WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:07.679 All right, praise the Lord. They're not exaggerating. Uh in you're going 2 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:16.359 to but guess what, they don't have property taxes. Yeah, so maybe 3 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:21.679 I could put up with a pothole or two. I don't know. Maybe 4 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:27.039 I don't know, but yeah, some of those drives are pretty crazy. 5 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:32.359 Bless them, Bless them, Bless them, and shower goodness on the amen 6 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:37.479 sought. Are we thank you for your word today and just see overflow of 7 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:44.000 holy spirit upon us and the way you help us. And it's the illumination 8 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:51.079 of your word to us and over us and then threw us in Jesus' name, 9 00:00:51.119 --> 00:01:04.680 everybody said on week two of the Avengers, and this is all about 10 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:11.719 preparing the way of the Lord. Right. So, and I think somewhat 11 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:18.159 in mind that we don't maybe we need to realize, I want to say 12 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:22.120 it that way. We need to realize. And part of what I feel 13 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:29.159 like is important for me to deposit is just how important it is to to 14 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:33.599 get the garden ready, for the garden to be shifted right, for thee 15 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:38.480 to get the garden ready. So not just my garden, but I'm talking 16 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:45.200 about you know, the cultural garden. Right. So a lot of times 17 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:52.920 what happens to prepare the way for the Lord. The Lord is the living 18 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:57.760 Word. To prepare the way for the word of the Lord, the presence 19 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:00.439 of the Lord, the truth of the Lord, the ministry of the Lord, 20 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:06.879 the wisdom from above. There needs to be a shift that takes place 21 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:12.120 that gets the garden ready. Anybody got in a garden at home, garden 22 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:17.400 box you ever had, you never had a garden of any kind. So 23 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:23.560 therefore today I'm kind of talking a little bit more about the spirit of the 24 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:34.319 avenger. That Jesus came not to be avenged on mankind. Jesus came as 25 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:46.199 Father's avengement on the enemy who had taken mankind captive, and that Father's animosity, 26 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:53.719 in Father's ultimate expression, is not with us. It's not with mankind. 27 00:02:54.360 --> 00:03:05.240 It's with the demonic realm that is and has been holding mankind in captivity 28 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:20.319 and reeking harm in mankind. Yes, so just thinking like this week we 29 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:24.080 had we had some movement this week if you were aware, if you were 30 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:29.439 watching the news, we had some movement this week kind of interesting in the 31 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:36.479 Ivy League schools where you watching some of that, and so we had some 32 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:44.039 some uncleanness come out into the open right before Congress, remember that, And 33 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:53.759 interestingly enough it was exposed. But interestingly enough it was emboldened, right. 34 00:03:53.479 --> 00:04:00.680 So it was emboldened at Harvard, So it was emboldened at these Ivy schools, 35 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:10.639 and it was unapologetically spoken of. Right. But maybe we saw a 36 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:13.919 little bit of a movement there, like all at once. Now we see 37 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:21.839 presidents of universities either fired or resigning, and we're seeing millions, maybe hundreds 38 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:30.399 of millions of dollars of funding removed, as this unclean agenda has been exposed, 39 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:34.079 and there's a lot of unclean stuff tied to it, right, And 40 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:39.199 what I want to present to you was that this week, what you saw 41 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:46.120 happen was actually the result of spiritual warfare, not just wisdom and truth. 42 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:57.879 What you saw this week was the result of hundreds of thousands of Christians praying 43 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:06.279 and making proclamations against the enemy and against see Harvard, Princeton, Yale. 44 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:15.040 These were biblical schools, These started as Bible institutions. These were the foundation 45 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:18.720 of our nation. These Ivy League schools were the foundational schools of our nation. 46 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:29.480 And some of our greatest theologians were actually presidents of those schools. So 47 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:36.120 This is a reclaiming of ground that belonged to God. So it's not over 48 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:39.680 ya, But I just want you to see. What I want you to 49 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:43.920 see is that. And even dating back, you know, six months ago 50 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:47.000 with Roe v. Wade, Roe v. Wade was overturned on a national 51 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:51.399 level, it was turned over to the States. And I want you to 52 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:59.240 see, even dating back to that, that was it wasn't just the culmination 53 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:06.519 of wisdom and truth. It was the culmination of years since nineteen seventy three 54 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:16.680 of Christians praying and actually bringing down a deity by the name of Mullik. 55 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:24.839 So a deity was bound up and brought down, and it manifested in various 56 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:28.160 ways. And there's always a fullness of time thing that has to happen. 57 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:35.879 So the fullness of time means that the words spoken and that the rebuke and 58 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:46.519 the command and the authority of the believers has to rise to a level of 59 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:54.079 maturity to where it brings things to pass, where judges are removed and judges 60 00:06:54.199 --> 00:07:00.439 are placed in, and mindsets are changed, and leadership has changed. Truth 61 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:03.480 begins to make an impact and people begin to hear truth and things begin to 62 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:06.079 shift. And then this one begins to shift. That begins to shift, 63 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:10.879 and the next thing, you know, then we have a decision. But 64 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:15.600 the decision underneath, and the backdrop of that is a lot of prayer, 65 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:18.879 a lot of warfare, a lot of rebuke, a lot of truth, 66 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:27.800 a lot of a lot of compassion, a lot of wise ministry, a 67 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:30.480 lot of there's a lot of stuff behind the scenes happening, and then all 68 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:36.480 once we have something that takes place, but it's the result of a lot 69 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:44.000 of background, and a lot of that background the most I mean where it 70 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:49.279 begins as we make room for the Lord, as we prepare for his coming, 71 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:54.279 as we prepare for his influence, as we prepare for his glory, 72 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:57.959 as we prepare for his presence. A lot of it starts, as we 73 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:03.959 mentioned last week, in the realm of warfare. It starts in the realm 74 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:15.680 of us confronting the enemy. And we're kind of, you know, even 75 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:24.079 as much as New Horizon has spoken on this kind of thing, we even 76 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:33.600 we hear as a people, we tend to be warfare adverse. What I 77 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:37.279 mean by that is, we don't necessarily see it as super important. We 78 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:41.799 don't see it as as connected to the main thing We don't see it as 79 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:46.919 daily important. We don't see it as something that really will move things forward. 80 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.320 We don't really see it as maybe a source of a victory or an 81 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:58.399 answer. But you'd never plant a garden full of weeds. You'd never plant 82 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:01.080 a garden full of weeds. And there's you know, there's biblical truth here. 83 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:03.879 Not only would you not plant a garden full of weeds, but you 84 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:09.960 also you were taught mom Tatsya that when you pull the weed, you don't 85 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:16.600 want to break the weed and just get the manifestation. Don't break the weed 86 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:20.840 and get the manifestation, get the dirt, kind of loosen up a little 87 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:24.480 bit, and get the root, because if you don't get the root, 88 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:31.440 it may come back. And this is all biblical. This is all biblical. 89 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:35.240 This is these are biblical metaphors. This is God helping us to see 90 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:43.639 that the fruit of a thing has something behind that there's always something deeper behind 91 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:48.320 what is seen. And even in our own lives, we don't want to 92 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:54.679 just work on the fruit of what's troubling us or what we're addicted to or 93 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:58.559 drawn to, or what we've made an idol of, or what we used 94 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:03.879 to do or what seems to speak condemning thoughts over us or what fears torment 95 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:07.840 us. We don't want to just work on the fruit of that. We 96 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:16.320 want to go to the root of that, right And you know, so 97 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:20.320 this is you know, this is all I just I want to stir you 98 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:24.879 up a little bit more about kind of how important this is, because like 99 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:28.320 like we saw and it was really brought to our attention this week, our 100 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:35.440 schools and universities have been taken over by the demonic realm. Our government to 101 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.320 a degree, all all three bodies of leadership in the government have been taken 102 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:46.240 over by the demonic realm to a large degree. Our media has been taken 103 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:50.559 over by the demonic realm. Be it our movies. We pump out more 104 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:58.720 porn. United States of America pumps out more porn than any nation in the 105 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:07.519 world. We are perverting and spreading the Goddess of Ishtar. It's a spiritual 106 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:13.639 deity, It's a true spiritual deity. We are spreading the hortoms of pornography 107 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:20.440 and prostitution and uncleanness across the globe like like no place ELPs, like nobody 108 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:26.639 is. And so you know, what do we do about? What do 109 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:33.360 we do about some of this stuff, right, our education system. I 110 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:37.000 mentioned that our schools, you know, I mean, so we could just 111 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:43.919 sports sports are messed up? Right? How many how many men won women's 112 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:50.600 competitions this week? Hello? Somebody? Right? I mean, it's just 113 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:56.879 it's crazy stuff. But we're not hopeless in this stuff. We're not hopeless 114 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:03.279 in this stuff. If and as we focus not just on the fruit, 115 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:11.799 but as we focus on the route, we realize that Ephesian six ten through 116 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:15.600 eighteen is true, right, and let's read it. Let's dive into a 117 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:26.960 few verses here. Yeah, I think it's interesting as well. I'll just 118 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:31.000 I'll mention this. I think, you know, spirits, the unclean realm 119 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:35.960 is so emboldened right now and out in full manifestation that I don't know if 120 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:41.679 we have to be super discerning. I joked with you last week a little 121 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:46.279 bit, and I joked after the sermon mark four, mark five. You 122 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:52.840 know, it's where Jesus is found to be crossing over in a boat to 123 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:56.679 the other side of the lake, and when he gets there, there's a 124 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:01.679 naked guy with a couple of chains hanging on him running around the beach streaming. 125 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:11.519 And we could be amazed that Jesus immediately starts rebuking the demonic realm and 126 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:16.159 telling the demonic realm to leave him alone. We could be amazed at that, 127 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:18.600 but maybe we don't need to be. And I don't mean that in 128 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:28.120 a dishonoring way, but I think it's a little obvious, right. I 129 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:30.799 mean, you pull up to a spot and somebody with some chains and they're 130 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:35.480 naked is running around streaming. Are they normal? Is normal? Here? 131 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:41.159 Yeah? I mean you don't need a goosebump from the Holy Spirit, you 132 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:43.320 don't need a breakthrough, you don't need a prayer meeting, you don't need 133 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:48.559 to feel led. It's fairly obvious. This person is demonized, this person 134 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:56.440 is harmed and taken captive by something, and you are fully able to bring 135 00:13:56.480 --> 00:14:03.440 help to them. And I think that it's kind of that way right now 136 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:09.600 in culture. And for us to not be moved, and for us to 137 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:13.159 not move, we're gonna have to have some mighty hearty blinders on, right. 138 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:20.720 I mean, we're gonna because opportunity is everywhere for us to be engaged 139 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:31.240 in setting atmospheres free. Yeah. Ephesian six' ten through eighteen. And 140 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:35.639 I feel like it's so important to say this that if you have been a 141 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:41.879 Christian five minutes or you've been a Christian five hundred years, you're okay. 142 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.399 This is okay for you. Like if you know how to get angry or 143 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:50.600 frustrated, and if you can discern if a dog's chasing you and barking and 144 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:54.960 you'd like to rebuke it, you can discern what the enemy is. And 145 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:01.279 not only that, not only can you discern the enemy, but your rebuke 146 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:07.159 five minutes into the Lord is just as powerful as my rebuke sixty years into 147 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:11.720 the Lord. Right, I mean, your rebuke is just as powerful. 148 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:16.279 So don't let anything get on you, as I talked this morning, that 149 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:20.240 would disqualify you, that would quinch you, that would tell you that you 150 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:24.840 weren't capable or able, or that you weren't because all of our I'm going 151 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:26.919 to read it at the moment, all of our strength and all of our 152 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:33.600 authority and everything is in the Lord. It's all in the Lord. It's 153 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:37.919 all in the Lord. But yet still we're called to rise up into it. 154 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:43.039 And like you would be angry at a German shepherd chasing you or anything 155 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:48.360 you know, nipping at you, we're called to be angry over what the 156 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:54.919 enemy's doing to people and to our culture and to our institutions. And we're 157 00:15:54.960 --> 00:16:00.639 called to say no more, and get out of my schools, and get 158 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:03.559 out of my government, and get out of my community, and get out 159 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:08.279 of my family, and get off of my friends and leave them alone no 160 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:15.679 more. And there needs to be a little righteous indignation that we allow to 161 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:19.600 come up in us and wake us up right. It's like we need a 162 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:26.480 shot of spiritual adrenaline, and it's available if we will just realize that this 163 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:32.240 is our place, that we really are the avengers of God. We are 164 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:37.759 who he's using by the Holy Spirit to confront darkness and to see it overturned, 165 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:41.360 and not just confront the fruit of darkness, because that can be futile, 166 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:45.759 but to confront the root of darkness as we bring wisdom and truth to 167 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:52.720 the fruit of darkness. And then it brings a shift. Ephesian six tens 168 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:56.679 through eighteen. Finally, and so he's ending he's written a big old letter 169 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:02.360 to the Ephesus Church. That's why he says finally, by the way, 170 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:06.920 because this is a six chapter long letter, Finally, be strong in the 171 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:10.839 Lord and in the power of his might, in his mighty power. Put 172 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:12.519 on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to take 173 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:17.640 your stand against the devil's schemes. You notice, so that you will be 174 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:25.359 able to take your stand against the devil's schemes. And notice the inference is 175 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:33.480 this is an ongoing stance like we never aren't. That's not good English, 176 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:41.240 but we we never aren't to take a stance against the enemy's schemes. This 177 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:47.880 is an aggressive stance. This is an offensive stance. This is what you 178 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:52.400 are empowered for. This is what you are enabled for. And it doesn't 179 00:17:52.519 --> 00:18:00.599 you know whatever you've been taught in religion. Welcome to new horizon. We're 180 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:06.720 going to help you grow and understand that your victories are completely married to your 181 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:17.640 aggression. Your victories are completely married to your aggression. And many believers do 182 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:22.079 not have heaven coming in their lives, and they aren't seeing victories in their 183 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:26.960 own personal lives or their family, or their personal space or the areas where 184 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:40.960 they have influence geographically or revelationally because they aren't taking and aggressive stance, but 185 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:45.319 on the full armor of God. So you can take your stand against the 186 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:48.440 devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against 187 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:55.480 the rulers, against the authorities. And he kind of said that because you 188 00:18:55.480 --> 00:19:02.039 know, you have to understand the shift right now. The shift is that 189 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:07.920 in the Old Testament, they didn't deal with the demonic realm, and they 190 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:17.759 weren't enabled to deal with the demonic realm. The demonic realm was animating the 191 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:25.240 people, around the Israeli people, around the Jewish people, and so all 192 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:29.720 of these nations are led and animated by the demonic realm. But they didn't 193 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:34.200 approach, nor did they have the power, the authority, the righteousness, 194 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:41.440 or the discernment to approach those nations to deliver those nations from that which was 195 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:49.680 unclean. But when Jesus triumphed over Satan and sent the Holy Spirit to live 196 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:56.319 in us, the warfare shifted from against people and tribes and tongues. It 197 00:19:56.440 --> 00:20:03.200 shifted from against the people to against the demons that moved in the people and 198 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:08.240 animated the people. So we're no longer called the fight. People were called 199 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:12.559 to fight the demonic realm that moves the people. And that's part of why 200 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:18.200 Paul is making this argument super clear, is that he's talking to people that 201 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:26.839 would understand the history, and they would understand where they once came from, 202 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:33.759 and they would understand the warfare that was common between tribes or people. But 203 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:38.240 now there's a shift, and he says, your warfare is not with flesh 204 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:41.799 and blood. It's no longer with flesh and blood from now on, because 205 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:49.039 your spirit empowered, your spirit discerning, your spirit has the authority of Jesus. 206 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:55.759 Now your warfare shifts to confront the spirit realm. You go after the 207 00:20:55.880 --> 00:21:02.319 root of a thing, not the fruit of a thing, the root of 208 00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:06.279 a thing. And I should say it like, not just the fruit of 209 00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:11.279 the thing, because we also approach the fruit of the unclean realm with wisdom 210 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:18.000 and truth. We're showing up with wisdom and truth, but we're also engaged 211 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:26.119 in the spiritual battle. That makes sense. Jumping down a little bit further 212 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:29.799 in this passage, take up the shield of faith verse sixteen, with which 213 00:21:29.799 --> 00:21:33.240 you can extinguish the eros of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation 214 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:37.319 and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, the 215 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:41.839 sword of the Spirit. We have offensive weapons. And part of what I 216 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:47.000 wanted to get to you today was just how important it is that we are 217 00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:55.200 addressing the demonic realm as a part of our It's really a part of your 218 00:21:55.200 --> 00:22:06.319 prayer life. You'll notice in Matthew sixteen nineteen he gives us the keys to 219 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:10.440 the Kingdom of Heaven. If you want to put it up, you can. 220 00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:18.440 He gives us the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven to bind and to 221 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:23.960 loose. And like, what I want you to see is that this is 222 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:30.440 not like, oh yeah, the enemy came against me on Friday, so 223 00:22:30.519 --> 00:22:41.200 I needed to do some binding. Oh yeah, this was going on somebody 224 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:45.599 and our family got sick on Monday, so I needed to do some binding. 225 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:52.400 So that's that isn't the inference. The inference isn't that we engage in 226 00:22:52.599 --> 00:23:03.160 binding the demonic realm when the demonic realm attacks us. That isn't the inference. 227 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:11.160 The inference is that we are confronting, we are binding, we are 228 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:21.200 going after, we are naming the demonic realm every single day, every single 229 00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:25.680 day, every single day, every single day. And fact is, I 230 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:30.000 would guess that the reason you were bothered on Thursday over something is because you 231 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:37.480 had not been doing something Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and so Thursday came 232 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:42.720 and because you hadn't been confronting something and you hadn't been just combined as a 233 00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:48.279 part of your prayer. It's really a natural part of your prayer. It's 234 00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:52.279 a natural part of the Lord's prayer. Give us this day our daily bread. 235 00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:56.640 Oh that means I'm praying every day. That means I'm engaged in prayer 236 00:23:56.720 --> 00:24:00.559 every day. Give us this day our daily bread. Lead us not into 237 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:10.559 temptation, deliver us from evil. Prayers with regard to darkness, evil, 238 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:18.240 the influence of the enemy. This is like common stuff, and it's really 239 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:22.839 a part of our daily expression before the Lord. And it doesn't mean, 240 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:33.759 it doesn't mean that you are bad, sinful, lowly a low life week 241 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:48.079 of faith if you're engaged in confronting the demonic realm. And this is actually, 242 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:55.720 you know, thinking about the demonic realm, How do we keep demons 243 00:24:55.759 --> 00:25:00.920 bound? Is it a one and done many for you? It was the 244 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:06.720 one and done. Hasn't been that way for me. The spirit realm is 245 00:25:06.839 --> 00:25:11.559 very fluid, and we don't even know exactly where demons go. What we 246 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:17.480 know is in Matthew twelve, Jesus said, when a spirit goes, he 247 00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:25.640 says, first, you can't plunder you can't plunder a house and therefore reap 248 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:32.400 what the enemy's been building up. You can't reap what the enemy's been building 249 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:37.119 up unless you bind the strong man. So you have to bind the strong 250 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:41.480 man before you can reap. And this is the picture of this was in 251 00:25:41.559 --> 00:25:51.240 the Old Testament in a very physical way. A very microphone's acting up in 252 00:25:51.319 --> 00:25:55.880 a very it usually means that we have a frequency problem. Could be an 253 00:25:55.920 --> 00:26:04.880 ambulance going by or an angel flying fast. I don't know that you think 254 00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:30.920 it's batteries, really, okay, So with Israel, this was a very 255 00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:37.279 very a very clear, vivid picture that when they went into the Promised Land, 256 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:42.480 they were going against these seven unclean nations, and these nations were filled 257 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:48.200 with idolatry, and they were demonized nations, and they were to drive them 258 00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:53.240 out. And it's a picture of now what we do in the spirit realm, 259 00:26:53.799 --> 00:27:02.000 in the New Testament life is where to drive the enemy out. And 260 00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:07.039 whatever we don't drive out becomes a problem. Whatever we don't confront becomes a 261 00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:12.680 bit of a problem. And so you know, even with us and this 262 00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:18.000 is this is you and me, we'll just make this us. This is 263 00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:22.440 my house. Uh, we need to make sure that we're getting the crowd 264 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:26.279 out of us right. And since we don't know where demons go, we 265 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:30.319 just know Jesus said Matthew twelve. They go to the dry places. That 266 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:37.279 means they go where there's no anointing and there's no word present, there's no 267 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:41.400 anointing and word present, there's no Holy Spirit present. That's where they go. 268 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:47.279 Those are called dry places. Dry places are where Holy Spirit is not 269 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:52.000 moving. But we don't know where they go exactly. We do know though, 270 00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:57.960 that they come back and they caught they could, they could. This 271 00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:03.079 was this was supposed to be a really big bold marker. That's why I 272 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:07.319 bought it. They could come back through things that are happening in culture, 273 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:15.200 right, So they could come back and bug us because we got exposed to 274 00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:22.079 something in culture where for sure, these spirits are working, be it Mullik, 275 00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:32.400 or be it Bael, or be it ishtar okay, And we could 276 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:37.440 just name a whole bunch of these whatever, and it could be that we 277 00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:48.680 know them by it could be that we know them by their characteristic pride. 278 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:57.599 So when we get around those influences, sometimes we're influenced or tested in something 279 00:28:57.960 --> 00:29:03.359 that we got free of So the big thing is that we're getting free, 280 00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:08.359 right, that's the big thing. But then also to recognize that we have 281 00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:19.160 the power to bring freedom to other influences, like the church. Did you 282 00:29:19.279 --> 00:29:25.640 know if you are at church, or you're around at church people, or 283 00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:30.440 you're with the church people and you sense fruit that is not good, you 284 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:38.039 can assume there's a root that's not good. We don't want to assume that 285 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:45.480 just because it's church there's no demonic influence. That's a bad assumption. Whatever 286 00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:52.559 is true on a micro level with me is also true on a macro level. 287 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:57.079 If it's true in government that there's unclean influence and it's going to be 288 00:29:57.119 --> 00:30:04.039 manifested in the fruit. If it's true in education that if there's unclean influence. 289 00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:21.559 Right, So this is where this is where, and it's become so 290 00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:29.799 obvious. We don't need a holy spirit download. You're a fruit inspector if 291 00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:44.200 you're discerning with just common discernment things that are not of God, the influence 292 00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:56.440 of pride or the love of money, or sensuality and sexual uncleanness or this 293 00:30:56.519 --> 00:30:59.880 one here, this is all about, you know, the sacrifice of children. 294 00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:11.519 Bael is represented by the bowl, which is now epitomized in our stock 295 00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:25.039 market, interconnected to an unclean spirit that brings prosperity and blessing. But most 296 00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:27.880 you know, most of this stuff, we just recognize it by the fruit, 297 00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:33.920 and we can conclude that by the fruit, there's a root system attached 298 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:41.519 to it. And having done that, the calling that every one of us 299 00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:47.200 have is to begin to confront it. If there's bad fruit in my family, 300 00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:52.240 I have the grace, the power of the anointing to begin to tell 301 00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:59.799 it to leave my family alone. That easy, you that's producing this fruit 302 00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:08.240 and my family, leave my family alone. And I'm telling you, that's 303 00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:12.839 how some of these battles are getting one right now. These battles are not 304 00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:15.440 getting one, be it on a national level, or a state level, 305 00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:22.039 or a community level. These battles are not getting one just because people are 306 00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:27.960 showing up with wisdom and truth. Because wisdom and truth can just perpetuate a 307 00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:31.759 great argument and a great conflict and a great fight. But when we show 308 00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:37.240 up first in the spirit realm and we begin to confront what's moving it, 309 00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:43.000 what's motivating it, what's driving it, and we begin to declare that that 310 00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:47.920 has to go, and that particular thing has to and wherever you have geographical 311 00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:54.160 influence, wherever you have geographical influence, and wherever you have a revelation, 312 00:32:55.480 --> 00:33:04.880 you have the authority to dismiss that presence and that darkness out of that thing. 313 00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:09.519 And this is going to make room for the Lord. I'm telling him. 314 00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:14.240 We're going to see things shift. We're going to see things change. 315 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:19.200 God's going to be moving, doors are going to be opened up, and 316 00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:22.559 we're going to see a greater opportunity for the work of the Gospel. Let's 317 00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:52.960 stand this morning. Who gets more victory is an offensive team or a defensive 318 00:33:53.000 --> 00:34:10.039 team? Ah, an offensive team is going to get more victories. I 319 00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:16.719 would bet that most of your victories came because you needed to be defensive. 320 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:25.360 But that should show you the power that you have and the power that you 321 00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:36.119 walk in. Now, I'm not saying that to make you feel bad or 322 00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:42.039 bring condemnation to anybody. Same with me. It's the same with me most 323 00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:50.760 all of the greatest victories I've had. You know, for for ten years, 324 00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:54.239 probably ten years, we you know, we labored to get a building 325 00:34:54.280 --> 00:35:02.079 here and fasting and prayer, raising money, working hard, winning souls. 326 00:35:04.840 --> 00:35:09.679 City Council meetings, you know, doing everything you could possibly imagine, but 327 00:35:09.719 --> 00:35:17.440 it seemed like everything it was against us. And so we're fasting and praying 328 00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:25.880 constantly, and you know, the church is struggling difficulties and ups and downs. 329 00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:35.119 Lots of resistance in the sphere realm no, lots of resistance in the 330 00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:40.159 spirit room, manifested by the fruit of our inability to build and get a 331 00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:45.639 building. And even after we bought the property here we bought the property, 332 00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:51.679 it's all sorts of you know, the neighbors uh tried to steal our land, 333 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:55.679 the city shut down our our permits to build, and all this stuff's 334 00:35:55.679 --> 00:36:01.760 going on. So I was friend one day and the Lord took me to 335 00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:15.679 this really weird obscure passage in Isaiah about cursing Bayel. And he said to 336 00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:17.000 me in prayer, it was like an audible. It was like I could 337 00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:21.000 it was the Holy Spirit, but it was so weird. I'm like, 338 00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:24.280 oh, okay, and it was. And he said, begin to proclaim 339 00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:30.079 this passage over the church that bell bay L, b aa L, that 340 00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:37.599 bay L, and there's another god in their name that's called Marduke. Obscure 341 00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:43.880 passage. Just begin to declare that these are bound and cast off of your 342 00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:50.360 church. Like, okay, all right, we'll go with that. So 343 00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:52.360 I shared it with you know, some of the folks that we're here, 344 00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:54.400 you know, in a part of the body, and so a few of 345 00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:58.920 us, you know, we started doing this just daily, every day, 346 00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:02.039 and we need to break through, right every day. We just started and 347 00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:08.000 then it was just became a part of a proclamation. And you know it 348 00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:17.159 wasn't, but I mean it was almost overnight we had breakthroughs all the ones. 349 00:37:17.199 --> 00:37:22.440 I get an email from the city and they'd had a string of mayors 350 00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:27.159 that had opposed us, and they'd been a part of the spiritual environment. 351 00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:30.840 I get an email one day and they're like, the city's changing. The 352 00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:34.280 form of government is no longer going to be mayor led. They're going to 353 00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:37.119 let a city manager lead the city. We want you to come. We're 354 00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:40.000 interviewing five city managers. We want you know, everybody in the city was 355 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:45.440 invited to come meet the city manager. I'm going late. If you got 356 00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:47.000 to get kids, go ahead and get them, otherwise I'm going to get 357 00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:53.320 in trouble. And so I go to this meeting and the Holy Spirit said, 358 00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:55.559 by the way, have everybody in the church chart to pray for a 359 00:37:55.599 --> 00:38:00.400 spirit filled city manager. So we start praying for the city, pray for 360 00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:04.480 spiritfield the city manager. I meet one guy there who's a four square guy, 361 00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:09.239 spirit filled. That's the guy the city hires. As soon as the 362 00:38:09.239 --> 00:38:14.239 city hires him, he pulls up my file it's about two inches thick, 363 00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:19.360 and he calls the church office and he says, hey, Pastor Dwayne, 364 00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:22.400 I want you to come in and I want to meet with you. I'm 365 00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:27.320 seeing everything the city has done to you to keep you from building your building. 366 00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:39.960 We're going to change that immediately. Joe Simms goes in with me. 367 00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:44.239 We go in and we sit down with the guy. He says, what 368 00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:46.000 do we need to do the building to get that building built? And I 369 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:50.960 told him blah blah blah blah blah blah. He called up the engineers had 370 00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:55.039 come into my office. Immediately, all the engineers come into his office. 371 00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:59.519 He said, I want this change by tomorrow. We want this. Let's 372 00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:08.400 get this thing change by tomorrow. All I did was begin to do. 373 00:39:09.679 --> 00:39:17.039 I started addressing an obscure principality that at that time I knew nothing about, 374 00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:28.800 and God shifted everything. We the body of Christ. God. God is 375 00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:32.280 going to work through the body of Christ to shift education, to shift government, 376 00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:39.880 to shift religion, to shift the media, to shift entertainment, the 377 00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:45.639 shift sports, to shift everything. Everything's going to shift. As we partner 378 00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:52.519 with Holy Spirit, with not only petition and prayer, but with the sword 379 00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:57.920 of the Lord, with the sword of the Lord Father. We just thank 380 00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:06.159 you that we we are hope filled, we are partnered with you. We 381 00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:10.239 are discerning, and you are enabling us, and your grace is on us. 382 00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:16.440 And as we see the fruit, we make note, we take note 383 00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:22.679 of the root and we begin to address it. We thank you for your 384 00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:28.400 authority to bring a shift to every area of culture, and that you've made 385 00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:35.880 us partners with you. Jesus the Avenger, the one who is against the 386 00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:40.280 demonic realm, and we'll see it to it that that realm is bound and 387 00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:47.079 disempowered and continues in that state. As we walk by the word and walk 388 00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:52.760 in faith. We give you the praise for it today in Jesus' name, 389 00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:57.639 and everybody said, God, bless you. Charch Let's worship as we go