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Speaker 3: Good morning. Anybody have to swim here today, lots and
Speaker 3: lots of rain. Hey, if you are a first time
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Speaker 1: We have some stuff, some things in.
Speaker 3: There for you that we'd like you to look at
Speaker 3: and explain a little bit about us in the ministry here. Also,
Speaker 3: if you made it in here and you did not
Speaker 3: get a bulletin, if you would raise your hand, we
Speaker 3: have someone that'll make their way to you and get
Speaker 3: a bulletin in your hand. Those are important. You have
Speaker 3: information of upcoming events on the front and on the
Speaker 3: back you have notes that go along with the correspond
Speaker 3: with the message today, so you can take notes and
Speaker 3: then take that home with you and study it during
Speaker 3: the week. We're gonna have in just a little bit,
Speaker 3: we're gonna have some water baptism. But I really want
Speaker 3: to go over real quickly some more about the Wild
Speaker 3: Game Bank. It's this coming Saturday. If you haven't signed up,
Speaker 3: their sign up sheets out there, figure out where you
Speaker 3: want to connect to be a part of what we're doing.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a great outreach we do each year
Speaker 3: and there it impacts eternity and changes lives. So take
Speaker 3: a look at those lists, figure out how you can
Speaker 3: get connected to participating that and you get a part
Speaker 3: of that harvest. Also, I have been instructed to ask
Speaker 3: a request that if you could or you have the
Speaker 3: ability to let us borrow a crock pot or a roaster,
Speaker 3: if you could please bring those during the week this
Speaker 3: week to the office. We'll get them down in the kitchen.
Speaker 3: Please make sure your name is on all components. Initials
Speaker 3: and name or something on all the components, because sometimes
Speaker 3: we wind up with lids.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we wind up with crop pots.
Speaker 3: With no lids. And you know, it's just this way
Speaker 3: everybody gets their property back. Okay, amen, Okay, Now I
Speaker 3: want to show you we're gonna hand out This is
Speaker 3: a This is a packet for someone that receives the
Speaker 3: Lord at the Wild Game Banquet. Now we need men
Speaker 3: and young men and teenagers who are going to be
Speaker 3: there to participate and help us draw the net in
Speaker 3: and hold the harvest.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 3: So if you if you're gonna be there and you'd
Speaker 3: be willing to take a packet or two and connect
Speaker 3: and and pray with somebody, if you'd raise your hand,
Speaker 3: let's let me see if who we've got here this
Speaker 3: is willing to do that. Hey, Jeff, that's good. You
Speaker 3: raised that shoulder up.
Speaker 1: Huh or is it the other wrong one?
Speaker 3: Come on now let me see you huh yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: but what what what's in the packet? There's an ink
Speaker 3: pen in here, a Gospel of John is in here,
Speaker 3: uh some some uh some, uh, my pen's gone anyway.
Speaker 3: And then there's a sheet that's folded up like this.
Speaker 3: This is important. You need to fill that out, get
Speaker 3: the information after you've prayed with him, fill this out
Speaker 3: and bring it to either myself, our brother Mark, our
Speaker 3: brother Chris, our brother Chance.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 3: So if we can do that, we will. We're really
Speaker 3: trying to be conscientious about this. It's important that we
Speaker 3: that we can serve the harvest. You know, we want
Speaker 3: it's right, We want to be a good steward of
Speaker 3: what God has given us and and not let it
Speaker 3: go to waste. So if you can get connect with
Speaker 3: us in that. This next Saturday, we're gonna have a
Speaker 3: good time. Lots of good food. My buddy from Louisiana's coming.
Speaker 3: We have more jambalaya this year. Uh, We're gonna have
Speaker 3: all kinds of good food. Eland and valigator like normal
Speaker 3: that what is ealan is a large member of the
Speaker 3: antelope family. They're just bigger than most antelopes. They're from Africa. Wow,
Speaker 3: and they're quite tasty. Okay, So that's our Q. We're
Speaker 3: gonna go straight over to Broadmore.
Speaker 1: All right, Come on, kids, you want to come around
Speaker 1: and watch, come up close. I need a couple of
Speaker 1: people to help have. I call them hushers. So the
Speaker 1: children aren't talking, but I love the children. Families, Come
Speaker 1: on close, parents, grandparents, anybody take pictures. This is an
Speaker 1: exciting time, you know. I love it when someone follows
Speaker 1: the Lord in water baptism and it's saying that Jesus
Speaker 1: is Lord of my life. I've asked him to save me,
Speaker 1: and now I'm going to serve him all the days
Speaker 1: of my life. And I'm making it a public demonstration
Speaker 1: to everyone that sees that I am a Christian. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm taking that old nature and putting it underwater, coming
Speaker 1: up clean. So Pastor Greg, what do we have? Are
Speaker 1: you ready for this? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, something bout that stroke. Man, I'm throw your
Speaker 4: hands up.
Speaker 1: But nice kidding, all right? So, uh we've got Kylie. Hey, Isaac,
Speaker 1: come on down. Kylie. It's not bad, is it.
Speaker 4: She's afraid it's gonna be cold, like you know, ice
Speaker 4: water and stuff. It's like no, no, no, Normally it's like
Speaker 4: hot tubs, you know.
Speaker 1: But we're good.
Speaker 4: It's nice. It's this is Kylie. Kylie, do you have
Speaker 4: anything you want to say? Nothing at all, Just just
Speaker 4: know no, I'm afraid you would do a canniball. I'm
Speaker 4: watching you, buddy.
Speaker 1: Okay. So Kylie has uh.
Speaker 4: Kylie's been with us about a year now. She's gotten
Speaker 4: involved in JBQ and just just learning God's word and
Speaker 4: hide it in her heart. She's made a decision for
Speaker 4: the Lord and she's like, I'm ready for this baptism thing.
Speaker 4: So we had a class down there today and talked
Speaker 4: about what that means, and she says, I'm ready.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to do this. So you sure you don't
Speaker 1: want to say anything?
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, here we go, Cally, we baptize you
Speaker 4: now in the name of the Father, the Son, the
Speaker 4: Holy Spirit, buried in the likeness of his death, raised
Speaker 4: in the likeness of his resurrection.
Speaker 1: Yay, good deal, that is awesome. Okay, watch your step.
Speaker 1: Here we go. You might have to pick her up.
Speaker 1: Look at that smile, hold her up. Let people see
Speaker 1: that smile. Hold her up. Look at that smile. That's contagious. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is McKinley.
Speaker 4: McKinley, do you have anything you want to say?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. God is good.
Speaker 4: She knows that and his experience that will continue to
Speaker 4: experience that. Sometimes you might go through a hiccup or whatever,
Speaker 4: but that doesn't change God's goodness.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 4: All right, So kylie Er McKinley's with us in in
Speaker 4: JBQ as well.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: She has listened to her brother memorized and so she's
Speaker 4: she's got this thing down.
Speaker 1: Pat.
Speaker 4: If you want to see a really cool meet, come
Speaker 4: up to Lexington next time we do this and you'll
Speaker 4: see just some incredible stuff with the with the Junior
Speaker 4: Bible quiz.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: So God is good and McKinley is ready to do this.
Speaker 4: You are right, McKinley baptized you now the name of
Speaker 4: the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, buried in the
Speaker 4: likeness of his death, raised in the likeness of his resurrection.
Speaker 1: Yay. How awesome is that? And she knows what she's doing,
Speaker 1: fully aware.
Speaker 5: Hey, what y'all think about this?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Come on, I said, so what do you think about this?
Speaker 5: That's right, this is Christina. I want you all to
Speaker 5: give her a big handclap.
Speaker 1: Come on now.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was talking with Christina and I said, Christina, I said,
Speaker 5: I said, what's going on? She says, well, you know
Speaker 5: I got saved at this church a couple of years ago.
Speaker 5: I know I need to be here. I love God
Speaker 5: and I need to do this. I mean, she was intense.
Speaker 5: She was not playing around. So I want everybody to
Speaker 5: stretch your hands out toward Christina because God's got great
Speaker 5: things in store for her. It's a big step that
Speaker 5: she's taken here today. Father, I thank you for Christina. Father,
Speaker 5: I thank you that everything is about to change in
Speaker 5: her life. Father, I thank you that people are gonna Christina.
Speaker 5: People are gonna come up to you and they're gonna
Speaker 5: say what, what's going on? What's different with you? It's
Speaker 5: gonna give you an opportunity to tell people about Jesus
Speaker 5: and tell them what good things he's done and is
Speaker 5: currently doing in your life. Father, we thank you for Christina.
Speaker 5: We thank you for her being an example to her
Speaker 5: family and to everybody that she comes in contact with.
Speaker 5: In Jesus's name, and everybody says, she's excited and ready
Speaker 5: to do this. Risaun this way. There, I baptize you
Speaker 5: now the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 5: and the powerful name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's rejoice. Yay. All right? All right, kids,
Speaker 1: y'all did awesome. You can go back to mom's and
Speaker 1: dads and grandparents. She can go on back. And where
Speaker 1: did brother Don go? He took off? All right, honey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hand you this so you can go financial.
Speaker 5: I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, good deal, hot dog. I just want you
Speaker 6: to know little McKinley that was there. She can take
Speaker 6: a nation. I'm telling you, I'm not joking. I really
Speaker 6: want to Donna.
Speaker 1: Dad.
Speaker 6: I want us to see her be able to have
Speaker 6: in the spirit realm. There's something God's given her.
Speaker 1: That's hers.
Speaker 6: We watch your kids, we train your children, and McKinley
Speaker 6: has fire in her bones. And I'm just telling you
Speaker 6: she has fire in a bone. She has a calling
Speaker 6: of God on her life. That doesn't mean she has
Speaker 6: to be a pastor's wife. It just means she has
Speaker 6: to follow hard after God. Okay, but McKinley can take
Speaker 6: a nation, and so we need to steward that. And
Speaker 6: when I mean a nation, it doesn't mean she has
Speaker 6: to go overseas. It means God's given her a responsibility
Speaker 6: for area of her life where she takes on and
Speaker 6: presents the Kingdom of God in that area. And so
Speaker 6: both she and her brother. Her brother has a very
Speaker 6: sweet sensitive I mean, he's strong and you know, and
Speaker 6: has fire. But I personally have taught McKinley. So when
Speaker 6: I saw her coming out of that waterless, so I
Speaker 6: will be good, Mark just said I could be bad.
Speaker 6: Did y'all hear that?
Speaker 1: He said, no way?
Speaker 6: So that gives me license for something I don't know,
Speaker 6: but I'm gonna exploit that at some point this week.
Speaker 6: Hot Dog. That was an early Valentine gift. I want
Speaker 6: to thank you women for coming to our encounter soaking time.
Speaker 6: We are going to be doing that once a month,
Speaker 6: this second Friday every month is what is a soaking time?
Speaker 6: Why is it the word soaking? I discovered that I
Speaker 6: hear God when I unplug from everything and I purposely
Speaker 6: focus on getting into His presence. And what makes it
Speaker 6: fun is I have other friends that like God too.
Speaker 6: That's nice, you know what I'm saying. And so what
Speaker 6: we do is we just take some time as friends
Speaker 6: and you don't have to know me personally to come.
Speaker 6: You just come and we put on some music. We
Speaker 6: are introduced seeing a different artist every month so that
Speaker 6: you know what's available out there. And what we do
Speaker 6: is we just all get comfortable. The rule is you
Speaker 6: can't talk to one another. That it doesn't work if
Speaker 6: you're talking to one another, and that's that's some for
Speaker 6: some of us, that's a sacrifice. But we just get
Speaker 6: quiet and we listen and God births things in your spirit.
Speaker 6: My hearts cry for us this year is learning as
Speaker 6: women to be a voice, not an echo. God gives
Speaker 6: you a word and you don't have to mimic someone
Speaker 6: else's word. It's good. I'll mimic some you know someone
Speaker 6: God speaks to their heart. I will say maybe what
Speaker 6: they're saying because it really spoke to me. But I
Speaker 6: want my own word. And so this this time encourages
Speaker 6: you to hear God for yourself, to write it down
Speaker 6: and then if you would like to agree in prayer,
Speaker 6: we're there for that. If not, you just go on
Speaker 6: your way. But it's it's discipline on us, disciplining us
Speaker 6: to separate ourself and as friends get together in the
Speaker 6: presence of God and listen. So I challenge you. All
Speaker 6: hell will break out to keep you from coming, but
Speaker 6: I challenge you to come. It's just a wonderful time. Also,
Speaker 6: if you want to write this down, please tag you're it.
Speaker 6: I don't want anybody gripen at me. Wings of Refuge
Speaker 6: is coming. It's in the bulletin. Yes, Wings of Refuge
Speaker 6: is coming Thursday the twenty second. So if you are interested,
Speaker 6: I would encourage you to. Oh did I say Wednesday, Well,
Speaker 6: that's why you do the finances in our house, because
Speaker 6: I I think I need to go on Thursday the
Speaker 6: twenty second. And real quick, let me give you a
Speaker 6: scripture that we're going to pray. Someone walked in this
Speaker 6: building wanting to hear the voice of God this morning,
Speaker 6: wondering if what you brought to God's house is enough?
Speaker 6: And you need to hear this. This is Psalms twenty five,
Speaker 6: verse four. Lord, direct me throughout my journey so I
Speaker 6: can experience your plans for my life. Reveal the life
Speaker 6: paths that are pleasing to you, Escort me along the way,
Speaker 6: take me by the hand, and teach me, Oh God
Speaker 6: of my increasing salvation. I've wrapped my heart into yours.
Speaker 6: What you brought today is enough. Just settle that in
Speaker 6: your heart and just do this to God. Don't think
Speaker 6: that you've got to be so clean that no one
Speaker 6: don't just say I'm yours, Bob Bobo's warts and all,
Speaker 6: I'm yours this morning, So put your hand over your heart.
Speaker 6: God said, in your weakness, He's made strong. Sometimes we
Speaker 6: want to show off and say how strong we are
Speaker 6: in the spirit, and that's not how the Kingdom of
Speaker 6: God works. We have to humble ourself and just be
Speaker 6: broken in a good way for Him so that He
Speaker 6: can shine out through us. Father, this morning, I just
Speaker 6: lift up my family before you, and for everybody that's
Speaker 6: fighting sickness in their home, I just apply the blood
Speaker 6: of Jesus. Father, I just pray Father, for people that
Speaker 6: aren't here today because of illness. I ask for a
Speaker 6: healing touch in their body. In Jesus' name, Father, I
Speaker 6: thank you for financial breakthrough for families today. I thank
Speaker 6: you Father for miracles this week.
Speaker 1: Father.
Speaker 6: Father, I'm asking in Jesus' name that your hand would
Speaker 6: be mighty and strong Father upon this body here today. Father,
Speaker 6: I asked that you would establish the work of our
Speaker 6: hands as we look to you, Father to teach us
Speaker 6: how to walk. Father, you are a mighty God. We
Speaker 6: love you with all our hearts, and we thank you
Speaker 6: in Jesus's mighty name. Amen.
Speaker 1: Amen, Come on, let's give the Lord a handclap again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're going to allow the children to wow, children to
Speaker 1: go to c in the back and am I doing
Speaker 1: something wrong or whatever? And if I can have my
Speaker 1: friends in the back, put the lights on over me,
Speaker 1: that'll help tremendously. Yeah, I'll be of actually see glory
Speaker 1: rest of us. Take your bible, hold it up. Let's
Speaker 1: declare who we are. Am I you ready? This is
Speaker 1: my Bible. It is the standard I live my life by.
Speaker 1: I am a spiritfuled believer. Sustained by my personal relationship
Speaker 1: with the Lord, empowered by my commitment to community and
Speaker 1: express throughout reach to others. Therefore I can't say and
Speaker 1: all right, hey, take your bulletin and flip it over.
Speaker 1: We began the year talking about the blessed life and
Speaker 1: did a series really all through January dealing with finances.
Speaker 1: Having done that in quite some time, we're to keep
Speaker 1: this theme the blessed life really kind of through the year.
Speaker 1: But we're transitioning now to freedom. How many know God
Speaker 1: wants you free, no bondage in your life. So last
Speaker 1: week we had Chad's Hope and you got to literally
Speaker 1: watch men sing and worship and share testimony of how
Speaker 1: God has set them free from bondage in the processes
Speaker 1: setting them free from bondage, and I hope it was
Speaker 1: a real encouragement to you, especially if anyf you are
Speaker 1: dealing with an area or you have a loved one
Speaker 1: dealing with that. There was a lot of ministry at
Speaker 1: the end, very very good time of ministry to people.
Speaker 1: So it's a very very real thing. But today we're
Speaker 1: transitioning this looking at freedom. So turn your bulletin over,
Speaker 1: because let me tell you what we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about today. We're gonna be talking about demons today. Okay.
Speaker 1: It's a real thing. Are you with me? Okay? And
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. It's very important for you
Speaker 1: to be here. Satan does not want you to hear
Speaker 1: the series because I'm going to take scripture. I'm spending
Speaker 1: a lot of time to bring this alife to you, Okay,
Speaker 1: because often believers can be in bondage and people get
Speaker 1: all caught up in well, are they possessed or this?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna help talk about that today. But if you
Speaker 1: are in bondage, you need to be free period. And
Speaker 1: demons can influence you to stay in an area of
Speaker 1: bondage or a loved one. So I really want you
Speaker 1: to pay attention. I want you to take these scriptures
Speaker 1: and go home and study it. Don't take my word,
Speaker 1: I want you to take God's word. So as I share,
Speaker 1: listen and let's be open to what God wants to do. Amen. See,
Speaker 1: when the thief is caught, he loses and he has
Speaker 1: to restore sevenfold. Now, somebody ought to get excited about that.
Speaker 1: That's in Proverbs chapter six. And many believers are not
Speaker 1: free indeed, because they do not believe they can be
Speaker 1: in bondage. And when Jesus makes this statement, there's a
Speaker 1: theme verse we're going to use through this whole teaching
Speaker 1: for about five weeks, and then we're going to transition
Speaker 1: into Easter time. Can you believe it'll be right around
Speaker 1: the corner, But take several weeks and just deal with
Speaker 1: the resurrection Easter. I want everybody have a real understanding.
Speaker 1: So you bring the lost on East Sunday. But John
Speaker 1: A thirty six, Therefore, if the sun makes you free,
Speaker 1: or if you allow the Son to make you free,
Speaker 1: you shall be free indeed, And everyone says amen, And
Speaker 1: he's talking. Jesus is talking to Jews here verse thirty one,
Speaker 1: who believed in him. He's talking to believers. He's not
Speaker 1: saying that to the lost. So is it possible for
Speaker 1: a believer to be in bondage? We're going to answer
Speaker 1: that you've already answered. Can a Christian personally deal with
Speaker 1: a demon or have one steal somehow possessed sing an
Speaker 1: area of their life. We're going to look at that today.
Speaker 1: So I think it's all ears today because I think
Speaker 1: all of us have dealt with this in some fashion
Speaker 1: of farm the main areas of scripture we're going to
Speaker 1: be in or Mark. So we ahead and turned to Mark,
Speaker 1: and then towards the end we'll look a little bit
Speaker 1: in Luke. There's going to be a bunch of other
Speaker 1: scriptures come up, and the main things we're going to
Speaker 1: look at today or Mark and Luke. So here we
Speaker 1: go Mark chapter five, verse one and two, when they
Speaker 1: talking about Jesus and his disciples came to the other
Speaker 1: side of the sea, to the country of the Gallerines.
Speaker 1: And when he had come out of the boat, immediately
Speaker 1: there met him out of the tombs, a man with
Speaker 1: an unclean spirit. This is one of the ways the
Speaker 1: Bibles referred to a demon. Other gospels say he was naked,
Speaker 1: he was wild verse three. This man possessed by the enemy,
Speaker 1: with an unco spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs.
Speaker 1: And no one could bind him, not even with chains,
Speaker 1: because he had often been bound with shackles and chains,
Speaker 1: and the chains had been pulled apart by him, and
Speaker 1: the shackles broken in pieces. Neither could anyone tame him.
Speaker 1: And always night and day he was in the mountains
Speaker 1: and the tombs, crying out. He was wanting help, he
Speaker 1: was wanting help and cutting himself with stones verse six.
Speaker 1: But when he saw Jesus from Afar, he ran and
Speaker 1: what worshiped him proskinneo in the Greek, and it means
Speaker 1: he bowed down, He truly worshiped God. Verse seven. And
Speaker 1: he out cried out with a loud voice and said,
Speaker 1: what have I to do with you? Jesus? Now let
Speaker 1: me shift this here a little bit. This isn't the
Speaker 1: man now yelling this out, and you'll see why in
Speaker 1: a moment. This is actually the demon's spirit talking through
Speaker 1: the man, and you'll see why. Okay, what I have
Speaker 1: to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God,
Speaker 1: I implore you by God that you do not torment me.
Speaker 1: That would be not the It wouldn't be the man,
Speaker 1: because Jesus didn't come to torment people. Okay, he came
Speaker 1: to help people. So that's the demon speaking through this
Speaker 1: man verse eight. For he Jesus had already said this,
Speaker 1: and that's why verse seven was said, For Jesus had said,
Speaker 1: come out of the man, unclean spirit. So really that
Speaker 1: could have even been before verse seven. So Jesus already
Speaker 1: said this, and the man replies or excuse me, the
Speaker 1: spirit within the man, what do I have to do
Speaker 1: with you? Please don't torment me. Verse nine. Then he
Speaker 1: asked him, Jesus asked him, what is your name? Now,
Speaker 1: Jesus is not talking to the man. He's wanting to
Speaker 1: know what is he dealing with? What type of demon
Speaker 1: or spirit is he dealing with? And this is how
Speaker 1: the demon answered. He said, my name is Legion, for
Speaker 1: we are many. Now, legion is a Roman word, a
Speaker 1: military word, and it means anywhere from six thousand to
Speaker 1: six thousand, eight hundred and twenty six. Wow, you could
Speaker 1: say this guy was demonized, and everyone says, and there
Speaker 1: were many, There were a lot within this man. Verse ten. Also,
Speaker 1: so I want you to see, let read this thing, bigger, broader,
Speaker 1: kind of wrap your heart and mind around his OsO.
Speaker 1: He begged him earnestly that he would not send them
Speaker 1: out of the country. That tells me demonic spirits like
Speaker 1: to stay where they already have a stronghold in a family.
Speaker 1: That's why you draw the line from things that passed
Speaker 1: in your family. Whatever the bond that she has been
Speaker 1: and said, ah ah, no, you're out. We've had to
Speaker 1: do that. Don't mean your family's awful and bad. It's
Speaker 1: just there were different bondages that came through through demonic strongholds.
Speaker 1: Everyone deals with it, so don't backt well, my family's perfect,
Speaker 1: No they're not. Nobody's from a perfect family. This is earth.
Speaker 1: So you need to be aware of the things so
Speaker 1: that you can say, no, we're cutting this, so that
Speaker 1: from here on my responsibility with children or grandchildren or whatever.
Speaker 1: We're going forward without this. We do not want that
Speaker 1: demonic stronghold to stay because they didn't want to leave. Now,
Speaker 1: large herd of swine was feeding there near the mountains,
Speaker 1: so all the demons begged him, begged Jesus, saying, send
Speaker 1: us into the swine, that we may enter them. And
Speaker 1: at once Jesus gave them permission. I love that Jesus
Speaker 1: has all authority, doesn't he. Then the unclean spirits went
Speaker 1: out and entered the swine. There were about two thousands,
Speaker 1: so that shows you there were a lot of demons.
Speaker 1: If it captivated two thousand swine, and the herd ran
Speaker 1: violently down the steep place into the sea and drowned
Speaker 1: in the sea. So those who fed the swine fled,
Speaker 1: and they told it in the city and in the country,
Speaker 1: and they went out to see what it was that
Speaker 1: had happened Verse fifteen. Then they came to Jesus and
Speaker 1: saw the one who had been demonized and had the
Speaker 1: legion sitting nice clothed in his right mind, and they
Speaker 1: were afraid. Now you would think maybe they would be happy,
Speaker 1: especially for this guy. Maybe if they were thinking about
Speaker 1: some of their family or issues, like, wow, if Jesus
Speaker 1: did this for him, he could help my family. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you what. When God starts doing something, if
Speaker 1: you're not close to the Lord, it frightens you. Yep. Come,
Speaker 1: when supernatural things start happening, it can frighten the religious spirit.
Speaker 1: But those that are hungry for God, they're like, Wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: God did it for them. He's going to do something
Speaker 1: for me. He's going to do something for my family.
Speaker 1: So be excited when God does something, even when you
Speaker 1: don't understand it. No, for sure, he's in control and
Speaker 1: he's moving. Are you with me? Verse sixteen. And those
Speaker 1: who saw it told them how it happened to him
Speaker 1: who have been demon possessed, and about the swine. Then
Speaker 1: it began to plead with him, get out of here,
Speaker 1: Jesus I'm paraphrasing it there. Okay, you would have thought
Speaker 1: they would want him to stay and teach, and what
Speaker 1: happened and how did you do that? And what do
Speaker 1: we do if we come across this again? Nope, they
Speaker 1: didn't want any of that. Verse eighteen. And when he
Speaker 1: Jesus got into the boat, he who had been deemon possessed,
Speaker 1: begged him that they might be with him in that
Speaker 1: great when I look, when Jesus does something for you,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about when he does something for you and
Speaker 1: you humble yourself and pride is gone. You just want
Speaker 1: to be with Jesus. You want to worship him. It's
Speaker 1: not an effort to worship him. It's like how often
Speaker 1: can I? And that's what he's wanting to do. Now,
Speaker 1: look at this very important I want you to see something. However,
Speaker 1: Jesus did not permit him, but he said to him,
Speaker 1: go home to your friends. Now wait a minute. He
Speaker 1: was by himself in the tombs. They couldn't handle him.
Speaker 1: And all this What this tells me, at one time
Speaker 1: this guy was halfway normal because he had had friends
Speaker 1: or family, our people. Jesus knew that. Everybody following my
Speaker 1: story go to them and tell them what great things
Speaker 1: the Lord has done for you, and now he has
Speaker 1: had compassion on you. So he departed and began to
Speaker 1: proclaim in the capitalists all that Jesus had done for
Speaker 1: him in all marvel. Now let me help you with that.
Speaker 1: The capitalist is not a city. It was actually ten cities,
Speaker 1: ten cities. Decca means ten, Poulus means metropolitan or metroplex.
Speaker 1: Gadera was one of those ten cities. Damascus was one
Speaker 1: of those ten cities. Remember Saul who became Paul, was
Speaker 1: on his way to Damascus to persecute Christians. Philadelphia, not
Speaker 1: the one in Pennsylvania, but Philadelphia was one of those
Speaker 1: ten cities. It was actually, get this a Greek city.
Speaker 1: That is probably why they were raising swine, because Jews
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with swine, so their culture had
Speaker 1: brought that in. So they're around a lot of Greek people.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to help you understand some culture and
Speaker 1: see some things here. So the Greeks had come in
Speaker 1: and flew in society and culture. Fantastic story. So this
Speaker 1: guy goes out immediately representing Christ and affects ten cities
Speaker 1: with his story. Now here's my question, what's your story
Speaker 1: or just a center? Say you by grace, come on,
Speaker 1: get over that. What is your story? So that's a
Speaker 1: religious thing you hear all over the place and understand.
Speaker 1: But where was the bondage? Where was the confusion? Where
Speaker 1: was the sin? Where was the thing where you were
Speaker 1: going under? And Jesus came and set you free? Bring
Speaker 1: hope to people, Yes, bring hope with your story because
Speaker 1: people want to hear your story. Amen. So there's a
Speaker 1: couple of things here, Three things in particular I want
Speaker 1: you to get today as we begin this and we'll
Speaker 1: be on it for several weeks. Tell people love ones
Speaker 1: that need to hear this. Number One, there really are demons, okay,
Speaker 1: because Jesus set this man free. Demon. I'm using the
Speaker 1: New King James Bible for this series. But in the
Speaker 1: New King James, demons are mentioned eighty two times sixty
Speaker 1: one times alone in the Gospel Jesus directly dealing with
Speaker 1: demons or talking about demons. I think hear this statement
Speaker 1: very important. One reason so much he's talking about it
Speaker 1: and dealing with it in the gospels is because no
Speaker 1: one had had the authority before until he got there,
Speaker 1: right Jesus has all authority. Jesus with authority, I meant,
Speaker 1: immediately begin to confront demonic strongholds in bondages. Demons come
Speaker 1: from fallen angels. One third of the angels fell with
Speaker 1: Lucifer in their rebellion. Pride, arrogance, high mindedness, all those things,
Speaker 1: by the way, can introduce a demonic stronghold in your life.
Speaker 1: And he introduce the demonic stronghold in angels. A third fell.
Speaker 1: But what I'm excited about. For every one third that fail,
Speaker 1: I've got two that are on my side. So we
Speaker 1: got him out numbered. Amen, And Jesus has all authority
Speaker 1: over them. When God does decide, nobody knows when to
Speaker 1: throw Satan in the pit. It will happen one day.
Speaker 1: He doesn't even do it himself. He only sends one
Speaker 1: angel to do it. Okay, he sends one to bind
Speaker 1: Satan and throw him to the bottomless pit. One day,
Speaker 1: Jesus will say, that's it, go get him, hello, throw
Speaker 1: him into the pit. And Gabriel might say, who who
Speaker 1: do you want? I'm just picturing Jesus looking around. Send
Speaker 1: that new guy over there. Come on, you see, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to show you there's nothing. You need to be
Speaker 1: afraid of nothing. In fact, if you could literally see
Speaker 1: the devil and who he really is, you'd say, what
Speaker 1: was I afraid of? What was I afraid of?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 1: We'd see God. You'd fall on your face in holy
Speaker 1: terror of worship. Not afraid, but just of his awesomeness,
Speaker 1: the holiness, the purity. That's the one we want to revere.
Speaker 1: Demons come from fallen angels. They are disembodied spirits. They
Speaker 1: are looking for a body. They are looking for open doors.
Speaker 1: We'll be looking at that talking about that next week.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about closing doors and windows. They
Speaker 1: enter inhabit and inhabit bodies. They were in the body
Speaker 1: of this man, in his body. I don't see them
Speaker 1: being in his spirit. I see them being in the
Speaker 1: man because the man came and worship Jesus, so his
Speaker 1: spirit could override that he wanted to come and worship Jesus.
Speaker 1: And when Jesus cast him out, they wanted to go
Speaker 1: into to the swine because they wanted a body. So
Speaker 1: it backs up my theory that animals can't have a demon.
Speaker 1: I grew up on a farm and I can tell
Speaker 1: you some of the animals I dealt with. They had
Speaker 1: some demons, how many grew up on a farm and
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I mean just a mean cow.
Speaker 1: Or we had a horse one time. I mean you
Speaker 1: could look at it and I and you knew something
Speaker 1: was wrong with that horse, a dog or whatever. Wow.
Speaker 1: But also let me say this, This might help you,
Speaker 1: because sometimes believers will allow a hypocrite to stand between
Speaker 1: them and God, which then I say, the hypocrite is
Speaker 1: closer to God than you or you hear me. How
Speaker 1: can they call themselves a believer and act like that
Speaker 1: or say that or do that and they call themselves
Speaker 1: a believer? Could there be demonic influence causing do you
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying? Have you considered praying for them
Speaker 1: instead of using that as an excuse to run from God?
Speaker 1: Just the thought everybody with me? I love you, I
Speaker 1: mean I want you so focused in understanding how to
Speaker 1: stay free and not be tricked by anything of the enemy. Okay,
Speaker 1: so there are demons, no doubt. Otherwise we have to
Speaker 1: cut out a lot of the Bible and most of
Speaker 1: what Jesus did. Here's a few scriptures if you just
Speaker 1: want to write down the reference they're not in your bulletin,
Speaker 1: but they're going to come up real quick. Matthew eight
Speaker 1: verse sixteen. When the evening had come, they brought to
Speaker 1: him Jesus many who were demon possessed, and he cast
Speaker 1: out the spirits with a word, cast them out, and
Speaker 1: healed all who were sick. Next one, Matthew nine, thirty
Speaker 1: two and thirty three. As they went out, Behold, they
Speaker 1: brought to him a man, mute and demon possessed. And
Speaker 1: when the demon was cast out, the mute spoke, and
Speaker 1: the multitudes marvels, saying it was never seen like this
Speaker 1: in Israel, and they're cool. Matthew seventeen eighteen. Jesus rebuked
Speaker 1: the demon, and it came out of him, and the
Speaker 1: child was cured from that very earth. The devil wants children, folks,
Speaker 1: your children, your little ones. Help keep doors closed, deal
Speaker 1: with things, deal with things in their life. Mark three.
Speaker 1: Then he appointed twelve that they might be with him,
Speaker 1: and that he might send him out to preach and
Speaker 1: have power to heal sicknesses, and to what all right?
Speaker 1: Next one. So they went out and preached that people
Speaker 1: should repent, and they cast out many demons, and annointing
Speaker 1: with oil many who were sick and heal them well more.
Speaker 1: And these signs will follow those who believe, and my name,
Speaker 1: they will cast out demons. I speak with new tongues. Allelujah.
Speaker 1: I'm just reading scripture to you. All right, let me
Speaker 1: give you some quotes. This will help bring a balance. C. S. Lewis, author,
Speaker 1: awesome author who came to Christ as an adult. By
Speaker 1: the way, he said this, there are two groups of
Speaker 1: people that Satan absolutely loves to get excited over. Satan
Speaker 1: loves these two, the skeptic and the superstitious. The skeptic
Speaker 1: and the superstitious. Let me see it this way. There
Speaker 1: are people who think they see a demon behind every
Speaker 1: bush and tree. That's the superstitious. But there are people
Speaker 1: who say demons don't exist today, maybe just in Jesus time.
Speaker 1: That's a skeptic. And C. S Lewis says, Satan loves
Speaker 1: both of those types. Why because they're both in bondage.
Speaker 1: They're both dealing with deception. There could be people when
Speaker 1: I say, okay, I'm going to talk about demons, they
Speaker 1: could say, well, pastor, who's not talk about that? And
Speaker 1: then there are others that go, oh goodie, we're getting
Speaker 1: to the good stuff. All right, So here we are.
Speaker 1: If you're an neither one of camp, you're way over
Speaker 1: here or way over there. I want you to move
Speaker 1: to the middle. Everybody say, balance streaming important. We're not
Speaker 1: a skeptic, and we're not going to be superstitious. We're
Speaker 1: not going to be We're not going to try to
Speaker 1: put a demon on everyone or categorize all that that's superstitious,
Speaker 1: super spiritual. But we're not going to run from truth.
Speaker 1: When we are dealing with something, We're going to move
Speaker 1: right to the middle. Are you with me? Don't deny them,
Speaker 1: but we're not hunting them down every time we have
Speaker 1: any type of little issue. And Jesus came to set
Speaker 1: us free. In your notes, you can never get free
Speaker 1: unless you know you can be in bondage. You can't
Speaker 1: get free unless you know you could be or that
Speaker 1: you could enter into bondage. Jack Haper, he's an elderly
Speaker 1: man now minister out in California. Quoting from him, he
Speaker 1: says this, you can't cast out the flesh and you
Speaker 1: can't disciple a demon. I like that. In other words,
Speaker 1: there are people who would say, oh, it's just a flash.
Speaker 1: You need to overcome the flesh. You just need more
Speaker 1: discipline in your life. In the other camp, well, you've
Speaker 1: got a demon. And the reason you can't overcome the
Speaker 1: simplest of disciplines in your life is you need deliverance,
Speaker 1: and you need more deliverance. And you know deliverance. Deliverance.
Speaker 1: That's the answer to everything. And here's age old debate.
Speaker 1: Do we need discipleship our deliverance, here's the answer. Yes,
Speaker 1: everybody say, yes, you can't cast out the flesh. No,
Speaker 1: that gum, I know. And you can't disciple a demon.
Speaker 1: Everybody with me. I think it's maturity when a believer
Speaker 1: realizes they could be dealing with some type of bondage
Speaker 1: in their life, and I want to deal with it.
Speaker 1: We deal with that, that wings, they deal with that want.
Speaker 1: We want people free. I don't want anybody walking around
Speaker 1: ben over frowning, can't overcome. Could it be something demonic? Yes?
Speaker 1: Could it be They do need to learn discipline and
Speaker 1: how to overcome. Yes, could it be they need both. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying all that's the answer, but something is.
Speaker 1: Because God wants us free, Yes, he wants He want
Speaker 1: want you to be able to come in here, get
Speaker 1: up close to the front and worship, yes, just freely, freely.
Speaker 1: I remember from my dad it was like a deliverance
Speaker 1: from him. I meant, there was just this man thing
Speaker 1: in him, and he won't go lift his hands. He won't, won't.
Speaker 1: And I watched him suddenly, step by step after you
Speaker 1: got filled the host figure close to the front and
Speaker 1: begin lifting his hands. It was a freedom for him,
Speaker 1: got free from that stuff. Amen. See, if something is
Speaker 1: totally out of control, it should give you hope that
Speaker 1: God wants to set you free, set your loved one free.
Speaker 1: So don't get upset that I'm telling you that you
Speaker 1: or your loved one or someone who has a major
Speaker 1: problem in an area. I meant, because they you should
Speaker 1: be excited because Jesus came to take care of problems.
Speaker 1: He wants to take care of that problem. Just like
Speaker 1: when Andrew had his little sharing moment when he was
Speaker 1: talking about he said, Man, let's not get into God's
Speaker 1: presence just to reinforce what we want. But let's get
Speaker 1: in his presence so that his presence is so great
Speaker 1: it deals with all the areas. I'm paraphrasing it, but
Speaker 1: that's what he was saying. Man, don't make the issue,
Speaker 1: the issue, make the issue. Man. I got to press
Speaker 1: suit to get in his presence, because when you get
Speaker 1: in his presence, he takes care of issues. He will
Speaker 1: take care of this. So the only people who can't
Speaker 1: get set for you the people who won't admit they're
Speaker 1: in bondage number two. Everybody's still with me. Okay, they
Speaker 1: really do enter, people, they really do. Turn to John
Speaker 1: chapter ten. I want this to come alive. I want
Speaker 1: you to see it. Jesus is speaking, it's in the red.
Speaker 1: Let me break this verse down. Verse one. We're very
Speaker 1: familiar with verse ten, we use it all the time.
Speaker 1: But let's look at verse one for a moment. Mostly
Speaker 1: I say to you, this is Jesus speaking. He who
Speaker 1: does not enter the sheepfold. Wouldn't that be where the
Speaker 1: sheep are the believers, the body of Christ our terminology.
Speaker 1: He who does not enter the sheepfold by the door.
Speaker 1: Now who is the door? Jesus is the door. So
Speaker 1: if they try to enter the sheepfold, but they don't
Speaker 1: use the door, but climbs up some other way into
Speaker 1: what into the sheepfold, into your life, into the believer,
Speaker 1: the same is a thief and a robber. So the
Speaker 1: devil doesn't. He's not going to go through Jesus. But
Speaker 1: yet he wants to get into the sheepfold. He wants
Speaker 1: to get in our life Verse ten. And we just
Speaker 1: we ended the verse. Their thief and a robber, and
Speaker 1: that thief does not come except to steal, kill and destroy.
Speaker 1: But I've come that you might have life, and how
Speaker 1: does he want us to have it abundantly? So here's
Speaker 1: what I say about that verse. This thief can get in,
Speaker 1: and he's saying here, the thief wants to get in.
Speaker 1: When you've made a decision, I'm going to serve Christ.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna follow him. I'm going to be a witness.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be vocal. I'm not going to be
Speaker 1: a secret service believer. I'm willing to pray with anybody,
Speaker 1: lead someone to Christ. Whatever. The devil doesn't back up
Speaker 1: and go yay. He targets you. I said, he targets you.
Speaker 1: But Jesus says he can't get through me. I love it.
Speaker 1: He might try to get in some other way, and
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about those things. And he wants
Speaker 1: to get in your life, wants to get into the
Speaker 1: sheep's life. Verse ten in the Greek, it means he
Speaker 1: does not come accept He just has one purpose except
Speaker 1: to steal, kill and destroy. Now here we go. Can
Speaker 1: a believer be demon possessed? Everybody here, you're listening. Let's
Speaker 1: explain this word and go back to the original language,
Speaker 1: demon possessed. In the Greek, it's two words, damon i
Speaker 1: a zohmai. How about that. Aren't you excited? There's a word. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there it is in the Greek damon e i zohmai
Speaker 1: damon i demon zohmai to possess. To translate demon possessed
Speaker 1: is okay, But we need to teach people the true
Speaker 1: meaning of the word possessed. Still with me. There are
Speaker 1: two Greek words for possession are being possessed. One is ownership.
Speaker 1: That was the one we had looked at a little
Speaker 1: while ago, just with that guy. This is not the
Speaker 1: word for ownership. This word is to gain mastery over
Speaker 1: so for the believer, the devil wants to gain mastery
Speaker 1: over you, mastery over you. This word is used in
Speaker 1: Luke so turned. I want you to see this, I
Speaker 1: want you to underline it. I want you to get
Speaker 1: this today, Luke twenty one, verse nineteen. Jesus is speaking here,
Speaker 1: and this is deally with the end times the subject here.
Speaker 1: But he says, by your patients, possess your souls. By patients,
Speaker 1: possess your souls. Do you see that? Jesus would say,
Speaker 1: by your own souls, by your own effort, going forth,
Speaker 1: take control, have mastery of your soul, your emotions, your mind,
Speaker 1: go forward. But he also if you don't lose your
Speaker 1: life in me, you can't gain it. Bob says, you're
Speaker 1: bought with the price. You don't belong to you. This
Speaker 1: chapter in Luke again is about the times, and Jesus
Speaker 1: is not saying you need to own your soul or
Speaker 1: be possessed, but you need to gain master be a
Speaker 1: master over your soul. Mastery over your soul is everybody here?
Speaker 1: Are you getting it? If not? Soak that in? Get that?
Speaker 1: So can a believer be owned owned by a demon?
Speaker 1: I'm talking about a believer, Well, they're owned by God.
Speaker 1: And everyone says the can a believer be under the
Speaker 1: control or the mastery of a demon? Yes, you say,
Speaker 1: well that's semantics. Well it could be, but it's a
Speaker 1: big thing because a lot of people, if you've got
Speaker 1: a demon, you're not saved or if you're dealing with
Speaker 1: all this, you know you're not serving God. I know
Speaker 1: many a great people, godly people. It suddenly doesn't matter family, person, this,
Speaker 1: and suddenly, man, where did they go? Stupid? Okay? Could
Speaker 1: it be a door was open, a window was open,
Speaker 1: and the devil got into the sheep fold, not through
Speaker 1: Jesus but through another way, through these open doors and
Speaker 1: cause someone to do things or act or reject the Lord,
Speaker 1: or go back into the world or whatever the situation
Speaker 1: is that they wouldn't have done a year before or
Speaker 1: five years before. What happened the devil, I said the
Speaker 1: Devil Fair's Dictionary, and he was an American Bible scholar.
Speaker 1: He puts it this way, to be under the power
Speaker 1: of a demon. This is defining dameon eyes ohmi, the
Speaker 1: Greek word to be under the power the mastery of
Speaker 1: the control of a demon in certain areas. So this
Speaker 1: is why lust is an awful thing. This is why
Speaker 1: unforgiveness it's a deadly thing. Folks. Bitterness it can kill
Speaker 1: your walk. Sign one of the signs of the un
Speaker 1: time we live in it now. Ungrateful, just being ungrateful,
Speaker 1: even that can cause me to be influenced by that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: ungrateful rage. So I'm just saying these things because sometimes
Speaker 1: someone can say I can't believe a believer did that. Well,
Speaker 1: we need pray for them, we need to help them
Speaker 1: see that. Damn, the devil is after them. Don't judge them,
Speaker 1: don't box them out, help them, help them. Amen. This
Speaker 1: is my little mark Carroll saying, write it down, memorize it,
Speaker 1: use it. If it's in me, on me, near me,
Speaker 1: it's too close. How about that talking about a demon.
Speaker 1: You didn't laugh or anything. I thought i'd get a reaction. Gosh,
Speaker 1: you're writing it out. Okay. If it's in me, on me,
Speaker 1: near me, too close. I don't want to get caught
Speaker 1: up in the semantics. I just want it gone, folks.
Speaker 1: If I'm being influence by mnemonic strong demon that wants
Speaker 1: to bring me into a stronghold, Amen, So let me
Speaker 1: ask a question, and don't raise your hand. Is there
Speaker 1: any area of your life you just can't get the
Speaker 1: victory over? Is there an area you feel helpless, powerless?
Speaker 1: Is there a sin that you've confessed over and over
Speaker 1: and over and over and I don't have enough time
Speaker 1: to say over and over and over to God that
Speaker 1: you would never do it again, But yet you do
Speaker 1: it over and over and over. Can I say to
Speaker 1: each of us, just as lovingly as I can, let's
Speaker 1: wake up. It's a bondage, old pastors, just a weakness.
Speaker 1: You've had it for twenty five years. It's a bondage.
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. Let's make it light. Don't
Speaker 1: just realize. Okay, I got a bondage. That should be
Speaker 1: good news because Jesus wants to set you free. And
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you bad news. I'm telling you good
Speaker 1: news because people go to church all the time all
Speaker 1: over our city, our county, our state, and our nation,
Speaker 1: and they really want to be free and they don't
Speaker 1: know they can't, and pride keeps some them getting ministry
Speaker 1: or opening up or whatever. Hey, look, let's get free
Speaker 1: and stay free because you enter into a joy that's contagious. Wow.
Speaker 1: Let me illustrate it this way, because I love things
Speaker 1: that bring things to life's. Before you came to church today,
Speaker 1: you left the window open. Well, number one house is
Speaker 1: going to be flooded. No, But if you left a
Speaker 1: window open in your house and when you go home,
Speaker 1: you find a sure enough thief in action. Here's a question.
Speaker 1: Does that thief own your house? But guess what, he's
Speaker 1: in your house. He has control over your house until
Speaker 1: you have him arrested and handcuffed and taken out. And
Speaker 1: while he's there, he's there to steal, kill, and destroy.
Speaker 1: You want him out. Let me show you a couple
Speaker 1: old Testament scripts. Everybody hanging in with me? Okay, we'll
Speaker 1: be finished shortly. Lamentations. Can you believe I'm having you
Speaker 1: go to the book of Lamentations? Can anything good come
Speaker 1: out of lamentations? Absolutely? At night you can't sleep. Just
Speaker 1: open up to lamentations, are reading. You'll be asleep quickly.
Speaker 1: But here's a great verse. Okay, Lamentations one verse ten.
Speaker 1: Let me bring this verse to life. The adversary has
Speaker 1: spread his hand over all her talking about Israel, a
Speaker 1: type of the people of God. For you and I okay,
Speaker 1: verse ten again, the adversary has spread his hand over
Speaker 1: all her pleasant things, for she the people of God,
Speaker 1: the people of God with me. For she has seen
Speaker 1: the nations that's representing the enemy enter her sanctuary. Those
Speaker 1: whom you commanded not to enter your assembly, but they did,
Speaker 1: They entered the children of Visual. They can enter our lives.
Speaker 1: They can enter the things that were commanded not to
Speaker 1: lit lit In Limitations four, verse twelve. For the kings
Speaker 1: of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world
Speaker 1: would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy
Speaker 1: could enter the gates of Jerusalem. Read on you find
Speaker 1: out they did. They did. Joel chapter two, verse nine.
Speaker 1: They run to and fro in the city. They run
Speaker 1: on the wall, they climb to the houses. They enter
Speaker 1: at the windows like a thief, speaking of the swarming locusts,
Speaker 1: a type of the enemy. Now, next Sunday, I'm going
Speaker 1: to talk about closing doors and closing windows very very important.
Speaker 1: Forget the ballgame. This and it's very important because if
Speaker 1: you don't need it now, you will need it at
Speaker 1: some point, or you'll need it for a loved one.
Speaker 1: We don't want to be under the influence of the
Speaker 1: devil by doors we have opened. And everyone says, now,
Speaker 1: if you're starting to get depressed, don't, okay, because there
Speaker 1: really are demons they really want to enter people. But
Speaker 1: number three, here's point three. Jesus really does cast them out.
Speaker 1: I said he cast them out. Now go to Luke
Speaker 1: chapter ten. Luke ten. I want you to leave fired
Speaker 1: up that Jesus is on your side and you can
Speaker 1: deal with anything. Jesus sent twelve out. We know the
Speaker 1: disciples with power over the enemy, but he sent seventy
Speaker 1: out as well. When you love to know more about them,
Speaker 1: are their names you will in Eternity verse seventeen. Then
Speaker 1: those seventy that Jesus had sent out returned with joy, saying, Lord,
Speaker 1: even the demons are subject to us. How in your name.
Speaker 1: It's not your ability, it's Christ's ability. And Jesus said
Speaker 1: to them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
Speaker 1: What is referring to He's referring way back. You can
Speaker 1: read it in Isaiah when Satan rebelled against God. He
Speaker 1: was just kicked out, quicker than a bolt of lighting.
Speaker 1: True thirty the angels. Okay, So Jesus is not impressed
Speaker 1: by Satan. He is not intimidated by Satan. He's just
Speaker 1: a created being verse nineteen. Behold, I give you the
Speaker 1: authority to trample on serpents and scorpions. That's types and shadows. Okay,
Speaker 1: he doesn't mean snakes and stinging critters. Hello, a stinging critter.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be Kentucky in there, you don't tempt
Speaker 1: the Lord. The whole subject heres about demons, okay, and
Speaker 1: you have authority over them verse nineteen. Again, and over
Speaker 1: all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by
Speaker 1: any means hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this.
Speaker 1: Don't get excited about this. That's not the exciting part. Amen,
Speaker 1: That's what he said. And don't get excited about this
Speaker 1: that the spirits are subject to you. But I do
Speaker 1: want you to notice, in light of what we're talking
Speaker 1: about today's the demons are subject to you in Jesus' name. Amen,
Speaker 1: they're subject that need to be obedient and submissive to you.
Speaker 1: Here's what we're to be excited about. This is what
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be doing. Be excited and rejoice because
Speaker 1: your names are what is your name written in heaven?
Speaker 1: Come on, let's rejoice, am in it? Yeah? Yeah, you see.
Speaker 1: Keep that perspective. Then, when you're dealing with something of
Speaker 1: a demonic nature, it doesn't for ten years of your life,
Speaker 1: deal with it and move on and get back rejoicing. Amen.
Speaker 1: Thank you Father that you have Oh wait, I'm skipping
Speaker 1: next verse. I'm so excited about this because you're free
Speaker 1: in Jesus name. And that hour Jesus rejoiced in this
Speaker 1: spirit and said, I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven
Speaker 1: and earth, that you have hidden these things. Just remember
Speaker 1: that phrase, these things from the wise and the prudent,
Speaker 1: those who think they have it all together. All. Wait,
Speaker 1: I gotta go to church so I can look all
Speaker 1: wise and prudent. Look, everybody sees through that. Get on
Speaker 1: worship God. That's what people want to see. You know what,
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of wisdom, but I want
Speaker 1: to keep rolling. I don't know everything, but I can
Speaker 1: keep learning. See. Just let's keep that attitude. So he's
Speaker 1: hidding that from those who think they have it all together,
Speaker 1: and you revealed them to babes. Even so, Father far
Speaker 1: so it seemed good in your sight. Wow, I love it.
Speaker 1: What is he talking about. He's talking about authority over demons.
Speaker 1: He's saying the wives and imprudent, they'll believe there that
Speaker 1: their demons are, that they have authority over them. But
Speaker 1: you've told these young babes and they're going to walk
Speaker 1: in authority. You know, sometimes we don't have a problem
Speaker 1: knowing that God has all the power. Correct. But what
Speaker 1: the enemy loves here. This, this is for someone. What
Speaker 1: the enemy loves to do is to get us to
Speaker 1: focus on our weakness, our weaknesses and our history, and
Speaker 1: that brings shame. And I want you free of all
Speaker 1: shame today. I want your family free of shame. In
Speaker 1: Jesus' name. You can't get free. Other people can't get
Speaker 1: free unless you realize I'm not doing it's Jesus. It's Jesus,
Speaker 1: and you're believing it. For you and for others. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna remind you where we started back in Mark five.
Speaker 1: That guy he was demonized six thousand and six, one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty and twenty Sixtymnus doesn't matter. One would
Speaker 1: be too many right running naked in the cemetery out
Speaker 1: of his mind. None of you are in that much bondage.
Speaker 1: All of you have clothes on today. Praise God, Thank God.
Speaker 1: Let me show you something that will give you hope again,
Speaker 1: Mark five or six. When he saw Jesus from Afar,
Speaker 1: he ran and he worshiped him. And Andrew brought that
Speaker 1: point up, and he had no clue what I was
Speaker 1: talking about. Folks, if you want to get free, worship him,
Speaker 1: surrender to him. Oh, it might be an emotion. Yes,
Speaker 1: you go to that country concert and you worship. You
Speaker 1: go to the ball game and you jump up and down.
Speaker 1: Jesus needs to be the one we worship with more
Speaker 1: more focus and more more excitement than anything else. Are
Speaker 1: you with me? Satan does not have the power to
Speaker 1: stop you from coming to Jesus. He couldn't do that
Speaker 1: to that guy because if he could stop anybody, you know,
Speaker 1: he wanted to stop that guy. Wow, and he I mean,
Speaker 1: he lost a lot of territory when that guy started
Speaker 1: going around to the Ten Cities. So if you're in bondage,
Speaker 1: if you have a difficulty in your life, an area
Speaker 1: of sin you can't overcome, let's just call it a bondage.
Speaker 1: Just call it that. Amen, But Jesus wants to set
Speaker 1: you free. Let's stand Andrew, come on. Thank you for listening.
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