Saturday Message - Dr. Vito Rallo (September 15, 2012) | Life Bible Church

What a privilege it is to be able to have a guest

speaker this weekend as we're talking about occupying

the supernatural. I want to introduce in just

a few moments our guest speaker, Dr. Vito Rallo.

This is one of the books that he's brought with

him. Fact is, after this service, we're picking

up this book table and we have to move it. to

another church tonight. He's actually gonna be

speaking at six o 'clock at Calvary Open Bible

in Springfield off of Centennial and 11th, I

believe, and that will be at six o 'clock. So

we'll be packing this stuff up, some of the books

that he's brought from some of his other friends

around the world that are operating in the wonderful

things of the kingdom. This one is called Exposing

the Dangers Behind Martial Arts and Yoga, and

I believe he's gonna be bringing a word on that

this morning. It's a privilege to have them from

Tampa, Florida. You know, God makes divine connections

and grateful to have you guys in our home and

here at the church. Would you just give a life

Bible welcome to Dr. Vito and Pat Rollo. Vito,

as you come, God bless you. Well, this is our

last day here today. We will leave to go back

home and prepare for other ministry duties that

we have. It's a privilege to be here with you

today. I see some of the same faces that are

here this afternoon. in this session that we're

here this morning. I'm glad to see that you stuck

around to find out what this is all about. This

has been a subject of mine that I've not been

real comfortable with doing because of my deep

involvement in it. And I know it's very controversial.

When the Lord had me to write this book, he told

me in advance it's going to be very controversial

because it has become the identity of many people

and the practices that are involved here. I'll

be sharing those things with you and hopefully

you'll have an understanding, but most importantly

that you'll use the information that you have

to share with others. Father, thank you for this

time and this opportunity to share this difficult

subject that is invading the churches from one

coast to the other, from nation to nation. Father,

I pray that through these messages, Lord, you

will reveal to those who are involved and for

those who allow this to be involved in their

church. Father, I thank you for what you're doing

today, and that God, you're going to bring forth

this message as you see fit. And I do give you

thanks, Lord, in Jesus' mighty name. The scripture

that I just want to point out briefly with you

is that there is, it's 14, 14, 12. Honey, could

I have my glasses? I can't see, I'm having trouble

here seeing, so. Are they there? Yeah. I couldn't

see it, excuse me. Proverbs 14, 13. 12, excuse

me. Proverbs 14, 12. There is a way that seems

right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

Oftentimes, we don't recognize the things that

can bring death to our ministries, to our families,

to our churches, and we allow them to come into

the church unchallenged. There was years ago

when the people that were involved in martial

arts and yoga would allow anything practically

to come into the church to a point. But when

it began to spread, at the level that it's spreading,

churches began to take on a life of their own.

They began to allow these activities to come

into the church and therefore they didn't understand

why the church was going into the messes that

they were going into. And in Hosea, Hosea, Third

chapter, verse 16 says that my people are destroyed

for lack of knowledge because you have rejected

knowledge. My people are destroyed for lack of

knowledge because you have rejected knowledge.

Did I say three six? Sorry, I had it covered

up, honey. I should know that scripture. But

you'll forgive me, won't you, if I mess the number

up just a little bit? Okay, and so I want to

just move on quickly, and I want to share with

you that we have several DVDs here. There's no

cost for the DVDs. The DVDs are for a two -fold

purpose. One is to show the video or the trailer

on replacement, excuse me, on exposing the dangers

between martial arts and yoga. Can I give a couple

of these to a couple of people? Would you come

and get them? Or do you want me to run down there?

Okay. Okay. Now, you know what? They're free,

so you can get one before you leave. You thought

you were getting something! Okay, for those that

are here, I want to give something that we're

working in conjunction with a company that's

doing a documentary that has produced a DVD,

a film that will be... Released I think it's

in in December. I think is when it be released

and it's called the replacement gods And this

is just a trailer and it's called the battlefield

Hollywood trailer. And this trailer also is exposing,

we're working in conjunction with one another.

We have completed my portion of the documentary,

and others will be involved. So as you look at

this DVD, you'll also be able to see what's coming

out of Hollywood. These are Christians that have

left the Hollywood scene and are performing what

they believe God is calling them to do, and that

has exposed the danger of the gods that we're

worshiping, the replacement gods. And so, very

interesting. We have a limited supply. Those

will also... So give those away. Okay, can I

give these to a couple of people? And they're

free. Free. There you go. Thank you. Okay, so

before I begin, I just want to mention that the

book that I wrote a couple of years ago has now

gone on a worldwide tour. It is affecting the

lives of many people around the world. It's challenging

the thinking, it's challenging the ideas, it's

challenging the access that has been allowed

into the church. We're challenging churches to

read the book because they have no idea of what

is happening. So I'm going to explain some of

these things as I... as I move on, and I want

you to understand, this is not my favorite subject,

but because I've been involved for almost 30

years, it's something that the Lord said I want

you to reveal and expose to the church. Because

the church is really what I'm concerned with

because it's been allowed in, and once you hear

what is going on here, I think you'll understand.

And so. As I talk briefly, I'm not going to do

a lot of talking about everything, about yoga

and its connection to the martial arts. I want

to clearly show the spiritual dangers that are

behind it. Now I know in this room there's probably

either ex -martial arts and yoga people that

are in here, and there's some presently active...

participants in yoga and the martial arts. So

I'm going to give you an opportunity at the end

of this session. I'm going to give you the opportunity

for a question and answer session. I'm not just

going to leave it, give it to you, and then leave.

I want to answer questions that you may be wondering

about. And so here we go, all right? All of the

arts that are rooted in false religions, there

are many of them, but these two especially that

are invading the church. Now there are other

new age activities that are also entering. into

the church. They come in under the guise of different

names. And they come in under the guise that

we can use those activities to further our understanding

of the gospel. Now, I don't believe in any sense

of the way that we can take an occult activity,

bring it into the church, to benefit Christians

that are serving the Lord Jesus Christ, and then

say that it's to their benefit. But it is being

done. Many well -known churches, many well -known

ministers are bringing this into the church.

I'm gonna quickly go over these subjects, and

then I'll have a time for question and answer.

But all of these activities, both yoga and martial

arts, are rooted in Hinduism. And because they're

rooted in Hinduism, which is a false religion,

it's a religion that worships something like

330 gods. But the three main gods of Hinduism

are Vishnu, Brahman, and, where's the other one?

And Shiva, yeah. And Shiva's the one you primarily

see. You see him seated in a yoga position with

the fingers pointed to each other and you'll

see him in the seated lotus position. Now, the

lotus position and the effects from what we're

seeing in the yoga position are also showing

up on clothes. If you go into women's clothes

especially, in women's departments rather, you're

going to see clothes that have that position

on that or you will see other positions. that

are yogic positions. And so what they're trying

to do and have succeeded in doing is getting

this into the marketplace, not only into the

world at large, but getting it into the church

and now into the clothing industry. So it's really

important that we look at our clothes, see where

they're from, and understand that many times

there are curses that are attached to the clothing

that you wear. And it wasn't too long ago that

my wife was doing some shopping, walked into

a very famous dealer. Do you have a Dillard's

here? Okay, there's a Dylan's we walked in walked

into this department and there there was yoga

positions representing these these particular

gods and they were wearing the clothes and people

seemed to be being flocked to those clothes now

that was a spiritual draw not a physical draw

and so the owners are the people that were were

selling their salesmen in that person saleswomen

that were in that department always said they

had headaches they always had these feelings

that they didn't like and so There were times

that they wanted to quit their job, but they

needed the money. And so when I ran across this,

I was praying for those people right in Dillard's,

prophesying right in the aisles and seeing them

set free. And I was praying that God would remove

them from the departments that they were in,

and He did. And so the false religions are not

only seeped in the occult practices, but also

in spiritism. and meditation practices and divination.

So all of these venues that the Hindus are doing

and presenting is something that is creeping

very, very quickly into the church. And many

churches have full -blown martial arts and yoga

classes in the church. And they have a tendency

to call them Christian yoga or Christian martial

arts. Now we have come into connections with

many people that now are sending us emails that

are in the, these are Christians, and they're

saying that they were formerly in yogic practices

or in the martial arts practices, and because

of their involvement, many things were happening

into their life. And they explain in either emails

or the books that we're receiving. So there are

many people that understand the dangers, the

real dangers of being involved in these activities.

It's not just for relaxation, and it's not just

for exercise. That's an oxymoron. That's an exercise

that is dedicated to the gods of Hinduism and

Buddhism. And so when we look at their actual

positions and exercises that they're doing, whether

it's martial arts or yoga, we will see that these

positions are designed for a particular purpose,

and the purpose is worship. And many of the yoga

positions are done in order to... serve the gods

which they represent. Sun salutations and other

things. And I won't go into all the details on

that because I don't have time to go into details.

And so what they're practicing is spiritism,

mysticism, and divination. And so through these

practices we're seeing the infusion of demonic

spirits within the lives of people. And oftentimes

people that are practicing these things have

no clue. But I'm going to show you clearly that

what is happening in the church. We know what's

happening in the world, but it shouldn't be happening

in the church of how they're allowing it in and

how major churches have had downfalls of pastors,

people going into all kinds of immorality within

the church. And so what I'm going to share with

you is a spiritual thing, even though it's a

physical practice, you cannot separate the two.

You cannot take the spirit from the physical

as many say that they can. So the very practice

of what we're doing in allowing these things

in the church were allowing Hinduism and Buddhism,

even Zen. Antioism to come into the church now

This is not once again a favorite subject that

I would like to expound on but I think it's necessary

for the true salvation of the lives of God's

people and so therefore that's where I've gone

with this so The martial arts are connected as

I said to the occult and the roots are and the

origins of the roots are both rooted in Spiritism

mysticism and divination as many say they try

to separate that but you can't even the professors

those who are the yoga instructors and those

who are the martial arts masters know that it

can't be done. They may try to convince us that

it's possible, but it's not. And so it's important

that we have an understanding of what they are

and not allow it into your life or into the church

that you attend. Some of you may be attending

from different churches, so it's extremely important.

There are things that are happening in children's

toys, and we see this every day. We see children's

toys are connected to basically the martial arts,

but we're also is seeing the Kundalini spirit.

And the Kundalini spirit is being spread through

children's toys. It was a program and through

cartoons. And so recently I saw a cartoon that

was bringing forth the idea of how children can

practice yogic positions and receive the Kundalini

spirit. And we're seeing that in cartoons. We're

seeing it in toys. We're seeing it in games.

It's all over the place. And it's just, if you're

not informed, well, won't know what to do with

it and how to escape from it. Now, for example,

the ninja turtles that many people buy, that

comes from ninjitsu. That is a form of Japanese

martial art that operates in stealth. You don't

normally see that in the open unless you're going

to a school that is practicing and teaching ninjitsu.

But many of the people that are involved in ninjitsu

are stealth killers, and they kill Just as we

have groups in this country, used to have them,

maybe in Italy, I don't know how many we have

here, but in the mafia, they were just designed

to do their job and that was to take people out.

Well, that was their job, to kill by stealth,

to kill by any means. The reason that I want

to point this out is that the DNA of the root

system cannot be extracted like many people believe.

They think that you can take the spiritual aspects

out of it and remove it. You see, because if

something is birthed in the womb of the occult

and comes through the birth canal, it cannot

be separated. What it's birthed from, where it

was developed from, is where it's going to be.

And so, Hinduism and Buddhism, as we understand

it, we may look at it and say, is just Hinduism

and Buddhism, but they have a plan. They have

a purpose. It's not just a simple plan, but a

very delicate and a very stealthy plan designed

to enter the church. And so, Maharashi Yogi,

it's a difficult name to pronounce, Yogi was

a well -known guru who was responsible for bringing

yoga and transcendental meditation into this

country. And when he brought that into the country,

Transcendental Meditation became very popular

with many people in Hollywood. We have many stars

that were involved with it. Some of them were

Clint Eastwood and many other stars who was just

on the Republican stage not too long ago, about

a couple of weeks ago. But many movie stars are

involved in it. And many people that are involved

in music are also involved. Mick Jagger, The

Beatles. And so that scene back then is what

we're reaping today. It affected the music, it

affected the mood, it affected the style of what

people are doing and practicing in both the martial

arts and yoga. Now, the involvement of the occult

and TM influenced their music. and their acting,

so many of the acting roles that these people

have are directly influenced by what they're

practicing, which is the martial arts and yoga.

Now, Hollywood has desensitized us by putting

out things that we will believe and accept, and

then we wonder why these things are happening

in our churches or even in the lives of people

that are born -again Christians. So we know there

are well -known people that are involved, such

as Chuck Norris and others, and I knew some of

these people. Their whole sole purpose was to

become popular, to become famous, and some of

them did. Bruce Lee became famous. He became

famous in the way that he practiced his art and

what he did. The man never competed in one martial

arts tournament, so it's all just a bunch of

hype of what we read about and hear about. They

had great PR people that represented them, so

they were able to. Chuck Norris is one, and I

think he's a very likable person. I'm not speaking

ill of him. A very likable person, but he has

been bringing the martial arts martial arts into

the church, and they use the martial arts as

they bring them in, people such as T .D. Jakes

and many others, to demonstrate martial arts

techniques, and then in turn, they do an altar

call. Well, I'm not sure exactly what they're

doing, but all I know is that when I did it,

it did produce results, but the results were

not what I wanted to see, and nor are the results

what they're doing, bringing any lasting effects

on people other than their involvement in the

martial arts. Okay, so Hollywood kickstarted

it. James Bond movies, Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris,

and many others are responsible for the spreading

of what we're experiencing today. Now, as of

today, the martial arts are still evolving. They're

becoming violent, and I'm surprised to hear how

many Christians say that they watch or enjoy

mixed martial arts. Well, that's just another

form of glorified street fighting, if you know

anything about that. And so it's entered into

the church. I've had pastors say I enjoy watching

cage fighting, mixed martial arts. And then when

questioned and when given the answer to that,

he wasn't so sure if he wanted to watch it anymore

because of the violence that's portrayed in all

of these martial arts activities. But there's

been a desensitization of the children especially,

and the parents have been desensitized as they're

allowing their children to become involved in

any of these arts. And you say, well, I don't

see too many children in... I only see them in

martial arts, and it's nice to see the little

kids up there at times with their little uniforms

on, and they're kicking, and they're real cute,

but have no idea what they're involved in. So

the parents are responsible for allowing their

children to become involved in the martial arts.

And how many have children in the martial arts?

I've had children in the martial arts. You can

say it, it's okay. Yeah, you see kids are in

the martial arts That's why I wanted to bring

this forth so that if you have children in the

martial arts that you'll understand why it's

important to to not have them in the martial

arts and one of the things that we often hear

of while I'm sending my children and Involving

them in the martial arts particularly is so that

they can defend themselves Well I've never trained

children. I've always trained adults. I've had

instructors that I trained that trained children.

But I want to make a point here. How can a little

child of eight, nine, even 10, 12 years old defend

themselves from somebody that really wants to

get to them? I want you to stop and think about

that. It costs thousands of dollars to send them

to train in this art, and then when a situation

happens... They don't have the ability to really

defend themselves. Why? Because on the streets,

what happens out there is not a place where everything

is organized, where everything is portrayed as

a place that you can train. And in safety, it's

a place where anything can happen out there.

It's a place where you can go in and you can

demonstrate and do all these other activities,

but you can't use it on the street. I know many

instructors, many high -level instructors that

actually carry guns, and what they're saying

is that I don't trust my training, I only trust

the gun. And so this happens quite often, although

I'll carry some other weapon. All right, so.

The activities, the black arts that are being

allowed into the flow of the church is doing

it in such a way that people think that they're

empowered to defend themselves or use it as a

instrument of evangelism. But in reality, what

it's doing is it's destroying the lives of the

people that are involved now. So I want to just

make sure that we have that understanding of

that. Now, yoga, the word yoga itself means yoked.

Well, yoked to who? And when I've asked people

do they know what it's yoke to, they say they

don't know, but actually it's yoke to Brahman.

one of the spiritual gods that they worship in

India. He's a territorial spirit, so what they're

doing is they're giving power to these gods by

doing the things that they do. And Shiva is normally

regarded as a developer of the system of yoga,

but in turn, it makes no difference who developed

it. It's still the spiritual practice that people

are going through, okay? Do we all have that,

all right? Now, in yoga, I'm just going to give

this very quickly here. In yoga here in the West,

there are various positions used in the warm

-up. One of them is the sun salutation. And that

is that they go the wheel, the wheel of knowledge,

the wheel of incarnation, and they do sun salutations.

Now, I've had some people contact me and say,

well, we don't do it that way. We do it the Christian

way. Well, how do you do it the Christian way?

Well, we say prayer and do stretches so that

it doesn't involve these positions. Well, if

you're in yoga, it's yoga. It can't be something

else. And others are saying that they can use

other positions and make it work. But it doesn't

work because the power that's behind it is the

same. it doesn't change just because you change

the name, just because you change the positions.

And so what we're experiencing today is very

different than what we experienced years ago,

because now because of its infiltrating into

the church, people are taking it once again and

using these arts as an infiltration to get into

the church. And so in the Sun Salutations, the

practitioner doesn't fully understand what the

positions really mean because they're really

never unless you've been in it for 25 or 30 years,

and then you'll understand. But the real lie

is that you're doing nothing wrong. And what

you're doing in the Bible, it's called Baal worship.

and in other areas. In Egypt, it's called Ra,

and in Japan, it's called Sun Worship. You see

the Japanese flag, and it has the sun up there?

Well, that's actual sun worship, and it's connected

with Taoism, it's connected with many other religions

that are portrayed in many of the martial arts

studios, which I was in, that portray that we

are not doing anything wrong, we're just bowing

in respect. But in retrospect, that's not true,

all right? So in India, the other thing is that

you will see from the Kundalini -based practitioner

of yoga, you will see the third eye. You will

see the eye. It's called the psychic eye. Some

of you understand what I'm talking about. It's

the third eye of the psychic, and this is because

they're using the Kundalini spirit that rises

up. They say it's in every person and that all

we have to do is practice these arts, and then

this thing will rise up and give us everything

that we need. Well, that's a total lie. We know

what it is. Now, the exercises are designed to

move that serpent force, the kundalini, from

the base of the spine to the brain and manifest

in the psychic third eye. And you do see it everywhere

that you go. Many places you'll see it in this

country, but in India, you will see it everywhere.

So, the so -called martial arts. I'm going back

and forth on this because I want to cover all

of this without delay and save the time. In the

martial arts and the yoga practices, they derive

their power from what they call universal energy.

We derive our power from the Holy Spirit and

from God, but they use the universal energy.

They say, well, it's everywhere that you look.

It's in everything, and we can draw from that,

and because we draw from that, we can have that

power. It has nothing to do with God, but it

does have something to do with God. It's a false

God. It's not the God of Abraham, Isaac, and

Jacob. It's the gods that represent yogic and

martial arts practices, okay? All right, now.

There are a number of things that God is doing

even in the church today, and I won't cover every

single one of them, but the roots, as I said

earlier, the DNA cannot be extracted from them.

So there is a three -fold attack against Christianity,

yoga, martial arts, and the occult practices

in general, which involves new age practices.

And so you'll see that once you understand it,

you will recognize it, and you'll be able to

not only recognize it, but identify it and know

what to do or not. to do. This is a quote from

the Hindu missions organization in India and

it reads like this. I think you'd be quite surprised.

Our mission in the West has been crowned with

great success. Hinduism is becoming a dominant

world religion and the end of the demon Christianity

has come near. They are calling Christians demons.

They are calling Christians ineffective for what

they do. What they're saying, it's going to take

the martial arts and yoga to involve people to

get them to do what is right in their sight.

Now, They claim to have 70 ,000 Hindu missionaries

in the U .S. They are known as yoga instructors

at 20 ,000 different locations and growing rapidly

every day. The beginnings of that started in

the YMCAs or the YWCAs, I don't know if you have

any of those here, but the young men or young

women Christian organizations. This is where

it began. This is where they were allowed to

practice these arts and then it spread to the

rest of the world and now it's in practically

10 % to 15 % of the children. churches that are

out there today. Something that happened on April

the 13th of 2009. I want you to recall this if

you can. You can go to your website and pull

this up on Google. And this is what happened

on Monday after Resurrection Sunday on the White

House lawn. This happened in 2009. The White

House lawn. was represented by yoga instructors,

instead of Easter egg rolls and the type of things

that you normally see, it was replaced with yoga

mats and yoga instructors. And what they did,

and what they accomplished, which built even

more of this facade that we can practice these

things and it would be legal, what they did was

they took, and they had a thousand children,

it went from six in the morning to six at night,

and they had these children practicing yoga positions,

and the positions were designed to to introduce

them to yoga. Now, this was approved by the White

House at the time, it was practiced on the White

House lawn, and a thousand children were taught

how to meditate and use the word um. A -U -M.

And they were taught to say this word. What were

they being taught? They were taught, that word

is a mantra that is taught to draw in spiritual

forces into their lives. And I don't know to

this day what has transpired in their lives,

but what I do know is that it's affecting and

entering every area of history and the lives

of many people in this country and many other

countries. And so after this had happened, I

was quite surprised and I wondered why, Why this

was allowed to happen? Why was it brought in?

Well, you have to understand that, and I'm not

a political person, you have to understand that

the people that head up the White House were

all involved in martial arts. And once again,

this is all online, it's not something that I'm

pulling up. So here we are, where the big lie

is that it's harmless and that's why Christians

have begun, as I said earlier, to participate

at an alarming rate. The medical profession now

is also involved in this farce. The medical profession

is a proponent of moving all of their preconceived

ideas to move them to the people that they represent.

and tell them that yoga is an art, it's not dangerous,

and that we can use yoga positions in order to

be healed. One of the things that they say is

fibromyalgia. You probably have heard about that,

dealt with it. But fibromyalgia is one that they're

saying can cure. Fibromyalgia, or yoga, is what

they say can use it. And they say three things

that you can use. You can use acupuncture, acupressure,

and yoga. Now, we're using all occult activities

here. the practice of these activities on a person

that is involved in trying to get a healing.

Now, all I know is that if we use an occult practice

to come against the things that I believe that

demons cause in our health and in our lives,

then all we're gonna do is make it worse. And

the proponents say that it works. I say it's

only a temporary relief and that the demon will

come back sooner or later, okay? Now, both of

these fall under the antichrist spirit. Okay,

and I just want to say this, that the martial

arts supposedly are sanitized and Christianized

through the activities. And so it's difficult

to understand how we can take something that

is an occult activity and we can sanitize it

by just praying over it and saying that it's

okay today that we can move forward. Y 'all understand

what I'm saying? And so it's like saying Christian

Hinduism or Christian Buddhism. It would be like

saying Christian prostitution or Christian drug

abuse. You hear what I'm saying here? I mean,

it's an oxymoron if there ever was one. And when

I began to do the research on it, I knew many

of the things that I'm talking about in small

details, but the Lord began to draw me back to

the things that I was involved in in order to

let me see what I was involved in and then to

use it as a, that I used as a tool in order to

spread this occult practice. And so I was able

to see this as I was going through the, through

the instructions and the things that God had

taught me, or that the enemy had taught me, and

so I began to realize this and wrote these things

down. Now, some of the things that I just want

to quickly move through here, some of the consequences

for individuals who participate. One, divination.

So if you're writing that down, that psychic

ability, able to read thoughts, projecting thoughts,

reading body language. And so we like to look

at when we prophesy that this is coming from

God, they look at theirs as coming from the enemy

of our soul. We got emails from Canada, people

that were working in ministry, worldwide ministry

in Canada, they were both involved, the husband

and the wife were involved, and they came for

ministry. And they came down from Canada, we

brought them through. But their ideas, their

concepts, precepts of what the martial arts were

was leading them into real big trouble. And I

knew why, because I understand the immorality

that is involved in what you practice. And you

say, well, how can there be immorality? How can

that happen? It does affect you physically and

spiritually. It doesn't just stop with just the

physical activity of just practicing the art,

but it begins to open doors to who and what the

enemy was. wants us to become involved in, and

it opens up many doors. Okay, and number two,

there's a violence or a murder, and what is called

the warrior or bushido spirit, that's the warrior

spirit that's involved here. You may or may not

have known the story of what happened to a bodyguard

that happened in St. Louis, Missouri. That bodyguard,

I recognized him, I recognized what was in him,

years ago, when I first saw him, he was the bodyguard

for Joyce Myers. Well, I'm not done yet. He was

the bodyguard for Joyce Myers, and we happened

to be going to St. Louis to do a conference there.

We were in a church that we once belonged to,

and... We got the message over the intercom,

and they were talking about what had happened

to the people that actually belonged to the church

we were at, the wife and the two sons, and the

bodyguard never really belonged there. And the

wife and the two sons had just been killed maybe

five or six hours before. before we were a part

of the prayer intercession team. And immediately

the Lord spoke and told me what it was. And immediately

I went to the pastor, a friend of mine, and I

said, this is the involvement right here. I think

there was a lot of shock. on people's face when

this came out and it was in the news, it made

national news. But it was the very bodyguard

that was protecting Joyce Myers that murdered

his wife and two children. They were a beautiful,

beautiful couple. And so here we are with a international

ministry that has a person that's involved in

the martial arts, which he was, that killed his

wife and his two children. He's now serving,

actually a few months ago we heard, he found

that the very day that he committed the crime

was the that he was sentenced to life without

parole in the prison system of Illinois. If it

had been any other state, he would be given the

death penalty. But this is not uncommon. I want

to tell you right now, this is not uncommon and

we are seeing, we're seeing so much of these

activities that are taking place in churches

and then we're seeing the results of them. When

the Lord had me to come out of the martial arts,

I knew what he was saying. I went through deliverance

and I came to a place that I respected. and honored

the Lord with all of my heart. I wanted nothing

to do with it. But it was the church that brought

me back in. It was a church that had me to come

in and to teach self -defense classes, which

in turn turned into full -blown martial arts

training, which in turn led to a host of problems.

We began to see the church begin to fall apart.

I began to see the adulterous affairs begin to

take place. I began to see all the things that

you see in the world happen in the church. And

this is not uncommon, and nor is it unusual.

because many churches this is happening in. And

if I were to name some of these national churches,

you would know who they are. Very famous people,

ministers who were involved or allowed these

things involved in their church begin to slip

by the... by the hundreds, and we were in many

of these churches and knew that there was a problem

there, we knew that things were happening. And

I don't believe that this church would ever allow

that to happen here, so therefore, I'm just warning

and cautioning that you understand what it is

so that you may share with others what is going

on. So -called inner energy that people practice

is called Qi in Chinese, or Qi in Japanese. It's

actually a demonic. Force a demonic word that

when that is happening when you're practicing

you see people on TV, and they're going ki -i

I'm not going to do it the way I used to do it

So I kind of refrained from that but when they

do that what they're doing is they're demonstrating

that the power that's in them is a strength of

spiritual strength that they use in order to

do what they do and also is Applied to all martial

arts not just one What happens is that the people

that are involved have an invincible feeling

see they're not trusting in the arm of the The

Lord, the trusting in the arm of the flesh, and

we know what the word says, that he who trusts

in the arm of the flesh is cursed. And so, it's

talking about what we wanna do on our own. There

has been times that I must confess to you that

I wanted to do some things in the flesh, but

the Lord said, are you gonna trust in your flesh,

or are you gonna trust in me? And therefore,

I was able to trust in him and not put myself

in a place to where I would have some serious,

serious problems. And I know there's some in

here, I know there's some in here that have had

to deal. with some of the same things in here.

So what I'm saying is not unusual or foreign,

it's those that involved and have been involved

didn't understand completely what I'm talking

about. These are some of the results that happened.

There's layers of deception and many begin to

fall after false gods. Some very talented, very

well -equipped worship leaders that I knew became

involved. They tried to get me involved to train

them, I wouldn't. They left the ministry they

left their vocation, their anointing left and

became involved in the martial arts. And I can

still see these people knowing who they are and

knowing how gifted they were to give it up for

the things of the world. The martial arts is

opposite of the fruit of the spirit. It blocks

the development and the maturity of who we are,

who we should be. And so. What has happened is

that we're seeing that the self -defense purposes

that are being used is being used actually not

for the self -defense, but it's used for the

entrance into a church, if not in the church

facilities, but in the church buildings. And

they're now building facilities so that these

arts can come in and practice and being used

as a tool for evangelism, which is really counterproductive.

So there's layers of deception that develop.

Now there's also sexual temptation because of

the touch and the transfer of spirits in that

touch. And I want to use my wife to demonstrate

this so you understand. I'm not going to use

somebody else's wife, so I'm going to use my

wife to let you know how that transfer takes

place and how the immoral activities take place

in the person's life. In any time that you begin

to talk about self -defense, and I'm not glorifying

anything that I'm doing, I'm only showing you

what happens and how it happens and how things

begin to spread, how families were broken up,

how people begin to do some really strange things

and go back into the world. where they were once

known by Christ, they now are known by the devil.

And so it's impossible to practice with a person

without touch. You understand that? Okay, you

can't do it from a distance. It has to be by

touch. Are you okay with this? Oh yeah, okay,

she wants to be on the other side. And so in

order to practice some of these things that you

do, I want to demonstrate this so you'll understand.

Some of the things that you have to do is in

order to Learn self -defense techniques as you

have to grab them in this manner and then teach

them how to get out. There's many things like

this. Or you may take them the other way. Honey,

stay still. Don't move. Did you put underarm

deodorant on? Yes. OK. OK. And it may be to take

the... Lift your arms up, please. Don't make

me fight. I don't know how to do that. OK. That's

OK. She doesn't know how to do it because I've

never taught her. Is that you have to be in close

proximity. Now, I don't want to turn... turn

around and show you where I'm at. But I'm where

I'm not supposed to be, and especially to somebody

I don't know. So I'm standing back here, and

my body is pressing up against her in order to

complete what I'm doing. Now, there are many

things. There are times that you face the person

and show them how to defend themselves by this

from the front. And so now I'm hugging a person

that I don't know. Are you OK, honey? Am I supposed

to hug you back? No. I would like that very much.

And so it's important that we take and we have

to hug each other like this. And now if you're

doing that with a strange person of the opposite

sex, it's not good. You can see that. Do you

get what I'm saying? Of what I'm showing you,

you have to have physical contact. And so if

I'm holding this person like this and we're practicing,

well, all kinds of things can happen. My emotions

go wild, her emotions go wild, and then we get

wild. This is more than they bargained for. You

didn't come to see this, did you? Oh, yeah, would

you like to do that? Okay. And so, you know,

we have to teach people how to give out our show

in this position. Let me do it. It's my show.

Let me do it. And so you have to do certain things,

for example, to hold people. Let me do it. To

hold people in a headlock and show them what

positions and what things they can do to escape.

Now, if you've got a guy that's about 350 pounds,

for example, and he's got arms like... Yeah,

you got arms like him. You're gonna find it rather

difficult to get out of this position unless

you really know what you're doing and you have

the confidence to do what you're doing. And so

you're in this position and you're holding the

person. Now, honey, I want you to hold me in

that position. Would you do that without knocking

my ear off? Okay, so you have to learn how to

get out of this position. I'm not very good at

this. You're not supposed to be good at it. I

only get to do that one time? And so I just wanted

to show you that it's impossible to do these

things without getting physically involved. It's

impossible not to become involved in a contact.

This is a contact sport. So when you're doing

the self -defense, that's what it's all about,

OK? We have seen the results, I have seen many

results over the years. I have seen people go

from happily married to happily divorced. I've

seen churches split. I've seen all these things

happen. So I don't want to stay stuck on that.

I want to move to the growth of the Christian.

It's difficult to grow as a Christian if you

are involved in these things. Your growth will

be stopped. It will be stymied. You'll be blinded

by what is actually going on. But that's a part

of what it does. And so I want to open this up

just to a few people. as a question and answer

period before we begin to end here, okay? Do

we have any questions in here? Because it's not

right for me to just give you the information

and you not ask the questions that you may have

on your heart. Is there anything that you need

to know? Okay, would you ask the question? Yes.

Oh, ask the question please. We're limited in

time. Acupuncture is a Chinese practice which

is used to puncture the so -called meridians

in your body. Actually, it's a demon activity.

It's just so that you know. Is there anyone else?

We may have some people here that were involved

in martial arts that are leaving, or yoga that

are leaving, and that's okay. You see, we need

to get it out of the church, if that is the case.

I just wanted to share that with you. Okay, or

they have a quick lunch that they have to go

to. Are there any other questions? Quickly. Well,

my son's a chiropractic, and I was a trainer,

so I understand those. There's nothing wrong

with that, but there's different kinds of chiropractic.

You have to understand what that chiropractic

system is. So I don't have time to... Well, yeah,

not exactly. I understand, but what I'm talking

about is physical contact between two people,

okay? Any other questions? Yes? The gym! Go to

the gym! That's where I go. That's what I would

say. Go to the gym. You can discipline yourself

in the gym. You don't have to go to the martial

arts or yoga to be disciplined and fit. You don't

have to do that. Yes, sir. No, it's not. Boxing

was developed in this country. It did spread

around the countries in the early 1800s, but

no, it didn't come from an occult root. But it

is violence. No violence is violence and yoga

is the practicing of divination and mysticism.

It's not the same. They're two they're two different

things question Pardon what what kind of wrestling

Okay, Greco Greco Roman Greco wrestling nothing

wrong with that as long as it's two guys doing

it Because musician anything else I only have

a few more minutes Yes Yes Yes Pilates you have

to get the book to find out of what it's connected

to and If I don't have some of these things in

the book email us and we will we will give you

the the answers to some of the things you're

answer Okay, one more question. Yes Okay, that's

Chinese practice that's so -called Yeah, they're

using it because their fingers are not working

and developing doing the things that they need

to do because the pressure that goes on a chiropractor,

my son is chiropractor, it reverberates back

into the person and the longevity of a chiropractor

is sharp if they're doing the right thing because

the pressure comes right back into them. Okay,

quickly, one more and I'm done. One more. Come

on. Okay. Yes. I can't see you. It is different.

That's called Taoism. And that's called yin and

yang. That's called many things. But you can't,

there's no such thing as an equal. The enemy

is not equal with God. Light and darkness are

not the same. They're both different, okay? Okay,

well I hope you understood some of those things.

Went a few minutes over my time. And so, I wanna

just pray for you if you've had any involvement.

Has anyone had involvement in martial arts and

yoga? One okay, so anyone else to anyone else

three, okay, I'd like for you to stand with me,

please You do understand what I'm talking about

And we need to renounce and reject those things

which we were involved in it is sin it is a soul

tie for many it is a a way in which the enemy

can work through our lives. And so today, if

you will repeat with me, I'd like to have everyone

stand on this because it's not just about them.

You may have children that are involved. You

may have grandchildren. You may have had people

that are suggesting or promoting it. So we want

to pray against that right now. We're responsible

wherever we're at not that you're involved or

not involved But in some way people that are

promoting it are involved in it are guilty of

the same thing father God in the name of Jesus

I renounce and I decree that I am free from the

forces of martial arts and yoga I reject the

powers behind them And I say I sever the soul

tie. Never again to go back to where I was and

to be free from the powers of martial arts and

yoga. I reject and I renounce every aspect of

these arts. Which are the black arts? They are

occult activities. and I reject them now and

I command anything that has entered my body through

this practice to be gone now in Jesus' name I

ask you Father to fill me afresh with your Holy

Spirit for the empty areas that I've rejected

with my involvement in martial arts and yoga

And I declare myself clean and holy before God.

I renounce the activities and all that they stand

for. And I command anything that may have affected

me or infected me to leave now in Jesus' name.

Let it be according to your prayer, according

to what you've declared in Jesus' name. If you

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