 The title of this message will be called Cosmic Conflict. The backdrop for this message is borrowed from a very known book that I would encourage each one of you to read called The Unseen Realm by Dr. Michael Heiser. It will really kind of change your perspective on understanding the spiritual world or shift your perspective on understanding the spiritual world. All of the notes from the message are on Bible app. If you use the U version Bible app, you can go to more events and then follow the notes through. This will be a different message that I typically preach. I will go point by point and I'm going to warn you right away that I have ten of them. Usually I have three. Most of you know my principle, like I follow the principle of the Trinity, three points, no more than three. But today it's going to be just layer on layer. The reason why I'm going to speak on this topic, I really want us to have a background and a backdrop for the vision that we have to see the world impacted for Christ. Secondly, I want to help people who are personally under spiritual attack today to receive some encouragement and practical steps on how to battle. And thirdly, I do want to bring warning to people who don't want to evangelize but they simply want to take trips to second heavens and keep binding and loosing things and closing and opening gates. Some of you have no idea what I just said, it will make sense in just a moment. First and foremost, let's open our Bible to Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 8 and 9. I will read from ESV translation, when the most high gave to the nations their inheritance. When he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. But the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage. NLV translation says, when the most high assigned lands to the nations, when he divided up the human race, he established the boundaries of the peoples according to the number in his heavenly court. Number one, God is the one that scattered everyone over the face of all the earth. When humanity did not want to scatter and populate the earth but gather together and build a name for themselves, God came down and confused the languages, which is why we have many languages, and he caused everyone to be scattered. Now number two, God divided nations and gave them to his sons. Now let's look and pull the curtain and see what is happening in the spiritual realm. We see in book of Genesis that God scatters the nations. And in Deuteronomy, Moses has a revelation from God and gives an insight to what is happening in the spiritual realm when God is meeting with his divine counsel. So you know how sometimes people have, companies have board meetings or they have a counsel meeting. So God has his own, Bible talks about God's spiritual counsel and many other references. And Deuteronomy chapter 32, it uses this phrase that God divides the nations and then God assigns different portions, different nations to his sons. Now if you're reading New King James' version, it says he divided these nations according to the number of the children of Israel. But most of New King James' versions will have a little dot around that and it will say the sons of God. The original language as well as Dead Sea Scrolls confirmed that in the original language it's talking about the sons of God that God divided territories to. And it would make sense because when God split and send everybody out to different territories, Israel didn't exist yet. So let's look at, let's pull back the curtain. In the spiritual realm, God is gathering with his spiritual family in heaven and he's pretty much giving each one of his sons different territories, different nations to rule and guide. And God is saying there will be a nation Israel that I will oversee. I will personally take it as my special people. And for those of us we know when Abraham came to be and then God revealed himself to Abraham, he called him out of the Ur of Chaldeans and then he says that I will build a nation out of you and I will personally be committed to you. God did not do that to any other nation until the coming of Jesus Christ. Are we still on the same page with me? Okay. Number three, God's sons, these beings, spiritual beings who were in charge of these nations went rogue. They went bad. They got corrupted. And they started to create injustice, war, hate, abuse and all kinds of sin in these nations which if you read, if you know anything about the history of different nations and tribes, you will know that to be true. If you read the Bible, the Old Testament, you will see that every nation except Israel and Israel half of the time, these nations did some really bad things. They worshiped other idols. Where did that come from? Let's read in Psalm. In Psalm 82 verses one and two, it says, God has taken his place in the divine council. In the midst of the gods, he holds judgment. How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Say, Lord. So this is later now. We see God in his council. He separates nations, gives them to his sons. Now in Psalm, this is years, years later, David is prophetically speaking. He's saying, God has gathered his council again and now he's rebuking these sons. Now it says, God's. The word God's here is Elohim. Elohim is not the name for God creator. It's the name for spiritual beings in heaven. So God is also part of that spiritual being, but God is the creator. All of his creative spiritual beings are called Elohims. But the translator is translated as God because that is also one of the translations that you can use. But it's pretty much the spiritual beings that God is looking in his divine, like a council meeting and God is rebuking them. And this is what he's rebuking them for. He said, you guys are, you guys are screwing up. You guys are messing up. You're doing unjustly things. You're doing wrong things. He's rebuking his sons. Now I know some of you already, if you're following what I'm saying, it's frying your theology or your understanding. You're like, well, I thought that that devil just fell with everybody from heaven because that's what it says in Revelation where, you know, his tail drew one-thirds of angels with him. And that's where the devil came in with his kingdom and that's how it was established. A lot of scholars disagree that that reference in Revelation refers to the falling of Satan with those angels. That refers to the falling of Satan's place of influence in heaven at the death of Jesus Christ. But there were more than one rebellion that has happened. Read the unseen realm for more information. I'm just gonna do a shortened version and just a very shortened version concerning the principalities. So, God is rebuking these sons. Now what Charismatics did a lot of times is they've taken this verse and they said, well, God is meeting in his spiritual family and God is calling us his little gods. Because in that chapter a little bit later, you will see another reference to this and it says the following. 82 Psalm verse 6 and 7, I said, you are God's sons of the most high, all of you. Nevertheless, like many shall die and fall like any prince. And so this is sometimes used out of context to look at us and to say, hey, all of us are little gods with just a little g. But the problem is that we are not gods. We are not divine beings. We are human beings. And we should be proud of that, like not in an arrogant, proud way, but we are gods created human beings made in the image and likeness of God. We are not little gods. Even those of us who are saved and those of you who speak in tongues faster than a rocket, you're still a human being. It doesn't matter how much power you walk in, you're still a human being. You are not a little god. Okay. There is a God. He has a spiritual family and the spiritual family, they're called Elohims. They're called spiritual beings, but you and I are not one of them. We are different than them. We're still God's children. We're just not those children. Plus some of those children went bad. You don't want to be there. All right. These God's sons, these God's spiritual beings placed over the nations, one of their sins is they cause the nations to worship them instead of God. Now just few more layers and then I'm going to get rowdy. Deuteronomy 32, verse 16, verse 17, they provoked him to jealousy with foreign gods. Abominations, they provoked him to anger. They sacrificed to demons, not to God. To God's they did not know, to new gods, new arrivals that the fathers did not fear. So now it's speaking to Israel, that Israel under the influence of the gods of other nations started to sacrifice to these other gods. Now I want you to notice that Moses is not saying that they only sacrificed to idols. They sacrificed to spiritual beings. They sacrificed, and then it says, new gods, new arrivals, and to demons. These were more than wooden statues. These were more than a figment of someone's imagination. I want you to notice that every nation was drawn to some kind of a spirituality. Atheism was not the dominant thing in the history of human race. There was some kind of a way to connect with a spirit being. These sons that went rogue, these beings that went bad, they did not cause people to not believe in spiritual things. It's not possible because you are a spiritual being. It does not matter how much education you receive, it can't satisfy the yearning for another realm. It doesn't matter how much money you receive, you have a yearning for eternity. That's why no matter how much love, good you receive in this world, there is always an ache for more. Why? Because you were created by an eternal God for eternity. And earth will never satisfy. Everything good on earth will never be good enough. Why? Because you were made for eternity. You were made for another realm and there you will be fully satisfied. It's almost like this earth and this realm is just to wetten your appetite and prepare you for another world. So what these gods, these principalities, ruling territorial spirits did, is they started to manipulate and lie to people by causing these people to satisfy that spiritual longing with an alternative means, with false gods. And they drew that worship for themselves by making themselves into those spirit beings that the humanity worshiped. That's why you look at Greeks, you look at Romans, you look at every nation they had some kind of a God they worshiped. These spirit beings, they begin to draw worship for themselves instead of giving worship to God. Let's go a little bit further. When God judged Egypt, he didn't just judge Pharaoh, he judged the gods of Egypt. Number five, God judged the gods of Egypt from mistreating his children. Exodus 12 verse 12, I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night. And I will strike all the first born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, against all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment. Now Egypt had gods like frogs, they had so many gods. Their dominant gods were pretty much resemble certain things in nature. God wasn't just going in there striking a frog. A frog is not a competition to God. Okay? Nor is Hale, nor is Rival Nile, nor is the son. These things God created, they are not a match. They're not in rebellion to him. Nature doesn't rebel against God. Nature is under a curse, but nature is not the one that is opposing him. They were spiritual beings that caused people to worship nature, because by worshiping nature, they worship them. And God says, as I'm pulling my people out of Egypt, I will punish Pharaoh because he still had a choice to hurt my people or not to hurt my people. So I will punish him for his choices and then I will go and I will punish these spiritual beings over the territory of Egypt and I will execute judgment on them. Is everybody still with me? Let's go to one more step further. Number six, territorial principalities oppose God's work on the earth. Daniel chapter 10 verse 13 it says, But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me 21 days. And behold, Michael, and that's not your cousin, Michael. This was not Daniel's third cousin, Michael, and it gives us more information. One of the chief princes, so speaking of God's princes, came to help me, for I have been left alone there with the kings of Persia. And if you read few verses later, Daniel chapter 10 verse 20, it says that, Then he said, Do you know why I have come to you? And now I must return to fight with the prince of Persia. Now I want you to notice Daniel is not the one fighting the prince. A prince can take on a prince, not Daniel. Daniel is not that prince. He says, I will take on prince of Persia. And when I have gone forth, indeed the prince of Greece will come. Now this gives us almost like this understanding of a spiritual geography. That there are ruling spiritual principalities over particular nations. And Daniel had the revelation and the insight. This helps us in our spiritual warfare. I want you to notice here that this angel from God had a conflict and had resistance for 21 days. He wasn't resisted by the mere king who occupied the Persian empire. We see another instance where the angel came and hit Herod and instantly Herod died. We see angels showing up and the whole army of Assyrians who came against Israel was gone in the night. A mere human being is no match for an angel. So when an angel says, I had a resistance for 21 days, the angel is not referring to a king who has some kind of a supernatural power. It's referring to a spiritual entity over the region that controlled that region legally. That the angel had an issue getting through. For example, right now in Poland you can't get to Ukraine if you have a word Russian in your passport. We had a team that went in there and you know, because of the conflict there's a lot of also tension between Ukrainians and Russians, you know, we had our team wanted to go into Ukraine through the border and my wife has a word Russian in her passport. You won't go through, Ukrainians won't let you because of the amount of love that they have for Russians right now. Okay, so no matter how much you have a desire, no matter how much you want to do good, you can't because they control the border. Same thing, different territories were given legal permission to these spiritual entities and no matter that the fact that the angels of God have greater power and all of this stuff and God is the ruler, they had a hard time getting through until the prayers of people in those territories persevered. So that was before the coming of Jesus, but I'm just letting you know that these spiritual principalities they're not a joke, they're not a match for you and I. Even though, yes, God has all the power, you and I don't. Okay, these are not demons. We're not talking about little low level demons that we were given authority over. This is a different game. So let's go a little bit further into point number seven. Jesus's death disarmed principalities and powers. Okay, now, all right, if you stayed with me up to now, this is the good part that's coming now. Jesus says in Colossians, the Bible says in Colossians chapter two verse 15, it says having disarmed principalities and powers, he made public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. All right, until the coming of Jesus, every principality had a legal right for those nations. They were assigned by God over those nations. They just went bad. These nations pledged their allegiance to them by worshiping different gods and every nation has a different God and different way that they worship some kind of a deity. And this gives the legal right to these principalities to rule over these nations. And you can stand there and name it, name it and claim it, confess it, possess it, blab it, grab, you can do all of that. It doesn't matter. Why? It's the same thing as if you would think that just because you make a Facebook post that Donald Trump was no longer a president, you can say he's not my president. It doesn't matter. You can say that about Biden right now, say Biden is not my president. It doesn't matter. He's still your president. I vote to remove Joe Biden. Okay. It didn't change anything. You can stand with a sign and say, I dethrone Joe Biden. I bind Joe Biden. The only thing you did is wasted some time. It won't do anything. The only way to remove a president is through an impeachment. Or there's a revolution that happens. But you can't just stand there and think that because you don't like it, you can remove it by a post. People do that with Trump, people are doing that with Biden. You can, you might not like guest prize like that. I don't want the president now. It's different between not wanting a president and actually removing him. The same thing with principalities. We can just simply stay there and say, well, I don't like this principality. Well, of course, I hope you don't like this principality. It's not doing anything good, but you can't remove it because you don't like it. It has the legal status there. And the legal status was given there by the majority of people who have chosen to worship this particular thing. So ask Christians now who are like, well, but I'm going to go bind it. Well, you can bind until you turn blue. It doesn't change much. It doesn't work like that. He says, what do you mean? So all of the stuff that we bound in the principality over tri-cities and everything, it doesn't work, did it? No, we did it. Why? Because well, we meant it. Well, yeah, we don't do it anymore, though. I am not a pro gun or anti gun. I'm a neutral. I grew up in the family where we had no guns. Okay, my ancestors, they didn't go to army to hold bare arms partially because you had to make oath in a Soviet army to align yourself with the beliefs of Soviets. And that's how you hold arms in a Soviet army. So my dad, my parents, they would not agree with those oaths. So they would go to an army, but they will not bear arms. Even when my grandma became a citizen of the United States, I remember I had to write a letter to the United States government that my grandma will not hold arms. Well, I don't want my grandma to hold arms, no offense. Okay, so just FYI. But she would not hold arms. So it's just always been my thing. I'm not a gun person, but it changed this week. So all of your gun lovers, I'm on your side this week. Those of you who are anti guns, I still in the heart, I'm with you. All right, so this week what happened is that I'm meeting with one of our board members at the church. It was for a different thing. And then this board member, he says, before we go and we meet, discuss very important spiritual things, he's like, he asked me to come to the back of his car. And for the Ukrainian to be called to the back of his car, it's usually something is going to be shady. Okay, it's just Ukraine, you know, for those of you who know anything about Ukraine, it's pretty corrupt country actually, at least in the government. So I was like, ooh. And so I go up there, he opens the trunk and then he opens and he shows me a shotgun. And I was like, well, I know you have guns. And he's like, no, this one is yours. And I stand there and I, and I'm thinking, am I being tempted? Am I being tested? Or if I'm being tried? So I don't know how to react. I don't know how to say thank you or, I don't do. And so, and he's seeing my hesitancy and he's like, pastor, you need it. It's for you. Trust me. And he's way older than me. He's one of our board members and I'm submissive to our board. And so I said, okay, I'll take it. He said, oh no, you can't take it. We have to go to the particular place and we have to actually legally transfer it to you. It's serious business. I said, okay. So he's like, we'll go after noon and we'll go to this particular place. So we're going to this particular place. And so, and I'm being exposed to a world of guns. I'm putting my social security the whole nine yards. I mean, they're doing all kinds of tests. And then one police officer, you know, walks into the, of course, checks and bullets. I mean, there's a language that they speak. I have no idea. Like they're speaking like this gun and that. I mean, I just know long gun, short gun, big bullets, small bullets. And so, but there's everything that there's, there's a whole science to it. And so, and I'm just standing there asking very dumb questions. I mean, people are, they're obvious. I have no idea about guns. I mean, I could tell you about algorithms and other stuff, but it's just not about this area. And so police officer then boy is saying, this gun, what is what police officer is carrying? I was like, oh, wow. So you can actually have the same gun that the police officer has. They're like, yeah, you can have actually a similar gun that the police officer has. And then boy begins to evangelize me. So because getting a shotgun is not enough. He says, you want to try this one? And I said, no, I don't want guns. I just, I'm taking this gift because of just being nice to you. But I'm standing there. There's nothing else to do. So I was like, I'll try it. He pulls it. I'm like, no, this one's too short. So I went through a few guns and and I end up buying one. I mean, I didn't get it. I just paid for it. So I still have a chance to return or cancel the payment because it takes 10 days to actually get a gun legally. And so now let's just for a moment, imagine that I get, I will get the gun. Okay. It will be exactly same gun that the police officer in Pasco has. How many of you know that having the same gun does not mean I have the same authority. Now the guns they give to citizens are mainly for self defense. The guns that police officers have, they are licensed not only for self defense, they're licensed to chase criminals and they're licensed to use them not just in their house, but on the street. Now if I carry and I don't conceal weapon and I come here to church today and I'm going to start executing justice as a little daredevil or like some kind of a Batman. Okay. And just pretty much walking around and I'm just executing justice because I have just, I'm noticing evil in our city. How many of you know that only works in movies. In real life, you will go to jail for using the same power and authority that somebody else was given over the criminal world that you have limited to self defense and in your own house. My friend, just because the Bible says all authority is given to us over the enemy, it does not mean that there is no limit to the scope of that authority. For example, the Bible is very clear. We are to cast out demons out of people. There is not one reference that we are called to go to a city and cast out a demon out of a region. Now you can get trigger happy and you can see that it works with casting out a demon out of a person. You're like, man, let me try to see if it works on the level of the city and people do that. I know people. I know people. I did it. Why trigger happy because you discover spiritual warfare and then you're listening to somebody who's been a Satanism or somebody who's been in that world and they're like, man, I'm going to go bind the witches. I'm going to do all of this stuff and I'm going to like, you know, Astro, almost like Astro project, which is a witchcraft by the way, like when I'm leaving my body and go into a spiritual gate, close the gate, open the gate and I'm going to stop the traffic of drugs. I'm going to stop the human trafficking in the city and I'm going to go back into my body and my city will be magically changed and transformed. Now this may seem spiritual and this may seem to a person who does not know too much of the Bible attractive, but my friend, not only that is wrong, it's dangerous. Every gun owner in here knows you can't walk around East Pascoe. Lucky people up without being a police officer. And just because you got the same gun that a police officer has, you don't have the same authority. So you have the same authority that Jesus has, you were given that you just don't have the same assignment that Jesus had. Even Jesus not once bound a principality. When he was going to the place where the demonized people were there, two demonized men were there and the principality was obvious cause the storm because he rebuked the storm but not the principality. So he rebuked what the principality did, not the principality itself. Why? They got the legal authority over that region. You can't mess with that. Not until he died on a cross and when he died on a cross, he took the legal authority from the principalities. He disarmed them. Now, what does that mean for us? Come on, let's give the Lord clap offering. Hallelujah. Number eight. Number eight. Jesus now holds all legal authority over the nations and that means we are sent to reclaim them for Jesus. Matthew 28 verse 18 and 19 says the following and we miss this when we talk about the great commission. Before Jesus talked about the great commission, he says this to disciples, all the authority is given to me in heaven and on earth. All authority means every authority, that means every nation, every tongue, every city. Now, Jesus has the legal authority over this planet. You may say but did God not, was not the owner over the earth? He was not sovereign. Of course he was sovereign 100% but authority that Jesus, God by dying on a cross, being the son of man, now he holds the legal authority as the son of God, the son of man over this earth. And you were like, well that's awesome Jesus. So what do we do? Do we go like kick the devil's butt now? Jesus says, yeah, go and preach. No, I want to bind. I don't want to go make disciples. I want to go make the devil mad. I want to go bind the spirit of drugs over my city. Jesus says, if you want to now do something about this authority that I have, I want you to go into all the nations. Have you noticed in the Old Testament, not once God gave Israel an assignment to evangelize nations. He only told them to stay away from them impacting their way of life. He never told them to influence those nations because the authority over those nations was still over those rogue gods. But when the authority was taken away from them and Jesus says, now the nations are mine. You guys go into the nations and I want you to begin to make disciples. Go into America, go into Mexico, go into Brazil, go into Russia, go into Ukraine, go to every nation that is not one nation that you don't have legal authority now to begin to win people toward me. Now will the authority, will the principalities put up a fight? Of course they will because these principalities are not gone. These principalities did not disappear but now we are on the offensive and we're doing the intruding. Now we're doing the fighting. We are not coming in and trying to hunker down in some kind of a basement and wait for the coming of the Antichrist, my friend. No, no, no. The Antichrist will come. He's going to do the bad boy. He's going to do the bad stuff. But until that bad boy comes, Jesus says, I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail. That means we are on the offensive side. The devil is losing slowly but surely. Amen. Amen. Number nine. Now let's get a little bit more personal. Our authority against ruling principality is limited to self defense, not direct confrontation on their domain. Let's go to Ephesians chapter six and verse 11. This is one of the most famous verses that is used concerning the spiritual warfare with principalities. And I would like you to read this now with this kind of a new perspective that I just gave you the backdrop for. Number, verse 10. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Have you noticed? It doesn't say that you may win or fight, but stand. Somebody say stand. Verse 11 or verse 12, I apologize. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. This is not talking about low ranking demons. This is talking about a high level spiritual forces that are currently still in play. And you will think, okay, awesome. So we are wrestling against this. Great. What do I do? Verse 13. Therefore, take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to be able to bind every principality and crush every spiritual host in the wicked places. Now I'm making this up. That's not what the Bible says. The Bible says therefore, take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand. Somebody say withstand. So I stand. Then if I keep standing, I withstand in the evil day. And having done all to stand, somebody say stand. So I stand to withstand, to stand. A lot of standing. A lot of us have been folding, not standing though. A lot of standing. And then it says again, stand therefore. It's interesting. The most amazing portion of scripture about spiritual warfare against principalities has nothing to say about fighting them, but standing when they're personally and directly assaulting you. That's interesting. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, having shot your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Above all, take the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God, praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit, being watchful to this end, with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints. And for me that the utterance might be given to me that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel. I know this was handful, but maybe you are here right now and you are under direct personal assault of spiritual forces. And maybe you're sensing, perhaps due to the assignment of God upon your life, due to the ministry that you are carrying, fulfilling, or about to carry something someone wants to stop you. And you feel like it's not like some kind of a low ranking demon, but there's an attack that is happening against your life. What do you do? Personally, you can defend yourself, and these are the practical steps you can defend yourself. Sometimes you will feel it. For those of you who walk with Christ, you're walking in the Holy Spirit, you'll know, and the sister shared really well, when it's a demon within, when it's a demon without, and when it's a regional spiritual attack that it has to do with your destiny, it has to do with your call. What do you do then? It's interesting, it doesn't say first to pray, because when you're under that kind of an intense battle, a lot of times you can't pray. And if you do, the prayer doesn't go further than the ceiling. And it's not because you haven't broken through, it's because with that intensity of attack, your winning is not retreating. Your winning is not folding, breaking. That is your winning, just standing. The greatest apostle said, that is how you win at that point. Not even praying at that point, you just simply, you're standing in who you are. I experienced that this week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Partially it was because we were fasting, I don't know if it's because my wife being there, and the exposure that the ministry started to get with media, and with other things, and I know where this is headed. I felt, and it was the sermon that I fell in my heart that this was not some kind of a personal attack on me. This was something else that was coming, and it's literally, first it wanted me to stop fasting. It wanted me to quit. The headaches were not even there, but this pressure, like somebody put a heavy semi on my back and wanted to just break me, and all I had to do is to say quit. Not quit ministry, not quit God, just fold. Stop. Whatever I've committed to do for those three days. And I've been in this situation before, it doesn't happen all the time, and I know when this is happening, and this is the verse that saves me every time. I come home, it was late at night, and I'm trying to pray, and literally words can't even come out of my mouth. I'm like, my mind is like, my emotions are all over the place, my mind is all over the place, and I know hell just broke loose. And I'm trying to hold on to some kind of a promise, and literally I feel like everything is gone at that point. It's easy at that point to reach out to somebody, but for me I know what I got to do. Vlad, stand until you can withstand, until you can have done all stand. And it says evil day, meaning this time, this whole thing has a clock. And for me on Thursday morning is when something reset. I woke up, the sky was brighter, everything, something just shifted, something just shifted. And I want to encourage you today, if you're in that season, and maybe you're trying to use everything else you've used during your normal times to get breakthrough, you turn on your famous Jehovah Jairah song, or your Jairah song by the elevation, or you turn on some other thing, you're like, man this is not clicking, I feel stuck right now. Stand, stand your ground. But I don't feel God stand your ground. But hell is breaking loose, stand your ground, stand on God's word. But the second thing that you need to do personally, and I need to do personally, and this is hard. I used to teach more on that, and I believe in that, about the spiritual armor. But I want to bring spiritual armor to a very practical level. It says having, he says standing put on the armor. And a lot of us, what we do is we over spiritualize spiritual armor. We make spiritual armor as some kind of a spiritual thing that we put on by confessing, and that is. But honestly, let's make it practical. What the Lord is saying is under that heavy pressure, be a Christian. Belt meaning be honest, truth. Truth is nothing. Oh Jesus is my truth. Yes, he is. But it also means that while you're under heavy pressure, don't exaggerate and don't lie. Righteousness means integrity. It's tax season, good time not to cheat and lie. Righteousness, so this is not just, oh Jesus is my righteousness. Yes, and you also need to be righteous. You become extremely vulnerable to not just the attacks, but penetration of the enemy who is in the spiritual realm, when during intense moments you begin to cave into living godless life. And a lot of times we yield to that because we say the pressure is to heart, and therefore I'm going to medicate or numb myself by either doing this or doing that. Be honest, have integrity, have faith, don't trust in your feelings at that point. Remind yourself you are saved. Put on the word of God, meaning read the scripture, maybe stop the TikTok, just the scripture. Feed yourself with scripture, and that intense warfare with principalities against your life and destiny will subside, but not forever. The moment you're about to hit a new season in your calling, they will come again. The moment you enter or you're about to enter into a new territory, they will come again. Why? Because that is how they personally attack you, but the Lord has given us weapons that we can defend ourselves with. And a lot of us what we do is that it's better to come to a prayer meeting and say, I bind the principality over Seattle. And then that principality is going to hit you tomorrow, and we're lying through our teeth. And that's not how we win this battle. It's not about what I do in prayer against this principality. It's what I do after prayer. Do I stand my ground? Do I leave my Christian faith out? Amen? And then do I pray? He says at the end, he says to prayerfully consider, to prayerfully to pray. Now some of you might say, Lord, you know, but I want to pray. I want to go bind. Yeah, go deliver the captives. Let's preach the gospel. A lot of times what I've noticed is that we hide our obedience behind our prayer. Prayer is not a substitute for obedience to great commission. Just because I pray and fast and God called me to the ministry of intercession, it does not mean that the part about sharing my faith is limited to intercession. I have to share my faith because that is the way I expand the kingdom of God. We can just sit here today and say, we bind the principality over the new church where there's a lot of drugs, and then nobody goes there to share the gospel. That's why we're going there to bring food. We're going there to bring goods and to share the gospel because it's not enough to pray for that neighborhood. If we don't go there and actually reclaim that neighborhood for Jesus by breaking down strongholds in the minds of people of lies and drugs by preaching the good news and they accept Jesus and team Jesus gets one more soul. Amen. So I just want you to be encouraged. If you're in a tough spiritual battle right now, it won't be like this all the time. The devil will leave. The principalities will let go. But typically these principalities do not attack anybody whose destiny is not a direct threat to them. Your destiny, demons attack you because they just hate you. Principalities attack you because you are a direct threat, either what you're about to do, what you are doing, or something else that is happening behind the scenes that God is using you that you don't even realize the impact you're making in the realm of the spirit. And they will cause a fight. Paul says we wrestle against them, but it's interesting that the weapons of self-defense are not the ones that we, a lot of us have been using. And the last thing I want to share with you and way past my time is we will replace these principalities when Jesus comes and we will rule with Jesus over the nations. I will not give you all of the verses. I'm just going to read just one verse in Revelation chapter 2 verse 26. And he who overcomes and keeps my works until the end to him I will give power over the nations. So that means one of the reasons these principalities are also ticked is because the job they get fired from you already get hired for. I don't know, part of me just wants to say take that devil. But yeah, so you get hired already for that. And the Bible says that because you overcome and you keep God's works till the end, now this is not just every Christian. This is he who lives like a Christian and serves other people. You will be ruling with Jesus. Not laying harp in heaven and just floating with little, with just under clouds. You're actually going to be doing work with the Lord and you're going to rule and reign with the Lord Jesus Christ. And we will give all the glory to our King, amen. Because we worship now, we will worship later, we will worship forever. Hey, thanks for watching this video. If you enjoyed this content and this was a blessing to you, would you help us and hit thumbs up so that it could help more people to discover this video. It cost you nothing, but it can go a long way to help with the algorithm. As well as if you're not subscribed to our channel, hit subscribe, click on the bell so that you can be reminded each time that we upload videos. Thank you so much for being a part of this community. If you're interested in learning more about Hungry Gen, our internship, our conferences, deliverance and so many other things, go to HungryGen.com for more information. 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