Building an Unstoppable Life | Frank Castrejon | Nov 16 2025

Let's let's pray over the word. Yeah, you guys all

look so good. Man, that what what a fiery like morning.

It's already been so good. God is so good. Come on,

I feel a real shift and like, uh, like a

lot of generation of like energy power, the Holy Ghost

anointing in this room. And we're gonna keep that going. Yeah.

So Father, we just thank you God that uh, that

your word is seed and that you are the one

who grows that seed. Father. I pray right now that

our soil and our hearts is prepared and ready to

take on your word. Lord. Let it be a nourishment

to our souls and to our spirits. God and Father,

we just uh, we just say that every other distraction

outside Lord, God is silenced. Even right now. We just

take full authority over those things that want to distract

us away from the reading of your word God, and

and the enrichment and the invitation that you have for

your people today in Jesus's mighty name. Amen. So my

sermon title, you guys kind of already saw it. But

the sermon title is building an unstoppable life. And that

sermon title is that way because the last time that

I was up here to preach. I shared with you

in the last sermon, which was building a powerful life. Right,

was that we shared what responsibility we have over our flesh. Right.

I touched on briefly what the weapons of our warfare are,

which are mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds. Right.

And so we're going to dive deeper into that because

last time I told you a few things, like I

think it was second SERVI As I said, I got

a whole other sermon lined up for that. Okay, So

now I have to deliver, right. So God is good.

God is good, and he's going through a delivery, right.

Are you ready to get your delivery though? All right?

So we also learned that the Holy Spirit empowers us

through subduing the work of the flesh and also subduing

the power of darkness that comes against us. Right today,

God wants to equip you guys, the church and me

of course right in the area of authority through Jesus

right over demonic power in order to build an unstoppable life. Okay,

So first I think it would be appropriate that in

order for us to get an understanding of what is

demonic versus the struggle of the flesh. We need to

look at some of the operations of the enemy. We

need to look at how the devil, Satan and his

minions operate. Right, So let's take a look at some

of these scriptures. Ephesians four, verse twenty five through thirty two.

Ephesians for It, twenty thirty two. Okay, that's a different version.

I'm gonna read it from mine, but you guys can

follow on with that one. Okay, I'm reading out of

the New King James. But that's a good one. That's

pretty straightforward. So stop telling lies, okay, So stop telling lies. Okay. Therefore,

putting away lying, Let each one of you speak the

truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Be angry, and do not sin. Do not let the

sun go down on your wrath. Right, nor give place

to the devil.

Right.

Let him who stole still no longer, but rather let

him labor working with his hands. What is good that

he may have something to give him who has need.

Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth. But

what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart

grace to the hearers. And do not grieve the Holy

Spirit of God by whom you were sealed for the

day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and

evil speaking be put away from you with all malice,

and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another,

even as God in Christ forgave you verse twenty seven.

You have that go back verse twenty seven, nor give

place to the devil, Nor give place to the devil. Okay,

And it's literally a little short verse, all right, Nor

for anger gives a foothold to the devil. But here's

what he's saying. He's telling us that the operation by

which the enemy has is actual working through people. It's

actually working through the actions of not non believers in

this sense, it's through the believer. He's telling you the

operation of Satan and the devil that can work through

our actions. He can work through our actions. Right, so

we have a responsibility for those right. Okay. Now let's

go to tewod Corinthians, Chapter two, verse ten and eleven.

I'm gonna give you another example of how the enemy operates.

Right now, whom you forgive anything, I also forgive for

If indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that

one for your sakes in the presence of Christ. Less

Satan should take advantage of us, for we are not

ignorant of his devices. What devices, laptop, cell phone, iPad? No,

he's not talking about those devices, right, He's talking about

the operation of the enemy. That when you hold on

to unforgiveness, resentment, bitterness, right, the devil deceives us. He

works deception into the body of Christ. And it's through

our very own responsible actions, whether we forgive or let go.

But you don't know what they did to me. I'm sorry,

I'd rather not be taking advantage of I'm going to forgive.

I'd rather not give a foothold to the devil. It's written,

it's the word, right, that's what we're reading. Do you agree?

So if we walk in unforgiveness, understand what God is saying. Right,

Because you know Satan is the father of lies, right,

I can confidently tell you that he was probably the

first embittered person too, in all of creation, the first

embittered being with bitterness, father of bitterness. I'd probably label

him that very confidently. You don't have to hold on

to the trespass, it's your responsibility. The enemy likes to

work through bitterness in the believer, unforgiveness. So when we

hold onto those things, it means that we become blind

and ignorant to the devices of the devil through the

way that he operates. Holy Spirit through Paul is saying

that this is the operation of the enemy, intimidation, manipulation, division, confusion, offenses, defenses.

For example, Hey Dennis Man, you know, I probably shouldn't

use you as an example. You're too good, all right, Hey,

Luke Man, I want you to know. I want you

to know, Luke, I want you to know, Luke that

on you know that thing that you said to that

person man, that wasn't right. No, I love you man.

It's his responsibility whether he's going to put up a

wall and say that's you don't know what he did

to me. You don't know how they treated me. Therefore

I do this, and now you're added into the offense list.

Now you've also become an enemy. So defenses too, when

we justify what our actions are right. Here's another example

of Satan's operations two Corinthians eleven four. For if he

who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached,

or if you receive a different spirit which you have

not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted.

You may well put up with it. You may well

put up with it. There is potential for you to

receive teaching, instruction and direction via a spirit. This versus

keep it up, and you, who receive it as a

Christian can partner with that. Paul even says here that

you may well put up with it, meaning that you

could be living with this thing influencing you for so

long that you may well be thinking in your mind

using ice statements about this. This is just who I am.

This is just what I'm like. Gregory, And what did

pastor Romans say last week? No, you're being rude. You're

just being rude. You ain't being You're not being real,

You're being rude. This is just who I am. All

in the meantime, it's the enemy. This is just who

I am. Repeat after me. This is just who I am.

This is just how I do. Ain't nobody gonna tell

me what to do. I'm big dog. It ain't my

fault that they y'all listen, please, let's not fall prey

to that. Let's cast the devil out right. Don't put

up with deceptive spirits when you start talking like everything

that goes against the Bible. If what you're saying to

defend yourself doesn't sound like the words out of this

book in a legit sense, because people can't take it

out of context. If it doesn't sound exactly like Jesus

would have said it, we might just want to stop

saying those words. We might need to humble ourselves and say,

thank you, brother, thank you sister. I don't have to

accept the doctrine of demons. I don't have to accept

those lives. That is not who I am. Why does

everything that I say that that's just how I am,

goes against the word. If it's me against the word,

I'm wrong, that's the truth. Right. Therefore, you can receive

a different spirit that keeps you bound after you've received

the spirit of God. That's what Diverse is saying. You

may well put up with it. So that's another operation

of the enemy. He teaches you through their own culture,

through their own philosophies. You can go search a bunch

of Google explanations as to why you're so right and

everybody else in your church is so wrong. You can

go find it. Every excuse in the book as to

why you're behaving so nasty. The enemy also has another

doctrine too. He deceives churches into thinking that God is

in full sovereign control over what happens to their congregation members,

the good and the bad. Oh, man, you know, I

got this cancer to teach me a lesson. God is good.

Lie from hell. That's not what Jesus paid for with

his blood. Let's go look at that with the scriptures.

Genesis one twenty six, this is what we're talking about.

Let us make man. Then, God said, let us make

make in an r image according to our likeness. Let

them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over

the birds of the air, over the cattle, over all

the earth, say all the earth, and over every creeping

thing that creeps on earth. He gave us dominion. Right.

Let's go to Psalm one fifteen, verse sixteen. That heaven,

even the heavens, are the Lord's true but the earth

he has given to the children of men. In the

Passion translation, it says it says here the heavens belong

to our God, they are his alone. But he has

given us the earth and put us in charge. God's

desires is that you would represent the authority of his

kingdom on earth, and that the dominion of his son

would increase forever, because to his kingdom there will be

no end right, and that is only going to be

facilitated through you the believer. Amen. But we're gonna continue

going somewhere. Right. So we lost authority on earth because

of the fall of man through the one Adam who

sin and ate of the fruit of the knowledge of

the good and evil, and the deceiver came to deceive

the woman, and so the husband also ate of the

fruit right, and so then he was handed all of

the authority that was on Adam and Eve to Satan.

But when Jesus came, he authorized the use of his

authority by those whom he gave it to. Do you

know this? I told you in the last sermon when

I was talking about building a powerful life, that Jesus

came before the baptisms of the disciples, before the Holy

Ghost baptism, he gave them authority. Did I not? Did

anybody go look that up? Did you guys already know that? Oh?

My word, let's fact check me real quick, Luke nine

verses one and two. This is way before the baptism

of the Holy Ghost and acts. Right, then he called

his twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority

over all demons and to cure diseases. Hallelujah. Let's go

to Matthew ten, verse one. And when he had called

his twelve disciples to him, he gave them power over

unclean spirits, to cast them out and to heal all

kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease. Amen, check

this out. I did more research, right, did more research.

But wait, there's more. Okay. The word power that is

used in Luke nine in the Greek is dunamous. A

lot of you know that, right. The word authority here

in Luke nine, the word of God says in the

Greek is exusiah. It is interesting to note, therefore, that

in Matthew chapter ten, the word for power you would

have thought it wasnonymous. It's also exusiah in the Greek.

Oh oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, come on,

come on. So power and authority are co laboring together

in us and through us, just like the disciples. Hallelujah.

What we're talking about today is exusiah, meaning mastery, delegated

influence power and right, like as in your rights, it

is your right to stay silent. Yeah, but you know

what I'm saying, it's your rights. Okay, you have rights right,

right or okay, you have rights right, strength over the

demonic and all type of disease. Now we have defined

what authority is Exuziah right. So that is what Jesus

gave to the believers. Let's read further into the New Testament.

Now Ephesians chapter six, verse twelve. We're all familiar with this. Right.

I got to wake up in the morning, put on

the armor of God, child of God. You gotta do it.

But it says here, for we say we do not

wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,

against the rulers. Places right paston false humility type of

gospel will get the believer killed. God does not want

us to neglect his word. I say this because the

next portion of scripture we're going to read together came

came before what we just read. It's in Two Corinthians twelve,

seven and ten. Paul has to live this out in

real time verse seven. Unless I should be exalted above

measured by the abundance of revelations. A thorn in the flat, say,

in the flesh was given to me a messenger of Satan,

to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. Next,

concerning this thing, I pleaded with the Lord three times

that it might depart from me, And he said to me,

read with me, My grace is sufficient for you. For

my strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore, most gladly,

I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power

of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure

in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses.

He's listening a whole bunch of negative things right there,

right for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then

I am strong. Let's go back to what God said

in verse nine. My gris charis for us English speakers. Okay,

uh cas, you like that Greek Greek accent thing? Thing? Yeah?

Got that, got that down? Kay? Is our kao for

you sufficient? What does that mean? You may ask? Good thing?

I got the answer. Grace is the power of God

in operation. Let's break it down because we're always taught

that grace means unearned favor or unmerited favor right. We

always hear that grace is this charis is this chras is.

Our chao by Biblical word use means to be possessed

of unfailing strength, to be strong, sufficient, to be enough

to defend ward off. Are chao by definition in the

strongs is akin to meaning a relative of right, a

row to take up, to take away, lift up in

case you're falling right and loose you. Likewise, our kao

means to raise up a barrier against or in the

proper use ward off. This then explains that God's response

to Paul is meant to be understood in such a

way like this. The grace that I have put in

you is able to loose you, and through it you

may ward off the messenger of Satan, stop asking me

for something that I am commanding you to do. When

that revelation hit him, because it's in read letters, it

said that God spoke to him basically directly right when

the revelation hit him, all of the sudden, he's like, Yo,

guess what, Corinthians, here's what I just found out That

the grace that He deposited into us is able to

make us free too. Guess what else? It showed them

speaking of humility. In that verse, it showed them that

even though this man has seen the Third Heaven, he said,

lest I should be exalted above measure. Jason, I'm not

exempt from spiritual warfare. And I'm an apostle too, I'm

not exempt from the enemy. Come in to buffet me.

And if you look up what buffet means, he literally

was slamming him down. You are engaged in spiritual warfare,

whether you like it or not. Welcome to the conversation.

That's the truth of that portion of scripture. He had

to learn it in real time and wrote it to him.

Second Corinthians was written between fifty five and fifty six AD.

Ephesians was written where we get the Armor of God

sixty to sixty two AD, meaning within a five to

seven year period. He's on YouTube live sending broadcasts every

day going, hey, guys, listen, I think I'm starting to

figure this thing out with that whole thing that keeps

happening to me spiritually, the whole thing that keeps pushing

me down, and all of a sudden, I'm falling over.

Guess what. It's a messenger of Satan. Welcome to the conversation,

y'all put on the whole armor of God, because we've

wrestled not against flesh and blood. So in five to

seven years of him going live, writing forever, I'm sure

you know, sending out letters boom boom boom boomom, I'm

trying to train you up. I'm trying to give you something.

God's trying to deposit something into the church that's for

us today right now. It's an invitation. Right So he's

telling us listen, I figured out what the problem was.

This is the enemy we're fighting. This is how we fight,

and this makes us unstoppable. His grace in operation is

power and authority. My grace is sufficient for you. My

grace is sufficient for you. Say, his grace is sufficient

for me. Let's read more about this grace Romans, with

this thought now in mind, right now that we broke

it down, Romans, Chapter five, verse seventeen. For if by

one man's offense, death reign through the one much more,

those who receive abundance of grace and the gift of

righteousness will not could will? Did you? Those who receive

abundance of grace, The word is received. Now come on,

now there's action to be taken right, there's action to

be taken right. Will reign in life through the one

Jesus Christ. How's the reign of Jesus effective in my life?

I'll answer you through his grace, which is sufficient for me. James.

Chapter four, verse six and seven is widely used. Let's

read it with this understanding. But he gives more grace

whoa Therefore, he says, God resists the proud, but gives

grace to the humble. Therefore, submit to God, resist the devil,

and he will flee from you. What is submitting to

God look like? First off, he shot God. He said,

I pleaded with God three times, he prayed right, he

humbled himself before God. Then God gave the answer. Graema,

the living word just hit him. He's like he's made

a deposit. I have authority. You know why it's important

that Paul said that because he wasn't in the twelve

or the seventy that received the authority in Luke and Matthew.

So he had to learn it a different way, Rosina.

Just like you and me, we have to receive arima

from God Almighty. This is the entirety of Paul's life

struggle with the thorn in the flesh. He shows us

that apostles were not exempt right from warfare. God told him,

I gave you authority, use it. I gave you power

over use it. The thorn in his flesh was about

telling people that although he could boast about himself like

other false apostles, this is like three three He wrote

like three chapters before this, all about it. He's arguing

his points, He's telling them what he's done, what he's

come to, what's what has happened to him. He saw

the third heaven right because people generally generally don't look

like to don't like to look bad in public. And

yet he says, lest I should be exalted in your eyes.

No demonic's messenger was sent to me by Satan to

attack me. The devil will take that same doctrine and

tell you that it was the will of God that

that happened to him in order to discredit Paul's humility.

But instead we got pearls of wisdom and truth that

were given to us by the revealing of the Holy Spirit.

All the tools that we have to unlock the scriptures

are given to us. My grace is sufficient for you.

The devil is a liar. Therefore, first John four four says,

but he gives more. No, you are of God little

children and have overcome them, because He who is in

you is greater than he who is in the world.

Mm hmmm. I'm gonna leave you with these, with this

last verse, and then I'm gonna tell you a story. Ready,

So I want you to get this. We need to

get this because we have a responsibility over all of

the promises of God that Jesus paid for in his

blood right Ephesians three twenty, widely known, widely used. Let's

slow it down Ephesians three twenty. Now to him who

is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we think,

we ask, or think right, according to the power that

works in us. He is able to do according to

the power that works in us. He gave man dominion

and authority over earth. Right. When Jesus left, he said,

I will send you another, and you will also have dominion. Right.

And God said about his son that his kingdom will

have no end, there will be no end to his

reign when he comes. Right, you are the one who

guarantees that the authority and dominion of the kingdom of

heaven gross and the enemy wants to stop that. Right.

Let me tell you a story now you're ready, okay. So,

so there I was in the jungles of Ecuador. Okay,

that's not how the story. That's not how the story goes.

No no, no, no, that's not the story. Okay, okay, look, okay, okay,

so okay, So so I'm gonna give you two short stories. Okay.

First short story, listen, while I was preparing this sermon.

While I was preparing this sermon this week, I had

like a few sick people around me. Dennis. I was like,

they're sick, they're coughing, hacking up. Man, they don't look

you know, it's not looking too good.

Right.

And then after my lunch, I go and I'm sitting

down and I'm and I'm just like meditating on what

what I'm going to uh, what I'm going to be

sharing with the body, right, And I knew it had

to do with this. All of a sudden, I start

meditating on those things, Zach.

They're coughing, hacking up, they're sick, they don't look too good.

I hugged one of them because I'm a hugger, you know.

And then all of a sudden, Craig, it was, it

was weird. It was my sinuses start to swell up

in here, fill up real bad. I feel it around

my eye and I'm feeling my throat starts to hurt

a little bit, in itch a little bit. And I'm like,

and this is all my thoughts. I haven't even spoken,

and I'm meditating or what I perceive are my thoughts? Right?

What did you catch that? What I perceive are my

thoughts sounds just like me supposedly. But here I am

preparing a message about authority. I'm gonna let you into

my brain. You ready, How am I supposed to preach?

If I sound like garbage on Sunday? Yeah, I said,

the devil is a liar. I command you to get

off of my body right now, in the name of Jesus.

I said, you are going to leave my body right now. Body,

you are well. Body, you are well, in the name

of Jesus. So there I am pacing back there, and

I'm like, no, no, no, yeah, I know for a

fact that by his stripes I was healed. I start

praying in tongues down starting, I keep praying tongues. My

wife walks by me. She's like, scold you, well, you

are right, you pray. I'm like, mmm, I'm tearing this

thing up. I'm tearing this thing up. I'm not accepting

no lies. I'm not accepting sickness because he just told

me it's grace. He's sufficient for me. I have power

and authority over this thing. It will not have me.

Within an hour, all of it was gone, drank a

glass of water, Everything was flushed. I didn't want it.

I don't receive it. It has to leave. In the

name of Jesus, you bind it. Devil is a liar woo.

Two years in a row, I was going through sinus

issues and I was like leaking all over, like maybe

years ago, maybe about three years maybe two years ago.

Was the last time that I happened, maybe three or

two years whatever. Don't quote me, quote me on what happened.

So I'm taking these antihistamines every night because I need

to be able to breathe that night without coughing, so

I can have enough sleep, so I can go to

work and I can do the thing that I need

to do. So I'm sitting there and I'm holding this

pill in my hand. You know, my dear wife's on

the other side of the bed and before were going

to bed, and she's like, well, it's just what you

have to take. No condemnation to anybody, by the way,

this is just what happened. Okay, these testimonies are given

for a reason. I looked at this pill and I said,

I'm not I didn't throw it or nothing. Okay, you

can use your I didn't throw it. I was very

upset though, I'm not taking this pill for the rest

of my life. I refuse to do this. Every single

I said, body, you are well. In the name of Jesus.

You are a native person to the land of Washington State.

All pollins have no power over you. Over my lungs,

they are cleared up in Jesus' name. All sinus pressure

go in Jesus' name. And I just started speaking life

into my own cells, into my own lungs, into my

own sinuses. I said, you are well. I went to

sleep that night, walk up the next day. Didn't need nothing.

Since then, still don't take nothing. The devil is a liar.

The devil is a liar. Be careful with the shackles

that he tries to make you wear. The apostles weren't exempt.

Neither will we. But guess what grace, Oh his grace,

Glory to God. Your grace is sufficient, it's sufficient. Your

caress is our chao for me. Hallelujah. Come on, He's

so perfect, he's so good. Some of y'all came here today,

maybe expecting to receive from the Lord. Did the word

come alive? Put it into practice? There was a moment

where I'm sorry, I'm going way over. I'm so sorry,

pastor doing I love you, I'm so sorry. There was

a moment where the apostles couldn't cast the devil out

with this kid, and they said, they said, Lord, how

come we could not? And you know the whole story.

Everybody tries to tell you, this kind doesn't come out

except for by fasting and prayer, prayer and fasting. But

what did he answer them at the end, because of

your unbelief? What did he say first when they brought

him the boy with the two disciples and he was

still demonized, and the father was there, Oh, ye of

little faith, This kind doesn't come out except for by

prayer and fasting. Prayer and fasting casts out unbelief.

Okay, thank you God, for your deposit today.

If you're receiving this right now, just stand up. If

you're receiving this right now, just stand up. So I

thank you God. And if you felt like you neglected

that you neglected this portion of the word, just repent

where you're at. So, Lord, I'm so sorry that I

neglected this part of your word. Father, Would you increase

my faith? Help my unbelief. God, I rebuke the devil now,

I say, liars, shut up. Go in the name of Jesus. Bondage,

go in the name of Jesus. Distraction, go in the

name of Jesus. Father. I thank you God, Oh Holy Spirit,

Oh Holy Spirit of God. Thank you that you are

the grace in me. Yeah. Chains be broken in the

name of Jesus. Addiction is broken in the name of Jesus.

Character deficiencies broken in the name of Jesus. And power us, God,

empower your people. Disease be broken now in the name

of Jesus. Viruses be broken now in the name of Jesus.

Thank you God for teaching us warfare in this house.

I thank you God that you train us for battle.

I thank you that you arm us with everything from heaven.

God and that Heaven accompanies our words over ourselves. In

the name of Jesus, we praise you, Lord, We praise

you Holy One HM in jesus mighty name, we give

you honor, glory, praise to the King in Jesus' name. Amen,