WEBVTT 00:00:00.119 --> 00:00:02.329 Lift our Bibles up as our customer around here. 00:00:02.329 --> 00:00:05.629 Lift our Bibles and make Jesus glad and the devil mad. 00:00:05.629 --> 00:00:29.626 Let's say this together Say Heavenly Father, I've tuned in tonight because I'm hungry and thirsty for more, and Jesus said that I would be filled, and mine is the kind of hunger that keeps me full of the Word, full of the Spirit and full of victory in Jesus' name. 00:00:29.626 --> 00:00:36.588 Very good, all right, let's turn in our Bibles two places Matthew 28 and Mark 16. 00:00:36.588 --> 00:00:44.207 And we're gonna read from passages of scripture that describe the exact same moment. 00:00:44.207 --> 00:00:53.365 First, matthew 28 and verse 18, right before Jesus lifted off to go back to his Father in heaven. 00:00:53.365 --> 00:00:54.805 This is after the resurrection. 00:00:54.805 --> 00:01:01.250 And Jesus came and spake unto them saying all power that word power is authority. 00:01:01.250 --> 00:01:06.632 All authority is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 00:01:06.632 --> 00:01:22.765 Go ye, therefore, and teach or make disciples my margin says of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever. 00:01:22.765 --> 00:01:29.352 I have commanded you and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age. 00:01:29.352 --> 00:01:31.742 Amen Says world. 00:01:31.742 --> 00:01:32.424 There it means age. 00:01:32.424 --> 00:01:36.709 And then let's turn over to Mark 16. 00:01:36.709 --> 00:01:42.625 And this is the apostle Mark's perspective of the same event. 00:01:42.625 --> 00:01:49.325 That's why I like the four gospels because they often have a different perspective of the same event there that you. 00:01:49.325 --> 00:01:56.870 When you interlock them, it's just all inspired by the Holy Spirit to give us a full picture of what occurred in what was said. 00:01:56.870 --> 00:02:08.264 And Mark 16, verse 15, and he said unto them go ye, unto all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 00:02:08.264 --> 00:02:10.006 We call that the great commission. 00:02:10.006 --> 00:02:13.968 He that believeth in his baptized shall be saved. 00:02:13.968 --> 00:02:16.487 He that believeth not shall be damned or condemned. 00:02:16.487 --> 00:02:19.887 And these signs shall follow them. 00:02:19.887 --> 00:02:24.949 That believe and my name shall they cast out demons. 00:02:24.949 --> 00:02:27.205 They shall speak with new tones. 00:02:27.205 --> 00:02:33.848 If they shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. 00:02:33.848 --> 00:02:39.350 They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. 00:02:39.350 --> 00:02:50.866 So then, after that the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven and sat on the right hand of God, and they went forth and preached everywhere the Lord working with them. 00:02:50.866 --> 00:02:52.867 Notice what Jesus said to Matthew. 00:02:52.867 --> 00:02:54.186 He said I'm with you, always. 00:02:54.186 --> 00:02:54.441 Here. 00:02:54.441 --> 00:03:02.831 It says the Lord worked with them when they went about and confirming the Word with signs following Amen. 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:08.930 Tonight I wanted to focus on this subject dominion over demons. 00:03:08.930 --> 00:03:11.305 Dominion over demons. 00:03:11.305 --> 00:03:18.230 You know the church has been set against sickness, but it's also been set against demons and demonic activities. 00:03:18.230 --> 00:03:26.225 There's much demonic activity going on in the earth today and these signs shall follow them. 00:03:26.225 --> 00:03:45.241 That believe it's not just those that are in some sort of ministry, not just because of pastor or just because of somebody that's very famous in the church, it's believers have signs following them and when you see these signs it says these signs, what signs? 00:03:45.241 --> 00:03:46.502 In my name? 00:03:46.502 --> 00:03:48.683 They shall cast out demons. 00:03:48.683 --> 00:03:50.024 That's the first one on the list. 00:03:50.024 --> 00:03:52.252 It must be kind of important. 00:03:52.252 --> 00:03:56.164 And then it says they'll speak with new tongues. 00:03:56.164 --> 00:03:59.275 So that's really talking about speaking at other tongues. 00:03:59.275 --> 00:04:01.992 I mean, every believer should receive the baptism. 00:04:02.947 --> 00:04:11.435 And then it says they shall take up serpents and of course you know he's not talking about literally snakes, he's talking about casting aside in the context. 00:04:11.435 --> 00:04:16.833 This is in the context of preaching the gospel to every creature as they go about. 00:04:16.833 --> 00:04:26.245 So we have, we're going to have, demonic opposition and we have authority, and really I think authority is good. 00:04:26.245 --> 00:04:33.644 But I wanted to use the word dominion because I feel like it's a stronger word to describe what we have. 00:04:33.644 --> 00:04:39.093 Yes, it's authority, but dominion is absolute authority in heaven and in earth. 00:04:39.093 --> 00:04:40.845 I mean, we have this, and how do we have it? 00:04:40.845 --> 00:04:43.050 We have it in the name of Jesus, and who has it? 00:04:43.391 --> 00:04:47.947 Preachers know, apostles know, and the first century AD know Believers. 00:04:47.947 --> 00:04:57.129 And so this idea of taking up serpents, it literally means to throw aside or cast aside demonic opposition. 00:04:57.129 --> 00:05:01.004 That's in the way, and very similarly to that drink, any deadly thing. 00:05:01.004 --> 00:05:17.374 It's talking about the occult, it's talking about spells, it's talking about things that the curses that are released on ministers, and so really a lot of the signs that are to follow us relate to demonic activity. 00:05:17.374 --> 00:05:24.375 And I just want to encourage you I'm teaching this, I do teach this from time to time so that believers don't run from the devil. 00:05:24.425 --> 00:05:28.617 Believers don't try to find somebody else to take care of the devil for them. 00:05:28.617 --> 00:05:30.783 We all have authority. 00:05:30.783 --> 00:05:32.665 We have really dominion. 00:05:32.665 --> 00:05:34.591 You know the word dominion. 00:05:34.591 --> 00:05:39.095 There Jesus said all authority in heaven and earth is given unto me. 00:05:39.095 --> 00:05:39.846 Go ye. 00:05:39.846 --> 00:05:49.274 Therefore he delegated his authority in Matthew, delegated his authority to the church, not just to the apostles, to the church. 00:05:49.274 --> 00:05:53.574 And this delegated authority is kingdom authority. 00:05:53.574 --> 00:05:56.132 It's the type of authority a king has. 00:05:56.132 --> 00:06:00.870 You know, jesus is the king of kings, he's the Lord of lords. 00:06:00.870 --> 00:06:04.487 So, really, the church, we are the kings he's the king of. 00:06:04.487 --> 00:06:15.973 We're the lords he's the Lord of, and so we have to get this idea of absolute dominion over our kingly domain. 00:06:15.973 --> 00:06:17.896 We each have a domain. 00:06:17.896 --> 00:06:19.464 What are we talking about? 00:06:19.464 --> 00:06:27.848 Well, we're talking about your home, your marriage, your family, your career, your business, whatever, I mean your neighborhood. 00:06:27.848 --> 00:06:36.915 You have that domain and when there are demonic activity there, you have every right to rule over that. 00:06:36.915 --> 00:06:46.954 Now, you know, sometimes we have to use wisdom about getting involved with something that we're not directly in charge of. 00:06:46.954 --> 00:06:53.572 You know, for instance, you know, I believe the church in Ukraine is well able to take care of what's going on in the Ukraine. 00:06:53.644 --> 00:07:00.574 I haven't felt a real push to just set everything aside and start praying against World War III. 00:07:00.574 --> 00:07:04.947 I'm sorry, but I believe that some of this stuff is a little bit. 00:07:04.947 --> 00:07:10.105 We're getting fake news and I know that we've got some fantastic churches. 00:07:10.105 --> 00:07:16.915 My brother and sister-in-law worked there for many years, several years going back and forth. 00:07:16.915 --> 00:07:22.855 They established some great works down there in a place called Nikolaev, and they know how to pray. 00:07:22.855 --> 00:07:25.670 Ramah, ukraine is there. 00:07:25.670 --> 00:07:29.473 They know how to pray, and I'm not saying they don't need prayer. 00:07:29.524 --> 00:07:31.209 But I'm saying you know why? 00:07:31.209 --> 00:07:39.750 You know I don't, unless the Holy Ghost gives me an unction, I really don't have as much authority in the Ukraine as people that live there do. 00:07:39.750 --> 00:07:41.629 Where's my authority? 00:07:41.629 --> 00:07:45.531 Well, I tell you, we have a lot of authority in this church, over this nation, over America. 00:07:45.531 --> 00:07:59.334 So I'm doing most of our praying over what we have and paying attention to the fact that, while we're spending billions ensuring their border, their national borders, we're not doing anything about our own borders. 00:07:59.334 --> 00:08:04.254 See, I think that that's more of a the light shines further, shines brighter at home. 00:08:04.254 --> 00:08:11.033 I don't know who I'm encouraging, but I just want you to not get all upset over these things that are going on. 00:08:11.033 --> 00:08:12.711 You know the Bible says they're gonna happen. 00:08:12.711 --> 00:08:16.367 So that's not that I'm unfaithful for the people of the Ukraine. 00:08:16.367 --> 00:08:17.651 I know there's a lot of innocent. 00:08:17.651 --> 00:08:22.290 It's always that way in any type of war, that innocent people die. 00:08:22.290 --> 00:08:24.410 So I do have compassion. 00:08:24.845 --> 00:08:27.673 But right now I'm talking about what dominion do we have? 00:08:27.673 --> 00:08:36.254 And the main dominion you have as a believer is over your domain, which is your own life, your body, your family, your marriage. 00:08:36.254 --> 00:08:48.994 That's what you start with and, as you're faithful, to exercise that domain and put the devil on the run in your dominion, the places of your dominion, then God can then add to your authority. 00:08:48.994 --> 00:08:51.793 That way he has me and this church. 00:08:51.793 --> 00:08:58.054 He's added to our domain in this church over the many years that we've been faithful in praying. 00:08:58.865 --> 00:09:06.287 So we have to recognize that we must exercise dominion over demons. 00:09:06.287 --> 00:09:08.693 We're not to just let them run free. 00:09:08.693 --> 00:09:09.456 And we have what? 00:09:09.456 --> 00:09:10.744 The name of Jesus. 00:09:10.744 --> 00:09:17.354 At the name of Jesus, every knee must bow and every tongue must confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. 00:09:17.354 --> 00:09:19.350 So the glory of God, the Father. 00:09:19.350 --> 00:09:27.932 We don't do anything in our name, we do it in his name and the church does have the carte blanche right to use the name of Jesus. 00:09:27.932 --> 00:09:41.130 We're the only ones that can use that name and we need to recognize the role of the devil and demon powers in disease and bondage and lack, all the affairs of life. 00:09:41.245 --> 00:09:55.630 We need to recognize that there is a demonic activity and we can get off into how Jesus, through his death, barrel and resurrection, restored man's lost dominion. 00:09:55.630 --> 00:09:58.653 We know that Adam sold out to the devil. 00:09:58.653 --> 00:10:05.133 He lost the dominion that he had, gave it to the devil, and the devil still holds sway over his subjects. 00:10:05.133 --> 00:10:10.613 But now, when Jesus rose from the dead, he gave his authority to the church. 00:10:10.613 --> 00:10:12.288 So now we have authority. 00:10:12.288 --> 00:10:18.273 That's over our domain, and so I don't wanna get into that's a whole another. 00:10:18.273 --> 00:10:21.573 I don't wanna go all night tonight. 00:10:21.664 --> 00:10:26.789 I could preach a whole large message on where our dominion came from, and so forth. 00:10:26.789 --> 00:10:27.186 It's just. 00:10:27.186 --> 00:10:30.787 These verses tell us clearly we have authority in that name. 00:10:30.787 --> 00:10:50.568 And so what I've seen in 35 years of ministry 20 and our 27th year full time here at Flourious Way about the knowledge of demons and the devil is there's two ditches For every mile of road. 00:10:50.568 --> 00:10:52.827 There's two miles of ditches, one on each side. 00:10:52.827 --> 00:11:00.615 And so you've got number one the devil conscious crowd, the devil conscious crowd. 00:11:00.615 --> 00:11:06.235 In other words, they're so conscious of the devil it's almost like they exalt the devil and his power. 00:11:06.235 --> 00:11:11.554 Everything is a devil, everything is a demon, everything, you know, everything that happens to them. 00:11:11.756 --> 00:11:13.254 Oh, the devil gave me a flat tire. 00:11:13.254 --> 00:11:16.360 Really, the devil, was he standing on the side of the road? 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:18.384 I mean, is he a snake? 00:11:18.384 --> 00:11:23.054 And did he strike your tire on your way by at 75 miles an hour and give you a flat? 00:11:23.054 --> 00:11:25.735 No, you ran over a nail or something. 00:11:25.735 --> 00:11:29.215 Hey man, I mean, let's not give the devil all this power. 00:11:29.215 --> 00:11:30.039 Well, the devil. 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:32.174 My battery went out. 00:11:32.174 --> 00:11:33.443 The devil made my. 00:11:33.443 --> 00:11:33.886 You know. 00:11:33.886 --> 00:11:36.434 Your battery wore out, your car wore out, whatever. 00:11:36.434 --> 00:11:39.403 You know, I bought a new car in September of 2019. 00:11:40.216 --> 00:11:41.673 It had 5,000 miles on it. 00:11:41.673 --> 00:11:49.554 The dealer it was the dealers, the owner of the dealership put the first 5,000 miles on my pickup, so they sold it to me brand new. 00:11:49.554 --> 00:11:50.695 They gave me a really good deal. 00:11:50.695 --> 00:11:56.125 It was loaded to the gills, every option, ford F-150 pickup. 00:11:56.125 --> 00:12:04.783 It was what I was looking for, and but I mean right away, as I started driving it, it was using oil, using oil, using oil. 00:12:04.936 --> 00:12:11.855 It took me a whole year to finally get to the place where I call my salesman and he's a top producer there. 00:12:11.855 --> 00:12:15.394 He's been there 20 years plus and I said I need your help. 00:12:15.394 --> 00:12:21.355 I said I keep bringing my truck in and they keep wanting me to do a test, an oil consumption test. 00:12:21.355 --> 00:12:24.274 I've done two of them and I said I'm through with tests. 00:12:24.274 --> 00:12:25.634 I want you to do the test. 00:12:25.634 --> 00:12:30.054 I want you to do the diagnostics on this engine, find out what's wrong with it. 00:12:30.054 --> 00:12:31.860 It's something mad, bad, wrong. 00:12:31.860 --> 00:12:34.134 And so he got involved. 00:12:34.134 --> 00:12:44.825 It got the head of the service department and the head mechanic and sure enough they called Ford and said, hey, we can't do this anymore, this guy's getting angry. 00:12:44.825 --> 00:12:47.214 I wasn't angry but I was insistent. 00:12:47.214 --> 00:12:50.139 You know, sometimes you've got to just tell the devil enough and up. 00:12:50.158 --> 00:12:53.095 But I never did blame the devil for my oil consumption. 00:12:53.095 --> 00:12:54.600 I never said, oh the devils. 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:59.288 No, actually there was somebody, you know, messed up at the factory. 00:12:59.288 --> 00:13:10.522 Come to find out I had four out of my six cylinders were bad and they had to take the entire engine out of the truck and put a new lower end, a new what they call a short block in it. 00:13:10.522 --> 00:13:16.202 And it was $6,000 worth of repairs that Ford had to pay for. 00:13:16.202 --> 00:13:19.355 And you know it's running a whole lot better. 00:13:19.355 --> 00:13:20.278 And they quit using oil. 00:13:20.278 --> 00:13:22.221 That's the way it oughta been when I bought it. 00:13:22.221 --> 00:13:30.705 But it took me what it took me, demanding what if I'd have just started praying against it and saying I demand you devil, take your hands off of my? 00:13:30.705 --> 00:13:34.254 Well, I'd still be using oil because he didn't have anything to do with it. 00:13:34.254 --> 00:13:36.562 It was just a mechanical problem. 00:13:36.562 --> 00:13:42.754 So let's quit letting the devil have all this power that we live in a finite world. 00:13:42.754 --> 00:13:46.855 Hey Ben, that's my point I laugh when I think about Charles Caps. 00:13:46.955 --> 00:13:47.698 He tells the story. 00:13:47.698 --> 00:13:58.505 He's a pilot, he had a small prop job and years ago he was taken off for ministry. 00:13:58.505 --> 00:14:13.720 You know, he's going down the runway and he was about halfway down the runway before he's gonna take off and all of a sudden his door, right next to where he seated as the pilot, it flew open, and of course that's pretty scary. 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:21.761 You know, he's gone about 75, 80 miles an hour by that time, headed to a hundred dots before he gets up off the runway. 00:14:21.761 --> 00:14:28.384 And so he had to abort the take off and come to find out there was nothing wrong with the door. 00:14:28.384 --> 00:14:31.565 He had shut it and it sounded like it latched. 00:14:31.565 --> 00:14:39.943 And it did latch, but he didn't shove the, he didn't rotate the handle to lock it, and so the air pressure just pulled it open. 00:14:39.943 --> 00:14:46.121 See, well, the devil didn't do it, he just he made an error, he forgot something. 00:14:47.057 --> 00:14:51.504 See, you're getting the idea, this idea of blaming the devil for all kinds of things. 00:14:51.504 --> 00:15:00.659 Let's, if you do that you're gonna hurt your faith, for when the devil is actually working, or demon power, really the devil doesn't do that much, he's just an overseer. 00:15:00.659 --> 00:15:04.764 It's demon powers that do most of the work down here. 00:15:04.764 --> 00:15:09.083 So let's not build up demons to huge proportions. 00:15:09.083 --> 00:15:12.624 You know Jesus dealt with ruling spirits and people. 00:15:12.624 --> 00:15:16.927 He cast out the devil out of the demonic. 00:15:16.927 --> 00:15:17.961 He said Legion. 00:15:17.961 --> 00:15:19.815 Your name is Legion, for you are many. 00:15:19.815 --> 00:15:20.798 See what is your name? 00:15:20.798 --> 00:15:23.302 The demon said Legion, for we are many. 00:15:23.975 --> 00:15:38.461 So that was a ruling demon, and the entire region of that part of Israel was under bondage to the demon that was in that demonic, because everybody was afraid, everybody was hiding from this guy. 00:15:38.461 --> 00:15:56.600 He had super human strength, you know, he was a terror, and when Jesus cast the demons out of that thing, they he cast into a herd of swine and they ran into the lake and drowned, and so those demons were rendered what they were, rendered irrelevant. 00:15:56.600 --> 00:16:12.778 And so he took authority over spirits that were holding sway in that region through this one man, and that man was sane and in his right mind, dressed in everything, and the last picture we see of him he wanted to follow Jesus. 00:16:12.778 --> 00:16:28.984 And so, jesus, you know, when he he cast the devil out of a woman who had a spirit of infirmity, she was bowed over at the waist, and so you know, but but there's not that many others, a lot of other healings that he did that were not demonic. 00:16:28.984 --> 00:16:33.105 They were just simply they needed healing. 00:16:33.105 --> 00:16:41.221 So, whether it's directly involved or indirectly involved, we don't want to cast demons out of people that don't have demons, amen. 00:16:43.075 --> 00:16:49.826 And so then, the other excess, the other ditch, if you will, is the devil ignorant crowd. 00:16:49.826 --> 00:16:57.307 The crowd and these are, these are Christians, and they've not been taught anything like what I'm teaching tonight. 00:16:57.307 --> 00:16:57.841 They've never. 00:16:57.841 --> 00:17:01.551 Their pastor has not said one word about the devil. 00:17:01.551 --> 00:17:04.403 In fact, most of these people don't even believe there is a devil. 00:17:04.403 --> 00:17:10.272 They believe that the devil is a concept, that he's a symbol. 00:17:10.272 --> 00:17:18.205 He is not a symbol, he's a being, he's a real being and he has a hierarchy and they're all real entities. 00:17:19.201 --> 00:17:33.266 And when you believe that they're just a concept and you don't deal with them, then what happens is they'll say things like well, you know, brother, somebody has a car wreck, and they'll come up to you and say well, you know, brother, everything happens for a reason. 00:17:33.266 --> 00:17:44.505 The implication is that God calls the car wreck, that God was the author of the sickness, that God was the author of the trouble and he's trying to teach you a lesson, but you don't know what it is. 00:17:44.505 --> 00:17:48.931 But there's never any talk about the devil attacked you. 00:17:48.931 --> 00:17:52.603 There's never any talk about how the enemy's trying to kill you. 00:17:52.603 --> 00:17:57.799 And so Jesus said what the devil does, he comes to kill, steal and destroy. 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:03.088 So when things like that happen in your life, you know the devil's behind it and his demon powers. 00:18:03.088 --> 00:18:08.964 So they'll say something like well, you know, god permits or God allowed. 00:18:09.130 --> 00:18:10.711 You know, I had a lady one time. 00:18:10.711 --> 00:18:11.500 She had a car wreck. 00:18:11.500 --> 00:18:13.240 She was in the hospital for several days. 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:21.747 She had a broken bone and she got the witness to a nurse and got her saved. 00:18:21.747 --> 00:18:24.500 And so I was talking to her after she got to the hospital. 00:18:24.500 --> 00:18:28.353 She said you know, pastor, I know what you teach, but you can't convince me. 00:18:28.353 --> 00:18:31.372 I know God had me in that hospital. 00:18:31.372 --> 00:18:34.480 He allowed me to have that wreck so I could get that nurse saved. 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:37.779 I said well, god allows everything you allow. 00:18:38.625 --> 00:18:43.856 My guess is that somebody broke the traffic rules, because that's what happened. 00:18:43.856 --> 00:18:44.319 It wasn't a devil. 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:45.858 Somebody broke a traffic rule. 00:18:45.858 --> 00:18:50.140 I don't know if it was you or the other driver, but you know I can't accept that. 00:18:50.140 --> 00:18:51.846 That's not scriptural. 00:18:51.846 --> 00:18:54.784 See, I couldn't talk her in to believe in what the Bible says. 00:18:54.784 --> 00:18:58.848 She was convinced that God had, it was behind it. 00:18:58.848 --> 00:19:04.570 And when you believe that, see, you're gonna hamper yourself and taking dominion. 00:19:04.570 --> 00:19:07.547 That's what I'm talking about tonight dominion over demons. 00:19:07.547 --> 00:19:15.460 I mean that's what the church is called to do where to rule and to reign over them in our domain. 00:19:15.460 --> 00:19:19.549 So you know. 00:19:19.711 --> 00:19:24.787 Another example this years ago when I was first saved, gladys and I were around this precious couple. 00:19:24.787 --> 00:19:42.387 Later on, about a couple years later, after we knew them a while, then he wound up being my boss, hired me for a job that I had and we were around them a lot and they didn't go to Word of Faith Church, they just went to old denominational churches. 00:19:42.387 --> 00:19:47.846 They were baptized, the Holy Ghost, but they never really pursued the Word of Faith that I'm teaching you tonight. 00:19:47.846 --> 00:19:50.469 They never had this kind of teaching whatsoever. 00:19:50.469 --> 00:19:55.046 They just listed every week they'd go to church and learn how to get saved. 00:19:55.046 --> 00:19:57.788 You know that doesn't feed your spirit once you're saved. 00:19:57.788 --> 00:20:00.144 I mean you need to hear something besides how to get saved. 00:20:00.144 --> 00:20:07.028 Once you're saved you need to get on up to out of first grade and getting saved is really important. 00:20:07.028 --> 00:20:09.583 But once you're saved there's other things you need to know about. 00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:16.467 So she read in Jude, you know where the angel Michael said the Lord rebuke you to the devil. 00:20:16.467 --> 00:20:22.047 He dared not bring against him railing accusation, but he would say the Lord rebuke you. 00:20:22.047 --> 00:20:26.884 And so that's what she would do whenever she'd want to rebuke the devil, she'd the Lord rebuke you. 00:20:26.884 --> 00:20:28.884 I said why do you do that? 00:20:28.884 --> 00:20:30.545 That's not scripture. 00:20:30.545 --> 00:20:31.880 Oh yeah, that's in Jude. 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:33.665 I said, yes, that's for the angel. 00:20:33.665 --> 00:20:35.539 We're better than angels. 00:20:35.539 --> 00:20:37.078 We're the sons and daughters of God. 00:20:37.078 --> 00:20:38.380 We have the name of Jesus. 00:20:38.380 --> 00:20:40.019 Angels can't use the name of Jesus. 00:20:40.019 --> 00:20:42.905 Angels don't have any authority except to do what they're supposed to do. 00:20:42.905 --> 00:20:44.403 Do what they're told to do. 00:20:44.403 --> 00:20:45.327 That's all they can do. 00:20:45.327 --> 00:20:46.786 They can't do anything else. 00:20:46.786 --> 00:20:48.605 We have authority. 00:20:49.281 --> 00:20:50.460 She never did buy into it. 00:20:50.460 --> 00:20:56.007 She just and of course you know all these years later, decades later, she had one child that went to prison. 00:20:56.007 --> 00:20:59.826 She had another child that turned away around and never served God after that. 00:20:59.826 --> 00:21:14.307 See, what you believe has generational impact, and you need to believe the Bible so that you can take your rightful dominion over those demons that are afflicted in your family. 00:21:14.307 --> 00:21:15.944 And she didn't have any. 00:21:15.944 --> 00:21:22.579 She didn't have a revelation of her authority and she was leaving it up to the Lord to do it. 00:21:22.579 --> 00:21:25.724 Well, what else can Jesus do besides what he's already done? 00:21:25.724 --> 00:21:28.460 The Lord's not there to rebuke the devil. 00:21:28.460 --> 00:21:30.586 He's giving you the authority to rebuke him. 00:21:30.586 --> 00:21:32.203 Amen, ha ha ha. 00:21:32.203 --> 00:21:34.385 So stay out of the ditches. 00:21:34.385 --> 00:21:36.607 Don't get in the devil. 00:21:36.607 --> 00:21:42.339 You know the devil only crowd, or the devil ignorant crowd. 00:21:42.339 --> 00:21:43.746 Let's stay in the middle of the road. 00:21:43.746 --> 00:21:49.500 So three things tonight exercise dominion over demons. 00:21:49.500 --> 00:21:52.119 If you don't do it, it won't be done. 00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:58.990 There's a power vacuum and he will just simply keep moving in to take over more and more of your domain. 00:21:58.990 --> 00:22:01.287 So exercise dominion. 00:22:02.201 --> 00:22:11.208 And one of my favorite verses James, chapter four, verse seven submit yourself, therefore, to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 00:22:11.208 --> 00:22:12.324 The word flee there. 00:22:12.324 --> 00:22:20.380 When you look it up it really, in some translations it means to flee as in terror, to flee as in terror. 00:22:20.380 --> 00:22:22.729 So submit yourself to God. 00:22:22.729 --> 00:22:23.779 Well, how do you do that? 00:22:23.779 --> 00:22:25.145 Submit yourself to the word. 00:22:25.145 --> 00:22:35.646 I mean submit yourself that the word is true, no matter how you feel, no matter how it looks, no matter any emotion that you have. 00:22:35.646 --> 00:22:41.872 Submit yourself, get yourself under the lordship of the word. 00:22:41.872 --> 00:22:43.586 Jesus said how call you me Lord? 00:22:43.586 --> 00:22:45.419 Lord, not do the things that I say. 00:22:45.419 --> 00:22:55.939 Well, these are the things he said to do, and so resist the devil and demons resist him, oppose him. 00:22:55.939 --> 00:22:58.660 And then what does the Bible say? 00:22:58.660 --> 00:23:00.906 He will flee, as in terror. 00:23:00.906 --> 00:23:05.751 And so we need words and action. 00:23:05.751 --> 00:23:13.819 Certainly we wanna resist him with words, we wanna speak the word of God against him, but then we've got to do some actions. 00:23:13.819 --> 00:23:16.467 We've got to not allow fear. 00:23:16.467 --> 00:23:27.709 Fear is the opposite of faith, and when fear and torment comes, that's the precursor to demonic activity in your life, and he's gonna come and try to take over. 00:23:27.709 --> 00:23:31.567 If he can get you in fear, if he can get you to act in fear. 00:23:32.579 --> 00:23:37.729 I knew a lady one time that just you know she had money trouble. 00:23:37.729 --> 00:23:43.844 She seemed to always be lacking in money, and then, when I knew her, she just wasn't faithful to either. 00:23:43.844 --> 00:23:52.459 She would tie the wild and quit, and she would, you know, and then she'd get a better job, and so then her, you know, get her finances and all. 00:23:52.459 --> 00:24:07.438 She'd tied for a little while, then she'd quit, but she would live in an apartment until the crime got so bad that, you know, she would try to move and go someplace else where the crime wasn't that bad, but the crime always followed her everywhere she went. 00:24:07.438 --> 00:24:07.671 Why? 00:24:07.671 --> 00:24:09.733 Because she didn't have her life. 00:24:09.733 --> 00:24:15.736 She was not submitted to the Word, she was not a tither and her life just didn't blessed. 00:24:15.736 --> 00:24:18.178 She cheated herself for years and years. 00:24:18.178 --> 00:24:22.291 I just kept up with her and she just never was consistent in that way. 00:24:22.291 --> 00:24:25.451 And she's always running from the devil, going from one place to the next. 00:24:26.269 --> 00:24:27.012 Well, I got burglarized again. 00:24:27.012 --> 00:24:28.397 Well, he came and stole my this. 00:24:28.397 --> 00:24:29.172 He stole that. 00:24:29.172 --> 00:24:30.474 I lost this. 00:24:30.474 --> 00:24:31.057 I lost that. 00:24:31.057 --> 00:24:31.679 I'm going to move? 00:24:31.679 --> 00:24:33.030 Well, you can't. 00:24:33.030 --> 00:24:34.454 You listen, you can't move away from the devil. 00:24:34.454 --> 00:24:35.479 He's a lot of places. 00:24:35.479 --> 00:24:37.468 Demons are everywhere you go. 00:24:37.468 --> 00:24:38.875 And the best way to do is what? 00:24:38.875 --> 00:24:43.699 Submit yourself to God, resist the devil and be a doer of the Word. 00:24:43.699 --> 00:24:48.798 Don't follow, don't let fear and torment be the reason you do anything. 00:24:51.069 --> 00:24:56.801 The second way to exercise dominion is Ephesians 4.27,. 00:24:56.801 --> 00:25:04.316 Give no place to the devil, which tells me that the devil can't take a place unless we give it to him. 00:25:04.316 --> 00:25:06.755 Well, how do we give it to him? 00:25:06.755 --> 00:25:08.276 Well, through sin or ignorance. 00:25:08.276 --> 00:25:12.191 Sin is just he that knows to do good and do it Not. 00:25:12.191 --> 00:25:12.974 It's sin unto him. 00:25:12.974 --> 00:25:13.994 So it's pretty simple. 00:25:13.994 --> 00:25:29.977 I mean, when you disobey the Word, when you disobey the Spirit of God, when he's dealing with you to do something and you don't do it, you're opening the door for demonic powers to do one of three things steal, kill and destroy. 00:25:29.977 --> 00:25:31.520 You're giving place. 00:25:31.520 --> 00:25:34.256 You're giving place and they can come in. 00:25:35.410 --> 00:25:40.501 And the second way that you can give place to demons is through ignorance. 00:25:40.501 --> 00:25:42.897 That's why I'm preaching this tonight. 00:25:42.897 --> 00:25:49.915 Sometimes people are not, they don't understand that there's demonic activity coming. 00:25:49.915 --> 00:25:51.676 They get God and the devil mixed up. 00:25:51.676 --> 00:25:57.997 You know, religious thinking is just that's ignorance, when you blame God for what the devil is doing. 00:25:57.997 --> 00:26:06.559 That's what I was saying a while ago about how God well, god allowed my car wreck, or God allowed my cancer. 00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:08.317 God allowed this, god allowed that. 00:26:08.317 --> 00:26:09.795 God allows everything you allow. 00:26:09.795 --> 00:26:11.019 Because why? 00:26:11.019 --> 00:26:14.217 Because we have dominion, we have authority. 00:26:14.217 --> 00:26:19.381 All authority in heaven and in earth has given unto us. 00:26:19.381 --> 00:26:23.018 It's given unto us because Jesus delegated it to us. 00:26:23.018 --> 00:26:30.740 So there again, see, we're giving place to the devil because of ignorance, of our authority or our dominion. 00:26:30.740 --> 00:26:40.932 And so another area I see a lot is the area of familiar spirits. 00:26:40.932 --> 00:26:42.775 What in the world is that? 00:26:42.849 --> 00:26:49.318 Well, you know, demon powers like to travel in families, and you know so. 00:26:49.318 --> 00:26:53.255 If you've ever gone to the doctor, they want you to give a medical history and my age. 00:26:53.255 --> 00:26:57.194 When I go to the doctor, if I get a lot of times they'll want me to fill out. 00:26:57.194 --> 00:27:04.133 Especially when I had my surgery open heart surgery Four years ago, I had an extensive medical history I had to fill out. 00:27:04.133 --> 00:27:08.262 You know your father, when did he die? 00:27:08.262 --> 00:27:09.013 What age? 00:27:09.013 --> 00:27:10.153 What was it? 00:27:10.153 --> 00:27:11.112 Cancer. 00:27:11.112 --> 00:27:14.240 Your mother, you know daughter, daughter, all the way down. 00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:17.258 Have you ever had a family history of this, a family history of that? 00:27:17.258 --> 00:27:21.772 So what you're doing, you need to answer the questions if you want medical treatment. 00:27:21.833 --> 00:27:28.124 But you've got to say out to yourself that has been broken in my family line. 00:27:28.124 --> 00:27:38.029 Because I've been set free by the blood of Jesus, I have no familiar spirits being able to travel from my family line into my family. 00:27:38.029 --> 00:27:39.153 It's been interrupted. 00:27:39.153 --> 00:27:48.990 See, I just don't ever get afraid of talking about what happened to my mother and father or my brothers or sister or whatever, because I know with me it's been broken. 00:27:48.990 --> 00:27:50.635 I don't have any familiar spirits. 00:27:50.635 --> 00:27:55.380 But for a lot of folks you've got to deal with familiar spirits. 00:27:55.380 --> 00:28:04.906 And so I just think about years ago at Lakewood. 00:28:05.468 --> 00:28:14.700 I was on Wednesday night and a woman, a young woman, came up for prayer and she said I've got a buzzing in my ear. 00:28:14.700 --> 00:28:19.115 It's almost like an insect is in there and it's just driving me wacky. 00:28:19.115 --> 00:28:21.089 I mean it just I can't stand. 00:28:21.089 --> 00:28:25.301 I said, okay, well, let's just stand still, but lift your hands and let me just pray over. 00:28:25.301 --> 00:28:37.895 And I put my hands on either side of her, on each ear, on either side of her head, and as soon as my hands touched her, she fell straight down I mean like an elevator, straight down and started riding on the carpet. 00:28:37.895 --> 00:28:44.655 It's right in front of Brother Osteen and Doty, right in front of the console there, and she's riding like a snake. 00:28:45.789 --> 00:29:03.954 Well, I got down there with her, you know, started praying in other tongues, and the reason I was praying in other tongues is that, you know, I had just started functioning in the gift of the discerning of spirits and I was praying to get the name of the spirit so that I could cast it out of her. 00:29:03.954 --> 00:29:08.259 I found that when I can do that now, you don't need to do that. 00:29:08.259 --> 00:29:10.719 The Bible says you can cast out spirits. 00:29:10.719 --> 00:29:16.179 That's what it every believer has, that you don't have to have a special ministry. 00:29:16.179 --> 00:29:16.711 You don't have to. 00:29:16.711 --> 00:29:23.898 But yet, at the same time, that ministry had been manifesting, and so I was attempting to do that. 00:29:24.671 --> 00:29:35.123 And so, before I could finish, well, all the other prayer partners leaped on this situation and they were all hollering come out, come out of her, I come out of her, devil, come out. 00:29:35.123 --> 00:29:37.354 And all this bunch of confusion. 00:29:37.354 --> 00:29:41.038 So I said, okay, hold it, hold it, let's go in the back. 00:29:41.038 --> 00:29:43.959 Let's, let's stop this, this is not working, let's go in the back. 00:29:43.959 --> 00:29:45.496 So we took her in the back. 00:29:45.496 --> 00:29:50.480 I said, okay, guys, y'all back off, let me talk to the lady, find out what's going on. 00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:52.396 I said, okay, how long has this been going on? 00:29:52.396 --> 00:29:57.721 Well, ever since I moved back and with my parents and they, they practiced the occult. 00:29:57.721 --> 00:30:06.696 I said you're a Christian, yes, I'm a Christian, but I go to bed at night and I'm afraid, because they, they, and I said that's okay, let's just so. 00:30:06.939 --> 00:30:20.609 I prayed a little longer and I got the name of that thing and as soon as I cast it out of her, she rocketed out of her metal chair, did a somersault and hit the wall across from us and she came up speaking another time. 00:30:20.609 --> 00:30:40.518 She was instantly delivered like that and filled with a Holy Ghost, and so that was a familiar spirit that had entered into her, because her number one of her ignorance of her rights and privileges is number two she's not baptized in the Holy Ghost, so she's not fortified against the devil. 00:30:40.518 --> 00:30:42.519 And so I encourage her. 00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:52.238 I said you're going to just go back home, get some oil in the nonture, the broom that you have your own room, yeah, just anoint it with oil on the door and on the window, just just sanctified. 00:30:52.238 --> 00:30:53.548 And I said you'll be just fine. 00:30:53.548 --> 00:30:58.756 And then I prayed with her and agreed with her that she could afford to find her own place. 00:30:58.756 --> 00:31:01.576 You know, get a better job and find her own place to live. 00:31:01.576 --> 00:31:03.938 Oh, come on, let's lift our hands. 00:31:03.938 --> 00:31:06.097 We've got authority over demon powers. 00:31:06.097 --> 00:31:08.480 We don't have to magnify them. 00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:11.545 And well, pastor, that was because you're a minister. 00:31:11.545 --> 00:31:13.010 Well, you know, I wasn't ordained. 00:31:13.010 --> 00:31:17.355 Well, I might have been ordained, but still I wasn't practicing a pastor at that time. 00:31:18.645 --> 00:31:23.830 Gifts, gifts come into this, but sometimes, just by faith, you can cast out spirits. 00:31:23.830 --> 00:31:30.952 And so there's people out there that are afflicted with fear, spirits of fear. 00:31:30.952 --> 00:31:33.864 There's great distress in our land. 00:31:33.864 --> 00:31:41.914 I mean this whole thing coming out of the COVID thing and then directly into the fear of World War III. 00:31:41.914 --> 00:31:43.924 I mean that's what's going on with this Ukraine. 00:31:43.924 --> 00:31:48.089 I'm not saying it's not a real conflict and people are not dying. 00:31:48.089 --> 00:31:54.512 They are, but it's being used for propaganda and we're getting fake news in this country. 00:31:54.512 --> 00:32:02.125 It's being built up so that everybody can forget about what we're going through, so they can perpetuate what they've been doing. 00:32:02.125 --> 00:32:03.750 So let's not fall for that. 00:32:04.685 --> 00:32:09.432 All right, and the last one is rise up in authority in Jesus' name. 00:32:09.432 --> 00:32:10.535 You have dominion. 00:32:10.535 --> 00:32:12.932 You have the Word of God and the Holy Ghost. 00:32:12.932 --> 00:32:17.335 You don't have to be a minister of the gospel. 00:32:17.335 --> 00:32:18.156 Quote unquote. 00:32:18.156 --> 00:32:24.605 You're an able minister of the new covenant and wherever the need is, you're able to help people. 00:32:24.605 --> 00:32:27.554 Sometimes people just need to be helped. 00:32:28.486 --> 00:32:34.934 I can just tell you I wouldn't use the word devil or demon with people because it makes them afraid. 00:32:34.934 --> 00:32:45.231 You can just say spirit of this or spirit, you foul spirit, you leave this person, don't make a big thing of it, don't bring it in. 00:32:45.231 --> 00:32:47.393 You start saying devil, you get out of. 00:32:47.393 --> 00:32:49.170 Well then that person could. 00:32:49.170 --> 00:32:53.893