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Fictional Kingdom | Evangelist Adrian Sanford

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  1. Hallelujah, someone thank the Lord for doing great things,

  2. greatest the Lord and greatly to be praised.

  3. Hallelujah. We love you Jesus.

  4. We love you Jesus. He's a good, good God.

  5. Thank you Lord, Amen. He's a good God, isn't he?

  6. And thankful for the Spirit of the Lord, Amen.

  7. Here tonight. God.

  8. Could just do things at the same time and it doesn't take him a

  9. long time and we can worship, we can praise, we can run, we can

  10. shout, we can hear the word, people can get the Holy Ghost,

  11. people get baptized. All that can happen in the same

  12. service. It's not like one has to replace

  13. the other one being no, no, no, it is a full package.

  14. This thing, the word faith and and his spirit, all that's a

  15. full package. Amen.

  16. I want all of it. We need all of it in this day.

  17. We need all of it in this day. We need to move with the Spirit,

  18. but we also need a word from God.

  19. We need all these various aspects and facets, Amen, of

  20. God's Kingdom. Amen today, if you'll stand with

  21. me tonight, Amen. Speaking of the word of the

  22. Lord, we're grateful for the word of the Lord that we heard,

  23. Amen this morning, that we took into our souls and our spirits.

  24. And we are happy to have Evangelist Adrian Rather Sanford

  25. with us here for the next few nights, Amen, In a few days of

  26. these series of services, Amen. We love and appreciate him and

  27. his obedience to the Word and to the will of God.

  28. Amen. We're just going to join in,

  29. aren't we? We're just going to get in the

  30. yoke with him tonight and work the land tonight.

  31. By the by the word of the Lord, will you make welcome one more

  32. time here this evening. Give God praise and glory as

  33. Evangelist Sanford comes Amen this evening.

  34. Amen. Let's give the Lord some praise

  35. in the house. Come on, let's praise Him for

  36. what he's already done, and let's praise Him for what he's

  37. going to continue doing in this house.

  38. Amen. I don't believe the Lord has

  39. finished just yet. And we've had a great move of

  40. the Holy Ghost and people being renewed and refreshed, and we're

  41. going to have the name of Jesus applied in just a few minutes.

  42. And I'll just echo what Brother Mcgee's already said.

  43. The Lord can do a whole lot in a short amount of time.

  44. And if you're here and you've never been baptized in Jesus

  45. name, the waters are about to be troubled in the next few

  46. minutes. I'm glad to know that when we

  47. get baptized, we do more than just get wet.

  48. It's more than just a feel good moment.

  49. We do feel good. But you enter into a covenant

  50. relationship with the Lord. His name's applied to your life.

  51. His blood covers your life. And you're no longer at a

  52. disadvantage. You're no longer the victim.

  53. Amen. Thank God for baptism in His

  54. name. Neither is there salvation in

  55. any other, for there is no other name given among men under

  56. heaven whereby we must be saved. Amen.

  57. Whatsoever you do, in Word or in deed, do it all in the name of

  58. Jesus. Amen.

  59. I'm glad that I've got the name applied to my life.

  60. And if you don't have the name applied to your life, just be

  61. like that eunuch. Why, Terrius thou there's much

  62. water here. Amen.

  63. Amen. This is.

  64. What revival's all about this is what?

  65. Revival's all about Amen and I'm just excited about what the Lord

  66. is. Doing and what the Lord.

  67. Is going to continue to do not just through the week, but what

  68. he's going to continue to do tonight.

  69. I believe the Lord is going to do great things in this house.

  70. Amen. If you have your Bibles, I will

  71. go quickly to 2nd Corinthians chapter #10 and I will read

  72. verses 3 through 6. And there are a lot of times

  73. when evangelists go in to preach, people say, oh, you

  74. already know what you're going to preach before you get there.

  75. Sometimes that's true and sometimes it's not true.

  76. And in fact, it was during the service this morning that I felt

  77. direction for the service tonight.

  78. And I feel a confirmation of the Holy Ghost in this house.

  79. The Lord's going to help some of us.

  80. He's going to help all of us if we'll let him.

  81. Amen. I give honor to brother and

  82. Sister McGee again. Love and appreciate them and

  83. give them honor tonight. Give honor to your Bishop and

  84. his wife as well. And for all of you for being in

  85. the House of the Lord. And thank you for the invitation

  86. and for the room and the gift basket for the toy trucks and

  87. football. Amen.

  88. It's just good to be here. Second Corinthians chapter #10

  89. and verse #3 through verse number six says for though we

  90. walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh.

  91. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through

  92. God to the pulling. Down of.

  93. Strongholds. Everybody say strongholds,

  94. casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth

  95. itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity

  96. every thought to the obedience of Christ, and having a

  97. readiness or having any readiness to revenge all

  98. disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

  99. Though we walk after the. Flesh we do not war after the

  100. flesh. Bible says that we cast down

  101. imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself

  102. against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every

  103. thought to the obedience of Christ.

  104. My title tonight is 2 very simple words I want to preach to

  105. you tonight on this subject. Fictional Kingdom.

  106. Fictional Kingdom. How many wants to move with the

  107. Holy Ghost in this house tonight?

  108. Amen. Why don't we one more time lift

  109. our hands before we're seated? And as our hands are lifted, why

  110. don't we once again join our voices together?

  111. Let's open up our. Hearts and our spirits for the

  112. next few moments where the word have recourse.

  113. Lord, let there be liberty and the Holy Ghost in this room.

  114. I bind every work of the enemy right now, every spirit of

  115. distraction. Confirm your word with signs

  116. following, Confirm your word with signs following in Jesus

  117. name. And why don't you give the Lord

  118. another great handclap of praise all over the house, and you may

  119. be seated. Thank you for standing Kingdom.

  120. It is a term that was first used in the 1700s by the Swedish

  121. botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician Karl Linnaeus.

  122. Linnaeus's claim to fame was that he was the first individual

  123. who formalized the binomial nomenclature, or the modern

  124. system of naming organisms. And while most scientists today

  125. believe that there are at least 5.

  126. Kingdoms some. Argue that there's even 6.

  127. Carleneus was the first scientist who said that there

  128. were two kingdoms, an animal Kingdom and a plant Kingdom.

  129. The good news is I haven't come to bore you with a biology

  130. lesson on a Sunday night revival service.

  131. But my task in this room is going to go beyond the physical,

  132. tangible Kingdom. The you and I are a.

  133. Part of because I've come. To remind us.

  134. That we all are or we also have two other.

  135. Kingdoms that are very much at play in the present hour that we

  136. live in. You see the two kingdoms that

  137. I've come to talk. About goes beyond that fleshly

  138. animal Kingdom that you and I belong to, because they are.

  139. Kingdoms that deal with spiritual.

  140. Matters, and even though they are.

  141. Spiritual. Kingdoms they are just as.

  142. Real as the kingdoms, we learned.

  143. About in a science class, you see there is an.

  144. Animal Kingdom and there. Is a plant Kingdom.

  145. And there are at. Least three to four other.

  146. Kingdoms depending on who you. Ask but I've.

  147. Come to remind everybody in this room that we as the church are

  148. an integral part, and when Speaking of God's Kingdom, the

  149. Bible has many things to say about.

  150. It Psalm one O 3 and 19. Declares that the Lord hath

  151. prepared his throne in the. Heavens and His Kingdom.

  152. Ruleth over all, Daniel 244 says, and in the days of these.

  153. Kings. Shall the God of heaven set up a

  154. Kingdom which shall never be destroyed?

  155. And the Kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it

  156. shall. Break in pieces and consume.

  157. All of these kingdoms and it shall stand.

  158. Forever, Matthew. Chapter 16.

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  159. The Lord says to Peter, Upon this rock I will build my

  160. church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it,

  161. and I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of.

  162. Heaven and. Whatsoever thou shalt bound on

  163. earth shall be. Bound in heaven and.

  164. Whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

  165. Matthew 24 says in this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be.

  166. Preached in all the. World for a witness unto all

  167. nations. And Luke chapter 1 says, Behold,

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  168. thou shalt. Conceive in thy womb.

  169. And bring forth a son, and call his name Jesus, and he shall

  170. reign over the House of Jacob Forever.

  171. And of his Kingdom there shall be no end.

  172. Ladies and gentlemen, can I remind you that God has a

  173. Kingdom? And since the moment he

  174. established His Kingdom, there has been nothing like it.

  175. Because it is a supernatural Kingdom.

  176. It is a Kingdom of power, dominion, and authority.

  177. You see, God's Kingdom is His still exercised in earth as it

  178. is in heaven. You see, in God's Kingdom there

  179. is forgiveness of sins. In God's Kingdom there is

  180. newness of life. In God's Kingdom there are

  181. miracles, signs and wonders. There is deliverance and

  182. spiritual breakthroughs. This is why when Jesus announced

  183. the good news of the Kingdom, sin and sickness, demons,

  184. poverty and death could not remain, because there is nothing

  185. like the Kingdom of God and there is nothing like being a

  186. part of the Kingdom of God. Can I tell this congregation you

  187. are a part of something that will never be conquered?

  188. You are a part of something that will never be destroyed.

  189. We are a part of the Kingdom that has no end.

  190. But honesty demands me to tell this congregation that while God

  191. has a Kingdom, Satan also has a Kingdom.

  192. I need you to understand this as we go into the heart of the

  193. sermon. Satan has a Kingdom.

  194. This is why Matthew chapter 12 says Jesus knew their thoughts

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  195. and said unto them, Every Kingdom divided against itself

  196. is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided

  197. against itself shall not stand. And if Satan cast out Satan, he

  198. is divided, How shall then his Kingdom stand?

  199. You see, the Bible not only sheds light on God's Kingdom,

  200. but it also sheds light on Satan's Kingdom because in Luke

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  201. chapter 4, it tells us that Satan's Kingdom influences the

  202. kingdoms of this world. In Ephesians chapters 2 and six,

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  203. his Kingdom operates in the atmospheric heavens, and in

  204. Colossians chapter 1, his Kingdom is a Kingdom of

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  205. darkness. And when you begin to look at

  206. Satan's Kingdom, you understand that it is diametrically opposed

  207. to God's Kingdom. You see, God's Kingdom is a

  208. Kingdom of light, but Satan's Kingdom is a Kingdom of

  209. darkness. God's Kingdom is a Kingdom of

  210. holiness and righteousness, but Satan's is sin and

  211. unrighteousness. God has a Kingdom that is built

  212. on truth, but Satan's is built on deception.

  213. In God's Kingdom there's healing and health, but in Satan's

  214. there's sickness and death. In God's Kingdom there is joy,

  215. unspeakable and full of glory, but in Satan's Kingdom there is

  216. sorrow, anxiety, and discouragement.

  217. Everything in Satan's Kingdom is a direct attack and completely

  218. counters everything that God has established in his Satan has a

  219. throne. He has doctrines and men that

  220. willingly preach it. He has a table of communion.

  221. He has people that sacrifice on his altar.

  222. He has the ability to pose as an Angel of light.

  223. He also has the ability to perform counterfeit miracles,

  224. signs, and wonders. He has false apostles and false

  225. prophets and false teachers. There's even a city called

  226. Mystery Babylon that opposes New Jerusalem.

  227. He has a harlot church that opposes the bride of Christ.

  228. I've come to remind everybody in this room that Satan, the very

  229. entity we battle with, has a Kingdom.

  230. And because he has a Kingdom, that means he has power.

  231. I can say Satan has power because you cannot have a

  232. Kingdom without having power. This is why Ephesians teaches us

  233. that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against

  234. principalities and powers. And Satan's going to use that

  235. power whenever he finds an opportunity.

  236. I've come to tell you that he's going to use that power to

  237. attack our churches. He's going to use that power to

  238. attack our homes, our marriages, and our families.

  239. He's going to, he's going to do his best to trouble our hearts,

  240. vex our minds, and oppress our spirit.

  241. God has a Kingdom, but Satan also has a Kingdom.

  242. He has a Kingdom. He has power.

  243. But I've got good news to tell you on a Sunday night, and that

  244. is if you've been to Calvary, if you've repented of your sins,

  245. been baptized in Jesus name and received the gift of the Holy

  246. Ghost, if you've been born of the water and of the Spirit,

  247. Satan no longer has power over you.

  248. This is why Colossians teaches us that when Jesus went to the

  249. cross, he spoiled principalities and powers.

  250. He stripped tail of all of its power.

  251. He stripped the enemy of all of his authority.

  252. And if we've obeyed the gospel, his power and authority has been

  253. stripped away over our life. Jesus tells us that when a

  254. stronger one than he is going to come and overcomes him, he's

  255. going to take away his armor, those things he trusted in, and

  256. divides his spoils. You know who Jesus is talking

  257. about? He's talking about himself, he

  258. said. Because when I go to Calvary,

  259. when I die on the cross, I'm going to strip hell.

  260. I'm going to strip the enemy of all of his power.

  261. Thank God the stronger man came. Thank God he spoiled

  262. principalities and powers. So if Satan no longer has power

  263. over us, why is it that I still see individuals, individuals who

  264. have obeyed the Gospel, still living under the power of hell?

  265. How is it that Satan still has power over people?

  266. Not just power against them, but power over them?

  267. See, it's one thing to have power against somebody.

  268. It's something entirely different to have power over

  269. somebody. So where does Satan get his

  270. power over us from? I've come with the answer.

  271. He gets His power over us from us.

  272. You see, men and women, humanity is composed of body, soul, and

  273. spirit. If you're filled with the Holy

  274. Ghost, he cannot touch your spirit.

  275. And because of this, he's going to attack your body and soul in

  276. order to get to your spirit. But I have not come to preach

  277. about the attack on the body, But my focus in this room is the

  278. attack on the soul, because soul throughout the Scripture is

  279. often translated to mean the mind.

  280. There is a battle for the spirit of every man and woman in this

  281. room. There is a battle for the body

  282. of every man and woman in this room.

  283. But Brother McGee, I've come to learn that the greatest battle

  284. anybody will fight is the battle of the soul.

  285. It is the battle of the mind. The book of Daniel prophecies

  286. this very thing. Daniel said there's a day coming

  287. when the Antichrist will change the times, seasons and wear out

  288. the Saints. Can I tell you he's changing the

  289. times and he's changing the seasons, but he's also wearing

  290. out the Saints because that phrase, wear out the Saints

  291. means to cause mental anguish or to attack somebody in their

  292. mind. Then can I tell you that Paul

  293. already told us that the spirit of Antichrist is already at

  294. work. He's already attacking us.

  295. He's already causing mental anguish.

  296. There may be people in this room who's in a spiritual struggle.

  297. There may be people in this room who's in a physical struggle,

  298. but I've come to preach the people in in this room who finds

  299. themselves in the midst of a mental struggle.

  300. You see, there's three sources of thought.

  301. We get our thoughts from one of three places ourselves, from God

  302. or from Satan, and it's imperative that we are able to

  303. discern the origin of every thought we have.

  304. This is why you can't believe everything you think.

  305. Because everything you think doesn't come from you, and it

  306. doesn't come from God. This is why Paul says in our

  307. text that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but

  308. mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.

  309. First of all, we must understand what a stronghold is.

  310. That word stronghold comes from the Greek word which means a

  311. fortress or a castle. Secondly, we we must know where

  312. the stronghold is. We've got to know where the

  313. castles are being built. This is why on the next verse,

  314. Paul says that you've got to cast down imaginations and every

  315. high thing you've got to bring into captivity every thought.

  316. You've got to understand that Paul is rotting about a

  317. stronghold and he tells us what it is, and he tells us, tell us

  318. where it is. He said the enemy has a

  319. stronghold. He's built a castle, that's what

  320. it is. But then he tells us where it

  321. is. He said the enemy desires to

  322. build a stronghold. He wants to build a castle.

  323. In the minds of every individual, that word stronghold

  324. is a unique word in the Greek language.

  325. It comes from the word archeroma.

  326. In fact, it's one of the oldest New Testament words, and it was

  327. originally used to describe a fortress or a castle.

  328. You see, because ancient castles have thick, high, impregnable

  329. walls that were designed to keep outsiders from scaling the walls

  330. or breaking in. Those walls were intended to

  331. keep the enemy outside. That was the original meaning of

  332. the word archeroma. But as time begins to pass, the

  333. word strongholder Orcheroma also became known as the same were

  334. used to describe a prison. You see, since prisons are

  335. highly guarded and very secure, they under we understand that

  336. prisons are used to keep insiders from getting out.

  337. So you've got to get this because Paul is wanting us to

  338. understand that castles are built to keep outsiders from

  339. getting in, but prisons are built to keep insiders from

  340. getting out. God, he can put good godly

  341. thoughts in our mind, and from those thoughts he can build a

  342. castle that keeps the enemy from getting in.

  343. But the devil also complain of thought in our mind, and from

  344. those thoughts he can build a prison that keeps us from

  345. getting out. It's possible to be a prisoner

  346. of your own mind. I've often had people ask the

  347. question, why does the enemy attack our minds the way he

  348. does? Although it's difficult to

  349. determine the exact number, scientists estimate that we as

  350. humans have between 12,000 to 70,000 faults a day.

  351. We experience the present, the here and now in three second

  352. chunks, and while it may only last three seconds, during these

  353. three second thoughts, different pathways were formed as we

  354. think, and this 3 second thought will become the catalyst of how

  355. we feel in that moment. The evolving science of

  356. neuroplasticity shows that parts of our brain light up in

  357. response to different stimuli or how we feel.

  358. That's why in a matter of moments, we can go from feeling

  359. happy to sad. And it's all because of a three

  360. second fault in our brain. And that three second fault can

  361. drastically affect the rest of our day, our week, the month,

  362. years, or even a lifetime. I'm convinced that's why the

  363. enemy attacks the mind because he understands that if I can

  364. plant a fault in somebody's mind and if they don't cast that

  365. thought down, it will ultimately affect their outlook and their

  366. emotions. And all it takes is 3 seconds.

  367. And if I don't cast the thought down, it is in that moment that

  368. Satan begins to build a castle. It is in that moment that Satan

  369. begins to establish his Kingdom. See, when we think of Satan

  370. building kingdoms, we think of Satan established the

  371. strongholds. We often think of cities or

  372. territories, don't we? We can look at certain cities in

  373. America and realize that there are certain strongholds in that

  374. region. Some are controlled by sexual

  375. strongholds, others are controlled by strongholds of

  376. abuse and murder. Some are controlled by spirits

  377. of indifference. They are religious spirits, and

  378. the list goes on and on. But I've come to inform you that

  379. there is another stronghold. There is another castle we

  380. hardly speak of, and it's the stronghold.

  381. It is the castle that hell is built in our minds.

  382. You see, I haven't come to preach about the stronghold in

  383. this city, but I've come to preach about the stronghold that

  384. Paul warned us about. I've come to preach about the

  385. castle that hell is built in our minds.

  386. And all it took was a three second thought.

  387. The greatest piece of real estate Satan can control is not

  388. a city or a territory. The greatest piece of real

  389. estate the enemy can control is our mind, because he understands

  390. that if I can control your mind, I'll control your emotions, and

  391. if I control your emotions, I can control your actions.

  392. Boy, I feel my Holy Ghost. Now, how many of us are being

  393. demonically tormented? See, we have trouble with that

  394. statement, don't we? Because when we think of people

  395. being tormented demonically, we think about those in the Bible

  396. growling and breaking chains and gnashing teeth and eating

  397. chickens. But can I tell you, not all

  398. demonic torment is visible. Not all demonic torment is

  399. public for everybody to see. We struggle with that because in

  400. the Bible it's very public. It's very, in fact, if you were

  401. demon possessing the Bible, the entire seating you.

  402. That's why Legion is chained up in the graveyard because they

  403. can't do anything with him. So let's just chain him up.

  404. Let's put him in a remote area and hopefully he'll leave

  405. everybody alone. Ladies and gentlemen, if you

  406. were possessed or tormented by the enemy in the Bible,

  407. everybody knew it. But doesn't it seem odd though

  408. we don't have a lot of those encounters anymore.

  409. I remember growing up and I think I'm in a church that knows

  410. what I'm talking about right now, Brother McGee.

  411. I remember growing up when people came in under the

  412. influence of a unclean spirit to we got the kids out of the

  413. building. In fact, I remember sinners got

  414. out because they realize I'm not right and I better get out of

  415. here. I remember those open

  416. manifestations. I remember those public displays

  417. of demonic oppression. But isn't it amazing that we

  418. don't see it much anymore? I begin to think about that some

  419. time ago, and I believe that. Strategy of hell has changed.

  420. Because he wants to be harder to identify.

  421. That's why Colossians teaches us that Satan's Kingdom is a

  422. Kingdom of darkness, which means he operates outside of light.

  423. He's a serpent. He doesn't want to be exposed.

  424. He operates in the darkness. He operates in the shadows.

  425. And so I've come to learn that Satan doesn't want to make a

  426. scene out of our life as much as he just wants to stop our life

  427. then humiliate us in public because his main priority is to

  428. stop us. And he stops us by putting a

  429. three second thought in our mind.

  430. And slowly but surely over time he begins to build a castle.

  431. Because the spiritual battleground of this generation

  432. is the mind. That's why Paul told us in

  433. Second Corinthians that I am afraid that as the serpent

  434. deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds rising and demonic

  435. thoughts are the most private form of oppression anybody can

  436. have. Because we may not be breaking

  437. chains, we may not be rolling in the floor, we may not be foaming

  438. at the mouth, but he can torment us because he planted a thought

  439. in our mind. And because of that one three

  440. second thought, he begins to build a Kingdom.

  441. He begins to exercise power and authority, and nobody else may

  442. see it, nobody else may be aware of it, and it's because Satan

  443. has shifted his strategy. If I can put just one thought in

  444. somebody's mind and they don't handle it properly, I can

  445. exploit every area of their life.

  446. And now he has power over us because he's built a Kingdom.

  447. In our mind. I'm talking about thoughts of

  448. fear, thoughts of anxiety, thoughts of worry, thoughts of

  449. comparison, thoughts of low self esteem, insecurity,

  450. hopelessness, depression, self hatred, shame.

  451. I don't feel worthy, thoughts like my prayers will never be

  452. answered, or thoughts like I'll never come out of this, or

  453. thoughts like I'll never be healed.

  454. Or thoughts like I should just quit the church.

  455. Thoughts like I should divorce my spouse.

  456. I should just quit the ministry. All it takes is a three second

  457. window and if it's not cast down, he's going to build his

  458. Kingdom and use his power over us and we will live our life

  459. believing it. I, unchallenged, will eventually

  460. become the truth. See, castles are not built at

  461. once. Strongholds are not built at

  462. once, but they're built 1 brick at a time, one day at a time.

  463. And can I tell you, Satan doesn't build his Kingdom in our

  464. mind all at once, But brick by brick, lie by lie, deception by

  465. deception, he begins to build it.

  466. And even though we know what he's telling us is a lie, a lie

  467. unchallenged will eventually become the truth.

  468. Why do you think? Solomon says.

  469. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

  470. That word thinketh is the word that means a gatekeeper.

  471. Because whatever or however you think determines what has access

  472. in your life. How you see yourself and what

  473. you think of yourself and how you even talk about yourself is

  474. eventually what you're going to become.

  475. Because as a man thinketh, he's going to open up his heart and

  476. he's going to give access to God or he's going to give access to

  477. the enemy. I've come compelled by the Holy

  478. Ghost to preach the people in this room.

  479. I feel my Holy Ghost now. I've come to preach the people

  480. in this room and I'm talking to people that hell has told you

  481. lies. Hell is shown as deception.

  482. But I've come to tell everybody in this room.

  483. I don't know what Hell's been telling some of you, but I'm

  484. rising tonight on a Sunday night to inform you that everything

  485. the devil has told you is a lie. The Kingdom that Satan has

  486. built, the Kingdom that Satan is trying to build in some of your

  487. minds, is fiction. It is often asked, what is the

  488. difference between fiction and non fiction?

  489. To put it as plainly as I can, fiction is based on imagination,

  490. but non fiction is based on facts and reality.

  491. And for that reason alone, I can boldly declare to this

  492. congregation that everything hell has told you is a lie.

  493. Those thoughts he's put in your mind, it's not based on facts.

  494. It's not based on reality. He's building a Kingdom.

  495. I wish somebody would get a hold of this right now.

  496. I've come to expose the enemy. I've come to call the devil what

  497. he is. He's a liar.

  498. He's a liar. I've come to tear down the

  499. facade. I've come to pull back the

  500. curtain and remind you of what the devil is.

  501. He's a liar and everything that comes from him.

  502. I didn't come to play games tonight.

  503. I've come to preach a prophetic word in this house and tell you

  504. you can't believe everything you think because every thought's

  505. not yours and every thought doesn't come from God.

  506. Satan has a Kingdom because the Bible talks about it.

  507. He has a Kingdom in the earth, is very much real, but the

  508. Kingdom in your mind is not real.

  509. It's a fictional Kingdom. You've got to remember that

  510. there's three sources of thought from God, ourselves, and the

  511. devil. And when the devil plants a

  512. thought, you've just got to remind yourself everything that

  513. comes from hell is a lie. Because he's not just a liar, He

  514. is the father of all lies. Lies originate with him.

  515. That's why Jesus looked at the Pharisees one day and he said,

  516. you remind me of your father, the devil.

  517. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in

  518. truth. When he speaks a liar, he speaks

  519. of his own because he is a liar and the Father of all eyes.

  520. I've come to sound an alarm in this house and tell you it's

  521. time to cast down those thoughts.

  522. It's time to take dominion over every lie of the enemy.

  523. He's told some of you. You're not good enough.

  524. Long enough. He's trying to convince some of

  525. you that God doesn't love you. He's trying to tell others he'll

  526. never forgive you. He's trying to tell some of us

  527. you'll never recover and you'll never be used and you can't go

  528. to heaven and your family won't be saved and your body won't be

  529. healed and God won't give you a miracle.

  530. I rebuke that lie in this house. I rebuke that lie in Jesus name.

  531. Name. I wish I had about 10 people

  532. that got a hold of what the Holy Ghost is trying to say right

  533. now. There's victory in the house,

  534. there's victory in the house. You've got to take the thought

  535. and cast it down. I'm talking about a lie that

  536. says the church doesn't care about you.

  537. I'm talking about a lie that says nobody loves you.

  538. You're better off the enemy. He's a liar.

  539. You're not a loser. You're not a failure.

  540. You're not worthless. You're not.

  541. Listen, you've got to cast it down.

  542. You've got to pull down the Kingdom.

  543. Why do you think people live in such oppression and such

  544. depression all their life? It's because they bought into

  545. the lie of the enemy. Well, Mama was like.

  546. This. I'll be like this.

  547. Well, Grand Mama was like this. I'll be like this.

  548. I've come to tell you there is a Kingdom in the shroom that has

  549. to be brought down, and I feel just like the walls of Jericho

  550. begin to fall. There's some walls of the enemy

  551. that he's built up. It's about to fall in this house

  552. because you're about to realize he's a liar.

  553. Everything that comes from him is not true.

  554. You've just got to choose which Kingdom is going to stand and

  555. which Kingdom is going to fall. Why do you think the Bible has

  556. so much to say about the mind? Thou will keep him in perfect

  557. peace. His mind, He stayed on thee.

  558. Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the

  559. renewing of your mind. Finally, brethren, whatsoever

  560. things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever

  561. things are just pure lovely of good report.

  562. If there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think all of

  563. these things. I'll tell you what you need to

  564. think about. You need to think about things

  565. that are true. You need to think about things

  566. that are honest. You need to think about those

  567. things that are pure and lovely. And there's just going to be

  568. times that we've all got to remind ourself that I am a child

  569. of God and God does love me and He does love me enough to give

  570. me His Spirit. And He does have a plan for my

  571. life. And I do fit into the church.

  572. And I am more than a conqueror and I am an overcomer.

  573. I'm going to be the head and not the tail.

  574. I'm going to be above and not beneath.

  575. He's going to bless my going out and my coming in.

  576. If it's true, that's what you've got to think on, because if you

  577. change the way you think, you'll change the way you talk.

  578. Stop thinking and dwell on what the.

  579. Enemy's told you. And it's time to start walking

  580. and believe in what God says about you.

  581. For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the

  582. Lord. Thoughts of peace and not of

  583. evil, to give you an expected end.

  584. I know the thoughts that I have towards you.

  585. I say it's time that we If God has good thoughts toward us,

  586. it's time for me to have good thoughts toward myself, He said.

  587. I want to give you an expected end.

  588. God says everything's going to be all right, and at some point

  589. I've got to believe it for myself.

  590. If God has an expected end for me, I want to be a part of it.

  591. I just have to tear down the Kingdom.

  592. That the enemy is built. Do you think if the devil could

  593. have really done what he. Told job he was going to do, he

  594. would have just. Done it.

  595. Here's the thing about the story of Job the Devil gave him.

  596. I'm talking to somebody right now.

  597. The enemy's told you, you're not going to pull through the enemy.

  598. You're not going to be saved. If that was true, he would just

  599. do it. I wish somebody in this room

  600. right now, I wish there was about 10 others that believed

  601. it. Everything he's telling you is a

  602. lie. If he could have killed you, he

  603. would have already done it. If he was going to destroy you,

  604. he would have already done it. Come on, I feel the holy you're

  605. trying to get in this house right now.

  606. I wish somebody would tear it down and say I believe the lie

  607. long enough. I bought into the lie long

  608. enough. If he could have done it, he

  609. would have already done it. Somebody ought to lift your

  610. voice and say, my family's coming out of this.

  611. Somebody ought to lift your voice and say, I'm not going to

  612. live like this another day. If hell could have killed me, he

  613. would have already done it. But if he says I'm not going to

  614. make it, it's a lie. I've come to rebuke that lie

  615. that says you can't have revival.

  616. I've come to rebuke that lie that says you can't have a

  617. harvest. I've come to rebuke that lie

  618. that says the church can't grow everything that comes from the

  619. enemy. Come on.

  620. Those about 5 of you ought to step out right now.

  621. You ought to come out of your seats and say the lie.

  622. Stop now. The kingdom's being torn down

  623. now. Come on every how things got to

  624. come down. You've got to cast down every

  625. imagination. You've got to pull down the

  626. stronghold. You've got to pull down

  627. everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.

  628. I'm done preaching. If you're tired of the enemy

  629. lying, if you're tired of the lies, it's time to step out.

  630. Right now by faith and say it's going to come down today.

  631. Come on, I know there's more than just two or three because I

  632. know the thoughts I have towards you, saith the Lord.

  633. Thoughts of peace and not of evil.

  634. It's time to look at our self the way God looks at us.

  635. It's time to see ourself the way God sees us.

  636. Come on, don't resist what the Holy Ghost

  637. trying to do right now. Don't resist what the Holy Ghost

  638. is trying to do. It's time to let the Holy Ghost

  639. come in this room. It's time to let the Spirit of

  640. God tear down every wall, tear down every lie, and tear down

  641. every spirit of deception. Come on, there's some.

  642. Young people in this house, you need to tune out what the

  643. enemy's been trying to tell you. You need to turn a deaf ear to

  644. everything. Hail's trying to whisper in your

  645. ear, telling you you're not worthless, telling you you might

  646. as well just quit the church, tell you there's no future in

  647. living for God. You need to turn a deaf ear to

  648. it now. Hikata La La Bo Yoko shota.

  649. I. This is what we're going to do.

  650. They're. About to sing whatever they feel

  651. to do. Brother McGee, he takes 39

  652. stripes for our healing. He sheds blood for the body, and

  653. then he sheds blood on Calvary for our spirit.

  654. But. Can I tell you he shed blood 1/3

  655. time? It's when a crown of thorns was

  656. pushed down in his brow. It's almost like the Lord.

  657. Says I'm not leaving this. Earth until I shed blood for the

  658. body, the spirit, and your mind how many times do we plead the

  659. blood for God to heal us because the.

  660. Healing's in the Atonement. He shed blood for you to be

  661. healed, but he also shed blood for us to be saved at Calvary.

  662. But I'm telling. You he also shed blood so we

  663. could have victory. Over our mind.

  664. Back Why do you think Golgotha means the?

  665. Place of the skull. If you looked out at Jeremiah's

  666. grotto, it literally looked like a skull.

  667. Because of all the caves and everything that had been

  668. excavated out of that hill. Well, Brother McGee, what's

  669. amazing to me is that when you looked at Calvary's heel and saw

  670. that skull, there was a cross. Right in the middle of it.

  671. Because he. Said I'm going to shed blood.

  672. For every. Aspect of your life I.

  673. Wonder right now if we all could just put our hands on our head.

  674. They're about to sing, do whatever they feel to do.

  675. But I think we ought to take dominion.

  676. Right now, over our thoughts, we ought to take dominion over

  677. every thought. That comes into our mind.