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Miles McPherson Revival Night: Satanic Agreements

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  1. Lord, we have just declared to you that we will do whatever you want

  2. to. We want to make room for you, not only in this room

  3. to move through this room supernaturally, powerfully, spiritually, but we make room

  4. in our hearts for you to make changes in our hearts and our perspective and

  5. our perception of ourselves, our perception of other people, our perception of how

  6. our lives have gone, and how our lives can go. We make room

  7. for you to open the eyes of our heart. Open to our ears,

  8. open our eyes that we may see or we may hear, that we may

  9. perceive and conceive when you have planned in your heart for us. Thank you

  10. for being so patient, because we are all so hard headed. Can I

  11. get it? Amen? We are all so hardheaded. We always want to

  12. do things that way. We think we know more than God. So I

  13. pray that you break agreements that we have to believe the devil's lives about our

  14. lives. I pray you break agreements that we have believed about that those lines

  15. about our relationship with you, your faithfulness, your power, your patience,

  16. your love, your forgiveness. Lord, we have believed lies about all those

  17. things, and we have stunted our spiritual growth, and we have allowed obstacles

  18. of getting our way, and I love for you. Now I'll intimacy with

  19. you. I pray we break those tonight in Jesus thing, Amen, give

  20. someone the high fine, Come on, jerk, you may be seated.

  21. Jesus. How y'all doing tonight by a show of hands? How many of

  22. y'all were not here this morning? By a show of hands? Okay,

  23. so then I'll reintroduce myself as Miles McPherson. I am pastor in San Diego.

  24. Grew up in New York. Was drafted to the NFL nineteen eighty two

  25. so Los Angeles Rams, got cut from that team, and then played for

  26. the San Diego Charges four years. My first two years I was doing cocaine,

  27. smoking weed and chasing women, running from women. And then I got

  28. saved, stopped doing cocaine in one day, got back on my girlfriend that

  29. same day. We were married thirty nine years. We got three children,

  30. two grandchildren, eight and two weeks. My granddaughter is two weeks old today.

  31. Tomorrow, well tomorrow, she was two weeks old fourteen days today,

  32. and I'm excited to be in Washington. When I was growing up, my

  33. father I would grew up in New York and my father told me that I

  34. was adopted from Puerto Rico. I'm not adopted, y'all, Like, oh,

  35. man, that's sounds said I. Actually he was a joke, and

  36. I knew he was joking, but he would always tell me that I was

  37. adopted from Puerto Rico, because in New York, when you look like this,

  38. you're Puerto Rico and light scanned, green eyes, straight head, blah

  39. blah blah. My I my grandmother's wife. My other grandmothers have Chinese and

  40. black, and my grandfather's a black from Jamaica, Westindy. So I just

  41. happened to come out looking like this. So he would go, you know,

  42. your mother's in Puerto Rico. And he always say, man, that

  43. man a made it, which is is Spanish from look, hey, you

  44. you look. And so all my life I was like, all right,

  45. well, I like Puerto Rican girls. I think they're beautiful, so I'm

  46. gonna up marry up being a Puerto Vian girl. And so literally all my

  47. life I was looking for a wife since I came as young as I can

  48. remember looking for my wife. And I did find her when I was twenty

  49. she's not Puerto Rican, but she looked like one. And uh, literally

  50. she walked in the door and she was Puerto Rican. I told my friend's

  51. gonna marry her, and I did. I ended up dating her and marrying

  52. her. If you weren't here this morning again, I told the story about

  53. when I asked her to dance, she said no, and then I asked

  54. her and she eventually did. Then I asked her to slow dance and she

  55. said no, and she never did it m that night. Then I asked

  56. her for her phone number and she said no, And I said, how

  57. am I gonna find you? How am I gonna see you again? She

  58. said, you figure it out and she left. So I went to the

  59. registrar's office, I knew some people who knew some people, got her class

  60. schedule, went to a class and stalked her and uh it actually it actually

  61. wasn't a stark situation, because you know, stark is like they follow you

  62. for a long time. This was like, how you doing, I'm here,

  63. So it really wasn't a stark thing. So I've had this on this

  64. plight to learn Spanish um growing up. So when I became a pastor twenty

  65. years ago. We started our church in San Diego, and about thirty percent

  66. about churches is um Spanish speakers, mostly from Mexico. I started to learn

  67. Spanish, and so I went to Costa Rica for two weeks to learn Spanish

  68. in a school. And I was talking to my teacher said, how do

  69. you say Como city say? Boyfriend? Said no vo? Everyone say no

  70. vo. I said, comost say girlfriend, no Va say no va.

  71. And then you know, they paused a little bit and they said there's another

  72. term, amigos. So I know the three words. I'm trying to put

  73. them together. So amigo is friends, cone is with dalcho is right,

  74. but les rights benefits. So I was trying, Ah, you mean they

  75. said the benefits. So in other words, I got a boyfriend over here,

  76. but I'm gonna get you're my friend with certain territorial rights on certain days.

  77. I got a girlfriend over here, but you have territorial rights on certain

  78. days. Amigo, call dell. Get the idea. A lot of people

  79. have an amigo called deletos relationship with the devil. You have this relationship with

  80. God. You come to church, you're saying, raised your hand, all

  81. that kind of stuff. But the devil you have a little side agreement,

  82. a contract with the devil. A certain days, certain times, certain situations,

  83. you do what he says. They're called satanic agreements. Everybody has them.

  84. I was in the hotel coming here. Before I got here, and

  85. this guy in the hotel started talking to me and my executive pastor, and

  86. you know, I'm like, you talk to me. We're gonna talk about

  87. God. So we started talking about God, asking of you Christian blah blah.

  88. And I said, yeah, I'm going to preach at a church over

  89. here. You should come because I'm gonna be talking about satanic agreements. He

  90. said, I don't have any of that. I said, yes you do.

  91. He says, yes you do. He said, what do you mean?

  92. What do you mean? I said, well, have you ever agreed

  93. to compromise your faith? If you ever agreed not to read the Bible,

  94. if you reread, not to pray, not to get you having an agreement

  95. with the devil. So today we're gonna talk about satanic agreements and want to

  96. give you an opportunity to tear up your contract you have with him, because

  97. some of your contracts are deep and long, and some of them came from

  98. agreements you made because someone called you something when you a kid, did something

  99. to your kid, and you hold on to that all your life. And

  100. it's been a barrier and an obstacle in your life all your life, and

  101. it will be until you break it. In Jesus name, can I get

  102. it? Amen? Okay, First you have to understand who you are.

  103. You have to understand how God created you. I believe God the heavens and

  104. the earth like greedy, I believe he did it in six days. And

  105. by the way, if he did it in six billion years, he's still

  106. big. Don't get hung up on the little stuff. Whether it was twenty

  107. six days or six billion years, don't get hung up on that. The

  108. fact that and people who argue with me, well, God did it.

  109. It was six billion years, Okay. That means God is older than six

  110. billion years old and he's ginormous. That the universe is expanding at the speed

  111. of light. Scientists will tell you today that the universe is expanding at the

  112. speed of light. The Bible says that God opens stretches out the heavens like

  113. a curtain. Matter of fact, they say some of them believe that the

  114. universe is expanding faster than the speed of light. The speed of light is

  115. one hundred and eighty six thousand miles per second. God is doing that to

  116. the universe. Somebody's doing that to the universe. So I believe that God

  117. created the heavens on earth. Now you may say you believe in a big

  118. bang. Fine, that's fine. Who banged it it? For real?

  119. Who banged it? Someone had to bang it? And then your minds are

  120. in the guta. Well, listen, they had nothing has ever, nothing

  121. organized has ever resulted from an explosion. So they had to be energy to

  122. blow it up. They had to be matter to be blown up, and

  123. then it had to be someone to organize it. The universe is very intricately

  124. organized. It's like a fine watch. I give you an example, ladies,

  125. when you wake up in the morning, all this is blowed up.

  126. Can I get an amen? Ladies? It's just like blast. Something happened

  127. over the night. It just came like an atomic bomb. You get up,

  128. you get to the bathroom, and you go dang, and then you

  129. realize that there's chaos all over Genesis one. Chaos was over the sea,

  130. right, and then what do you do? You in your creative self,

  131. you apply heat mascaria color. Yeah, it's scary sometimes, you know what

  132. I'm saying. And you create this masterpiece. Can I get amen? Ladies?

  133. That's so so okay. It blew up, but then God, the

  134. master creator, organized it. So you have to understand that that even though

  135. people science will may say this, say this, I'm a science guy with

  136. an engineering student. I love science. Science leads to God. God created

  137. scientific principles, so to lead us to Him in one of those. And

  138. I'm a math guy. Math is my favorite subject. In math will tell

  139. you you can never have an infinite series of past events. There has to

  140. be a beginning. I'm gonna say it against slow. Math will take you,

  141. teach you. You get your highest PhD math person and just ask him

  142. or her, can there be an infinite series of events in the past?

  143. They'll say that has to be a beginning. That beginning is God? Well,

  144. who began God? God is the beginningless beginner, He's the uncaused cause,

  145. Well, how do you explain that? I'll explain it to you.

  146. Imagine the universes of basketball and is expanding at the speed of light. That

  147. means it's going someplace where there is nothing. There's something outside of it,

  148. because it's going somewhere. God exists outside of the universal. The rules of

  149. universe don't apply to him because he created them so you would find him.

  150. He is the beginningless beginning, the uncaused cause. So God created university,

  151. created everything. And then he made man, and then he made whoa man?

  152. He made man, and he made whoa man? There is nothing else,

  153. and one cannot become the other. He made man. And then he

  154. said, Adam, Adam is all these animals, and there's nothing compatible with

  155. you. And Adam said, you know. He said, you can pick

  156. anyone you want. And he said it's a gorilla. But to Harry got

  157. a giraffe. And next, too long, I can't get you can't get

  158. to the lips. It's too high, too high. God put him asleep,

  159. made a woman, a wound man. He woke up and he went,

  160. whoa man? He said, so a woman comes from He's like,

  161. whoa Okay, whoa man? Okay, that's your name? Who man?

  162. Five things about? Let me let me reach in. It's just one twenty

  163. six. God said, let us make man and our image us our father

  164. son, holy Spirit. Let us follow sun, Holy Spirit, make man

  165. and our image, follow up, Son and Holy Spirit. According to our

  166. likeness, Father, Sun, Holy Spirit. Let them have the minion over

  167. the fish of to see the birds of the ant, over the cattle,

  168. and over all the earth, and every creep that creeps on the earth.

  169. Those creeps are bugs and men. I don't know what you said, but

  170. it was, you know, those creeps, bugs and men. That's not

  171. a theological statement in my opinion, that some guys can be creeped. Okay.

  172. God created man in his own image, and in the image of God,

  173. he created a male and female. Then God bless them and said,

  174. be fruitful of multiply, fill the earth, subdue, and have the mean,

  175. you know, an efficient to see birthday at over every living thing that

  176. moves on earth. He's what God said. God told Adam and Eve,

  177. I made everything and it's good. Don't mess it up. We'll get to

  178. that in a few minutes. Image and would say, I am age.

  179. God made you in his image. I'm gonna give you five things. They

  180. want to get to the devil because you need to understand who you are.

  181. I is that each one of you is individually unique. There is no there

  182. are no two people alike. You have your unique eye, vein pattern in

  183. your eye. When you do a retinal i D they are scanning the vein

  184. patterns or the patterns of veins in your eyes, the vein pattern in your

  185. eye, in your hand, throughout your whole body is unique to you.

  186. Your thumb prints unique to you, your footprints unique to you, Your DNA's

  187. unique to you, and your thous about things about you that are unique only

  188. to you. And not only that, your face is unique to you.

  189. Nobody has your face. For some of you, that's good. For some

  190. of you that's bad. But nobody has your face. Look at the Bible

  191. saying its one thirty nine thirteen to fourteen. You for you formed me in

  192. my inward parts. You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise

  193. you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous. Everyone give me this,

  194. Give me this, Give me this. Okay, just just hold on

  195. and say, don't get anxious, give me this. Everyone can I get

  196. this because I just marvelous. You gotta say it like you're from harved say

  197. a marvelous. Every single one of you is marvelous. I know you thought

  198. that you looked at the mirror this morning, said I'm beautiful. I'm telling

  199. you. The Bible says you are marvelous. For real, you are marvelous,

  200. and it says that my soul knows very well. Your soul knows even

  201. when people tell you that you're ugly, you're stupid, you're dumb something,

  202. and you says, no, that's not true. You don't want it to

  203. be true, and it ain't true. And that's the battle you're in.

  204. Your soul knows very well. You are individually unique. You are a moral

  205. mirror. I am. You are a moral mirror, say, moral mirror.

  206. We were created not to have our own brownity. What we see in

  207. the world today is people making their own morality. Here's what's right according to

  208. me, here's us right according to us? No, no, no,

  209. we are a moral mirror, not a moral creator. A moral mirror reflects

  210. the moral morality of God. When you buy a diamond ring, ladies,

  211. how many y'all have a diamond ring or diamond anything, or even as cubic

  212. as a corny and we'll take that. You do? Ok She's like I

  213. do, ok ahead, you got you just got engaged? Oh okay okaye?

  214. Like I do. I thought you got okay, okay. A diamond.

  215. A diamond has zero bling. When you see diamonds sparkle, they cannot

  216. sparkle except with a light onto it. If you ever diamond in the dark,

  217. you can't see it. But if you're bringing out in the light,

  218. blame ning, ling, ling Ling. It is designed to reflect the light.

  219. You and I are God's diamond. We're designed to reflect his light,

  220. not to have our own. When you start thinking you have your own,

  221. that's your problem. That's a problem. The reason the reason when an animal

  222. kills another animal it's not a crime scene is because the animal has no morality.

  223. When a person kills another person, it's a crime scene because we have

  224. morality. The reason we have a justice system is because we have a moral

  225. compass. But you can't blame an animal for killing another animal, or even

  226. killing a human. They don't know any better. They're not moral creatures than

  227. I created an image of God, but you and I are, and we

  228. have responsibility to reflect the glory of God and the morality of God, not

  229. the morality of man. A authority to rule by the way First Peter one

  230. sixteen, be holy fina, Holy God never said that to a cat can't

  231. say to a boat, can't say to a lion. I was in Africa

  232. a few years ago and this guy had a ranch like a thousand acres and

  233. he was raising lions and tigers and all kinds of animals and literally they were

  234. in these pens like five acapens, twenty a copens on hundred a depens.

  235. And he said, do you want to go in and feed the lions?

  236. I was like, what do you mean, like throw the meat over the

  237. fence. He said, no, no, we're gonna go with custard,

  238. put it in the thing and put it in their mouth, full grown lions.

  239. There's six of them. And so the guy who lived in South Africa

  240. said, I would never do it. I'm not going there because those things

  241. they might have a flashback and think you're the zelle and you know, just

  242. eat you. I'm like, when would I ever have a chance to feed

  243. the lion? So I gotta do it. So I go in there and

  244. I'm surrounded by the lions, their mouth, their heads like this high off

  245. the ground, and they're all wanting to eat from my hand. And I

  246. prayed the whole time because those lions, they're not thinking, oh this is

  247. past the miles from San Diego. He's gonna make it that that wouldn't be

  248. a nice thing to just swap him and knick his head off, because they're

  249. they're instinct. They don't have morality. We have morality, ay authority to

  250. the rule. We are given the authority to rule. Genesis one twenty six.

  251. God said, let us make man out image according to our likeness.

  252. Let them have dominion over the fish, to see the birds of the all

  253. the cattle, over all the earth, and every creeping thing that creeps on

  254. the earth. I'm gonna read that again a little slower, and i want

  255. you to try to notice what is not on this list that man has dominion

  256. over. I'm gonna read it slower, and I want you to try to

  257. notice what is not on this list that man has dominion over. It says,

  258. let us make man in our image according to our likeness. Let them

  259. have dominion over the fish, the birds, the cattle, and the creek

  260. bugs. Never says people. Dominion over people is slavery bondas we were not

  261. giving dominion over people. We were not created even to have authority over you.

  262. As a pastor, I don't have authority over the people. I got

  263. authority over the environment that God, the people who are to walk into God

  264. has authority over your life. Now, of course as a boss and you

  265. know all that kind of stuff, but this kind of spiritual authority's God and

  266. your job, my job, my job of my kids is to have authority

  267. over the environment that they're in, to ensure that the environment groalifies God,

  268. that they would seek God. When my daughter was born, my first daughter,

  269. she's thirty seven now, when she was born, we created a room

  270. for her, you know, bassonet is that what they call things, the

  271. things they the crib and we had bob wire around the crib. We had

  272. the lights, sensors, broken glass from the window sill. We didn't want

  273. anybody climb up on the room. Could we create this environment for her that

  274. she would eventually seek God? God, Sis, I want you to take

  275. care of the planet. I made the planet. Everything's good, the birds,

  276. the bees, the bugs, the fish, the land animals and everything

  277. is fine. And I mean even I want you to manage it, steward

  278. it so it glorifies me. I'm gonna start a series a few weeks on

  279. end Times, and one of the first questions we have to ask ourselves is

  280. what is ending? What did God begin that? Why would he end it?

  281. Because what he planned for it to do ain't doing it anymore. We

  282. in trouble. God's friend, God, God greater love has known than this,

  283. than the lay down his life for his friend. God creates for a

  284. relationship. Why is it every song on a radio about love? I met

  285. Carrie Underwood's husband, that Christian he was at He were on his board together,

  286. and I'm not a country's music guy, and um, did you say

  287. yet? Oh? Um, I'm sorry, it's sad. Is that what

  288. you said? It's sad? Okay, but wait till the end of the

  289. story. Hunty not a country music guy? And uh from New York.

  290. We don't have country in New York. So I I, you know,

  291. I met the guy who's real cool. He was a humble guy, Christian

  292. guy. So I started listening to carry under a song I love caring to

  293. would. I remember when she was on American Idol and her jeans and every

  294. time she sang she did that, you remember that? Every time? I

  295. was like, oh, this girl, and and Casim Kaw said You're gonna

  296. be the biggest thing, and he was right. I mean she she blowed

  297. up and that girl will be working out. Let me tell you something.

  298. But anyway, um she works out. Um she was singing all these songs

  299. about cheating and hitting breaking trucks with bats and you know, and and funerals.

  300. Was that what what do you say? What? So? I called?

  301. I text him. I say, yo, man, you better be

  302. careful because if you stuff, she coming after you. So I started listening

  303. to So now my wife and I listen. We don't listen to the country,

  304. but we are starting to. Wait a minute, we think we like

  305. some of this stuff. So I'm starting to like country. Young lady over

  306. there, Okay, songs are about relationships. Why because God creates for relationships.

  307. If you were to go to the hospital because you needed a long transplant,

  308. you know, one of the first things they're gonna ask you is do

  309. you have a support system, Because if you don't have friends in your life,

  310. people who care for you, we're not going to give you a loan

  311. because you're gonna die. You need relationship. Every song you singing, Oh

  312. I love you, I want you, we called began music. In the

  313. black community, we have what we call began music. Have you all,

  314. baby, baby, please that kind of music began music. Okay, it's

  315. all about it's all about relationship. You might want to look up Luke evangels.

  316. Try to start there. It's kind of easy, kind of easy.

  317. So so you are, by the way. Lastly, you are eternal.

  318. So you're you're individually unique, every single one of your individually unique. You're

  319. a moral mirror. You're given the authority to rule every single one of you.

  320. God has given authority. Two, you're a God's friend. He wants

  321. relationship with you, and you are eternal. John fourteen one to three.

  322. Let not your heart be trouble believing God. Believe also on me. If

  323. my father's house had man, my father's house has many matches. If it

  324. were not so, I would have told you I go to prepare a place

  325. for you. There is a place for you in heaven. So how is

  326. it that if we are a God's friend, we are eternal, we have

  327. authority, We are his moral mirror, and he made us individually unique because

  328. he loved us in care for us. How is it that the devil could

  329. have any authority over us? We give it to him. We give it

  330. to him every time we make an agree with the devil. We are telling

  331. the devil, we are giving you authority over our life. And many of

  332. many of us have long standing agreements that you don't even know you have.

  333. And you walk around with holding his hand every single day, making decisions based

  334. on his wisdom, not God's wisdom, on his permission, not God's permission,

  335. at his demand, not God's demand. And then we walk with God

  336. and we come to church and we think, how is that possible? Well?

  337. Number one, number one, Adam and Eve, how did they?

  338. How did the devil get this authority in their life? They gave it to

  339. him, They made an agree with him. Genesis chapter three. Let me

  340. read this to you now, I wonder before I read Genesis three one to

  341. sixty, I want to tell you this. The devil speaks three times in

  342. the Bible. Everyone say three times. He speaks first to man, and

  343. he tries to turn man against God. That's what we're gonna read. Second

  344. time he speaks, he speaks to God to try to turn God against man.

  345. Job third time he speaks, he speaks to the God man Jesus,

  346. to try to turn him against his father. Every time the devil speaks,

  347. he is trying to destroy relationship between man and God. I'm gonna say it

  348. again. Listen, I'm gonna say it's slower. Every time the devil speaks.

  349. He tries to destroy relationship between man and God because if he could break

  350. that relationship, he now has you on his own. Divide and conquer.

  351. What do we see in culture trying to divide kids from parents is divide and

  352. conquer. Try to divide you from yourself. You are not who you are.

  353. He can get you to look in the mirror and say I am going

  354. When I was used to cocaine, I would look in the mirror, say

  355. you are going to do cocaine. It is not good for you, but

  356. you're gonna do it anywhere I was say yes, sir, Yes, sir.

  357. That's what he's doing. People are soul so blinded by his deception.

  358. How a little, a little kid could say I'm not a boy and to

  359. let a doctor do something to him to change and make a lifelong decision that

  360. every single one of them are gonna regret. It is It is satanic deception.

  361. Let's read this. I want you to as I read this, I

  362. want you to think about what's going on in this story and how the devil

  363. is deceiving Adam and Eve to surrender their authority to him. Now you may

  364. go, you believe in Adam and Eve. Okay, let's let's do a

  365. little math here. How many y'all got parents, because it's not a trick

  366. when we raise a hand, put an elbow above my hear, just kind

  367. of way up here. How many y'all got parents? How many y'all born

  368. of a man and a woman? Okay, none of you were born of

  369. a man and a man, and none of you were born of a woman

  370. and a woman. It's impossible you were born of a man and a woman,

  371. whether they're married or not. It's not a thing a man and a

  372. woman got together. You'll follow me. Okay, they had parents, right,

  373. they had parents, Right, they had parents. You could trace that

  374. back. And you can't do it infinitely because you can't have a series of

  375. past infinite events without the beginning. Guess who the first parents were, Adam

  376. and Eve. That has to be a parent. That has to be a

  377. first parent. That has to be And so here's the thing. The servant

  378. was more cunning than any beasts of the field which the Lord God had made.

  379. The devil is smarter than you. Everyone say the devil smarter than me.

  380. He is. Now, he's not smarter than God, but he's smarter

  381. than you. He's not smarterer than God, but he's smarted. So if

  382. you have God, then you got more wisdom than he has. But if

  383. you tell God God, I'm gonna listening to the devil right now, then

  384. you now you're on your own. You're gonna get spanked. Okay. The

  385. servant was more cunny than any beast of the field than the lord God had

  386. made. And he said to the woman, Hey, girl, what's your

  387. name? Y'all heard that? How many old ladies heard that? Brother before?

  388. Oh? Hey, what's that a girl? How you doing? You

  389. look good at those curlers? Has God indeed said you shall not eat of

  390. every tree of the garden? Now, the woman said to the serpent,

  391. we been eating the fruit of the trees of the garden. But the fruit

  392. of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said

  393. you shall not eat, nor shall you touch unless you die. I'm gonna

  394. give even a minus on Bible memory because God didn't say thing about touching it.

  395. But I'm gonna fail her on practical Christianity. Do you know why Yes?

  396. What's your name? What did you say? What is your name?

  397. Kendra? Do you know why she failed? What did she do that she

  398. shouldn't have done? She talked with the devil when I was a dating my

  399. wife. When we were dating and before I got said, I was a

  400. very jealous kind of guy, and I was always trying to get in fights.

  401. I really wasn't trying to get in fights, but I should have got

  402. in a fight because every time a guy looked at my wife, who was

  403. my girlfriend at the time, or if I went to the bathroom and they

  404. were talking to her, I would like just go perserve. I'm like,

  405. what's up, man, what's up? What's up? Right? Because I

  406. knew that they weren't saying to her that I was a good guy. They

  407. were trying to get her phone number for that good Can I get amen?

  408. Whenever you talk with the devil, he does not have your best interest in

  409. mine. There's no way he All he wants you to do is to bow

  410. down and worship him. Same thing he told Jesus. If you, if

  411. you are the son of God, do this. If your son of God,

  412. do this. If I get if I give you all the kings of

  413. the world if you bow down and worship me. Matthew chapter four, we

  414. read it this morning. And so whenever you have a conversation now, are

  415. you ever going to see the devil? Probably? Now, he don't waste

  416. our time on the pians like us. He's talking to governments, presidents,

  417. dominions, and even then he's probably just dealing with his devonic principalities that are

  418. dealing with with presidents. We're like, weigh down on the totem pole.

  419. Is he is causing global confusion? But whenever you consider that God didn't tell

  420. you the truth, you're having a conversation with the devil. He said,

  421. what did God really say? Doubt, how are you going to know if

  422. you don't read the Bible. If all you're doing is trusting your pastor every

  423. week to feed you, I don't care if he's super Jesus, that ain't

  424. enough. You gotta read on your own, you gotta pray on your own.

  425. You gotta when you get up in the morning, put your worship song

  426. on. But if you're just waiting to come here and then you miss a

  427. week, then you miss a week, and you're here once a month,

  428. two months. It's like saying I'm gonna lose weight. I'm gonna go to

  429. the gym once a month and lose weight. Brother polices, that ain't gonna

  430. happen, it said. The woman said, we may eat the fruit of

  431. the trees of the garden, but the fruit of the tree which is in

  432. the middle of the garden. God has said you shall not nona shaw you

  433. touch it. Lets you die. The servant said to the woman, No,

  434. you will not die. That's a lie. The Bible says that the

  435. penalty of sin is death. Not only will all of us die and put

  436. be put in a coffin. Your dreams die, your relationships die, your

  437. health dies, your opportunities die, your bank account dies, your vision dies,

  438. your hope dies. And God is so gracious not to smite you dead

  439. on the spot. He starts to warn you. How man, have y'all

  440. been hung over? How a y'all been hungover from alcohol? And listen,

  441. we're in church. It's okay, we're gonna forgive you now. You're not

  442. gonna wrap yourself out. Okay, I used to do. It's cocaine,

  443. No big deal. How man, y'all have been hungover? Just to make

  444. you feel better. Okay, raise your hand. Really, come on now,

  445. you don't want your kids sitting here. It's like, okay, I

  446. don't want well, my kid is saying me. God and his Mercy said,

  447. I'm mourning. You don't do this again. God and his Mercy sam

  448. giving you a tiny hint of death. When the devil tells you you will

  449. not die, and then look what he says, you will be like God

  450. or he knows the day you eat, your eyes will be open and you'll

  451. be like God, knowing good and evil. This is I have a sermon

  452. called the Devil's number one Weapon, which is right here. It's a twofold

  453. lie that not only will you not die from your sin, but you can

  454. be like God and be in control. Our world is full of people who's

  455. saying I am in control of my life. I know better based on my

  456. knowledge. I am my God. No you aren't. Whenever I teach on

  457. giving, we talk about you know, all the money you have is yours.

  458. I mean, as gods and you gotta tide. Tide is not really

  459. giving, it's returning. Tide is not giving. Whether you tie is an

  460. offerings, you're not giving it. You are returning to God what belongs to

  461. them, and if you keep it, you are stealing. And so I

  462. tell the church, if you don't believe that, just tell God. Go

  463. home and tell God God, this is not your money. This is my

  464. money and you can't take it. Don't say that when you're standing there me

  465. because that lightning both my missing just hit me. Tell God, God,

  466. I am your equal and you can't do anything to me. I don't think

  467. you're that dumb. The devil wants you to think that you have that dumb

  468. that you could be like God. What you blew up the universe? You

  469. organize the universe. You created a whale, you created I was just down

  470. your water. What was the water we were at? The pugeon sound?

  471. Is that Pugeit is that the same right? Okay? Isn't it another word

  472. for a bad smell? It's like puget. What does that word? Pungent?

  473. Pungent? Okay, it's not the pungent sound, it's the fugure sound.

  474. Okay, I'm saying it was beautiful. It didn't smell anything. I

  475. didn't smell anything bad. Yeah, I think in New York we say pugeent.

  476. That's what kind of what we say pungent? Uh? Did you did

  477. you put that there? Did you put the snow on the mountains out there?

  478. Do you even know what snow is? Do you know the temperature that

  479. has to be to half snow? Thirty two degrees? It won't snow if

  480. it's twenty Do you know how many pounds thousands of tons of water in clouds?

  481. God read the book Joe. God talks smack. He starts listening to

  482. all this stuff. You don't notice you? Do you know when bears hibernate?

  483. Do you know when why they just puts an egg in the ground where

  484. you can step on it. Why he does that? He said I did

  485. all that, fool, You didn't do all that. And when the devil

  486. tells you you could be like God, you need to step back and not

  487. listen to that guy. And then look what it says. When the woman

  488. saw that the tree was good for food, pleasant to the eyes, a

  489. tree desirable to make one wise, she took her true and eight and she

  490. gave to her husband and he ate. And then after that it says the

  491. eyes of them will open, and they knew they were naked. It's not

  492. in the text, but I just want to give it to you real quick.

  493. Why that was true. I have a theory on what happened when they

  494. sinned and why all of a sudden they knew they would naked. Why they

  495. didn't know they would naked before they sinned. There's a there's a there's a

  496. study called bio photonics. Everyone say bio photonics. Two words biology and photography.

  497. Bio photonics. A photon is the smallest unit of light. That's where

  498. you get the word photog graphy from. It's a study of light. Light

  499. travels at eight hundred and eighty six thousand miles per second one hundred eighty six

  500. thousand miles per second. Little tiny packets of light called photons are shooting across

  501. the room. Biology is living things. Bio Photonics is the study of light

  502. coming out of living things. When you see a baby born, the baby

  503. has a glow to it? Can I get amen? When you see a

  504. woman in love, she has a glow to it? Can I get amen?

  505. When you see a woman preca she has a glow to her. She

  506. canna get amen? The love and life coming out she just glows. It's

  507. not only she's smiling, but there's something glowing about her skin. And then

  508. when she and guys get old, they get dusty. Anybody knows some dusty

  509. people, you get dusty. So that's why you gotta go buy Muscaria because

  510. you want to get the glow bag telling you that's what it's called. So

  511. read the spelling. It's messcaria. Okay, actually it's mscary, but you

  512. know I put the air on the thing. The reason that's a billion dollar

  513. business is because people are trying to return the globe. Living things shine,

  514. Dead things are dust. You shall return to the dust. Look at it.

  515. Look at it by apple. That's fresh, that's edible, it's shiny.

  516. On arms, it's shiny. And then when they rot and die,

  517. they get dusty. So here's Adam and Eve, first humans ever to live,

  518. no sin. We know nothing about that kind of person. Here's my

  519. theory. The bio photonic light was so bright they couldn't see their nakedness,

  520. and then when they sinned and died, the light turned off. Any when,

  521. oh, I think about this, as beautiful as we think some people's

  522. bodies are, imagine what they were before. That isn't ironic that you said

  523. you're the light of the world. H Literally, you're the light of the

  524. world. That's not in it. That's all for free. But I just

  525. want to get back to when they decided to agree with the devil, they

  526. gave away their authority. Every time you make an agreement with the devil,

  527. you give away your authority God. The devil cannot attack God. He tried

  528. with Jesus, but he can't destroy Jesus. He lost that battle. He

  529. can't destroy God. So he comes after God's image, you and me,

  530. And the only way he can get us is if we let him, if

  531. we agree. That's why deception is so powerful. He can't just take it.

  532. We have to give it to him. And he tricks you by making

  533. you, convincing you that you can actually do what you want and get away

  534. with it. And so we say, okay, devil, I can have

  535. sex all night with all my teenage years, all my twenty something and it

  536. won't make a difference. Oh, yes it will. I can smoke go

  537. to weed I don't want it, can make a difference. Yes, I

  538. can do all the cocaine. Every time you make an agreement to do something

  539. that God doesn't want you to do, you are signing a contract to take

  540. the devil's advice over God's advice. And it is a contract. And guess

  541. what he does. He's the accuser, accuses us day and night before God.

  542. You don't think that the devil. The Bible says, he's an accuser

  543. that accuses you day and night before God. You don't think the Bible and

  544. that the devil's not calling your name out right now as you sit in this

  545. church saying God, look at that hypocrite. They got drunk this morning.

  546. They were out knocking boots last night. They don't know knocking boots is banging.

  547. Okay, you're banging this morning. Oh I lived with my boyfriend.

  548. We go to church. We just go to church because that's what the world

  549. does. And you think it's normal. It's common, but it ain't biblical.

  550. And you will suffer. Chances you get married to go down. Chance

  551. you get in a divorce, go way up. You're getting drunk, you're

  552. getting high, all the stuff that that you all heard before. Don't do

  553. this thing. There's a reason why those things are harmful. The Bible,

  554. the devil tells you you don't need to bring your Bible to church. This

  555. is church. I don't know your pastor by I gotta believe just from being

  556. here that he reads from the Bible. Don't answer this question, but do

  557. you bring one? Do you know how to read it? Do you pray

  558. on your own? Do you tie? Do you? Are you generous above

  559. that? If not, you're stealing from God. He cannot bless your finances.

  560. Doesn't mean you won't make more money. It just means you won't enjoy

  561. it. Are you being sexually pure? He won't bless knocking boots? And

  562. if it feels good to you, imagine what it would be like if it

  563. was righteous. These are all agreeings with the devil. And we have all

  564. these contracts with the devil. And then we come to church and lift our

  565. hands, and God's like, what's you doing? You got more contracts with

  566. him than you got with me. You just pray for me to forgive you.

  567. That was the only contract we made. And then you went off on

  568. your own. Adam, they had the whole world satanic agreements. Give Satan.

  569. This is this is gonna hopefully scare you legal authority over your life.

  570. When you make it. Agree with the devil. You are telling the devil,

  571. I'm gonna do this for you, and then that's what the devil says

  572. to you. I'm gonna do this to you. You have given me permission

  573. to bless you with my curse. I should do cocaine. You know what

  574. I was saying to cocaine not knowing it, devil, I'm gonna trust cocaine

  575. to bless me and make me feel good. Well, cocaine only has a

  576. couple of ways of making you feel good, and it's temporary, it's addicting

  577. and harmful. I'm gonna trust that sex is gonna make me feel good.

  578. Well, sex outside of marriage and outside of a commitment, it has its

  579. benefits, but it also has its downside and a whole bunch of them.

  580. I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I'm gonna trust that lying out of this situation

  581. me, lying is gonna bless me and get me free. Well, it

  582. has a consequence because if you get caught, when you get caught, because

  583. God he knows, has consequences. So every time that you make an agreeing

  584. with the devil and you trust him, you are and trusting your given authority

  585. to that thing over your life. You see people at the bar. My

  586. wife and I we love to go to Vegas. Just every Christmas. After

  587. Christmas, between Christmas and New you go to Vegas, go see some shows,

  588. hang out, and we come down from from the room and you gotta

  589. walk through the casino. Come down to the room. Eight o'clock, go

  590. work out, eight o'clock, go to breakfast, and I'm walking and there's

  591. people into casino smoking a cigarettes. And if you smoking cigarettes, let me

  592. tell you, someone's not gonna send you to hell. They'll just make you

  593. smell like you've been there. But it's not gonna send you to hell.

  594. But it is poisoned in the temple eight o'clock in the morning, gambling the

  595. money away, losing money, smoking and drinking, tearing the body up.

  596. And God's like, you are entrusting your happiness, your future in that.

  597. It's a contract with the devil. The devil's lying to you. You think

  598. you're gonna win, you think you're gonna gain Vegas billions of dollars made on

  599. suckers like us. It'll never happen. You have to break those contracts.

  600. And when you make those agreements, you are telling the devil, I surrender

  601. this part of my life to you. Why would you surrender any thing to

  602. someone who hates you and wants to destroy you, because he has come to

  603. steal, killing, destroy job. Chapter one, verse twelve. The Lord

  604. said to Satan, behold all that he has in your power. Only do

  605. not lay a hand in this person. God will give Satan permission over your

  606. life, especially when you tell God I'd rather listen to him than you.

  607. That wasn't Joe's situation. But God you you, the devil will have permission

  608. over your life. And when you voluntarily say devil, I'm gonna trust you,

  609. God says, you're on your own now. Because God is gracious,

  610. because God is patience, he'll probably save you from our knucklehead self. But

  611. he will give permission of the devil. That's why when you get hung over,

  612. God says, yeah, he needs to, He needs to feel a

  613. little something something today because he needs to know what he did. He crossed

  614. the line. First Corintie's five fifteen five one to five. First Corinthians one,

  615. five to five. It says, it is actually reported that their sexual

  616. immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as not even named among the gentiles.

  617. I wonder if the sexual immorality in this church and my church, because

  618. we got a whole bunch of people fuck wild in my church too, So

  619. don't don't think I'm figuring on you. You know what I'm saying, Oh

  620. my goodness, but I'm glad they're there. That's what it's supposed to be.

  621. This And by the way, if you feel like I'm stepping on your

  622. toes, good But this is where you're supposed to get your told steped on,

  623. because when we stepping on the loving last let's love little tap love tap,

  624. love tap. It says there's people up in the church that's more buck

  625. wild than the people in the world. This is what it's said. Watch

  626. this. That a man has his father's wife. That's Craig, Craig.

  627. I assume it's a stepmom. Hope it's a stepmom. Even though I had

  628. a staff member whose mother did something sexually with him. And you are puffed

  629. up and have not rather mourned that he who has done this deed might be

  630. taken away from you, For I, indeed, as absent in the body

  631. but present in the spirit, have already judged him as who has done this

  632. deed in the name of the Lord Jesus. When you were gathered together along

  633. with my spirit with the power of the Lord Jesus delivers such a one to

  634. Satan. What if they're not going to repent, let him go walk with

  635. Satan. But let the devil deal with you, because it's really people don't

  636. change until the pain of staying the same is too much. So I'm not

  637. going to keep calling you and make you feel good. So you keep doing

  638. it. You need to realize this is wrong. I had a guy wants

  639. and he was I was witnessing this kid, and he says, I if

  640. I was to sin all my life and use drugs all my life and then

  641. right before I got saved, right before I died, I asked you to

  642. forgive me. What do you forgive me? I said yeah. And then

  643. the kids say, why would God let me take advantage of him, of

  644. that like that and live my life and party and do all this stuff,

  645. and then he gets saved to ever every end? Why would he let me

  646. cheat him? I said, no, no, no, no, you

  647. don't understand, homie. You cheated yourself. You missed out on an amazing

  648. life. You think drinking and all that stuff is better than what God could

  649. get you. You are misled because the devil has told you. The only

  650. thing you know is the devil's blessing, which our curses on your life.

  651. And you think that the more sex I got, the more drugs I do,

  652. the more sin is better. No, no, no, no,

  653. you don't understand. It's death. You are a dead man walking. And

  654. Paul says, this deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his

  655. flesh that his spirit may be saved. Listen, let that Let that brother

  656. go out there and be crazy, get his diseases, get sick, anything

  657. it will require for him to repent. At least he'll repent. I'm telling

  658. you, you got to tear that contract, though, And so here's what

  659. we're gonna do. We're gonna have a collective prayer. You don't have to

  660. pray it unless you want to break the contract. I'm gonna tell you this

  661. last thing. Satanic agreements can only be broken in Jesus name. Matthew twenty

  662. nineteen, Jesus came and spoke and said, all authority has been given to

  663. me in heaven and earth. You have to believe that all authority, everyone

  664. say authority, all authorities he has been given to Jesus. Corinthias two nine

  665. for in Christ, all the fullness of the deity lives in Him bodily,

  666. and in Christ you have been brought to the fullness. He is the head

  667. over every power and authority. You have all authority over heaven and earth,

  668. over every satanic demonic force in your life. You have that authority. You

  669. have to believe that doesn't mean you feel all yoked up like that. It's

  670. like, what's going on? Get the myths out of me? Sobel's getting

  671. me ready to get punched. You have all authority in heaven over all demonic

  672. forces in your life. But unless you believe that and exercise that, you're

  673. gonna walk around like you're weak, defeated, chained up in bondage. Lastly,

  674. Colossians two fourteen to fifteen. And you, being dead in your transgressions

  675. and the uncircumstances of your flesh, he has made alive with him, having

  676. forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against

  677. us, which was contrary to us. And look what it says. And

  678. he has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

  679. And one say, nailed it to the cross, having disarmed principalities and

  680. powers. He made a public spectacle of them, triumphaning over them in it.

  681. I want you to think about the agreement you have. Your sexual agreements,

  682. your chemical agreements, your self esteem agreements, your jealousy agreements, your

  683. anger agreements, your resentment agreements, your unforgiveness agreements, your bitterness agreements,

  684. your self destructive behavior agreements, your envy agreements, all those things. You're

  685. like, dang, I got a lot of agreements. You sure do.

  686. It's like a whole list of stuff the devil keeps writing out for you.

  687. And guess what, when he accuses you before God day and night, He's

  688. like, there it is right there, runder. Take your stuff that you

  689. got on your phone, on your computer that you think only you know.

  690. There's stuff you got in your closet that only you think only you know.

  691. It's all open right there before God. And so in a minute, we're

  692. gonna declare freedom from these agreements with the devil. And then I'm gonna ask

  693. the passes to come forward, and we're gonna pray for you, because some

  694. of y'all need to be prayed for. You need to pray for it,

  695. to ask Christ to forgive you of your sin. You need to pray for

  696. to have someone anoint you with oil. You need to be prayed for it

  697. so you can break the chain because you've been living it bound up with chains

  698. for a long time, and that your soul knows very well and you do

  699. not know the freedom in Christ. But God wants to give you that freedom

  700. today. So I'm gonna ask. And by the way, we're declared this,

  701. we're not gonna go Dear God, please devil leave me alone. You

  702. know we're gonna shout this bad boy. We would have declared the Bible truth

  703. on this bad boy. Amen, Amen, come on, stand up,

  704. stand up. So here's what's gonna happen. We're not done yet. We're

  705. gonna pray and then I'm gonna ask you to come forward and for prayer.

  706. If I gonna ask them, the pastors to come forward, and we're gonna

  707. have prayer for you, because we want people to lay hands on you and

  708. pray for you and encourage you. But they're gonna put this prayer on the

  709. screen and we're gonna shout this together. Okay, if you can put that

  710. on the screen, and then I'm gonna read it as they see it.

  711. Okay, you're ready. Now, here's the thing when you read something.

  712. Everyone, everyone, take a deep breath in. Say amen, feel that

  713. strength. Now take a deep breath out, say amen. See what I'm

  714. saying. You're like, amen, Okay, you don't want to. We

  715. want to. Huh huh huh huh. You got it. You got it,

  716. and we're gonna class. Now. It's your volume is it's really the

  717. passion. We don't want to be like, oh yeah, god, yeah,

  718. you know your body posture. We want it to match your conviction.

  719. Amen. Amen, So we're gonna read this together. Let me let's read

  720. it here. It's right outside. Ready, one two three. In Jesus

  721. Nay, I voluntarily declare that Jesus is Lord of all. I declare that

  722. Jesus died and rose from the dead, defeating the power of Satan. I

  723. declare Matthew twenty eight let should say twenty. I'm sorry, I'm sorry,

  724. it's nineteen, my man. Just read it as it is. Let's go.

  725. I declare, Matthew twenty nine eighteen that Jesus has all authority in heaven

  726. and earth. I declare that Jesus has disarmed all evil principalities. And powers.

  727. I surrender all authority in my life to Jesus and declare that Jesus is

  728. my lord and savior. I exercise the power of Jesus Name over all evil

  729. influences in my life. I repent and break all agreements and contracts with the

  730. devil. What's this? What's it? They're gone? Come on, now,

  731. they're gone. Come on, I'm released. I'm released. I release

  732. myself of all guilty and shame related to my Satanic agreement. In Jesus name,

  733. I break the power of evil spirits involved in my life, Satan.

  734. In Jesus name, I command you out of my life. Jesus. I

  735. ask that you annoyed me with the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit. I invite

  736. you to take over my life Holy Spirit. I ask that you fill me

  737. Holy Spirit. I ask that you empower me. In Jesus Name, I

  738. declare that I am free. Come on, chur, Let me pray for

  739. you. Let me pray for you, Lord God. We have declared your

  740. biblical truth, and that declaration was based on your word. And God,

  741. you cannot lie. Your word never returns void. It's living an active sharpen

  742. than the two edges of sword. It's the foundation upon which we stand.

  743. We have nowhere else to go for salvation except Jesus Christ, our Lord and

  744. Savior, who died and rose from the dead. Satan, we know you,

  745. hear us. We know that you're gonna come fight back. You're gonna

  746. deceive us and think that that didn't mean anything, But it did. We

  747. are free. We were walking out freedom, we were living out freedom,

  748. we were singing out freedom. We will to re celebrate in our freedom.

  749. And when we get when we messed up, when we when we stumbled,

  750. we will repent. God will forgive us and we will move on in confidence

  751. that He loves us, that he has saved us, that he has forgiven

  752. us, that He is with us as our eyes are closing on our heads.

  753. About if you want prayer, I want you to pray this with me,

  754. and then I'm gonna ask you to come forward. Because we know that

  755. are people here who have carried burdens for many years. You've been in bondeds

  756. for many years. There's some of you never asked Christ to be your savior.

  757. I just want all of you to pray with me in your spirit if

  758. you would like to either ask Christ to be your savior or you just need

  759. a prayer. Just pray in your in your heart to say, Dear God,

  760. I need you today. I need encouragement today. Forgive me of my

  761. sin. I surrender my life to you afresh. Thank you God. As

  762. our eyes are closed on our heads about We're gonna worship right now, just

  763. one song. But I want you to come out of your seat because our

  764. passes are here that want to pray for you. People want to get baptized

  765. today. But you have to step out of your seat, come to get

  766. prayer. So come and get anointing. We can't help you unless you self

  767. identify. So as a song is seeing you, I'm just gonna ask you

  768. right now, come out of your seat. If you prayed any of those

  769. prayers, will me come out of your seat right now and get prayer.

  770. God bless you. Just walk forward, get blessed you. Come on,

  771. Just come out of your seat right now. We want to pray for you.

  772. We want to encourage you. There's some of you have been addiction.

  773. You have addictions. Some of you have self esteem, mission you feel suicidal.

  774. Come out of your seat. We have people who want to pray for

  775. you. Just walk out of your seat. Come on, give the man.

  776. They come on out come