WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.800 Yeah, if anybody have any questions or thoughts or anything, right here in the middle there's 00:03.800 --> 00:08.540 one. So if you can figure out how to get the mics turned on when the mute button goes red, 00:08.620 --> 00:10.880 it means it's good to go answer it. All right, right there. 00:11.420 --> 00:15.680 So with the person that you were talking about, where the cancer went back generations, 00:17.760 --> 00:23.580 did you have to come to the place of knowing where it came in to be able to deal with 00:23.580 --> 00:23.780 that? 00:23.920 --> 00:28.640 No. We just needed to know what we were dealing with. 00:29.740 --> 00:37.840 And to deal with generational demons, you approach them differently than one that you personally 00:37.840 --> 00:43.520 let in or struggle with. You approach them as a generational demon. You bind them as a 00:43.520 --> 00:49.100 generational demon. Once you recognize, oh, we've got a generational thing, you just address 00:49.100 --> 00:54.600 them as such. If you don't, you never get rid of them. They're very legalistic and 00:54.600 --> 01:00.320 they hold themselves very much to, you don't know what you're talking about. We don't have to 01:00.320 --> 01:07.800 go. They're just very legalistic. Graces of God, legalism is not. God doesn't like legalism, 01:07.820 --> 01:13.980 especially in this covenant. So if you're addressing them as such, do they go, is it 01:14.600 --> 01:20.880 easier? Yeah, it's easier. That one was still a fight though. Remember I told you there was 01:20.880 --> 01:27.440 one person and I don't know if this is where they got in or if this was along the way. I don't 01:27.440 --> 01:33.240 know. Remember there was one person that in the process of getting rid of some of this stuff, 01:33.480 --> 01:38.780 the Lord showed me a beating heart in somebody's hands. I shared that earlier on. 01:41.280 --> 01:44.740 I'm presuming it was a human heart. I'm presuming it was a human sacrifice. 01:45.300 --> 01:51.400 That was in this person's lineage. So they were drawing on what they considered 01:51.400 --> 01:57.860 considerable legal right, you know. But once you realize, oh, this generational thing, 01:57.960 --> 02:00.700 then the Holy Spirit will lead you down a different direction in addressing it. I mean, 02:00.700 --> 02:06.680 we got rid of it. The person got healed and they were fine. But yeah, right up front it was, 02:06.880 --> 02:14.180 it was the grace of God that brought that thing up because I didn't understand generational 02:14.180 --> 02:19.740 spirits at that point. And this was during that time when God was teaching me the hard way. 02:20.560 --> 02:25.620 And you know, I look at that and why did you have that was to teach me something. 02:26.200 --> 02:32.480 And he let this spirit come up and just make a mockery out of me. But I learned something 02:32.480 --> 02:36.780 in it. The Holy Spirit was able to show me some things because it was so proud and arrogant 02:36.780 --> 02:45.220 that just spilled all the beans. So once you know what you're dealing with, 02:46.400 --> 02:51.160 yeah, then it's easier. The same thing with, and I know we've talked about this briefly before, 02:51.260 --> 02:54.980 we'll talk about it again, but it's the same question. When you're dealing with, 02:55.780 --> 03:00.180 I call them astral projections. Some people call them night walkers, things like that. 03:00.740 --> 03:04.060 When you're dealing with humans, that's what we're talking about. Humans who have left 03:04.060 --> 03:10.860 their body and are outdoing evil. You can't address them as a demon. They won't leave 03:11.880 --> 03:16.080 because they're not a demon. And that one, I learned the hard way too. 03:17.600 --> 03:21.300 You just, you can't address. You have to learn to recognize what you're dealing with. 03:21.880 --> 03:25.060 And the Holy Spirit will show you, but if you're totally, my people, 03:25.120 --> 03:27.720 perish for lack of knowledge. I mean, if you're just dumb as a rock, 03:27.920 --> 03:29.960 you're not even, you don't even know what you're looking for. 03:30.900 --> 03:37.880 Um, so therefore it's a big struggle, but God is always faithful. He'll always teach us. 03:38.000 --> 03:43.520 He'll always show us, but sometimes it's, it's a fight. It's a fight of faith 03:44.120 --> 03:47.640 to stay in there until you learn what you got to learn. Okay. Anybody else? 03:48.360 --> 03:51.580 Did that answer what you were up to? Okay. Anybody else got anything? 03:53.540 --> 03:57.780 Oh, we'll be done tonight. Oh, right up front. Not done yet. 03:59.260 --> 04:01.680 I haven't seen anything come in on my phone yet either. 04:02.400 --> 04:07.440 It just seems to me that one of the main things that's been lost, 04:08.940 --> 04:15.480 and as you are going all of, going through all of this, the fear of the Lord, the fear of God. 04:15.740 --> 04:20.520 There's no godly fear. And you know, it's, I couldn't help. This is just my opinion, 04:20.520 --> 04:25.700 but I was thinking, you know why we came to your church. You know why. 04:27.580 --> 04:35.340 But you know, I was thinking you in a way are almost a friend of God, because you are so stubborn 04:35.880 --> 04:42.260 in, in a godly stubbornness because you know your assignment. And this is a thing that is so 04:42.260 --> 04:49.780 grievous because there is the fear of God and that holy respect. He has been brought down 04:51.380 --> 04:58.780 to the level of so many men. Equal with us. Equal. And this is the thing. It's so sad, 04:59.480 --> 05:08.840 because right now what we need are more of you, more of like that, because you care enough 05:09.460 --> 05:16.800 for the sheep to tell the truth. Well, I appreciate the flowers. No, I'm not, 05:16.800 --> 05:19.560 I'm not trying to flatter you. But I can be stubborn without God too. 05:21.220 --> 05:25.200 But Vern, to God be the glory for that, because he's put that in you. 05:26.260 --> 05:31.000 Yeah. No, it's, that's true. It's to him. That part's true. That's the way he made me. 05:31.120 --> 05:35.300 But that fear of everything you were reading is what's going on today. 05:36.020 --> 05:45.660 Yeah. It, I was, I was very comforted when I was reading Paul's life. And then I read some 05:45.660 --> 05:53.420 stuff that is not scripture, but is Jewish history about Paul. And I was very encouraged 05:53.980 --> 06:00.740 when the Holy Spirit told me, he said, you know, you can be stubborn. He said to me, 06:00.940 --> 06:05.120 just what you said. He said, but one of the most stubborn people I've ever worked with 06:05.120 --> 06:13.270 was the apostle Paul. And you could see it in secular history, easier than scripture. 06:13.990 --> 06:18.670 Secular history. This guy, this guy was stubborn, man. When he, he was like a bulldog. 06:18.890 --> 06:21.370 When he got ahold of something, he would not turn it loose if it killed him. 06:22.910 --> 06:28.190 But then the Holy Spirit said this, but I needed that quality or he would have quit on me. 06:29.390 --> 06:35.490 Okay. So it's, it's, but it doesn't mean we've, for those of us who are stubborn 06:36.250 --> 06:39.330 and we're like bulldogs and when God shows us something, it's like, I'll die for this. 06:39.330 --> 06:44.650 I'll never turn from this. That doesn't mean we're fully sanctified yet. 06:45.230 --> 06:49.130 You know, there might be areas where we're still struggling in the flesh with our stubbornness 06:49.130 --> 06:58.770 too. But he made us, how would you say persistent for a reason? And that can go good or that can 06:58.770 --> 07:07.970 go bad. But now I'll follow your thought up there. Right now you said we don't have that 07:07.970 --> 07:15.330 now. No, you know what we have now? Tolerance to the point of inviting evil in. Everything we're 07:15.330 --> 07:20.650 tolerant of, our whole younger generations have been told to be tolerant of everyone and 07:21.670 --> 07:27.790 support everyone and embrace everything they're doing and blah, blah, blah. There's not 07:27.790 --> 07:32.930 near enough. I'm with you on that. There's not near enough people taking a stand and saying, 07:33.450 --> 07:40.530 this is evil. No. Period. This is evil. No. We're fighting against this. I don't care if it hurts 07:40.530 --> 07:45.970 your feelings. I don't care if it offends you. I don't care. This is wrong. We need more of that. 07:46.190 --> 07:49.850 Anybody else? Good. Let's answer a couple of these questions here. 07:53.330 --> 07:58.750 And I'm looking something up at the moment. So give me a second because I want to put 07:58.750 --> 08:13.900 a little scripture behind this. If I can, if I can find it. Okay. One of the questions that came 08:13.900 --> 08:22.200 in. Can drugs be a generational demon? Anything can become a generational demon. 08:23.900 --> 08:35.060 Lying, stealing, alcoholism, drugs, getting pregnant before you're married, 08:39.680 --> 08:47.220 anything, anything that's not God can become something that tries to set up in our family. 08:48.520 --> 08:52.220 The question is, my grandma and my mom and I have done some drugs. 08:53.030 --> 09:04.940 Could that open ourselves up to demons? Okay. So the short answer is yes. 09:05.820 --> 09:11.460 Any sin can open you up to demons. Now we're not talking, I presume, 09:12.260 --> 09:19.240 legal drugs like Tylenol or stuff. Those are drugs too. I'm presuming we're talking 09:20.560 --> 09:27.300 illegal hardcore drugs. I want you to see something here. 09:29.060 --> 09:38.100 It's in Revelation chapter 18. This is one of the spots it's found. So let me read it to you. 09:38.240 --> 09:44.760 And then I want to give you a little insight on something here. 09:45.680 --> 09:48.760 Revelation chapter 18, verse number 23. 09:52.120 --> 09:55.580 This chapter is dealing with 09:58.320 --> 10:05.560 part of the the Hora Babylon thing and the bad things that are happening 10:05.560 --> 10:10.180 in the tribulation period of time. Verse 23. It says, 10:10.180 --> 10:15.460 never again shall the light of a lamp, talking of the place where this was taking place, 10:15.580 --> 10:19.960 God's going to utterly destroy it, never again shall the light of a lamp shine in you, 10:20.260 --> 10:25.000 and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall never be heard in you again, speaking of the city, 10:25.140 --> 10:30.320 the place. For your businessmen were the great and prominent men of the earth, 10:31.080 --> 10:37.540 and by your magic spells and poisonous charm, all nations were led astray, 10:37.540 --> 10:51.360 seduced, and deluded. That phrase, magic spells, in the King James, that is sorceries, 10:51.660 --> 11:01.340 for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. That word sorceries in the Greek is pharmacia. 11:02.260 --> 11:10.620 It is where we get pharmacy from and a pharmacy is where they deal with drugs. 11:11.640 --> 11:13.440 So it's trying to say 11:16.180 --> 11:30.480 that drugs were so prevalent in this land that it led astray nations of people. Now 11:30.480 --> 11:37.200 we have nations living in America. So it affected more than just a few people. It affected 11:37.840 --> 11:43.580 mungs of people, throngs of people, and God was going to destroy it because of that, 11:44.780 --> 11:53.480 because of drugs. Magic arts is the way the amplified says it, but the actual 11:53.480 --> 12:03.920 word is, why is that doing that? The actual word is drugs. So let me say this. 12:09.960 --> 12:16.200 So now if I wanted to get strange here, and I've seen people do that, my phone locked up on 12:16.200 --> 12:21.440 that text wouldn't go, let me back. And I, you know, well, let's take authority over that demon. 12:21.440 --> 12:27.460 Well, we don't know what's a demon that did that. So don't get weird. 12:28.740 --> 12:37.940 But anyway, drugs, sorceries, magic arts, they all work together. 12:39.240 --> 12:46.760 And yes, they will open the door to spirit realm. Hands down. Another person watching online, 12:49.160 --> 12:55.800 they're saying one German to another, your stubbornness is because you're German. Thank you. 12:56.760 --> 13:03.340 It's a nice excuse. Truly, I don't think that's it, but we laugh about it. So let's go with it. 13:05.920 --> 13:09.960 Pastors, so another person. Pastor, sir, are you saying cancer is a demon? No, 13:10.900 --> 13:15.960 cancer can be a very physical thing, or it can also be inspired by a demon. 13:16.860 --> 13:24.000 Can go either way. If so, if someone like a parent had it, how do you address that to get it off the 13:24.000 --> 13:28.460 rest of the generations down? We're going to talk about that once we get through this booklet, 13:28.480 --> 13:34.780 we're going to start going into all various topics, familiar spirits, generational spirits, 13:35.300 --> 13:39.940 what are demons, where they come from, we'll just try to answer a whole nest of questions. 13:40.440 --> 13:45.160 So rather than getting into it here, we'll talk about it later. We will talk about it, 13:45.160 --> 13:53.820 and you can break it off so that it stops. Ask the Holy Spirit how it got in, and could it be an 13:53.820 --> 13:59.620 infirmity in a different person that causes sicknesses, but not cancer? And then in another 13:59.620 --> 14:06.340 family member, it manifests as cancer. So in other words, if a spirit gets into a family line, 14:06.720 --> 14:13.800 does it manifest the same in every person? No, it does not. I am convinced it's part of the 14:13.800 --> 14:18.760 deception. So it's harder to figure it out. You've got to have God to help you. But I'm also convinced 14:18.760 --> 14:24.220 that the kingdom of darkness, everything in the kingdom of darkness is an anti, what is called 14:24.220 --> 14:28.520 antithesis of God's kingdom. In other words, everything God's kingdom is, this is just the 14:28.520 --> 14:35.340 opposite. God's kingdom is very organized and orderly. This is just the opposite. I'm convinced 14:35.340 --> 14:39.560 part of the problem why that it just manifests differently in different people is because they 14:39.560 --> 14:45.800 are so unorganized and such a big mess. They can't get their acts together. So they just, 14:45.980 --> 14:50.200 it's like someone blindfolded with a bat trying to find a pinion. They just swing at everything. 14:51.580 --> 14:55.720 And one person that might cause this and another person might cause that, but 14:56.260 --> 15:06.840 they do try to get a family thing going. Another person. Okay, this person says that 15:06.840 --> 15:13.740 at night they struggle with being, when they're sleeping, they wake up and they're being held down 15:13.740 --> 15:20.260 and they can't move or talk. Could this be a generational curse or how do I find out what 15:20.260 --> 15:26.020 that is so I can deal with it? I have tried everything and still have problems with that. 15:26.400 --> 15:32.660 Well, the first thing you have to do is ask the Holy Spirit. He knows exactly what that is. 15:34.780 --> 15:41.700 The second thing, and I'm going to apply this from dream language, when you're having a dream 15:42.320 --> 15:47.160 and you can't, you know, something bad is happening, but you can't use the name of Jesus, 15:47.340 --> 15:52.140 you can't speak something in a dream that would be godly to address what's happening in your 15:52.140 --> 15:59.800 dream. It's like you can't get it out. That's a lack of prayer in your life. 16:00.740 --> 16:07.880 You're weak in being able to proclaim and declare and profess. We call it prayer, but it, you know, 16:07.920 --> 16:12.980 it covers a lot more than, a lot of times we think of prayer as asking God for something. No, 16:13.460 --> 16:19.480 prayer is declaring, it's claiming the promises, it's quoting the word, it's speaking to the 16:19.480 --> 16:26.620 situation. Prayer goes a lot deeper. I'm going to apply that here. It may apply, it may not. 16:27.120 --> 16:35.320 This is not a word from God. This is me going, how much are you speaking to this spirit? That's 16:35.320 --> 16:39.820 because I'm thinking it's probably a spirit if it's happening to you. How much are you speaking 16:39.820 --> 16:48.640 to this spirit when you're awake and telling it what it will do and what it won't do? 16:49.600 --> 16:55.300 And asking God for scripture, give me some ramas on this. Give me some scripture 16:55.300 --> 17:06.200 that I can attack this thing all day long. Give me revelation. The fact that when you wake up, 17:06.300 --> 17:11.460 you can't say anything. You can't even say the name of Jesus would indicate to me you're not 17:11.460 --> 17:20.100 attacking this 24 seven. This thing should be terrified to see you wake up because you're 17:20.100 --> 17:27.780 going to rip it apart for the next 16 hours. It and whatever it's in its line if it's generational. 17:29.020 --> 17:35.060 My first advice would be ask the Holy Spirit what this is about. Ask for revelation knowledge 17:35.600 --> 17:42.800 and you're at war. I mean, once it's to the point where it's paralyzing you, you can't move 17:43.660 --> 17:48.280 and you can't speak, this is not from the outside. This is from the inside. 17:50.100 --> 17:55.820 It's gotten control of the brain and it's paralyzing you and it's stopped your motor functions. You 17:55.820 --> 18:04.060 can't call out the name of Jesus. This is war. This is not something to take lightly. This is war. 18:04.700 --> 18:11.120 But this is not a war for when you wake up. This is a war for 24 hours a day. 18:14.910 --> 18:20.510 So my advice would be get some rama words on it. Ask the Holy Spirit what this is about. 18:23.010 --> 18:30.590 And you just kick the crud out of this thing all day long until it leaves you alone. 18:32.730 --> 18:37.150 The victory is ours. Do not make a covenant with it and say, well, this is probably what 18:37.150 --> 18:52.410 I have to put up with all my life. No. Okay, there's one more here that I have and I don't 18:52.410 --> 18:59.490 know. Can mental illness be a generational spirit? Anything can be a generational spirit. 19:03.290 --> 19:08.450 Anything. Grandpa went blind. Mom went blind and I'm struggling with my vision. 19:09.190 --> 19:14.850 That can be a generational spirit. Anything can be a generational spirit. Anything that is not 19:14.850 --> 19:24.150 God can be a generational spirit. So, you know, don't get it in your mind while it's just the big 19:24.150 --> 19:29.530 things. It's just the, no, it's the little foxes that spoil the vine. Don't just shoot for the 19:29.530 --> 19:36.510 big things. Anything can be a generational spirit. So yes, to answer that question, 19:36.710 --> 19:40.630 yeah, mental illness can be a generational spirit. Did you have anything besides that 19:40.630 --> 19:43.250 that came up there Kevin? Okay. Any other questions here? 19:45.670 --> 19:48.090 One way in the back. We get a mic over there. 19:57.510 --> 20:04.850 So generational curses is my understanding. You have to intercede and repent for the 20:05.710 --> 20:11.130 generation, the grandparents, the parents. My question is, what if the parents are 20:11.130 --> 20:15.770 still alive? Is it like you say for the, what you're talking about earlier, 20:15.770 --> 20:19.690 they're still a 24. You keep attacking and you keep repenting and you keep this, 20:19.710 --> 20:24.370 get this generational curse gone. Okay. So here's, here's where children struggle 20:24.370 --> 20:29.510 because they have loyalty to their parents. You have to separate yourself spiritually 20:29.510 --> 20:37.390 from your parents. If they're still alive, they have the right to address this themselves. 20:38.010 --> 20:43.610 So you can't get it out of the generational line because they have to do it. They're 20:43.610 --> 20:50.350 still alive. Once they're gone, now it's you. You're the only one alive and it goes on from 20:50.350 --> 20:55.690 here or your generation and it goes from here. But if they're still alive, they have the right 20:55.690 --> 21:00.930 to hang on to that spirit as long as they want it. That's their choice. So you literally have 21:00.930 --> 21:07.050 to separate yourself from them spiritually and children struggle to do that. When we get 21:07.050 --> 21:13.670 into talking about that, children struggle to do that because they feel loyal to their parents. 21:14.930 --> 21:18.490 Doesn't mean you have to throw them under the bus and leave them. We're not talking 21:19.450 --> 21:24.970 something drastic like that, but you have to separate yourself from them spiritually. 21:25.870 --> 21:32.870 Part of that is you no longer condone the sin they're in that is allowing this spirit to 21:32.870 --> 21:39.290 stay there. And a lot of times children don't like to take a stand against their parents for 21:39.290 --> 21:42.730 something their parents are doing wrong. You're going to have to or you're not going to get 21:42.730 --> 21:46.890 that demon off your back. You're going to have to make a clear cut in prayer, 21:48.830 --> 21:54.810 repentance, distancing yourself from it. We'll talk about all this, but you also can't 21:55.590 --> 22:00.950 laugh and make jokes about it when you get together with mom and dad. You're going to 22:00.950 --> 22:04.070 have to take a stand and say, you know what, mom and dad, what you're doing is sin and it's wrong 22:04.070 --> 22:09.870 and I'll have no part of it. And children struggle to do that because they want their parents to 22:09.870 --> 22:16.590 be happy and they're old and they like them and blah, blah, blah. Well, you can make covenant 22:16.590 --> 22:23.030 with this thing and live with it or you can deal with it. And here's the next thing that 22:23.030 --> 22:26.890 it's brought up. Well, I'll just deal with it once mom and dad die. 22:29.450 --> 22:34.830 You're running a chance here because it knows what you're planning to do. 22:36.650 --> 22:43.230 What does scripture say the pattern is of spirits when they know what's coming? 22:44.810 --> 22:49.150 Book of Revelation gave us perfect insight into that. 22:52.070 --> 23:00.770 Revelation 12, I believe it is, Satan came with great fury because he knew his time was short. 23:03.310 --> 23:08.630 When spirits find out you know and you have it, we'll do it next year. 23:09.250 --> 23:13.050 They're going to do everything in their power to take you out this year 23:13.690 --> 23:17.590 so you never get next year. And it doesn't mean kill you physically, 23:18.090 --> 23:23.110 it means take you out spiritually, take you out emotionally, take your family out, 23:25.630 --> 23:30.510 whatever. I don't know, maybe because we can't see them. I don't know, this isn't a game. 23:31.570 --> 23:37.490 It's just plain not a game. They are playing for keeps. We have to get in the same mindset. 23:39.610 --> 23:43.350 And see the other question that comes to my mind is this. 23:46.330 --> 23:50.150 Okay, let's wait until mom and dad die and then we'll deal with this spirit. 23:51.230 --> 23:53.930 What makes you think God's going to back you up at that point? 23:56.570 --> 24:01.330 You already betrayed him because he wanted you to deal with it now. 24:01.990 --> 24:04.470 Well, I don't want to deal with it now because I'm going to 24:04.470 --> 24:07.470 honor my parents more than I honor you. 24:08.970 --> 24:13.210 So we'll wait until they're gone, then that won't be an issue. Then I'll honor you. 24:13.390 --> 24:22.420 What makes you think he'll back you up? You're presuming something there. This is presumptuous 24:22.420 --> 24:30.880 faith. He may not back you up. He may let you, if you read on in judges, he just let them sit 24:30.880 --> 24:36.700 on it. He said you wanted it. There you go. See how that turns out for you. 24:38.020 --> 24:46.880 Well, we're in a different covenant. We are. But sometimes we think God is just playing, 24:47.380 --> 24:50.780 going to jump over backwards through the hoop for us anytime we say jump. 24:52.100 --> 25:00.990 I don't know that God goes back to the thought of who do we fear the most? 25:00.990 --> 25:04.170 Our parents are God. Who's God? Do we have the fear of the Lord? 25:10.550 --> 25:16.310 I don't want to get into any stories because I've got some, but I have seen people presume 25:16.830 --> 25:24.350 on God's mercy and grace too long. And when they went back to apply it, it was gone. They missed 25:24.350 --> 25:30.410 their moment. And they lived the rest of their life without getting the answer they could have had 25:31.250 --> 25:38.790 but they played a game for a while thinking, well, I can live this way for now. And then later, 25:39.090 --> 25:42.450 I'll change my ways. What makes you think God will honor that? 25:44.870 --> 25:50.510 We're not in charge. See, that's that's a posture of I'll do what I want. And then later, 25:50.530 --> 25:54.030 when I change my mind, God will be there to rescue me. What makes you think he will be? 25:55.290 --> 26:01.690 He's in charge the whole time. And this game thing, he doesn't always respond to that well. 26:02.230 --> 26:08.830 Just saying. Sometimes it's like, well, you wanted it, you got it. They may still make heaven, 26:09.690 --> 26:12.590 but they're never going to get the answer. They could have gotten back here. 26:13.630 --> 26:16.890 They're never going to get it over here. It's too late. You lost your window of 26:16.890 --> 26:20.990 opportunity and God just won't be used. Let's just say it that way. 26:24.030 --> 26:25.670 See, there I go being intense again. 26:27.810 --> 26:33.790 Saying God's in charge and we're not. And he won't just fall over backwards for us 26:33.790 --> 26:37.330 anytime we ask him to. No, he won't. I'm sorry, he won't. 26:38.130 --> 26:41.590 He's an honorable holy God and it's our job to please him. 26:43.290 --> 26:49.510 You can't expect he's going to do cartwheels for us just to entertain us. 26:50.210 --> 26:54.410 Because he doesn't always do that. And I've got stories, but we're too much out of time. 26:54.530 --> 26:57.990 I won't go into any stories there, but I've seen people push it too far. 27:03.530 --> 27:09.670 I'll give you one story. I'll give you one. I'm feeling pushed on this one. I might 27:09.670 --> 27:12.390 have shared this one before. This was a very traumatic thing for me. 27:13.530 --> 27:18.210 But the first funeral I ever did as a head pastor was for a young person who was in my 27:18.210 --> 27:25.870 youth group. And he died drunken. He ran into a tree, killed himself. 27:28.390 --> 27:35.450 And we had had, when I was the youth pastor, we had had some heated discussion on alcohol. 27:37.790 --> 27:45.050 And drunkenness, Galatians 519, read it. Drunkenness, those who are in drunkenness 27:45.050 --> 27:51.350 will not inherit the kingdom of God. Apply that how you will. It just says it. 27:51.870 --> 28:00.010 You figure out what that means. I harped on that. And there was two guys who hung together 28:00.750 --> 28:03.310 and they were kind of wanting to do their own thing. 28:04.310 --> 28:07.990 Well, we're young people. We're only young ones. And we're only going to be able to have this 28:07.990 --> 28:12.830 kind of fun ones. And once we get older and have children and every responsibility and 28:12.830 --> 28:18.190 payments and we won't be able to do it then. And just God will forgive us and we'll get serious 28:18.190 --> 28:23.770 about serving God, you know, in dropping the alcohol then. We don't want to do it now. Blah, 28:23.870 --> 28:35.270 blah, blah. He died drunk. So I asked his father was gone. His mother was elderly. So I asked her, 28:35.310 --> 28:40.850 I said, I won't do this if you don't want me to do it. I said, can I use this as a living 28:40.850 --> 28:49.430 illustration and go back to the young people and say, there is a very, very, very, very, very, 28:49.430 --> 28:58.410 very good chance he's in hell. Because he died in rebellion. He died drunk and he knew what he 28:58.410 --> 29:03.670 was doing. And he knew he should stop that he was postponing it for a later date. 29:05.490 --> 29:09.910 He had made treaty with it. It was serving him for the time being. And later he would 29:09.910 --> 29:18.590 get it out. Well, he never got the later. So I went back into the youth group. They were still 29:18.590 --> 29:26.430 all there. Told them that. His friend who was in cohort with him was livid with me. 29:28.350 --> 29:38.190 How dare you say that he could even be in hell? He was a Christian. He loved God. 29:38.190 --> 29:44.510 Well, evidently, he didn't love them enough. Got to love them with all your heart, soul, 29:44.610 --> 29:50.330 mind, and strength. And apparently he loved alcohol more in some ways than he loved God. 29:52.070 --> 30:00.550 He was livid with me and kind of gave the indication and then later followed through on it. 30:00.650 --> 30:06.890 I will not serve a God that would send someone to hell just because they made a mistake. 30:06.890 --> 30:15.370 Well, this wasn't a mistake. This was a willful choice. And he never lived long enough to correct 30:15.370 --> 30:25.850 it. Well, I ain't going to serve a God like that. It took 10 years, maybe a little longer. 30:25.990 --> 30:29.670 I don't remember the exact timing. It took a number of years, let's say 10, 15 years, 30:29.770 --> 30:36.390 which is a very short period of time. His friend who was alive, who was livid with me, 30:37.170 --> 30:47.150 committed suicide. Neither one of them ended well. Now, I can't say, you know, suicide can be 30:47.150 --> 30:52.050 numerous reasons. You can't say he went to hell because of it. But if he was still in the mindset 30:52.930 --> 30:56.450 that he had been previously, I won't have anything to do with a God like that. 30:56.970 --> 31:04.580 Well, then we know where he is too. Well, I'll do it later. What makes you think God's 31:04.580 --> 31:08.700 going to back you up, number one? What makes you think these spirits who just heard what 31:08.700 --> 31:13.060 you said are going to let you live that long to fix it later? 31:15.920 --> 31:20.820 I'll serve God when I'm on my deathbed. When I'm ready to die, I'll ask forgiveness. 31:21.180 --> 31:25.440 What makes you think he's going to give it to you? What kind of game do you think we're playing here? 31:27.780 --> 31:32.580 And I've seen numerous of those people never get a chance to die on their deathbed. 31:32.860 --> 31:36.460 They die in a head-on-car accident or something like that, and they're instantly gone. 31:37.120 --> 31:39.920 Well, guess what? You never got a chance to play your game. 31:41.080 --> 31:44.180 Where are they at? Well, I'm not the judge, but I've got a good guess. 31:45.240 --> 31:48.600 They died unsaved, live in their own life. I'll do it later. 31:49.360 --> 31:53.840 Well, first of all, the demons know that, so they're going to try to stop that. 31:54.180 --> 32:01.280 And number two, why do we presume God is just a big sugar daddy, a candy-given out being 32:01.280 --> 32:07.280 that once we finally turn to him, he's so excited, he just gives us everything we 32:07.280 --> 32:14.880 want right on the spot. What do you say? Do you have any scripture that would say, 32:14.920 --> 32:19.340 God wouldn't do that? Yes, I do. I'm glad you asked. 32:22.320 --> 32:26.940 All I got to do is find it. It is in 32:29.420 --> 32:39.490 Hebrew. I'll find it, and then I'll tell you to go there. I believe it's Hebrew. 32:45.550 --> 32:54.540 Oh no, not Hebrews. It's Thessalonians. Let me go there. See if I can find it there. 32:55.240 --> 32:59.860 Otherwise, I'll use the cheat sheet, and I'll look it up in the concordance, 32:59.940 --> 33:10.210 and I'll find it that way. That's not it. Let me see if I can find it. 33:12.990 --> 33:17.850 I can see where it's right on the page on my regular Bible. 33:19.310 --> 33:22.850 So let me look it up. I'm not seeing it. I'm probably looking right over it. 33:22.930 --> 33:25.330 Let me look it up a different way. I'm going to get this 33:27.650 --> 33:32.830 and give you the scripture on this. God doesn't always just jump there. 33:33.790 --> 33:39.010 Yeah, it is in 2 Thessalonians. Go with me to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2. 33:41.450 --> 33:43.970 I went right over it in my hurry here. 33:46.250 --> 33:51.250 So what we'll do is we'll give you the picture of this chapter, and then we'll give you the verse. 33:51.950 --> 33:57.130 Chapter 2, starting at verse 1, 2 Thessalonians 2, I'm reading out of the NIV. 33:57.990 --> 34:01.070 Concerning the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, 34:01.750 --> 34:05.530 don't become unsettled. Don't let anyone deceive you. Verse number 3, 34:05.530 --> 34:09.310 the He will come. There's got to be things that happen first, the great rebellion. 34:10.650 --> 34:14.010 The man of lawlessness has to be revealed on and on and on. 34:14.390 --> 34:18.550 Verse 5, don't you remember that when I was with you, I used to tell you these things. 34:19.030 --> 34:22.450 Then it talks about us and him who's holding it back. Verse 7, 34:22.590 --> 34:25.130 for the secret power of lawlessness is already at work. 34:25.710 --> 34:29.670 But the one who holds it back will continue to do so until he's taken out of the way. 34:29.870 --> 34:34.410 That's us. That's the church. That's our job right now. We are the resistance. 34:35.530 --> 34:40.610 Verse 8, and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath 34:40.610 --> 34:45.670 of his mouth and destroy the splendor of his coming. By the way, verse number 7 is one verse that 34:45.670 --> 34:53.610 a lot of pre-tribbers use for a pre-tribulation rapture. We have to go. Well, actually the 34:53.610 --> 34:58.990 Antichrist is a man of peace until the middle of the tribulation. Then he becomes the 34:58.990 --> 35:03.430 Antichrist or against God. So we could be here for the first half even with that verse. 35:03.430 --> 35:08.550 But anyway, going on that's just for free. The lawless one will come in accordance with the 35:08.550 --> 35:14.150 working of Satan, counterfeit miracle, signs, wonders, verse 9, so forth. Verse 10, 35:14.690 --> 35:17.830 and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing, 35:18.850 --> 35:26.190 they perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 35:27.870 --> 35:32.630 For this reason, the reason that they didn't, the reason is they didn't love the truth. 35:33.430 --> 35:41.670 They played the game but they wouldn't submit. For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion 35:42.890 --> 35:52.410 so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the 35:52.410 --> 36:00.770 truth but have delighted in wickedness. You play the game long enough, God says, 36:00.770 --> 36:08.470 fine, I'll let you believe what you're doing will work and it will destroy you 36:09.010 --> 36:14.050 because you're choosing the lie over the truth. So there is the scripture for it. 36:15.910 --> 36:20.490 You just can't, well, I know what the truth is but I don't love it enough to do it. I'll do 36:20.490 --> 36:24.690 it ten years from now. I'll do it on my deathbed. I'll do it once I get married, whatever. 36:25.810 --> 36:29.550 By that point, what makes you think God will respond? 36:31.410 --> 36:34.850 You may be so deceived at that point you're not even going to ask him to respond anymore. 36:35.370 --> 36:43.430 You so believe the lie. But my main point out of that scripture is this. What makes us think God 36:43.430 --> 36:48.350 is standing by willing and ready so that as soon as we're done with our goofy little arrogant 36:48.350 --> 36:55.170 game, he's just going to jump in and rescue us. That scripture says, no he won't. He may for 36:55.170 --> 37:04.270 some, but there's no guarantee. You refuse the truth all this time. Boom. Have your lie. I'm not going 37:04.270 --> 37:11.790 there. And they're lost in their wickedness. So with that, I think we better end in prayer, huh? 37:12.750 --> 37:21.470 Pretty heavy. So Lord, help all of us here, all of us watching online. Help every Christian 37:21.470 --> 37:32.310 in this world, especially us Americans, to take living for you serious. This is life and death. 37:32.510 --> 37:37.950 This is not a game. This is not something we can play with, not something we can postpone, 37:38.390 --> 37:43.610 not something we can presume that later you'll be okay with us if we just come around later. 37:44.470 --> 37:50.490 Lord, we have to love you with all our hearts, all mind and strength. And that needs to be in 37:50.490 --> 37:57.930 us to the best we know how to do that at all times. Forgive us for the areas we have gotten 37:57.930 --> 38:06.530 sloppy and we've played with this. And Lord, if anybody here in my voice is being convicted now 38:06.530 --> 38:10.690 of, you know what, that's what you're doing in some areas. Lord, give them the courage to 38:10.690 --> 38:17.030 repent, which means not just say, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for giving me Lord. That repentance 38:17.030 --> 38:24.010 means turn away from what you're doing. Be convinced in your mind you can't go back. You 38:24.010 --> 38:28.690 can't keep doing this. He's asking you to stop. Be convinced in your mind enough you turn away 38:28.690 --> 38:35.350 from it. And you stop it. You quit playing the game. So Lord, help us submit to that and come 38:35.350 --> 38:42.630 under that in Jesus' name. We're looking for life, not death. And I go back to what you had 38:42.630 --> 38:45.970 admonished him back at the end of Deuteronomy. I think it's chapter 30. 38:46.550 --> 38:52.150 There's curses and there's blessings. Now choose life. Choose the blessings. Choose that route. 38:52.310 --> 38:57.610 Lord, we have to actively choose to serve you. And we do that with all our heart tonight 38:57.610 --> 39:03.070 in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Be blessed. Have an awesome night. Thank you for coming.