 God is good and all the time That's right. We are We're living in a days where God said that he is gonna pour out his spirit and the reason why we need doubt pouring on his spirit It because in the last days Bible says that sin will abound But thank God for the grace of God that's gonna abound even more and any addiction any Limitation anything in our life that binds us by the grace of God tonight will be broken in Jesus mighty name amen So today I want to talk. I'm gonna just dive straight into the world I have a lot to discuss a lot to talk many examples to bring and I want to talk about on a subject of Kingdom and my topic is called war war of the worlds We're gonna talk today about the reality of the spiritual world that the spiritual world exists Not only the spiritual world exists, but it exists and it contains two Kingdom It contains kingdom of God and it contains kingdom of darkness You know, even if you're not even if you're not Christian You know, even if you're still discovering God and you're not sure if God exists But most of us can agree on one thing evil exists most of us looking around listening to the news You know just just by looking around in the newspaper Facebook feeds Twitter feeds and other things we can one thing know for sure that Even if you're doubting if God exists we can know one thing for sure Satan exists demons exist evil exists and Logical Next step that that's that's coming to my mind and should become at your mind. Well, if there is evil there must be good If there is evil there must be good and we will talk about God's Kingdom today. We're gonna discover what it is. We're gonna talk about demonic kingdom what it does How to discover up its influence in our lives and how to most importantly Break it over our life in Jesus mighty name amen church. I'm just gonna lay a foundation with the scripture and Last time I was preaching I got this negative comment They said that I didn't bring my Bible to preach. So they were offended. So I do have my Bible. It's right here and So that just in case for those of you that Wondering and if you can open with me to Matthew 6 and those of you, they don't have a Bible Bible with you you can read it with me off the screen Matthew 6 chapter Chapter 6 verse 9 and it's a famous scripture And you probably know it even if you're not a Christian in this place and goes like this this then I Is how you should pray that's Lord Jesus saying our father in heaven How will be your name your kingdom come say your kingdom come? Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven So Jesus teaches his disciples to pray and first thing that he tells him to pray about is he tells him Pray that God's kingdom will come and his will be done on earth that is in heaven amen Kingdom is dominion kingdom is rulership kingdom is authority supremacy and We as a as a children of God we were created to dominate we were created to rule we were created to have dominion Lion gives birth to lions eagle gives birth to eagles God when he created us he created us in his likeness and he and in his image He is giving us the authority and he told us in Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 to have dominion He gave us a dominion to rule over the earth and every creeping thing so as a creation of God as children of God as bought blood Children and his people we have dominion and we have authority and When that authority was given to us that authority was given to Adam in Partnership with God so as Adam with as Adam walked with God he walked in that authority He ruled he reigned over the earth over every creeping thing over everything but when Satan and sin came into his life He lost his dominion he lost his rulership so in our life when we walk with God We walk in dominion when we walk with God when we walk in partnership with the Holy Spirit we walk in authority and the moment We walk we walk away from God we lose our dominion so it's either we are That's so either we dominate or we are under dominion and like Bryson beautifully stated That there is no middle ground. There is no gray ground It's either you are victorious with God or You are under dominion of evil spirit of demonic spirit of dark kingdom Which is demonic kingdom so first thing that we have to understand clearly in our mind that there is no middle ground Either we dominate or we are under dominion when we walk with God we walk in dominion. We have power to overcome When we walk in sin we give legal right for Satan to dominate of our life and in the garden of Eden in the garden of Eden Adam he sold his dominion he gave up his dominion by Biting the forbidden fruit by committing sin and from that point on The whole human race was sold to slavery to the kingdom of darkness when Jesus came on this earth and Satan was tempted and he took him to the high mount and he said look all the kingdom of the earth He said they all belong to me bow to me and I will give it to you the reason why Satan could say that is because that is because in the garden of Eden through sin and Adam gave his right to reign and became a slave and So we see from The moment of the garden of Eden We see throughout the history. We can see the kings the kingdom of Satan and what it represents and what it does and if we look in a history of Our earth if we look in a history. We see the bloodshed. We see worse. We see epidemics We see sin. We see broken lives broken hearts We see broken destinies and we can see what the kingdom of Satan what the kingdom what evil kingdom is doing and was doing and This was because sin sin entered our lives and Because sin destroys our lives and so we see that through a In the kingdom of darkness that sin reigns Satan reigns in Bible Jesus said a city Satan came kill to kill and still and destroy and as we see in Bryson's testimony We we recognize that sin brings guilt shame and condemnation and this is the kingdom of Satan Influence of King that's what the influence of Kingdom of Satan does And if we watch the exorcisms and we see deliverance when people are delivered from evil spirits We we see that when they begin to confess the evil they have done when they begin to confess What they have done how they stop people's lives how they limited how they brought sickness how they Destroyed their life how they tormented them We see the reflection and we see what the kingdom of God's ten what the kingdom of Satan stands for and what it brings I want to quickly kind of give you a couple characteristics of what demons do And what the kingdom of what the kingdom of Satan does first thing is Demons they entice They harass They compel They enslave they cause addiction. They defile They deceive and they attack physical body So all of these characteristics are the characteristics of the kingdom of darkness and If we look at those characteristics and if we find any of those eight things in our life operating We can be guaranteed we can be sure that this is nothing but the kingdom of darkness and its influence And if we look at all these things and what they lead to we can quickly understand We can we can quickly understand what the kingdom of Satan represents and what it stands for The reason why we need to understand the spiritual world is Understanding spiritual world is the only and the best explanation of human suffering It puts God on our side and it reveals the real the real enemy See when we do not understand the kingdom of Darkness we do not understand how it operates. We don't do not understand how in it influences We can easily begin to blame God and a lot of people blame God for all the calamities on the earth For the hunger for the poverty for the earthquakes for the worse from the for the bloodshed for the for the Corruption and for all these all all of these things all these bad negative things and so people Say well, where is God when all of these things happen? And if you do not understand spiritual world if you do not understand how the spiritual world operates It's very easy to begin to blame God for all the negative things that happen in your life, and it's happening around the world even in Jesus's life One man was blind and they came to Jesus and they said Jesus. Who's fault is it his fault? It did he sin or the parents? so Because Jesus was aware of the spiritual round He was able to discern the problem correctly and he said it's none of it's not his fault or his parents But when we are not aware of the way the kingdom of Satan works and The way a kingdom of God works the way spiritual world operates. We could easily blame people for the problems That they're struggling with the problems that they're facing or we can blame God or blame ourselves In it in a testimony of the Bryson Broad is that he explains that how he was blaming himself For all of these things that he was doing. He was feeling guilty feeling dirty But behind all of it it was demonic influence and when it was broken a person was free He was able to live fulfilled and full life if you're here in this place and you're you're you're listening you thinking oh my but I Can I can relate to certain things in our life? I can see there's certain things that they're enticing me certain things that harassing me compelling me Well, there are certain things that I'm enslaved certain things that I can break in my life Every compulsive behavior in Your life is a demonic influence Any things that you do because you do them you want to stop But you can't you said so many times to yourself that I will stop doing it But you can't stop it's a demonic influence and it could be broken in Jesus mighty name I remember a young man in my home group is a while back and he came to me and I was still I was just I was still really young and I just just getting to know the spiritual world the spiritual world just kind of opening up to me And I remember he came to me. He said pray for me. I have a problem with stealing. So I was like, okay No problem. Sure. Lord Jesus, please help him not to steal just kind of typical prayer God give him grace not to steal and that was it and remember one time we were driving and Then I pulled up to gas station to fill up my guests And so it was summer our summers as hot as you can as you can tell interest city So I went into the convenience store to get some drink and he went with me I said hey, do you want anything out of the store? I'll buy anything just just pick whatever you want here I already had a drink. He's like, no, I don't want anything Yeah, so I went and got my drink come out and he comes out and he's like holding like beef jerky steak And bunch of other stuff and I knew he had no money Okay, I he is a teenager boy and and I was like, okay, where did you get this? I was like, oh just took it I was like, no, hold on. What do you mean? Just took it. And so he goes and just dumps it in a garbage I was like, why did you dump it in a garbage? He's like, well, I don't I don't want it. I don't need it I was like, why did you take it? He said well something told me to take it and so then I began to realize that his problem was more than just um Physical problem these problem was spiritual problem and I remember when I explained to him these things and I Told them I knew very little at that point But I said you need to ask God for forgiveness and then you to renounce it and you to rebuke it And we're gonna pray together. We're gonna come against it. And so I remember We prayed it right actually right there in the car I prayed with him and you know, it was nothing special happened at that moment He wasn't like manifesting or he wasn't vomiting anything. He wasn't shaking nothing special happened But we prayed a prayer of repentance. We renounced it and we rebuked it and we closed the door and Later on like three or four months later. He testified. I remember we were sitting in rocket club In jacuzzi and he said, you know what I come to think now. I haven't stolen anything for four months Come on. Let's put our hands together for Jesus And then you know, I begin to ask him more and he begins to explain to me how he had these Impulsive thoughts how he had these these is impulsive desires these harassing desires to to To take stuff to steal stuff even if he didn't need it even like in that case He took it got out of the store right there right at the pump You know, you got those little garbage cans where you can wash the windows and garbage right there He dumped it in a in a garbage can because he didn't even need it but because something inside of him was telling him to take and Anything if you notice out of all these eight things that I mentioned that all this characteristic They are very invasive nagging and they're forceful. There's nothing positive if you find yourself in If you find yourself in any of these things today is your day to God can break that over your life And you can live a free life. Amen This is the kingdom of darkness I want to talk take some time to talk about the kingdom of God Bible says the kingdom of God is righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Spirit Romans 14 17 John the Baptist Before Jesus came and he said he was preaching that repent because the kingdom of God is near and then here goes Jesus comes on the scene and Jesus begins to demonstrate. What is the kingdom of God? Kingdom of God he begins to go and preach the gospel as a matter of fact in the first sermon He gave a clear picture of what the kingdom of God looks like It was he was reading a scripture from Isaiah 61 and pretty much what that was is a Prosperity preaching a good news to the poor. It was the healing of the heart It was freedom from the prisons from addictions. It was preaching the favor of God and how comforting those who mourn and helping people rebuild this Jesus Samurai is that and he said that this scripture is fulfilled now Jesus was staying What the kingdom of God looks like and then the first thing that Jesus does as he casts out a demon I? Want you to notice that I want you to notice that Jesus cast it out a demon Right afterwards the reason why he did it is so that he can reveal and show He want to reveal and show the reality of two worlds the reality of two kingdoms He also want to reveal and show that he is supreme above every demonic influence and above every demonic kingdom One interesting thing that I've I've noticed reading through a new testament is that every exorcism did Jesus did was in public It was to really it was to reveal the reality of two kingdoms and to show complete supremacy over the kingdom of Satan Every exorcism every casting out of demons Jesus did it was never in private Is because when we see when demons are being cast out We begin to see clearly the reality of two worlds That there is God's kingdom and it is kingdom of Satan and we can easily discern and can go at the root of the problem and Begin to bring freedom to ourselves and to other people Jesus All throughout his ministry cast out demons heal people deliver people and gave people freedom and when he Left his earth. He told disciples to do likewise. He said go and preach the gospel lay hands on the sick cast out demons Baptized people heal people you will try a trample upon scorpions and demons every creeping thing Jesus and When and when his disciples begin to preach the gospel everywhere where they went they confronted The money kingdom and they cast out demons and set people free Today we have to realize That the kingdom of God and kingdom of Satan is a conflict that the kingdom of God and kingdom of darkness are constantly fighting and Jesus says that that kingdom of God suffers but suffers violence and only violent men will take it by force and So today as we listen to those things as we hear These this truth we have to arm ourselves with the truth so that we are able to come against it And so that we are able to see the problem clear and strike the problem at the root When we are able to address problem on a spiritual Level then ever the symptoms on a physical level will disappear Jesus has given us the authority over every darkness over every Over every keeping thing he gave us the authority to trample over every demon and today We're gonna pray and we're gonna come against and we're gonna rebuke every generational curse We're gonna rebuke every influence of Satan and everything that hinders us in our lives. Amen I want to I want to roll that clip. It's it's actually from from our prayer line a video and it's a It's a confrontation between kingdom of God and kingdom of darkness And I want us to watch it carefully and I want just I want us to listen What the demon confesses what he says and you I want us to see how Then at the end this man is set free and then we're gonna talk a bit more about this. Look at me What have you done in his life? I'll give him everything if he had it all what is he have? Why don't you give him everything you want right here in his heart yet, and he's hard What exactly? Everything he wanted cars. He had them women gun strokes Open your eyes look at me. How did you enter his life? Oh? Oh One movie what movie? The godfather that's all he wanted to be a gangster And you answered him to that movie What is your name? Oh perversion perversion what else? Oh Pride pride arrogance. What else? When did you enter his life? How long ago? Oh, he was just a kid. He was just a kid. Oh How had you how have you destroyed his life since then? What did you do in his education? Oh? He was a great mind this one. Oh He had a mind. He had a mind. What did you do with it? Oh, I made a month those things Money you made him one money in drugs Yeah, he was a good mind this one he he was a good mind What did you do in his relationships and he's in his family? I couldn't touch those you couldn't touch why not How were they protected his mama pray his mama prayed yeah, so if there's prayer being offered you can't touch it Oh His mama prays his mama prayed come out in Jesus mighty name fire fire of the Holy Spirit in Jesus name through the cross of Jesus you were defeated on the cross and right now Pack your bags and come out of this body right now in Jesus mighty name You lost your battle on the cross the blood of Jesus is against you his spirit belongs to Jesus right now Lucian in Jesus mighty name fire of God light of God in Jesus name and every part of his soul in light of God in Jesus mighty name in the name of Jesus Christ because of Christ Be healed in Jesus name and because of Christ be free in Jesus mighty name Can you stand up? What is your name? My name is there is there is how you feeling now. I'm tired. You're tired you said that you destroyed your life that That you were you give yourself women cars and all these things. Were you the one to say it? No, I know he was there for a long time. Yes. How did you know that? Turn my life to God. I could hear him Here's a voice in my head. You could hear the voices in your head You wanted me to go back to being a gangster you were against her. Yeah, yeah So that that voice was telling you to go back to be a gangster after you to give your life to Jesus Yeah, okay now that unclean spirit has been tormenting your life has been cast out in Jesus name say thank you Jesus I'm free Thank you Jesus. I'm free say thank you Jesus. I'm free Thank you God for freedom and thank you God for deliverance amen We just saw a clear picture kingdom of God Confront in the kingdom of darkness and we see how kingdom of God is always superior and this young man can now live a Free life in Jesus mighty name amen I want us to underline couple things how devil operates from this story From this testimony that we just heard I want you to notice that first he started with obsession So four steps to that leads to demon possession first He started with obsession if you heard what what when he confessed He said he was obsessed with the movie a godfather and he wanted to become a gangster and then he got them Money women drugs guns and all these things. He's obsession to turn into oppression oppression. He became to be oppressed by the things by those things he began to become he became an outlaw obviously, you know the things that come with it He began to suffer with it. He began to suffer hearing voices and then he went into depression and Eventually he led into depression and so eventually led into possession these four things These four steps that Satan uses in our lives to become to enter our life and to get hold to get a foothold in our life To begin to rule an area of our life I want you to begin to also to notice in this testimony that this man he's already given his life to Jesus He's already been Christian for some time, but there's certain things in his life that were not dealt with certain place where he gave to gave to Satan before and he did not renounce and he didn't rebuke that And he did not get rid of it. And so it was still controlling his life It was still calling him back those voices were constantly tormenting him calling him back to be a gangster And so anything we obsess over we eventually gonna get will be oppressed as a story Testimony from Bryson. We see that he all started first with an obsession with pornography Which led to oppression and then depression and he can tell you that many times He just didn't want to do anything. He felt guilty ashamed and depressed and as a result He needed deliverance because there's certain area of our life that was demonized. And so we need to make sure that That we do not fall into the traps of Satan become obsessed over sinful things And next thing I want to go over is the open doors that Satan Through which Satan can gain control over our life and he can enter our lives We need to be aware of the tactics of Satan and how he operates in our lives So that we can avoid a trap of the Satan and also so we can discover how he operates and approve the amount of our life Amen First thing that I want to say underline is willful sin when we continue constantly in A certain sin in our lives that will open a door to Satan to come into our life and to destroy For example when my brother David He started in high school. He started really young. He started smoking. He started smoking weed He was obsessed over it. He was seeking he was Wasting all his money on it eventually you run out of money you begin to steal it and Because of this continuous sin in his life Eventually it led him to harder and harder drugs it got it got him to the point where he completely lost his mind I remember one point he was an it was all grown man He big guy you guys probably seen him running with the camera and I had to tie his shoes I had to take him to court because of all his Tickets and all this stuff and he did not even know how to write his name on the paper. That's how bad it got Constant willing sin that he continued to commit led him To the point where he was completely out of his mind and thank God that God set him free completely And now if you talked to him you would not even know that he was ever So out of his mind and so we see kingdom what kingdom of darkness does and we see the kingdom of God when it comes It brings completely restoration number two is unforgiveness Unforgiveness toward God Towards others or towards ourselves now on a forgiveness towards God We understand and God is not at fault but releasing God that Knowing that he did not cause the harm, but knowing that Satan is behind every evil But releasing to here releasing forgiveness towards others and ourselves if we hold on forgiveness We can be We can come under influence of Satan. There is what this there is one lady her name was Frida she was from Rwanda and in Rwanda she got caught in that civil war and They came to her house and they took 15 members of her family and they Killed them with the machete and somehow she survived one of her dead relatives fell on her So she did not get got killed but she got buried alive in a child of grave and for 14 hours She was buried in the grave Finally somebody when she was she was making some noise somebody was passing by the deck they dug her up So you can imagine a person that got that saw 15 relatives of her got killed by machete She almost got killed and then being buried in a grave of 14 hours What kind of trauma that you live through and so Sometime down point in her life. She received Jesus. She understood that she need to forgive Those people but of course as you can imagine she held on how how can I forgive those people? what they've done to me I can't I can't just forgive them and She was she had some pain in her neck for very long time and she had very severe nightmares And she's been asking God to set her free from it and for and to heal her But for all these years of being a Christian she she was not she could not get healed and said at the moment when she heard A message of forgiveness. She decided to forgive right at the moment that she made a decision to forgive her pain in her neck left Those headaches left and she was from that point on she never experienced that nightmare ever again I don't know what you went through. I don't know what has been done to you I don't know. Maybe you went through some hard things But if you hold on forgiveness on forgiveness gives a foothold to Satan in your life It gives an access to Satan in your life. You need to forgive not because It's the right thing to do but because you need to be free and so when you forgive You release yourself you release yourself Maybe you hold enough forgiveness today and you experience in some things in your body or maybe experience some sad bex Maybe you experience in pain in your life in your physical body when you forgive when you truly release God can set you free from that demonic confluence. Amen Another door that Satan can use is fear He can come to trauma or abuse one example as Derek Prince's wife and those of you that know Derek Prince You know, he's a minister that's that that minister deliverance to many many people and at one point He noticed that his wife would never go into elevators with him and he asked why don't you go to elevators? Why you always take stairs? He always thought she because she wanted to be healthy, but she said that I'm claustrophobic I'm afraid of small places because when she was very very young her mother didn't see that She crawled into pantry small place She closed the pantry and left and she was in that small space and she got so terrified when she was young That the spirit of fear entered her life and from that point on she was always tormented My spirit of fear and she was afraid of small places So if you have any fear every every any Extreme fear not the not natural fears like you know jumping off the third story third story building It's a natural fear you're gonna break your legs But I'm talking about some some some not some unnatural things that you can't explain that you experience horror in your life That spirit can be broken of your life in Jesus mighty name Another one is spoken curse words words spoken by authority or by or were spoke Spoken of others over yourself Maybe your parents told you that you are not good enough Maybe you did something you had bad grades and their parents all that knew that you never amount to anything You're stupid those words they have power and you need to break those words over your life so that you can be live-free I remember one lady in our in our home group and She had a relationship as before she was had a serious relationship with God she was kind of in and out of church and She had a relationship with her boyfriend and then eventually things didn't work out and her boyfriend They ended their relationship and the relationship was just ended sour and he told her that you will never get married You only you either with me or you're never gonna get married to anybody else of this this girl in our home group She went on she eventually recommended her life to God She began to serve God with full heart and some years down the road She got another relationship and the relationship got serious and she started she started thinking to get married and They were actually engaged at that point and they were ready playing the wedding Everything was going towards the wedding and at one point she comes to us and she stayed after the home group And she started talking with us and said, you know, I'm I think I'm thinking of canceling this engagement I completely all of a sudden stop having feelings towards him towards my fiancee. I don't I don't like him anymore I have no feelings. I need to end this relationship and we told them, you know, why I mean this is he's a great guy He loves God everything. There's no reason why you should end the relationship And she said I just I don't know but I need to end the relationship we begin to tell her that there is a spiritual problem behind it that there could be something that's behind this fear and so She began to ask Holy Spirit to reveal that and Holy Spirit revealed that very moment when the boyfriend spoke those words over her and Which and she remembered and she said yes my boy my ex-boyfriend said that I will never get married and this and that and We said let's pray and let's break it. We prayed with her right there after the home group we broke those words and Right after that immediately feelings for her fiancee came back and now they're happily married and they have a great family together Let's put our hands together for Jesus and the last door that Satan uses is a cult Anything horoscopes dedicated objects palm reading Ouija boards talking to the dead Anything of that sort anything that has to do and connect with an occultic world Getting charms good luck charms all these things. They are demonic there from demonic kingdom And they only bring oppression and they only bring darkness in a into our life. We need to First of all, we know we as Christians we can't mess with those things We cannot we have to understand that it only brings curse into our lives. It brings nothing good It brings no luck. And so I remember a story of one one man It was early in our days We're still learning about these things and he came to he came to our church pulled into parking lot very distressed He was a high school friend of ours and he he began to say it's like I don't know what just happened for me for the past couple days I got in multiple car accidents He had a nice car and he when he pulled in the parking lot his car was dented all over the place Like I was like, dude, what what just happened and he's he's like, I don't understand I've been getting all this car accidents. He had a girlfriend at the time He's like we just keep constantly getting the fights He started getting speeding tickets and other tickets He's like just hell broke loose for past for past three or four days And so when we start talking when we were talking outside we noticed that there was a dreamcatcher hanging in his car Rear view mirror and we said where'd you get this? He said well my girlfriend gave me three days ago What a coincidence, right? And so we said we told him look you can't have anything to do with that This is not a dreamcatcher. That's a dream attractor. Okay, that's a curse attractor You can't have this kind of things in your life. And so when we told him about it He threw it away. We prayed prayed after him things went back to normal as though Nothing happened We as Christians we had to understand how satan operates We have to stay away from it and if we ever dumbled with those things We need to rebuke and renounce and break every chain and every foothold of satan in our lives. Amen Final thing the way we break Curse of our life the way we break The money cold of our life three things we repent We ask God for forgiveness if it was dumbling with witchcraft or if it's if it's unforgiveness Or if it's a sin in our lives or it's fear or maybe we spoke negative things over ourselves We need to ask God for forgiveness number two. We need to renounce it We need to say we want nothing to do with it. We we release it. We are We rejected out of our lives and number three we need to replace We need to speak opposite of what been spoken over us We need to speak God's promises God's word We need to get God's word into our lives because God's word is the truth and truth Truth sets us free amen Amen church. Are we gonna walk in freedom? Come on We have to understand that Jesus has paid the price on the cross for us to be free Jesus came to break the power of satan to break the power of sin To break the power of the kingdom of satan of our lives so that we can truly live free in the kingdom of God Amen, the Jesus was bound so that we can be free Jesus's whole mission was so that No demonic influence will have reign and rule over our life. We as Christians We were meant to dominate we were meant to rule We are the we were we were created in an image and likeness of God Which is to have dominion over every creeping thing have dominion of every demonic influence of our lives Of every sinful influence of our life and right now as we're gonna go into worship We're gonna worship God We're gonna declare the power of the name of Jesus and then we're gonna pray and we're gonna renounce everything We're gonna guys. God for forgiveness and we're gonna break every foothold of satan every chain of satan of our lives Amen church. Are you ready to do that?