1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,560 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:06,920 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:16,280 Now enjoy this message. Let's start in Ephesians chapter 4 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:19,760 6, verse 11. Tonight, Ephesians 611, and 5 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:21,720 we're going to read 11:00 and 12:00. 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:26,040 And it says this, it says, but put on the full armor of God, so 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,160 that you'll be able to stand firm against the schemes of the 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,760 devil for our struggles not against flesh and blood, but 9 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,960 against rulers, against powers, against war, forces of darkness, 10 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,920 against spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places. 11 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,320 God gave me this context, and we're going to discover it even 12 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,480 now, because I believe there's more that he wants to mine out 13 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:46,920 that I haven't even mined yet. And we're going to even get more 14 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:51,520 tonight as we minister. But I went. 15 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:55,040 To the to the state today Capitol. 16 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:57,760 And once again had the opportunity. 17 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:00,120 Today was their first session divided. 18 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,480 So they just opened session yesterday. 19 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:05,440 Everyone was together in the House because the House is 20 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,840 bigger. And Governor Ron DeSantis flew 21 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,880 in and he addressed all of them. And then today they're starting 22 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:13,520 their sessions, the Senate and the House. 23 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:18,080 And so the lady who is The Who takes care of the chaplain of 24 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,240 the day, she says this, you're my first one. 25 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:23,440 I said, well, I'll be your best one and everybody else you'll 26 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,400 judge after me. And so you know, she goes, well, 27 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,080 do we go in here? I said, well, the last time I 28 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,560 was here, we went this way. I'm glad that you've done this 29 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:33,840 before. I said, I am too. 30 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,920 And I'm glad I understand some protocol because I don't want to 31 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,560 get up in here and look stupid. And so anyway, with that being 32 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,920 said, we came in, we had a good conversation, you know. 33 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:44,640 And again, this is all for 60 seconds. 34 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,600 I added a paragraph so I get a little bit more because when I 35 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,720 pray in the at the government, you need to understand this. 36 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:56,720 It is a sermon, OK? I pray scripture and we leave 37 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:01,560 things because I know the Holy Ghost causes things to come to 38 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:03,640 their remembrance. How many of you have 39 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,000 photographic memory? Anyone at all have photographic 40 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,199 memory that you hear it once you can keep it. 41 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,880 OK, great. Not everybody has that, but you 42 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,400 know the Holy Ghost does. And so even if the human being. 43 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,560 Doesn't the Holy Ghost does. So when I did that prayer, it is 44 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:26,560 forever able to be recalled to the memory of every senator and 45 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:33,360 aid that was in the room and anyone else watching on TV. 46 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,160 Everyone. So the words is it worth driving 47 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:42,600 6 hours to to deliver 60 seconds of scripture? 48 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:45,880 You. Bet it is. 49 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,960 You bet it is. Right now my tradition is, is 50 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,040 then I hang out because, you know, I don't technically like 51 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,840 to pray and leave. But in this circumstance, 52 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,920 because I got called within 24 hours, I said, you know, today. 53 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:03,240 I'm going to have to go back so I won't be able to stay. 54 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,120 I obviously saw our representative, Senator Travis 55 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,760 Hudson, got this talk with him. He came to me, We chit chatted a 56 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:11,680 little bit. I thanked him for calling me up 57 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,280 off the bench. Because I answered the call, it 58 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:19,160 allowed him to be the sponsor of the day again and so I hope to 59 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:21,600 give him plenty of exercise for a little bit, right? 60 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:28,080 With that being said, again, I'm going back January 29th to meet 61 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:33,440 with the legislators, so I'm not surprised I got the call because 62 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:35,640 the next because. I'm going at the end of the 63 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,520 month to meet with the legislators. 64 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,880 A meeting's been set up for us to do this. 65 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:45,320 The Holy Ghost now can recall you were just here. 66 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:49,080 Say Amen. Why is this important? 67 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:53,160 Because God's called us to impact the nation. 68 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:59,760 But here's the thing. Our battle, our struggle once as 69 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:03,280 we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against rulers, 70 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:07,280 against powers, against world forces and darkness, against 71 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,840 spiritual forces and wickedness in heavenly places. 72 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:14,040 Spiritual realms come through government. 73 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:23,240 They take territory through government, because government 74 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:28,400 is God's legal way of power, you say? 75 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,640 How is that? Because he's a Kingdom and the 76 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,320 enemy? Through seducing spirits and 77 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:40,840 doctrines of demons has been able to sway the US Church based 78 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:45,560 upon a letter written from Thomas Jefferson to a clergyman 79 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:49,320 concerning them writing the Declaration of Independence. 80 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:52,040 Of a statement called the separation of Church and State. 81 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:57,880 That we have created the idea of Church to be so separated from 82 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:01,680 government, or that it has no context of government, that 83 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:05,640 we've given free reign for the enemy to set up principalities 84 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:09,480 because we're the church here. The government? 85 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,840 No, the church is government because the church is the 86 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:17,200 Kingdom of God. All we have to do is go to 87 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,280 Isaiah, Chapter 9. Y'all know it well here, verse 88 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:23,280 six, right? A child will be born, a son will 89 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:26,440 be given, and the the government is going to rest on his 90 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,280 shoulders. Who are the ambassadors of that 91 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:31,760 government or to that government? 92 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:38,160 We are so again if we are not engaging in areas. 93 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:43,480 But again, my battles not with the Republicans, my battles not 94 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:48,000 with the Independent, my battles not with the Green Party, my 95 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,480 battles not with the Democrats. Are you hearing me? 96 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:54,000 My battles? Not with that. 97 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:59,400 My battles with principalities and powers and I want to show 98 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:04,280 you tonight how we are to navigate because again, our 99 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:06,560 teaching this year, and we're going to talk about it more on 100 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:08,920 Sunday. God said that this is our year 101 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,400 of the reigning spirit. We're going to understand the 102 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,800 realm of the spirit, and these teachings cannot be exclusive to 103 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:19,520 Sunday. There's too much to cover for it 104 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,200 to be exclusive. And I'm not running a series per 105 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,360 SE, but I'm just saying they're going to become so intertwined, 106 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,240 you may get back at the end of 2024 and say we had one long 107 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:39,960 sermon in one sense, OK? And so here, verse 11 tells us 108 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:44,760 that if we're putting on this full armor of God, it gives us 109 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:48,640 capacity to be able to stand firm against. 110 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:55,600 What the schemes of the devil? Because he goes on and says 111 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,200 this. These struggles are not human 112 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,400 beings. It comes from this ruler of 113 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:08,160 darkness that has rulers, powers, world forces and 114 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:12,600 darkness and spiritual forces and Wiccan in heavenly places. 115 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:19,080 The enemy has an order. He is not chaos. 116 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:27,200 The devil is not chaotic. He's methodical, He's planned. 117 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:35,240 He actually is extremely patient because in essence, the word 118 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,120 devil, which is more of his description, not his name. 119 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,040 It is like taking, you know, a water. 120 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:44,320 They used to do this in torture and they would put a person 121 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:45,720 down. They would let it just drip, 122 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:51,040 drip slowly drip, just keep dripping right till it just 123 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,720 drives him crazy. Well, what he does with thoughts 124 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,760 is he keeps sending it. In essence, he keeps pounding 125 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,600 the thought, pound the thought, pound the thought till it can 126 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:00,680 penetrate. You. 127 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,360 And he'll just keep sending them. 128 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,240 The good news is if you have on the full armor of God, you have 129 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:12,000 a helmet that is should go ping ping. 130 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,960 And when I say ping, it's it's not because you're not thinking 131 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:18,280 ping. Second Corinthians tells us that 132 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,800 we are to take every thought captive. 133 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:28,880 OK, but I want us to look from a perspective with Jesus, because 134 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:32,960 Jesus did something really awesome, and because he did 135 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,679 something really awesome, he's letting us know you don't do 136 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,120 what I did. In this context, it looks 137 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:42,559 different. Let me tell you when I say that. 138 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:44,960 Because you say, well, Jesus said the worst that I do, even 139 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:48,400 we will do in greater works. Well, are we going to go and die 140 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,480 on a cross for the sins of humanity? 141 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:53,080 Obviously we're not. So are we going to be able to do 142 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:54,640 that work? Nope. 143 00:08:55,080 --> 00:09:00,080 There's another work Jesus did that you're not doing, so you 144 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:07,200 shouldn't use his tactic. Everything Jesus did is not for 145 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:11,760 us to do because there were things He did, because it was 146 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:19,080 his assignment, Because you may die for the sake of Christ, you 147 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,800 may shed blood for the sake of Christ, but your shedding of 148 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,520 blood does not literally save someone's life from eternal 149 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:30,120 damnation. It may save their life in the 150 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:34,120 natural, it may give them longevity in the earth. 151 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:38,400 It may even because of that action cause them to accept 152 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:40,720 Jesus as Lord. But it's the blood of Christ 153 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,840 that saves them, not the blood you shed for them. 154 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:47,640 Are you hearing what I'm saying? OK, so then let's turn over to 155 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:49,480 Luke chapter 4 and Luke chapter 4. 156 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:51,200 We'll start in verse one. OK? 157 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,200 I want us to read this context, so I'm just going to read the 158 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,120 1st 11, So we'll have it. OK, It says it's. 159 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,680 Jesus, full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was 160 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:01,640 led around by the Spirit in the wilderness for 40 days, being 161 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:03,880 tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those 162 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:05,720 days. And when it had ended he became 163 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:07,360 hungry. And the devil said to him, If 164 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,440 you are the Son of God, tell the stones to become bread. 165 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,040 And Jesus answer it is written, Man shall not live on bread 166 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,120 alone. And he led him up to show him. 167 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,960 All the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time the devil said 168 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,720 to him, I I will give you all this domain and its glory, for 169 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,880 it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I 170 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:25,680 wish. Therefore if you worship before 171 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:28,240 me, it shall be yours. In Jesus answer it is written, 172 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,960 You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve him only. 173 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:35,800 And then And he led him to Jerusalem, and had him stand on 174 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,280 the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, If you are the Son 175 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,040 of God, throw yourself down, for it is written. 176 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:43,800 So I'm going to use Scripture. Now says the devil, he will 177 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,960 command, and his angels concerning you to guard you, and 178 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:50,440 on their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not 179 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:52,320 strike your foot against the stone. 180 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,720 He goes on and says to him, You shall not tempt the Lord your 181 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,760 God, right? And it says the devil left him 182 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:06,440 right and look for what a more opportune time? 183 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,320 Now, so there's obviously a couple more verses than I that I 184 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:13,440 quoted here, but, you know, in that context. 185 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,760 So the first thing we need to recognize is that Jesus never 186 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:18,760 encountered the devil. Empty. 187 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,120 OK, I'm going to say that again. Jesus never encountered the 188 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:24,080 devil. Empty. 189 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:30,600 So first and foremost, if you are born again, born of God, and 190 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,960 the Holy Ghost is in you that bear to bear witness with your 191 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,600 spirit, you are child of God. That doesn't mean you're full, 192 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:43,520 because Jesus was perfect, meaning his spirit was right 193 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:45,840 with God. But the Holy Ghost came upon him 194 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:51,480 and gave him power. So he he did not even go to the 195 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:55,200 devil till after John baptized him, the heavens opened up, the 196 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:59,680 Holy Ghost came upon him. He was then endued with power, 197 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:04,040 and when he was full of the Holy Ghost, 'cause, he could hear the 198 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:06,640 Holy Ghost. Prior to that, the Holy Ghost 199 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:07,920 was already teaching him Scripture. 200 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:11,840 He was mind blowing to the scribes when he was teaching at 201 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:17,600 13 years old in the temple. But when it came to power, he 202 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,760 did not go until after the Holy Ghost came upon him. 203 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:26,360 And when it did, he was full of the Holy Spirit being LED into 204 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:28,480 the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 205 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:32,800 And the Bible tells us he was tempted on all accounts. 206 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:35,600 Jesus was tempted on all accounts. 207 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,120 You were never to be tempted on all accounts. 208 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,440 It's not your assignment to go get tempted on all accounts. 209 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,920 Jesus did it. Any temptation out there Jesus 210 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,680 faced. You don't have to face every 211 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,280 temptation, though you will face some. 212 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:04,400 You're going to face some, OK? He faced them all. 213 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:09,400 Now when he faced them, he faced them in fasting because he 214 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,720 didn't eat. Said he ate nothing in those 215 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:13,600 days. Now he didn't realize he was 216 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:20,640 hungry until it was done. Which means he was so full of 217 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:24,600 the Holy Ghost that even though the devil tempted him with food, 218 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:29,560 he was able to always respond. How it is it is written? 219 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:32,960 Are you hearing me? Obviously in this account we see 220 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:37,280 the 2nd temptation is the big prize anyway because Jesus is 221 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,960 coming to do what was mentioned in Genesis chapter 3. 222 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,280 In Genesis chapter 3 is the fall of man. 223 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:47,400 And what did man fall from? He did not fall from heaven. 224 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:52,720 He fell from dominion. Because man was not created in 225 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:55,680 heaven or for heaven. He was created to rule in this 226 00:13:55,680 --> 00:13:59,080 realm under God. God said let us make man in our 227 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:00,800 image according to our likeness, right? 228 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,480 Genesis 126. And let him have rule or 229 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,200 dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, over 230 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,880 all the cattle, over everything. In essence, you're the king of 231 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,880 the kingdoms of the world. The way the world functions, its 232 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:16,800 system, you are to do it underneath my spirit, leading 233 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,680 from my realm in heaven, your realms on earth. 234 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:23,640 And we will converse, we will have relationship. 235 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:29,280 Our two areas are exact because you're in my image and you're 236 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:33,000 functioning, functioning in it as I do here. 237 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:36,880 And as long as man would have done that, we would have no 238 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,680 issue, right? And so he needs to know that man 239 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,680 loves him. So he says, listen, you can eat 240 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:43,640 from any tree of the garden, but of the tree, of the knowledge of 241 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:44,680 good and evil, you shall not eat. 242 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,600 For that you eat, you will die. So if Adam had never eaten the 243 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,800 fruit, where would he be today? Right here. 244 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,920 He would not be going to heaven. Now let me just pause because we 245 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:59,000 have guests. I'm not saying that when you 246 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,760 die, you don't go to heaven, you just stand the earth. 247 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:02,600 That's not true. To be absent from the body is to 248 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,440 be what? Present with the Lord. 249 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:07,520 Where is Jesus presently? He's in heaven. 250 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,000 He is. Is he staying there? 251 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,000 He is not. If you read the Bible he 252 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:13,720 actually shows back up on the planet. 253 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:18,160 We have a 1000 year millennial reign with Christ of which he 254 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:22,720 does not exit. We do get a new heaven and a new 255 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:26,520 earth. OK, so but Adam does eat the 256 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:28,600 fruit. And Luke tells us when he says, 257 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,600 look at all these kingdoms, look how this place is functioning. 258 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:33,640 Because this is what you're after, right? 259 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:36,280 And look, I'll just give it to you. 260 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,560 All you got to do is bow down, bow your knee to me. 261 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,160 Just submit. I I'm the ruler of this. 262 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,000 It's been handed over to me. Who do you get it from? 263 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:52,040 Adam. So once again, God, because he 264 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:56,240 gave man rulership, cannot take it as God. 265 00:15:56,240 --> 00:16:02,600 That's right. This is why God has to send his 266 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,840 seed through the woman in Genesis 315. 267 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:10,000 When he talks to the serpent, what he called him, He's called 268 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,160 him the serpent because obviously the scriptures 269 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,200 references that. He said he went to the serpent. 270 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,200 He says what have you done? He said he. 271 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,200 Well, I didn't say what you've done, he said to him, he said 272 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,320 that you're cursed, you know, and then he goes and he said I'm 273 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:23,760 bringing my seed through the woman. 274 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,000 You're going to bruise his heel, but he's going to crush your 275 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,080 head. And we know the Bible says Jesus 276 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,080 came to destroy the works of the devil. 277 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,920 What is the devil's work? Rebellion to God's word. 278 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,600 It's a hatred for the things of God. 279 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,000 It's disobedience. And he is. 280 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:44,480 Crushing it so that you don't have to disobey or rebel ever 281 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:46,560 again. Are you here? 282 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:48,400 And that good news. That's good news. 283 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:53,080 So Jesus is on assignment to do something. 284 00:16:53,200 --> 00:17:00,280 Now Jesus's assignment requires him to die. 285 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:07,599 It's a requirement and he tell if he he communicates. 286 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:11,599 This. He says I'm going to die, but on 287 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:14,839 the third day I'm going to die, but on the third day. 288 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:19,960 Now why does Jesus have to die? Because Romans tells us that the 289 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:24,960 wages of sin, Romans 623, that the wages of sin is so when Adam 290 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:29,040 transgressed through one man's transgression, sin enter the 291 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,480 world. Sin must be paid. 292 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:36,480 God's the only one who can pay it, because silver and gold 293 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:40,680 can't do it. Your bulls and your sheep can't 294 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:44,200 do it. Sacrifices aren't going to work. 295 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,480 Natural ones. There's only one way that this 296 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:50,640 can be eradicated, paid in full, once and for all. 297 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,800 And that is the precious blood of Jesus. 298 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,040 That's why Jesus told them in Matthew 16. 299 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:58,440 He said, you know who do people say that I am? 300 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:00,760 You're this prophet. Who do you say they am? 301 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:02,760 You're the Christ. You're blessed, Peter. 302 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:05,080 You know, because the Father, not flesh and blood, not 303 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:07,480 revealed this, but my Father in heaven, he goes, now listen, I'm 304 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,040 going to die at the hands of the Pharisees and scribe. 305 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:11,400 But on the third day I'm going to raise up. 306 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:13,720 Peter doesn't listen to the latter part. 307 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,120 He only hears he's going to die. He pulls him to the side and he 308 00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:18,680 says, Jesus, may it never be. You're not going to die. 309 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:22,480 And Jesus says, what? Get thee behind me, Satan, for 310 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:24,760 you've set your mind on the interest of man. 311 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:28,320 You're letting your emotions about me control your actions. 312 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:34,400 And here this is the problem. When you try to define Jesus for 313 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:41,880 you, then you try to make Jesus conform to your emotions about 314 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,360 situations. But Jesus is not going to 315 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:49,160 conform to your emotions. He's only going to stay with the 316 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,520 plan. He says You set your interest on 317 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,760 the mind of man instead of the mind of God. 318 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:57,320 In essence, I'm not going to go here. 319 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:01,800 In fact he was so purposeful that when his disciples are 320 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,520 leaving because he preaches A sermon about drinking blood and 321 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:09,240 eating flesh. OK, not you know as a type in 322 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:13,960 shadow they they are blown away by that leaf he turns. 323 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:16,120 His own disciples have been traveling with him seeing all 324 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:17,960 the miracle signs and wants to say you going to go to. 325 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,000 So at the end of the day what I'm doing is not stopping. 326 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:24,160 He even tells Peter You going to deny me three times but I'm 327 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,800 going. Are you hearing me now? 328 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:29,840 We have to. Then you have to understand 329 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:35,200 Jesus is required by his by a plan to have to do something. 330 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:45,040 He goes to the devil. In essence, Jesus is letting him 331 00:19:45,040 --> 00:20:01,560 know I'm here, I'm here. But notice the devil did not 332 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:04,720 destroy you. Ain't that interesting? 333 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,760 The devil didn't say I'm a you're you're problematic. 334 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:17,440 I'm going to have to kill you right now because. 335 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:23,320 Although our battles with the spirit realm, we're not 336 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:28,000 physically fighting the spirit realm, and Jesus can't win the 337 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:39,080 battle strictly in the spirit for the earth 'cause if he 338 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:40,520 could, why does he have to be a man? 339 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:53,560 So Jesus goes and picks a fight. Because here's the thing, this 340 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:55,480 is crazy thought, but it's truth. 341 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:59,520 Jesus needs the devil to kill him. 342 00:21:05,250 --> 00:21:12,250 So I'm gonna have to go after some people because those 343 00:21:12,250 --> 00:21:15,570 people, the spirits, function through. 344 00:21:15,570 --> 00:21:17,850 Amen. That's. 345 00:21:20,210 --> 00:21:21,970 Good. Now it wasn't Caesar. 346 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,800 Matthew 23 One through three it says this Jesus spoke to the 347 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,360 crowds and said to his disciples, saying, the scribes 348 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:36,840 and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of 349 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,880 Moses. Therefore, all that they tell 350 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:45,120 you do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds, for 351 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:50,000 they say things they do not and do not do them. 352 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:57,240 I never heard Jesus one time speak bad about a Roman soldier. 353 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:02,360 I never. I can find nowhere in the four 354 00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:12,160 pages of the gospel that Jesus had words of that would seem 355 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:17,480 attacking to anyone except in one sense except the 356 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,840 Syrophoenician. Woman that would seem attacking 357 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:27,280 when he says, you know, heating is the the bread of, you know, 358 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,080 God's children, he said you don't throw it to the dogs. 359 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,960 And she says even the dogs eat from the crumbs from the 360 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:39,360 master's table and he says your daughter is, well, that was a 361 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:43,800 good answer, right? That's pretty amazing. 362 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,640 But outside of that, he's not running down sinners. 363 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,560 He's not even. And and when I say Sinner, we're 364 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,840 talking Jewish people because he was there for the Jews, He 365 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,160 wasn't there for the Gentiles, although ultimately he's there 366 00:22:58,160 --> 00:22:59,920 for the Gentiles. But he's not dealing with the 367 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:01,560 Gentiles. He's not here for the House of 368 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:06,240 Israel, OK, Because how they going to respond to me is how is 369 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,520 going to open the door for us, OK. 370 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,360 But at the end of the day, I have to die. 371 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:14,200 Now here's the problem. Jesus has. 372 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:25,200 I can't because I don't have any sin and the wages of sin is and 373 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,240 he never sinned. So in essence he's like the 374 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:32,680 first Adam that if he never had eaten the fruit he'd still be 375 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:40,800 alive today and we would go see. So Jesus is in the same 376 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,560 condition and in order for the fulfillment of prophecy, he 377 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:52,760 needs a group of people who are willing to function in cahoots 378 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:56,080 with principalities and powers to the point of violence. 379 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:08,840 And it is religious sinners. Now I say sinners because 380 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,560 they're all cut off, but you understand Pharisees and scribes 381 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,840 actually had a contest called They were priests. 382 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,680 The context of having an anointing, these are covenant 383 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,800 people. But these are covenant people 384 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:25,760 that like the tradition of how they interpret the word. 385 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:29,040 Then how God does it? Although they have access to 386 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:33,960 rightly divide, and because they have access to rightly divide, 387 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,600 but willfully refuse it. Because they love the powers of 388 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:42,240 the world and they want how the principalities and powers 389 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:49,120 function with the Gentiles. That they compromise their 390 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:53,600 responsibility, that they should be training Israel the right 391 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:58,680 things of God through the Law of Moses, but instead are like the 392 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:02,200 government that has principalities and powers in 393 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:07,160 Rome, that are taking from people, abusing people, 394 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,560 manipulating people, taking advantage. 395 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,280 And they've pulled it into their religion. 396 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,880 And these are the ones Jesus goes after. 397 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,640 He goes on the same chapters, jump down to verse 13. 398 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,280 He makes this statement, he says. 399 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,560 But woe to you scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites, because 400 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,920 you shut off the Kingdom of heaven from people. 401 00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:33,960 For you do not enter in yourself, nor do you allow those 402 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,680 who are entering in. Notice what he says, that he 403 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:41,200 calls them hypocrites. I mean, this is really attacking 404 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:47,240 speech. Two people who have placed 405 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,840 themselves in their nation in a seat of power. 406 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,880 These people have access not only to their own government, 407 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,160 King Herod, but they have access to Caesar Rome. 408 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:05,800 They are working all of the governments that are being 409 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,400 influenced through principalities and powers. 410 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,440 If we go on and and I I'm not going to read them all, but in 411 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,040 verse 14 of this chapter, verse 15 of this chapter, verse 23 of 412 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,800 this chapter, verse 27 of this chapter, verse 29 of this 413 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,440 chapter, all of these verses say this. 414 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,240 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. 415 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:31,720 He's like on a rant and they're in the building. 416 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:40,600 I mean, he's not mincing words. He's calling them what they are. 417 00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:47,840 They're fake news in a modern vernacular. 418 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:51,320 Are you hearing me? Now? 419 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:56,200 I'm not saying that to say people who say that are like, 420 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,960 Jesus, 'cause that's not true. I'm just using a modern 421 00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:04,440 vernacular, OK? If you go on, then he ends up 422 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,440 getting really specific. In the 33rd verse in Matthew 423 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:15,040 2333, it says this usurpants you brood of Vipers, how will you 424 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:18,600 escape? The sentence of Hell Woo. 425 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:20,960 Tell me about just making somebody mad. 426 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,120 He's picking. I mean, he's asking I dare you 427 00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:31,430 to kill me, 'cause Jesus knows who he is. 428 00:27:32,550 --> 00:27:36,670 But he understand Jesus is a fighter, unlike all fighters, 429 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,680 because he fights according to the rules that which is laid 430 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,800 out. He's following what he knows 431 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,200 about him from the Law and the Prophets. 432 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,280 He knows who he is and he knows his assignment. 433 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,560 I'm going to have to lay down my life for the. 434 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,640 World. But I can't do it in and of 435 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,520 myself. I'm going to need those that are 436 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:04,920 in the principalities and powers that have real power 'cause it's 437 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,480 been given to them by the 1st Adam. 438 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:12,160 For me to take that back. I've got to engage the ones that 439 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,440 are being influenced by that because my battle is really not 440 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,720 against the flesh and blood, it's against that principality 441 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,560 power and I need them to Take Me Out. 442 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:33,360 Jesus was never trying to sit on a natural throne because every 443 00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:35,720 time they tried to, he said not Tom. 444 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,520 I'm out of here because I know the hearts of man. 445 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,480 They want me to be king, and if they knew I took that power, now 446 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,160 I'd have to throw them all into the lake of. 447 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,280 Fire. There'd be no redemptive value, 448 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,280 right? But Jesus gets even more tight. 449 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,560 He says in John chapter 8 and John chapter 8, verse 42. 450 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,880 Look at Jesus. Jesus says now this you have to 451 00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,680 understand. In order for you to understand 452 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,480 who he's talking to, you would have to jump all the way back up 453 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:07,640 to the 13th verse. Okay, because he's in a whole 454 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,400 dialogue and there's some individuals he's talking to. 455 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,040 He's dealing with the Pharisees, OK in this. 456 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,440 But then in there is in a mingled of some, some Jewish 457 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,000 people That just means people of the nation of Israel who have 458 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,840 heard Jesus and they're deciding we're going to believe him and 459 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,520 we're going to quit believing the Pharisees. 460 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,080 We're going to actually start believing in him. 461 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:27,960 And so he's having some dialogue with him. 462 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,440 In fact, prior to this he's saying now listen as he's saying 463 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,880 to them, he said listen, if you'll continue in my word and 464 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,240 have my word, then man, you'll be my disciple. 465 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,240 He's talking, but in the Pharisees Foresees are upset 466 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,240 about that. So they keep engaging him. 467 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:44,280 In essence, they keep nagging at him because they hate him. 468 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,720 He goes on and says this, He said, if you were said to them 469 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,520 the fairy. He said, if you were, if, if God 470 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,160 were your father, you would love me. 471 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,880 For I proceed forth and have come from the Father, for I have 472 00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,440 not even come on my own initiative. 473 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,360 But he sent me. OK, he said. 474 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:04,920 Why do you not understand what I'm saying? 475 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,280 It's because you cannot hear my word, he said. 476 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:13,920 You are now. You are of your father, the 477 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,360 devil. That's why I called them Vipers. 478 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,480 He said. You serpents, you brood of 479 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:25,720 Vipers. He said you are of your devil, 480 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,120 your father the devil. And you do. 481 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:32,200 And you want to do the desires of your father. 482 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,480 He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in 483 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,560 the truth, because there is no truth in him. 484 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:42,160 Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, and 485 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:43,760 he is a liar and the father of lies. 486 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,880 But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me, he said. 487 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,040 Which one of you convicts me a sin? 488 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,320 Now he's talking because he's like you show up here and 489 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,880 there's no conviction, but when you look at me, your sins 490 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:05,840 exposed, oh, he's calling them out, right? 491 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,800 He said if I speak truth, why do you not believe me? 492 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,760 He who is of God hears the words of God. 493 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:18,160 For this reason you do not hear them because you are not of God. 494 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:24,520 Drop the mic. I'll go heal somebody now, 495 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:31,960 right? Well, how did this make them 496 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,760 feel? They hated it. 497 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:38,880 They hated it so much that they came together and they said we 498 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,640 got to kill this guy we're. Going to kill this guy. 499 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,200 We're going to kill this guy. We're going to kill this guy. 500 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,880 We're going to kill this guy. Now listen, Jesus ran enough off 501 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,200 just with his own preaching. He goes on, you know, and gets 502 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:52,640 something else. You drinking my blood and eat in 503 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,280 my flesh or have nothing. And the people following me is 504 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,600 like this is too thick now I can't even hang with this. 505 00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,640 And so they begin to pull away. And it didn't take them long for 506 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:03,680 the principalities and powers that were operating through the 507 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:09,880 Pharisees to sway, even those that now they were able to get 508 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,200 to Judas. Because Judas, the whole time is 509 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:17,400 scared, is scared is all he cared about was I want to be 510 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:21,680 with the guy that's going to be the king, and this dude doesn't 511 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,640 ever want to take the throne. So it's like, you know, I mean, 512 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:26,840 people are really starting to hate him. 513 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:30,200 I mean, we're not. I mean the merit we were in and 514 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,040 I was going to be a part of this Kingdom, like close contact. 515 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,320 I mean, I'd be a part of all the money, the taxation, everything 516 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,520 that goes with the king. I mean, I'm set up for life, but 517 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:45,920 the guy won't get in position. So I'm going to go make an 518 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:47,200 allegiance. With the other side. 519 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,960 And he did. That for 30 pieces of silver 520 00:32:54,280 --> 00:33:00,040 betrays him. Right now Jesus is fighting. 521 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,880 This is his strategy of war before he. 522 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:10,120 He knows I have made him mad enough. 523 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,960 I have. I have come against them enough 524 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:17,760 now that they are acting and my time has come. 525 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,280 And so he. Goes to the garden to pray 526 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:26,760 because he says now. I'll continue to fight this way, 527 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:31,200 Father, if this is what you want, because I know that this 528 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:35,040 cost me you, I'm going to be separated from you. 529 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,360 I'm going to take on sin, and I don't want that. 530 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,880 So if there's any other way, let's do this right now. 531 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,160 Talk to me right now. I want your ram in the thicket, 532 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,880 right. And as the Lord's no Rams 533 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:56,040 coming, son, no Rams coming, he said. 534 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:57,320 Not my will. Your will be done. 535 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,360 And they show up right? And they beat him. 536 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:06,920 And all the while Jesus doesn't talk and they accuse him and he 537 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,880 don't talk and they what are you going to do about your accusers? 538 00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:12,679 He's like bro fuss. So then he opens his mouth. 539 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:17,440 I am woo man. That done it right there. 540 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:19,679 What more do we need? Blasphemy. 541 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,199 He's gone, right? And so then the. 542 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:24,159 Soldiers because they're all in cahoots. 543 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,800 Why are they in cahoots? Because principalities and 544 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:34,320 powers are functioning through humanity, and Jesus is using 545 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:40,280 this in order for him to defeat the works of the devil. 546 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,960 They put him on the cross because think about it, Jesus is 547 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,600 bled so much but yet he has not bled out. 548 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,560 I mean, he can't go till he goes. 549 00:34:54,840 --> 00:35:00,800 He just needed the pathway because now you've you have 550 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,840 condemned and put the action that any normal human being 551 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:09,000 would be dead. But I'm giving up my spirit 552 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:14,360 voluntarily. Here's the price We get over to 553 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,600 Colossians Chapter 2, verse 14 and 15. 554 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:20,240 It says this having canceled this amplified classic and 555 00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:23,800 blotted out, wiped away the handwriting of the note bond 556 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,520 with its legal decrease in demands, which was enforced and 557 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,960 stood against us. In essence we all have sinned 558 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:33,320 and fallen short of the glory of God. 559 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:40,600 We all deserved to be judged by the King himself, of which we 560 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:44,000 would be all be found guilty, and we would be rightly cast 561 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,120 into the lake of fire, which is the second death. 562 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,760 But he paid that price, got it out of the way, so that if we 563 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,360 would call on the name of the Lord that note, that certificate 564 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,080 that says paid in full could be applied to our lives. 565 00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,560 So he goes on and says this. This note with this regulation 566 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,600 decrees and demand. It is a legal note. 567 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:06,120 It is legal binding, spiritually speaking. 568 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:17,040 OK, for eternity forever OK. It says that this note of 569 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,800 regulated decrease in demand he set aside and cleared completely 570 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,640 out of the way by nailing it on the cross. 571 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:28,560 God disarmed the principalities and powers that were that were 572 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:33,360 ranged against him and made a bold display in public example 573 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:37,760 of them in triumphing over them in Him and in the cross. 574 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:42,600 So in essence, when Jesus conquered, when he went to the 575 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:44,320 grave, in essence he made a demand. 576 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:48,560 Give me the keys, because I'm innocent. 577 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,800 So he takes the keys, he leads, leads captivity, captive. 578 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,000 He goes to the Devil as he's going through the Heavens Realm 579 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,480 in order to take his blood to the mercy seat. 580 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:06,800 He then disarms in essence. You know, I don't know that term 581 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,200 is is too complicated for me to say, but the term is. 582 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:14,040 Is that it? He goes and he strips him of his 583 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:15,560 power. He says where you had power, now 584 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,080 I have power. Where you had power, I have 585 00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:18,760 power. And every place he had power, he 586 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,440 stripped him in the whole realm of the Spirit. 587 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,240 Because where are principalities at? 588 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,360 Not in hell. The Devil doesn't have his 589 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:35,520 headquarters in Hell. He's in heavenly places, but he 590 00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:39,440 stripped him of that. That means Michael knows. 591 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,720 Gabriel knows. All the heavenly hosts know the 592 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:46,520 ones that are singing around the Lord right now saying holy, 593 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:51,160 holy, holy is the Lord knows. The devil knows all of his 594 00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:55,440 principalities and powers and rulers and darkness and witness. 595 00:37:55,440 --> 00:38:03,080 They all know that they've been stripped of the right to be able 596 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:09,320 to maintain power over those that are like God. 597 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:15,280 They have no right. Which brings us to our context, 598 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:20,920 because why is Christians trying to go fight the devil? 599 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:27,160 You are never called to go pick a fight on the devil forever. 600 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,880 And when we see the scripture our battles not against we 601 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,000 wrestle not this word wrestles kind of cool because if you look 602 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,520 it up in the Greek it means 2 opponents that are going to in 603 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:41,240 essence wrestle to the point that one gets put to the mat 604 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:49,120 with the hand on their throat. In essence, Jesus took the devil 605 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:54,640 out, put his foot on his throat, and then when he ascended, he 606 00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,120 said church, just put your foot there. 607 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,480 Just put your foot there. Come on, just put your foot 608 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,440 there. Now you understand that is a 609 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:13,320 defeated, vanquished position. When Jesus goes up, he has given 610 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,000 you. When you get in Christ, then you 611 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:20,440 just put your foot right where his foot is and he's already in 612 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:24,720 essence, the battle's over when you when if you used to watch 613 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,760 wrestling. I did a long time ago, not 614 00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,360 today, because it's just way too out, even more so. 615 00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:33,400 But in essence, Jesus leaned over because you know it's the 616 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:40,000 tag team. He tags you in, you come and he 617 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:41,320 said go ahead and put your foot here. 618 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:48,520 Then he says I'm gone and he leaves the match because I want 619 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:52,200 you get a part of this and just stand there when you've done all 620 00:39:52,320 --> 00:40:01,000 the stand stand and we have immature believers saying I'm 621 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:06,680 going to take out the devil. You were never called to go pick 622 00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,600 a fight on the devil. We going to go pick a fight on 623 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:09,680 the devil. No, you're not. 624 00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:13,200 Because if you go pick a fight, that tells me you let him up. 625 00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,560 You've let him up, 'cause look what Jesus happens to say in 626 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,120 John 1714 and 15. It says this. 627 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,920 I have given them. He's talking to the Father, says 628 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,560 prayer before he said. Now Father, I have given them 629 00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:35,920 your people. You better love the word more 630 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,920 than anything. If you want explosive spiritual 631 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,240 life, you better. Love the word more than 632 00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:43,760 anything. Knows what he said. 633 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:47,200 I have given them. Your word, he said. 634 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:51,920 And the world has what hated them, because they are not. 635 00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,880 Of this world. Even as I am not of this world. 636 00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:56,560 Then he goes on and says this. Look what he says. 637 00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:58,920 I do not ask you to take them out of the world. 638 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,360 My goal is not for them to die and come to heaven. 639 00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:04,640 Although when they die, they'll come to heaven. 640 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:06,360 We'll be here for a little bit before we come back. 641 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,160 Because again, you got to read the back of the book to realize 642 00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,520 what's all really going on. And it's not just we win. 643 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,120 It's really bigger than that. You do win. 644 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,800 That's the simplicity. So much so that you don't 645 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,880 understand you're coming back and you're actually going to get 646 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:23,280 more. I don't do war. 647 00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:25,880 Yeah, you do, if you would. Jesus. 648 00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:28,800 Because Jesus coming back to take some people out. 649 00:41:29,240 --> 00:41:34,840 There's a special op going on. Read the book and there's blood. 650 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,240 Just say blood and you'll be all right By then. 651 00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:39,400 You'll be able to handle that stuff. 652 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:40,920 All that makes me. No, you won't be queasy. 653 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:42,440 You'll be a glorified body. You'll be good. 654 00:41:43,240 --> 00:41:46,400 It'll be all good. All right, but he said, I'm not 655 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:47,600 asking you to take them out of the world. 656 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:52,360 But what's he say? Keep them from the evil? 657 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,800 He's not saying, look, they're like me. 658 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,280 They got my word. Keep them in the world and go 659 00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,520 tell them to go beat up the devil anytime they want to like 660 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,240 I did. No, he says, keep them from it. 661 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:08,200 Don't get don't have them. Get engaged in strict combat 662 00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:10,800 'cause I did. That. 663 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,360 Just remind them, keep your foot on the neck. 664 00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,920 He says this again in Second Corinthians chapter 3, verses 665 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,480 one through three. He says This he says, Finally, 666 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:24,960 brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord will spread 667 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,560 rapidly, be glorified just as did also with you, and that we 668 00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,440 would be rescued from perverse and evil men. 669 00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:33,320 For not all have faith again. Evil, perverse and evil men are 670 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,600 those not flesh and blood, but this is principalities and 671 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,160 powers that they still are under because they're still in the 672 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,560 domain of darkness and they're stuck over there and so they're 673 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:46,720 still influenced by it and we can be what delivered from them. 674 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:50,920 Now there's a whole lot of way of being delivered and most of 675 00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:56,840 us go at about it the wrong way. But I'll and I'll say a couple 676 00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,040 things about that verse four though he said, but the Lord is 677 00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:01,080 faithful and He will strengthen and protect you. 678 00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:06,960 What from the Evil 1 cause At the end of the day he said that 679 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,960 we are to occupy. To occupy means stay in the 680 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:14,120 position I left you in, he says. It's in Ephesians chapter 4, 681 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,640 verse 27. This is the King James Version. 682 00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,840 I'm going to read you some more, he said Not neither. 683 00:43:19,240 --> 00:43:24,440 Give place to the devil, the amplify says. 684 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:28,480 Do not give the devil an opportunity to lead you into sin 685 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:32,200 by holding a grudge or nurturing anger or harboring resentment or 686 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:36,640 cultivating bitterness. It one translation says Leave no 687 00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:40,320 such room or foothold for the devil. 688 00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:44,920 Give no opportunity to him, Don't let him off the mat. 689 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,240 Are you hearing me? One says. 690 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,480 Don't give the opportunity to the devil. 691 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:56,600 The passion says don't let the slanderous accuser the devil and 692 00:43:56,600 --> 00:44:04,440 opportunity to manipulate you. Now here's where people fail. 693 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:09,120 We already have been positioned with our foot on the neck. 694 00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:14,880 We don't wrestle with flesh and blood because we are the victor 695 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:19,920 and the devil is under our. Feet, right. 696 00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:25,320 That's where we're at. And as long as we do not allow 697 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:33,080 those that are still in his domain and the words that they 698 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,600 still use of because he's talking from down there to them 699 00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,040 and he's using them to try to get you to do this. 700 00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:46,000 Because this is what happens when you start going, oh, you 701 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:52,600 want some of this, You let him up. 702 00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:56,160 Flesh and blood becomes distraction. 703 00:44:56,160 --> 00:45:02,400 Now let me tell you the same people that are violent in 704 00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:09,880 Jesus's time are violent in this time, and I can't tell you how 705 00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,200 many believers it's just. Pathetic. 706 00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,000 Say it with me. Pathetic. 707 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,160 Say it with disdain. In your facial expression. 708 00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:21,800 Pathetic. Come on, dude. 709 00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:23,480 Y'all smiling. Pathetic, that is. 710 00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:27,360 That's pathetic. Pathetic, right? 711 00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:37,160 It's pathetic that Christians are attacking Christians. 712 00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:44,920 Don't you know that Jesus is like I know who will try to kill 713 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:52,240 you? It's religious individuals that 714 00:45:52,240 --> 00:45:57,760 love their definition of me instead of the definition you're 715 00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,000 telling them of being rightly divided. 716 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:05,880 So I realize the first people I am not going to get into a match 717 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:13,960 with is a person who says they know the word, they're mature, 718 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:19,040 they've done all these exploits, but yet I don't see any fruit. 719 00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:26,640 Come on, that's good. And as a result of that, if I 720 00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:32,880 come and attack, then I am setting that person up to want 721 00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:41,360 to kill me and I'm not tasked for them to kill me. 722 00:46:42,720 --> 00:46:45,800 I'm tasked to live at peace with all men as far as I can. 723 00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:52,120 More believers are taking time to fight with other perceived 724 00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:59,360 believers instead of just going out into all the world because 725 00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:01,400 at the end of the day. I remember one time, Pastor 726 00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:04,080 Marcus, remember this, stand up. Y'all so y'all know who Pastor 727 00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:08,120 Marcus is, In case nobody knows, so Pastor Marcus and I. 728 00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,000 You know? And Marlene, where are you? 729 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:11,680 You're in the room because you know, you were part of this. 730 00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,000 Stand up. So, Marlene, it wasn't her 731 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,240 fault, OK? It wasn't her fault. 732 00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:21,360 So let me preface that. And it wasn't even her good 733 00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:26,320 friend's fault, but it was her good friend's boyfriend. 734 00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:30,000 Was the issue. So in the good intentions you 735 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,400 can be seated. My mother-in-law invited me and 736 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,000 my wife and Marcus was with me over to the house because she 737 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:41,400 had a friend who had a boyfriend that loved God and he. 738 00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:45,160 Was kind of the rebel in the Baptist Church. 739 00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:49,040 Because he believed. In the gifts of the Spirit. 740 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:56,360 So I walked into the house, right? 741 00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:59,200 I walked into the house and I walked in the house. 742 00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,560 The guy was sitting on like a a stool. 743 00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,320 And he goes, whoo, I felt the anointing when you came in. 744 00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:15,960 Yeah, yeah, man. If you talk like that, you need 745 00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:16,560 to. Stop. 746 00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:22,840 Please stop. Please, please stop. 747 00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:26,360 Whoo. I feel the anointing. 748 00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:30,000 I'm like, OK, you know, because I mean, that's already for me. 749 00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:32,520 The red flag. Why? 750 00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:34,520 I already know it's a red flag. Because you don't have to feel 751 00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:36,320 the anointing. All my life I am anointed 752 00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,640 because we're all anointed. Period. 753 00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,080 Anyway, so we engage pleasantries. 754 00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:48,400 And so, you know, obviously at that point he's, you know, his 755 00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:50,960 zeal about the gifts. You know, OK, I'm around 756 00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:52,640 somebody else who believes like me. 757 00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,160 So like he goes through this whole deal, you know, and he was 758 00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,640 talking about it and obviously he was equating tongues only 759 00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:01,040 with the gifts. And that's the only time you can 760 00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:02,920 speak in tongues. And I perceive. 761 00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:06,120 So I listen to it and that's cool. 762 00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,920 I said, you know, So then I just started to generally talk about 763 00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:10,120 the. Baptism of the Holy Ghost, 764 00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:14,080 whatever is speaking in tongues, you know, And I started to see a 765 00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:18,560 roadblock, you know, we're Locking up now. 766 00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,280 He was talking about my anointing. 767 00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:23,160 I mean, literally. Man, you're so annoying. 768 00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:24,600 Whoo. You know, I happen to hear a 769 00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:26,840 couple of your messages. So I mean, I mean just bragged 770 00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:28,440 about the anointing in my life. Bro. 771 00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:34,600 OK, so at that point, then we start talking. 772 00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:37,080 He says, And I said, so. I said, OK. 773 00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:38,800 I said, well, where's your Bible? 774 00:49:39,720 --> 00:49:42,120 So he pulls his Bible out. So I take him over to John. 775 00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:43,920 You know where Jesus breathed in them. 776 00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:45,440 I said, did they receive the Holy Ghost? 777 00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,400 Yeah. Did they get it all? 778 00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,720 They got it all. I said I believe that too. 779 00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:53,800 Yeah, pulled him over to Acts chapter one and then where he 780 00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:58,280 says the Holy Ghost going to come and he was like, so he 781 00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,200 starts flipping back and forth, right. 782 00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:04,360 So then he goes down to his commentary because he had a 783 00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:07,360 commentary by someone who doesn't believe in the baptism 784 00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:09,280 of the Holy Ghost. What evidence is speaking in 785 00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:11,840 tongues? See, the guy believed you could 786 00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:16,640 have tongues as a gift to the Spirit only, but that we 787 00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:20,520 couldn't be in do with power because he really didn't know 788 00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:24,760 the Bible, which really wasn't even functioning in the gifts. 789 00:50:25,720 --> 00:50:30,160 He was like Simon the sorcerer who wanted gifts to be 790 00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:32,120 functioning so he could seem anointed. 791 00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:34,440 That's why he called me so anointed, because he only wanted 792 00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,440 me to reciprocate the conversation. 793 00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,000 So then he starts. I said no, no, no, no, no. 794 00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:45,760 Stay with the Bible. Yeah. 795 00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:47,920 I said, I said OK. I said all you're doing is 796 00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:49,960 you're telling me this, and I'm not going to tell you the person 797 00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:54,200 is because they are well known. I said you're telling all you're 798 00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:56,040 doing is you're given the interpretation of a man. 799 00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:58,360 I want to stay with Scripture. What does the Scripture say? 800 00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:04,760 All right, so we we, we conversing now because again, 801 00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:06,680 you I was anointed. You love my preaching. 802 00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,240 I mean, I I thought we were on the same wavelength. 803 00:51:09,240 --> 00:51:11,480 I mean, I'm here for us to be edified together. 804 00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:17,040 And I kept him there. I said, I said, so basically 805 00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,600 you're going to take that man's interpretation over what I'm 806 00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:22,080 saying, but I'm just looking at scripture and I'm not trying to 807 00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:23,760 fill in a bunch of stuff that's not there. 808 00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,200 He said, man to you, he goes that, he goes, that's all 809 00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:30,880 that's, that's false doctrine. And now I'm confused because I 810 00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:32,360 was anointed when I came in the room. 811 00:51:38,780 --> 00:51:49,680 Now I know I'm right, but. I don't want this guy trying to 812 00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:51,560 kill the ministry before I get started. 813 00:51:53,240 --> 00:51:55,280 I don't want him running around town doing everything he can to 814 00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:59,320 try to destroy this church because I know. 815 00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:03,720 So I said hold on, Do you believe that Jesus Christ died 816 00:52:03,720 --> 00:52:06,360 on the cross and rose from the grave and that through him and 817 00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:07,920 only through him, you can be saved? 818 00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:10,640 He said yes. I said so do I, Let's just stay 819 00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:12,360 there. And that was it. 820 00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:15,880 I left it peaceful because at the end of the day, there's 821 00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:17,800 really no reason for me to have this conversation. 822 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,920 Pastor, why don't you do more with pastors in the community? 823 00:52:35,330 --> 00:52:37,290 Because it's not county commissioners trying to shut me 824 00:52:37,290 --> 00:52:44,570 down. And we tend to think we have 825 00:52:44,570 --> 00:52:49,290 this duty to make sure believers. 826 00:52:49,530 --> 00:52:53,290 Know the word rightly divided like us, to the point that we 827 00:52:53,290 --> 00:52:57,720 incite them to violence. If you know that they're not 828 00:52:57,720 --> 00:53:02,680 receiving, walk away because it's not your fight. 829 00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:08,680 It's not your fight. We have more pertinent things to 830 00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:13,240 do and there are other people who are going to be more open to 831 00:53:13,240 --> 00:53:17,560 here, and at the end of the day, it's up to them to decide 832 00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:21,640 whether they want to come or not at the end of the day. 833 00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:26,680 So there's no reason for me to go out and try to pick a fight 834 00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:28,600 with the devil. I don't have to. 835 00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:32,120 He's already a defeated foe. I've been standing victorious 836 00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:35,800 the day I found out who I was in Christ and kept my foot here. 837 00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:40,280 And then when people came at words from other realms, I never 838 00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:43,360 took it as them. And right now in our political 839 00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:46,680 realm, there are a lot of Christians that are being 840 00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:53,640 seduced into conservativism because they're equating. 841 00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:55,640 If you're a conservative, you must be a Christian. 842 00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,440 Just because there's some ideals that are the same, they are not 843 00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:03,920 the same. There was one particular person 844 00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,800 I saw that is known as a believer, talks about God and 845 00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:09,280 all stuff, but then was talking about a situation is like, if 846 00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:10,640 that was there, I would kill them. 847 00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:14,720 I and I'm like, what are they saying? 848 00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:25,440 You know how many believers are stuck in the podcast box and are 849 00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:32,320 infuriated with things going on? Do you think you're more mad 850 00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:36,640 about pedophiles than? Jesus do. 851 00:54:41,820 --> 00:54:47,580 You think you want justice more than him, But if we're going to 852 00:54:47,580 --> 00:54:50,980 win, we can't go after and say these people are going to burn 853 00:54:50,980 --> 00:54:56,120 in hell and they OK, Yeah, people that do behavior that's 854 00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:57,240 against the Kingdom are going up. 855 00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,160 Why you got to broadcast? That. 856 00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:05,720 In essence, every time you engage in that kind of activity 857 00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:15,040 and you let him get up every time. 858 00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:20,240 Now that doesn't mean we don't say defend, but if you let God 859 00:55:20,240 --> 00:55:25,680 do it, he'll open the doors because I don't have to force my 860 00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:35,470 way anywhere. I'm LED everywhere and we are 861 00:55:35,470 --> 00:55:39,350 attacking things instead of saying, you know, people are 862 00:55:39,350 --> 00:55:43,310 going to do. Stuff the end of the day and. 863 00:55:44,870 --> 00:55:52,150 You understand Paul's letters were not to the lost, they were 864 00:55:52,150 --> 00:55:56,950 to the church, but they were to the congregations he started. 865 00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:01,880 Now ultimately, As for the church, I get that. 866 00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:07,440 But again, if someone doesn't want to receive 'cause even Paul 867 00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:12,240 said send the letters to Laodicea, but then God says to 868 00:56:12,240 --> 00:56:16,600 John, well, the church at Laodicea, they're not listening 869 00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:22,760 to the writings of Paul and I have a problem with them bad. 870 00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:26,200 Is that what God wanted? No. 871 00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:28,320 In fact, when one of the churches he said they got the 872 00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:30,920 spirit of Jezebel, I even gave her time to repent, which means 873 00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:34,120 they let him, God himself let her stand the church. 874 00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:39,520 I can't believe they let people in like. 875 00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:45,200 That well, there's a time to repent, but if they don't like 876 00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:47,600 with that church, he says. I gave her time to repent, she 877 00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:48,920 didn't. So I'm going to deal with it, 878 00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:52,280 which means some people could be around and it seemed like, whoa, 879 00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:53,720 no problem. But you know, there's been 880 00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:55,720 plenty of time of repentance. They didn't do it. 881 00:56:55,720 --> 00:57:00,320 We're going to deal with it. And when I deal with it, then, 882 00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:05,040 then guess what, I'm dealing with it in the steps of God and 883 00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:09,040 the plan of God. Which means then if I say you 884 00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:15,560 can't be here anymore. Then I have the full force of 885 00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:18,480 the Kingdom with the net, my foot on the neck of of the 886 00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:21,600 enemy, and I'm not going to have them come and try to destroy 887 00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:24,280 this Ministry. But if it's. 888 00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,680 Just I'm right and you're wrong. And I'm going to attack you. 889 00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:28,760 And I can't believe you did this. 890 00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:30,160 And I'm going to let you know that I'm right. 891 00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:35,320 Well, then you know what? I open up situations that never 892 00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:39,280 needed to be opened up. Because really, it's my pride to 893 00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:43,800 want to make sure you know that I know when there's plenty of 894 00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:46,480 times that I can say, well, praise the Lord, bless you. 895 00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:50,160 So how can you do that? Well, Jesus said bless your 896 00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:51,880 enemies. He didn't say kill them all. 897 00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:58,160 See. Because again, our battle's not 898 00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:02,040 against flesh and blood. There may be someone that 899 00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:05,320 they're in sin, they're off they ain't doing right nothing about 900 00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:06,320 it. And the Lord's like, they ask 901 00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:07,440 for your coat, give them your cloak. 902 00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:09,920 They're taking asking you go one, might give them two. 903 00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:17,160 You say don't curse your enemy, bless them. 904 00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:20,480 I don't understand. How can you support that? 905 00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:26,600 I'm just following the Holy Ghost 'cause my foot is on the 906 00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:31,400 neck of the devil, and my battle's not against flesh and 907 00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:34,000 blood, but against principalities and powers. 908 00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:36,840 And if I really want something to function there, then if I 909 00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:39,560 function the way God does, then God gets involved. 910 00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:44,640 And I would much rather God get involved and vindicate than me, 911 00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:50,600 vindicate me. And in these last days, there's 912 00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:56,760 going to be a lot of opportunity for us to be mad at faces. 913 00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:06,400 If you get around someone and you can't hardly stand it, this 914 00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:12,640 is what you're doing. Starting to pick your foot up. 915 00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:17,720 You need to say, Lord, forgive me, I bless them. 916 00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,520 It ain't about what they deserve because I'm going to keep my 917 00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:28,120 heart, right? Because you did the fight, you 918 00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:34,080 came down and you picked on the devil and you tricked him. 919 00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:39,800 Because if he hadn't known what he was doing when he had you 920 00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:43,560 killed, he never. He just said don't touch the 921 00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:49,840 guy, leave him alone, don't touch him, let him live forever, 922 00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:55,280 period. But he didn't. 923 00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:59,640 And we have vanquished our enemy. 924 00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:06,720 Amen. Thank you so much for listening 925 01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:09,160 to this message. 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