 Hey, good morning friends. Hey brother Mike back on the podcast. It's Sunday morning nine o'clock mountain time 11 o'clock Eastern and thank you for joining us and Want to share the deep things of God with you today Some very interesting stuff coming your way this morning If you need to contact me, please remember you can Send me an email Mike at hardcore christianity.com The ministry line for you who you live here in the Phoenix area 602 636 5800 Remember we have two live services every week. I speak on Friday nights at 7 p.m. Mountain time and Brother Rick and the ministry team are there on Thursday nights for our main deliverance service of the week That thing is powerful the capital P. You don't want to miss that Thursday nights at 7 o'clock Please bring somebody who needs deliverance or healing the anointing is thick thick on Thursday nights say the least and On Wednesday night brother Rick and the ministry team. We have our zoom broadcast live at 6 p.m. Mountain time 9 p.m. Eastern and And you send me an email Mike at hardcore christianity.com. I'll send you the ID code and The password Senator send it right out to you. We had a wonderful year with donations last year We paid all of our bills on time early. I paid all my local radio show bills early Thank you for your donations when you go to the website You just hit the PayPal button. That's where most of the donations come in But if you need a receipt for your donations for 2022 just send me an email and I will ship it right out come right out Immediately the same day No problem. I Wanted to Share something with you so that in the future when you're talking to another born-again Christian You can explain to them how Christians Can have demons but cannot be possessed Christians cannot be possessed by demons But they can be infected with them. I liken it to the flu or COVID When you're infected with the flu, you are not the flu, but you're infected with the flu when the flu is gone You're fine. And that's how it works in the spirit world You do not You are not possessed by a spirit if you're a born-again Christian because this Demons can't get into the spirit man Or the holy spirit lives in your spirit man. They can never get in there but they can get in your body or your brain causing a physical or mental illness and So the Bible never says in any passage anywhere That Christians Cannot have demons. It does not say that It's not in the Bible. If you look for it, you will not find it But they can be infected with spirits and I wanted to share some important information with you today that will help you explain this to Christians who are Novices and do not understand the spirit world and do not understand that they themselves are infected with spirits Because it's a spirit that told them they can't have a spirit It's also a spirit that goes around telling people that Christians can be possessed by demons and they cannot be possessed They cannot be But if you'll if you take a look at 1st Timothy chapter 3 It's quite remarkable here the standards the apostle Paul put out there for Being a minister in a church Okay, this applies to any kind of a minister pastor associate pastor on the board, you know They are to be fired here it is 1st Timothy chapter 3 Paul says quote. This is a true saying If a man desires the office of a bishop he desires a good work now the Greek word for Bishop there is a Piscopay It's where we get our English word Episcopal like the Episcopal Church an Episcopay is somebody who is a supervisor in The house of God some kind of supervisor could be a pastor could be associate pastor could be anything But they are in a position of knowledge and leadership and supervision and that's what an Episcopay is It's translated here as Bishop It's translated as Bishop in the King James Bible But an Episcopay is someone who is a leader in your church and here are the requirements he itemizes them like an accountant He says number one. They must be blameless number two of the husband of one wife One wife must be vigilant. He must be sober Some of these things go without saying I realize that you know Sovert sober in this verse believe it or not does not mean Smoke and crack or pot or something Soffron Soffrons the Greek word it means to have your mind under control somebody who's not Thinking about crazy things all the time somebody who's sober minded is what that means He must have good behavior. He must be hospitable He must be a natural a natural teacher Tadatticus is the Greek word. It means somebody who is just kind of a natural at in a teaching and instructing at illustrating at showing people Truths and the word of God kind of a natural natural born instructor so to speak and Then verse three says not given to much wine. Yeah, okay That's obvious No striker. What in the world is a Plectus that's the Greek word for striker there Somebody that's argumentative or quarrelsome somebody likes to debate all the time That is not a person you want to put in any kind of leadership ministry in your church They always cause hurt feelings and emotional problems among the People he must not be greedy He must be patient Right. He must be Not a brawler Wow What is it? What it is? What is an amicus a brawler? Yeah, somebody who's If nonviolent he has to be somebody that's not given to duking it out so to speak Can't be an MMA fighter and And Here's the next one covetous that goes without saying as you know all church scandals are either involving sex or money So Paul says you cannot be a lover of money or covetous And he and you must be verse four someone that rules their own home. Well Having their children in subjection with all gravity for if a man does not know how to rule his own home How shall he rule the house of God translation I had a friend of mine years ago Who was an associate pastor of an assembly of God church? And then he was a great Person he did an excellent job as an associate pastor. I mean he was very good What was the problem the problem was that he had a female dominated home His wife ran everything and if she didn't get what she wanted She complained and griped and nagged and so on and then the two daughters His two daughters kind of followed after her. They were also kind of emotionally ill and then the son was also Emotionally he had rejection and fear spares later on in life. He became a drug addict and overdosed but I always wondered When I was younger, I thought dad this guy would make a really good pastor, but this verse kept coming to me Someone who has no rule over their own home and You know, he died a few years ago and he never did get To pastor a church. I Mean he was really a good person and would have done a great job pastoring a church. No question But he never got it God never gave him a chance to pastor a church because He had problems with his own home It's terrible Well Then in verse 6, here's what I wanted to share with you verse 6 in The list of qualifications for someone who's a leader in the church It says he must not be a novice On the alphatists is someone who is a rookie a young convert a new convert something like that Lest it says he be lifted up with pride and and He fall into the condemnation of the devil Diabolus the Greek word for condemnation here is cream up and that's the word for judgment and When you when you came to Christ you Received from him mercy You did not get justice God gave you grace. He did not give you justice if he gave you justice you would have been judged and Condemned to an eternity in hell But you didn't get justice when you came to Jesus you got mercy That's what I got and thank God for that. I did not want justice when I came to God. I wanted mercy and so When people wrong me or stab me in the back Say bad things about me and what have whatever it is happens all the time. I don't pray and ask God to give me justice because I don't want justice. I want mercy and I pray for the people that turn on me and attack me Yeah, I pray and ask God to give them mercy I don't ask him to give me justice and go vindicate me and Go wipe these people out and make them pay or anything like that. I don't need those thoughts don't even come to my mind Because I don't want it done to me. Whatever measure you meet out is the measure that will be Given back to you so if I get stabbed in the back I'm not going to stab them in the back. I'm going to ask God to forgive them and Have mercy have mercy because that's what I want. I want God to give me mercy Mercy is the only neighborhood I can afford to live in I can't pay rent anywhere else. I know I don't qualify. I Need God's mercy, but here you see when you come to Christ You got mercy. You did not get judgment, but do Christians get judged? Crema Yes, they do who judges them what says it right here a born-again Christian can fall under the judgment of Satan when you sin You will reap what you sow and if you keep on sinning The judgment of the devil can fall on you curses can follow you disasters can fall on you Sicknesses can fall on you pain can fall on you. This is all the judgment of Satan when a Christian steps outside The covering of the word of God they're opening themselves up to the crema the judgment of Satan the the devil Diabolos as you know is The false accuser of the brethren he's always pointing his finger at us and accusing us and When you activate the blood of Jesus and you confess your sin and you have a humble heart The blood of Christ removes that sin and there the condemnation of the devil the judgment Disappears because there's nothing there to judge Christians who are stubborn and dig in like Alabama ticks They end up judged not by God But by saying now here's verse 7 It says in addition to this Paul said He must have a good report Of those who were who are without Existence Existence the Greek word it means people who are outside the church not the ones on the inside He must have a good report Or a good testimony Martiria is a Greek word for report there. It means witness martyrdom testimony of people who are outside the church because Paul says he could fall into the reproach and The snare of Diabolos the devil And this is what happens if you'll notice everybody who gets involved in a church scandal It's always involving money or sex The outside people the media the centers the people that hate the church Always point their finger at them and they reproach them. They reproach them Anita's must is the Greek word for reproach there It means to verbally abuse verbally denigrate. They will verbally trash them and they will fall into the snare of Diabolos the accuser The Greek word for snare there is Pagis it means a trap you did not see you stepped on it And you fell in there like in India where they catch tigers They dig a big hole. They cover it up They put some meat or something there and the tiger walks through and falls into the pit That's a Pagis and It says here the devil digs a pit for these people Then he covers it up Like it doesn't appear there It's a trap. It's a trick and They fall in Not seeing it coming up a geese They don't see it see that They don't see what the devil has planted for them. God didn't do it God is not reproaching them God is not trapping them They are trapping themselves because they allow the devil to judge them They got involved in some kind of behavior the Satan saw Satan accused it Diabolos who's a accuser of the brethren and The person didn't change and didn't repent and so the devil judged them and Then reproached them and then caused them to fall into a trap They never saw coming They never saw it coming It's a trick Take a look at 2nd Timothy chapter 2 would you? it's really interesting and Flip Paul is again going over some requirements for ministers and and he says verse 22 says a flea youthful lust Wow, I wish I could have done that when I was young, but I Wasn't serving goddamn. I was partying with as many lusts as I could create myself. It's terrible Flea youthful lusts and follow righteousness faith love peace With all them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart Translation don't associate as Rodney Dangerfield used to say I attract everybody Who can do me absolutely no good? Don't hang around people who can influence you negatively sinfully wickedly lost fully unrighteously avoid them and Then he says verse 23 also obeyed Foolish and unlearned questions Can God make a rock so heavy you can't pick it up stupid stuff Baiting over insane doctrines like evolution, you know fight over that Did we come from apes? I mean, it's ridiculous. Of course. We didn't evolution is a long you know joke He says hey, don't don't fight over these things. Don't don't cause strife over them But a servant of the Lord it says verse 24 must not strive And a Macklemigh is a person who likes to get in debates and argue over Bible verses and theories and doctrines. I'm treat trip. I'm post trip. I'm mid trip. Oh, no, that's not right That's not right. That was not right. No, this is right. That's right. That was right stupid Idiotic, okay, there's no point in arguing over the rapture. You can't do anything about it And that's not your job. You're not supposed to be worrying about the rapture Right, that's what Jesus said to Peter just before he went back to heaven Hey, listen, it's not for you to know the times or the seasons Okay Peter knows what about this guy? Hey, it's not that guy's none of your business. You just follow me Yeah, and that's how you debate the rapture you go. Who cares I Don't have any control over it. Anyway, it's none of my business The rapture occurs whenever it occurs. That's out of my purveyor my knowledge or my authority Let's go on to something that actually means something It says the servant of the Lord Must not strive like a wife, but he must be gentle apis What does that mean? He must be, you know, somebody people can get along with he must be the type of person that People feel comfortable around people sense. They can talk to the person they sense. They kind of care about listening to them It must be gentle to all App to teach if they mentioned that in the first Timothy. We just read that He must be patient in meekness Instructing those that oppose themselves And if you're going to be in the ministry, I hope you will be someday You have to meet certain requirements. I read the list in first Timothy and You must be a person who is who has humbleness a lot of meekness about them Somebody who doesn't want to dominate or lord it over somebody. Okay? This is the reason that you never have You know dominant people running a ministry male or a female Okay, in particular alpha females are major problems with ministries They they get a lot of things done and they're go-getters and they're great motivators But they wear on people's nerves and after a while you're gonna have a pastoral staff. It's gonna bolt Because an alpha female is too authoritative too oppressive too goal-oriented and doesn't have the meekness the gentleness and the patience to be an appropriate leader of men and women and They must be apt to teach patients in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves if God peer-adventure Will give them repentance to Acknowledging the truth This verse is amazing Because it says that repentance is a gift from God and And not everybody receives that gift And I can testify to that myself over the years being a counselor. I've been a counselor for over 40 years. I Have seen numerous Christians over the years Who never got the gift of repentance that never got rid of their rebellion demons and never got repented of their stubbornness and They were they were never repented. They never had any godly sorrow. They were never sorrow. They hurt God They never repented. It was awful. And when you pray for someone you ask them you ask your heavenly father to give them what? Yeah, the gift of repentance So they can acknowledge the truth people that are stubborn people that are narcissists people that are domineering Controllers manipulators You can speak truth to them, but they never hear it. It never gets into their spare man. They don't receive it and this is what Paul's talking about If perchance God gives them the gift of repentance so they can acknowledge the truth and here's the verse I want you to remember So they may recover themselves out of the Peggy's Same Greek word used in first Timothy. We just read it The Peggy's the trap the unseen trap You're walking up and there you go into the trap of the Diabolus the devil for they are taken captive by him at his will Did you know that some Christians can be taken captive? by the devil and They can do his will they will serve him What are these two scriptures that I've read to you? What are they hinting at in 1st Timothy and 2nd Timothy that Christians can be infected but not possessed by demons? Demons can get into your body or your brain and Caught you to do the will of the devil They can deceive you in your mind causing you to Serve Satan and fall into a trap that you did not see coming You did not see it coming Now turn over to James chapter 3 if you would with me James 3 And go down to verse 14. This is really interesting as well James is talking about Christians born again Christians in this chapter and he recommends in verse 14's Here's what I'm telling you to do with these Christians 1 2 3 4 5 so he itemizes it and Then he says of these things put them in remembrance and charge them before the Lord that they strive Not about words To no profit, but it leads to subverting the heroes Then he says Study to show yourself approved to God a workman that needs not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth But he says shun profane and vain babblings For they will increase to more ungodliness and their words will eat like a kanker Gang Grina is where we got her English word gang green Like a cancer a kanker is like cancer And he mentions two guys who had done that Hymenius and felidas Where they aired from the faith and they were teaching that the resurrection already happened When in fact, it's obviously not not already happening the resurrection of the saints is something in the future not in the past and so Here you see Christians behaving like They have been infected with spirits They're thinking like the devil They're acting like the devil Diabolos the accuser and they're giving him Things to accuse them of they said this they did that They're striving they're causing discord They don't meet the qualifications for a bishop an Episcopate They're doing this that and he if any accuses them of everything they're doing he nitpicks them See some people had it grew up with a mother who was a nitpicker or a dad who was critical And they grew up with fear rejection demons low self-esteem and then later on they started to reject themselves Self-rejection you see that So there is no verse in the Bible that says Christians cannot have demons, but it's insinuated in numerous verses Hyde illustrated completely by disciple Peter Peter was the fog hoarder of the group He would have made a fortune as a hostess on a live bait boat always running his mouth a megaphone type person and a Very flawed human being Peter Peter was my favorite person because I Looked at him and I said man this guy made it. I got a shot at this I'm like him like a kind of flaws I'm screwed up, too. So if he made it. Hey, I'm gonna make it. I Love Peter. He was a certified goof loved it well Before the day of Pentecost These are disciples They were infected with demons. I Mean look at Judas Look at Peter. This is two examples. Look at doubting Thomas. He was narcissistically stubborn and Wouldn't believe even though he had numerous credible eyewitnesses and saw the resurrection of Christ He said I'm not gonna believe it till I stick this thing into this Hole in his side. Okay. I know he got stabbed by that Centurion I know they rammed a spear up his side There it went and Until I see that hole, I don't believe you guys. You're all lying He called all the disciples from higher. Okay. Well, that's a Common symptom of Christians who are infected with spirits But they're always pointing their finger at somebody else and nitpicking them calling them liars You're not listening to me. You're abusing me You don't like me of it, you know on and on it goes Yeah, that was Thomas You're at fault. I'm not you're an idiot. I'm not And Peter literally Starts manifesting Jesus said I'm gonna go to the cross of Calvary. I'm gonna have to leave you. I've got to save the world Peter goes are you crazy? You're not doing that and then in the Greek text that says he actually yanked him aside He pulled him over can you imagine that and Jesus said to Satan The demons were speaking out of Peter's mouth Get the behind me Satan. He didn't mention Peter. You only focus on the things of men not the things of God He wasn't calling Peter Satan Peter was Peter. He wasn't Satan Far from it But when a demon speaks out of someone's mouth and you've seen and heard it before You're talking to a born-again Christian something triggers them triggers them and Suddenly they have like a personality change I did a Bible study on it. It's called dipstick us The Greek word for someone that has two souls a dipstick us in the King James Bible. It's translated as double-mindedness a dipstick us somebody who has two souls and You run into these people and it's it's kind of scary Because they're counted it they morph into this other person And it's like you're talking to a totally different person and it goes quickly. It's like a quick snap This other personality takes over That's what happened to Peter. He was a dipstick us this spirit took over his personality and he started to rebuke God and tell God That God wasn't To complete his plans and do what he wanted to do. Can you imagine that? We're sure you can Christians do it all the time They're always disappointed with the Lord. They don't like his decisions. They tell him what to do But that's demonic that came from the illustration of the disciple Peter You'd be behind me say them Listen God's not judging you for your sin You already judged you at the cross of Calvary, but there is somebody out there judging you for your sin and watching it and Accusing you of it and keeping track of it and nitpicking you. Yeah, there's somebody out there Every single born-again Christian has been assigned by the kingdom of darkness a group of Demons that are assigned to destroy you and when you become a born-again Christian That assignment is bigger There's more spirits following you around Trying to discredit you and judge you and nitpick you and accuse you and there were when you were a sinner When you were a sinner the devil already had you in a bag. You were already bagged. You were his servant You did basically what he wanted you to do you fought the way he wanted you to think You were a sinner sinners sin because their sinners That's how it works now that you're a born-again Christian not your born-again Christian you are to Stop sinning and you are to think like the mind of Christ and your behavior is to be like your heavenly father and you're to love like him and be like him and demonstrate the fruit of the spirit right the fruit of the spirit relations and If you remember this one Simple truth. I taught on it Friday night in the spirit world Spirit beings can enter your body Demons can enter your body the Holy Spirit can enter your body as two examples When a spirit being enters your body That spirit being gives you what they have and They can only give you what they have They can't give you anything else Okay, so if you got infected with a lust spirit the lust demon Has lusts and he's going to transfer his lusts to you Same thing with a fear spirit same thing With a critical spirit the spirit has certain traits fear fear demons lust lust Anger rage and murder anger spirits and they transfer those qualities to you once they enter you The Holy Spirit is the same once he comes into your spirit man. He then transfers What he has Right the Holy Spirit cannot transfer to you Lust anger resentment bitterness because he doesn't have it to transfer to you. He can't give it to you There's no way a Spirit that enters your body cannot transfer to you Godly love Godly patience Why he doesn't have it? Spirits can only give you what they have If they don't have it they can't give it to you a Lust demon only has and can only give you what he has he cannot give you Things that other demons have so if you have a lust spirit He's not going to be able to give you divination powers Because he doesn't have them You know a familiar spirit has to enter your body and get into your brain Like kundalini spirits like church demons like mind control spirits like plan of spirits They get into your brain. They hijack your mind and they give you Religious stuff Okay, you're not going to get that from a fear spirit or a lust spirit a Spirit being can only give you what they have They transfer it to you and the Holy Spirit can only give you what he has the fruit of the spirit the gifts of the spirit The anointing the love of God. He can't give you anything else because he doesn't have it He doesn't have it You can't give it to you. He can't give you bitterness. He can't give you anger. He can't He doesn't have it The devil is the one judging you your heavenly father does not he is constantly encouraging you To repent to change to grow He never stomps on you when you hit the deck And I know that from personal experience. I've hit the deck numerous times Numerous times God never came over said, you know something You're a chronic failure you suck and step on my neck. It never happened He doesn't need to the devil is going to do it God doesn't need to judge you Kreno, he doesn't need to it the devil is already doing it God doesn't nitpick you and point out all of your faults and Lament over the fact that you're a failure and a loser and you got problems and you're not listening He doesn't do that He doesn't you know something funny. You're having a father never has never even had one bad thought about you That's all reserved for demons. They have chronic bad thoughts about you Everything about you makes them sick. They can't stand you You stink like a skunk to them and they hate your guts and their job. I Guess they get paid somehow their job is to get rid of you and they are highly motivated to do it You have been targeted For termination and they will use any method. They possibly can their favorite method being your mind Whoever gets your mind the spirit being that enters your body wants your mind The Holy Spirit enters your body He goes to your spirit man. He wants he wants your mind Demons enter your body They want your mind Whoever gets your mind gets the rest of you judgment Falls on Christians all the time But not from God. God already judged you at Calvary. I Was judged for my horrible sins and my pathetic life at Calvary and I got mercy not Justice Therefore since you have freely received you was freely give therefore. I must give Mercy to others since that's what I got Judge not Creenow and you will not be judged Two Fridays ago I taught on on judgment and the differentiation of the Greek words for judgment I'll open here again Judgment fell on me at Calvary It's not falling on me now Mercy is but a Pegasus a trap you do not see is being formed out ahead of you if you Don't understand That to be a minister You have to meet the qualifications of a of a bishops the King James were Persian an Episcopate a leader in the church you have to meet these criteria if you don't and You go into the ministry You didn't go through deliverance. You didn't repent of all your sins. You don't have your family at order You don't have your house in order You went into the ministry Not ready to go not properly trained If you do that Out ahead of you and you can't see it is a piggies. It's a trap You do not see and when you walk over it You fall in You know what happens next hell comes to breakfast in your house and you're going to backslide You're gonna slip into oppression You're gonna get down on yourself You're gonna think that God is mad at you that he's turned on you that he's judging you God's gonna judge this and that that this no, he's not if God's gonna judge judge America that he's gonna have to start with you Yeah Because you're miss perfect You're mr. Wonderful right not You got mercy from God when you came and fell on your knees. I fell on my face a Church years ago when I was begging like a dying man for mercy from God crying my guts up The God who have mercy on my soul. I Wasn't asking for justice God didn't want justice I wanted mercy how about you Pretty neat If somebody judges you you're feeling judgment you're feeling condemned Switch it over to the devil. It's not coming from your heavenly father. No It's not There that's a rejection demon talking to you again. Remember he was talking to you when you were four years old He's still talking to you Still thinking you're no good. You're a failure. You're lousy. You're you're pathetic. You're pitiful. You suck. Hey Trust me. We all get that same script Okay demons always use the same thing over and over and over It's just like another thing to them They use whatever works. So whatever little phrase of condemnation you respond to they'll use that over and over again Right if it's about your physical appearance, they'll use that over and over again If it's about your heritage your race, whatever it is They'll hunt and pack through you to you until they find a soft spot something that hurts you and They'll just keep using it over and over again Why not? They're not stupid like Christians. They Find something that works. They keep doing it You know They're not dumb far from it But today you're not done either you realize that God had judged you the Calvary He's not judging you anymore. You realize today that God has never had one bad thought about you That he is 100% behind you. He wants you to change. He wants you to repent He wants you to renew your mind and he will help you literally every step of the way To you reach a point spiritually where you cannot be stopped and you become a very dangerous person Very dangerous person Years ago the devil should have killed me when he had the chance. He blew it I'll tell you one short story before I close this this actually happened to me I wasn't serving God I Don't understand how everything works in the kingdom of God. I don't have all the answers But I used to work at a bakery when I was In my early 20s Dolly Madison was the name of the company. I Think they got bought out by hostess a few years ago, but anyway, I worked at the plant Dolly Madison bakery plant Where they manufactured, you know, the zingers the the the pies The cup stuff like that, you know all the stuff you shouldn't eat and The supervisor says hey listen, I was on the maintenance midnight maintenance I worked graveyard and The graveyard shift I liked because I wasn't very busy and You didn't have to work very hard if you worked in production during the day If you worked in shipping during the day, man, those guys work all day long Was a union job you work too out two hours. You got a break working on the two got a break and that's how they worked it But on maintenance it in the middle of the night. It was a very loosely run ship. Well, the supervisor Knows that I need some time to kill so he takes me up to the top of the plant and We had giant vents like coming down Ceiling in the plant probably 25 feet in the air this was a big manufacturing plant and he wanted me to get down in the vent and clean The crap off the sides of the bench All right It wasn't gonna work, but it was just something to do, you know, and they gave me a bucket They get I got some kind of a sponge or something So I climbed down into this vent, you know, and it's about I'm gonna say a four-foot deep four-foot deep and it's probably four feet wide three feet wide three feet wide coming down out of the ceiling and It had a trap door at the bottom of it And it was about 30 feet in the air at the top of the ceiling of this plant And so I get down into the vent and I'm standing there cleaning the Crap off the walls and suddenly Literally in a microsecond The vent below me the trap door on the vent below me Drops a piggies and I am now falling to my death I'm falling out of the vent and So help me God Something grabbed my hands the back of my hands and my hands went forward Fast as lightning and I grabbed the edge of the vent While I was falling to my death The trap door boom Peggy's dropped open. I mean, I'm down in this all happening sections of seconds My hands miraculously Something pushed my hands forward. I grabbed the Vent rail My feet are dangling out of the 30 feet in the air. I'm dangling out of this camp And Suddenly this incredible strength came over me. I pulled the vent Jerk my knee up put my foot on the edge of the lip that I was hanging on miraculously I was falling like a rock my hands something pushed my hands and I grabbed the flip on this thing Pulled myself back up Put my foot up stood back up And then went down to the supervisor's office because I had clipped to my left knee on that lip on the vent And it's starting to swell. I thought oh, I might have blown a knee out But I didn't think about that because I would have been dead I there was no way I could have survived that fall if I did survive But I would have probably been permanently disabled the rest of my life for stuck in a wheelchair or something It was miraculous. I Have no idea what happened that day. I don't know what was going on somebody saved me When my hands Got the super strength And I caught the edge of that lip and I was dangling out of the top of the plant in the air hanging out there Pulling myself up. I had this incredible strength come over me and Then it left after I got out of the vent I mean, it was literally amazing and I think what happened there was I don't have all the answers, but I think God in his futuristic mercy Saves people providentially sometimes and It's happened to me several times since I've been a Christian Since I've been following the Lord and it's happened to you You could look back over your life and and tell me a tell me a brother Mike's story Hey, this is exactly what happened to me. I was standing on the corner Somebody lost control the car flipped Something from the building fell over Unbelievable I should have been killed and I wasn't you have those stories as well. Do you not? It just happened to me It just happened to me Recently I was in Kansas and I was holding the healing service there and Emporia Kansas at the VFW this is happening a few weeks ago and One day my sister and my oldest daughter Decided to go to Kansas City. So we drove up there We wanted to look around this was before the Super Bowl. We wanted to see what was going on with the chiefs and how the town was all set up we went down to Union Station the thing was spectacular and It was one of the most amazing days. I've ever had in my entire life. I Could not believe the stuff that was happening to me that day. It was utterly amazing We were driving down the freeway and an old man in a pickup with a camper is entering the freeway on ramp here He gets up near us does not check to his left does nothing and Fears right out at us my daughter swings to the left Into the other lane in front of a semi that was to our left I was in the back seat in the passenger seat on the right side She swings to the left like Mario and Dredi in his prime Swings back and avoids this guy literally was he was going to side swipe us Later on we're driving down a street to go to a coffee shop in downtown Kansas City and Some teenager left turns in front of us and it was so fast It was amazing My daughter does the same thing again. She miraculously swings the car to the right and Then swings it to the left and we miss this Left turning car by that much. We missed the parked cars on the right side by that much and we go on to the Coffee shop we go down to Arrowhead Stadium And we go ahead and we went into the sports shop looked around came out and when we entered the parking lot at Arrowhead there was this gigantic sign probably in the neighborhood of 15 feet tall by 25 feet wide it was on stands. It was a sign on stands. I don't even know what the sign said Said we drove right by the sign when we were leaving Arrowhead and coming out the wind picked up and I heard a crash right behind my head. We were in Ikea. I'm in the back seat on the right The wind had blown that sign down and it just missed the back of the car Okay, but after that We went to the World War one Memorial Okay, and it was truly spectacular if you're ever in Kansas City definitely recommend you go visit the World War one Memorial awesome Well, as you know or may know it's it's it's not you know It seems like a half a mile of concrete steps up to the giant Memorial Statue and then it's way up and up looking over the city of Kansas City and you can stand there See downtown Kansas City It's probably 300 feet in the air or something like that Well, I'm looking around at the monument and the facility and everything while we're leaving the place I stepped down and I missed the step And at my age Okay, a fall is about the worst thing you get involved in when you get when you're an older person Falling is usually the next step to the end that usually puts you on your slide to your grave I would have fallen down. I don't know how many flights of concrete steps I would have been either dead or busted up like you can't even believe As I'm starting to fall I felt something steady me I can't explain it and suddenly I found both my feet right on the step steady and I stopped tumbling forward You had to do this recently in Kansas City Okay, so I was either going to be severely mauled maimed or killed four times in one day Four times in one day, okay and then That was a sign to me that I'm supposed to continue my podcasts on Sunday morning That was a sign to me that God is a God of mercy and grace and that I get grace and mercy Even though I don't deserve it And that was a sign to me that what I have taught you today From God's word is 100 true He has never had a bad thought about you. He has saved you from dying numerous times over the years He just did it for me He did it when I was, you know in my early 20s. I think I was 20 years old when I Should have fallen out of that vent that dolly Madison bakery I didn't fall Somebody grabbed my hands and pulled me out of there It was amazing. It was miraculous and that's what you are You're still here today. You are amazing. You've been hit with everything the devil's got you've been hit from every side You could possibly get hit from And you're still standing and you are going to fulfill your destiny You are not going to die wasting your life like everybody else does. It's not going to happen You're not going to die as a born-again Christian wasting your life like all the other born-again Christians do 99 some percent of born-again Christians are spiritual losers and they waste their lives Getting caught up in the things of this world and the lusts of other things And on and on it goes just like jesus said But you are not going to do that. You're on this podcast because you don't want to do it You like the deep things of god And that's exactly what's going to happen to you the devil's going to be sorry Sorry, he ever showed up at your house for breakfast with hell He's going to regret it You know what he's going to say when you're done I should have left that one alone