WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.960 Sin is usually the bigger deal than the demonic realm. Just to put it in a spot. I don't like to give 00:06.660 --> 00:12.780 him and his little minions so much credit. Okay? Because the scripture says that Jesus rendered 00:12.780 --> 00:17.340 them powerless, so the only power they have is the power we give them. So if you go into an area 00:17.340 --> 00:21.380 like I'm going up Red Lake or whatever, it's no different than going down Minneapolis or Cambridge. 00:22.240 --> 00:26.060 It don't feel any different than Cambridge. I know a lot of times if you haven't been there, 00:26.060 --> 00:30.500 you're like, it's so evil. No, no, no. I can drive through Cambridge and go, yeah, this is evil. 00:31.380 --> 00:36.940 There's something, you know, because there's sin operating there. And so this is what gives permission 00:37.580 --> 00:42.840 for the demonic realm to set up. So a lot of times people will go in and the first thing they do is 00:42.840 --> 00:48.520 they take authority over things. Well, how do you take authority over things? I just want to 00:48.520 --> 00:53.620 think this a little bit. Because we're talking about foundational things for a couple of times 00:53.620 --> 00:58.100 in a row. Since I've been preaching, it's more of going back to like, what does the foundation 00:58.660 --> 01:06.180 of what we believe look like? So if we're going to address something in the spirit realm, then we 01:06.180 --> 01:11.180 have to go back to the foundational thing of how we do that. So a phrase that Christians use is, 01:11.440 --> 01:16.180 well, I'll take authority over it. What does that look like? Well, I'll just tell it, it has to go. 01:16.980 --> 01:20.980 Well, if you let me look at the word authority, the word author is in the word authority, 01:20.980 --> 01:27.860 which means that's not you, that's somebody else. And the authority has been given to us by the author 01:28.640 --> 01:33.980 of this will. Right? So we have to acknowledge that all authority comes through him. 01:34.780 --> 01:39.360 And we have to be in a spot to receive that authority. We can't just copy something else 01:39.360 --> 01:43.320 where we walk into a place and be like, I take authority. Do you have the authority? Did 01:43.320 --> 01:48.600 you receive the authority from him? Same way you receive salvation, same way you receive 01:48.600 --> 01:54.260 the power to heal. Any of those things receive means to take. Yes, sir, I will take that authority, 01:54.460 --> 01:59.400 and then I'll come in here and I'll take with that authority authority over what's going on. 01:59.640 --> 02:05.140 And that doesn't always mean a prayer. That means it can mean in your workplace, 02:05.280 --> 02:10.420 it can mean just doing something righteous. You're taking authority over something unrighteous. 02:12.700 --> 02:16.960 Right? If you know someone stealing or whatever, you're like, I'm going to take authority over 02:16.960 --> 02:21.940 that. I bind that in the name of God or whatever. You can, but you might need to go to the office 02:21.940 --> 02:28.140 and talk to the boss. You're taking authority. You're being authorized to do it because it's 02:28.140 --> 02:34.440 the righteous thing to do. Okay? So I just want to lay that little bit of foundation so we 02:34.440 --> 02:38.420 understand that. And when you're dealing with devination, it's like sooth saying it's 02:38.420 --> 02:43.800 speaking, saying it's on behalf of God, but it's not. It's predicting future things. It's 02:43.800 --> 02:48.820 tarot cards. It's all kinds of different things that we're like we're not into on this spectrum 02:48.820 --> 02:54.800 way over here. That's the higher levels of spectrum where you're literally trying to take over 02:54.800 --> 03:00.500 something like our government. What were they doing outside of the capital for years already? 03:01.200 --> 03:05.200 But they were soothsaying. They were coming up there. There were people dressed like 03:05.200 --> 03:09.220 black angels, which was just the demonic realm or whatever. And they were predicting 03:09.220 --> 03:15.060 future things over our government. That's more the higher level. You can even go higher in that 03:15.060 --> 03:21.540 where we need to sacrifice people or whatever to come to a higher level of sin. So there's 03:21.540 --> 03:28.980 more authority in the demonic realm. That's way over here. We operate many times over here and 03:28.980 --> 03:35.020 don't know it. We can be divining things. You can divine over yourself by saying, 03:35.020 --> 03:41.280 yes, never going to work out. Stop it. Stop talking about your future like, well, that's not 03:41.280 --> 03:46.960 divination. That's not, okay, that's on this side of the spectrum. Just because we're not way over 03:46.960 --> 03:54.120 here sacrificing something and chanting and doing the things that go along with it and 03:54.120 --> 03:58.380 conjuring spirits and all that kind of stuff doesn't mean we're not operating at times. 03:58.380 --> 04:05.120 See, it works that way in all forms of sin. It works that way in things that are, 04:05.720 --> 04:12.780 you know, not of our father's kingdom. He's so pure that, I mean, if we were just, 04:12.960 --> 04:16.940 he was standing right here, you would clearly know any of the small stuff you're operating in it. 04:17.120 --> 04:21.660 Well, we consider small because his holiness would just go, and you'd see it. 04:22.740 --> 04:29.240 Well, part of worship is to get into his presence. And when you're in his presence, what happens? 04:30.140 --> 04:34.920 You're also around his holiness. That's when conviction comes, conveying things from the 04:34.920 --> 04:39.160 kingdom of heaven to us comes. You start to see yourself like you couldn't see before. 04:39.660 --> 04:44.340 This is why many times people, if you have worship, like we're not even in the heavenly 04:44.340 --> 04:48.380 realm worship, we're still way over here. We think at times like we had this really 04:48.380 --> 04:55.900 super intense service compared to heaven as I, you know what I mean? This is all right. 04:56.660 --> 05:00.100 But for us, we're like, whoa, you know, and especially if you can't go into another church 05:00.100 --> 05:03.600 around and try to find that kind of worship where you start to sense the presence of God 05:03.600 --> 05:08.960 being in the house, there's churches out there. But I'm saying if you looked in places where 05:08.960 --> 05:15.140 it hasn't been, then it'll be like, whoa, we are there. No, no, no, we got a little something, 05:15.140 --> 05:20.580 something going on here. But we don't have the heavenly realm fully manifested. That would blow 05:20.580 --> 05:28.240 our faces off. I can tell you that right now. So our measurements are off on a lot of things. 05:28.620 --> 05:34.140 And we measure ourselves against the worst of the worst, not the best of the best. 05:36.620 --> 05:42.680 Well, I'm in pretty good shape. Well, sure. If I compare myself to, you know, 05:43.520 --> 05:49.740 person who can't walk two blocks and they're out of air and, you know, they got to go rest for two 05:49.740 --> 05:55.280 days. Well, yeah, I'm in pretty good shape. But if I compare myself to an Olympic athlete, it's like, 05:55.320 --> 05:59.580 I got nothing to say here. There's nothing going on. I'll just stay quiet. You know, 06:00.740 --> 06:06.800 it's God is holy. And to wrap our heads around that is we'll take the biggest thing that 06:06.800 --> 06:12.400 we've ever experienced and say, it must be that it's still way below his glory. 06:14.640 --> 06:19.800 It's still way below in comparison to who he is. So we're always striving for this, like, 06:19.860 --> 06:25.760 show me more of you, God. Show me more of you. And that's what opens people up to really be 06:25.760 --> 06:32.420 interested in the supernatural because we want to see more of God. And so sometimes we forfeit 06:32.420 --> 06:38.940 the things we're supposed to be doing to get the things that we think he's doing. And a lot of people 06:38.940 --> 06:46.300 are entering stuff that's actually witchcraft. And it's not God because they're so hungry for the 06:46.300 --> 06:52.100 supernatural. We're supernatural beings. So it makes sense that that we're hungry for 06:52.100 --> 06:57.720 supernatural things. Amen? I mean, this makes sense. That's that's who we are. That's how 06:57.720 --> 07:03.880 we're made. And and so whether we know we're hungry for it or not, we're hungry. So even you say, 07:03.960 --> 07:08.720 well, I've never dabbled in anything like that. And how one guy in the, he's not saved, but he 07:08.720 --> 07:13.420 was talking to me like that. I have no, I don't have any interest and stuff. But if you're out 07:14.800 --> 07:19.700 drinking and getting drunk, you've already entered sorcery. So you were still hungry for 07:19.700 --> 07:25.680 the supernatural. If you're sleeping with the neighbor lady, she's not your wife, 07:25.680 --> 07:31.760 you're hungry for the supernatural. You're just looking in the wrong place for holy. 07:32.400 --> 07:38.440 It's still supernatural though, isn't it? Because there's a high that we get from doing something 07:38.440 --> 07:44.120 that's wrong, especially if it's in secret. The effineffin levels go off in our body and it 07:44.120 --> 07:51.120 just registers that as I have to have me more of this. That's supernatural. Right? So we're 07:51.120 --> 07:56.660 always hungering for the supernatural and we're wanting to move over into the things of God. We 07:56.660 --> 08:01.120 come out of that kind of stuff and we're like, okay, so how do I get over? I want to experience 08:01.120 --> 08:08.780 the supernatural over here. Well, this can get weird on the way too. I mean, once you're one of 08:08.780 --> 08:16.380 the churches down south, once you're feeling like your chickens and you're because God came 08:16.380 --> 08:21.560 on you and now everyone's a chicken and I'm not seeing that in the heavenly realm. I'm sorry. 08:22.260 --> 08:26.980 Guys, I was able to do anything, but here's what I find is when it gets stupid on steroids, 08:27.660 --> 08:33.840 what happens is no good comes of it. It just gets weirder and weirder. Weird produces weird. 08:36.200 --> 08:39.960 If you, if God came on you and you were acting like a chicken, you fell over on the 08:39.960 --> 08:43.540 floor and you got up and you were never the same again. You were out leading people to 08:43.540 --> 08:47.160 Christ. Everything would change. Then I would be like, I want me some of that. 08:48.200 --> 08:52.920 But people, you know, in full gospel churches especially, they'll go down under the power, 08:53.160 --> 09:00.380 is how we say it, right? Almost like it's a tradition. A lot of times it's not even God 09:01.740 --> 09:03.660 because we're so hungry for the supernatural. 09:07.360 --> 09:12.000 So puts us in an all or nothing thing where we're like, well, I don't want any of that, 09:12.460 --> 09:17.700 you know, or I want all of that, but I don't know how to get there. And it can be frustrating on 09:17.700 --> 09:24.040 either side, right? So before we get into really dealing with divination and things like that, 09:24.280 --> 09:29.600 then we have to look at the platform of where we came from. We all fell short of the glory of 09:29.600 --> 09:37.020 God. Are we saved? Yes. So the restoration, positionally, we're restored to his glory. 09:39.080 --> 09:44.140 And why isn't it looked that way? That's because positionally, we're restored to his glory. 09:44.420 --> 09:49.740 Just like healing by his stripes, we're already healed. Then why are we limping? 09:51.120 --> 09:57.340 It's to get the very thing that we receive now by the kingdom of God to manifest in this 09:57.340 --> 10:02.380 earthly realm. Positionally, when I got born again, it doesn't matter what I was into, 10:02.380 --> 10:09.260 all that. It was forgiven. I died today. I go to heaven. I wasn't very sanctified at that point. 10:11.260 --> 10:15.880 Sanctification is the manifestation of the result of the salvation that I received. 10:16.880 --> 10:23.680 And that takes time. Amen. Same thing with healing. Sometimes God's doing a knitting, 10:23.880 --> 10:27.840 you're healed either way, but he can do a knitting together is one of the Greek meanings 10:27.840 --> 10:34.620 to the word or right now on the spot. Woo, those are fun. But even if you get the right now on the spot, 10:35.200 --> 10:40.700 you have to maintain the fact that you received it and guard it. While guarding your heart with 10:40.700 --> 10:44.140 all diligence because out of it comes the wellsprings of life and you could talk to yourself 10:44.140 --> 10:52.680 out of the healing you just received. That's how supernatural things work. So if we go down 10:52.680 --> 10:58.340 and you appeal the onion to get to the main foundational thing we're looking for to start 10:58.340 --> 11:04.220 to head toward talking about getting all forms of witchcraft or divination or sorcery and stuff 11:04.220 --> 11:10.180 out of this church off of us, we don't go to the creepy realm and freak out and everything's a demon. 11:10.600 --> 11:14.280 We go back to foundation. What is the foundation of our salvation? 11:16.300 --> 11:20.040 It's the blood of Jesus which came through repentance. 11:22.680 --> 11:29.380 Right? So repentance, repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. 11:31.080 --> 11:37.920 Let's see here. Oh, it says it so many times over. Just to save time. I could tell you, 11:37.960 --> 11:43.260 you could just look up repent and it'll say it so many times over. Repent for the kingdom of God 11:43.260 --> 11:47.820 is at hand. The kingdom is near. What you need is right here. So what's the kingdom? The kingdom 11:47.820 --> 11:54.580 is the sphere of his rule, his ways of doing things. So without him, I got the sphere of my rule 11:54.580 --> 12:02.980 and my ways of doing things. And it's gross. And even my own righteousness says filthy rags, 12:03.080 --> 12:07.960 the Bible says. So I don't got a whole lot going on. But right at hand, close, near to me, it's 12:07.960 --> 12:13.480 like right here, the kingdom of God is right here. We invite the kingdom in and where there's 12:13.480 --> 12:20.900 a kingdom, there's a king. So we've invited him in and he's the king, he's the ruler. But we don't 12:20.900 --> 12:26.720 just say, come on, Lord, change my heart, let the kingdom move in. It's repent for the kingdom 12:26.720 --> 12:36.640 of God is here. So repentance we take is a one-time act, but then it's a lifestyle. Americans 12:37.160 --> 12:41.560 only like the one-time act usually. I feel so guilty right now. Just get this off me. 12:41.560 --> 12:46.900 That feels so much better. I'll go back and do whatever I want. No, no. Repentance says you actually 12:46.900 --> 12:52.580 are changing your mind. So the full manifestation of, let's say, you're repenting for harming your body 12:53.380 --> 12:58.940 because you were using meth, right? That's a sin against this temple. That's entering into 12:58.940 --> 13:02.480 sorcery. Well, I was just asking him to forgive me. God forgive me. And are you forgiven? 13:05.040 --> 13:09.960 Yes, positionally. The position you're in is you are now forgiven. But now the blood 13:09.960 --> 13:17.640 has to be applied and continued with stay power and continue the renewing of the mind around that 13:17.640 --> 13:23.540 so that in the end we're not repeating the behavior. But what we take it as many times is 13:23.540 --> 13:27.620 where we're up front and I mean, the more guilty we feel, the more serious we are. 13:28.460 --> 13:31.880 I don't know, I could go to jail for this thing or whatever. I mean, we are 13:31.880 --> 13:38.360 repentive, right? But then if everything works out okay, the changing of the mind part 13:38.360 --> 13:42.600 kind of just wanes. I did, I asked forgiveness. I mean, I took care of that. 13:44.040 --> 13:50.960 Always followed in repentance is the change of heart which affects the mind, which affects behavior. 13:54.040 --> 14:00.900 So if we just say, forgive me, yes, we've received that. But then we walk away from that, 14:01.080 --> 14:04.420 we're out fishing, we're doing whatever. I don't know, we're just hanging out and 14:04.420 --> 14:09.000 we forgot how serious this was and how we told him we want this change in our life. 14:10.120 --> 14:14.380 But we're not applying anything to change it. That thing will come back around. 14:15.080 --> 14:19.080 That thing that's in your flesh is you said, oh, yeah, the blood of Jesus washed you. 14:19.440 --> 14:25.700 Betcha I could get you to do it again. Because the mind hasn't been changed. The heart hasn't 14:25.700 --> 14:32.080 been changed. So it's the same thing with taking authority. I can come and take authority over 14:32.080 --> 14:35.540 something in the house. I can be a father in the name of Jesus. I just bind up what I'm 14:35.540 --> 14:40.160 feeling right now. Blah, blah, blah. Well, if there was some type of sin ground in the house, 14:40.640 --> 14:44.540 if there was some type of opening in the house, if there was something that was there 14:44.540 --> 14:47.620 that wasn't supposed to be, then I need to figure out why, because now we're going to 14:47.620 --> 14:52.020 continue to apply this. Because this thing that I just kicked out is not coming back. 14:55.250 --> 15:01.250 See, there's stay power. Did I have authority? Did I take authority? Yes, I did. But now I 15:01.250 --> 15:08.510 have to fill this place with His presence and take up the space that that thing thought it could have. 15:09.990 --> 15:16.950 Okay? So repentance is the thing. And I can tell you it's not a popular subject because we have 15:16.950 --> 15:24.570 all kinds of pictures of it that are condemnation. I'm admitting I'm such a loser, 15:25.330 --> 15:33.330 such a worm as I. Remember that in the old song? Such a worm as I. Now, I had a really 15:33.330 --> 15:39.850 stinky behavior, though. I'm a child of God. I was created in His image, but my behavior stinks. 15:40.850 --> 15:46.490 So if something is a worm, it's my behavior. But then I'm carrying my behavior around, 15:46.530 --> 15:50.730 so I have to be responsible to wield and steward my behavior. It's like, 15:50.730 --> 15:54.650 this behavior is out of control. I'm loved by God, but my behavior out of control. 15:56.250 --> 16:01.750 See, it's the old way of saying, hey, why don't you take the garbage out? What is wrong with you? 16:02.330 --> 16:05.970 You get in here right now and we tie the behavior, the poor behavior, 16:06.550 --> 16:11.430 to the person. Now it's not about the garbage being taken out, it's about you being a loser 16:11.430 --> 16:17.230 because you didn't take it out. See, so this is why we get mixed up thoughts about 16:17.230 --> 16:23.830 repentance. Repentance in the full version, not just turning all around, means getting new information. 16:26.010 --> 16:31.170 Regret the old way did something. That regret power has to be like, oh, I don't ever want to 16:31.170 --> 16:35.110 go back there. That's puke worthy. I just, I don't want to do that ever again. 16:36.090 --> 16:39.890 Right? Well, what are you going to do about that? Well, I ask forgiveness. I go, but what 16:39.890 --> 16:45.050 are you going to do about it now? There's a change of behavior that has to take place. 16:45.050 --> 16:49.150 Sometimes those change of behaviors take months. Well, I thought I asked forgiveness. 16:49.410 --> 16:51.590 Yes, you did. And positionally, you are forgiven. 16:54.130 --> 17:00.210 But now we'll fire together, wire together in your brain. And God's about to unwire that and put 17:00.210 --> 17:08.030 in a whole new network. That takes some time. Okay? But what happens is if we say we ask 17:08.030 --> 17:12.450 forgiveness, and he is faithful and just, forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all 17:12.450 --> 17:18.070 unrighteousness. Yes, I did that. And all of a sudden we have that same crazy thought. 17:18.190 --> 17:25.690 We're like, I must not have asked for real. You know, like a lot of, a lot of people will say, 17:25.810 --> 17:29.330 well, that person got saved last weekend. Well, they must not have meant it. 17:30.310 --> 17:34.390 Because they went out and they had poor behaviors. I mean, I need you to mean it. 17:34.430 --> 17:37.690 We'll tell people when, when they're going to receive Christ, 17:37.910 --> 17:40.510 you need to really mean it. And that's going to do what? 17:41.070 --> 17:45.190 I mean, when you're throwing up and you're hugging the porcelain throne, 17:45.770 --> 17:51.490 because you drank too much, you'll repent of all kinds of things. But how much did you really mean 17:51.490 --> 17:58.590 it? Because where are you next Friday night? But I can tell you in that moment, are you 17:58.590 --> 18:03.450 mean in this? And you go, yes, I will do anything. Because your body feels like it's 18:03.450 --> 18:11.580 dying. Because technically it is. You're poisoning your liver. So if we look at it that 18:11.580 --> 18:16.260 way, I'm just trying to straighten out repentance a little bit here, because it's not a done deal. 18:16.460 --> 18:22.420 And then, then we move on. Positionally, it's done. But then to manifest it, 18:23.220 --> 18:27.840 and bring about the change, here we go. I can stand here and say, I receive healing. 18:27.980 --> 18:33.960 Let's say Pastor Jim prays for me. And I, and I just say, yes, I receive it. I can feel 18:33.960 --> 18:38.880 the anointing. That's so good. I received it, which means to take it. And then I leave 18:38.880 --> 18:43.080 and I start throwing up and I got a migraine. And it's like, well, I don't know. I must not have 18:43.080 --> 18:50.200 received it. No, I received it. Now my body, which has been touched by sin, is freaking out 18:50.200 --> 18:55.120 over what I received. The kingdom of God was at hand. What was in the kingdom now entered 18:55.120 --> 19:01.840 my body. And there is a war going on inside. So I don't say, well, I must not have received 19:01.840 --> 19:06.260 it. Sorry. I'll have to go back a hundred times and have him pray for me. 19:06.920 --> 19:12.120 You know, hit me again with it so I can receive it all again. Did you catch it or didn't you catch 19:12.120 --> 19:21.650 it? You got it. Now fight for your right for it to manifest. Right? It's no difference with 19:21.650 --> 19:26.970 repentance. I received it. I'm forgiven. True that. Step out of this body right now. 19:27.110 --> 19:36.350 I'm standing before the throne of God. Woo. Oh, happy day. But to manifest what I repented of 19:36.350 --> 19:43.310 means the heart change. That's that turning around. And why do we believe the turning around 19:43.310 --> 19:49.690 happens in that 30 seconds it takes? Like someone came to Christ last night at TBO. And it's like, 19:49.770 --> 19:54.570 well, I hope they meant it. Is there going to have to turn that whole ship around right now? 19:55.230 --> 20:00.530 Well, no, they meant the forgiveness part and they took it. Now the king who's of the kingdom 20:00.530 --> 20:05.330 says, let's get this thing turned around. You keep receiving. Keep letting your mind be 20:05.330 --> 20:10.190 changed. I'll take you all the way around. And soon you'll have such a disdain for that behavior. 20:10.610 --> 20:15.010 Soon it'll be like, whoa, what was I into? I mean, if you ever think about stuff in your past, 20:15.190 --> 20:20.610 you're like, I don't want to talk about it. That's embarrassing. When you were into it, 20:20.710 --> 20:23.830 it's like, I don't know if I want to give it up. But then when you're so far away from it, 20:23.830 --> 20:31.510 you're like, that's sick and wrong. What was I a part of? So we have to understand that 20:31.510 --> 20:36.290 first, because if we approach divination or any of the things we have authority over, 20:36.730 --> 20:41.930 and we do the same thing, we just waltz on them there. We don't care if we got stuff going on in 20:41.930 --> 20:46.570 our lives as a church. We don't care if we got sin ground hanging out all over the place. Let's 20:46.570 --> 20:54.230 just go poke the bear. Because we have authority. Let's just go poke the bear. That could be 20:54.230 --> 20:59.610 some backlash from that. You can do it that way. But the change of heart is the most important 20:59.610 --> 21:05.890 part. Because then we can stand strong after having done all to stand and say, 21:06.010 --> 21:15.270 I actually don't have anything in common with you. You cannot touch me. Now that almost sounds 21:15.270 --> 21:18.490 like you're going to perform your way into something. You got to be good enough. No, 21:18.510 --> 21:24.030 positionally, I have it. And I'm predicted. But I have to call on the power of God and 21:24.030 --> 21:29.150 remind the spirit realm of that. And I know all the junks that's going on the inside of me. 21:29.150 --> 21:34.190 That makes me feel completely opposite of having authority. But I received authority, 21:34.370 --> 21:40.870 and it's mine. And I fight for my right to address whatever he's having me address. Amen. 21:41.830 --> 21:46.190 So the kingdom of God is at hand. And we have a king. If we forget that part, 21:46.270 --> 21:50.730 then we have to remind ourselves that's so foundational. I'm not in charge. He's God. 21:50.850 --> 21:57.390 And I'm sort of not. I'm part of his family. I mean, if you really want to get something 21:57.390 --> 22:02.990 big done in a household, and you got a functional family, and somebody's in trouble, 22:03.550 --> 22:08.070 you can say, I'm telling mom and everyone goes, don't. But if you say, I'm telling dad, 22:09.790 --> 22:13.850 no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't, I'll give you candy. 22:15.690 --> 22:18.310 Our kids used to barter with you. So here, let me tell you a joke. I mean, 22:18.330 --> 22:21.230 change the subject to whatever you can. Don't, don't, don't, don't tell dad. 22:22.110 --> 22:28.310 Because there, there is something about, we know, we know where the authority lies. 22:28.510 --> 22:35.030 It's with the father. He's laid this thing out. He sent Jesus. And Jesus has bought the right back 22:35.030 --> 22:39.750 for us to go back to all the things of the glory, which one of the meanings of the word glory, 22:40.010 --> 22:46.710 is how he does things. So I'm restored back to his glory, but I have no idea how he does 22:46.710 --> 22:53.550 things. I just got saved. I repented for the kingdom of God was at hand and now I've been restored 22:53.550 --> 22:57.070 back to his glory. Now what is this glory and how does it operate? I have no idea. 22:58.630 --> 23:02.730 But things should have went better for me because I gave my life to Christ at summer camp 23:02.730 --> 23:10.670 in eighth grade, back in 72. And we'll hang on to stuff like that, but we haven't had the 23:10.670 --> 23:15.530 heart change because we didn't know there was supposed to be one. I thought if I gave my life 23:15.530 --> 23:19.910 to Christ, we just crossed over. You did. And now the work begins. 23:22.530 --> 23:30.610 Okay, so I say all this to point this out. When you go after things of the demonic or 23:30.610 --> 23:36.470 things that are... you know, you're going to take your authority over it, make sure your 23:36.470 --> 23:42.670 foundation is in place. You can still be jacked up and whacked out, but under the blood 23:43.490 --> 23:46.310 because you're aware of it and you know that you're a work in process. 23:46.950 --> 23:50.650 And some things you're not even aware of. I mean, there's always going to be some 23:50.650 --> 23:53.650 things that we're messing around with that we're not even aware of. They're wrong. 23:54.310 --> 23:59.590 So when do we ever get to take authority over anything? Well, we received that authority 23:59.590 --> 24:06.830 and the authority that's in us is because of the king and his kingdom. He's authorized us, right? 24:07.630 --> 24:11.190 So his kingdom is in here and we get a memo from the king and he says, 24:11.190 --> 24:15.030 I want you, I'll authorize you. Go over there and take authority over this. 24:16.010 --> 24:22.430 I want you to get authority over what's going on in your mind. I'll authorize that for you. 24:23.870 --> 24:27.130 Huh? I'll send help for you. I'll do those different things for you. 24:28.270 --> 24:34.350 So there's a... there's a way to look at this that I think in Christianity we just 24:34.350 --> 24:40.090 want things to be done. Can't we just get it done? Well, we're a work in progress always. 24:42.370 --> 24:46.450 So when it comes to the demonic realm, many times we won't touch that because we're 24:46.450 --> 24:51.090 a work in progress and I'm still messed up and I can't do and la la la. Right? 24:51.950 --> 24:56.870 You know, one of the biggest things that gives you authority is repentance. 25:00.130 --> 25:05.470 What? Right? Some came against us right now and I mean it was so demonic, we'd all say, 25:05.470 --> 25:09.370 I bind you and I take authority. But you know what? There's a bigger authority if you 25:09.370 --> 25:14.270 just hit your knees and say, Lord, is there anything here? I just ask forgiveness and I 25:14.270 --> 25:18.570 choose to forgive that person or that thing that, you know, a person that's projecting 25:18.570 --> 25:25.070 something toward me. Lord, just loose them free. I just ask Lord that your salvation power come. 25:25.630 --> 25:30.710 So salvation means to take the limits off. The demonic puts the limits on. That's the 25:30.710 --> 25:37.070 damnation part. Right? This is basic 101 Christianity, but we're trying to put it 25:37.070 --> 25:44.790 in a form before we start going after divination. So a big part of lifting something off your family 25:44.790 --> 25:54.200 is repentance. Why do I always got to say sorry? The only sorrow that really counts before God 25:54.200 --> 26:02.440 is the sorrow unto repentance. Talks about that in first Corinthians. There's a sorrow 26:02.440 --> 26:11.520 unto repentance. If you're dealing with somebody who's hugely narcissistic, now I say this as a 26:11.520 --> 26:16.560 counselor. I say people, and I've heard me say this before, people throw around the word narcissism 26:16.560 --> 26:22.100 like crazy right now. They're like, he said, no, that I can't go with him. He's a narcissist. 26:23.180 --> 26:30.400 Well, a true narcissist is somebody who at a high level, they can't repent. It's so scary. 26:31.920 --> 26:35.540 Psychologists, psychiatrists are saying really there's no, you can't even try to re, 26:36.160 --> 26:41.620 why are their mind? Because you can't get any repentance in. And you know the number one reason 26:42.360 --> 26:48.780 is because they feel like they are the all because all or nothing thinking is there and 26:48.780 --> 26:53.660 that's immature. So because they are the all, they can never say they are the lesser 26:54.600 --> 27:01.400 because then all of their all is gone. They're truly the most biggest loser there ever is 27:01.400 --> 27:08.420 and the most rejected. They have a high fear of rejection. So the projection of the all is so big 27:08.420 --> 27:17.540 and they have to keep it so big that they can't repent. Some churches are like that. No, 27:17.580 --> 27:24.960 we just love God. We're just, no, you're acting like a narcissist. How do we know that? 27:24.960 --> 27:34.190 The altars are empty. They don't know what a secret place is and the altars are empty. In fact, 27:34.290 --> 27:38.010 we plan the church buildings around how close we can get the chairs to the front because 27:38.010 --> 27:44.790 nothing really is going to go on up here anyway. Jam the chairs tight together because nobody's 27:44.790 --> 27:48.330 going to turn around and face their chair on their knees and repent of anything. We don't 27:48.330 --> 27:57.710 have that going on. That's old school. That's foundational to freedom. Repent for the 27:57.710 --> 28:04.490 kingdom of God is at hand. So something's wrong in your life. Let the ruler take care of it. 28:04.970 --> 28:10.790 Put yourself under repentance. Let the blood of Jesus smooth that thing out, 28:11.850 --> 28:17.690 right? Make it wider than snow and then stand up in your authority. What gives you the authority? 28:18.110 --> 28:24.840 You can't touch this. I have nothing in common with you. So we're going to delve a little 28:24.840 --> 28:30.640 bit more into this, but I can tell you a lot of times right now there's new people coming to Christ 28:31.480 --> 28:36.100 and this happened to me and I watched it happen over the years where you come to Christ and you're 28:36.100 --> 28:40.500 like, yes, finally I'm going to be free and all hell breaks loose. And you're like, I thought 28:40.500 --> 28:45.760 we just changed kingdom. Like I thought, well, when God moves everything moves, the light came 28:45.760 --> 28:49.740 on and what was already in the darkness you now see was there the whole time. 28:50.780 --> 28:54.180 But you're like, where did this come from? That's generational. I've been in the family 28:54.180 --> 28:58.060 for years. How come I couldn't see it because it was in the dark and now the light is going 28:58.060 --> 29:02.520 beaming on. Here we go. Take a look at that. Well, now what are you going to do? It requires 29:02.520 --> 29:11.980 repentance. I did when I got saved at the altar. See, so then we don't feel like we have 29:11.980 --> 29:16.040 authority. So we'll have to go to somebody who has authority and then we'll blow up 29:16.040 --> 29:19.120 Pastor Verne's phone. Can you take authority over this? Can you have authority over this? 29:19.260 --> 29:23.980 Can you? Yes, he can. But the greater authority comes when the kingdom of God 29:23.980 --> 29:27.620 is revealed inside of you and starts ruling your own heart. 29:29.180 --> 29:35.320 And you begin to realize, ah, I am the temple of the Holy Spirit. Same spirit that raised 29:35.320 --> 29:40.200 Christ from the dead dwells in me. Oh, he's quickening my mortal body right now. I have 29:40.200 --> 29:45.640 nothing to fear. Show me God how to have authority over this. Authorize me. Well, 29:45.680 --> 29:49.120 you got to have your mind changed and how you're thinking so you're not still participating 29:49.120 --> 29:55.760 in it, right? And there's all kinds of things that go around that and then rule it. Oh, well, 29:55.780 --> 29:59.320 then it's going to be war. And sometimes it gets worse before it gets better. And this is what I 29:59.320 --> 30:05.020 found. The more that I repented, the more I went back and did the sin. When I first got saved, 30:05.300 --> 30:09.120 it was like, I'm never going to do this. Of course, I'd make a lot of vows based on my own 30:09.120 --> 30:13.240 energy, which was like nothing. Because if I could do it on my own, it would have been 30:13.240 --> 30:18.060 done already. But, you know, in that moment, you really made it. And so I would ask forgiveness 30:18.060 --> 30:22.760 and the next thing you know, I'd be doing the same thing I was and more condemnation comes. 30:23.280 --> 30:27.220 It's how the con man dams your nation. He puts a limit on you and you're a nation. 30:27.620 --> 30:33.720 He shuts you down. So we're not going to do that here. We're just going to understand how 30:34.500 --> 30:40.460 the kingdom of God works through repentance. So let's stand. So here's what I learned. 30:41.040 --> 30:47.460 Thank the Lord for someone in my life and leaders in my life that instead of, you know, 30:47.460 --> 30:51.460 binding everything and taking authority over, they're like, let's go back and clean that up a 30:51.460 --> 30:58.500 little bit. Let's get the foundation laid in that area a little bit. And then you can rule it. 30:58.920 --> 31:04.860 Because Genesis says sin, it's creeping around at your doorstep, right? And it's you who has 31:04.860 --> 31:08.980 to master it. Well, I just asked forgiveness. Jesus took care of all that. Yeah, he took care 31:08.980 --> 31:13.100 of the sin ground. He took care of the power of it that it has to take you to hell 31:13.100 --> 31:16.000 or keep you presently living in the hell you're in. 31:18.000 --> 31:22.780 But now the mastering part is like, no, my mind is going to be the mind of Christ. 31:23.720 --> 31:30.260 My heart is going to be changed in such a way that I think like him, act like him, 31:30.260 --> 31:36.340 and you have nothing in common with me. Right? So Father, we just come before you 31:38.000 --> 31:40.580 and we ask you to show us how to repent. 31:42.580 --> 31:51.080 Some things just need a little dab. You know, oh, sorry, Lord. But there's a sorrow that comes 31:51.080 --> 31:57.340 almost can have a grievous feeling of things that have been in our family for generations. 31:57.620 --> 32:01.060 We're so fed up with it. We're so done with it. 32:03.380 --> 32:09.560 And it needs the power of repentance to bring salvation power to start driving that 32:09.560 --> 32:19.600 thing out. So we stay in repentance looking for the manifestation. The attitude of repentance is 32:19.600 --> 32:25.400 I not only said I'm sorry, but I'm willing to do whatever it takes to change. 32:30.160 --> 32:33.640 And so I just need to finish what I was saying before. 32:35.180 --> 32:41.760 We had some pretty intense stuff happen. Right before we got saved, my brother was in a 32:41.760 --> 32:47.160 horrible car accident. And we thought he was gone. And my other brother, not long after that, 32:47.240 --> 32:51.180 stood up from the kitchen table. We were seven years old, fell over. He had toys in both hands, 32:51.440 --> 32:56.400 split his the bone in his leg this way. So he had to be in traction. They didn't know what 32:56.400 --> 32:59.780 they were doing. So his leg would be doing this. He'd be screaming. It was horrible. 33:00.460 --> 33:06.320 Right? And then we're like, we need God. The more we headed toward him, our house 33:06.320 --> 33:10.360 caught on fire. I mean, I could just keep naming stuff and you'd be like, well, 33:10.360 --> 33:16.300 where was God during office? He was turning the light on. That wicked stuff was there the whole time. 33:19.990 --> 33:23.790 And I did the one time repentance that said, I'm switching kingdoms. 33:25.150 --> 33:30.750 But then the rest of the repentance says, you're coming and bowing to this king. 33:31.530 --> 33:35.590 I repent of that sin. You come over here and bow. Every knee is going to bow 33:35.590 --> 33:41.890 to the king of my heart. Every compartment is going to bow to the king of my heart. 33:41.890 --> 33:50.230 And I address it. God forgive that area. Bring it forward. So it got worse before it got better. 33:50.350 --> 33:55.170 It was rocky, especially if you're the first one out. Nobody's been saved before you for generations. 33:55.570 --> 34:01.330 And suddenly you're that person like, uh, yeah. And the demonic realm goes, where do you think 34:01.330 --> 34:05.390 you're going? Where do you think you're doing? We didn't know. We ain't doing this. 34:05.930 --> 34:09.250 But if you know how the enemy works, that's why I'm explaining this, 34:10.550 --> 34:17.850 then you'll keep on keeping on. You'll keep bringing it to the altar with your sacrifice of praise. 34:19.450 --> 34:25.510 Because at that time, you don't feel like praising. That's what makes it a sacrifice of praise. 34:26.530 --> 34:28.470 I will serve you anyway, God. 34:30.970 --> 34:39.670 Rent my heart. Change me. Change the foundation of how I operate. 34:40.630 --> 34:45.150 See, these are the kind of prayers that should be the major most of the time. 34:45.890 --> 34:51.930 Because we're always in process of change. And then the end result is we take authority over 34:51.930 --> 34:57.330 something. The end result, healing manifests. The end result, these other things take place. 34:59.090 --> 35:01.510 Especially in full gospel churches, we have this backwards. 35:02.090 --> 35:04.850 Like something's wrong. My mind needs to be changed. I don't know. 35:05.110 --> 35:09.010 Hurry, run. Pray for me. There, I must have received it. No, I guess it didn't mean it. 35:09.090 --> 35:12.570 Oh, I guess it didn't happen. I guess I'm not that kind of person. I get... 35:12.570 --> 35:17.550 And it's this mind game, rather than work out your own salvation, work out your own 35:17.550 --> 35:22.990 salvation, the limits are being taken off in my life. I'm working it out with him. 35:23.390 --> 35:28.250 I'm working it out with his blood. Every day there is now therefore no condemnation 35:28.250 --> 35:33.430 for those who are in Christ Jesus. Christ is not Jesus' last name. It's the anointed one and his 35:33.430 --> 35:42.110 anointing. I am in the anointing of God. Huh. So shut your pie hole and quit condemning me. 35:45.130 --> 35:50.270 Everything that's going on in my life, I'm pulling it up and I'm bringing it to the altar 35:50.270 --> 35:57.610 with my sacrifice of praise. Lord, I praise you. I praise you. It's hurt so bad. 35:57.610 --> 36:03.690 I praise you, God. I praise you in the storm. I praise you. I praise you when things 36:03.690 --> 36:08.470 are going great. I praise you. But this thing is going to bow its knee. 36:10.630 --> 36:14.310 That's the Christianity that needs to be lived out before you go and take an authority over 36:14.310 --> 36:14.710 witchcraft.