Speaker 1: Let's lift our bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad and the devil mad.
Speaker 1: Say this together so, heavenly Father, I do honor you today.
Speaker 1: Every good and perfect gift that I have received has come down from above, from you, my Father of light.
Speaker 1: You illuminate me today, you light the way before me.
Speaker 1: I don't walk in darkness, I walk in the light of life.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, amen, praise God, you can be seated, and let's turn in our bibles to three places Revelation, chapter 12.
Speaker 1: That's what I said.
Speaker 1: Revelation, amen.
Speaker 1: How many of you have ever read the book of Revelation?
Speaker 1: See, you're blessed.
Speaker 1: The Bible says if you read it, then you're blessed.
Speaker 1: Revelation 12, and then also Ephesians six.
Speaker 1: Those two places, and Luke 21,.
Speaker 1: We'll say for last, revelation 12, we'll start reading with verse seven and there was war in heaven, see, that's pretty shocking, isn't it?
Speaker 1: We don't think about a heaven as a place of war, but at one point there was war in heaven.
Speaker 1: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought, and his angels.
Speaker 1: We find out later that about a third of the angels had sided with Lucifer in this war and prevailed.
Speaker 1: Not the dragon prevailed not the third of the angels that prevailed not.
Speaker 1: Neither was their place found anymore in heaven, and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil and Satan, which deceiveth 49.8% of the world, no, the whole world.
Speaker 1: Everybody say the devil's deceiver, so he deceives the whole world.
Speaker 1: He was cast out into where the earth and his angels were cast out with him.
Speaker 1: Not too good a place to be.
Speaker 1: The earth, the devil and a third of the angels are here, and I heard a loud voice saying in heaven now has come salvation and strength in the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ, for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God, day and night.
Speaker 1: And they, who's they, the brethren that were accused?
Speaker 1: They, everybody say that's me overcame him by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony, and they love not their lives unto the death.
Speaker 1: Therefore, rejoice ye, heavens and ye that dwell in them.
Speaker 1: Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea, for the devil has come down unto you having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Speaker 1: Great wrath, all right.
Speaker 1: And then let's look at Ephesians, chapter six.
Speaker 1: How many of you know, all these verses are written to the church Book of Revelation was given to the seven churches in Asia Minor.
Speaker 1: God you know, jesus told John on the Isle of Potmos write all these things down and put it in a letter to the seven churches.
Speaker 1: God doesn't want us ignorant about the devil, he doesn't want us ignorant about the deceiver.
Speaker 1: Ephesians, chapter six.
Speaker 1: Finally, my brethren, see, I like that word finally because it wraps up everything that the book of Ephesians had said in chapters one through the first part of six.
Speaker 1: Finally, in result of everything I've told you, ephesians and us, be strong in your own constitution.
Speaker 1: Be strong, no, in the Lord.
Speaker 1: Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.
Speaker 1: Put on the whole armor of God, the entire armor that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Speaker 1: Wiles literally means trickery, craft, deceit.
Speaker 1: If we're gonna stand against deception and trickery and craft and deceit, we're gonna have to do it clothed in the armor of God and we're gonna have to do it in the strength that Jesus gives us.
Speaker 1: Are y'all with us now?
Speaker 1: All right, and then Luke 21, eight.
Speaker 1: You don't necessarily have to turn there, but Jesus told his disciples, they ask him, you know, when are the signs of your coming or your glorious appearing.
Speaker 1: What are the signs?
Speaker 1: What are we gonna be looking for?
Speaker 1: They thought he was coming in their generation.
Speaker 1: They didn't know the whole Bible then.
Speaker 1: The Bible is progressive revelation but they lived as if Jesus could come at any moment.
Speaker 1: That's the way we ought to live.
Speaker 1: Instead of worrying about the clock or the calendar, we ought to be living the life that we think we should live, as if Jesus is coming at any moment.
Speaker 1: For the church, what are the signs of your coming?
Speaker 1: And the first thing that Jesus said before he described those signs is take heed that you be not deceived.
Speaker 1: Big, big importance right here.
Speaker 1: Take heed that you be not deceived, for many shall come in my name, saying I'm Christ, or they would say most people can't get by with that.
Speaker 1: Well, they'll just say I'm anointed.
Speaker 1: Well, god sent me to you.
Speaker 1: Well, satan comes as an angel of light.
Speaker 1: Satan comes as a.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, he can deceive you real easy.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm preaching this message.
Speaker 1: I'm preaching a message entitled defeating deception.
Speaker 1: Defeating deception.
Speaker 1: We're surrounded by it.
Speaker 1: We just witnessed an entire world deceived over germ warfare and the UN and all the all of the letter agencies of America.
Speaker 1: You know they all.
Speaker 1: Can you know your conspiracy theory?
Speaker 1: You bet I am.
Speaker 1: They lied through their teeth.
Speaker 1: Every bit of it was a lie, not that the virus was real, but it was man-made, made old purpose and made to hurt us.
Speaker 1: And it hurt us, but it didn't have to hurt us as bad as it did if we just followed the rules that we already know about herd immunity.
Speaker 1: We've had that happen right here.
Speaker 1: We brought in doctors and we brought in experts to tell you the truth while it was going on, so that people wouldn't think that we're crazy.
Speaker 1: But no, they've been deceived the whole.
Speaker 1: Satan was behind every bit of it and he's deceived the whole world.
Speaker 1: This is a great example.
Speaker 1: All you've got to do is get people afraid enough and they'll give up In order to stay safe.
Speaker 1: They want to stay safe?
Speaker 1: Well, there's no such thing.
Speaker 1: Psalm 91 is the only way to stay safe.
Speaker 1: The blood of Jesus is the only one.
Speaker 1: That way, to say safe, walk it in the spirit According to the Holy Ghost, is the only way to stay safe, amen.
Speaker 1: So anyway, just defeating deception and you know, I Brought this message a number of years ago.
Speaker 1: I was inspired by a quote from Billy Graham, a great one, one of the great evangelists of our day, and In his latter days before he passed up, a couple of years before he passed away, he said it's time for Christians to stop underestimating the power of Satan to deceive.
Speaker 1: I Thought that was interesting, coming from a southern Baptist.
Speaker 1: They don't teach about the devil and Baptist church they don't teach about the devil anywhere except right here.
Speaker 1: In a few other churches I mean, brother Hagan taught about the devil, or the faith.
Speaker 1: People teach about the devil.
Speaker 1: You know, we need to know who he is and we know we need to know he exists.
Speaker 1: Did you know that most people that call themselves Christians in America don't believe that there is a devil?
Speaker 1: They think the devil is just an idea, it's a, it's a symbol of evil.
Speaker 1: Well, they couldn't be more wrong.
Speaker 1: It's a real person or an entity.
Speaker 1: Not a person, but he's an entity.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna start a four-part series.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be four part I, you know, I'm gonna take my liberty and decide whether to make it longer or shorter as we go.
Speaker 1: But we're living in the end days and there's war that moved from heaven down to earth, the wars here now.
Speaker 1: Well, I thought Jesus defeated that he did defeat the devil.
Speaker 1: There's no question about that.
Speaker 1: He's been defeated, and every entity with him.
Speaker 1: But we are here to enforce the terms of his surrender.
Speaker 1: He's not surrendered.
Speaker 1: He still rules over the rest of the world.
Speaker 1: He's still deceiving them.
Speaker 1: So we're at war, folks.
Speaker 1: Then he's boiling over with anger.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because he knows he doesn't have very long.
Speaker 1: The word wrath means boiling over.
Speaker 1: It means passion, heat, anger.
Speaker 1: That doesn't that describe these activists.
Speaker 1: These pro-abortion activists are so vile.
Speaker 1: These pro-transgender people that want to butcher our children and double-dog.
Speaker 1: Dare us to object?
Speaker 1: They just get in your face and curse you and and rip you up.
Speaker 1: One side that cues you, accuse you.
Speaker 1: Why are they?
Speaker 1: Why do they accuse me of what they're guilty of?
Speaker 1: Because their father is the devil and he is the father of lies.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get into that a little while.
Speaker 1: We're gonna find out who he is.
Speaker 1: Well, I think I know.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but millions of other people don't know and they're afraid to talk about the devil.
Speaker 1: They think if they don't talk about him he'll go away.
Speaker 1: The opposite is true.
Speaker 1: You need to know your enemy.
Speaker 1: I Said you need to know your enemy.
Speaker 1: So a Few years ago I heard Billy Brem say this at one of her meetings.
Speaker 1: She said no one is pastor to church in the end times until now Just ding, ding, ding, ding ding.
Speaker 1: There's some things that I just didn't get from my, my earthly, my spiritual father, john Osteen, others that I Loved and sat under their ministries, people like oral Roberts and people like you know, kenneth Hagen.
Speaker 1: They, they, knew about all these things, but no one has really lived in the age that we're living in right now and there's never been a pastor that knew how to pastor a flock like this.
Speaker 1: Right now we've got to include some things that's in your, in your back, in your Array of weapons.
Speaker 1: You got to have some ammunition to live.
Speaker 1: Right now we're at war, folks, and Our weapons are not Carnal, but they're mighty through God.
Speaker 1: You know we have the right to carry.
Speaker 1: We have the right to carry and I'm not talking about physical guns.
Speaker 1: I and you know we have that too, but you know that's not gonna be enough.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to have the supernatural weapons.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: So we?
Speaker 1: We just celebrated the 79th anniversary of D-Day week before last, and I would love to have preached this then, but I just the timing didn't work out and I thought, well, I'm gonna preach it anyway right around there, because D-Day is Is the Normandy invasion.
Speaker 1: It was the greatest invasion, military invasion in history, in history of mankind, and it is a miracle that it was pulled off.
Speaker 1: A lot of young men and some women died, a lot of civilians died, but thank God, more Nazis died and they had to die.
Speaker 1: Demon possessed.
Speaker 1: Terrible what Hitler did and the Nazi Party did to the youth of Germany At the end of the war of just less than a year later.
Speaker 1: It ended less than a year after D-Day.
Speaker 1: January June, the 6th 1944, in May of 45 was victory in Europe, day, ve day.
Speaker 1: It was a momentous occasion.
Speaker 1: I mean the whole world celebrated and.
Speaker 1: But a part of that invasion was deception and really when you study warfare, all warfare has deception involved.
Speaker 1: You cannot Really win a war without some deception.
Speaker 1: You've got to pull off some tricks and I'm telling you, the devil is lined up his trickery, he has lined up his way to rule.
Speaker 1: He thinks.
Speaker 1: He still thinks he's gonna overthrow God.
Speaker 1: He still thinks he's gonna win.
Speaker 1: So he's fighting like it, folks, he's fighting like it and we, we better get it together.
Speaker 1: We better understand our enemy, we better understand his trickery.
Speaker 1: We better understand the way that he operates.
Speaker 1: I Think about America.
Speaker 1: What we did, our allies, in order to deceive Hitler.
Speaker 1: What are we doing?
Speaker 1: Well, we're, we're a raid against, you know, a huge army, millions of soldiers.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 1: They were fighting Russia.
Speaker 1: They fought a fought, a two-front war, where we did too, but we out fought them, we out maneuvered them, we out Deceived them.
Speaker 1: So you know, he was of the opinion that we would attack at the Patek Hallé, which is the narrowest place at the English Channel.
Speaker 1: That's because of history and it's just because he just decided that was what was gonna happen.
Speaker 1: He was deluded.
Speaker 1: That was another thing.
Speaker 1: Through prayer, I'm convinced, the church praying in America, god handed him over Hitler to a mind completely insane, surrounded him with yes, man.
Speaker 1: They didn't have the guts, and the ones that did have the guts to tell him the truth.
Speaker 1: They were all shot.
Speaker 1: His greatest general was killed and and participated in one of the assassination attempts because he was a.
Speaker 1: He knew.
Speaker 1: He knew Germany was going to be ruined, rommel.
Speaker 1: Rommel was his greatest hero.
Speaker 1: He was a mighty general of Courageous guy.
Speaker 1: He's fighting on the wrong side, but you have to give him credit.
Speaker 1: We knew all about him, but he could see the writing on the wall he's a military man.
Speaker 1: He knew that wasn't gonna be true.
Speaker 1: He knew they were coming in Normandy and he said beg Hitler, give me the panzers.
Speaker 1: I need the panzers.
Speaker 1: Oh no, they're gonna come across at the pot of Calais I.
Speaker 1: And that mistake gave us the victory.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what we're gonna outsmart the.
Speaker 1: You know the devil's not more powerful than God and he's not smarter than the Holy Ghost, but he is smarter than us in our natural thinking.
Speaker 1: And so we need to know our enemies.
Speaker 1: You know they knew all the generals.
Speaker 1: They, the Germans, knew everything.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know what.
Speaker 1: They were convinced that George S Patton was the greatest general and they knew that he was gonna lead the invasion.
Speaker 1: So Eisenhower, political guy that he was, he's not much of a military guy, he's a political guy.
Speaker 1: Gave Russia their head start.
Speaker 1: I mean him and FDR ruined this.
Speaker 1: They're the reason we have the Cold War.
Speaker 1: They, they empowered Russia.
Speaker 1: They gave Russia more weapons than they gave Britain.
Speaker 1: You really wanna know the truth, not heroes in my book.
Speaker 1: It was dumb Cause.
Speaker 1: What did we?
Speaker 1: What did we have to fight?
Speaker 1: Well, as soon as we won the war.
Speaker 1: We had the Cold War.
Speaker 1: You have Russia and you still got Russia.
Speaker 1: Now, well, it had Russia.
Speaker 1: They were on the ropes.
Speaker 1: But anyway, getting back to deception, we have to understand our enemy.
Speaker 1: They understood their enemy, we understood ours.
Speaker 1: We had intelligence on all their generals.
Speaker 1: Yamamoto, we had intelligence on them.
Speaker 1: We knew when Yamamoto was flying in an airplane, we shot his plane down over the Pacific.
Speaker 1: Say you gotta, you gotta know, you gotta have some spies, you gotta have some intelligence.
Speaker 1: You've gotta have.
Speaker 1: And when I say intelligence, I'm not talking about smarts, I'm talking about you know, you've gotta have knowledge of the other side.
Speaker 1: You've gotta have spies.
Speaker 1: Well, we got the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: He knows everything, he knows whatever's going on in the devil's plans.
Speaker 1: We don't have to be victims and try to catch up with what the devil's doing.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: So you know, we've got a.
Speaker 1: My aim is to teach you how to defeat deception.
Speaker 1: In order to defeat it, you've got to do what You've got to recognize, expose and disarm it, and then you can defeat it.
Speaker 1: You're not going to defeat it head on.
Speaker 1: You've got to defeat it by recognizing it first, then you've got to expose it.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are.
Speaker 1: They don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: No, we've got to do it.
Speaker 1: If the church is the pillar and ground of the truth, we've got to expose deception, disarm it.
Speaker 1: Then we can defeat it.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 1: So this week I'm going to talk about know your enemy.
Speaker 1: Know your enemy.
Speaker 1: That way you won't underestimate him.
Speaker 1: You won't underestimate.
Speaker 1: See, I'm telling you, they underestimated America.
Speaker 1: They thought America was weak.
Speaker 1: So did Japan.
Speaker 1: They thought America was a bunch of playboys.
Speaker 1: They thought we were soft.
Speaker 1: They thought we were just spoiled little boys.
Speaker 1: You know, here they were warriors.
Speaker 1: You know those Japanese men.
Speaker 1: They were really in love with their swords and all of their history and all of their, you know, baloney.
Speaker 1: And they underestimated our young.
Speaker 1: But you know why?
Speaker 1: Because we are basically a Christian nation.
Speaker 1: That's what that was the difference.
Speaker 1: Are y'all with me now?
Speaker 1: So let's look at a few verses here.
Speaker 1: John, chapter eight we're going to quote Jesus on this one.
Speaker 1: This is a good one, right here, john 844,.
Speaker 1: Jesus is talking to the Pharisees and he's not.
Speaker 1: He's not trying to give in to them, he's not trying to negotiate with them, he's not trying to reach across the aisle and come to an agreement.
Speaker 1: He told the Pharisees.
Speaker 1: He said in verse 44,.
Speaker 1: In verse 44, you are of your father, the devil, woo, do you remember when George Bush stood up in the White House after 9 11 and pleading for the Muslims, for us not to persecute Muslims?
Speaker 1: He says well, we're all children of the same God.
Speaker 1: You lying fool, what is wrong with you?
Speaker 1: That's not true.
Speaker 1: We're not.
Speaker 1: The world is not all children of God.
Speaker 1: He's the creator, but he's not the father of anybody, but you and I born again.
Speaker 1: That's why we had to be born again.
Speaker 1: We had to come out from the sovereignty and the fatherhood of the devil.
Speaker 1: We had to have a new father.
Speaker 1: I got one, did you?
Speaker 1: Yes, but they don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a whole war after 9 11, supposedly to stop terrorism by ending it over there.
Speaker 1: And what did we do?
Speaker 1: We started it.
Speaker 1: We got it living here.
Speaker 1: G-hard is living here now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd say we're at war.
Speaker 1: I'd say we're at war.
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because I got the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: Amen, all right, you are of your father, the devil, and the lusts or desires of your father you will do.
Speaker 1: He was a murderer from the beginning.
Speaker 1: So that's what we need to know about the devil.
Speaker 1: He was a murderer.
Speaker 1: He murdered the human race by taking eternal life away from them.
Speaker 1: When Adam and Eve fell in the garden, they lost eternal life.
Speaker 1: He murdered them and he murdered all of us, murdered every man, woman and child ever born after that, because we were all born into darkness.
Speaker 1: He's a murderer from the beginning.
Speaker 1: And then, as soon as Adam and Eve, you know, after they fell, they had children and you know the cane enabled.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know you got Cain, the first murder right there.
Speaker 1: Didn't take him long to pervert and to twist mankind from where they started.
Speaker 1: This is Jesus talking.
Speaker 1: He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth.
Speaker 1: When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it, father of lies, father of lies, all right.
Speaker 1: And of course we know in Revelation 12 that Satan was cast out of heaven.
Speaker 1: He was cast out.
Speaker 1: That's kind of, you know, that's kind of cloudy by itself.
Speaker 1: We don't quite understand what he's doing there.
Speaker 1: What is Satan doing there?
Speaker 1: But he wasn't, you know.
Speaker 1: He progressed into becoming Satan.
Speaker 1: Satan means accuser, it means really literally, it means slanderer.
Speaker 1: And so you have to get into the Bible, and I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't have time to get into the details, but you can read it for yourself in Isaiah, chapter 14, 12 through 16, and Ezekiel, 28, 13 and 19.
Speaker 1: If you read those verses, you'll find out that the devil was was named Lucifer, which means daystar.
Speaker 1: He was in charge of praise and worship.
Speaker 1: He was a created being.
Speaker 1: God created him originally as his chief cherub, his, his angel, in charge of praise and worship.
Speaker 1: That's why he loves to get into music and pervert music.
Speaker 1: Our children's brains are rotting out of them for listening to the trash.
Speaker 1: You better take over your child's cell phones and their computers and not let them listen to everything it's out there, because some of it is poisonous, a lot of it is.
Speaker 1: A lot of it's even sound.
Speaker 1: Some of the pop music sounds real innocent, but it's not Better.
Speaker 1: You better be careful.
Speaker 1: It's not all the rap music.
Speaker 1: It's not all rap.
Speaker 1: You know pretty much no rap music because it's filled with curse words and degradation of women and everything you can think of.
Speaker 1: It's the most gosh awful most of it is.
Speaker 1: And then you get into pop music, which he's you know it sounds good but it's all it's from.
Speaker 1: The devil is taking the music, he's capturing our children and he it talks about.
Speaker 1: He had all these beautiful stones upon him and he had these pipes where he could sing, and and he got to thinking that he was better than God, greater than God, and yet he, he didn't have anything that God didn't give him.
Speaker 1: He didn't have it of himself, god gave it to him, god created him that way.
Speaker 1: You, you find that out in in the book of Isaiah.
Speaker 1: In the book of Ezekiel you find out that he had a kingdom on the earth that he did, did.
Speaker 1: He talked about the merchandise of his traffic.
Speaker 1: He had businesses that he conducted.
Speaker 1: He was the God of the earth.
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: I know it's sounding kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: This is before the lights went out.
Speaker 1: The lights went out on the earth.
Speaker 1: When did that happen?
Speaker 1: Well, I'll just give you Jesus said that I saw Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Speaker 1: So my Luke 10, 18,.
Speaker 1: I saw Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Speaker 1: So if he was cast out to the earth, he came down like lightning.
Speaker 1: And when he hit the earth, which was his kingdom, you can just hear God say oh, you want a kingdom, I'll give you one.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a kingdom to rule over and he ruled over this black, dark hole of a planet that went into darkness instantly.
Speaker 1: They're finding these mastodons.
Speaker 1: They dig them up prehistoric elephant looking things are bigger than elephants and they've got food in their bellies.
Speaker 1: How could that possibly be?
Speaker 1: They were freeze dry.
Speaker 1: They were just frozen just instantly.
Speaker 1: The lights went out.
Speaker 1: Catechic damage was done to an old earth.
Speaker 1: That's why people get all hung up on fossils.
Speaker 1: They get all hung up on timelines and carbon dating and everything.
Speaker 1: This earth is a lot older than 5000 years.
Speaker 1: There was a preademic creation.
Speaker 1: Pastor, I'm wearing your going crazy.
Speaker 1: Well, you know it is a theory.
Speaker 1: I'll have to admit I can't prove it, but you can't prove it Didn't happen.
Speaker 1: Let's look at Genesis.
Speaker 1: We're going to have to go back to Genesis.
Speaker 1: Come on back to Genesis real quick.
Speaker 1: Well, you need to know this so you'll understand how things work, otherwise you get all into.
Speaker 1: Look at Genesis, chapter one, verse one.
Speaker 1: In the beginning, god created the heaven and the earth.
Speaker 1: Stop there Now.
Speaker 1: What does God create mess?
Speaker 1: Does he create chaos?
Speaker 1: He created the heavens and the earth and it was perfect.
Speaker 1: That's when Lucifer had charge.
Speaker 1: There were preademic creatures.
Speaker 1: Here we're finding their chromagnon, man and all of that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: They find these creatures that.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're humans, but that's where demons come from.
Speaker 1: They're the spirits of the preademic creations.
Speaker 1: Are you women?
Speaker 1: Oh, you're looking at me.
Speaker 1: I said that's a theory.
Speaker 1: You don't have to believe it.
Speaker 1: That's what I believe, because demons are not angels.
Speaker 1: No, demons are a much lower spirit, being much lower and much smaller and much weaker than an angel.
Speaker 1: An angel, an evil angel, that's a mean motor scooter.
Speaker 1: Somebody, like Michael, has to fight one of them.
Speaker 1: They're the ones that are floating in the atmosphere in Ephesians, chapter six principalities and powers, rulers of darkness, wicked spirits and the heavenly places.
Speaker 1: That's what those are.
Speaker 1: Those are, those are a few of the angels, and the rest of the angels were held in chains until the time of tribulation.
Speaker 1: They're going to be loosed during the seven years of tribulation.
Speaker 1: Those evil angels have been held in reserve and they're going to be roaming the earth.
Speaker 1: We're going to be gone.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: Glad I don't have to look at one of them, all right, so.
Speaker 1: So, when, when, when he hit the earth, it all went out.
Speaker 1: Oh, he had to be here because he tempted Adam and Eve, right, he attempted, even the garden.
Speaker 1: And what was?
Speaker 1: He was a serpent.
Speaker 1: Evidently he was upright.
Speaker 1: He wasn't on his belly, because when he did tempt him, then God cursed him and said on your belly, you're going to, you're going to crawl.
Speaker 1: Let's think, let's, let's read our Bibles and understand that the devil is a real entity, he's a, he's an angelic being, and so, thank God, we've been redeemed, Amen.
Speaker 1: So he had nothing to be proud about.
Speaker 1: That was his whole sin was pride and the idea that he could usurp God.
Speaker 1: That's pretty wild, pretty wild.
Speaker 1: And you know, angels don't have redemption, they have no forgiveness.
Speaker 1: Once they sin, it's over with.
Speaker 1: Oh, it makes you, it makes you thank God for our covenant that we have See, we have a blood covenant.
Speaker 1: We're not like them.
Speaker 1: All right, let's.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you four facts here.
Speaker 1: I know your head is spinning, so, all right, go back to Genesis.
Speaker 1: In the beginning, god created everything perfect, and then it says and the earth was without form and void.
Speaker 1: You could say what word was the earth became without form and void.
Speaker 1: Without form and void is the Hebrew word tohu vobahu, which means discombobulated upside down.
Speaker 1: Inside out, it's just a mess, it's a hot mess.
Speaker 1: That's a modern euphemism would be a hot mess.
Speaker 1: It became a hot mess.
Speaker 1: Actually, in that case it was a cold mess, very cold.
Speaker 1: It became a cold mess.
Speaker 1: So what was that?
Speaker 1: See, there was a gap.
Speaker 1: So then, when God, then, in the fullness of time, when it came time to have man back on the earth, he went let's make a man.
Speaker 1: He said, okay, let's make a man just like ourselves.
Speaker 1: We've got these angels that didn't work too well with them.
Speaker 1: Let's make a man just like ourselves and let them have dominion over this cold thing and let's remake this cold thing.
Speaker 1: So they remade it.
Speaker 1: And here, basically, the creation story is a recreation.
Speaker 1: He had to get the atmosphere taken care of, he had to get the seas in the right place, he had to get the mountains moved around the land masses, he had to get seed bearing trees and grasses.
Speaker 1: He had to repair all of the damage that had happened from the judgment of Lucifer and the evil angels.
Speaker 1: And he remade it and he made it inhabitable for his creation, adam.
Speaker 1: And then he tells Adam and Eve he said be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
Speaker 1: Re replenish, not plenish.
Speaker 1: Replenish, in other words, start over again.
Speaker 1: Get some more people on here.
Speaker 1: The other ones are gone.
Speaker 1: I mean y'all you read your Bible Now you don't have to believe any of this.
Speaker 1: If you thought written in the Bible, okay, I understand it's not written, but it's implied I have to believe.
Speaker 1: That's exactly how it happened.
Speaker 1: I haven't been able to find any fault with it in 43 years that I heard it.
Speaker 1: I look at it, I meditate on it and I think you know that's probably what happened.
Speaker 1: I have the Holy Ghost on the inside of me.
Speaker 1: I think if I was on the wrong track, I've had people that's almost wanna fight me to say that the earth is only 5,000 years old.
Speaker 1: Well, that's not true.
Speaker 1: The earth is a lot older.
Speaker 1: Why hit your head against a wall when God shows you how it really happened?
Speaker 1: All right, so four facts about the devil, and I want you to be able to remember these and help people that are ignorant, because I'm convinced this if you don't know there is a devil.
Speaker 1: And then, number two you don't know how to confront deception you're just doomed, because he's gonna win on the deception war.
Speaker 1: He is a deceiver.
Speaker 1: Number one he's a fallen angel.
Speaker 1: He's in the angelic class of being.
Speaker 1: That means he is not omnipresent.
Speaker 1: See, god is omnipresent.
Speaker 1: The Holy Ghost is here and the Holy Ghost is there, and the Holy Ghost is on the other side of the earth, and the Holy Ghost is everywhere, but not the devil.
Speaker 1: The devil can only be in one place at one time.
Speaker 1: He's an angelic class.
Speaker 1: We're not in the angelic class, we're in the God class, so we're a higher form of spirit.
Speaker 1: Being God doesn't mean that we're more powerful.
Speaker 1: It means, though, but we have more authority over him, all right, and so he's not omniscient, in other words, all knowing, he's not all powerful, omnipotent he's not, and he cannot read your mind.
Speaker 1: The devil can't read your mind.
Speaker 1: He can't tell the future.
Speaker 1: We think the devil can fit.
Speaker 1: No, he doesn't know what the future is.
Speaker 1: He can, I'm gonna tell you, he can predict the future because he knows the past.
Speaker 1: He been around a while.
Speaker 1: He's got cohorts.
Speaker 1: We call them familiar spirits, spirits that have hung with your family line.
Speaker 1: They go back to grandma and grandpa, great, grandpa, great, great, great, great, great.
Speaker 1: All the way to your family lines beginnings.
Speaker 1: There's demon powers that hang around your family and they hitchhike down through the centuries.
Speaker 1: You know, when somebody dies, you know, then they hop on whoever's available in your family.
Speaker 1: That's why infirmity runs in families.
Speaker 1: Heart disease runs in families.
Speaker 1: Diabetes runs in families.
Speaker 1: Mental disease I've known families where suicide ran in families.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 1: It's a familiar spirit.
Speaker 1: It's a demon power.
Speaker 1: If you know your enemy, you don't have to succumb to that.
Speaker 1: You can break the power of that thing.
Speaker 1: You can say no, it might've been on grandpa, but it ain't on me.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: He's a fallen angel, all right.
Speaker 1: He can't read your mind, he can't tell the future, all right.
Speaker 1: The second thing is he's a murderer, john 844.
Speaker 1: He's a murderer.
Speaker 1: And so everybody that advocates for abortion, they're of their father, the devil.
Speaker 1: There is no agreement between Christianity and abortion.
Speaker 1: It can't be.
Speaker 1: It's murder, plain and simple.
Speaker 1: You're taking a life in vain.
Speaker 1: The blood of these children is crying in the earth and it's the cause of a lot of trouble in our country and all over the world.
Speaker 1: A lot of it, I mean.
Speaker 1: That blood cries, it's innocent.
Speaker 1: You look at the history of Rome, persia, all of these, all of these massive kingdoms that have fallen.
Speaker 1: You'll find abortion, you'll find mistreatment of children and you'll find homosexuality and sexual excess.
Speaker 1: You'll find it.
Speaker 1: It's the beginning of the end, because God is implanted in every human being a sense of decency, a sense of what is right and wrong.
Speaker 1: Even if they're not saved, they have a sense.
Speaker 1: They know down on the inside that things should be a certain way, and when they're not, it's rebellion, or y'all are looking at me kind of strange, but you gotta know these things.
Speaker 1: He's a murderer.
Speaker 1: He stole eternal life from the whole human race.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not here to inconvenience you.
Speaker 1: He's not here to give you a bad hair day.
Speaker 1: He's not here to give you a flat tire.
Speaker 1: Oh, the devil gave me a flat tire.
Speaker 1: No, he didn't Quit saying the devil, the devil, the devil.
Speaker 1: He's not omniscient, he's not omnipotent.
Speaker 1: He can't be everywhere at one time.
Speaker 1: And besides that, do you think he's gonna hang out trying to inconvenience you?
Speaker 1: He's one person, he's one entity.
Speaker 1: Where is he gonna be?
Speaker 1: Well, he's probably at the Oval Office right now.
Speaker 1: He's probably having an audience with Z or, you know, putin.
Speaker 1: He's not hanging around you Now.
Speaker 1: He's got demons that can hang around you.
Speaker 1: He's got emissaries, he's got people he can send and mess you up, but they're not here to give you a bad hair day.
Speaker 1: They're not here to steal your parking place at the mall.
Speaker 1: They're here to kill you.
Speaker 1: If they can't kill you, then they're here to stop you from being effective in your ministry and render you ineffective.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: All right, number three he deceives the whole world.
Speaker 1: That's what the Bible says.
Speaker 1: He deceives the whole world.
Speaker 1: We've seen it more and more.
Speaker 1: And his children are just like him.
Speaker 1: Let's look at Ephesians, chapter two.
Speaker 1: He has children that are just like him.
Speaker 1: I was asking you know, I forgot what thing happened and it was just so crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean just anybody with common sense could see the truth of matter.
Speaker 1: And I said God, why can't they see this is just, it's not even worth arguing about.
Speaker 1: These people argue about things that are just.
Speaker 1: How can you argue about what a woman is and what a man is?
Speaker 1: How can you do that?
Speaker 1: How can you argue?
Speaker 1: He said the truth is not in them.
Speaker 1: Well, the truth is not in him.
Speaker 1: See, the truth is not in the devil.
Speaker 1: So the truth is not in most of the world, truth is not in them.
Speaker 1: But we have the spirit of God, but we have the spirit of truth in us.
Speaker 1: All right, you find Ephesians, chapter two.
Speaker 1: Let's look at verse two.
Speaker 1: Well, verse one.
Speaker 1: And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins.
Speaker 1: See, that's what happened to me.
Speaker 1: I was dead, I was quickened, I was made alive by the Holy Ghost and we're in in time past.
Speaker 1: You walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.
Speaker 1: So notice what the Bible calls the world calls them the children of disobedience Cause.
Speaker 1: And that's what you all were, that's what I was.
Speaker 1: I was a child of disobedience before I got saved.
Speaker 1: So we all came from the same place.
Speaker 1: It's not like we look down our nose at the world.
Speaker 1: We know we have a message for them.
Speaker 1: We have the gospel, we have the good news.
Speaker 1: You don't have to live like that.
Speaker 1: You don't have to listen.
Speaker 1: Transgender person.
Speaker 1: You don't have to live in this degradation.
Speaker 1: You know it's terrible.
Speaker 1: You know you're not really happy.
Speaker 1: You're trying to put all this stuff on.
Speaker 1: You're trying to be so extreme and you're just fooling yourself, but you're not fooling me.
Speaker 1: It's wrong.
Speaker 1: You know it's wrong.
Speaker 1: You know it's a lie.
Speaker 1: The 13 year old girl is suing her parents as they had her breasts removed.
Speaker 1: And what kind of an idiot would do that to their child.
Speaker 1: They shouldn't have children, but that's where we're headed and you've got an entire large portion of the medical establishment that's contributing.
Speaker 1: You know, texas Children's Hospital has been doing this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So when I heard that the Astros had signed up or was it to take one of the sports teams signed them up as a sponsor I said you're so stupid.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 1: That's why our attorney general is under fire, because he's investigating these big guys.
Speaker 1: So they're trying to investigate.
Speaker 1: He's the same as Trump.
Speaker 1: It's just all a bunch of made up stuff, all right.
Speaker 1: So the whole world is deceived.
Speaker 1: His children are like him.
Speaker 1: He's the father of lies.
Speaker 1: He's a slanderer.
Speaker 1: He's the slanderer.
Speaker 1: That's what they do.
Speaker 1: They slander us.
Speaker 1: They call us bigots, they call us Nazis, they call us fascists.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 1: They don't even know what a fascist is.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna call me a fascist, why don't you look up what it means?
Speaker 1: It's so stupid.
Speaker 1: Really, you don't have a brain.
Speaker 1: You can call me a lot of names, but you call me a fascist.
Speaker 1: That's nuts, nuts.
Speaker 1: So they're slanderers and he's a slanderer, all right.
Speaker 1: And then the last one Ephesians 1, 22.
Speaker 1: And this is talking about what God has done for the church, and God has verse 22, has put all things under his feet, talking about the body of Christ.
Speaker 1: Where are the feet?
Speaker 1: They're in the body.
Speaker 1: Where are the feet?
Speaker 1: They're on the earth.
Speaker 1: So God has put everything under our feet.
Speaker 1: He's put the devil under our feet.
Speaker 1: Under our feet means we have authority over him.
Speaker 1: We have the power to bind or prevent, or we have the power to loose or to permit.
Speaker 1: Whatever we permit will be permitted.
Speaker 1: Whatever we prevent will be prevented.
Speaker 1: It's up to us.
Speaker 1: Praying that God does something about this mess is a vain prayer.
Speaker 1: God has already done everything he's going to do.
Speaker 1: He sent Jesus to the cross, he died, he rose from the dead and he gave his church all authority in heaven and in earth.
Speaker 1: We have all that we need to stop deception and defeated.
Speaker 1: Amen, praise God, come on, lift your hands right now.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: Whoo All these vain prayers.
Speaker 1: They don't know how to pray.
Speaker 1: They don't know their authority.
Speaker 1: It's just wasting time.
Speaker 1: I can't be part of it.
Speaker 1: I won't be part of it.
Speaker 1: I will not go down to the courthouse or the city hall or anything like that and be part of a prayer meeting with second Chronicles 714.
Speaker 1: I'm just not going to do it.
Speaker 1: That's the Old Testament, doesn't even apply to us, doesn't apply to us, it's not even the subject.
Speaker 1: But this is the subject matter Right here.
Speaker 1: I just read it.
Speaker 1: He put it all under our feet.
Speaker 1: So in Revelation 12, it says we overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony what we say.
Speaker 1: So the word overcome means listen.
Speaker 1: Overcome means conquer, prevail.
Speaker 1: Win the case Means win the case.
Speaker 1: There are some cases that we're going to win this year.
Speaker 1: There are some cases we're going to win in the next 2024.
Speaker 1: We're going to win some cases.
Speaker 1: I said we're going to win some cases.
Speaker 1: And so this overcoming, see, we overcome how, by knowing our blood covenant, rights.
Speaker 1: You've got to know what the power of the.
Speaker 1: I've been saying this all year.
Speaker 1: We've been this is a year of God's power and it centered on knowing what the blood has done, what the blood is doing, what the blood will do.
Speaker 1: It's all centered on that.
Speaker 1: This whole message is centered on what the blood has already accomplished.
Speaker 1: That's why it's so vain to ask God to do anything.
Speaker 1: He's already done it.
Speaker 1: So, knowing our rights and privileges of our blood covenant.
Speaker 1: And then, number two, answering every lie with God's word.
Speaker 1: See, this is what's not done.
Speaker 1: We let lies go unanswered, we let untruth go unchallenged.
Speaker 1: We must expose it.
Speaker 1: We have to recognize it.
Speaker 1: We have to expose it, then we have to disarm it and then we can defeat it.
Speaker 1: It must be answered.
Speaker 1: I mean we have to answer it at the school board meetings.
Speaker 1: We have to answer it at Congress.
Speaker 1: We have to go up there and inconvenience ourselves and go protestify against some of these gosh awful bills they're trying to put into law, or testify for the good bills.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of good bills passed, or just passed some good bills last week, and all of that.
Speaker 1: And so the church has got to be more vocal.
Speaker 1: The word of our testimony, and then there's that last one they love, not their lives under the death.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 1: It just means obedience.
Speaker 1: We have to obey God.
Speaker 1: I have to obey God.
Speaker 1: When he told me to wake up the church, I didn't even understand what that meant.
Speaker 1: In 1999, that's been 24 years ago I didn't understand it, but I obeyed it as best I could.
Speaker 1: And as time has gone on, it's been 24 years of unfolding.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: No one has passed the church in the last days.
Speaker 1: God had to give me this revelation.
Speaker 1: He had to give me this unfolding and confirmation as I took every step, every step, and it just seemed like forever Nobody would listen.
Speaker 1: It seemed like forever.
Speaker 1: Nothing was happening.
Speaker 1: Where you know what?
Speaker 1: It's beginning to work.
Speaker 1: It's beginning to, I'm telling you, people are waking up all over this city, all over this state, all over this county.
Speaker 1: People are waking up all over this nation.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, right now, things are changing and there's a whole lot of reason to celebrate.
Speaker 1: Come on, lift your hands.
Speaker 1: Defeating deception.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, glory to God, glory to God.
Speaker 1: Next week, we're going to talk about defeating demonic tactics.
Speaker 1: I believe you'll get a lot out of these messages and you'll be able to help others there's a lot of ignorance out there in the church and it'll help you also to minister to people.
Speaker 1: When you know who you are in Christ, when you know what you have in Christ the name of Jesus, well, we've got supernatural weapons.
Speaker 1: Amen, praise God, hallelujah, glory to God.
Speaker 1: Let's just lift our hands this morning.
Speaker 1: Father, we thank you for the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: We thank you.
Speaker 1: The spirit of truth Abides in us forever.
Speaker 1: We thank you for the word of truth.
Speaker 1: Thank you, lord, we're recognizing, exposing, disarming and defeating deception.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.