Acts: Intentions for Men: Jesus vs. The Enemy 

Well, good morning.

It's good to see if you have your Bible's termed

with me the Acts, chapter sixteen, verse sixteen.

This morning.

The title of my sermons the Tensions for Men, in

Tensions for Men. Over the fact past few months, there's

been a lot of tension in the news about the

Menendez brothers. I don't know if you are familiar with them,

but the Menindez brothers are two brothers, Joseph and Eric Menendez.

In nineteen eighty nine, they killed their father and mother

in their Beverly Hills home, and so they have been.

In prison for the last few years.

And there's been a lot of information and some different

documentaries on them over the last few months. As there's

a lot of kind of a lot of stuff talking

about the Menindez brothers. And just this week the DA

in Los Angeles has came out and said that he

was announced, if you will, announced his recommendation that these

two others be resentenced from their life in sentencing that

was given to them in nineteen eighty nine. And so

there's a lot of information, you know, as you think

about this, and the big thing for the DA in.

LA is the intent.

What was the intent on of these two brothers of

why did they kill their father and mother? Was their

intent the intent to kill their mom and dad? Was

it attent to kill? Was it just malice that did

just hated their parents? Or was their intent as a

result of self defense from abuse? And so that's a

key question for this case is what is the intent?

You see their efforts for whatever it may be, the

Menendez brothers had some type of intentions and it's important

for the DA and the attorneys to determine what is

that intent? Can I tell you this morning, as we

look at man's attentions for a man, that just as

these Menindez brothers had intentions, so does Satan have intentions

for you? Did you know that today we're going to

look at Jesus's intentions and Satan's intentions. Do you know

the enemy has intentions for you? He has plans for you,

he has desires for you, He has things that he

desires for you. Can I tell you Scripture says and

only does Satan has intentions for you? And today I

want to examine what Satan's intentions are for you. But

it's important to understand that Jesus has intentions for you

and We understand what is Satan's attentions for us, but

what does Jesus desire for us? Scripture says in John

ten Ten's a very popular verse, the thief comes only

to still kill and destroy. You know that Satan's intentions

for you. Satan desires to still kill and destroy. That's

what he desires for every individual that walks on the

face of this earth. He desires to steal, kill, and destroy,

says and Peter the Apostle says in one Peter five eight,

be sober minded, be watchful, watchful your adversary. The devil

prows around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Satan seeks is still killing, destroy, and he's actively raging

like a lying seeking to devour anyone in his path.

That's Satan's intentions.

But the good news of today there is not only

Satan has intentions for you, but so does Jesus has

intentions for you. And John ten Ten says that the

thief comes is still killing, destroyed. But I came that

they may have life and have it abundantly. Jesus has

a plan and he desires to give you life, and

he desires to give it to you abundantly just as

important to examine the intentions of these Menendez brothers, it's

important for us to examine Satan's attentions, for us to

be aware of what is his desire first, what is

his plans for us?

And it's also.

Important for us exam is what Jesus desires for us,

what's his intentions for us? As we come to Act

chapter sixteen, we've been looking at Paul's second missionary journey,

and then chapter sixteen we.

Saw last week.

Beginning last week, Luke shows us three individual conversion stories.

Last week we saw this religious woman who were seeking God,

who longed to know more about God, and she was

very wealthy.

She owned her own business and was a very wealthy trade.

Of textiles of purple cloth. And we see her conversion

last week. Her name was Lydia. This morning we see

the second of Luke's conversion stories, and this is someone

on the opposite spectrum, the opposite social order or the

opposite of religious affections. This woman is a slave and

she's on the lower of all classes, and Scripture says

she's demon possessed. And this morning we see Satan's desire

for her. Satan's intentions for her. And today we see

Jesus intentions for this lowly abused, demon possessed girl. And

this morning, as we examine the enemies, Satan's attentions for her,

Satan's attentions for Paul and his command companions. Finally, we'll

finish today by looking at Jesus' attentions. Let's stand together

and let's look at attentions for men Jesus versus the enemy.

The Bible says in Act sixteen, And as we were

going to the place of prayer, we were met by

a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and

brought her owners much gain by fortune telling. And she

followed Paul and us crying out. And these men are

servant of the Most High God, who proclaimed to you

the way of salvation. And this she kept doing for

many days. Paul, having been greatly annoyed, turned and said

to the spirit, I command you, in the name of

Jesus Christ, to come out of her.

And it came out of her that very hour.

But when her owners thought that their hope was gained

was gone, they seized Paul and Silas dragged them into

the marketplace before the rulers. And when they had brought

them to the measure states. They said, these men are Jews.

They're disturbing our city that advocate customs that are not

lawful for us as Romans to accept or to practice.

The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates tore

the garments off of them and gave orders to beat

them with rods, And when they inflicted many blows upon them,

they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep

them safely. And having received this order, he put them

in the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

Let's pray together, Father, we thank you, Lord for this morning,

for bringing us in this place to worship you, Lord,

to hear your truth. And today Lord, as we looked Lord,

your word, your truth. Lord, I pray that day we

would hear Lord your word. Lord, that you know the

things that I've prepared, You know the things that you've

brought to my mind.

Lord. You know, Lord, how you've led today.

I pray Lord that the words in my mouth would

be pleasing Lord to you, and Lord, that Lord you'd

lead me to rightly divide your word. And Lord, I

pray that we as as we come together, Lord, that

people would hear not my voice today, But Father, they

would hear your voice.

They would hear the calling of your.

Holy Spirit, just as you called out that girl that

day in Philippi, may you call out to us today. Lord. Lord,

We thank you Lord that Satan does have plans for us.

But God, so do you have great plans for us,

plans to give us life and give it abundantly. Today, Lord,

I pray we would find the hope that we have

in you, Jesus. So lead us Lord the truth. Lord,

help us have ears to hear and heart to obey. Today, Lord,

we love you. We thank you Lord for this morning

you name. We pray, Amen, you may be seated. So

this morning we'll start off by looking at the enemy's intentions.

The ienminy in the enemy's intention. First, the enemy seeks

to bind. The enemy seeks to bind. What was Satan's intentions?

What was the enemy?

Here?

Is is Satan? What was his intentions? His intentions for

this slave girl was to bind her. Scripture says, if

you look at verse sixteen this passage, and as we're

going to the place of prayer, we were met by

slave girl who had the spirit of divination, who brought

her owners much.

Gain by fortune telling.

The scripture tells us that this young slave girl had

a spirit a divination, that understanding in the Greek was

understanding that at this time there was an understanding that

Apollo was the god that they worshiped, and there in

Delphi was where he lived, and that was kind of

the center Delphi.

Greek Greece.

And there in that temple there was the belief that

that temple was possessed, and it was guarded by a snake,

and that snake. Mythology said that Apollos slayed that serpent,

and as he slayed that serpent, the spirit of that

serpent possess the priestess in the temple of Apollo. And

therefore that possession of that spirit among these priests would

overpower them, it would direct them, and it would lead

them to fortune tell.

We would also use another term in.

Scripture that we see called soothsaying, that is the ability

to fortune tell. The scripture says here, this girl has

that possession, she had that spirit of divination. That's the

same word for Pathenaea, which was the name of the

snake or the spirit that Apollos supposedly slays. It's understand

this woman had that demon spirit. Scripture would even drop down.

If you look at verse eighteen, Paul cast out this demon.

Of verse eighteen, it says, I command you, in the

name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her, and

it came out of her that very hour, says understood,

this young girl here was under the power.

Of an influence.

The term pathenaeas also was used at the time for

a vanquilitus. And what is the vanquilitus? This is someone

who has a puppet ride and they speak and it

is they're speaking through a puppet, right, And the idea

is there's one individual, but they're speaking through another.

That's the imagery. Here.

Here is a woman and she's demon possessed, and the

demon withinside of her is speaking through her. She is

the instrument that he is speaking through. Do you see

that The scripture says, this woman was under this binding

of this holy spirit. She was not able to control herself,

she was able to control her speech, she was not

able to control her actions because she was bound by

a demon. And Satan, listen to me, do we see

in this scripture what is his intentions? His intentions is

to keep her bound, to keep her under his control

to keep her where. He is controlling her speech, he

is controlling her actions. That is Satan's intentions.

And for this.

Young slave girl, can I tell you today the enemy

scripture says in John ten seeks to kill.

Still and destroy.

He stole this young girl's identity, He stole her voice,

he stole her action, He stole her life by binding

her to something and binding her to something. Here was

a demon, a demon possession. And can I tell you

today Satan still seeks to bind individuals.

Do you believe that he does?

All over our world? Satan still seeks to bind individuals.

He still seeks to control them, control their speech, control

their actions. And we see not demon possessions so much

in America, but I have seen it overseas and on

mission trips. I've seen that happen when many people got

involved in voodoo and witchcraft. We've seen some there, but

we don't see that as much here in America. But

it doesn't mean that Satan is not actively seeking to

bind something, to bind individuals. One of the greatest ways

we see Satan seeking to bind individuals today is through addictions.

Can I tell you that addictions are rampant in our

world today. There's a book that was written in the

counseling book. It's called Substance Abuse by Adolets and Brains.

According to Joseph Calfeouno Junior in two thousand and two,

and in that book he says that one of the

greatest addictions that's plaguing our nation today is underage drinking.

Do you know forty percent of underage drinking is happening

in our high schools and in our colleges. It says

across campuses of college campuses America, alcohol is the number

one substance abuse that's implicated and as a result of

the drug abuse of alcohol, it's the number one issue

that leads to date rape, sexual harassment, racial disturbance, dropouts,

overdose deaths from alcohol, poison, and suicides. See the enemy

seeks to even as far as high school students and

college students at a very young age, seeks to bind

young people in an addiction of alcohol. Alcohols the number

one you say, pastor, why are you talking about alcohol?

What's caused? Alcohols? Number one in our world?

Number one in America that Satan is actively trying to use.

It's also among teen deaths alcohol is the leading factor

that leads to deaths by accidents, homicides, and suicides. We

see in this we understand teen drink king is the

number one source that leads teams.

To adult alcoholism.

Starts as teenagers and leads to adults. We see today

that this is happening not only with among our teams.

We've seen this happening in our adults. We see it's statistically,

it tells us that a teen is gets addicted to

alcohol at a very young age. It just leads to

other substance of use. Twenty two percent of meals and

seventy two percent of females today are using illegal or

misused prescription drugs within the last year. Drug use is

the highest amongst persons between eighteen and twenty five percent

twenty five age years old, compared to other age groups.

Forty seven percent of young people today will use an

illegal drug by the time they graduate from high school,

and other users within the last thirty days. You see

Satan ceaks to bind and whether that's a drug addiction

or whether it's alcohol addiction or leading to some other addiction.

Satan is behind this evil, evil attack.

Upon people in our world today.

I imagine in the room this size and watching online.

There's not one person in this room has not been

impacted by a loved one or family member or someone

you know that.

Has an addiction.

You've seen it destroy lives of people in your family.

You've seen it destroy loved ones. You see Satan. Satan

seeks to bind. He seeks to bind us through addictions.

It seeks to control us, control individuals, control their speech,

control their actions. And that is the heart of addictions,

isn't it takes over their actions, It takes over their life,

It takes over every.

Moment of their day.

Is when will I get the next high? And what

must I do to get that? Satan seeks to bind.

He seeks to bind individuals. Today, Satan only the enemy

seeks to bind.

But secondly, the enemy seeks to abuse.

Scripture tells us that this lady and those who were

understood historically at this time to be bound by this

spirit of divination. Scripture says that we were met by

a slave girl who had a spirit of divination, who

brought our owners much gained by fortune telling. We understand

a few things about this girl. Is one that she

had the spirit as we saw she was bound by

that spirit. But second we see that she's a slave.

Scripture says she had an owner.

She had on earth.

Scripture said plural and their owners use her power and

her ability to bring financial gain for them.

We know historic history would tell us.

Historical accounts would say ladies with these power powers were young,

beautiful girls. Sometimes they were older witches. We understood that

they would be sold into slavery and they would make

a lot of money for their owners by fortune telling.

Fortune telling at the time or magical oracles or used

in several ways. It was used to protect a person

from misfortune. It was used to attack another person or

even bring curses to another person. It was used to

win people over. It also used to give oracles or

utterances which were designed. Someone would go to a lady

like this and they would get her to give an oracle,

and it was design to get to please a god,

to Apollos or another god, that God might bring blessing

upon an individual. There was a lot of money into

this business at the time. In Greco Roman world, commanders

they wouldn't go to war without meeting with a fortune tailer.

They would be consulted.

She would be consulted for if someone was starting a business,

if they wanted prosperity in their business or prosperity in

their home, she would be consulted. But in verse nineteen,

look what the passage says, when that ability was taken

from her, when that demon would cast out of her,

Verse nineteen says, but when her owners saw that their

hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and silas

these owners use this possession and this binding of Satan

and this woman to abuse this woman for their financial gain.

And when Paul and Sila cast out that demon, and

she had no longer had any power, or she was

no longer bound, Scripture says.

They don't praise the Lord, do they.

They don't rejoice that this girl has been set free.

They don't rejoice that she has her voice again. They

don't rejoice that she has power again. They don't celebrate

that now she is not under control of someone else.

They are destroyed, they're disturbed, they're upset, they're angry. Why

because they have now lost their power to abuse her

for their financial gain. And what do we call that?

We call that abuse? Satan seeks to bind, but Satan

seeks to abuse, Satan seeks to use people in power

to abuse their power to hurt other individuals. Diane Lamberg

writes a great book called Suffering in the Heart of God,

and it talks She's a PTSD counselor. She's a trauma counselor,

one of the best in North America. And she writes

she thirty years ago, she was fifty years old when

she started being a psychiatrist and specializing in trauma. She's

traveled all over the world, and this is what she said.

Thirty years ago.

When I began speaking internationally, learned that nations followed abusive

patterns of families and churches, nations oppressed in silence and abuse.

In Burma, I found an entire nation crippled by abusive power.

In Wawanda, I first hand saw the first of the

effects of genocide perpetrated by the neighbors and fellow church members.

In Brazil, I was told that incest is a part

of culture. In Lebanon, I stood and looked over the

valley full of fragile structure, filled with Seria refugees who

had lost everything in are including proof of who they are.

You see, there are people in power and nations all

across our world today that are abusing their power to hurt,

inflict punishment, and abuses to people in their very country.

Just a few weeks ago, we met an individual while

we were on our mission team and he was from Nigeria.

And there is a group in Nigeria today that are

basically like a mafia gang and they're coming upon villages

and requiring the people in the village who give them

portions of their farm and giving them portions of money,

and if they do not give them, they will kill

the entire village. And that is happening today. You won't

find it on the news, but it is happening today.

Hundreds of thousands of people have died in Nigeria over

the abuse of a rogue power.

It's happening.

Do you know it's not happening with people in power

like these men who were in power of this girl

and Satan seeks to buying, but Satan seeks to abuse.

Do you know every nine seconds someone in a United

States a woman.

Is assaulted and is abused.

Just recently, I heard a story of a young girl

that was in the Triangle area who's been sex trafficked

by her father. He was called and put in prison.

The family of his I think his family. We're in

a local church, was teaching Sunday school and the found

of course their son or their family member gotten put

in prison. And this was part of this young girl

was part of their family. And they are so destroyed

by the impact of that abuse they have left the

church and have never gone back again. You see, Satan

seeks to bind, but seek. Satan seeks to abuse individuals.

He seeks to use power of people individual and he

seeks to abuse others and bring that to their downfall.

That they are victims.

That is happening in our world, and Satan is behind

it all. We must be We must open our eyes

and see these things are the Scripture says, we don't

wrestle against flesh and blood, but we wrestle against the

principalities of this world.

Today.

Satan is still active as he was then, and we

must examine it and know it and know that's his intentions.

Satan seeks to buying. Satan seeks to abuse. Satan seeks

to deceive. Scripture says, and this passage of scripture she

brought her owners much gain by fortune telling. In verse

seventeen she Scripture says, she followed Paul and us and

crying out, these men are servant the Most High God,

who proclaimed to you the.

Way of salvation.

And she kept doing this for many days. Paul, having

become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, I

command you the name of Jesus Christ to come out

of her. And it came out of her that very

our Scripture says, Paul and silasts are going in the city,

and right after they lead Lydia to the Lord, they

began going to the city and they're sharing and scripture says,

day after day, this demon possessed girl, slave girl follows them.

She everywhere they go, she goes, and scripture says, as

she follows them, she proclaims. Now, look what scripture says

that she proclaims, these men are serving them the Most

High God who proclaimed to you the way of salvation.

Now you think, man, she's doing great. She's just endorsing them.

She's saying that they are from God. And you think

that's a really good thing.

But you have to understand. Everyone in the city knew

what she was. A fortune teller.

People had gone to her and asked that she would

beckon God on their behalf, and they would pay her

to get favor from one of the many gods that

they had worshiped. This is a potheistic society that they

were in. So she had given and she had done

oracles from many different gods. And so now it's Paul

and Soilus is coming in. This demon is following them,

and they're proclaiming that they are from the most High God.

But the term god here would be the same termed

it would be used at the time for Zeus, for Apollo,

and the other savior here in this term, the emperor

from Rome would be called a savior. What she's doing,

she is proclaiming, yes, Paul and Silas, they are telling

you about a god, and that's just the god like Zeus.

That's just like Apoulus. He's not like any other god.

He's just like one of the other gods. And yes,

they're saying that he can save you, but so will.

He's the same savior, just like our emperor's a savior.

So what she is doing in this passage of scripture,

Satan is using her to deceive, to say the God

of Paul, the god of these missionaries, is the same

god as Zeus and all the others, and just says

they can save you.

Their God can save you, just like Zeus.

You just worship, you worship Zeus, you worship these and yeah,

you can worship him. To Scripture says, I think it's

very important here as you know this passive scripture. She

didn't do this once, did she? She did it every day?

And what was she trying to do? Listen to this

is very important. She was not telling the people of

Philippi not to worship something.

Did they did? She?

No, she wants them to worship something, but she wants

them to worship the wrong thing, the wrong God, not

the right God.

Satan seeks to deceive.

He seeks to tell people, yes, you can worship God,

but you can just you just don't need to worship.

The main God.

You need to worship one of the many gods of.

The world Satan wants you to worship. Don't be dissillusion.

He just wants you to worship something else besides the

true God. And that's what she's leading them to do.

She is actively seeking to deceive. Satan enemy wants to bind,

he wants to abuse, and he wants to deceive you.

Yeah, he wants you to worship, but he wants you

to worship the wrong thing.

You know, Lady God, God is one of the popular

artists of our world today. In New York Magazine, she

wrote an article and talking about what she does as

an artist, as a musical artist, and she says these words,

I have discovered that in art and as in music,

there's a lot of truth. Then there is a lie.

She said.

The artist is essentially creating a work to make a

lie a truth, but then he slides the lie in

amongst all the other truths. That tiny little lie is

the moment, the moment I live for, and the moment

that the audience falls in love. Lady God, God is

showing that the world and many in that world are

seeking just to deceive, and just as she's seeking to deceive,

and she's living for that moment, Satan is living for

the moment that he deceives you to believe a lie

and worship a lie. Can I tell you that Satan, teenager,

Satan wants you to worship. He wants you to deceive,

You to worship that boy or that girl that you think,

if I've just been in a relationship with him, that

will be it. He wants you to worship your sport.

He wants you to worship your school. He wants you

to find your identity in those things. Adults, he wants

you to worship your money. He wants you to worship

your hobbies. He wants you to worship your drugs, or

whatever it may be. He wants you to worship something else,

thinking that you'll find satisfaction in that thing. Satan listen

longs to bind. He launched abuse, and he desires, he

seeks to deceive. Lastly, when you see Satan longs to destroy,

Scripture says in verse eighteen, Paul and silas that she

does this day after day. Scripture says, you look back

with me. In verse eighteen. She kept doing this for

many days, and Paul hav Him become greatly annoyed, turned

and said to the spirit, I command you, in the

name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And

it came out of her that very hour. After a

few days, Paul just had enough. I'm tired of this

woman trying to see people away from the truth of

the Gospel. And he turns to her and he cast

out the demons, very similar to the same account of

Jesus when he comes upon the mountain and the man

had many demons named Legion, and Jesus cast out that

man and set him free. In the same story in

Jesus when he cast out the women, you remember he

cast out the demons into the pigs, right, and the

pigs went off.

The mountain and died.

And you remember all the people in the village came

and saw that, and they go back in the village,

and they come back and they run Jesus off. Why

are they mad? They're mad because they lost the money.

They're not mad. They're not praising that the man had

been delivered. They're upset that they lost all the money

from the pigs. Here in this passive scripture, it is

the same scenario. These owners who had this young girl

are not celebrating. They are upset and they're angry that

they have lost financially as a result of this. In

verse nineteen that says the owners look with me. But

when the owners saw that their hope of game was gone,

they seized Paul and silence. They dragged them into the

marketplace before the rulers. And when they brought them to

the magistrates, look at what happens here in verse twenty

they said, these men are Jews, and they are disturbing

our city. And look at verse twenty one. It's very important,

and they're advocating customs that are not lawful for us

as Romans to accept or practice. Verse twenty two says

the crowds joined in attacking them, and the magistrates tore

off their gown, their garments off of them, and gave

orders to beat them with rods. These owners, once they

find out that this the girl that they had been

making all this money for us, has now been set free,

they take Paul and Silace and the companions. They'd take

them before the magists was the local ruler at the time,

and they said, these men are they're preaching, they're advocate

hating something that's different than we've ever heard before, and

this would be a lawful for us if we follow

their worship. When we follow worshiping only their God and

not the God of many gods, that means we'll have

to turn away from worshiping Rome. We'll have to turn

away from worshiping the Emperor. And they're leading us to

worship only the Lord only God, and this.

Must be stopped.

Scripture says, they get so enraged. It's unless a riot

that breaks out. In verse twenty that scripture says, in

verse twenty two, the crowd joined in attacking them. The

magistrates tore their clothes off of them. Scripture says, after

they this riot broke out, and they tore all the

clothes off of poll silas they start.

Beating with rods.

Listen, these men wont to destroy the Gospel. They want

to stop it. They want it to end. They don't

want this to go any further. They do not want

people to be delivered from bondage. They don't want people

to be delivered from abuses. They don't want people to

hear the good News of Jesus. And as a result,

they seek to destroy the messengers of the Gospel. Can

I tell you today, listen, Satan seeks to destroy you.

Satan seeks to abuse, Satan seeks to bind. Satan seeks

to stop the advancement of the Gospel. Today, we live

in a world today like no other time before that

Satan is actively trying to stop the good News of Jesus.

There's this great book. I don't know if you've ever

read it. I encourage you to read it sometime.

It will open your eyes to what's happened in our

world over the last many, many years. But in February

twenty ninth to nineteen forty eight, a pastor named Richard

Warbrand was arrested by secret police.

He was in Romania as a pastor there. He was

arrested for.

Christian worship and witnessing. He was put in prison under

the communist Romanian government at the time, and he was

sent to prison for fourteen years. And fourteen years he

was tortured him and his wife. He writes a book

called Torture for Christ and in that book he explains

the different things he endured. He tells in one of

my favorite stories of the book is he tells about

being beaten in order to preach. He said this, he said,

it was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It

was understood that whoever was caught doing this received severe beating.

A number of.

Decided we would pay the price for the privilege of preaching,

so we accepted their terms.

It was a deal.

We would preach and they would beat us. We were

happy preaching and they were happy beating us. So everyone

was happening, he said. The following scene happened more times

than I can remember. A brother was preaching to the

other prisoners when guards was suddenly burst in and surprising

them through halfway through a phrase. They would haul down

that individual, that preacher, to one of what they called

their beating rooms, and after what seemed like an endless beating,

they would bring him back and throwing back into the cell,

bloody and bruce on the prison floor, he would slowly

pick up his battered body, perfectly straightened up himself his clothing,

and he would say, my brothers, where did I leave

off when I was interrupted? And he would continue to preach.

Can I tell you today, just in Acts sixteen, Satan

and the enemy saw to stop the preaching of the Gospel,

to destroy it. It was happening in the nineteens, and today,

more than ever, we're seeing freedom of speech and religious

liberty coming under attack. Satan seeks to destroy. But as

we finish today, you know Satan has intentions, but so

desire Jesus. And what you see last week as we finish,

what is Jesus's attentions? Scripture says, look at with me

in verse eighteen, the Bible says, now this kept going

doing this for many days. Paul, having been greatlynnoyed, he

said to He didn't say to the woman. He said

to the spirit that was within the woman. He says,

I command you, listen to this in the name of

Jesus Christ, to once come out of her. And it

came out of her at that very hour. Paul was

very careful that day when he looked to that woman

who was bound, who was abused, who had been sought

to be destroyed, he called out, not in the name

of Paul, and name one of the apostles he knew,

listen to me today. He knew there was power in

Jesus's name, and so he declared, by the power of Jesus, come.

Out of her.

And Scripture says that Jesus delivered her. What is Jesus's

intentions for you? Listen to me today. Jesus's attentions for.

You is to deliver you. It's without a doubt.

In the room this size and people watching online, there's

many of you have been impacted by the binding of satan,

to addictions, or whatever it may be that you have

been bound in your life. Listen to me today, Jesus

seeks to deliver you. Can I tell you today that

many be in this room or in sound when the

six women across our world have been abused? Can I

tell you that Jesus seeks to deliver? Can I tell

you today there's many of you been impacted by the

deception of the enemy. You've believed many lies that you

could find hope, happiness and satisfaction.

Is something else? Can I do today?

Jesus seeks to deliver? Can I tell you many of

you have been sought, been attacked by trying to live

out your faith. You've been trying to be vocal, and

you seem like the enemy continues to come after you.

Can I tell you Jesus seeks to deliver. I remember

I was at Spring Branch Baptist Church.

I was a young pastor.

I was Aron thirty one years old, and I was

praying that God would save people in my church. One day,

I'll never get this long as I live. I got

a phone call. And I got a phone call by

a man and he said, Pastor, can you come to

my house? I never met the man in my life ever.

His name was Robert Beckham. He says, Pastor can you

come my house. I like to talk to you. So

I went over to his house that I'd never been

there before, walked into the door and there was a

man sitting in the recliner and he was just crying.

And I sat beside him. I said, well, mister Roberts,

this the first time I met you. And I said,

you know, how can I help you? He said, listen

to me, he said, I need to get saved. And

there by his chair, I led that man to the Lord.

That man had been bound to addiction of alcohol his

whole life. That day he was asking God to deliver him.

And can I tell you that day God or miraculously

set him free and he never touched it again to

the day the Lord take him home. God delivered him

from alcohol. God delivered him from a broken relationship, restored

his marriage, restored his home, and he found a new

relationship in Jesus Christ. Why because it wasn't the power

of Jonathan that day. Listen, it was the power of

Jesus that day that delivered a man who was bound,

delivered a man who'd been abused by alcohol and the addictions.

He delivered a man who had been deceived and found

that he thought he could find hope in something else

beside Jesus, and that man became a witness for Jesus Christ.

Jesus has the power to deliver. I love what Jesus says.

You remember jesus first sermon. Jesus goes into Syna God.

He just you know, is starting his mission, and he

goes into syn of God and Copronium. They reach out

that day as common practice and sin of gods, they

would ring out a scroll and they would read from

one of the scrolls. And that day they just by

chance God a scroll and they asked Jesus to read it.

And you know what Jesus read that day.

It says in Luke four seventeen, and the scroll the

Prophet's Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll

and he found a place where it was written. The

spirit of the Lord is upon me because he appointed

me to proclaim the good news the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim.

Liberty to the captives, to recover the sight of the blind,

to set liberty to those who are pressed, to proclaim

the year of the Lord's favor. Can I tell you

the first sermon of Jesus is Jesus saying, listen, I

come to deliver. I come to set free the captives.

I've come to heal the brokenhearted. I come to proclaim

the Lord Luke nineteen. Jesus says, the son of Man

came to seek and to save, that.

Save the loss.

Can I tell you today, just remind you today. Satan

seeks to bind, He seeks to abuse, he seeks to deceive,

he seeks to destroy. Jesus seeks to deliver. If you

think about Jesus as I close, I'll tell you.

I'm enjoying this though.

I think I can just go another thirty minutes. The

enemy sought to bind our Jesus that night in the

gardener gets him, and he to bound his hands.

They carried him to a mock trial.

The enemy sought to abuse the power of the Pharisees

and beat our Jesus in that that night he sought

to abuse the power of pilot.

As he beat him.

And when the cords of the cat the whip has

he beaten with the rods as they flogged him. They

sought to bind our Jesus. They sought to abuse our Jesus.

They sought to the enemy sought to deceive our Jesus

in the wilderness. They sought to destroy our Jesus on

the cross. And Hebrews listen to this. Hebrews twelve two

fourteen says this, since therefore children share in flesh and blood,

he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through

the death he might destroy the one who has power over.

Death, and that is the devil.

Jesus endured the enemy's attacks of abuse, binding, of deception,

and trying to destroy.

Why that he might set you free from it? You know?

There's the doctors at the Phoenix Arizona have found that rattlesnakes,

And I asked the van if you make your way up,

rattlesnakes can still strike even though they're dead.

They can still strike you, They can still bite you.

They can actually still kill you. Doctor says.

Every year there are admitted to the hospital many patients

that had been struck by a rattlesnake that they thought

was dead. Snakes sometimes were shot, sometimes their heads were

cut off. Yet a snake will retain its reflex action

and they can still make their striking motion even up

to sixty minutes after death.

Listen to me today, Satan, the old Serpent was defeated

at Calvary. His head was cut off, and Hebrews too

tells us that our high Priest Jesus.

Through his death, destroyed the enemy who has power over death.

He can still strike us, and he can still wound us,

but Jesus has the power to deliver us from his

deadly venom. Today, will you say, Jesus, I need you

to be my deliverer. I know Satan the enemy is

actively pursuing me, But Lord, you've given me power to overcome,

to be delivered.

However that may be for you. Today, will you surrender,

you call out to his name.

Today he has the power to deliver.

Would you stand with me?

Lord, I pray today that time, Lord, we've all been bitten,

we've all felt the wounds of Satan's attacks. Lord, we

thank you today that you know our wounds. You know

the times where we've been bitten, We've been hurt, we've

been battered, we've been broken, we've been like that slave girl,

felt like we're out of control, and just Lord, by

the power of your name Jesus, that you set her free. Lord,

I pray that'd be those today that through your power, Lord,

you would deliver them from whatever Lord Satan has brought

against them. So, Lord, I pray the day that they

would be the hearts of people today, whether they're believers

or whether they're unbelievers. I pray there'd be those who

would call upon your name Jesus to day and seek,

Lord you to deliver them. So, Lord, I pray for

a believer here today that's been bound by something. I

pray for the believer today that's been maybe impacted by abuse.

I pray, Lord, for the believer today that's been deceived.

Pray for the believer today that felt.

Like they've been destroyed.

Lord, I pray today they would be those believers who

would call upon you, the Deliverer and find healing.

Lord in your name.

Today, Lord, I pray for the unbelievers. Lord, I pray today,

just as that slave girl found you, Jesus, today, that

would find you, and that you would break every chain

of addiction, every chain of binding, every chain of abuse,

every deception that was in their heart or in their mind. Lord,

I pray or that you would set them free Today. Lord,

that's what you came to do. Lord, I pray you

would be at work in this place today. Lord, I pray,

there's someone here that doesn't know you as Lord and Savior.

Today.

I pray, right now, right where they are, they would

pray the myth that they're a sinner, believe that you

died on the cross, and they would confess Lord, their

need for you a savior today, that their need Lord,

for you deliver them today. And Lord, I pray that

the scripture says, if we confess with our mouths and

believe in our hearts today, we will be saved. I

pray there'd be those who would call out to you

today for salvation. Lord, lead us in this time of invitation.

We pray you name. We pray Amen.

Hears pain and all and all to Him