 in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 1 and verse 3. Ephesians chapter 2 verse 1 till verse 3. And you made He alive who were dead in trespasses and sins in which you want walks, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath just as others. Apostle Paul in Ephesians tells us we have four main enemies. The enemy number one is the world. He says we walked according to the course of this world. The world is not nature, maul and facebook. The world is the evil system that exists within our world that tries to seduce us and bring us away from the Lord. The second one we see is the devil who happens to be the prince of the air. The second one we see is the devil and the Bible describes devil here as very interesting. It describes him not as just a fallen angel, it describes him not as a fallen archangel, it says the devil is the prince of the air. Now we know God placed him under our feet. Being prince of the air we know that from the first book and the first verse in the Bible that God created the heavens and the earth means there are heavens, there's not one heaven, there's multiple of heavens. Most likely you know the first heaven is the one that you see that we call heaven is just you know the air around our earth and then the second heaven is the spiritual realm and then the third heaven is where God lives. And so Satan occupying the air indicates something right away about the demonic strategy is this is the devil will try to block your connection to God and God's connection to you. Satan's strategic place is not in hell, Satan's strategic place is in the air and he wants to block your prayers. That's why many times when you come to prayer and you pray and you feel like you're praying to the roof. You know why? Because Satan is the prince of the air. And he wants to block your prayer. And so and that's why Jesus gives us the power to throw him out of the air under our feet. Can somebody say amen? And so we see the third thing here is the sons of disobedience as one of our enemies. Now I understand the sons of disobedience. These are people who are not just living in life of disobedience once in a while. They have perfected it to such a degree that it has become their identity. They become sons of disobedience. They're not just doing it once in a while. They're living their life. And now we love all people, even the sons of disobedience. But you must understand this reason why it's our enemy is because it says in here, and the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience. If disobedience is just an act, it's just an act. If disobedience has become a habit, there is a spirit that works behind sons of disobedience. The same way there is a spirit that works behind the sons of God, there is a spirit that works behind the sons of disobedience. They're not just doing it on their own. And if you are here in this room today and maybe you find yourself in a category of the son of disobedience, I can tell you one thing about you. There's a lot of things you do you don't want to do. And you can't stop. Why? There's a spirit that works behind in the sons of disobedience. At first it started with the cigarette. It started with the bottle. It started with the nightclub. It started with one playboy magazine. But after an act became a lifestyle, a habit, and the demons work in the sons of disobedience. So that's a reminder to us who you surround yourself with. Because many times, like the testimony we've heard, you can be surrounded by sons and daughters of disobedience. We love them. But it's the demons that work behind them that will seek to attack you. Adam didn't fall into sin because he was deceived. Adam fell into sin because he hanged out with someone who was deceived, which happened to be his wife. When Satan couldn't confront Jesus in the wilderness, he used Peter to try to get to Jesus. Satan will always use those people close to you if they happen not to be sons of God, but sons of disobedience to attack you. This doesn't mean that you have to disconnect yourself from them, but maybe temporarily distance yourself. And people say, but I have the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost affects me. It's interesting when you put it in a bundle or you put on a table 20 good apples and one rotten apple. 20 apples will not make the rotten apple good apple. If you're just coming out of that lifestyle, the best thing to do is to leave the rotten apple away from you. And this idea that I'm going to win them to the Lord, because they are deeper in sin than you are in God, they'll win you over to the world. Once you get deeper in the Lord that they are in sin, see they're committed to drinking, you're not committed to prayer. They don't miss a nightclub. You miss night prayer. They're deeper in sin than you are in Christ. They will pull you over and quoting the scripture 300 miles per hour and having a bumper sticker is not going to save you there. It's who's deeper in that situation. And when you get deeper in the Lord, then you have more influence. That's why in the beginning, your priority has to be to be linked in the home group, to be linked in prayer in the word of God and to stay away because this could be a reason Satan will use to attack your life. And number four is the lust. It's our flesh. One of the enemies that we have is our flesh. It's not necessarily demonic. It's just, I always say the flesh is the devil's gift on your birthday. And unfortunately, all of us have unwrapped it and have been tormented by it. And you can't cast out the flesh. You can't come to prayer line, so we get rid of it. The only way you deal with the flesh is you crucify it and you submit your life to the word of God. Amen. I want to take a moment right now and deal with something that is, this is the foundational message today concerning the spiritual warfare. The Bible says, don't give place to the devil. And this speaks, I'm sorry, speaks to Christians. That means Christians are capable of giving place to the devil. Last year around summer, we all had a service in the park. And I had people that lived with us. And one of the requirements that anybody who lived with us, I always asked them, please lock the windows and not just close the windows, but lock the windows. Because how many of you know you can close the window and not lock the window? And so, but because people have hard hearts, sometimes they would not check, double check, you know, and when it's not your house, you don't care as much as it's in your own house. So sometimes I would even walk into the rooms and double check just in case and find out the windows to be open or doors left unlocked. And we were all worshiping God in the park having a fabulous time. And I come back to the house and I see in the house a wind. At first I thought it was like the wind of the Holy Spirit, you know. So I was like, oh, this is awesome. I felt something different. But I quickly realized the Holy Ghost isn't in this house yet. And so I check one of the rooms and I find out the window is open wide open. And I see fingerprints like a like a glove prints on the walls right away. And the screen is removed. And I quickly realized that our house got broken into. One of the reasons I realized the house is broken into is because the car was missing. It's kind of, duh. I looked through my stuff and I see all of our drawers are open. And for the first time I felt it almost feels like you're being violated when you just realize somebody went through your stuff. Nothing was taken except the car. And the car happened not to be mine. So there was a sense of relief. And the car was supposed to be given to somebody. And so if you can switch, that's actually the guy, that's the car that the person took. And so the person, the ironic part is the room that this person broke into, this person who lived with us happened to drive around Pasco, downtown, the midnight, that's another ironic thing, which we can go for another time. And so, and then this person finds out this car parked in downtown Pasco there with the note inside of the car. And I want you to see the note. I'm sorry for stealing. Now, unfortunately, Satan is a thief. You will never experience this with Satan. That's what I'm going to tell you up right away. But the person who stole in my house and broke into my house was studying me. They knew, they watched for nobody to be there. And they got me figured out and it took me once or someone in my house wants to make a mistake. This person didn't attack me. I've never seen him physically and I have never seen him before, never since him afterward. He never stabbed me. He never urged me. The only thing he did, he slipped into a window that was open, took something and left. It's interesting when Jesus talked about Satan, he says one of the first characteristics of Satan is he comes to steal. As a thief, he remains anonymous. As a thief, his goal is not to stay, but to steal. See, Satan comes to kill. That's when the demonic oppression and demonic possessing comes in. But the first strategy of Satan, if he cannot possess you and oppress you and torment you, he wants to sneak in, take stuff and leave. That's why sometimes you will feel like something is missing in my life. You know what's missing? It's whatever Satan took. How did he take it? There was an open door. I have about six windows and two doors and one garage door. After that, I realized I cannot rely on me or people living in my house to keep the windows and the doors locked. So I invented this Russian reinforcer. I'm giving you tips today of how to secure your life. The blood of Jesus and the fire of the Holy Ghost and wooden sticks from lows. What you do is you put these in. So even if you forget to lock the window and close the window, you stick them in so that nobody can open your window because they have this wooden piece. I installed cameras in my house. I bought fake stickers that say I have security in my house. And those of you who are getting ideas, I have cameras. You can't break in. And I started to, I bought locks that the moment I get out of my house, they self lock in 30 seconds. And so I reinforced why because I have valuables in my house and I don't want thieves to break in. Just last week, 25 break-ins happened in one week in Kenwick. There's one thing you're going to get out of coming to church today. Reinforce your house and your car. The Bible gives us at least 10 different windows to your personal life and your soul. And I want to mention them today. Not just to, but maybe to, if you're noticing something is missing in your life, to maybe to double check, is this part of my life open to demonic influence? And if it's not to just reinforce, one of the reasons we don't sin as Christians is not just so we stay away from jail and we don't go to hell and all that stuff. The reason why we don't sin as Christians is so Satan stays away from us. If there is no heaven and hell, if there is no eternity, I would still not want to sin just because I don't want to have a thief in my house. The same way I keep my windows and doors locked. Why? Because I want safe things in my house to be safe. And so the first open door that many times is mentioned in the Bible and that is a cult. That is the biggest one, horoscopes, Ouija boards, dream catchers, talking to the dead, all kinds of Ouija boards and connecting with the dead, levitation and every shape and form of a cult. Any teaching or a religion that does not believe in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord is in a cult, is in a cult. They might be good people, but deceived. Number two, the open door is disrespect for parents. Bible clearly indicates contempt for your parents is open door for curse. You can mark my word, no one who dishonors their parents will have a blessed life. You can have a PhD dishonoring your parents, but not a blessing. On your life, there is a curse. The Bible clearly states that you may say that's an old testament and everything. It's all over the Bible where disrespect for your parents is an open door for the devil. He might not oppress you and possess you, but he will take stuff. Number three, open door is injustice to weak and helpless. It's when you hurt the needy or people who are weak. I definitely believe if you commit abortion, you open the door to the demonic. God can forgive you, but you need to renounce that and you need to find freedom and reinforce your life by never doing it again because it's a murder. It's hurting someone who is weak and helpless and that is an open door for the demonic intrusion. The next one is illicit unnatural sex or incest. It's when people participate in sex that is not natural, illicit and the Bible mentions here things like sleeping with your mother or sleeping with your sister or sleeping, the things that are just unnatural and things that are illicit and especially having physical relationships with animals. The next one is anti-semitism. If you notice that in your family or even in yourself, you have this contempt or you have this hate toward the Jews or disrespect for the Jews, I truly believe you really need to double check how you became a Christian because every author of this book is Jewish. Your Savior is Jewish. He was born to a Jewish people and so and he's coming back not to America, New York, Washington, DC. He's coming back to Jerusalem and the Bible says the whole history is going to be around that nation and so you might not be part of that nation. You might not understand that nation but you have to have deep respect for that nation because that brings the blessing of God and your life. Can somebody say amen? The next open door and that we need to reinforce is accursed things. It's when you and I invite things into our house that have been dedicated to Satan and demons in the form of charms, in the form of dream catchers, in the form of things that have been, Bible calls it a vulnerable or cursed, they've been dedicated to Satan and demons. If you bring them, especially objects that you pick up on your traveling or you pick up sometimes an Indian reservation on things that have been accursed they can bring sickness, they can bring disease and they can bring nightmares and other attacks of Satan in your life. Sometimes actually there are accursed places, places where somebody committed suicide or places where murder happened could become hunted. Demons they get locked in that place and anyone who moves in there they seek to torment. For us as Christians it's very easy. If you have a title deed for that place anointing oil, anointing water, any other that's anointed you come, and you tell the devil you're not paying bills, get out. And that's it and you take authority over that and you live for the glory of God. I remember when me and my wife we bought our second duplex and we moved in there and it was a drug house. I checked the title make sure that they didn't have a lien toward the duplex and they said the lien is clean but the whole neighborhood knew. This is where they did drugs. I even know some people who got saved in the church who did drugs in my previous duplex. So I knew it was a drug house and so we took spray, we sprayed it with vinegar first, then I sprayed it with anointing water, vinegar was for the walls and anointing water was for the spirits and so we cleaned it up. As we started to clean the house I found out that in the basement there was a hole and a dead cat was buried there. And so I didn't, I sent somebody else to take it out and so we took it out. I remember I sprayed it and I knew that there was something unnatural about that. So I took the anointing water, sprayed it and anointing wall and everything and I just dedicated that house and everything unclean and I know God on purpose allowed us to find that cat to remove every cause of it because the last thing I wanted is sleep that I have nightmares and all kinds of demonic things that happen in my life. It's my house, we paid the bills and we're going to enjoy God's blessing but we have to remove the accursed things because somebody say amen. The next thing that opens the door is stealing and perjury. On your home group you will read the Zikariah chapter 5 verse 4 where God says person who steals will have a curse on their house and that the frame of their house is going to fall apart. It's actually crazy how stealing, perjury, taking stuff that's not yours destroys your finances, your retirement and everything that you have and it's an open door. If you steal whether it's cyber stealing, whether it's shoplifting, whether it's just taking things from your boss that you don't, earn, you must understand that is an open door for demonic intrusion. He might not possess you or torment you but he will take the opportunity to steal things from you and God doesn't want that to happen. The next one is stinginess toward God. We hear that verse all the time. The next one is offense. The Bible says the person who was had unforgiveness was delivered to torturous and tormentors and today in this message I just want to take a moment and pause on the last one. Murmuring. If you have your Bible I'm going to read in Numbers chapter 21 verse 4 until verse 6. Then they journey from Mount Hore by the way of the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom and the soul of the people became very discouraged on the way and the people spoke against God and against Moses. Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness for there is no food and there is no water and our soul loaths this worthless bread and the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit people and many of the Israel people of Israel died. I genuinely believe I'm not talking about occasional murmuring. I'm talking about a murmuring that has become part of your character that opens the door to demonic. Write this down murmuring or complaining does to Satan what worship does to God. God inhabits the praises of his people. Satan inhabits the complaints of his people. God seeks such that worship him in spirit and in truth. Satan seeks that that that complain to him and grumble and whine. What worship does to God grumbling, complaining, whining does to Satan. It's an open invitation for a snake bite. You might not have a snake in you but you will have it bite you. It's important to see this that murmuring and complaining is a character issue not a circumstance issue. Israel had more miracles happened to them in the wilderness than many of us will ever ever experience in our life. It's interesting none of the miracles ever fixed their complaining problem. The problem wasn't with circumstances. The problem was with character. It took one thing not to show up on time and they go again whining and complaining and complaining and whining and I want you to remember today that your character is not made up because of your circumstances. It's a byproduct of your choices. To blame your character on your circumstances is to blame your mirror for your bad hair. Your mirror only reflects that you have a bad hair. Your mirror didn't make it like that. Your circumstances only reflect that you are a complaining person. It didn't make you a complaining person. And Israel complained, complained, complained, complained and this was their character and yes they always blame the circumstances. Anytime people blame their circumstances, anytime people throw a self pity party, anytime people live in this wall little me all of that is a character. It's not your life situation problem and your character is a result of your choices. Your character is a result of your choices and the first change will happen how your character gets changed if you stop excusing your attitude and blaming it on your circumstances. Your life might be tough, your life might be rough but at the same time it is your character and that character opens the door for the demonic. Having a conversation with Bob Larson he told me something that really puzzled me. He said, Vlad two people can commit same sins even a cult. There can be two people can be involved in a cult. One person quickly just repents and everything is done with. The other person he said will have a demon tormented for the rest of their life and I said what is the secret? He says emotional and mental weakness. He says I've dealt with over 30,000 demonic cases and I can tell you one thing. If people grew up and inside of them there is that healthy emotional strength. He says demons are repelled by that. He says you have to understand demons respect human will. They respect human choice and they respect strong character. That's why you see people who are ungodly many times who will not even have demons because there is a strong character that is full of positivity and it repels demonic serpents. Demons are attracted to complaining people and maybe you excuse yourself today and you say the reason I am negative, the reason why I complain, the reason I whine all the time is because my life is tough. I have a news flash, you won't like it what I am going to say but the reason why you are complaining person because you are a complaining person. That's all. This manna that God gave them there was a miracle. You know what they said about it? Worthless. Why? Because when you are a complaining person you look for things to complain. You could praise God for a manna. It's angels food. You say it's worthless. Why? Because a complaining person like a magnet only gravitates and finds things to complain about and unfortunately not only you are hard to live with, not only it's hard to have you as a sibling, it's hard to have you as a spouse, it's hard to have you as a child, not only it's hard to have you as an employee or an employer, it's good to have you in the kingdom of darkness. Satan and demons we see clearly fiery serpents started to bite complaining people. You know what happened when they bit them? They became poisoned. Remember this. Complaining tolerated is faith contaminated. The way these demons hurt you is they contaminate you inside. Where your faith is contaminated you don't see beyond your present situation. You don't see beyond your sickness. You don't see beyond what somebody said. You literally you're stuck. The time is ticking. You're stuck. Everything moves forward except you and what those demons do they infuse you with poison. They contaminate your faith and when your faith is contaminated you're disillusioned. You're disoriented. You're confused. Everything is dark. You can be in the same situation as other people but you're lost. The only way to fix complaining, the only way to fix complaining is to replace it with Thanksgiving. That's all. There is no deliverance. You can't be delivered from this. You can only make a choice to be thankful. Bible says in Thessalonians this, in everything you have a job or you don't. People like you or they don't. You got laid off or you got promoted. You're sick or you're healthy. The doctor's report came positive or negative. In everything. See God knows what opens the door for the demonic and God is warning us and he is encouraging us. He says not for everything but in everything. You feel good or you don't feel good. In everything give thanks for this is the will of God. You want to know God's will for your life? Praise him in everything. You want to know what God wants you to do in this season of your life? Thank him in everything. See most of us say Thanksgiving is only for something. But God says Thanksgiving is in everything. You know what we're thankful for? Insom helps us to understand. Insom 100 verse 5 it says this. Enter into his gates with Thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Be thankful to him. This scripture revolutionize my praise because like many of us in here I thank God because I have a house. Mortgage paid for. My card and breakdown. Beautiful wife. I have a ministry. My health is good. Gaining new followers every day on Instagram. Praise be to God. That's a very big praise report. Everybody seems to like me. I have a watch that I like. I have a phone that I like and I have everything nice and so that is what I'm thankful for to God. The problem with that kind of a Thanksgiving it takes my phone to fall from my hand on the ground and my Thanksgiving went down with it. And God says in here what to thank him for. One of the reasons we don't thank God is because we thank God majorly for wrong things. He says to thank him for this. For the Lord is good. See we're thanking God because I am good. We thank God because my health is good. My finances is good. My relationship is good. But sometimes when it's not good God says still thank me because the Lord is good. I feel good. I don't feel good. But God is still good because somebody say amen. And then he says this. His mercy is everlasting. That means my situation is not everlasting. My situation will not last. My sickness will not last. Even if I don't get healed when I die my sickness will die with me. My problem will not last. God's mercy is everlasting. And then he says and his truth endures to all generation. That means nothing will endure in my life except God's truth. What God says about me will endure. That's why you have to praise. That's why you have to thank. If you don't develop a character of gratefulness and thankful to God you develop a sour this phase that you must have. You come to church and you must have got one today. We got one. They'll sit in church and we'll still hurt them. You can be on the worship team and have a bad heart. Character. You can be in a leadership team and have that character. It takes one small thing. One thing pastor said. One thing somebody did. Somebody said. Somebody gossiped. And that's it. And your face is sucked out. Somebody took a vacuum and took all of that stuff out because you're never really thankful to God because he is good. His mercy is everlasting. And his truth endures to all generation. You are thankful to God because you have a job and because you have clothes and because people like you. And that is a wrong reason to thank God for. Your character must be avoid empty of complaining because that opens the money. Even if you like to complain you cannot take the chance because demons will come to you. They will. You will feel that in your soul. Spirit of heaviness, spirit of fear and spirit of depression. In the conclusion of this message I want you to read with me Genesis. I want you to see the other side right now. Not demons but I want you to see something about angels. Genesis 31 and verse 10. And it happened at the time when the flocks conceived. I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream. And behold the ramps which leaped upon the flocks were. How do you pronounce that word? That's right. That's like that. Speckled and gray sparred. And the angel of God spoke to me in a dream saying Jacob. And I said here I am. He said lift your eyes now and see. Jacob is in a similar situation that Israel was in. Not only he was born second it was in his fault. He got one birthright. He got the blessing. He is leaving his father's house escaping for his life. He finally got a little breakthrough. He met the woman of his dream. He helped her out. He said something they probably he should have not said. He promised to work for her for seven years. Not a good idea. But nevertheless he was in love. He worked for seven years. They seemed like few days and the first night he sleeps with her. Wakes up in the morning finds out it's her sister. Talk about bad disappointment. You think you had a disappointment? Now that is a disappointment. The worst disappointment is he and that being married to both of them. Life can't get worse than that. Two sisters who were birthing children to compete for his attention. They didn't even want children. They just want his affection. And one is mad at the other one and they're fighting between themselves and this is how Jacob lives. And then finally when this stuff gets sorted out he's about to catch a break and label his boss the employer. Tricks him, dupes him 10 different times. He can't take him to court. He doesn't have a lawyer and he's stuck. Now if you've been that duped, lied to and deceived in your life. I'm pretty sure your head is gonna be down. But Jacob in this scripture we see Jacob said this, I lifted my eyes and I saw a dream. You know what I saw in the dream? He says I saw in a dream. The very sheep that Laban said will be mine. I saw that the best sheep. They were this kind of collar. They were this kind of stripes. I saw a dream. Jacob how could you see a dream when the only thing you've been seeing in your life is disappointment? See Laban took my years but not my focus. The devil can take things in your life but it's still your choice to keep your focus. You can lift your eyes and you can see a dream. It's interesting that the next verse it says the angel of the Lord came to Jacob and said Jacob lift your eyes and see the dream. And that angel produced a miracle where Jacob perceived exactly what he saw and from that point on Jacob's life the scale steeped and his life started to change. I want to tell you something today. Every person in this room has a dream. Only few of us actually see it in front of us because you have to lift your eyes. You've been lied to, deceived, undermined. You've had this addiction. You couldn't break. You feel you're unattractive. You may be ugly. You maybe don't have enough education. You were born on the side on the wrong side of the family. You haven't met your biological parents. Whatever the situation is you can murmur and complain and whine and snakes will bite you or you can in the midst of years of years and decades of failure and disappointment. You can lift your eyes and you said devil you can take anything you want to take in my life but you won't take my focus and you see the dream. Everybody has a dream but it's time to see the dream in your eyes. When you close your eyes what do you see? I remember I was in Spokane last Friday and the moment we started to worship I closed my eyes and I see a line of wheelchairs and I see them getting up. I opened my eyes and I closed them again and literally that's an image that started to get imprinted of people getting up out of wheelchairs of rose. I don't see that happening right now but you can lift your eyes and see a new vision. A vision of people getting out of wheelchairs. For me people being saved by hundreds and thousands. For you it's paying off your debt. For you maybe it's being healthy. For you maybe it's getting married. You have to see a dream not just have it on your phone. And that attracts the angels of God. The angels of God come and say Jacob listen up I'm gonna help you because you have a dream. Angels don't help those who have a nightmare. Satan can send you a nightmare at night. Ship it back to him in the morning and you raise your eyes and look and see a dream. Can somebody say amen? It's interesting because Jacob did not see what he wanted to not happen. Jacob saw what he wanted to happen. I found out this about faith. Faith is not what you don't want to happen in your life. Faith is what you do want to happen in your life. Anytime your faith is this I just I just hope he doesn't leave me. We just started to date. I just hope he doesn't leave me. We just got married I just hope he doesn't cheat on me. That's not faith. That's inviting demons. That's fear. That's reacting toward your fears but when you begin to expect the best the Bible says faith is substance of things hoped for. Not things feared of. I just hope I don't get sick. That's not what God is talking about here. It's when you look and you say I just hope I live 120 and thousands of people get healed through me. That is the faith God is looking for. Angels are attracted by dreams. Demons are drawn to complaining. What is your character like? You can change it today. Maybe you are a negative person. All of us are. But we can change it one thought at a time, one word at a time, one service at a time, one prayer at a time and have our faith be encouraged and have angels be drawn to our dreams and say I will partner with you. When I close my eyes I see Toyota center being filled with people. When I close my eyes I see a large warehouse where people from all around the world are coming and they're coming to be healed and they're coming to be saved and they're coming to be delivered. When I close my eyes I see thousands of home groups of people mentoring other people. When I close my eyes I see cancer healings being healed every single service and demons not being able to hide in people's lives. When I close my eyes I see some of you married. I see others of you owning a house, owning a car and blessing people with the car and blessing people with the job. Today you're asking God for promotion. Tomorrow you'll be giving promotion. When I close my eyes I see a dream. If you can see it, you can seize it and angels will be attracted to it. Thank you for watching this content. I hope this was a blessing to you. If you're like me and you like to click on things, click on this, subscribe to our channel and the content will come to you every time we post it. And remember, the best is yet to come.