Speaker 1: Deuteronomy thirty two, eight through nine says that God divided
Speaker 1: out the nations. Now, what I want to talk to
Speaker 1: you about today is the new era of warfare. Everybody say,
Speaker 1: the new era of warfare. So this is kind of
Speaker 1: like the stock market, you know, when things are moving,
Speaker 1: they're kind of up and down, right, So this is.
Speaker 2: So Deuteronomy thirty two. Did you go there? Oh? Good?
Speaker 1: When the most I gave the nations their inheritance when
Speaker 1: he divided up mankind, he set up boundaries for the
Speaker 1: people according to the number of the sons of Israel.
Speaker 1: For the Lord's at portion is his people. Jacob is
Speaker 1: his allotted inheritance. Now, some of you have heard me
Speaker 1: talk about this before. Anything I've said before that i'll
Speaker 1: say today. I'm just during up your pure minds with
Speaker 1: remembering what I've said, because sometimes we need to hear
Speaker 1: things again, right, So, and I want to set the
Speaker 1: stage for what God's doing again, so that you're just
Speaker 1: reminded of what God's doing. For one thing, remember that
Speaker 1: when it says here that he allotted go back to
Speaker 1: verse eight if you would. When he allotted the inheritance
Speaker 1: according to the number of sons of Israel. That is
Speaker 1: a mistranslation. This is the new international version, the ESV,
Speaker 1: the English Standard version is the best because it's off
Speaker 1: of the best manuscripts. And so the Hebrew there is
Speaker 1: actually the sons of God, according to the Sons of God,
Speaker 1: and it's actually the word Elohim. So what you want
Speaker 1: to remember, and I've talked about it before, but what
Speaker 1: you want to remember is that essentially the people of
Speaker 1: the earth, this is Tower of Babel time, the people
Speaker 1: of the earth were rebellious. They didn't want to be
Speaker 1: under God, they wanted to be free from God, and
Speaker 1: so God turned them all over, this is until the
Speaker 1: Christ would come. God turned them all over to other sons,
Speaker 1: created beings, which the Bible calls elu Him, and those
Speaker 1: created beings he gave them charge over nations. And then
Speaker 1: later we see in scripture they're called rulers, or they're
Speaker 1: called princes, or they're called principalities. So like later in
Speaker 1: Daniel ten verse thirteen, Daniel prays for twenty one days
Speaker 1: and it says that you know, we see in the
Speaker 1: scripture it says nothing's happening, and it says then suddenly
Speaker 1: he started getting answers and it says, and it's Michael
Speaker 1: that comes to him, and Michael is the prince over
Speaker 1: the children of Israel. By the way, there were seventy nations.
Speaker 1: Everybody says seventy. There were seventy nations. So sixty nine
Speaker 1: he disinherited. Sixty nine he turned over to these other princes.
Speaker 2: Who then chose.
Speaker 1: To lead the nations into debauchery and idle worship, and
Speaker 1: to institute what would be then known in those nations
Speaker 1: as powers, spiritual powers of which the people were compelled
Speaker 1: to worship, to bow down to, to serve. So and
Speaker 1: you know we've heard, you know, this has been going
Speaker 1: on for you know, all this time, right, so you've
Speaker 1: heard stories about this kind of stuff. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you remember Charlie Robinson when he was here, he
Speaker 1: talked about how when him and Sammy were first called
Speaker 1: the Indonesia on a flight into the nation, God gave
Speaker 1: him a vision of the Mermaid, which is the spirit.
Speaker 2: Like the power. Right.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a principality, but it's, you know,
Speaker 1: a power over Indonesia. So and I was reaching out
Speaker 1: to him this week just talking about that a little
Speaker 1: bit because I wanted to remember some of what the
Speaker 1: Lord had shown him. It's some pretty cool stuff. And
Speaker 1: so here Michael is the messenger, the angelic one, bringing
Speaker 1: the message.
Speaker 2: The reason he couldn't.
Speaker 1: Get the message to Daniel, you remember, the reason is
Speaker 1: because Daniel's living in Persia. He's under Persian authority. By
Speaker 1: the way, how many times have your prayers been held
Speaker 1: up because of the environment around you or the authority
Speaker 1: in the environment resisting the Holy Spirit bringing you the message?
Speaker 1: And then you think God doesn't want to hear you,
Speaker 1: or you think God doesn't want to move, But it's
Speaker 1: actually it's something in the environment that needs to be
Speaker 1: broken through. And it's his prayers twenty one days of
Speaker 1: continuing that actually broke through the environment that was keeping
Speaker 1: the word from coming. So in this case, the Prince
Speaker 1: of Persia, why because he's in Persia, was withstanding. But
Speaker 1: as he prayed, it fueled or it empowered Michael. And
Speaker 1: it says it actually says they had a war. They
Speaker 1: actually had war. It actually says they had a war.
Speaker 1: They actually had the fight. And Michael, it actually says this,
Speaker 1: Michael called for reinforcements. Because Manuel persisted. Michael called for reinforcements.
Speaker 1: They broke through and brought him the message. This kind
Speaker 1: of stuff is. You don't realize this, but this is
Speaker 1: so normal in the spirit realm. And we are conditioned
Speaker 1: against that. We don't see it as normal. We don't
Speaker 1: understand it. We're not we're not akin to that realm.
Speaker 1: And and and God wants to break us out of
Speaker 1: like dumbiness and bring us into smartiness. He wants us
Speaker 1: to be the smartest kids on the block. All right,
Speaker 1: So this is what happened. So at the Cross though,
Speaker 1: so so these guys were this is the kingdom of darkness.
Speaker 1: These guys were in charge of these nations, right, and
Speaker 1: this is this is the kingdom of light down here,
Speaker 1: this is the Kingdom of God, the kingdom which was
Speaker 1: solely uh solely devoted to Israel. Okay, but at the
Speaker 1: Cross something crazy happen. Right, So this is why it's
Speaker 1: so important what we see in Ephesians. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it dawns on us because we don't
Speaker 1: live in this redemptive mindset so much out of paganism,
Speaker 1: out of witchcraft, out of demon worship.
Speaker 2: We don't.
Speaker 1: It isn't so much of our history, and so we
Speaker 1: aren't mindful sometimes of how important it is. For instance,
Speaker 1: Matthew twenty eight, eighteen and nineteen, when Jesus says all
Speaker 1: authority is now given to me, all authority in heaven
Speaker 1: and on earth, when he.
Speaker 2: Says that it's super.
Speaker 1: Important, and when he says, and it's a Jewish audience
Speaker 1: he's speaking to, when he says, not only all authorities
Speaker 1: have been given to me, which is that would be interesting,
Speaker 1: because no jew had all over other nations. The other
Speaker 1: nations were under these princes, and these princes had very
Speaker 1: clear Rome had Jupiter. Jupiter was the power that was
Speaker 1: giving authority to the emperors and to Nero, and Jupiter
Speaker 1: was the power. And so you know, we're familiar. Jule
Speaker 1: and I have traveled. We've been to Italy, We've been
Speaker 1: to these places, we've been to Greece. You see the
Speaker 1: remnants of all of these powers and principalities and their expressions.
Speaker 2: And they once ruled over the people.
Speaker 1: They once had the spiritual power over the people. Jesus
Speaker 1: is saying something really crazy here to that audience. He's saying,
Speaker 1: a man now has authority over the nations. Never happened before,
Speaker 1: and this man is telling them go now to the nations,
Speaker 1: and disciple them go to the nations. So he's saying
Speaker 1: this to the audience, and there and and and there's
Speaker 1: still you know, it still took time, right, and we
Speaker 1: still got to meditate on the writings of Paul. We
Speaker 1: have to meditate on these writings so that we understand
Speaker 1: our assignment. You are on an assignment there you follow me.
Speaker 1: And so this is you know, this is the language
Speaker 1: of Colossians. You know chapter two that he that he
Speaker 1: spoiled principalities and powers, he made an open show of them,
Speaker 1: triumphing over them in the cross. This is the language
Speaker 1: of these of Ephesians. Ephesians three eight through ten. It
Speaker 1: says that this mystery which was hidden for ages, has
Speaker 1: now been revealed, that now through the Church, that the
Speaker 1: power of God would be manifested through the Church, to
Speaker 1: the principalities, to the powers, to the authorities, through the
Speaker 1: what through the church? One hundred and fifteen times the
Speaker 1: word church is in the New Testament. It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: sheet rocked building with metal siding. It means the ecclesea,
Speaker 1: the senate, it means the called out. It means the
Speaker 1: legislative body of Jesus, those who represent Heaven on earth
Speaker 1: and bring Heaven to earth. Right, and so this is
Speaker 1: this is super important because everything shifted at the cross.
Speaker 1: Now what happens is that we get these prognosticators.
Speaker 2: We have we have rises.
Speaker 1: So you know, Rome was completely Rome was under all
Speaker 1: of these demi gods. Roman Rome had all of these,
Speaker 1: and Greece as well. So these cultures they all had that, Spain, Portugal,
Speaker 1: they all had this stuff going on. Ireland, I've got
Speaker 1: the story of Ireland here. You know, Saint Patrick goes
Speaker 1: to Ireland. He's raised thirty nine people from the dead
Speaker 1: and one horse. How he led Ireland to the whole
Speaker 1: island to the lord was the king's son had died
Speaker 1: and he had been laid on a bed and they
Speaker 1: were getting ready to bury him, and the king's daughter
Speaker 1: went out and drowned in a river. Well about that
Speaker 1: time he had come into the region, and so they
Speaker 1: heard about him, and they heard that this guy had
Speaker 1: raised people from the dead, and so they're like, fetch
Speaker 1: this guy, bring him here, right, So he comes to
Speaker 1: the king and.
Speaker 2: He raises both because the daughter.
Speaker 1: Had been brought from the river and laid on the
Speaker 1: same bed and they were preparing graves for them according
Speaker 1: to the pagan rights of the Celtic people. And so
Speaker 1: he comes and he raised them both from the dead.
Speaker 1: And here was the confession of the king. The confession
Speaker 1: of the king was that if you can raise my
Speaker 1: children from the dead, then I will.
Speaker 2: Confess your faith.
Speaker 1: It this is this was the beginning of the complete
Speaker 1: shift to the island of Ireland. This is what brought
Speaker 1: illumination and salvation.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And what it what what it came with wherever, wherever
Speaker 1: the message of the God. And we're just so not
Speaker 1: used to this. Right wherever the message, I don't know
Speaker 1: where it happened, but somewhere in here, like uh, the
Speaker 1: somewhere in here I was working on the wrong graph. Okay,
Speaker 1: but somewhere in here, the Kingdom of Light was growing.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I don't know where it was, but somewhere in here, Uh,
Speaker 1: it got you know, really really high. Well we'll just
Speaker 1: go with this one. The Kingdom of Light got really
Speaker 1: high and really wonderful. Right, Oh, this entire that's a
Speaker 1: better what's going that on? Kingdom of like really high
Speaker 1: and really wonderful.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: And so somewhere in there we dismissed so much of
Speaker 1: the paganism. We dismissed so much of the with Shraft,
Speaker 1: we dismissed so much of you know, the folly and
Speaker 1: and everything that was working in our cultures.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the.
Speaker 1: Swedes and the Danes and the Gulls and the Norsk
Speaker 1: and and you know, just whatever nation you came from, right,
Speaker 1: And I could go on and on about this, but nonetheless,
Speaker 1: and then what happened is a couple generations, you know
Speaker 1: kind of you know, it kind of it kind of
Speaker 1: ebbed a little bit because we didn't well, we didn't
Speaker 1: really need to do that. We didn't really need to
Speaker 1: I mean, that wasn't just so necessary. And then along
Speaker 1: came us, right, and now we don't even know what
Speaker 1: deliverance is. We don't even know how to identify a devil.
Speaker 1: We can't even tell what a woman is.
Speaker 2: X y x y what's that? Actually? What chromosomes? You
Speaker 2: got to be kidne meing.
Speaker 1: And so what happened is, you know, I come along
Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty eight. I come along, and my dad
Speaker 1: came to the Lord.
Speaker 2: And my dad, you.
Speaker 1: Know, he didn't even you know, they never when my
Speaker 1: dad got born again and filled.
Speaker 2: With the spirit.
Speaker 1: They didn't even talk to him about deliverance. Didn't even
Speaker 1: know what deliverance was. This is in a full gospel church.
Speaker 1: Didn't even know what deliverance was. But you know this,
Speaker 1: this was the kind of the you know, the happy
Speaker 1: life of America in the sixties and churches it was
Speaker 1: just all about you know, roast beef and garlic on
Speaker 1: your roast after church and and you know, Sunday schools
Speaker 1: and evangelism and outreach and loving people and and so.
Speaker 1: But because there was no obvious and demonism and demonization
Speaker 1: and there was just no obvious because so much, so
Speaker 1: much had been taken care of here. And so what
Speaker 1: happened is then what happened is that people started teaching
Speaker 1: in our universities and our Bible schools and our seminaries
Speaker 1: that you don't do that, you don't need to do that,
Speaker 1: you don't need to do that. You don't talk to devils. Uh,
Speaker 1: you don't prophesy, uh, you don't. You don't speak to demons,
Speaker 1: you don't do any of that stuff.
Speaker 2: You don't you don't raise the dead.
Speaker 1: You know, what in the world are you talking about?
Speaker 1: And so you hear what I'm saying. And so this
Speaker 1: is the happy world that a lot of us grew
Speaker 1: up in. It. It was a super happy world. My
Speaker 1: dad drew Sunday School Boss all around Ben Dorgan. I
Speaker 1: would set up on the little heater box and the
Speaker 1: heat was pouring out of that you know, heater box,
Speaker 1: and I'd watched my dad. He was my big hero,
Speaker 1: and he played guitar, and he led the youth group,
Speaker 1: and him and mom had all this stuff going on
Speaker 1: for the Lord. And they were evangelist and benevolence and
Speaker 1: you know, benevolent and they were giving away and loving
Speaker 1: and caring for people. We always had people in our
Speaker 1: home evangelizing people and all this stuff going on. Never
Speaker 1: a word, you know, never a word about demons, never
Speaker 1: a deliverance.
Speaker 2: And this was the happy world.
Speaker 1: Well while that happy world, and it was kind of
Speaker 1: all about and we became a little bit though happy
Speaker 1: though happy, I mean, we became a little bit kind
Speaker 1: of ingrown too.
Speaker 2: You know. It was all about revivals.
Speaker 1: It was all about Bible study, it was all about
Speaker 1: learning the word. It was all about more meetings. It
Speaker 1: was all about more meetings. It was all about more meetings.
Speaker 1: We had we had Sunday morning, we had Sunday night,
Speaker 1: we had Wednesday night, we had Thursday night, we had
Speaker 1: Friday night, we had prayer meeting, we had and so
Speaker 1: a lot of this is going on. And while this
Speaker 1: is going on, then the unclean, the unsaved, those that
Speaker 1: we aren't even supposed to recognize that they might be
Speaker 1: unclean because because my goodness sakes, or aren't any demons anyway.
Speaker 1: So and but those folks were invading our government, invading
Speaker 1: our schools, invading, and we were just dumbly, we were
Speaker 1: dumbly having you know. And every time we would get
Speaker 1: some little inkling of some of that going on, then
Speaker 1: we would just say, well, I don't know, I heard
Speaker 1: it's supposed to get worse in the end. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: just what's going on. Could be a prophetic filment, that fulfillment.
Speaker 1: You know, we'll just stay over here and just be
Speaker 1: pray for each other because you know, uh, and then
Speaker 1: if somebody fell away, if now this is if somebody
Speaker 1: fell away, this we just keep going on, you know,
Speaker 1: and if somebody fell away, then we well, you know,
Speaker 1: there will be a great falling away towards the end,
Speaker 1: and bless God, it's just more prophetic filment. This is
Speaker 1: pathetic fulfillment, is what this is. This is not prop
Speaker 1: and so. But we're just all we're doing is we
Speaker 1: take We're taking a microcosm like somebody.
Speaker 2: Does with the stock.
Speaker 1: Oh, Tesla's down this week, I should sell fool, It'll be.
Speaker 2: Up next week.
Speaker 1: You you don't make your theological decision or your stock
Speaker 1: market decision on one day's movement in the market. You're
Speaker 1: never going to go anywhere you do that. So we're
Speaker 1: what we're doing, we're taking something under a microscope, and
Speaker 1: then we're coming up with stupid perspectives on it that
Speaker 1: really aren't what God's up to. What God's up to
Speaker 1: is raising up of victorious people who bring heaven to earth?
Speaker 1: Who raising up a victorious people?
Speaker 2: Who who?
Speaker 1: And He's said, I mean, what if we would have
Speaker 1: had the mindset, what if Paul would have had this mindset? You?
Speaker 1: We got to go to Ephesians real quick, and then
Speaker 1: I got to end. What if Paul would have had
Speaker 1: this mindset? Then right Rome, by three hundred and eighteen,
Speaker 1: Constantine gave up and he's like, all right, it's over.
Speaker 1: I surrender Christianity. We will no longer persecute you. You
Speaker 1: will be the official religion of Rome. And then every
Speaker 1: demon began to be cast out of Rome. Right, So,
Speaker 1: I mean, what if they would have given up? What
Speaker 1: if the early believers would have given up Ephesian six?
Speaker 1: You know, put on the full armor of God, that
Speaker 1: you can take your stand against the devil's schemes for
Speaker 1: our struggles, not against flesh and blood. For our struggle.
Speaker 1: The King James, I like it better for we wrestle,
Speaker 1: not against flesh and blood. No, that means we wrestle, Hello,
Speaker 1: some money. It doesn't mean that we don't wrestle. It
Speaker 1: means that we do wrestle our struggle, our wrestling. We wrestle,
Speaker 1: not against flesh and blood. I'm not wrestling with flesh
Speaker 1: and blood. So are we using spiritual power? Are we
Speaker 1: using the spiritual power that we have? Are we doing
Speaker 1: anything radical? This is an era of war and we're
Speaker 1: living like it's still Leave it to beaver, you know, Goofball,
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty America. It isn't. Satan is raging against us
Speaker 1: to destroy our children, our cities, our communities, our families,
Speaker 1: our media, our entertainment.
Speaker 2: Our sports, our sports.
Speaker 1: Satan is raging to destroy it and even causing people. Hello,
Speaker 1: you talk about captivity that until last year they actually
Speaker 1: knew what a woman was. But this year suddenly the
Speaker 1: same people in charge of the Olympics don't know what
Speaker 1: a woman is. Suddenly last year they knew what a
Speaker 1: woman was, they're even married to one. But this year
Speaker 1: they're totally confused. They cannot figure it out.
Speaker 2: If that isn't captivity, what is.
Speaker 1: That is captivity? We're seeing a resurge of paganism, are
Speaker 1: resurging of demonization. And we aren't gonna win this battle.
Speaker 1: In our Sunday school buses setting on heater boxes.
Speaker 2: We aren't gonna win this battle.
Speaker 1: Pretending that there's no demons, pretending that crash, pretending that
Speaker 1: we aren't in a battle, that is stupidity gone to seed.
Speaker 1: And if you look through the armor of God, the
Speaker 1: main there's only one offensive weapon, and we have to
Speaker 1: use that offensive weapon. Christians are supposed to use the
Speaker 1: offensive weapon in fact that you can't make any headway against.
Speaker 2: And Paul knew this.
Speaker 1: That's why Rome fell to christ That's why Greece fell
Speaker 1: to christ That's why all these nations fell to Christianity.
Speaker 1: Is because of the sword of the Spirit, which is
Speaker 1: the Word of God. Now, the sword of the Spirit
Speaker 1: is something we know we have a great privilege, but
Speaker 1: a great responsibility to.
Speaker 2: Do something with.
Speaker 1: And that is the sword of the Spirit is supposed
Speaker 1: to be in our mouth and on our tongue. We're
Speaker 1: supposed to have the sword of the Spirit.
Speaker 2: In our mouth and on our tongue.
Speaker 1: Fact is, that's actually how Joshua, which is the word Jesus,
Speaker 1: was to go in and prevail over the picture of
Speaker 1: the demonic realm in this day and age, the seven
Speaker 1: nations that were mightier than them, Every single nation represented
Speaker 1: a demonic principality, and they were to go in and
Speaker 1: prevail over them. And the same thing. It was the
Speaker 1: sword of the Spirit Joshua one sixth through a this
Speaker 1: word will not depart from your mouth.
Speaker 2: Keep the word of God. Keep the Word of God
Speaker 2: in your mouth.
Speaker 1: Why because the expression of the Word of God, as
Speaker 1: the sword of the Spirit, is only powerful as it
Speaker 1: comes out of your mouth. So we have this crazy privilege.
Speaker 1: But we have more than a privilege. We have a
Speaker 1: responsibility to be the voice of Jesus, to be the
Speaker 1: ministry of Jesus, to be the expression of Jesus with
Speaker 1: our mouth, while we're driving our Sunday school bus, while
Speaker 1: we're picking people up, while we're doing evangelism. We got
Speaker 1: to remember that the battle is a spiritual battle, and
Speaker 1: the principalities and powers and rulers of darkness, they are
Speaker 1: to be put under our feet. They are to be
Speaker 1: put under our feet. And we can do that easily
Speaker 1: as we use the sword of the spirit.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 1: So look at even. I want you to see this.
Speaker 1: I want you to see real quick. One that I
Speaker 1: want to read that I don't have memorized, but I
Speaker 1: just I want to read it anyway.
Speaker 2: And that's good.
Speaker 1: You're familiar with Jeremiah, of course already one nine and ten.
Speaker 1: He says, don't say that you're a youth. Please, don't
Speaker 1: talk that way. You're I'm empowering you. Just say what
Speaker 1: I tell you to say, say what I show you
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 2: And with me and my word in your.
Speaker 1: Mouth, you will overthrow and you will destroy, you will
Speaker 1: pluck up, you will break down, and then you will
Speaker 1: build and you will plan. Now I want to give
Speaker 1: you this real quick. It's says First Corinthians, chapter two.
Speaker 1: Where is it in my nose? First Corinthians chapter two
Speaker 1: might have it up there for Corinthians Chapter two, and
Speaker 1: Paul says that I didn't come to you. Here is
Speaker 1: my message. My preaching were not with wise, persuasive words,
Speaker 1: but with the demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that
Speaker 1: your faith would not rest on human wisdom but on
Speaker 1: God's power.
Speaker 2: We do, however, speak.
Speaker 1: A message of wisdom among them that's you are, but
Speaker 1: not the wisdom of this age or the rulers of
Speaker 1: this age, who are coming to nothing. Who are coming
Speaker 1: to nothing, this translation says, who are passing away. Here's
Speaker 1: what I want you to see. Even after the resurrection.
Speaker 1: This is what Paul knew, even after the resurrection and
Speaker 1: the judgment that was declared upon Satan through Christ in
Speaker 1: the resurrection. Even after that, Paul knew that the principalities
Speaker 1: weren't gone.
Speaker 2: There was just a higher authority.
Speaker 1: Jesus was given a name above them, a name above
Speaker 1: every name that is named on the earth and in
Speaker 1: the heavens. Right, this is Philippians shift chapter two.
Speaker 2: You know it.
Speaker 1: And so it's not like they didn't exist. But what
Speaker 1: he was showing us a picture of is that they
Speaker 1: are passing away. They are losing the battle. They are
Speaker 1: being overcome, they are being dispossessed, they are being driven out.
Speaker 1: So that's what we have to have a picture of.
Speaker 1: And so we don't you know what I was even
Speaker 1: quicken to say, for what it is worth. You know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who wins this presidential election that's coming up.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't matter to you who wins this presidential election
Speaker 1: coming up as to your spiritual posture, because I guarantee
Speaker 1: if mister Trump gets into office, and if that's your
Speaker 1: selected candidate, God bless you. But if mister Trump gets
Speaker 1: into office, I guarantee that all hell is going to
Speaker 1: continue to rage against the righteous in this nation, to
Speaker 1: destroy righteousness and the righteous. And if we don't continue,
Speaker 1: the answer is not in an office some as the
Speaker 1: answer is in the body of Christ rising up, the
Speaker 1: Body of Christ, becoming who she's meant to be, the
Speaker 1: Body of Christ with the Word of God in her mouth,
Speaker 1: the body of Christ. It's like this, We've got a
Speaker 1: whole book coming on this. I believe there's got to
Speaker 1: be a whole book on this. But Isaiah, this is
Speaker 1: where we shorted our responsibility. No shame on you, you know,
Speaker 1: shame on me, don't worry about We forget the shame.
Speaker 1: We hang about shame. Shame's gone, throw away the shame. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't worry about shame. But listen, this is where
Speaker 1: we missed our Like Isaiah nine right seven through nine,
Speaker 1: and the government shall be upon his shoulders. Well, we
Speaker 1: haven't been shouldering government. We've been shouldering the prayer meeting,
Speaker 1: we've been shouldering the bus, ministry, we've been shouldering everything else.
Speaker 1: But we didn't want to shoulder government. We haven't signed
Speaker 1: up for government, we haven't volunteered for government. We don't
Speaker 1: want nothing to do with the government. And half of
Speaker 1: the Christian Church thinks it to be involved in government
Speaker 1: is wrong when actually Roman thirteen says that the government
Speaker 1: is the ministry of God. I don't know why they
Speaker 1: don't feel called to the ministry. Why don't you feel
Speaker 1: called to the ministry if the government is the ministry
Speaker 1: of God. So we've been running from government instead of
Speaker 1: running to government, not shouldering.
Speaker 2: But we're the ball body of Christ. We actually claim
Speaker 2: we're the body of Christ.
Speaker 1: But then don't want a shoulder government. So this is
Speaker 1: what has to happen. We have to run to the
Speaker 1: shouldering of what we're called the shoulder.
Speaker 2: We've shouldered the.
Speaker 1: Church, but then we've said that's all I'm supposed to shoulder.
Speaker 2: That's stupid. Let's stand. We got to clothes. Joe Simms.
Speaker 1: Joe Sims property management company they took over. Remember Joe
Speaker 1: just retired recently from Olympic. But you know a few
Speaker 1: years ago they took over a property up in Lynnwood, No, no,
Speaker 1: Linden up in London. He'll correct me. He's watching, he'll
Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong with And they took it
Speaker 1: over and the property owner they couldn't They just had terrible,
Speaker 1: terrible vacancies in the property and they couldn't figure it out,
Speaker 1: and it was just a nightmare for him. And so
Speaker 1: they called in Olympic and so Joe started praying over
Speaker 1: the property and went up there and pulled into the
Speaker 1: parking lot and walked around the property a little bit
Speaker 1: and did some praying, and there was a hedge around
Speaker 1: the front of the property, and he felt drawn to
Speaker 1: that hedge and he couldn't figure out why. So he
Speaker 1: said to the landscape folks, come on out and meet
Speaker 1: me here. I want you to cut into that hedge
Speaker 1: and open it up and they opened it up and
Speaker 1: there was a Buddha inside that hedge.
Speaker 2: We couldn't see it because the hedge had grown up
Speaker 2: so big.
Speaker 1: You couldn't see the Buddha inside the hedge, but there
Speaker 1: was the hedge in there. And Joe said, let's just
Speaker 1: get that Buddha out of here. Is that all right
Speaker 1: with the owner? And I said, okay, let's just get
Speaker 1: and so why don't we smash the Buddha.
Speaker 2: That'd be great.
Speaker 1: And let's just take that Buddha to the garbage jump
Speaker 1: and get rid of the Buddha.
Speaker 2: Guess what.
Speaker 1: Vacancy rate shifted? That problem was over. The apartment filled up.
Speaker 1: Things started shifting. I just want you to hear this
Speaker 1: stuff because so many of our answers are spiritual. You know,
Speaker 1: one time with the kids, I was at home one
Speaker 1: time and we were having trouble with some of the kids.
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to talk to you about the
Speaker 1: four kids that we have. We were having trouble with
Speaker 1: some of the kids. But I was in bed sleeping
Speaker 1: one night and I had a dream and in the dream,
Speaker 1: three dogs came up. They came in the house, and
Speaker 1: they came up the stairs and they attacked one of
Speaker 1: our children, and the Holy Spirit like showed me, like
Speaker 1: what in the world. I knew exactly what the three
Speaker 1: dogs were, and so I began to pray over that
Speaker 1: child and dismiss that demonic assignment. But it just came
Speaker 1: by a dream about three dogs.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: One time, my mom and dad called me. They were
Speaker 1: both sick and they couldn't make the payments on their house.
Speaker 1: We're going to have to sell it. It was going
Speaker 1: to go into foreclosure. My mom was in terrible peril
Speaker 1: over this whole thing, and I said, I'll pray for you.
Speaker 1: I went to pray for him, and I had a
Speaker 1: dream that night, and the Lord showed me my mom
Speaker 1: and dad running across the field as fast as they could,
Speaker 1: and lions were chasing them, and all at once, I
Speaker 1: had a big gun in my hand and I just
Speaker 1: reached it up and I had three bullets. I shot
Speaker 1: those bullets, and all at once I knew how I
Speaker 1: was supposed to pray for him. There were three things
Speaker 1: attacking my mom that and I prayed for him, and
Speaker 1: that night they were broken and their financial issue was
Speaker 1: solved and their bodies were healed. I'm just talking to
Speaker 1: you about that the spirit realm. It's the spirit realm
Speaker 1: that we need to be more tuned into so that
Speaker 1: we can apply the sword of the Spirit. I want
Speaker 1: to tell you another story. We're our time. Okay, if
Speaker 1: you got children in the back, you got to go
Speaker 1: get him. But listen, listen really quick, really quick. Charlie
Speaker 1: Robinson told me a story about he came into a church,
Speaker 1: and he came into a church and he saw a.
Speaker 2: Crow over the church, and so he shared with the pastor.
Speaker 1: He said, I see a big crow over the church.
Speaker 1: And the pastors like, oh, that's really interesting. He said,
Speaker 1: I want to tell you a little bit about what's
Speaker 1: going on. So he said that I've been talking about
Speaker 1: signs and wonders and miracles, and I've been preaching to
Speaker 1: the church about God doing amazing things, and all the
Speaker 1: elders have come against me and they want me out
Speaker 1: of the church. And Charlie said, well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just saw this crow over the church, and the
Speaker 1: Lord shows me that there's something something dead here and
Speaker 1: maybe he wants you to pray and see if you
Speaker 1: could prevail. But you got to decide before the Lord.
Speaker 1: And so this pastor, this pastor went to praying, and
Speaker 1: he prayed, and it got worse, and then the elders
Speaker 1: got a hold of every church member and they said,
Speaker 1: don't give your money anymore as tithe, give it as
Speaker 1: missions because missions is designated. And then he can't have
Speaker 1: your money. And then the elder's wives went to the
Speaker 1: school where his children went to school, and they started
Speaker 1: confronting the children getting off the school bus, and they
Speaker 1: were trying to get them out. And so he was
Speaker 1: fasting and praying, and about the third week of fasting
Speaker 1: and praying, he felt like he had a breakthrough. But
Speaker 1: all at once a physical crow manifested in the sanctuary
Speaker 1: where he was, and the crow flew out of the
Speaker 1: sanctuary and flew through the fourier, and he opened up
Speaker 1: the door and the crow flew and he watched it
Speaker 1: and it went down the street about three blocks and
Speaker 1: landed on the top of a church. Two days later,
Speaker 1: he got a letter from the elders and they said
Speaker 1: we're all leaving the church, and they said, we're sick
Speaker 1: of this, and we're sick of you. We're all leaving
Speaker 1: the church and we're going to the church down the road.
Speaker 1: And guess what church it was? It was the church
Speaker 1: where the crow landed. I'm telling you many of our
Speaker 1: answers are in the spirit realm, and we need to
Speaker 1: start paying attention. We need to listen, we need to discern,
Speaker 1: We need to pray, We need to seek the Lord.
Speaker 1: We need to yearn for dreams and visions. We need
Speaker 1: to activate the sword of the Spirit, which is the
Speaker 1: Word of God in our mouth to see the breakthroughs
Speaker 1: that God's ordained for the Church and for our nation.
Speaker 1: I want the prayer team to come as we close.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure we're offering prayer for any
Speaker 1: of you that are coming to the Lord. You're giving
Speaker 1: your life to the Lord this morning, and you're serious today.
Speaker 1: You want breakthrough in your life, and you need freedom
Speaker 1: from captivity, over addiction, over any kind of any kind
Speaker 1: of fear, any kind of stronghold that the enemy has
Speaker 1: been using to terrorize or harm you. I want you
Speaker 1: to come and get prayer this morning if you need
Speaker 1: a healing in your body. That healing Jesus that swept
Speaker 1: the island of Ireland is here this morning. And we
Speaker 1: don't get these things activated, and we don't get breakthroughs
Speaker 1: by lingering in the back or heading back for another coffee.
Speaker 1: We get breakthroughs as we come forward and say, here,
Speaker 1: am my Lord, touch my heart, lay hold of me,
Speaker 1: quicken me, activate me, Holy Spirit. So I want you
Speaker 1: to come and be prayed for as we go. We're
Speaker 1: going to worship as we go Church, You're never going
Speaker 1: to be this. I want you to put your hand
Speaker 1: on your mouth right now and just say with me, Holy.
Speaker 2: Spirit, I agree. The sword of the Spirit.
Speaker 1: Is in me and in my mouth, and you will
Speaker 1: use me in a powerful way to bring down strongholds
Speaker 1: and to make differences, changes, transformations in those around me
Speaker 1: and in my nation. In Jesus' name, and everybody said, God,
Speaker 1: bless your church, We love you.