WEBVTT 00:00:01.762 --> 00:00:04.589 and wave them around and make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:04.589 --> 00:00:08.980 And let's just say this together. 00:00:08.980 --> 00:00:17.000 There's no time or distance in the spirit, so let's just say it together, say, oh God, I know this word is just for me. 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:28.353 I'm teachable, I'm ready to hear what the Word of God says about my situation and I know that I'm an overcomer and I'm moving through. 00:00:28.353 --> 00:00:36.570 This time I'm not camping out in the trouble and I overcome in Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:49.027 Revelation, chapter 12, and of course, as you know, that was a visitation the Apostle John had laid in his life and on the Isle of Potomac. 00:00:49.027 --> 00:01:05.590 And in Revelation 12, verse 9, and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. 00:01:05.590 --> 00:01:39.933 He was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him, 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 is cast 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 unto the death. 00:01:39.933 --> 00:01:43.771 Therefore, rejoice ye heavens and ye that dwell in them. 00:01:43.771 --> 00:02:00.951 Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea, for the devil has come down unto you having great wrath, because he kneweth that he hath but a short time, and so thank God for the precious blood of Jesus. 00:02:00.951 --> 00:02:07.728 You know, it's the major key to overcoming the devil and all of his illegal attacks. 00:02:08.301 --> 00:02:13.748 The Bible says he's so angry he's way past mad, because he knows his time is short. 00:02:13.748 --> 00:02:18.000 It says there, woe to the inhabitants of the earth. 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:21.000 It says rejoice those who dwell in heaven. 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:25.870 Well, that's really talking about believers, because my dwelling place is heaven. 00:02:25.870 --> 00:02:34.776 In fact, the Bible says that I'm seated with him in heavenly places in Christ, and so I don't have to be afraid of the devil and his wrath. 00:02:34.776 --> 00:02:35.960 It's everyone else. 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:41.846 That's what we're seeing in our society right now, and some Christians as well. 00:02:41.846 --> 00:02:51.000 They're going out and cleaning out the store shelves and trying to find masks and all of that and trying to obsessing about washing their hands. 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:57.150 You know, I think we ought to do what we can do, but let's not be fearful in doing it. 00:02:59.707 --> 00:03:15.867 But he knows, the devil knows his time is short and he's looking for any way to gain advantage and his only hope is to catch somebody sleeping or somebody that is not watching. 00:03:15.867 --> 00:03:23.000 You know the Bible says in Ephesians 4, 27, give no place to the devil. 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:26.979 You know the devil doesn't have all the power we have power. 00:03:26.979 --> 00:03:34.490 He can't just come and just steal, kill and destroy unless, again, we are not watching. 00:03:34.490 --> 00:03:41.000 And sometimes he creeps in unaware and we're not watching or we're distracted. 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:43.508 It's easy to be distracted right now. 00:03:44.521 --> 00:03:58.669 But 1 Peter 5h says Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, walketh about seeking whom he made a vow, whom resist steadfast in the faith. 00:03:58.669 --> 00:04:05.699 And so we have the power to resist him if we see him coming, if we know he's moving in our direction. 00:04:05.699 --> 00:04:07.044 We just need listen. 00:04:07.044 --> 00:04:08.168 Soldiers have to watch. 00:04:08.168 --> 00:04:21.327 I mean, if you're a soldier and you're out, on where you're out and about, you have a watch that you have to keep and you can be court-martialed if you're found sleep. 00:04:21.327 --> 00:04:23.699 And so you have to watch. 00:04:25.084 --> 00:04:26.668 The shepherds watch by night. 00:04:26.668 --> 00:04:33.625 You know when the angels appeared to the shepherds, you know the shepherds were awake and they were watching the sheep. 00:04:33.625 --> 00:04:38.730 So we have to watch in prayer and listen to the Holy Ghost. 00:04:38.730 --> 00:04:41.687 Many times we are warned. 00:04:41.687 --> 00:04:50.199 Many times the Holy Spirit will alert us to trouble and we can begin to pray, and sometimes we don't even know what we're praying about. 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:56.437 See, that's part of watching and praying, and really so much the more we see when we see the day approaching. 00:04:56.437 --> 00:04:59.129 You know, the day of the Lord is at hand. 00:04:59.129 --> 00:05:01.307 He's coming very, very soon. 00:05:01.379 --> 00:05:02.586 How do you know that, pastor? 00:05:02.586 --> 00:05:06.786 Well, the greatest reason that I know it is because of Israel. 00:05:06.786 --> 00:05:09.387 You know, israel is a gigantic signboard. 00:05:09.387 --> 00:05:12.028 It's a signpost to let us know. 00:05:12.028 --> 00:05:23.759 You know, if we were driving down the freeway and there was a big billboard on the side of the freeway saying bridge out five miles, we'd know man, we've got to slow down, we've got to get off this freeway. 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:24.603 The bridge is out. 00:05:24.603 --> 00:05:26.605 Bridge out three miles. 00:05:26.605 --> 00:05:28.959 Well, we have less time now than ever for it. 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:30.125 Bridge out one mile. 00:05:30.125 --> 00:05:37.466 And finally, if we keep driving 70 miles an hour, bridge out, we're going to sail off the end of the freeway. 00:05:38.721 --> 00:05:40.108 And that's the way a lot of people are. 00:05:40.108 --> 00:05:42.968 They have ignored the signs of His coming. 00:05:42.968 --> 00:05:46.459 And Israel is a great sign. 00:05:46.459 --> 00:05:49.949 Jesus said watch the fig tree, said you know. 00:05:49.949 --> 00:05:52.144 The disciples said when are we going to? 00:05:52.144 --> 00:05:53.288 When are you going to come back? 00:05:53.288 --> 00:05:54.605 He said watch the fig tree. 00:05:54.605 --> 00:06:13.788 And so around here we watch Israel, we watch what's going on there, we pray for Israel and we're so glad our president has been the greatest friend of Israel that any president has been and I think in our lifetime and so so we need to watch. 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:16.185 So we overcome the devil. 00:06:16.185 --> 00:06:17.846 It says here there's three things. 00:06:17.846 --> 00:06:21.168 There's three, three situations about overcoming the devil. 00:06:21.168 --> 00:06:30.149 And first of all, we overcome the devil and demon powers and all of his works, all of his, his tools that he uses. 00:06:30.149 --> 00:06:33.935 We overcome by the blood of the lamb. 00:06:33.935 --> 00:06:40.706 So we should meditate and confess the scriptures concerning the blood. 00:06:40.706 --> 00:06:42.689 I mean especially now. 00:06:42.689 --> 00:06:45.747 It ought to be true all the time, but especially now. 00:06:45.747 --> 00:06:48.199 You know scriptures like Romans 5-9,. 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:55.043 We are justified by his blood, justified just as if I'd never sinned. 00:06:55.043 --> 00:07:01.108 I mean the blood is able to cleanse us so thoroughly and completely that there is no guilt. 00:07:01.108 --> 00:07:03.043 That we're, you know, glad. 00:07:03.202 --> 00:07:04.947 It's read out of Hebrews 10. 00:07:04.947 --> 00:07:08.608 It purges us from a guilty conscience. 00:07:08.608 --> 00:07:09.964 The blood of Jesus does. 00:07:09.964 --> 00:07:12.668 We ought to confess that every day. 00:07:12.668 --> 00:07:17.165 You know, one of the ways that we're not bold is that we have guilt complex. 00:07:17.165 --> 00:07:18.891 We have sin consciousness. 00:07:18.891 --> 00:07:21.007 We ought to have righteousness consciousness. 00:07:21.007 --> 00:07:27.348 We ought to be conscious of the fact that we're righteous, not on our own account, but because of the blood. 00:07:27.348 --> 00:07:33.043 And by faith in the blood we apply it to ourselves and to our lives. 00:07:33.043 --> 00:07:38.904 Romans 3-25 said through faith in the blood that we're justified. 00:07:38.904 --> 00:07:52.141 Through faith in the blood, See, faith believes what the Bible says, instead of our own emotion, allowing ourselves to go around and have, you know, a guilty conscience, shame and all of that. 00:07:52.141 --> 00:07:53.367 You know there's actually. 00:07:53.406 --> 00:08:01.504 I've talked, I've ministered to people who felt like they were going through trouble because they were paying for the sins of their past life. 00:08:01.504 --> 00:08:12.908 Before they got saved, they lived particularly wicked and sinful lives and they think now, all these years later, even though they're born again, that they're paying for those sins. 00:08:12.908 --> 00:08:15.107 No, jesus paid the entire price. 00:08:15.107 --> 00:08:18.288 You need to get educated in the Word of God. 00:08:18.288 --> 00:08:20.648 You need to get your mind renewed to the Word of God. 00:08:20.648 --> 00:08:25.767 You do that by meditating in the Word, especially the Word concerning the blood of Jesus. 00:08:25.767 --> 00:08:30.310 Having our heart sprinkled from a guilty conscience. 00:08:30.310 --> 00:08:33.466 Praise God, isn't that when our bodies washed with pure water? 00:08:33.466 --> 00:08:36.970 We washed with a washing of water by the Word. 00:08:36.970 --> 00:08:38.466 Thank God for the Word of God. 00:08:38.466 --> 00:08:41.466 So that's one way to overcome the devil. 00:08:41.505 --> 00:08:46.210 Then it says and we overcome by the Word of our testimony. 00:08:46.210 --> 00:08:58.210 You see, there needs to be words coming out of our mouth we talked about that this morning that we need to hold fast the confession of our faith without wavering, because he is faithful, who promised? 00:08:58.210 --> 00:09:01.970 So let's confess boldly what the blood has done for us. 00:09:01.970 --> 00:09:07.730 That's specific, our testimony of what the blood has purchased for us. 00:09:07.730 --> 00:09:13.907 It's not something that we're begging for, it's not something that God is gonna do. 00:09:13.907 --> 00:09:17.349 In fact, there's no more that God has to do or will do. 00:09:17.349 --> 00:09:25.313 The blood has already purchased our eternal redemption and complete deliverance from the power of Satan. 00:09:25.313 --> 00:09:34.994 That's why we can boldly say you know, claire quoted that scripture you know, we're not afraid what man can do us, do unto us. 00:09:34.994 --> 00:09:47.110 He has said well, I'll never leave you nor forsake you, so that we may boldly say not barely say boldly say the Lord is my helper, I'll not fear what man will do unto me. 00:09:47.110 --> 00:09:51.972 I think that's a powerful word and we need to have that word in our lips. 00:09:52.945 --> 00:10:28.513 You know, when we read the story of Exodus and the deliverance of Israel from Egypt, the last plague that hit Egypt was the death of the firstborn, and so God instructed, through Moses, he instructed Israel to kill the Passover lamb and to take the blood of that lamb and dip a hyssop into the blood and strike the doorposts of their dwelling places and also pour the blood in the threshold. 00:10:28.513 --> 00:10:40.474 There was a little channel and they would pour the blood of the lamb in that threshold so that, no, the death angel could not enter in to the households of the Israelites. 00:10:40.474 --> 00:10:50.754 And so the death angel came through all of Egypt and the firstborn of every man and beast died that night, except in the dwelling places of Israel. 00:10:50.754 --> 00:10:51.326 Because, why? 00:10:51.326 --> 00:11:00.153 Because when the angel saw the blood on the doorposts and on the threshold, he passed over their home. 00:11:00.153 --> 00:11:05.817 And so, really, our mouths are the hyssop. 00:11:05.817 --> 00:11:14.852 Let's confess what the blood has done for us, and a lot of the troubles that we're seeing in the world will just simply pass over us because of the blood. 00:11:14.852 --> 00:11:29.073 We won't even need to take the test, we won't even need to go through the whole ritual of standing in a line, or right now they have drive-in clinics and people are waiting for hours to get tested. 00:11:29.073 --> 00:11:32.567 I'll tell you, the blood of Jesus is able to deliver us, amen. 00:11:32.567 --> 00:11:36.554 And so our mouths are the hyssop. 00:11:36.554 --> 00:11:41.871 We just dip our mouths in the blood and begin to speak about the blood of Jesus. 00:11:43.044 --> 00:11:46.933 And then the third thing it says love not your lives unto the death. 00:11:46.933 --> 00:11:49.192 Oh yes, pastor, I'd gladly die. 00:11:49.192 --> 00:11:51.953 Well, that's not what this is really saying. 00:11:51.953 --> 00:11:56.865 He's not interested in us dying, he's interested in us living Now. 00:11:56.865 --> 00:12:04.729 What it means is a victorious warrior must be an obedient servant, dead to criticism and dead to praise. 00:12:05.845 --> 00:12:07.773 How do you know you're in the flesh? 00:12:07.773 --> 00:12:18.490 Well, when you're just real sensitive, when you're sensitive about what people say about you, when you're sensitive or you just need somebody to always build you up, there's people like that. 00:12:18.490 --> 00:12:19.447 People just need. 00:12:19.447 --> 00:12:21.634 Well, I just need people to like me. 00:12:21.634 --> 00:12:26.797 Well, see, you need to be liked by the Lord. 00:12:26.797 --> 00:12:29.339 You need to be. 00:12:29.339 --> 00:12:30.465 You know you're loved by the Lord. 00:12:30.465 --> 00:12:36.014 You need to meditate on the fact that he loves you and then, whether people let you know about it. 00:12:36.014 --> 00:12:37.390 You're not always offended. 00:12:37.390 --> 00:12:39.024 You're not always going around so needy. 00:12:39.024 --> 00:12:40.951 Have you ever known somebody that's just so needy? 00:12:40.951 --> 00:12:52.015 They're so needy, they're just clingers and they just cling and they just oh no, let's grow up and let's be dead to criticism and dead to praise. 00:12:52.015 --> 00:12:55.414 We're dead unto sin, but alive unto God. 00:12:55.414 --> 00:12:59.312 That's what that scripture's talking about and that's how we overcome the devil. 00:12:59.312 --> 00:13:05.932 Many times the devil comes in through our emotions and if he can get us offended he can start to do damage to us. 00:13:07.246 --> 00:13:15.852 So another aspect of overcoming the enemy is by pleading the blood. 00:13:15.852 --> 00:13:24.831 You know, you often heard the old timers, especially Pentecostal people, would say I plead the blood, I plead the blood. 00:13:24.831 --> 00:13:29.312 I plead the blood, plead the blood over mind and body. 00:13:29.312 --> 00:13:35.470 Plead the blood over your past, over your present and even over your future. 00:13:35.470 --> 00:13:40.355 Plead the blood over everything that concerns you. 00:13:40.355 --> 00:13:42.691 Well, what does it mean to plead the blood? 00:13:42.691 --> 00:13:43.828 Does that mean begging? 00:13:43.828 --> 00:13:45.446 Plead, beg no. 00:13:45.446 --> 00:13:54.332 Plead means to strive, to contend or to conduct a legal case. 00:13:54.332 --> 00:14:10.394 You know they often use a term the lawyers enter to plea before the judge, like if a defense attorney is defending someone that's accused of a crime, they'll enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. 00:14:10.394 --> 00:14:13.807 A plea is a legal term Pleading. 00:14:13.807 --> 00:14:21.317 You know they have a pleading before the judge to rule on a pleading in a legal case. 00:14:21.317 --> 00:14:24.519 So what do I mean by that? 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:27.128 In other words, legally, we're redeemed. 00:14:27.128 --> 00:14:40.105 So to plead the blood means to apply the blood in a legal way over your situation, to demand the devil to take his hands off of your situation. 00:14:41.364 --> 00:14:48.648 I think about Brother Hostey and used to tell this story when he was traveling. 00:14:48.648 --> 00:14:52.043 He had, I think, 12 years where he traveled the world. 00:14:52.043 --> 00:14:58.947 He went to the Philippines often and other places, a rule over the globe, preaching the word and doing missionary work. 00:14:58.947 --> 00:15:08.879 And then he came back to Houston, the pastor Lakewood Church, but when he was gone many times he would call check on the family and they'd be sick. 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:10.927 Though he'd be sick, the children would be sick. 00:15:10.927 --> 00:15:16.100 It seemed like every time he left town there was trouble and he just got fed up with it. 00:15:16.100 --> 00:15:20.899 So he came home he said and he said, okay, god had a family meeting, god, everybody together. 00:15:20.899 --> 00:15:28.548 He said, all right, now we're gonna put an end to this situation, we're gonna put the blood around this home. 00:15:28.548 --> 00:15:57.600 And so he got out in the yard and of course he had young children at the time, five kids and so he got Doty behind him and each of the children behind Doty, and he was like the choo-choo train and he marched around the house and he said I put the blood, I put the blood, I put the blood, and they went all around their house, you know, putting the blood around that house, stating to the devil you cannot attack my family any longer. 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:08.580 You know, sometimes you just have to do a prophetic act and sometimes you've just got to let the devil know you mean business pleading the blood, amen. 00:16:09.924 --> 00:16:21.164 And then there's another way to defeat the enemy, and especially stubborn situations, and that's holding the blood. 00:16:21.164 --> 00:16:23.969 Holding the blood. 00:16:23.969 --> 00:16:34.581 You know, smith Wigglesworth said that in his experience most Christians quit too soon, they give up too easily over their challenges. 00:16:34.581 --> 00:16:41.653 You know they'll have trouble in their life, they'll have a wayward child or they'll have trouble in their home. 00:16:41.653 --> 00:16:44.861 They'll have financial trouble, they'll have health issues. 00:16:44.861 --> 00:16:53.317 He said in his experience and he was known as the apostle of faith at 19, I think 23 people raised from the dead in his ministry. 00:16:53.317 --> 00:17:07.721 In his experience, he said, christians quit too soon, they give up too easily and we ought to hold the blood against stubborn situations until victory comes. 00:17:07.721 --> 00:17:09.265 What do you mean by that? 00:17:09.265 --> 00:17:12.678 Well, I just mean your faith applies the blood. 00:17:12.678 --> 00:17:15.413 It's similar to pleading the blood, except that it's constant. 00:17:15.413 --> 00:17:19.239 It's like you, just you hold the blood. 00:17:20.029 --> 00:17:31.417 I remember here recently I had a big growth under onto my eyelid, my lower lid, and it had gotten large in the last year or so. 00:17:31.417 --> 00:17:32.211 It's bothering me. 00:17:32.211 --> 00:17:33.375 I could actually see it. 00:17:33.375 --> 00:17:36.796 In my eyesight it was ugly, nasty looking thing. 00:17:36.796 --> 00:17:40.538 And so I went to a dermatologist that I've gone to for years. 00:17:40.538 --> 00:17:46.721 He said, well, it's a combination of a wart and something else. 00:17:46.721 --> 00:17:49.233 Whatever name he used, he says not cancerous. 00:17:49.233 --> 00:17:54.858 He said I can get rid of that and he took some liquid hydrogen. 00:17:54.858 --> 00:18:00.000 Hydrogen is a gas, but in its liquid state it's real cold. 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:16.538 And he dipped a little Q-tip, I think, in that liquid nitrogen, put the stopper back on there and he held that nitrogen right there on that growth and I mean my whole eyeball got cold. 00:18:16.538 --> 00:18:25.118 I thought the tears were going to freeze and it didn't hurt, but it was uncomfortable and you know, and I couldn't tell any difference. 00:18:25.118 --> 00:18:29.461 The next day it was red and it looked nasty or even worse than it did before. 00:18:29.461 --> 00:18:33.820 But in two weeks time that thing fell completely off of my eyelid. 00:18:33.820 --> 00:18:36.538 Now it just dried up and disappeared. 00:18:37.210 --> 00:18:49.337 Well, you know how much more shall the blood of Jesus, if you hold it by faith, against something stubborn, something that's long lived, something that just doesn't seem to want to move, it doesn't seem to respond. 00:18:49.337 --> 00:18:55.337 I tell you, don't give up and don't quit, just hold the blood against that situation. 00:18:55.337 --> 00:19:04.417 Say Satan, I hold the blood of Jesus against your operations against, for instance, your grandchild or, you know, sometimes, our grandchildren. 00:19:04.417 --> 00:19:06.383 You know we love our grandchildren. 00:19:06.383 --> 00:19:08.397 I know I've got five wonderful grandchildren. 00:19:08.397 --> 00:19:09.394 They all serve God. 00:19:09.394 --> 00:19:15.000 But I know some of you have grandchildren that are away from God and they don't serve God. 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:16.083 They quit going to church. 00:19:16.083 --> 00:19:19.239 They may have been raised in a Christian home and they're drifting way away. 00:19:19.239 --> 00:19:20.557 Hold the blood of Jesus. 00:19:20.557 --> 00:19:21.530 Just say Satan. 00:19:21.530 --> 00:19:31.900 I hold the blood of Jesus against your operations against my grandchild and name their name and your schemes are brought to naught by the precious blood of Jesus. 00:19:32.450 --> 00:19:40.474 Begin to speak directly to the enemy and mention the blood of Jesus and hold the blood of Jesus until you see a difference. 00:19:40.474 --> 00:19:41.634 And, of course, yes, pray. 00:19:41.634 --> 00:19:43.118 We should pray for them. 00:19:43.118 --> 00:19:45.636 We've got the word that we can pray over our loved ones. 00:19:45.636 --> 00:19:51.641 We've got the word of God that we can quote over our bodies for healing and so forth and so on. 00:19:51.641 --> 00:19:59.655 But sometimes we've got to take extra measures and thereby this is the way that we can use the blood of Jesus to overcome. 00:19:59.655 --> 00:20:03.363 God has redeemed us to overcome. 00:20:03.363 --> 00:20:07.320 Hallelujah, let's lift our hands and receive the word of God tonight. 00:20:07.320 --> 00:20:09.971 Praise God, you are wonderful Jesus.