Warfare

What it is and what it’s not 

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I'm just gonna put this on Poppy's shirt, okay?

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Because the Bible says draw near to God and He will draw near to me. Father, thank you. That your word is anointed. It's always anointed. That you watch over your word to perform it. Father, your word is incorruptible seed. Hallelujah! Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Say the Lord does nothing outside the parameters of the Word. Amen. Do you know He doesn't need to? I don't care what goofball prophets on YouTube and how many followers they've got and how many angels came to talk to them. Doesn't matter. It must always line up with Scripture. One of the things that will happen in these last days, the scriptures tell us is that there'll be many lying signs and wonders. Say lying. Lying. What is a lie? Yeah, some lies are easy to discern, aren't they? Like this one here. This is a square ball. Is that easy to pick up on that one? How many's ever come across a very subtle lie? And was deceived for sometimes many years. Anyone know that? What was the difference? What's the difference between a subtle lie and a an easy lie? Or a well, it's the amount of truth that's in that lie, isn't it? So you know, right? So if 90% of it is truth and only 2.5% is a lie, most of it is true, correct? Yes or no? Did God really say?

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Yes, he did.

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Did God really say? It's Satan talking to Eve. Did God really say? He presented back most of the truth. Yes? Yes. Because God did really say that. You shall not eat of this tree. Didn't he?

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Yes.

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What was the problem? The problem is, and of course, we have the same devil coming to Jesus in one of the temptations there, one of them. He presents Psalm 91. And let's just quick, just quickly, who's quick, who's sharp on the word, go to Matthew 4. Show me the scripture that Satan quotes to Jesus out of those three temptations. Which one? Alright. Let's go back now to Psalm 91. Find out what devil, what scripture was the devil quoting? To Jesus. What was he trying to do? Turn to your neighbor. Say, what was the devil trying to do to Jesus? Come on, wake up. Wakey wakey. Hey man. What was G what was Satan trying to do to Jesus? Turn to your neighbor.

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Make him work.

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Try to hoodwink him. We don't use that word anymore. What's the modern word, Naomi, for the Gen Z's? Hoodwink. What's another word? Whatever. Trying to pull the wool over his eyes. Correct? Yes or no? You're looking at me like you're maybe I don't believe it. It's there, it's written down. Let's have a look. Matthew, let's go there then. Matthew chapter 4. Hmm. Thank you, Lord. I'm reading from the Noun Speak, which is an okay Bible. It's quite accurate. The old, the best Bible you can ever get, of course, is the old King James. It's a bit hard for us to understand. These and thou's. Matthew chapter 4. Verse 6. And Satan, verse 6, Satan comes with an if. Say that with me, Satan comes with an if. Always. Doubt. Satan comes with doubt. God comes with conviction. When God speaks, there's faith, there's conviction, there's confirmation, there's clarity, no confusion. The Bible says God is not the author of confusion. If you have any confusion in your heart or in your mind, guess what? It didn't come from the Lord. This is 101 Christianity. Confusion doesn't come from God because God is the Alpha and the Amiga. He knows. He's omniscient. So if you're feeling a bit confused or double-minded, and you're gonna have to sort that out. Because it's not from the Lord, you've got to repent. Because the Bible says a double-minded man, what do they receive from the Lord? Who'd like salvation? Who wants to go to heaven? Put your hand up. Oh, great. That's a wonderful. Yep. Who wants healing? Who'd like to receive healing? Put your hand up. Who'd like God to bless them financially? Put your hand up. Who'd like God to bless them with a sound mind? Put your hand up. Who'd like God to bless them with, if you're married, a sound marriage, put your hand up. Who'd like God to bless their family with salvation, their children? Come to the Lord, put your hand up. Okay. Praise the Lord. So a double-minded man, guess what? All those blessings that we just spoke out, guess what? Which ones are they receiving? None. Why can't God bless, according to Hebrews, why can't God bless a wavering or a double-mindedness? Does anybody know why? I don't know. I don't have the answer. I just know that he doesn't. Faith is a big topic. We're going to talk about today, faith, because it has many characteristics to it. And we're always learning about faith. Amen? Faith comes from the word of God, doesn't come from our own feelings. It's not a natural force. It's a spiritual force. Come on now, say faith is a spiritual force. It's actually a spiritual power, faith. It's currency. And the Bible says, without faith, you cannot please God. Amen. Without faith, say that with me, Hebrews 11:6, without faith, I cannot please God. For all those that come to God must believe. What must they believe? That He is God. Number one, there's only one God, not multitude of gods. Hinduism has a multitude of gods, many different gods. Buddhism, many different gods, Shintuism in the earth, many different philosophies. But anyone that comes to the one and only true God must believe. They must come to a place where he is the only one. That is one of the Ten Commandments. I am the Lord, I am holy, and there's no other like me. What's all the other God saying? What are they? Counterfeits. Correct? Must be. If God says about Himself, I'm the only one true God. What are all the others? Thank you, Lord. I am the Lord, I am holy. So we come to the Lord, knowing that He's the only true God. Can you close that back door for me, please? Okay. I am the only true God. Hallelujah. It takes faith. So we come into the kingdom by faith. Yes? Well, how does faith come? Hearing what? Hearing the word. How does this process happen? How does this process because this I'm looking at if you look at your Bible, I've got a paper Bible in front of me. How does this paper Bible bring something to my spirit called the substance? The Bible calls it substance. Let's call it electricity then. Should we do that? Because that way we can we can rationalize it. We know you touch electricity, what happens if it's if it's 220 volts? Ow! Ries? Something happens when that Bible, that natural logos, it's called logos, by the way, for those that don't know, logos, Genesis to Revelation. When this logos is spoken out loud, something happens in the spirit world. You don't understand it. Do you? You don't need to. I don't need to understand all the laws of physics and the properties of electricity to turn on those lights. I just turn them on. And we have light. Because it's a principle, it's a law. It works 24-7. So the spiritual law. So if Jesus commented in the scriptures, he talked about, well, two examples he used people having mega faith, and they were both Gentiles, not his own people. And he said to one woman, Great is your faith, lady. Great faith. And basically, what he's commenting on there is persistence. Persistence. Jesus, you know, she's crying out after Jesus, Lord have mercy upon me and my daughter. She's demonized. And he's kind of walking down a field, you know, and obviously, I presume it's a nice day, no umbrellas. Walking down the field, teaching his disciples as they walk, walk, walk, walk. Walk and talk. Amen. Hallelujah. Great place to disciple people, just on the golf field or somewhere like that. Walking and talking. And this screaming woman comes from afar. They can hear her. Screaming after her. Lord, Lord, have mercy on me. And the disciples, it's so annoying to the disciples, they say to Jesus, Hey Lord, because they want to listen to what He's talking about. He's teaching, maybe he's teaching them some precious keys of the kingdom. And they hear this screaming in the background. Lord, should we just go and tell this woman to shut up or go away? What do you want us to do? But come on now, do something. Either bring her close or tell her to go away. Yes? And basically she pushes through, cut the long story short, she pushes through right into the presence, and then Jesus does one last stumbling block to try. It seems like he's trying to offend her. Sometimes in scriptures, there's tripping stones to our faith. You see, why would God allow that? Why he doesn't want us to stumble? I was reading, I've been studying this last week about the Elijah Elisha principle. The three stumble, well, there were three tests there. Elisha has this desire for miracles, for power, like many Christians do, you know, young Christians want to be powerful, Lord. So he's got this knowing that Elijah's gonna head back to glory soon. And in one, just within one chapter, Elijah says to him, hey, his day, basically his day of departure. Hey, just go home. Go home. And Elisha says, No. I'm not going anywhere, I'm staying right close to you. If I have to tie myself to your leg, I am staying with you. Okay. So Elijah proceeds. They went from Gilgal, from Jericho to Gilgal. They went from one, this has all happened in a very short space of time. And then Elijah gives them another test. Oh, really? Really, you should just go home. You know, late in the day, you're tired and you're weary. Elijah's made up his mind. Nah. This is this is an element of faith that a lot of Christians don't understand. They give up too quickly. They give up way too soon on the promises of God. All the promises of God are inherited through faith and patience. Hebrews 6.12. Not just faith, but patience. So the woman, go back to the woman, she screaming, then Jesus said, Hey, look, you know, he's talking, he called her a dog, which is a euphemism to mean that you're unclean, you're filthy. I've come for to minister to my people first. Do you remember that? Is that what he called her? And then how many Christians would have got offended at that statement? Most. Yes, true. This woman had something different about her. She had something different. She came back and said, Lord, but even the dogs eat crumbs from the master's table. Now, how does the Lord respond at this statement? Isn't it interesting how God will respond to somebody's faith, and yet it's even the actual statement or the action? The people that are pulling out the roof tiles and the rubbish up in the roof and start to let this paralyzed person down. Jesus, the Bible says Jesus, seeing their faith. There's something about a person's action sometimes. There's something about a person's declaration that moves God. The Bible calls it faith. Amazing. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. And so Jesus would often summarize things like this with according to your faith. That's why you can't praise God for Christian mummies and Christian daddies. You can't live on mummy's faith forever. Or mom or daddy's faith. Comes a time of age of accountability where that individual has to now believe God for themselves. Because the just. Three times in the New Testament, the only way to God is through faith, and the only way to stay in covenant is by faith. Amen. Come on now, amen. The Bible warns in Hebrews that you can drift away. Be careful lest you drift. Timothy, lest you suffer shipwrecked faith. What happened? Person just got a Christian got distracted from the purpose of looking unto Jesus. They allowed the things of this world to distract them. They stopped seeking first the kingdom of God. And they fell into an illusion, a deception, where they thought they were fine. Everything's cool. But it wasn't. Matthew 6 33. Seek ye first. What does it actually mean that? Let's have a look. Matthew 6. I'm gonna take up communion soon. Amen. Matthew 6. Well, let's pick up from verse 32. For after all these things, after all these things, the going the Gentiles, the Goim, the pagans, people worship other things. What things are the pagans seeking? We just have to read back. What are they after? What are they chasing? What are they chasing? What are they chasing? What are they chasing? What are the pagans chasing? Tells you right there, all kinds of things. From sea dudes to three-story homes to elect whatever, latest electric vehicle, all the pagans are seeking after things, aren't they? Yes? What did Jesus say? After all these things, what are we gonna wear? What are we gonna eat? All these things the the Gentiles seek, but your heavenly father knows what that you need all these things. But seek first. Seek first when when do you seek first the kingdom? Seek first the kingdom of God when it's convenient for you, when everything fits into your program. Is that what it says? Huh? No. When do you seek first the kingdom of God? Yes now. Yeah, you start seeking first the kingdom of God right now, today. And you say, what about all the distractions, Pastor? I have to I have all these dings and dongs going off on social media, my flesh. The flesh is your worst enemy, really, isn't it? Not the devil. I mean the devil's bad. But if somebody's reined their flesh into submission, the devil hasn't got much authority to move in a person's life, has he? Huh? No. Because the Holy Spirit is now in full control of you, your vessel, who you are. The Holy Spirit. You are fully under submission, like Jesus, under authority to who the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. So you really, the devil can try all sorts of stuff, but it's like you're focused, you just, you know, you're 100% walking with the Lord. But the flesh is the part where Satan leverages and tempts, doesn't he? That's why Jesus said, pray that you do not enter into temptation. Right? Pray. So it's not automatic. If it was automatic, the Lord's gonna keep me and guard me, then I wouldn't have to pray. No, Jesus said, Pray that you do not enter into temptation. He said to Cain, what did he say to Cain before he committed the first murder on the in the Bible? What did God say to Cain? Sin is like he's liking it or alluding it to some animal that's about to pounce, isn't he? Yes? He's saying sin is crouching at the door, ready to take the bounce. We were talking in our pre-service prayer about how in Peter it talks about the enemy, Satan, walking around like a roaring lion. Roaring lion. What's he looking for? What does the devil want? Well, he's already got the pagan, it's a Satan's or demons, millions of trillions, billions of demons, you know, they're already controlling unbelievers, so who's he after then? Talking about Christian Peter's written to Christians, believers, isn't it? Yes, yeah, it's talking to Christians. So Satan is wanting to take Christians back into captivity, back away from the Lord, back into wilderness worlds. Wanderings to deceive them. So that's why Peter said, Be careful, your adversary, Satan, roams around like a lion. Who's ever been in, who's ever been in a close proximity of a lion? Anyone? You have? Well, where are you in the zoo? You work in the zoo, brother. No, I'm in South Africa. Wow. Scary? Yeah. I mean, even just going to the zoo and looking at these things, man. It's like, you know, like an eagle. A little bit looking into an eagle, a big eagle, isn't it? Looking into their eyes. So that lion, what does the lion have the ability to do? Crush your bones, your wrist, doesn't it? If you live it, if you let it. If you're stupid. If you're not a doer of the word. It has the ability to crush, not just bite you and scratch you. Satan has the power to crush you and spit you out. Yes or no? Yes. Well, praise God for his mercy. Hallelujah. So Matthew 63 says, seek first the kingdom of God. So the flesh, what does the flesh want to do? Everything else but that. Watch documentaries. I visited my mom this week, so she's on the firing light today. Oh, she was so connected. She didn't want to come out and say hello. I've got to watch this document, some documentary. I said, what is it? It's not uh beyond YouTube. The flesh. It's drawn to so many things. Food. For some it's food. Food is an idol to them. For some it's alcohol, for some it's sex, for others, it's um gossip. For others it's bitterness. Some people are addicted to bitterness. Interesting, isn't it? My Lord. The flesh. So the flesh has to, for us to please God, the Bible says anyone that are in the flesh cannot please God. So that means that we have to be willing to deal with the flesh. And God gives us the tools, amen. He doesn't just leave, you just say, hey, hey, by the way, if you want to please me, come and spend time with me. You, son, have to go deal with the flesh. And come back to me when you get it all sorted out, alright? No, he doesn't do that. That's why salvation is partnership. He gives you his name. Come on, now say his name. He gives you his word. Somebody say his word. Which is his will. He gives you his will. So we know his will. What else does he give us? Holy Spirit. The Bible says those that do not have the Holy Spirit do not belong to him. Correct? In one John. So he gives us the Holy Spirit. What else has he given us? One another. Fellowship. He's given us his word. Wow. Praise God. He's given us so much, hasn't he? Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. So you cannot fail. Turn to your neighbor and say, you cannot fail unless you want to. I really believe that. I really believe it's a choice. It's a choice to fail in the Lord. It really is. It's a choice to suffer shipwreck faith. It's like, no, I know better than you, God, and I'm doing it my way. Thank you very much. The Bible calls that in the Old Testament stubbornness. Stubbornness is the sin of iniquity. Oh my Lord, did God get into Israel for that sin? Wickedness. Evil. Yes. I know better. Okay. See how you go with that lion down there. It's two kilometers down the road. Just see how you're going to cope with that thing when you meet it. Huh? See how we go then. That's what we're talking about wisdom a couple of weeks ago and some of the consequences, the other side effects of somebody not walking in God's wisdom or his counsel is that wisdom one day will look at that person and laugh and mock and say, You didn't choose me. You chose your own way. Oh yes, so Matthew 6.33. In these times, in the local church, it means to be part of a local church. It means to serve in a local church. It means to present your gifts in the local church so that you can be counted a faithful steward. You say, Well, I don't have anything. You have everybody's been given gifts. Everyone. Hallelujah. You start with mopping the floor if you want. Amen. Everybody's been given gifts. This is how God's going to reward us according to how we've stewarded our gifts, isn't he? Amen. So let's read that again. Matthew 6, 33. Seek, let's read it out aloud. Matthew 6.33. Let's read it out already. Matthew 6.33. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And all these things shall be added to you. Amen. Hallelujah. What happens to a Christian if they started seeking first, really seated seeking first the kingdom of God over five, ten, fifteen years, and God bless them. And then they become a little bit, like Israel did many times, they become a little bit casual and proud and arrogant in the blessing of the Lord, and they drift away and they stop seeking first the kingdom of God, and they start seeking first other things. Their career, their job, education for their children, other things creep in. What will happen to those blessings? Just as quickly as they came in. The health. Say divine protection. All those things that were a product, because these things were a product of what? Seeking first the kingdom of God. Not because you're so lovely. Say not just because I'm so lovely. This is where, you know, these hyper, these fake preachers that focus so much on love and grace, they they deceive people into thinking that God loves them and he's going to bless them regardless of what they do. They are liars. They're liars. Come on and say they're liars. There's nothing in scripture about that. All through the Old Testament, New Testament, Jesus gives people instruction. Do this, do this, and this will happen. Yes. It's not based, it's got actually nothing to do with love. It's the principles and the laws of the kingdom. Hallelujah. How would you want to mix it in with love? What's love got to do with it? Matthew 6, 33. Seek first the kingdom of God. Now, that's a challenge because we have the enemy there with so many distractions today. What are the distractions? YouTube. Fifty years ago, people had a newspaper, throwing newspaper, and some, if you're wealthy, you had a black TV. Black and white TV, which you know, maybe programs start at 4 p.m. in the afternoon. Today, what are the distractions? Oh, there's lots, isn't there? Huh? Could this be a reason why Jesus said in the last days, many will depart from the faith? Could that be a reason, do you think? In Thessalonians it says before before the rapture, before Jesus' return, there will be an apostasy, a turning away from the faith. Or what do they turn? So they were a part of the faith. They were in the faith. Come on, I say they were here. They were in the faith. But then, because if you're departing from something, that means you were there. You left it. You were there, but then you left. You departed from the faith. So before the Lord returned, they departed. They departed for other things. They did not value their position, their relationship with Jesus enough. They allowed other things to come in and corrupt their heart and their mind. Oh Lord. Thank you, Father, for this end-time church. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. God said he'd rebuild his church. Amen. I said God said he'd rebuild his church. You say this is one of the longest communion sermons I've ever had, Pastor. Will you just get on with it? No, it's okay. I'm already on with it. I'm preaching the word. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Now I'm gonna go to Revelation. Let's just uh have a look here. Thank you, Jesus. Oh Father, we thank you that you're coming.

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Hallelujah.

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Sorry. Just uh give me a second. Thank you, Lord. Okay, this is okay. Revelation seventeen. Talking about here Revelation 17, it's talking about a system. A sis say this with me. Say a system of the world. We could also call it the kingdom of the world. Kingdom. A system. A way a pla a thing operates. Revelation 17. Okay, so Satan has his own system of operation. Amen. You realize that? It's called the kingdom of darkness, yeah? Amen. Revelation. I'm just gonna go to the paper Bible. So let's read together. Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot. Now, harlot means when the Bible talks of adultery, it can mean natural adultery, but it also can mean spiritual adultery. So, for example, in Jeremiah, the God raised up a prophet and tell Israel, You have committed a spiritual adultery with the nations of the world. I married myself to you, a nation out of all the nations, Israel, my beloved. My beloved Israel, I love you very much. To stay, my beloved, to stay intimately closely with me, you must walk before me in holiness and purity. He's talking to the nation of Israel, right? Walk before me and be blameless. But he divorced them for a season. He sent them into captivity for 70 years, and they became under the captivity of Nebuchadnezzar. So that the Bible says in Revelation that God allows judgments in the world that they may learn righteousness. Oh my Lord, a lot of suffering. Think about World War I, World War II, millions of people killed. What was the ultimate goal? That they may learn righteousness. Oh, Lord. Who wants to learn righteousness the easy way? I do. I'm gonna get my head in that, find out his ways. Amen. I don't want to go to war or see my kids come back in a casket, World War III, do you? No. No, Lord. So it tells us here, then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, Come here, I will show you the judgment of great heart that sits on many waters, waters speaking of nations and cultures, with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality. And he carried me away in the spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast. A scarlet beast. Oh, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. This woman, this woman, so John is seeing this picture, he's like, okay, he's got a take it up in the spirit, and he is looking at this woman sitting on this beast. I was like, Well, this is a very strange photo, this is a strange picture, Lord. Prophetic picture. The wealth of the, you know, the do you know how much corruption's in the world through corrupt leadership? The governments, corrupt governments, corrupt people in places of when I came back from Vietnam, I said to Pastor David, I said, How's he said, you know, there's one wealthy guy there. We did a boat tour down at the river Ho Chi Minh City, and the ladies are telling us about this one guy, I forgot his name now, but he owns like all the flats there, he owns his own car company, you know, and uh whatever in Vietnam. And it's like that in these communist countries. There's so much corruption. The same with the oligarchs in Russia, Putin. Corruption of the higher echelon, and the people down there, you know what I mean, they're just working their butt off for 30 bucks a day. Oh, so much corruption here in Vietnam, so much justification. Corruption, corruption. So, this is a picture of Satan's king or nations in the earth that are being controlled by this woman. And adorned with golden precious stones, couple full of abominations of filled in the fornication, verse 5, and on her forehead a name was written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth. I saw the woman, now he's looking at this picture, this uh clip, video clip, picture. I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints. Wow! What would make something drunk with God's with blood of saints? And the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement. But the angel said to me, Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has seven heads and ten horns. The beast that you saw was and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to hell. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel whose names are not written in the book of life. How do you get your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life? How do you get your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life? Faith. Faith, biblical faith involves repentance, say repentance. Biblical faith includes obedience, say obedience. Say biblical faith includes submission to authority. All these aspects of faith. The Bible says in Galatians, faith works through love. So the Bible tells us that you can be a person of great faith but have lot have not love. You're nothing more than a clanging cymbal. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang all night long. Bang, bang, bang. If you want to be a person of great faith, because love deals with the motivation. Why do you want the power? Why do you want the miracles? Faith worketh through love. Amen. Hallelujah. Isn't there a lot? There's a lot to learn about faith, isn't there? Isn't there? But without faith, you cannot please God. Praise God. So thank you, Jesus. He's given us the measure of faith, the Bible tells us. It tells us, let's keep reading from Revelation. Those whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was and is not, and yet is. Here is the mind which has wisdom. Praise God. There's always a mind of wisdom. You know, sometimes uh we'll get together pastors recently because we're going to Indonesia next week. We're having some crusades there, and we're like wondering, this one pastor said, I can, you know, have a big crusade, but we've got to give up this meeting. What do you want to do? I said, Well, trust the Lord. Let's do it. Let's for me, I would think, yeah, let's have a big crusade. He reckons, you know, maybe 2,000 people will come. Well, we that means we've got to surrender a school meeting. But in the multitude of councils, there's wisdom. What is God saying? Lord, what do you want? What do you want, Lord? Amen. To get the mind of Christ, sometimes you've got to be around other strong Christians that have been walking in the Spirit, walking in the Lord with the Lord for 10, 20, 30 years to get that wisdom, the counsel. Hallelujah. Yes. Some people have been tested and tried. Their faith has been tested and tried. They've come through the fire. They've kept believing God. Hallelujah. Praise God. Thank you, Jesus. So it says here, here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads or seven of the mountains on which the woman sits. There are seven kings, five are fallen, one is and the other has not come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time. The beast that was and is not is himself also the eighth, and is the seventh, and is going to perdition. The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they have received authority for one hour as the kings with the beast. So basically, all this is talking about the Antichrist, okay? This one leader. I'm just going to summarize it because my main point's not talking about that today. Oh, you have an enemy. And the Lamb will overcome them. For he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings. And those who are with him are called chosen and faithful. Hallelujah. Then he said to me, the waters which he saw where the harlot sits are peoples, multitudes, nations, tongues. This harlot, this look, she looks like a prostitute, okay? Sitting on the beast. Is a spiritual dynamic to control and manipulate the hearts and the minds of the masses. Say manipulation. Say control. How does the devil do that? Through visions. What is it you have in your room at home? It's called a television. Television. How is your brain, your mind, manipulated, conditioned? How is it done? Well, I'm just talking about from the eyes of the world, it's done through through brainwashing. Why are their schools last week they tried to have a rally? Against Pauline Hansen? Why are they getting all these kids to rally against her? Communistic, communism, communistic brainwashing in the school system. Why is it now that there's such there's a huge there's a very high percentage of Australians homeschooling? Why is that? Because they're getting, I'm talking about Christians, just generally, a very high percentage, like never before. They're getting disilluded with the brainwashing that's happening in the school system. Correct? Yes. Because the kids, some of the kids are coming home and they don't know if they're a boy or a girl, because they were indoctrinated. So the indoctrination happens through the media, primarily through the media, sometimes through family, but primarily through the media, indoctrination, manipulation. Let's just keep reading here. Verse 17 it says, For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill his purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled. And the woman which you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth. When we think about seeking first the kingdom of God, you are not, you will not overcome the devil, the world, the flesh. If you're playing games with God's grace, you're not that smart, you're not that powerful in your own strength. It's only by strict obedience to the word of God that you can overcome. Overcome the flesh and overcome the devil. Amen. You can't come at this. You know, I remember um years ago in our house in Melbourne, there somebody put some tr flyers in our mail, and it said, I thought, oh yeah, here, because normally I have one of my assignments there was to cover the western suburbs, which is a lot of people, like at that time it was about 800,000 people. Pray, cover the western suburbs from Essendon down to Hoppers Crossing, Melton, covered in prayer and prayer walking. So I would do sections and prayer walk and pray in the Holy Ghost and do letter fly flyers for maybe about a dozen years. I didn't cover all of the Western suburbs, but I covered it, it's a huge area. I covered sections and uh well though in those days you had mailways, so you'd write it in the book of Dunnut section. Flyer walk, drop with tracks in there, Romans 10, 9, and 10. But anyway, I was like, so I one day I received a flyer through the mail, and it said, try why don't you try Jesus? And I thought, my Lord. No, you don't try Jesus. Never. It was done from a denomination. You don't try Jesus. That's the wrong foundation. Jesus never said, Why don't you try me? He said the opposite. He who desires to come after me must be willing to forsake all. I have come to set a family against one another, father against mother, mother against daughter, daughter against son. This is the real gospel. And this kind of gospel message, what a what a rub, what a what a foundation. I mean, if you set off people on that kind of foundation, how long are they gonna last when persecution comes? Two months? Three months when the devil goes boo, or he appears to them in their bedroom, a demon starts. What are they gonna do? Please try Jesus. No, try Jesus. He comes knocking on your door, and a wise person's all in, everything. Jump right in. Here's my life, Lord. Take it. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. So thinking of that today, let's go now to Ephesians chapter 6. I'm gonna take communion. Satan is the God of this world. 2 Corinthians 4, 4. So that with me. Say Satan is the God of this world. Not Jesus. Satan. Hallelujah. Now, if we uh what was what what scripture did I tell you? Ephesians. Verse ten. Finally, be strong in yourself. Have you got one of those Jehovah's Bibles Jehovah's Witness Bibles? Be strong in her. In the Lord. What does the devil want you to be strong in? Everything else except the Lord. What are people doing this morning? What are Ozzy's doing in Denmark? Some would be playing ten pin bowling. Be strong in ten pin bowling. Be strong in doing all kinds of things. Not seeking first the kingdom of God. Fishing. The flesh. Finally be strong in the. And then they wonder why when disaster comes, they wonder why. What happened? Why did God allow this to happen? Why is this falling apart? Why is that happening, Lord? Because of rebellion. Rebellion against the Lord. Disobedience. Seek first. When? Every day. You seek first God as if it's your last day on planet earth every day. Come on now. Say seek God as if it's your last day every day. That's the attitude you need. Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Hallelujah. The strength of his might. Beautiful thing is when we're pleas when we walk in a life that's pleasing the Lord, the Bible says, He will come and fight our battles with us. Amen. I said the Lord comes to fight our battles with us. For us. On our behalf. Isn't that amazing? Gossip, Satan tries to raise up a few people at work or family members to gossip, make up a lie against you. You know. When a man's ways please the Lord, he will cause the very thing that they're trying to attack you, it'll come back on them, backfire in their face, blow up. Wow. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. And so it says here, be strong in the Lord and the power of his might. Put on the full armor of God. Why do you need armor? It's because you want to look cool. Look cool? No, put on armor. It's actually quite heavy and hot armor. Heavy, hot. I think when we're in York years ago in England, I think in there, anyway, could have been. But you put on Viking armor. You go to these museums, you know, they got all this, or you go into a room, you put on all this garb, so you want to dress up as a warrior. It's hot, it's heavy, it's uncomfortable. Your flesh wants to cast it off. Your flesh just wants to do your own thing. But how do you put on the armor then? Where do you go, Lord? Is there a shop here? Oh, I don't know. Maybe I'll try the Albany Christian shop. Just pay 20 bucks, get myself a breastplate, put that on. Is it that easy? No. How do you put it on? How do you put on the armor? I mean, is it automatic? When you're born again, does the armor give into you automatic? No, you wouldn't have to put it on, would you, if it was automatic, would you? Would you? You've got to put it on. Because the Bible says here, put on the armor. Well, where is Satan gonna where where does he want to attack with his fiery darts? Well, where would a terrorist like to attack you? In the back. In the front. Where are people trained to shoot people? Two places mainly. Here, here. I'm talking about long-range shooters. Where? Not in your arm. They want to take somebody out. I'm gonna shoot you in your what your left toe. Give them a limp. They're after two places. Correct? Head? Get the one of those, you're done. Come on now. Say amen. Alright. Finally be strong in the Lord in the strength of his mind. Put on the whole armor, the full armor, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. Stand uh strong against the schemes of the devil. And this course, this word here is histamine, where we get the English word anti-histamine from, which nurses know. Any nurses here today, you know histamine and anti-histamine. Something that's put in your system in your body to fight. Anti-histamine, right? Oh, but you know, you can know this intellectually and really quote it. You can even quote it. And you can remember, but if you're not doing it, you'll still be shot by the devil and taken out. Interesting, isn't it? You can philosophically quote scripture and still yet be taken out because you're not actually applying it yourself. You have to actually do it. Not good enough just knowing about it. Say to your neighbor, it's not good enough. Just knowing about it. The devil knows about it. That's not going to help you in the fire in the in the day of chest of trial knowing about it. What's important is that you do it. Amen. Come on and say, do it. You actually have to do it. For it's a profit to be blessed. Be strong in the Lord and the strength of his might, put on the full armor of God so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. The schemes. The schemes, the method, this is the Greek word methodia, where we get the English word method, methods, different methods, different strategies, different. If you before you got saved were into pornography and lust, where's the enemy after you get become a Christian? What's he gonna try and attack you with? Your previous weakness. If you're a gossip before you got saved, what's the enemy gonna try and hold you in bondage with before, after you get saved? Gossip. If you uh uh had a problem with jealousy or insecurity and the spirit of rejection before you got saved, what's the devil gonna challenge you in? After you get saved, how is he gonna come? It's your mind. Thoughts of fear, thoughts of rejection, thoughts that you're not gonna do it, you're never gonna make it, you're you're useless, you're never gonna amount to anything. Is that right? This is what this word means: methodia. Different strategy, because one method won't work on one person, it won't work, but it'll work very it'll be an easily stumbling block on another. They'll just take the bait, the bait of Satan, just hook, line, and sink. Others will take that bait. Satan tries to present some bait to you. Here, brother Johan, he is some, as it's easier walking back to the car, he is uh street, maybe a street guy comes up and says, Hey, would you like some uh got some gear? And you're like, what do you mean, gear? It's just a bit of snuff, man, a bit of snuff. He said, What do you mean snuff? A bit of bit of you know, a bit of heroin. It's 300 bucks, man. Oh. Is that a temptation to you, Johan?

unknown 56:58

No, it's not a temptation.

SPEAKER_01 56:59

So it's not even a tempt, it's not even a temptation for him to take some heroin. But for somebody else that maybe came off the streets and then came to Jesus and they'd only been, you know, saved six months, that could be a major pull on them. Their flesh, pull, like this, you know, a smoker that was a smoker, starts to get around other smokers. Oh, the flesh is activated. So the methods, the schemings of the devil, be strong in the Lord, amen. And in the power of his might, put on the full armor of God. Well, Pastor, I've got my breastplate on, hallelujah. I've been meditating on the righteousness of God, hallelujah, praise God. I've got that one, Lord. I got it, I got that, I got it. Amen. Yes, but you've also got to put on the belt of truth because your pants are down and you be your bare butt naked, brother.

unknown 58:03

Amen.

SPEAKER_01 58:04

Whatever, do you know what I mean? The belt, the belt holds everything together. You've got to love God's word. God's word has to be final authority to you. Jesus said, man shall not live on bread alone, but by every word. You've got to love God, you've got to cultivate a desire for his word. You've got to make time for him, you've got to make room for him. Hallelujah. Oh, I'm just too busy for that. Oh, you're too busy then. You're too busy to walk in victory. You're too busy, you're too busy then. So you'll be able to stand against the schemas of the devil. For our struggle, it's not against flesh and blood, but against rulers. Say rulers.

SPEAKER_03 58:52

Rulers.

SPEAKER_01 58:55

Against powers, say powers. Against world forces, say world forces. Against spiritual forces of wickedness, say spiritual forces of wickedness.

unknown 59:07

Spiritual forces of wickedness.

SPEAKER_01 59:09

In heavenly places. So Satan, the second, we often call the second heavens, where Satan is manipulating the world and trying to, you know, manipulate cultures and people into war right now, trying to create a war in the Middle East, inciting leaders to go to war, demonic forces. So you have low-level devils. What's a low-level devil? In this hierarchy of authority of Satan's kingdom. What's a low-level devil? One that tried to put the flu on you last week. Say low-level devil. Just in the context of spiritual beings and con, you know, I mean it's about basically influence. Think about a demon that influences one person as a demon, a demon that influences over Albany, a demon that's trying to influence Albany as opposed to a demon that's trying to influence Melbourne. Well, there's different hierarchies, different levels of authority. Satan has a kingdom and it works through authority, just like we just read. He's highly structured. He's structured, Satan has structure. He's been planning this, he's been planning this last little piece of time before Jesus returned for many, many thousands of years and strategizing to get together these chief principalities. Think about Buddhism. I was once witnessing to a Buddhist and I let him talk, and I felt the pull, it was so weird, I felt the pull of this spirit. Because Buddhism is a very nice, appealing religion. Philosophically appealing. And I was like, Lord, thank God I'm a Christian. Because I could literally, this man must have been really a strong Buddhist demon in him. I could feel the pull, like I wanted to, in my flesh, thinking, man, maybe I should come a Buddha, become a Buddhist. I said, why am I He said, I'm allowing you to feel the spirit so that you're not you're slow to judge those that are being taken captive by this demon. Oh my lord. That was a pull of it. It was a pull. Spirit of lust. Right now on social media, the young people. 70% of men addicted to pornography. 40% girls. Not 10%. 40%. Why? Demons come through images. Come on, now say demons. Kids playing on games. I was talking to somebody who's full-time teacher. She said the most problems now teachers struggling big time in Paris. She's telling me, Oh, I I love my job, I love it, but these kids are coming to school. And so the worst kids to deal with, they come in like little um, they're like zombies. You look into their eyes, it's like, hi Johnny, how you going? And she said, most of the problems. This is a teacher that's been teaching for 10, 12 years, so she knows her stuff. You talk to them, she said they go. I said, What do you go? What do you do when you go home, Johnny? I go into my room, I go on the games, I play games. Oh, what do you do on the weekend, Johnny? I go into my bedroom, I just play games all weekend. So that's what you do, yeah. Parents are working or whatever. How does the devil get into the younger generation? They need deliverance. They're playing these games, they're killing people, butchering, killing all these games, the media, the vision, the preachers are going into the demons coming to them. Yes. Lord, wake us up to the spiritual world today. Wake us up, Lord. Bring out the defibrillator. That's why we must be filled with the Holy Spirit. Those kids that got demonized, by the way, they come to the Lord. In a moment in a flash, demons come out of people. Oh, Pastor, I'd like to go to a church where the pastor doesn't talk about the devil. We don't talk about hell in our church. Yeah, that's because he runs amok in your church and he does whatever he wants, and he's in control of that church. Hallelujah. Oh, we've got to talk about the enemy. Expose the works of the enemy. Don't let him run amok in your life. Amen. Therefore, take up the full armor of God. Oh, that means I've got to do so. See, see, lazy Christianity does not work. Turn to your neighbors and say, lazy Christianity does not work. I want a pill, Lord. Give me a pill. Just take the pill and we're all good. No. The only pill God's giving you is the gospel. Morning and night. My word is like medicine, Proverbs chapter 4. If you'll take it, there's healing in his word. There's power in his word. If you'll do it. There's strength in his word. Hallelujah. So you say, why are you talking about the devil? I'm talking about the devil's day. I think God's wanting to prepare his church because Jesus says in these last days, it's going to ramp up, okay? Things are going to get really crazy. Spiritually. Are we fully engaged? Amen. Verse 14 stand firm, therefore, having girded your loins with the truth. Put it on. Having put on the breastplate, that's more of a fight for truth in these last days, I think, than anything else. In the church as well. Hallelujah. For some today, love, the love of God means we can wear a rainbow cape. Embrace anything and everything that people do. And they call it love. But it's not the love of the Bible. It's a false love. It's fake. And these preachers that are preaching that, they're willing to let people just go to hell. They don't care. False the Bible talks in the New Testament false teachers. Jesus talked about false prophets, false apostles. And Paul talked twice about false brethren amongst you, false brethren in the church. False brethren. Wow, there's a lot of false going on. There has been. Having shod. Who believes the Bible? Hallelujah. Okay. Nearly done. Having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Something beautiful about going sharing your faith with somebody, isn't it? If you're a real, you know, this is how I think about it. If I'm a real Christian and I'm bound with fear, and then I got a problem. Not God. I got a problem. Because Jesus said, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. And if I'm fearful of, you know, the Bible calls it the fear of man. You know, the fear of man being afraid of being rejected, or afraid of how they might respond, or afraid of offending them. If I'm bound with that spirit, Jesus said it's better to have the fear of God who has the power to cast into hell than fear people. They can't even take it, they can't take your soul to hell with them. That's what Jesus said. Better to fear him. Fear the Almighty God. Hallelujah. The fear of man. I hadn't witnessed this, I hadn't witnessed to it for some people for a while. I don't know, maybe. And I felt the other day, it's like, no, I gotta break this because I know it's it's so easy just to be a comfortable, self-centered, lazy Christian and not share my faith. There's people going to hell all around the place. So I was like, God, I know better than this. I'm gonna have to do something to break it. Push through the fear of man, push through that, you know, the flesh, how the flesh likes comfort. So I thought, oh yes, I came out of Woolys and there was a couple of guys selling some. There's my opportunity. Yes, Lord, here we go. Go and witness to them on purpose. Because there's something about how the devil, and you and you're all probably similar like me, if you haven't shared your faith, you kind of get into a, you know, you just get into a in your prayers, you get into a self-centered me zone. It's all about me. Me, myself, and I. You're thinking about yourself, you're praying about yourself, praying about your wife and your children. Right? But the gospel of peace, the shoes is stepping out. So I went up to them and said, Yeah, you're selling cancer, that's they're selling some, they're wanting money for cancer outside Woolley's here. So I was able to witness to them. One of them, both were very interested. Might take some books down to them later. So just deliberately on purpose. If you haven't witnessed to somebody, somebody in the last few weeks, you need to. That's your assignment this week. Today, go find somebody, stay in town, go find a lost person to talk to. Shake yourself up. Amen. That's why Jesus came to baptize us with the Holy Spirit. Not so to sit on our laurels and talk about it and go to another conference. Go into all the world. He baptizes with fire for that reason. He says, Here, here's take it. I've given you some fire. Hallelujah.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:13

Oh, yes, Lord.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:17

What's the worst case? What's the worst thing they can do to you, Murray? Laugh. I mean, I don't think I've been spat out for a while. Cheeky thing, man. I mean, my flesh rose up. I think that happened a while ago. Glad I'm saved, brother. I feel like wrapping this guitar around your head. That's alright. Shut up, devil. Shut up, flesh. You're not allowed to do that as a Christian. But then fishing is like going fishing. You brought I ate your fish the other day, by the way, your snapper is lovely. Freshly caught at Denmark. If you're not willing to go fishing, guess what you catch? Nothing. And when you stand before Jesus and give an account for your life, oh my Lord. The Bible says in Daniel, those that have been winning souls shall shine brightly like the stars, soul winners. Proverbs says, He who wins souls is wise. Jesus said, Freely you have received, freely you give. You've been disobedient to all these scriptures. What are you gonna do when you stand before him? The one who sacrificed and gave life for you. What are you gonna say to him? Been so selfish with our own revelations that we have or whatever. Go share them. There are people out there that need to hear it. There are people out there that need to hear this hope, especially now. You don't have to get into a 15-hour theological debate with them, but you can just sow some seed. Hallelujah. Even just saying Jesus loves them. Sometimes that's that's good. Praise the Lord. But there's no excuse for fear. There's no excuse that I can see in scripture. The first people that are thrown into the lake of fire are the cowards. Say cowards. It says that in Revelation, and all say it again. Say cowards. Cowards. There's a bit of resistance here. Say it, say, say it with authority. Say cowards! Cowards, what's a coward, Mark? A coward? What's a coward? Somebody's afraid. Yeah, afraid of what? Somebody might say or do.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:45

Cowards.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:47

Alright. Well, Lord, we thank you for this whole armor. Should we just quickly make sure you got it all on? Who's got all the armor on right now? I'm looking. Lord, I just put on my spiritual glasses. Dink! My night glass, my night glasses, I'm looking.

unknown 1:12:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:08

Who's got their armor on? Who hasn't got it on? You got your shoes on? Where's your helmet, brother? It's hanging over the back there. Put it on. Hey, you, I'm talking to you. How about you? Where's your breastplate? Why is it on the floor? Why are you dragging it everywhere? Put your belt, tighten your belt up, brother. There's a your belly's hanging out. Amen. Have you got your armor on? Turn to your neighbor. This is not a joke. The devil's coming. He hates your guts. He doesn't like you. He wants to torment your mind with all kinds of stuff, perverse, perverse thoughts. The devil. He wants to tell you you're not going to make it. He's a loser. Have you got your armor on? Yeah. You're dressed to kill. The enemy. Not people. You're dressed to kill the enemy. Thank you, Father. Let's just, let's just put how do you put it on? We can't go to the shop. So we speak it. We put it. The Bible says in Colossians, put on the new man in Christ. We put on these things. So, Father, just put your hand on your head. Lord, I thank you for the helmet of salvation. Where's your head? Everybody know where the head is? Does anybody need help? Anyone? Wow. Who's had some bad thoughts this week? I had some actually on Sunday. We're in a real warfare, a day of warfare Saturday, with some family members. It was quite strange. It was like, wow, the darts were flying. It's really. Guard my tongue. Say helmet of salvation. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. It's on my head. Amen. It fits perfectly around your head. Thank you, Lord. Now put your hand on your heart. Thank you for the breastplate. This is a plate, a shield, titanium of righteousness. I don't care if it's a 303 bullet. It ricochets off. Come on now. Ricochet. You know like the old John Wayne movie, Quint Eastwood, when they're shooting at one another. Pew! You remember the old who liked the old gun? The old country west. You remember those old country west since they shoot at each other goes, the bullet ricochets. Breastplate of righteousness. Gotta put it on.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:56

Oh, but you don't understand. But Christian, the way the pastor looked at me, I feel so hurt.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:04

I feel I'm a feel I'm offended. I got offended. Why did you get offended? Put the breastplate on. Well, that person said really hurt. Get over it. Thank you, Lord. We are conditioned as soldiers in the army of the Lord. Hallelujah. The breastplate. Father, I thank you. What else? The belt. The belt holds everything up. The word of God. Holds everything together. Praise the Lord. The word. I love your word. Just say, I love your word, Lord. I meditate your word day and night. According to Joshua chapter 1. And I'm successful. I'm successful. Come on, say it. Some of you don't feel say I'm successful. I'm prosperous. I meditate your word. Day and night. Hallelujah. Father, thank you for my feet. Not for not for your shoes, sorry. Thank you for my shoes. Say, I will go, Lord. Anywhere you send me. You anoint me, Lord? I'll go. Say, I will not fear man. But I choose to fear God. In Jesus' name. Okay, how are we going? What other pieces have we got?

unknown 1:16:32

Shield.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:34

Shield. Lord. Let's just thank God. Father, thank you for that shield. Shield of faith. Just like Jesus said to the devil, it is also written. Satan's coming at him. Throw yourself down. The Lord will catch you up. And his angels will catch you up. Jesus said, It is also written. The shield deflects. Now come on now, the shield deflects. Deflects. Father, thank you, Father, for the shield. Shield of faith. I believe. Just say this, I believe. What your word says. I believe it. And that settles it. Say it again. Say, I believe it. And that settles it. Hallelujah. The shield of faith. What else got to the sword?

unknown 1:17:34

Sword.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:35

Sword. Good Lord, I could do today's culture we could do with uh, you know, at least uh an AK-47. But anyway, I'll take the sword. Wouldn't it be great if we could see when we speak God's word? Who wants to put who feels like putting there, just clean your finger, spit on it? Put your finger on your tongue if you want to. Only if you want to. This thing here. What must this thing be doing? Praising, singing psalms to the Lord, prophets, prophesying over your future, speaking God's word. It is written, thank you, Lord. I have the mind of Christ. Hallelujah. I have a full hair of head, a full head of hair, hair of hair. It is written. Hallelujah. It is written. I'm anointed. I'm anointed. It's Isaiah 61. No, you are. I am anointed. Hallelujah. Look at his feet, man. He's dressed for war. Look at he just came already dressed for war. Wow. Praise God. See, I'm there. See, if I'm the devil today, I'm doing this. It's like, yeah, I'm wasting my time here. He's already dressed. He's got it on. He's ready to go. He's in our is in the soldier of the is a soldier that's ready to go. Hallelujah. Have we got all the pieces of the armor? Oh, we haven't.

unknown 1:19:06

Praying in the Holy Spirit.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:07

The last one. Sister. She got it. The one that often gets left out. And praying in the spirit. And means connected to what was just said. And praying in the spirit. How about we just do that right now? We send some javelins ahead of us into our future. Let's begin to speak God's perfect will into our destiny. Amen. Close your eyes if you want, if you feel uncomfortable, it doesn't matter. Suraba sikiri baroshukur. I'm praying in the spirit. Shi la raba kasi. Praise God, the devil doesn't know what you're saying when you're praying in the spirit. It's coded language. Amen. Kuraba sikiriya. We're praying from our spirit. The perfect will of God. We're not messing it up with our own imagination. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Praise God. The Bible says that you know in current things that you can pray that you interpret. And you know what comes to me as I'm praying in the Holy Ghost? Devil, take your hands off my inheritance. As I pray in the Holy Spirit, I'm asking God for wisdom, what I just prayed, and then I felt that in my heart, this is what I feel is coming to my spirit. Take your hands off my future. Take your hands off my inheritance. Take your hands off my destiny. Come on now. Take your hands off my finances. Some of you need some money to do something. You'll need money to fulfill the assignment on your life. Well, start to pray now. The money that you need in five years, don't wait in five years for the money you need. You start praying God now, thanking God now. Come on now. You start thanking God today for everything that all your needs are met according to his riches and glory. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Because we are people of faith. Lord, we thank you that we as we pray now that everything's coming into alignment. Angels are released on assignment. Hallelujah. You're a mighty woman of faith, Marianne. Woo, yes. Lord, open up our eyes to see. You know, like Elijah prayed, one of his helpers is freaking out.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:27

Oh God, we're surrounding.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:31

We're surrounded. The army. You remember where you looked out when I saw all the army? Everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:41

It's all your fault, Elijah. He goes into this mess for the first place.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:50

I'm doing quite a good crocodile tear, don't I? Um Elijah's like, yeah, Elijah reminds me, he reminds me of this like a little bit like Clint East. What do you know, like in this old like a good cowboy cowboy movies? I know I won't do that, but Lord. Open up his eyes to see what I see. What does he see? He sees. He sees hundreds and thousands of God's angels around. Doesn't he? Remember? Thank you, Father, for the spirit of seeing and knowing. Help us to be prophetic people, Lord, that we're sharp in the spirit. One step ahead of the enemy every day. Not behind, but one step ahead. Amen. Alright, how about we we finish today? Lord, everybody stand. Lord, I thank you. I bless every person here. Please stay for some fellowship. Oh, tithes and offerings? And we never did communion either. Man, the preacher's just gone on. He's just preached all the time. Let's take tithes and offerings. Just put your hands, sorry, take up communion. Put your hand on the shoulder of the person next to you. Father, thank you for the precious blood that's given us victory, that's given us airship, that's given us partnership. Come on, just pray for the person on your left and on your right. Bless them. Just you thank the Lord from your own heart for what he did for you. Hallelujah. Thank you for setting us free. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for giving us the victory in the name of Jesus. Setting us free, Lord. Amen. Oh, we bless you. Jesus is coming back soon. Back for glorious church. We bless you today, Lord. And we also thank you for the privilege of giving. If anybody has cash on them, I'll just ask somebody to hand that around. So many people are still praying. Thank you, Jesus. Yeah, you can hand that around, Mary. If you'd like, if anybody wants to give, sow seed. By the way, sowing seed is spiritual warfare. I was reminded about that this week. I was praying for a pastor in Perth, and as I'm praying for him, out of my spirit said, I encouraged him to sow seed. It's like, I haven't thought about that for years, but I know that is one way of getting out of getting out of a difficult situation can be planting seed. Amen. Say, planting seed. Sometimes the Holy Spirit will want you to do that. That's how you get the opposite of the world. The world is save everything. No, God wanted you to plant seed. So that's what I said to that minister. Whether he does it or not is a different thing. But Father, we thank you for the seed. Money becomes seed in your kingdom. Money turns into spiritual seed. And this seed, who would agree with me? I've kind of got my well, no, maybe not. Okay. Who wants to agree with me for as I go to Indonesia next Monday for a great blessing and awakening there? So just stretch forth your hands, Lord, that you'd use this sea. The church usually pays for my airfare and some of the hotels. We have to put up some of the sometimes the uh oh Father, we agree. Lord, that you'll use this money for souls to be added to the kingdom. We're going into many high schools, Lord, and we're also holding crusades. Holy Spirit, we know we need your favor. So this church is in agreement, Lord. They're sending me through their prayers and their giving, they're sending me, Lord. And I thank you for that blessing, the reciprocation of the blessing that will come upon each and every one as they give to the eternal work of God in Jesus' name. Everybody said, Amen. Hallelujah. Well, bless you all. Thanks for coming today. And uh, we're all going around Troy's house for lunch, I believe.