WEBVTT 00:00:00.542 --> 00:00:05.900 And get your Bible out, please, and pick it up and wave it around and make Jesus glad in the devil mad. 00:00:05.900 --> 00:00:21.253 And let's say this together say, heavenly father, I've tuned into live stream Because I'm hungry and thirsty for more, more of your presence, more of your holy word, more of your holy spirit. 00:00:21.253 --> 00:00:24.812 I have victory in every contest. 00:00:24.812 --> 00:00:35.084 I'm standing in faith, believing, and I receive and I shall have in Jesus name, amen, amen, amen. 00:00:35.084 --> 00:00:37.350 Let's look at a couple of verses first of all. 00:00:37.390 --> 00:00:46.009 First Peter, verse 5, chapter 5, verse 8, very familiar verse, and In also revelation, chapter 12. 00:00:46.009 --> 00:00:48.445 We'll take first Peter. 00:00:48.445 --> 00:01:08.570 It says be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, has a roaring line, walketh about seeking whom he may devour, whom resist steadfast in the faith They've been, resist him, all right. 00:01:08.570 --> 00:01:18.507 And then revelation, chapter 12, and I think I'm gonna start reading with verse 10, revelation 12, verse 10. 00:01:18.507 --> 00:01:49.894 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven Now has come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ, for the accuser of our brethren See, that's another name for the devil is Cashed down, which accused them before our God, day and night, and they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they love not their lives under the death. 00:01:49.894 --> 00:01:53.969 Therefore, rejoice ye, heavens and ye that dwell in them. 00:01:53.969 --> 00:02:06.652 Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea, for the devil has come down Under you having great wrath, because he'd know it that he hath but a short time. 00:02:06.652 --> 00:02:12.372 So tonight I wanted to share a message entitled victory through the blood. 00:02:12.372 --> 00:02:14.663 Victory through the blood. 00:02:14.663 --> 00:02:17.872 Thank God for the precious blood of Christ. 00:02:17.872 --> 00:02:26.935 You know he is the major key to overcoming the blood of Jesus, as the over is the major key to overcoming the devil. 00:02:26.935 --> 00:02:34.939 He's gonna come, he's going to confront you, he is going to oppose you and all faith endeavors and all matters of faith. 00:02:34.939 --> 00:02:43.435 He is there to try to find a way to stop you and it's our job and our duty to overcome him. 00:02:43.435 --> 00:02:46.526 You know, you know he's crazy mad right now. 00:02:46.566 --> 00:02:47.968 Just look at the Democrat party. 00:02:47.968 --> 00:02:50.693 I mean, they're the party of the devil. 00:02:50.693 --> 00:02:54.401 I mean, you know they've got a satanic Platform. 00:02:54.401 --> 00:02:58.771 Their policies are completely out of phase with with the Bible and with a Christianity. 00:02:58.771 --> 00:03:00.805 They're at the party of the antichrist. 00:03:00.805 --> 00:03:01.847 They're the party of the devil. 00:03:01.847 --> 00:03:03.390 They can't tell the truth. 00:03:03.390 --> 00:03:04.393 There's no truth in them. 00:03:04.393 --> 00:03:08.290 You know the body, one of the things the devil is, he's the father of lies. 00:03:08.290 --> 00:03:12.819 You know, you can kind of tell what side they're on, because they cannot tell the truth about anything. 00:03:12.819 --> 00:03:17.348 No, no kind of subject, no kind of situation it comes up. 00:03:17.348 --> 00:03:19.032 Do you get the truth out of these people? 00:03:20.760 --> 00:03:33.418 The devil is crazy mad and he's looking for any way to gain advantage and His only hope is for someone not to be looking, not to be watching. 00:03:33.418 --> 00:03:34.219 See, be sober, be vigilant. 00:03:34.219 --> 00:03:37.460 He's looking, he's looking, he's searching. 00:03:37.460 --> 00:03:55.661 Which tells me that if we're watching and if we're filled with a Holy Ghost and we stay in prayer and we stay connected to to God through prayer and let the Holy Spirit rain big in us, he has very little opportunity to do much of anything to us except inconvenience Us. 00:03:55.661 --> 00:03:55.942 You know. 00:03:55.942 --> 00:04:00.199 But I'm telling you, the devil is not just trying, aiming to give you a bad hair day. 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:01.104 He wants to kill you. 00:04:01.104 --> 00:04:03.903 If he can't kill you, he wants to discredit you. 00:04:03.903 --> 00:04:08.867 If he can't do that, he went. 00:04:08.867 --> 00:04:11.335 Listen, he is pulling out all the stops. 00:04:11.335 --> 00:04:11.596 Because why? 00:04:11.596 --> 00:04:12.979 Because the Bible says he knows that his time is short. 00:04:12.979 --> 00:04:18.860 You know, the Bible says in Ephesians 4, 27 thinking about this, this, looking for a place. 00:04:18.860 --> 00:04:22.134 The Bible says in Ephesians 4, 27 give no place to the devil. 00:04:22.134 --> 00:04:27.875 That tells me he can't take one unless we give it. 00:04:27.896 --> 00:04:29.019 You know, I grew up in the 50s, you know, in our house. 00:04:29.019 --> 00:04:45.579 I lived in Gleana Park when I was born here in Houston, and my family lived in Gleana Park, little little town just adjacent to to Houston by the Houston ship ship channel, and you know we didn't have air conditioning so we had screen doors. 00:04:45.579 --> 00:04:50.600 So in the summertime we, you know, we had to make sure we remembered to latch the screen door at night. 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:54.615 I don't know, I don't remember any big deal about it. 00:04:54.615 --> 00:04:59.132 I mean we left the cars unlocked, we left the windows rolled down. 00:04:59.132 --> 00:05:00.557 I mean nobody was afraid of much of anything. 00:05:00.557 --> 00:05:04.694 There wasn't a big crime wave, I'm sure there was crime, but it we never felt fear like you do nowadays. 00:05:04.694 --> 00:05:09.795 Today you have to clock everything and make sure everything is double locked and so forth, so on. 00:05:09.795 --> 00:05:17.069 But you know the devil's looking for somebody to leave the door open. 00:05:17.069 --> 00:05:19.536 He's looking for somebody to leave the door open. 00:05:19.536 --> 00:05:22.329 He's looking for somebody that left the car unlocked. 00:05:22.329 --> 00:05:24.603 It's about the only heat. 00:05:24.603 --> 00:05:26.810 Go, give him a place and he'll take place. 00:05:28.182 --> 00:05:38.374 But if you're sober and vigilant, if you realize that he hates you and that you keep your guard up, that you keep your faith engaged, amen. 00:05:38.374 --> 00:05:40.540 I mean soldiers have to watch. 00:05:40.540 --> 00:05:43.771 I mean you know if you're serving the military. 00:05:43.771 --> 00:05:46.000 I mean no matter where you are, you've got to watch. 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.560 They're gonna have people out there watching all night long. 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:51.101 A Shepherds have to watch. 00:05:51.101 --> 00:05:57.834 You know they have to watch over the sheet to guard against the coyotes and wolves and all of that. 00:05:57.834 --> 00:06:03.105 So we have to watch and prayer and listen To the Holy Ghost. 00:06:03.105 --> 00:06:08.634 You know he will warn you, and not so much with a voice or words. 00:06:08.634 --> 00:06:15.024 He will warn you, he will alert you, he will cause you to know that you need to be on guard. 00:06:15.971 --> 00:06:20.137 I remember years ago, probably 2008, I think it was. 00:06:20.137 --> 00:06:23.884 I didn't look it up before we did the service tonight. 00:06:23.884 --> 00:06:31.862 But you know my custom is to go through four times a year to Galveston and pray and spend at least a day. 00:06:31.862 --> 00:06:49.245 Sometimes I spend two days there just making myself available and you know usually I'll just kind of plan it, you know, by the date, but this particular morning it was a Thursday morning and usually that's when I go. 00:06:49.245 --> 00:06:51.209 I go on a Thursday and usually come back on a Friday. 00:06:51.209 --> 00:06:58.704 And if I want to stay a second day or second night, I can spend Friday night and come back on Saturday and still be fine for Sunday service. 00:06:58.704 --> 00:07:02.577 So that's kind of the way I've done it all these years. 00:07:02.678 --> 00:07:07.209 But this particular Thursday morning I had not planned to go to Galveston. 00:07:07.209 --> 00:07:12.209 I had no reservations and I woke up that morning with an alarm in my spirit. 00:07:12.209 --> 00:07:13.492 I'm just. 00:07:13.492 --> 00:07:22.653 I mean, I had a knowing that Holy Spirit didn't speak to me, I didn't hear a voice, but I knew I needed to go and pray and I knew it was urgent. 00:07:22.653 --> 00:07:47.521 And as I prayed in tongues all the way there and then afternoon I just prayed, and that evening I just began to know that it was about our nation, it was about a terror attack, and God put in my spirit that there was going to be five cities, five places in this country that were going to have a terror attack and we could avert them, everyone but one. 00:07:47.521 --> 00:08:01.619 We could avert those terror attacks if the church would pray and he gave me instructions to pray against it and we did and one by one, five different terror attacks were averted. 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:10.596 I don't know if you remember one time they found something in a printer cartridge that was over in Europe and they it was on its way to New York City. 00:08:10.596 --> 00:08:13.112 And they found it Another time. 00:08:13.112 --> 00:08:26.951 It was a guy that had the bomb under his shoe and it no, no, it was the guy that had the bomb in his underwear and it went off and started flaming and started burning him in the plane and it never exploded. 00:08:26.951 --> 00:08:27.894 So no one was hurt. 00:08:27.894 --> 00:08:29.499 So things like that. 00:08:29.499 --> 00:08:38.600 And then the final one that we couldn't stop, and the other promise was if you'll pray, none of the cities will be in Texas. 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:41.835 I'll protect Texas if you will pray. 00:08:41.875 --> 00:08:45.442 As a church and we did we were faithful to pray against that cry, against it. 00:08:45.442 --> 00:08:48.333 And we're talking about give no place to the devil. 00:08:48.333 --> 00:08:53.102 I'm talking about being sober, being vigilant and resisting the devil. 00:08:53.102 --> 00:08:56.278 And so that's what we did as a church. 00:08:56.278 --> 00:09:19.604 And there was one attack that we couldn't avert and that was at the Army base Fort Hood, that horrible massacre by this Muslim nut job who was in the service he is in the service, an officer, I think and he smuggled a gun in there and killed a bunch of our guys on the base. 00:09:19.604 --> 00:09:25.019 It was a, you know, and they the Obama administration called it a workplace violence. 00:09:25.019 --> 00:09:26.341 It was a terror attack. 00:09:26.341 --> 00:09:29.716 You know he did it in the name of Islam. 00:09:29.716 --> 00:09:32.201 No punishment, really. 00:09:32.201 --> 00:09:35.600 I mean, you know, put into an insane asylum. 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:37.244 I think it turned out. 00:09:37.244 --> 00:09:43.190 I could be wrong about that, but anyway, it was not nearly what should have happened in that situation. 00:09:43.190 --> 00:09:45.033 Somebody said, well, wait a minute. 00:09:45.033 --> 00:09:45.394 I thought. 00:09:45.394 --> 00:09:48.280 I thought you know that's in, that's in Texas. 00:09:48.280 --> 00:09:54.210 Well, actually, no, that's federal property and so it's technically not Texas. 00:09:54.210 --> 00:09:56.520 I mean, fort Hood is federal property. 00:09:56.520 --> 00:09:58.210 So God was faithful. 00:09:58.330 --> 00:10:01.235 My point is many times we're warned. 00:10:01.235 --> 00:10:07.836 You know, god can warn us about things that are going to happen and sometimes we say, well, why did God allow? 00:10:07.836 --> 00:10:08.437 Well, god doesn't. 00:10:08.437 --> 00:10:14.076 God allows what we allow and he has given us a mechanism so that we can listen. 00:10:14.076 --> 00:10:20.139 If we're sober and vigilant and we stand to watch, watching means praying, staying in contact. 00:10:20.139 --> 00:10:22.995 Amen, you know, jesus said in the last days. 00:10:22.995 --> 00:10:26.802 He said you know I'm going to come and you ought to be watching. 00:10:26.802 --> 00:10:34.169 You know, if the watchman would have known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken up. 00:10:34.169 --> 00:10:37.210 Well, he was talking about the rapture, but it's true anyway. 00:10:37.210 --> 00:10:48.274 I mean, if you knew what time the burglary was going to arrive at your home and try to jiggle the lock and come in, you'd be ready for him, and that's what the Holy Spirit can do. 00:10:48.274 --> 00:10:51.260 Let's make sure that we don't give place to the devil. 00:10:51.260 --> 00:10:58.761 We overcome the devil and Revelation 12, 11 gives us three ways that we overcome him. 00:11:00.530 --> 00:11:02.354 Number one by the blood of the lamb. 00:11:02.354 --> 00:11:09.186 Oh, I tell you there's a lot of modern churchy anity right now that they've forgotten about the blood. 00:11:09.186 --> 00:11:18.813 A lot of the quote, unquote Christian music you hear on Christian radio stations they're devoid of the blood, they're devoid of a redemptive truth. 00:11:18.813 --> 00:11:27.354 You know a lot of what I hear and that for that reason I'm sorry I just don't listen a lot to it Because I don't find it very uplifting. 00:11:27.354 --> 00:11:29.336 But it's begging God. 00:11:29.336 --> 00:11:33.524 It's all this weak, risked, limp, risked, poor me. 00:11:33.524 --> 00:11:36.190 Woe is me and all of that. 00:11:36.190 --> 00:11:38.615 I'm so sad, I'm so blah, blah, blah. 00:11:38.615 --> 00:11:41.903 It's look, it doesn't glorify God, it's not redemptive truth. 00:11:42.409 --> 00:11:44.053 The blood of the lamb. 00:11:44.053 --> 00:11:45.157 Why is that the blood? 00:11:45.157 --> 00:11:46.919 Because the blood is our covenant. 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:50.510 The word covenant means to cut. 00:11:50.510 --> 00:11:52.432 It implies the shedding of blood. 00:11:52.432 --> 00:11:58.014 It was the shedding of Jesus blood that ended the devil's domain. 00:11:58.014 --> 00:12:01.043 It canceled his power. 00:12:01.043 --> 00:12:11.162 Oh, I tell you, the devil is a frightened of the blood and he's frightened of people who know what the blood has purchased for them. 00:12:13.495 --> 00:12:15.962 We overcome the devil by the blood of the lamb. 00:12:15.962 --> 00:12:17.178 Praise God. 00:12:17.178 --> 00:12:22.759 You ought to meditate and confess the scriptures concerning the blood. 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:28.559 Let's be strong on our knowledge of what the blood has done. 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:31.000 For instance, romans 5, 9,. 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:38.659 We're justified by his blood, just as if we'd never sinned, just as if I'd never sinned. 00:12:38.659 --> 00:12:43.543 Justified, the blood has washed us and cleansed us. 00:12:45.014 --> 00:12:46.620 And then Romans 3, 25,. 00:12:46.620 --> 00:12:52.985 We are justified through faith in the blood See, very similar through faith in the blood. 00:12:52.985 --> 00:12:53.918 Let's have faith. 00:12:53.918 --> 00:12:58.301 We have faith in the name, we have faith in the blood. 00:12:58.301 --> 00:13:03.722 These are supernatural weapons that we have to do battle against the devil. 00:13:03.722 --> 00:13:06.682 We're no match for the devil in our natural strength. 00:13:06.682 --> 00:13:23.302 We're no match for the devil in our natural minds, but when we get over into the Word of God and in the Holy Ghost, now we've got something to combat him and more than that, we've got something that will defeat him and will overcome him. 00:13:23.302 --> 00:13:25.182 Amen, victory. 00:13:25.182 --> 00:13:27.243 You know we are redeemed. 00:13:27.243 --> 00:13:30.302 1 Peter 1, 18,. 00:13:30.302 --> 00:13:38.174 I confess every day we are redeemed by the precious blood of Christ as a land without blemish and without spot Boy. 00:13:38.174 --> 00:13:39.561 I tell you the blood of redemption. 00:13:41.700 --> 00:13:46.832 People, we need to be strong in our redemptive realities. 00:13:46.832 --> 00:13:50.344 We've been redeemed by the precious blood of Christ. 00:13:50.344 --> 00:13:53.280 Just the same, it kind of points toward Israel. 00:13:53.280 --> 00:13:58.466 I mean, they were redeemed by the blood of a little lamb. 00:13:58.466 --> 00:14:01.875 They just put it on their doorposts, you know. 00:14:01.875 --> 00:14:06.043 They just put it on their doorposts and they were redeemed and the death angel passed over. 00:14:06.043 --> 00:14:14.005 So many things can be avoided and averted if we'll be conscious that we are being stalked. 00:14:15.394 --> 00:14:18.678 Yes, he's walking around, he's looking, he's looking to see. 00:14:18.678 --> 00:14:19.567 Did they lock the door? 00:14:19.567 --> 00:14:21.802 Have they got an open door somewhere? 00:14:21.802 --> 00:14:23.240 Is there unforgiveness in there? 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:24.780 Is there sin? 00:14:24.780 --> 00:14:26.760 I mean, you know we've got unconfessed sin. 00:14:26.760 --> 00:14:33.803 It's so dangerous right now to be a backslider because you know your life can end just like that. 00:14:33.803 --> 00:14:35.238 I mean, but why? 00:14:35.238 --> 00:14:39.400 Well, because you've sinned and you haven't repented, you haven't got it under the blood. 00:14:39.400 --> 00:14:45.039 You keep living in the moment and you say someday, well, I'll get back around the church again. 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:46.840 Right now it's just complicated. 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:51.120 A lot of times people get offended, they get away from God, they get away from church. 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:59.227 Listen, you're in danger, you're a prime target for the enemy to end your life suddenly. 00:14:59.227 --> 00:15:19.583 And so let's, let's, let's, let's realize we overcome by the blood of the lamb Number two, by the word of our testimony, that is, the, by releasing the word about the blood against Satan and over our loved ones, over our circumstances, over our bodies, over our health. 00:15:20.495 --> 00:15:22.289 You know, I like what Derek Prince. 00:15:22.289 --> 00:15:30.835 You know, derek Prince, I go back to when I was first saved and I used to listen to a KJOJ radio station every morning. 00:15:30.835 --> 00:15:41.825 I'd had a, had a routine I get up early, I do my prayer and I'd read my Bible and then, you know, later in the morning I was a home builder and so the first thing I'd do is I'd get in my van. 00:15:41.825 --> 00:16:01.126 I had a van and I would drive to Old Town Spring I lived in little subdivision, about five miles away and I'd turn the radio on, I'd start listening to the radio for a full hour and there were four broadcasts, 15 minutes apiece, that I would listen to. 00:16:01.126 --> 00:16:08.384 I would listen to Charles Capps, rw Shambach, derek Prince and Brother Hagin. 00:16:08.384 --> 00:16:12.259 That was my lineup Every day, five days a week. 00:16:12.259 --> 00:16:15.005 One hour of Bible teaching. 00:16:15.005 --> 00:16:17.195 And I love Derek Prince. 00:16:17.195 --> 00:16:19.682 He had that Cambridge English accent. 00:16:20.554 --> 00:16:28.455 He was such a powerful teacher and when he would teach on the blood he would say you know, he would talk about the word of our testimony. 00:16:28.455 --> 00:16:34.062 He said the word of our testimony is our testimony of what the blood has purchased for us. 00:16:34.062 --> 00:16:38.174 See, let's, it's not just how you got saved, that's a testimony. 00:16:38.174 --> 00:16:40.517 It's not just that you got healed, that's a testimony. 00:16:40.517 --> 00:16:49.506 But specifically, you overcome him by speaking the revelation of what the blood has purchased for you. 00:16:49.506 --> 00:16:51.260 What has it purchased for you? 00:16:51.260 --> 00:16:52.698 It's purchased for you. 00:16:52.698 --> 00:16:55.798 Righteousness, it's purchased for you. 00:16:55.798 --> 00:17:03.500 You know the power and penalty of sin, sickness and lack have been canceled through the blood. 00:17:03.500 --> 00:17:06.402 You know, praise God. 00:17:06.402 --> 00:17:17.221 I mean it's so powerful when we, when we quote the word of God concerning the blood over against anything that we're facing that the devil is trying to bring. 00:17:18.174 --> 00:17:50.844 So, getting back to that, to the Jews there in Exodus, chapter 12, verse seven, you know they, they, they killed the Passover lamb and they took the blood and they dipped a Hyssop branch in the blood and they struck the door posts and the header of the of the door and then they also feel the threshold with blood and just a little like a groove, and so that meant that their covenant was. 00:17:50.844 --> 00:17:54.684 God told them to do that and the death angel would pass over. 00:17:54.684 --> 00:18:16.321 Hence we have the feast of Passover, which we just got through celebrating, and Passover the death angel passed over the dwellings of the Israelites, but it visited all the dwellings of Egypt and the firstborn of man and beast was killed that night by the death angel. 00:18:16.321 --> 00:18:20.365 But the blood was their exemption from that. 00:18:20.365 --> 00:18:24.701 So the Hissap, you know the Hissap, see your mouth is the Hissap. 00:18:24.701 --> 00:18:30.663 When you speak about the blood, it's the same as they taking the Hissap and taking the blood of an animal. 00:18:30.663 --> 00:18:39.980 No, you're taking your revelation of what the blood has done for you and you're putting it on everything that is under attack, or maybe under attack. 00:18:39.980 --> 00:18:41.539 Is your health under attack? 00:18:41.539 --> 00:18:50.298 I mean, strike that blood and put it in your mouth and speak it over your body, amen. 00:18:51.914 --> 00:18:55.086 And so then the third thing that it says there in Revelation. 00:18:55.086 --> 00:18:58.363 It says and love not their lives unto the death. 00:18:58.363 --> 00:19:05.846 And you know, a victorious warrior must be an obedient servant. 00:19:05.846 --> 00:19:13.923 You know, I know that we're sons and daughters of the most high God, but we have a servant's heart. 00:19:13.923 --> 00:19:18.194 You know, even though we are sons, we have privileges. 00:19:18.194 --> 00:19:18.635 We have. 00:19:18.635 --> 00:19:20.604 We're a royal priest to a holy nation. 00:19:20.604 --> 00:19:30.884 So we do have this awesome authority here in the earth, but still we must be dead to our own plans. 00:19:30.884 --> 00:19:35.374 We have to be dead to our own ways. 00:19:35.374 --> 00:19:41.914 We have to take up what Jesus has called us to do, and he called it in one time. 00:19:41.914 --> 00:19:50.314 He said unless you take up your cross and follow me, sometimes he calls us to do things that are not easy to do and they're not even pleasant to do. 00:19:50.314 --> 00:19:58.194 And if we're not willing to do something for the Lord when he asks us to and when he gives it to us to do, then we're really not loving our lives unto the death. 00:19:58.194 --> 00:20:00.005 We're loving our lives unto ourselves. 00:20:00.005 --> 00:20:01.894 And now what's happened? 00:20:01.894 --> 00:20:03.681 Well, we've opened the door to Satan. 00:20:03.681 --> 00:20:07.934 We're busy building our own kingdom instead of his kingdom. 00:20:07.934 --> 00:20:09.718 See, it's not our kingdom, it's his kingdom. 00:20:11.097 --> 00:20:13.199 And so, dead to criticism, that's another thing. 00:20:13.199 --> 00:20:13.978 I mean. 00:20:13.978 --> 00:20:15.273 You're called by God to do anything. 00:20:15.273 --> 00:20:16.414 You're going to be criticized. 00:20:16.414 --> 00:20:19.064 I was criticized when we opened a year ago. 00:20:19.064 --> 00:20:20.454 Our church was criticized. 00:20:20.454 --> 00:20:23.784 We were called you know all kinds of names foolish. 00:20:23.784 --> 00:20:26.855 You know all of these names. 00:20:26.855 --> 00:20:28.000 I won't go through them all. 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:33.653 You have to be dead to criticism, you know, and sometimes you have to be dead to praise. 00:20:33.653 --> 00:20:39.361 I mean, if you just have to be flattered in order to feel good, well, then you know you need to die. 00:20:39.361 --> 00:20:50.597 You know I mean, yeah, we all need encouragement time to time, but I mean, if you're just somebody that has to be padded on the back every time you do anything, hey, you know what you need to die. 00:20:51.776 --> 00:20:53.413 Dead to criticism, dead to praise. 00:20:53.413 --> 00:20:56.083 See, I learned these things when early in my Christian walk. 00:20:56.083 --> 00:20:58.381 And what do they do? 00:20:58.381 --> 00:21:01.494 They protect you from premature death. 00:21:01.494 --> 00:21:03.281 They protect you from disease. 00:21:03.281 --> 00:21:05.362 They close the door on Satan. 00:21:05.362 --> 00:21:09.782 That's what it does and it gives us the ability to overcome him. 00:21:09.782 --> 00:21:11.580 Victory through the blood. 00:21:11.580 --> 00:21:13.160 Hallelujah, love. 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:15.138 Not our lives to the death, dead to sin. 00:21:15.138 --> 00:21:22.067 You know our minds and bodies yielded to God. 00:21:22.067 --> 00:21:26.403 That's what it means Yielded to God, not yielded to itself. 00:21:28.318 --> 00:21:37.494 And you know, another element here that I like to talk about overcoming and victory through the blood is pleading the blood. 00:21:37.494 --> 00:21:40.144 This is almost a lost teaching. 00:21:40.144 --> 00:21:45.306 Some of the old time Pentecostals heard about that. 00:21:45.306 --> 00:21:51.501 There's some teaching along these lines, but by and large, the church at large, they don't even know what you're talking about. 00:21:51.501 --> 00:21:53.461 Plead the blood, what do you mean? 00:21:53.461 --> 00:21:54.855 Plead the blood? 00:21:54.934 --> 00:22:01.682 People hear the word plead and they think big, but plead the blood. 00:22:01.682 --> 00:22:08.541 The word plead means to strive, to contend, to conduct a legal case. 00:22:08.541 --> 00:22:10.759 Remember, we have a covenant. 00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:13.181 That covenant is legal. 00:22:13.181 --> 00:22:20.343 It's a legal thing that was executed by the shed blood of Jesus Christ. 00:22:20.343 --> 00:22:23.864 That blood is up in heaven at the mercy seat. 00:22:23.864 --> 00:22:29.423 So when the devil attacks us, almost all attacks are illegal. 00:22:29.423 --> 00:22:33.644 Almost all Italian people say, well, why did he do that? 00:22:33.644 --> 00:22:35.099 Well, I must have left the door open. 00:22:35.099 --> 00:22:36.757 Well, that's true, it can happen. 00:22:36.757 --> 00:22:38.663 But sometimes the devil is just illegal. 00:22:39.575 --> 00:22:41.101 He'll try to get away with something. 00:22:41.101 --> 00:22:52.832 He'll try to get away with throwing a thought at your mind and accuse you of thinking that thought, when it was him that threw the thought at your mind, to see if he could get it to stick there. 00:22:52.832 --> 00:22:57.449 And what you have to do is rise up and say, uh-uh, I didn't think that thought. 00:22:57.449 --> 00:22:59.174 You get out of here, devil, I don't accept that thought. 00:22:59.174 --> 00:23:01.583 I bring that thought captive. 00:23:01.583 --> 00:23:06.115 You see, that's when you're pleading the blood. 00:23:06.115 --> 00:23:08.174 See, the blood has made you worthy. 00:23:08.174 --> 00:23:10.174 You plead the blood over your mind and body. 00:23:10.174 --> 00:23:14.726 You plead the blood over your past, your present, your future. 00:23:14.726 --> 00:23:20.174 When the devil's trying to condemn you for a decision you made yesterday, well, you plead the blood over it. 00:23:20.174 --> 00:23:22.174 Well, that's under the blood. 00:23:22.174 --> 00:23:24.470 I already know I made a mistake and that's it. 00:23:24.470 --> 00:23:25.174 It's over with. 00:23:25.174 --> 00:23:27.174 I'm not going to beat myself up over it. 00:23:27.174 --> 00:23:29.174 I've already forgiven myself for that. 00:23:29.174 --> 00:23:38.807 So devil, I plead the blood over it and plead the blood over everything that concerns you and yours. 00:23:42.041 --> 00:23:47.174 One of the great testimonies brother Osteen used to tell along these lines. 00:23:47.174 --> 00:24:04.807 You know he had pastored Lakewood Baptist Church and in 1961, after he had been baptized in the Holy Ghost in 1958, and then he moved from Hibbert Memorial over to Lakewood Baptist down the street and Lakewood Baptist, hurricane Carla hid in 1961 and blew the Baptist. 00:24:04.807 --> 00:24:07.021 That's absolutely a true story. 00:24:07.021 --> 00:24:09.784 It blew the Baptist off of the sign. 00:24:09.784 --> 00:24:11.078 It became Lakewood Church. 00:24:11.078 --> 00:24:17.154 But anyway, in 1961, his ministry took off and he left the church. 00:24:17.154 --> 00:24:22.621 They got another pastor and he went on the field minister for eight years and traveled all around the world. 00:24:24.219 --> 00:24:30.864 And when he was gone, dodie and five little children behind, you know the devil would attack, they would get sick. 00:24:30.864 --> 00:24:32.346 She would call him. 00:24:32.346 --> 00:24:33.174 You know he'd be in the Philippines. 00:24:33.174 --> 00:24:35.722 Oh, john, you need to come home. 00:24:35.722 --> 00:24:37.846 You know one of them has got the. 00:24:37.846 --> 00:24:39.757 You know some sickness One of them. 00:24:39.757 --> 00:24:46.423 You know nothing terrible, but just, you know, just that devil, the enemy, would attack them and they were vulnerable. 00:24:47.737 --> 00:24:48.902 So he tells a story. 00:24:48.902 --> 00:25:01.324 He came home one time, came back to town and they lived in umbil at that time and he said okay, let's have a family meeting, we're going to, we're going to get outside and we're going to put the blood. 00:25:01.324 --> 00:25:03.538 And of course the children didn't understand that. 00:25:03.538 --> 00:25:07.824 And he didn't say plead, he said put, because pleading, put means the same thing. 00:25:07.824 --> 00:25:10.154 He said, yeah, I'm tired of this attacking. 00:25:10.154 --> 00:25:13.351 He's attacking you all every time I leave town. 00:25:13.351 --> 00:25:16.134 And you know, daddy's got to travel and so let's put an end to that. 00:25:16.134 --> 00:25:26.174 I'm going to be the locomotive and Dodie's going to be next and all of you children, just you all, are going to make the train and we're going to, we're going to, we're going to run the train all the way around the house. 00:25:26.174 --> 00:25:36.044 And so he got out in the front yard and he said I put the blood, I put the blood, I put the blood, and all the kids, you know they called it, you know they had fun with it. 00:25:36.688 --> 00:25:42.145 But his faith was being energized, his faith by faith, he put the blood all the way around his house. 00:25:42.145 --> 00:25:50.059 And when they finished, he said now then the blood of Jesus is around this house and the devil can't bring sickness here, he can't bring trouble here in. 00:25:50.059 --> 00:25:50.982 You know any more. 00:25:50.982 --> 00:25:54.401 In Jesus name, you know, and so the devil knew he was licked. 00:25:57.516 --> 00:26:15.402 And along those lines there's another teaching that has evaporated, I think, in modern days, and it's the art of holding the blood over difficult, stubborn situations that won't seem to move. 00:26:15.402 --> 00:26:27.787 I mean, you know, if you ever come up against something and you've, you've prayed against it and you you start praising God for it to be over with, but it's not over with and it takes, seems like a long, long time. 00:26:27.787 --> 00:26:35.587 This is especially true of maybe wayward children or relatives that we're praying for and so forth. 00:26:35.587 --> 00:26:49.940 And so holding the blood, the old timers that knew something about prayer, knew something about intercession and knew something about the blood covenant, they would hold the blood against situations like that. 00:26:49.940 --> 00:26:52.075 They would hold it. 00:26:53.809 --> 00:27:01.679 You know, smith Wigglesworth said one time that the Christians what he had observed in his ministry, that Christians quit too soon. 00:27:01.679 --> 00:27:13.019 I mean, they pray long enough and then, when it doesn't happen overnight, they just give up and the answer's already on the way, and then they just relax and quit contending for it. 00:27:13.019 --> 00:27:22.424 And so the old timers would hold the blood against stubborn situations until victory would come. 00:27:22.424 --> 00:27:25.278 See, and consistency lies the power. 00:27:25.570 --> 00:27:47.461 I'm not saying that you've got to go through some big, long ritual every single day, but I'm saying, once you begin to speak and you apply the blood against this circumstance and I'll give you an example here in a minute and you break the power of the devil over this situation, and then, from then on, every day, you can just thank God. 00:27:47.461 --> 00:27:53.174 I thank God, the blood of Jesus, I'm holding the blood of Jesus against this situation and I thank you for victory, lord. 00:27:53.174 --> 00:27:54.914 That's all you have to say. 00:27:54.914 --> 00:27:56.055 That's holding the blood. 00:27:56.055 --> 00:28:00.511 And if you do it every day, I mean you thank God every day and mention the blood Every day. 00:28:00.511 --> 00:28:02.258 That's what's called holding the blood. 00:28:02.289 --> 00:28:09.660 You don't have to go through this whole blustery, fervent diatribe against the devil and be breathless. 00:28:09.660 --> 00:28:18.817 You might do that the first day to let him know you mean business, but after that it's just a matter of holding the blood against him. 00:28:18.817 --> 00:28:29.089 Satan, I hold the blood of Jesus over every foul work and demonic attack that you're bringing against my loved one. 00:28:29.089 --> 00:28:32.349 So maybe it's your nephew is hooked on drugs. 00:28:32.349 --> 00:28:40.769 You could just plug drugs and put your nephew's name in there and then mention his name the next day and say thank God, the blood of Jesus. 00:28:40.769 --> 00:28:45.829 I'm holding the blood of Jesus over my nephew against this drug addiction. 00:28:45.829 --> 00:28:50.698 Oh, I tell you it's such powerful, the faith in the blood. 00:28:50.698 --> 00:28:53.469 Hallelujah, thank you, jesus. 00:28:53.469 --> 00:28:58.269 Your schemes are brought to naught by the precious blood of Jesus Christ. 00:28:58.269 --> 00:28:59.042 Amen. 00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:01.906 See, let's learn to speak. 00:29:01.906 --> 00:29:14.190 You know, praying is good, but sometimes we just need to rise up and speak and apply the blood, like using our mouth as hyssop and splashing the blood over the doorpost. 00:29:14.190 --> 00:29:18.339 Satan, the blood of Jesus is against you, boy. 00:29:18.339 --> 00:29:19.469 It's a powerful statement to make right there. 00:29:19.469 --> 00:29:23.950 I mean, sometimes we get into begging God to do this and begging God to do that. 00:29:23.950 --> 00:29:31.348 Listen, we have authority, we have the blood has already been shed and let's apply the blood. 00:29:31.348 --> 00:29:31.490 Amen. 00:29:31.490 --> 00:29:33.448 Victory through the blood. 00:29:33.448 --> 00:29:35.950 Praise God, I got more to share next week, but let's just lift our hands. 00:29:35.950 --> 00:29:38.547 Father, we thank you for the blood of Jesus. 00:29:38.547 --> 00:29:49.390 We have faith in the blood, we have victory through the blood and we're not quitting, we're not giving up, we're not of those who just melt when pressure's on, but we get stronger and stronger. 00:29:49.390 --> 00:29:51.009 And, jesus, thank you. 00:29:51.009 --> 00:29:51.701 Amen. 00:29:51.701 --> 00:29:57.257 I pray you got something out of that tonight and be encouraged about the blood of Jesus.