WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:08.720 Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day. This is the day the Lord has made, and we will rejoice and be glad in it. 00:09.580 --> 00:13.220 And like the song that was just playing, Holy Spirit, we welcome you. 00:14.220 --> 00:22.900 Specific application. We can do nothing without you, including it's through your power that demons are driven out and removed. 00:23.480 --> 00:25.160 You're the one who does it. 00:25.160 --> 00:29.600 And we honor you in the position you've been given. 00:31.000 --> 00:34.240 You're also our teacher, our counselor, our guide. 00:35.020 --> 00:38.380 I pray you lead and guide and direct tonight. Give wisdom. 00:38.640 --> 00:43.160 Help us to talk about the things that are necessary and to avoid the things that are not. 00:43.560 --> 00:46.160 In Jesus' name. Amen. 00:47.380 --> 00:48.640 Amen. You may be seated. 00:50.420 --> 00:54.760 Public service announcement next week. There won't be any nursery. 00:55.080 --> 01:00.460 So if you bring a little one next week is that we've been having nursery each evening. 01:00.600 --> 01:02.900 And next week there will not be any nursery. 01:03.660 --> 01:10.260 And we will also be doing questions and answers starting about eight o'clock. 01:10.780 --> 01:16.160 Thereabouts. And that's when we will lose you who are watching us by live stream. 01:16.160 --> 01:21.860 We want to be able to have the ability to edit the question and answer time. 01:22.120 --> 01:26.580 It will go up eventually with tonight what we're saying. 01:27.260 --> 01:32.240 The message, but we'll lose you during the question and answer time. 01:32.700 --> 01:38.400 If you have questions and answers, please text them or e-mail them in. 01:38.840 --> 01:42.280 You go to our website. There's church e-mail there. You can send them there or they'll get to me. 01:42.280 --> 01:47.860 And send them in. And thank you for joining us that way tonight. 01:48.120 --> 01:51.340 And thank you for joining us this way tonight. 01:51.620 --> 01:55.020 In person is always nice. It's helpful to me. 02:00.150 --> 02:09.510 So I was planning to start tonight with kind of the basic things to make sure we're all on the same page, 02:09.510 --> 02:10.870 building on the same foundation. 02:10.870 --> 02:17.010 Basic I mean starting really basic like what is a demon? What is a fallen angel? 02:17.670 --> 02:20.690 What is a generational curse? Things like that. 02:21.390 --> 02:27.110 How do demons and or fallen angels gain access to a person? 02:28.090 --> 02:36.630 How can you tell if you or someone has a problem with any of those things 02:36.630 --> 02:39.050 and kind of just lay a basic foundation? 02:40.630 --> 02:44.130 But apparently the Lord didn't want us starting there. 02:44.170 --> 02:48.830 He wants us starting in a little further and then we'll come back and we'll pick all that up. 02:49.290 --> 02:54.730 So we're going to start by talking specifically about deliverance, specifically self-deliverance. 02:55.770 --> 03:01.030 This is the main deliverance that takes place or should take place. 03:01.770 --> 03:07.150 So we're going to start there and because of we're not starting at the beginning, 03:07.510 --> 03:12.510 I may refer to some things that we haven't had a chance to talk about yet. 03:12.990 --> 03:15.790 Bring them up during question and answer time. I can answer them there. 03:16.210 --> 03:24.050 And or I guess you wait until we go back and redo it and start from what I considered the beginning. 03:24.670 --> 03:29.810 So evidently from my perspective, I don't know why the Lord changes plans and does things, 03:29.810 --> 03:36.530 but from my perspective evidently there's people who are wanting some freedom or needing some freedom. 03:37.250 --> 03:40.330 So he's saying the first thing you do is show them how to get that. 03:41.110 --> 03:45.810 And then we'll go back and talk about the details and fill in the cracks and so forth. 03:48.570 --> 03:52.150 So let me start. We do have questions that came in. 03:52.250 --> 03:56.930 So we'll answer them the beginning of the question and answer session 03:56.930 --> 03:59.690 and then we'll go into any questions we have pertaining to tonight 03:59.690 --> 04:02.790 because obviously the questions came in had to do with last week. 04:03.370 --> 04:10.350 But I want to hit something right from the beginning that seems to be a misunderstanding to some people. 04:10.750 --> 04:12.630 So let's get it out of the way right from the beginning. 04:13.230 --> 04:17.630 It is not a sign of spirituality to always be under demonic attack. 04:22.350 --> 04:28.610 You are not more spiritual if you're always under demonic attack 04:28.610 --> 04:30.970 or always struggling with demons. 04:32.370 --> 04:37.590 It's actually a sign of spiritual weakness, not spiritual strength. 04:38.470 --> 04:40.450 And I'll show you why here in just a second. 04:41.230 --> 04:44.730 So the concept of, well, the devil's been after me all week. 04:44.910 --> 04:46.310 Oh, wow, you must be so spiritual. 04:46.310 --> 04:49.490 Why is he after you and you're not after him? 04:51.130 --> 04:52.330 Why are you running? 04:54.210 --> 04:57.490 Turn around and fight. Kick him out. He'll quit chasing you. 04:59.330 --> 05:00.210 Or them. 05:04.130 --> 05:08.330 To always, like we had one person, this was years ago, 05:09.290 --> 05:12.350 make the statement during a service that 05:13.010 --> 05:15.470 they had been wrestling with demons all night. 05:16.390 --> 05:17.630 Well, that can happen. 05:18.290 --> 05:22.270 But it's not a sign of spiritual strength when that happens. 05:22.830 --> 05:24.390 That's a sign of spiritual weakness. 05:26.430 --> 05:28.910 Jesus never wrestled with demons all night. 05:29.250 --> 05:29.810 We know of. 05:31.270 --> 05:32.990 He dealt with them and it was over. 05:34.390 --> 05:36.370 So it's not a sign of spiritual strength. 05:36.970 --> 05:39.390 So, another public service announcement. 05:39.390 --> 05:42.490 Could we get all the lights up all the way 05:42.490 --> 05:46.150 so that people can take notes and it's easy for them to write and etc. 05:47.030 --> 05:48.850 So the reason I say that is this. 05:49.290 --> 05:55.270 The disciples, is there any sign in scripture, any place that we can find 05:55.270 --> 05:58.710 that the disciples were continually under spiritual attack 05:58.710 --> 06:00.030 and they were continually in warfare? 06:03.090 --> 06:03.770 There's none. 06:05.810 --> 06:08.370 And of course, if you go to our supreme examples, Jesus, 06:09.730 --> 06:16.030 there is no place where Jesus was continually under spiritual attack. 06:16.350 --> 06:17.670 Now, he was tempted. 06:18.250 --> 06:19.930 He had attacks. 06:21.410 --> 06:27.030 But the thing of, well, I'm so spiritual that the demonic realm is always after me 06:27.030 --> 06:29.250 and I'm always having to deal with the demonic realm. 06:29.870 --> 06:33.710 That's actually because there's an area that's weak in us, 06:34.070 --> 06:35.150 that that happens. 06:35.710 --> 06:37.630 If it was strong, it wouldn't happen. 06:37.630 --> 06:41.650 So I kind of want that cleared up from the beginning. 06:44.090 --> 06:46.370 Jesus, I mean, they couldn't touch Jesus. 06:46.510 --> 06:48.610 No one, including the devil, could take Jesus' life. 06:49.670 --> 06:49.910 Why? 06:51.350 --> 06:53.430 Anybody know right offhand why Jesus said? 06:54.270 --> 06:55.370 John 14, I'll give you a hint. 06:55.850 --> 06:56.350 He was sinless. 06:59.520 --> 07:00.200 What did you say? 07:00.340 --> 07:01.260 He was sinless. 07:01.420 --> 07:01.960 He was sinless. 07:02.780 --> 07:04.540 Kingdom darkness had no hold on him. 07:05.100 --> 07:06.740 Death is of the kingdom of darkness. 07:08.800 --> 07:10.220 Here's what was just referred to. 07:10.220 --> 07:12.940 He was guilty of no sin, the speaking of Jesus. 07:13.360 --> 07:15.960 Neither was deceit or guile ever found on his lips. 07:16.700 --> 07:21.600 So now with that concept in mind, let's go to what Jesus had to say about it. 07:22.340 --> 07:25.960 I will not talk with you much more for the prince, the evil genius, 07:26.280 --> 07:27.980 the ruler of this world is coming. 07:28.500 --> 07:29.880 So that's the devil. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.660 He has no claim on me. 07:35.420 --> 07:37.780 He has nothing in common with me. 07:38.380 --> 07:38.940 That's huge. 07:38.940 --> 07:42.660 There is nothing in me that belongs to him. 07:43.060 --> 07:43.860 That's huge. 07:44.560 --> 07:46.460 And he has no power over me. 07:48.060 --> 07:50.580 So now just stop and think about those three statements. 07:51.160 --> 07:53.420 He has nothing in common with me. 07:53.780 --> 07:59.340 There was nothing that the devil's kingdom operated in that Jesus operated in. 08:00.980 --> 08:03.100 Hate, unforgiveness, 08:05.060 --> 08:06.200 evil speaking, 08:08.380 --> 08:09.480 getting drunk. 08:13.250 --> 08:14.530 Should I keep on listening? 08:15.350 --> 08:17.890 Those things are all from the devil's kingdom. 08:18.630 --> 08:24.790 Once we are doing what the devil's kingdom is doing, we have something common 08:24.790 --> 08:28.110 that gives them authority in us. 08:28.450 --> 08:30.670 It gives them power in us. 08:31.250 --> 08:33.370 Jesus said, He has nothing in common with me. 08:34.270 --> 08:37.330 We are on two different airplanes going two different directions. 08:38.470 --> 08:41.710 There is nothing in me that belongs to Him. 08:43.770 --> 08:47.610 Jesus, like what Mary was referring to in prayer a couple of Sundays ago, 08:48.090 --> 08:51.990 Jesus didn't have any treaties with the demonic realm. 08:53.430 --> 08:56.590 He had no agreements with the demonic realm. 08:58.290 --> 09:04.730 There was nothing in Jesus that was of the demonic kingdom. 09:06.710 --> 09:09.630 Therefore, they couldn't touch Him. 09:11.430 --> 09:15.590 And He has no power over me, which goes along with the whole thing. 09:15.690 --> 09:18.470 Once you are submitted to it, now it has power over you 09:18.470 --> 09:21.550 because in Matthews, in Romans 6 and Romans 8, 09:22.050 --> 09:24.850 it says whatever we submit ourselves to, 09:25.290 --> 09:29.170 whether righteousness or unrighteousness, we become slaves to it. 09:29.910 --> 09:32.130 So that's where willful sin comes in. 09:33.590 --> 09:38.590 If we submit ourselves to doing things or not doing things, 09:38.790 --> 09:40.570 sins of commission, sins of omission, 09:41.230 --> 09:44.690 if we submit ourselves to it knowingly, willingly, 09:44.890 --> 09:49.450 and we live that way, now we're under its power, spiritually speaking. 09:49.810 --> 09:53.190 And when you're under the power, it's very difficult to do anything 09:54.250 --> 09:56.030 like deliverance or anything like that. 09:56.790 --> 10:00.090 So I have it listed later. I'll throw it in here because it just fits so well. 10:01.570 --> 10:04.270 One of the things that we don't do here 10:05.030 --> 10:08.730 is we don't, as a church, acknowledge Halloween whatsoever. 10:10.650 --> 10:13.050 That started in a deliverance session. 10:14.070 --> 10:16.310 That was not something that I just dreamt up. 10:17.090 --> 10:19.030 Now, it came into fruition. 10:19.830 --> 10:21.810 We've got some little booklets out in the literature stand, 10:21.890 --> 10:23.990 if you want to look at kind of the story behind it 10:23.990 --> 10:25.590 and what Halloween is about, et cetera. 10:26.170 --> 10:29.730 And that kind of starts when we were in Colorado. 10:29.730 --> 10:30.990 It's where that booklist starts. 10:31.630 --> 10:35.130 Where the thing changed in me and since Halloween's next week. 10:35.750 --> 10:36.990 Let's talk about it a little bit. 10:37.510 --> 10:39.150 I grew up celebrating Halloween. 10:40.230 --> 10:41.730 My parents took me to town. 10:42.090 --> 10:42.890 I went trick-or-treating. 10:45.310 --> 10:48.650 I mean, it was like normal, common place. 10:49.870 --> 10:54.370 You go to churches, you find skeletons and ghosts and stuff. 10:54.490 --> 10:55.490 They're decorating for Halloween. 10:57.130 --> 11:03.090 It has become very normal in Christians or in Christianity 11:03.090 --> 11:04.470 to celebrate Halloween. 11:05.670 --> 11:07.650 If you know anything about Halloween, 11:07.730 --> 11:08.930 if you've studied it at all, 11:09.290 --> 11:13.570 you already know this is one of Satan's high holidays. 11:14.430 --> 11:16.570 There is nothing godly in the holiday. 11:16.950 --> 11:20.650 It is all built around what the kingdom of darkness is 11:20.650 --> 11:22.050 and represents. 11:22.490 --> 11:24.030 And if you don't, if you never studied it, 11:24.030 --> 11:25.950 grab one of those, it's got a little oint cover on it. 11:26.390 --> 11:27.630 I think it just says Halloween on it. 11:28.510 --> 11:33.810 Read that through, it'll give you a real brief, quick education in it. 11:34.370 --> 11:36.790 But anyway, so this was years ago 11:37.350 --> 11:40.530 when I was still caught in that period of time 11:40.530 --> 11:41.830 that I talked about last week 11:41.830 --> 11:44.870 where it seems like every demon that manifested in everybody 11:45.990 --> 11:48.130 did the whole full meal deal. 11:48.770 --> 11:51.310 They took the body over and the person blacked out 11:51.310 --> 11:53.330 and they were talking through them and this, that and the other. 11:54.490 --> 11:56.710 So there was a situation that, 11:56.930 --> 12:00.250 and this happened around this time of year. 12:01.310 --> 12:02.990 And again, I was in the parsonage 12:02.990 --> 12:04.150 and I was trying to help somebody 12:04.150 --> 12:07.450 and I can just, the picture is welded in my mind 12:07.450 --> 12:09.510 because of the accusation that went with it 12:09.970 --> 12:12.150 is they were sitting on a chair in front of me 12:12.150 --> 12:14.970 and the person had been taken over by a demon 12:14.970 --> 12:16.290 and I was trying to get the demon out 12:16.290 --> 12:17.610 and the demon wasn't cooperating, 12:17.670 --> 12:19.250 he didn't want to leave and this, that and the other. 12:19.250 --> 12:21.290 So I finally asked the question 12:21.290 --> 12:22.910 and sometimes if you, 12:23.470 --> 12:25.930 most of the time when a demon speaks, 12:26.170 --> 12:27.670 it's not accurate. 12:28.650 --> 12:31.030 They are of the father of lies 12:32.130 --> 12:35.070 and truth is kind of a vague concept to them. 12:37.870 --> 12:40.510 So most of the time you're wasting your breath 12:40.510 --> 12:44.390 but if you get them riled up in their pride 12:44.390 --> 12:47.010 they sometimes give you nuggets 12:48.330 --> 12:51.130 because they're going to prove to you 12:51.130 --> 12:52.310 they've got the right to stay 12:52.310 --> 12:56.930 and then they'll reveal why they've got the right to stay. 12:59.490 --> 13:01.450 So I'm dealing with this one 13:01.450 --> 13:04.970 and I must have got them riled up. 13:06.090 --> 13:07.350 You know, we're kind of arguing. 13:07.650 --> 13:08.910 That's how the sessions would go. 13:09.370 --> 13:10.650 And I'm arguing scripture 13:10.650 --> 13:12.270 and they're telling me why God is dead 13:12.270 --> 13:13.690 and why the God I serve is stupid 13:13.690 --> 13:15.070 and he has no power 13:15.670 --> 13:17.630 and you know, they hit your faith. 13:17.910 --> 13:18.950 They just attack your faith. 13:19.130 --> 13:20.990 Attack your faith so that 13:21.670 --> 13:23.350 you don't have the faith to deal with them. 13:24.870 --> 13:26.230 And he got all riled up 13:26.230 --> 13:27.270 and then he made this statement. 13:28.410 --> 13:30.070 Will you serve the same God I do? 13:30.410 --> 13:31.790 You have no authority over me. 13:31.990 --> 13:34.170 A kingdom divided against itself can't stand. 13:35.330 --> 13:36.710 He called a scripture to me 13:37.450 --> 13:38.170 and I'm going, 13:39.250 --> 13:39.690 what? 13:41.510 --> 13:44.090 I serve Jesus, the Father, 13:44.590 --> 13:45.230 heavenly Father, 13:46.010 --> 13:47.610 not the Father of lies, heavenly Father. 13:48.250 --> 13:49.530 I have the Holy Spirit in me. 13:50.450 --> 13:52.450 I do not serve 13:52.450 --> 13:53.970 your Father. 13:54.730 --> 13:55.430 Yes, you do. 13:57.730 --> 13:58.730 I do not. 13:59.730 --> 14:01.590 He said, I see you 14:01.590 --> 14:04.070 and all your people you hang around with 14:04.690 --> 14:05.730 do it all the time. 14:07.110 --> 14:07.970 I said, what? 14:12.420 --> 14:13.570 You celebrate Halloween 14:14.260 --> 14:15.640 with the rest of us. 14:18.240 --> 14:20.440 Well, no, I was kind of... 14:21.400 --> 14:22.120 it's true. 14:26.140 --> 14:27.420 I said, well, that doesn't mean 14:27.420 --> 14:29.000 I can't cast you out. 14:29.620 --> 14:30.480 He said it sure does. 14:32.360 --> 14:33.900 Kingdom divided against itself. 14:35.240 --> 14:36.160 You're participating. 14:36.940 --> 14:38.000 I'll go back to this scripture. 14:38.960 --> 14:39.860 Top one there. 14:41.020 --> 14:43.100 You have something in common with me. 14:44.620 --> 14:45.680 There's something in me 14:45.680 --> 14:47.280 that belonged to that darkness 14:47.280 --> 14:49.640 which I submitted myself to it willingly 14:49.640 --> 14:50.980 so they had power over me. 14:52.600 --> 14:54.120 So literally what he was saying 14:54.120 --> 14:55.180 is you can't cast me out 14:55.180 --> 14:56.280 because you celebrate Halloween. 14:56.640 --> 14:57.900 So end the subject. I'm staying. 14:59.860 --> 15:01.000 And see, this is where 15:01.000 --> 15:02.180 the grace of God is so good. 15:04.820 --> 15:05.620 I said, well, 15:06.340 --> 15:08.160 I've never really thought about it. 15:08.660 --> 15:09.780 Because I hadn't. 15:10.700 --> 15:13.260 You know, the church would throw parties on Halloween 15:13.260 --> 15:14.820 to keep the kids off the street. 15:16.140 --> 15:18.200 And it's like, I ever thought of that? 15:19.500 --> 15:20.280 I said, well, 15:20.900 --> 15:22.360 I haven't really thought about that. 15:23.720 --> 15:26.220 But let's just, for the sake of going there, 15:26.900 --> 15:27.780 let's say you're right. 15:28.040 --> 15:29.960 That's the reason I can't get you out. 15:32.840 --> 15:33.680 Heavenly Father, 15:35.200 --> 15:36.660 if I've been wrong 15:36.660 --> 15:37.880 in doing this, 15:38.800 --> 15:40.380 I confess it is sin 15:40.380 --> 15:42.140 and he started yelling 15:42.420 --> 15:43.560 and screaming, 15:44.720 --> 15:46.340 shut your mouth. 15:46.660 --> 15:48.560 No, no, do not. 15:48.860 --> 15:50.820 Your father will not forgive you. 15:51.020 --> 15:53.300 He will not. He is not a loving father. 15:53.400 --> 15:55.500 And just started, again, hitting my faith. 15:57.720 --> 15:58.280 Father, 15:58.840 --> 15:59.880 I'm sorry. Forgive me. 16:00.840 --> 16:01.720 A repent of it. 16:01.880 --> 16:03.260 I will look into this. 16:03.460 --> 16:05.600 And if I'm wrong, we'll make the adjustments. 16:07.800 --> 16:09.740 The thing in the person's body 16:09.740 --> 16:11.200 had gotten up out of the chair 16:11.200 --> 16:12.560 and was kind of posturing. 16:12.780 --> 16:14.600 And once I finished my prayer, 16:15.180 --> 16:17.800 just like a defeated enemy, 16:18.700 --> 16:20.660 it flopped back down in the chair. 16:22.600 --> 16:23.820 This isn't fair. 16:27.780 --> 16:30.140 Because it just lost all its power. 16:30.640 --> 16:31.660 This isn't fair. 16:32.660 --> 16:33.440 I'll go. 16:35.660 --> 16:37.560 So it really, in that instance, 16:37.560 --> 16:40.040 had nothing to do with the person's life 16:40.040 --> 16:41.000 I was trying to help. 16:41.660 --> 16:43.540 It had to do with my life. 16:45.600 --> 16:49.220 So that one made a huge impression on me. 16:52.830 --> 16:54.610 And it goes right with that verse. 16:56.410 --> 16:58.950 Jesus had nothing in common with them. 16:59.670 --> 17:02.310 There was nothing in Jesus that belonged to them. 17:03.050 --> 17:04.210 So there was nothing. 17:04.350 --> 17:06.030 He submitted his life to that kingdom 17:06.030 --> 17:07.850 so they had no power over him. 17:09.930 --> 17:10.990 So, read on. 17:11.590 --> 17:12.550 But Satan is coming 17:12.550 --> 17:14.910 and I do as the Father has commanded me 17:14.910 --> 17:17.370 so that the world may be convinced that I love the Father 17:17.370 --> 17:20.170 and that I only do what the Father has instructed me to do. 17:21.230 --> 17:23.690 I act in full agreement with his orders. 17:25.030 --> 17:27.170 Rise, let us go away from here. 17:27.310 --> 17:29.030 So now we're going to be going to the garden 17:29.030 --> 17:31.890 and we're going to end up getting killed. 17:34.130 --> 17:36.230 The whole scheme, Paul tells us, 17:36.350 --> 17:37.870 had the kingdom of darkness known, 17:38.750 --> 17:41.130 what they were doing by killing Jesus, 17:41.670 --> 17:43.030 they would have never done it. 17:43.490 --> 17:44.690 Paul said that in Corinthians. 17:46.890 --> 17:47.870 They didn't know. 17:48.070 --> 17:49.110 So when Jesus said, 17:49.230 --> 17:50.130 well, he's coming to kill me, 17:50.170 --> 17:51.690 he said, but he's got nothing in me. 17:53.210 --> 17:54.610 He can't touch me. 17:55.630 --> 17:56.490 That's why 17:57.790 --> 17:58.830 John 10, 17:59.190 --> 18:00.590 for this reason the Father loves me 18:00.590 --> 18:03.510 because I lay down my own life 18:03.510 --> 18:04.870 to take it back again. 18:04.870 --> 18:07.630 No one took Jesus' life. 18:08.330 --> 18:10.950 He willfully offered it as a sacrifice. 18:12.070 --> 18:13.730 No one takes it away from me. 18:13.830 --> 18:15.770 On the contrary, I lay it down voluntarily. 18:16.830 --> 18:18.730 I put it from myself. 18:18.950 --> 18:19.730 So in other words, 18:20.210 --> 18:22.250 my physical life, I just put it away. 18:22.470 --> 18:24.810 I am authorized and have power to lay it down 18:24.810 --> 18:25.610 to resign it. 18:25.730 --> 18:27.950 And I'm authorized and have power to take it back again. 18:28.550 --> 18:30.290 These are the instructions of the orders 18:30.290 --> 18:31.370 which I have received 18:31.370 --> 18:34.150 as my charge from my Father. 18:34.150 --> 18:36.610 So no one, including the devil, 18:36.990 --> 18:39.210 could take Jesus' life. 18:40.110 --> 18:40.710 Why? 18:41.490 --> 18:42.810 Those three reasons he listed. 18:44.490 --> 18:45.910 They had nothing in him. 18:47.950 --> 18:48.550 So, 18:49.950 --> 18:51.330 two applications here. 18:51.490 --> 18:53.710 One is going back to what we already said, 18:54.030 --> 18:55.230 but let me hit the other one first. 18:56.950 --> 18:58.150 When you're 18:58.770 --> 19:00.070 in a position 19:01.170 --> 19:01.770 of 19:02.690 --> 19:04.610 helping someone get free from the demonic, 19:07.090 --> 19:08.830 you really better make sure 19:08.830 --> 19:10.550 your life is clean first. 19:11.830 --> 19:14.010 Because if it's not, and it's easy to do, 19:14.110 --> 19:15.090 I just showed you how to do it. 19:17.250 --> 19:19.230 You confess your sin, you repent of your sin, 19:19.270 --> 19:20.310 you ask forgiveness for it and say, 19:20.370 --> 19:20.870 God, you know, 19:22.090 --> 19:23.050 wherever I'm off, 19:23.890 --> 19:25.050 I'm willing to get on. 19:25.870 --> 19:27.470 And it's just that fast. 19:27.810 --> 19:29.670 And to that kingdom, it isn't fair. 19:30.250 --> 19:31.890 But to our kingdom, it's awesome. 19:32.890 --> 19:34.850 You're forgiven. It's over. You're under grace. 19:35.010 --> 19:35.590 You move on. 19:36.770 --> 19:37.330 But 19:38.810 --> 19:41.410 so to enter into casting things out, 19:42.050 --> 19:43.610 we have to be prepared. 19:44.690 --> 19:46.810 Or if we're of their kingdom 19:46.810 --> 19:48.650 or like their kingdom, they won't obey us. 19:49.510 --> 19:50.930 Number one. Number two, 19:51.530 --> 19:53.590 application of what we were just talking about. 19:54.550 --> 19:57.070 There is a sign of spiritual strength, 19:58.750 --> 20:00.990 but it's not continually being under attack 20:00.990 --> 20:03.370 and not continually the devil's messing with my life. 20:03.430 --> 20:05.730 And it just seems like from the time I woke up this morning, 20:05.790 --> 20:08.750 all day long, it's like he had his hand in everything 20:08.750 --> 20:10.210 and he's messing with everything. 20:11.070 --> 20:14.410 And that is not a sign of spiritual strength and maturity. 20:14.490 --> 20:16.070 That's a sign of spiritual weakness. 20:17.610 --> 20:20.150 So now don't do what the church typically does. 20:20.350 --> 20:23.290 We put our face that we think everybody wants to see 20:23.290 --> 20:25.250 to make us look good and behind the mask, 20:26.650 --> 20:28.330 we're probably still living like 20:28.330 --> 20:30.290 everything's falling apart in our life, 20:30.350 --> 20:31.670 but we're not going to show anybody now 20:31.670 --> 20:35.130 because we don't want anybody to think we're spiritually weak. 20:35.710 --> 20:38.870 That, by the way, is pride and it will also cause problems. 20:41.310 --> 20:43.510 We've got to be honest. We just got to put it out there. 20:44.410 --> 20:47.010 I'm just going after the concept 20:48.830 --> 20:50.930 that if demons are affecting us 20:50.930 --> 20:52.970 and we're continually fighting with them, 20:55.580 --> 20:56.840 that's not God's best. 20:57.920 --> 21:01.760 We're supposed to walk free in this world. 21:02.380 --> 21:04.160 In fact, what God will do, 21:04.240 --> 21:06.020 you want to know God's opinion on the whole thing? 21:07.000 --> 21:08.780 He will sit us down 21:10.140 --> 21:12.400 and put a spread, the scripture says 21:12.400 --> 21:15.800 He'll put a table before us 21:16.620 --> 21:18.560 in the middle of our enemies. 21:23.140 --> 21:24.520 Isn't that what it says in Psalms? 21:26.240 --> 21:27.900 Right in the middle of our enemies. 21:28.460 --> 21:29.840 Well, they're going to steal all our food. 21:30.880 --> 21:32.960 No, that's not a sign of spiritual strength. 21:34.200 --> 21:36.260 He wants us to become so strong 21:36.260 --> 21:38.320 we can have 15 demons surrounding us 21:38.320 --> 21:39.080 that they can't touch us. 21:42.070 --> 21:43.450 So now there's one more point 21:43.450 --> 21:45.250 I want you to get out of the scripture 21:45.250 --> 21:48.390 where he said Satan's coming to take my life 21:48.390 --> 21:49.310 but he has nothing in me. 21:50.230 --> 21:51.790 So they couldn't touch Jesus 21:51.790 --> 21:53.570 because he had nothing in common with him. 21:53.570 --> 21:54.750 He wasn't submitted to him. 21:54.810 --> 21:56.310 He wasn't participating with that kingdom. 21:56.570 --> 21:57.530 Flip that coin. 22:00.360 --> 22:02.080 It's like Brother Hagin used to say 22:02.740 --> 22:04.560 you can learn as much from scripture 22:04.560 --> 22:07.000 what it doesn't say is what it does say. 22:07.700 --> 22:10.620 So if it says he has nothing in you 22:10.620 --> 22:12.000 he can't touch you. 22:13.360 --> 22:14.460 Flip the coin. 22:15.260 --> 22:18.160 It's saying if he has in you 22:18.780 --> 22:19.980 he can touch you. 22:21.840 --> 22:23.560 Jesus said the reason he can't touch me 22:23.560 --> 22:24.340 is because he's got nothing in me. 22:24.780 --> 22:26.200 What if he had something in Jesus? 22:26.420 --> 22:27.220 Well, he could have touched him. 22:31.450 --> 22:32.910 There are people who die 22:32.910 --> 22:34.910 they couldn't touch Jesus. 22:35.110 --> 22:36.550 They couldn't take his life. He had to lay it down. 22:38.450 --> 22:40.250 There are people who die in 22:40.250 --> 22:42.590 fashions and in times they're not supposed to 22:42.590 --> 22:46.370 because they have things 22:46.370 --> 22:47.810 in common with the kingdom of darkness. 22:48.830 --> 22:50.890 They're submitted in some areas to the kingdom. 22:51.090 --> 22:52.450 Oh, they're Christians. They'll probably go to heaven. 22:53.010 --> 22:53.950 I'm not a judge of that. 22:53.950 --> 22:56.130 They're saved by faith through grace. 22:56.250 --> 22:56.930 It's a free gift. 22:58.090 --> 23:00.730 But some place they opened their life 23:01.630 --> 23:03.730 and he got in and took them out. 23:05.310 --> 23:06.530 That can happen. 23:06.930 --> 23:09.890 There is the scripture for it. 23:12.230 --> 23:14.570 So, not always when someone dies 23:14.570 --> 23:16.070 is it their time. 23:19.650 --> 23:20.270 Just saying. 23:23.330 --> 23:25.130 So, I could send you home with that 23:25.130 --> 23:26.350 and you could chew on that all week. 23:27.770 --> 23:31.470 There is a reason God wants us to live a life. 23:31.530 --> 23:32.770 What did Paul say over and over? 23:33.310 --> 23:36.870 Live a life worthy of your calling. 23:37.690 --> 23:39.510 First calling is calling a salvation. 23:40.310 --> 23:41.670 Calling to be in his family. 23:42.150 --> 23:43.270 Live a life worthy of that. 23:44.110 --> 23:45.870 And then Paul would usually talk about 23:45.870 --> 23:47.190 and you know all these other things? 23:47.410 --> 23:49.430 Don't do them. Stay out of them. 23:49.490 --> 23:51.030 They're not of our kingdom. Get rid of that. 23:51.110 --> 23:52.610 You used to do that when you were unsaved. 23:52.970 --> 23:54.350 Quit doing it now that you're saved. 23:54.350 --> 23:55.770 Live a life worthy. 23:57.530 --> 24:00.230 Well, there's numerous reasons for that. 24:00.370 --> 24:01.170 That's one of them. 24:01.990 --> 24:04.150 One other point that I want to clarify 24:04.710 --> 24:06.370 and I've been using it on purpose 24:06.370 --> 24:07.630 and I'm going to try not to use it. 24:07.670 --> 24:09.230 It's kind of a Christianese habit thing. 24:10.550 --> 24:13.190 For most of us, the devil is not concerned 24:13.190 --> 24:15.150 about us whatsoever, period. 24:16.730 --> 24:18.150 He doesn't care. 24:19.330 --> 24:21.810 Because he's not omnipresent. 24:22.930 --> 24:24.390 He is a single being 24:24.390 --> 24:27.490 locked in one place at one time. 24:28.270 --> 24:30.990 And he's got bigger fish to fry than us. 24:33.130 --> 24:34.850 He's trying to work on governments 24:34.850 --> 24:35.930 and government leaders 24:35.930 --> 24:37.650 because if he can get them going in a certain direction 24:37.650 --> 24:39.210 the whole nation goes that direction. 24:40.190 --> 24:42.710 Why would he come and spend a whole night with you? 24:43.990 --> 24:46.350 When he can spend a whole night working on somebody 24:46.350 --> 24:49.450 that will affect countries or regions. 24:50.850 --> 24:53.910 So when we say, well, it's the devil. 24:54.050 --> 24:56.470 The devil is doing this in my life. 24:57.230 --> 24:58.370 I know what you're saying. 24:58.650 --> 24:59.430 I know what I'm saying. 24:59.550 --> 25:00.310 I was taught the same thing. 25:00.650 --> 25:02.010 We mean the kingdom of darkness 25:02.010 --> 25:03.230 and demons this, that and the other. 25:03.310 --> 25:05.490 But some people actually believe it's the devil. 25:06.570 --> 25:07.950 He's not going to waste his time 25:07.950 --> 25:08.950 in low-lifes like us. 25:10.210 --> 25:12.210 He doesn't have time to waste on us. 25:13.690 --> 25:15.890 He's got way bigger priorities than us. 25:16.050 --> 25:17.110 So you say, well, what is it? 25:17.230 --> 25:18.850 Well, it's demons most of the time. 25:18.850 --> 25:20.690 Now they're of his kingdom in there. 25:21.770 --> 25:24.470 Eventually some place indirectly under his orders. 25:24.790 --> 25:25.490 But it's demons. 25:25.810 --> 25:27.530 It's not the devil. 25:28.010 --> 25:31.790 So I'm going to try to make sure we make that differentiation. 25:32.570 --> 25:35.390 And we'll be talking about demons, not the devil. 25:35.790 --> 25:38.710 Because the devil for the average person isn't our concern. 25:39.170 --> 25:41.230 It's the demons or the fallen angels of his kingdom. 25:41.790 --> 25:45.550 So tonight I want to talk about self-deliverance. 25:45.790 --> 25:47.690 And I know a question is going to come up on this. 25:47.690 --> 25:49.110 So I might as well answer it right away. 25:51.930 --> 25:55.690 And I'll explain why I'm going to start with what I call self-deliverance. 25:58.130 --> 25:59.090 This is the question. 26:00.150 --> 26:02.170 If there is such a thing as self-deliverance, 26:02.850 --> 26:04.330 why don't we see it in Scripture? 26:05.850 --> 26:07.290 Somebody's going to come up with that sooner or later. 26:10.260 --> 26:12.320 So I'm going to answer that eventually here, 26:12.340 --> 26:13.600 but I'm going to answer it with a question. 26:14.920 --> 26:16.740 But actually Scripture does talk about it, 26:16.780 --> 26:17.520 and I'll show you that in a bit. 26:17.520 --> 26:20.560 But let me answer that question with another question. 26:22.300 --> 26:27.320 Why do recorded instances in Scripture of deliverance 26:27.320 --> 26:33.600 almost entirely stop at Acts 1? 26:36.660 --> 26:42.680 Acts, Romans, Corinthians, on and on, all the way through Revelation. 26:43.680 --> 26:48.520 How many instances are there of the disciples casting anything out? 26:52.460 --> 26:55.340 You can count them on one hand and have fingers left over. 26:57.080 --> 26:58.060 Why is that? 26:58.280 --> 27:00.740 Maybe deliverance isn't scriptural. 27:05.830 --> 27:06.950 I'm just trying to... 27:06.950 --> 27:07.730 I don't want to say everything. 27:08.030 --> 27:09.910 I get you to actually think a little bit too. 27:13.690 --> 27:14.970 So let me ask... 27:14.970 --> 27:16.210 There's another question that goes with it. 27:17.570 --> 27:21.070 Why are there no recorded instances of believers 27:21.070 --> 27:24.030 after Acts chapter 1? 27:24.610 --> 27:26.560 Day of Pentecost, the churches formed. 27:27.030 --> 27:28.490 The church is now in existence. 27:29.050 --> 27:31.250 New Covenant, New Era, New Testament. 27:32.470 --> 27:36.110 Why are there no recorded instances of believers needing 27:36.110 --> 27:40.350 or getting deliverance after the church began? 27:41.350 --> 27:42.490 There are none. 27:44.090 --> 27:47.190 Where a Christian ever needed deliverance 27:48.530 --> 27:50.450 in the New Testament church. 27:50.770 --> 27:53.530 Now remember, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are under the Old Testament. 27:54.910 --> 27:57.310 Jesus was wrapping up the Old Testament there 27:57.310 --> 27:59.930 and showing us what the New Testament is going to go like 27:59.930 --> 28:01.870 by example and by showing us the Father. 28:02.330 --> 28:03.710 Then he died, rose from the dead, 28:04.450 --> 28:06.270 ascended to heaven, the Holy Spirit came, 28:06.430 --> 28:08.570 and when the Holy Spirit came, that was the birth of the church. 28:08.570 --> 28:12.570 From that point forward, you have nothing in Scripture 28:12.570 --> 28:16.270 that ever indicates a Christian needed a demon cast out. 28:18.070 --> 28:18.550 Why? 28:21.230 --> 28:22.970 Christians can't get demons, exactly. 28:24.870 --> 28:27.110 So we talked about last week, my story, 28:27.230 --> 28:31.070 and that's part of where the reasoning came from on that. 28:32.150 --> 28:34.270 Well, they can't get them, that's why you don't have to cast them out. 28:35.330 --> 28:37.870 Then what was, you know, what was showing up in my life? 28:37.870 --> 28:41.610 What shows up in prayer lines? We have it show up very consistently. 28:42.210 --> 28:44.970 Here, TBO, whatever, you go down a prayer line, 28:45.250 --> 28:48.090 it's very consistently demon show up. 28:48.970 --> 28:52.110 In Christians, tongue-talking, Bible believing, Christians. 28:54.270 --> 28:56.530 Well, why doesn't the Scripture talk about it then? 28:58.330 --> 29:00.950 I don't know for sure, but here is an opinion. 29:03.550 --> 29:06.570 And let me say this before I give my thoughts on that. 29:09.800 --> 29:14.880 When it comes to this subject, I want to stay very, very scriptural. 29:15.860 --> 29:20.680 Because there's so much goofiness that takes place around deliverance. 29:21.400 --> 29:23.220 I want to stay very scriptural. 29:23.760 --> 29:29.100 But the thing you have to remember is the Bible isn't big enough 29:29.620 --> 29:33.800 to give you every scenario that can take place in deliverance. 29:34.780 --> 29:38.160 Towards an example of, well, this could happen and that could happen, this could happen, 29:38.160 --> 29:40.280 and you might have to do it this way, you might have to do it that way. 29:40.700 --> 29:44.060 It just leaves it silent and leaves it up to the Holy Spirit, like we said last week. 29:44.540 --> 29:51.920 The same way, the Bible doesn't tell us every way you might have to approach some disease or sickness to get healing. 29:52.380 --> 29:54.240 Whether you're for someone else or for yourself. 29:54.760 --> 29:56.360 It doesn't give us examples. 29:57.380 --> 29:58.600 Well, sometimes you have to pray in fast. 29:58.760 --> 30:00.620 Sometimes you have to, you know, speak to it. 30:00.700 --> 30:01.920 Sometimes you have to cast out a demon. 30:02.040 --> 30:03.220 It doesn't give us examples. 30:04.260 --> 30:05.880 We see some things with Jesus, 30:06.440 --> 30:12.700 but there's not books giving us scenarios of all the different things that can happen 30:12.700 --> 30:14.200 and how we may have to approach healing. 30:14.800 --> 30:16.280 That, again, is by the Holy Spirit. 30:16.640 --> 30:17.520 He'll teach us. 30:18.060 --> 30:19.720 So there's things we talk about that. 30:20.220 --> 30:21.280 Well, where do you find that in Scripture? 30:23.320 --> 30:27.720 You're going to find the basic principle that supports it and I want to see that. 30:28.840 --> 30:31.780 Now, how the Holy Spirit builds off of that, He might build differently. 30:31.780 --> 30:35.680 But I always want to see the basic principle of Scripture. 30:36.080 --> 30:39.440 We're building this on and why we're building this and why we believe this. 30:39.660 --> 30:43.420 Because if we don't do that, it can go awry really quickly and really bad. 30:44.500 --> 30:46.940 So I'm going to try to keep us very scriptural. 30:48.440 --> 30:53.140 But, those two questions I just gave you, to my understanding, there's no answer for either one. 30:54.720 --> 30:56.600 Now, the question I started with is, 30:57.160 --> 30:59.180 well, why doesn't the Bible talk about self-deliverance? 30:59.240 --> 30:59.680 Well, it does. 31:00.500 --> 31:01.700 I'll give you that in a bit. 31:02.400 --> 31:05.160 But the other two, it doesn't talk about it at all. 31:05.780 --> 31:11.620 So we know that deliverance didn't stop when the church started. 31:13.940 --> 31:15.280 It's still going on. 31:16.140 --> 31:19.540 And we know that sometimes believers need some help. 31:20.620 --> 31:23.800 That's still going on, but there's no recorded instance of it in Scripture. 31:24.420 --> 31:29.480 My opinion, the reason why is the goal we're supposed to be simply after is this. 31:30.880 --> 31:34.760 Live our Christian lives in a sincere manner. 31:36.160 --> 31:38.740 And the whole demon thing takes care of itself, won't be a problem. 31:40.860 --> 31:45.500 Now, there's a couple exceptions to that, so I can hear the good gears winding up. 31:46.560 --> 31:47.860 What about this, Pastor? 31:48.020 --> 31:49.840 I'll give you a couple exceptions in my mind. 31:52.060 --> 31:53.840 But I want this to soak in first. 31:55.520 --> 31:57.480 One of the reasons, my opinion, 31:58.540 --> 32:01.620 we have more problem with demons in the church today 32:01.620 --> 32:06.160 than is ever recorded in the New Testament church from axon through revelation 32:07.600 --> 32:12.080 is because, and I haven't traveled the world, so I can only speak of America. 32:12.400 --> 32:15.480 It's the only place I've lived in, etc. 32:16.420 --> 32:24.960 So in America is because we don't take our Christian life seriously enough. 32:26.500 --> 32:33.600 In America, we want to know how much we can do and get away with and still make heaven. 32:35.840 --> 32:40.680 Versus, I don't want anything to do with the kingdom of darkness. 32:41.080 --> 32:42.600 I want to walk clean. 32:44.120 --> 32:46.620 There is a huge difference there. 32:47.260 --> 32:51.140 Because once you start saying, well, I don't see where it's a problem. 32:51.140 --> 32:55.780 You're telling me your reasoning comes from the direction of 32:55.780 --> 32:57.740 I like things in the kingdom of darkness. 32:57.920 --> 32:59.820 I'm going to submit myself to them. 32:59.840 --> 33:01.920 I'm going to have things in common with them. 33:02.340 --> 33:04.300 And I can still go to heaven that way. 33:05.060 --> 33:06.240 Well, you might be able to. 33:07.160 --> 33:08.140 But I'll give you this. 33:08.500 --> 33:10.200 You're going to be really powerless on the trip. 33:12.340 --> 33:13.440 On the trip to heaven. 33:13.700 --> 33:14.580 You're going to be really powerless. 33:17.610 --> 33:20.110 There are going to be all kinds of bad things happening in your life. 33:20.150 --> 33:21.850 It seems like you have no authority over at all. 33:23.150 --> 33:28.890 Because in America, we tend to look at Christianity as something we add to our life. 33:28.990 --> 33:34.790 And it's convenient to go to church on Sunday to make sure our health insurance policy remains intact. 33:36.410 --> 33:39.690 And the rest of the week, we're just kind of going to live the way we want to live. 33:39.730 --> 33:40.630 And we don't care what God thinks. 33:43.290 --> 33:44.910 That's why we have demonic problems. 33:45.670 --> 33:47.710 That's why they can touch believers. 33:48.110 --> 33:50.030 It goes back to the same principle Jesus gave. 33:50.030 --> 33:53.230 They can't touch me because they got nothing in common with me. 33:53.870 --> 33:55.370 I'm not living their life. 33:56.230 --> 33:57.510 But there's a lot of Christians. 33:57.770 --> 34:00.030 If you look at their life, they look no different than the world. 34:01.430 --> 34:03.450 They got a lot in common with them. 34:04.430 --> 34:05.170 With demons. 34:05.570 --> 34:06.450 With the kingdom of darkness. 34:12.520 --> 34:15.320 So that's my position on that. 34:15.600 --> 34:18.440 Why scripture, it deviates a bit from scripture. 34:19.160 --> 34:20.900 I have, I'll be honest with you. 34:21.460 --> 34:23.280 My experience, very limited. 34:23.520 --> 34:28.000 Just a crack in the wall that I've looked through when dealing with the kingdom of darkness. 34:28.160 --> 34:29.960 So I don't by any means think I know everything. 34:30.200 --> 34:32.520 I've just seen a sliver of crack at this. 34:32.660 --> 34:35.400 And some of what I've seen through the wall makes no sense to me. 34:36.180 --> 34:38.680 But at the same token, I will say this. 34:39.660 --> 34:46.860 When someone begins to really go after God, it seems like all hell breaks loose in their life. 34:48.940 --> 34:52.380 The refrigerator breaks. The car breaks down. 34:52.820 --> 34:54.460 They lose their job. 34:54.640 --> 34:57.160 I mean, it's just like bam, bam, bam. 34:57.320 --> 34:59.180 It's just like everything starts falling apart. 35:00.060 --> 35:00.600 Why? 35:01.440 --> 35:02.460 Well, he can touch them. 35:03.720 --> 35:05.760 They still have things in common with him. 35:06.500 --> 35:09.720 And the demons are reaching in and they're saying, 35:10.000 --> 35:12.220 you're not going to get serious about God. 35:12.360 --> 35:16.660 We're going to slap you around and distract you enough that you back away from this stupid idea 35:16.660 --> 35:18.660 of getting serious about serving God. 35:19.860 --> 35:21.220 And most people do. 35:22.980 --> 35:24.040 They back away. 35:24.940 --> 35:26.500 I don't know. I tried this God thing. 35:26.700 --> 35:28.980 And we went to church every Sunday for about two months. 35:29.220 --> 35:31.580 And I put everything into it. 35:31.820 --> 35:34.480 And it's like everything in my life fell apart. 35:36.000 --> 35:42.980 All that's telling you is how much axis the kingdom of darkness already has to your life. 35:44.880 --> 35:48.520 And all of a sudden they see you running away from their kingdom 35:48.520 --> 35:50.900 and they're going, no, you're not, they're going to bring you back. 35:52.700 --> 35:54.760 You have to grow through that. 35:55.820 --> 35:59.140 And in that period of time, and for those of you who are the first ones out, 35:59.400 --> 36:02.800 what I mean by the first ones out is you can't remember anybody in your heritage, 36:03.040 --> 36:05.280 your lineage that's saved before you. 36:06.440 --> 36:07.920 You've got an extra war. 36:09.360 --> 36:13.340 Because you got all the baggage you're saying no to. 36:13.740 --> 36:15.040 Not going to do it that way anymore. 36:15.620 --> 36:19.140 So it's going to be a little tougher for you than for the average person 36:19.880 --> 36:21.620 who's been raised in a Christian home like me. 36:22.740 --> 36:25.720 I have blessings that have been passed down to me from my grandparents, 36:26.000 --> 36:27.980 from my parents and on back from there. 36:28.340 --> 36:29.560 Because there was a lineage. 36:30.500 --> 36:32.060 When you're the first one out, 36:33.100 --> 36:35.200 there might be people back there someplace, 36:35.200 --> 36:38.520 but they're kind of removed from you. 36:39.800 --> 36:44.500 So the things nearest to you is you've got the blessings of the ancestors 36:44.500 --> 36:45.880 and you've got the curses. 36:46.720 --> 36:48.820 The things nearest to you are all the curses. 36:49.780 --> 36:51.640 And you're the one who's saying no to them. 36:51.700 --> 36:54.860 So there's going to be some conflict there. 36:56.000 --> 36:58.680 But when you hit that section of time where, 36:58.860 --> 37:03.900 okay, I'm going to go after God and everything falls apart, 37:04.760 --> 37:06.780 that's where you have to deal with the demonic realm. 37:08.440 --> 37:10.340 And that's why we're starting with this 37:10.340 --> 37:11.720 and it might take us a couple of three weeks 37:11.720 --> 37:13.780 to get through this first self-deliverance part. 37:14.000 --> 37:16.900 Because I'm going to make sure you know that you know that you know how to do this. 37:18.220 --> 37:21.800 If you don't get through that and you back away, 37:23.260 --> 37:24.520 again, you may make heaven, 37:26.100 --> 37:29.680 but you're not going to amount to much on this earth as a Christian. 37:30.740 --> 37:33.920 Because every time you step in to get serious with God, 37:34.800 --> 37:38.300 all they do is shake your life and you step back. 37:39.320 --> 37:41.980 So you're going to stay very lukewarm, uncommitted. 37:42.560 --> 37:45.500 Now, I'll go back to the original statement I was going to make. 37:47.040 --> 37:48.000 For believers, 37:48.880 --> 37:51.840 the people who are stepping in and saying, 37:52.080 --> 37:56.140 I want to be wholeheartedly God's, 37:56.380 --> 37:59.000 they will typically go through a section of time 37:59.000 --> 38:02.920 where they have to overcome the power of the evil one, 38:02.980 --> 38:04.740 like it says in 1 John chapter 2. 38:04.980 --> 38:06.700 You've got children, young men, fathers. 38:07.440 --> 38:10.640 The young man's stage is where you learn to overcome the power of the evil one. 38:11.260 --> 38:12.620 There's going to be some more there. 38:13.560 --> 38:15.960 If they will stick to it and go through it, 38:16.040 --> 38:17.960 that's sometimes when you have to have things, 38:18.200 --> 38:19.660 someone agreeing with you in prayer, 38:19.820 --> 38:21.460 get it cast out, get it out of your house, 38:21.680 --> 38:22.880 get it, whatever. 38:24.680 --> 38:26.500 But once they've come through it 38:27.060 --> 38:28.920 and now they're hot after God 38:28.920 --> 38:31.100 and there's just a few minor distractions 38:31.100 --> 38:32.460 that try to hit them from time to time 38:32.460 --> 38:33.900 and they just kind of shove them out of the way 38:33.900 --> 38:34.800 and keep going after God, 38:35.340 --> 38:38.920 I've never seen a demon manifest in that kind of person again. 38:40.400 --> 38:43.420 Once they've made that chunk of time 38:45.640 --> 38:47.060 and they're past it 38:48.140 --> 38:49.520 and they've won the war, 38:51.040 --> 38:54.660 so to speak, that 2 John chapter 2, 38:54.660 --> 38:57.040 that war with overcoming the evil one. 38:57.580 --> 38:58.860 Once they've won that war, 39:01.500 --> 39:03.060 demons are not an issue in their life. 39:03.340 --> 39:04.040 I've never seen it. 39:04.420 --> 39:05.960 It doesn't mean they don't ever get attacked. 39:06.240 --> 39:07.500 It doesn't mean they never show up to see 39:07.500 --> 39:08.480 if they can get back in. 39:08.860 --> 39:09.920 But they're not an issue. 39:10.700 --> 39:12.480 You just tell them to go to hell where they belong 39:13.100 --> 39:15.840 and they leave because they've got nothing in you. 39:18.600 --> 39:20.740 It's the ones who play with this 39:20.740 --> 39:23.520 who continually have issues in their life. 39:23.520 --> 39:26.800 So it behooves us to walk a life worthy. 39:33.800 --> 39:37.180 So there's two main things that cause the problem 39:37.940 --> 39:42.320 when it comes to why Christians don't get free. 39:44.700 --> 39:47.460 One is they don't know their authority. 39:48.900 --> 39:51.880 And the second one is they're involved in willful sin. 39:53.260 --> 39:56.620 It can be either or a combination of both. 39:56.760 --> 39:57.860 Either one will get you in trouble. 39:58.100 --> 39:59.620 A combination of both will get you in trouble. 40:01.480 --> 40:04.080 So let's look at the willful sin thing here just for a bit. 40:04.980 --> 40:06.860 First John chapter 3 verse number 8. 40:07.000 --> 40:09.360 But he who commits sin, who practices evil doing. 40:09.560 --> 40:10.980 And I took the amplified specifically 40:10.980 --> 40:13.280 because it's not if you go out and make a mistake 40:13.280 --> 40:14.240 now you're going to catch a demon. 40:15.280 --> 40:18.600 No, it's the person who practices evil doing 40:19.920 --> 40:20.900 is of the devil. 40:21.660 --> 40:23.660 Takes his character from the evil one. 40:23.800 --> 40:26.100 For the devil has sinned, violated the divine law 40:26.100 --> 40:26.700 from the beginning. 40:27.200 --> 40:30.660 The reason the Son of God was manifest, made visible 40:30.660 --> 40:34.320 was to undo, destroy, loosen, and dissolve 40:34.320 --> 40:36.180 the works the devil has done. 40:36.540 --> 40:38.120 Well, what's the works he's done? 40:38.280 --> 40:40.540 Well, he listed one huge one right from the beginning. 40:41.140 --> 40:44.220 He who commits sin keeps practicing evil doing 40:44.220 --> 40:45.120 is of the devil. 40:45.240 --> 40:46.720 It's one of the works the devil does. 40:46.840 --> 40:47.720 He's a sinner. 40:50.540 --> 40:52.780 So one thing Jesus came 40:52.780 --> 40:56.420 was to dissolve that grip of sin over us 40:56.420 --> 40:58.040 to get rid of it. 40:59.040 --> 41:02.820 That's why Romans 6, 7, and 8, Paul just harps on it. 41:03.840 --> 41:04.900 Don't obey it. 41:05.280 --> 41:06.740 Don't give yourself over to it. 41:06.800 --> 41:07.680 You're dead to it. 41:07.980 --> 41:09.040 You've, you died. 41:09.280 --> 41:10.160 You were buried in Christ. 41:10.360 --> 41:12.080 Now you've risen to a new life. 41:12.660 --> 41:13.970 You have an obligation 41:14.580 --> 41:16.680 and it's not to the sinful nature. 41:16.680 --> 41:19.460 It's to the spirit and Paul just harps on it. 41:20.420 --> 41:20.900 Why? 41:21.840 --> 41:25.380 Because Jesus came to destroy the power of sin over us. 41:26.380 --> 41:29.840 And the only power sin has over us is what we let it have. 41:31.140 --> 41:33.320 Other than that, a believer is set free. 41:33.460 --> 41:36.180 Not a believer not yet, but a believer is set free. 41:37.680 --> 41:40.040 So the willful sin part, look at this scripture. 41:40.220 --> 41:41.920 He was casting out a demon and it was mute. 41:42.540 --> 41:45.720 So it was when the demon had gone out 41:45.720 --> 41:48.160 that the mute spoke and the multitudes marbled. 41:49.380 --> 41:52.120 But some of them said he cast out demons by the Elizabeth, 41:52.400 --> 41:53.000 the ruler of demons. 41:53.700 --> 41:56.460 Others testing him sought him, sought a sign from him 41:56.460 --> 41:58.780 or sought from him a sign from heaven. 41:59.180 --> 42:01.280 But he knowing their thought said to them, 42:01.820 --> 42:02.420 here it is. 42:02.800 --> 42:05.780 Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. 42:06.060 --> 42:08.560 A house divided against itself falls. 42:09.000 --> 42:12.940 So I can't be casting demons out under demonic power. 42:13.720 --> 42:16.580 Because the kingdoms don't work that way. 42:17.520 --> 42:21.800 The same way we can't be involved in sin under God's power. 42:23.200 --> 42:25.580 The kingdoms don't work that way. 42:25.680 --> 42:26.980 They will self destruct. 42:27.360 --> 42:31.120 A kingdom can't work against itself and survive. 42:31.680 --> 42:33.220 Sin is of Satan's kingdom. 42:33.720 --> 42:35.600 Righteousness is of God's kingdom. 42:36.420 --> 42:39.400 We can't be willfully living in sin 42:39.400 --> 42:42.720 and still use the authority of God's kingdom 42:42.720 --> 42:43.780 to cast out demons. 42:44.780 --> 42:46.620 Willfully go back to the scripture. 42:47.320 --> 42:48.060 Let me back it up. 42:48.720 --> 42:50.320 Not that one, the previous one. 42:50.640 --> 42:52.040 Here's where I come willfully from. 42:52.980 --> 42:57.120 He who commits sin, who practices evil doing. 42:58.800 --> 43:00.000 You know what you're doing. 43:00.320 --> 43:02.040 You know God's not pleased with you. 43:02.300 --> 43:05.280 But you've convinced yourself somehow it's okay. 43:05.460 --> 43:06.180 You're under grace. 43:06.360 --> 43:07.220 Other Christians do it. 43:07.280 --> 43:07.560 I don't know. 43:07.800 --> 43:09.440 Whatever you did to convince yourself, 43:09.940 --> 43:11.960 you're convinced that even though if you search 43:11.960 --> 43:13.720 deep in your heart, yeah, I probably, 43:14.080 --> 43:16.440 I shouldn't, but I'm under grace. 43:16.700 --> 43:17.120 God forgives. 43:18.140 --> 43:19.360 And you don't even go there. 43:20.380 --> 43:22.880 That is willful sin. 43:24.360 --> 43:26.640 That will put you in the position where 43:27.960 --> 43:29.880 they were accusing Jesus of and he said, 43:29.940 --> 43:31.240 no, no, it doesn't work that way, guys. 43:32.060 --> 43:34.500 You can't be willfully in the kingdom of darkness 43:34.500 --> 43:36.200 and operate in the kingdom of light. 43:37.800 --> 43:39.180 Well, I'll do it through the power 43:39.180 --> 43:39.960 of the kingdom of darkness. 43:40.080 --> 43:40.660 Well, that don't work. 43:40.660 --> 43:42.820 He won't work against himself. 43:43.660 --> 43:46.000 So if we're willfully living in sin, 43:46.860 --> 43:50.680 what we've got is the fruit of that kingdom 43:50.680 --> 43:52.240 and the power of that kingdom. 43:53.940 --> 43:57.140 My opinion, here is why so many churches 43:57.140 --> 44:00.920 and basically denominations feel that 44:00.920 --> 44:05.120 the things of the supernatural have passed away 44:06.900 --> 44:08.660 because they can't make them work. 44:11.440 --> 44:13.120 And we're talking about casting out demons. 44:13.360 --> 44:14.160 So let's just talk about demons. 44:16.140 --> 44:17.960 They can't get demons out. 44:18.300 --> 44:19.140 It doesn't work. 44:19.360 --> 44:22.540 So what they do is ignore there's a problem. 44:24.460 --> 44:26.240 They can't get people healed. 44:26.540 --> 44:29.280 So what they do is say it's no longer for today. 44:33.750 --> 44:35.950 They can't see any miracles. 44:35.950 --> 44:37.110 They don't see any miracles. 44:38.810 --> 44:42.210 So we pray, if it be thy will. 44:43.610 --> 44:46.050 Oh, sovereign God, you choose what you want to do. 44:46.170 --> 44:47.170 Here's what we're asking for. 44:47.250 --> 44:48.450 If you choose not to do it, that's fine. 44:48.590 --> 44:50.010 But the word says it's ours. 44:50.590 --> 44:52.030 Well, God's sovereign, you know? 44:54.190 --> 44:56.150 You can't always go by what the word says. 44:56.270 --> 44:57.470 Sometimes God just chooses. 44:58.270 --> 44:59.130 Well, then God's confused 44:59.130 --> 45:00.510 because he said that's what he wants. 45:02.150 --> 45:03.830 But see, they can't make it operate. 45:04.270 --> 45:05.610 Why can't they make it operate? 45:05.610 --> 45:08.150 Because they're living divided against themselves. 45:08.950 --> 45:12.450 They've got one foot in the kingdom of darkness 45:12.450 --> 45:13.670 and are living that. 45:14.230 --> 45:16.250 And they got the other foot while I'm saved. 45:17.170 --> 45:18.150 And it don't work. 45:19.430 --> 45:22.070 So let's just come up with new beliefs and new doctrines 45:22.750 --> 45:26.270 so that we can keep living like we're living. 45:26.970 --> 45:28.450 Heaven forbid we're going to change. 45:29.890 --> 45:32.270 No, that's those crazy charismatic that think that. 45:35.070 --> 45:37.270 My parents lived like this all their life. 45:37.390 --> 45:39.350 My grandparents lived like this all their life. 45:39.370 --> 45:41.170 And I'm going to live like this and I'm saved. 45:43.550 --> 45:44.630 Well, have that. 45:45.750 --> 45:47.110 See how that works out for you. 45:47.870 --> 45:50.730 Once you get tired of it, maybe you'll come back to 45:51.410 --> 45:53.550 you can't have a foot in each kingdom 45:53.550 --> 45:55.650 and be powerful in God. 45:56.870 --> 45:58.030 It doesn't work. 45:59.230 --> 46:01.250 God's kingdom operates in righteousness. 46:01.970 --> 46:03.410 Romans 14, 17. 46:03.730 --> 46:06.230 It's the kingdom of God comes in righteousness 46:06.230 --> 46:07.730 is the first thing he lists. 46:10.010 --> 46:11.830 If it begins operating in sin, 46:11.970 --> 46:13.090 it's going to divide against itself. 46:13.270 --> 46:14.150 It will destroy itself. 46:16.710 --> 46:19.850 Once we know our authority 46:21.410 --> 46:24.470 and here's John 16. 46:25.070 --> 46:28.550 This is the three things the Holy Spirit is here to do. 46:28.790 --> 46:30.830 You want to reduce the Holy Spirit's work down to 46:30.830 --> 46:32.350 a nutshell. Here it is. 46:32.970 --> 46:34.970 Speaking of the Holy Spirit, Jesus is talking. 46:35.190 --> 46:37.390 He says, when he has come, he will convict or convince. 46:37.710 --> 46:39.850 The word convince is the same definition. 46:40.430 --> 46:43.090 The world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment. 46:43.890 --> 46:45.870 And I didn't touch sin and righteousness. 46:46.510 --> 46:48.730 I just touch judgment because of how I want to play. 46:49.890 --> 46:51.010 A place this. 46:51.230 --> 46:55.290 Of judgment because the ruler of this world is judged. 46:57.090 --> 46:59.690 And who did Jesus say was a prince of power of the air 46:59.690 --> 47:00.670 and the ruler of this world? 47:01.630 --> 47:03.150 Before he got judged. 47:04.390 --> 47:05.110 It was Satan. 47:06.510 --> 47:08.230 But Jesus is calling this by faith. 47:08.330 --> 47:09.630 He hadn't died and rose from the dead yet. 47:10.270 --> 47:12.770 That first took place when he died and rose from the dead 47:12.770 --> 47:13.650 and he took the keys back. 47:14.330 --> 47:16.270 Then the ruler of this world was judged. 47:18.710 --> 47:23.050 We have to know the ruler of the world is judged. 47:25.010 --> 47:29.170 Unless we give him authority, he has no authority in our life. 47:29.230 --> 47:34.350 Unless we give them demons authority, they have no authority in our life. 47:34.890 --> 47:38.350 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions 47:38.350 --> 47:41.050 and over all the power of the enemy. 47:42.350 --> 47:46.870 And if you read in context, the disciples just came back and said, 47:48.590 --> 47:50.810 Oh, Jesus, this is awesome. 47:52.610 --> 47:56.770 Even the demons are subject to us under your name. 47:57.970 --> 48:00.610 And he said, well, don't get all excited about that. 48:01.950 --> 48:04.310 Get excited that your name is written in heaven. 48:05.770 --> 48:11.490 Behold, I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions. 48:11.650 --> 48:13.310 Of course, serpent can be a type of Satan 48:13.310 --> 48:15.110 because of what happened in the Garden of Eden. 48:15.110 --> 48:19.310 But he could be listing deadly physical things on this earth 48:20.110 --> 48:25.330 and throwing them right into the basket with all the power of the enemy. 48:25.530 --> 48:28.470 What was the power that they were just amazed at? 48:28.850 --> 48:30.350 Demons were subject to him. 48:30.730 --> 48:34.210 He said, well, I give you authority over all the power of the enemy 48:34.210 --> 48:40.210 and nothing spiritual or physical shall by any means hurt you. 48:42.090 --> 48:47.110 If that's not happening in our life, we need to be concerned. 48:47.990 --> 48:49.530 We're missing something. 48:50.370 --> 48:54.150 Because there is God's standard how he wants us to live. 48:55.190 --> 48:58.770 If we understand that and exercise that authority, 48:58.970 --> 49:00.950 everything takes care of itself, including demons, 49:01.350 --> 49:04.030 including fallen angels, including generational curses, etc. 49:06.430 --> 49:07.870 Since I've learned that 49:07.870 --> 49:14.370 and the whole thing of people have to deal with their own life, 49:14.490 --> 49:16.710 they have to understand a bit of their own authority. 49:18.390 --> 49:22.070 Since I've learned that, I approach deliverance differently. 49:22.910 --> 49:25.390 To begin with, I didn't know that. 49:25.690 --> 49:27.250 And I was just watching Jesus. 49:28.330 --> 49:31.750 And Jesus was under a different covenant, under a different era. 49:31.890 --> 49:34.250 It wasn't where the Holy Spirit was living in everybody. 49:35.450 --> 49:37.250 Holy Spirit wasn't living in anybody. 49:38.530 --> 49:39.930 And Jesus was God. 49:40.890 --> 49:42.190 Last I checked, I'm not. 49:43.910 --> 49:45.610 And he just approached this thing different. 49:46.290 --> 49:48.410 And he just did it all for everybody. 49:49.370 --> 49:53.810 In the New Testament, it's better if you don't do it that way. 49:54.230 --> 49:56.950 And I'm going to explain why it's better to have self-deliverance 49:56.950 --> 49:58.190 than me cast it out of you. 49:58.470 --> 50:00.670 And I don't think I'll get that whole explanation tonight. 50:00.670 --> 50:03.190 So I'll just give you a nutshell because we only have a few minutes left. 50:05.870 --> 50:10.270 I learned that unless someone begins resisting from their end, 50:12.130 --> 50:17.270 it'd be better to not do a deliverance session with them. 50:22.870 --> 50:24.330 I learned that the hard way. 50:25.110 --> 50:26.070 I didn't know. 50:27.710 --> 50:30.250 I didn't get them fighting from the inside 50:30.250 --> 50:31.990 as I fought with them from the outside. 50:31.990 --> 50:34.790 I just did all the fighting from the outside. 50:35.710 --> 50:36.810 I didn't know. 50:44.600 --> 50:48.180 After the church, New Testament church started, 50:52.410 --> 50:58.770 I don't see it in Scripture that Peter, Paul, John, any of them 50:59.750 --> 51:02.930 went around casting demons out of people, especially believers. 51:06.770 --> 51:09.250 Now, there are a couple exceptions to it. 51:11.310 --> 51:15.190 If someone is taken over and they're kind of blacked out 51:15.190 --> 51:18.350 and the only thing you've got speaking through the body of the person 51:18.350 --> 51:20.910 is a demon, well, then you've got to help them. 51:22.710 --> 51:25.150 Jump in and help get rid of that long enough 51:25.150 --> 51:27.810 so they can come back and start doing some things. 51:29.770 --> 51:32.670 And kind of a sub point under that, if something manifests 51:32.670 --> 51:37.170 in a prayer line, you've got to deal with it. 51:37.170 --> 51:39.270 There's a reason the Holy Spirit's bringing it to the surface. 51:39.790 --> 51:42.190 But if you just come to me and say, I want deliverance, 51:42.530 --> 51:44.550 I'm going to start questioning you five ways. 51:45.850 --> 51:48.390 Why do you want deliverance? What makes you think you need deliverance? 51:49.510 --> 51:50.890 The biggest question I'm going to ask is, 51:50.990 --> 51:53.150 what word are you standing on for your deliverance? 51:54.330 --> 51:56.090 What has the Holy Spirit shown you? Are you saved? 51:56.330 --> 51:57.570 Are you not saved? Oh, yeah, I'm saved. 51:57.690 --> 51:59.270 Then what is he showing you about your deliverance? 52:02.170 --> 52:04.750 I'll give you the Scripture on that here just in a second. 52:07.830 --> 52:09.990 But my goal is going to be to teach you 52:09.990 --> 52:13.290 and to come alongside you and help disciple you 52:13.290 --> 52:15.090 as you do it for yourself. 52:15.210 --> 52:16.710 And again, there's a few reasons for that. 52:18.330 --> 52:20.350 You don't see the other thing in the Gospels. 52:20.990 --> 52:23.950 After the Gospels, I mean, it's Gospels and Previous. 52:24.350 --> 52:25.970 After the Gospels, you don't see it. 52:26.650 --> 52:29.790 You say, why don't you see it from Acts 1 forward? 52:30.710 --> 52:33.890 Because now we all have been given the same Holy Spirit, 52:33.890 --> 52:36.130 the same promises, the same authority. 52:36.750 --> 52:40.290 We're expected to live in it and use it individually. 52:42.310 --> 52:45.890 I as a minister do not have more authority than you. 52:49.570 --> 52:52.790 You have as much authority to deal with demons as I do. 52:53.830 --> 52:55.990 I don't have any more authority than you do. 52:56.610 --> 52:59.430 So why am I responsible to fight your war for you? 53:03.490 --> 53:06.510 Once you're saved, the Holy Spirit has come lived inside of you. 53:07.030 --> 53:11.810 If you need more octane in the gas, because you need more power, 53:12.010 --> 53:13.510 now you need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. 53:14.870 --> 53:17.010 And now you're running on nitro. 53:18.490 --> 53:20.610 Hit that switch, man. It just goes... 53:27.180 --> 53:29.040 1st John 2, I referred to it already. 53:30.160 --> 53:33.980 I don't overcome the evil one for you in the young man's stage. 53:35.120 --> 53:41.880 You have to overcome the evil one for yourself in the young man's stage. 53:42.740 --> 53:46.560 Now it doesn't directly say it, but there's one that talks about 53:46.560 --> 53:49.320 well, if you got trouble with the devil, get free of them. 53:49.400 --> 53:51.000 If you got trouble with demons, get free of them. 53:51.980 --> 53:53.300 You overcome them. 53:56.600 --> 53:59.520 But we have the same promises, the same authority. 54:00.780 --> 54:07.280 If you're not living in what's offered to you and I cast something out, 54:08.140 --> 54:12.560 you probably won't be able to maintain the ground that was given to you. 54:12.640 --> 54:17.120 And we're going to give you a huge scriptural principle in that in the weeks coming. 54:18.040 --> 54:22.960 We have to be mature enough and spiritually strong enough to hold our own ground. 54:23.540 --> 54:24.920 This is our ground. 54:25.720 --> 54:27.000 We're made of dirt. 54:28.660 --> 54:33.240 This is our ground and we're supposed to rule it. 54:34.140 --> 54:35.500 It's not supposed to rule us. 54:37.000 --> 54:40.340 And the principle is he's not going to chase everything out all at once 54:40.340 --> 54:42.280 because you won't have the ability to hold your ground. 54:42.400 --> 54:46.380 He's going to give you pieces at a time so you can grow and mature into that 54:46.380 --> 54:47.140 and hold your ground. 54:48.180 --> 54:53.220 So many times we're doing a disservice to people if we clean them up too much too quick 54:54.120 --> 54:56.880 because they're not spiritually mature enough to hold their own ground 54:56.880 --> 54:57.720 and I can't go in. 54:57.800 --> 55:00.420 That's one of those things I would have liked to talk before we got to this 55:00.420 --> 55:02.400 but we'll get back to it. 55:02.800 --> 55:04.260 They can't maintain their freedom. 55:07.120 --> 55:10.080 So I want you fighting harder than I'm fighting 55:11.120 --> 55:12.980 if we're going to do deliverance stuff. 55:13.560 --> 55:16.420 And I said this last week, you have to understand this. 55:16.580 --> 55:19.120 Satan's power and authority has been completely removed and destroyed 55:19.700 --> 55:20.540 against believers. 55:20.540 --> 55:24.720 The power of sin has been completely removed and canceled against believers 55:24.720 --> 55:25.840 if you're under grace. 55:28.220 --> 55:31.780 Now sin can mess with you if you step out from underneath grace 55:33.660 --> 55:36.520 because then you actually get back in under law 55:37.260 --> 55:38.840 because there's only grace in law 55:39.840 --> 55:42.180 and if you slide out from underneath grace 55:42.180 --> 55:43.560 they're going to hammer you 55:44.300 --> 55:47.540 because they've got access to you because you're 55:47.540 --> 55:49.980 out from underneath grace, the best way to say it. 55:51.080 --> 55:53.900 So here's the main scripture for self deliverance. 55:57.390 --> 55:58.130 Submit who? 56:02.980 --> 56:03.640 There it is. 56:06.080 --> 56:08.320 Submit yourself to God. 56:10.480 --> 56:13.460 You resist the devil and he will flee from you. 56:16.080 --> 56:18.700 So we're going to get into what it means to submit. 56:18.860 --> 56:20.360 We're going to get into what it means to resist. 56:20.360 --> 56:23.080 We'll hit that right away next week and we'll just go on from there. 56:25.080 --> 56:27.760 We're going to teach you how to do this. 56:29.700 --> 56:30.880 What to say? 56:31.680 --> 56:33.080 How to posture yourself. 56:34.300 --> 56:37.820 Because the greatest warrior to get you free in your life 56:37.820 --> 56:42.480 is not me, it's not Mary, it's not anybody outside of you. 56:43.900 --> 56:48.620 You are the greatest warrior to get yourself free. 56:48.620 --> 56:50.860 Now if you need someone to come alongside and walk with you, 56:50.980 --> 56:51.980 that's called discipleship. 56:52.720 --> 56:54.700 That's cool. There's nothing wrong with that. 56:56.040 --> 56:58.980 But once the counselor is working harder than the counselor, 56:59.320 --> 57:00.440 we have a problem. 57:01.360 --> 57:03.340 The counselor's life usually never changes 57:03.340 --> 57:05.100 if the counselor is working harder than they are. 57:08.060 --> 57:10.400 We have to submit ourselves. 57:11.540 --> 57:15.900 We have to resist if we want out from underneath. 57:16.900 --> 57:18.460 No matter what it is. 57:18.680 --> 57:21.660 Demons, fallen angels, curses, no matter what it is. 57:21.720 --> 57:23.260 And curses are approached a little bit differently. 57:23.720 --> 57:25.700 We'll go through all that. We'll get into all that. 57:25.800 --> 57:28.960 Let me say this before our hour is up 57:28.960 --> 57:30.120 and we go to questions and answers. 57:30.720 --> 57:34.580 This booklet is online with this message. 57:35.080 --> 57:37.560 If you need a hard copy, we'll have to do that differently. 57:38.140 --> 57:40.180 But the PDF version is online. 57:41.580 --> 57:43.460 It's titled Getting Rooded Demons. 57:44.200 --> 57:48.260 This comes back from 2010, I think, is when I put this together. 57:48.900 --> 57:51.760 It hits a lot of the basics, like we talked about tonight, 57:51.920 --> 57:53.620 only in far more depth. 57:54.860 --> 57:56.920 It's right there with the message from today. 57:57.480 --> 58:00.120 It separates the kingdom of light from the kingdom of darkness. 58:00.440 --> 58:02.080 How does the devil and God's kingdom 58:02.080 --> 58:06.260 operate differently because they can't, you know, 58:06.340 --> 58:08.980 kingdom divided itself against itself, can't stand. 58:09.760 --> 58:12.960 It talks about sin, what we're expected to do. 58:13.920 --> 58:16.100 And this even goes a little further ahead. 58:16.840 --> 58:17.880 Some basic principles. 58:18.180 --> 58:21.100 If you really want to live free of demonic power, 58:22.140 --> 58:23.480 number one, you've got to be saved. 58:24.740 --> 58:26.580 You're not going to live free of demonic power 58:26.580 --> 58:28.020 if you don't have the Holy Spirit inside. 58:28.980 --> 58:29.900 It just isn't going to work. 58:32.280 --> 58:35.760 It's way easier if you're baptized in the Holy Spirit 58:36.580 --> 58:39.080 because it's the finger of God who is the Holy Spirit 58:39.080 --> 58:40.180 that drives them out. 58:41.000 --> 58:43.760 That's why most mainline denominations 58:43.760 --> 58:44.900 don't cast out demons. 58:45.500 --> 58:48.100 They're saved, but they're not baptized in the Holy Spirit. 58:48.700 --> 58:50.760 And they will give you every reason under the sun 58:50.760 --> 58:52.780 why they don't have to and demons aren't in America. 58:52.920 --> 58:53.940 I had one guy tell me, 58:54.720 --> 58:56.920 Americans have been educated to the point 58:56.920 --> 58:58.740 demons can no longer mess with us. 58:58.800 --> 59:00.760 They're in Africa and these other places. 59:02.900 --> 59:05.760 It's like, okay, that's a fantasy land. 59:07.700 --> 59:10.760 But anyway, it's... 59:12.020 --> 59:14.100 Baptizing the Holy Spirit is really good 59:14.100 --> 59:15.920 if you want to go into spiritual warfare. 59:16.620 --> 59:20.140 Number three, you need to be clean of willful sin. 59:23.510 --> 59:25.410 And it just goes on and lists some things. 59:26.950 --> 59:28.610 And then it goes into... 59:29.150 --> 59:30.870 It talks about binding and loosing some. 59:31.310 --> 59:35.710 And then it goes into actually how do you deal with 59:36.470 --> 59:38.970 inside of you to get free? 59:39.430 --> 59:40.550 How do you deal with your house? 59:40.950 --> 59:42.050 What do you do with your house? 59:42.950 --> 59:44.070 People come all the time and say, 59:44.090 --> 59:45.130 I think we got demons in the house. 59:45.190 --> 59:45.830 Whoa, what makes you think? 59:45.890 --> 59:46.570 I go into the question. 59:46.810 --> 59:47.710 I'm going to hit you five ways. 59:49.350 --> 59:50.690 Well, I think we got demons in the house. 59:50.790 --> 59:52.410 What makes you think you got demons in the house? 59:52.510 --> 59:53.570 Well, they'll give me their stories. 59:55.970 --> 59:57.890 Yeah, things floating around the middle of the night. 59:57.970 --> 59:58.490 That seems odd. 59:59.550 --> 01:00:00.670 Okay, I'll go with you. 01:00:01.230 --> 01:00:02.550 So what are you doing about it? 01:00:03.810 --> 01:00:06.110 Well, I just get in bed and put the covers over my head. 01:00:06.410 --> 01:00:08.170 Say Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. 01:00:08.410 --> 01:00:09.030 I'm feeling convicted. 01:00:12.290 --> 01:00:13.810 I said, how's that working for you? 01:00:15.250 --> 01:00:16.530 That'll be the next thing I'll say. 01:00:16.710 --> 01:00:17.410 How's that working for you? 01:00:17.450 --> 01:00:18.010 Well, not very good. 01:00:18.110 --> 01:00:18.890 That's why I'm talking to you. 01:00:18.970 --> 01:00:20.250 I need you to come and deal with this. 01:00:20.550 --> 01:00:22.630 No, I need to teach you how to deal with this. 01:00:23.790 --> 01:00:25.090 And I'll come and help you. 01:00:27.310 --> 01:00:29.910 But you have as much authority as I have. 01:00:31.090 --> 01:00:32.290 Well, I don't know what to do. 01:00:32.530 --> 01:00:33.610 I'll help you with that. 01:00:34.190 --> 01:00:35.810 It goes through... 01:00:35.810 --> 01:00:38.990 Well, if you feel like you've got demonic stuff going on inside of you, 01:00:39.830 --> 01:00:40.770 what do you do with it? 01:00:41.370 --> 01:00:44.550 If you feel you've got stuff going on in your house, 01:00:44.710 --> 01:00:46.790 in your apartment, what do you do with it? 01:00:48.570 --> 01:00:51.330 See, you submit yourself to God and resist the devil. 01:00:51.450 --> 01:00:51.770 He'll flee. 01:00:52.650 --> 01:00:53.130 Okay. 01:00:55.330 --> 01:00:56.850 Shout me down here with amens. 01:00:56.970 --> 01:00:57.470 Yes, amen. 01:01:00.790 --> 01:01:03.510 And my job is to come alongside and help you. 01:01:03.830 --> 01:01:05.610 It talks about regional demons. 01:01:06.390 --> 01:01:08.770 What do we do with regional demons or demons over cities 01:01:08.770 --> 01:01:09.870 or demons over countries? 01:01:10.350 --> 01:01:11.690 It talks about the authority of Christ, 01:01:11.850 --> 01:01:13.550 gives you a lot more scripture than I gave tonight. 01:01:14.110 --> 01:01:16.850 So, it talks about cleansing items. 01:01:19.010 --> 01:01:21.050 Acts chapter, is it 19? 01:01:21.270 --> 01:01:23.850 I believe verse number 12 in the early church, 01:01:23.910 --> 01:01:26.810 when people got saved, they would have times 01:01:26.810 --> 01:01:31.090 when they would bring all their demonic laden stuff. 01:01:32.230 --> 01:01:33.370 You say like what? 01:01:33.930 --> 01:01:37.710 Books, pictures, I'm putting it in an arbrenacular. 01:01:38.030 --> 01:01:45.140 CDs, record albums, Harry Potter books. 01:01:47.500 --> 01:01:48.020 Stuff. 01:01:51.720 --> 01:01:52.240 Stuff. 01:01:54.300 --> 01:01:55.780 See, because believe it or not, 01:01:58.220 --> 01:02:01.160 this was well known back in the 70s and 80s. 01:02:01.300 --> 01:02:04.040 Lately it's like, I don't think anybody even talks about it anymore. 01:02:06.340 --> 01:02:09.640 But, Colvans and the Satanic Church 01:02:09.640 --> 01:02:12.020 and those who are in that realm 01:02:12.520 --> 01:02:14.140 put curses on items. 01:02:15.540 --> 01:02:18.360 And when you bring the item into your life, 01:02:18.500 --> 01:02:21.220 the curse or the demon attached to it comes into your life. 01:02:21.980 --> 01:02:24.360 You have to cleanse that and get that out. 01:02:24.420 --> 01:02:25.780 Sometimes you got to get rid of the stuff. 01:02:25.960 --> 01:02:26.680 There was one situation. 01:02:27.040 --> 01:02:28.480 I'll give you this story and we're done for the night. 01:02:29.340 --> 01:02:31.880 So those of you live streaming, we're after the one hour, 01:02:31.980 --> 01:02:33.220 but you're going to get in on this story 01:02:33.220 --> 01:02:34.600 before we go to questions and answers. 01:02:35.480 --> 01:02:38.040 There was one situation where I was working with a teenager 01:02:38.040 --> 01:02:42.340 and this demon was just plain obnoxious. 01:02:42.440 --> 01:02:47.120 Just foul mouthed and mean and just plain obnoxious. 01:02:50.360 --> 01:02:52.320 And not making any headway. 01:02:52.900 --> 01:02:54.700 So I got it to go down. 01:02:54.860 --> 01:02:57.180 What means its consciousness left the brain 01:02:57.180 --> 01:02:59.680 and the person's consciousness came back to the brain. 01:02:59.900 --> 01:03:01.600 So the person could speak with me. 01:03:02.860 --> 01:03:04.960 And I said, have you gotten anything? 01:03:05.120 --> 01:03:06.860 Because sometimes when they're on the inside, 01:03:06.860 --> 01:03:10.280 they can hear the thoughts of what the other entity is saying. 01:03:10.500 --> 01:03:11.660 Like you can hear the Holy Spirit. 01:03:13.780 --> 01:03:14.880 Have you gotten anything? 01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:18.420 They said, I know, I think I know what this is attached to, 01:03:18.500 --> 01:03:19.460 but I don't want to tell you. 01:03:19.800 --> 01:03:20.320 I said, why? 01:03:21.380 --> 01:03:24.060 It's attached to one of my favorite record albums. 01:03:28.790 --> 01:03:30.510 Now I don't remember for sure, 01:03:30.710 --> 01:03:32.130 I might be off on this point, 01:03:32.150 --> 01:03:33.510 but it really doesn't make any difference. 01:03:33.690 --> 01:03:35.190 But one like, for instance, one of the bands 01:03:35.190 --> 01:03:39.350 that used to send demons out with their records 01:03:39.350 --> 01:03:40.190 was Black Sabbath. 01:03:41.790 --> 01:03:43.330 I mean, they were Satan worshipers. 01:03:44.350 --> 01:03:45.510 They were open say. 01:03:45.630 --> 01:03:47.410 I mean, people knew they were Satan worshipers. 01:03:48.010 --> 01:03:50.310 And they actively worked for their kingdom. 01:03:50.590 --> 01:03:52.590 So they would send demons out with their, 01:03:52.650 --> 01:03:54.530 and I can't remember if this was a Black Sabbath album 01:03:54.530 --> 01:03:54.970 or whatever. 01:03:57.710 --> 01:03:59.150 Anyway, I said, where's the record? 01:03:59.710 --> 01:04:00.650 Well, it's in the bedroom. 01:04:01.410 --> 01:04:02.350 They started crying. 01:04:03.250 --> 01:04:04.570 They didn't want to get rid of that record. 01:04:05.610 --> 01:04:07.190 I said, we're going to get rid of that record 01:04:07.190 --> 01:04:07.950 if you want to get free. 01:04:08.830 --> 01:04:10.970 Because this thing is drawing its power from 01:04:10.970 --> 01:04:12.590 go back to what we read. 01:04:12.810 --> 01:04:15.450 You have something in common with the kingdom of darkness 01:04:15.450 --> 01:04:17.850 and you've actually submitted yourself to it. 01:04:19.270 --> 01:04:21.450 You want it more than you want your freedom. 01:04:22.110 --> 01:04:23.390 You're going to have to renounce it. 01:04:23.670 --> 01:04:24.490 We got to get rid of it. 01:04:26.830 --> 01:04:28.450 Okay, so I went and got the record 01:04:29.790 --> 01:04:31.550 and had somebody stay with the person. 01:04:31.650 --> 01:04:32.870 I said, I'm going to take it outside and burn it. 01:04:33.050 --> 01:04:33.830 Just so you know. 01:04:34.810 --> 01:04:35.910 It was middle of the winter. 01:04:36.490 --> 01:04:37.550 There was lots of snow. 01:04:38.570 --> 01:04:39.570 So I went outside. 01:04:41.590 --> 01:04:45.090 Ripped the cover and the paper jacket it was in 01:04:45.090 --> 01:04:48.030 and broke the album and put it there in a little pile. 01:04:48.570 --> 01:04:49.410 Took a lighter. 01:04:50.290 --> 01:04:51.370 Not a match, a lighter. 01:04:53.530 --> 01:04:53.970 Nothing. 01:04:55.650 --> 01:04:56.470 Thing wouldn't burn. 01:04:59.290 --> 01:05:00.110 Well, fine. 01:05:00.410 --> 01:05:01.010 I can fix that. 01:05:01.150 --> 01:05:02.090 So I went and got lighter fluid. 01:05:03.170 --> 01:05:04.090 I doused it. 01:05:05.810 --> 01:05:08.110 It was just running all over. 01:05:08.770 --> 01:05:10.030 Hit it with the lighter. 01:05:11.430 --> 01:05:11.990 Nothing. 01:05:14.230 --> 01:05:15.410 That baby wouldn't burn. 01:05:18.190 --> 01:05:19.770 And finally the thought crossed my mind. 01:05:19.810 --> 01:05:21.490 I was starting to hear the Holy Spirit at this point. 01:05:22.570 --> 01:05:25.770 And he said, break the power over it. 01:05:26.990 --> 01:05:29.710 That item is under demonic power. 01:05:31.350 --> 01:05:32.070 So I'm... 01:05:32.830 --> 01:05:33.570 It's funny. 01:05:33.770 --> 01:05:34.810 I bet you God laughs. 01:05:36.170 --> 01:05:38.690 He's watching us learn as kids. 01:05:39.630 --> 01:05:41.410 So I got the lighter going. 01:05:41.550 --> 01:05:42.470 It's like it's one of these. 01:05:43.090 --> 01:05:45.190 You click it and it just keeps... 01:05:45.190 --> 01:05:47.650 It wasn't just the flame, it's the thrower. 01:05:48.210 --> 01:05:49.430 So I'm standing there. 01:05:50.110 --> 01:05:51.990 In the name of Jesus, I command, 01:05:52.310 --> 01:05:53.610 whatever is keeping this from burning, 01:05:54.150 --> 01:05:55.090 get off of it. 01:05:55.470 --> 01:05:57.310 It's renounced by the person. 01:05:57.670 --> 01:05:59.350 It has to burn. We want it gone. 01:05:59.850 --> 01:06:01.490 Woof! That thing lit up. 01:06:02.150 --> 01:06:03.690 It could have took my hair off. 01:06:04.010 --> 01:06:04.730 It's like woof! 01:06:06.290 --> 01:06:07.510 I know I bet you God's going, 01:06:08.030 --> 01:06:09.190 guys get somebody in there 01:06:09.190 --> 01:06:10.930 because he's about to start himself on fire. 01:06:11.450 --> 01:06:13.610 Because he's not really taking serious 01:06:13.610 --> 01:06:14.590 that when it breaks, 01:06:15.230 --> 01:06:16.970 all that lighter fluid is going to go... 01:06:20.590 --> 01:06:22.310 I'll bet there's times he just goes, 01:06:22.810 --> 01:06:23.610 watch this. 01:06:24.630 --> 01:06:25.650 It's going to be good. 01:06:25.650 --> 01:06:28.910 But anyway, we burnt the record. 01:06:31.810 --> 01:06:34.530 Went back in, this thing was livid with me. 01:06:35.190 --> 01:06:36.270 How dare you? 01:06:36.850 --> 01:06:37.830 Live it with me. 01:06:38.470 --> 01:06:39.710 And I said, well, your power is gone now. 01:06:40.370 --> 01:06:40.630 I know. 01:06:42.090 --> 01:06:43.110 So why are you here? 01:06:44.930 --> 01:06:46.490 Well, send me out. 01:06:47.070 --> 01:06:48.850 Just as compliant as can be. 01:06:49.350 --> 01:06:51.030 Before that record was destroyed, 01:06:51.490 --> 01:06:52.510 that thing was going nowhere 01:06:52.510 --> 01:06:53.630 and it was announcing it. 01:06:53.630 --> 01:06:54.430 I'm going nowhere. 01:06:54.770 --> 01:06:55.690 You can't make me go. 01:06:58.050 --> 01:07:00.330 We can't be living in common 01:07:00.330 --> 01:07:01.810 with the kingdom of darkness. 01:07:04.710 --> 01:07:05.270 And... 01:07:06.190 --> 01:07:07.170 get rid of it.