From the Vault: Russ Dizdar on Spiritual Warfare in the Last Days

Okay, we um, we wanted to really move ahead. And I know that I gave, gave so much, uh, in the beginning, 'cause there's so much to pour out. I wanted to pour out and, and you got to get a picture of how broad it comes down to the individual, but it goes to the entire scope of, um, what's happening in the world as a whole and what we're all going through.

Page nine in your workbook, we're going to take a look again at the top of that, and it talks about, um, the reason Jesus came. And again, I'll point you, uh, to 1 John 3. And that involves that conquering and destroying. And it also involves, look at point two, uh, the reason for the fall of the human race. So, on the other side of this, you know, everything we experience as human beings because of the fall. And that fall includes opening the door to the dark side by Satan guiding humanity to sin, to cross that barrier and sin. Okay, the spirit of God goes out, we lose the eternity that we had. The thing that God spoke about, death and dying. In the Hebrew, if you do this, "in dying you shall die." So, an immediate death occurs with the, with the, with an operating, uh, it's in your DNA. Even the geneticists can't, they look for the death gene. 'Cause they believe somehow if they can find the death gene and splice it out and get the immortal gene and splice it in, question is, where are they going to get the immortal gene?

Transhumanists, when I went to their, their, their conference in, in Lincoln Plaza and Ray, you know, Kurzweil and all the rest of them there, they couldn't explain that. Their definition of immortality was more like fixing a car for the rest, you know, for the next 100 years. You just keep fixing it and fixing it and and updating it and getting new stuff. Biblical immortality is perfect, eternal, indestructible, and given by the immortal God.

So, when the Russian Dmitry Itskov, uh, who ran the 2045 agenda in, in, of the, of the transhumanist in, in Lincoln Plaza, so the big burden was to get to him. So, I got a hold of my book, I went out and bought him a Bible, but I wrote inside the front of the Bible, "The physics of immortality is in the hands of the immortal God." And then I wrote scriptures concerning Christ and, and other things. Prayed and prayed and prayed, and we found him, met with him directly face-to-face, Tom Dunn and I, and he was nice enough and very kind guy, 'cause his, his experience comes from a Russian Cosmist. And on the stage in this massive screen with world-renowned geneticists, inventors, transhumanists in Lincoln Plaza a couple years ago. Not only did they describe that they will be able to create immortality for humanity, and by 2045 they will have a new avatar body, a new side, you know, side-by-body and so forth. Um, all depends on what direction they go with that AI body. The whole goal is to download human, what they would call the human consciousness or personality into the new avatar. They couldn't define human nature, they couldn't define human consciousness, they couldn't define, uh, immortality, and they would never answer why death is even here.

At the 2045 transhumanist meeting, in a crowd like this, we're sitting together, we're all supposed to be talking together. I brought up Jesus and what he said. I said, "You know, Jesus said, 'I am the resurrection and the life. If any man believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.'" And then he commanded and brought Lazarus' human spirit back out of heaven, healed him instantly, and brought him all back together within a twinkling of an eye, and Lazarus walked out of the tomb. What do you think of that? One of the transhumanists looked at me and said, "You can say God, but don't say Jesus."

So, the next day, the Russian Cosmist gets on stage after all the scientists, the intellectuals, the geneticists. Has a picture on, on the screen of ancient, the ancient gods in the sky. The ancient gods of the sky, Ephesians 6. Here's what he says. "The ancient gods desire to give humanity immortality. The ancient gods are guiding the scientists to lead them to that." Then he said this, "The ancient gods are guiding these scientists to help bring back the god-men of old."

Transhumanist meeting. Top world transhumanists, geneticists, physicists. They had the robots there. They had, they had the robots that talked. They had the guy with the, from Britain, with the, with the robotic arm and shake your hand and break your fingers. Lot of stuff, AI, Art of Lex. Will they build a machine that is like a god? They don't know how to define God yet. Um, if God, by God, they mean just something superior to humanity, that's, uh, not even scratching the surface of infinity, immeasurability. The attributes of God and is a, is a, is a, is a, is a far expanse compared to their understanding of that.

So, on the field of human life, history professor, University of Akron, sit down with explaining his sex with non-human entities. Try to tell me how good the sex with non-human entities are. I had to stop him. Pornography. Then we have a meeting with him, couple of us to get him. We go up to the Highland Square area, Ohio, where I live, and we go into a coffee shop to meet him. Two new age girls were witnessing to and talking to. I asked both of the girls, "Well, then, what does happen to you when you die?" "Well, you go off into the way beyond, beyond the beyond." Before I could ask her what she meant by that, the professor began to manifest demonic presence in the coffee shop.

So, I take him out to our old Ford, my old, my old Ford F-150, just one bench seat. Other guys over here, the guys in the middle, we're going to drive down towards the valley. But, he's manifesting already. The voices are coming out. He's, his whole body's vibrating. The whole truck is shaking. I'm driving and trying to hold him. The other guy's trying to hold him. We're both praying. Then we get, then, of course, we get into the whole thing. He didn't really want to let go of this demon that was giving him sexual pleasures.

Anybody here have human, have sleep paralysis visitations? How many? Go ahead, be honest. How many? See more? Now, half. See, it starts off with three. Half. Where's that coming from? Did you hear about this 20 years ago? Incubus and succubus has been around from the beginning, all the way to the Old Testament, sex rituals and transference of powers by that, by that mode. What nobody's been telling everybody in, in, in the sleep paralysis, which is not chemicals getting together, communicating intelligently to play a game on you. You have an entity coming into your room, you feel it. It comes and sits on your bed, then it's on top of your chest, and you're paralyzed. And you know what the, the two primary goals are? To engage you sexually, to get a hold, and or to help pull you out of your body into the, what they would call the astral realm, the epihyranos, where the entities are. Correct? How many know that? You know that. How many realize now that millions are having that experience around the world? Because more demonic presence than ever in history is already here, and it scratches only the surface of what is to come. It's unbelievable.

So, when we talk about the fall of the human race, it opened the door for all of that. All of the fallen side, the demonic realm, the species of them, all of that. And there's billions of them in my estimation. I even believe the biblical picture may point to innumerable. You can't even count the numbers. Innumerable. They just, you just can't even count it. Uh, same with the elect angels of God. By the way, the elect angels of God, you know what they are, right? Here's one, Dave. Sundoulos. They are fellow brethren. The elect angels of God are our fellow brethren who serve in and they observe in the redemption. They help. Look in the book of Acts. Did an angel go and get Peter out of prison because Mary's at Mary's house they were praying? You better believe it. Did an angel show up when the shipwreck occurred and Paul's over there? You better believe it. God is a God of angels and earthquakes and power and might. Astounding.

So, Western Christendom is really subnormalism that has become norm. And that has to be, be, be, we have to, we have to, we have to break that glass completely and let that all fall to the ground and come back to the full word of God and works of God in unison. Presence and, and power and in the work of God, the word of God, and the power of God in unison. Has nothing to do with denominations, nothing to do with any of that stuff. Has everything to do with that biblical reality of, of the person of Jesus, the witness and power of the Spirit of God, and the witness and power of the word of God in always working in unison. And we'll see that. You'll see that.

So, the history professor's one, the, the girl who was frozen in church and came and I saw her standing over here and we gave the invitation and she wouldn't come forward, but the whole story is I went to her afterwards. I said, "Are they telling you not to go forward?" And she shook her head. So, the moment I said, "In Jesus' name." She went in between the pews, her head hit the pews going down. It was over in a few moments, but it wasn't over. She went off with her mother. Her mother brought her back the next day. One of our other workers on our team was in the office and she came back, came in. Same thing. She was kind of frozen looking at me and I said, "They don't want you to be here." And she said, "Yes." So, again, we begin to pray. They throw her to the ground. We, the growling, the growling's one thing. They all kind of growl. Um, but then this one started speaking in, in the name and we commanded to deal with how do you got in there. Well, for every demonic presence, whether it's in the room at your house, whether it's on an object, whether it's in an area or in it, on a person, it's, there's reasons why. Legalities. It's the Greek word topos, this, the foothold issue. Uh, they can, they can only operate where they have a doorway, where they have, you know, where they're allowed. Now, we have all these doors closed. But on the other side of this, let's just say there was a, you know, 35 rats running around the doors out here. How many ladies want us to open the doors? How many men? So, you can hear them and do whatever else, but, but the doors are shut. You can't do a whole lot. But if you go over there and willingly, willingly open that door, you can let them all in. That's how they get in. That's how they, it's, they have to have the legalities. And there's a lot of them. What we don't realize is that the other side creates a lot of those doorways when they summon demons and send them. And they do stuff. We'll talk about that also.

So, we command the demon out. This brings a complete freedom to the girl. We, we said, "We got to follow up and go to your house." I'm telling you the truth when we had three garbage bags full of occult literature, occult objects, demonized objects, amulets, all the different kind of things that her admission of going to a wicked store in the back doing bonding spells and all kinds of other stuff, let alone the drugs she was into. She opened wide the gates. So, she had demons. And there's no other way to get rid of them, by the way. Demons can play games masquerading through, you know, new age stuff or whatever else. But every demon knows the power and authority of who Jesus of Nazareth is. All of them.

In the world we live in, point three at the top of your page nine, the truth issue. Hallelujah. "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." The scripture is called the word of truth. The Spirit of God is called the Spirit of truth, whom we've been given to be with us forever, Jesus said. So, we have the Spirit of truth, the word of truth, and obviously God in human flesh, Christ, truth. We're to put on the armor. Begins with what? Truth. Even we're engaging one another, we're to speak the truth in love. We're to live in that. Part of your armor is truth. Because the other side is absolutely opposite. They can't speak truth. They can't give truth. They won't do it. They can't do it because they're fixed in their fallen nature and by their own will, their choice to be there. No demon has ever repented. No demon's going to cry and say, "I wish I can go back and be what I used to be." No fallen angel has ever done that anywhere. And they're not going to. We have to understand the, the absolute radical, radical evil of that side. As they're operative in the world, as they have an agenda not for just an individual person. Not just for your child. Not just for, you know, your, your city, but you got to understand the globe. This, this involves spiritual warfare in the military sense. In the political realms, the Antichrist cannot come and come out into power down the road here without the political and military connection or the financial. I've always said the Antichrist has to have a big checkbook to have a global system that Daniel talks about being the most terrible, threatening, thundering, destructive, powerful, nothing's going to stop it as it comes out. In Revelation 13, anabano, when it does come out, it says the dragon gives it its power, dunamis. Thank God, as believers, we have dunamis from on high. "You shall be clothed with power from on high."

Well, they've got you. Do you understand biblical reality? See, this is where Western Christianity with all of its scientific empiricism and, and, and so forth, it's Western rationalism needs to be absolutely cut and dry, you know, dumped. All of its deism, existentialism saves no one. Nihilism depresses everybody. Hedonism makes everybody puke and die. So, what system are we living by? Times? And the truth is, we, we do. We, there's that thing again, presuppositional analyzing what a person believes. In occult crimes, in, in forensics, and, and I'm going to say this clearly, the feds don't know. You know, law enforcement and criminalistics, they don't know when it comes to demonically empowered crimes. Jeffrey Dahmer was a multiple with subpersonalities. I saw the pictures at Def Tech SWAT team training in Geneva. The pictures of his apartment in Wisconsin, an altar built out of human thigh bones, a triangle of skulls. What do they know about that? Was it just a symbol of thing for him? No, it's, it's called a power cone, in which you create this triangle shape in your conjuring of spirits. You conjure to bring it right into the center to contain the demon for the sake of a sighting it and sending it. They understand spiritual warfare very well. Even voodoo priests and bokors and others know how to summon and hexes and spells and whatever. And when we think today that there are tens of millions of practitioners now as compared to maybe thousands, you know, 30 years ago, 40 years ago. And the numbers are growing.

So, the doorways to that side, we got here on the, on the screen, Satanist youth who called us into Cleveland. Some of these stories I've told on the air, I don't want to go over all of them again, but a young kid getting into satanic, getting into Satanism through Anton LaVey, the Satanic Bible. And even though they try to tell you they don't believe in a real Satan, then why do they have real rituals? Enochian chants, death rituals, sex rituals, and the rest. So, he's doing all kinds of rituals. We pick him up. He sits in the back seat and he's bragging and boasting he's going to be the next black pope. He's going to take over Anton LaVey. He's going to do all these kind of things in the world, you know, money and he knows powers and he's already taken over other covens. Finally, I just had to interrupt him. I yelled out his name and I said, "Why in the world, Mr. Big Powerful Satanist Priest, would you have us come clear up here to Cleveland to deal with you, uh, when you have all this power and all this stuff?" And Lenny's countenance completely changed. He looked completely dejected, depressed, and said, "Because I have no joy." I don't know of any demons that give anybody joy. We could have joy like a river. The joy of the Lord is our strength. There's a great, great difference in what that side really gives and what, what, what God gives us in Christ. And he could see it.

So, we, him to the church he wanted to go to, but he wouldn't go inside 'cause of territory. So, we were sitting in the grass and we're preaching the gospel, preaching the gospel. Finally, I looked at him and said, "Do you want to let Jesus Christ come into your life and rid you of all this and bring his presence and power into your life?" Finally, Lenny goes, "Yes!" And I said, "Okay, now call out." I said, "Just, if this is your heart, I want you to call out." As soon as I said Jesus, he started to say, he got J out and the demons inside seized him and threw him to the ground. He was choking, his face went red, he could not breathe. Two or three of us there, within, within less than 30 seconds, we, the demons were expelled out and off of him. As soon as they went off of him and out of him and like tearing, ripping out of him, he, he finished the statement Jesus and he finished the prayer and he repented totally and he turned to Jesus and he asked Jesus to come into his life and he utterly repented. And we, we prayed over him afterwards, we took him out to eat afterwards, we followed up on him. And I told the guys one day sitting there looking over at Lenny sitting at the table. I said, "Look at him." And they all looked over. The most brilliant, beautiful smile, the most incredible set free individual, saved, delivered by Jesus. And but once, you know, under the grip.

If you're lost, you know how Paul explained before the king that his mission is to get them out of darkness into light, from the power of Satan to God in Christ. Every lost person, whether they want to realize it or not, is under Satan's ownership and power. Ephesians chapter two, the prince, the archon, the ruler of the power, the domain of the air, eros, the immediate dense atmosphere above our heads. He's the spirit now at work, erga, supernaturally operative in the lost. And that's the entity that is mounting the global agenda that in my research opinion expanded it massively 80 years ago. To the point of the final frog in the kettle approach, but 40 years ago, the exponential levels of demons. If we would have known scripture well enough as pastors and leaders and believers for decades, we would be telling this is what's coming. This is what's going to be happening.

Now, you remember Jesus in Matthew 24. When he warned, when they ask him, "What's, what's the end of the age going to be like in your coming?" What's the first thing he said? Praise God. Thank you for that. 'Cause we can get to the nations against nations and we see all of, say, saber rattling and all the rest of it. We can get to the earth changes obviously because of the toxicity of the dark side, really physics-wise bringing, and then the, the earth under bondage, Romans 8, and the decay. So, you have all that going to be happening, expe-, I mean, just massively. And then Jesus says, you know, all of this is just called the odin, the times of sorrows. Then he goes on to talk about how it'll be unprecedented. Never, never in history before, never again in history in the future will what's going to happen, what's going to, what's going to happen. It never happened before and after this, it will never happen again. But what's to come? Unprecedented. Off the books. You can't even look at biblical history in the Old Testament other than seeing foundations laid to what's to happen shortly that will initiate the last seven years of the human race. Praise God for that. The reason we say praise God for that is this, the way the human race is supposed to go. Virginia, 11 dead shooter tonight, right? Did you hear about that already? Today, just a couple hours ago, shooter, another shooter, 11 dead, and now checking into why and all the rest of it. Might be domestic, I don't know. In Vegas, if I could convince, and I've spoken to feds with this on other cases that we dealt with, satanic cases, in their criminalistics, how do you explain that it's a demon or a programmed subpart that did the crime or is motivated for the crime and or killed on ritual dates and did the slaughtering? How do you understand 110 stab wounds, none of which kills a person, but brings a lot of bloodletting along with sexual perversion that occurs and, and, and taking this Tara in a 13-year-old on for the next 2 hours until you finally kill her? What's the motivation? What's the MO behind that? From the Satanists that did it, from the, from the SRA that did this, it was a ritual that involves the worst of the worst of bloodletting while they're alive to cause the, the energies of terror and fear and all the sexual, all that was done is what drew the demons there. As the demons came into this kind of feast, um, and this bloodletting and this blood sacrifice of little Sarah, and then a month later of, of Cathy Mendez, it's on a fed billboard that we have on our site, it's all about doing that to bring the demons there, and then when you finally kill the person, the demons summoned and brought into the blood ritual then are going to be acquired by the practitioners. Five reasons why? To gain greater powers, transfer powers into the others, summon powers and send them against Christians and pastors and churches. Their enemies and so forth. One of the reasons is to release them into the air over cities to darken the skies spiritually. I estimate 500 million of these kind of rituals, bloodletting rituals on a global scale in the last 30 to 40 years. I'd be glad to be challenged on the numbers and why I have those stats, but we can do that later. How do you do this in criminalistics? How do you do this in motivation to crime? How do you do this with MS-13 in Long Island? In the slaughter of girls and the slaughter of other, right here in Long Island, right? MS-13, MS-13 all over. MS-13 worshipping the saint of death, worshipping demon gods and goddesses, having altars. And if you, if you cross them on that, they'll take and flay you and machete you to death. All over the place here in Long Island. Because they got it from down South, South America. They got all of this down there. They brought it all up here. They're carrying it with them. You're going to see the bony lady on, on front porches at places, in, in stores. Then you can go to the little, little 7-Eleven and buy a little, little trinket, little trinket picture or little, little objects to give to your children. Of a demon goddess of the Aztecs who requires human sacrifice and torture and sexual rituals. We have more doorways that have been opened the last 30 years and I don't know, you know, than anything we've ever known. And when we show you some biblical prophecy, you know, some point you that direction, it told us this in advance. We should not be clueless.

Could you mark down chapters 1 and 2 in Daniel right there in this, this section? Daniel's taken to Babylon. 56 temples, they got all kinds of demon gods and demon worship and demon stuff and the whole place is covered and the king worships the demon god Nebo and human sacrifice and they subjugated the articles of God into the temple and that whole story, remember the handwriting on the wall when God, you know, engages. God has one individual primarily, Daniel, who reserved himself. He wouldn't be assimilated by clothes. He wouldn't be assimilated by name. He wouldn't be assimilated by food. He wouldn't be assimilated any way they wanted to assimilate him into the culture of Babylon. But he was, he reserved himself for God of heaven only. He became the doorway by God operative in the world. He sent one of those, one of those kings out in the fields to act like a cow for a while, right? Donkey or whatever it was, eating grass. God did something to show his presence and power. So, we read in the first two chapters about Daniel and his guys. When the king examined them, they were 10 times better than the sorcerers, the Chaldeans, and all the other magicians and astrologers and so forth. I think Christians should be 10 times better and knowledgeable and strong and powerful. This kind of biblical content of spiritual warfare and prophecy makes you as bold as a lion. Gives you the content. Gives the Spirit of God the firepower to bring to your mind in the context of evangelism, in the context of apologetics, the context of being on the street, preaching, whether it's street preaching or or door-to-door preaching or in biker bars and sharing Christ. Didn't make any difference. We're in a biker bar that of the North Coasters which is connected to Hells Angels in Akron. We're sharing the gospel with bouncers and others and dancers. Dancer gets saved. The lead singer of Sinister X gets saved. They come to the church. They get married. It's a whole big story of their lives. But one of the big bouncers there, it was an avid reader of atheism and all. He's an intellectual. So, I want you to be concerned about. I want, I want you to say, you with one life that you have, will you say, you know what? There's so many things that are no, no, then there's nothing to, there's no use for some things in life. With the one life I have before God, with the time that we have remaining in this, with the battle that's going to rage whether you do anything or not. If you ignore all of it, none of it goes away. Dark side would love the church to be suppressed and crippled and subnormal and do and do not know what they're doing on their side as they're incrementally building the underground and it's all leaking into the public upper ground and we're seeing as below now, it is so is coming above. And scripture's way ahead of that. God runs circles around them all the time. God gives massive insight into their projects and what they're doing and the sequence [snorts] of that in the political, the military, the economic, and the technological.

The Satanist youth, God delivered the girl that was crazy, little five-year-old told about, um, the mother and father took her away and wouldn't let her come back for any follow-up. We don't know what occurred. Fort Bragg, psi warrior, goat lab, Fort, Fort Bragg, goat lab, Colonel Shannon Stubblebine, John Alexander, Lynn Buchanan, Monroe McMoneagle, Stargate. I've had a number of discussions with David Morehouse from Stargate. Remote viewer. Remote viewing is a, is a sanitized version of astral laying out, astral projection. They need the energies. What is the energy? Where do they get the energy? The Fort Bragg individual, when they came to me and said, um, well, the night before I'm in my house, I feel something in my house. This happens, you know, it's happened quite a bit because we've gone off to dig up bones, go to ritual sites, engage the underground. They don't believe anybody's going to come after them. Josiah was sent to go after them. You ever read Kings and Josiah going after them? You ever read, um, Ezekiel 8 and God himself, uh, willing that he be guided and directed and give him a hole that he has to dig through to get to the door to go inside where greater abominations were going on there in, in Jerusalem than even among the pagan nations around. The ancient demons and ancient gods. So, if you want to see a picture of old Luciferianism, look at Ezekiel chapter 8. It's right there in the Bible. And God willed to expose it because he was going to bring judgment to it because of what occurred, what, what they were doing down there. They're either, they're either down underground all over the place or in the high, they're in the high places, the groves. Like Bohemian Grove. Where world-class presidents, prime ministers, military generals, media moguls, billionaires, the kings of the earth are all brought to Bohemian Grove in California. What happens in California there where you see the owl? I mentioned it already, but I'm going to tell you that if you mark down Revelation chapter 16, Armageddon, which is will be the final battle of the human race. Final battle of everything. But, every single movie put out about Armageddon is wrong. Every military person I've ever talked to on the subject, absolutely wrong. The biblical intel, this is the intel that is infallible. It will occur just exactly the way it said. The Bible told exactly where Jesus would be born. The Bible told exactly how he would be born. The Bible told exactly who would be the forerunner. The Bible predicted Judas and predicted 30 pieces of silver, uh, his betrayal of, of the Messiah. We have massive detailed prophetic insight of how things occurred and how things are going to be occurring. And that's vital for us. It can save. It can be used evangelistically. It can be used in all the preparations of the end. It spurs me on to say, everyone must become a soul winner. Everyone must become powerful in Christ. Every believer should become the workmanship of God designed in Christ Jesus to do the works, power in prayer, soul winning, and healing, and deliverance. And God will bring with that sign and wonder and power. If you go out and make up your own mission, don't ask God to come with you. You're not Lord, he is. We're called to come under his Lordship and his instruction in the Great Commission. And with that, I am with you always to the end of the age. Last year, last month, last week, last day, last breath. Inseparably here. He's never left me in 40-some years. It's vital that we understand the hour that we live in. Unprecedented spiritual warfare. More demonic presence than any time in collective human history. And if you want to just look at Revelation 18, which is a picture of the future global Babylon. Global Babylon, spiritual Babylon on a global scale. How's it begin? It's become a haunt for all the demons. You get a picture of demons manifest and present on the, on a global scale as never before in history. So, biblical prophecy gives us the insight. It did this years ago. See, I believe we're, you know, Jesus 24, you know, 2,000 years ago told us that we'd be in the OD, the times of sorrow. I believe we're in the times of sorrow right now. And that's only a precursor to the worst of the worst of the worst of the worst. Now, based on biblical prophecy, not even again the research and looking everything else, almost every prophecy teacher I know, and I've been to all these, all over the United States with all kinds of guys and prophecy watchers and prophecy in the news and all, all, all the folks. There's not one that I believe that believes we're going to be here more than 20 years. Less than 10 years, many. It's going to happen in one generation. The end of history means the end of rape and pedophiles, files and, and cancers and diseases, the end of death. Jesus, the death of death and the death of Christ. You know, the resurrection of Christ blast apart the finality of death. So, we sit here with the presence of the future in you. Ephesians chapter 1, the Spirit of God has been deposited in you, guaranteeing what is to come. The very presence you feel is the guarantee of the future. Indestructible immortality, seeing God face to face, God reaching his hand out to wipe away the finality that the tears of the, of the old order. We're living in the old order, but we have a taste of the coming order, a taste of the powers of the coming age. We have something that shows us that future. It's always an answer to all your problems. Don't matter what they are in this room. They, there's nothing they have. There's no technologies they got. There's nothing that they have that outwits the physics of immeasurable God. Omniscience is not in the hands of fallen man or finite demons. Omnipresence is not in the hands of fallen spirits, though they be powerful. Absolute reality, you shall know the truth in the word, in the Spirit of God, in Christ. And that truth sets us free. The Greek word "aletheia". How do you look at the world? So, when I look at the biblical insight that we get, I see reality. This is the real world. I don't worry about Dawkins out of England in his book, The God Delusion, and the angry atheists, the few of them that there are. The angry atheists. The atheists, they can yell and fight and argue and scream at religion and God, but ask one of them, "Where did we come from?" "Well, I don't know." "Where are we here?" "I don't know." "What do we do when we die?" "I don't know." "What's it all about?" "I don't know." "Well, you're supposed to be an intellectual there, Mr. Dawkins." You're not. You don't know.

Jesus came to expose, expel, destroy the work of Satan and demons. The five A's. This is on page nine on down. Again, all of the audios very specifically are already there. When you go home or when you're on your way home, you can start going through and re-go over and get a, you're getting a kind of an overview this today and tomorrow, but you'll get 25 hours. There's another 100 hours of spiritual warfare MP3s that all support everything you're seeing here. We'll give you more and more and more. Five A's. This should be normal for the body of Christ. Number one, awareness. Agnóeo is is an incredible word. Look what Paul says, "In order that Satan might not outwit us." Word means, outwit means to take advantage of us. Um, to run circles around us. I really believe that in Christ, you know, we, and, and, and Dave said it earlier, too. Greater is he, you notice in 1 John 4, greater, megas, huge like a massive mountain is he who's in us than the pebble of the demonic that is in the world. Do you understand who you are? Do you understand what, who's inside you? Talk about a spirit guide, God the Holy Spirit guides you. God the Holy Spirit illuminates the word. God the Holy Spirit speaks to you. God the Holy Spirit unveils Jesus to you. God, God the Holy Spirit knows the deep things of God. Amen? And you have all that in you. Now, when we say this awareness, for we are not unaware, ignorant of Satan's schemes. It's the idea that his, of his strategies. He's tactical. They're not just a bunch of demons running around poking people, you know, just wild and crazy or whatever else. They are, they are superhuman, ancient, intelligent beings defected by insurrection and rebellion against God, changed in their nature by will and fixed eternally. But they are insatiable in their hatred of God and the desire to rid the, the existence of God and take the place. How can a finite being take the place of the infinite being? How could, how could a finite being who didn't create the fabric of the universe take over and sustain existence? Ezekiel 28, pride. The pride that was there in a, in a, in a supernatural, superhuman being. And now that being is on the planet, has been on the planet for now millennium. Same one in the garden is the same one we read about in, or in 2 Corinthians 11. Paul is concerned for the believers that somehow, just like Eve was seduced and tricked by the trickery, the cunning of the, of, of Satan. He's worried about them being tricked by the same presence. Peter says later after he learns, remember the, remember in the Lord's supper? "Simon, Simon, Satan," in the Greek, "Satan has asked to sift all of you guys." It's plural. But I have prayed for all of you guys, plural, that your faith will not fail. And when you return, 'cause he knew it was going to happen, "go feed my sheep. Go feed my lambs." Did they know? So, here's the last supper. They're with God in human flesh, Emmanuel. Jesus sitting there, uninterrupted, no stress, not even warm or sweating like me at all. Jesus sitting there, guess who enters the room? Jesus says to them, "Satan has just now asked to sift all of you, to tear up all of you." Did they feel it? Did they sense it? They weren't, they did not have the Spirit of God inside yet. We haven't seen Pentecost yet. There's a lot of things they didn't have yet. That's the same room we read about in John's gospel, where Satan, here's Judas, Satan enters Judas, and Judas gets up and goes out and betrays the Son of God for 30 pieces of silver. Even the betrayal was a supernatural event, a spiritual warfare event. There is no betrayal of Jesus without, without Satan entering into Judas. And, and walking up. Did Judas explain how it occurred? Did his head go around and, and did he spit out green pea soup? The Exorcist movie was interesting to watch, but not quite true. At least not in all cases. I haven't been, I have been spit up on and puked on until I realized my, my authority. I can say, "You will not throw up." >> [laughter] >> And I know there's a lot out there, you know, passing out buckets and saying, "Puke and puke and puke to get the spirit out." Don't do something so, that negates the authority of Christ. The bucket doesn't have any authority. Puking doesn't get a demon out. Don't make people make you cough for an hour to get a demon out. Jesus never did. No apostle did. No second generation Christian did. By authority, they ordered the demon and commanded the demon, ekballo, just commanding them to get out, to leave. Now, if a person falls or the demons scream on the way out, which happens a lot, or if they do, if they do get sick because of whatever the connection of the demon had inside them, that's one thing. But don't throw salt on people. Don't throw water on people and say it's holy water. Don't hit, take crosses and like you're going to burn it on their forehead. Don't, don't, don't video tape that and exploit that. I, I cannot tell you how sickening that is for the victim specifically. And how unreal that is and unbiblical. You know, it takes away from Jesus saying, "I have given you," it's perfect, "I have given you authority." And that authority is to tread, trample, crush, bring destruction to the dark side, to overcome Nike with decisive victory, overcome all the power of the enemy, and nothing will harm you. When you can take that and appropriate that in all of its fullness, you will walk out of here as a, as a praise warrior, as a lover of Jesus, as a prayer warrior, as a soul winner, and as somebody who won't back down from any demon anywhere. You'll be ready. Everyone in here, whether you even realize it or not, only a third of you raised your hand. I don't have any more authority than you do. Even though we've done it hundreds of times over the years, I don't even know, I don't try to count. I don't do all, I don't do, I know, I know, I know, I know there's people that count. I don't, I just don't do, I just, I've never been into that. Just do it and do it and do it and do it and do it. Lead people to Jesus, minister, and so forth. And I want you to know that more than anything else, I just want to be a soul winner. I'd like to be a soul winner, ride a motorcycle, be a grandpa, and love my wife. So, if you remember me, that's what I am. That I care about your life. And that it's time that we understand it's okay to give your life for the King of Heaven. You're going to go out of here anyway. Do you think for a moment, Dave, I want to die, you know, 90 years old in a hospital? >> No. >> King Josiah, when I first read about how he went out to battle all the occultists in that day, then he died after years and years of victories and all that he did, he died on the field of battle. At first, I was bugged. But then I got a little nudge from the Spirit of God, how then would you like to die? Obscure, quiet over here, or in the fray of battle for the, for, for others? You only have one singular life. When Jesus said, "Take up the cross, deny yourself, and follow me." He wasn't kidding around. It's not a suggestion. Or you can't be a disciple. Your allegiance is greater than the United States. Your allegiance is greater than the flag. Your allegiance is greater than political parties. Your allegiance to the King of Heaven is greater than your military. It's greater than anything you have. It's greater than your family. But it's also that allegiance that makes you the most powerful lover and, and, and helper and, and family member and, and, and, and citizen and all the rest of that. Who is God? Who's Lord of your life? Awareness of all the scripture says. In Job's case, Satan comes and attacks him like a crazy devil, right? It's crazy devil. Did Job know anything about it? Not until after it's all over. Probably the oldest book out of all the books and so forth, but here we have this incredible picture where Job only knows Elohim, God. He only knows so much about God. And so he goes through all of this battle and all of his buddies and everybody only needs to tell him, "Well, it's probably sin, hidden sin." You, it was cause and effect. They had no idea of the supernatural side that afflicted his body and brought disease, afflicted the things around him, used a whirlwind and brought it to bring down his, his properties and houses. Satan has a lot of ability to do things. Obviously, he had to ask in that matter. Some people get bogged with the book of Job and say, "Look, God just, and Satan just played games with Job." That's not what Job says. "I heard of you by the hearing of the ears, but now my eyes have seen you and I repent in dust and ashes." I got three times as much back, but even better than that, the second half of Job's life is better than the first. God knows how to restore the years the locusts have eaten. Awareness of all of this, who should be at the cutting edge of knowing who the enemy is? Who brought down the human race? Who brought down 1/3 of the angels? Who bring the entire world down to billions slaughtered and dying, the earth on fire, Armageddon gathering around for one reason, Revelation 19:19, the beast, the other Christ on the field, largest military system in human history, all spiritual warfare. They gather their weapons and they aim them into the sky. They didn't come to fight each other. They aim their, their weapons into the sky. Who they come to fight? To make war on the rider of the white horse, Revelation 19, four hallelujahs, the doorway is open, the descent of the king. How many here are believers in Jesus? You have the Spirit of God in you. You're in, you're in verses 11, 12, 13, 14. You're, you're in prophecy. Whatever your timing of the rapture issue, and you don't have to call it that, call it the harpazo, it's better. You're being caught up and glorified. It's obvious it's done before that moment in time in the history that we read about. We're reading future history in Revelation 19. The, the door, or the door is open, the descent of the king, and behind the king are, I don't know how many, how many hundreds, billions of angels, and then there's the redeemed. Now comes the race of immortals. There was the Adamic nature, the fallen nature, being born again, halfway there in a sense. And then the glorification. The new immortals. You realize who you are? Co-reigning and ruling with Christ. The new race. Coach is going to be up there racing. He's going to be coaching the angels in a, in super baseball game, football games. He's going to, "Come on, angels, let's hit it together, all right." Right? Awareness. In that chapter is when John on the Isle of Patmos, probably around, I don't know, late 80s or whatever. Exiled, he has this massive picture. He's in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and God takes him up to show him.

All that's going to be occurring. He gives future history, but future history in prophecy, though it's actual and factual and will occur that way, you must remember that tomorrow has not yet been lived. I don't believe in time travel, and people can argue with me all day on that if you want.

The past is the past, it's over. You can learn from it. God can even reach into your past to heal issues that you have thought was long gone. We'll see that tomorrow in a freedom encounter. The future, the future, when we talk about that, only the immortal, infinite, omniscient, omnipresent God can do that, and she sees that and shows that. And definitely give you out of all the contingencies, out of all the possibilities, actuality. That's why the spirit of God bears witness with you of you seeing the face of God. Him wiping away the tears, no more pain, no more dying, no more of any of this. Awareness of what we have in the celebration of that and to preach that and to share that with everybody. That's my number one motivation to tell you the truth.

The motivation is to talk about Jesus of Nazareth, you know, the the the that that cross, you know, that old rugged cross, really? This place where God brought his physics in Christ, in human flesh, logos, becomes human flesh. Dwells for a while among us. No one else said it on the cross but Jesus. "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." The forgiveness is astounding, isn't it?

Awareness of reality. You you have a job to be aware. You have a job to to know. When Paul says, "We are we are not ignorant of the schemes of the enemy." That pastors and leaders in church is a good thing. The word actually has the construct to say this, "We're not choosing We're not choosing um to be dissociative about the devil and his schemes. If you choose to ignore the devil, I guarantee defeat for you. If you choose not to preach and teach the scriptures as a whole into your church about who he is, what their methods, everything else, then also our authority and all the things, if you do not give that to all the body of Christ, I can guarantee you um you have believers in underwear and not in uniform. Alert. Gregoreo, I I this word because in in Colossians 4, we're told by the spirit of God, "Be praying, BE DEVOTED. PRAY, PRAY, PRAYERS, RIGHT?" And then, being watchful with Thanksgiving.

Now, I could start off today to tell you that I I got saved in 1975 out of deep occultism, acid head, fighting in bars, beat up most of the time cuz I didn't know, I didn't care, and in all the rest of the life that I was living in a hunky uh family that nobody knew Jesus. We screamed and cussed each other out and even in even in Croatian. >> [snorts] >> Coming through all of that, I tried to become a Buddhist and join Buddhism and and and and and LSD. So, I can travel out of my body and get to the ascended masters that that the master of the temple told me I can go talk to the masters. So, we were trying that one night, my friend and I and the and and we kept looking at each other and hearing these voices that told us to kill yourself, take your body so you can be free of these limited bodies, you can come out into the great universal, and you can be like we are, know everything, you can be as gods.

So, in 1975, I stood there with my friend Terry, a rugby player, national rugby player. We had knives. We doing a countdown in the in the kitchen of my apartment. And as we are counting down, we got down to three, all of a sudden I'm looking at him, his face completely altered, and something came through that looked like a sphinx. A face looked at me. I dropped the knife and ran and went downstairs. Woke up the next day, the next week, how stupid is an unsaved person going to be, right? We're going to do it all over again, but we're going to get more people to do it. What we didn't know, two weeks prior to that, the drug maker, listening to Oliver B. Greene, an old dead Baptist preacher preaching salvation. You know who that is? He was on the radio in his basement making drugs for everybody. The The station changed. He heard the old gravelly preacher preach salvation or you know, and he gets saved. POWERFULLY SAUL OF TARSUS TYPE SAVED.

SO, I HAVE EVERYBODY crammed into our apartment in 1975 and we're all doing all the drugs and pot and potheads and all the all golden earring Radar Love was playing at that moment. Someone opened the door and screamed, "Steve is here!" Everybody's looked up because we all heard he turned into a Jesus freak. And the door opened and I standing there with a joint and drinking and music's playing and there's people everywhere thinking you're having a good party. And I see Steve step up and begin to walk into the house. I never saw such a sight. I saw people begin to throw their joints down, give beers to other people, get up. Three guys went running for the bathroom. I went after them till get it. They went in and locked themselves away. Because the first person Steve saw was said, "Jesus loves you." and he started pouring out the gospel, "You're going to go to hell. I don't want you to go to hell. Jesus wants to save you right now." He just started pouring out the gospel to that one, then to that one, then to that one. He's clearing the whole room. Like cockroaches, we went everywhere. I'm hiding in one part of the the kitchen and I'm saying to myself, "Haha, he's got Frank. Yeah, preach to Frank." Then all of a sudden I hear him getting closer. I run out the back screen door and I'm in the dark on the on the deck. As a as a 19-year-old pagan humky um Buddhist acid head, whatever I was. The screen door swung open. And the only thing I knew about religion Charlton Heston and Moses. And when Steve walked out on the deck, inside I I yelled, "It's like Moses!" And he unleashed the gospel on me. I couldn't look him in the face. The brilliance of the beauty of the spirit of God, the presence of God. It's like God was all over him. So when I looked into Steve and I I I looked down and I was undone. I jumped over the rail, got into my $35 car that I Impala that I that I started by touching the wires. And I drove home and left everybody there.

I didn't know the spirit of God would convict you of sin, righteousness, and judgment if you would at least hear the gospel. That it's the power of God and the salvation. Can't get saved without it. So in the middle of the night, I'm fighting and fighting. I even punched myself in the head one time and said, "God, get out of my head." It was a spiritual battle. Satan comes to take away the word so you can't get saved. That word is his job. His word is about He He He's all about coming to take IT AWAY. HE'S FIGHTING THAT PEOPLE don't get saved. GOD'S FIGHTING THAT PEOPLE DO GET SAVED. He's summoning. It's not about try Jesus. You repent or you go to hell, period. That's the bottom line. You're already lost. It's your sin. You did this. Look at the human race. We did this. We opened the doors to the hounds of hell. God warned us. But a savior has come, a hero of humanity that no one should be embarrassed to talk about. Brilliance.

That night I rolled out of my bed after hours of struggle. Out of hours I didn't know what I didn't know the spirit of God would convict you of sin of all of them. So I'm laying there like, "Everything." So I just bowed down. I Here you got this 19-year-old kid, this you know, and I just cried out. I wasn't raised in church. Jesus Christ, I heard everything tonight and I heard that you're God. I I that you're say that you're the savior, that you'll come into my life, that you'll forgive me. Lord Jesus, I I just was crying out. I repent. I was probably prayed the prayer three times, I don't know. I repent. I turn to you. Come to my life. And he said you'll give me your power. So, I had kind of a Cornelius experience. The next day I went I didn't know where to buy a Bible. I went to Kmart. It wasn't a blue light special, but I went to Kmart. And I bought my first Bible, which I have to this day, 40 years later. It's the first Bible I ever preached out of. I didn't know where to read. I'm reading little I'm I'm like happy as can be, clean as can be. Nobody had to tell me get rid of all the satanic stuff, get rid of all the satanic you know, albums, get rid of everything. Rip down everything in your in your home apartment. Get rid of I took it I burned it all. My friends came by I was burning everything. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars. Why didn't you give it to me? You know what I said? My my my immediate response, because the spirit of God's in me now, now I'm saved. I DIDN'T WANT SATAN TO HAVE YOUR LIFE. IT'S ON SATAN. THAT'S all I was. I JUST IT'S ON SATAN. One friend after another friend every day like dynamite was starting to get saved. It was astounding.

Same yesterday, today, and forever. Alert. Are you alert? Gregoreo. Are you practicing looking for the impending danger around you? Are you looking for it? Are you seeing it? So, the Christian is to practice this discernment. You have the spirit of God now animating all of your insides, all of your perception. We read in 2 Corinthians 4:4, Satan, the god of this eon age, the Greek word is eon, this time period that he has, the god of this time period that he has, has blinded the minds of unbelievers to flu all means to fog OUT TO BLOW SMOKE INTO the perception and discerning of the lost so they can't see something. What does that scripture say? So, they can't see the light of the glory of the gospel of Christ who is the image of God, the icon. He's the exact visible of the invisible. Satan don't want you to see that. He don't want anybody to see that.

At church, I practice I practice watching. In the middle of worship and prayer sometimes, I just stop and I just say, "Lord, is there anything going on here? Is Satan in the room? Does he want anything? Is anything going on?" In my own prayer time, you know, to pray about family, anything else. I just think it's a natural normal thing for me to do this. And we're going to talk about how to do this, but we're commanded to pray and intercede and pray to give Thanksgiving and praise God and so forth. I praise God for 1975 and Steve coming in and preaching the gospel to me, making me mad, ruining the party. He ruined the whole party. If you're a good soul winner, you ruin a lot of parties.

I walked into one bar. There's a big old cowboy with his cowboy hat. I honestly started witnessing the gospel to him. He gets mad and yells at me, cussed at me, "You shouldn't be in here doing this." He leaves. Big old cowboy comes back later. He's crying. "You're the preacher from down that down down the street there that street that that that street front church down there by Malone College." I said, "Yes, I am." "What are you doing in here?" And I held up my orange juice cuz he wanted to see what I was drinking. I said, "I'm in here for you. We're we're looking for you we're looking for you." Um And he's crying. He's worried. He He you know something? You ruined my night. So, let's leave here and go out and get breakfast. His mom was uh real good powerful believer. Probably the only reason we met was because the mom prayed and providentially God knew how to connect it all up.

Alert, are you aware? Do you know what's going on? Do you know what's going on in your life? If Satan was to enter this room, do you know? Do you take a few moments to discern and perceive and look around and sense? God the Holy Spirit mega greater than the demons that might be in a sorcerer next to you. We had a sorcerer or someone like that come into the meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Some of the guys that are here saw he was doing he was trying to do things to send against me during the speech and this and what we were doing there and they they began to pray and they they said what we know happens. If you've got somebody over here really operating in demonic powers and you target them in prayer, they'll probably turn around look right at you because they know where it's coming from. That's all right. Keep on doing it. A weak Christian might run or the sorcerer is going to run. Which one do you want to run? Who's going to be bold as a lion and let the wicked flee?

So alert. Next one is authority. If you know your authority, this is the ground level. In this chapter, it's a ground level when you know the authority Jesus says is in the perfect tense. I have given you authority and with the abiding result that right now and on the focal point right now that authority is in you and here's the mission. Here's what you do with it. You tread, you trample, you come against the the scorpion snakes and scorpions are the figure just figures of of the demonic realm. And then to overcome all the power of the enemy. Nike. To overcome with victory decisively all the power of the enemy and nothing will harm you.

How do I How do I How do I realize this? Appropriation like all other scriptures. In Romans 6, we're told we're dead to sin, dead to sin, dead to sin. Finally, the scripture says the spirit of God says, "Count yourself dead to sin and alive to God." Why? Because you are. Because you are. If you're born again, not only have you been forgiven, you've been set free. And you've been empowered with a power over a dynamic. The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8. So, you're not only forgiven, which is great, but you're set free from the sin nature, the code, which is great, and now a new nature, a new power is in you that gives you power over sin. And that same power and presence, the spirit of God, is the guarantee of the coming future, immortality, in which then you will never sin again. If you stumble into sin here, Roman 1 John 1:9. If If you do, what do you do? Homologos. You confess and agree with God, "Hey, this is a sin. I'm sorry." You You You You confess that to the Lord. He is faithful. He is just to forgive you and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness. But you have authority. You have authority.

In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, any demon in this room, get out of here. You're not welcome here. We command you to to get out of here. Any demonic presence in any person here hiding, we command you to come to the surface and manifest without harm in the name of Jesus. Any demonic presence in my home, any place in my house, in the name of Jesus. Any demonic presence on an object. And even though you have authority and you can deal with this, I think it's important when you go to ritual sites, I love working with teams. Just got more people, more stuff, more giftings, more everything. But I want you to understand you have authority.

When Philip went into the demonized city of Samaria, Acts chapter 8, he went by himself as a young believer, second generation believer. He carried the kingdom of God right into the city that was that had a high magus, sorcerer. The high people and the low people were captivated. You You why we know there was many people demonized in the city? Cuz when Philip went in there, a second generation believer who learned from the apostles, who learned directly from Jesus, did things He did things the way they did things, the way Jesus did things. So, now Philip is doing the same thing that Jesus said to do and to teach. He takes the gospel of the kingdom into the city and unleashes it. He starts praying for healings and people start getting healed. And then anybody he encounters on a demonic level, he deals with that. And here's what the scripture shows us as we read in Rom- in Acts chapter 8. Demons went out screaming, screeching. Because the authority and the power that strikes them is so overwhelmingly, so astoundingly overwhelming. James, they shudder at the name of Jesus. Do you understand who you are in Christ? Do you understand who you you how you stand? Do you understand that that we You know, listen, if you want to let the spirit of fear grab a hold of you, but all I know is God did not give you a spirit of fear, cowardice, but of power, of love, and a sound mind. And with and with awareness and and being alert concerning things, and knowing that you're walking around with authority, that's a good thing. Now, I want you to even more know that you walk around carrying the gospel. You're carrying the power of God into salvation. I'm carrying a message that I want TO JUST POUR OUT ON EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING. But you have authority. So, wherever you see demons, Now, we're going to deal with tomorrow. How do you clear the air from your own your own your own battles? How do you discern when it's oppression, possession, attachment, attack? We'll take a look at some of that. We'll see how far we get tonight.

The next thing is the armor of God. Listen, let me say this. How many here want to know for sure you have that authority? Read Luke chapter 10, verse 19. Here's Here's all I would tell any believer to do. You You can pray this if If to. This is how easy it is. Lord Jesus I acknowledge Luke's Gospel chapter 10 that you have given us disciples authority to tread and trample on all the dark side and to overcome all the power of the enemy and nothing will harm us. I accept that authority. I appropriate that. Accept that. Acknowledge that. Commit to use it in my own life the churches and for those I engage to expel demons to overcome all the power of the enemy and you promised nothing would harm me. Now I'll just recruit you and you're going to go with us everywhere we go. Who's going to go to the Hall of the Dead? Who's going to go to Who's going to go to the Mother Darkness Castle with us in Belgium? Or to the streets of Long Island.

Armor of God. You know why I love want to put on the armor of God? Cuz verse 10. It's in the passive. Be empowered. Be dunamis. Be empowered with the manifest power of God. Be empowered dunamis with the mighty strength of God. Meaning this that if you do what it says, you will it manifest in you would be power, might, and strength of God. Coming through you as you have the armor of God on, this power, this might, and this strength will emanate from you. Manifest from you. We receive all things by faith. You manifest it by obedience. So when I say and read this, put on the armor of God, I'm just going to spring down to truth, righteousness, preparedness, salvation, helmet of salvation, faith, shield of faith lifted up, word of God used in our lives, spirit-empowered prayer. So, when I deal with the armor of God, I go all the way to the word it talks about praying in the power of the spirit of God with all you know, with all kinds of prayers for the saints and so forth. So, all of that.

Believers who want to become strong in your relationship to Jesus will be evidence that you become strong in prayer and powerful in prayer. You'll be evidencing it. You'll be coming If you say, "Well, I'm I'm a spirit-filled believer." Prove it. Prove it because in the book of Acts, every single spirit-filled soul and person there became a soul winner. Never backed down from anybody. Went everywhere. Stephen filled with the spirit of God, Barnabas filled with the spirit of God, Peter filled with the spirit of God, Paul filled with the spirit of God. You immediately began to witness and share the gospel of Jesus. And then he grew more and more powerful. Verse 22. Being filled with the dunamis, the power of God, has a seeable evidence. You'll notice not one person in a 30-year history said, "Hey, I'm filled with the spirit of God." No, everybody said that about the ones that were cuz they were seeable, feelable, observable. Around spirit-filled people, people got saved, people got healed, people got delivered, and God did signs and wonders and sent angels who did an earthquake. He even moved Philip from one location to another location without an airplane. You know that? Could I ask you one question tonight? Is he the same today as he was yesterday? On I want I want you to hear me clearly. I renounce any false theology that says God's not working the same way today as he He done. I also want to say that we need to acknowledge that we don't get Listen, I've come out of movements. I started with the Assemblies of God and the Southern Baptist and Charismatics and Third Wavers and Quakers and and all kinds of believers. It all comes down to you, are you born again of the spirit of God? Do you know the living Christ? Are you Are you saved? Do you know Jesus Christ for sure? Cuz people write me all the time, "What church should I go to?" I DON'T KNOW. I KNOW dead Pentecostal churches and alive I know there's ALL KIND YOU GOT TO There's certain perimeters concerning a local church that should be there. Uh I'm going out of obedience to the Lord, but I'm I'm struggling where I'm going going right now. Very struggling. And they let me preach on the armor of God on Sunday morning. And and 800 people stood up and applauded because they never had they never had that. They're longing. Christians are longing to know what it is the spirit of God witnesses inside that we should be should have been. So, I'm going to tell you don't wait another day. Be clothed with power from on high today. Be filled with God with Christ today. Be yielded and committed to to grow and to learn everything today. Decide that you're going to become stronger in your relationship than ever cuz that's what God wills. Decide that you're going to become powerful in prayer, that's what God wills. Decide that you're going to become a soul winner, that you're going to pray for healing and see healings happen, that you're going to know with the authority to expel demons. You will become the most supernatural person on the planet. Don't let some pagan, some some Wiccan, some Sylvia Browne, some some necromancer think that they're spiritual. They are with demons. You stand with such power to manifest through your life.

So, how do you put on the armor of God? Appropriation and obedience. So, when I say put on truth, it's it We're commanded. If you put on truth and righteousness and readiness and so forth, each one of these If you put this on, then in you and through you will manifest power and might and strength of God and you'll be able to stand in the work when the devil comes to attack. We're dealing with attack here, not just oppression. The day of evil, the attack like Job. So our the armor of God involves that you're appropriating all truth, but you're speaking it, you're living it, you're believing it, you're walking in it. So if you have outside You ever have this outside you're washing your car you have a long hose, one of those 50 50-yard hoses, you know, it's it's it's over here the water's running through, you move around this side and the hose gets kinked. Anybody cuss trying to get it unkinked? You know, you're standing at the other side of it going like this, right? And by the third time you're doing this you're like you're almost ready to cuss. Um you could walk over and just unkink it, right? Because the kink all the flow and power was coming, but there's a kink. And so it's barely trickling through. It has to be unkinked. See, I believe when you're putting on the armor of God you're really you're really just opening wide to the rivers of living water and everything that is inside of you. So I accept truth and I'm going to live in truth. I'm going to put truth into practice. I accept the righteousness of Jesus, but I'm going to step out and live in righteousness. I'm going to accept uh the the the preparation that comes from the gospel of peace, the preparedness that I have for whatever's going to go on. Win a soul over here, pray for healing over here, deal with a demon over here, um rebuke Hillary over there. >> [cheering] >> The helmet of salvation. I am saved. Christ lives in me. Don't shut me up. DON'T ASK ME TO APOLOGIZE. He's the hero of humanity. He is Christ. He's Yeshua Christo. He is Jesus the savior. No one like him. Salvation. Christ in me. He's not going to leave me.

Then faith, lift up the shield of faith by which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the enemy. Question. What are the flaming arrows? How many know exactly what the flaming arrows are? Raise your hand. Look. Maybe 20%. If you don't know what the flaming arrows are, you haven't even got to half the battle. Here's you. We can We can do this. Maybe tomorrow I'll I'll I I told them I was going to do some some because of the time I'm look This is all correct, right? Um I want to do some interactions, but um here's you. Here's a demon over here. And then, >> [clears throat] >> you know, the demon growling demon. He wants to um He doesn't like you, so he he he sizes you up and he sends arrows or the poison dart. What are they? Involuntary thoughts or feelings. So here you are. The demon breathing on you, God's not with you. Breathing on you, don't go to Long Island. Breathing on you, you're not a good Christian. You know, breathing on you. Breathing on Now, you one of the ways you you you you you find is with lies that come come oppression. The lies always contrary to the word of God, to the character of Christ, and to the will of God. So all of a sudden if you get thoughts and feelings, they want you to think it's yours. But they come from the outside. All of a sudden, the thoughts are coming, the feelings are coming. You get up, I don't know about this mission trip, you know, I was not going to go good. I was not going to go. You know, you it can come so strong, you start crying. You start freaking out, right? Am I right? Is it true? So what do you do? The recognition that this is an enemy. You can't have the arrows without a sender. There's a sender in the room. And the sender has identified you and is sending and trying to push you and influence you. I say this in in before the Lord. This is how cowards work. That that that side. And so in this stealth way in which they want to press on you contrary just like Satan did directly to Eve in the garden. For everything they bring to you, there is a word of God that counters their their lies. So here you are. There's Christians in this room that you have You ever seen the old cowboy Indian movies and they're out there fighting whatever and the cowboys run into the saloon and they got an arrow stuck in their hip and they got an arrow in their hat. There's folks in this this room you've got arrows in your head and in in your rump. Something. And that's a lie. It's an it's an anti-truth. Whenever you allow them arrows to stay and or accept them, comes oppression. Their presence comes behind the lies and the feelings sent. When you recognize and say, "No, this is not true. I renounce this. The Lord rebuke you. Get out of here." I accept the truth. Guess what comes with truth? The Holy Spirit. So when I talk about clearing the air, when I recognize something like that coming, "No, get out of here." You resist the devil, he flees from you, too. "The Lord rebuke you. Get out of here. That is not true. Here's what the word of God says." And I hold on to this. I pray that through until the the oppression leaves and the power of God is manifest. And it can happen in 3 minutes. What some believers are going through for weeks and weeks and weeks and they think it's just depression, it's not, it's oppression.

Armor of God moves to action, right? Tonight we are we wanted to move into, if you if you will, um if we do not put everything into practice, if we don't put the word of God into practice, we're deceiving ourselves. It has no effect in our lives. So, when you take the word of God, whatever it is, and you're putting everything into practice, anything it says on every single subject in your life, don't wait on anybody. It's vital for you to know, don't have to wait. You go study. You go read. You get before the Lord. You want to be strong in the Lord? Go after him. That's what That's what he wills. That's what he loves. Come boldly before the throne of grace, that you might find what? Grace and mercy to help you in your time of need. Come boldly before that very throne. Grow. Learn of him. Every day, the inseparable nature of Christ in you, the access that you have, every day. Throne of God, NO GREATER PLACE TO BE OF at in the morning, especially in the morning, before the day's ever come, cuz you can help shape the day. One answer to prayer is an intervention in that day. It's shaping. So, I'm saying, regardless of some of the things you will not change, there's so much that can be put into life. If you go an entire day with no prayer, all kinds of things can happen. But if you rise in the morning and unleash your prayers and pray over that whole day, like Acts chapter 4, stretch out your hand, save, and heal, and deliver, and show God your power. Man, you could help shape your day. You can You can help open the door in a sense in which God is going to be working and, you know, do you believe ask and you receive, seek and you will and knock and you will the door will be opened, right? In Luke, Jesus added to this. He said, "Everyone that does has received. Everyone that does seeks finds. And everyone that does not, the door's going to be opened." How much more your heavenly Father give, right?

So, we move to action. With all we appropriate and all that we accept by faith, we step out to grow. And you'll grow like a tree, ring after ring after ring after ring of strength. You'll get stronger. Acts 9:22, Paul saved, filled with the spirit, begins to do the stuff. Verse 22, he grows and becomes more and more powerful. You'll become stronger and competent and confident and experienced in all of it. The only way to do is to get up and step out in the prayer world to listen to the to the spirit of God in the midst of your prayer time. The only time to do it is to TO APPROACH GOD. WHY DO WE LACK THIS? THE WORLD, the flesh, and the devil. The three battlefields. The world would love to suck you in and keep you busy. The old flesh wants to bring you down into some old crippling sin. It's been rendered powerless. And Satan would love to the Christian and keep us crippled. None of which all all all three of those in the book of 1 John 1 John shows victory over the world, victory over the flesh, and victory over the enemy. You ought to walk around with victory over all three. I'm not saying sometimes not a battle, but there's a lot of times it is just a celebration. A lot of times it is just God in power and love and walking in him and seeing him astounded. There's been a lot of times I've loved. I walked into a house where a pastor is wrestling a woman on the ground pouring oil over her head. She's a SRA and personalities and demons and all kinds of stuff's going on. And one biker had her leg and one biker had her arm and one biker had the leg and then she manifested demon and it growled and all three bikers ran for the door. One biker turned around and looked and said, "I didn't sign up for this." I didn't even have time to say, "If you're a believer, YOU'VE BEEN SIGNED UP." Whether you know it or not. I looked at the pastor and I'm like, "Why are you pouring oil over her head? Her hair's all greasy, it's just like soaked. Lesson two. 4 minutes and 10 seconds. I will build my church, let it ring. I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail. Now, the phrase gates of hell in the Greek means the gates of hell and what's coming out of it, what's been sent out of it. The gates of hell and what's been sent out of it. So, the church has been launched by Jesus. And the gates of hell and what's been launched out of it cannot prevail against the onslaught of this powerful incredible body of Christ. So powerful that demons tremble. Everywhere they went in the book You know why in 30 years they never prayed for revival? In 30 years they never prayed for revival. They never needed it. They lived in the power of God and they continued. I want you to know that. A cocktail waitress gets saved, born again, growing really good, gets around nominal carnal Christians. Comes into my office crying, "Pastor Russ, is it is it part of growing that you grow and you get strong in the Lord a little bit, but then you have to backslide and go back into sin?" I said, "Why do you say that?" Because all of these guys that are asking me out that are part of the church, they're all backslidden, they're all drinking. I I said, "What do you I said, "What do you think?" She says, "I got saved to get away from all that." And she goes on. She's really She's pretty pretty riled up as a girl in the Lord and she really loved being saved. I said, "No, that's abnormal, that's subnormal, that's backsliding, that's not that No. That grieves the Holy Spirit, that quenches the spirit of God. No. You can stand in the Lord, be strong in the Lord, and grow in the Lord, and keep going in the Lord. Doesn't mean you won't have battles here or here or whatever, but but go through those and win and and see God bring his victories in your life again and again and again. You and I have to be the power of us. What we should be and can become. Salvation is so big and so Do you know what salvation brings you also? Every single scripture is yours. Every single promise of God is yes, is yours. The throne is open to you. You are now engraved in his hand. God knows you by name. The spirit of adoption, whereby you cry out, "Abba, Father." You can't get deeper than that. So, it's practice. It's getting before the Lord. Be still and know that I am God. Right? It's taking the time to grow in that salvation and know the depth of salvation. Every one of us should be able to stand up. I don't care who you are. If you're saved, you should be able to get up and say, "Jesus saved me." You got testimony. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, right? So, in salvation, the power of the spirit of God dwelling in you, guiding you, leading you, directing you. The word of God in its vast expanse, the fullness and power of of of God at work in you and even around you. And I'm going to tell you again, whatever we see in the book of Acts is on the field of history right now. I I have to trust the Lord for all of that. I I'm looking forward to the day that our teams are praying that God sends an angel and lets three girls out of a cage in a in a barn, and they come running out of the field and we grab them up. And then we beat the guys up over there that are the perpetrators. Or at least put them away. I have no problem seeing them put away. I'll go visit them and preach the gospel if we can in a prison. See, the the Mennonite Amish there in Belleville and Lancaster, they don't want any of the perpetrators, any of the perverts, any of the pedophiles, they don't want any of them to go to jail. The church the gates of hell cannot stop. Is that what you're part of? What a church service could be like. On a Sunday morning, we gather in the name of Jesus and in his presence. Number one, two or three gather in my name, there am I in the midst. Number one, the presence of Jesus. Hallelujah, you ain't going to stop nothing here. Number two, embrace God in the joy of worship. Look at four, unleash the word of God. Look at seven, open wide, welcome fellowship and so forth. Six, many times there's churches that do unleash the mission. In the body of Christ today, in the subnormal Christianity today, massive things are missing. Last week I sat in a church of 800 900 people in the second service. Worship was fine. I could worship. Not to mention the spiritual warfare, nothing like that, of course, no. Um when it came to the message thing, that the whole thing they did there was okay. Zero invitation. Zero mention of the lost. Did the church stand and unleash prayers for the city and unleash prayers for the lost and let the people pray for their family members that need to be saved and pour out intercession for the lost. In Timothy chapter two, God instructs the church, "First of all, with urgency, prayers, intercessions, supplication, on and on, ALL THE WAY THROUGH. THIS is good and pleases God our savior, who wills pass on through pass, all humanity, WILLS ALL MEN TO BE SAVED and come to a knowledge of the truth." In Second Peter, not willing that anybody should perish. So, I'm in a church on a Sunday morning with not even one second of intercessory prayer was done for anybody or anything on a corporate level. I I cannot stand it any longer. Why is it that that's been shut down in churches everywhere? >> They're not churches. >> The average The average gatherings on Sundays, they can worship, they can do this. When you know a church spends more time and more effort on the announcements than on prayer, you know that it's Sardis. Dead. Missing in the church. >> [snorts] >> Acts chapter 4, they raised their voices together to God in prayer. They quoted scripture. They made massive intercession. Why are the churches not praying for the lost? The number one cause, you know, that's what God wills and wants. Why are we not standing together and and and and it's not three people on a Tuesday night, the whole the whole gathering. The church does not to pray anymore. The subnormal has become the normal and most of the Christians that want something normal can't handle the subnormal. You know what I mean? Unleashing massive Why can't we stand and let pastors and everybody lead the church in massive intercessory prayer, the spirit of prayer and supplication on us for all the lost, all the family members and all the lost, then praying for God's healing, praying for God's power, praying for the advance of the kingdom of God, praying for the whole city, praying for all the other churches. And then you stand and in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, Lord, by the authority you've given us, we stand against every power of darkness in this city and we come together to roar against that in the name of Jesus Christ. We ask you to destroy the powers of darkness. And Lord God, this whole church stands up before you and we pray against abortion, all the abortion things and we pray against this and we want to abolish that. We want to stand and pray against this and we want to stand, Lord, TO PRAY AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND WE'RE GOING TO PRAY AGAINST THAT. WE'RE GOING TO PRAY AGAINST human the the the THE PHARMACIDAL, THE DRUG TRADE. WE'RE GOING TO PRAY against that. We're going to pray against the violence that's going on. WHERE THIS WIELDING OF POWER Ephesians 3:20. Now unto him who per, you'll like this one, Dave, who per ec periasu. Now unto him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask or imagine according to his power that is at work in us. And the church is silent. Silent. Small church is silent. And doesn't want Wouldn't that Listen, if you were in a church and you went 30 minutes in worship and God is all over and then you lifted up the whole church is praying and unleashing an intercession and warfare prayer for the next 30 minutes? And you say, "Well, that you know, we can only have AN HOUR SERVICE." SHUT UP! >> [laughter] >> YOU you you you break that stupid barrier. Eat later! Live in present Listen, when the church WHEN GOD IS ALL OVER the church, nobody wants to go home anyway. Bring a granola bar or something. Then worship and worship, unleash prayer and massive prayer and pray and pray for the advance of the kingdom. Then pray against You're standing with the most powerful weapon. Prayer moves things. Prayer help bring answers that shape history. Intervene. You know what the spirit of God says in James 5? The prayers of the righteous believers powerful and effective. And you are just like Elijah. He prayed and shut He prayed and shut up the heavens for 3 years. He prayed again and opened the heavens. Do you know anybody fierce in prayer? Do you know anybody like that? A wicked queen in Scotland feared the prayers of John Knox. Your prayers can devastate. We're in a We're in a coffee shop and there's a psychic over there with his black thing over the table and doing all that he's doing and calling on spirits and necromancing and all that. We're sitting over there drinking coffee. You know what we're doing? In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray no spirit's going to come into this place. We're just praying all these things. You know what happens to the psychic walking by? He's cussing mad. You know what he said out loud? I can't get a spirit to show up. We witnessed to Matt. We showed the gospel to Matt. He rejected in the beginning. He ran out. He's a alcoholic. He needed help. We're willing to help him. Unleash the word. Open wide the gates. Invitation. Come to Christ. Come get prayed for for healing. Come if you have something going on. Let somebody pray deliver you know pray to expel anything around here. Come forward. Maybe somebody has a word of knowledge to give to you. Maybe has somebody has a scripture to give to you. Come come forward and let two or three of the prayer warriors over here or the two or three altar workers over here pray for you. How many works of Jesus we get done? And I said among 800 people last week and zero invitation was given to the people cuz he had to get out of there you know to get so you can get to the restaurant first before all the other Christians got there so you can eat for two hours and forget what you just heard. It's insane. It's insane. I know. It's went zero zero zero on me. What can one do? I'll tell you tomorrow Acts chapter 8 one individual devastated a city. But here's how it has to be. You you have to become the most powerful in your relationship to Jesus and you can. Seek the Lord. Pursue the Lord. Grow. Get up. Train yourself. Get the word in you. Grow. Memorize. Study. You know get before the Lord. Love him. Desire him. Wrap your arms around him. Everything's wide open. And you don't have to pay any money for that. This in that you'll become powerful. You you you you if you decide in Christ in the word you want to become powerful in prayer you're designed for it. You want to become powerful in soul winning you're designed for it. You want to become powerful in praying for healing and seeing other people get actually healed you're designed for that. You want to find out what your charismatic giftings are to use them in the right way to rebuke the counterfeit to shut down the fleshly use, and to use it in a good way? Praise God. That's what we need to do. Book of Acts, waiting for more. Session three we'll go over tomorrow and we'll deal with possession and all the rest of it.

Let's stand together tonight. They tell me that I'm out of time. Their heads bowed before the Lord, you pray out with me. Lord Jesus, we acknowledge you. Christ among us. We need two or three gather in your name. There you are in the midst. We love you. We praise you. We ascribe greatness to you. And power and might. All hail the power of Jesus' name. We love you tonight, Lord Jesus. In Jesus' name, we come to uh get all that we can from you, Lord Jesus. All that you planned for us. All that you've willed for us. In Jesus' name, we renounce the world, the flesh, and the devil himself. We trust in Jesus for victory over all three. Clothe us with power afresh. Fill us to overflowing tonight in Jesus. I renounce strongholds in my life in Jesus' name. I renounce fear in my life in Jesus' name. I renounce lust in Jesus' name. I renounce anger in Jesus' name. I renounce unforgiveness in Jesus' name. I renounce blaming you. And the lie of the devil I renounce. Everything I know the devil's speaking in Jesus' name I renounce. I accept the authority you've given me. And I rebuke the enemy over my life. Over my family. Get out. You have no place here. I acknowledge the blood of the lamb being cleansed and washed. I accept whatever gifting you give me to use to your glory in Jesus name. Use me this weekend. Help me win souls. Help me pray for the healing of others. In Jesus name I will expel demons to your honor and for their freedom. The person that is. And Father tonight we love you. Bless Genie and Mike. All the workers. All the speakers coming tomorrow. Thank you for Day Dave Dobbenmire. Shelly Dizdar. Sherry Claussen. Tom Don coming. For the brethren that are right next to me. Lord Jesus stretch out your hands in front of me. Bless them. Strengthen them. Heal them body, soul, and spirit. Bring a work in them that you've designed. For those behind me, Lord I pray for them. Bless them now in Jesus name. Minister to their needs. Unleash your power in Jesus name. To those on each side of me bless them now in Jesus name. Strengthen them in every way. Let them hear from you this weekend. We yield to you in the name of the Lord Jesus. In this mighty big hotel I'm prepared to be a witness. I'm prepared to be a prayer warrior. Lead me and guide me to ministry. I'm not ashamed of the gospel it is the power of God unto salvation in Jesus name everybody says I'm going to promise you tomorrow that we're going to give you much time in prayer write down questions I'm going to give you a lot of time in questions and answer I'm going to try to I'm going to try to go half the speaking time and half question and and response time after that and then up in front here to all day tomorrow you'll have Tom Dunn myself Shelley all of us Dave to pray for anybody to minister anybody also amen but you do that too okay blessings tonight be blessed