 So this we had a lady we have people who got healed in our church of deafness and there was this guy who went to the doctor and they gave him a New hearing aid and this hearing aid was like a new new really amazing thing And so they gave him this hearing aid and the doctor promised him that he will be able to hear a hundred percent this man was completely deaf and He goes back home to the family and you know, he's able to hear every single thing They're saying it comes back to the doctor and the doctor says so you got the new hearing aid How do you like about The idea of being able to hear everything again. He says this is spectacular amazing and they told him did you tell your family? He said no, I didn't But I've been sitting at the dinner tables and he says in the past two weeks. I have changed my will three times Because now he was able to hear and he heard some things that were not good and that allowed him to change his will You want to have you ever had something that happened to you where you either send a text message to somebody and you send the text message about somebody to somebody and it happened to me once there's a girl who used to be in our church and Well, she was doing some things that I wanted her to change doing and I send a cell leader to talk to her Make sure she changes her behavior Well, the problem is I didn't send the text message to the cell leader I send the text message to her But to sell the cell leader to change her and you know She needs to repent and all this stuff and she replied back and she says well, I got it And then I just I just felt so bad literally I just wanted to rapture to happen that moment but you have no idea the feeling that you feel and then seeing this person next day in church and It was not beautiful, but sometimes it happens to that So we always have to be careful what we say and how we say to people in Jesus name, amen If you have your Bible, let's go together to the word of God first Samuel chapter 16 verse 14 and Few more verses down first Samuel chapter 16 verse 14 and Everybody let's open up our Bibles whether on your device or with your neighbor or on your phone Or a physical Bible if you have one first Samuel chapter 16 verse 14 and verse 15 But the spirit of the Lord departed Saul and the distressing spirit from the Lord troubled him Saul's servants if you have a pen and you're able to underline your Bible you can underline Saul's servants said to him just underline those few words Surely a distressing spirit from the Lord is troubling you Let our master now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful player on the harp And it shall be when he will play with his hand and distressing spirit from the Lord is upon you You shall be well and said and Saul said to his servants provide me now a man who can play well and bring him To me I want to speak to you on a topic called change through counsel Change through counsel Or if you have enough space in your notebook, you can write down a permanent change through a proper console a permanent change through a proper Console as you are writing the title down repeat this prayer out loud after me say Lord Jesus Open my heart to your word Lord Jesus Open my heart to your spirit Lord Jesus open my heart to your faith Amen I want to share with you a thought from this scripture That is sort of hidden. It's not in a Clear sight of this verse Let me give you the story The story is Saul is the first king israel has Before this israel had judges. They had Deliverers and they had some really awesome priests and they had incredible Prophets, but they have not had a king And sol who's a son of kish comes from the tribe of benjamin He becomes the first king Now he gets anointed by god so oil gets poured over him and at that moment holy spirit comes upon him and he becomes a king He does incredible things for god first few years of his life And then we see after that he begins to fail tests after tests and because of that he the bible says Becomes rebellious to god And god tells him hey since you cannot keep my word you can't be a king no more you are done And though the sol still kept a position and kept a crown But he no longer was a king. He couldn't act like a king because he started to be mental He started to misbehave because of mental problems He started to throw spears of people who like played harp in front of his in his presence So he he was typically normally he was no longer a king even though he still Held the office. He still held the salary and he still pretended to be a king, but in god's eyes. He was not a king He gets a demon attacking his life the bible says a distressing spirit begins to attack him And his servants, you know, they look at him and they see man our king is going crazy And they're realizing he got some demons. He got some problems And they give him an idea They said hey We we don't really know about demons But we think you need a good music in the court Because if you really get good music you can feel better So it's like awesome idea from heaven Get me a musician And the other guy comes in and he's like well I've been you know googling and I saw this this guy. He's been posting a lot of covers for Other people moses songs and his name is david good-looking brave Not annoying talented God is with him bring him over he'll play for you and then your demons will feel better And the soul said yeah, let's do it and they bring david What I want to talk to you today about is very very tiny one lesson See sol Became possessed Because he disobeyed God's servant He remained possessed because he obeyed his own sermons servants Let me explain that when he disobeyed samuel He caused rebellion and that opened the door For the evil spirit to attack his life He became possessed because he disobeyed God's servant But did you know why sol remained like that was because he listened to his Servants now I will explain that in just a moment sol had some people around him who gave him an advice Who wasn't that's this advice wasn't really really really bad but it wasn't Really good. It was shallow advice Now if they would tell him sol we can bring you some booze You could really drink yourself to sleep If they would tell him sol this new drug that they sell on the black market could really help you If they would tell him hey, this there's just new witch and she really helps people with demons That would be really really bad But they did not say anything like that And therefore when we read this and we see like well, but david came david is anointed And so we immediately think that davids the sol's friends and his consulers gave him a good advice But in reality this advice was deadly And this was the advice that kept him in the situation he was in He listened to their advice and the advice was this You need entertainment To fix your demons You need to bring a kid who can play a harp Now at first it seems like this advice is innocent But we know one thing about this advice. It didn't work sol got a temporary relief But he never was delivered Sol for a moment felt better, but for a lifetime sol was tormented by the same spirits because people around him gave him an advice He followed what would happen if they would tell him Get samuel and he will cast our demons out of you He would listen Because he listened to his servants. They are the people he trusted He had a hard time listening to samuel But if somebody would be close to him and say sol if you get prophet samuel That guy moves with god and the demons will be over. Now you might have to resign from your job You might have to give up the throne But you will be cured because samuel will know how to deal with it Yeah, you might never be a king again, and you might have to go back to the fields But sol you will never have those thoughts again You will be a free man if you will get samuel here not a musician Most of us here All of us here have friends And you're more likely to listen to your friends than to listen to your parents You're more likely to listen to your friends than to listen to your teachers You are more likely to listen to your friends than to listen to your pastor You are more likely to listen to your friends than to listen to the news You are more likely to listen to those people who are around you and Most of you here are also friends to someone who is in need right now And they are more likely to listen to you than to listen to their parents They are more likely to listen to you than to listen to their pastor or to their priest They are more likely to listen to you than to listen to the teachers in their schools and to Consolers and everybody else because you play an influence on them and when you see them having demons and you look and you know That's a demon you know this is a problem You will always be tempted to be like Saul's friends. Give them a band-aid for a demon problem Means to tell them you just need a good Christian music You just need to pick up your Bible read the Bible more Tell them something that was just you know It's just make you feel better and I'm gonna mention three simple things of a bad advice that we can give to our friends and Three simple things of a bad advice people can give to us But this all hangs on advice Because when people get free The way they stay free is the kind of people to have around them Because the kind of people you have around you they influence you the difference your friends have The difference you between your friends and your parents is your in is the influence your parents have authority Your friends have influence and he who has influence is he who has control not he who has authority Your parents have the title and yes, they tell you I brought you into this world and I will take you out But they for many of you unfortunately You you don't have influence with them and your friends have influence over you And that's why if anybody in here who got introduced to weed first it was through your friends not through your parents If you got introduced to something illegal and if you drink first time You did not drink with your dad and with your mom you probably drink with somebody who was your friend Why because our friends create influence on us and we are open And if they will tell us something illegal we will be stupid enough to do it And if your friend will tell you you got a demon you need to go to tipi Josh you like okay. Yeah, I will go Why because well forgive me I'm gonna say bluntly because we stupid and whatever influence tells us that's what we do This means yes or no Amen Because influence opens the door for us to be affected by the by the things that people say and Many times people in the authority and honestly I am also carry a certain level of authority because we lack a certain level of influence with people what we say People just like yes. Yes, but they go and do something else. Why because the people around him who have influence on them say completely opposite You are also Influenced for somebody else and somebody else looks up to you and If you're gonna tell them they actually gonna do it The question is what are you gonna tell them? When somebody has a problem like this They need a good advisor If you are in a problem like this where you have a deep big problem What you need today is before you need to find God Let me tell you what you need you need to have some good people around you who will give you the right advice Because even when you find God you still need people around you who will continue to give you the advice You will need to be on the right track And those people that you have influence with not just those people like well, I met him in church and all this stuff No, but the person who has influence on you because those are the people unfortunately you're like You're open-minded to them Whatever they say you're gonna do it even if it's gonna be hard because they have influence on you King Pharaoh Pharaoh who was the king of Egypt the Prince of Egypt? He saved this country because he found the right man Who gave him a right advice his name was Joseph other kings always lean under counselors Our president many people say all our president comes up with a lot of you know Interesting policies that we don't agree with if you really look our president doesn't come up with anything It's his advisors Who advised him? It's the people around him that before he comes up with a crazy idea He sits beside him and he says what should we do and they are the ones who say mm-hmm. Okay, we won't do it Yeah, well we should do it and Wish before praying for our presidents We should also play for people around him because they are the ones who have influence on him and whatever they say many times He's gonna go and do it That's how we are all of us are like that people who have influence and us we do what they tell us We'll listen to somebody and if you respect somebody on the podcast or on a sermon you read somebody's book And they say something you look awesome idea you go do it why because they created an influence on you King Saul has a problem this problem cannot be solved humanly and His friends around him they tell him if you simply go to and Find a good musician you will feel better and he goes about and he looks for a good musician and guess what happens He feels better for a moment, but he doesn't get fixed For life. There was another guy in the Bible. His name was Naaman Now Naaman was a captain He was a captain he had a leprosy Well, almost as big problem as this one because you can't get rid of demons by yourself And you cannot get leprosy by yourself in that moment in that time He has a little girl. She cleans the house and she really Had some influence on him And she comes to him and he says, you know what I know you're a leper. I know a guy Who can scratch your leprosy she didn't tell him that she didn't say hey I know a guy who is as as leperous as you and you can hang out with him and feel better about yourself She didn't tell him. I know a guy Who loves lepers? She said this I know a guy who can remove that he kept walking didn't listen But she kept cleaning the house She kept making the dish. She kept smiling. She kept being the best she could be and she kept influencing on him until a captain successful victorious Felt prey to an influence of a little girl and guess what he does Goes to a king gets a letter and goes to a foreign country They they take slaves from to look for the man a little girl says who will not just make him feel Better like the servants of soul told soul, but she told him a real advice. He will remove your issue He goes there. He meets the prophet. Well, he doesn't meet the prophet first He meets the representatives of the prophet and The representatives come and tell him hey, there's you're gonna be healed awesome you just need to go to the river and by the way our rivers are not the best and Don't yourself seven times and after that you will be as clean as a baby Hey listen there is excuse me. I come and I get this Do you know who I am? You little bambino you go tell your prophet you people are under my feet. I take your people as slaves They clean my houses Did you forget who I am and you telling me some messages to go dump myself in your bad river? No, if you think he doesn't come and he doesn't wave his hand like prophet to be Joshua and me I am not going nowhere and This is the time what his servants come near him And they say Well, we understand yeah, it's completely ridiculous for him to ask you. I mean you're such a great man It's amazing man, but if he would ask you something difficult, wouldn't you do it and he comes down and he listens to the people around him and They contradict his emotions they contradict his rage his jealousy his my pride They contradict that and guess what he does does what they say Goes and like a fool baptizes himself seven times, but comes out completely whole Why? his friends What would happen if they would say oh, yes, this prophet is bad You know what we should do we should kill him too. We should take him as a slave What would happen if those sermons will say hey king you don't need to worry about all this you're so popular You're so captain. You're so successful Forget about you know, we can go find lepers camp and hang out there so you can feel better What if they would give him an advice like the servants of Saul get a musician feel better Never underestimate the power you have in people's lives through your influence and never underestimate the power people have over you through their influence Never underestimate watch out For counselors who give you advice watch out for people who give you advice on marriage who are not married Watch out for people who give you advice on money who don't have a job Watch out for people who give you advice on walking in holiness Who smoke weed? Watch out for people who give you advice what it's like to be serving Christ and and to give generously Who only take? Watch out for advisors surround yourself with good advisors good advisors will protect your life and the best part about it Is when you find yourself in the hole that you cannot climb out if you have an advisor He can get you out because he will tell you a secret He will tell you like a little girl and you may say how can she she's a slave? But she told pointed him to a prophet and then the prophet removed that problem out of his life advice saved me hundreds and thousands of dollars advises Saved me years of headache. I was one of those people who when I was a teenager and I had a crush on somebody I Would immediately go to the pastor literally if I saw somebody and I thought that they were attractive I would go to the pastor pastor got tired of me because Every other month. It was another person and When I would go to the pastor and I would tell the pastor. Hey this person, you know, and I'm like Hey, they got saved in our church You know, this means yes and the pastor Almost 99% of the time 95% of the time we said no, he says and it's not good first of all I wasn't ready and secondly. He says it's not for you He says you shouldn't be doing that and I felt so depressed after those things I'm like he doesn't understand me. He doesn't see things and You know, I was like, well, he he doesn't believe they're they're saved He doesn't know like and all of these weird stupid things as a teenager you get when your Emotions get provoked But the interesting part is the longer I lived the more I've realized is a lot of things that my pastor said about people who at that point I would literally take a bullet to prove what he's saying is wrong Like I discipled people I knew them My pastor at that moment those people that I was talking about he did not know them And so my argument was this when I would leave I say, you know what I'll listen to the pastor But he has no idea what he's talking about But because I was 18 and because he was my boss because I worked at the church You know, I gotta keep my mouth shut because I want to keep a job. So I would just go home and I'm in my prayer I was like, man, you know, man, this pastor doesn't understand like I know these people. He doesn't I talked to them I know everything about them and I I know how Man, he doesn't get it But I just humbled myself and it was literally years pastor anything like anybody I bring up Shoot it. I just got tired of it. I was like, I'll never get married with my pastor. No marriage He just wants me to be single so I don't be to come distracted with ministry But the interesting part is this is that in a lot of cases the things that pastor said about people whom I knew So close and my pastor didn't physically actually three years later for some people two years later for some three months and everything came to past and That's why when I became 22 23, I became afraid Anytime pastor I saw this pleasure on my pastor's face. I Had fear I was like, oh Okay, I'm not gonna even think about doing anything of that sword if if I saw this pleasure not even he says Yes, or no, just this pleasure To me it just meant and the funny part is there are other people some were his sons, of course And and other people who who did that they just simple said well It's whatever my dad says because you know to them it's a little bit different just like me and my dad It's a little bit different. You kind of go on a little compromise and stuff But for me because it was my pastor I had this fear and Every time when people would do what he would say It would never work. I Saw same thing happened with real estate When my relatives or even my parents or other people would suggest say don't do that That's like, well, I know this better. You know I've been doing this Yeah It didn't work Advice can protect you. It can get you out of a hole and The best thing you can do for yourself is not just to learn to hear the voice of God But to ask God to send the right people he can speak to you through them Amen in the conclusion of this message I want you to write down these simple things of what good advice we can give to people and what is the bad advice that we can give to people as People when we find somebody who has a big problem or who has a demon problem Or maybe we are in that problem ourselves number one We should always run to repentance not entertainment Repentance not entertainment The servants of soul told Saul that what you need is entertainment means you need somebody to come and cheer you up You don't need really to repent. I mean your problem is not repentance You're attacked by chance. This this is nothing to do with you. You have not been sinning at all You have nothing to repent you you are Saul you're like Michael Gabriel. You're amazing You just need somebody to cheer you up. You just need a good latest CD from Hillsong United Do really just just pump pump, you know pump some joy into your veins That's all you need Saul any time your advice involves Changing somebody's mood instead of changing somebody's mind, which is repentance. You are giving a bad advice Anytime your friends give you advice that involves makes you feel better Instead of making you be better. It's a bad advice and that advice is from Saul's friends It will make you feel better, but it will not make you be better Entertainment is what changes your mood Repentance is what changes your direction and your mindset in life Instead of telling him you need to get some musician. They should have told him Saul You messed up We love you. We will serve you if you end up homeless. We're gonna bring you hot dogs, bro. You're awesome But you are a sinner You're rebellious you rebels against God Dude you you severe your relationship with seven you crazy What are you thinking? Of course you got demons. I'm surprised. You're not in hell You need to repent you really need to and I'm not talking talking about crying tears And you really need to change your mind first about about Samuel secondly about God and about yourself You're not that big as you think so you need to repent But that would make him feel bad And that could make him be better See most of us are so afraid to make somebody feel bad that we will let him feel good and remain stupid And remain bad and remain possessed and remain cursed and remain without job and remain constantly in that sickness or constantly in the Thing because we protect feelings as though they're so untouchable and precious Feelings are important don't get me wrong But the root of the problem is not to make somebody feel better is to make somebody be better And sometimes to do that you have to step on their feelings and you come out you say, you know, I love you You are awesome, but I'll be honest with you You your life needs to change the way you're thinking the way you're living your schedule your money habits It must change and if it doesn't change honestly, we can baptize you in the anointing water You're gonna still be broke You're still gonna be miserable. You're still gonna be depressed because there must come a change in repentance a change of mind a change of Life instead of just change of mood Yeah, we can take you to the latest comedy. Yes, we can buy popcorn and buy soda Yes, we can buy coffee and we can buy a red bull and sit all night until jokes But in the morning, you're still given possessed repentance over entertainment Bad advice is when you give your friends something to laugh about instead of giving your friends Something to think about are you a friend that needs a change? Do you have people that need a change? What advice do you give them the first advice? Tell them about repentance and please repentance doesn't mean run to the church and when Vlad gives an altar call raise your hand And you better repent and you tell repent repent repent repent simply means change of mind It means you know what what you're thinking about God is wrong What you're thinking about the pastor is wrong which thinking what your parents is wrong what you think about yourself is wrong Change your mind which will result in changing your life number two You need a mentor not a musician and what that means is this is that we need to give people an advice What they need a mentor not a musician now follow with me Giving Saul an advice saying that you go bring David Look how look how this sounds Saul is a king David is wannabe king David is future king David is a teenager Okay Will David ever rebuke Saul? Of course not David is scared of Saul David loves Saul Even if David if Saul is possessed you never see David coming to Saul and says dude you got some issues never Saul David was just there says you know what you're awesome. Just here we go. You like a different song. I'll give you a different song But you never see David You know coming to Saul and says hey dude my throne over there you get out of there, man No, he's afraid of sob. He because he's a teenager He's a young man and those are the people usually we look for advice from those people who are afraid to tell you the truth We like to have David's around and listen to me there. They're amazing. They're powerful They're anointed the only difference about them is they don't have the gut to tell you the truth And if you are off the line, they will never tell you the truth Why because they're scared of you Samuel on the other hand. Well, you're afraid of Samuel See, he's not gonna invite Samuel. Why because Saul is afraid of Samuel And these are the people we do not want on our list. We block them on their phones We put them on a special do not pick up It's him calling We say to them that my phone's been disconnected When we meet them in church because those are the people who will tell us the truth and honestly those are the people who hold The key to open our prison and because we are afraid of them What we do is we push them out and surround ourselves with people who pat us on the back Sing our kumbaya my lord kumbaya my long lord lyrics and because we feel good. They like us We must be in a good relationship with God yet. We still got demons In order to be free you got to go to people who will tell you know who you know, they're not afraid of you They're just not afraid of you they love you they honor you, but they're not afraid to tell you the truth. I Have few people in my life I'm not afraid to tell the truth and they know that well, there are people there are other people I will never tell the truth Because I'm scared. I love them, but I'm not in a position some are a lot older and it's just not my position I am not I am gonna love and respect. I don't have the calling They have somebody else who can tell them the truth my pastor. He's not afraid of me Not at all. I on the other hand. That's a different story My pastor he will tell me the truth For some of you I do the same thing for you If you're out of line, I will tell you the truth with respect with love. I will pray for you I will do whatever it takes so that we work together But I'm not gonna let you suffer and simply over there. Just tell you what you want to hear and see you being damaged Surround yourself with people like Samuel not like David David will you need David's because if you always have Samuels You will be depressed Because these always people tell you the truth and you're like up there like man I don't want the truth Just give me a pill. Okay. Give me an Advil. I don't want the truth You need to have people both who chew you up and people who confront you tell you the truth number three Is people who lead us to deliverance not give us relief people who lead us to deliverance not just give us relief What that simply means is that people who? Who's a device involves? Understanding spiritual world instead of just saying oh well you guys have marriage problems You just you just need to just just love each other a little bit more you realize everybody in the family is the worst. It's a curse Just just hang in there Just cheer them up, you know ginkers them, you know, I'll buy you guys lunch buy you You know a meal for you guys to go on a date and that's about it But if our advice doesn't involve understanding spiritual world our advice is shallow our advice is not deep enough And it's not gonna change somebody's life Make sure your advice involves Deliverance not just relief many people have gotten relief today, but they're not delivered. I Give a lot of people relief In sermons many times I get people right and they say you know what you really encourage me I had a such a rough day and it's encouraging to honestly to hear that But at the same time I know the real problem and it discourages me because I don't want to just give them relief Because then the next day is gonna be the same problem. I want them to be free from that And for that to happen you and I we must understand not just give people a Bandaid or an Advil but to deal with the root of their problems Okay, hold this hold this tight hold this tight. Yeah, hold this. Okay. This is what happens when you gotta See because his hand is warm in 30 minutes. This ice will completely melt Anytime in your life. There's an atmosphere of heat Anything devil throws with time will melt away Now if you put this ice in The freezer this ice will become cold actually if you put water in The freezer it becomes ice because of atmosphere for the same reason bananas grow in Jamaica But they do not grow in Alaska. Why because of I because of atmosphere if in your life There is an atmosphere of heat and Satan throws something at you guess what happens with amount of time It's gonna melt away correct But if God throws something good in your life, and there is a cold atmosphere you would turn water into ice Because of bad atmosphere now Let's put this ice back Okay He doesn't he does not have ice no more is your hand still cold But he doesn't have ice no more Many times when people get free the demon is out, but the feeling is still there Ice is gone See when you come and you give your life to Jesus Christ and you say my life I got a new life, but you go back to the same problems. You're like, but they're the same problems nothing changed See the ice is gone The hand is still cold and if you keep on following Jesus Christ your hand will get warmer Because we see people all the time who surrender the lives to Jesus and they go back home And they're like, you know what well this hand is still cold This thing is still cold this thing is still not there and they're saying nothing changed everything changed But just because your hand is cold doesn't mean you have ice there You had ice before but Jesus at your salvation and at deliverance takes it and sometimes it could be weeks for some people You could take months for the coldness to go away You gave devil 20 years to mess up your life. Can you give God at least 20 months to restore it? Some of us want to give God 20 minutes the clock is out Lord really you gave devil 20 years Some people seven years to get you in the hole that you are in and you're giving God few seconds It's like throwing the ice. Okay. I want my hand to be hot Just wait hold me relax God removes the problem But with time The symptoms will go away With time I've seen it happen all over what people financially begin to just simply pay off their debts and begin to with time That the demon was gone nothing right away change what change is the ice was gone And the hands start getting warmer and warmer more promotions more open doors peace at night this and that begin to just simply fold See revival is what God gave us already, but for some of us we're still feeling the coldness Oh, well, well people were not getting saved you need to forget about that because that is going away with every single service in Jesus mighty name Hallelujah When we give people advice and people get delivered we must understand never to give attention to your feelings Because what God takes away you might still feel but just for a moment