 There's a lot of Be attitudes be attitudes is what Jesus told his disciples be attitude means have a this particular attitude And there is a be attitudes that Satan gives to his disciples, and you'll be very curious to hear about that today Blessed are those who are too tired too busy to distract it to spend an hour once a week With their fellow Christians in church for they are my best workers Blessed are those who wait to be asked and expect to be tanked. I can use them in my business Blessed are those who are touchy soon. They will stop going to church verily. They shall be my missionaries Blessed are those who saw gossip and trouble for they are my beloved children Blessed are those who have no time to pray for they are my prey Blessed are those who gossip for they are my secret agents Blessed on you are you when you read this and think that it has to do with other people and Nothing to do with you. I've got room for you in my in as well Pretty strong, huh? Let me throw you something a little bit lighter. I've never shared a Joke about blondes, but I'm just gonna share once. Okay For those of you who that gets offensive just muted for just a second there's a lot of other type you had to mute it, but Russians and Americans and in the blonde were talking and The Russian says, you know the day we're first into the What were the Russians first into in the space America's were saying we're the first into the moon Well, the blonde is saying we are gonna be first on the Sun The Russians and the Americans say that's not possible and the blonde says when we're not stupid We're gonna go during the night My wife is not blonde. That's the only reason I'm able to share that. I want to speak today briefly about schemes Schemes today that word is no longer strange because we have Craigslist schemes how many of you ever fell for a scam on Craigslist nobody and I remember Once that they were selling Alexis and Mercedes and BMW Brand new for $10,000 in Idaho. The only thing you needed to do is just send $2,000 first It felt so real and I watched that I felt like this prophetic action that these three cars were mine Almost fell for it. I remember one friend of mine Sibling of mine actually who got a job from for this photographer The only thing she needed to do is cash his checks and send him the money and We all know that's a scam. I know another person who got a place for very cheap very beautiful house for such a good price and They were about to pay their deposit when they found out a scammer just took a picture of that place and that place wasn't even for rent There's a lot of scams going on online There's a lot of Ponzi schemes that are going on around and we all get a chance many times to get deceived or to get tricked But all of these deceptions all of these tricks none of them are as painful and as Damaging even though some of them could be very damaging to a person's finances the relationships and their life as a scheme. I Will talk to you today about This scheme is the oldest scheme this scheme is the secret scheme and This scheme is not by some kind of a hacker or some kind of a spammer in Nigeria Or some Indian country or somewhere in America some guy in the basement of his mother's house trying to rip people off Who are shopping online on Amazon? this scheme is by your worst enemy and This scheme we are going to not only learn about today in just few moments But we're gonna be able to disclose it put it to shame and Put it an end to it in Jesus name Can somebody say man? If you have your Bible you can go ahead and follow me if you don't you can look at the screen numbers chapter 25 verse 17 and verse 18 Harass the media nights. I know a lot of you guys, you know many things in the Bible are hard to do But this one is not very hard It's like harass God is telling Israel. I want you to harass this particular enemy and attack them For they harassed you with their schemes by which they seduced you in the matter of pure We'll stop on that part. Most of you are very familiar with the story as I'm gonna bring it to you What happens is when Israel was going to their promised land? there was this nation of Media nights these were tribes scattered everywhere and lived on different territories and they saw how big Israel was and they Knew that they didn't stand a chance Fighting them equally meaning fighting them army fighting an army so what they did is the king went and hired this guy named Balaam and Balaam was a sorcerer and Balaam was the guy who would throw his spells on countries people marriages and they would collapse and Balaam did it for money and then he would pronounce certain spells of blessings and it would work for them So the king went in and sent a lot of money and send a lot of people and says Balaam come over here I have a job for you. I'm gonna pay you a lot because there's gonna be a big place I want you to throw a spell on and curse this place And so Balaam comes in there and he's about to you know throw the curse but something happens God stops him and God says you can't throw the curse on these people They're already blessed and The reason why they're blessed is not because they're perfect But because they have a relationship with me And then I mentioned that on Sunday when Balaam was looking at the nation of Israel Balaam said this I see no iniquity in Israel and There is no transgression in their camp meaning they are perfect and The God is on their side and the shout of the king is among them It's very interesting because anything if you don't have to be a Bible scholar to know Israel was not perfect Israel had iniquity and had transgression Israel had a lot of sins But why was Balaam not allowed to see Israel sin because their sin like we were singing during worship today was covered and Therefore every spell and every witchcraft it couldn't stick to Israel Why because in a spiritual world while Israel was sleeping eating living their life trying to grow in their understanding of God God put a blockage in the spiritual world every witch doctor every warlock came against it and says we can do it These are perfect people. I Want to tell you something when you have a relationship with God When you have a real authentic relationship with God in the spiritual world you have an umbrella that protects you Even when you don't know and the enemy comes against you He will bounce back off why because God places a protection and God sees you and makes the enemy sees you as a perfect That is perfect. Amen. I remember reading this book about a lady who was Satan's wife She got so deep into Satanism that actually actually saw Satan Physically and started to do very very crazy things her crazy story and one particular time She was mentioning when she was moving up into the ranks of witchcraft one of the assignments They received from the higher demons was to attack this particular Christian family and to cause confusion there And so what they did is they actually left their bodies. She describes that as her experience She left her body and in a spiritual world She they went into the house of these Christians and lo and behold they saw this gigantic humongous beings all Around that little poor house and the flame was coming from all part of their body and they had swords on both sides And they were standing ready to raise hell if it needs to be and they said we gathered all of the witches that we knew and Try to battle against them the more we threw against them the weaker be we became until for our own lives We went back into our bodies and said we will never ever touch that house again But the next day that higher demon came and punished them for not succeeding You have to understand when you have a relationship with God You are covered You are covered see having a relationship with God is not the same thing as believing God exists Many people today they say I believe God exists. I remember talking to a particular young lady Yesterday who was mentioning that she's trying to tell her friend, you know who is facing demonic activities in her life Says you need you need to come to God. She says I believe in God Believing in God is not enough the scripture says demons believe in God, but it's not helping them at all They're headed into hell. I believe in a football player called Messi. I Believe in him. I don't know him and I don't have a relationship with him and frankly, I don't care about him as awesome as mercy is I Bought a book on his biography to give to prophet to be Joshua because to be Joshua likes mercy From what I heard for a few people When he was playing in Seattle You wouldn't move me with a semi truck to go watch mercy play Why because I'm not interested. I believe he exists. I believe he's the champion I watch few clips there and there and he's an awesome guy But me and mercy we have nothing going on and that's exactly how many people have a relationship with God They believe he exists. They believe he's the big guy upstairs, but the relationship with him They don't have that's why any spell any curse sticks to you like a super glue. Why because you're unprotected You can have a Geico for your car, but you need the blood for spiritual world Can somebody say a man? You can have all state for your house, but let me ask you today. Are you in the good hands with your spirit? Because only the blood somebody say blood see the blood Only the blood is your umbrella against demons witches warlocks and any spell or any curse people throw your way That's why when people curse you people say I hope you break I hope you collapse how many people fasted and cursed our church and said we hope none of you will make it You know what happens with that if we are covered with the blood a curse is like a ball you throw in in a wall It hits you right back in your face But it's not gonna destroy the wall and a lot of those people who fasted even against our church Sadly to say and this is not something we rejoice about The very things they fasted against us begin to visit their own families That's why to us most important thing is that I'm under umbrella. I'm in a relationship with God There's many many benefits of knowing God personally, but one of them is this there's a devil and there's demons And they're out to get you all the time you're sleeping or resting and they're using whatever it takes to get to you But when you are under blood they come close you're not perfect, but you're covered You're not perfect by you being perfected You're not perfect, but you're being protected you're not perfect But when you're walking there is a spiritual umbrella that all the still all the curses they don't stick they stick out Why because you're covered by the blood because somebody say man The first scheme of the devil is the direct attack. So write this down The first scheme is the attack. It's a direct assault It's when he uses a spiritual forces to come against us and our protection as Christians is The blood of Jesus when you don't have a relationship with God You are vulnerable You are vulnerable Being Catholic does not mean you have a relationship with God I like to always say it going to Starbucks has never made me into a latte Going to a church will not make you a Christian You have to make your personal decision to surrender your life to Jesus Christ and go under the protection of his Blood under the protection of the covering of the church and in your family. So God's grace rests upon your life So when things come against you when demons come against you and trust me they do when a nightmare comes against you They don't stick to you they come and they leave like oil drips and gets through your fingers But it doesn't get stuck exactly happens with those curses and demonic assaults because You're covered There's somebody say man But the second scheme of the devil is when Balaam could not curse Israel and it didn't work Balaam And I want you to write down is attract seduction of sin Balaam blessed Israel, but he comes to the king Balak, and he says the whole cursing thing is not gonna work. These people have a relationship with their God These people They're covered the spiritual world. They don't even know What they have but they have something so amazing But there's a secret it will take time and it will work and he tells Balaak He says I want you to strategically and I'm kind of paraphrasing this adding some color to it Because the Bible says that according to the console of Balaam they did this thing What they strategically begin to put women and men on the border between Israel and this tribe So that people will hook up connect experiment different cultures Different types and shapes collars and Appetites that people will begin to mingle together and they started to mingle at first. It was just a Seduction it led to more of a sexual sins and it led to more being loosed Until Israelites begin to come and worship their gods and idols and then a plague broke out with Israel And then we see a punishment came upon Israel Satan's second more Sneaky scheme It's not only to come and attack you with a curse or attack you Spiritually with this like you don't know what it came from it just attacked you His second scheme is when he presents something That looks like something You so want It looks Like a cherry Like a strawberry it looks that's so delighted It's seductive and then you go for it and you see the bait But because the bait looks so good tastes so good You don't see the hook and as you go for the bait and you always know baits are short hooks are strong And you end up on the hook And you realize you're hooked on something you say no, I'm gonna get out of this I'm gonna get out of this but the reason you can't get out of this is because it's not just a hook That's holding you it's that something is holding the hook outside of the world You're living in and wheeling you in into himself And as someone is a devil That's what people will swear People make promises to their spouse. That's the last time I took Jack Daniels That's the last time I'm gonna take that Marlboro You know, that's the last time that playable magazine is gonna end up in my mailbox That's the last time I will take a razor and touch my veins That's the last time that I will lie to you listen mom last time I was still money from your purse last time but see when you're a fish on the hook You are not in control of your last time You're only in control of your bait You can only control when it's gonna be the first time you take the bite, but you don't control well the last time You're gonna leave the hook That's why we must understand demonic schemes is to present something that looks like good, but behind it is The devil that promises something, but it doesn't deliver every commercial every beer commercial never tells you about the second DUI Every birk beer commercial doesn't show you when a man beats a woman so hard She ends up in emergency and the man gets a statue with the law and he is up in jail Every commercial for a playboy magazine Doesn't show you how children suffer and how a man becomes an addict and then becomes a pervert It will never show you that every gambling commercial will never show you how you will gamble your children's college fund He will never show that every time a commercial says life is short have an affair He will never show the pain that discuss the addiction because it only shows debate and the hook is well-hidden And many people when they end up on a hook They feel like it's already too late. I Want to speak to those today? Who are like Israel? fell for the bait I Want to speak to those who not only fell for the bait, but you found yourself pregnant in dead 10 15,000 thousand dollars Abortion I want to speak to those today who have experimented because you thought college life is gonna be an experimentation But it sure not into experimentation. It turned into a torment You made decisions that today you're thinking your life is over and you're only 25 when Israel fell for the bait and the plague started The plague was intending to completely completely wiped them out, but three things happen I want you to write it down number one One man Speared the cause of that plague Instead of sparing it Spirit don't spare it Spearing it means you stop the sin in its tracks Spearing it means Though your situation is already deep Though you are in already trouble that you feel like you're not gonna get out of it One of the best ways when you are in the hole is you have to stop digging is you stop Doing what you're doing with the devil for a lot of people like last Wednesday a young man gave his life to Jesus The way he speared his sin is when he went back home He took those cigarettes and he took that alcohol and he told himself this does not belong in my mouth The reason why is God didn't put a chimney on my head The reason why how other people would do it is they will come and they will simple disconnect certain people from their life Who constantly lured them back into sin and you bring a spear because many people they don't spear their sin They spare their sin. I Wish your sin would treat you the same. I Wish the drugs would treat us the same. I wish the immorality would treat us the same I wish that alcohol would treat us the same I wish that all of these of disobedience and rebellion would treat us the same But you got to spear that thing because somebody say a man means you got to put an end to it for some people It's just simple to throw certain delete certain numbers for some people Let's turn off certain things for some people is to change their jobs because what are you working today every single day You're tempted against your own will number two is God said after a Man speared the cause of that God says take vengeance What I really liked about God is that though Israel fell prey to their sin Though Israel fell into that on their own decision and Betrayed God. It's almost like cheating against God God Did not throw them out God came in and said I want you to fight Midianites for me, but God Then it's not their fault They were just a bait. We took the bait God says I know But the fact They seduced you I'm angry against them and I want you to execute vengeance Against that which seduced you, but it was my fault God. I was weak. I can't blame the devil for that No, you can't but you can fight him. You can resist them But you can trample on him Why God says for me Why because I'll feel better Why because he provoked you my child he caused you pain He distracted you from me and I will not let nothing to keep you away from me But you and me we will get that thing out of the way see God is not against you Even if what you did you turned your back on him and you fell for a lie and you got deceived I want to tell you something God Will take vengeance not on you, but with you and That very thing and you will execute it and you will put it to an end and you will have a victory in your life for his glory Can somebody say a man? Can somebody say a man? See I will take Vengeance on my enemy Unsin unsatan for God's glory and Lastly is give offering When they executed their enemies When they put an end to all of their enemies they came back and they had a very interesting situation Because this battle we don't see many battles mentioned like that in the Bible where there was no Casualty of war whatsoever meaning not one Israel's soldier died They were so happy with it that they brought 400 pounds of gold as an offering to God saying God Not only you took us back when we fell into sin But you helped us to fight it and you helped us to win it and God we just want to come to you and say God Thank you See when God helps you to get back on your feet This is one thing you got to do is you can't go back your give your perfect self to the devil again You got to give your awesome restored forgiven self back to God and say God now I am all yours the way I serve that devil is gonna the way I'm gonna serve you every Friday night I dance to the I lost my consciousness every Friday night here. I'll pray until I gain my spirit. I Spent four hundred to seven hundred dollars on weed without even thinking God. I'm gonna learn to tie I Woke up very early in the morning to go find drugs. I'm gonna wake up in the morning to go find your presence. I Read every witchcraft thing they came on the shelves every sexual is sensitive material God now I'm gonna read every book the Joyce Maya releases Why because I will give myself as an offering to you. I'm not gonna be for sale. I'm not gonna belong to myself no more I'm gonna be your property. I'm gonna belong to you my body and everything about me cuz somebody say man I Understand that what I would just preach to you or talk to you It's nothing very new Last Sunday, we had a prayer line and during this prayer line We saw when God delivered people I want you to take a look at just a short clip of where young men was delivered Just to kind of refresh your memory a little bit of what I'm talking about Is real Satan is real his plans are real is to kill steal and destroy I mentioned two main tactics Where he does it directly and then he does a sneakily he tries to attack us But through the power of Jesus We can overcome this young man. He opened his life to the devil He began to destroy his life But Jesus didn't come and kick the young man in a curve and says you such a terrible loser He came he kicked the devil out and says devil you such a terrible loser and save that man And that man got Baptist He's yours He's belongs to Jesus his body is a temple of the spirit and you made the biggest mistake of letting him come to this place All he goes fire right now all over your body. How you destroy this life speak out? He hates me How do you destroy his health? How would you do with his health? He hates what? He hates everything. Why have you done to his relationships? He doesn't deserve anything. He doesn't deserve anything. You broke every relationship that he had is that true? selfishness Jealousy jealousy. What else? Rage what else? Emptiness, how would you destroy his finances? What did you do to his finances? He buys Things he buys things and what anything anything? We have fun because how would you destroy his life speak out? Yes, emptiness How did you enter his life? Through what means did you enter his life? He gave up when I told him it would be fine. You key he gave up I convinced him you convinced him what? You convinced him that God isn't real what you made the biggest mistake allow him to come at this place I just forwarded right now. We'll expose every deliverance Jesus mighty name stand up now Austin What happened to you? How did that evil spirit? When did you begin to start to see that that evil spirits are operating in your life? When I was 17, I tried to take my own life. I started to see this this old man come into me in dreams and He would stand across a river and just tell me just cross the river come over and be with me I'll take care of you. I'll be your friend and I saw him six or seven times over the years So every at 17 you were trying to take your life this old man shows up in the dream Who you mentioned to me that he was very comforting and like very drawing and he was standing across the river and The river many times in the dream speaks of death And he was calling him across to come to this side and it happened five or six times And you mentioned that it would happen every time you would go through the hardest times of your life, correct? Yeah, it was any time. I just felt hopeless anytime. I felt like there was just no turning back from where I was I was at rock bottom. I would just have a dream that night and I'd wake up and I would just feel like killing the first person I saw I was so hateful when I woke up and it would last for a week or two sometimes, you know I would just who would you who did you think that man was I? didn't know until Actually made a friend who she was in the witchcraft and You mentioned she was doing woulda. Yeah, it was He's actually the keeper of the crossroads between earth and hell and She told me all about him and described him perfectly and so she begins to describe to this man that you see in a dream And and what was the name that she gave him? His name is legba. Okay, so she begins to even has a name and everything She begins to say that he is the keeper between heaven and death or earth and death and everything and what does she tell you to do? She told me how to make offerings to him little candies and toys and chili peppers for some to a guy in the dream Yeah, and she said, you know if you set up an altar like this and just leave him little things Then when you come back in the morning, it'll be gone and then you'll have some blessing in your life something great will happen and Things did happen. I had a job with more money than I knew what to do with You know, I had this nice apartment that I was living in everything was cool, you know So I thought and then I'd go to sleep just cry myself to sleep every night I didn't know why and I would wake up and just wish that I hadn't and I didn't know why and I was miserable And so Austin you grew up with the Christian background. So you knew about God Yeah, they didn't ever register into your mind setting up candies for people you see in a dream Getting advice from a woodlady probably not a good idea. No, you know or because it just you were at that point where you didn't care his His deal is he's the the trickster they call him the deceiver and so I thought well, why not? He's a friend, you know, I give my friends rides to work I give my friends food if they're hungry I give my friends clothes if they need it I'll give this old man a piece of candy He's just an example of a scheme. It's not a craigslist scheme would do scheme Where you just get played for now on Sunday You got saved about three weeks ago gave your life to Jesus three weeks ago And then you knew that prayer line is gonna be on Sunday. Yeah, now you've never seen the prayer line before So you didn't even know if we're gonna pray with oil hose or Nothing you actually thought we're gonna is gonna come and do like this over you and that's it Or like that, okay Tell me a day before prayer line. What's that happening to you? Have you guys ever been in trouble like you're speeding and then all of a sudden you see the red and blues behind you That feeling you get in your heart like no mom's gonna find out So That that feeling of just being afraid but afraid for a stupid reason like well, it's my fault I had it coming but man, I wish it wouldn't happen this way I wish I wasn't in trouble right now and it started well up in me And I just started feeling like man, maybe I shouldn't go tomorrow Maybe it's you know, I can I can go to the gym instead. I'll just go to Portland and spend money I don't have a little you know do this do that whatever and Then around one o'clock at night. I thought maybe I should just go to the bar Maybe I should just you know, call up an old girlfriend Maybe I should this or that or whatever and I ended up staying up all night and just fighting against this everything that went through My head was just saying don't go don't go don't go and then begging me not to go around four in the morning and I Said I'm going to I have to you and then about 5 30. I thought why don't I just hang myself? I should just kill myself right here. There's a rope in my closet. Sure. I could just do it and I just thought God this is it. This is I have to do this or it's gonna kill me and so I got here this morning that morning on Sunday and I texted Vlad and said man, I'm terrified and He texted me back. He said don't be afraid. Jesus is with you in the second The second he said that it was like a the final gunshot, you know, he knew it was done and I just gave up I felt my body just go limp. Just That's it and then when deliverance was happening that evil spirit He left your body and it wasn't him that was terrified It was a devil was terrified Because devil has been here long enough and he's seen the prayer lines and stuff So it's not his first rodeo and so he typically knows what's gonna happen there And he was the one that was terrified and pushing him to not to come so he doesn't receive his deliverance And after that so you got delivered. Well, how did you feel afterwards? Felt like I was about 20 feet tall and full of muscle, you know, so Oh the girls usually feel light guys feel tall and big So different I Felt made new I tried to explain it to Vlad that if you could imagine every star in the universe And then bring those all together inside this one little 200 pound piece right here You know, that's that's you just take all these little bright points There's no darkness in between them anymore And then put them all together and build it like that build it piece by piece and cell by cell and part by part And then actually give it a heart and give it a purpose and that was what I found in Christ Come on So you texted that lady Tell us what happened So so the lady who introduced you to those little giving candies to the old people in dream, huh? Now keep in mind black lipstick black eyeliner black everything, you know, where's crowns outside? So she tells me well the older gods were here first and they don't let you leave if you try to leave your life is over they They're very they have a spirit of vengeance in each one of them and I said well, I really don't care because my God's bigger and The second I told her that she just said well looks like that's the end for you Then you're never gonna be happy again. I said yeah I know I'm gonna be ecstatic for the rest of my life because I have God And then and then she blocked you Done just straight out of my life like that and then she blocked you no problem Devil is bad Jesus is good Jesus is greater and devil is defeated Everything he presents is a lie Everything he shows is a trick and don't fall for it. You will either pay now or you're gonna pay later But you're gonna pay for it But when you choose the way of Christ, it might be hard it might be narrow But it always leads to life not depression not discouragement, but at least to life because somebody say man