 The title of this message will be called three types of deliverances Three types of deliverances. I want to share today that every person is delivered Some people are delivered to their enemy and some are delivered from their enemy But they're delivered in fact Before we see God delivering people from their enemies. We see many scriptural references of God delivering people to their enemies So everyone is going to be delivered We do have to choose the right deliverance Instead of being delivered to our enemy God wants to deliver us from our enemy And then one more deliverance is God wants to deliver the enemy to us That's pretty much my sermon. Let's just stand up and pray In Judges chapter 2 verses 11 12 13 and 14 Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord. I want you to mark this It wasn't the Gentiles. It wasn't people who did not know God. It was the children of Israel So this is referring to people who have a relationship with their God When the children of Israel, let's just say another word when the children of God did evil in the sight of the Lord and served the bales and They forsook the Lord their God the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt And they followed other gods from among the gods of the people who were around them and they bowed down to them And they provoked the Lord to anger. They forsook the Lord and served Baal And other gods and verse 14 the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel. So he delivered them Into the hands of plunderers Who despoiled them and he sold them into the hands of their enemies all around So that they could no longer stand before their enemies and This is not the only time when the scripture tells that if we flip to chapter 6 of Judges Verse 1 the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord So the Lord delivered them into the hand of median for seven years We can see the same thing in 2nd Kings chapter 17 verse 20 where the Lord was rejected and then he Allowed the people to be afflicted and then he delivered them to plunderers It's all throughout the scripture where When the people of God Get complacent they go into compromise and From compromise they develop chains which become cycles It's pretty much how the book of judges and the whole nation of Israel is is the children of Israel become complacent compromise chain and then cycle and Then praise me to God because the children of Israel it doesn't end with a cycle. It ends with a cry It ends with desperation It ends with and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord and the children of Israel cried out to God and of course The God who delivered them into their enemies went in and start delivering them from their enemies when we offend God when we Betray God When we continuous them not talking about a moment of weakness I'm not talking about we fall trip as the righteous people I'm not talking about that when we abandon our relationship with the Lord and we consciously do things that are evil in his side We ignore our conscience We continuously serve Bales Bales have different names today There are different things today that we serve that we worship we constantly bow not before the Lord But look you see how when we use the phone we bow Act of worship We don't have Bales today. We have television sets We have football we have sports. We even have families We just have things that the bail which is simply a statue you can have a statue in your house But when you begin to worship that For example a lot of us have the core in our house, but you don't worship that the core So there are things in life we can enjoy and use but when we begin to worship those things when we begin to give Our affection to those things whether it's money whether it's work whether it's certain pleasures and they in return Don't just become things that we worship they become the things that captivate us They become that become the things that capture us they become the things that plunder us this possess us They become the things that hurt us and bring us pain and suffering and that is the word the scripture uses the Lord Delivers them into their hands and the hands of their enemies now when I studied that I was thinking well That's great. That's Old Testament, but does the Bible say anything similar of that in the New Testament and in Romans chapter 1 verse 24 in fact a little bit earlier verse 21 it says because they knew God Because although they knew God the word new God there is the same word that Adam knew his wife It's talking about an intimate experimental Experimental like when you experience if this is not just new about God these people knew God Intimately this is not talking about the world. This is talking about God's people Because they knew God, but I want you to notice that it didn't they knew indicates the past New indicates not consistent current right now New indicates it happened sometime maybe ten years ago five years ago that I had a relationship with God because they knew God They did not glorify him as God nor were thankful They became futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened professing to be wise they became foolish and Changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the image made by corruptible man like birds and Four-footed animals and creeping things verse 24 watch this therefore God also gave them up To uncleanness in the lust of their hearts to dishonor their bodies among themselves Who exchange the truth of God for a lie and worshipped and serve the creature instead of the Creator who is blessed forever? Amen verse 26 repeats the same thing for this reason God gave them up to vile passions So first he gave them up to uncleanness secondly He gives them up to vile passions instead of ruling their passions now they are imprisoned with their passions Even the women exchange the natural use for what is against the nature. So this is talking about lesbianism verse 27 like was also men leaving the natural use of the women burned in their lust for one another and Men with men committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error, which was due speaks of Homosexuality so for those of you who are like well, God doesn't talk about homosexuality. It's not in the Bible Bible tells us to love one another Let me just stop for a minute and tell you the difference between the culture and Christianity is one simple difference when it comes to Sexuality culture says love is God Bible says God is love. That's the difference We We submit our passions to the principles of God's word The culture has their passions as their principle Today it's men with men women with women tomorrow It's gonna be a man with a child and there's nothing you can do about that Why because when you make your passion your principle You're unstoppable It's gonna be best seed bestiality is gonna be legalized The insects is gonna be legalized and you may say well, that's wrong If you think it's not wrong for a man to sleep with the woman and call that love because we should give everyone their space Why should we stop a man who wants to live and sleep with their horse or the sheep? they love it if Love becomes God then love decides what's right. What's wrong as Christians We have a God who decides what's wrong and what's right and this God is love can somebody say amen Our passions are regulated by our principles our passions are not our principles The Bible says to guard your vessel Control your passions. We don't let our passions imprison and control us And so this is what the Bible says. This is not being hate hateful. This is not being homophobic This is not being disrespectful to the humanity of other people This is we just have two different gods at war one God is the creator of heaven and the earth who designed our bodies in a Particular way, and he says when you violate my creation, this is what happens He says you will receive penalty in your own body That's exactly what happens with homosexuality. There's a penalty right the way comes into their own body You cannot legislate that out of the system that God created it in you can make it legal It's still the body penalizes you Because that's what the scripture said I Understand I'm gonna lose some of you But I gotta stick with the word This is was written two thousand years ago Before this was normal before this was legal and before saying anything against it couldn't get me flagged on YouTube or on Facebook The scripture says God gave them up and verse 28 Even as they did not retain see this again retain meaning they knew God before Didn't retain they didn't upkeep they did not maintain the relationship with the Lord You can't live on yesterday's men that even though they did not retain God in their knowledge God gave them over to a debased mind to do things which are not fitting and So on so I want you how do you get delivered to the devil in In Romans chapter 1 we see pretty much very simple four things one is when you know God, but you don't worship him as God When you have a relationship with God, but have absolutely no reverence for God you know God But you don't have worship of God You don't have and you don't maintain a relationship with God now the beautiful part is that we have to only surrender The Lord is the one that maintains us. Amen It's this is not a we don't get saved by grace and then we live by work No, but we choose to stay Jesus says abide in the vine Yes, it's his it's of grace, but you still have a choice Because being in God's kingdom is not like being in cartel where you can't get out Or if you do you're gonna get shot There's still a choice. This is not a prison otherwise. It will not be of love The second way that we get delivered to the devil everything starts with this is when you know God But you don't treat him as God you don't have reverence for God It leads to all the rest of the three things the second one is this is when we begin to exchange the truth for a lie When you lose your worship, you will always lose your truth When you lose your reverence God's word no longer becomes the standard of truth It's what CNN says what Fox News says what the culture says what's popular what's trendy What can get you more likes and you begin to adjust your truth? To what's relevant in the culture when you lose reverence you will always seek to stay relevant They exchange the truth when you lose worship after that you lose truth and when you lost truth You're gone It doesn't matter how many Christian bumper stickers you have and what Christian t-shirt your word when you lost your worship And you lost your truth The third thing is you exchange the glory Glory of God is no longer your passion, but guess what you exchange the glory for the image Watch our culture today. Everything is about image It's not the glory of God It's the image of man. What is Instagram? It's image It's all about the image the image I maintain the image I keep the image that I protect the everything becomes about the image So now I live my life not to know the glory and to live for his glory I live my life for influence and I live my life for images This Romans chapter 1 I always contributed to some of those bad people. I read it many times I found myself in every verse. I said I'm in danger of this To live for God's glory we have to Seek his glory like Moses show me your glory, but when we lose the side of God's glory We will never bring him glory and guess what happens. We will live for our image How is my photos? How is my appearance? How do I look in front of my friends? How do I compare with this and with that guy? It becomes about the image you exchange the glory for the image First we forsake our worship then we forsake our truth and then we forsake the glory and the third thing is this He says you profess to be wise when you're full meaning you still keep the pretence game You still keep pretending someone you are not meaning you still keep the mask you still keep the facade You still keep that what's happening on the outside so because you still don't want to you don't want to appeal as a person who lost their faith So you still keep the facade you profess, but no longer possess You become an actor a hypocrite meaning you're one and one said you're another person in real life What happens when that when you get when you and I get delivered to the devil? Three things we get delivered to we see in Romans chapter 1 Number one is we get delivered to uncleanness the scripture says here we get delivered to Uncleanness number two we get delivered to passions and number three we get delivered to the base to mind Uncleanness it's talking about our body Passions it's talking about our passions and three is talking about our mind And if I could summarize our culture today It's these three things they're in bondage of your body becomes your idol your passion becomes your prison and your mind becomes the control Scripture tells us we need to control our mind But when you're delivered to your enemy your mind controls you The scripture tells us we control our passions, but when you deliver to the enemy your passions imprison you The scripture tells us that with our body we worship God Our body came from dirt it will return to dirt, but the Lord will resurrect it one day and make it glorious But our body is not our idol, but in the world that we live in today that that is delivered to the enemy their body is Their idol it's about what the body wants and what the body craves So the first deliverance That we need to repent from That we need to run away from is deliverance Into the enemy deliverance to the enemy You may say but God would never allow us to be delivered The scripture clearly states in all the verses I've read it wasn't the devil that delivered us. It was God You may say but what if you're a Christian And you get delivered like that. Do you still lose your salvation? I don't believe so Because Paul says in first Corinthians chapter 5 verse 5 He says I delivered such one to satan But the interesting part what he said there is that deliver such one to satan for destruction of his flesh That his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord As a child of God i'm talking about a born-again christian Who begins to trade his worship who begins to commit idolatry I believe God in his mercy delivers us to the enemy So that we can get whipped beaten plundered bruised beaten up broken heart We lose our mind We lose our freedom because that is all it's going to take for us to wake up and say god Help me Because one thing the sin makes us this makes us heart callous. It makes our heart proud It makes our heart hard and nothing breaks the heart when life falls apart Yes, it's painful. Yes, it's why are you doing this to me god and everything But what it does is the conviction begins to come and you realize man, but i'm an idolatry You realize that i serve my passions you realize the man I made an image out of my body and i worshiped that image instead of the glory of god Help me god and when you begin to cry out the bible says though the flesh Can be then your spirit is still saved and god comes to rescue you Amen So the first deliverance is when god delivers us to the enemy the second deliverance is when god delivers us from the enemy In chronicles the famous verse that we all remember second chronicles chapter 7 verse 13 When i shut up heaven and there is no rain or command the locusts to devour the land Or send pestilence among my people So this is talking about bondage meaning god is allowing Heaven to be closed god is allowing locusts speaks of like demons and the enemy to devour our land And send pestilence among our people god says pretty much if i allow you to be delivered to certain things because You forsook me because you turned your back on me because you stopped worshiping me you ignored my truth And god says if that happens I want you to get this across us today Being delivered by god into the hand of their enemy is not god disowning you It's god dispossessing you Displacing you not disowning And then it says this if my people They're delivered into pestilence. They're delivered into captivity. They're delivered into drought But he says still my people Meaning they did not get disowned They did not get relationship gods love and mercy didn't stop if my people In drought closed heaven being eaten by locusts being eaten by pestilence if my people God says the same god who delivers you into the enemy is ready to deliver you from your enemy Is ready to deliver you from your demons is ready to deliver you from your struggle Is ready to deliver you from homosexuality from lesbianism from transgenderism come on somebody If my people and look what it says If my people do what? humble themselves Let me tell you how to be delivered humble yourself You can't be cute and be delivered You can't remain keep your image and be delivered You gotta get desperate and god says if you're proud you can't get delivered. I don't want to manifest you can't get delivered Oh, but I don't what do people will think you have to choose do you want people's opinions or your freedom? God says if you're in drought if pestilence is eating you he says humble yourself When you get rid of your pride when you get rid of your ego when you get rid of your self entitlement When you get rid of what will they think about me? God says you're ready for deliverance humble yourself But I don't want to tell that person that I'm struggling with that. What will they think? What if I lose my job humble yourself if you want to be free? I'm giving a simple recipe humility if my people humble themselves and they pray begin to pray Oh, but I need to go to a prayer line prayer line helps But you know that God can deliver you if you pray When you're in drought you don't pray But when you want to be delivered you need to pray that means five o'clock in the morning You need to pray if you're bound to alcohol if you're bound to some sexual immorality If you are bound to perversion if you're bound maybe to drinking perhaps you're bound to cursing Maybe you're bound to nightmares or something and you like man. I felt like God gave me up Humble yourself and begin to pray set your clock early and begin to seek the Lord's face Why there is power in prayer? God says if you call upon me, I will deliver you I will deliver you if you call upon me. I will deliver you if my people humble themselves and pray Oh, but I love this and not just pray but seek my face You were seeking the face of your boss. You were seeking the approval of your wife You were seeking the approval of your ex-boyfriend You were seeking the approval of the culture but God says seek the pleasantness of my face seek the smile on my face seek my face And then God says begin to turn away from your sin Meaning the sins that you can turn away from but God I need you to deliver me No, no, no my friend. You can cancel that relationship. You can cancel that subscription You can unplug that TV. You can remove that you can do that yourself through the conviction of God Turn from their evil ways four steps humble yourself pray seek my face And turn away from your evil ways when you do these four things God says then this is what I'm gonna do I will hear I will hear your cry God says I will forgive you I promise to forgive you. I won't fight you back. I won't revenge. I will forgive I will wipe your slate clean And God says not only i'm gonna set you free. I will heal your land I'll begin to heal your life. It might not happen overnight. It might not happen in one week But God says i'm gonna start restoring the very things the locus has eaten the pestilence has eaten Homosexuality has eaten your anger has eaten your drunkenness has eaten Maybe your judgmentalism has eaten. Maybe your pornography has eaten the things that it has eaten God says I will not only hear not only forgive but God says I will begin to heal Your real estate your land Our father who is in heaven hallowed be your name Your kingdom come your will be done. Give us this day our daily bread Lead us not into temptation and then this is this and deliver us from evil one That means it's possible to call him your father And be needing deliverance It's possible to be my people But prayerless proud and living compromise life But then pestilence eats things up Maybe it's in the mind because God gave that up Maybe it's the passions that are ruining you because God gave you up to it Maybe it's your body that is causing you pain because you're drawing identity from it Because God gave you up to it and now you're seeing God. I humble myself. God. I pray God. I seek your face God I turn away from the wicked ways and God will deliver you from the evil one Can somebody say amen And the last thing Not only God delivers us to our enemies God delivers us from our enemies And the last thing that and we talk a lot about a hungry gen. It's pretty much like our our dna Is when God delivers your enemies to you In genesis 14 20 it says blessed be God Who delivered your enemies Do your hand When God delivers you from your enemy, he removes you from your enemy as far as possible When he delivers your enemy to you, he'll actually bring him close to you He will just strip their power from them and give that power to you Joshua 10 19 for the Lord your God has delivered them into your hand. It's interesting God didn't deliver Joshua from their enemy in the promised land He delivered the enemy to Joshua pre-packaged amazon prime Right at the front door God packaged the whole thing and God says i've given you authority. I've given you power I want you to unpack that and I want you to rule and have dominion over the enemy In look chapter 10 verse 19 Jesus did not say I will deliver you from the enemy He says I will package the enemy and I will put it in front of your door Behold I give you authority to trample upon scorpions and snakes And nothing by no means will hurt you that is not being delivered from the enemy That's the enemy being packaged and put at the front door of your life So that you can rule and so you can exercise your god. Give it dominion Hallelujah Romans chapter 16 verse 20 it says god of peace will soon cross satan under your feet The bible doesn't say god of peace will remove satan. It says it will cross satan under your feet There are enemies God will deliver you from There are enemies god will deliver to you I'm not talking about you being delivered to the enemy because of your sin and complacency I'm talking about because god deems you worthy God deems you and god wants to train you where he will do what jesus did to the paralyzed man He didn't just heal him. He said rise Pick up your mat and walk He didn't say just rise up and run. He says that thing that carried you I give you power to carry it that thing that kept you that thing you relied on That thing which was your bed that thing which was your crutches That thing which you always went to as a source of comfort. Jesus says i am healing you from that I am delivering you from that but not only that i'm giving that to you Carry that thing with pride as a testimony that i am not who i used to be This is not who i am jesus christ the son of the living god through his spirit by his blood as delivered me And not only that he restored me to my original position when god blessed adam and eve He says be fruitful and multiply fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion God is in a business of restoring men to that original position The lord is not just interested To deliver us from our enemies when we cry out when we humble ourselves seek his face and turn away from our sin The lord is in the business of the living out delivering our enemy to us. Maybe it's insecurity. Maybe it's fear Maybe it's nightmares Maybe it's the spirit of unforgiveness That you were delivered from But it seems not leaving your front porch What if i am to tell you That god sent it What if i am to tell you To stop asking god to deliver you from it if it's in the front porch and say lord, thank you i'm above this Thank you. This is under my feet Thank you lord. These thoughts are being subject to christ right now Thank you lord. I'm putting this nightmare under the blood of jesus It's not coming back and if it is coming back It knows where it will go the next morning It will go under the blood until it would lose its power over my life Listen god will deliver you from some enemies But there will be enemies god will send to you for you to have authority over Have authority over them walk in dominion during this season walk in your power during this time