WEBVTT 00:00:00.100 --> 00:00:03.250 Lift our Bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad and the devil mad. 00:00:03.250 --> 00:00:04.663 Let's get into the Word together. 00:00:04.663 --> 00:00:05.546 Say this together. 00:00:05.546 --> 00:00:15.791 Say Heavenly Father, I thank you for the Word of God and I thank you for the Holy Ghost, because it takes both the Word and the Spirit. 00:00:15.791 --> 00:00:22.850 And tonight I'll be taught the Word of God and I'm hungry for more. 00:00:22.850 --> 00:00:40.506 Unveil your word to me, reveal your plans and purposes to me so that I can more accurately obey you and what it is you have me living in this time for, in Jesus' name. 00:00:40.506 --> 00:00:43.408 You know we all have a purpose in our life. 00:00:43.408 --> 00:00:53.706 You know when I began to get into the Word and realize what time it was in the Bible clock and I realized that Jesus is coming soon. 00:00:53.706 --> 00:00:55.331 I mean, people say that all the time. 00:00:55.331 --> 00:00:56.762 They don't even know why they believe it. 00:00:56.762 --> 00:00:58.466 I know why I believe it. 00:00:58.466 --> 00:01:09.668 I don't have any dates for you, but I just know we're in the season of the Lord's return and so I'm not preaching on that, particularly tonight. 00:01:09.748 --> 00:01:16.281 But let's look at Mark, chapter five, and I do have some meat for you. 00:01:16.281 --> 00:01:19.471 That relates to your ministry. 00:01:19.471 --> 00:01:21.728 I mean, everybody say I've got a ministry. 00:01:21.728 --> 00:01:24.040 See, every believer has a ministry. 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:25.328 It's called the believer's ministry. 00:01:25.328 --> 00:01:33.212 You might not ever get behind a pulpit, you might not ever speak to a crowd, but you have a ministry. 00:01:33.212 --> 00:01:36.284 Mark, chapter 5,. 00:01:36.323 --> 00:01:37.849 We'll start reading with verse 1. 00:01:37.849 --> 00:01:50.147 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes, and when he was come out of the ship, talking about Jesus, immediately there met him one out of the tombs. 00:01:50.147 --> 00:01:52.853 Out of the tombs, a man with an unclean spirit. 00:01:52.853 --> 00:02:14.234 There's a lot of those running around right now who had his dwelling among the tombs and no man could bind him no, not with chains, because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him and the fetters broken in pieces. 00:02:14.234 --> 00:02:25.015 Neither could any man tame him, and always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying and cutting himself with stones. 00:02:25.015 --> 00:02:41.022 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him and cried with a loud voice and said what have I to do with thee, jesus, thou son of the most high God? 00:02:41.022 --> 00:02:45.104 I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. 00:02:45.104 --> 00:02:52.673 For he said, or had said unto him Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. 00:02:52.673 --> 00:02:57.288 And he asked him what is thy name. 00:02:57.288 --> 00:03:07.962 And the man answered and said my name is Legion, for we are many, and he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. 00:03:07.962 --> 00:03:09.747 See, there's more than one demon. 00:03:09.747 --> 00:03:12.300 There's a ruling demon and a legion of demons. 00:03:12.300 --> 00:03:16.489 They didn't want to be sent out into the country. 00:03:18.111 --> 00:03:41.493 Now there was there, nine of the mountains, a great herd of swine, a steep place into the sea. 00:03:41.493 --> 00:03:59.543 There were about 2,000 swine and were choked in the sea and they that fed the swine fled and told it in the city and in the country and they went out to see what it was that was done. 00:03:59.543 --> 00:04:14.765 And they came to Jesus and see him that was possessed with the devil and had the legion sitting and clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. 00:04:14.765 --> 00:04:30.187 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil and also concerning the swine, and they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts. 00:04:30.187 --> 00:04:32.687 They didn't want anything to do with it. 00:04:32.687 --> 00:04:43.747 And when he was come out of the ship, into the ship, rather, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him. 00:04:43.747 --> 00:04:47.970 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him. 00:04:47.970 --> 00:04:58.766 Go home to thy friends and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee and hath had compassion on thee. 00:04:58.766 --> 00:05:14.514 Hesed, hesed Not poor baby Chesed. 00:05:14.514 --> 00:05:17.886 Covenant obligation. 00:05:17.886 --> 00:05:21.370 Jesus could not not deliver that man. 00:05:21.370 --> 00:05:25.028 As a Jew he had a right to be free. 00:05:25.028 --> 00:05:27.362 Satan had bound him. 00:05:27.362 --> 00:05:33.163 He came and worshipped him See, I want you to see this and you know. 00:05:33.163 --> 00:05:34.206 Jesus set him free. 00:05:34.206 --> 00:05:41.514 Go tell what great things the Lord has done for thee and had compassion on thee. 00:05:41.514 --> 00:05:49.209 And he departed and began to publish in Decapolis that's the ten cities how great things Jesus had done for him. 00:05:49.209 --> 00:05:51.668 And all men did marvel. 00:05:53.401 --> 00:06:02.634 So tonight I just wanted to share a message entitled Satan's Hierarchy Revealed Hierarchy pecking order Hierarchy is kind of a fancy word. 00:06:02.634 --> 00:06:04.841 Pecking order hierarchy is kind of a fancy word. 00:06:04.841 --> 00:06:11.670 Pecking order the devil, demon powers have their ranks and they have their pecking order. 00:06:11.670 --> 00:06:14.014 They have their ways of doing what they do. 00:06:14.014 --> 00:06:20.685 Every miracle of Jesus is significant. 00:06:20.685 --> 00:06:32.392 In John, chapter 20, verses 30 and 31, john said Jesus did many more miracles that were not written in this book. 00:06:32.392 --> 00:06:38.319 But these are written so that you might believe and that, believing, you might call upon his name and be saved. 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:41.132 So when we read the Bible. 00:06:41.132 --> 00:06:54.149 This is just a partial record of what Jesus did three and a half years of ministry it's amazing which just goes to show you how much ministry there is to be done, and how much more ministry there is to do right now than there ever was before, because there's more people. 00:06:54.149 --> 00:07:01.615 There's more demonized, unclean spirits running all over, even right here in the civilized world. 00:07:01.615 --> 00:07:03.216 We used to be civilized, I don't know. 00:07:03.216 --> 00:07:05.047 It's getting pretty uncivilized out there. 00:07:05.047 --> 00:07:18.973 That's the price that you pay when the church stops taking its place of authority at the right hand of the father, when the church stops voting, when the pastor stopped guiding the flocks. 00:07:18.973 --> 00:07:32.821 This is what you get, what you get. 00:07:32.841 --> 00:07:35.930 So this miracle that we're reading about tonight shows not only how demons bind people, but God's power to deliver them. 00:07:35.930 --> 00:07:38.461 See, we're not here to build the devil up, we're here to tear him down. 00:07:38.461 --> 00:07:42.952 We're here to expose his hierarchy as bankrupt. 00:07:42.952 --> 00:07:49.355 It's time for us not to be afraid of demon powers. 00:07:49.355 --> 00:07:57.675 Face my share They've never won and they never will. 00:07:57.675 --> 00:08:04.754 So here one demon named Legion. 00:08:04.754 --> 00:08:12.934 When you look up a legion and of course this is the Roman times a Roman legion is 6,000 soldiers. 00:08:12.934 --> 00:08:14.769 Now, they didn't put that many out on the. 00:08:14.769 --> 00:08:16.456 They would call a legion. 00:08:16.456 --> 00:08:21.985 They wouldn't put 6,000 at this time, it was more like 5,200. 00:08:21.985 --> 00:08:24.790 But really that was the number. 00:08:24.790 --> 00:08:26.514 A legion was 6,000. 00:08:26.514 --> 00:08:30.331 Roman soldiers, the most feared soldiers on earth. 00:08:30.331 --> 00:08:31.293 They were the cruelest. 00:08:31.293 --> 00:08:34.113 They invented crucifixion. 00:08:34.113 --> 00:08:45.181 They invented all kinds of torture that they just routinely treated people with. 00:08:46.005 --> 00:08:53.336 We look at this horrible stuff that Hamas did to the Jews on October the 7th. 00:08:53.336 --> 00:09:01.296 They have, they have people that are in charge of cleansing the land. 00:09:01.296 --> 00:09:14.119 You know, god and I just got through reading this Deuteronomy and I looked it all up they have a unit called Zaka Z-A-K-A and they had to go and, for instance, they went to that rave. 00:09:14.119 --> 00:09:26.197 You know that young people that were out there with a rock concert but it was a rave, is what it was and they were out there dancing and fornicating and doing things that they shouldn't be doing. 00:09:26.197 --> 00:09:43.414 I mean, it's just an ungodly Sodom and Gomorrah kind of a party and Hamas attacked and they did things to those young people that Zaka had never seen. 00:09:43.414 --> 00:09:54.178 They were mutilated, they were dismembered, they were disemboweled, they were tortured and didn't kill. 00:09:54.178 --> 00:10:00.155 See, they didn't just kill people, they, they tortured babies and children. 00:10:00.235 --> 00:10:06.835 And this zaka, you see, when they're dead, the land has to be cleansed of the blood that's been shed on it. 00:10:06.835 --> 00:10:09.330 See, the jews still have to obey the law. 00:10:09.330 --> 00:10:13.936 See, the law has that all in Deuteronomy, there, where they've got to go and they've got to go clean up the. 00:10:13.936 --> 00:10:18.932 They got to clean up the dead people and get them and have a ritual and all that. 00:10:18.932 --> 00:10:25.910 They got to bring a, you know, a steer out of one of the nearest cities and strike the head off and shed the blood of the steer and cleanse the land. 00:10:25.910 --> 00:10:27.634 And they've got a whole thing that they've got to do. 00:10:27.634 --> 00:10:29.996 But they've got to take care of this carnage. 00:10:29.996 --> 00:10:32.279 And they're seeing this carnage. 00:10:37.389 --> 00:10:42.115 And I thought about Larry and Heidi because they were sent home. 00:10:42.115 --> 00:10:45.793 They were going to go home to Cyprus and they couldn't get back into Cyprus. 00:10:45.793 --> 00:10:47.130 Now they had to turn around and go back. 00:10:47.130 --> 00:10:53.094 They got back just in time for the rocket rockets to hit last week. 00:10:53.094 --> 00:10:56.332 Now God's got them just right in position. 00:10:56.764 --> 00:11:06.874 And you know, I thought about I bet you they're ministering some of these Zockers because they're having all kinds of psychological problems and seeing this kind of horrible, you know carnage of what a supposed human being. 00:11:06.874 --> 00:11:11.682 They're supposed to be human but they don't act it. 00:11:11.682 --> 00:11:12.845 What a supposed human being. 00:11:12.845 --> 00:11:18.861 They're supposed to be human, but they don't act it. 00:11:18.861 --> 00:11:23.038 What are those? 00:11:23.038 --> 00:11:24.403 Well, they're demon powers. 00:11:24.403 --> 00:11:32.304 Hallelujah, we've got power over all the power of the enemy. 00:11:32.304 --> 00:11:37.986 And so one demon named Legion let in 6,000 other demons. 00:11:37.986 --> 00:11:42.551 Can you imagine one person having 6,001 different personalities? 00:11:42.551 --> 00:11:47.976 I mean that goes, you know schizophrenia. 00:11:47.976 --> 00:11:49.958 I mean it goes way beyond that. 00:11:49.958 --> 00:11:57.753 It goes way beyond. 00:11:57.753 --> 00:12:00.399 I mean he is supernaturally strong. 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:04.589 They can't control him. 00:12:04.589 --> 00:12:06.754 They chain him and he breaks the chains. 00:12:06.754 --> 00:12:20.224 He's miserable, he's crying, he's in the tombs night and day. 00:12:20.224 --> 00:12:27.168 And so now we're faced with signs of demonic influence in our own nation. 00:12:27.327 --> 00:12:30.076 We used to have it in some of the foreign countries. 00:12:30.076 --> 00:12:33.330 It was common, especially in Asia and Africa. 00:12:33.330 --> 00:12:50.113 I was in India one time and one of our church members had a dream about a tree that was full of demons and it was a big tree and had hardly any leaves and it had stuff hanging from the tree and she saw it on the side of the road. 00:12:50.113 --> 00:12:50.735 She's a pastor. 00:12:50.735 --> 00:13:01.373 I say I had a dream, I saw this tree, and when you go to India this time, this tree you're going to see this tree and you know what it was, absolutely the way she put it. 00:13:02.105 --> 00:13:05.532 On my way to the venue every day in Bombay. 00:13:05.532 --> 00:13:12.331 You know I refuse to call it Mumbai, that's the Hindu name. 00:13:12.331 --> 00:13:14.253 It's Bombay as far as I'm concerned. 00:13:14.253 --> 00:13:21.097 But anyway, on my way there, I looked across there and I saw this weird tree. 00:13:21.097 --> 00:13:24.274 It was huge, big old tree trunk, this big, it was a spread. 00:13:24.274 --> 00:13:28.235 I'm telling you, that tree was probably spread out as big as the center section. 00:13:28.235 --> 00:13:36.375 It was a huge tree, big tree, but there were hardly any leaves on it and they had this stuff hanging from the limbs all up in it. 00:13:38.264 --> 00:13:41.294 And I said, brother Varghese, I said what is that tree? 00:13:41.294 --> 00:13:44.032 He said that's the devil tree. 00:13:44.032 --> 00:13:50.432 They come and sacrifice to demon powers under that tree and they hang these things up there. 00:13:50.432 --> 00:13:53.210 Come and sacrifice to demon powers under that tree and they hang these things up there. 00:13:53.210 --> 00:14:00.289 And I, you know I've been, I've been told, you know, I mean warned me in a dream by one of my church members it was going to be like that. 00:14:00.289 --> 00:14:07.731 And so, you know, kind of used to that in india, you used to that in asia, different parts of asia, and especially africa. 00:14:07.731 --> 00:14:20.275 They don't call it the dark continent for nothing the voodoo and Haiti, I mean, it's dedicated to the devil, and you know you got a lot of trouble there. 00:14:20.275 --> 00:14:26.235 But now we've imported these demons and now we're no longer a civilized society. 00:14:26.235 --> 00:14:30.366 That's time for us to take back over. 00:14:38.076 --> 00:14:49.078 So there's more to this record of the demoniac we call him, and it illustrates one, two, three, four things I want to share with you. 00:14:49.078 --> 00:14:55.201 One, two, three, four things I want to share with you. 00:14:55.201 --> 00:15:01.251 This miracle of deliverance illustrates number one the misery of mankind. 00:15:01.251 --> 00:15:02.535 Notice I've already talked about it. 00:15:02.535 --> 00:15:14.163 I mean this poor creature just was miserableound and couldn't be loosed. 00:15:14.163 --> 00:15:16.812 I mean he couldn't be controlled. 00:15:16.812 --> 00:15:22.057 I should say They'd try to bind him, to control him, and he would rip the chains off and so forth. 00:15:23.926 --> 00:15:29.638 In Ephesians, chapter 2, let's hold our place there in Mark and go over to Ephesians. 00:15:29.638 --> 00:15:33.409 Hold our place there and mark and go over to Ephesians. 00:15:33.409 --> 00:15:47.782 The misery of the unsaved men, no matter whether they're in America or India, doesn't matter where you're at when you're unsaved, this is your status. 00:15:47.782 --> 00:15:50.886 Verse 2, where in time past you walked. 00:15:50.886 --> 00:15:54.110 See, he's talking to the Ephesians and this is how they were in the past. 00:15:54.110 --> 00:16:10.745 You walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. 00:16:15.096 --> 00:16:25.044 The Bible calls unbelievers the children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our conversation, our manner of life. 00:16:25.044 --> 00:16:30.725 I haven't been saved so long that I've forgotten what I was when I was lost. 00:16:30.725 --> 00:16:55.559 I was under the influence of demon powers Among whom we all had our conversation, our manner of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 00:16:55.559 --> 00:17:00.956 So the Bible calls unbelievers the children of disobedience. 00:17:00.956 --> 00:17:03.409 It calls them the children of wrath. 00:17:03.409 --> 00:17:05.175 And that's what we all were. 00:17:07.426 --> 00:17:09.374 Some of us were respectable. 00:17:09.374 --> 00:17:20.075 Maybe we were looked upon as good people, but it doesn't make any difference, because you had the nature of your father. 00:17:20.075 --> 00:17:24.016 You had the nature of the devil that was in you. 00:17:24.016 --> 00:17:26.473 That's why you couldn't reform your life. 00:17:26.473 --> 00:17:28.873 You couldn't be good enough to ever go to heaven. 00:17:28.873 --> 00:17:29.094 Why? 00:17:29.094 --> 00:17:34.748 Because you you know they say it in modern vernacular you can put lipstick on a pig. 00:17:34.748 --> 00:17:35.511 It's still a pig. 00:17:35.511 --> 00:17:40.410 Pour some perfume on it. 00:17:40.410 --> 00:17:45.776 Get it some of those fake eyelashes that all the women basketball players were wearing. 00:17:45.776 --> 00:17:47.799 Did you see those women basketball players? 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:48.424 I mean, they had those. 00:17:48.424 --> 00:17:51.173 Oh man out there, man. 00:17:51.173 --> 00:17:55.273 It looks like it would interfere with their three-point shot. 00:17:55.273 --> 00:18:02.307 But anyway, you can do all that to a pig, but you ain't changed its nature, the nature. 00:18:02.307 --> 00:18:04.613 That's why we have to be born again. 00:18:04.613 --> 00:18:07.048 We get a new nature, we get God's nature. 00:18:07.048 --> 00:18:14.192 Now, amen, oh the misery of mankind. 00:18:16.201 --> 00:18:18.827 Because the church today has wasted its power. 00:18:18.827 --> 00:18:30.678 I believe it's changing, but Oral Roberts was told by God back in 2004, july of 2004,. 00:18:30.678 --> 00:18:32.707 He said there's a wasting of power in the church. 00:18:32.707 --> 00:18:43.549 Power has been given and not been utilized and we've sat back and let abortion be the rule of the land. 00:18:43.549 --> 00:18:47.867 Thank God for Donald Trump and appointing these judges that overturned Roe v Wade. 00:18:47.867 --> 00:18:49.131 But that's just the beginning of it. 00:18:49.192 --> 00:18:55.553 Now, state by state and I agree with Donald Trump, I don't agree with it's all murder, every bit of it. 00:18:55.553 --> 00:19:05.167 But yet it's a political situation you can't ram abortion down the country with no exceptions. 00:19:05.167 --> 00:19:11.488 It's not going to be politically palpable and you're not going to get it done and you're going to wind up killing more babies. 00:19:11.488 --> 00:19:16.422 So you, just you know, killing more babies. 00:19:16.422 --> 00:19:20.996 So you, just you know this is, you know, we don't have a a Christian nation as far as ruled by Christianity. 00:19:20.996 --> 00:19:26.469 It's just a Christian nation by virtue that we've dedicated it, but you still have you. 00:19:26.469 --> 00:19:29.382 We've imported all these people that believe in killing babies. 00:19:29.382 --> 00:19:32.125 Do you know that Europe is not as uh uh? 00:19:32.125 --> 00:19:35.211 They have more restrictions on abortion than we do. 00:19:35.211 --> 00:19:41.489 Could you have ever guessed that Germany would be stricter about abortions than America? 00:19:41.489 --> 00:19:43.071 They are. 00:19:43.071 --> 00:19:50.826 France, the European Union in general, is more strict than America. 00:19:50.826 --> 00:19:59.236 We have just ripped all the limits off because the wasting of power. 00:19:59.339 --> 00:20:06.294 The church has not exercised its authority in the voting booth in the Congress. 00:20:06.294 --> 00:20:11.248 We haven't demanded, we haven't shown up in critical votes. 00:20:11.248 --> 00:20:12.445 That's all changing folks. 00:20:12.445 --> 00:20:19.295 I said it's changing in critical votes. 00:20:19.295 --> 00:20:20.157 That's all changing folks. 00:20:20.157 --> 00:20:20.819 I said it's changing. 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:28.269 The Supreme Court decision in 2014 to overturn biblical marriages that was a huge, huge historic move in this country to the negative. 00:20:28.269 --> 00:20:30.232 Look at what's happened since then. 00:20:30.232 --> 00:20:38.229 You gave them that little inch and a lot of Christians were saying well, you know, I don't care what people do, you know that's not important. 00:20:38.229 --> 00:20:48.090 Well, yeah, when you redefine the language, when you call marriage something that isn't, you sinned against God and he's going to just turn you over to a mind void of judgment. 00:20:48.090 --> 00:20:51.207 And look what we've got now. 00:20:51.207 --> 00:21:01.169 Who would have ever dreamed that we'd be mutilating children and asking three-year-olds whether they're a boy or a girl. 00:21:01.169 --> 00:21:08.384 Well, glory to God, you know we're here for that. 00:21:08.384 --> 00:21:09.885 We're here to change things. 00:21:09.885 --> 00:21:11.261 Now. 00:21:11.261 --> 00:21:12.326 We might not change it. 00:21:12.326 --> 00:21:14.405 I don't want to say that right now. 00:21:14.405 --> 00:21:16.986 Whether we change it or not is immaterial. 00:21:16.986 --> 00:21:24.846 But whether we stand for what's right, that's what God is watching for Got to stand for what's right. 00:21:27.681 --> 00:21:29.945 I am so disappointed in Speaker Johnson. 00:21:29.945 --> 00:21:32.371 He's a liar. 00:21:32.371 --> 00:21:33.733 There's nothing else to say. 00:21:33.733 --> 00:21:35.625 I know he was supposed to be a believer. 00:21:35.625 --> 00:21:36.448 He's got a Bible. 00:21:36.448 --> 00:21:39.425 He pounds and and talks about how he believes that. 00:21:39.425 --> 00:21:43.767 We've come into contact with people that know him personally and all they vouch for him. 00:21:43.767 --> 00:21:44.348 Well, you know what? 00:21:44.348 --> 00:22:00.229 It's too late for me, because you just messed everything up and you gave our house of representatives over to Democrats, and Hakeem Jeffries is now the effective speaker of the house and the Democrats are going to are going to support Johnson. 00:22:00.229 --> 00:22:06.621 He might as well be a Democrat Boy. 00:22:06.621 --> 00:22:11.561 With Republicans like that, you don't even you don't really need two parties, just just to have a unit party. 00:22:11.561 --> 00:22:12.344 That's what we have. 00:22:12.344 --> 00:22:15.130 Well, that's changing. 00:22:15.130 --> 00:22:19.403 We're going to clean house come November. 00:22:19.403 --> 00:22:23.912 I said we're going to clean house come November, all right. 00:22:23.932 --> 00:22:25.194 So the misery of mankind. 00:22:25.194 --> 00:22:29.172 It's all come because of the lack of power, lack of salt and light. 00:22:29.172 --> 00:22:31.141 That's our job is to be salt and light. 00:22:31.141 --> 00:22:38.019 It's not to let everything go and just you know, come to church and close the door and act like everything's perfect out there. 00:22:38.019 --> 00:22:41.369 No, we're to influence things and we're doing that. 00:22:42.840 --> 00:22:45.314 And then, number two, the misery of mankind. 00:22:45.314 --> 00:22:50.490 Number two the master plan of the devil, satan, desires to inhabit flesh. 00:22:50.490 --> 00:22:55.442 They're so desperate to inhabit flesh. 00:22:55.442 --> 00:23:04.888 They all crammed into one condominium, kind of like the illegal aliens in New York City. 00:23:04.888 --> 00:23:09.571 They all come crammed into one hotel room, the Ritz Carlton. 00:23:09.571 --> 00:23:12.067 They got the deluxe suite. 00:23:12.067 --> 00:23:13.669 There's about 50 of them in there. 00:23:13.669 --> 00:23:19.797 They got the deluxe suite. 00:23:19.797 --> 00:23:21.282 There's about 50 of them in there. 00:23:21.282 --> 00:23:23.773 I mean, can you imagine how many demons that is in one man? 00:23:23.773 --> 00:23:26.144 6,001 demons. 00:23:26.144 --> 00:23:32.454 They are so desperate because a demon has no expression outside of human flesh. 00:23:32.454 --> 00:23:41.599 It has to have human flesh through which to manifest its evil. 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:49.732 This is how demons work. 00:23:49.732 --> 00:23:53.655 In James, chapter 1, let's hold our place over there. 00:23:53.655 --> 00:24:15.574 And Mark, we're not through with Mark, james, chapter 1. 00:24:15.574 --> 00:24:25.002 Verse 22,. 00:24:25.063 --> 00:24:29.720 But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only deceiving your own selves. 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:36.271 Deception is a form of ignorance when you believe one, something that is not true, isn. 00:24:36.271 --> 00:24:36.693 Isn't that ignorance? 00:24:36.693 --> 00:24:37.518 Can we agree that? 00:24:37.518 --> 00:24:39.182 That's one definition of ignorance. 00:24:39.182 --> 00:24:43.893 Ignorance can be you know, just oh, I didn't know that you know. 00:24:43.893 --> 00:24:49.829 Or it can be ignorance you know, you know it, but you don't think about it. 00:24:49.829 --> 00:24:56.270 But deception is ignorance also, because deception, you believe one thing and that's not true. 00:24:56.270 --> 00:24:57.685 It's the other thing that's true. 00:24:57.685 --> 00:25:06.651 And when you are a hearer of this word and you don't do it, you don't act like it's true and you don't integrate it in your life. 00:25:06.651 --> 00:25:10.390 Vote like it's true, speak like it's true. 00:25:10.390 --> 00:25:15.152 Then what you deceive yourself, and now you have what. 00:25:15.152 --> 00:25:21.327 Then what you deceive yourself and now you have what Opened a door for Satan to occupy space. 00:25:21.327 --> 00:25:27.263 Ephesians says give no place to the devil. 00:25:27.263 --> 00:25:31.596 One of the greatest ways to give place to the devil is be deceived, and you can deceive yourself. 00:25:31.596 --> 00:25:34.723 It's not even so much listening to somebody else, you do it yourself. 00:25:34.723 --> 00:25:49.314 So demons can inhabit a place where place is given Ignorance, disobedience, sin. 00:25:49.940 --> 00:25:58.454 Let's look at 2 Timothy Getting anything out of this? 00:25:58.454 --> 00:26:02.539 Well, it sounds kind of heavy, but I'm going to get into the good news here in a minute. 00:26:02.539 --> 00:26:06.349 It's not all about the devil's power. 00:26:06.349 --> 00:26:08.265 We're going to talk about God's power. 00:26:08.265 --> 00:26:13.069 2nd Timothy, chapter 3. 00:26:13.069 --> 00:26:17.326 Paul told his son in the faith this also chapter 3. 00:26:17.326 --> 00:26:23.693 Paul told his son in the faith this also know verse 1, that in the last days everybody say that's right now. 00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:55.516 Perilous or dangerous times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous boasters, proud blasphemers, disobedient parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, incontinent, fierce despisers of those that are good. 00:26:55.516 --> 00:27:13.784 Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof. 00:27:13.784 --> 00:27:39.799 On behalf of such, build a church to appeal to these people, gather them up and try to help them From such turn away, from such turn away From such turn away. 00:27:39.799 --> 00:28:06.371 So these demonic powers, once they've found somebody, even a Christian that is deceived, one who has been disobedient, one who has practiced things that are forbidden, there's an open door. 00:28:06.371 --> 00:28:08.505 I mean, do you go to sleep at night with your door open? 00:28:08.505 --> 00:28:26.086 I mean, you at least close it, right, but anymore, I mean I grew up in the 50s we didn't open the door, but it was a screen door in summertime and we would latch it just so it wouldn't blow open because you don't want it open, because then anything can come in. 00:28:26.125 --> 00:28:33.732 You know dogs and cats and possums and raccoons. 00:28:33.732 --> 00:28:38.391 You don't want a raccoon in your bed with you, I can guarantee that. 00:28:38.391 --> 00:28:41.525 So no, you close your door. 00:28:41.525 --> 00:28:42.468 But you don't need any more. 00:28:42.468 --> 00:28:45.229 My dad, you'd leave your car outside. 00:28:45.229 --> 00:28:47.025 I mean, the windows were down. 00:28:47.025 --> 00:28:48.509 It's summertime, man, it's hot. 00:28:48.509 --> 00:28:51.028 You don't roll the windows up, even at night. 00:28:51.028 --> 00:28:52.859 Leave the windows down unless it's raining. 00:28:52.859 --> 00:28:55.429 You leave the windows down and the car's unlocked. 00:28:55.429 --> 00:28:59.559 Sometimes the keys are in it. 00:28:59.559 --> 00:29:02.506 I mean, it's hard to believe that that's how it was back then, but that's how it was back then. 00:29:02.506 --> 00:29:10.038 But now you can lock it and you've got an alarm on it and they're still going to try to steal the catalytic converter off of it. 00:29:10.038 --> 00:29:16.093 You come out and it's up on blocks and they took all four of your beautiful wheels and tires off. 00:29:16.093 --> 00:29:19.103 We didn't have wheels and tires, we had hubcaps. 00:29:19.103 --> 00:29:31.576 Oh my, oh my. 00:29:35.601 --> 00:29:39.412 So many believers are being oppressed. 00:29:39.412 --> 00:29:45.566 See, the devil has three levels of operation in a human being and that is oppression. 00:29:45.566 --> 00:29:51.160 Sometimes they you know what we call depression. 00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:55.304 When we feel bad, we've got thoughts that are dark and we're. 00:29:55.304 --> 00:29:58.482 You know that's oppression by the devil. 00:29:58.482 --> 00:30:00.165 Demon powers oppress you. 00:30:00.165 --> 00:30:05.384 That's just a little old, hairy, purple demon sitting on your shoulder talking to you. 00:30:05.384 --> 00:30:08.250 Not every thought you have is your thought. 00:30:08.250 --> 00:30:12.231 It's a thought that comes from outside and you've got to learn that. 00:30:12.231 --> 00:30:15.194 You've got to learn not to accept those thoughts because they're not your thoughts. 00:30:15.194 --> 00:30:15.905 You didn't think them and you've got to learn that. 00:30:15.905 --> 00:30:16.566 You've got to learn not to accept those thoughts because they're not your thoughts. 00:30:16.566 --> 00:30:18.865 You didn't think them and you've got to reject them. 00:30:18.865 --> 00:30:21.868 You've got to bring every thought in captivity into the obedience of Christ. 00:30:21.868 --> 00:30:22.671 It takes discipline. 00:30:24.660 --> 00:30:27.569 Sometimes people have sicknesses because of demons. 00:30:27.569 --> 00:30:34.250 It's not just a virus or just a germ. 00:30:34.250 --> 00:30:50.148 I know the devil's behind all sickness, but there are certain things that people face that a demonic power of spirit, of infirmity or some other type of demon has to be dealt with and cast out before healing can come. 00:30:50.148 --> 00:30:53.586 Well, how do I know that? 00:30:53.586 --> 00:30:56.430 Well, you know, get out there and lay your hands on people. 00:30:56.430 --> 00:30:57.823 You're a believer. 00:30:57.823 --> 00:31:00.089 You should lay hands on the sick and they should recover. 00:31:00.089 --> 00:31:05.451 And the more you do that, the more God is going to equip you to come up against. 00:31:05.491 --> 00:31:06.221 You know, I had this. 00:31:06.221 --> 00:31:09.009 First time it ever happened to me, I was laying hands on a guy. 00:31:09.009 --> 00:31:20.928 I thought I was just laying hands on the guy for healing of a of a migraine headache that he'd had for 32 years migraines every so often for 32 years and he was having one. 00:31:20.928 --> 00:31:25.204 And I turned my car around to go back to the gas station where he worked to pray for him. 00:31:25.204 --> 00:31:37.682 And I began to lay hands on him in my car to heal him and suddenly I had my eyes closed and I was praying in other tongues under my breath. 00:31:37.682 --> 00:31:39.190 I didn't want to scare the guy. 00:31:39.190 --> 00:31:42.702 You know he wouldn't know if I'm praying in tongues, he wouldn't know what I was about to do. 00:31:42.702 --> 00:31:52.761 So I'm just very under my breath to myself praying in other tongues, wanting to find out just how to minister to him about this migraine headache. 00:31:52.801 --> 00:32:00.551 And what I saw was this worm drive clamp around his head, like a radiator clamp that you turn the screw and it gets tighter and tighter. 00:32:00.551 --> 00:32:01.133 And it was. 00:32:01.133 --> 00:32:06.862 It was stainless steel around his head, like that, and he had this look on his face like he was hurting so badly. 00:32:06.862 --> 00:32:12.634 And I and I stopped and out loud I said what do I do with that? 00:32:12.634 --> 00:32:16.979 What do I do with that? 00:32:16.979 --> 00:32:27.740 And the Holy Ghost said break it, and I, just like you know, I break that clamp in the name of Jesus, and I mean all the pain left. 00:32:27.740 --> 00:32:32.553 He got healed when I broke the power of that demonic power that had been responsible. 00:32:32.553 --> 00:32:35.868 When I didn't see the demon, I saw what it used. 00:32:35.868 --> 00:32:36.811 Are y'all with me now? 00:32:36.811 --> 00:32:44.929 That was probably the first time that ever happened to me, and I know before that I had prayed for a lot of people. 00:32:46.180 --> 00:32:53.968 So the more you pray, the more you put yourself in position for God to begin to manifest certain gifts, like the discerning of spirits. 00:32:53.968 --> 00:32:59.864 He will begin to help you. 00:32:59.864 --> 00:33:12.913 He's your helper, he's your holy helper, and when you put yourself out there trying to make a difference in people's lives that have been demonized amen, he'll help you have success. 00:33:12.913 --> 00:33:14.823 He'll help you have success. 00:33:14.823 --> 00:33:33.002 And then you know, when people don't do anything about being oppressed of the devil, then that demon power can move into them and they can become obsessed. 00:33:33.002 --> 00:33:38.548 And so that's really the way that the hierarchy of Satan works. 00:33:38.648 --> 00:33:54.083 He goes by oppression, obsession and lastly possession, and that's what tricks up a lot of our Christian brethren. 00:33:54.083 --> 00:34:02.269 They just don't believe that a Christian can be possessed, and I agree with them a Christian can't be possessed. 00:34:02.269 --> 00:34:03.913 But they don't get possessed all at once. 00:34:03.913 --> 00:34:10.005 They start with being oppressed and they don't do enough about it, and then they become obsessed. 00:34:10.005 --> 00:34:13.023 And if they don't do anything about that, then that thing can. 00:34:13.023 --> 00:34:18.708 Finally they get so deceived they can give their salvation away. 00:34:18.708 --> 00:34:29.467 They can be so deceived that they do the unconscionable and they tread underfoot the precious blood of Christ that was shed for their salvation. 00:34:29.467 --> 00:34:31.226 They reject Jesus. 00:34:31.226 --> 00:34:33.887 Listen, we are not saved 100%. 00:34:33.887 --> 00:34:35.050 All our life. 00:34:35.050 --> 00:34:37.806 We can give it back. 00:34:37.806 --> 00:34:38.829 We're not robots. 00:34:40.300 --> 00:34:41.302 Well, I would never do that. 00:34:41.302 --> 00:34:42.527 Well, you wouldn't right now. 00:34:42.527 --> 00:34:46.204 But what if you just kept on and kept on, and kept on? 00:34:46.204 --> 00:34:55.809 Then sin will harden your heart and you can get to the place where you just don't want to mess with church anymore. 00:34:55.809 --> 00:34:57.865 I know people that were pastors. 00:34:57.865 --> 00:34:58.768 They don't even go to church. 00:34:58.768 --> 00:35:02.126 I know them very well. 00:35:02.126 --> 00:35:07.469 I had a lot of ministry to them, I poured my life into them and now they don't even go to church. 00:35:07.469 --> 00:35:13.047 So don't tell me you can't do it, because they did it and they're in the process. 00:35:13.047 --> 00:35:15.019 It's terrible. 00:35:15.019 --> 00:35:16.085 I wish it weren't so. 00:35:16.085 --> 00:35:19.664 I wish that it hadn't happened. 00:35:19.664 --> 00:35:21.528 How did it happen? 00:35:21.528 --> 00:35:26.846 What I'm talking about tonight, man, we can't take this stuff for granted. 00:35:26.846 --> 00:35:36.331 We've got to close the door and lock it With a blood, amen, all right, all right. 00:35:36.420 --> 00:35:40.851 And so here in Mark, chapter 5, it's turned back there. 00:35:40.851 --> 00:35:45.911 So we have the misery of mankind, the master plan of the devil. 00:35:45.911 --> 00:35:48.326 He goes through open doors. 00:35:48.326 --> 00:35:49.248 That's what he's looking for. 00:35:49.248 --> 00:35:50.264 He's checking the doors. 00:35:50.264 --> 00:35:52.684 He's checking the doors. 00:35:52.684 --> 00:36:01.842 They've got roving gangs going through neighborhoods, checking the cars, checking to see if there's any of going through neighborhoods, checking the cars, checking to see if there's any of them in lock, checking to see if there's any valuables in the front seat. 00:36:01.842 --> 00:36:04.766 You know they'll poke the lock out or they'll break the glass. 00:36:04.766 --> 00:36:08.373 I mean, you know they're looking for the devil's. 00:36:08.373 --> 00:36:19.018 The same way, go back to Mark, chapter 5, where we started. 00:36:19.940 --> 00:36:34.972 And so the people that heard about all this came and verse 15, they come to Jesus and they see him that was possessed with the devil and had the legion, and now he's sitting and clothed and in his right mind. 00:36:34.972 --> 00:36:43.929 And Luke 8.35, luke says he was sitting at the feet of Jesus. 00:36:43.929 --> 00:36:48.427 He wasn't just sitting, he was sitting at Jesus' feet. 00:36:48.427 --> 00:37:04.880 Hallelujah, hallelujah, praise God, praise God, clothed and in his right mind, not moving around, not tormented. 00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:15.280 Sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, see the majesty of Jesus. 00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:16.505 We get to present the majesty of Jesus. 00:37:16.505 --> 00:37:19.195 We get, we get to present the majesty of Jesus. 00:37:19.235 --> 00:37:29.530 When I laid hands on Ed Rogers in San Antonio and I put my hands on either side of his head and I saw that clamp and I broke that, I mean he got impressed with the majesty of Jesus. 00:37:29.530 --> 00:37:31.802 The next breath he gave his heart to Jesus. 00:37:31.802 --> 00:37:34.969 He got saved, he got born again, he got a new nature. 00:37:34.969 --> 00:37:46.431 Right there in the front seat of my van, I tell you, healing is God's dinner bell and deliverance is the children's bread. 00:37:46.431 --> 00:37:51.505 Jesus said it's not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs. 00:37:52.820 --> 00:37:56.043 And the Syrophoenician woman, a Gentile woman, says well, truth, lord. 00:37:56.043 --> 00:38:02.846 But even even the puppies eat the crumbs out of the master's table. 00:38:02.846 --> 00:38:03.710 I mean, all I need is a crumb for all the. 00:38:03.710 --> 00:38:04.775 You're not going to miss a crumb, or your Lord? 00:38:04.775 --> 00:38:05.338 How about just a crumb? 00:38:05.338 --> 00:38:06.501 That's enough for my daughter. 00:38:06.501 --> 00:38:09.288 Oh, woman, great is thy faith. 00:38:09.288 --> 00:38:10.851 The devil's gone out of that daughter. 00:38:10.851 --> 00:38:13.405