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Sweep across our land, Jesus. We're asking for deliverance right now, God, from drugs and alcohol and any life-dominating sins. Bring freedom in Jesus' name, whom the sun sets free as free indeed. Hallelujah. Praise you, Lord, for your faithfulness. Give it up to Jesus tonight. Amen. Hallelujah. Go ahead and cross the aisle, greet a brother and sister online family. We're so honored that you would be here with us this evening. We counted a privilege that you would tune in and we want to agree with you in prayer for your needs. Please let us know where you're watching and how we can agree with you in prayer tonight. God bless you for being here. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Hey, if you're pumped about Wednesday night Bible study, let's give it up to the Lord. Come on, we're a blessed people. Let's bless the Lord in the offering tonight. We do have buckets in the back. We also have a online. There's a QR code or an app that you can download and you can also mail it in. But let's bless the offering tonight, shall we? Father, again, we come to you in Jesus' name, Lord, and we counted a privilege and an honor to give into your kingdom. We ask that you would bless the offering to meet the needs in Jesus' name. Amen. Praise God. Are you glad to be here tonight? Amen. So am I. It's a blessing to see all of you here. I want you to get your Bibles and your handout. For those of you that are watching online, you can get your handout ready to go. You can do that by pulling it up on your smart device or download it, whichever that you prefer. And we're going to go over to the book starting in the book of Ephesians this evening as we talk to you in a few moments about understanding satanic strategies in tonight's lesson. And we appreciate you being here this evening. Pray that God will just bless and touch your life. Thank you for being in attendance and all of you that are watching online. There's someone standing by to chat with you and you can put in your most urgent prayer request that's available right there online. And we'll be sure to carry that need to the Lord in prayer. I want you all pleased to, you see all of the needs that are there on that prayer sheet. I just want to encourage you to use that as a prayer guide the rest of the week to call out those names in prayer. You may not know who they are. That doesn't matter if you can get a prayer through. That's what matters. And I want you to make sure that you're holding them all up in your prayers. Jessica Lewis needs your urgent prayers as she is soon to deliver but not yet. And she's needing the touch of God. She's been in the hospital the past couple of weeks. Very, very sick. So I want you to hold her up in your prayers and God would touch her body and many others that are there. And we just believe that God is able to do the impossible. Amen. And we are holding and trusting that the Lord will do that in their behalf and I appreciate you praying with us. As many of you are aware and I will say that this coming weekend I'll give you a little bit more detailed report concerning my pastor T and I flying into DC the past couple of days there with Christians United for Israel. Over 250 representatives that were there and we were privileged to be able to hear from of course pastor Hague and also ambassador Freeman David Freeman who was the ambassador to Israel under President Trump and then the speaker of the house the current speaker of the house that came straight over from the floor of the house straight to our meeting speaker Mike Johnson and and representative Tony Gonzalez from the state of Texas who has in his district the largest the largest section of border on Texas and Mexico than any other representative anywhere along the Mexican border. So he had much to say about a lot of different things that took place and again I'll give you more reporting but I can assure you and let me assure you tonight and let me encourage you tonight to do this. I've been telling you this now for quite some time but especially after hearing from these speakers and and then being in the most political town that there is the news that you hear on the regular media outlets I trust that you're not trusting it. I hope that you are researching and finding the news and not just you're looking for just some kind of Christian take on it even but the point is getting solid verified by two or three witnesses news so that you can understand the truth of what's taking place. The rhetoric and the mindset of those who would love nothing better than America to go down is in full court press and that you're seeing very evident from the way that the United States and our Congress and leadership are treating the nation of Israel and that is an indicator. Let me say I don't want to minimize this and please I don't want you to take it wrong but I believe I can say this and be right Israel for the world for the United States is the proverbial canary in the coal mine. In other words if it is happening to Israel and you're seeing anti-semitic activity and all kinds of things then you can rest assure that that is a huge warning and indicator to the rest of the world you're next. As I stood there in DC and walking the halls of the Rayburn building where the where congressmen were and meetings that were taking place and the protests and things that were taking place against Israel and in multiple ways I can assure you that there's no wonder that there's a great fight that's going on so let me just brief this and I'll give you more of a report because what you're hearing on the news media is not true. The humanitarian aid I'll put this to you and I'll give you some more stats on Sunday. There is no one in the world based upon the statistics and the information that I received just this past couple of days there is no one including the United States that is doing more in humanitarian aid for the citizens and people of Gaza than Israel itself. You're not seeing that on the news. You're not seeing how many trucks from Israel are rolling in. You're not seeing all that's taking place so I'll give you that report but let me just say to you to be earnestly continuing to pray between now through Friday. Speaker Johnson came in and laid out what you now have perhaps seen on the news for us before it even hit the news before he started doing interviews what has been a package as they call it type of aid package that would include Israel the Ukraine funding Taiwan funding from the United States and the national security threat of tiktok in that particular package and what the connections are to China all of that failed in a previous vote. Speaker Johnson is setting it up and they've been talking you may have heard it on the news that they've separated those particular aid packages. It is his intent and as we pray this is the time to do that and it's very important because I let our first district congressman through his staff know that it is not only important for him to vote for the rule that is coming on this coming Friday which would set the package aside and they could be able to deal with each aid package individually but to vote for the rule and to vote for Israel funding of $14 billion. Now listen carefully Mr Gates our congressman needs to be able to feel the prayers coming to wars Washington and it's important that he does that and I express that in the most the strongest ways that I could with his legislative assistant. He voted against the aid package before because it was tied together and I get that but you don't need we don't need to hold the aid which is not just aid but it is in multiple ways funding to be able to help sustain them in the war effort that they're in. This is not a time to be playing political games by saying as he's holding his vote we need to take $14 billion away from the IRS which sounds real good to the constituents but take it that away before we would release the $14 billion to go to Israel. Israel's war and the support of the United States has nothing to do with the IRS the Ukraine or anything else. It is a standalone support of Israel that needs to come from the greatest ally and that is the United States. So I want to encourage you to pray earnestly between now and Friday they're scheduled to vote and the speaker said that they will vote on the rule to start with which I won't go into the details of that but the first one out of the chute would be the aid package for Israel. So let's pray that our congressman and Congress itself will make that funding happen on this coming Friday. If that does not take place then the 10 million members of KUFI I pray will begin to mobilize and begin to send the emails to Washington DC to our congressman and I'm going to collect this congregation to do the same thing because so many times let me put this in perspective for you so many times we feel like that we're down here in northwest Florida and they're all up in Washington DC and they do what they do and we elected them to represent us and so forth and we feel like that they're going to do that well they're not going to do it unless they hear from you and me and I want to let you know that they all put their pants on the same way including the way we do one leg at a time as they say which means that when when pastor T and I walked the halls of the Rayburn building up there and going from place to place I can assure you that the presence of KUFI was felt in a strong way in 48 hours mobilizing over 250 representatives to be there to be able to speak to those congressmen was a huge huge deal so why is that so important well here's a few things you need to know and this is straight from the news that's happening right now Iran's president said warns of a massive response if Israel launches the tiniest invasion Israel is going to respond the assurance of that coming from the prime former prime minister mr freeman and others that is a sure fact what that looks like only Israel knows and God and so according to this particular article if they launch if Israel launches on Iran even the tiniest invasion that they will retaliate and that's what they're saying here's when I speak to you about the fact that the potential of world war three is on the threshold I want you to hear these things right here Qatar who has been the country of negotiation the through the United States to Iran back and forth all of that kind of thing going on Qatar said in just the past few hours they are rethinking their mediator role because they're now getting pressure from Iran not to mention the fact that mr. Netanyahu because of his because of Qatar's position concerning this negotiations and all that were going on has basically outlawed Al Jazeera television which is originating there in the country of Israel with its with its attack against Israel not to mention the fact that top Hamas leaders are finding themselves in the free place of Qatar as a place of exile where the leadership of Hamas can continue their operations while they're in the sank sanctity of of Qatar or Qatar whichever one that you want to say and if that isn't enough the United Nations the general of the United Nations said just in the past few hours that he urges he urges everyone maximum restraint which means to the nation of Israel in the immortal words of the president don't well that's not going to have any effect on Israel they're going to do what they need to do to protect themselves incidentally if you haven't been noticing that and the news has not been putting it out there the attacks have not stopped from Hamas and Hezbollah continually there's 111 rockets from Hezbollah in the north that is that that have been shot recently and Israel is it still attacking so the united nations general uh said maximum restraint on the heels of that this coming friday the un security council is going to vote on a palestinian state and put them into the un and the un appeals for 2.8 billion dollars to provide aid to 3 million palestinians i can assure you that's a drop in the bucket thanks to the good people of kufi from october the seventh's attack to date over 10 million dollars has gone into the state of israel from christians united for israel to aid them in every effort that they're doing so i'll give you some more information on sunday things could change drastically it was changing on the ground even while we were there but i appreciate your prayers we were able to make connections with the staff and um and they let the congressman know that we were in town he is very familiar with this church so is his staff and uh the influence that it has and we intend to continue to bring the influence necessary to make sure that israel is supported let me put it to you like this and then we'll move to this lesson what congressman gates does as representing the first district of northwest florida the state of florida if our congressman votes against israel the effect will fall upon the first district of north northwest florida you understand that we're not just talking about someone uh or just anyone we're talking about when the leaders make decisions it trickles all the way down and again the statement from genesis if you bless israel you're blessed if you curse israel are trifle with them you will be cursed so pray earnestly that the vote goes through on this coming friday it really is a matter of life and death in a lot of different ways for that reason i'm teaching you tonight on understanding satanic strategies because what is happening in our world in more ways than one in all kinds of locations and and mechanisms is the satanic strategy of satan unleashed and if you think this is something then the anachrist that is on the way to take over this world system will make this look like child's play it's an amazing time that we live in and you know what god has chosen you and chosen me to be able to live and be alive at this particular time in history there must be a reason why you're still here i hope you see that as the priority of serving the lord and getting the kingdom word out the gospel out to as many people as possible there will be hindrances and that's the reason why i want you to understand the strategies of satan so let's go to the word of god tonight and father we pray that you would just bless now our time together enlighten us through the word of god help us to understand what the enemy's plan is and what we need to do as your people to be victorious in every way and we give you praise for it in jesus mighty name everybody believes it say a good amen Ephesians chapter number six verse number 10 i want to pick up reading right here if you found that say amen it says this finally my brethren be strong in the lord and in the power of his might there's a lot being said in that one verse of scripture it's all about the lord and it's all about his might and his strength put on the whole armor of god that you may be able to stand against the wiles and there's that word wiles is strategies the different strategies of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and against powers and against the rulers of darkness of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places um wherefore take unto you the whole armor of god that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all stand to stand stand therefore having your Lord's gird about with truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace above all taking the shield of faith wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked and the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of god and he says praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching therein too with all perseverance and supplication for all saints praise god for his word in these last days we're told before the church is raptured off of this earth we are told in scripture time and again as it's found in first Timothy chapter number four verse one that seducing spirits and doctrines of devils are going to be released seducing spirits and doctrines of devils are we in that period now without a doubt this doctrine of devils or false doctrines is permeating our society the seducing spirits are taking over and that is directly connected to how people look at and believe from the word of god is Jesus Lord is he the only savior is his blood sufficient and on and on it goes your doctrinal belief what you believe about god theology these spirits try to hide themselves within or obsessing upon people so as to bring false doctrine into the faith of god in our lives we're warned that in the last days that this will become more and more prevalent than ever before that's the reason why that sometimes when you feel like you can't explain what may be taking place and you're fighting and you may be in the middle of the night or whatever that it may be you can rest assure that there are spirits lose to disengage you from your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ let me get this in your spirit from the book of first Timothy four and one now the spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter time some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils speaking lies in hypocrisy they're conscious seared with a hot iron he goes on to say forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meets all of these i'm reading to you from this scripture are all happening right now forbidding to marry even you're seeing that in the whole gender identification seducing and doctrine of devils all right you may not think that that's connected in the world may think it's nothing more than gender uh understanding or whatever but the gender has already been set by god in the word and to deflect from that or to change that is false doctrine are you hearing what i'm saying so all of these are based in the word of god i told you several weeks ago in a prophecy files update several months ago that it's very interesting that they now want to shift us from eating beef or meat at all to all plant products or some kind of manufactured slime material from somebody's test tube injected with all kinds of proteins and whatever else that they want injected and cause society to change from the very order of god these are all false doctrines we may not recognize them as false doctrine but they are anything that diverts from the order of god's order in the universe and in the uh in humanity and so forth is a false doctrine are y'all with me right there so false doctrines have their origin from demon spirits many a time and false teachings are often inspired actually by demons with the twisting of scripture you see that in psalm 91 where satan in the book of luke four tells us how that jesus was going into the wilderness and satan there in that place of temptation and what does satan use he uses as the final hit towards jesus the scripture from psalm 91 but he twists it to be able to make it something different than what god said in his word so this is what's happening even listen carefully to me church because this is happening in a very a very prolific way many times demons are twisting the scripture and provide experiences dreams and visions imitation prophetic words even in a moment of some kind of pretended inspiration inspiration are you hearing what i'm saying you must be careful to know that you're the doctrine of the word of god is not because of my experience and it is not based in my feelings the word of god is forever settled in heaven and you need to understand that you're doctrine that you believe what you believe if it's not based in the word of god supported by the word of god written down for our understanding and the inspiration correction rebuke exhorting all of that that's what the word of god is for then it is false doctrine extra biblical i don't care how you feel about something are you hearing what i'm saying well pastor i had a dream okay if you know i'm i understand that i've had dreams as well but not every dream i've had is an inspiration of the holy spirit and if that dream contradicts this bible right here you should discount it and throw it out i don't care what vision or feeling that you've had well pastor this was truly an experience experience should never elevate itself above god's word why does it say that in second Corinthians it tells us very clearly that we're to pull down every stronghold and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of god and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of christ now i want to i want to i want to push this into your spirit tonight because if you rely on an experience if you rely on a feeling if you rely on somebody's word and believe me i'm all about the prophetic i'm all about messages and tongues interpretation the gifts of the spirit i'm all about all of that but every bit of that we have been instructed by god to check it by the word of god even when someone gives a message in tongues in this building as the saints as paul gave the writing to the Corinthians he told them that they are to make sure that they try that spirit and check that with the word of god to make sure it lines up now what i have just told you is going to keep you away from seducing spirits and deception in the last days by staying true to the cross and true to the word of god and you better hear me clearly because there's a lot of it that's out there i've been dealing with it in just the past few hours where nonsense is coming into the church under the guise of christianity and if we don't hold true to the word of god then we will be deceived ladies and gentlemen now hear me you can't be deceived from something if you haven't already been there and the bible makes it clear that were it not for jesus coming back to get his bride even the very elect the likes of moses and others would be deceived by the spirits in the end times let me make it a little plain for you we never thought in our lifetime that we could ever be told that we're going to shut the church down because of covid and shut down society and i'm telling you plainly straight up here tonight that was a deception birthed in hell we now know that the evidence and all of the things and and you can argue with me all you want to save your letters and your crayon color your own picture and mail it to yourself i have researched it enough and many of you have to to know that the deception that was played on the world was a precursor for the coming anacrase that is going to deceive the world and use demon spirits to do it and the only way that you can stay true is to stay with this book now if you don't know what the book says you're set up for deception right now the first words that jesus said in matthew 24 to his disciples when they ask him the question what shall be the sign of the coming the very first admonition and warning from jesus own mouth was take heed that you be not deceived now that would be a that would mean you better move that way up the chart and be fortified against that because deception is deceiving when people are now watching television news anchors that are not even real they're ai but the average person couldn't tell it i told you several months ago how that one woman uh had gone to the store with her daughter and her husband and the other daughter had gone to a ballgame and she gets a telephone call on her phone and it sounds like her daughter's voice on the phone and someone that has kidnapped it was all ai artificial intelligence artificial intelligence false intelligence now somebody said well then i i'm just gonna operate without all of that well you know what we're living in a world where you can't operate with without being engaged in that but what is it that keeps us in a place with our eyes open and our spirits keen to what's happening around us it's only the word of god and you have the ability in your hands to be able to know that do you understand what i just said you got your phones out you got your ipod you got every mechanism that's possible but you better not listen to every preacher paul said you have not many fathers why did he say that because you don't need to be selecting the only ones that you want to listen to besides that whoever that it is and i say that up myself you check it with the word of god i don't care what you hear from me or from somebody behind this pulpit you check it with the word of god humans can get it wrong god got it right that was all free so what does the bible say first john chapter four powerful verse of scripture beloved believe not every spirit he was even speaking there of any kind of spiritual utterance that comes believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether they're of god because many false prophets are gone out of the world now let me say this to you because the bible and the word of god and god himself covers everything please don't think about this passage of scripture just being spiritual or religious people you're watching the news and they're telling you something that's not right but because you trust i'm sorry i grew up in the days of walter cronkite right and and it was a time when journalists were real journalists now they don't even apologize for telling you it's a lie there's a purpose and agenda what what is that there is a spirit behind it that's the reason why john says you try those spirits and that doesn't mean just in church you try those spirits whether they're in washington dc or in your local area or in the church or out of the church where it is you try those spirits to see whether or not they're of god why does he say that he's saying that to us because he goes on to say because many false prophets are gone out in the world we're in a time period when false prophets leaders even are willing to lie just to save their job or company or whatever that it may be we need to know our enemy as sure as israel needs to know the moves of hamas we need to know our enemy and the enemy the enemies are evil spirits we're told from Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12 and 13 the wiles of the devil that we don't wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities and he goes on to describe all of those and our only means of being able to defeat that is to be able to put on the whole armor of god now he's not talking about you going out and buying yourselves from roman armor because remember our fight is not with flesh and blood so all of the things he's speaking of are the things listen carefully that are the result of your faith being placed in jesus christ shoes of peace where's peace come from comes from the lord helven of salvation where does salvation come comes from the lord so he's literally telling us put on the lord jesus christ so get this spiritual battles are not always your choice but winning is i'm going to tell you i can get a sermon anywhere while i was sitting in that meeting up there ambassador freeman said something that that struck my soul and it's this message is coming made a quote from douglas macarthur there is no no substitute for victory and the spirit of the lord spoke to my heart sitting in that room full of people and said that's the reason why jesus got the total victory there is no substitute i'll preach that later so here is the key get this in your spirit god's plan for mankind's salvation and satan's defeat was the cross of jesus christ once and for all but that doesn't mean you leave it i love this passive description first john three and eight for this purpose the son of god was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil so hell has planned your failure but your recovery has already been organized in heaven aren't you glad that there's always a plan for your victory and overcoming before you ever get into the battle the lord has already provided your victory man i'm telling you i'm just telling you if you already know that you win whatever happens between now and then look at psalm 138 verses seven and eight i think this may be on your paper if it's not write it down psalm 138 verse seven and eight though i walk in the midst of trouble this is powerful though i walk in the midst of trouble thou will revive me thou shall stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of my enemies and my and i right hand shall save me the lord will perfect that which is concerning me oh my god don't you love it so how important that is it then that we are to know our enemy well first of all you need to know that it's certainly important because you need to know that there's a real enemy called satan he is real your enemy is real he's not make believe he's not a myth this is not something that you play games with the world will mock that in fact they'll make t-shirts it says the party is in hell right sing songs about it write songs about it but you and i need to know that there's a real enemy first peter five eight and nine be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion he's giving these metaphors for us as a roaring lion walker the bout seeking whom he may devour whom resistive fastly how in the faith you're not going to fight the devil flat-footed and looking him in the face and the devil is not your spouse or your boss come on church remember we're not fighting with flesh and blood we're fighting with principalities and powers how do i win you resist him steadfast in the faith that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world in other words every one of us look at what's happening right now just because you're a believer doesn't mean that you're not being affected by the economy right now i'm amazed that some people feel like they're immune to it he's saying the whole point is because you keep your faith in christ knowing that there's an enemy the adversary the devil he even identifies him right here you need to know that he's real and that you have the ability through your faith in what christ is done on the cross to resist him even though you're being faced with the same things that people are being faced with out there in that world don't think just because you're a christian you know somehow i'm suffering more than anybody else there may be more suffering that takes place in persecution but rest assured my friends it rains on the just and the unjust but listen let me say like this the devil don't care who he kills so what are these facts about my enemy number one he's real secondly his time is limited so his efforts are intensified god has put a limit on the devil god has put a leash on satan what does the bible say revelation 12 and 12 therefore rejoice ye heavens and ye that dwell in the uh in them woe to the inhibitors of the earth now he's talking about during the tribulation period if it's happening as intense it is as it is right now think about what the tribulation will be and even during the tribulation woe to the inhibitors of the earth and of the sea for the devil has come down unto you having great wrath because he knows that he hath but a short time think about the knowledge of the devil at that moment he knows he has a short time seven years of tribulation he knows he has but a short time you should meditate on that i won't stay number three his power not only is his timing limited but his power is limited to tempt you first Corinthians 10 13 there has no temptation taking you but such as his common demand but god is faithful i wish you'd say that out loud but god is come on shout faithful somebody god is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you're able but will with the temptation with the temptation he didn't say we get rid of the temptation but with that temptation also make a way to escape that you may be able to bear it in other words there's some endurance some fortitude that's got to be built that's a reason listen listen carefully to me that's the reason why you can't stay small in your faith it's fine when you get saved you've been given the bible says the measure of faith and it's fine for you to start with a seed but somewhere you better let your faith increase to be a treat are you hearing what i'm saying you cannot stay small in your faith and be victorious well pastor you said place in my faith in the lord jesus christ that's exactly right and the closer we get to the coming of the lord or with the next phone call that you get from the doctor from the insurance company from whoever that it may be suddenly you're thrust into a battle that unless that you have built your faith up you're not prepared to stand you will waver this is exactly what happened during covid it's more evident now than it's ever been before that a large percentage of people that were going to church did not have enough faith i'm amazed at people that didn't have enough listen i went into washington dc and people were walking around with mask up there and the sign on the museum as we walk past the archive said that we're still adhering to the covid mandates if you want to wear a mask go ahead but a few moments of breathing my own co2 is not healthy for anybody why because the devil is trying to to twist the order and the natural order of god and let me help all of you out there and everybody with the climate change mentality right god planted the tree i learned this in elementary school he planted the tree the tree gives me oxygen i give the tree the necessary co2 and the cycle goes around and around because god set the order of things you mess with god's order and it's a false doctrine did you hear what i said i never thought about it being doctrine listen the bible says the devil has a doctrine the devil operates by the doctrine of the devil and the kingdom of darkness you and i as children of light do not operate as children of the darkness we operate in the light we operate with our eyes open and our hearts full of the lord jesus christ and he shows me if i'll dare to study this bible that the power of the enemy is limited in my life this is important for you to get a hold of here tonight his power is limited his time is limited so what are the favorite weapons that he uses against us remember we're talking about understanding satanic strategies his favorite weapon one of them is delay you ever been delayed in your prayers you prayed and now you're still waiting some of you are still waiting right now right what does the bible say in daniel he's speaking to us there concerning daniel's prayer what's happening 21 days later 21 days some people can't wait 21 minutes and i just want to let you know some of it is just to check if you'll stay with the lord or not did you hear me some of the things that we endure he talks about patience well how do you learn patience i tell you how i learned it i learned it last night going from downtown washington dc 20 minutes out of town to the airport and it took 40 minutes and my driver was making me sick didn't turn any air ac on pat and the accelerator i said lord if you'll deliver me i'll go home daniel prayed what what is that delay tactic of the enemy supposed to do a delay will weaken your desire to keep reaching for something if you're always put out always put off and put off and it seems like there's no answer the enemy is hoping that by his intervention to delay the answer and obviously he has the ability to do that there's a war going on to keep the answer from getting to you as it did with daniel even though god heard it on the first day 21 days before it came if you don't have endurance in the time we're in right now then delays will kill your faith because how many of you know not everything's coming in the next five minutes that's what look at look at what's happening with the world right now oh man all right thank you holy ghost look who they're fighting wait wait wait daniel 10 is praying for an answer he's praying for the answer to come the lord hears him on the first day the answer is coming but there is a clash in the heavenlies between the angel bringing the answer and the prince of persia otherwise known as aran and look where we are tonight and the aran says okay we sent 300 bombs we're done now everybody can go home i don't think so devil you're not going to hit me with delays and me not turn around and do some damage to the kingdom of darkness come on somebody we have the mentality like okay devil you hit me me so if you'll leave me alone i'll leave you alone the kingdom of god suffers violet and the violet take it by force come on somebody you better learn how to fight you better get off the bench well i'm retired the devil don't care if you're retired the devil don't care what you do he don't care how old you are how young you are he's going to beat your brains out in fact many people are losing their faith while they're spending their last days in an assisted living because they felt like that their prayers can't get through and nobody comes to visit them and nobody's concerned about them can i tell you something this is a time for us to encourage one another in our faith and say it won't make any difference you keep on believing keep on praying don't let the devil's delay detour you from doing what god told you to do if the enemy delays me i'm going to do much more to be able to push forward the kingdom of god look at number two his favorite weapon is deceit colossians two beware he says let's any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit empty deceit after the tradition watch he gives now definition description after the traditions of men after the rudiments of the world and not after christ now please take your spiritual hat off for right now and think about this through the world's scope we know we're talking about false doctrine here but think about it through vain philosophies we have professors at colleges at the columbia university college that is rooting on hamas in the classroom with children students and he is not yet fired vain philosophies rudiments of the world what did we hear from dr. Fauci trust the science and what did science do because men are always seeking for knowledge and never coming to the truth preach pastor because men are always looking for the knowledge the bible says but never coming to the truth because men are always trying to fill their life with knowledge but they refuse to believe the truth of god's word are you hear what i'm saying if anybody would have stood up and said okay i mean let me just make this clear god created science there's no doubt about it but what did he say in the garden if dr. Fauci would have just read the book of genesis he would know that since science is defined knowledge and god said you can eat of every tree out here but don't eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil don't eat of that don't trust in your knowledge trust in me if we would have had more preachers standing up in the pulpit during that period of time and saying don't trust the science trust the lord he will never fail you i can assure you that there would have been a different outcome with people but what is the end of the after millions of people die pastor you deny there's covet i'm not denying there's covet i'm not denying there was uh that there is tuberculosis i'm not denying that there is diabetes i'm not denying that there is a mental illness i'm not denying any of those kind of things what i am telling you is this by his strikes and he took it for every every major disease that is known to man are connected to the strikes that was laid upon his back by his strikes we are healed now ladies and gentlemen and those of you watching either we trust the lord or we trust the science we know what science has done i want to know lord what can you do in these last days if i won't be deceived now this takes a different level of faith here folks you can't because you you you and i argued with people during that time period about who and what to believe are you hearing me and you can convince them you know why because of their experience doesn't mean you don't doctor yourself it's a foolish person that has a cut on their arm and they're bleeding profusely and they walk around professing i'm not cut i'm not cut i'm not cut well you're a liar and so is the blood squirting out of your arm i do what i need to do i doctor myself when she had coven we were driving across that bridge to see the doctor she said joey something's wrong i can't see i've gone blind i raced that much more quick we went to a knowledgeable doctor who trusts the lord even in the medication she's here tonight because we did what we needed to do and we trusted god any doctor who's truly a doctor will tell you i don't heal i can only put it together it's the lord who does the healing come on somebody don't be deceived proverbs 12 20 and 22 deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil but to the counselors of peace is joy there shall no evil happen to the just but the wicked shall be filled with mischief lying lips or an abomination to the lord but they that deal truly are his delight get away from liars even if it's you get away from your own self come on somebody though the worst liar is a liar who lies to themselves come on somebody look in the mirror the bible says that james says if we look into the word of god it's a mirror that shows us who we are and what we are and he said it's a foolish person who walks away from that mirror with a dirty face and doesn't recognize that there's dirt on your face come on somebody are y'all with me right here don't deceive your own self i wish i had a better amen but that's all right let's go to the next one distractions look at you distractions write this down broken focus have you ever seen a day when people are broken in their focus now they want to attribute everything to adhd and if that's true then i got add didi didi didi i'm all messed up i just didn't know it i'm telling you my mom and daddy didn't go down to the school and say and hear them say in my day yeah your boys got this and that no what they heard was your son's been talking too much in class and we had to apply the border correction to his glutamous maximus furthermore he had a ride on the chalkboard i must not talk a hundred times spoken from experience come on somebody oh i'll get hate mail now you don't believe in adhd my child is that it no i'm not saying that what i am saying is is that people's broken focus today has got is a distraction of the devil your energy and your time wasted with unfruitful relationships oh lord jesus preach pastor i'm just telling you right now i can shed me some relationships that are not fruitful make it plain pastor all right i will if you ain't bringing dung to the tree root i don't want to be around you i want to be around somebody who's going to encourage the right kind of fruit to come out on the tree i don't need to be listening any time for me to have a hundred debbie downers around me i want a church that's full of the joy of the lord you may be going through the trial of your life but i'm not going to let that trial distract me from serving the lord i'm not going to quit i'm not going to give up because of the distraction it's just a distraction it's just a distraction it's just a distraction your iphone has become a distraction put it down uh come on somebody whatever the distraction is now you can know whether or not it's a distraction or not if you're pulled away from it and something on the inside of you listen i watched him the other day what was oh oh it's all about tick tacker tick whatever it is it's all about that i watched him on television the millennials are into i don't i don't i'm not on there i don't know how to operate that i got enough social media in my life come on somebody but this one's all up in their cookies and everything and i watched a bunch of millennials standing around when the announcement was made that congress may pass a law to stop tick talk in this united states because it's connected directly to the chinese government and i watched him standing out there now before you blame those children it's the parents who won't discipline their children to say not only can you live without it but you're going to live without it because it's taking hold like a drug in this generation you want to you want to watch somebody fall into distraction and and spasmatic fits take their phone away oh my god take it away do it to yourself do it to yourself don't wait listen when a few what was a few weeks ago when they started changing things all sudden the phone started going down drop call all that kind of stuff and you know i they all touted that 5g was going to be wonderful i can tell you right now it ain't happening i don't know you know they put a little 5g up there in your corner but i don't see anything changing i was sitting up there in washington dc trying to be able to uh check some stuff out on and it wasn't even coming up i thought i better get off this thing because that secret service guy right over there may be watching whatever's going on do it to yourself go go on a fast from your phone and see what happens in your life you don't even know your own children's telephone number because they're on speed dial you know i asked myself the other day i i want to do this just for fun but it probably would be cruel is to give a millennial an actual map i asked myself the other day how did we live i mean i'm i'm in the cab i'm trying to find out how fast we can get over there because try and i punched it up and it's showing red marks all the way through and giving me the time i'm supposed to arrive there all that kind of stuff and i'm thinking man it's all right here at my it's i'm getting it right here i could tell the guy where to go but he's you know on a mission to get more money the uber ride was 42 bucks for 20 minutes i mean at least you could give me a hamburger in a movie i mean he asked me when i got in the car you want air yes lots of it how did we make it before gps distractions distractions now we don't think of distractions a lot of times as being satanic but how do you get your the enemy says in order for me to get their focus off of the cross i got to give them something else to believe in i got to change their focus how is it that people are getting enrexed that i don't even worry about people that are drunken on drugs anymore i'm concerned about those that are watching their phone and tying the text while they're driving i can pick them out now driving down the road all of a sudden they just drift all over to the way and then back over here and why why are the wrecks having because they're distractions now the enemy don't care how he kills you come on car wreck terrorist attack whatever that it may be he just soon you text everybody go to texting and driving here's a distraction unworthy criticisms somebody been critical of you and and got you to be leaving something different than what god said how about other interests that are not god's plan that's a distraction and the list goes on and on here's number four disappointments there's nothing like the enemy using disappointments to get us discouraged from being able to keep our faith in christ discouraged disappointments with yourself you ever been diss you have you ever disappointed yourself before you're to be me i can assure you in all the years that i've been preaching not every one of my sermons we're a hundred percent i have perfected the art of putting this number 11 all the way down my mouth before there's nothing more it's one thing to be a private disappointment it's another thing to be public with it now you might not think that's too much but i got a preacher friend that the last day of his tenure at one particular church they gathered up all of the statements that he said behind the pulpit that were not right accidental cuss words and everything else and played them as a going away gift i mean no we don't have enough time for mine that's exactly right i got years of video to 18 years of videotape he stood up in the pulpit thank you very much he stood up in the pulpit and said you know you got to be a leader you got to be like that lead goose out there when they're flying in the air you got to break wind for everybody behind you exactly you y'all y'all don't know that's the reason the last that's the reason why the last thing i do is check my zipper before i walk out here that's just a fact am i right am i right preacher am i right yes sir re y'all understand that that occasion has happened right here in the house of holy ghost god disappointment how about the replaying of guilt have you ever asked the lord to forgive you and then the enemy keeps playing that guilt back on your past mistakes your past losses satan loves them to magnify our losses and the weaknesses and the sins watch of others and us listen if you catch yourself here's just a footnote to the side if you catch yourself blaming somebody else for what you're supposed to be responsible for okay this could be never more played out than today i know i'm careful npr national public radio was making statements about the president's son and laptops and everything else under the sun and when confronted with all of the misinformation that they have publicly put on radio for years right said well we weren't the only ones doing it come on church do you hear your children in that it wasn't just me it was him too that never worked for me i mean it was a hurricane you understand an unannounced hurricane coming down on my head at that point because i had to take responsibility for myself just because you've disappointed yourself the lord whatever you don't get out of that disappointment by pointing your finger at somebody else because we always find someone who is worse than us to blame it on we think because because a white sheep on green grass is beautiful and we think it's ultra white until that same white sheep stands in snow and suddenly it reveals the ugly dirty side of things so if you're paul gave it to us like this don't compare yourselves with others if you're going to put the standard of measurement out there you measure to christ and i can assure you according to romans 3 and 23 we have all fallen short of the glory of god wow that takes the sting out of the devil's attack of disappointment in our life right blaming others well so and so did it listen the first step in leadership is to take responsibility good and bad on it exactly i heard somebody say so satan will use anything to cause disorder around your life and break your focus and i'll have to save the rest of it for next week or some other time because i forgot to make an announcement and i need to make that announcement god only anoints order not disorder god in the beginning look at what he did in the beginning was the word and and it was darkness that covered the face of the deep void empty and god commanded the light to shine in that darkness and from that point god started calling things in order setting the day or the night and the day god starts our day in the middle of night come on in the middle of your darkness god setting things in order and you know what you know that it's god when you get to the end of whatever it is and god looks at it and said that's good we look at it and go god it it's still dark outside he said no i finished it before i ever started it man i feel the anointing of god on this god anoints order i've watched some of the most spiritual people fake it because their own house was filthy and the grass wasn't cut and 16 rusty cars in the front yard but oh how spiritual god does not anoint disorder anybody brings disorder into your life that's chaos get out of it yeah but they're my best friend your best friend is bringing chaos anybody getting this tonight he said he anoints order when things come together how let me take it to you how in the world did israel win this people started coming america british jordanians came together and put it in order and because of that order god anointed it and 99 percent of the missiles and the uavs and everything else did not even make it into israeli space taken down before they ever got there order you want anointing in your life set your house in order get your life in order you want anointing on your finances get your finances in order come on if you want anointing in your spiritual life get your spiritual life in order call it into order put it into order bocd about it come on somebody every once in a while you just got to get in your sock drawer come on somebody you got to get some order in that thing because you've been wearing mismatched socks now for a long time and wondering what's wrong with this you put on a black sock and you got a blue sock on the other way you're out of order come on somebody you know how mad you get when things get out of order when was the last time you went to the vending machine and it said out of order and you went ahead and put your money in there anyway and you had to shake the thing and nothing happened because it said it was out of order because if there's no order there's no flow if there's no flow you're not getting the coca-cola you're not getting a bag of chip i don't care if you reach your hand up in there and the cop comes by and says you're stealing something why because it was out of order set it in order and when you put your offer i mean you're tied into the machine then god said i'll bless you going in and coming out i'll rebuke the devour for your sake strategies of the devil using them very effectively you know why you're going to be helped because you were here tonight because you were watching tonight set it in order why is the world why are we in the shape we're in right now why why why we got crazy people blocking bridges with their hands in 55 gallon drums of cement somebody got to get some sense up in here right well that doesn't affect me that's san francisco and they've been weird from the beginning okay you better hear me you let your life getting chaos and get broken focus and distracted and all that kind of stuff and you'll watch that same chaos show up right here y'all not hearing me the enemy only wants to just disturb your life constantly i've been there i'm gonna tell you what i'm gonna take me three melatonin tonight and i'm gonna go to sleep and the devil can't do a thing about it come on somebody look at some of y'all what's melatonin pastors on drugs what's going on over here drink a glass of milk do what you got to do get you some rest get your mind in order come on somebody if he can disturb your sleep you wake up the next day you're mad at the world mad at everybody around they get you a good night's sleep the bible said he gives his beloved rest don't let the devil disturb your sleep keep you in chaos i fought the devil in the middle of the night i know what i'm talking about but i've also said lord most of the time i'll start like this our father which art in heaven i promise you i'm not i'm not telling you a fib one ounce i pray our father which art in heaven how will be thy name i mean i'm still pinging laying there looking at the ceiling how will be thy name thy kingdom come that will be done in earth as it is in heaven forgive us always like it when he puts me to sleep before i do that forgiveness thing forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom you all talk to sheep i talk to god before you know it my spirit is settling down sometimes i've had to say it two or three times because my own head and my own ears and my own mind and my own spirit needed to hear me talk to god who's in charge of my rest tonight oh i don't know who i'm talking to all them nightmares and dreams and visions and keeping you up now i can't do anything about you eating and your body still having to digest that triple cheeseburger that you're going to take on here in a few minutes but if you want to rest talk to god come on somebody i said talk to god and you know what god will do oh i don't know i'm all up in the anointing right here the bible says that if you'll talk to god he will give you witty inventions in the middle of the night that's what the bible says one man who was going down in this company they needed one part to be able to put in the machine otherwise the company was going down it was going bankrupt and they had done everything they knew how to do that man prayed to god in the middle of the night believer he said lord your word says that you'll give us witty inventions in the night i'm asking you to speak to my mind while my mind is at rest and sleeping tonight the next morning he woke up with an idea drew it down on paper took it in and it became the necessary ingredient to save his company because in the middle of the night he trusted god and god sent the answer come on somebody are you hearing what i'm saying the devil can't do anything about you let him kick his heels with schemes and and and and strategies and all that kind of stuff but if i will keep my faith firmly in the cross of jesus christ i cannot lose i am an overcomer now i'll go through a trial and i'll be an overcomer tomorrow come on somebody this book is an overcoming book written to overcomers god has no plan in this bible for defeat he's made no provision for defeat even the seven churches of asia heard these words to him that overcome it to him that overcome it to him that overcome it to him that overcome it i don't care how much you're struggling i don't care how much you're fighting with the devil to him that overcome it i am come on say it with me i am an overcomer through christ jesus who strengthens me if you believe that get up on your feet throw your hands in the air and declare it tonight god i am an overcomer over the devil over every device of the devil over the wiles of the devil over the attack of the devil i will not be defeated i am an overcomer through christ jesus who strengthens me come on somebody shout about it tonight clap your hands did you get you enough strength to be able to fight the battle can you charge hell with a squirt gun and win tonight turn around and shake hands and encourage some people in the lord god bless you all of you that are watching online god bless you for joining us tonight don't miss sunday morning the lord willing i'm gonna be back in the final part of the series in the book of ruth you do not want to miss it i can tell you shoes are going to fly in this building sunday morning you won't want to miss it we'll see you then you don't have to turn the lights on next wednesday night we are suspending our normal service for vision night i don't want you to miss it next wednesday night at seven o'clock we need all the membership all of you that are attenders to be in here i promise you a few things we're going to deal with uh that we need to make sure we take care of it and i'm going to cast some vision in this house that i believe you're going to be extremely excited about you will not want to miss it it's something you've never seen before that god's late in our spirit and i believe you're going to be excited about it too so don't miss next wednesday night seven o'clock right here well there'll be no classes out there you bring your kids into sanctuary if you need to god bless you thank you thank you for reminding me now resume your normal activity