WEBVTT 00:00:00.070 --> 00:00:05.700 Ephesians chapter six, the book of Ephesians Chapter Six. 00:00:05.700 --> 00:00:08.640 If you need a Bible, please raise your hand. 00:00:09.269 --> 00:00:12.509 And Austria will be more than happy to bless you with a Bible. 00:00:13.509 --> 00:00:22.530 Uh, once you receive that, would you please turn along with the rest of us to the book of Ephesians Chapter Six. 00:00:24.510 --> 00:00:27.059 We're going to start in verse 10. 00:00:28.890 --> 00:00:31.559 Ephesians chapter six, verse 10. 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:51.509 We have been teaching on the art of war and, uh, the I should say the concept, if you will, came from a treaties that was written by sunsuit thousands and thousands of years ago and it was called the art of war. 00:00:51.630 --> 00:00:59.460 And it encompasses or involves many tactics and slash or techniques of warfare. 00:01:00.390 --> 00:01:09.299 And most of those techniques and tactics are still being used today by many a military leaders. 00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:17.250 And the point that we wanted to bring out is that these tactics are not a big secret. 00:01:18.090 --> 00:01:20.549 A, these are tactics that God invented. 00:01:21.659 --> 00:01:28.980 And so what we have endeavored to do is bring out certain principles, uh, when it comes to the art of war. 00:01:29.790 --> 00:01:35.730 And so I believe we are on our fourth part, if I'm not mistaken. 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:40.049 And the fourth art is 00:01:51.109 --> 00:01:53.099 told you 00:01:57.939 --> 00:02:03.700 the art of authority, a victorious warrior winds first and then goes to war. 00:02:06.939 --> 00:02:13.150 In the book of Ephesians, Chapter Six, verse 10, it goes as follows. 00:02:13.449 --> 00:02:26.500 Finally, my brethren, be strong where and in the of who's might put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to with stand against the wiles of the devil. 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:40.719 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day. 00:02:40.721 --> 00:02:59.740 Having done all to stand, stand therefore having your loins girt about with the truth, having on the breastplate of righteousness, your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace and above all, taking the shield of faith where with you are able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked and take the helmet of salvation, the of the spirit, 00:02:59.979 --> 00:03:01.000 which is the word of God. 00:03:01.270 --> 00:03:10.060 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching there unto, with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints. 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:31.449 Now, uh, I know we've, we've mentioned this before, and again, I might be dating myself a little bit, but there used to be a cartoon about the roadrunner and the road runner was constantly being pursued and chased by Wiley Coyote and Wiley Coyote. 00:03:31.509 --> 00:03:33.250 That's where his name came from. 00:03:33.939 --> 00:03:40.000 Wiles, uh, wiles means plans or strategies or, or pursuits. 00:03:40.620 --> 00:03:52.479 And it's important for you to understand and to know that when it's talking about the wiles of the devil, it's talking about the plans and the strategies that Satan uses to try and destroy. 00:03:52.930 --> 00:03:56.919 Uh, you, uh, we talked last week saying is not after your stuff. 00:03:57.050 --> 00:04:03.819 He's after your faith because if he can destroy your faith in God, he can have all your stuff are. 00:04:03.820 --> 00:04:04.810 You understand what I'm saying? 00:04:05.349 --> 00:04:19.149 And so bringing us to a place of understanding that it is imperative that we recognize these plans and these strategies that Satan has for our lives. 00:04:19.689 --> 00:04:25.089 And so what I want you to do is turn to your neighbor, smile real big, and just tell them it's already done. 00:04:26.709 --> 00:04:28.720 Look at somebody else, Thomas, same thing. 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:29.529 It's already done. 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:46.389 See you in the, the nature of the anticipation of warfare is the idea that as you go into battle, uh, are you ready? 00:04:46.391 --> 00:04:47.379 Are you prepared? 00:04:47.500 --> 00:04:48.519 Is Everything there? 00:04:48.850 --> 00:04:55.240 And the outcome of that battle, uh, we really don't always know. 00:04:55.930 --> 00:05:02.009 Sometimes you can think that you have won this battle and you go in and lose A. 00:05:02.470 --> 00:05:14.889 I remember when, uh, uh, Mike Tyson fought a buster douglas, you would have knocked me over with a feather to tell me the dashboard was going to happen. 00:05:15.610 --> 00:05:20.740 I never thought in a million years that the outcome was going to be what occurred. 00:05:21.550 --> 00:05:23.410 And I'll be honest with you, neither did he. 00:05:24.730 --> 00:05:39.069 And so the challenge is when you are in any type of pugilistic event or any type of war or battle, uh, you know, oftentimes you can become so convinced that you'll win, that you don't pay attention to what it takes to win. 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:47.589 And we've gotta be clear about the idea that because he says to us very clearly, he says, we're finally my brethren. 00:05:48.129 --> 00:05:53.139 Be Strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. 00:05:53.560 --> 00:06:00.170 So to say, to be, to be strong in the Lord is a positional truth. 00:06:00.500 --> 00:06:17.689 In other words, he's letting you know that in your natural state, in your flesh, in who you think you are, by your natural ability, your giftings, your talent, uh, your money, all the things you have naturally is not what's gonna make you strong. 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:24.019 What makes you strong is your ability to discern and to understand who you are in the Lord. 00:06:25.220 --> 00:06:34.740 And when you are confident in the Lord, then you are confident and his ability and in his power and not in your own right. 00:06:35.209 --> 00:06:46.339 Because the moment you become confused about what it is that is working on the inside of you, you will then become confused as to how to accomplish the outcome of every battle. 00:06:46.910 --> 00:06:55.220 So when, when you go into battle, if there is not within you, the ability to discern you are in fact a winter. 00:06:56.319 --> 00:07:21.170 It is not that you are going to try to figure out how maybe possible, if you Shoulda, woulda, Coulda, possibly, maybe when, but that you begin to understand who you really are and whose you really are, because then as you become confident in what God can do, not in what you are capable of, then you are able to rely upon the power of God. 00:07:21.379 --> 00:07:25.819 See, one of the challenges most people have is they live like the devil. 00:07:26.129 --> 00:07:29.899 Therefore, they cannot understand who god really is. 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:32.839 See, listen, there are three levels of devil worship. 00:07:33.709 --> 00:07:35.600 There are three levels of satanic worship. 00:07:35.870 --> 00:07:37.100 You know what the first one is? 00:07:37.310 --> 00:07:46.430 The first one is looking for a horoscope, looking for word, looking for something from a palm reader, wanting to tell the future. 00:07:47.899 --> 00:07:50.360 That's the first level of devil worship. 00:07:53.240 --> 00:08:01.459 The second level of devil worship is when you begin to put demonic principles above godly principles. 00:08:01.819 --> 00:08:11.990 That's why I said that we cast down all imaginations that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God and we bring it into captivity until a subject unto Christ. 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:14.779 Because see, strongholds are not demons. 00:08:16.550 --> 00:08:19.459 Sometimes people, boy, y'all gives devil way too much credit. 00:08:20.709 --> 00:08:24.470 You're like the devil's work and in my life and I got demons in me. 00:08:24.740 --> 00:08:26.300 No you, you. 00:08:26.449 --> 00:08:33.110 If your behavior is your problem, it is not demons, it's you. 00:08:34.190 --> 00:08:35.450 It's how you think. 00:08:35.809 --> 00:08:38.690 You have lost the battle in your mind. 00:08:38.870 --> 00:08:41.690 Therefore you have lost the war of your life. 00:08:47.779 --> 00:08:53.090 And so the nature of how people think, you know, sometimes people say, well, I'm a Christian, but I believe differently. 00:08:53.929 --> 00:08:56.429 It's like you can't be a Christian and believe differently. 00:08:58.590 --> 00:09:02.009 Your belief is what makes you a Christian. 00:09:02.909 --> 00:09:06.240 Either Jesus died for you or he did not. 00:09:06.629 --> 00:09:12.769 Either Jesus is in fact God in the flesh or he is not you. 00:09:12.779 --> 00:09:14.789 It's like saying, well, I'm a little pregnant. 00:09:18.299 --> 00:09:23.330 You either is or you ain't, but there is no. 00:09:24.809 --> 00:09:26.370 Are you understanding what I'm saying? 00:09:27.029 --> 00:09:34.980 And so in the nature of battle, uh, there are schemes and plans the Satan has for you. 00:09:35.190 --> 00:09:36.409 And he unravels. 00:09:36.419 --> 00:09:40.919 Those plans have very intricate and very detailed. 00:09:41.129 --> 00:09:50.250 If you know how to play chess, you understand the difference between checkers because checkers is a game of see, jump. 00:09:50.250 --> 00:09:54.690 Take a jump, there's a mild level of strategy, but it is not the same as chess. 00:09:55.350 --> 00:09:57.090 Chess is the game of kings. 00:09:57.120 --> 00:09:58.620 Chess is a game of strategy. 00:09:59.289 --> 00:10:10.019 Chess is to understand that there are wiles or plans that your opponent has and you have to be able to strategically deal with the things that he throws into your life. 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:16.529 This is why when you think about the things that people find themselves in, you didn't lose the war. 00:10:16.649 --> 00:10:22.830 When you found yourself in a hotel with somebody you shouldn't have been with, you lost the war. 00:10:22.950 --> 00:10:30.149 When you picked up the phone and called that individually, you lost the war when you didn't shut it down, when you should have shut it down. 00:10:30.450 --> 00:10:31.559 You lost the war. 00:10:31.561 --> 00:10:33.750 When it was just the flirtatious thing. 00:10:33.929 --> 00:10:37.649 It was a week here and a call here and texting here. 00:10:37.769 --> 00:10:44.970 You lost the battle in the moment when you should've been holding fast, but you couldn't because you wasn't paying attention. 00:10:47.129 --> 00:10:50.399 These are the places where, you know, St has a strategy. 00:10:50.400 --> 00:11:15.480 So his strategy is like, you know, husband goes to work one day and before he leaves the house, him and his wife gets into a fierce battle and then it gets into the car and he's driving to work and he's upset and he's salty and it's just, you know, now the drive into work is unbearable and he finally gets to work in the secretary behind the desk says to him, you know, you look really nice today. 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:23.340 St stirred up that fight. 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:29.250 He stirred up that fight knowing that it would affect you in a certain way. 00:11:29.740 --> 00:11:35.669 He's the one that got your dog to bite you first thing in the morning so you're all upset and then you're not thinking straight. 00:11:35.671 --> 00:11:40.440 And then you show up at work and the first person that says, oh, you look really handsome today. 00:11:41.129 --> 00:11:42.659 Maybe we should just go to lunch. 00:11:48.129 --> 00:11:53.490 Yeah, because there's plans. 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:54.090 Their 00:11:54.090 --> 00:12:01.950 strategies and the challenges that most people think that Satan comes with a pitchfork and horns. 00:12:02.490 --> 00:12:05.070 Satan doesn't come with pitchfork and horns. 00:12:05.269 --> 00:12:07.259 Satan comes in a mini skirt. 00:12:07.940 --> 00:12:09.740 Satan come six foot with, 00:12:11.590 --> 00:12:11.590 right? 00:12:13.549 --> 00:12:26.929 If he showed up with a pitchfork and horns, you would know that it was him, but the fact remains that when he's trying to derail your life, he does not show up in a way that you would immediately recognize him. 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:34.070 He shows up in a way where the money is out and you see it and see an opportunity that you could take it and nobody would know. 00:12:34.250 --> 00:12:46.669 He shows up in that moment where there's an opportunity to move into a something you know you shouldn't do, and he does it in such a way that he comes with the apple and he says, look, isn't it pretty? 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:47.929 Isn't it beautiful? 00:12:48.139 --> 00:12:49.940 It surely will help you. 00:12:50.149 --> 00:12:51.379 It surely will feed you. 00:12:51.470 --> 00:12:52.970 It surely will bless you. 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:54.289 Just take a bite. 00:12:54.470 --> 00:12:55.639 Just take a bite. 00:12:55.759 --> 00:12:59.149 How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll? 00:12:59.150 --> 00:13:02.990 Pop, I don't know, but just one will mess your life up. 00:13:03.129 --> 00:13:05.990 Just will take you to the wrong side. 00:13:08.909 --> 00:13:10.110 That's why it's better. 00:13:11.340 --> 00:13:27.450 It's better to avoid and resist because one of the things that, uh, billy Graham used to say as he says, it's hard to have sex with a woman that you're never in a room alone with plain and simple. 00:13:28.169 --> 00:13:37.200 It's how we gauge our lives and how we garner a, the control of our lives that allow us to begin to understand who we actually are. 00:13:38.009 --> 00:14:03.750 And when you know who you are, then it's not hard to then begin to connect the dots to whose you are because the nature of whose you are now gives you the ability to positionally put yourself in the Lord and the moment you were in the Lord, you now have a whole new perspective of the reality of the world in which you actually live in. 00:14:04.139 --> 00:14:10.950 The biggest challenge that faces the body of Christ today is that people think they can be carnal and still be Christian. 00:14:14.830 --> 00:14:18.820 They think they can live carnally shacked up. 00:14:19.460 --> 00:14:21.309 No, no, but well, you know, we're working on it. 00:14:21.311 --> 00:14:22.179 You sure about that? 00:14:24.129 --> 00:14:24.960 And so they live. 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:36.190 Now, listen, that doesn't mean they're not saved, although it could, but that doesn't automatically mean that, but what it does mean is they don't have a revelation of their righteousness. 00:14:39.009 --> 00:14:39.009 Yeah, 00:14:39.450 --> 00:14:46.409 because the greater the revelation of righteousness, the greater the revelation of how you function in the world, the greater you become in the Lord. 00:14:48.179 --> 00:14:51.179 How you going to rebuke and attack you sleeping? 00:14:54.730 --> 00:14:58.690 How do you bind the devil you having sex with? 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:04.779 This is the problem with people as well. 00:15:04.780 --> 00:15:09.549 Meaning as they are well, I bind every attack and I bind every demon. 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:12.639 How do you bind the demon that somebody wants? 00:15:16.009 --> 00:15:18.649 You don't have authority in other people's lives. 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:20.629 You have authority in yours. 00:15:21.139 --> 00:15:39.399 I cannot tell you that Satan is not allowed to come and mess with you and your mind and everything concerning you, but I can tell you he can't come to my house because it's so funny how people flirt with and play with the very thing they don't want 00:15:41.700 --> 00:15:43.120 and then complain about how they all. 00:15:45.549 --> 00:15:46.360 Well, let's move on. 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:46.600 Luke. 00:15:49.570 --> 00:15:52.659 Luke chapter 10, verse 19. 00:15:53.320 --> 00:16:00.340 We'll find something y'all can shout about Eylea. 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:11.179 He says, behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and Scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means, hurt you. 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:18.080 Now, anytime you see a serpents and Scorpions, you will see devils and demons. 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:23.720 Serpents and Scorpions are always a, a, a, what's the word? 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:24.350 Code word. 00:16:24.850 --> 00:16:32.210 It is always a allegorically speaking to demons and devils. 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:36.529 And so now when he's saying that, it'd behold I give unto you power. 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:41.679 If you are using your own Bible or you're taking notes, write down the word ecstasy. 00:16:42.629 --> 00:16:46.860 He x, uh, you, I, O, s, I a exos. 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:47.039 Yeah. 00:16:49.259 --> 00:16:56.399 That word ecstasy is not the same word when he says over all the power of the enemy. 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:09.579 So in other words, you could say it this way, behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and Scorpions and over all the ability 00:17:10.890 --> 00:17:11.559 of the enemy. 00:17:13.170 --> 00:17:15.480 Because many people think it's power. 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:17.789 You know, they, they go by how they feel. 00:17:18.269 --> 00:17:39.000 If I feel powerful today, if I feel important today, if I feel significant today, then I know that God is with me and he's dirty it up my lines for me and I know that all things work together and they go off of emotional feeling and then wonder why when they rebuke the devil, he doesn't respond. 00:17:39.150 --> 00:17:44.099 He doesn't respond because you don't have physical power over him. 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:47.789 You have authority or mastery over him. 00:17:48.180 --> 00:17:54.109 This is why you've to be careful because there are people in your life that I'm telling you. 00:17:54.470 --> 00:18:02.240 If we wrestle against principalities and powers, then we can wrestle with people who are under the influence, 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:04.039 right? 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:07.309 How do you know the under the influence? 00:18:07.460 --> 00:18:11.539 They can't stick around at a church if you don't give them what they want, they're off to the next thing. 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:14.119 Jumping around from place to place to place. 00:18:14.329 --> 00:18:16.490 You know, in the natural world they call that hoard them. 00:18:20.859 --> 00:18:20.859 See? 00:18:21.220 --> 00:18:21.750 See, and now what? 00:18:21.750 --> 00:18:23.420 You have to understand that they're on assignment. 00:18:25.539 --> 00:18:25.539 Yeah, 00:18:27.700 --> 00:18:29.079 and they don't even know it. 00:18:29.140 --> 00:18:30.609 They could still be Christians. 00:18:35.539 --> 00:18:38.450 They're the ones that want to be involved in everything they want. 00:18:38.451 --> 00:18:43.519 The spotlight, they want to be in control of things, but yet, and still they don't want to support. 00:18:43.520 --> 00:18:44.569 They don't want to serve. 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:49.279 When you asked them, Hey, can you serve in the, in the, uh, toilet bowl ministry? 00:18:49.460 --> 00:18:49.730 No. 00:18:49.730 --> 00:18:51.380 I'm called to be an apostle. 00:18:51.381 --> 00:18:52.279 I'm called to be. 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:53.779 You ain't called to be anything. 00:18:53.780 --> 00:19:01.250 If you can't serve, if you're too important to serve, then you have outclassed Jesus himself. 00:19:05.380 --> 00:19:15.309 See now when demonic things or an operation, you don't know that, that one friend you called to tell them about the dream God placed in your heart and they start telling you about why you can't do it. 00:19:18.670 --> 00:19:18.670 Yeah. 00:19:21.299 --> 00:19:21.960 I'm trying 00:19:24.140 --> 00:19:27.440 because people think that every attack is overt. 00:19:28.279 --> 00:19:29.569 It is not overt. 00:19:30.869 --> 00:19:48.210 I remember having a conversation not too long ago and the conversation was, was basically talking about how when you have people in your organization who refused to do what you've asked them to do the way you've asked them to do it, they can become like a cancer. 00:19:49.910 --> 00:19:50.900 And so and so. 00:19:50.901 --> 00:19:55.400 My response was that if they don't get it together, you got to cut them out like cancer. 00:19:56.180 --> 00:20:01.519 That was what I said to the person, so then the person called me back talking about, did you say you had cancer? 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:06.180 I said, what? 00:20:11.289 --> 00:20:13.109 Oh my, what in the Sam Hill? 00:20:13.289 --> 00:20:14.460 Are you talking about? 00:20:17.430 --> 00:20:18.089 Listen to me. 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:19.859 Listen to me. 00:20:21.089 --> 00:20:30.250 You have to be careful because again, you may be walking around Tom Bow, I'm healed and whole and you'll get somebody in your face on. 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:31.710 Oh, come on, you look sick. 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:33.599 Just say you're sick. 00:20:34.539 --> 00:20:37.000 I mean, why are you going to run right hair, lying everybody. 00:20:37.180 --> 00:20:38.109 You know you're sick. 00:20:38.111 --> 00:20:38.890 Just say it. 00:20:39.069 --> 00:20:40.029 Come on, say it. 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:43.210 You're ugly. 00:20:43.869 --> 00:20:45.609 I don't recall you telling me that. 00:20:53.380 --> 00:20:53.380 Yeah, 00:20:56.549 --> 00:20:57.539 their strategies. 00:20:58.710 --> 00:21:02.339 There's plants that Satan will use. 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:38.549 If he can't get to you, it will tag those, the closest to you and he'll use people and and, and one of the things you have to always be very, very, very careful about is people who only want to be next to you, not because they want to bring a supply to you, but they really want something from you and because they want something from them you, they are here to take, not to give. 00:21:39.740 --> 00:21:50.630 You have to be careful with various types of people and the way they think and the way they function because just because they are a Christian does not mean they are not operating under the influence. 00:21:53.920 --> 00:22:10.750 So then when he says, behold, I give you authority or power or mastery, watch what he's saying here to tread on serpents and Scorpions and over all the ability of the enemy. 00:22:11.900 --> 00:22:19.160 Why would you need to tell me in Ephesians that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers? 00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:26.779 Why would I have to wrestle with that which I already have power over an authority over. 00:22:26.930 --> 00:22:32.470 If it was already done, I'll say it to you this way. 00:22:34.309 --> 00:22:39.980 Just because you have a legal right to authority doesn't mean you exercise it. 00:22:42.029 --> 00:22:49.410 Mark Twain said this, a man who doesn't read has no significant advantage over a man who can't read. 00:22:55.130 --> 00:23:16.250 If that's the case, if that's the case, then quit thinking just because you know you have authority that you were actually operating and a person who has authority and doesn't operate in it is no better than a person who doesn't have 00:23:18.130 --> 00:23:18.130 right 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:22.200 because it does not come in the divine providence of God. 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:24.119 It is a divine promise of God. 00:23:24.359 --> 00:23:33.329 See, when you understand provenance, you begin to realize that providence functions in a certain way, that it moves you to a place of realizing that it's already. 00:23:37.930 --> 00:23:48.650 See God's divine providence sets things in motion, but his promises or something you to receive and do something with it. 00:23:49.970 --> 00:24:01.980 So then if I give you the authority to accomplish something, you may not have the power to do it, but if you have authority, you can see that it gets done. 00:24:09.299 --> 00:24:33.950 In other words, when I was in highschool back before Christ, if we had not, not before Christ was on this planet, I'm telling before Christ was in my life, I didn't realize I had to clarify that, but by the looks of some of Y'alls faces, y'all got jokes. 00:24:36.890 --> 00:24:38.150 I do not have Moses. 00:24:38.210 --> 00:24:38.960 Beeper number. 00:24:39.079 --> 00:24:39.559 Okay. 00:24:40.069 --> 00:24:51.680 So when we had, you know, we had friends, you know, they have some kind of a little beat up car, something kind of small, you know, eight or nine of us would get together and moved your car. 00:24:53.299 --> 00:24:53.299 Yeah. 00:24:54.099 --> 00:24:55.000 Modern school. 00:24:55.000 --> 00:25:06.700 We literally would pick that puppy up because if you get enough people around it, you can lift the car up and so we'd Shimmy it this way and Shimmy it that way and put it sideways and all kinds of stuff they come up with like, what in the world? 00:25:07.690 --> 00:25:17.890 Now, listen, I can't do that by myself, but if our garner enough people with the ability, then I can do anything. 00:25:18.990 --> 00:25:22.299 See when, when you want to move, something that's called leverage. 00:25:22.300 --> 00:25:27.309 Leverage is the nature of of member how a Bible talks about. 00:25:27.310 --> 00:25:34.119 Daniel had an excellent spirit and Daniel had an excellent spirit and the Bible says that his king suffered no damage. 00:25:34.121 --> 00:25:34.809 You know what that means? 00:25:35.019 --> 00:25:49.210 That means his boss didn't take harm or didn't take any bullets or didn't take any spears or didn't have any problems because Daniel took care of the problems, so then whatever the boss wanted, whatever his king wanted, how his king wanted things to be done. 00:25:49.390 --> 00:26:00.430 Daniel did it that way and the Bible says he had an excellent spirit because his king suffered no damage, so it gets damaged to people when they've got to make up for what you lack. 00:26:01.569 --> 00:26:16.289 That's damage that's causing a problem, and so for him to have such an excellent spirit means he handled himself in a way that he understood that he was leverage leverage. 00:26:16.500 --> 00:26:32.220 If I have a big boulder and I want to roll the boulder or move at a certain way, if I have a stick or a piece of wood hard enough, I can jam it in there wedge and use that as leverage where I'm able to get my full body weight on it. 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:34.289 To roll something that's called leverage. 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:36.960 When you use a hammer, how many of you've ever touched a hammer? 00:26:37.490 --> 00:26:43.599 A Hammer is leveraged at the top of the hammers, weighted metal and at the handles would when you it. 00:26:43.601 --> 00:26:44.140 It creates 00:26:44.140 --> 00:26:44.710 leverage. 00:26:44.711 --> 00:26:58.480 If you take the hammer, just the ahead and try to bang a nail in you got hurt, so it leverages the ability to have something that changes the scope of what you are capable of. 00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:04.420 Hence the reason why if you own a business, you hire people for what purpose will leverage. 00:27:06.029 --> 00:27:06.759 That's good. 00:27:07.619 --> 00:27:09.029 What was Daniel to the king? 00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:10.380 Leverage? 00:27:11.369 --> 00:27:20.789 Good leverage to see because that now helped the king do more because he had someone with him. 00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:22.819 Oh my goodness y'all. 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:36.630 So then if leverage helps us to do more, then when he says you have power, he's not saying that you can physically come and throw this stuff around. 00:27:38.529 --> 00:27:54.130 What he's saying is you have leverage or you have authority that when I tell you, see, my, my child is young enough at the moment where we can put her into a pen and she cannot get out. 00:27:55.990 --> 00:28:01.490 Now she has a huge six foot tall elephant to huge. 00:28:02.619 --> 00:28:03.640 He's indepen with her. 00:28:04.869 --> 00:28:11.279 She's yet to figure out that she could technically depart that thing. 00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:16.740 She has power, 00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:19.880 but her knowledge is limited. 00:28:22.369 --> 00:28:25.759 There will come a moment where she will figure out leverage, 00:28:28.849 --> 00:28:28.849 right? 00:28:31.250 --> 00:28:47.289 When she figures out leverage, you will become clear that she actually has an advantage and that advantage is to her favor because it's now leverage. 00:28:48.130 --> 00:28:51.579 It will now help her to do what she can not. 00:28:52.549 --> 00:28:54.069 That's a good one. 00:28:55.599 --> 00:29:10.099 He says, I gave you power, which has authority to tread on serpents and Scorpions and over all the power, all the ability of the enemy, 00:29:11.500 --> 00:29:19.869 okay, and nothing, nothing, nothing 00:29:21.190 --> 00:29:22.450 shall by any means. 00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:31.769 So then if I'm wrestling y'all, then that means I can be engaged by things that are trying to hurt me. 00:29:32.339 --> 00:29:35.609 I can be engaged by people who wants to hurt me. 00:29:35.759 --> 00:29:38.640 I can be gauged by things that are trying to steal my faith. 00:29:38.789 --> 00:29:40.009 I can be engaged by. 00:29:40.339 --> 00:29:42.170 Because if I got a then there's a point 00:29:42.170 --> 00:29:42.710 of wrestling. 00:29:45.230 --> 00:29:51.109 So it is not that he has taken out of the world all the things that will come against your life. 00:29:52.039 --> 00:30:11.450 He just wanted you to know that whatever the ability of the enemy is, whatever the strategy of the enemy is, whatever the schemes of the enemy is, you have the victory over that because I've given you authority or mastery over his ability. 00:30:12.619 --> 00:30:19.789 So if I now have mastery over his ability, then authority has to be rooted in the one who gave it to me. 00:30:20.539 --> 00:30:42.019 So for example, if I tell somebody who is the head of the Department or or the the cafe area or the books or whatever are, or let's say in a sound booth, if I come to someone in the sound booth and I say, I need you to do this, this and this, and then Elijah who's over the sound booth tells them I want you to do this, this, and this. 00:30:42.829 --> 00:30:50.160 You do realize that Marty orders are not to be trumped, right? 00:30:50.869 --> 00:30:51.269 Come on. 00:30:51.930 --> 00:31:02.369 Because if I gave an order then it better be followed because if it doesn't get followed, then it's his Como Se Llama on. 00:31:02.779 --> 00:31:25.890 With me, right, but if he gives an order and someone under him gives a countermanding order, then his order stands, so then the nature of what is allowed to occur is dependent upon the one who said it. 00:31:26.769 --> 00:31:26.769 Right. 00:31:29.609 --> 00:31:34.859 So then the question becomes, as you deal with Satan, are you talking or is God talking? 00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:40.210 Because if it's you who's talking, 00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:40.799 Huh? 00:31:43.339 --> 00:31:55.460 Then he has no desire, no responsibility to deal with what you said, and then people wonder why they're being ignored, 00:31:55.990 --> 00:31:55.990 right? 00:31:57.059 --> 00:31:57.390 That's right. 00:31:58.599 --> 00:32:01.500 See, the value of the authority is based on the one who gave it. 00:32:01.500 --> 00:32:03.519 This is why Jesus said, behold, I give you power. 00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:14.609 Jesus is letting you know that if you functioned in the power of his might, I gave you power and the power I gave you didn't come from you. 00:32:14.611 --> 00:32:15.299 It came from me. 00:32:16.769 --> 00:32:23.309 So then my ability or the authority, you now have it legally whether you operate in it or not. 00:32:24.900 --> 00:32:24.900 Okay? 00:32:26.470 --> 00:32:27.009 It's up to you. 00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:31.660 See, even if you don't think you have authority, 00:32:32.339 --> 00:32:32.680 wow. 00:32:34.819 --> 00:32:35.750 You have it anyway. 00:32:37.309 --> 00:32:44.660 Whether you believe that God has given you authority does not change whether you have. 00:32:46.460 --> 00:32:46.460 Yeah. 00:32:47.509 --> 00:32:58.609 What it changes is whether you function in, would it changes, is how much mastery you are exercising over the ability. 00:33:01.450 --> 00:33:01.450 Yeah. 00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:06.049 So then Ken, the enemy hurts you. 00:33:08.059 --> 00:33:08.630 Yes. 00:33:10.069 --> 00:33:10.910 Yes he can. 00:33:12.410 --> 00:33:12.410 Okay. 00:33:12.750 --> 00:33:13.809 Can he trip you up? 00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:15.940 Yes he can. 00:33:18.250 --> 00:33:27.700 If you have a full revelation of your authority and mastery over his ability, now can hear it. 00:33:27.701 --> 00:33:30.670 You know, so then what is the answer? 00:33:30.671 --> 00:33:34.569 It is not your ability to know what authority is. 00:33:35.980 --> 00:33:39.670 It's your revelation of whether or not you have it. 00:33:40.730 --> 00:33:41.200 That's right. 00:33:42.950 --> 00:33:45.380 Let's go to a Ephesians one. 00:33:48.259 --> 00:33:49.039 Ephesians one. 00:33:50.450 --> 00:33:51.170 Hallelujah. 00:33:52.309 --> 00:33:53.599 My microphone going in and out. 00:33:56.160 --> 00:33:56.799 Let me get blessed. 00:33:57.009 --> 00:34:01.119 Be God forevermore here. 00:34:01.150 --> 00:34:02.799 Here's an order straight from the top. 00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:06.140 Make sure this thing gets fixed. 00:34:09.469 --> 00:34:11.300 All those concerned is heard, right? 00:34:14.510 --> 00:34:19.760 So ephesians chapter one, verse one, 00:34:22.210 --> 00:34:27.940 Paul An Apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God to the saints which are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus. 00:34:27.940 --> 00:34:39.400 So now let's be very, very clear who writing to he's writing to the church or the saints, the believers who were at emphasis and to whomever else believes. 00:34:42.230 --> 00:34:42.699 Yes. 00:34:43.250 --> 00:34:50.150 So then that makes this letter not only to the Church of emphasis, but also to the church here. 00:34:50.269 --> 00:34:50.699 It's still important. 00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:52.130 Yes. 00:34:52.550 --> 00:34:52.969 Okay. 00:34:53.179 --> 00:34:54.860 So then say he's talking to me. 00:34:56.130 --> 00:34:56.489 Okay. 00:34:57.610 --> 00:34:58.659 That was the weakest branch. 00:34:58.661 --> 00:34:58.900 Water. 00:34:58.900 --> 00:34:59.170 Y'All 00:35:01.260 --> 00:35:02.190 say he's talking to me. 00:35:03.719 --> 00:35:04.380 There you go. 00:35:04.969 --> 00:35:09.989 Grace be to you and peace from God our father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:35:10.349 --> 00:35:19.619 Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places. 00:35:19.621 --> 00:35:20.400 What has he done? 00:35:22.260 --> 00:35:22.920 Did he? 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:24.510 It doesn't say he will bless us. 00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:27.050 It says he hath. 00:35:28.369 --> 00:35:29.750 So when did he do it? 00:35:31.190 --> 00:35:31.369 Then? 00:35:31.371 --> 00:35:32.210 It's already done. 00:35:34.829 --> 00:35:36.289 Oh, not some. 00:35:37.710 --> 00:35:37.980 So 00:35:37.980 --> 00:35:55.500 then if he has already blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in according as He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the that we should be. 00:35:56.460 --> 00:36:10.619 And without before him in love having predestinated us unto the adoption of children, by Jesus Christ to himself according to what reason. 00:36:13.409 --> 00:36:20.670 So then you have been predestinated because some people you know talk about destiny and they get that all messed up. 00:36:21.300 --> 00:36:31.920 They think destiny means that you have that God has a full plan for your life and all you are as a drone, a rolling in a world that you have no control over, and that's not it. 00:36:32.130 --> 00:36:43.440 Predestinated means that God has a plan for your life and the plan for your life is something that is very specific to God, but it often can be nebulous to you. 00:36:45.739 --> 00:36:45.739 It's. 00:36:45.769 --> 00:36:47.099 It can be a theorial to you. 00:36:47.099 --> 00:37:09.329 It can be so out there, a vapor and smoke that you have to work to achieve or to understand what that will is concerning your life, which is why verse 16, he says to the praise and the glory of His grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved is ever six or 16. 00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:11.219 16. 00:37:11.610 --> 00:37:18.000 One six, cease not to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers and I watched what he says to them. 00:37:18.989 --> 00:37:38.909 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him that the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance? 00:37:39.090 --> 00:37:53.610 Where is it so then if he says he has already given you or blessed you with all spiritual blessings, he is not now praying that you would get blessed. 00:37:55.949 --> 00:37:58.469 He's not saying, I pray for you guys that you would get blessed. 00:37:58.471 --> 00:38:00.389 I pray for you that you will be blessed. 00:38:00.391 --> 00:38:01.320 I pray for you. 00:38:02.489 --> 00:38:04.320 So many believers talk like that. 00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:06.809 I'm praying that you get blessed the Lord bless them. 00:38:06.811 --> 00:38:07.679 Lord bless them. 00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:09.090 Bless me with what? 00:38:09.170 --> 00:38:10.980 That he has not already given me. 00:38:11.369 --> 00:38:20.340 If he has given me all spiritual blessing, then when you run around talking about bless them, Lord and bless them with this and bless them with that. 00:38:20.460 --> 00:38:22.500 What in the world are you talking about? 00:38:22.650 --> 00:38:42.519 We already have all spiritual blessing, so then the nature of what he now is telling them is that I pray that the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the riches of the glory that he has? 00:38:42.521 --> 00:38:46.269 Put where in you he didn't hide it from you. 00:38:46.300 --> 00:38:47.409 He hid it in you. 00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:51.519 Go back for a second burst. 00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:54.030 Thank you sir. 00:38:54.460 --> 00:39:05.320 Working it that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give unto you a car, a house, a bunch of stuff, some money. 00:39:07.059 --> 00:39:07.929 The spirit of wisdom. 00:39:07.931 --> 00:39:08.440 In what? 00:39:09.820 --> 00:39:18.170 In what did are you telling me that my ability to function in the blessing of the pod model life is increased by my knowledge of 00:39:20.340 --> 00:39:29.730 so then when he says to you, seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added unto you. 00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:33.420 Then the primary focus is to get hot after God. 00:39:33.630 --> 00:39:44.760 The primary focus is to chase after him, and as you increase in your revelation of who he aided, you will increase in your role of what he gave you, 00:39:48.559 --> 00:40:06.489 so then that the father or that the god of our Lord Jesus, the Father of glory may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance. 00:40:07.539 --> 00:40:08.380 Where do you put it? 00:40:09.730 --> 00:40:10.150 Great. 00:40:10.449 --> 00:40:10.900 Keep going. 00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:18.039 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power? 00:40:19.090 --> 00:40:19.690 To whom? 00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:21.550 Who Do what? 00:40:22.750 --> 00:40:27.550 So if you don't believe, is there any possible way he's talking to you? 00:40:30.489 --> 00:40:31.239 Believe what? 00:40:35.349 --> 00:40:37.090 What's the subject he's talking about? 00:40:38.110 --> 00:40:40.119 He's talking about your revelation 00:40:40.739 --> 00:40:41.280 of God 00:40:44.099 --> 00:40:44.820 to us. 00:40:44.820 --> 00:40:45.210 Word. 00:40:46.159 --> 00:40:48.239 I, I, uh, I got to work this thing. 00:40:49.829 --> 00:40:52.019 Just because you're in church don't mean you're a Christian. 00:40:53.969 --> 00:40:56.579 There's a lot of people in church that ain't Christians. 00:40:57.900 --> 00:41:01.949 So then he says to us, word who do what? 00:41:03.210 --> 00:41:20.670 So then he's not just speaking only to believers in terms of their Christianity, because why would he say to us work if it was just everybody who's a Christian is a believer, then he would not have to say to us were who believe? 00:41:21.389 --> 00:41:23.219