False Prophets

Seated and bless you. Hallelujah. We have, uh, been doing a series on demonology and the foreign angels. And I think they're going to pass out notes to you. Amen. Everyone bring the Bible today. Amen. Amen.

Um, I want to make mention that the Lord is faithful and the Lord is true today. And as usual, every day, the devil is a liar. Hallelujah. And, uh, I hope today you're going to learn something, not only for knowledge's sake, but I believe something that can change your life. Because Jesus didn't die on the cross so we can barely make this life and barely do this or barely do anything. Jesus resurrected from the dead and overcame life and conquered life so that we can conquer too. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen. If you don't know that, you need to, you need to find that out. And with the help of the Lord, I know that, you know, we had a, a young lady several weeks ago manifest, um, a demon, and we prayed for her and the Lord delivered her, and she's still delivered. Hallelujah. We give God the honor and the glory, and we give Him the praise because, uh, what we do right is not for our sake. What we do is for the gospel's sake. That means what we do has to be for God's honor and glory and for His kingdom's sake.

I want to make mention too that, uh, we, for several weeks now, have been under attack at different levels. So we decided to teach on the subject of calling Angels, a study in demonology. We, today, I'm doing part three. Pastor R did a real good job last week. Talked about rebellion. Yeah, that's not the first side, that's the second one up. Amen. There we are. We got a wolf right here in sheep's clothing. Hallelujah. God, Jesus said, "Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves." Matthew 7:15. And, um, unfortunately, in this life, people can look real good outside, but inside can have really bad intentions. Amen. Is the battery? Maybe the laptop? Maybe the laptop. All right, well, let's see how it goes.

Um, I want to, uh, also recognize Brother Chris Par. Brought his son, Chris Jr. God bless you. Came from my mind. Had to pick him up this morning, and I appreciate that. And that he's here, and that, uh, he's here to hear the gospel and to, uh, I'm going to see what we're doing today. And I pray the Lord's going to bless him also. Uh, Brother Alex Guero, and it looks like his friend Ricardo came back. Is that you, Ricardo? I thought we scared you away, 'cause last time we were here, we had a, a manifestation, and I know you ran out the door. So I don't know if you're tripping on this or what, but I'm glad you, you're brave enough to come back. Amen. Good for you. Good for you. Praise God. Because, uh, most people talk about it. Most people, uh, you know, I, I, I, I, I had a pastor for for many years. I was preaching and I had talked about casting out devils in spiritual warfare. He used to, he used to joke me and say, "Did you cast any devils on today?" Until there was a devil on his couch, and he had to help me. I had had to go help him over there. And then the realization that the, the devil is real. We don't play with him. We don't do dinner with him. We don't do lunch with him. We don't talk to him. We don't look for him. Amen. We don't study his material, right? We don't do astrology. We don't talk to necromancers. We don't talk to witches. We don't talk to warlocks. We don't talk to people that do palm reading. We don't do any of that because the Bible says Deuteronomy 18, that's abomination to the Lord. We don't look to the stars to give us direction for our lives because we look to Him that made the stars, right? Amen. Amen. We look to Him that created the heavens and the earth, and that is the Lord. That is true. And in His word, He gives us a roadmap and direction on how to live our lives. But also, He gives this revelation because sometimes you could be in something you don't even know it. And that's what's hard about warfare. That's what's hard about dealing with demons is that, uh, you may not even know. You just think maybe it's that person or it's a situation, but there could be a demonic attack. But that's why the Holy Spirit is in you, and you need to have the Holy Spirit, 'cause it's a spirit of truth. The Bible says the Holy Spirit will lead you into all truth and show you things to come, and He will reveal all things. That's why I love about my God. He's a God of light and not of darkness. Everything always comes to the light. Amen.

People want to play games. They want to do what they want to do. They want to try to get over. But I've been doing this, I said already, almost close, really, to, uh, 30 years. 28 years since I started Bible College. And I will tell you, all those years, I've seen people play games and play even in the house of God. But most of those people that play games, I will tell you, aren't here anymore, or they go away. You know why? 'Cause God don't play. Go ahead, brother. He'll let people, good. He'll let you play games. And people say, "Is God? People play games for a while." 'Cause the Bible says that the wicked, it seems like they spread like green grass and they're prospering. And wicked means doing wicked things, and they get over. But all of a sudden, from one day to the next, the bouses are slippery, slippery places, and they fall from one day to the next, and you don't see them no more. That's why if you find Madoff, you ain't going to find him at the townhouse. You're not going to find him at the New York best restaurant. He's in jail because he made off with everybody's money. He was living high on the hawk. But see, everything comes to the light, and everything comes to the truth. You can play all you want. Or people that try to play games and, you know, play church or play with other people's lives. But the Bible says, "Judge not, lest ye be judged." The same way you judge, you will be judged. That's why I have a no judging policy here at Miss 24. When I told you, everybody come as you are. Our model here at Miss 4 is, "Come to Jesus, not to men, not to church, not to religion. Just come to Jesus. Come as you are." And nobody has a right to judge you. The only true judge is Jesus Christ. He's the righteous judge. And when He judges us, He's going to judge us according to His mercy and His grace. That's why David said, when he got in trouble with God, and God told David, "You want me to judge you or men?" And David said, "God, I want You to judge me, because men ain't got no mercy." That's right. That's men will throw you in the, in the, in the popo. They'll throw you in the tank. They'll throw you down on the ground to get a backstab, whatever the case may be. But thank God, God is a God of mercy. Amen. That's the kind of God we serve.

What I want to do today, Hallelujah, is talk about spiritual warfare and demonology and the different ways the devil works. But today, my theme on the part three, I may do a few more parts here. I think I, I will. It says, "Beware of false prophets or false teachers who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves." Well, the simple key to that is, Jesus said, "How are you going to know the false and the true? You're going to know them by their fruit." What they produce. Amen. Amen.

Let's bow our heads. Father, we thank You right now and we praise Your Holy Name. We ask for divine illumination, God. We ask for divine direction by the Holy Spirit today. Not I, God, but let You, even the Holy Spirit, speak through me. Not my words, but the words of life. You know the hearts and the mind. You know the secret of the hearts, and You know all things. Father, for all things are for You and by You, and do they consist. And I thank You right now and I praise You because You've been faithful and You've been true to us in season, out of season. We give You all the honor and the glory. Be to Jesus. Somebody say amen. Amen. Amen.

Let's go to our first slide. Uh, the Bible says in James 2:9, "You believe there's one God. You do well. Even the demons believe and tremble." That word "tremble" in the Greek is *phrisso*, which means to shudder, to be struck with extreme fear, and to be horrified. So I want you to have some good news today while we're studying demonology. Uh, the Bible says if you believe there's one God. How many know there's only one God? Not three or four gods, not 10 gods, not 20 gods. The, the Bible says there is only one God, and that is a revelation you must take with you today, and it's something that must be imprinted in your heart and your mind. That there is only one God. You are not God. Your family is not God. Your mom and daddy are not God. Your brother and sister are not God. God is God, and His name is Jesus Christ. Amen. The Bible says, "You believe there's one God. You do well. Even the demons believe and tremble." That means they are struck with extreme fear, to be horrified. That's why, as soon as Jesus began to preach, I told you that demons said, "Oh, we know who You are. We know who You are. You're the Son of God. You're the Most High." And they were trembling. And that's why I believe they scream when they come out. I think 'cause they really afraid. That's why when you feel Jesus, you're going to feel peace. But when you feel the devil, you're going to feel fear. Amen. You're going to feel cold. But when you feel Jesus, you're going to be hot and warm. Just like some of you, your mother hugged you, you have that warm feeling. That's the kind of Jesus we serve. He gives us that warm, loving feeling. Hallelujah. Man.

So, first point, "You believe there's one God. You do well. Even the demons believe and they tremble." So realize, no matter what, the devil is more afraid of you that believe in Jesus than you are of him, right? But most people say, "Oh, the devil. Ooh, scary." I'm just turn on the light. Heavens, you feel fear. Start worshiping Jesus, and He'll show up. [Applause] That's why David said, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me." Amen.

Second point, "The truth of one God." There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling. There is one Lord, there is one faith, and one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, through you all, and in you all. But to each one of us is given, uh, uh, grace was given in important measure of Christ's gift. I want everybody to say to me, say with me, "There's one body." One body. "And one Spirit." One spirit. And notice that the word "Spirit" is capitalized, talking about the Holy Spirit. And, uh, notice it says there is, uh, "just as you were called in one hope of your call." So say with me, "One hope." One hope. "Of your calling." Of your calling. That means realizing and understanding of the revelation that Jesus Christ is one. There's also only one Holy Spirit. There's only one body of Christ, and there is one hope of your calling. So for you that are visiting here today, and you that, uh, are beginning to walk with Jesus and don't know Jesus, uh, and have a walk with Him. For many of you, realize that He has called you. And that word "called" means vocation. And it comes from the Latin, means *vocare*, that means God has called you out for a special mission on the earth. God has called you to be separate. God has called you and put a destiny in your life. God has called you with a purpose and a plan for your life. You just didn't come to Earth for no good reason. God called you into His kingdom, and God is calling you today, and you're here. Say, "God has a call on your life." God is calling you to do something for His kingdom. If you don't know what your call is, begin to ask the Lord, "Lord, what is my call? What is my ministry? What is my destiny? What is my purpose on the earth?" And as a young man, that was one of the greatest, uh, questions I had before God was, "What is my purpose and what is my calling? And why am I here? Why am I suffering?" But I had to come to the realization and the understanding that there was only one Lord, one faith, and one baptism, one God and Father, with one destiny, with one job, and one calling. And that was for me and for you. And the devil's real good at getting young people and young men these days, and young ladies, involved with so many things in this life, either with drugs, sex, and alcohol, whatever it may be. And they don't even know that they don't know that God has called them for a great purpose on the earth. God has called you with a great purpose on the earth. You, as an individual, there's only one of you. God didn't make two of you. God didn't make three of you. There's only one of you. God, He gave you this one life. You don't come back as a cattle. You don't come back as a donkey. Even though some people act like donkeys, some people may smell like donkeys, but you are not coming back as a donkey. You're not coming back as a cow or a mule or a bear or a monkey. I got a monkey's uncle. God. Hallelujah. Even though maybe I'd like to be a rhino. I like to smash things. Man, that would be good. But the Bible tells us there is only one Lord and only one faith. That means there are so many religions in this world, but there's only one true faith. You know what that is? The faith in Jesus Christ. That's right. Right. And when you decide in your heart and come to the understanding that when life doesn't make sense, when things go wrong for you, and there's no satisfaction in your life, right? And there's no direction in your life, you have to ask yourself, "What is life really about?" Come on. Come on. What is life really about? Is it about buying a new house? Is it about having a good job? Is it about having nice clothes? All those are all blessings. That is nice, but that's not what life is here. Did you only come to the earth so you can buy a house? I mean, is that the totality of it all? And you were born in the image of God, and you're going to come down, and your great desire is to have a box made out of wood? Come on. Order in the court. Teach us, pastor. Let's wake up today. Teach us. Let's figure out that you are a spirit being, right? Right. For the soul made after the image of the Most High God. And then you have a great purpose and destiny on the earth. And the greatest thing you could do is to find it, go after it, and ask God to reveal it to you. Amen. And begin to perform it, because nobody knows better than Him what you should be doing with your life. God. Maybe some of you going to be singers. Some of you will be musicians. Maybe there'll be others that are teachers. There's others that are preachers. There's others that cast out devils. There's other people that are the prophetic. There's people that have different ministries. And even in the job, I've met Christians that are professional, uh, uh, men or women, but they're Christians, and they do their work on the street. And I appreciate that. That you could go somewhere and there's Christians you don't know, but they're all over the place because God, God has people in every city you don't even know about, right? Right. Because He called them. Now, I'm going to ask you this question: Who's calling you? Check this out. Who is calling you? Come out on the telephone. Who's calling your number? Mercy. Is it the Lord? Come on. Or, or is it the devil? Uh-huh. The devil probably calls on the phone, say, "Hey, let's go rob somebody. Let's go murder somebody. Let's go do some deals. Let's go get over on demand." Don't call you, invite you. But the Bible says, "A righteous man sees trouble coming and he goes the other way." Right? Right. That's a very simple thing, but I'll tell you right now, very effective. When you see trouble coming, do you run to it or run from it? Bible says run from trouble. You see trouble coming, figure it out, honey. That may not be the best for you. Because you know why? Because what should drive your motor, what gets you out of bed in the morning, is that you are called by God. That's right. I got told to do this. I get to serve the Lord, right? It is when we come up on the streets, we had a lot of men die around us. Brother James and I, we had a lot of young die around. They have shot, they're up in jail. Some died in crashes, some died on drugs. So, you know, really, I shouldn't be here. You know why I'm here? Because of the grace of God, right? It is. I'm going to say that again. I'm not here because we're good or perfect. We're here by God's grace and mercy. You know why you're still alive? 'Cause God wants you to be alive. 'Cause God gave you breath today. God gave you the ability to pee and move and breathe and do. [Music] Hallelujah. That's why the Bible says that everything that has breath, praise the Lord. In other words, do what your breath do. Something good with it. Praise God with it. That's right. Don't use your breath to talk bad about people. Don't use your breath to put down your brother. Don't use your breath to try to, uh, uh, get over on somebody, because that's going to come out too. It just seems like in the world. Uh-huh. All over the world. Look, see this? I'm doing this to show you there's a big world. See my analogy? Are you watching? Do you see that big world? And in this big world, what is happening? This year is a lot of things are coming to the light. A lot of things are coming out. Darkness is being invaded by light. People like Mr. Weiner is being, you guys have been watching TNN, Mr. Hot Dog, Oscar Mayer is under scrutiny right now, right? Because he was texting some women some pictures he shouldn't be texting. And here's a senator in the government in Washington D.C. He has a beautiful wife, and he's over there texting some young women that aren't his wife and sending them blue pictures. Now, I'm going to tell you right now, but as a man of God, that means say, I'm going to watch all my P's and my Q's, right? And not step forward. Because you know what? Everything comes to the light. And no matter how rich or famous or how beautiful you are, you know it applies to us all. Amen. That's why we have to live in God's grace and mercy and realize we're covered by the blood of Jesus. But we also are sons of God. We have to act like something to God. That's right. Can you imagine that? What I'm saying? You got to be real. That's right. Right. Come on. And you know how you stay real? I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you a secret to stay real. This is the way I look at it. I pray God, you keep me, because I can't keep myself. That's right. God help me, 'cause I don't trust myself. That's right. I'm a man like everybody else. I'm a preacher. I'm a pastor. I've been an evangelist. Been in the prophet's office. Done this for many years. But I still have to trust in the Lord. Amen. And say, "God, keep me. Keep my babies. Keep my marriage. Keep my family. Keep my brothers. Keep us." Because He is the only one that can keep us in His hands. When you start trusting yourself, "Well, I got this. I can handle this." The Bible says, "Pride comes before a fall." Amen. Don't trust nobody. Don't trust yourself. That's right. 'Cause you start thinking about, "I can do this." Uh-huh. "I got this." I think there's a, there's a famous saying in the world, "I got this." Got it? Is it a famous? Yeah, "I got this." Yeah, really. What do you got? What do you have that can be lost? We can lose everything in one moment. One car crash, one sickness, one bad day, bad decision. One bad decision. That's right. Can deviate and take you in the direction you never want to go. So what do you do? You say, "God, I'm Yours. Save me." Amen. Amen. Somebody say that with me. "God, God, I'm Yours. I'm Yours. Save me. Save me." Because I can't save myself. I would like to tell people, when you first come to Jesus, you're so thankful. Do you remember when you first came to Jesus? You were like, "Oh, I've been baptized in the blood of Jesus. I've been made new, and I'm fresh, and I, you know, I just thank God." And you're so excited, and you ask to come to church on time, and you come dressed, and you actually come to church because you so love Jesus. Go ahead, brother. Go ahead. But then when we get busy with the things of this life and the world, we're like, "Yeah, Jesus. He's pretty cool. I like Him. He's okay. He's funny. I like Him." [Music] Sorry. That's what I'm just talking to you today. Amen. Are you ready? I didn't get on my notes here. We're going to, we're going to just go to note three. Go to First John 4, and I'm going to get into some, uh, meat of the verses regarding, uh, false teaching, false prophets, and what it has to do with demons. 1 John 4. I'm going to read a powerful verse, one that you should know. But if you don't, well, praise God, you're here. This is what we're here for. We're going to go over it. 1 John 4, starting at verse one. 1 John 4, starting at verse one and on down. And I'm going to read several verses because I want you to see this is an awesome, uh, passage when dealing with spiritual warfare, uh, demons, and dealing with, uh, false people, false spirits, and even, uh, false teachers and prophets. Amen. You have say amen.

First John 4 says, "Beloved." Everybody that the Beloved say amen. Amen. All those that are not beloved, say amen. Okay, good. Beloved means you. He's writing to the people of God. "Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they be of God, because there are many false prophets of God of the world. By this you know the spirit of God: Even every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and now it's already in the world. You are of God, little children, and overcome them because He who is in you is greater than he that is in the world." So this is why we say, "Greater is He that is in me than He that is in the world," because God is in us, and He is greater.

But I want you to go back to the first verse and look very closely. "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ came is of God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ came of the flesh is not of God." And, uh, growing up in Bible College, they taught this verse. My understanding was, was this: When dealing with demon-possessed people, you ask the demon, "Did Jesus Christ come in the flesh or not?" And if the person said no, then you know that that demon was a demon. But if the demon or whoever said yes, then you know that, uh, they're okay. But I want to tell you something to dispel an untruth here. You don't talk to devils like that, number one. And you don't ask the devil if he came in the flesh or Jesus Christ came in the flesh, because I just read to you, they knew who He was, right? And so, I'm going to give you a story here. I was in a service of revival. There was a few hundred people there. We were rocking and rolling, and in the aisles, people were praying for people. And I went, laid hands on somebody, and just like that day we were here, Ricardo, we lay hands on that girl. I didn't know she was going to react. But see, what happens is this: When a preacher has the Holy Ghost in him and he lays hands on somebody that's possessed, there's going to be a reaction. There's going to be a confrontation between the light and the darkness. So realize you got to be careful who you lay hands on. That's why we don't let new people that are just starting out of the gospel should not be laying hands, because sometimes you can lay hands on somebody, and that devil will jump on you, right? Right. You don't go lay hands on just anybody. The Bible says, "Do not lay hands on no man suddenly." Do not do that. You say, "Well, you know, I believe in Jesus. I'm going to just go pray for them." No, no, no. Don't do it. Call the pastor. Call a man of God that knows what they've been doing for many years, because what happens is, uh, you go to their hands, and then they jump on you. It goes home with you, and then they'll stay there for a while. Amen. That's true. Because here's the key: human touch is a conduit, and it's transmittable. Our hands have power in them. That's why Jesus said, "When you lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." Jesus said, "When a preacher and a believer lays hands on the sick, they shall recover," because there's power by faith. When we lay hands, our hands are anointed by God, and when we believe, we lay hands, that transmittable anointing that is in us is going to go on them, and God's going to heal them, 'cause there's a point of contact. That's why you got to be careful who you lay hands on. That's right. That's right. I've been in church. I lay hands on somebody, and, uh, or some hands, and before you know it, a devil comes out, and it jumps on somebody else. Yes, that's true. That's why when it hit a few weeks ago, I told all the children, "Get out of here," because little children are innocent, they don't know. So you have to guard yourself and start praying and know that the blood of Jesus will keep you. If you know what the blood of Jesus is. The blood of Jesus is not a toy. The blood of Jesus is not some tangible substance that we play around with or or hope it works, right? See, I put right here on the note, "False prophets do not mean demon-possessed individuals are to be given the test." Test the spirit. What does that mean? Well, the writer here in John, he's writing to false prophets about men that are teaching false doctrine. And you know what false doctrine is? Teaching that Jesus Christ is a good man, He's a nice person, He's a Son of God, but that He's not God in the flesh. That's right. So what does that mean, preacher? That means when men come and tell you Jesus is one way to heaven, but you could go the other ways, that's a false prophet. Or you can say, "Jesus is a good teacher, but you can incorporate Buddha, you can incorporate Harry Krishna, you could follow Jim Jones, you could follow David Koresh, you could follow all these other teachers and Jesus." That is a lie of the devil. There's only one faith, one Lord, one baptism, one God, one Lord, and one Savior, and His name is Jesus Christ. So you go up to a false prophet and say, "Did Jesus Christ come in the flesh?" With you're saying it, "Do you realize that Jesus Christ is the Messiah?" Because Christ in the Greek means Messiah. And what does the Messiah mean? It means He that was born to come and be born of a virgin. It was going to be God in the flesh, and He was going to save the world from its sins, and He was going to come and make a new world. Do you know when Jesus comes again, there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth? That's right. There's going to be a new heaven and a new earth because He says, "Where I am, you will be also." Behold, I go to my Father's house, and in my Father's house are many mansions. Where I am, you may be also. That leads us to believe on Jesus. We're not going to be here forever. This world's going to pass away. The Bible said, first time the earth was, uh, uh, uh, destroyed by water, but the second time by fire. Yes. Hallelujah. So when you ask the false prophet, "Did Jesus Christ come in the flesh?" What you're saying is, "Do you realize Jesus is the Messiah? He is the Creator. He is God in the flesh." And if they say no, Jesus, like the Mormons, God bless them, they say Jesus is the brother of Satan. Jesus and Satan are brothers. That's what the Mormons. And what happened was, God the Father, Allen, wanted to send Jesus down to help him, but his brother Satan got mad and came down, and came down to Earth and wanted to pervert men because he was jealous of his brother Jesus. I want to tell you right now, Jesus and the devil are not brothers. You may have a brother, he may be like a devil, but you know that's something else. You got to pray for him. That's why people say, "Well, you know, I have some bad family, man. You know, they're tore up." But I came to the, well, you know, one said, "The reason why you came first, because you probably needed to come first, and you're going to help later." Did you get that? Because you need Jesus. Amen. Casting out devils does not involve throwing of Bibles or in, uh, inanimate objects. What dealing with demon possession? Uh, let me tell you, there's a fun story. Are you ready? This pastor got called to cast out the devil, real strong, and he took about eight of his men, and they showed up, and the devil is just, this guy is yelling, screaming, usually, you know, cussing out the, the preacher, and it was really crazy. They tried to get close to the pastor. Didn't know what to do. So the pastor threw his Bible at it. [Music] So all his men looked around, they got their Bibles, and he threw them out of there too. And then they got in the cars and left. That's a true story. Oh, when I heard that, it killed me, man. He threw the Bible at the devil. See, using inanimate objects. Is that what Jesus did? The Bible says Jesus used His mouth. He used His voice and authority. He said, "Come out of him," or "Come out of her." Yes. Or He laid hands on the sick, and they recovered, or the devils came out because Jesus gave us His authority. We do the same thing, right? Amen. We have to stand in the position of Christ and speak the word of Christ, and we say, "Come out in Jesus' name," because we know who Jesus is. We're part of His body, and He gives us authority, right? We don't throw Bibles. We don't throw bottles of oil. We don't pull out the Bible and start spanking the devil. We don't get crosses and press them in their heads. And I'm sure, you know, it bothers the devil. I'm sure, you know. But see, here's the power of the cross. Are you ready for me to get this? Why does the devil hate the cross? Because Jesus shed His blood on the cross, and that blood was the blood of God. It was perfect blood. And because it was perfect blood, and it was sinless blood, it was innocent blood. And when He shed His blood, it broke the curse over us and over everyone that has sin, and it covers us. And when we talk about the cross, we're talking about the sacrifice of Jesus. And because He made that sacrifice for you, even though you didn't even know Him, He died for you. And because He made that sacrifice so you could be set free from the devil, and you could live in holiness, purity, and goodness, and meekness, and in love and grace. And we thank God for that sacrifice. So realize the power of the cross is what set us free when He shed His blood on that cross. So the blood, sometimes when I pray for people, I tell them, "In Jesus' name, come out by the blood of the Lamb," because the, the blood cleanses, and it is powerful, and it is an anointed blood. It is a, a blessed blood. But we don't worship the blood. We worship He that gave the blood. Get that? We don't worship the oil. We don't worship the Bible. I don't get down and pray to the Bible. And I'll tell you what I told people in Bible College: This is not a weapon to be thrown or to be shoved down people's throats, right? Is that used to hurt people? It's used to bring life, right? Amen. The Bible is not a weapon only against the devil, right? Amen. Or false teachers that don't accept Jesus as the Christ.

So now that we got that, I want you, I'm, I'm going to read a few more verses. Look at it. It says, "And everybody that does not confess that He has come in the flesh, and and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and now is already in the world." So John was writing 2,000 years ago. The spirit of the Antichrist is already in the world. What does that mean? That means that there will come a man saying he's Christ and unite all the kingdoms, and he will be like God on the earth. The people will worship him and take the mark of the B666. And there will come a time where the world will become one. And that's the big desire. That's what the Bible tells us. When all the nations desire peace and safety, then sudden destruction will come, and there will come an Antichrist. And that spirit has been here for 2,000 years, and it is even still working. That's why a lot of churches, uh, struggle is because it's hard to be a Christian. Amen. It's not easy. But you get everlasting life, you get deliverance, you get your family saved, and you get a lot of blessings. There are a lot of perquisites and benefits from the Lord, right? Like eternal life.

So I want you to see here that something that I want to, uh, leave with you. We're talking about spiritual warfare, we're talking about false prophets. But I want you to go down the same chapter, First John 4. Bring your Bible one more time. Look, it says in verse 5, "They are of the world, therefore they speak as the world, and the world hears them. We are of God." Somebody say, "We are of God." We are of God. "Then He goes and says, He who knows God hears us, and he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God. And everyone who was born, everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love." In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this love, not that we loved God, uh, but that He loved us and sent His Son. Be of appreciation for our sin. Beloved, if God has so loved us, we ought to love one another. Amen.

Now, here's something very powerful. I want you to realize that John connected false teaching and and and demonology and and fighting the devil and and knowing who you are with the love of God. Because when it comes out to it, if we don't have love and understand God's love for us, then we'll miss the whole boat. Amen. Because you can get so busy in the S fighting devils and fighting situations, you forget that you're supposed to enjoy your life. You, you get so caught up in this life with doing things and not doing the thing. And the main thing God called you is to be like Him and to love your neighbor like He loved us. But the problem is, we have people that think they can step on people, backstab people, lie to people, and say, "Oh, I love God, but I hate my brother. I love God, but I hate my husband. I love God, but I hate my wife. I love God, but I hate my neighbor." Well, that's not true. Because if you really love God, you will love your neighbor. You will love your wife. You will love your children. You will love your husband. You, you will love one another, and you will love everybody because the love of God is inside of you. And if you have the love of God, the devil can't overcome love. The devil can't understand love. Even though he was in the presence of love, the devil was in the presence of God. The Bible says God is love. The Bible doesn't say God is a nice guy. It doesn't say He's a good fellow. It doesn't say He's an old man. The Bible doesn't say God is, uh, this, that He's love. And love is a giving, which means He that sacrifices for somebody else. Now, God, what I'm saying, I always do this in weddings, but I'll tell you, when you love somebody, you're going to sacrifice for your wife. That's right. And your wife will sacrifice for you because you love one another. And it's not all about you. It's not about you, me. It's about the other person too. When you love somebody, you give. Love is about giving. And if you have love in your heart, the devil can't come easily and deceive you if you're in truth. But if we're fighting and backbiting and cussing people out and using the f-bomb to explain your life and what a great person you are, and you cuss and you're swearing at people, you said, "Oh, but I'm a good Christian brother." You have deceived yourself. Because love and the truth of God makes you a kind person, makes you a good person, makes you a loving person, a patient person, a peaceful person. [Music] Sure is quiet in the Presbyterian church today. Okay. Don't worry, 'cause I'm going to say happy this, but the Lord knows some of you need this on. Because love gives, and love endures. Love is not fightful. Love is not caught up with itself. Love bears all things, hopes all things, and believes all things. Love never fails. That's what the Bible says. So just realize, in the good days and bad days, love is going to win at the end of the day. Amen. Hatred is not going to win. Amen. Anger is not going to win. Amen. But truth.

Let's, uh, jump over, brother, one more. I want to talk about two main barriers to deliverance. Now, we've been talking about spiritual warfare. Now I'm going to bring it home to you, 'cause I'm, I'm going to say 10 more minutes, and we're going to cut it, okay? So I want you to get this. We've been talking about spiritual warfare, demonology, and the casting out of devils. And, uh, I think I, I skipped one of my, I, I forgot a story. We were in a revival, and this demon-possessed girl showed up. And this was in '96. Yeah, it was '96. And we were having a, uh, revival. How many remember those, uh, revivals? Amen. Tea me Bible. And, uh, I lay hands on this girl, and she fell out. So when I usually lay hands on somebody, they fall out. It's either the Lord or something else. So when she fell out, though, this was '96, she started crying, but her crying, I noticed it wasn't a Holy Ghost crying. It was a weird, whining, ugly cry. So I started rebuking the devil, and I started to do my thing, you know, take authority over it. And she started crying more and began to wiggle and like groan like all weird, like a snake. So I started rebuking the devil out over her. But I was an assistant pastor then, and I was at a revival where there was another man in charge. And what happened was, the man that was in charge came over and pulled the girl right out of my hand and said, "She doesn't have a devil," and took her from me. And his pastor came and took her, said, "We got this." So because I was a young, young man in my mid-30s, I was an assistant pastor, I was a man in their authority, I respected them. I didn't say nothing. I didn't go complain. I didn't go tell somebody. [Laughter] Ready? I didn't call nobody up. I just zipped it, honey. And, uh, they took the young girl. So I had the authority that night, 'cause I was the assistant pastor, to end the service. So they gave me the mic, and when they gave me the mic, that girl came prancing down the middle of the aisle like a pony, like a pony prancing. And I looked at her and I said, "Oh, man." And the guy that was in charge said, "I want you to end this now. End the service." So I said, "Okay." Because I was obedient, I ended the service. I said, "All right, here I, here I," I said, "Here you go." I handed him the mic. Let you know, let the responsibility of him. So I ended the service, and he came and told me after the service, he goes, "I gave her the test." I said, "What test?" He goes, "I asked her if Jesus Christ came in the flesh, and she said yes." So that means she doesn't have a devil. And this was the evangelist. So I zipped it, went home. I studied. When the following me, you know what I do? I go home and read my Bible and said, "What does the Bible say about that? What does the Bible say?" And when I began to read, "Test the spirits," and the original Greek, and because false prophet, he's talking about false prophets, not about trying to test devils. In fact, I, I give this testimony. Several years ago, brother Tony, your son, he was so cute back in the '90s. He came up to me and he told me, "Brother R, did Jesus Christ come in the flesh? Are you a false prophet? Are you real?" I told Brother Tony, "Jesus Christ came in the flesh." And he goes, "Oh, okay. I was [Music] checking." Come check me. It's okay. You can come and check me. I don't mind. You want to come and check me? Say, "You know something? In the Bible, that's all right." But he wanted to see if I was false or not. He was testing me. He's so funny. That's that Tony. See, mothers know the children. God bless him today in Jesus' name. Going to use his life for great things. Amen. In Jesus' name. Jesus' name.

Now look at this. Ceded and Marshall D. showed up. I'm not kidding you. A cowboy showed up at the end of that service with cowboy boots and everything. He's a gunslinger in the Holy Ghost. I knew this man. We had worked with him, uh, some years ago, and he's still for casting devils out. But he wears cowboy boots and he dresses like a cowboy. So I call him Marshall Dillon. He caught that girl in the parking lot, and he saw what was happening. He didn't care. He was crazy. He went to the parking lot and cast the devil out in the parking lot. And he came and told me, "I saw what happened. I saw that devil. I'm going to let that devil go home, man. I got that thing cast out right in the parking lot." So nobody can tell nothing because nobody was out in charge of the parking lot. That's the true story. Marshall Dillon. He's still wearing big cowboy boots, casting out devils. So my, my experience was, when you pray for somebody, there will be a reaction. Sometimes there's not. Now, here, here, this, get this down. When you pray for people, sometimes nothing happens until they go home. Sometimes we can pray for people, and then it gets worse. The devil reacts. And

It seems like things got more crazy, like people say. "Pray for me, brother." "Okay, I pray for you." Then they call me today, later today. "Later, oh my God, everything's falling apart. It's worse." And I'm thinking, "Good, it's working." Because sometimes things have to get worse before they get better for God to have his way. So our job is to bring by faith, in season, out of season, be ready. And if something falls out or don't fall out, I don't go around looking to see if people are going to fall out. What I'm looking for is that the Lord Jesus Christ will be real in their lives, amen. And that Jesus will save their soul, and they'll come to knowledge of Jesus, they'll serve Jesus, know Jesus, and live for Jesus. To me, the devil's secondary. I'm not looking for what he does, I'm looking for what Jesus is going to do. That's what you to do. You look to see what God is going to work in that person's life and give it to the Lord, and he'll take care of the rest. That's why we walk by faith and not by sight. That's why sometimes, if I feel like it, if I don't feel like it, I preach and pray for people because I do it by faith.

So here, here's, here's the thing. Get this: I'm never ready and I'm always ready. People of God, hear what I said. Write this down. I'm never ready for spiritual warfare, and I'm always ready. What is that mean? I'm never ready because I'm not sovereign and perfect. I'm not worthy to do anything for the Lord. But because I'm saved by grace and I belong to Jesus, I'm ready because I'm under his authority. I'm under his power, and I put on the anointing. God will move because I'm under him. Happy you didn't get that, but it's all right. Maybe you couldn't get that. So I'm never ready and I'm always ready. How many are ready for blessing? Am. How many ready to fight the devil? So we're never ready and we're always ready because you never know when God's going to move. That's why we have prayer meetings. Or seem like an off night, and then that's where God would do something. Well, there's two or three uh there, or God could move when it doesn't seem convenient or like it's the right time. That's why we always have to be ready, even though we're not ready. Amen.

Okay, now I'm going to end with this. Two main barriers to deliverance when we're dealing with people that are demon-possessed, dealing with people that need deliverance, and people that need God's help: failure to repent and failure to forgive others by laying down resentment. A lot of people get possessed by the devil because of resentment, or because of anger, or things done wrong to them. Once people meet these two requirements, then that the the door will open to freedom that Christ gives. You cannot experience freedom till you relinquish your right to hold on to your past church wounds and offer them to Jesus. Take them and wring them out with the blood of the cross. What does this mean? That means this: when we're dealing with spiritual warfare, we're dealing with people with problems, and we're dealing with people that need deliver. A lot of times, uh, uh, people want deliverance, but they don't, they want to do still what they want to do. My pastor, BC, told me one time, he shocked me, and I'll give this a testimony. There was a woman who was having demons in her house, and she called me. "Brother, when you come to pray for my house? I have demons. There's, there's demons that are, uh, uh, uh, moving things, and I've seen ghosts in my house and spirits." And I told the pastor, "Brother, I'm going to go pray for this young lady. She has demons in her house." He said, "No, you can't go pray for that woman." And I was like, "What? What? No, no." He said, "Tell her to get right with God, and the devil will leave her alone." W. He said, "Tell her get right with the Lord, and the devil will leave her alone." He shocked me with that one. I wasn't ready for that, but you know, that's very biblical. The Bible says, "Draw nigh unto God, and God will draw nigh unto you. Resist the devil, he'll flee." But the first thing you got to do is submit to God and draw nigh to God. You want the devil to leave you alone? Well, submit to God. Get a hold of the Lord. Get right with God, and the devil will get left. Get right with God, and the devil will get left. Get right with God, and the devil will get left in the dust. You'll be able to say, "Get thee behind me, Satan, because I'm washed in the blood, I've been sanctified and set apart, I belong to Jesus, I got the anointing of the Holy Ghost on me now." But you can't have the anointing of the blood if you're not right with the Lord, right? So no matter how I, how hard I pray, or how many devils I cast out, it doesn't matter if that person does not wrong or become right with God. Then there's other people. I go pray for them, and they say, "Brother Rangle, how come this person can't be delivered by the devil? Uh, this person can't be delivered. We've been praying and praying." It's because they want the devil. See, you can have the devil if you want the devil. And even a preacher or somebody that specializes in spiritual warfare or demon possession, we can go there. We pray, and we put oil until their head off shin, and we about, I mean, you can pray, you can get loud like I get loud, and you can scream, and the devil will stay because everybody has the power of choice. You have the right to serve Jesus, or you have your right to leave Jesus in the dust. But it's up to you. You. I went to one house, we went to pray, and I took some young people with me, and the, the house was so full of devils that time. They were moving and turning off the lights and on the lights. The devil was messing with the light switch. They said, "Brother, come, the lights are turning off and on for real." And they showed me a picture of a young lady that was living in the house, and there was a mirror behind her, and there was two men standing that look like cool cluts, plant root, but they were blue. That's right. She didn't tr, take a picture. She took a picture in this house, and behind it, in the mirror, where two men standing behind her, you can see their, their child with their faces partial, and they had those clue cluts, cled, which is the devil, right? And there was what it was. They were saying some kind of satanic popes or something. Wow. They're satanic popes or satanic P or spiritual forces of wicked places. So what I did was, I went up to the girl's room. Check this out. You're going to hear this. I went to the younger girl's room, and what she had in there was a lot of wicked witchcraft looking like plants and wicked, uh, uh, uh, trees that look like they were thorns, and this, uh-huh. And then there was all the pictures on the wall with that smile now, cry later, but the way it was drawn, it was very witched. They had a lot of movies of, you know, exorcism and witchcraft and all, you know, glorifying Satan's power. So I told the young lady, "You need to clean this room out and get rid of all this stuff." Her, her boyfriend were there. Pretty young girl, pretty young girl. You know what they told me? "You're funny, preacher." They literally lo my face and said, "We ain't getting rid of nothing." And the mother would say, "Please help me." And we prayed because we give grace. We prayed anyway, but we left. I got a call back. The devil didn't want to leave the house. You know why? Because the young people in the house agreed with the devil to have that spirit and that artwork in the house. So remember what I tell you: be careful what you let in your house, it'll dominate you. Be careful who you let in your house, it'll dominate you. Be careful what you let in your house, it will dominate you. Be careful what you let in your house, it will dominate you. Right. Yeah. Repe the witchcraft. I'll give you one more. I want to pray for this little granny that had ganging on her leg, Christian woman. And I prayed, "Lord, heal her." And the Lord spoke to me on the way home. He said, "I can't heal her." And I said, "Why, God?" Cuz the Lord said, "There's too many demons in the house." And when you made the prayer, all the demons are in the roof, and I, the prayer couldn't go through because there's stronghold in that house. And I said, "Lord, how could that be? This woman has served you for X amount of years, 30, 40, 50 years, she served you, and now she's suffering." And the Lord says, "I can't heal her because she has allowed sin in the house." Uh-huh. Because she had two granddaughters living in a sexual lesbian situation, and another one doing drugs. So, well, Grandma was older, she had granddaughters doing drugs in the back room and having a partner, same-sex partner. They call it live in the house. But see, the Lord told me, "Get the house cleaned out. Get those young people out of there, and then I'll heal her." And I told the lady in the house, "You get those people out of here. Do a 40-day prayer, and the Lord will heal this woman if you want her healed." So she got those women out, she got the kids out, got the drugs out, did the 40 prayer. On the 39th day, the Lord took her to heaven. [Applause] So we got to be careful what we let in our house and realize that, uh, de, devils come through touch. Amen. They can come through your eyes and your ears. What you hear. That's why you got to be careful what you listen to. You got to be careful what you look at, and you got to be careful what you touch. You know, there's a little Christian song, uh, my wife, I remember they see it with in, in, in the children's department: "Be careful little hand you touch. Be careful little feet where you go. Be careful little eyes when you see. And be careful little ears when you hear." Amen. Because in the Old Testament, the priest, they would, they, they, they put blood on your right toe, your right thumb, and your right ear. You know why? Because wherever you go, your steps are ordered by God. But in your, your hand puts the Bible says, "Realize you put your hands on must be ordained by God." Amen. Be careful what you touch because, can I, can I say this? I hope this radar, but there's a lot of young women and men today being touched inappropriately, and the spirit of pornography, spirit of lust and perversion is being transmitted to children through touch. That's why the Bible says a man should not touch a woman unless he's married, right? The Bible says a man should not touch a woman, let she be married. And the Bible says a man shouldn't lay with another man. The Bible says a woman should not lay with another woman. And a man should not lay with his children. On and children should not lay with their parents, right? Because it's abomination, and there's going to be problem in the house. And you think God funny, daddy? He don't want you to do this and that, is because he doesn't want to destroy your life, right? He don't want you to destroy your family's life. He don't want you to be like we Wier. He don't want you to belong to the ire family. There they go, there goes another [Music] Wier. I'm sorry about being a little s, but some of you need to wake up and smell a puppy and realize we are in a war, and we are spiritual beings living in this natural life as Christians with God, and there is a devil. There is life, and we got to be careful what we do. And that goes for me too. And I made this decision. You don't think I've been tempted by the devil? You don't think the devil has come to my house in the last 25 years? Well, he has. He's come for me for many times and in many ways. He's come after my marriage. He's come after me, spirit of adultery. He's come after me, spirit of love. He's come after me with all kinds of things. But you know what? I pray the Lord keep me. The Lord help me. The Lord save me. The Lord deliver me, because I cannot deliver myself. And the blood of Jesus give me power. Let me talk to you about adultery for a minute. I'm picking this up, is that right? I'm off my notes now. We're over time. It's the bottom of the night. Faces are loaded. I got to talk to you about spirit for a minute. Is that all right? Is that all right? Here we are. You never know what you're going to get when it's the Holy Ghost. Amen. I'm off the notes. The spirit of adultery will come to bring division in your home, bring divisions in your lives, and bring hurt and wound and destruction. The Bible says God says, "Thou shalt not kill." The Old Testament God said, "Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not lie. Thou shalt not commit." Those commandments are fulfilled in this. Jesus said, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, your mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself." See, when you love your neighbor, you're not going to take your neighbor's wife, right? When you love your neighbor, you're not going to take his money or lie to him. Amen. But I will tell you this, men of God, that your family is worth fighting for. Amen. Your family is worth you getting out of bed, going to work. Your family is worth you striving in this life for something better that maybe you weren't giving all what you wanted, but you could give it to your children. Amen. My God. Hallelujah. Maybe you didn't have everything you wanted in this life, but you could give it to your children. Maybe you could do things that your family's never done before. Maybe you go places and obtain things that your family couldn't do. In your family, lying down what your father couldn't do for you, you're going to do for your children. Brother S, what your father couldn't do, you're going to do for your children. Brother Past, what you couldn't, what your dad didn't do for you, you didn't have a dad. Brother G, didn't have a dad. Brother James, didn't have a dad. But they didn't do for you, you can do for your children and give them a future. I don't know, but I feel the Holy Ghost right now. On there's something here. There's something here that needs to make up their mind and fight for their family. Amen. And say, "It's not about me." Because I tell you, there was a preacher, true story. They start beating up his kids real bad, and he was always yelling at his kids. And the wife couldn't figure out why he was so angry at his kids. And he had to go see a psychologist. Sometimes preachers got to go see psychologists. I'm telling you the truth, because sometimes they lack things. Were growing up, he went to psych and found out that while he was meeting him kids, because he was jealous of them, because he, they had stuff he never had. So the, them, he would be mean to them and yell at them and call them bad names because in his heart he felt like he had missed and was not given a fair share or a fair deal. Well, I'm going to talk to the men right now. Men, you may not have been given a fair deal. You may not have been treated well as a child by your father or mother, but when Jesus comes into our lives and gives us love and gives us hope and gives us compassion and has mercy upon us, come on, that same mercy and compassion must be given to your children. Amen. Because you've been forgiven, you must forgive also. Amen. And that's a power of forgiveness. This is why Jesus is so powerful, is because he forgave us, but nobody else would. He forgave us when nobody else. He died for us when nobody else will died for us. And because of the power of that, that act he did, we men have to accept it and say, "You know what? Maybe I didn't have everything. Maybe I didn't have a good child, and I didn't have a good situation at home, and my father was there for me, or he wasn't there for me, but you could be there for your children, and you could change history. You could change the destiny of your children." Father's Day is next Sunday, and I will tell you, fathers, there's never a time in history like right now where the fathers need to be there for their sons and others, and the good times and the bad times, because father [Applause] sacrifice. Father's sacrifice. Your children are not going to get up and do it. You got to do it. Fathers, like mothers, sometime our thank job. The mothers do the washing, the cleaning, they do all the [Music] preparation. Sister Lup sent me a note about about barbecue, and she's, you know, men, they barbecue, and here the women get all the plates ready, they get all the food ready, and all the condiments ready, and the guy put some meat on the burner and puts it back on the plate and says, "Did you have a nice day off, honey? I cooked." Then she got to wash all the plates and all the utensil, put everything away while he sits down and has his coffee. What a good daddy. And I'm guilty of that too. Had some good yesterday, I'll tell you right now. But I'm going to say this one more time before we leave, because it's, it's in the atmosphere. I'm picking up right. Your children and your wife are worth fighting for. Amen. Just like if you were in bed tonight, and a robber and a thief came to do a home invasion, who's going to stand up and get out of bed? Is it the children and the wife? Who's going to answer the door? If it's not the man that's going to stand up for his family. Maybe some men will stay in bed and say, "Honey, go see who that is. I think they want you out there." And you stay quivering into the blankets. Or you're a real man going to stand up, get out of bed, and go see who's at the door, because the devil situations come to us all. Amen. Bad times come to us all. Amen. Bad things happen to good people. Amen. Look what happened to Jesus. That's right. They crucified him. What he going to do to us? That's why Jesus, pick up your cross, deny yourself, and follow me. Follow after the cross. Follow after the truth. Don't allow nobody to rob your children in your and your wife. I mean, people do home invasions. St, who's going to protect if not the father? So I'm going to encourage the fathers, and I'm going to, uh, uh, challenge the fathers. I challenge the fathers to that F in the spirit. Challenge the fathers to stand up in the gap, to meet the devil at the door, to meet the challenges, to meet the hard times. Because see, father, when your children grow and they have a home to go to because of you, and because of a good woman, they're going to have somewhere to go and lay their head. They're going to have someone they can look up to and trust. They're going to have somebody when they need money. They're going to have somebody when they need counsel. When they have problems in their own marriage, who's going to be there for them if it's not the man of God and a woman of God? Amen. God, this bar has everybody. Father, we thank you right now. We praise you for the Holy Ghost that's in this place. I pray right now, father, get the spirit of adultery that that is here. Yes, I bind the spirit of adultery. I command it to leave now. Every house that is represented today, father, I pray divine blessing and grace upon your love and your mercy, your truth, your strength, and your wisdom. Oh God, even the seven spirits of the Lord, the spirit of understanding, spirit of wisdom, spirit of knowledge, spirit of power. Father, right now in Jesus name, I take authority over every evil work that has come against these houses and against my house, and I call us blessed. I call us delivered. I call us saved. I call us healed. I call us kept in the hands of God. Father, I attack the lies of the devil. For me and my house shall serve the Lord, as it is written. For me and my house, we shall serve the Lord. For me and my house, we will serve the Lord. We will not serve the gods of this world, or the gods of the universe, or the gods of this present world, but we will serve the Lord Jesus Christ, the one true God, the Messiah, the Lord God, even He that is the most high. Father, I bind and rebuke the spirit what off you right now, and I command you to leave every home. You lying devil, you did come to kill, soul, and destroy. You come to break families apart and destroy children and destroying marriages and destroying men and women's hearts, but bitterness and anger and deceit. I break that authority right now. I break that lie, and I command it to leave now in Jesus name. Oh, I take authority right now in Jesus name over the spirit of adultery. God, I command him to leave now from our houses and our lives. You have no right or authority here, but by the blood of Jesus and the mercies of God, by the power of the Holy Ghost, I call us delivered in Jesus' name and set free. For you set your word, he shall know the truth, and the truth will set us free. And father, you are the way, the truth, the life. You are the light of life. And all things God work too good to them that love the Lord right now in Jesus name. Oh, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, by the power of the Holy Ghost, God, I I claim victory in every home. I claim deliverance in every home. I claim healing in the hearts of every home. I claim forgiveness. I claim mercy. I claim grace. I claim love. I claim the power of the most high God. I claim you, father, the kingdom of God in my home, the kingdom of your work in our place. God, oh, that the Lord keep us. The Lord help us. The Lord save us, 'cause we cannot save ourselves. We look to you, God. You're the only true savior. You're the only true deliverer. Oh, thank now, God. I give you the glory, being fully persuaded that what you promise, you're able to perform. You that keep us, God, and have been faithful and true. I claim blessing upon my home. For everywhere you put my foot, you've given me the land. No man shall stand before me. No devil shall stand before me. Wherever you put my foot, I claim it for the Lord. I claim it for your kingdom. God, I claim this territory, God, this city, and this nation, God, and this county, and this state, father, that the name of Jesus Christ be exalted, that everybody should know that Jesus Christ is Lord. Jesus Christ is the only Savior. Jesus Christ is the Messiah. Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. He's the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. He is the first of the life who is, who was, which is to come. He is the almighty. He's the bright and morning star. He's the living of the valley. He is our savior, and he is our God. And there is no other God like our God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I praise you and I magnify you for the victory through the Lord Jesus Christ, for he alone gives us all victory. God, all the praise and all the honor be on the Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Right now, I praise you 'cause you are the true and only God. Hallelujah. The true savior of all. There is none other. For there's no other name given among men where we must be saved. There was no name under heaven given among men where we must be saved, but by the name of Jesus Christ. Oh, I praise you, God, right now. And I break the authority. Doctor, you have no right, no authority, no power over the servants of the Lord, or the house of God, nor the houses of God, nor the people of God, nor the women of God, the children of God. Right now, in Jesus name. Sister, stand up. For my sister, have a word for you. The Lord says like this: "My daughter, do not fear. Do not fear for the present battles. Do not fear for the present issues that have come against your house, for the Lord says like this: This situation shall come to nothing, and I shall prevail. I will give the victory to you and those who call upon my name, for all your family is in my hands." And the devil has come to try to kill, steal, and destroy and bring about descension and destruction. In fact, the Lord says it is the spirit of destruction. The Lord said the spirit of destruction has come, but fear not, my daughter, because you've been faithful. I've heard your prayers, and he's not going to destroy, because I send you angels today. I said, "Help from heaven because you prayed. I've heard your prayers." And I said, "How, even though it hasn't come instantly," says God, "because of the situation and of faith, the Lord says, 'I am testing those around you. I am testing those around you. I am the Lord, and that is my name, and I will not change. I am the Lord, and I will not change. I am faithful and true to you. I am the Lord, and I will save all your house because of your prayers and your faithfulness, because your prayers, mother, you shall prevail." So the Lord says, "Do not retreat, but stand in the gap. Do not retreat, for there is no man that could stand in the gap." But the Lord says, "I'm calling you an to stand in the gap. You are the woman of God. You are the servant of the Lord. You have the anointing of the most high God. You have the word of God. You have the shield of faith. You have the sword of the spirit. You have the helmet of salvation. You have the breastplate of righteousness. You are a soldier in my kingdom," says the Lord. "Not only a soldier," says God, "she, but you are growing," says the Lord. "You are not a private. You're not a corporal. You've been a sergeant in the army, but the Lord says one day, and it shall be soon, you shall graduate and be a captain in the army of the Lord, and you, you shall give orders and directions, and your authority in the heavenly shall increase. Your authority on heaven and earth shall increase, because the Lord says the time will come when you will lay hands on the sick, and the devil must flee. You will speak the word, and the devil will flee. You will stand in the gap, and the devils will flee, because wherever I put your foot, I've given you the land. No man or shall stand before you all the days of your life. I am with you," says the Lord. "I am with you, and and you are not alone. But this day, I send my angels to war and do battle. Stand," says the Lord, "stand and don't move to the right or to the left, and behold the glory of the Lord, for I will deliver all that are under your [Applause] authority." And the Lord says one last thing: "Because the prayers of your mother, and the prayers of your father, and the prayers of their family has been handed down to you, because there are not many left," says the Lord, "in your family that are standing in the gap. Even though I have anointed many of them, they've run from their call. Your brothers have run from their call. Your sisters have run from the call. But not you, and you cannot run, but you must stand through." [Music] You, you are holding the flames for your family. Hallelujah. You are the spiritual mother of the family. You are the authority. You are in authority for all your family. This day, says the Lord, I anoint you such for you stand at the gap, and you have been laboring, and you have been working. Now, says God, I give you more. Because you've been faithful over a few things, I'm going to make you rule over there. Because you are a woman of God, and just not any woman, but you are a soldier. You are my servant, and you will stand for this day forward. Pastor R, R, over, and they have this day the anointing of your father and your mother shall come upon you, and you shall not be the same, but you must walk with boldness as a mother in the spirit, as one of authority, and as a captain of their salvation, because I am the Lord, and I sent you forth to do a work throughout this region with your family and with other families, because today is the day of salvation. And the Lord says, "I break the authority over the devil. I break every destruction, and I break," says the Lord, "oh, every lie of the devil. I break it right now in Jesus name. Every lie and every destruction over this house, God, right now, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Ghost, by the blood of Jesus, I call it done." Somebody give God the glory. Come on, come on, somebody thank God and give him the glory. So God not play today. God is a mighty God. God is a powerful God. God is an awesome God. God is a god of deliver. He is a god of authority and power and might on the earth. He is our God, and there is no God like our God. Hallelujah. Because he is God. Jesus. M. Hallelujah. God chapter where it says, "I'm looking for a man stand of the gap for the whole." "I'm looking for a man stand." I think it's Ezekiel. Get it for me. I'm going to tell one more thing. The Holy Ghost is here. I'm going to tell one more thing. You feel the Holy Ghost? I feel the Holy Ghost. See, you never know what the Lord's going to do. That's why be ready. You don't know. That's why I say, "I never ready, I'm always ready." I'm never ready, but I'm always ready by faith. See, I'm going to remind you. I was 8 years old when God pied to me, and the way the Lord told me was like this: I walked into a house with the wicked old man invited me into a house back in 1968. I was 8 years old, and when I walked into this house, it was an old, ugly-looking house, but I knew I had to go there, even though I was afraid. And this old man with a black suit, looking very wicked, invited me in, and he said, "Here, sit down and eat." And I knew it was the devil. I was 8 years old, and I began to eat. But I wasn't too heav. I lay down. I said, "Yeah, I'm tired." So I walked up the flight stairs. The two young girls came for me, and they took me upstairs. And as I went upstairs and I laid down, these two young girls, uh, flew into like spirits and started flying over me. And I was 8 years old, and they started attacking me and laughing and mocking me, because the devil, he, he wants to mock us. Amen. So I jumped up. I was scared. I started running down the stairs. When I ran down the stairs, you know what I saw? That old man was at the bottom of the stairs, about halfway down. And, uh, that we man told me when I was 8 years old, he said, "Worship me." And I knew it was the devil. He said, "I am your God. Worship me." And I said, "No." He said, "Worship me." And I was running halfway down the stairs, and I said, "No, Jesus is my God." And God gave me that revelation. And then he jumped, going to be weird. He jumped into a big red fiery ball over me, and a voice came out of the ball and said, "Worship me. I am your God." And I said, "No, Jesus is God." And R said, that big light came and smashed everything. And before I knew it, I was with the sea of people. And I looked up to heaven, and I was 8 years old. I looked up to heaven. I saw angels, and I saw Jesus on the throne. I saw nails in his hands, and nails in the feet, holes in his hands, but he'd been pierced, and his face was like the sun. I didn't see his face, it was like the sun. See, this is when I saw that everybody in the sea of people were worshiping Jesus. And I didn't know, I was 8 years old, that the Bible says, "Every knee shall bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord." Yes, the things in heaven, the things on earth, and the things under the earth shall worship and confess with their mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord. And I was 8 years old, and I didn't even know that that verse. But all I know is that Jesus is God. And the devil wanted me to worship him, but I said no to the devil and yes to Jesus. Amen. I share that was very personal to me. There was some other parts to it, but I was 8 years old, and that's when the Lord first revealed that I know that Jesus Christ was a true God, because he was sitting on the throne. There wasn't two or three thrones, there was only one throne. That's right. Because there's only one Lord, one faith, and one baptism, one God and one Savior, and his name is Jesus Christ. Ezekiel 22:30 says, "And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land, and I should not destroy it, but I found none." And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. See, that verse right there, it's for sister, but it's for you to realize God was always looking for a man to stand in the gap, because hell and problems and the, they're here on the earth, but there's a God in heaven. And if you're man enough and woman enough, stand in the gap. Men, listen to me, you stand in the gap for your family. And if there's no man, God will pick up a woman. That's why I'm excited. October, we're ding several women to be of God, because God is looking for the two women of God in these last days. If a man will stand up, you women stand up. And it won't be easy, but God is with you. See, that's wonderful about God. He told Moses, all, all the great things he told Moses, he was, "I'm with you." He didn't tell him what was going to happen or what wasn't going to happen, or what problems you're going to go through, or what problems were going to come and go. All he said is, "I'm with you." I want everybody to stand right now. Let's stand. Hallelujah. I feel, uh, very, uh, inspired right now by the Holy Spirit. I want the men of God and the women of God, you come over here and pray for your family. Bring your son and pray with him. I'm going to pray with him. And you bring your family. And if your family's not here, you come and pray for them. I feel we start right now. The devil's really trying to care a houses and families. I, I want, I need somebody to come stand in the gap right now. Come up here. No music, no nothing. We're going to have straight prayer for the families, prayer for the houses, prayer for your, your, your loved ones, and and intercede. That means you stand in the gap. You're praying for them. Maybe they're not saved, but you're praying for saving grace upon them. Amen. Come on, people of God. We're going to wrap this thing up, but we're going to wrap it up with victory. We're going to claim the victory. We're going to say, "God, yes, there's problems. Yes, there's issues. Yes, we're not perfect, but because of the blood of the cross, because you called us and made us to be your sons and daughters, we stand in the gap because of the sacrifice you made." In other words, you have to be like Jesus. Now, did you know that the Bible says, "As he was in the world, so are we. As he walked in the world, so we need to walk like him." Now, let's close our eyes. Let's close your eyes and let's meditate for a moment. Let Med take to put our mind on Jesus. Take your mind off your bills. Take your mind off all the problems. Take your mind off all the issues. Take your mind off all the things. I just want you to see Jesus up sitting on his throne, high and lifted up, realizing he is the true God of all, and he is above all, and he's in us all, and he's through us, and that he's with us. Let's pray. Father, we thank you right now for the power of God. I thank you for this young man, Chris. The Lord bless him. The Lord be with him. The Lord have mercy upon him. The Lord give him grace in his life. Oh, yes, Lord Jesus. Jesus, Savior, Redeemer, my salvation, my rock and fortress, my strong power, my high. The Lord bless him right now. Chris, I want you to hear the word of the Lord. I know I never prophesied over you, but I want you to with your ear the a message for you. And the Lord says like this: "I am for you, and I am with you," says the Lord. "And I have come into your hearts, and I will reside with you. I will eat with you and talk with you, and I will show you many things. I am the true Living God, and I am the savior of your father. I am the savior of all men."