WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:03.600 Let's let's pray over the word. Yeah, you guys all 2 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:08.359 look so good. Man, that what what a fiery like morning. 3 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:13.919 It's already been so good. God is so good. Come on, 4 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:17.559 I feel a real shift and like, uh, like a 5 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:22.480 lot of generation of like energy power, the Holy Ghost 6 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:26.800 anointing in this room. And we're gonna keep that going. Yeah. 7 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:29.359 So Father, we just thank you God that uh, that 8 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:32.359 your word is seed and that you are the one 9 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:35.000 who grows that seed. Father. I pray right now that 10 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:38.159 our soil and our hearts is prepared and ready to 11 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:41.079 take on your word. Lord. Let it be a nourishment 12 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:44.759 to our souls and to our spirits. God and Father, 13 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:48.679 we just uh, we just say that every other distraction 14 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.719 outside Lord, God is silenced. Even right now. We just 15 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:57.399 take full authority over those things that want to distract 16 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:00.359 us away from the reading of your word God, and 17 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:04.120 and the enrichment and the invitation that you have for 18 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:10.640 your people today in Jesus's mighty name. Amen. So my 19 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:14.439 sermon title, you guys kind of already saw it. But 20 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:18.719 the sermon title is building an unstoppable life. And that 21 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:22.319 sermon title is that way because the last time that 22 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:24.760 I was up here to preach. I shared with you 23 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:30.959 in the last sermon, which was building a powerful life. Right, 24 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:36.959 was that we shared what responsibility we have over our flesh. Right. 25 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:41.280 I touched on briefly what the weapons of our warfare are, 26 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:45.840 which are mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds. Right. 27 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:48.799 And so we're going to dive deeper into that because 28 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:51.719 last time I told you a few things, like I 29 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:53.319 think it was second SERVI As I said, I got 30 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:55.640 a whole other sermon lined up for that. Okay, So 31 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:58.040 now I have to deliver, right. So God is good. 32 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:01.000 God is good, and he's going through a delivery, right. 33 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:04.079 Are you ready to get your delivery though? All right? 34 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:08.280 So we also learned that the Holy Spirit empowers us 35 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:12.120 through subduing the work of the flesh and also subduing 36 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:15.319 the power of darkness that comes against us. Right today, 37 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:18.280 God wants to equip you guys, the church and me 38 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:23.560 of course right in the area of authority through Jesus 39 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:32.879 right over demonic power in order to build an unstoppable life. Okay, 40 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:36.319 So first I think it would be appropriate that in 41 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:39.120 order for us to get an understanding of what is 42 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:42.800 demonic versus the struggle of the flesh. We need to 43 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:47.039 look at some of the operations of the enemy. We 44 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:50.680 need to look at how the devil, Satan and his 45 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:55.439 minions operate. Right, So let's take a look at some 46 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:59.159 of these scriptures. Ephesians four, verse twenty five through thirty two. 47 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:05.879 Ephesians for It, twenty thirty two. Okay, that's a different version. 48 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:07.400 I'm gonna read it from mine, but you guys can 49 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:10.479 follow on with that one. Okay, I'm reading out of 50 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:13.039 the New King James. But that's a good one. That's 51 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:19.599 pretty straightforward. So stop telling lies, okay, So stop telling lies. Okay. Therefore, 52 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:21.960 putting away lying, Let each one of you speak the 53 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:25.919 truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. 54 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:28.080 Be angry, and do not sin. Do not let the 55 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:32.280 sun go down on your wrath. Right, nor give place 56 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:34.240 to the devil. 57 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:36.400 Right. 58 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:40.080 Let him who stole still no longer, but rather let 59 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:42.680 him labor working with his hands. What is good that 60 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:45.479 he may have something to give him who has need. 61 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:48.400 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth. But 62 00:03:48.479 --> 00:03:51.719 what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart 63 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:56.560 grace to the hearers. And do not grieve the Holy 64 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:59.319 Spirit of God by whom you were sealed for the 65 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:06.120 day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and 66 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:09.960 evil speaking be put away from you with all malice, 67 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:16.160 and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, 68 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:22.720 even as God in Christ forgave you verse twenty seven. 69 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:30.040 You have that go back verse twenty seven, nor give 70 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:43.040 place to the devil, Nor give place to the devil. Okay, 71 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:48.920 And it's literally a little short verse, all right, Nor 72 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:55.439 for anger gives a foothold to the devil. But here's 73 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:58.240 what he's saying. He's telling us that the operation by 74 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:02.800 which the enemy has is actual working through people. It's 75 00:05:02.839 --> 00:05:06.199 actually working through the actions of not non believers in 76 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:12.040 this sense, it's through the believer. He's telling you the 77 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:16.879 operation of Satan and the devil that can work through 78 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:24.279 our actions. He can work through our actions. Right, so 79 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:27.959 we have a responsibility for those right. Okay. Now let's 80 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:30.879 go to tewod Corinthians, Chapter two, verse ten and eleven. 81 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:34.480 I'm gonna give you another example of how the enemy operates. 82 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:41.839 Right now, whom you forgive anything, I also forgive for 83 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:47.040 If indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that 84 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:54.879 one for your sakes in the presence of Christ. Less 85 00:05:55.839 --> 00:06:03.959 Satan should take advantage of us, for we are not 86 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:18.920 ignorant of his devices. What devices, laptop, cell phone, iPad? No, 87 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:27.399 he's not talking about those devices, right, He's talking about 88 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:31.560 the operation of the enemy. That when you hold on 89 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:40.959 to unforgiveness, resentment, bitterness, right, the devil deceives us. He 90 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:47.759 works deception into the body of Christ. And it's through 91 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:53.920 our very own responsible actions, whether we forgive or let go. 92 00:06:55.439 --> 00:07:02.639 But you don't know what they did to me. I'm sorry, 93 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:06.879 I'd rather not be taking advantage of I'm going to forgive. 94 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:13.240 I'd rather not give a foothold to the devil. It's written, 95 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:18.879 it's the word, right, that's what we're reading. Do you agree? 96 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:29.560 So if we walk in unforgiveness, understand what God is saying. Right, 97 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:36.040 Because you know Satan is the father of lies, right, 98 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:38.879 I can confidently tell you that he was probably the 99 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:43.720 first embittered person too, in all of creation, the first 100 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:49.199 embittered being with bitterness, father of bitterness. I'd probably label 101 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:53.879 him that very confidently. You don't have to hold on 102 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:59.680 to the trespass, it's your responsibility. The enemy likes to 103 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:12.480 work through bitterness in the believer, unforgiveness. So when we 104 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:15.120 hold onto those things, it means that we become blind 105 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:19.319 and ignorant to the devices of the devil through the 106 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:23.800 way that he operates. Holy Spirit through Paul is saying 107 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:40.879 that this is the operation of the enemy, intimidation, manipulation, division, confusion, offenses, defenses. 108 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:51.679 For example, Hey Dennis Man, you know, I probably shouldn't 109 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:55.440 use you as an example. You're too good, all right, Hey, 110 00:08:55.519 --> 00:08:59.320 Luke Man, I want you to know. I want you 111 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:01.320 to know, Luke, I want you to know, Luke that 112 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:03.759 on you know that thing that you said to that 113 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:09.679 person man, that wasn't right. No, I love you man. 114 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:14.840 It's his responsibility whether he's going to put up a 115 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:22.200 wall and say that's you don't know what he did 116 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:28.720 to me. You don't know how they treated me. Therefore 117 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:34.679 I do this, and now you're added into the offense list. 118 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:44.919 Now you've also become an enemy. So defenses too, when 119 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:52.799 we justify what our actions are right. Here's another example 120 00:09:52.840 --> 00:10:04.159 of Satan's operations two Corinthians eleven four. For if he 121 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:08.360 who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, 122 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:17.879 or if you receive a different spirit which you have 123 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:24.320 not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted. 124 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:29.039 You may well put up with it. You may well 125 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:34.399 put up with it. There is potential for you to 126 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:39.679 receive teaching, instruction and direction via a spirit. This versus 127 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:47.879 keep it up, and you, who receive it as a 128 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:57.000 Christian can partner with that. Paul even says here that 129 00:10:57.039 --> 00:10:58.679 you may well put up with it, meaning that you 130 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:01.440 could be living with this thing influencing you for so 131 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:05.440 long that you may well be thinking in your mind 132 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:09.919 using ice statements about this. This is just who I am. 133 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:16.759 This is just what I'm like. Gregory, And what did 134 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:21.679 pastor Romans say last week? No, you're being rude. You're 135 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:23.879 just being rude. You ain't being You're not being real, 136 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:30.200 You're being rude. This is just who I am. All 137 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:34.440 in the meantime, it's the enemy. This is just who 138 00:11:34.519 --> 00:11:39.720 I am. Repeat after me. This is just who I am. 139 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:44.879 This is just how I do. Ain't nobody gonna tell 140 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:50.840 me what to do. I'm big dog. It ain't my 141 00:11:51.000 --> 00:12:01.039 fault that they y'all listen, please, let's not fall prey 142 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:06.159 to that. Let's cast the devil out right. Don't put 143 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:12.559 up with deceptive spirits when you start talking like everything 144 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.720 that goes against the Bible. If what you're saying to 145 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:19.200 defend yourself doesn't sound like the words out of this 146 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:24.840 book in a legit sense, because people can't take it 147 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:28.919 out of context. If it doesn't sound exactly like Jesus 148 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:34.279 would have said it, we might just want to stop 149 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:42.639 saying those words. We might need to humble ourselves and say, 150 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:47.919 thank you, brother, thank you sister. I don't have to 151 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:53.600 accept the doctrine of demons. I don't have to accept 152 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:58.559 those lives. That is not who I am. Why does 153 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:01.519 everything that I say that that's just how I am, 154 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.080 goes against the word. If it's me against the word, 155 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:16.840 I'm wrong, that's the truth. Right. Therefore, you can receive 156 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.519 a different spirit that keeps you bound after you've received 157 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:27.360 the spirit of God. That's what Diverse is saying. You 158 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:33.240 may well put up with it. So that's another operation 159 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:39.879 of the enemy. He teaches you through their own culture, 160 00:13:40.919 --> 00:13:45.440 through their own philosophies. You can go search a bunch 161 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:48.399 of Google explanations as to why you're so right and 162 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:53.240 everybody else in your church is so wrong. You can 163 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:56.000 go find it. Every excuse in the book as to 164 00:13:56.039 --> 00:14:05.679 why you're behaving so nasty. The enemy also has another 165 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:11.960 doctrine too. He deceives churches into thinking that God is 166 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:16.399 in full sovereign control over what happens to their congregation members, 167 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:20.519 the good and the bad. Oh, man, you know, I 168 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:24.639 got this cancer to teach me a lesson. God is good. 169 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:34.879 Lie from hell. That's not what Jesus paid for with 170 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:38.240 his blood. Let's go look at that with the scriptures. 171 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:44.799 Genesis one twenty six, this is what we're talking about. 172 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.240 Let us make man. Then, God said, let us make 173 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:51.440 make in an r image according to our likeness. Let 174 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.120 them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over 175 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:56.720 the birds of the air, over the cattle, over all 176 00:14:56.840 --> 00:15:01.000 the earth, say all the earth, and over every creeping 177 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:03.960 thing that creeps on earth. He gave us dominion. Right. 178 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:09.200 Let's go to Psalm one fifteen, verse sixteen. That heaven, 179 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:14.559 even the heavens, are the Lord's true but the earth 180 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:18.679 he has given to the children of men. In the 181 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:22.840 Passion translation, it says it says here the heavens belong 182 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:26.120 to our God, they are his alone. But he has 183 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:33.559 given us the earth and put us in charge. God's 184 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:38.440 desires is that you would represent the authority of his 185 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:42.799 kingdom on earth, and that the dominion of his son 186 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:47.399 would increase forever, because to his kingdom there will be 187 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:51.279 no end right, and that is only going to be 188 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:59.440 facilitated through you the believer. Amen. But we're gonna continue 189 00:15:59.919 --> 00:16:05.159 going somewhere. Right. So we lost authority on earth because 190 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:08.360 of the fall of man through the one Adam who 191 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:10.720 sin and ate of the fruit of the knowledge of 192 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:14.720 the good and evil, and the deceiver came to deceive 193 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:17.840 the woman, and so the husband also ate of the 194 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:22.120 fruit right, and so then he was handed all of 195 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:26.399 the authority that was on Adam and Eve to Satan. 196 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:33.320 But when Jesus came, he authorized the use of his 197 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:36.679 authority by those whom he gave it to. Do you 198 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:40.679 know this? I told you in the last sermon when 199 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:43.600 I was talking about building a powerful life, that Jesus 200 00:16:43.639 --> 00:16:48.960 came before the baptisms of the disciples, before the Holy 201 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:53.559 Ghost baptism, he gave them authority. Did I not? Did 202 00:16:54.200 --> 00:17:01.559 anybody go look that up? Did you guys already know that? Oh? 203 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:06.160 My word, let's fact check me real quick, Luke nine 204 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:09.720 verses one and two. This is way before the baptism 205 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:12.599 of the Holy Ghost and acts. Right, then he called 206 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:15.720 his twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority 207 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:25.119 over all demons and to cure diseases. Hallelujah. Let's go 208 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:30.839 to Matthew ten, verse one. And when he had called 209 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:36.240 his twelve disciples to him, he gave them power over 210 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:40.119 unclean spirits, to cast them out and to heal all 211 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:45.640 kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease. Amen, check 212 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:50.359 this out. I did more research, right, did more research. 213 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:55.119 But wait, there's more. Okay. The word power that is 214 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:58.960 used in Luke nine in the Greek is dunamous. A 215 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:01.920 lot of you know that, right. The word authority here 216 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:05.200 in Luke nine, the word of God says in the 217 00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:12.359 Greek is exusiah. It is interesting to note, therefore, that 218 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:18.039 in Matthew chapter ten, the word for power you would 219 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:23.440 have thought it wasnonymous. It's also exusiah in the Greek. 220 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:31.240 Oh oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, come on, 221 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:36.240 come on. So power and authority are co laboring together 222 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:43.799 in us and through us, just like the disciples. Hallelujah. 223 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:50.720 What we're talking about today is exusiah, meaning mastery, delegated 224 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:57.720 influence power and right, like as in your rights, it 225 00:18:57.799 --> 00:19:01.839 is your right to stay silent. Yeah, but you know 226 00:19:01.880 --> 00:19:04.680 what I'm saying, it's your rights. Okay, you have rights right, 227 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:11.599 right or okay, you have rights right, strength over the 228 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:20.480 demonic and all type of disease. Now we have defined 229 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:27.640 what authority is Exuziah right. So that is what Jesus 230 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:31.119 gave to the believers. Let's read further into the New Testament. 231 00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:35.039 Now Ephesians chapter six, verse twelve. We're all familiar with this. Right. 232 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:38.039 I got to wake up in the morning, put on 233 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:40.759 the armor of God, child of God. You gotta do it. 234 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:46.440 But it says here, for we say we do not 235 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:50.720 wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, 236 00:19:50.759 --> 00:20:05.720 against the rulers. Places right paston false humility type of 237 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:14.440 gospel will get the believer killed. God does not want 238 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:21.680 us to neglect his word. I say this because the 239 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:25.279 next portion of scripture we're going to read together came 240 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:43.559 came before what we just read. It's in Two Corinthians twelve, 241 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:47.559 seven and ten. Paul has to live this out in 242 00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:55.799 real time verse seven. Unless I should be exalted above 243 00:20:55.839 --> 00:21:00.519 measured by the abundance of revelations. A thorn in the flat, say, 244 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:05.119 in the flesh was given to me a messenger of Satan, 245 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:10.920 to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. Next, 246 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.240 concerning this thing, I pleaded with the Lord three times 247 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:19.599 that it might depart from me, And he said to me, 248 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:27.880 read with me, My grace is sufficient for you. For 249 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:32.799 my strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore, most gladly, 250 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:36.880 I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power 251 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:40.759 of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure 252 00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:49.119 in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses. 253 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:51.799 He's listening a whole bunch of negative things right there, 254 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:56.039 right for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then 255 00:21:56.079 --> 00:22:00.559 I am strong. Let's go back to what God said 256 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:12.440 in verse nine. My gris charis for us English speakers. Okay, 257 00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:16.400 uh cas, you like that Greek Greek accent thing? Thing? Yeah? 258 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:23.079 Got that, got that down? Kay? Is our kao for 259 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:29.480 you sufficient? What does that mean? You may ask? Good thing? 260 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:34.240 I got the answer. Grace is the power of God 261 00:22:35.119 --> 00:22:42.160 in operation. Let's break it down because we're always taught 262 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:49.799 that grace means unearned favor or unmerited favor right. We 263 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:53.440 always hear that grace is this charis is this chras is. 264 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:58.000 Our chao by Biblical word use means to be possessed 265 00:22:58.079 --> 00:23:05.960 of unfailing strength, to be strong, sufficient, to be enough 266 00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:13.960 to defend ward off. Are chao by definition in the 267 00:23:14.119 --> 00:23:19.319 strongs is akin to meaning a relative of right, a 268 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:26.519 row to take up, to take away, lift up in 269 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:34.640 case you're falling right and loose you. Likewise, our kao 270 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:39.039 means to raise up a barrier against or in the 271 00:23:39.160 --> 00:23:46.160 proper use ward off. This then explains that God's response 272 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:49.319 to Paul is meant to be understood in such a 273 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:53.279 way like this. The grace that I have put in 274 00:23:53.319 --> 00:23:56.880 you is able to loose you, and through it you 275 00:23:56.920 --> 00:24:01.960 may ward off the messenger of Satan, stop asking me 276 00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:10.119 for something that I am commanding you to do. When 277 00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:13.799 that revelation hit him, because it's in read letters, it 278 00:24:13.960 --> 00:24:18.039 said that God spoke to him basically directly right when 279 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:24.039 the revelation hit him, all of the sudden, he's like, Yo, 280 00:24:24.200 --> 00:24:29.160 guess what, Corinthians, here's what I just found out That 281 00:24:29.240 --> 00:24:36.240 the grace that He deposited into us is able to 282 00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:41.279 make us free too. Guess what else? It showed them 283 00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:46.279 speaking of humility. In that verse, it showed them that 284 00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:50.240 even though this man has seen the Third Heaven, he said, 285 00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:55.559 lest I should be exalted above measure. Jason, I'm not 286 00:24:55.720 --> 00:25:03.039 exempt from spiritual warfare. And I'm an apostle too, I'm 287 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:06.440 not exempt from the enemy. Come in to buffet me. 288 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:09.480 And if you look up what buffet means, he literally 289 00:25:09.640 --> 00:25:22.400 was slamming him down. You are engaged in spiritual warfare, 290 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:26.680 whether you like it or not. Welcome to the conversation. 291 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:35.440 That's the truth of that portion of scripture. He had 292 00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:37.559 to learn it in real time and wrote it to him. 293 00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:42.440 Second Corinthians was written between fifty five and fifty six AD. 294 00:25:43.400 --> 00:25:46.720 Ephesians was written where we get the Armor of God 295 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:52.440 sixty to sixty two AD, meaning within a five to 296 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:56.880 seven year period. He's on YouTube live sending broadcasts every 297 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:00.000 day going, hey, guys, listen, I think I'm starting to 298 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:03.000 figure this thing out with that whole thing that keeps 299 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:06.160 happening to me spiritually, the whole thing that keeps pushing 300 00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:08.559 me down, and all of a sudden, I'm falling over. 301 00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:15.240 Guess what. It's a messenger of Satan. Welcome to the conversation, 302 00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:19.160 y'all put on the whole armor of God, because we've 303 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:25.480 wrestled not against flesh and blood. So in five to 304 00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:30.079 seven years of him going live, writing forever, I'm sure 305 00:26:31.559 --> 00:26:34.680 you know, sending out letters boom boom boom boomom, I'm 306 00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:37.599 trying to train you up. I'm trying to give you something. 307 00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:43.680 God's trying to deposit something into the church that's for 308 00:26:43.799 --> 00:26:52.200 us today right now. It's an invitation. Right So he's 309 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:54.359 telling us listen, I figured out what the problem was. 310 00:26:54.440 --> 00:26:58.279 This is the enemy we're fighting. This is how we fight, 311 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:11.319 and this makes us unstoppable. His grace in operation is 312 00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:19.240 power and authority. My grace is sufficient for you. My 313 00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:24.359 grace is sufficient for you. Say, his grace is sufficient 314 00:27:24.680 --> 00:27:32.960 for me. Let's read more about this grace Romans, with 315 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:35.559 this thought now in mind, right now that we broke 316 00:27:35.559 --> 00:27:41.799 it down, Romans, Chapter five, verse seventeen. For if by 317 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:45.480 one man's offense, death reign through the one much more, 318 00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:52.720 those who receive abundance of grace and the gift of 319 00:27:52.799 --> 00:28:01.720 righteousness will not could will? Did you? Those who receive 320 00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:08.559 abundance of grace, The word is received. Now come on, 321 00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:11.839 now there's action to be taken right, there's action to 322 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:19.200 be taken right. Will reign in life through the one 323 00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:39.359 Jesus Christ. How's the reign of Jesus effective in my life? 324 00:28:39.640 --> 00:28:49.759 I'll answer you through his grace, which is sufficient for me. James. 325 00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:56.279 Chapter four, verse six and seven is widely used. Let's 326 00:28:56.279 --> 00:29:01.119 read it with this understanding. But he gives more grace 327 00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:08.759 whoa Therefore, he says, God resists the proud, but gives 328 00:29:08.839 --> 00:29:17.720 grace to the humble. Therefore, submit to God, resist the devil, 329 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:23.319 and he will flee from you. What is submitting to 330 00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:28.799 God look like? First off, he shot God. He said, 331 00:29:28.839 --> 00:29:35.759 I pleaded with God three times, he prayed right, he 332 00:29:35.839 --> 00:29:43.640 humbled himself before God. Then God gave the answer. Graema, 333 00:29:44.319 --> 00:29:49.640 the living word just hit him. He's like he's made 334 00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:54.960 a deposit. I have authority. You know why it's important 335 00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:58.880 that Paul said that because he wasn't in the twelve 336 00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:03.960 or the seventy that received the authority in Luke and Matthew. 337 00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:08.519 So he had to learn it a different way, Rosina. 338 00:30:12.200 --> 00:30:16.200 Just like you and me, we have to receive arima 339 00:30:16.680 --> 00:30:32.880 from God Almighty. This is the entirety of Paul's life 340 00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:36.079 struggle with the thorn in the flesh. He shows us 341 00:30:36.119 --> 00:30:45.799 that apostles were not exempt right from warfare. God told him, 342 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:49.279 I gave you authority, use it. I gave you power 343 00:30:49.400 --> 00:30:59.559 over use it. The thorn in his flesh was about 344 00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:05.640 telling people that although he could boast about himself like 345 00:31:05.720 --> 00:31:10.519 other false apostles, this is like three three He wrote 346 00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:14.160 like three chapters before this, all about it. He's arguing 347 00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:16.720 his points, He's telling them what he's done, what he's 348 00:31:16.759 --> 00:31:19.720 come to, what's what has happened to him. He saw 349 00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:29.519 the third heaven right because people generally generally don't look 350 00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:38.400 like to don't like to look bad in public. And 351 00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:43.079 yet he says, lest I should be exalted in your eyes. 352 00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:51.599 No demonic's messenger was sent to me by Satan to 353 00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:57.000 attack me. The devil will take that same doctrine and 354 00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:00.759 tell you that it was the will of God that 355 00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:10.359 that happened to him in order to discredit Paul's humility. 356 00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:16.319 But instead we got pearls of wisdom and truth that 357 00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:20.799 were given to us by the revealing of the Holy Spirit. 358 00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:24.720 All the tools that we have to unlock the scriptures 359 00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:32.559 are given to us. My grace is sufficient for you. 360 00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:49.519 The devil is a liar. Therefore, first John four four says, 361 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:55.480 but he gives more. No, you are of God little 362 00:32:55.519 --> 00:33:03.640 children and have overcome them, because He who is in 363 00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:10.519 you is greater than he who is in the world. 364 00:33:19.559 --> 00:33:22.240 Mm hmmm. I'm gonna leave you with these, with this 365 00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:26.680 last verse, and then I'm gonna tell you a story. Ready, 366 00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:28.519 So I want you to get this. We need to 367 00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:33.599 get this because we have a responsibility over all of 368 00:33:33.640 --> 00:33:36.559 the promises of God that Jesus paid for in his 369 00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:47.240 blood right Ephesians three twenty, widely known, widely used. Let's 370 00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:55.200 slow it down Ephesians three twenty. Now to him who 371 00:33:55.240 --> 00:34:06.279 is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we think, 372 00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:13.360 we ask, or think right, according to the power that 373 00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:31.280 works in us. He is able to do according to 374 00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:38.519 the power that works in us. He gave man dominion 375 00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:43.760 and authority over earth. Right. When Jesus left, he said, 376 00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:49.440 I will send you another, and you will also have dominion. Right. 377 00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:53.199 And God said about his son that his kingdom will 378 00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:55.320 have no end, there will be no end to his 379 00:34:55.400 --> 00:35:05.760 reign when he comes. Right, you are the one who 380 00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:10.599 guarantees that the authority and dominion of the kingdom of 381 00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:22.880 heaven gross and the enemy wants to stop that. Right. 382 00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:30.119 Let me tell you a story now you're ready, okay. So, 383 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:35.280 so there I was in the jungles of Ecuador. Okay, 384 00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:37.239 that's not how the story. That's not how the story goes. 385 00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:41.119 No no, no, no, that's not the story. Okay, okay, look, okay, okay, 386 00:35:41.960 --> 00:35:46.719 so okay, So so I'm gonna give you two short stories. Okay. 387 00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:50.039 First short story, listen, while I was preparing this sermon. 388 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:58.000 While I was preparing this sermon this week, I had 389 00:35:58.039 --> 00:36:03.440 like a few sick people around me. Dennis. I was like, 390 00:36:03.880 --> 00:36:09.679 they're sick, they're coughing, hacking up. Man, they don't look 391 00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:11.119 you know, it's not looking too good. 392 00:36:11.199 --> 00:36:11.360 Right. 393 00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:18.119 And then after my lunch, I go and I'm sitting 394 00:36:18.119 --> 00:36:23.320 down and I'm and I'm just like meditating on what 395 00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:26.119 what I'm going to uh, what I'm going to be 396 00:36:26.199 --> 00:36:28.400 sharing with the body, right, And I knew it had 397 00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:32.360 to do with this. All of a sudden, I start 398 00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:35.199 meditating on those things, Zach. 399 00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:41.800 They're coughing, hacking up, they're sick, they don't look too good. 400 00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:46.960 I hugged one of them because I'm a hugger, you know. 401 00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:53.159