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The Reigning Spirit - Part One - Our Focus for 2024

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  1. Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast

  2. from St. Augustine, FL.

  3. Now enjoy this message. Say the reigning spirit.

  4. Say the reigning spirit in First Timothy, chapter 4, verse one,

    1 Timothy 4 chapter mention

  5. First Timothy chapter 4, verse one, it says but the spirit.

    1 Timothy 4 chapter mention

  6. And again if you look at your translation, it's going to be a

  7. capital S because where they place the capital S, they're

  8. talking about the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit is not

  9. the only spirit. OK, it's not the only spirit

  10. says, but the Spirit explicitly says that in latter time some

  11. will fall away from the faith. Look to your neighbor and say

  12. it's not going to be me. Now you got to start having that

  13. confession and you got to live with determination because the

  14. Holy Spirit says that in latter times some will fall away from

  15. the faith. It will happen.

  16. That means people, you know, that were on fire for God,

  17. serving God, wanted to. I mean, just doing everything

  18. for God. Now they're doing nothing.

  19. And when you talk to them, they sound more like the world than

  20. they sound like the the church, but yet they'll throw little

  21. phrases out. Well, God knows my heart.

  22. Well, I love God. Well, I don't have to do that.

  23. And then they'll start throwing scripture like the devil did to

  24. Jesus, but it'll be out of context because they're trying

  25. to manipulate scripture to keep their carnal life and feed their

  26. flesh because the Spirit said it's going to happen.

  27. And one thing that fuels this, if you go ahead and eradicate

  28. this, you'll be it'll be more difficult for this to come to

  29. you. And that is kill selfish

  30. ambition. All right, got to kill selfish

  31. ambition. But it says, the spirit

  32. explicitly says means it's going to happen.

  33. It will take place. It's going to take place.

  34. And in the latter time some will fall away from the faith.

  35. That means they were in the faith.

  36. It's not marginal people. These aren't people that were

  37. around the faith but never got in.

  38. These are people that are in. They'll fall away.

  39. Why? The answer in this verse tells

  40. us, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines

  41. of demons now seducing spirits you don't see.

  42. Demons you don't see, but they exist in an unseen realm.

  43. But they do speak through people.

  44. They do. And unless you hear the Holy

  45. Ghost rightly dividing the word of God, you and have no.

  46. You want to come preach this for me?

  47. OK. Woo.

  48. Hallelujah. I know you've heard it.

  49. Yeah, but you ain't up here on the platform.

  50. I got this one. I got it.

  51. Woo, I got it. She was getting pumped up.

  52. I'm like, man, this is going to be A tag team if I don't say

  53. something. She is slap preaching right now.

  54. Pastor Marsha, know where it going she stirred up.

  55. Y'all need to catch up with this deal, OK?

  56. You get rid of selfish ambition and you sell out to the cause of

  57. the Kingdom. You're going to put yourself in

  58. a great place, all right? Because again, seduction means

  59. it touches something that makes you feel good.

  60. That's the thing about seduction.

  61. I mean, again, it's pretty obvious if if the if the devil

  62. threw out for a female, for a male, someone that you had no

  63. attraction to and look really messed up because of all the

  64. stuff they've gone through and they try to say, hey, come sleep

  65. with me, be like bro, forget about it, you know, I mean

  66. there's no attraction, nothing. And we want to act like, you

  67. know, when these spirits come, there'll be no, no, there'll be

  68. an attraction. And what it is, it's attracting

  69. to something fact. The Bible literally says this.

  70. And Jenny says, let no man say they are tempted to God because

  71. God can't tempt anybody. But a man's only tempted when he

  72. is tempted because of something that he's kept in his flesh,

  73. because he didn't crucify something of his flesh, which

  74. means it's alive in the flesh and the devil can tempt you on

  75. that. Which means then when you're

  76. tempted because you kept something alive in your flesh,

  77. then it created lust. And when lust became what gave

  78. birth or was conceived, it gives birth to sin.

  79. So you got to kill the flesh daily got crucify that thing.

  80. Because if you don't do that, then seductions coming and

  81. seduction again. The devil seduced and deceived

  82. Eve not with with something that felt profitable.

  83. It seemed good. And David warns about this.

  84. Solomon warns about this, about you need to keep your mind with

  85. the word listen, the adult, the the, the, the, the woman, the

  86. adulteress is come. They're coming after you to

  87. seduce you to that which you've allowed to stay awake in you.

  88. Are you hearing me? So because they pay attention,

  89. meaning you won't, you'll give appetite to it.

  90. And it's easy to give appetite to doctrines of demon when you

  91. want to accept a good news about God that releases you from

  92. responsibility. Most believers in our nation

  93. love the message of no responsibility, which means I do

  94. what I want to do. I'm not responsible anyway

  95. because of God. And they're being seduced to

  96. stay carnal. They're being seduced to remain

  97. fleshly, and then they're deceived.

  98. They're OK with God. So there are spirits in play.

  99. Are you hearing me? There are spirits in play.

  100. And because God wants us to minister on the reigning spirit,

  101. he wants us to know which spirit actually reigns so that when you

  102. know of the other spirits, those voices, you will not follow.

  103. Amen. Amen.

  104. The Bible tells us even the Devil himself, Satan himself

  105. comes as an Angel of light and when he comes he comes quoting

  106. scripture. Just because you get a scripture

  107. doesn't mean it came from the Father or the Holy Ghost.

  108. That's why first John four one and four.

  109. The passion translation says it this way.

  110. John, saying this, delightfully love friends, don't trust every

  111. spirit, but carefully examine what they say to determine if

  112. they are of God, because many false prophets have have mingled

  113. into the world. Are you hearing me?

  114. So again, we have an epidemic in our society where people, and I

  115. bet if I got a show of hands of people right now that you're

  116. listening to other ministers on YouTube.

  117. And because of that you can subject yourself to something

  118. that feels good. Sounds good, but yet could be

  119. drawing you away. This is why God instituted the

  120. local church, where there would be a pastor to help oversee your

  121. soul in order to be able to train and instruct you so that

  122. you would not, you would be at less risk of falling into

  123. deception. Now let me tell you who's going

  124. to go to deception. Fast Rebellion.

  125. Those who don't want to submit to anyone.

  126. Well, I got the Holy Ghost. Well, yes, you do.

  127. And I know what the Holy Ghost would say at very specific times

  128. in your life. Your pastor's right.

  129. But because we don't want to submit to man.

  130. Well, you're not. You're submitting to the Holy

  131. Ghost and the Ministry gift that he placed on the individual to

  132. watch over your soul. Are you hearing me?

  133. So we are not to trust every spirit, and I don't care if they

  134. say thus, saith the Lord. I don't care if they say I was

  135. praying and you came up in my spirit.

  136. Well, what spirit gave you that? Because nobody's word to me as a

  137. substitute for the Holy Ghost in me that will only bear witness

  138. to the truth of God's Word, rightly divided.

  139. And if it is not that I'm not listening.

  140. But if you're not trained in righteousness, well, maybe I'm

  141. getting ahead of myself. But in case I'm not, if you're

  142. not trained in righteousness, you cannot.

  143. The Bible tells you, cannot discern good and evil.

  144. Being born again does not qualify you to be able to always

  145. avoid the wrong voice. It is only training, say

  146. training. Come on, say training.

  147. Training in righteousness. So being born again is your

  148. enlistment. It's you raising your right hand

  149. and say, I do solemnly swear to uphold to the constitute of the

  150. United States of America. And whatever my commander says,

  151. you're saying I solemnly swear my allegiance to the Kingdom of

  152. God and the government of God and the commander in chief,

  153. which is King Jesus, Whatever he says I'll do and I'll defend

  154. that nation against any foreign or domestic enemies.

  155. Are you hearing me? I'm using my left hand.

  156. But you know what I'm saying? My left, Your right, and now

  157. you've volunteered to be subject.

  158. You got to quit being AWOL. When formation's called, you

  159. attend. I won't get it all that

  160. Hallelujah. But there's only one spirit.

  161. We follow us. The Holy Ghost.

  162. Verse two. Here's the test for those with

  163. the genuine Spirit of God. They will confess Jesus as

  164. Christ who has come in the flesh.

  165. Everyone who does not acknowledge that Jesus is from

  166. God has the Spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard

  167. was coming and is already active in the world.

  168. Little children, you can be certain that you belong to God

  169. and have conquered them. For the one who is living in you

  170. as far greater than the one who is in the world, you have the

  171. reigning Spirit. I said you have the reigning

  172. spirit. I said you have the reigning

  173. spirit. Are you hearing me?

  174. Now, obviously this passage of Scripture says you know you're

  175. going to know because they don't confess Jesus as Lord.

  176. But I'm going to tell you right now, the demons know Jesus as

  177. Lord. There was a little girl that a

  178. spirit was in that she fortune telled through familiar spirits.

  179. Because when you're in the world, demonic activity is at

  180. hand, and those familiar spirits are not all knowing, but they

  181. definitely know the ones they're attached to.

  182. You know what they know about the ones they're attached to.

  183. What color is their hair, what they wore on Thursday, 'cause

  184. they were there in the spirit around them.

  185. And if that person happened to be by you that day, guess what?

  186. They'll know what you were wearing.

  187. So then when that person comes and said, now on Thursday you

  188. were wearing this and you didn't realize it, you automatically

  189. assume it's God when it was a familiar spirit speaking to

  190. someone through someone, and it was accurate.

  191. Paul was in a town preaching the gospel of the Kingdom.

  192. And this girl who had a couple of owners saw him and said this

  193. by the Spirit, not the Holy Ghost, but the spirits that were

  194. upon her because they knew who Paul represented.

  195. Come on, do it. Let me connect some dots for you

  196. on this. Remember, there were seven sons

  197. of Steven in the book of Acts. They went to do an exorcision of

  198. someone and they say we adjure you in the name of Jesus, the

  199. one who Paul preaches about. And those seven spirit that want

  200. the spirit that was on the guy raised up and said, Jesus, we

  201. know Paul. We've what heard about So then

  202. later on when Paul's in this community ministering that

  203. spirit on that girl says, oh, we've heard about this guy He

  204. preaches from the Son of the Most High.

  205. So when she says he comes to preach from the Son of the Most

  206. High, she is accurately advertising who Paul's

  207. allegiance to. But it was not per the Holy

  208. Ghost. It was of a demonic spirit.

  209. Paul went three days here in this and in that.

  210. Finally the Holy Ghost and Paul says tell that spirit to shut

  211. up. Now why would that take place?

  212. The reason it would take place is because God does not want to

  213. increase the influence of that girl.

  214. Because if Paul plants a church in the community by the power of

  215. the reigning spirit, then when he left and a immature beginning

  216. church is working, then she could infiltrate with that

  217. demonic spirit and begin to say, I saw you wearing and I saw this

  218. that and they would assume it was the spirit because they're

  219. not yet trained in righteousness.

  220. So the Lord's like we're going to eliminate that spirit.

  221. Since it was so bold to advertise about me, these

  222. spirits know. What did the spirit say

  223. concerning Jesus when he ran across the man madman at Gadara?

  224. Have you come to to torment us before our time?

  225. The Son of the Most High? So Paul rebuked that spirit, the

  226. lesser spirit, 'cause he had the reigning spirit and said shut

  227. up, come out. And now she had no insight into

  228. a spirit realm at all. And the advertisers from the

  229. seducing spirit side was cut off.

  230. Are you hearing me? And in our world right now,

  231. there are a lot of operating on YouTube that have no buildings.

  232. They actually don't have followers at all.

  233. They have no accountability to a flock and they are operating in

  234. a power, but it's not of the reigning spirit.

  235. It's not the reigning spirit. And let me just say this to you.

  236. If you're sowing towards them, you just invited them to come to

  237. your house. How do I know 'cause where your

  238. treasure is? And the minute you sow towards

  239. that ministry, that's false. The familiar spirits associated

  240. with that ministry says they want me to do a house call.

  241. How in the world could someone of the faith fall away?

  242. Mark, Chapter 9, verse 17 to 27, The one and the one of the crowd

    Mark 9:17–27

  243. answered. Teacher, I brought you my son,

  244. possessed with a spirit. With what?

  245. With a spirit that makes him mute.

  246. And whenever he sees this him, he slams him into the ground.

  247. He foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and stiffens out.

  248. I told your disciples to cast it out, and they could not do it.

  249. And he answered and said to them, O unbelieving generation,

  250. how long will I be with you? How long shall I be put?

  251. Shall I put up with you? Bring him to me.

  252. They brought the boy to him. And when he saw him,

  253. immediately, immediately, immediately, immediately,

  254. immediately, immediately, immediately, the spirit threw

  255. him into a convulsion. And falling to the ground, he

  256. began rolling around and foaming at the mouth.

  257. Now let me just stop here for a second.

  258. You know, it doesn't take much if you have any spiritual

  259. awareness that there are many people in our county that have

  260. spirits, especially those that have been in drug and alcohol

  261. addiction, because drugs and alcohol are the are the open

  262. door policy into the realm of the spirit because the Bible

  263. tells us to be sober minded. That's not just spiritually

  264. speaking, 'cause there are multiple ways to maintain

  265. sobriety in your mind. One in the natural is that you

  266. don't allow things to mess with your mind.

  267. Because when you're drunk, when you're drinking, when you're

  268. doing drugs, when you're doing things that are legal to do but

  269. it gives you a buzz. You are.

  270. You now are opening a door for spirits to infiltrate because

  271. you don't have the capacity to bind or to take captive that

  272. which you are losing functionality in.

  273. Randy Clay, would you stand up for a second over here?

  274. Randy Clay, you know, he was diagnosed with cancer.

  275. And what particular year was that in December that, you know,

  276. you got on so much morphine that he'd was out 2010.

  277. So in 2010, December, I go to the hospital, the guy can't

  278. talk. He was given a dosage of

  279. morphine. I think 1000 milligrams, I think

  280. it was at the time, huh, Different numbers.

  281. OK. So I'm just going to tell you,

  282. like it was, they were medicating him for transition

  283. because they were convinced he ain't going to make it.

  284. It's that bad. Melanie by the Holy Ghost goes

  285. to down to the pharmacy. You can be seated down to the

  286. pharmacy, looks at the pharmacy, says does he really have to take

  287. this much? And they're like, well, no, you

  288. know, obviously doing this, just ease of pain.

  289. She said, well, let's do less because, you know, he's not even

  290. coherent. So they did.

  291. He comes back. Well, you know, when he comes

  292. back, he can begin to confess again.

  293. He lost his confession and his ability to stand in faith

  294. because he was medicated, So he lost the ability to personally

  295. fight. Now his family's fighting as a

  296. church. We're fighting, but he's lost

  297. that capacity by the Holy Ghost. She empowered him to have his

  298. confession back and he sits with us today without cancer.

  299. Kidneys, functioning, defying all medical science that they're

  300. like in 2010 according to medical doctor and science and

  301. all the care that they could give him.

  302. He's done. Let's help him get to the other

  303. side. God said I'm not done.

  304. Are you hearing me? So Jesus, my point is, is that

  305. the disciples, you as Saints can be around spiritually influenced

  306. people, yet based upon where you at, you do not move those

  307. spirits at all. They're not intimidated when you

  308. show up. We need to get to a level of

  309. training that if you're walking down Saint George St. and

  310. somebody's talking to themselves multiple times and ranting and

  311. raving, that all of a sudden they would yell out you who

  312. served the Most High. And then at that point all you

  313. got to do is ask. Because again, Paul didn't

  314. rebuke that girl the first day, didn't do it the second day.

  315. And you asked you want me to do something about that?

  316. Lord, say Amen. They comes to Jesus though, and

  317. what happens immediately? Verse 21.

  318. Then he asked the Father how long has this been happening to

  319. him? And he said from childhood it

  320. had often thrown him both in the fire and in the water to destroy

  321. him. But if you can do anything, take

  322. pity on us. Jesus is not well with that

  323. statement. If we were in that day, let me

  324. tell you what this not would have not looked like.

  325. Oh, that's interesting. If you can, huh.

  326. I mean really, honestly. All things are possible with him

  327. who believe. I mean, I love people.

  328. I guarantee it didn't sound like that because the Lord has a

  329. disdain. We have to get this in our

  330. spirit. The Lord disdains anything that

  331. comes against God's word as emphatic truth absolute.

  332. In fact, he would have said if you can, as a rebuke, and

  333. obviously the man received it as a rebuke because he said to him

  334. if you can't all things possible to him to believe immediately

  335. the boy, the boy's father cried out, says I do believe help, my

  336. unbelief, you're not asking for help unless you've just been

  337. corrected. Now some people get correct and

  338. don't even want help, but that's a different story.

  339. We're not going to talk about that.

  340. But he was doing this for his boy.

  341. He's like man, God can do it. What am I doing?

  342. Verse 25. When God When God Jesus saw that

  343. the crowd was rapidly, rapidly gathering, he rebuked the

  344. unclean spirit said to you deaf and mute spirit, come out, I

  345. command you come out of him and do not enter him again.

  346. And after crying out and throwing him into a terrible

  347. convulsion, it came out and the boy became like a corpse, that

  348. most of them said he's dead. But Jesus took him by the hand

  349. and raised him up and he got up. Now notice what Jesus didn't do.

  350. Because again, he has no selfish ambition.

  351. He didn't wait for the crowd to actually show up so that he

  352. could show off. We going to go downtown and we

  353. going to cast out devils. You need to come and watch.

  354. Hey, turn on your video and let's put this on YouTube.

  355. Come on, come on, come on. I mean, if you got an entourage

  356. going with you and documenting everything you're doing, I don't

  357. care if it's healing the sick. Jesus, when the crowd says I

  358. better get this done quick because I'm not here to draw

  359. attention to myself, because I can understand it can become

  360. problematic. Are you hearing me?

  361. But once he rebukes, the first response looks like it didn't

  362. work because what did he say? How long does it may have a

  363. sense of boy? What happens when it throws him

  364. into convulsions? Put him in the fire?

  365. Put him in the water? Tried to kill him.

  366. So the minute he rebukes it, it throws him down again, goes into

  367. convulsions. Looks like that spirit is

  368. winning. However, Jesus is not moved

  369. because he has the reigning spirit and he knows this

  370. spirit's subject to me. And when it does its thrashing

  371. and all that, it's really just him leaving in the 1st place,

  372. though he's demonstrating the same actions he did when he

  373. never left, and then all of a sudden he becomes like a dead

  374. corpse. Wow, the spirit killed him?

  375. No, The reigning spirit removed the one that was tormenting him.

  376. When we begin to operate in the reigning spirit, your first

  377. initial sight of you declaring, decreeing and operating by the

  378. one that's greater in you than he that's in the world.

  379. There may be a spiritual realm that's been holding your

  380. finance, a spiritual realm that's been dealing, you know,

  381. attacking your emotion, a spiritual realm that's been

  382. wreaking havoc in certain areas of your life, like with

  383. addiction. And the minute you declare and

  384. decree with the reigning spirit, I'm free of that.

  385. Then you have your greatest attack that it looks like that's

  386. spirit isn't is going to win, but you have the reigning one

  387. and it will leave mark chapter 5 verses one through 13.

    Mark 5 chapter mention

  388. Again, this is the madman of Gadaria.

  389. I won't read it all, but notice the unclean spirit that says

  390. that that they had him in the tombs in this mark account and

  391. no one was able to bind him even in change.

  392. This means this person had so many spirits possessing him that

  393. he had supernatural strength. In fact, the untrained could

  394. have called him a Samson type. Samson could break bonds like

  395. nothing. And here's this guy

  396. demonstrating same kind of supernatural strength, but it

  397. wasn't from the Holy Ghost. But when Jesus shows up.

  398. Jesus, a man anointed of God, emptied himself of his glory,

  399. became God in the flesh. He emptied himself so that he

  400. becomes demonstrates what a son of God in the suit of a man, the

  401. son of man anointed of the Holy Ghost can do with that

  402. authority. The dominion we always had from

  403. the beginning that's restored back to us.

  404. And he then, duh, takes the time then to speak to this.

  405. You know, he goes, What business do you have with us, Jesus?

  406. Have you come to torment us before our time?

  407. He says. What is your name?

  408. He said my name's legion, for we are many.

  409. And he said they begged them. Please don't send us out of the

  410. region. Why?

  411. It's an indicator for us that spirits function in regions.

  412. They are assigned territory. They are not omnipresent nor all

  413. knowing. They are in territories and they

  414. don't want to leave the territory.

  415. Yet the reigning spirit had the ability to get them out of the

  416. territory. Now when I say that the reigning

  417. spirit has the ability in a context because if there are

  418. communities that court these spirits, he can displace them

  419. from bodies, but he may not be able to displace them from

  420. areas, it's gonna be very difficult for Sin City to have

  421. the spirit realm displaced when they attract them.

  422. It's very difficult for New Orleans, who's in the Voodoo,

  423. very difficult Mardi Gras. It's very difficult for Key

  424. West, very difficult for New York, very difficult for a lot

  425. of places. But now what's going on in Saint

  426. Augustine and they don't act like, you know, but Saint

  427. Augustine's really significant because Saint Augustine was

  428. actually the First Capital of Florida.

  429. And it is, at this juncture, the oldest city of the United

  430. States. So there's some significance

  431. here. But why is D Washington, DC like

  432. it is because there's regional spirits, you know, that he casts

  433. them out into the spawn swan. And the guy I'm reading these

  434. because I'm just letting you know we have the reigning spirit

  435. as we continue to move through this pretty quick.

  436. Now it says that's in Matthew chapter 12, verse 28.

    Matthew 12:28

  437. And I'm going to continue this next week.

  438. But if I cast out demons by the spirit of God, then the Kingdom

  439. of God has come upon you. What I want to leave with you

  440. today is we have the reigning spirit.

  441. And I'm going to do some things that this year that I've never

  442. done before, never done in all the 20 years of Anchor Fay

  443. Church, I've never done this. There are some subjects that I'm

  444. going to minister on. I thought I had them quick at

  445. hand, but I may not have them. I'll just have to go off memory.

  446. I'm going to minister on angels. We do not worship angels.

  447. Angels work for us. And you're not more spiritual if

  448. you see one, just to let you know.

  449. But that doesn't mean you couldn't.

  450. And we're not trying to see them.

  451. They're in the room now. Are you hearing me?

  452. Hallelujah. We're going to minister on

  453. seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.

  454. We're going to talk about the demonic realm.

  455. That way you'll have better discernment.

  456. Now, I'm not here to glorify the devil.

  457. I'm here to expose his work in a very I'm going to talk about the

  458. blasphemy of the Holy Ghost this year, because it's the

  459. impartable sin in this age and the one to come, and you cannot

  460. blasphemy the Holy Ghost being lost.

  461. Only a born again believer could do that, but they'll have to

  462. qualify a certain way as well, and we'll talk about that.

  463. Are you hearing me? Luke 1120 says.

  464. But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, this is where

  465. demons rank up with Jesus. If I cast them out, how?

  466. By the finger? With my pinky now, I'm not here

  467. to minimize that the spirit realm is not powerful.

  468. I am here to let you know that the power you have makes it

  469. extremely less powerful in comparison.

  470. Again, it's like what Roman said through one man's transgression,

  471. sin. Enter the world.

  472. That was a big deal, he said. But how much more?

  473. In essence, when you compare what Jesus did on the cross

  474. through his death, burial, resurrection, and gave us the

  475. gift of righteousness, it's not even comparable, although Hell's

  476. mouth opens wide, although the work of Jesus in comparison is

  477. nothing compared to the work that the first Adam did.

  478. So there's power in the demonic realm, the realm of the in the

  479. realm of the spirit that is not of God.

  480. But God's power is greater, he said.

  481. If I cast out a demon by the finger of God, then the Kingdom

  482. of God has come upon you. John 1231 says now judgment is

  483. upon this world. Now the ruler of this world will

  484. be cast out. Matthew 816 When evening came,

  485. they brought to him many who were demon possessed and he cast

  486. out the spirits with a word I said with a word I said, with a

  487. word I said, with a word I said, with a word I said with a word I

  488. said with a word I said with a word I said with a word.

  489. I am so tired of the false Deliverance Ministries that act

  490. like they going up and warring in the heavens like they some

  491. dog on heavyweight fighter doing out of word.

  492. They're gone. They're so untrained in dealing

  493. with the realm of the spirit. Out of word.

  494. Add a word. They can't even compete.

  495. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

  496. Yeah. Am I going to say that?

  497. Yeah. OK, I'll wait.

  498. I'll hold it. OK.

  499. Mark 134. And he healed all them and

  500. healed many who were I'll of various diseases and cast out

  501. many demons. And he was not permitting the

  502. demons to what? Shut up?

  503. That's a pretty amazing thing actually, because these demons

  504. have set by their own free will the choice to not be with God to

  505. fall. Yet he can say shut up and they

  506. can't even talk. Wow.

  507. Now don't think he can't do it to a human.

  508. Now you may have the will to talk, but he can get your mouth.

  509. Shut up. Just ask Martha's husband.

  510. I don't want you talking anymore till the boys born.

  511. Don't need your doubt and unbelief on what I'm trying to

  512. do here. I mean, you know better.

  513. So you can shut up. What's his name going to be?

  514. John. I can talk again.

  515. Just say Amen. He goes on and says this.

  516. He wasn't permitting the demons to speak.

  517. Why? Because they knew who he was.

  518. This is great. The reason why many some will

  519. fall away is because demons advertise for God.

  520. That's how they seduce you. They make their conversations

  521. sound godly. That's right.

  522. But it allows you to keep a bit of you.

  523. Unless you keep living like that.

  524. Revelations 21 and 3. Then I saw an Angel coming down

  525. from heaven. Behold the key.

  526. Say the key. I saw an Angel.

  527. So what? How many?

  528. An Angel coming down from heaven.

  529. What's his name? Don't know.

  530. Didn't give us his name. Do we know there's names of

  531. angels? Yeah, we know Michael.

  532. Do we know Gabriel? Yeah, we know them.

  533. We know their name. We got some names there, but

  534. they don't mention Michael. Don't mention Gabriel.

  535. But an Angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the

  536. abyss. And a great chain in his hand.

  537. What's he got in his hand? He's got a chain.

  538. This one Angel has a chain. And he laid hold of the dragon.

  539. An Angel, an an Angel that is not created in the image of God

  540. like we are. An Angel that doesn't actually

  541. have the Holy Ghost bearing witness with its spirit that

  542. it's a child of God. An Angel, one takes a chain,

  543. lays hold of the devil. The dragon, the serpent of old,

  544. who is the devil and Satan and by himself binds him.

  545. Come on. Binds him up for 1000 years and

  546. throws him single handedly into the abyss.

  547. I don't know if this angel's just doing working out.

  548. I mean, I don't know what he's doing right now, but all I know

  549. is when he comes down, he already knows you can't get away

  550. from me. He binds him, throws him into

  551. this abyss, shuts and seals it over him.

  552. So he would not be able to what deceive the Nate that's while on

  553. the planet the nation's any longer until the thousand years

  554. were complete, and then notice I he'll be in this abyss.

  555. We call it the bottomless pit. He'll be in there for 1000

  556. years, and I don't care how much the devil schemes from all of

  557. his time of eternity past to this moment of the documented

  558. 1000 years, he'll never be able to figure out how to escape on

  559. his own. And none of the other spirits

  560. that can be in operation 'cause it doesn't say he cast all of

  561. them. They can't get him out.

  562. Come on, that's real. Oh, that's real.

  563. But he'll be released for a short time, say short time.

  564. And the next time they go after him.

  565. Oh, it's over. I said it's over.

  566. I said it's over. This is why Jesus ain't

  567. intimidated. This is why the Father's not

  568. intimidated. Why the Holy Ghost not

  569. intimidated. This is why you should not be

  570. intimidated. Because greater is he that's in

  571. you than he to send the world. He's giving you the reigning

  572. spirit. I said he's giving you the

  573. reigning spirit. I said he's giving you the

  574. reigning spirit. Why?

  575. Paul said in First Corinthians 2 four through 5, I said my

  576. message, my preaching, were not a persuasive words of wisdom,

  577. but in demonstrations of the Spirit, Not a spirit, but the

  578. Spirit and of power, so that your faith would not rest on the

  579. wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

  580. We need to learn how to accurately discern and flow with

  581. the Holy Ghost and operate. I do believe there's an

  582. increase. This is why you, more than ever

  583. in 2024, must earnestly desire spiritual gifts.

  584. That is, gifts given by the reigning spirit, the Holy Ghost,

  585. that we can flow rightly and accurately in tongues.

  586. Interpretation of tongues and gift of prophecy in the Word of

  587. Wisdom, the Word of Knowledge and discerning of spirits and

  588. gifts of healings and the working of miracles and the gift

  589. of faith 'cause he's given us that spirit that people say you

  590. are from the only God, the God, the spirit.

  591. Are you hearing me? Hallelujah.

  592. I said Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

  593. Thank you Jesus. Oh praise the Lord.

  594. Say praise the Lord. Say praise the Lord.

  595. I think I'm going to close with this and come back because we

  596. got next week. I'm going to close with this.

  597. Ephesians chapter 6, verse 12 through 15.

    Ephesians 6:12–15

  598. I'm going to close with this scripture.

  599. I have some others, but I can pick them up next week.

  600. Ephesians 612 to 17. It says your hand to hand combat

  601. is not with human beings but with the highest principalities

  602. and authorities operating in rebellion under the heavenly

  603. realms. For they are a powerful class of

  604. demon gods and evil spirits that hold this Dark World in bondage.

  605. OK, because of this you must wear all the arm of God provides

  606. so that you protect, right? It's going to protect you as you

  607. comfort the the slandered, for you are destined for all things

  608. and will rise, I said Will rise victorious, will rise

  609. victorious. Put on the truth as a belt to

  610. strengthen you. To stand in triumph, put on

  611. holiness as the protective armor that covers your heart.

  612. Stand on your feet alert. Then you'll always be ready to

  613. share the blessings of peace in every battle.

  614. Take faith as your wrap around shield, for it is able to

  615. extinguish the blazing arrows coming at you from the Evil 1.

  616. Embrace the power of Salvation's full deliverance like a helmet

  617. to protect your thoughts from lies and take the mighty razor

  618. sharp sore spirit, sword of the spoken word of God.

  619. Pray passionately in the Spirit as you constantly intercede with

  620. every form of prayer. At all times, pray the blessing

  621. of God upon all His believers. Our battle's not with flesh and

  622. blood, but again, our battle is not to win.

  623. Our battle is occupation. We've already won.

  624. We've already won. I was talking with Marissa this

  625. past week on trademarks, gave me some great insight on

  626. trademarks, she said. Pastor Earl trademarks have two

  627. functions. You can be a shield or a sword.

  628. A shield that protects your brand, which means if anybody

  629. shows up with that name, then you can legally go after them

  630. and say you can't use this brand and you're going to win.

  631. It protects you and that's all your.

  632. But then you can use it as a sword, meaning you get your

  633. name, trademark and you can go in and anyone using any version

  634. you that already, you cut it out and move it out of the way you

  635. go and attack them, tell them they have to decease and desist

  636. on that I want you to know the spirit in US is a sword, that

  637. what we're doing is we've been given the name above every name.

  638. Our call is to go into communities and not just defend

  639. ourselves, but to go in and cut down the power of the enemy.

  640. We are to go in and say that name is not as powerful as our

  641. name. That way of living is not as

  642. powerful as our way of living. That way of doing is not as

  643. powerful as I. In fact, we're not going to have

  644. that here. We're going to resist that.

  645. We're going to come against it. We're going to bombard that.

  646. We're going to show up. We're going to be there.

  647. We're going to be. We're going to be there in

  648. places you didn't even know we were there.

  649. Because I don't even have to show up on the the House floor

  650. of Tallahassee to begin to start cutting away at legislation.

  651. Although when I get there, because I've done so much

  652. cutting, my words can reverberate to be able to defend

  653. life and certain policies that are better for our our state and

  654. give more people opportunity to come to know Jesus.

  655. The gates of hell cannot prevail against the Church.

  656. So you have to understand that when Jesus Christ gave us His

  657. Spirit, in essence He gave us this ability in the in the realm

  658. of the Spirit. Shut up.

  659. You got to get this when you the devil has sold the church alive.

  660. They've told the church you're out here, you're running around.

  661. You do whatever you want. You can do all this.

  662. And if you make Jesus Lord, then you're stuck right here on this

  663. podium. Yeah, I know God's offering you

  664. a different life. And I know that you know can go

  665. to heaven, but you can't do you're so confined following

  666. Jesus. You're so confined.

  667. And we believed it. We're like, well, I would much

  668. rather be confined and you know and I can't do stuff and at

  669. least know I'm going to heaven. So I'm going to live in my

  670. little bitty box of Jesus. You know, everybody else, you

  671. know, living such a life of freedom.

  672. They get to do whatever they want to do.

  673. But I know, ha ha ha, all you out there, you're going to go to

  674. hell, but I get to go to heaven. You really need to get in here

  675. with me. But that's not what it looks

  676. like. You're already stuck in here.

  677. This is your boundary. You're stuck in death And Jesus

  678. saying get out of that box, come on over into real freedom.

  679. Get out of that lower low class stuck in a rut, can't get

  680. anywhere existence. Get out of that prison and get

  681. into true freedom. For whom the sunset free is free

  682. indeed. Then when we come into a

  683. community, we are like to say, wow, look at all that is God,

  684. look at the ocean, look at the trees, look at these buildings,

  685. look at all that God has given us.

  686. And then we say look at that prison cell.

  687. We're going to show up and we're going to break this.

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