Encounter Night — Joseph Lee Pioneer Ministries (TGA)

Sunday the 28th of September 6PM Gathering, Tauranga Location
Guest and friend of the house Joseph Lee from Pioneer Ministries speaking at a Freedom Centre Encounter Night.

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Transcript

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What do we make Joe feel super super welcome? Come on, Freedom Center. What do you make your way? Let me tell you, God wants to move in families. Amen. The Bible says that as for me and my household, we shall be saved. Amen. Let me tell you, God is moving all throughout the world right now. I'm going to be sharing a few testimonies and I've got a few words of knowledge, and we're going to get into the spirit today. And you know, I do want to touch on some things that are happening in the world right now that kind of give you a bit of a worldview. And I believe that New Zealand is right smack bang in the middle of what God's doing. You know, whenever I travel, particularly in America, you know what pastors say to me? They say, What's happening in New Zealand? Because New Zealand is a prophetic nation. And whatever God does, he usually does it first in New Zealand. That's what they tell me. So we might think that we're small, but guess what? We're mighty. We're mighty in the spirit. We're like David's. And you know what? David might have been short, small, young, but he knew how to slay Goliath. Amen. Hallelujah. So don't ever think that just because you're from this small country that you can't do something great for God, amen. If I can just have Acts chapter 10, oh Acts chapter 4, verse 25. I'm gonna just spring it on you if you can find that. Acts chapter 4, verse 25. And um things are happening in the world, amen. Who feels that? You know, we had um uh basically, you know, uh martyrdom on live TV in the last couple of weeks with Charlie Kirk, you know, being murdered on live TV and it shocked the world. Amen. But how many know Jesus got the glory out of that? Amen. All over the world people were talking about Jesus, all over the world, people are hearing the gospel. It's incredible to understand that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Amen. And just like the devil got it wrong when he thought he was killing Jesus on that cross and he had got the victory, and he didn't realize that the blood of Jesus was gonna birth the church of Jesus Christ. It's the same today. A young man that stood for Christian values, conservative values in the earth, and they reckon that 100 million people saw his memorial service and heard the gospel of Jesus Christ at the same time all over the world. Now, let me tell you how significant that is. Never in the history of the church, never in all of the church history, 2,000 years, has the gospel been preached at a single time all over the world to so many people's lives. Never. So we are literally living in historic days. We are living in historic days. I heard pastors saying that in America their churches tripled on the Sunday after Charlie Kirk was martyred. One guy said that 1,500 people turned up to his church unannounced. 1,500 people just knocking down the door. This is a significant moment, but it wasn't just Charlie Kirk, it was also all over the world that week something was happening. If you followed the news, you had Nepal, where they overthrew the government, which is a communist government, which has held Nepal for ransom for decades, was overthrown. And I was in Nepal last year, and so I was talking to the pastors about what God was doing and what we should pray about. Because let me tell you something: Nepal is the birthplace of Buddha. One of the great world religions was birthed in Nepal. And when I was in Nepal last year, I was a part of a march where 10,000 believers marched through the streets on Easter Sunday declaring that Jesus had rose from the dead. And I was just completely shocked that in the birthplace of Buddha, Jesus was taking over the nation. And so a part of that is obviously having to remove a government that was gonna try and stop the spreading of the gospel so that those pastors have a freedom to preach the message and see a great end time harvest come in. Amen. You had the marching in the UK for conservative Christian values, where a million people marched through the streets of London saying, we want England to be a Christian nation. All of this happened on the same weekend, and then a few days ago at the United Nations, Donald Trump said that Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the face of the earth today. And he declared Christianity on the world stage. Because in the nation of Nigeria, there's a battle going on right now between the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness, and there are martyrs every day being sent to heaven, being murdered, whole villages destroyed that are Christian. So things are happening right now. There is an immediacy in the spirit. God is bringing a sense of eternity, God is speeding up. Who feels like this year's gone so fast? Come on, it's like September. Like they've already got Christmas bells in the you know, already trying to sell you your Christmas gifts. It's like, what happened to the year? Because time is moving, time is accelerating, and we don't want to be a sleep body of Christ, amen. It's time for the giant of the church to wake up like never before. And so, what is going on at the moment? See, every generation since the early church has battled a certain spirit, and John the Beloved wrote in his books in the Bible what the spirit was. He said, Look, church, the Antichrist might be coming, but actually, there are already many antichrists that have come into the world. See, in every generation, we must battle what is called an antichrist spirit. And what you're seeing in this current climate is the battle with the antichrist spirit because the church has been asleep and allowed the LGBT woke liberal agenda to begin to rise up to a place of such power that finally there is coming a clash between the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness and Christian values in our society. And so this generation is facing that antichrist spirit right now. Maybe you've sensed it in your schools, maybe you're a new believer here and you're young, and you've sensed that thing like you can't tell people about Jesus. You can't mention you're a Christian and you felt that fear and you haven't been able to put a label on it, you haven't been able to understand what it is, but it is that antichrist spirit that doesn't want Christianity in this nation. Did you know that last year when or two years ago when they took Jesus, the name of Jesus, out of the parliamentary prayer, so they would no longer say Jesus in parliament, the same year they did that, the Muslim call to prayer was put on the radio across the whole nation. The same year, you think that's a coincidence? It's not a coincidence, and so we are in this battle, and I've seen the Antichrist spirit as I've been on my missionary journeys. Every now and then I just bump into it. And let me tell you something. Most people in this room are saved, or you will be saved at the end of this message, because I will give you a chance to give your life to Jesus. Hallelujah. Because I'm an evangelist. But let me tell you something. Once you're in the kingdom, the devil doesn't really care too much if you're a Christian. I mean, he's not too concerned if you go to church. What he cares about is if you're a powerful Christian. What he cares about is if you're a no-compromising Christian. What he cares about is if you're gonna stand up and actually be a child of God in the earth and manifest the signs and wonders of God. Yeah, but Christian, I don't know. You know, seat warmers, Sunday believers, amen. I mean, Sunday believers is so 1980s, hallelujah. We don't have those anymore, amen. Come on, amen. We have everyday believers, we have lifestyle believers in the house of God tonight. And so, if you have a look at this verse, did you find Acts chapter 4, verse 25? If you have a look at this verse, I just want you to think the Bible says here, it's a quote from Psalm chapter 2 who by the mouth of your servant David have said, Why did the nations rage and the people plot empty things? Next verse. Hallelujah. Did you type this out manually, did you? See, the nations are raging right now. The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ. You see that? You see that? That there is a spirit behind what is happening where rulers and nations are raging and thus standing against the Lord and his Christ. That is what is happening. See, an antichrist spirit is not necessarily anti-Christian. If you're just gonna sit amongst these four walls and you know come on Sunday and just be a good Christian person, you're not gonna really encounter too much of an antichrist spirit. Because antichrist, the word Christ means anointing, it means power, it means power to reign, it means power to rule, it means power to have authority. And so, what that spirit stands against is the believer's authority in your life. It is standing against the anointing in your life. The enemy is so scared that you are gonna raise up and save your schools and save your workplaces and save your communities. The enemy is petrified that you will actually have a revelation of your sonship and your daughtership and come into a place of authority where you rule and reign with Christ. They stood against the Lord and his anointing. Even salvation, I want to put this question to you tonight. I know that you've made Jesus Savior, but have you made him Lord? Because it's coming a day where Savior won't cut it. Yeah, you'll get into heaven, but you're gonna have trouble getting there on the way. But let me tell you, if you make Jesus Lord, that anointing of Lordship is gonna start manifesting in your life, and he's gonna break every chain, break every chain, break every chain. Break every chain when he's Lord of our lives. Come on. People say, Well, why haven't I been transformed yet? Why isn't God answered that yet? Why isn't and I don't know all the have all the answers. There's some mystery in it, there's some timing in it, there's different reasons for it, but let me tell you, you have much more of a chance if you've made him Lord. Because the anointing flows on authority, the anointing flows on his lordship, and the moment you make him Lord, he says, I'm gonna back you up with my lordship power and my lordship authority, and that's when things begin to shake. So every now and then, as I've been traveling, I've been hit by this antichrist spirit. And I remember I was in Japan this year, and we were ministering in Japan, we were doing this outreach in this really poor area of Osaka in Japan, and I looked over and I saw these security guards, and they were that that they were I'm looking after this particular shop, and I just had some tracks, and I had my Google Translate, which you really need over there, as you guys have discovered, and uh and so I just thought, yeah, let's go give out some tracks. And as I'm giving them out and trying to Google translate, this young man comes up to me and he stands right over me like this. He's a tall guy, he's a big, strong guy, and he goes, get out now. I said, Bro, I'm just you know, I'm just you know, being friendly, Joe, you know, harmless. I'm just you know, Jesus, brother, have a track. He goes, get now, and he put his hand in his pocket like this, get now, and looked him in the eyes, and his eyes were just black. And the moment he said that, I felt a punch in the stomach like this, an invisible punch. And it literally took the wind out of me in the spirit, and I said, Hey, cool, brother, cool, man. We're just having fun, God bless you, you know. Kenichi wa, you know, ari gato. And and then we kind of walked away, and I walked across the street. I said to the pastor, I said, Man, what happened what's happening over there? There's something on that shop. And he said, Oh, that's the Japanese mafia, that's the yakuza right there. Yeah, that's their storefront. I said, Lord, I'm glad I walked, you know, because I used to be a little bit scrappy, you know, and I felt like, you know, biting back at him, and I held my tongue and I was thankful, man. Like, thank you, Lord. And I said, Man, I just got punched by that antichrist spirit. The eyes were so black, and I feel it, I felt it physically. Like, but a bit shaky from it, you know? And he said, Yeah, you know that guy that got saved in our meeting today, and we had this Japanese guy get saved. He was an old guy tattoos from here to there. And I go, yeah. And he goes, Yeah, he was a part of the Yakuza. I said, You mean a Japanese mafia got saved today? He said, Yeah, didn't you see his pinky finger how it was cut off? You know, because when you do something wrong, you gotta cut the pinky off, you know, self-mutilate, that's the way they do it. And so I look back at the photo and oh, yeah, there was his hand worshiping with half a pinky off. I'm like, dear Jesus, get me out of here. But all day I had that sick feeling, and then at night I had that sick feeling, and I woke up in the next day, and I had the sick feeling, and I'm like, this is warfare right now, this is an antichrist spirit. And the next day was this outreach day, and we were gonna outreach in Osaka Park, and the whole team got together. We had translated, we had missionaries there, we had the pastors we were working with, and as we went into the park, the pastor began to tell me, you know, this is the park of the original shogun. That when they had the civil war in Japan and all the shoguns were fighting, all the dynamos, the warriors, and then one shogun won all the battles, and he became the main shogun. And then he ruled for about 300 years. And what happened was he discovered that in the Philippines, the Portuguese had brought the gospel to the Philippines, but in the process, they'd taken over the whole nation. And so he was told by a ship seafarer, you know, the Portuguese are coming, they'll take this nation too, and they'll use the missionaries to do it. So he began to hate missionaries, and he went around all of Japan and martyred all the Christians, every Christian he could find. He would put down a plaque of a picture of Jesus, and he would come to a village and he'd say, All you villagers, you have to come and stand and put your feet and step on the face of Jesus. And those that don't do it got executed immediately. And they reckon that 500,000 people, half a million people were martyred. There's statues there to this day, you can go and see them. It's a it's a historical fact. And I and he said, Did you know that in this park is where they martyred a bunch of Christians? In fact, on this knoll that we were gonna go up to, there's a big moat around this castle. This is where they martyred them. And there's a picture, there's a statue of this guy, and I said, I want to go see the statue because I'm still feeling sick. I want to go see the statue before we go and do the outreach. And I'm not really a big war, you know, I'm not like a spiritual warfare guy. I'm an evangelist, right? Someone else can pray, I'm just gonna obey. You know what I mean? I love it, but I'm not, but this time I felt no, I've got to do this. And I was still feeling sick 24 hours later, and so we went with this missionary up to the statue, and I looked up at this guy's face, big bronze statue, you know, war. You know, who's in those Japanese films? I mean, the katakanas were there, he's warrior guy, you know, samurai, and he's got the black eyes, and immediately I saw this young kid's face just pop up in this guy's face. It was the same black eyes, it was an antichrist spirit. And I looked at the statue and I just said, I want the spirit behind the statue to know that today I'm coming against you in the name of Jesus, you antichrist spirit. And I said, I'm breaking your power over this ground, and I want you to know that on the same ground that you martyred Christians 500 years ago, we're gonna preach the gospel of Jesus Christ with miracles, signs, and wonders because you lose. And as soon as I said that, the power was broken, the power was broken off me, and we went out and we saw hundreds of people heard the gospel. We saw Japanese people get saved, we saw people get healed. We were just handing out tracks left, right, and center. Google translating the house down. Hallelujah. But you've got to be willing to battle that thing, you're you're gonna be coming against it, and you've got to be willing to stand for the truth because you have Christ in you, the hope of glory. Amen. I just came back from the Philippines two weeks ago, and while I was there, I bumped into a pastor. He was setting up a pastor's meeting, and he said, Joe, I translated for you last year. I said, Cool, but he said, I didn't have time to share my story. He said, I was a Muslim. Now, anytime you hear about a Muslim that become a pastor, hallelujah, you celebrate that. It's an awesome thing. I said, Well, brother, let's spend some time. Tell me your story. And he said, Well, I grew up in that area where they had the big ISIS war in the Philippines, and there was a big battle, and about a thousand of the ISIS warriors were killed through this battle, and there was a lot of poverty going on at the time because we were all radicalized. He said, Every day my dad would get up and shine his gun with the Quran. And I said, Wow, that's amazing, mate. Tell me more, you know. He kind of brought drew me in. He said, When I was 16, my mother died, and we ran out of money, we were so poor, I wanted to go to school. So I asked my auntie if she would pay for my schooling, but I didn't know that my auntie had been saved by the Chinese shop owner that she was working for, who was like a secret Christian in this area. And so the shop owner said, I will pay his fee to go to school on one condition. He comes to our church every Sunday.

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Hallelujah.

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And he said, So as a 16-year-old, I didn't care, I was getting my schooling paid. There's no other opportunity in the Philippines. You're dealing with people that eat two cups of rice a day and a cup of coffee, that's all they eat. If they get chicken once a week, they're happy. And so he began to go to the church, didn't think much of it, heard about Jesus, didn't think much of it, and then one night he has a dream. And he said, In the dream, Joe, I was falling, I was falling, I was falling. And I was terrified in the dream, it was like a black abyss that I was falling into. I had no hope. And as I began to scream in the dream, a hand came out of nowhere, this big hand, and caught me from falling. And he said, I heard a voice say to me at that moment in the dream, not this one, not this one. And he plucked me out of the dark abyss. He said, When I woke up, I was so in awe of that voice, Joe. I'd never heard it before. It wasn't a harsh voice, it was a tender voice, but it was so powerful, Joe. And I thought, this voice has got to be Jesus, and he gave his life to Jesus Christ. But when his family found out, all hell broke loose. And his brother called a family meeting, and his brother, in the family meeting, took a gun and he put it to the head of his younger brother. And he looked at the granddad with the gun pointed at his younger brother, and he said, Grandad, you're the head of this house. Give me authority to end my brother's life. Because he has renounced our faith and become a Christian, and it would be an honor for me to end his life. And everyone looked at the granddad. What they didn't know is a week before the younger brother had gone to the granddad and asked to be released from the family, and the granddad had pardoned him by a miracle. And so the granddad said, No, put your gun down. I've already pardoned your brother. He can go on the journey that God has for him. And they released him from the clan. And so he ended up running away, going to a Bible school, getting trained up as a pastor. And many years later, when the war happened and the famine hit, a bunch of his past friends they went to that clan and brought food to the clan. And the dad stood up who hadn't seen his son in over a decade and said to the clan, All of you know this is my son. He has renounced our faith and become a Christian. You do not have to eat with him today because it is against our custom. However, he is my blood, and I will sit and eat with him. And the dad came and sat down with him, and one by one, all the clan got round and started to eat, and they preached the gospel, and his dad got saved before he died. Woo! Hallelujah! Hallelujah. See, there is this antichrist spirit that just hates the power of God out there. But guess what? When you align yourself with Christ, you cannot be stopped.

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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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And so as I was thinking about what was happening this week, and I began to ask, Lord, as the threats increase, as the pressure increase, one of the things I'm gonna pray for tonight is I believe there's people here, and you feel like in your throat, anytime you want to say the name of Jesus, it's like you get stopped. It's like your throat gets dry, it's like there's an intimidation that's on your life. And it's like maybe it's around your friends' groups, and anytime you go to mention Jesus, it's like or anytime you mention you're a Christian or you want to invite someone to church and you feel that unction of the Holy Spirit coming upon you, it's like something gets stuck in the voice box. And I want to release you from that tonight. I want to release you from this spirit of intimidation tonight. Amen. And so I began to ask the Lord, and if you can put up Acts chapter, same thing, verse four, chapter four, but verse 29. I began to ask the Lord, what is the answer? And the Lord began to show me this story in Acts chapter 4, because Peter had just done this mighty miracle, and he had lifted a cripple up at the gate, beautiful, and the power of God had healed this crippled man, and he had begun to walk. And so the whole city was in an uproar, and the leaders of the city didn't like it. They had an antichrist spirit, and they took Peter and James and John and they brought them before the councils, and they commanded them that they should no longer preach in the name of Jesus. Is there anyone here that you might have faced a bit of intimidation for your newfound faith? Is there anyone here that might have felt the boss shut you down or your friend shut you down or your schoolmate shut you down about the name of Jesus? They don't care about the Buddhists and the Hindus, and they don't care about the Muslims, and they let them do whatever. But the moment you say, Hey, is there a Jesus prayer room in this area? Is there a Christian thing? Can I stand up for my Christian values? You're gonna get the pushback. And so I began to ask the Lord, what did the disciples do? Because if the disciples ran and hid, I'm good with it, to be honest. If the disciples just stayed in their newly formed chapter Acts church, you know, and just hid in the building, and you know, I'm good too, man. We have revival every day if we want, just you know, us four and no more. But if the early church had a pattern, I want to follow that pattern. And so Peter, James, and John went back to their own companions, and they began to lift up the name of the Lord, and they began to quote Psalm chapter 2 the nations are raging, there's threats happening against the Lord and against his Christ. And this is what they prayed. Oh, it's gone. Now, Lord, look on their threats and grant to your servants that with all boldness they may speak your word with all boldness. Man, that doesn't sound like backing down, that doesn't sound like hiding away. That doesn't sound like drawing back. We're not those that draw back, we're those that push on. Look upon their threats and grant with all boldness that they may speak the word. Next verse by stretching out your hand to heal. Oh, what I always thought I was just the anomaly in the body of Christ, talking about the power and the healing power of God. But I just found out now that this is what the early church believed was the answer to the threats and the answer to the antichrist was go find a sick person to heal, go find a demonized person to deliver, go find someone to preach to. You have to excuse my voice, I've been preaching for a couple of days now. That signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus. Next verse. And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken, and they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness. Amen. See the answer to the intimidation, the answer to the threat, the answer to that whispering spirit that says, Don't mention the name, they'll reject you. Don't mention the name. They won't accept you, they won't invite you around for dinner anymore. Don't mention the name. Your boss will say something, and then that you might lose your job. Don't mention the name. That we may look upon their threats and double down in the Holy Ghost. If the if the rulers of this nation think they can silence the church, get ready for a rude awakening. If they think that church attendance is getting smaller, get ready for a rude awakening. Amen. That they think that the church is just gonna sit there and do nothing about this next generation that is lost without a revelation of a living God. Get ready for another thing coming because the church is gonna double down. And I'm not just talking about the KFC double down neither. Hallelujah. But I'm talking about signs, wonders, and miracles. God is getting ready to update. The game, we haven't seen anything yet. You know, we travel so much, and sometimes I just don't hear what happens in our meetings. I just do it by faith. But every now and then I get a testimony to come back to me. And so a month ago, I went to this church where we've ministered before, and this lady came up to me. And what had happened was last year I was in a meeting in the South Island, and the power of God hit the place so strong, like I'm believing it's gonna happen tonight, that people left their sickness devices in the under the chairs when they left. No one prayed for them, and we found this knee brace just under the we were just sweeping up, and there's a knee brace, we didn't even know the testimony. Just someone put the knee brace under the chair and it left. So I was like, I'll take that knee brace, thank you very much. Because you know, that's my trophy. That's my trophy, you know. People have sports trophies. I I have you know, sick devices and things, that's my crutches and things. You know, most of the time they don't let me take them because the hospitals own them, you know what I mean. But but this one was left there. I'll take that, thank you very much. So I just had this one, I was just walking around with it, just preaching in different places, you know, just with my trophy, you know. And I went to this church, and as I was preaching, I just said, Who needs healing tonight? And some lady had put up her hand, I don't remember this, this is what was told to me. And I took the trophy, brother, and I put it on the lady. I put it on the lady, and I just said, as I put this on you, you're gonna be healed there. Just leave it on you. And she was literally wearing like an item, you know. Like, you ladies know what I'm talking about. Like, you know, your new item. I'm just like, here, put this on. Yeah, it's a smally knee bracer, someone took it off, but just put it on. And she literally just put it on her shoulder. A year later, what I found out is she had breast cancer, lumps were forming in her breast, and she'd had six operations, and every time they removed them, they grew back larger, two larger, three operations larger. The scars got bigger and bigger, five, six operations, and the lumps were there, and there was just a mess. The moment she put that thing on her shoulder, the pain left, and she got home, and all the lumps were gone, and they've never come back, they've never come back. This is in New Zealand. I mean, people used to tell me, like, oh yeah, it happens when you go to the islands, brother. But have you tried New Zealand? Rubbish. It's the same Jesus in New Zealand as in Pakistan, as in Africa, as in China, as in Japan. We serve the same God, amen. Hallelujah. And so God is wanting to up the miracles in this house, and I'm just believing God. This is the answer, guys. Amen. This is the answer. I'm believing God to just you're saying, bring it on, brother. Yeah, bring it on, bro. Because God is wanting to up the realm of signs and wonders in our midst, amen. That the more those principalities try and come against a freedom church, a liberty church, a breakthrough church, a chain breaking, demon smashing, mountain removing, giant killing church, the more God is gonna up the ante of his power. Hallelujah. But here's the thing are we willing to make Jesus Lord of our lives?