Speaker 1: All right, Father, we just thank you for today. God,
Speaker 1: we pray that your word be so good and enriching
Speaker 1: to your people today. Thank you God for the equipping
Speaker 1: of the saints today. Yes, Lord, we just bless this
Speaker 1: word that you've given to us. Thank you Jesus, that you,
Speaker 1: being the word, were made manifest to us in the flesh. God,
Speaker 1: we thank you God that you ascended on high and
Speaker 1: took captivity captive on our behalf. Thank you Lord for
Speaker 1: your freedom today in Jesus' name. Amen. Mm hm, WHOA. Well, today,
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna get stretched today. Tap your neighbors, say you're
Speaker 1: gonna get stretched today. Some of you guys are going
Speaker 1: to get really affirmed. Say I pray that you get
Speaker 1: affirmed today to your neighbor. Okay. The goal today is
Speaker 1: to be grounded on a good foundation from where you
Speaker 1: can build a powerful life. That's the sermon title today,
Speaker 1: building a powerful life, say restored living. Thank you God.
Speaker 1: You know with the title today, I was pondering something
Speaker 1: when I was praying about what to talk to you
Speaker 1: guys about, and I was thinking about Pastor Dwayne's last
Speaker 1: week's message, and I was thinking, you know the interesting
Speaker 1: thing about building a powerful life. Is that that is
Speaker 1: not the common Christian experience is a powerful life? Say
Speaker 1: not in this house, Say I want to have a
Speaker 1: powerful life, Say I have a powerful life. Hey man,
Speaker 1: you guys got louder on that second one. Okay, hell me, okay, Amen, Amen, Amen,
Speaker 1: you know what church you're in? Hallelujah? All right, good?
Speaker 1: I like that? All right. Well. What I have seen, though,
Speaker 1: is that the common Christian experience since I became a
Speaker 1: Christian in twenty sixteen, is that it is not very
Speaker 1: common for people to look like they're walking out a
Speaker 1: powerful life. Those things need to change in Christianity. I
Speaker 1: also observe that the Christian Church in the United States,
Speaker 1: sin is actually often a byword. And yet this teaches
Speaker 1: us all about it and how to overcome it. And
Speaker 1: yet that doesn't seem to be the norm in the
Speaker 1: American church. The conversation of deliverance isn't commonly found in
Speaker 1: most churches. Do you know that? And yet Jesus the Christ,
Speaker 1: the Lord, the King of the universe, the Prince of Peace,
Speaker 1: the one by whom the world was formed. One third
Speaker 1: of the ministry on earth was casting out of devils
Speaker 1: and deliverance. Now Why do you believe that that would
Speaker 1: be something that plagues the American Church or churches abroad
Speaker 1: the world, in the whole world. Doctrines of demons, teachings
Speaker 1: of ignorance. That has to change. That has to change. Amen.
Speaker 1: On the one hand, sin is not talked about. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, and deliverance is ignored. That's good. We're
Speaker 1: living in a society that is plagued by sin and
Speaker 1: is in heavy need of deliverance. Even in Christianity. Oftentimes
Speaker 1: Christians who are disempowered are confused by whether we are
Speaker 1: experiencing an attack of the enemy or we're reaping the
Speaker 1: reward of sin. Wow, that's two right there. One, it's
Speaker 1: either an attack of the enemy or to the reward
Speaker 1: of sin. There's something worse, and I'll submit this to you.
Speaker 1: It's a lack of understanding. Three. The third option is
Speaker 1: a belief system that things just happen to me, that
Speaker 1: God is in full sovereign control, even of the negative stuff.
Speaker 1: It is a lie from the pit of hell. That's
Speaker 1: worse than the first two. Come on, I want us
Speaker 1: to begin with dealing with sin. Can you guys do
Speaker 1: that with me? Amen? Because see Pastor Dennis said in
Speaker 1: the first service, this is an apostolic house. Well, the
Speaker 1: gifts of the gifts of Jesus that were given down
Speaker 1: right from heaven when he ascended on high. He gave
Speaker 1: gifts to men for what the building and the edifying
Speaker 1: of the body of Jesus Christ. Say I'm going to
Speaker 1: get edified today. Say I'm going to be encouraged today.
Speaker 1: I'm the body of Jesus. So this word applies to
Speaker 1: the body of Christ. Amen, man, we're going to equip
Speaker 1: you today, Say I'm being equipped sin. Paul in Romans
Speaker 1: chapter six said specifically, do not present your members meeting
Speaker 1: your body members an instrument of unrighteousness, but rather give
Speaker 1: them over to God. There is a lot of participation
Speaker 1: on our own behalf when it comes to dealing with sin,
Speaker 1: because it's up to you to give your members over
Speaker 1: to God. You want to stop sin issues in your life,
Speaker 1: give your members, your body over to God. Some of
Speaker 1: your gears may be already grinding. Some of you, guys,
Speaker 1: are probably experiencing these thoughts or thought patterns that say,
Speaker 1: shut them out, shut them up, don't listen. What's happening
Speaker 1: here is unbiblical. I'm going to give you by example.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm just going to do some things, okay,
Speaker 1: because this is what this house is about. We're about
Speaker 1: equipping you. But we're also not messing with spiritual things
Speaker 1: that are messing with us. We're not going to play
Speaker 1: no games with that. We're just gonna tell them to
Speaker 1: kick rocks and move right. So I bind now the
Speaker 1: spirit of blindness over anyone who is listening. Right now,
Speaker 1: I bind the spirit of religion that keeps you repeating
Speaker 1: anything over and over and over, a pattern of sin
Speaker 1: and repentance, sin and repentance. I cut it off now.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus. I command any spirit of
Speaker 1: complacency to shut up and go and leave these people alone.
Speaker 1: In the mighty name of Jesus, I command you to
Speaker 1: leave now. Yes, Lord. As we were learning last week
Speaker 1: from Pastor Dwayne, we were learning that through Adam's sin,
Speaker 1: we all became sinners when we were born, to the
Speaker 1: point that we would satisfy the desires of our flesh
Speaker 1: in the flesh. But for this reason Christ died. It
Speaker 1: says in the Word that through one man's sin, sin
Speaker 1: entered humankind, and through the one man Christ, Jesus, who
Speaker 1: died blameless and perfect all who believe would be made
Speaker 1: alive through His death and resurrection. Amen, Let's read Romans
Speaker 1: chapter eight, verses one through fourteen, and this is the
Speaker 1: basis for the entire sermon. So I'm going to be
Speaker 1: referring back to this, So you're going to want to
Speaker 1: follow along with what I'm reading. Okay, there is therefore
Speaker 1: now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus
Speaker 1: meaning once you got saved, who do not walk according
Speaker 1: to the flesh, meaning there is a difference in salvation
Speaker 1: whether you will walk in the flesh or walk in
Speaker 1: the spirit. Like you can choose to defer one or
Speaker 1: the other. You can choose, says says, who do not
Speaker 1: walk according to the flesh, but according to the spirit,
Speaker 1: say I want to continually walk in the spirit. Verse two.
Speaker 1: Let's keep going for the law of the Spirit of
Speaker 1: life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the
Speaker 1: law of sin and death. For what the law could
Speaker 1: not do, in that it was weak through the flesh.
Speaker 1: This thing God did by sending his own son in
Speaker 1: the likeness of sinful flesh on account of sin. He
Speaker 1: condemns in the flesh perfect man, right that the righteous
Speaker 1: requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who
Speaker 1: do not walk according to the flesh, but according to
Speaker 1: the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh
Speaker 1: set their minds on the things of the flesh, say mind,
Speaker 1: But those who live according to the spirit the things
Speaker 1: of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded, carnally minded
Speaker 1: sir is death. But to be spiritually minded is life
Speaker 1: and peace, hallelujah. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God.
Speaker 1: That means it fights and wars against God. Your carnal mind,
Speaker 1: if you let it, wars again God. Before you were saved,
Speaker 1: and you live carnally minded, your mind continually warred against God,
Speaker 1: for it is not subject to the law of God,
Speaker 1: nor indeed can be so. Then those who are in
Speaker 1: the flesh cannot please God. But you say, but me,
Speaker 1: are not in the flesh, but in the spirit. If say,
Speaker 1: if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now,
Speaker 1: if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he
Speaker 1: is not his. And if Christ is in you the body,
Speaker 1: this thing is dead because of sin, but the spirit
Speaker 1: is life because of righteousness. But this is my favorite.
Speaker 1: Like top two verses, okay, top two But if the
Speaker 1: spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells
Speaker 1: in you, he who raised Christ from the dead, will
Speaker 1: also say, also give life to your mortals body through
Speaker 1: his spirit who dwells in you. Meaning what, meaning what
Speaker 1: that all of the sudden I can present my members
Speaker 1: alive through the Spirit of God and present them before
Speaker 1: God to perform righteousness. All of the sudden we start
Speaker 1: to learn that the Spirit of God, who dwells within me,
Speaker 1: can give life life that is springing up animated to
Speaker 1: my mortal body in the present time. That means I
Speaker 1: can perform good right now, amen, next verse. Therefore, brethren,
Speaker 1: we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according
Speaker 1: to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh,
Speaker 1: you will die. Remember I told you reaping, reaping the
Speaker 1: reward of sin. Right. But if you, but if by
Speaker 1: the spirit you put to death the deeds of the
Speaker 1: body or the flesh, you will live. For as many
Speaker 1: as are led by the Spirit of God, these are
Speaker 1: the sons of God. Hallelujah, Come on, hallelujah, Thank you God.
Speaker 1: The issues that prevent a powerful life are not a
Speaker 1: salvation problem to the Christian. The issues that prevent a
Speaker 1: powerful life in a Christian is a neglect problem. It's
Speaker 1: a neglect problem. We neglect this. We neglect believing everything
Speaker 1: that is in here is for me. Many stories have
Speaker 1: walked through this door, many many different testimonies, including my own.
Speaker 1: There's three things that are in common usually when they
Speaker 1: come into new horizon. One we didn't know how disempowerab
Speaker 1: we were with the limited understanding of the Gospel truths. Two,
Speaker 1: we didn't know we were deceived by doctrines of demons
Speaker 1: or deceived by wrong theology. Three, we weren't taught that
Speaker 1: everything in this word applies to me. Do we practice
Speaker 1: following Jesus or do we practice following an idea of Jesus.
Speaker 1: I'm going to present to us truths from the Apostles
Speaker 1: themselves that are in here, which was written by the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit for us, because they didn't write to non believers.
Speaker 1: First Peter, chapter two, verse eleven, Beloved, I beg you,
Speaker 1: as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshley lust, which war
Speaker 1: against the soul. He's given us a blueprint. Peter just
Speaker 1: told us abstain, say, abstain from fleshley lust. Which will
Speaker 1: against the soul. He's telling you something outwardly is happening
Speaker 1: on the exterior, in the flesh, being performed by the flesh,
Speaker 1: and it's warring against your soul. So what we do
Speaker 1: outwardly affects us within. We're dealing with sin. We can
Speaker 1: What did he say of staying, come on yeah? Verse
Speaker 1: John three, verse one through four. Look, you're getting a quip.
Speaker 1: You're getting equipped first John three, verse one through four.
Speaker 1: Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on
Speaker 1: us that we should be called children of God. Therefore
Speaker 1: the world does not know us because it did not
Speaker 1: know him loved. Now we are children of God, and
Speaker 1: it has not yet been revealed what we shall be.
Speaker 1: But we know that when he is revealed, we shall
Speaker 1: be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Speaker 1: And everyone who has this hope in him, Say, purifies
Speaker 1: himself just as he is pure. That is an action,
Speaker 1: that is something that we have to do, that is
Speaker 1: living out, walking out the word of truth. Say, I'm
Speaker 1: walking it out. Whomever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and
Speaker 1: sin is lawlessness. Verse three. Purifies himself, say, going to
Speaker 1: purify myself, Jesus tewod Corinthians, Chapter seven, verse one. Now
Speaker 1: we're going to Paul. We just did Peter, we did John.
Speaker 1: They both walked closely with Jesus. Now let's see what
Speaker 1: Paul says. Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse
Speaker 1: ourselves hello, from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
Speaker 1: perfecting holiness in the fear of God. You think there's
Speaker 1: a pattern in this, It's all over the New Testament.
Speaker 1: This is the New Testament. This is the one that
Speaker 1: everybody tries to trample on the grace of God with
Speaker 1: the New Testament rush. But this is the New Testament.
Speaker 1: There is work to be done for the believer because
Speaker 1: this was written to the saints, and that's how they
Speaker 1: That's how they started those letters to the saints. So
Speaker 1: he's reminding them, what is how do we stay in
Speaker 1: alignment with God? Every apostle has said it so far,
Speaker 1: So what is the spirit telling the church? Even in
Speaker 1: context of chapter seven, verse one, Paul is actually writing
Speaker 1: to them about how they're being drawn away by They're
Speaker 1: being drawn away by their affections for non believers. Wow,
Speaker 1: I can talk to you about the world and the
Speaker 1: way of the world. Till the cows come home. But
Speaker 1: how about the way of the believer's good? He said.
Speaker 1: He was talking to them, and he says, I know
Speaker 1: that you guys are are being called to godly grief
Speaker 1: because of my strong words. He says, But I'm all
Speaker 1: the glad that at least my harsh word towards you
Speaker 1: has led you to godly grief. So bad company corrupts
Speaker 1: good habits, It's written, we get drawn away by our
Speaker 1: own passions and affections. Those verses a sin issues in
Speaker 1: our lives as believers. As believers say, this is the
Speaker 1: restored life, we have a responsibility. We're now talking about
Speaker 1: being perfect. I'm not here to cause you panic if
Speaker 1: in case, you're genuinely saved. So if you're genuinely saved,
Speaker 1: you can be all right, say top your neighbors say
Speaker 1: you're gonna be all right if you're If your neighbor
Speaker 1: starts to feel too hot, just just just say just
Speaker 1: just don't pay attention. You listen to me. Okay, this
Speaker 1: works for you, all right. I'm not you know, But
Speaker 1: I'm also not here to soften the scripture. I let
Speaker 1: scripture speak for hisself. God doesn't need my protection. I'm
Speaker 1: not here to please man. This is not going to
Speaker 1: get a lot of likes. It's not going to be popular. Right,
Speaker 1: it might not go viral. But guess what you are
Speaker 1: being equipped. You're being equipped, You're getting fed. Yes, we're
Speaker 1: building powerful lives in this church. We're not building We're
Speaker 1: not building a pansy life. Okay, we're building powerful lives.
Speaker 1: God is inviting us that if you desire to build
Speaker 1: a powerful life, there's a framework and one foundation. That's Christ, Jesus.
Speaker 1: There's only one bar to look up to that is
Speaker 1: already set, and that's him. It is Christ. We don't
Speaker 1: lower the bar because of because of our inability to
Speaker 1: follow what the scripture says. We don't lower the bar
Speaker 1: and take away words from the living God and say
Speaker 1: that's not for me because I don't like the way
Speaker 1: it sounds. The bar has been set. It's Christ. He
Speaker 1: came to this world, walked it out in the flesh.
Speaker 1: He said, now you do it, Oh, power, power. I
Speaker 1: want us to reframe our thoughts. That is commonly used
Speaker 1: versus in the Bible. It's Second Corinthians five, verse six.
Speaker 1: Let's start at sixteen. Therefore, from now on we regard
Speaker 1: no one according to the flesh, even though we have
Speaker 1: known Christ according to the flesh. In other words, when
Speaker 1: we came to the Lord, we knew him. We only
Speaker 1: understood that we need were in need of a savior. Okay,
Speaker 1: Yet now we know him does no longer. Therefore, if
Speaker 1: anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. All
Speaker 1: things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Speaker 1: Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us
Speaker 1: to himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the
Speaker 1: ministry of reconciliation. That is that God was in Christ
Speaker 1: reconciling the world to himself, not imputing the trespasses to them,
Speaker 1: and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now
Speaker 1: then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were
Speaker 1: pleading through us. We implore you, on Christ, behalved, be
Speaker 1: reconciled to God. He's talking to believers. He's not talking
Speaker 1: to the world. This isn't about salvation. This is to
Speaker 1: the believer. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as
Speaker 1: though God repleating through us. We implore you, on Christ,
Speaker 1: be reconciled to God Verse twenty one. For He made
Speaker 1: him who knew no sin to be sin for us
Speaker 1: that we might become the righteousness of God in Him Christ.
Speaker 1: Do you know that you are the righteousness of God
Speaker 1: in Christ. Now that you believe, Thank you Lord, that
Speaker 1: one will set you free. Do you want to be powerful?
Speaker 1: Give up? Give up? What? Give up control to the
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Give yourself fully to the anointing, the anointing
Speaker 1: which you have received. If you indeed have believed, like
Speaker 1: we read in chapter eight, if indeed the spirit of
Speaker 1: Him dwells in you, give yourself fully to him. He
Speaker 1: is an expert at dealing with the flesh. What is
Speaker 1: this anointing? What is this anointing? First John, chapter two,
Speaker 1: verse twenty. But you have an anointing from the Holy One,
Speaker 1: and you know all things. I have not written to
Speaker 1: you because you do not know the truth, but because
Speaker 1: you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
Speaker 1: First John two twenty seven. He continues, But the anointing
Speaker 1: which you have received from Him abides in you, and
Speaker 1: you do not need that anyone teach you. But as
Speaker 1: the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true,
Speaker 1: and it is not a lie. And just as it
Speaker 1: has taught you, you will abide in him, teaching and learning.
Speaker 1: Being taught and learning brings abiding Verse twenty nine in
Speaker 1: that chapter. If you know that He is righteous, you
Speaker 1: know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.
Speaker 1: What do we do with these verses? What do we
Speaker 1: do now on the next part of this when we're
Speaker 1: talking about spiritual matters, because now we talked about the flesh,
Speaker 1: let's talk about spiritual matters. What do we do with
Speaker 1: verses that talk about the weapons of our warfare are
Speaker 1: not carnal or flesh right, but they are mighty through God,
Speaker 1: to pulling down of strongholds and bringing every thought captive
Speaker 1: to the obedience of Christ. The weapons of our warfare
Speaker 1: are not carnal, right, but they are through the Anointing.
Speaker 1: They're mighty powerful through Holy Spirit. When I first got
Speaker 1: saved in twenty sixteen, I didn't have any denomination. When
Speaker 1: I first got saved, I came to the Lord and
Speaker 1: I said, you are God. I'm not I need you,
Speaker 1: You don't need me. That's the truth is He is
Speaker 1: the creator of the universe. We need him. We're in
Speaker 1: need of God. That's what separates you from the world.
Speaker 1: We understood, we're in need of God. Later on down
Speaker 1: the road, I got baptized in the Holy Spirit. At
Speaker 1: the same time, my wife was looking for a church
Speaker 1: and she found this one. Then she discovered heard that
Speaker 1: this church believes in deliverance, and she took the Restored Life.
Speaker 1: She went to the Restored Life conference, right, and then
Speaker 1: she sends me nine pages printed, nine pages. She says here,
Speaker 1: I was spending a lot of hours. My devotion was
Speaker 1: a lot of hours of pouring over the scriptures. I'm
Speaker 1: a lot and so I didn't want to read anything
Speaker 1: that was not this. But there was something missing in
Speaker 1: my understanding of the scriptures. And she sent it to
Speaker 1: me with nine pages of Restored Life and they were
Speaker 1: all back scripturally. What it did for me in my
Speaker 1: walk was it changed everything I used to get maybe
Speaker 1: you know, one and ten answer prayers, or like if
Speaker 1: somebody asked me for prayer, I pray for them, maybe
Speaker 1: something would shift, you know again, denomination lists right, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm I don't have a denomination at that moment, right,
Speaker 1: I just was practicing what I knew was in that word.
Speaker 1: I was just praying for people, right, But there was
Speaker 1: always something missing when it came down to observing Jesus
Speaker 1: doing deliverance or watching Paul do watching right. I was
Speaker 1: in the scriptures. Literally, my vision was fixed on that scripture.
Speaker 1: It was like there was downloads from heaven and I'm
Speaker 1: seeing the apostles walk it out right. So when I'm
Speaker 1: observing that Paul is casting demons out too, I was
Speaker 1: always like, hmm, wonder what that's about. Wonder what that's about.
Speaker 1: But you know what, you're not taught. You're not commonly
Speaker 1: taught that Jesus gave authority to disciples before they were
Speaker 1: even baptized. In the Holy ghosts over demons and they
Speaker 1: were going around casting them out before the baptism of
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. There was the authority of Christ living powerfully.
Speaker 1: So I got those pages, I read them, I poured
Speaker 1: over those, I read the scriptures attached to those. Guess what,
Speaker 1: All of the sudden things started shifting. All of the sudden,
Speaker 1: I felt like this annoyingting got stronger. All of the
Speaker 1: sudden things started getting kicked out of my life. Demons
Speaker 1: started to go, they started to leave. Guess what. All
Speaker 1: of the sudden desires that I had started to disappear.
Speaker 1: All of the sudden, my flesh was learning new things,
Speaker 1: learning how to walk, learning how to pray, learning how
Speaker 1: to minister properly, because guess what, when Jesus here's what
Speaker 1: You'll start reading the Gospels tell you that Jesus went
Speaker 1: as many as he healed, he also set free, He
Speaker 1: delivered them. As many as were healed, he delivered. You'll
Speaker 1: start to see these scriptures and they'll bounce off the page,
Speaker 1: and then you'll say, well, then maybe if it's not
Speaker 1: just a health issue, maybe it's a demon issue. Maybe
Speaker 1: they're just being afflicted. I have a whole nother sermon
Speaker 1: lined up. Okay, listen, I have a whole other sermon
Speaker 1: lined up on that alone. But I believe I've already
Speaker 1: presented enough body of evidence to let you know that experientially,
Speaker 1: there is more power in this kind of ministry than
Speaker 1: there are in others. And I'm not just comparing. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying it's sad that Americans churches are missing out
Speaker 1: and other churches are missing out on a restored life. Okay,
Speaker 1: they're missing power, they're missing authority, they're missing supernatural, spirit
Speaker 1: infused living Jesus. So anyways, we started seeing a bunch
Speaker 1: of miracles where I was at the chapel got full right,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, they're like, oh, there's actually
Speaker 1: the power of Christ. And these guys that are walking
Speaker 1: around here, walking into quarantine zones with people who have
Speaker 1: viruses all over them and they're contagious. Guess what, I
Speaker 1: walk in. Those things have to die, they have to leave, Okay,
Speaker 1: And I walk in, I lay hands on them. They recover,
Speaker 1: they come out the next day, okay, and they say
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with them. Okay. But that is the
Speaker 1: actual empowerment of the Holy Spirit. The anointing do come
Speaker 1: when you start, When your words start to agree with Heaven,
Speaker 1: When your words start to agree with the Holy Spirit
Speaker 1: and the new life that Christ has given you, all
Speaker 1: of the sudden things will change. They will change. This
Speaker 1: is the truth. So Yes, restored life change. My theology
Speaker 1: answered many questions about the Word of God for me
Speaker 1: and for our family. Can't do this without the anointing.
Speaker 1: The deception of the enemy of your souls has to leave.
Speaker 1: The world needs you to live and walk in power.
Speaker 1: It yearns for you to do. So I'm gonna show
Speaker 1: you what else the anointing does. Let's go to Isaiah
Speaker 1: ten twenty seven and it shall come to passing that
Speaker 1: day that his burden shall be taken away from off
Speaker 1: thy shoulders, and his yoke from off thy neck, And
Speaker 1: the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. The
Speaker 1: yoke of sin shall be destroyed, because of the anointing.
Speaker 1: That which comes against your soul will be destroyed because
Speaker 1: of the anointing. Casting out devils, they will be removed
Speaker 1: because of the anointing. How do we know this, Ephesians.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Ephesians chapter four, verse twenty five. Therefore,
Speaker 1: putting away lying, let each one of you speak the
Speaker 1: truth with this neighbor, for we are members of one another.
Speaker 1: Be angry and do not sin. Do not let the
Speaker 1: sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to
Speaker 1: the devil, outward experience, outward expressions, right, a fight at home, right, lying,
Speaker 1: speaking lies? Why does it lead us to verse twenty seven,
Speaker 1: go back, nor give place to the devil? In other
Speaker 1: In other versions it says, nor give a foothold that
Speaker 1: describes you losing ground somewhere. How many Christians are living
Speaker 1: that way, disempowered because they gave foothold to the devil,
Speaker 1: and they think that they're outward happenings. Well, this just happens. Well,
Speaker 1: that's just how I am, this is just who I am.
Speaker 1: It's deception. God wants that out of your life. That's
Speaker 1: what restored living is about. Hallelujah. We don't give a
Speaker 1: foothold to the enemy. We bind them, We tell them
Speaker 1: to leave, We command them to go until those patterns
Speaker 1: of sin leave fully, and then the Holy Spirit starts
Speaker 1: to teach you how to actually walk. Not everything has
Speaker 1: to be covered up with lies. Not everything that that
Speaker 1: you're talking about has to be you know X y
Speaker 1: Z right, It doesn't matter. Your reaction doesn't have to
Speaker 1: always be lust right. You're a believer. Old things have
Speaker 1: passed away. Behold, all things are new. If you're still
Speaker 1: dealing with old, you got things to work on. Amen.
Speaker 1: This is about building a powerful life. Jesus modeled it,
Speaker 1: he walked it out. He said to his disciples, Now
Speaker 1: you go and make disciples of all the nations. That's
Speaker 1: you and I, and now we're told the same thing.
Speaker 1: Now you do it. It's the anointing. It's the anointing.
Speaker 1: The yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. Hallelujah,
Speaker 1: Thank your Holy Spirit, Thank you that you modeled it
Speaker 1: so well, you loved us so well, you died, you
Speaker 1: were crucified, You rose from the dead and took captivity
Speaker 1: and death captive. We can begin to grab onto the scriptures,
Speaker 1: and then we start to understand why he stood up.
Speaker 1: I believe it's in Luke four and he read out
Speaker 1: of the scroll of Isaiah. The spirit of the Lord
Speaker 1: God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me
Speaker 1: to preach good tidings. He didn't come to preach bad news.
Speaker 1: He came to preach good tidings. He has sent me
Speaker 1: to heal the broken hearted, good healing, to proclaim liberty
Speaker 1: to the captives. It's the anointing us, he says. The
Speaker 1: Lord has anointed me, and the opening of the prison
Speaker 1: to those who are bound to proclaim the acceptable year
Speaker 1: of the Lord. Glory to God, Glory to God, Glory
Speaker 1: to God. Thank you Jesus. You're in a good place.
Speaker 1: You're in a good place. You, unlike most, know what
Speaker 1: to do with sin, and you know how to get
Speaker 1: rid of it in your life. It's in the scriptures.
Speaker 1: I just said a bunch of them to you. The how,
Speaker 1: which means it gives us hope that there is a
Speaker 1: way out of that pit that you crawled into, that
Speaker 1: pit or that jail that the enemy has held you in.
Speaker 1: There is that ground that you know that you can
Speaker 1: take back because of the anointing. Glory to God. You're
Speaker 1: building a powerful life. You're building a powerful life. Here,
Speaker 1: You're building a powerful life. Come on, just right there,
Speaker 1: just let's start to talk to God. Thank you God,
Speaker 1: Thank you that you've made a way through your son,
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, the Anointed. Thank you Lord that you have
Speaker 1: come to set us free, that you bound up my
Speaker 1: broken heart and that you're fixing everything in it. Lord.
Speaker 1: I thank you God that you're even taking the desires
Speaker 1: of my heart, Lord, and that you are that you
Speaker 1: are restoring those parts of my heart and redeeming them. God,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord Holy Spirit. Right now, if there's anyone
Speaker 1: in this Lord that needs you. We all need you, Lord,
Speaker 1: we all need you. But if there's someone in here
Speaker 1: that doesn't know you, Lord, I pray right now that
Speaker 1: as they're asking you to come in that you would
Speaker 1: indwell them. Even right now, if you start to feel
Speaker 1: really warm in your heart, you start to feel really hot,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, just let him come and invite him.
Speaker 1: Just say, Holy Spirit, come be my teacher, lead me.
Speaker 1: Would you break every yoke, every bondage, all affliction. Lord,
Speaker 1: I thank you how your word says that if we
Speaker 1: submit to God, resist the devil, he will flee from us. Submit.
Speaker 1: We're submitting to you God. Today we're resisting the enemy
Speaker 1: of our soul. God, and we thank you that he
Speaker 1: is fleeing even right now. We thank you for a
Speaker 1: new horizon. We thank you for a new day. We
Speaker 1: thank you Lord that there is there is a day
Speaker 1: today that is yours. We will rejoice and be glad
Speaker 1: in it in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen,