 I think we are the only youth group entry or the young adults ministry entry cities who has its own app what is that come on yeah so now you can watch our services instead of trying to go on the internet you just have your own app your own app and all of the testimonies are there and plus it's beautifully designed you can take notes on that app you can have a Bible a Bible that actually reads to you those of you who don't know how to read or your excuse is like it takes me too long to get through perfect you click play it reads to you it has its own sermons are healing testimonies deliverance testimonies salvation testimonies all on it and so we're really really excited I think in the new generation this is gonna be a very awesome thing that God is gonna use amen and so with that said I want us to before we come to prayer today to keep this thing in mind when David came against Goliath we know that David defeated him with a stone and a slingshot and Goliath the Bible says was extremely armed he had armor every part of his body was covered with armor but there was one part that was not covered with armor and in that part David sent and I believed with the power of the Holy Spirit the stone and he hit him in that part so this big guy Goliath this big giant has a vulnerable part and it happened to be his head you know it's not only Goliath that has a vulnerable part you also have a vulnerable part you may not be a very strong person you may not be the most successful person but you all all of us in here have the most vulnerable part and that part is our mind we can have degrees we can have good physical appearance we can have a very beautiful car we can have a wonderful house we can have even a ministry but there's one thing that you must keep in mind is that you and I have a very vulnerable part about you now some of you think that your body is vulnerable it's true it's gonna die one day and then turn into ashes but that is not the most vulnerable part the most vulnerable part is your mind and the way David hit the stone in Goliath's head and the Bible says the moment the stone hit his head in the matter of few minutes a big man crumbles on the floor if your head is under attack it's a matter of time and your whole life falls apart if your mind becomes under attack it takes just a small time and your life will line up to the level of your mind the Bible says what men thinks so is he that means that when my mind comes under the assault of the devil very soon my life becomes exposed to also his attacks as a Christian and not just as a Christian but as a person who was created by God you must understand that your mind is the Satan's attack it's interesting how our country has the highest percentage of mental disorders in the world no other country in the world has most people suffering in their mind and our nation but how many people don't even go to the doctor who suffer with depression with fear with anxiety constantly thinking negative constantly thinking defeat constantly thinking I cannot do it constantly thinking well that's the way we grew up in the family constantly thinking well nothing ever good happens to me or something is about good to happen there no well this happened before and it always turned bad we must understand that Satan will try always to attack your mind he did it with Judas the Bible says that Jesus told Judas he said the Satan actually Jesus didn't say that it just says in the Bible that Satan put in the heart of Judas to betray Jesus he threw a stone you know what that stone is a thought a thought and that stone hit Judas a disciple of Jesus it hit him so bad that his world crumbled he did not know how to defend himself from that thought and then we find Judas his life and not because he was so faithful to Jesus it because he committed suicide we see what the same thing with the nonious the Bible says that he came and he lied to Jesus and Peter says he said nonious died why did you allow Satan to put a thought into your heart to betray to betray Holy Spirit meaning the way David attacked Goliath is a lot of times the way Goliath's attack David's the way the enemy will seek to attack you and I this area and we as Christians have to keep this in mind and not only keep this in mind but keep our helmets on and put on a renewed mind have a new mind God gives us a new heart when we become Christians that is a gift but it is your and my responsibility to have a new mind when you become a Christian God does not immediately give you a new mind that new mind becomes a reality when we listen to the teachings when we listen to the Bible when we you know come to prayer when we when we fill ourselves and slowly and slowly our mind begins to change and when our mind is changed the devil throws something at it it will bounce back if our mind is not changed a devil throws something it will stick why because the devil's thoughts they stick with our all-thinkings they're attracted by that amen and I think it was dr. young gechel who said that a mind that is changed a Christian's mind is actually three things he said one it's when you think positive two it's when you think constantly about miracles and three when you constantly think and orient yourself towards success constantly positive you must say positive because our God is light and there is no darkness in our God means God is positive God is not negative God is not pessimist means to have a new mind means your mind must be positive nothing about God is defeat everything about God is victory the second thing is that our mind has to think about miracles or you may say why miracles because we have problems and two because these problems most of our problems require miracles and our God that's his specialty that's what he specializes in in miracles he likes to make impossible possible supernatural natural things that are difficult to become easy and to have a conscience that is full of victory that means that every situation you're going in your thinking is above that if somebody gives you a new car that is not the greatest gift if somebody gives you a new house that is not the greatest gift if your mind does not change it's a matter of time you'll break the car and be back in the same place we've shared the study that they've done to people who were poor and they gave them one million dollars and within few years those people became poor again and they put millionaires into the homeless position and they found out in a very short time these millionaires became millionaires again and they came to the conclusion that being a millionaire has very little to do with money it has a lot to do with your mind if you read for example even the book rich dead poor dead you will find one thing about people who are very wealthy now we all have our ideas oh they're greedy and all this and by the way anytime you criticize something it's a sure way of never having it in your life churches who criticize miracles don't have them people who criticize rich people never become rich and so don't ever criticize something you don't want to be criticize the devil and you'll never have them in your life can somebody say amen and so but if you read people who are wealthy you know because people who are poor say this I cannot afford it how many times you said this to your family I can't afford it well the rich person doesn't say that this is what the rich person says how can I afford it see most of us the guy in the book said he said the poor people work for money he said the rich people make money work for them now at first it sounds like a cool cliche but if you study the way they think they're completely on a different planet you're like are you guys from like some other planet they are from another planet because they think different and so and for most of us as Christians I'm not talking about right now being wealthy I'm talking about right now being a victorious Christian because for some people here wealth simply means tomorrow is to get a car for some people wealth means simply to get a job tomorrow for some people wealth means to be able to get up without any pain in their back without getting any pain in their ankles or in their knees that is for some people will be their wealth tomorrow well for others it could be something else amen the way we get out of our situations I remember I was talking to Ravim once and I mentioned to him about the fact that when babies are born the way babies come out of the mother's womb and I've not seen it I just heard about it the rumor has it they come out head first amen not legs first head first and that's kind of how not only you come out of your mother's womb that's how you come out of every problem head first and most of us what we do usually is this is we want our money to come out first we want our family to come out first we want the father to come out first the girlfriend to come out first the boss to come out first everyone around you to change so you can remain unchanged and that's not how usually happens and most of us we pray like that say God change him her and them so that I don't have to change and usually God does not respond to those prayers they go back into a spam folder in heaven because the prayers God wants to change is God change my head I want to come out of this situation head first change my mind Lord change my heart God change my perspective on this situation and it's amazing as you begin to change it's amazing how people around you catch and get the memo as well and begin to change as well and so our prayers to be Lord change me Lord change my mind Holy Spirit put a guard over my mind over my thinking let my thoughts be synced with you let my thoughts not be a reflection of my past let them be a reflection of the greatness of my God because somebody say amen and we will defeat every negative thought we will defeat every doubting thought we will defeat every thought of anxiety every thought of pride every thought of lust especially to the brothers who may be constantly struggling with these thoughts we can defeat that with the power of the name of Jesus because somebody say amen let's take a look at the scripture in the Bible Romans chapter 5 and verse 17 and it says the following for if by one man's offense death reigned through the one much more those who receive abundance of grace somebody say abundance of grace now say like with abundance see abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one Jesus Christ now I want you not to read this as some old writing right now I want you to read this as God's word for you if by one man's offense means Adam through his sin death reigned through the one through him much more those who receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness will reign in life not in heaven not in the sweet by and by not when they die but in life through the one Jesus Christ so Apostle Paul is saying because Adam committed sin death started to rule the world and let me tell you something about death it did not slack it ruled everyone from Alexander the great to Mother Teresa from Hitler to very good people death ruled everyone because of one man that did not rule because of many just one man and death started to rule and Apostle Paul is saying that because of Jesus and his grace and his righteousness now you can rule also you can rule the problem with us is that we need to learn from death to take our place and not give it up if death would rule like you nobody would die if death would rule like me people will only get sick and recover because most of us we reign over nothing Paul saying we can rain in life now death is doing a good job and it's gonna rain over you too don't worry are you raining once in a while who are you raining over in life not in heaven most of us are gonna rain we're thinking we gonna rain in heaven Paul is saying in life rain to rule and rain you have to have someone to rule and rain over death has someone that death rules over unfortunately it's us you have someone you are called by God to rule and rain over over sickness over sin over Satan and over your circumstances God never called us to rule over one another God never called you to rule over your mother your father and over your sister or your brother God calls us to rule over our circumstances over our feelings over our sins and over our weaknesses can somebody say amen in the beginning when God made man he made him in his image and in his likeness this is amazing that simply means you were made out of the same material God consists of God is eternal was never made by no one he is he never was he just is always been he consists he just consists of this inside that we don't have a human vocabulary to describe because it's a completely different world he is in and angels and demons all of these had a beginning God never had a beginning and when he made you and I he took a part of himself and put in us now God was always in charge never been to prison never had nobody boss him around never had nobody tell him what to do always in charge always on the throne and always reigning he takes a part of himself and gives to you and gives to me that part immediately makes us into just like him always in charge no wonder the first thing God told Adam have dominion why you came you're made out of a material that's inside of me and that's inside of me rules and reigns and that's exactly what you have to do God says I rule over heaven but the scripture says in Psalms God gave earth to men it is though God said I make you in my image I'm making you kind of like me in my likeness I want you to rule the earth like a rule in heaven and I want you to look up to me to learn from me how to rule learn from me how to have dominion and Adam news flash I gave you someone to have dominion over there was an enemy of mine I sent him your way he's gonna be in the garden you'll find him rule over him rule over him you know what Adam did Adam did everything except dominion he did not rule Adam made a mistake this mistake was not that he smoked or he committed some sin this wasn't that it was the fact that the snake he was supposed to rule over he did not and you think God said in heaven oh my goodness my enemy Adam just fell let me just kick Adam out come and take take take power and just take over you know how sometimes when you entrust something for your kids to do and you see they're making a mess you push him aside and you take over you know God did not do that God did not take over Satan did which simply means everything that is happening in the world is not a consequence of God's activity is a consequence of man's lack of dominion and the presence of demonic dominion it's funny how when something bad happens the first question we ask where is God he's in heaven governing heaven and heaven is doing good God placed man over the earth man made a mistake man passed the dominion to Satan and today the earth is a result not of God's dominion but of dominion of Satan now God still is in control God is still sovereign but he delegated the authority to us you were made to have dominion it's natural for you when I came to United States 14 years ago I didn't come as a citizen I came as a refugee it took me a few years I had to pass a test and pay money and then become a citizen now some people in this room you never had to do anything to be a citizen the only thing you had to do is be born in the United States how many of you you had you were just born citizenship just came naturally yeah just came naturally for you that's exactly how it is with dominion when you were created dominion came naturally well because of sin most of us in here today we know one thing is everything comes natural to us except dominion everything comes very naturally lion comes naturally stealing comes naturally negative thinking comes very naturally being depressed oh it comes very naturally especially on Mondays when the coffee shop is closed everything comes very naturally hurting people not being able to make a good life not being able to make it just to just make sense of my life not being able to be in peace all of that comes very naturally today it is not natural for men to have dominion it is natural for men to be under dominion it's not natural that's why when somebody says to have dominion if you are really paying attention in your heart there is a sense of yeah good sermon good preach amen but that's not true and honestly you're right it doesn't come naturally that's why apostle Paul says at first you were able to have dominion naturally because you were created now you're naturally dominated but he says right now there's something else that is happening he said God it came on earth he gave his son Jesus Christ so that you can receive no longer his image you already have that image you need something else from him today his righteousness and his grace why it's interesting how God did not say you need to have a remodeling over your character you need to kind of improve on your life and once you kind of get it up a little bit up you'll be able to kind of feel that authority again and go whack the devil one more time God knows the state we are in it cannot be remodeled the only thing that will lift us up from defeat is not just changing my life which what the world is doing I already have his image but it's sort of down because of my sin nature and God says in order for you to feel strong again conquer again overcome again come against the devil come against sin come against sickness come against your circumstances he says you need one more thing in your life you need a gift of righteousness you need just abundance of grace and he says when you receive that you can once again take your original position of reigning in life through Jesus Christ you were created to reign but because of sin now it's natural for you to be ruled over but Jesus said because of my righteousness you can rule once again I just read one more scripture that most of us are very familiar with in John chapter 3 verse 15 it says the following that this is verse 16 whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life Jesus looks at the Nicodemus and he tells him he says do you remember a story in the Old Testament where Moses lifted a serpent and Israel was asked anybody who got bitten by a serpent see Israel complained in the wilderness and they got bitten by snakes and these snakes bit them and they were so poisoned as that people were dying and God had a cure for them and the cure was this God said I want you Moses to not to take the snake that bites people but make something that looks like the snake that bites people make it out of bronze make it like looking red and I want you to lift it up and when people will look at the snake all of the people who have a poison in their body the poison will disappear and people will be healthy again and that's exactly what Moses did it's amazing that people were asked to look at something that looked like that which bit them and when they will look at it the Bible says that poison will disappear and they will be immediately healed imagine you have a poison in your body most likely it itches most likely it hurts and the cure was not trying to bendate the poison pay attention to the poison but to ignore the poison and look at something else completely that's hanging up and Jesus is saying that this is an example of what's gonna happen to me how could Jesus compare himself to a serpent he's always compared to a lion a lamb he's always compared to these beautiful animals a serpent is symbolic of Satan is symbolic of sin how could Jesus say he is a serpent hanging on the cross now this is a secret it's a very simple secret but it's a very revolutionary secret a second current a second Corinthians 521 is this for he God made him Jesus who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become righteousness of God in him I want you to listen very carefully this is where the freedom exists for ruining ruling in life on the cross Jesus was sin most of us just believe that Jesus just took my sin the Bible says that on the cross he who knew no sin became sin that you who know no righteousness can become righteousness Jesus on the cross was not just a lamb he was also a serpent he had to become bad don't never once doing something bad so that people who've never done anything good in their life can become good how did Jesus become bad did Jesus steal something from someone before he got on the cross did Jesus punch somebody in the face before he got on the cross did Jesus open his mouth and f-bombs came out of his mouth before he got on the cross no no no he did nothing how did he got all of the sin the father just gave it to him why so the same way he can give you righteousness without ever doing anything right just to give imagine nothing Jesus did nothing wrong but dying as a wrong man why so that people who've never done anything right can rule as though they live their whole life being righteous I want you to know today as a Christian you cannot reign in life because you're perfect you'll never be perfect enough you cannot reign in life because you are somehow achieved a level of spiritual depth with God you can only rule in life when you open your mind to the reality the righteousness is a gift gift to be received how ask Jesus how he did he receive sin by opening his life to the father's will when you open your life to the father's will and say father I'm a sinner I'm tired of living under subjection of my circumstances I'm tired of demons and devils walking over my life every single day I'm tired of being addicted to this thing and God you created me for more than this I feel it inside of me every day that's why I'm not happy with it a dog can be happy with being on the leash but I'm not because I'm not a dog I'm made out of the same material you have inside of you God that's why something inside of me always rebels something inside of me always says no that's not how supposed to be I know that I'm doing it day after day and I'll probably doing it day after day after today but something inside says there has to be more there has to be more you have an image of God inside of you and that image is the image that never goes under it always rules over but that image has been marred by sin and God is saying the only way you can rise up again is not just by doing something more it's that you have to receive righteousness the same way Jesus received sin opening yourself up and say God I can't do it give me that gift and when that righteousness is imparted when the righteousness is received something rises up inside of me something rises up inside of you you know what that is boldness there's one thing you know about righteous people they're cocky when you didn't steal something and they accuse you of stealing you're not gonna take it when somebody accused you of something that you didn't do you have a backbone your fierceness in your face you you have you have a volume in your voice don't just say oh it's fine it's okay it's okay yeah I can go to prison no problem oh no spit comes out of your mouth you you stand your ground because you know they need to find it they need to search it because something righteousness gives the Bible says a righteous man is as bold as lion and that's what Satan wants to bring guilt and condemnation and shame and anything he can to remind you listen you this is not for you you're a dog and a leash and rejoice I didn't kill you yet he wants to remove that sense of righteousness because if he removes that with that also goes my faith and my boldness and without my faith and without my boldness guess what happens I will settle for being ruled over instead of aiming for dominating in my life I want to encourage you right now you can come against the devil not because you're perfect the Bible says they overcome Satan by the power of the blood of Jesus the Bible doesn't say they overcome Satan because they finished a seminary the Bible doesn't say they overcome Satan because they memorized 25,000 verses in the Bible the Bible says they overcome Satan because they have a sense of awareness inside of them I am righteous not because I'm a pastor I'm righteous not because I'm a home group leader I'm righteous not because this whole week I haven't done anything that I feel guilty about I am righteous the same way Jesus was sinner a gift he got the bad gift I got a really good one Jesus suffered because of that gift it will be foolish not to enjoy it be foolish not to use it and say Jesus died for it I'm gonna stand on it to rule and reign every person in this room your God's candidate to rise up above your circumstances maybe in your family everybody died out of a particular sickness you are different because you can reign in life through Jesus Christ maybe in your family everybody had broken relationships and children from different parents just because they could not put the family together and maybe that is how your life has started and I want to tell you something that because because of righteousness you can have a new outlook you may look at yourself today say me Vlad no it's because Adam rules over you Jesus says he wants you to rule because of his righteousness it means you can have a healthy family you can have love in a relationship not when a wife and a husband run at each other with knives or they can run at each other with hugs that is what God wants maybe everybody in your generation have always lived in lack and shortage and you always had this word we can't afford this this is not gonna be us we can't afford this our lights get always turned off we never have enough money for gas and we don't have enough money to give to nobody else and poverty always dominated I have a word for you today through Jesus Christ through the gift of righteousness you can overcome your situation maybe you had demonic voices constantly attacking your life demonic things constantly you just know it's demons I mean you could feel it all around you and you're so weak to overcome against it you are weak but the Bible says because of his righteousness you can overcome you can overcome you can overcome Jesus was perfect became a sin so that person like me nasty sinful arrogant hypocrite not measuring up my own worst critic I can have a chance to have his gift imparted unto me the same way my nastiness was imparted unto him if he took it willingly and died for it I'm gonna learn from him take willingly and the rain with it let's do it together let's beat that old devil out out of our life let's stamp all those demons out from under a feet where they supposed to belong let's rise above the situation the Satan put us under and let's put that leash the Satan put on our necks and say you know what this doesn't belong on my neck last time I checked Jesus gave authority and dominion over you for me not the other way around because somebody say amen and we will be a triumphant church we'll be triumphant Christians we're gonna be triumphant fathers and mothers we're gonna be triumphant young people we're gonna be triumphant bosses and employees employers and we're gonna be the people who will see the kingdom of God rule and reign in our generation for the glory of God because somebody say amen say victory is mine say victory is yours say victory is mine in Jesus name