WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:06.480 Deuteronomy thirty two, eight through nine says that God divided 2 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:10.400 out the nations. Now, what I want to talk to 3 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:20.239 you about today is the new era of warfare. Everybody say, 4 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:25.480 the new era of warfare. So this is kind of 5 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:27.719 like the stock market, you know, when things are moving, 6 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:32.960 they're kind of up and down, right, So this is. 7 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:37.840 So Deuteronomy thirty two. Did you go there? Oh? Good? 8 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:40.399 When the most I gave the nations their inheritance when 9 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:43.840 he divided up mankind, he set up boundaries for the 10 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:46.280 people according to the number of the sons of Israel. 11 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:51.159 For the Lord's at portion is his people. Jacob is 12 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:53.600 his allotted inheritance. Now, some of you have heard me 13 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:56.479 talk about this before. Anything I've said before that i'll 14 00:00:56.520 --> 00:01:02.280 say today. I'm just during up your pure minds with 15 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:07.079 remembering what I've said, because sometimes we need to hear 16 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:12.079 things again, right, So, and I want to set the 17 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:15.159 stage for what God's doing again, so that you're just 18 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:19.000 reminded of what God's doing. For one thing, remember that 19 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:23.400 when it says here that he allotted go back to 20 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:26.599 verse eight if you would. When he allotted the inheritance 21 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:29.640 according to the number of sons of Israel. That is 22 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:33.000 a mistranslation. This is the new international version, the ESV, 23 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:36.640 the English Standard version is the best because it's off 24 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:39.959 of the best manuscripts. And so the Hebrew there is 25 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:43.719 actually the sons of God, according to the Sons of God, 26 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:48.799 and it's actually the word Elohim. So what you want 27 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:51.239 to remember, and I've talked about it before, but what 28 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:56.920 you want to remember is that essentially the people of 29 00:01:56.959 --> 00:01:59.480 the earth, this is Tower of Babel time, the people 30 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:03.040 of the earth were rebellious. They didn't want to be 31 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:08.199 under God, they wanted to be free from God, and 32 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:12.719 so God turned them all over, this is until the 33 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:18.759 Christ would come. God turned them all over to other sons, 34 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:25.120 created beings, which the Bible calls elu Him, and those 35 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:30.919 created beings he gave them charge over nations. And then 36 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:35.280 later we see in scripture they're called rulers, or they're 37 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:42.879 called princes, or they're called principalities. So like later in 38 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:47.360 Daniel ten verse thirteen, Daniel prays for twenty one days 39 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:50.560 and it says that you know, we see in the 40 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:55.439 scripture it says nothing's happening, and it says then suddenly 41 00:02:55.639 --> 00:03:00.000 he started getting answers and it says, and it's Michael 42 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:04.000 that comes to him, and Michael is the prince over 43 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:07.879 the children of Israel. By the way, there were seventy nations. 44 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:12.360 Everybody says seventy. There were seventy nations. So sixty nine 45 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:21.840 he disinherited. Sixty nine he turned over to these other princes. 46 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:24.639 Who then chose. 47 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:32.400 To lead the nations into debauchery and idle worship, and 48 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:37.680 to institute what would be then known in those nations 49 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:44.120 as powers, spiritual powers of which the people were compelled 50 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:48.680 to worship, to bow down to, to serve. So and 51 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:52.599 you know we've heard, you know, this has been going 52 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:55.800 on for you know, all this time, right, so you've 53 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:57.840 heard stories about this kind of stuff. I don't know 54 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:00.479 if you remember Charlie Robinson when he was here, he 55 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:07.520 talked about how when him and Sammy were first called 56 00:04:07.560 --> 00:04:13.840 the Indonesia on a flight into the nation, God gave 57 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:21.399 him a vision of the Mermaid, which is the spirit. 58 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:24.879 Like the power. Right. 59 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:27.399 I don't know if it's a principality, but it's, you know, 60 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:33.959 a power over Indonesia. So and I was reaching out 61 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:36.000 to him this week just talking about that a little 62 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:38.560 bit because I wanted to remember some of what the 63 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:41.120 Lord had shown him. It's some pretty cool stuff. And 64 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:46.759 so here Michael is the messenger, the angelic one, bringing 65 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:47.439 the message. 66 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:49.639 The reason he couldn't. 67 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:53.000 Get the message to Daniel, you remember, the reason is 68 00:04:53.000 --> 00:05:01.560 because Daniel's living in Persia. He's under Persian authority. By 69 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:04.079 the way, how many times have your prayers been held 70 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:10.040 up because of the environment around you or the authority 71 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:15.600 in the environment resisting the Holy Spirit bringing you the message? 72 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:18.000 And then you think God doesn't want to hear you, 73 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:20.199 or you think God doesn't want to move, But it's 74 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:24.040 actually it's something in the environment that needs to be 75 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:28.519 broken through. And it's his prayers twenty one days of 76 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:34.639 continuing that actually broke through the environment that was keeping 77 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:38.360 the word from coming. So in this case, the Prince 78 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:41.680 of Persia, why because he's in Persia, was withstanding. But 79 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:46.480 as he prayed, it fueled or it empowered Michael. And 80 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:48.759 it says it actually says they had a war. They 81 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:53.240 actually had war. It actually says they had a war. 82 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:56.720 They actually had the fight. And Michael, it actually says this, 83 00:05:57.160 --> 00:06:03.240 Michael called for reinforcements. Because Manuel persisted. Michael called for reinforcements. 84 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:07.839 They broke through and brought him the message. This kind 85 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:11.800 of stuff is. You don't realize this, but this is 86 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:17.879 so normal in the spirit realm. And we are conditioned 87 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:20.000 against that. We don't see it as normal. We don't 88 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:22.920 understand it. We're not we're not akin to that realm. 89 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:26.279 And and and God wants to break us out of 90 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:33.160 like dumbiness and bring us into smartiness. He wants us 91 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:37.120 to be the smartest kids on the block. All right, 92 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:40.360 So this is what happened. So at the Cross though, 93 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.680 so so these guys were this is the kingdom of darkness. 94 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:49.959 These guys were in charge of these nations, right, and 95 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:52.279 this is this is the kingdom of light down here, 96 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:56.240 this is the Kingdom of God, the kingdom which was 97 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:05.920 solely uh solely devoted to Israel. Okay, but at the 98 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:09.279 Cross something crazy happen. Right, So this is why it's 99 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:12.759 so important what we see in Ephesians. You know, I 100 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:16.959 don't know if it dawns on us because we don't 101 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:22.199 live in this redemptive mindset so much out of paganism, 102 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:26.199 out of witchcraft, out of demon worship. 103 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:26.600 We don't. 104 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:30.079 It isn't so much of our history, and so we 105 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:33.360 aren't mindful sometimes of how important it is. For instance, 106 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:37.279 Matthew twenty eight, eighteen and nineteen, when Jesus says all 107 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:43.519 authority is now given to me, all authority in heaven 108 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:44.920 and on earth, when he. 109 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:47.360 Says that it's super. 110 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:51.120 Important, and when he says, and it's a Jewish audience 111 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:55.560 he's speaking to, when he says, not only all authorities 112 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:58.439 have been given to me, which is that would be interesting, 113 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:02.720 because no jew had all over other nations. The other 114 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:08.959 nations were under these princes, and these princes had very 115 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:14.240 clear Rome had Jupiter. Jupiter was the power that was 116 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:20.879 giving authority to the emperors and to Nero, and Jupiter 117 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:23.720 was the power. And so you know, we're familiar. Jule 118 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:25.480 and I have traveled. We've been to Italy, We've been 119 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:27.720 to these places, we've been to Greece. You see the 120 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:34.879 remnants of all of these powers and principalities and their expressions. 121 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:38.600 And they once ruled over the people. 122 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.480 They once had the spiritual power over the people. Jesus 123 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:47.039 is saying something really crazy here to that audience. He's saying, 124 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:53.480 a man now has authority over the nations. Never happened before, 125 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:59.159 and this man is telling them go now to the nations, 126 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:03.720 and disciple them go to the nations. So he's saying 127 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:06.519 this to the audience, and there and and and there's 128 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:08.879 still you know, it still took time, right, and we 129 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:11.600 still got to meditate on the writings of Paul. We 130 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:14.080 have to meditate on these writings so that we understand 131 00:09:14.679 --> 00:09:21.080 our assignment. You are on an assignment there you follow me. 132 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:23.799 And so this is you know, this is the language 133 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:28.200 of Colossians. You know chapter two that he that he 134 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:34.159 spoiled principalities and powers, he made an open show of them, 135 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:39.240 triumphing over them in the cross. This is the language 136 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:44.320 of these of Ephesians. Ephesians three eight through ten. It 137 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:48.879 says that this mystery which was hidden for ages, has 138 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:54.960 now been revealed, that now through the Church, that the 139 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:59.600 power of God would be manifested through the Church, to 140 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:03.919 the principalities, to the powers, to the authorities, through the 141 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:08.799 what through the church? One hundred and fifteen times the 142 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:12.559 word church is in the New Testament. It doesn't mean 143 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:16.919 sheet rocked building with metal siding. It means the ecclesea, 144 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:20.720 the senate, it means the called out. It means the 145 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:26.200 legislative body of Jesus, those who represent Heaven on earth 146 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:31.600 and bring Heaven to earth. Right, and so this is 147 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:35.000 this is super important because everything shifted at the cross. 148 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:39.840 Now what happens is that we get these prognosticators. 149 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:41.639 We have we have rises. 150 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:45.320 So you know, Rome was completely Rome was under all 151 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:49.039 of these demi gods. Roman Rome had all of these, 152 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:56.000 and Greece as well. So these cultures they all had that, Spain, Portugal, 153 00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:58.399 they all had this stuff going on. Ireland, I've got 154 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:02.440 the story of Ireland here. You know, Saint Patrick goes 155 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:07.000 to Ireland. He's raised thirty nine people from the dead 156 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:14.840 and one horse. How he led Ireland to the whole 157 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:19.679 island to the lord was the king's son had died 158 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:23.240 and he had been laid on a bed and they 159 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:25.960 were getting ready to bury him, and the king's daughter 160 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:29.720 went out and drowned in a river. Well about that 161 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:33.320 time he had come into the region, and so they 162 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:36.720 heard about him, and they heard that this guy had 163 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:39.840 raised people from the dead, and so they're like, fetch 164 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:42.399 this guy, bring him here, right, So he comes to 165 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:43.879 the king and. 166 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:46.679 He raises both because the daughter. 167 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:48.320 Had been brought from the river and laid on the 168 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:52.279 same bed and they were preparing graves for them according 169 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:58.200 to the pagan rights of the Celtic people. And so 170 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:00.960 he comes and he raised them both from the dead. 171 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:03.399 And here was the confession of the king. The confession 172 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:07.120 of the king was that if you can raise my 173 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:09.840 children from the dead, then I will. 174 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:10.919 Confess your faith. 175 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:16.840 It this is this was the beginning of the complete 176 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:21.639 shift to the island of Ireland. This is what brought 177 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:23.480 illumination and salvation. 178 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:24.519 Uh. 179 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:29.039 And what it what what it came with wherever, wherever 180 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:31.840 the message of the God. And we're just so not 181 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:34.440 used to this. Right wherever the message, I don't know 182 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:38.519 where it happened, but somewhere in here, like uh, the 183 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:43.879 somewhere in here I was working on the wrong graph. Okay, 184 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.080 but somewhere in here, the Kingdom of Light was growing. 185 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:47.799 Uh. 186 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:51.120 And I don't know where it was, but somewhere in here, Uh, 187 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:54.360 it got you know, really really high. Well we'll just 188 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:56.639 go with this one. The Kingdom of Light got really 189 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:00.360 high and really wonderful. Right, Oh, this entire that's a 190 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:04.240 better what's going that on? Kingdom of like really high 191 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:05.200 and really wonderful. 192 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:05.440 Right. 193 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:11.120 And so somewhere in there we dismissed so much of 194 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:14.200 the paganism. We dismissed so much of the with Shraft, 195 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:18.519 we dismissed so much of you know, the folly and 196 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:21.080 and everything that was working in our cultures. 197 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:22.279 We're talking about the. 198 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:25.679 Swedes and the Danes and the Gulls and the Norsk 199 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:29.679 and and you know, just whatever nation you came from, right, 200 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:34.639 And I could go on and on about this, but nonetheless, 201 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:38.080 and then what happened is a couple generations, you know 202 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:41.320 kind of you know, it kind of it kind of 203 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:44.440 ebbed a little bit because we didn't well, we didn't 204 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:48.039 really need to do that. We didn't really need to 205 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:52.399 I mean, that wasn't just so necessary. And then along 206 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:57.720 came us, right, and now we don't even know what 207 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:02.840 deliverance is. We don't even know how to identify a devil. 208 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:04.799 We can't even tell what a woman is. 209 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:15.720 X y x y what's that? Actually? What chromosomes? You 210 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:16.440 got to be kidne meing. 211 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:20.360 And so what happened is, you know, I come along 212 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:23.200 in nineteen fifty eight. I come along, and my dad 213 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:24.120 came to the Lord. 214 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:25.159 And my dad, you. 215 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:27.639 Know, he didn't even you know, they never when my 216 00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:29.639 dad got born again and filled. 217 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:29.840 With the spirit. 218 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:32.879 They didn't even talk to him about deliverance. Didn't even 219 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:35.279 know what deliverance was. This is in a full gospel church. 220 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:37.720 Didn't even know what deliverance was. But you know this, 221 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:41.000 this was the kind of the you know, the happy 222 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:45.679 life of America in the sixties and churches it was 223 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:48.799 just all about you know, roast beef and garlic on 224 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:51.960 your roast after church and and you know, Sunday schools 225 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:56.000 and evangelism and outreach and loving people and and so. 226 00:14:56.200 --> 00:15:03.120 But because there was no obvious and demonism and demonization 227 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:06.519 and there was just no obvious because so much, so 228 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:09.799 much had been taken care of here. And so what 229 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:13.200 happened is then what happened is that people started teaching 230 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:17.679 in our universities and our Bible schools and our seminaries 231 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:20.559 that you don't do that, you don't need to do that, 232 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:24.519 you don't need to do that. You don't talk to devils. Uh, 233 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:28.799 you don't prophesy, uh, you don't. You don't speak to demons, 234 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:30.600 you don't do any of that stuff. 235 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:32.600 You don't you don't raise the dead. 236 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:34.559 You know, what in the world are you talking about? 237 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:38.639 And so you hear what I'm saying. And so this 238 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:41.080 is the happy world that a lot of us grew 239 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:43.639 up in. It. It was a super happy world. My 240 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:46.559 dad drew Sunday School Boss all around Ben Dorgan. I 241 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:48.440 would set up on the little heater box and the 242 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:50.799 heat was pouring out of that you know, heater box, 243 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:52.879 and I'd watched my dad. He was my big hero, 244 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:55.840 and he played guitar, and he led the youth group, 245 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:57.799 and him and mom had all this stuff going on 246 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:01.279 for the Lord. And they were evangelist and benevolence and 247 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:04.679 you know, benevolent and they were giving away and loving 248 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:06.960 and caring for people. We always had people in our 249 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:10.559 home evangelizing people and all this stuff going on. Never 250 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:14.120 a word, you know, never a word about demons, never 251 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:14.879 a deliverance. 252 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:18.240 And this was the happy world. 253 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:20.480 Well while that happy world, and it was kind of 254 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:24.120 all about and we became a little bit though happy 255 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:27.240 though happy, I mean, we became a little bit kind 256 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:28.279 of ingrown too. 257 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:30.279 You know. It was all about revivals. 258 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:32.320 It was all about Bible study, it was all about 259 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:35.080 learning the word. It was all about more meetings. It 260 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:37.679 was all about more meetings. It was all about more meetings. 261 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:41.159 We had we had Sunday morning, we had Sunday night, 262 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:43.799 we had Wednesday night, we had Thursday night, we had 263 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:46.919 Friday night, we had prayer meeting, we had and so 264 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:48.919 a lot of this is going on. And while this 265 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:55.639 is going on, then the unclean, the unsaved, those that 266 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:58.200 we aren't even supposed to recognize that they might be 267 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:02.519 unclean because because my goodness sakes, or aren't any demons anyway. 268 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:07.400 So and but those folks were invading our government, invading 269 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:11.440 our schools, invading, and we were just dumbly, we were 270 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:14.640 dumbly having you know. And every time we would get 271 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:17.119 some little inkling of some of that going on, then 272 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:18.680 we would just say, well, I don't know, I heard 273 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:20.640 it's supposed to get worse in the end. Maybe that's 274 00:17:20.680 --> 00:17:25.640 just what's going on. Could be a prophetic filment, that fulfillment. 275 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:27.960 You know, we'll just stay over here and just be 276 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:33.200 pray for each other because you know, uh, and then 277 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:36.279 if somebody fell away, if now this is if somebody 278 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:38.319 fell away, this we just keep going on, you know, 279 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:40.960 and if somebody fell away, then we well, you know, 280 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:43.279 there will be a great falling away towards the end, 281 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:47.440 and bless God, it's just more prophetic filment. This is 282 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:50.039 pathetic fulfillment, is what this is. This is not prop 283 00:17:51.079 --> 00:17:53.559 and so. But we're just all we're doing is we 284 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:56.359 take We're taking a microcosm like somebody. 285 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:56.880 Does with the stock. 286 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:02.519 Oh, Tesla's down this week, I should sell fool, It'll be. 287 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:03.160 Up next week. 288 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:08.440 You you don't make your theological decision or your stock 289 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:13.160 market decision on one day's movement in the market. You're 290 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:16.319 never going to go anywhere you do that. So we're 291 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:19.400 what we're doing, we're taking something under a microscope, and 292 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:23.160 then we're coming up with stupid perspectives on it that 293 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:26.240 really aren't what God's up to. What God's up to 294 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:29.720 is raising up of victorious people who bring heaven to earth? 295 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:31.920 Who raising up a victorious people? 296 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:32.839 Who who? 297 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:37.480 And He's said, I mean, what if we would have 298 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:40.559 had the mindset, what if Paul would have had this mindset? You? 299 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:42.519 We got to go to Ephesians real quick, and then 300 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:49.400 I got to end. What if Paul would have had 301 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:54.440 this mindset? Then right Rome, by three hundred and eighteen, 302 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:59.839 Constantine gave up and he's like, all right, it's over. 303 00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:05.319 I surrender Christianity. We will no longer persecute you. You 304 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:14.319 will be the official religion of Rome. And then every 305 00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:21.400 demon began to be cast out of Rome. Right, So, 306 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:23.359 I mean, what if they would have given up? What 307 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:27.160 if the early believers would have given up Ephesian six? 308 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:29.240 You know, put on the full armor of God, that 309 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:32.880 you can take your stand against the devil's schemes for 310 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:35.480 our struggles, not against flesh and blood. For our struggle. 311 00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:38.400 The King James, I like it better for we wrestle, 312 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:42.960 not against flesh and blood. No, that means we wrestle, Hello, 313 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:46.079 some money. It doesn't mean that we don't wrestle. It 314 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:50.319 means that we do wrestle our struggle, our wrestling. We wrestle, 315 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:53.480 not against flesh and blood. I'm not wrestling with flesh 316 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:57.640 and blood. So are we using spiritual power? Are we 317 00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:00.880 using the spiritual power that we have? Are we doing 318 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:04.319 anything radical? This is an era of war and we're 319 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:08.559 living like it's still Leave it to beaver, you know, Goofball, 320 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:14.559 nineteen sixty America. It isn't. Satan is raging against us 321 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:19.240 to destroy our children, our cities, our communities, our families, 322 00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:22.480 our media, our entertainment. 323 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:25.319 Our sports, our sports. 324 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:31.480 Satan is raging to destroy it and even causing people. Hello, 325 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:35.319 you talk about captivity that until last year they actually 326 00:20:35.400 --> 00:20:38.200 knew what a woman was. But this year suddenly the 327 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:41.640 same people in charge of the Olympics don't know what 328 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:45.400 a woman is. Suddenly last year they knew what a 329 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:48.519 woman was, they're even married to one. But this year 330 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:50.720 they're totally confused. They cannot figure it out. 331 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:53.119 If that isn't captivity, what is. 332 00:20:54.519 --> 00:21:01.200 That is captivity? We're seeing a resurge of paganism, are 333 00:21:01.279 --> 00:21:05.759 resurging of demonization. And we aren't gonna win this battle. 334 00:21:05.839 --> 00:21:08.799 In our Sunday school buses setting on heater boxes. 335 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:10.160 We aren't gonna win this battle. 336 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:15.319 Pretending that there's no demons, pretending that crash, pretending that 337 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:20.480 we aren't in a battle, that is stupidity gone to seed. 338 00:21:21.119 --> 00:21:24.400 And if you look through the armor of God, the 339 00:21:24.519 --> 00:21:28.200 main there's only one offensive weapon, and we have to 340 00:21:28.359 --> 00:21:30.920 use that offensive weapon. Christians are supposed to use the 341 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:34.359 offensive weapon in fact that you can't make any headway against. 342 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:35.519 And Paul knew this. 343 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:39.559 That's why Rome fell to christ That's why Greece fell 344 00:21:39.640 --> 00:21:42.920 to christ That's why all these nations fell to Christianity. 345 00:21:43.279 --> 00:21:47.480 Is because of the sword of the Spirit, which is 346 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:52.960 the Word of God. Now, the sword of the Spirit 347 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:55.759 is something we know we have a great privilege, but 348 00:21:55.799 --> 00:21:57.240 a great responsibility to. 349 00:21:57.200 --> 00:21:57.759 Do something with. 350 00:21:58.039 --> 00:21:59.960 And that is the sword of the Spirit is supposed 351 00:21:59.960 --> 00:22:04.000 to be in our mouth and on our tongue. We're 352 00:22:04.039 --> 00:22:06.960 supposed to have the sword of the Spirit. 353 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:07.960 In our mouth and on our tongue. 354 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:12.920 Fact is, that's actually how Joshua, which is the word Jesus, 355 00:22:13.599 --> 00:22:16.920 was to go in and prevail over the picture of 356 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:19.680 the demonic realm in this day and age, the seven 357 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:23.640 nations that were mightier than them, Every single nation represented 358 00:22:23.720 --> 00:22:26.240 a demonic principality, and they were to go in and 359 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:29.519 prevail over them. And the same thing. It was the 360 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:32.640 sword of the Spirit Joshua one sixth through a this 361 00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:36.319 word will not depart from your mouth. 362 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:40.759 Keep the word of God. Keep the Word of God 363 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:41.279 in your mouth. 364 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:44.920 Why because the expression of the Word of God, as 365 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:48.160 the sword of the Spirit, is only powerful as it 366 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:55.160 comes out of your mouth. So we have this crazy privilege. 367 00:22:55.599 --> 00:22:57.480 But we have more than a privilege. We have a 368 00:22:57.519 --> 00:23:01.680 responsibility to be the voice of Jesus, to be the 369 00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:05.160 ministry of Jesus, to be the expression of Jesus with 370 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:08.119 our mouth, while we're driving our Sunday school bus, while 371 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:10.680 we're picking people up, while we're doing evangelism. We got 372 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:13.640 to remember that the battle is a spiritual battle, and 373 00:23:13.720 --> 00:23:17.279 the principalities and powers and rulers of darkness, they are 374 00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:21.319 to be put under our feet. They are to be 375 00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:25.880 put under our feet. And we can do that easily 376 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:30.079 as we use the sword of the spirit. 377 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:32.960 Amen. 378 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:37.799 So look at even. I want you to see this. 379 00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:42.440 I want you to see real quick. One that I 380 00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:44.720 want to read that I don't have memorized, but I 381 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:45.839 just I want to read it anyway. 382 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:46.400 And that's good. 383 00:23:46.759 --> 00:23:51.319 You're familiar with Jeremiah, of course already one nine and ten. 384 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:53.680 He says, don't say that you're a youth. Please, don't 385 00:23:53.720 --> 00:23:58.680 talk that way. You're I'm empowering you. Just say what 386 00:23:58.759 --> 00:24:02.240 I tell you to say, say what I show you 387 00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:02.759 to say. 388 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:08.000 And with me and my word in your. 389 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:12.640 Mouth, you will overthrow and you will destroy, you will 390 00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:14.759 pluck up, you will break down, and then you will 391 00:24:14.759 --> 00:24:17.160 build and you will plan. Now I want to give 392 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:20.319 you this real quick. It's says First Corinthians, chapter two. 393 00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:22.359 Where is it in my nose? First Corinthians chapter two 394 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:25.079 might have it up there for Corinthians Chapter two, and 395 00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:27.359 Paul says that I didn't come to you. Here is 396 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:30.160 my message. My preaching were not with wise, persuasive words, 397 00:24:30.200 --> 00:24:32.480 but with the demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that 398 00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:35.359 your faith would not rest on human wisdom but on 399 00:24:35.400 --> 00:24:36.279 God's power. 400 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:38.559 We do, however, speak. 401 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:40.400