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[Music] [Music] Good evening. How's everybody doing tonight? You guys ready for a great night? How many of you fellas were with us for our men's conference? Uh, what'd you guys think? All right. I think it was the best men's conference we've ever had. And if you guys did not have the opportunity to make it, you can repent of your sins. No, I'm just messing. I know that, you know, stuff happens. You got to work and things like that. We have made the teachings available online. And so I want to encourage you guys to um go to ccspringvalley.org. You can listen to the audio right now. We're going to get the video up this week. And uh I want to just really encourage you to spend the time listening to the messages and then pass those messages on to as many guys as you can. It was an a awesome awesome conference and we were blessed.
We also have a missions conference coming up uh at the end of February and uh we're excited about this too. And I know sometimes when I say something like missions conference, some of you get very excited. Some of you think, well, you know, I'm not probably ever going to go into the mission field. And so you um disconnect yourself from a conference like this. Uh and so I want to just I want to put in a different framework for you. This conference is for the whole church. All right? We are rebooting missions here at Calvary Chapel Spring Valley. And everybody is called to missions. Unless you think that the great commission doesn't apply to you, go into all the world and make disciples of all nations. Uh it applies to all of us. And so each of us has a place in missions whether whether it is prayer and or uh giving financially and or going on a short-term trip or uh serving on a Barnabas team or actually going long-term. Missions is for all of us and you know that we place place a great focus on church planting. Uh so we want to encourage you don't don't uh procrastinate signing up. Uh you can sign up for our conference now. Brian Broers's going to be with us. Brent Kaser, Mike Mintosh, Daniel Messiah, uh Manny Mills is going to be with us again. So, we've got a great lineup of speakers. We're going to have our international dinner. We're going to have breakout sessions. It's going to be an awesome time. So, want to encourage you to be a part of that.
Uh for our school, we're very thankful to have a great Christian school and we believe strongly in Christian education. We are having a build reach impact dinner for our school. Uh and this year the focus is Christ in the arts. We're blessed to have Kevin DS with us. He is uh the producer of Woodlon and Courageous. Uh so if you want to be a part of that, we'd encourage you to go to the connection center. You can purchase a seat for yourself or maybe you want to buy a table. All the proceeds go towards supporting our school, which is obviously a great investment.
Uh we're going to Israel, God willing, in November again, as we do every year. And so we're having an interest meeting on the 7th of February. If this is you, I've had a lot of people talk to me about going to Israel. Uh please make sure you're at the meeting on the 7th of February. I'll be laying out the trip and the cost the uh projected cost of the trip. It's a great time. God is uh definitely going to minister to your heart if you go with us. You know, maybe you don't have the money right now and you're you're wanting to go, but uh you just don't see the resources. Come anyway, and we'll pray and we'll ask God to provide financially for you. You never know what God is going to do.
Uh we do have tithe boxes in the back. Want to encourage you guys to uh shut your cell phones off while the football games are over today. And yes, the Patriots are in. What'd you expect? Don't look at me like that. And next week we uh will dismantle Pton Manning in the Denver Broncos. So, oh gosh, stoning is no longer an option. We've uh we're out of the Old Testament into the New Testament.
Um, listen, we're really blessed tonight. We're really blessed. I know that a lot of you follow uh Victor's ministry and uh we've served with Victor. We've had him here with us before reaching out to the school. We've had him in our school. He's shared on a Sunday. And he's got an amazing ministry. He and his wife and his kids. They're amazing people, wonderful family. And I can tell you all the things that that Victor does that God does through Victor. You know, I'll share a couple. He is ministering in the mission field and at risk areas. Uh he has an incredible testimony as God has brought him out of uh very difficult circumstances and situations. He's in high school sharing the love of Jesus Christ. And I just want to tell you right now, strap on that seat belt. Okay, we gave you seat belts tonight on your seat. You're going to need it because you are going for a ride tonight. Would you guys welcome Victor Marks?
Thank y'all and good evening. So, how many for you? Oh, that video is kind of an eye opener. Raise your hand. Yep. That's that's not what some of the media is feeding it. That's exactly what we recorded and brought here to the US. And um there's no way to put into words the impact that's happened on us, our teams, our family to go there. Uh we've actually been in Iraq twice uh the last 12 months. And when we deployed out for the first time, things were really jacked up pretty big. And I got my team together and my wife actually came up to me and said, "Honey, I've been praying and I feel like the Lord wants me to go with you." And I was like, he didn't say that. I didn't tell you right now. And uh you know, I told her, I said, "Honey, we're going to help girls who've been captured by ISIS." Uh, and the it's a bad deal all the way around. It's it's high risk. You know, we were counting the cost if you know, things get messed up and and uh and I'm actually bringing in a a very specialized team for security and then, you know, counselors and some key pastors who really know how to deal with trauma. And u she said, well, she goes, I know you're going to get to the girls. I know you will. She goes, "But when y'all get to him, you can't hug him because you're a man." She goes, "I can." And I said, "You're willing to risk everything, including your life, so you can just hug these girls?" She said, "Yeah." And she went and she hugged on them girls. And there's more videos uh on our website or on our YouTube channel, but I could definitely say that trip uh God won, the enemy got a black eye. Does that sound good?
I appreciate this fellowship of believers. I appreciate your pastor more than y'all know. Uh, I'm not a great super big fan of all churches. Can somebody say amen? Okay. I'm in ministry and I'm telling you that I've met some major boneheads in ministry that I'm like, "Holy smokes, you need to go get a job somewhere cuz ministering to God's people." Uh, I'm just telling y'all the truth. And you know, we're in a time and age where lawlessness is increasing. Would y'all agree with that? Come on. Come on. It's real. It's getting real real in our country and around the world. Darkness is increasing. Demonic activity is increasing. Uh the Bible talks about it, right? So, what do we do? What do we do as believers? Well, one, we make sure that we check our heart first. We make sure that we're right with God. Okay? If you're not a believer, step one, get right with God. Okay? Because you can't straddle the fence. You can have one foot in the world and one foot following God, trying to do good. Has anybody ever straddled a fence? No. No. I mean, really physically straddled a fence. Anybody ever tried to get over a fence that didn't quite work out? Okay, that's what I'm talking about. It's pretty uncomfortable. So, listen. Same thing spiritually. You either need to be all in or not. And the right answer is be all in. There's a lot of people that still go to church, but their life's not right with God. They know it. They're maybe moving toward it and and I'm happy for you, but I just want to encourage you. Time is of the essence. It it's it's some people believe we're like in end times. Like Jesus could come back any time. Oh, y'all. Some of them. Oh, okay. All right. That's why y'all all weird. Seriously, if you don't think that Christ could come back at any time, you will get just unless you're, you know, close to death, you know, then you kind of get more motivated. I heard wrinkles are God's way of telling us, I'll be seeing you soon. So, you know, I I I I think if you look at the way the world is going and even the moral plummet of our our country, can I say that? Our country. I mean, think about it. How many of you, you know, anybody in the half century club yet or passed it? Y'all with I turned 50 this year, uh, last year. And, uh, thank you very much. And I love it. I'm not going to kid you. I love being older. I saw the aches and the not seeing and all that type of stuff. But when I was a kid growing up about the most risque thing you'd see on TV and it was a TV you turn like that. Anybody remember that? There was none of this. Okay. I mean, you got carpal tunnel for real turning it like that. That's something. And you had to use that TV antennas. Do you remember that? And when it didn't work, you had to put what did you have to put on it? Aluminum foil. We helped make them people rich from bad TVs. And uh but hey, the worst that you could see back in our day was like uh you know when it went from black and white to color was uh like Gilligan's Island really like Maryanne or her little shorts. That was about it. Now an eighth grade boy can flip up on a phone and watch the most horrendous perversion that would have taken an adult man in the Navy a lifetime of traveling from ports to sea. An eighth grade boy and younger. Cuz that's who people in porn are targeting. Our children. Our children. That's who the enemy goes after most. Because if you can imprint a child, oh, it take a lifetime to straighten them out. Somebody say, "Amen." I heard if you build a child, you won't have to repair an adult. And that's where we as Christians, we have the answer.
And uh how many follow on social media me in our ministry? Anybody here? Facebook. Okay. All right. Thank you. God bless y'all. Uh, how many you know that's turned into a ministry? Who ever thunk it? I mean, somebody told us you got to get a Facebook page. I was like, I don't even have a my page face, whatever the one before it was, you know. You know, I spent a lot of time in Hawaii and ghee bottoms and a tank top. I was like, I'm not all in that social media. They said, no, you got to get one. So, we did, it was just a few months ago, we did one post that hit 11 million pages. That's some pretty good reach, especially when you don't even know how to grammar. People still follow. But we get all kind of crazy feedback for what we do. Negative when we just share a little bit about Christ. But one of the biggest attacks I ever got was I put a picture of a a girl on there, just a little girl, and said, "If we don't teach our children about Christ, the world will teach them their way." Do you know I got the most aggressive attacks from that to the point where even there were some Satan people came on board and started. I don't know how they type. I don't know. I I don't know. I just see them at home lighting candles. Sorry if you're a Satanist. I'm just love you. But anyway, they they actually was first one then two and then you know you have atheists coming in then you got some extremists and other and then all a sudden they piled up and then it was a massive social media attack on Victor March from Satanists. They were coming up from everywhere. I was like bring it on. I was at home. Come on. I was like, we could, hey, y'all better pray for me. But it's amazing that if you're not really fearful of people with opposing views, then you won't react. You'll just respond appropriately. And if you're a believer in Christ, you should never be fearful of I don't care anybody's view. atheist, Satanist, extremist, Democrat, Republican. It don't matter. I'm telling you, we should be so secure in our position in Christ. We're just like, "Bring it. Go ahead. What? Feel better?" Cuz guess what? A lot of times the truth is when they're poking and jabbing and hitting, they're really searching for something. Do you know at that time period I had an atheist just railing railing and a lot of people on Facebook were just railing back. And I was like, "Calm down, people. At least he's engaging." By the time we were all done, cuz he said some he said one little thing that was actually just funny. I mean, I don't It was some joke and I was like, "Okay, atheist one, Christian zero. You just nailed us on that one. Whoa, easy." Y'all like, it's good to be strategic. He had a good point. I forget what it was. It was a good point. And then we started joking back and forth, you know. He said, he goes, "Man, you're the only Christian that kind of has a sense of humor here." I was like, "Well, we win. I can laugh all I want. By the time this whole thing was done, you know what he said? He goes, "I can't say that I absolutely agree with your world view, but he goes, because of what you do, I want to help support your ministry." And he gave a donation. I went out and bought some lottery tickets with it. And I was like, "Oh, well, atheist." Okay, so that's a joke.
If you have a Bible, let's look at Mark chapter 6. I just want to share a few minutes. You know, I I'm really I really wanted to be a preacher really bad and it just didn't work out that way. So, I'm just a talker. I'm just a just a fellow believer that loves sharing what God does. But I thank God that y'all have a solid pastor, one who can expound the word of God, who studies to show himself approved and gives you guys great meaty mana. Does that make sense? I want to say one thing about him. Uh pray for him and his family. Amen. If there's one things Christians do a very poor job of is praying for their pastor. Praying for their pastor. Everybody loves football, right? I y'all on into it. Can you imagine if the line never blocked for the the quarterback if they're just like, "Show us what you got. Be short game, right?" That's how it is in Christianity. Cuz look, I talk about there's not a lot of great pastors out there. I mean that. I mean that. Some by choice. I was on staff at Focus on the Family. And do you know, y'all heard of that ministry? I was an assistant to Dr. Dobson back in the day. And you know what? We would get up to 700 contacts a month from pastors and ministers who were morally failing and struggling. 700. There are so many people getting out of ministry who probably should be in it because they don't have a wall of defense of prayer against them. I hope by the time we finish tonight in a few minutes that you will believe this. You are required by God to grow in your faith and put faith in action. It is so important because if you don't even learning and learning and learning and you don't see stuff happening can make you depressed spiritually. You can have so much head knowledge but you don't see it working out you'll be like and then you'll miss opportunities to pray. I know this world I know this world is dark right now and getting darker. Would y'all agree? And some of us started getting depressed spiritually like it's just too much on every front. It just seems like hey try going to Iraq and being a Christian. We were so close to ISIS at one point we could see the black flag. That gives a whole new meaning to capture the flag. I got to tell you right now, people say, "Aren't you afraid?" I was like, "No, I was afraid way before I went." That that was the time I was afraid like, "Am I really going to do this? Am I really?" You Lord, are you sure? I I know a lot more people better to go. Pastor Derek, he knows the word a lot better. You ought to just send him right up there. You send him right up there, Lord. I need him teaching those so they can go out. gets all quiet. You guys, I'm telling you, there is no such thing as a super saint. There's no such thing as Christian celebrities. That's that's ridiculous. There's only believers who believe. That's it. And sometimes some believers who believe, they they do stuff, their faith gets put in action, and the rest of us kind of marvel like, "Whoa, whoa." And the Lord's going, "Whoa, what?" Yeah. Everybody's even. Everybody's even. That's why I tell you to pray for pastor. He's just like y'all. Except maybe sometimes he might get a bigger target on his back because he's only visible more. Why do you think so many pastors fail? No, not that line of defense. I have a feeling that your church here really believes in prayer. Raise your hand if that's true. Okay. I believe that. You have to cuz you're in Sin City. You better pray. Sin City. Aren't y'all glad y'all got named that? Sin City. Anybody ever dogging y'all? like, uh, you know what I realized? I've been to small little towns in Texas with like 3,000 people that had a lot of sin city in it. I've been to towns around the world that are sin cities. There are sin and darkness in every place. And trust you, me, Las Vegas has not captured the golden crown for it. How many of you agree with that? And people get all worried about darkness and all that type of stuff. The darker it is, the easier it is to be a light. That's what I say. You don't have to be a super saint. There's not You just be a Christian. The darker it gets, the easier it is for you to be a Christian, a light. I'm just telling y'all truth. I'm I'm like the worst devotional guys. That's my wife. She's like, "Pray with the children." I'm like, "God bless you little kids." And we homeschooled. She's like, "Help them." I'm like, "Use a calculator. Praise the Lord. Watch YouTube." I mean, there's You'll learn everything you need on there. Go to Netflix and watch the documentaries. You'll learn all about the world. I don't She's like, "Wow, honey. Wow." Yeah. Yeah. Kind kind of amazing. The darker it gets, the easier it is to be a Christian if you walk with the Lord. Can we Can we lower these lights a little bit? Or I don't know if there's a light guy. You don't have to if you have to go outside like unplug the thing. Mo most Christians when you think about doing something for the Lord, you think about them big Batman strobe light or whatever, right? Spotlights. How many agree? Oh, before I could ever like go to Iraq or, you know, I need I need to be like that. Negative. Not even. Look, look at this. I carry a little flashlight. Look at that little thing. That other thing is no big thing. It's been all over the world with me. See that? But look at that. What? Well, easy. I think sometime when people walk with the Lord really strong like daily, just daily, then crazy stuff like that happens. Am I making sense here? Or y'all just whoop. Bring it on down. Give me a beat.
All right. So, Mark chapter 6. This is actually Jesus talking. All right. This is it's his it's words in red. Jesus of Nazareth, chapter 6. It's well, he gets rejected. Starting in verse one, I'm reading out of original Hebrew. No, that's the Old Testament, the Greek. I don't know Greek, so I'm just reading out the Bible, English. Then he went out from there and came to his own country, and his disciples followed him. And when the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things?" And what wisdom is this that has been given to him, and such mighty works are performed by his hands. All good so far, right? Verse three. Then someone says, "Is this not the carpenter? I mean, the son of Mary, the brother of James, Jose, Judas, Simon, are not his sisters here with us. And then it says they were offended at him. Oh my gosh. People were offended at Jesus cuz they started looking at him like a regular person. But they were saying he's doing all kind of mighty things, but he's Yeah. They start drinking haterade. I think they made it back then. I don't had to put in pots and stir it. Verse four. But Jesus said to them, here comes his words. This is his words. This is our savior's words recorded. A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house. Verse five. Then it says, "Now he could do no mighty works there except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief." Then he went about the villages in a circuit teaching a circuit. Jesus did. He was on the circuit. Jesus marveled at their unbelief. That's what I'd like to try to hurt tonight in any of you as believers. Any level of unbelief that needs to be gotten rid of because unbelief will hurt your ability to walk with the Lord in a good way and then let him use your life in greater ways that shock even you. Unbelief. It says that he could do no mighty work there. He God almighty could not do mighty works there. That's a heavy that's heavy. It wasn't because of his unwillingness. It was because of their unbelief. A lot of times you as an individual are stopped your your walk with God is or arrested because of simple unbelief. You watch people from the platform or you listen to them on the radio and you go I oh gosh and then you almost start to elevate them. Shame on you. Shame on me. I've had to repent before because I put people in a position they shouldn't be because oh oh my gosh and then guess what I started hanging out with them. I was like, "Yeah, oh my gosh, God really gets all the glory, give you some credit, but man, when the Lord's saying, "Hey, look at me. Read my words. Watch and believe what I want to do in your life." But you don't, Victor, you don't get it. You don't know my background. You don't know my background. I mean, I'm I'm stained. I'm I'm slow. I'm whatever. Stop using excuses. Excuses. Uh-uh. To me, excuses are only a good reason for God to do mighty things in your life. Did y'all hear that? I just made that up, honey. Honey, did that make sense? I don't know. That sounded good. No, not so much. Okay, erase that. That probably wasn't good. Uh the point is regardless of how you see yourself, if it's not truly in the light of God's word, if you don't view yourself the way God sees you, you're going to you're going to believe the lies of the enemy all day long. And he's going to keep you like this. He'll give you like this. I taught martial arts for a living for many years. And I remember one guy. Did I tell y'all this story last time I was here? I don't make sure I don't bore y'all. Okay. Well, this guy, he was he was a musician. He's always in clubs, you know, and and uh he come in train. He was like, "Mr. Mow." And uh he was about a green belt. He came in one Saturday morning so mad at me. He's like, I was like, "Hey, what's going on there, Danielson?" He's all, "It doesn't work. It doesn't work. All this training and it doesn't work." And I was like, "Okay, what happened?" And he goes, "Last night I was at a club. I was in between sets. I was down with my girlfriend, you know, having a little drink, and her ex-boyfriend, a meth dealer, came up, started screaming at me, got my face. He's just punking me out. He's all raw. I'mma beat your head." And he goes, "I just froze." Cuz he was not a fighter, trust you me. Okay. He's just like I said, "Whoa, well, where'd he hit you? cuz I don't I don't see is it under your clothes? Did he give you some like broken ribs? He's Well, no. I said, "Is it internal?" I walked a full circle around him. I said, "But where'd he beat on you at?" He goes, "Okay, well, he actually didn't hit me." But he just he just punked me out and man, I'm shamed. And I was like, "Okay, that's just your ego, dude." Okay. I said, "Uh, it sounds like you got beat up pretty good in the ego department." But I said, "He never pounded on you." He goes, "Well, the point of me is this doesn't work." Cuz I was scared. I froze. I was like, "Okay, you're not a fighter." Let me just put it to you that way. Okay. Some people are kind of born to like my youngest kid, he was he come out the womb. Yeah. I need a kid something. I need a war. He's just like warrior kid. I'm I'm serious. If he anything, he's so competitive. He'd be racing against his little sister who's a little bit older. She'd beat him. He'd be in his little diaper. Like, boy, keep your diaper on. You look like you're about to blow that thing out. Some people just made the war more than others. But I told this guy, I said, "Look at me, man." I said, "You got a good heart. I think you'll do the deal when you have no other choice. You probably you probably require getting hit a couple of times before you kind of snap in the warrior, man." He's like, he couldn't believe it. Two weeks later, it's about two weeks later, this guy comes in on a Saturday morning again to the karate school, karate and jiu-jitsu, but this time he's walking like this. I'm like, "All right, come on. Tell me what you got." He goes, "Well, okay. I was at the club, another one, and I was loading up my van last night, my girl." And guess what? His girl came with him. She was right behind him. She's just like, "This my man. This my man. This my man." I was like, "Okay, this is a story." And he's like, "Uh, he's all so he came out, you know, he come out, he pulled up and he's like, "Hey, you you still my go I'm going to kill you." And he goes, "And I froze again. I just froze right against the van." I said, "Okay, what happened?" He goes, "Well, he grabbed me and then he bounced me off the van and my head hit." I says, "Oh, that hurt." He goes, "I don't really remember much after that. that I was kind of doing this and that's just I'll tell you he was punching, kicking, spinning. Why he was she she said he beat him all over the parking lot. I was like, there you go. He's Well, you know, I mean, I don't he got Barney F on me. Well, I think I got my bullet right there cuz I had to do something. But come on, look at you, man. I said, "I told you. You had it in you. You just stopped believing the lies of him thinking what he's going to tell you is going to crush you, kill you, all that. When you were forced, you did the deal cuz you did the training and it came out." He's like, "Yeah." And that girl actually started training that day. Put her in a uniform. And that's a different story. She was doing her stretches and and then all the guys were kind of looking. Finally, I walked over there. I was like, "Come here." But all of a sudden, uh, you're actually supposed to wear something underneath your geese, [Laughter] sweetie. She was proud. And to find out, she was a dancer dancer. So, I love it. I love it. Easy to be a light, right? All you got to do is love, tell the truth, let the Lord do what he wants to do through you. But unbelief will keep us from seeing God's mighty works being poured out through us.
Now, I'm going to go right to We can talk about healing, miracles, all that, but I'm going to go right to the crazy stuff. You ready? Y'all ready? Jesus verse 7 called his 12 disciples to himself and then he began to send them out two by two and gave them power over unclean spirits. What do you think unclean spirits mean? Where did we ever Did demons have I don't think they got I never assume the horns, but Jesus called the 12 to himself and he be to send them out two by two and he gave them power. Another word is authority over unclean spirits or the demonic. I'm telling you, if Christians could get this into their soul in such a way that you truly believed that God has given you authority over all the demonic realm, your life would be completely different cuz demons do exist. If you truly believe that, say amen. Amen. And it's just not on TV. Demons exist, but it's the fear of the demonic realm that keeps people frozen. And then you blame God. It doesn't work. He's longing and he's going to kill me and he's going to Lord saying, "Oh, you got to use the authority I've given you. You got to use my power. My power. Don't try to use yours. Use mine and see what happens. I stand up here before you and tell you in complete unexaggeratedness of any type. I have seen many people who have been demonized and manifested demons. And I've seen the power of God beat the devil to death. [Applause] Some of you need to have an encounter with a with a demon. Seriously. No, seriously, you do. You I mean that loving in in all lovingness. Some of you need to see the devil's demons through somebody in a situation or some where you just go in the name of Jesus. And the demons go, "Oh, whatever." Okay, I was just joking. I think I'm gonna go over here. And you're like, "Well, this really good. This really works." It's like applying a choke on a dude. At first, you're some struggling. All of a sudden, they're sleeping and you really don't think they're sleeping. You think they're faking. And then you see their hand do that. So, you know, or or they're just like and somebody says you can let him go. Oh, okay. He's sleeping and they come along. Hey, where am I? Where were you? At grandma's house. Running a bicycle. You're in a dojo now. So the power that God has given you through the cross, it says that Jesus came to expose the works of the devil. He did came to expose the works and then really bring shame to the enemy. You know, the only way a demon really has effectiveness over a non-believer or a Christian is through the lies that we believe. the lies. When you believe the lies of the enemy long enough, they become your truth. I I'm preaching. I feel it, honey. I feel it. Maybe it's the suit. I got this from men's warehouse yesterday. Got it free cuz I bought another one. Okay. So, I'll say it again. When you believe the lies of the enemy so long, it then becomes your truth and the enemy can walk away and go, "They got it." We've seen and been able to pray for so many Christians that have what we call demonic assignments against them. You're not It's not possession. It's not demoniz. It's not that. It's just it's the the pneummonic that oppress you. Does any Let me find out here. Maybe there's maybe you don't have demons over here in this region. Maybe they're all in southern cattle. How many you've ever felt really oppressed in your life and you know it wasn't you? Raise your hand. Okay. How many of you have ever had thoughts in your life? thoughts, what what I would call intrusive thoughts that you didn't want and you were just like, "Oh gosh, and you knew it wasn't you." Raise your hand. Look at this. Look at this. You're not alone. Okay. Me, too. All right. The Bible says, "Take every thought captive." Every thought captive. How do you do that? It I don't know about y'all. Show me an easier way. I just kind of go, "All right, that's either God, me, or the devil." Devil, not like big horn, but tiny horn devil, right? One of his demons. And when you know it is from the wicked one, you have to take that thought captive and say, "No, not true. Not true." And replace it with what is true. Do you understand?
I mean, come on. I stand before y'all up here privileged to be able to share the word, right? And I barely got out of high school. I feel you, brother. I feel you. I mean, the the principal today, they they let me walk across the stage and you know how they give you that little thing, the little No, no, no, no, no. They give me a blank one cuz I did some shenanigans out there and he removed it and said, "I'll see you Monday." I was like, "What? School's out?" He goes, "All right." I went there. He goes, "I was going to keep it. We talked about it because of all your trouble you." He said, "But we just decide we're going to give it to you and ask you never come back here again." I was like, "I'm out." True story. How many of you have never heard my story? Raise your hand. You don't know my story. Okay. Can I give you the two-minute version? Just kind of give you an idea. Mom, dad didn't make it. Anybody relate? Okay. Divorce, whatever. When I came along, it was after the fact. Mom kept me, but she she looked at me like a leftover of him. Anybody relate? My father was a drug dealer, a pimp. Anybody relate? What up? Ain't no shame there. Ain't no shame there. I had no control. 14 schools, 17 houses, left for dead when I was 5 years old in a commercial cooler by a child molester. I was electrocuted and tortured as a kid. The doctors and it is in on paper said my mind would never fully function again because of the acute abuse. I've been on debac lithium bar and then you talk about street drugs. I did my own pharmarmacology but God. Amen. All it takes is him. Now because of the baggage that I carried, believe me, even when I gave my life to Christ, it didn't mean I just sailed on. I suffer. But now it's for Christ's sake. And when I engage in spiritual warfare with the enemy, all I know is this. I hate it. But it's worth it. It toughens my soul. It makes me more rugged. And it gives me the f the faith and trust in Christ when he says, "Go to Burma, Victor. I don't even know where it is." and my buddy Dave Eubanks praying me over there. And Dave, if you ever meet Dave, he free Rangers and ATP, we partner together. Right now, we're sending a team into Iraq. It's them. And then we're going to meet them cuz ISIS, they get all like offended, even the extremists. this last year because of some work that we did. We offended extremists online. I got a beheading threat for all the world to see. I was like, what does that mean? Don't ever underestimate low IQ. We can help you out sometime. He says beheading. And then more of them started coming at me. I believe in the power and the faith of God to do amazing things. And I believe in surrounding myself with amazing godly people who have skill sets that we can use in all times. So that's why I'm called on my friends in the intelligence community and special operations world from Navy Seals to Delta Force guys to special forces and say, "Hey guys, you want to play?" And that intel security team that I have that works with us tracked this guy and found the continent he was on, the country he was in, the city in his neighborhood in 45 minutes. So you know what we did? We put a little bag of poop and set on fire on his steps. Rang the doorbell and we all ran now. No, we didn't do that. But I can tell you now that the United Kingdom uh sent their CT unit uh took all of his stuff, slapped him on his wrist, put him on N list because you can't threaten people's lives over the internet, especially when you come from an extremist point of view, Islam. You know the best way we can decrease the extremists, become friends with some Muslims. Are you hearing me? The best way we have of decreasing the chance of extremists being radicalized Muslims is for us to befriend Muslims. Do you know you can be friends with Muslims and you don't even have to agree with them? Y'all look at me like now you you better get back on your medication. Who says I'm off it? just may not be in that therapeutic range. Gotta get some blood work, honey. No, listen. I'm joking. I'm not learning any meds. Uh, it is true. Do you know the Quran only speaks about one woman, one female? One. Her name is Mary. She is the mother of Jesus. Do you know the Quran speaks actually a lot about Jesus as a prophet but one who can make life. Don't be afraid of Muslims. Just like you shouldn't be afraid of I don't know Jehovah witnesses. Sorry, that's all I can think of. For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son. What you don't realize, there are tons of Muslims coming to faith in Christ because of what Islam has turned into with e ISIS or Daish. They're like, if that's the ultimate end, that ain't what we want. Befriend Muslims say, "Hey, I I dare you. I dare y'all. Some of you pastors, go find some Muslim churches. Oh, mosque. We'll go. We'll get official. Go find a mosque and say, "I don't know a thing about meet with the meet with an imam. Pastors say, "I'm over here at this church. I don't know much about y'all, but can I take you to lunch?" Don't take them to eat pork or anything like that. That's, you know, there's a great barbecue place over here. And let me tell you what, just be honest. Go. I don't know much about Muslim, but I got a feeling you probably don't like the extremists and what they're doing and how they're representing your faith. Do you befriend them? Find out about their family. I've got Muslim friends that would give their life for me in a pinch. Probably I know even more than some Christians that I know cuz I've seen Christians under intense situations and let me tell you what, their character was broken. I'm like, "Wow, really? Stop calling yourself a Christian, man. You're bringing us a bad name." Is that too much truth for y'all? It doesn't make my Muslim friends right in their world belief at all. I disagree with them. But I've got atheist friends the same way who give their life for me. I've been in situations when you sneak into Burma on a two-day and you have to avoid the Burmese army for over a month in the jungles and you have to make sure you don't step on a landmine. There was a there was a track a a goat trail that one of the teams was going through small enough you could single man file some of you who are in Vietnam know exactly what I'm talking about. Southeast Asia. I think it was the the ninth or tenth man back stepped on the landmine. All the rest stepped right over it and won. Boom. I've seen the enemy so close in Burma from a recon reporting the atrocities and trying to insert risk and disrupt what they're doing and let the world know that a small patrol was sent out in our direction and we were close. I mean hide-and-seek close. And then boom, unbelievably loud landmine. And guess what? Two of their men were hurt or killed. They stepped on their own landmine. Power of prayer. Cuz if they would have come and found us, there would have been direct active engagement. And it wouldn't have been good for us. Swingshots or whatever. power of prayer, not fearing the enemy. And God has given you the power to overcome the wicked one in your life and then even in others that you need to stand in the gap for them. Don't be scared about a demonic encounter. Just ask people, "Do you want me to pray for you?" Do you know that? I guarantee you if y'all set up a little house here that says if you feel like you're being tormented by demonic forces or oppressed, come in. We'll pray for you, you'll have no shortage of people and it'll be all kinds. And if the devil has invaded somebody's life to the extent that they manifest, don't worry about it. It's not that big of a deal. I pray for a guy. He's all swoll up. You know what I mean? He's inked out. He's big like you, brother. I He's a big boy. He eat a lot of protein. And I was like, and he said, "There's a monster in me. Can you get it out?" I was like, "Oo, that's that's pretty that's pretty pronounced." And when I was praying for him, he started growling and then jumped up to come at me. And I said, "Sticks and stones will break my No, no, I didn't use that one. That was that that that didn't work right there." I just was like, "In the name of Jesus," he froze. His whole body froze and he couldn't move. None of them. Not a bit of him except the corner of his mouth. He was straining. His veins were popping out. You know what he ended up saying to me? He goes, "Help. Help me." I was like, "Oh my gosh, you're like really frozen." Like the power of God is like upon you. I I wanted to like draw eyelashes and Facebook him and do a selfie with him. It's true story. True story. That guy got set free from the demonic powers that had just crushed him, that made him believe lies. And you know what he was? He was a habitual adulterer on his wife. Habitual to the point where he knew he couldn't stop after we prayed for him right there in like 15 minutes cuz I was hungry and I don't want to spend a lot of time totally telling you the truth. True stories of exorcisms. Like I can hurry up, man. I mean, I come out, whatever. I need to eat. That guy gets set free, never cheated on his wife again. Ever. And they got a little baby and when the wife texts us and says, "Oh my gosh, we've seen this everywhere." And believe me, it's not that pronounced. That's so rare. Most of the time you pray for somebody, well, you got oppressiveness on you. Yeah, I don't. Let's pray. Let's just take authority because didn't Jesus say, "I give you whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven." Didn't he give you that type of power? I can't stand when people like, "Well, well, you know, I was like I'm like, God gives us authority." And I love it. You finish reading at the end of six, it says that the guys came back. They went out and preached to the people that they should repent because repentance is a key in anything. Repentance, turning from what you know is wrong. Having a change of mind. Some of you need to repent tonight for unbelief. You have not given the Lord the credit, the glory, and you haven't entrusted all your life with him. you've limited him. And for that, if God shows you that's a sin, that's wrong, then repent. Repent of it. Say, "Lord, gosh, please forgive me. I want to agree with you on how I'm supposed to live." Some of you have believed lies in your life so much has become your truth. And the Lord says, "That's completely contrary to my word." To my word. What do I say about you? I say that you're more than an overcomer. more than you don't have to look at porn be addicted like you do.
can be faithful to your wife. You can have the power of God in you to pray against any demonic forces in your own home. You can, you can. I'll end with this story. I knew a guy who was very good at killing bad people. Very good. I, I spent most of my career training men how to kill other people. It's, it's, it's just the reality of what I did. I spent time in the Marine Corps. And, and I do think we need good men out there who have the ability to help usher people into an eternity that they want as workers of iniquity. Say amen, somebody. I'm just telling you the truth. Hey, I'm, I'm, I'm like God willing that all men should repent and turn. But some that have given themselves over as workers of iniquity should be ushered into eternity apart from God because that's what they've chosen. And you say, "Well, that's not very Christian-like." And I say, "Why don't you hold an 8-year-old girl that was on that screen and know that the rest of her family is gone except one sibling?" Or visit with girls who've been raped 30 times by ISIS fighters before lunch who prefer death over living. And we pray, "God, please stop extremists. Please stop." And he goes, "Okay, I will. I use people who have trained themselves in order to execute judgment and righteousness on earth. Or else this world would be in a greater chaos point than it is." Say amen, somebody. Amen.
And, and uh, uh, my buddy Dave, bad people were shooting at him. I shouldn't laugh, but it's funny. G. He's running and rounds are going in between his legs. True. This is just how it happened. And then one of his guys grabbed the weapon, slung it over, and hit the bad guy giving the command. And, uh, he died and Dave and team went around him because all the other guys, cowards, ran off, their leaders dead. Kill helpless people. They run off. Dave gets in a circle run with his team. Let's pray. Warrior, we are sorry we had to kill you. You're probably a good man, just on the wrong side. And we hope that somehow you came to faith in Jesus Christ to understand his grace. And we just hope that's what happened. But sorry we had to kill you. We had no other choice. Amen. Off to go help save other people's lives. That the same group of men would kill and murder. It's men and women who put themselves in harm's way, willing to sacrifice all that give us the ability to live a life we do here. [Applause] Today. And, and if you're, you know, if you're going to hate on me and all that afterwards, just send me an email. Don't mess with me in the lobby. I flew in today. I'm tired. And if you're going to try to hit me, I'm going to be like, "I'm going to hit you back." So just stop. All right. I just tell you, I, I rely on the Lord for forgiveness, but you're going to suffer consequence, too. Let me close in prayer. I will give an opportunity for you to give your life to Christ. It is that simple. It's that simple. It's not some big deal. I'll give you an opportunity to be prayed for if you feel like there's been oppressive demonic forces against you. Okay? And, and, uh, and I give you a chance to repent for any unbelief in your life that God shows you. It's that simple. It's that simple. Okay, y'all ready to pray? Here we go.
Lord, by the power of your Holy Spirit, we ask that you even now would convict anyone here, myself included, Lord, convict me of sin and unrighteousness and unbelief in my life. And every person here. All those watching, Lord, all those listening, even if it's been months from now, God, would you in such a loving fashion convict us of wrongdoing and sin? If there's anybody here you'd say, "Victor, even now, I really sense the Holy Spirit. I'm thinking of things in my life that are wrong, that are just wrong, that I need to repent of because if I don't, it will get worse for me, and I'm not in good standing with God." If that's you, I'd like to pray for you. Would you raise your hand up real high? Where are you? Raise your hand. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. You and you and you and you. God bless y'all. Right here in the back on the side. God bless you. God bless you. Honey, is that you raising your hand? Do you need to? Do you need to? Are you angry at me? Are you? I bought you flowers. I love you. You're good. Clean. You're pointing your finger. Am I making you laugh? I love you.
If you're here tonight and you say, "Victor, I don't know Jesus Christ. I'm just going to be honest with you. I don't know him. Uh, I've never surrendered my life. I've never trusted him with with my whole life. And I want to tonight. I want to become a born-again Christian. I want to follow Jesus. I want to stop my way of living. And I want to follow the Lord because it's got to be more than what I'm experiencing. I want Jesus tonight." If that's you, can I pray for you? Would you lift your hand up real high and I'll pray for you? God bless you. God bless you. Where else? Who else? Raise your hand up so I can see y'all. It's the Holy Spirit that puts it on you. God bless you, brother. God bless you, ma'am. Good. Good. God bless y'all. Both of you in the back. God bless you over here. God bless you right there. Amen. That's good news. Anybody else? Victor, I need to get born again right now. Tonight's my night. Good. God bless you. Good. Praise the Lord. Over here. God bless you. Yay. Um, this is so great. I love it. Okay. I guess the next person would be Victor. I know Jesus Christ on a personal way. I do, but I've walked away from him and I need to come home. I mean, there's, there's, there's stuff in my life that is separating me. I want to come home. I want to, I really want to come home to the Lord. Would you pray for me? If that's you, would you lift your hand up real high? God bless all of you. Good. Good. That's, that's great. Praise the Lord. Last group and then we're going to pray and then everybody gets to go home. But it's been a good night, hasn't it? It's just been a good night. But I love the endings of what the Lord does. If you feel like the enemy has been hassling you, attacking you, tormenting you, lying to you, oppressing you, and you want a level of freedom you don't have. Raise your hand. We're going to pray for y'all. Look at all those hands. Okay. I love it. I love it. Good. God can. God can. Just believe he can. And he will. And he will.
All right. So, I'm going to pray for y'all, but here's the last thing I do. That whole unbelief. We're going to put you. If everybody stand right now. Let's stand to our feet. Brother's going to play a song while he plays. If you raised your hand for any one of those things, guess what? You get the opportunity to humble yourself before God Almighty and I'm going to have you come forward and then I'm going to pray for y'all while he plays. Just come forward. If in any one of those categories you raised your hands in, feel like the Lord is speaking to me. Come forward and we'll pray. Oh, you are broken. Who are we? All sinners. He's tired and thirsty. He welcomes you home. Don't wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow may not come, but to the arms of the Father is crazy enough. So we open arms with lifted hearts of everything. We count it all as lost, but we surrender at the foot of the cross. Hey, there's some of you that need to come forward. And you know what? The unbelief is coupled with pride. It's pride. It's a sin of pride holding you back, going, "I, I don't want to step out because, you know, I'm, um, uh, you're what? You're like us. One beggar telling another where to get the food." Don't let pride keep you from the freedom that the Lord God Almighty has for you. Cuz that could be the sin in your life. And all you have to do is look behind you in your past. And if that pride has ended up getting you all what we say, burgered up down south, then you just need to go, "Okay, forget it. I'm, I'm walking forward." Take this time right now to come forward. And then we're going to pray. So we run to you with arms. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Jesus [Music] might [Music] Jesus Jesus Jesus. Just call your name. Jesus Jesus. We call your name. Lord Jesus Jesus Jesus. Well, exciting. The word of God is true. And we're going to pray right now for every area that you came up here for. So, first we're going to address the demonic. Then we're going to address those of you who are coming back to Christ. And then we're going to address those of you who are here to surrender your life to the Lord. Does that sound good? All right. So, let's pray believing in the name of Jesus. The mighty name of Jesus, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, whom every knee will bow and every tongue confess that he is God. He is Lord of all. We come before you, heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus. And God, in your power and authority, we address every demonic force that has been assigned against these people. And in the name of Jesus, we cancel out your right to hassle them, to oppress them. And I pray in the name of Jesus, if God is convicting any of you of sin right now, that you would confess that sin before the Lord and say, "Forgive me, God. Forgive me." So the enemy will not have a right anymore. Even now, just ask the Lord to forgive you. Father, I pray that you would cleanse each person up here. Those who are coming back to you and Lord, those who are coming to you for the first time by the power of your blood, Lord, cleanse, make clean, wash, fresh, and new. And put your spirit into them, Lord, in a way that makes them know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you love them, that you're real, and that they're set free and cleansed. I pray right now, Lord Jesus, that you would put in them the power of your Holy Spirit, Lord, to increase their faith again in a way that they would be their greatest testimony. If you're up here and you know you need to pray this prayer, just say this: "Dear Jesus, please forgive me of my sin. I confess that I'm wrong and that I need you. Cleanse me from all unrighteousness. Destroy the works of darkness that have been set against me. I surrender my life to you and I'll make you my Lord and my master. Fill me with your Holy Spirit. Put your Holy Spirit upon me, Lord. And use my life for your glory, even if it means suffering and death for your glory. And in your name, Jesus, I pray. Amen." Amen. [Applause]
Hey, I am so proud of all of y'all. And you know, uh, when we dismiss, we've got folks right over here in this section that will pray for you, that will give you new believer packets so you can grow in your faith or start to come back, right? It's important. And look, this isn't the, this is the beginning. The beginning. And I encourage you, get into the word of God. Get into the word of God. Use the truth. Use the truth. If you want to contact us, you can through our website. We'll pray for you. We'll help you out in any way we can. But I, one thing I ask for y'all. Will y'all pray for us as a ministry? It's so important. The Lord has told me two things. I just came off a 21-day fast. Basically, cuz I'm really spiritual. No, not at all, in spite of me. But the Lord has shown me two things I know I can share with you. One, he said, "Do the work of an evangelist." And look at the fruit tonight. And two, he said, "The fruit of your ministry is only going to be limited by the number of people who will pray for you." Do you understand that? It's the power of prayers that allow us to do what we're going to do. When you saw that video, I told you we're going back. Please, we have a table outside with a copy of my book that we wrote and a copy of the film and we are any donations made to our ministry tonight. 100% of it is going to go for emergency food, uh, clothing for kids up in Singinjar because it's, it's cold up there right now. And I'm telling y'all, we can get gloves for like a buck for kids, shoes, a jacket for $6. We're not shipping it over there. We're buying it there and bringing it up the mountain. Do you understand? And we're taking the risk, but to show them the love of God tangibly. Does that make sense? Tangibly. So any donations, 100% goes to it. And, uh, and, and then we're grateful for you to follow us through prayer, social media, or email list, or whatever. It matters. I love you guys. I thanks for the opportunity, pastor, to come over here and thank you for your prayers. So, anybody that wants to pray, you can go over there. Anybody out at, uh, on the very corner right there and then, uh, we'll be out at the table for a little bit. We can't visit long. We cannot visit long tonight, but please get resources and the resources are free because the price has already been paid. That's how we do it. We give our stuff away and we trust God to provide. That's how we do it. So, God bless you guys. We love you. You're going to call.