WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:00.864 Wraith your Bibles. 00:00:00.864 --> 00:00:02.794 Make Jesus glad, the devil man. 00:00:02.794 --> 00:00:06.886 Let's say this together say heavenly Father, I wouldn't miss this for anything. 00:00:06.886 --> 00:00:09.788 Thank you for your holy written word. 00:00:09.788 --> 00:00:12.384 It's incomparable. 00:00:12.384 --> 00:00:31.707 I don't wanna do without it and I don't have to do without it because you's giving it to me and you've given me the Holy Ghost to strengthen me in these days, for in the time of trouble, I call upon you in confidence and I know that you hear and answer me. 00:00:31.707 --> 00:00:35.249 Thank you in Jesus' name. 00:00:35.249 --> 00:00:37.905 Amen, you can be seated. 00:00:38.020 --> 00:00:42.526 I wanna continue with what I started last week on the Believer's Authority. 00:00:42.526 --> 00:00:52.723 It's a second message and, the way I see it, this is critical for us to get ahold of this. 00:00:52.723 --> 00:00:54.646 I mean, some of you have heard it and heard it. 00:00:54.646 --> 00:00:59.365 Well then, this is water for your faith, because faith comes by hearing and hearing. 00:00:59.365 --> 00:01:04.165 We all need to have our faith at the highest level right now. 00:01:04.165 --> 00:01:16.581 And then, those of you that are not well versed, I would say this if you've come out of a denominational church, I'll just say it Baptist, methodist, catholic, you haven't been taught this and you need. 00:01:16.581 --> 00:01:17.665 You need this. 00:01:17.665 --> 00:01:21.207 The church needs to rise up in authority. 00:01:21.207 --> 00:01:38.269 Amen, genesis 1, 26, and then also Matthew 28, or our foundation scriptures and God said let us make a man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion. 00:01:38.269 --> 00:01:50.530 Everybody shout dominion, shout authority Over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over the cattle, over all the earth, over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 00:01:50.530 --> 00:01:53.709 So, in other words, dominion over the whole earth. 00:01:53.709 --> 00:01:56.975 Let us who's that? 00:01:56.975 --> 00:01:57.560 Father, son and holy ghost? 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:02.500 Let's make man, and so we're three-part beings spirit, soul and body. 00:02:02.500 --> 00:02:07.231 God is the three-part God father, son and holy ghost. 00:02:07.231 --> 00:02:10.843 I mean, I laugh at these people who don't believe in the Trinity. 00:02:10.843 --> 00:02:11.445 They're nuts. 00:02:11.445 --> 00:02:13.039 Don't listen to it. 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:18.780 Get out of a church that doesn't teach the Trinity because they're not teaching the Bible. 00:02:18.780 --> 00:02:20.979 You know, you got the Jesus-only crowd. 00:02:20.979 --> 00:02:22.477 Well, I believe in Jesus? 00:02:22.477 --> 00:02:24.425 Of course I do, but he's not the only one. 00:02:24.425 --> 00:02:26.943 The God, the Father, amen. 00:02:26.943 --> 00:02:29.027 All right then, matthew 28. 00:02:31.445 --> 00:02:42.639 Jesus, after the resurrection he's about to be lifted into heaven and be seated at the right hand of the Father and his last encounter with the disciples verse 16. 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:47.043 Then the 11 disciples remember what happened to one of them, jesus. 00:02:47.043 --> 00:02:48.766 He hung himself. 00:02:48.766 --> 00:02:49.889 He betrayed Jesus. 00:02:49.889 --> 00:02:57.086 The 11 disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them, and when they saw him, they worshiped him. 00:02:57.086 --> 00:02:57.963 But some doubted. 00:02:57.963 --> 00:03:00.322 It's always. 00:03:00.322 --> 00:03:02.588 You know, jesus didn't fire them. 00:03:02.588 --> 00:03:05.846 He didn't tell them, man, get out of here. 00:03:05.846 --> 00:03:07.586 No, he said. 00:03:07.605 --> 00:03:11.082 Jesus came and he spoke unto them saying all power. 00:03:11.082 --> 00:03:15.007 That word power is the Greek word exesia, which means authority. 00:03:15.007 --> 00:03:20.424 All authority, all dominion is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 00:03:20.424 --> 00:03:24.548 Go ye, therefore, and teach. 00:03:24.548 --> 00:03:43.531 My margin says make disciples of all nations, people groups we think of boundaries, no people groups, ethnos, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever. 00:03:43.531 --> 00:03:49.706 I have commanded you and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age. 00:03:49.706 --> 00:03:51.070 Amen. 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:53.623 So the believer's authority. 00:03:53.623 --> 00:03:57.187 Our great God and Father gave man authority. 00:03:57.187 --> 00:03:59.450 Number of years ago, god told me. 00:03:59.450 --> 00:04:04.527 He said teach what you take for granted, teach the fundamentals of the faith. 00:04:04.527 --> 00:04:06.548 So many people are lacking that. 00:04:06.548 --> 00:04:16.687 A good football coach, baseball coach, you know, a good coach is not getting into the finer points, he's gonna teach the fundamentals. 00:04:16.687 --> 00:04:20.048 I mean that was Vince Lombardi. 00:04:20.048 --> 00:04:24.519 I mean he got back down to just the fundamentals blocking and tackling. 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:26.206 You know, if you don't have that, you don't have a. 00:04:26.206 --> 00:04:36.644 It doesn't matter how fancy the offense is, it doesn't matter how complex the defense is, if you don't block it and tackling, you don't have anything, any chance, and so that's the way it is. 00:04:36.644 --> 00:04:54.747 With you know, a lot of people want the latest message, they want some kind of prophecy, they want this, they want you need the fundamentals and you need to be practiced in them, and where they come automatic, you know, you get so practiced in the fundamentals that you don't have to think about it. 00:04:54.747 --> 00:04:56.505 You just that's your go to. 00:04:56.505 --> 00:04:58.062 Are you with me now? 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:04.312 So he gave man authority, but Adam had it and he lost it. 00:05:04.312 --> 00:05:10.067 Basically, it didn't even get stolen from him and he just gave it to the devil on purpose. 00:05:10.067 --> 00:05:14.863 I mean that, eve, she must have been some kind of knocked out chick. 00:05:14.863 --> 00:05:19.692 You've got power over everything. 00:05:19.692 --> 00:05:22.146 You've got power over that creep that came in the garden. 00:05:22.146 --> 00:05:30.269 You could have rebuked your wife, told her to repent, and instead he ran it off in the ditch. 00:05:30.269 --> 00:05:33.668 We've been paying for it ever since. 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:44.689 That storm, you know, is not global warming, it came as a result of the fall, every evil, destructive earthquake that hit Haiti. 00:05:44.689 --> 00:05:46.687 We're helping those people in Haiti. 00:05:46.687 --> 00:05:54.288 It's a monumental tragedy and we're helping solve the problem. 00:05:54.288 --> 00:05:55.182 We're gonna be helping. 00:05:55.182 --> 00:05:57.468 You know Louisiana, I'm sure. 00:05:57.468 --> 00:06:03.211 And so look, this is not God's sin in punishment. 00:06:03.211 --> 00:06:08.949 I see a lot of people think God's punishing, God's mad, god's, this God's that. 00:06:08.949 --> 00:06:13.007 You know, god is longing to help out, he's longing to do what he does best. 00:06:13.007 --> 00:06:22.807 And so Adam had it lost, it obeyed the devil and gave his dominion over to Satan. 00:06:22.807 --> 00:06:28.769 And now Satan is exercising dominion, a certain amount of dominion in the weather patterns. 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:35.968 It's not global warming, man made global warming is a lie, Just the same as evolution is a lie. 00:06:35.968 --> 00:06:38.708 They teach it as fact, but it's not a fact. 00:06:38.708 --> 00:06:44.800 Anything that denies the Word of God and its truth is a lie, and so. 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:53.966 But Jesus is called the last Adam and he defeated Satan and his minions after his resurrection from the dead. 00:06:53.966 --> 00:07:01.725 And then here we read where Jesus delegated his authority to the church, to the believers. 00:07:01.725 --> 00:07:03.966 Everybody say the believers, authority. 00:07:03.966 --> 00:07:05.523 Everybody say that's me. 00:07:05.523 --> 00:07:09.783 So you know, it's not just the apostles, I've heard that talk. 00:07:09.783 --> 00:07:10.487 That's a lie. 00:07:10.487 --> 00:07:14.966 It's to believers, you know, because Mark 16 says these signs shall follow them. 00:07:14.966 --> 00:07:16.903 That believe, not just the apostles. 00:07:16.903 --> 00:07:21.129 In the first century AD and after that it was gone. 00:07:21.129 --> 00:07:23.545 No, absolutely not. 00:07:23.545 --> 00:07:33.857 So these signs accompanied believers, absolute authority over demons, disease and death, if you really want to cook it down. 00:07:34.209 --> 00:07:37.149 I mean, I taught a class brother Osteen has been to teach at Lakewood. 00:07:37.149 --> 00:07:44.081 Their version of Sunday school was a family life institute. 00:07:44.081 --> 00:07:50.399 For eight years I taught and as a teacher I was supposed to be able to choose my topic. 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:54.189 So I chose the Holy Ghost and I got a call from brother Osteen. 00:07:54.189 --> 00:07:56.541 He said John, I want you to teach on redemption. 00:07:56.541 --> 00:07:58.149 What are you going to do? 00:07:58.149 --> 00:08:01.189 Okay, I've got a six part series that I taught. 00:08:01.552 --> 00:08:02.338 Now, this was taught. 00:08:02.338 --> 00:08:04.189 I taught this in 1974. 00:08:04.189 --> 00:08:09.718 He said John, I just apologize ahead of time, it's just hollering, I'm hollering. 00:08:09.718 --> 00:08:13.189 Well, he was preaching, he was preach teaching, that's what he was doing. 00:08:13.189 --> 00:08:21.170 He quit doing that as he got older and got a little bit more things in his body that he was wanting to overcome. 00:08:21.170 --> 00:08:29.148 But I got so much out of his six part redemption series preached in 1974. 00:08:29.148 --> 00:08:33.082 Before I ever got saved, way before I ever came to Lakewood. 00:08:33.082 --> 00:08:39.129 I hadn't even heard of him, you know, until I started coming, but he preached it. 00:08:40.373 --> 00:08:43.181 What I'm teaching this morning, he preached it at the top of it. 00:08:43.181 --> 00:08:46.806 Yah, yah, it was really good. 00:08:46.806 --> 00:08:49.639 It got into me and so for just about. 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:56.190 I mean, I taught a few other subjects, but essentially I taught on redemption and I taught a series on dominion over demons, disease and death. 00:08:56.190 --> 00:09:00.190 Eight part series, 55 minutes each part. 00:09:00.190 --> 00:09:19.149 I'm not going to go 55 minutes, I'm going to go shorter this morning, but just to let you know, I've taught this for years and I'm telling you, I still see people that don't know anything about their authority, and if they do, they're not using it, and so the context of this authority is to go ye. 00:09:19.530 --> 00:09:25.602 In other words, we've got to be involved in sitting in the witness chair. 00:09:25.602 --> 00:09:30.190 We've got to be involved in being a witness to this lost generation. 00:09:30.190 --> 00:09:35.190 We need to be witnesses that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. 00:09:35.190 --> 00:09:43.190 We need to believe in God to bring to us the suffering, sin, dying, crying humanity to the right harvest. 00:09:43.190 --> 00:09:45.190 You know, some, some people are not right. 00:09:45.190 --> 00:09:46.967 Joe Biden is not right. 00:09:46.967 --> 00:09:48.240 Harvest. 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:53.169 Most Democrats I'm not saying all, but most Democrats have already drunk the Kool-Aid. 00:09:53.169 --> 00:09:55.138 You're wasting your time. 00:09:55.138 --> 00:09:59.080 They have absolutely made a deal with the devil. 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:05.190 But you know, listen, there's still right Parvist out there and we need to be available to them. 00:10:05.190 --> 00:10:07.859 So that's the context of our authority. 00:10:07.859 --> 00:10:09.457 Now listen to the. 00:10:09.457 --> 00:10:11.190 I gave you this last week, but I want to repeat it. 00:10:12.293 --> 00:10:17.634 The definition this is this is what the Greek means A privilege. 00:10:17.634 --> 00:10:22.587 Authority means privilege, force, capacity, competency. 00:10:22.587 --> 00:10:23.190 Don't you like that? 00:10:23.190 --> 00:10:27.807 Have you ever seen a more incompetent president than what we have right now? 00:10:27.807 --> 00:10:30.414 And vice president, all the, all of the Democrats. 00:10:30.414 --> 00:10:33.842 They're incompetent and they're uncaring. 00:10:33.842 --> 00:10:38.421 Turn their back on our allies and on our own citizens. 00:10:40.212 --> 00:10:44.964 Thank God there's some veteran guys that that worked. 00:10:44.964 --> 00:10:48.996 You know special forces, green berets and all that. 00:10:48.996 --> 00:10:49.712 They're over there. 00:10:49.712 --> 00:10:52.190 You know bringing people out. 00:10:52.190 --> 00:10:58.034 I think they brought 500 Americans out, and I mean high risk, I mean they are absolute. 00:10:58.034 --> 00:11:04.190 They're going in the dark and they're going over there and getting the people and escorting them to the, to the airport, and making sure they get on an airplane. 00:11:04.190 --> 00:11:09.897 If it weren't for them, there's 500 more people that wouldn't be rescued and they're working. 00:11:09.897 --> 00:11:15.399 I'm telling you glory to God, thank God for people that are going to do something. 00:11:17.472 --> 00:11:28.149 So competency, strength, freedom, mastery, delegated influence that's one of my favorites Delegated influence. 00:11:28.149 --> 00:11:30.173 Did you know what we don't? 00:11:30.173 --> 00:11:30.874 We don't. 00:11:30.874 --> 00:11:36.724 We're not able to have authority over people, but we do have influence over them. 00:11:36.724 --> 00:11:46.042 We can pray for folks and angels can come up beside them and make the will of God so attractive that they will do God's will. 00:11:46.042 --> 00:11:57.159 Delegated influence, jurisdiction, power of choice to do is one pleases. 00:11:57.159 --> 00:11:58.774 That's what's under attack. 00:11:58.774 --> 00:12:06.981 We've got, you know, unelected government officials telling us all kinds of things and trying to rob us of our freedom. 00:12:06.981 --> 00:12:23.738 The freedom upon which this country was founded and that came from the authority of the believer, came from right here in the Bible Physical or mental power, the power of rule or government. 00:12:23.738 --> 00:12:26.190 This church is a regional center. 00:12:26.190 --> 00:12:32.984 God told me that in 1996, and so, by virtue of that, then, we have to be well versed in our authority. 00:12:33.190 --> 00:12:34.836 We prayed over this storm. 00:12:34.836 --> 00:12:37.879 I started rebuking it before it was ever a tropical storm. 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:40.676 I started saying it couldn't come here. 00:12:40.676 --> 00:12:41.517 It couldn't come here. 00:12:41.517 --> 00:12:42.539 Well, it went to Louisiana. 00:12:42.539 --> 00:12:43.321 You just shoved it over. 00:12:43.321 --> 00:12:48.019 Well, louisiana's, they're responsible for the storms that hit there. 00:12:48.019 --> 00:12:50.993 I couldn't stop, we couldn't stop Harvey. 00:12:50.993 --> 00:12:52.899 I wanted to. 00:12:52.899 --> 00:12:54.575 God said no, there's, it's got to hit. 00:12:54.575 --> 00:12:57.190 You can minimize it, which we did. 00:12:57.190 --> 00:13:00.136 We minimized, as it could have been a lot worse. 00:13:01.119 --> 00:13:01.961 But then the flooding. 00:13:01.961 --> 00:13:06.149 You know that that we had all those outer bands that just sat over Houston. 00:13:06.149 --> 00:13:08.735 We got unbelievable amounts of. 00:13:08.735 --> 00:13:09.678 You know, I don't know that. 00:13:09.678 --> 00:13:10.801 We prayed against that. 00:13:10.801 --> 00:13:16.628 But you know we prayed against Katrina 16 years tomorrow anniversary. 00:13:16.628 --> 00:13:19.682 We prayed against he was headed right for Houston. 00:13:19.682 --> 00:13:23.256 We prayed against it and it went to New Orleans. 00:13:24.913 --> 00:13:26.076 Well, what about New Orleans? 00:13:26.076 --> 00:13:28.677 They're responsible for their own jurisdiction. 00:13:28.677 --> 00:13:30.875 We have jurisdiction right here. 00:13:30.875 --> 00:13:33.192 Well, that's just not. 00:13:33.192 --> 00:13:35.259 Yeah, see, you need to change your thinking. 00:13:35.259 --> 00:13:38.274 If they'd listened to me, they could. 00:13:38.274 --> 00:13:40.340 They could turn the storm, put it over on Florida. 00:13:40.340 --> 00:13:41.870 I'm just kidding. 00:13:41.870 --> 00:13:49.695 We're not going to stop all of them folks. 00:13:49.695 --> 00:13:53.190 But I say it's not as bad as it looks. 00:13:53.190 --> 00:13:55.159 I know they're saying category five. 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:56.365 I say it's not as bad. 00:13:56.365 --> 00:13:59.057 It hadn't hit yet and it's not as bad as it looks. 00:13:59.057 --> 00:14:00.956 Let's just believe that. 00:14:00.956 --> 00:14:07.889 And so we have to power of ruler government. 00:14:07.889 --> 00:14:12.620 So we talked about Ephesians one and two, the Holy Ghost prayer that's there. 00:14:12.620 --> 00:14:21.128 Pray for understanding of how great the power is in his authority that he used when he raised Christ from the dead. 00:14:21.128 --> 00:14:29.018 That's the power we have, the same power that raised Christ from the dead, and we need to feed our faith on our CD. 00:14:30.975 --> 00:14:32.485 You know you get out of position. 00:14:32.485 --> 00:14:38.600 That's another thing they teach you, and all of your sports is the proper positioning. 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:43.043 And you know, I played little league, but I didn't play, you know, beyond that. 00:14:43.043 --> 00:14:44.549 But I played high school football. 00:14:44.549 --> 00:14:45.970 I wasn't big enough to play college. 00:14:45.970 --> 00:14:50.438 I wasn't good enough either, but we spent a lot of time on getting the right position. 00:14:50.438 --> 00:15:00.379 A proper football position is not crossing your legs out there on the field like this, because all anybody's got to do is blow on you and you're going to fall over. 00:15:00.379 --> 00:15:15.312 So a proper football position is your feet out like this and your knees bent slightly, and you've got to have the right position that you're playing, in other words, if you're. 00:15:15.312 --> 00:15:22.879 You know, I saw some people out of position last night, and so you know Tampa Bay just ran all over some of the guys. 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:23.100 Why? 00:15:23.100 --> 00:15:26.376 Because they freelanced and they didn't play their position on defense. 00:15:27.330 --> 00:15:31.240 We need to make sure that our positioning is at the right hand of the father. 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:36.081 We're seated together with him in heavenly place, far above, and so how do you know that? 00:15:36.081 --> 00:15:40.198 Well, you pray that prayer and meditate on who you are and what you have. 00:15:40.198 --> 00:15:51.062 And so we talked about exercising our authority over three things Our body and mind, our home and our neighborhood city, state and nation, in that order. 00:15:51.062 --> 00:15:55.441 You don't start off with the nation, but we, you know God can give you jurisdiction. 00:15:55.441 --> 00:15:59.591 God gives you a revelation, especially when we all pray together Like we do that. 00:15:59.591 --> 00:16:10.235 We're coming up here pretty soon, the first Sunday of September, we're going to have power hour plus and we're going to be praying over these issues and angels are going to be dispatched. 00:16:11.750 --> 00:16:12.875 God's not through with America. 00:16:12.875 --> 00:16:17.942 I know it looks terrible and this is a bleak, bleak, bleak time of history right now. 00:16:17.942 --> 00:16:22.921 I think it really since Pearl Harbor, I can't think of a worse thing that's happened. 00:16:22.921 --> 00:16:32.274 Somebody tried to some type of body, tried to compare it to Saigon when we left Saigon Pretty close, but I think this is worse. 00:16:32.274 --> 00:16:48.316 And so today I want to move on into this area maintaining your seat of authority, maintaining your seat of authority. 00:16:48.450 --> 00:16:59.437 So let's look at Ephesians, chapter six, and read some verses that I believe are paramount of importance for your seating. 00:16:59.437 --> 00:17:03.477 Verse 10, finally, my brethren. 00:17:03.477 --> 00:17:11.535 So that word finally is a is an interesting word because he's about to wrap up the entire letter of Ephesians. 00:17:11.535 --> 00:17:16.901 Ephesians is one of the most important New Testament books that we can have. 00:17:16.901 --> 00:17:27.259 I'm telling you, it's real important for us to get a handle on the, on the teachings that Paul had in the book of Ephesians, so finally kind of wraps up the whole deal. 00:17:27.410 --> 00:17:28.654 And what does he start talking about? 00:17:28.654 --> 00:17:33.882 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. 00:17:33.882 --> 00:17:35.375 There's that word power again. 00:17:35.375 --> 00:17:48.458 This word is dunamis and put on the whole armor, or the entire armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 00:17:48.458 --> 00:18:04.054 For we've wrestled, not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness and high places or wicked spirits in high places. 00:18:04.054 --> 00:18:07.258 Wherefore, take under you the whole armor of God. 00:18:07.410 --> 00:18:15.010 There it is again the second time in three verses talks about take under you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand. 00:18:15.010 --> 00:18:17.448 This time he says first time he said stand. 00:18:17.448 --> 00:18:21.719 This time he says withstand in the evil day, or we live in that time. 00:18:21.719 --> 00:18:26.459 At that time we need to be able to withstand some things in this evil day. 00:18:26.459 --> 00:18:27.401 How do we do that? 00:18:27.401 --> 00:18:45.577 He's going to tell you put on the whole armor of God that we may able to withstand in the evil day and, having done all, or having overcome all, to stand, not bend, not bow, not lay on the ground, not become roadkill to stand up. 00:18:47.450 --> 00:18:48.954 Time for the church to stand up. 00:18:48.954 --> 00:18:53.191 Stand there, for this he's got. 00:18:53.191 --> 00:18:55.256 Stand four times with stand. 00:18:55.256 --> 00:18:56.479 Stands must be important. 00:18:56.479 --> 00:19:00.884 That's the, finally, everything you heard in the fissures. 00:19:00.884 --> 00:19:02.711 You better find out about how to stand. 00:19:02.711 --> 00:19:05.994 The church at large. 00:19:05.994 --> 00:19:08.990 Many of them don't have any revelation of these things, they're just. 00:19:08.990 --> 00:19:12.317 They just case the raw, sir, raw, whatever will be, will be. 00:19:12.317 --> 00:19:16.993 You might as well sing how much is that doggy in the window? 00:19:16.993 --> 00:19:25.980 Stand there for having your Lawrence Gert about with truth. 00:19:26.109 --> 00:19:34.156 Now he's going to give you the point the, the, the armor, and there's five pieces of armor and they're all defensive except the sixth. 00:19:34.156 --> 00:19:38.044 And the sixth is an offensive weapon. 00:19:38.044 --> 00:19:41.557 You know it's time for the church to quit being so defensive. 00:19:41.557 --> 00:19:45.694 And on the defense, we've got to take the offense. 00:19:45.694 --> 00:19:51.261 We got to quit sitting on our haunches and let the devil keep throwing things at us. 00:19:51.261 --> 00:20:04.898 And then we just dodge here and we dodge there and we, you know, we close down here and we close the church, and we, you know, we put out the stations where we can clean our hands and we have the everything six foot apart. 00:20:04.898 --> 00:20:05.811 Let's let. 00:20:05.811 --> 00:20:07.616 We're going to have to go on offense. 00:20:07.616 --> 00:20:10.454 They'll take everything. 00:20:10.454 --> 00:20:18.083 I said they'll take everything because nobody's what standing against them. 00:20:18.083 --> 00:20:23.317 We're not going to stand against them in our might, we're standing against them with a whole armor of God on. 00:20:23.317 --> 00:20:32.362 We're standing against it with what God said we have authority, all right, so have your Lawrence Gert about with truth. 00:20:32.643 --> 00:20:33.486 Everybody shout truth. 00:20:33.486 --> 00:20:34.890 Oh, there's such a concept. 00:20:34.890 --> 00:20:38.861 There's a contest about the truth and it's lies. 00:20:38.861 --> 00:20:42.058 We're listening to lies daily coming from our government. 00:20:42.058 --> 00:20:43.874 A Biden stood up there and lied. 00:20:43.874 --> 00:20:55.840 You know, on the press conference and you know somebody asked him a hard question and he just I don't know if you saw it, but he literally melted and went like this and turned like this and just and walked out. 00:20:55.840 --> 00:20:59.458 I've got, I really got a meeting, for you know, truly I have a meeting. 00:20:59.458 --> 00:21:01.791 He ran away. 00:21:01.791 --> 00:21:06.336 Amazing Truth. 00:21:08.374 --> 00:21:09.478 We try to give you the truth. 00:21:09.478 --> 00:21:14.232 We do give you the truth, the truth of the word, but also the truth of what's going on in this nation. 00:21:14.232 --> 00:21:16.835 You believe one lie. 00:21:16.835 --> 00:21:18.675 It opens the door for more lies. 00:21:18.675 --> 00:21:21.237 That's where the church at large has come. 00:21:21.237 --> 00:21:28.723 It's believed a lie to begin with and now it's just overcome, and now it's not the sleeping church anymore, it's the dead church. 00:21:28.723 --> 00:21:32.076 It's kind of hard to tell the difference between sleeping death. 00:21:32.076 --> 00:21:32.458 You know. 00:21:32.458 --> 00:21:34.461 Sleeping church and death church. 00:21:34.461 --> 00:21:37.933 I don't try to figure out which one they are, I just try to kick. 00:21:37.933 --> 00:21:41.378 If I can kick and somebody wakes up, that's great. 00:21:41.378 --> 00:21:42.692 If they don't wake up, they're dead. 00:21:45.730 --> 00:21:54.253 Truth have your loins, see your belt of truth, and then the breastplate of righteousness A devil will attack. 00:21:54.253 --> 00:21:57.920 Each one of these is a revelation of how the devil's going to attack you. 00:21:57.920 --> 00:21:59.796 The breastplate of righteousness. 00:21:59.796 --> 00:22:03.339 You've got to guard your heart from believing the lies of the devil. 00:22:03.339 --> 00:22:05.317 He's called the accuser of the brethren. 00:22:05.317 --> 00:22:06.976 He will say you're not worthy. 00:22:06.976 --> 00:22:08.915 He will bring up your past. 00:22:08.915 --> 00:22:11.615 He will try to discredit you. 00:22:11.615 --> 00:22:13.915 He will try to embarrass you. 00:22:13.915 --> 00:22:15.732 Are you with me now? 00:22:15.732 --> 00:22:17.694 You've got to protect your heart. 00:22:17.694 --> 00:22:28.955 You've got to guard your heart with this armor, the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. 00:22:28.955 --> 00:22:29.900 You've got to be ready. 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:31.948 See, this is the context of our authority. 00:22:31.948 --> 00:22:34.709 Be ready to share the Word of God with anybody. 00:22:34.709 --> 00:22:37.048 Share the good, share your testimony. 00:22:37.048 --> 00:22:40.805 I mean, you don't have to be a theologian, you don't have to get into a debate. 00:22:40.805 --> 00:22:41.909 Share your testimony. 00:22:41.909 --> 00:22:43.946 Tell them what God has done for you. 00:22:43.946 --> 00:22:50.387 It's the easiest thing in the world to tell people how good God is and what he's done for you. 00:22:50.387 --> 00:22:53.268 They have no argument with what he's done for you. 00:22:54.000 --> 00:23:00.007 You start messing around with doctrine and start trying to start to be a preacher, well then that might be a little problematic. 00:23:00.007 --> 00:23:10.688 But if you start telling people how good God is and what he's done for you, well, they just kind of listen and go wow, preparation of the gospel of peace, that is. 00:23:10.688 --> 00:23:13.920 See, the devil is gonna try to come against your testimony. 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:15.787 He's gonna try to get you to shut your mouth. 00:23:15.787 --> 00:23:17.987 He's gonna try to get you to be quiet. 00:23:17.987 --> 00:23:29.925 Blind Bartimaeus shut up, blind Bartimaeus, and he cried the more louder oh Jesus, our son of David, we need to cry louder. 00:23:29.925 --> 00:23:36.669 Above all, that must be important. 00:23:36.669 --> 00:23:46.269 This next piece of armor must be pretty important Taking the shield of faith wherewith you're able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 00:23:47.983 --> 00:23:50.844 You know, see that movie, the Gladiator, and one of the scenes. 00:23:50.844 --> 00:24:00.471 You know they're out there, the whole team of gladiators, and they had some shields, and so their leader was an ex general in the Roman army. 00:24:00.471 --> 00:24:05.006 So he said you can all back up toward each other and have your shields out. 00:24:05.006 --> 00:24:09.625 And so they formed a circle and their shields were overlapping all the way around in a circle. 00:24:09.625 --> 00:24:20.423 And so when those other gladiators came out and started firing arrows at them and throwing javelins at them, they were able to intercept those things with their shield of faith. 00:24:20.423 --> 00:24:23.146 They had a shield of faith literally. 00:24:23.641 --> 00:24:29.087 I mean, it's an illustrated sermon and you know, that's where we are. 00:24:29.087 --> 00:24:36.185 You know, if we had that shield of faith up, some of this stuff won't even hit our breastplate of righteous, won't even hit us in the loin. 00:24:36.185 --> 00:24:38.587 I mean, we can catch it with our shield of faith. 00:24:38.587 --> 00:24:43.885 That's why it says, above all, your faith is so important. 00:24:43.885 --> 00:24:46.749 You have to feed your faith on your authority. 00:24:46.749 --> 00:24:50.009 You have to feed your faith daily. 00:24:50.009 --> 00:24:54.265 You can't just feed your faith once a week or once a month. 00:24:54.265 --> 00:25:02.946 How would you be if, physically, you only ate once a week Of where 89 pounds be ready to kill over? 00:25:02.946 --> 00:25:05.124 No, you eat. 00:25:05.124 --> 00:25:11.445 And not only do you eat, you eat two to three meals a day, right, amen. 00:25:11.445 --> 00:25:23.790 So you know, our faith needs to be fed and so you maintain the believer's authority. 00:25:24.582 --> 00:25:43.450 By looking at this wonderful illustration of the whole armor of God and take the helmet of salvation, oh, I tell you, our minds are bombarded with every kind of thought, and the devil is trying to get you to own the thought. 00:25:43.450 --> 00:25:47.748 He's trying to get you to say, oh, I must not be saved. 00:25:47.748 --> 00:25:48.904 I wouldn't have thought that. 00:25:48.904 --> 00:25:57.284 You didn't think that, you didn't think that that's a thought that came from outside, some filthy demon that you picked up just what you know they used to have. 00:25:57.284 --> 00:26:01.669 They used to wash their feet all the time because they'd have, they'd have traveled. 00:26:01.669 --> 00:26:09.486 They traveled through animal dung dried, then they'd have it all over their feet and then they'd track it in the house. 00:26:09.486 --> 00:26:13.010 So you know you, regularly Jesus washed their feet. 00:26:13.010 --> 00:26:15.983 It wasn't just the dirt, it was the dung he was getting rid of. 00:26:15.983 --> 00:26:17.684 And so that's what we are. 00:26:17.684 --> 00:26:35.127 We're going through this world and we got the dirt, the filthy, the off scouring of this world, the stuff we see by accident, the stuff that our eyes fall on, that we didn't even want to look at, and the devil would throw that stuff at you and make you think about it and accuse you. 00:26:35.127 --> 00:26:36.905 You've got your helmet of salvation. 00:26:36.905 --> 00:26:39.969 You never doubt that, God, that your salvation. 00:26:40.119 --> 00:26:41.144 Salvation means what? 00:26:41.144 --> 00:26:47.391 It's not just going to heaven, it's healing, it's health, it's deliverance, it's safety, preservation. 00:26:47.391 --> 00:26:50.703 Are y'all with me now? 00:26:50.703 --> 00:26:54.386 And the sword of the spirit. 00:26:54.386 --> 00:26:55.806 That's the only offensive weapon. 00:26:55.806 --> 00:27:01.008 We have five defensive and one offensive weapon, the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. 00:27:01.008 --> 00:27:03.929 That word word is not just the logos. 00:27:03.929 --> 00:27:05.345 This right here is the logos. 00:27:05.345 --> 00:27:16.143 Thank God for the logos, but you need to read your logos and meditate in it until you get a rama a God, breath, word, god. 00:27:16.143 --> 00:27:18.150 Even in healing I believe in the word. 00:27:18.150 --> 00:27:20.145 The logos is medicine on my flesh. 00:27:20.145 --> 00:27:28.968 But at some point when I'm feeding on this, if I'm fighting that battle in my health, as I was recently, then I'll get a rama. 00:27:28.968 --> 00:27:35.988 And the rama I got was Isaiah 55, that I had sent the word to my heart. 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:39.608 My heart was messing around, it was beating. 00:27:39.608 --> 00:27:44.686 One day I woke up with 155 beats a minute and I just walked across the living room. 00:27:44.686 --> 00:27:48.267 I thought I'd run a marathon. 00:27:48.267 --> 00:27:52.806 Boom, boom, boom, boom and blood pressure was high. 00:27:52.806 --> 00:27:56.339 That's when I finally said okay, I'm gonna have to go to the doctor. 00:27:56.339 --> 00:27:58.019 This is not acceptable. 00:27:58.019 --> 00:28:00.066 This is life threatening. 00:28:00.066 --> 00:28:06.989 But I reminded my heart and Isaiah 55, god's word in my mouth. 00:28:06.989 --> 00:28:11.794 It will accomplish what God's word in his mouth will. 00:28:11.794 --> 00:28:13.420 It will not return to me void. 00:28:13.420 --> 00:28:17.647 It will accomplish what I please it will prosper in the thing where too I sent it. 00:28:17.647 --> 00:28:19.527 So, heart, you might as well get ready. 00:28:19.527 --> 00:28:20.765 You're gonna prosper. 00:28:20.765 --> 00:28:23.740 I'm not gonna accept this condition in my heart Now. 00:28:23.740 --> 00:28:32.249 Today, my heart's beating perfectly straight and 55 beats a minute resting heart rate, with a sinus rhythm just strong. 00:28:32.249 --> 00:28:38.906 I got the doctor confirmed that the other day I'm getting off of five medications that I've been on since I've been in the hospital. 00:28:43.631 --> 00:28:45.675 I don't credit the doctor, I credit the word. 00:28:45.675 --> 00:28:47.944 I had a rainbow word. 00:28:47.944 --> 00:28:48.983 Are you with me now? 00:28:48.983 --> 00:28:50.705 That's the sword of the spirit. 00:28:50.705 --> 00:28:54.963 Now, that sword is not an eight foot big old with a curved blade. 00:28:54.963 --> 00:29:02.469 I used to think of big old, curved blade where I could stand about eight foot away and do the damage, cut his head off from eight foot. 00:29:02.469 --> 00:29:07.730 It's a dagger, which means hand to hand combat. 00:29:07.730 --> 00:29:14.949 You're gonna have sometimes the devil's gonna be right up there in your business and you're gonna have to stab him with something. 00:29:14.949 --> 00:29:17.765 You better have a rainbow word. 00:29:18.059 --> 00:29:21.788 Well, a rainbow word is built from your personal prayer life. 00:29:21.788 --> 00:29:30.269 It's built from your personal communion, cornenia and fellowship with God Almighty. 00:29:30.269 --> 00:29:37.650 There's no, and so, in fact, all of this prayer on, see, here he, I just got through giving you all the prayer. 00:29:37.650 --> 00:29:46.338 Look, verse of 18, praying always with all manner of prayer and supplication in the spirit, watching therein too, with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. 00:29:46.338 --> 00:29:48.898 So this armor is prayer armor. 00:29:48.898 --> 00:29:59.679 Everybody say prayer armor it's you know, it's as a result of you watching and praying. 00:29:59.719 --> 00:30:03.855 Jesus said in the last days I'm gonna come like a thief in the night to those that aren't watching. 00:30:03.855 --> 00:30:06.675 Don't you be like one of those? 00:30:06.675 --> 00:30:08.410 He warned, he warned. 00:30:08.410 --> 00:30:11.961 So it must be kind of a bad thing to be asleep right now. 00:30:11.961 --> 00:30:17.136 I don't know when Jesus is coming, but I'll tell you it's not very far from now. 00:30:17.136 --> 00:30:20.057 We're seeing the last gasp. 00:30:20.057 --> 00:30:23.736 We hadn't seen the Antichrist yet. 00:30:23.736 --> 00:30:24.973 I don't believe we will. 00:30:24.973 --> 00:30:26.239 But what if I'm wrong? 00:30:26.239 --> 00:30:30.977 Well, if I'm wrong, I'll know that we've got three and a half, at least three and a half more years after that. 00:30:30.977 --> 00:30:34.376 But I don't believe we've seen the Antichrist. 00:30:34.376 --> 00:30:39.598 But we're fighting that spirit and we're called on to restrain that. 00:30:39.598 --> 00:30:53.109 Restrain the second Thessalonians, restrain the spirit of Antichrist, hinder it, stop it, and we must have authority to do that right. 00:30:53.109 --> 00:30:56.241 So it's prayer armor, amen. 00:30:57.704 --> 00:30:58.029 Watch and pray. 00:30:58.029 --> 00:31:00.869 Word watch means to keep awake, be vigilant. 00:31:00.869 --> 00:31:03.127 I think about 1 Peter, chapter five. 00:31:03.127 --> 00:31:05.989 It says you know, be sober, be vigilant for your adversary. 00:31:05.989 --> 00:31:17.726 The devil, as a lion walking about seeking whom he may devour, whom resists steadfast in the faith, I'll tell you, a lion comes up on. 00:31:17.726 --> 00:31:20.848 You know, in the natural the lion comes up on unaware. 00:31:20.848 --> 00:31:20.970 Pray. 00:31:20.970 --> 00:31:30.506 If he can sneak up and get within striking distance without them seeing him, he gets to jump on them and then they can't outrun him in the short burst. 00:31:30.506 --> 00:31:40.130