 Hey, good morning friends Sunday morning, and thanks for tuning into the podcast welcome to the deep things of God with brother Mike This podcast number eight Territorial spiritual warfare in the heavenlies today teaching today. I just want to share a few interesting things about this new concept that Sweeping through the deliverance ministries all over the country. I got some red flags here You can watch this podcast, of course every Sunday morning at nine o'clock mountain time And it'd be 8 p.m. Pacific 11 o'clock in the morning on the East Coast and You can watch it live on twitch.tv all you do is Put in the code HCC ADC and then you can watch it live on my Facebook page Michael W. Smith every Sunday morning at 9 o'clock. Thanks for tuning in I'll see you next month in Carl's bad, California for a Healing and deliverance Christmas Eve service go to the website hardcore christianity.com catch the address and the times off the website Also, please remember I will be in February. I'll be in Emporia, Kansas at the VFW That's also on the website, please remember now that we have we have two Zoom deliverance and healing services every week Tuesdays and Wednesday nights at 6 p.m. Mountain time and we have two live services every week Thursdays and Friday nights at 7 o'clock Mountain time at the Arizona deliverance center in Phoenix were downtown on 15th Avenue just south of Osborne Road It's a red brick building Also seven days a week. You can catch my local radio show In Arizona the times you can catch it are on the home page of the website down to bottom left corner My main radio program is on every morning at 7 30 Monday through Friday on kxxt christian radio You can also check out off the website My archive radio shows now the radio shows are a little different. I You know, they've got kind of a very edgy Sense to them. They're not like regular babel studies like I do on the podcast so Some of the radio shows are a little bit Little bit are rated so You know, they're not for everybody but what I'm trying to do there is Explain the truth in this raw of form as I can present it. I do the best I can Every day I'm on the radio locally here in Arizona The phoenix area in maricopa county kxxt 10 10 a.m radio As I mentioned to you on a previous podcast many years ago. I was I did a radio show on Deliverance, this was like 2006 or seven something like that. I can't remember the year I did it and uh God spoke to my heart and told me that someday the deliverance was going to be everywhere Casting out demons will be a common thing And I thought I was just hearing myself say it because At that time back in 2007 or what have you That that wasn't that didn't even look like a possibility and You know within a few months after I got that thought in my head It was it was a year or two later and it was starting to happen and now Exactly what I did that radio program on is exactly what's happening Deliverance is all over the place Most of it's bad and Any deliverance program that you get involved in that is not based on repentance That's the bullseye repentance repenting of sin repenting of iniquity in the heart And renewing the mind any deliverance program you get involved in That doesn't have that that just spends its time casting out demons And having people flop around in parks and people puke all over the sidewalk and people running out and You know lifting cars up and throwing them around Any kind of major manifestation deliverance program that you get involved in that is not Repentance based that program will eventually do more harm to that person than they will good Because in Matthew 12 and luke 11 the bible teaches or jesus thought That when a spirit goes out When he comes back he'll bring reinforcements And and to quote jesus quote the last state of the man Is worse than the first That's something you and I don't want to do You know you have a good heart and you care about people and you want to help them And the last thing you want to do is hurt them and so it's fun Casting demons out so to speak you get likes and clicks on your youtube stuff and everything social media Looks great. Oh, you're having a bang up time You're casting demons out of somebody on the street and boy, there's a lot of that going on isn't there? Yeah, because we have a homeless and mental illness crisis in the united states Nobody wants to do anything about it All these sick people are just living out in tent communities So, yeah, you can go out there and you can find people loaded with demons up and down the street Bad demons And what those demons are doing they're just kind of accommodating you they're they're saying well, hey these are church people I'm gonna give them a good show today. So you got some guy roaring. You got some gal screaming. You got people doing cartwheels It's a big show you get the likes you get the clicks That is not Going to help those people those demons If you do get demons out of them, they're simply going to come right back and because the person hasn't renewed their mind They haven't repented and they haven't changed the iniquity in their heart Those demons get right back in And the last state of the man or the woman Is worse than the first well in addition to that A showboat deliverances In addition to that We now have the the false doctrine of territorial spiritual warfare Warfare in the heavenlies Fighting demons in the heavenlies Oh my lord, you got to be kidding me It's happening all over the place and people are being enormously hurt by this false teaching This thing is extremely Dangerous now. Let me give you just a simple illustration You go to loop chapter 10 and you go to verse 19 Everybody uses this verse don't they? I use it all the time Behold, I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy Nothing shall by any means hurt you the greek word for power there is exocia It means authority I give you authority Okay over scorpions and serpents And in addition to that over all All the power now, that's not the same greek word Exocia, this is the greek word dunamis supernatural power of The enemy And nothing shall by any means hurt you Now people use that verse all the time to attack demons over phoenix running All the ymca's they attack the demons over las vegas running prostitution There's a never-ending list of demons to attack principalities and powers way up there Destroying the united states. They're all real and they're they're all destroying the country 100 percent, but You cannot take a verse out of context When you're studying the word of god, you cannot do that if you do that You're going to get in big trouble and territorial warriors Are getting in big trouble I've been a counselor for 40 years people come to me all the time for counseling preachers ministers pastors tv preachers evangelists you name it i've seen every all kinds of people And people come to me sick and they need deliverance and they're infected with demons And These territorial warriors are coming to me trying to get delivered from demons They are sicker than you can believe and the reason for that Is because they've been doing territorial Spiritual warfare When you attack the demons in the heavenlies not the ones down here But the ones up there when you do that They notice it They notice it And they come for you They come looking for you And let me tell you something. It's not a pretty sight But that verse I just read to you Luke 10 19 is one Everybody uses the territorial warriors use it and it is False The context of the text of scripture Is the most important thing and that's how prosperity is fool everybody name Milk them out of their inheritance so they can drive a limousine and live in a mansion while you Are on food stamps. That's how they do it They're fake. They're liars. They're frauds. They're con artists Taking a verse out of context allows you to manipulate that verse to your Greed ridden lust ridden ends And that is not how you read god's words. So let's look at it in context In chapter 10 as you will recall Jesus sent out 70 of his preachers They were disciples in training and Jesus was providing training for them He sent them out two by two so they could support one another And he had already sent out He had already previously sent out the disciples two by two And he told them to spread the gospel at that time. What was the gospel? Salvation healing deliverance the whole nine yards And he sent them out to preach the gospel the greek word is when galleon it means glorious good news Okay What was that good news for territorial warfare? No, he went to each of the cities And he went to each of the families and he said if the family lets you in the home Let your blessings stay with that family in that home If you come into the home, you're worthy of your labor So eat what they put in front of you Okay, and then when you're done there move to the next house now if that house rejects you Okay, kick the dust off your feet and go to the next house because it'll be more tolerable on judgment day For sodom and gamora than it will be for that house because That house rejected more truth than sodom and gamora rejected Sodom and gamora didn't have the level of truth. They didn't have the gospel And so their judgment is less there's degrees of punishment in hell as there are degrees of punishment On the day of judgment You are responsible for the amount of truth that you receive. That's how the system works What jesus said don't let your blessings stay on that house Just kick the dust off your feet Go to the next house Okay That's the context of this verse remember and then after jesus said that these cities Capernaum bethadia Coruscant They would be judged more harshly on judgment day than sodom and gamora will Because they get they got more truth and they rejected more truth Sodom and gamora was a sin ridden Area and it affected all the suburbs to sodom and gamora those were the two main cities And they had rejected the truth of jahova as they knew it And they were soaked in sin. They were doing everything. It wasn't just homosexuality and pedophilia They had the whole career going They were kind of like a precursor to las vegas or san francisco or newer orlings or some Wickedly corrupt city like that And jesus said in hell It will be worse for these cities now. He said then it was for sodom and gamora And then it says as you remember verse 17 to 70 they come back And they're so excited. He said lord Even the devils are subject to us Us through your name Okay, the greek word for devils there is daimonia. It's demons And jesus said hold on just a second. Whoa You guys are off the track Okay, you got to stop for a second now You think you saw something supernatural that made you happy. Okay, uh, you you should have been me I actually saw satan fall out of the heavens Like lightning When did that happen? How did it happen? He didn't say Okay, but his point is look you guys saw demons come out of these people And you got all excited about it and happy. I saw satan himself The prince of darkness the ruler of the demons. I saw him cast out of heaven like lightning I'm not rejoicing in that And you should not be rejoicing in that. Here's what you need to rejoice to Even though I gave you power to tread on scorpions and serpents and over all the poly enemy That's not the source of your joy. Your source of your joy should be You are in fathers glorious book in heaven. You are born again. You're saved and your name Is written in the lamb's book of life. Your names are written in heaven That is your emphasis refocus off the demons On to the glories of heaven and your name is written down in glory. See It's yours That's the true joy Remember that story now. What was what was that verse talking about 10 19? It was talking about demons. They were facing as they spread the gospel On earth the demons here You have authority when you preach the gospel to cast demons out of human beings here If you look at mark chapter five if you look at mark chapter seven if you look at mark chapter nine You see jesus casting demons out Excuse me of The boy with the deaf and dumb spirit you see Excuse me You see jesus casting demons out of Of the syrian woman's daughter In mark chapter one you see jesus jesus casting demons out Of a guy in the service whose demon was disrupting the place. He started screaming and yelling Fell down on the floor started manifesting If you notice something there In luke 13 you saw jesus casted the spirit of infirmity out of a disabled woman Do you notice something there jesus never did territorial spiritual warfare? Nor did he ever tell you to do territorial spiritual warfare He never told you to do it. He never trained you to do it He trained us to do warfare here on earth Not the demons in quadrant two and three In extension seven in the universe You're not to be Attacking those demons. Why am I telling you this? I have had Dozens of people come to me Who had their lives destroyed? Because they were territorial spiritual warriors Finances gone health gone marriage gone Kids gone crazy Layed off broke I've I've seen everything People get immediately or close thereafter attacked by these territorial demons When they hear and they know that you are attacking them And you don't have any authority to attack them the bible doesn't give you any authority Anywhere to attack territorial Spirit so let's try another one just just as an example Matthew chapter 18 Verse 18 jesus said barely I say to you Whatsoever you bind on earth should be bound in heaven whatever you loose on earth should be loosed in heaven remember that now That verse is very interesting. What's the context of that text? What is the context of that text? right What was jesus talking about when he said that text? he was talking about One christian brother trespassing against another christian brother He said if if a christian brother stabs you in the back Go to the person directly If they don't listen, you know, take a couple people with you let them go if That doesn't work Go to the church or Take the church over there pastor. What have you and if the person rebels Like cora in the old testament If they're rebelling and they won't listen to anybody And they keep stabbing you in the back That's it excommunication You treat them like a heathen it says What is an ethnicus? Yeah, that's a non-national someone who is not unnational for example a non-jewish person who's in israel you treat them like a heathen a non-national And then you also treat him like you do publicans that telonus is a publican. It means to be a tax farmer publicans were hated in Israel because they worked for the romans they skimmed money from the taxes They gave your money to the romans and everybody hated them Nobody wanted to be around them their families even disowned them The only people like tax collectors were other tax collectors Or technically tax farmers Then he says Whatever you bind on earth Shall be bound in heaven or in us is the greek word for heaven. That's heaven heaven where jesus lives Where jahovah's throne is or in us It's not the greek word apparatus which means the atmosphere the heavenly atmosphere around the earth Like you would see in Ephesians chapter 6 What's this verse saying he's talking about dealing with people here on the earth Not doing territorial or spiritual warfare You you cannot take a verse out of context And then throw it against the wall and hope some of the mud sticks That's not how this thing works After he tells him about binding and loosing which is the authority that you have again people spirits in people Around you in your business in your church in your body in your life you have authority to attack those spirits jesus then says verse 19 I say to you that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything they shall ask on earth he said It shall be down for them of my father who is in or in us heaven Father is in or in us heaven heaven That's where father is not heaven upperanias The atmosphere around the earth. That's where spirit beings Transfer and traffic in that heaven around the earth He's talking about heaven in heaven Where god lives If you guys will agree down here on earth Your heavenly father will answer your prayers from heaven For where two or three are gathered together in my name I am in the midst of them You're he's in the midst of us here on this earth down here not Doing warfare in the heavens and the reason i'm Teaching us today is because This false doctrine is sweeping the country and there's a lot of people are going to be destroyed Prophetics are doing it. They actually have prayer means where people get together and war against the demons controlling their city Or their state That's very common now I'm going to tell you something these demons heard you do it They recognize it And they're going to come for you and it's going to be ugly You're going to suddenly see weird illnesses pop up in your body You're going to suddenly See weird stuff going on with your finances You're going to lose a job. You're going to have a car accident. You're going to weird stuff's going to start happening Okay, and that's what god is telling you Since jesus didn't do it You're not doing it Okay In the great commission which is found in matthew 28 mark 16 Luke 24 Those three the end of those chapters combined together to make the great commission In none of those Chapters Did jesus ever tell you? To follow my example and do territorial spiritual warfare It never happened Matthew mark luke and john acts no one Ever did territorial spiritual warfare Okay Your job is here on this earth Your job is your body The lust of your flesh the pride of your life the lust of your eyes Demons in your body demons in your family members bodies demons attacking your church Demons in your church Not the demons running around Las vegas Building a new casino okay, that That is not within your purve of authority. You don't have that authority And if you violate it The demons are going to retaliate I've seen it Over and over again. I've been doing this for years I've been a counselor for 40 years now. Listen, I know more than 99 percent of all christians Why because I'm a counselor and people tell me their deep dark secrets. That's the point of having a counselor A therapist a psychologist someone who intimately is involved with your life. That's the purpose of the profession People tell me things they would never tell A family member or a friend or anybody else Okay, I get the inside scoop on everything mega churches Families marriages all of it. I get it all comes in I know what I'm talking about People have been attacked like you can't believe Last week, I believe it was last saturday. I was at the international healing cathedral in sunny slope, arizona in north phoenix in north phoenix and I had a short teaching on My experience with sunny slope involving my daughter then Another person got up His name was p. He gave a testimony about his experience when he came to that church years ago when he was a crack addict And then one of my counselors julie andrews got up and she gave a testimony about how she her life had been destroyed because Of sunny slope She had gone over to a mountain in sunny slope, which was a kind of across the street from where the church was And she had gone up there and she was doing territorial warrior warfare over against the demons Bringing in all the drugs and everything else into sunny slope because at one time sunny slope arizona was the meth capital of the world or at least america If you wanted meth you got it in sunny slope So she was doing spiritual warfare and very shortly after that within weeks or so Her life fell completely apart. Her relationships blew up The finances exploded And she said it went on for Like 15 years or something if you go to my youtube channel youtube.com slash house of healing az That that service is on uh YouTube and we had some remarkable Deliverances that day. We had a very low turnout unfortunately But the deliverances were like off the hook Her life was destroyed because she did territorial warfare and she was spiritually ignorant You don't get a pass in the spirit world if you are spiritually ignorant If you're stupid You don't get a pass uh You know They don't know what they're doing. My goodness. I'm a I'm gonna the devil the devil says well, I'm gonna I'm gonna give him a break I'm gonna tell the demons just to kind of pass over them. Are you kidding me? He'll take any advantage over you. He possibly can't including your ignorance You roll out of bed and ignorant asinine imbecilic moray moronic fool The devil will make sure you die like that You are not going to get a pass. You don't get any special covering from god. You get nothing Jesus did not put people in ministries Until he trained them first and that scripture I read to you Luke 10 Luke 9 Matthew 9 Jesus sent them out to train them to spread the gospel heal the sick raise the dead cast out demons freely receive freely give And then at the end and the great commission Jesus said teach everyone to do everything I commanded you The church has failed america and now satan is taking us down the toilet america Is lost Our job is to pull them out of the fire And save as many as we possibly can Your authority over demons only relates to you Your environment your family your surroundings here on earth. You do not have authority to cast demons out of The skies above Antarctica I command you spirit I command you Eat a bowl of ice and leave you don't have that authority to do that Okay Behold I give you power to try on scorpions and serpents and over all the power of the enemy all is taken in context All does not include authority over satans power in hell I do not have the authority In the name of jesus I command satan to wear a cowboy hat put on a tutu And sit in a pile of coals Right now in jesus name go I don't have authority to do that You only have authority Where it's been given to you specifically by the lord You have authority to heal the sick you have authority to cast out demons Not out of the heavenlies or out of satan or jupiter Whatever demons are there. I don't know and don't care They're there. That's their business. They're not that's not my business I don't give a rat's fanny what demons are in in a Pluto I don't care who's what demons are running saudi arabia You cannot cast demons That are running saudi arabia out of saudi arabia. You don't have that authority. Jesus never did it And if you step out of your authority area in any field Okay, not just healing Not just deliverance anything finances any authority that you have If you step out of that authority The devil is going to bring a hammer down on you. He's going to hurt you real bad And it's going to be embarrassing And it's going to hurt and you're going to lose your health your finances and everything else Stop doing it and stop doing it now cancel your prayer prayer meetings casting demons out of maricopa county I command all the demons to leave I moved into jersey Okay, first of all the demons aren't going to leave because they don't want to go to new jersey Who wants to go there? Okay, nobody But you don't have authority to get demons to go to new jersey even though they don't want to go Yeah You're not going there either. Are you you don't want to go Stop it Right now do not do this anymore. Please I have seen too many people with broken hearts in my office in tears Because they took it upon themselves to attack Someone they didn't have The authority to attack Okay When I was in junior high I started boxing I was a welterweight back then I was in eighth grade I loved boxing and I Was absolutely addicted to it And I trained every day after school every day after work Every everywhere every chance I got I got on a bot local boxing team and The guy that ran the club was named joey and He would take us to santa ana I lived in anaheim and uh We would go to the santa ana It's the santa ana to the fourth street gym And this fourth street gym was loaded with Hispanics and mexicans I was the only white guy there I was the only white guy in miles It didn't take me long to figure out that at my boxing club where I was pretty good And people thought boy Brother Mike's pretty good fighter It didn't take me long to realize That when I got to the fourth street gym in santa ana I Was not a good fighter okay The pros there who couldn't afford to sparring partners the guys that were you know five and oh and seven and one and 12 and two those guys They needed sparring partners guess who they used Now let's use this tall white kid over here. I didn't have the ability To beat fighters of that caliber I learned there was a hierarchy skill level Okay, and later on of course I learned That hierarchy went all the way up to world champion class fighters Pan Am games Olympics professionals Championship professionals super Fighters and then all the way up to a guy named sugar Ray Robinson from chicago He was at the top So there's always a hierarchy and I didn't have any skill level or authority to go above my My skill level skill set And fight those kind of fighters. I would have gotten killed If you go above your skill level And you try to do things that jesus himself didn't do If you try to do things that jesus never taught anybody to do If you try to do things that you think should be done because some Cooked out prophetic or a crackpot charismatic got an idea They read a book called territorial warfare and then they read another book called courts of heaven And you're going to go to the courts of heaven and get authority to attack spit, you know stop Cut it Before it's too late I'm doing this bible study because I care about you and I don't want you hurt You can contact me at mike at hardcore christianity.com. Please go to the website Thank you for all your donations for 2022. It was fantastic. We paid all of our bills on time and had money left over Gracias Don't forget about our services two zooms Tuesday and wednesday two live services Thursday friday six o'clock seven o'clock p.m. Respectively mountain time Behold I give you power to tread on scorpions and serpents and over all the power of the enemy nothing By any means hurt you If you read that verse in context if you don't And you apply that to everything You are going to get hurt You're going to get hurt real bad You're going to be sending me an email And I will I'll help you I get it You might even call me 602 636 5800 If you live in the phoenix area You're a born-again christian and you need Counseling you don't have any money to pay for it 602 636 5800. We provide free counseling services To people who have no insurance and who are impoverished so to speak See you next time