked into the house and I walked in the house.
The guy was sitting on like a a stool.
And he goes, whoo, I felt the anointing when you came in.
Yeah, yeah, man. If you talk like that, you need
to. Stop.
Please stop. Please, please stop.
Whoo. I feel the anointing.
I'm like, OK, you know, because I mean, that's already for me.
The red flag. Why?
I already know it's a red flag. Because you don't have to feel
the anointing. All my life I am anointed
because we're all anointed. Period.
Anyway, so we engage pleasantries.
And so, you know, obviously at that point he's, you know, his
zeal about the gifts. You know, OK, I'm around
somebody else who believes like me.
So like he goes through this whole deal, you know, and he was
talking about it and obviously he was equating tongues only
with the gifts. And that's the only time you can
speak in tongues. And I perceive.
So I listen to it and that's cool.
I said, you know, So then I just started to generally talk about
the. Baptism of the Holy Ghost,
whatever is speaking in tongues, you know, And I started to see a
roadblock, you know, we're Locking up now.
He was talking about my anointing.
I mean, literally. Man, you're so annoying.
Whoo. You know, I happen to hear a
couple of your messages. So I mean, I mean just bragged
about the anointing in my life. Bro.
OK, so at that point, then we start talking.
He says, And I said, so. I said, OK.
I said, well, where's your Bible?
So he pulls his Bible out. So I take him over to John.
You know where Jesus breathed in them.
I said, did they receive the Holy Ghost?
Yeah. Did they get it all?
They got it all. I said I believe that too.
Yeah, pulled him over to Acts chapter one and then where he
says the Holy Ghost going to come and he was like, so he
starts flipping back and forth, right.
So then he goes down to his commentary because he had a
commentary by someone who doesn't believe in the baptism
of the Holy Ghost. What evidence is speaking in
tongues? See, the guy believed you could
have tongues as a gift to the Spirit only, but that we
couldn't be in do with power because he really didn't know
the Bible, which really wasn't even functioning in the gifts.
He was like Simon the sorcerer who wanted gifts to be
functioning so he could seem anointed.
That's why he called me so anointed, because he only wanted
me to reciprocate the conversation.
So then he starts. I said no, no, no, no, no.
Stay with the Bible. Yeah.
I said, I said OK. I said all you're doing is
you're telling me this, and I'm not going to tell you the person
is because they are well known. I said you're telling all you're
doing is you're given the interpretation of a man.
I want to stay with Scripture. What does the Scripture say?
All right, so we we, we conversing now because again,
you I was anointed. You love my preaching.
I mean, I I thought we were on the same wavelength.
I mean, I'm here for us to be edified together.
And I kept him there. I said, I said, so basically
you're going to take that man's interpretation over what I'm
saying, but I'm just looking at scripture and I'm not trying to
fill in a bunch of stuff that's not there.
He said, man to you, he goes that, he goes, that's all
that's, that's false doctrine. And now I'm confused because I
was anointed when I came in the room.
Now I know I'm right, but. I don't want this guy trying to
kill the ministry before I get started.
I don't want him running around town doing everything he can to
try to destroy this church because I know.
So I said hold on, Do you believe that Jesus Christ died
on the cross and rose from the grave and that through him and
only through him, you can be saved?
He said yes. I said so do I, Let's just stay
there. And that was it.
I left it peaceful because at the end of the day, there's
really no reason for me to have this conversation.
Pastor, why don't you do more with pastors in the community?
Because it's not county commissioners trying to shut me
down. And we tend to think we have
this duty to make sure believers.
Know the word rightly divided like us, to the point that we
incite them to violence. If you know that they're not
receiving, walk away because it's not your fight.
It's not your fight. We have more pertinent things to
do and there are other people who are going to be more open to
here, and at the end of the day, it's up to them to decide
whether they want to come or not at the end of the day.
So there's no reason for me to go out and try to pick a fight
with the devil. I don't have to.
He's already a defeated foe. I've been standing victorious
the day I found out who I was in Christ and kept my foot here.
And then when people came at words from other realms, I never
took it as them. And right now in our political
realm, there are a lot of Christians that are being
seduced into conservativism because they're equating.
If you're a conservative, you must be a Christian.
Just because there's some ideals that are the same, they are not
the same. There was one particular person
I saw that is known as a believer, talks about God and
all stuff, but then was talking about a situation is like, if
that was there, I would kill them.
I and I'm like, what are they saying?
You know how many believers are stuck in the podcast box and are
infuriated with things going on? Do you think you're more mad
about pedophiles than? Jesus do.
You think you want justice more than him, But if we're going to
win, we can't go after and say these people are going to burn
in hell and they OK, Yeah, people that do behavior that's
against the Kingdom are going up.
Why you got to broadcast? That.
In essence, every time you engage in that kind of activity
and you let him get up every time.
Now that doesn't mean we don't say defend, but if you let God
do it, he'll open the doors because I don't have to force my
way anywhere. I'm LED everywhere and we are
attacking things instead of saying, you know, people are
going to do. Stuff the end of the day and.
You understand Paul's letters were not to the lost, they were
to the church, but they were to the congregations he started.
Now ultimately, As for the church, I get that.
But again, if someone doesn't want to receive 'cause even Paul
said send the letters to Laodicea, but then God says to
John, well, the church at Laodicea, they're not listening
to the writings of Paul and I have a problem with them bad.
Is that what God wanted? No.
In fact, when one of the churches he said they got the
spirit of Jezebel, I even gave her time to repent, which means
they let him, God himself let her stand the church.
I can't believe they let people in like.
That well, there's a time to repent, but if they don't like
with that church, he says. I gave her time to repent, she
didn't. So I'm going to deal with it,
which means some people could be around and it seemed like, whoa,
no problem. But you know, there's been
plenty of time of repentance. They didn't do it.
We're going to deal with it. And when I deal with it, then,
then guess what, I'm dealing with it in the steps of God and
the plan of God. Which means then if I say you
can't be here anymore. Then I have the full force of
the Kingdom with the net, my foot on the neck of of the
enemy, and I'm not going to have them come and try to destroy
this Ministry. But if it's.
Just I'm right and you're wrong. And I'm going to attack you.
And I can't believe you did this.
And I'm going to let you know that I'm right.
Well, then you know what? I open up situations that never
needed to be opened up. Because really, it's my pride to
want to make sure you know that I know when there's plenty of
times that I can say, well, praise the Lord, bless you.
So how can you do that? Well, Jesus said bless your
enemies. He didn't say kill them all.
See. Because again, our battle's not
against flesh and blood. There may be someone that
they're in sin, they're off they ain't doing right nothing about
it. And the Lord's like, they ask
for your coat, give them your cloak.
They're taking asking you go one, might give them two.
You say don't curse your enemy, bless them.
I don't understand. How can you support that?
I'm just following the Holy Ghost 'cause my foot is on the
neck of the devil, and my battle's not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities and powers.
And if I really want something to function there, then if I
function the way God does, then God gets involved.
And I would much rather God get involved and vindicate than me,
vindicate me. And in these last days, there's
going to be a lot of opportunity for us to be mad at faces.
If you get around someone and you can't hardly stand it, this
is what you're doing. Starting to pick your foot up.
You need to say, Lord, forgive me, I bless them.
It ain't about what they deserve because I'm going to keep my
heart, right? Because you did the fight, you
came down and you picked on the devil and you tricked him.
Because if he hadn't known what he was doing when he had you
killed, he never. He just said don't touch the
guy, leave him alone, don't touch him, let him live forever,
period. But he didn't.
And we have vanquished our enemy.
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