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[Music] Brothers who are upstairs can come down here. There are empty chairs here. I am going to beg you, please, right here to your right, look, here we have a father who is holding his baby. Stand up, please raise your hand so we can locate our brothers. Look, there is a father standing. This brother cannot listen to the word for two hours standing up. Please, someone, if there is any empty chair, raise your hand, please. I am going to beg you. Look, there are empty chairs here, brother. Brother of the baby, please help me here, brother. There are empty chairs here, please come over here, brother. Brothers from upstairs, please, I am going to beg you, servers, help us, you can come down here, we have chairs, please. Even Master Jon is standing, right? How tremendous. I still see, right, brother Jorge, come here, brother Jorge, Master Jorge, come here, brother. There are empty chairs here. Glory to God. Come here, please. Help me, please. Apostle Mario Rivera, the pulpit is yours. What the Lord has given you, we receive with all our love. Glory to the Lord. God bless you, my beloved brothers. I want to invite you to pray together to implore God for all these petitions that have been brought by many of you, and so that God may also help us to explain the word this morning, and so that each one of us can receive that word in our hearts and achieve that freedom that we long for, that I am sure we long for on this day. Amen. Raise your right hand, please. Help me to pray. Father, we lift our hands this morning, glorifying your name first, Lord, saying that we are in need of you and that without you we can do nothing. Therefore, we come through this prayer before your altar. We come to your throne, beloved Lord, to present the petitions that your people have brought. You know each one of them, the needs, none escape you. The miracles that are waiting, Lord, you know them all. You know the person who needs them, and that brother and that sister who has brought this petition with faith. I know that for you nothing is impossible, and I place my hand upon them, believing, Lord, that according to your will it will be done in the powerful name of Jesus. Now, help us to be able to expound this word, please, I beg you in the powerful name of Jesus. Amen and amen. Glory to the Lord. You know that since Friday, the Lord has allowed us to introduce the idea of confronting spiritual principalities, in such a way that we want to continue talking about it and focusing this day a little more on each of the principalities that I consider are part of the seven that come to represent in a symbolic, not cabalistic, number, all that range of powers, or rather, principalities that exist in the spiritual realm. We all know that there are diverse entities in that spiritual realm, and we also know through the Word that they are or intervene in our dimension at any moment, it can be constantly that they are intervening with a purpose, and that is to frustrate the advance of the walk of the child of God, it is to affect them in different areas. However, through the Word, that Word that illuminates us, God helps us to understand that any work, however complex it may be, of these entities, I said on Friday, and I want to repeat it, is limited because our Lord Jesus Christ established it that way. They cannot do anything just because they want to do it or because they have the power to do it. There exists a regime of rights that are what they argue to be able to intervene legally in a person, or in a nation, or in a family. What we try to do by explaining during these days about that confrontation is to understand what those arguments are that they can use as rights to request those interventions, in such a way that if there is no right for them to do the work they attempt, that makes me think to tell you that that incursion of the kingdom of darkness into our lives is limited. What we must do is examine our heart, our soul, examine our mind to be able to renounce, if that were the case, brothers, if something were found in any area of our lives that they can use as raw material to develop an operation in our lives. Now, I also said on Friday that it is very difficult to name them all, it is difficult at the same time to enumerate them, brother, in number, the quantity of what they are, brother, that hierarchy of principalities, but when we speak of names, let us understand that these entities are fallen, and that the names they possess today came to take as a name that at the same time explains that they are beings who degraded themselves, who abandoned their preeminence, who abandoned their original position, in such a way that their degradation and their current names show us what then is the type of incursion they will manifest. Now, this is only the general title, confronting spiritual principalities, but today I want to focus specifically on the subtitle I have called destroying the strategies of spiritual principalities. Destroying the strategies of spiritual principalities, that will be the focus in this first participation. So, one of the things I am going to do in this first message is that we are going to learn to confront the principalities of darkness by name, meaning that in our advance of knowing how to confront, it will be necessary for us to know some names to confront each one of them by name. The Bible says, I want to lay a biblical foundation this morning in Ephesians chapter 1, verse 18, the entire verse 23 makes it clear to us what the principle is to be able to overcome it. However, I want to read just one verse. It says then the scripture, or rather three, very much above every principality, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. Verse 22, I am interested in this: and he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. This is our hope, this is our faith, this is our security that the principalities are limited because the scripture says that to him, to our Lord Jesus Christ, he gave all authority over every principality and subjected all things under his feet. This is interesting because then the Bible begins to reveal to us, brother, where the principalities go when they are expelled from a life, from a house, or from a nation. But I want to explain this later. However, I want to focus, as I said at the beginning, on the importance of knowing their names. Perhaps you, on several occasions when the Lord has allowed me to come here, you have heard me emphasize a lot how names are important in spiritual warfare. That we cannot confront a power, for example, by saying, whoever you are, or whatever your name is, go away, or I cast you out. That would only reveal the ignorance of that man or woman who is trying to confront, and that would give the spiritual world an advantage by knowing that someone is lacking that principle of identifying them to know what their office is. So, the Bible lets me see that the name reveals the character of every power, be it a brother, an authority, a governor, or a principality, and in this case, it is that of a principality. Where am I basing this on? From the Gospel of Mark, chapter 5, verse 9. You remember the narration of that verse, or we can read it here, where Jesus arrived in that region known as the region of the Gadarenes, and the Bible says that when he faced a man who was demon-possessed, Jesus asked, "What is your name?" Note how interesting this is. And the answer that came from that demon who had that man captive was, "My name is Legion, for we are many." It revealed the nature, the character, and the office when he answered, "for we are many." My name is Legion, for we are many. Now, this word, "What is your name?" is the word *onoma*, which means proper name. It can also mean a universal name that defines the character or authority that one has. Yesterday we spoke, or rather on Friday, we spoke about the different levels of authority, and in the explanation I gave, I mentioned one of the levels that corresponds to the level of a legion, and that legion was composed at that time, in the days of Jesus, of 6,826 spirits in a single person. So, Jesus knew at that moment, by discerning, by forcing that demon to identify itself, the Lord realized how much strength the principality had at that moment. So, names undoubtedly have a meaning because they represent something. Listen to what I am telling you: names represent something. Another example, I see it here in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 13, verse 32. Note what the Lord Jesus declares again these words and says, "Go and tell that fox," and he was referring to Herod, "I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my purpose." Interesting, because we are hearing the most ethical man who ever walked this earth, the man whom I can consider did not make that kind of joke, to call someone using a nickname or a derogatory term. Jesus never joked within that spiritual realm. Jesus, our deliverer, who knows the principles of spiritual warfare better than anyone, brother, because he was the man who most occupied himself during his ministry with bringing people to that freedom, in such a way that he could not be joking with something like that. Rather, Jesus was speaking of the power that was reigning in Herod, of the spirit that moved in the heavenly realms, in the heavenly places, and that influenced Herod's life. So, Jesus revealed the existing name that influenced Herod. "Interesting, tell that fox what I am going to do." Note that Jesus, who knew so much about spiritual warfare, perhaps the author of the principles of spiritual warfare in favor of the needy to bring them to that freedom, occupied a third of his ministry casting out unclean spirits and demons. A complete ministry dedicated to preaching, teaching, healing, a third of that ministry he used liberating the needy. So, note how names are taking on importance in this. Now, why, why is it important, brother, that we understand this? Because when a name is mentioned, there will be an activity in the celestial realm. I want to tell you that for the world of spirits of darkness, the pronunciation of their name by those who worship them is important, by those who are like offspring of these spirits, of these principalities, those who are representatives here on earth of those principalities are the ones who pronounce the name of a principality with the purpose of provoking it to enter into activity. So, a principality gains fame when it is pronounced a lot, in such a way that the spirits will also fight to prolong and perpetuate that their name is kept on the lips of many people who await their intervention, because in that way they perpetuate themselves in the dimension of the earth, they prolong their intervention here on earth. However, there is a great difference for us who are the church of our Lord Jesus Christ. That is, I know you may be thinking, well, what is the point of us pronouncing them? And there is a great difference, because in the church, we who are called to confront principalities can mention the names of these only to expel them, to cast them out, to bind them, and to tie them in the powerful name of our Lord Jesus Christ. In such a way, there is a great difference between pronouncing their names to prolong their activity and pronouncing the name to manifest that we have identified them and that we know their nature, their office, their authority, or hierarchy, and that the authority we now have is to cast them out in the powerful name of Jesus. So, there is a great difference in that. Now, note also that it is important in the advance of how to confront them to know their destiny. I said at the beginning, where do they go when we expel them? For example, there is a great difference in where the principalities go and where the hosts go. The principalities, from the passage we read as a basis, I can see that these brothers, when they are expelled, must always go to the feet of Christ, because they are fallen glories. The promise that the Father gave to our Lord Jesus was to put his enemies under the soles of his feet. Now, in Christ, we also receive that promise, in such a way that the Bible says that the God of peace will crush Satan and all his hosts under your feet shortly. Why can we do it? Because we are in Christ, and Christ is in us, and we are, brother, in this confrontation of being hindered to obstruct their intention in this final time we are living. In such a way that when we learn to confront, the Lord will give us the virtue, the power, the grace to be able to neutralize them in everything they are doing, to neutralize all negative effects that a principality is exerting in some place. That power the Lord is granting to each one of us who believe that the authority given to the Lord is over all principality. How many believe it in the name of Jesus? Now, note, I return to the charge then with this passage: very much above every principality, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church. Praise be to the Lord. Now, returning to the point of where the hosts go, they must be sent to the abyss, or to some region in the underworld, or to some region in the world, or in the realm as the Spirit guides, where they go. Matthew chapter 8, verse 32. Listen to this interesting passage. It says, "Then he said to them, 'Go.'" And they went out and entered the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and perished in the waters. A figure of the abyss, a figure, but they really drowned, brother, in the waters. What does it mean? Jesus, guided by the Spirit of the Father, sends the 6,826 spirits who came out of that Gadarene to enter the pigs. Some versions say there were approximately 2,000 pigs. Do the math, how many spirits were distributed according to the pigs, to see then that according to the Lord's guidance, one can determine. But what is typical in expulsion is to send them to the abyss. Now, these are principles that when we recognize or discern if it is a principality, it must always go to the feet of Christ. Under that principality, any other rank can go, brother, to the abyss or any other region as the Spirit guides us to do so, but the principality must go to the feet of Christ. Now, I want to remind you then that I was using as a symbol of the system, of what allows me to see in symbolism the number of principalities, this dragon with seven heads, and I already explained what the heads mean. But then I want to remind you who these principalities are. One of them is the principality Moloch, or the spirit of Moloch. It is the principality Beelzebub, the principality Baal, the principality Asmodeus, the principality Zeus, the principality Diana, and the principality that we said, brother, does not have a specific identity but is in the environment. Likewise, in the seven names of the seven principalities of witchcraft, six are identified, a seventh has no name. And likewise, I am using the same basis to remember what principality it is that we face on Friday and what is ours this morning. What then is it that we are going to do? Confront. And what is confronting? According to some very simple definitions of what a confrontation is, for example, to confront is to place one thing, listen, this is important, in front of another to ascertain the truth or falsehood of both. The meaning of biblical confrontation and in spiritual warfare, to confront is to defend yourself from the accusations or attacks that the enemy makes. That is confronting. Now, the biblical basis I am using to declare that principle catches my attention, it is Acts 25:16. There the Bible says, "I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to deliver any person before that he who is accused has met his accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the charge laid against him." It is applied to the goodness of God and the mercy of God. Note how the Lord allows each one of us the opportunity to confront the one who accuses us, the opportunity to defend ourselves from the charges that a principality is using as an argument to request an intervention, brother, against our life. Do you not think that is wonderful, that the Lord always extends his mercy to us and gives us the opportunity to defend ourselves from our accuser and from all charges that the enemy is trying to bring against us? That is confrontation. That is confronting. Confronting, in the first place, let me explain it this way: it is not putting on gloves, getting into a ring with a demon and saying, "Now, demon, let's see how it goes." Confronting is defending yourself from accusations. Confronting is defending yourself from charges. However, to be able to confront principalities and defend myself from those accusations, I must demonstrate my integrity. The basis of that confrontation is the integrity of our life, it is your integrity, and the word integrity means that what I think, I speak, and what I speak, I live. So, if I live with integrity, I can limit any attack of a principality against my life and my home. Now, I hope you have understood me up to this point, because this is where we are going to start with the good stuff. So, one of the seven principalities I want to talk about on this first occasion is the one that operates with the name Asmodeus, may the Lord rebuke him. Now, to be able to explain who this entity is, I have to give you, brother, a bit of history, because I said on Friday that it is useless to want to intervene in the realm of spiritual warfare if we do not have sufficient knowledge regarding what we are doing. That is why part of my work when I am invited to speak about spiritual warfare or give a deliverance seminar is to make sure that those who listen to me have sufficient material, they can have, if you will, extensive information that will give them the capacity to know what they are facing in this spiritual confrontation. Now, this is important because the name Asmodeus can be called by different names. For example, there is a name used in some regions that is Asmodai, another is Sinon, another is Shadai, Asmodeus, and Asmodeus are the names that have to do with Asmodeus, as we pronounce it. Now, where does the information come from? Well, there is study material that is specifically for Jews called the Talmud. Among that material, they have what are called treatises on demonology. In that section, they have a lot of information regarding who Asmodeus is. It is said in that part that its origin is in the religion of Mazdaism, or Zoroastrianism, which was a very ancient religion that the Persians practiced. So, Asmodeus enters the scene in the history of Judaism during the time when this people was under Persian rule, and we are talking approximately from the century before Christ. And later, it also entered as information within Christianity in the era of the second century before Christ. So, just imagine the time that has passed since people began to realize certain characteristics of attacks from powers they did not know, and some discerned through a spirit that God gave, or others by the knowledge they acquired in this territory of spiritual warfare, they were able to define who this power was. Now, Asmodeus, I want to explain to you what it symbolizes, what Asmodeus does, what its specialty is in its incursions, what it intends, what it does. For example, Asmodeus is presented first as the symbol of carnal desire. That is the main thing. Carnal desire for him is like a receptor, it is what he can smell for, brother, an operation against that person. Asmodeus is also derived from a word pronounced *ashm daeva*, which in the Abic language, which is one of the ancient Iranian languages, translates as "demon of wrath" or "demon of anger." So, here we see that in addition to being the symbol of carnal desire, he is also the one who influences human character with one of the problems known as anger. This entity is also known in other cultures, which is why it has the different names I pronounced a moment ago, such as Asmodeus, Asmodus, Asmodai, Asmad, Asmodian, or rather, Asmodai in Romanian, among others. So, note how European countries also have some knowledge of this entity called this. Now, in the Hebrew texts, listen to this, this is very important what I am going to say, because this will help me to teach you how to confront them. Point four, I want you to pay attention, it says that in the Hebrew texts, Asmodeus appears as a member of one of the highest hierarchies. Some texts say he belonged to the hierarchy of seraphim. Listen to this, interesting, because he is a principality, but in what is known as the angelic hierarchy, which defines how the levels or hierarchies of the angelic hierarchy are structured, seraphim occupy the first place. And remember that when we began confronting the principalities of darkness, it was said that these were creations that took place in the first instance of that creation, so we are talking about entities that were created first, therefore they had high hierarchical positions, and one of those is the hierarchy of seraphim. This is important. Now, also in the context of the history of Christianity, this demon, this demon was worshipped, was worshipped from the time of the Middle Ages by the sorcerers and witches of that era. It was the power to which they gave information, they gave reports, they gave everything they did, and according to the history of witchcraft of that age, it is supposed that according to the report they presented, they, or she, received, brother, more capacity to be more effective in the work of occultism and darkness they did here on earth. So, in summary, this is the principality of lust and also of seduction. So, we return to the charge once more. Who is this principality, Asmodeus? If I only say that it is the one behind the desires of the flesh, that can also be in a character out of control like anger, and that it is the principality of seductions and lust. Interesting that we are defining its operations. So, it is the one that causes unbridled or carnal desire. It is, listen to this, the one that causes and is in revenge, in the desire for revenge, or in the spirit of revenge. It is the one that is also behind anger, behind seduction, behind lust. Asmodeus, listen to this, is in rank 32 of the list of the most powerful principalities at this moment, but it is a fallen principality from the rank of seraphim. And Asmodeus then commands a chain of operation of 72 legions of spirits. Do the math, 72 times 6,826, it is not any principality. This morning I dared to touch this first topic because we want to confront and limit it so that it no longer has a place to operate. The desire of my heart, and I know it is of God, is that none of us here become ground for the incursions of Asmodeus, but that all opportunity be closed to him and all that he attempts to do against our lives and our families be limited. Now, note then who this principality is. Now, brothers, this entity of Asmodeus also has the following characteristics. This is a drawing that has been used for a long time regarding who Asmodeus is. For example, in that drawing, we can describe that it is an entity whose face and torso are human, and that in addition, it rides, listen to this, on a dragon, carrying a spear, and has three heads: one of a ram, a bull, and an ogre, figures all commonly associated with the licentious, what has to do with libertinism, with lust. Note what I am saying. Also, in a dictionary known as the Infernal Dictionary, written by Collin de Plancy, do not read it, please. Asmodeus also has rooster legs, a bird known for its sexual vigor. It also possesses a serpent's tail and rides a lion with the neck and wings of a dragon, creatures associated with desire and vengeance. Every sorcerer who worships him at their altar has this figure, in such a way that his figure reveals what he does. You know that there is also another power, I want to make a parenthesis, called Lilith, whose habitat is described in the book of Isaiah, and what accompanies her. The Bible says that according to discoveries, or rather archaeological discoveries, the Bible describes that she is, brother, with jackals, with owls, that the he-goat is there with her, but in archaeological discoveries, her figure has also been found accompanied by all those other animals that represent the structure to which she belongs and with which she also incurs. Likewise, Asmodeus is an entity, brother, that when it makes its appearance, it is accompanied by those multiple faces, by those figures, brother, that could be like hybrids, what we are seeing. Interesting, for that very reason, many Christian theologians today have given Asmodeus the equivalent of Abaddon, according to the book of Revelation, who is the king of the abyss who manages certain locusts that are also of a hybrid nature, based on the figure of Asmodeus. Now, let us move on to the chain of operation of this power. For example, its chain of operation is constituted by the following hosts of principalities and hosts. In addition to that, there can be a principality that works in association with this principality of Asmodeus. I said that he leads 72 legions, but to give you an idea of some of them, which is important for you to grasp what we are going to confront: Asmodeus is in charge of lust, concupiscence, sexual problems, masturbation, prostitution, bestiality, abuse, lesbianism, homosexuality, fornication, adultery, and divorces. The most frequent problems. The last thing I cited, divorces, catches my attention. That means that he is behind the divorces that occur due to infidelity and adultery. He specializes in provoking that, in such a way that we need to break with all of that, annul all of that, and God will give us the revelation of how to do it this morning. Let us give palms to the Lord then. Listen to this: Asmodeus, the principality against marriage. Asmodeus was the author of divorces due to adultery. I said in the Jerusalem Bible, there, brother, the name of Asmodeus appears under the term "the one who causes to perish." When you read in the Jerusalem Bible that expression and go to the original to see the root of that term, the word Asmodeus appears, and it is attributed to Asmodeus that he killed men. Listen to what he did before the consummation of marriage, that he was an enemy of marital union. In Judaism, they relate him to the name "esma," which is the same as Asmodeus, and this comes to take on a character of influence of a principality that influences this at a global level. All these bases that I am giving you, I have taken from one of the books that we do not read, but it is there in the Jerusalem Bible. So, I give you all that information so that we know what Asmodeus is like. Now, look who he is within the seven principalities of witchcraft. So, Asmodeus within witchcraft is called Lars, of the seven names we mentioned, Lars, demon of witchcraft, listen to this, of sexual lust, adultery, and other sexual pleasures. We are emphasizing the same thing. Lars is the author of severing the system of values, the spiritual system, the moral system, and the system of conscience. He is the author of severing, destroying, finishing, perverting, and one of the greatest successes heard with this, my beloved brothers, of Lars is illicit sex. This is crucial for witchcraft, meaning a person involved in illicit sex is very vulnerable to witchcraft that comes through Asmodeus or Lars. Note how this operates: for a spawn, a sorcerer of Asmodeus, to succeed in bewitching a person with adultery or infidelity, that sorcerer must surrender to lust, must prostitute themselves, that sorcerer must surrender to disordered sex in order to function as an emitter. In such a way, if a person has problems with illicit sex, they become the receiver of that sorcerer, and the witchcraft is effective on that person because that is the raw material that Asmodeus uses. So, we, my beloved brothers, have the opportunity this morning to remove all types of raw material that Asmodeus wants to use to develop a work in our lives. This is the moment in which we must learn to examine our hearts, our lives, to be like an inventory of our lives of all those things in which we have been weak, in those things that have served, brother, as a stumbling block in our walk, that have come to be the reason for our attacks, the reason for our falls, the reason for dealings with our lives. Brother, when we speak of confronting, it is not by shouting, it is not by the position I have as pastor or as apostle, but it is about recovering that system of values, that system of spiritual principles, of recovering that morality that the scriptures themselves dictate to us, the limits of modesty that the Spirit of God himself places on each one of us. It is about recovering integrity in our lives to be able to confront him in the name of Jesus. I am not saying that someone who has committed a fault does not have the opportunity this morning to be freed from it. Of course, they do. I am saying that this is a juncture in time that the Lord is allowing us, brother, so that by examining our lives, we can renounce all of that and then recover integrity through faith and through action that can be prophetic, brother, in such a way that the Lord will give us the solvency to confront him in the name of Jesus. Let us give palms to the Lord of glory with all our hearts. Now, are you ready? So, I have finished my introduction. So, how do we confront this principality? I want to tell you that in spiritual warfare, the garment we will use will not always be the same. The Bible speaks of us being soldiers of the army. Paul himself, brother, writes in Ephesians a chapter that we read at every moment and that narrates the description of the Roman soldier's attire. It strikes me that this attire is what we generally use, but when it comes to facing entities whose operation is to profane lives, to profane the soul, to profane the body, and to intoxicate, leaving thus a stain, brother, within the soul that denotes that that person at that moment does not have the solvency to confront it. So, now we must know that in the Bible, that attire that we need does appear. Before coming to the front here, I was reading a passage that the Lord placed in my heart, and I remember in biblical history when a man named Abraham, the scripture says that after defeating King Chedorlaomer and five other kings, he presented himself before Melchizedek. Melchizedek is the priesthood, it is the priestly order in which we are. We are kings and priests in the order of Melchizedek, a priesthood that represents justice, that represents peace, but it is a priesthood of the Most High. In such a way that those who are part of that priesthood, you and I, have been elevated to a higher level. Why? Because it is a battle of principals against principals. It is a battle of princes of the people of God against principalities of the kingdom of darkness. The Bible says that before going to fight against the King of Sodom, the scripture says that Melchizedek blesses Abraham and says, "Blessed be Abraham of God Most High, who elevated him to the highest level, and says, and blessed be God, creator of heaven, he gave the spiritual realms to Abraham, the dominion of those realms, and creator of the earth, he also gave him the earthly dimension to be fulfilled." So, why did Jesus always give his ministers everything? "Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." The Bible says in the originals: "Whatever you do not permit on earth will not be permitted in heaven." Listen to what it says: "Whatever you release on earth will be released in heaven." Two different things when you look at the originals, the words used. That is liberation. So, against principalities, it is not allowing them here so that in heaven they are not allowed. Releasing here what they have captured, so that in heaven the order of that liberation is given. So, we will confront them by saying, "I do not permit you here on earth," and in heaven the echo of my angelic hosts will be heard saying, "Asmodeus will no longer be permitted." When you say on earth, "I release," thousands of voices will say, "The order for the liberation of all things that Asmodeus had captured is also being given." I believe it and I trust it. Palms to Jesus. Praises to his name. So, note, as I said at the beginning, in the Hebrew texts, Asmodeus appears as a member of one of the highest hierarchies in what concerns angelology, in such a way that it is attributed to the seraphim. So, who are the seraphim? The meaning of the word seraphim is that they are burning beings or beings of fire, and they are known as the flaming burning flames. One of the things seraphim do is that they have the power to purify. When this power falls from that realm, it becomes the antithesis, and then it knows that it cannot purify, but its task is to contaminate, to profane, to intoxicate. In such a way, then, the seraphim who are aligned with God occupy the first rank of the category of angels or angelology. Now, why am I mentioning this, brother, and you will see what God can do this morning in our favor? You will realize, brother, in the territory where we are, a seraphim is surely in a congregation where there is freedom of worship, in such a way that you in this place are blessed by the level of worship that God gives you, and here there can be a participation of entities from God with the purpose of liberating and purifying and restoring your integrity to have then the solvency to stop these entities. The book of Isaiah reveals then the virtue of these seraphim. It says the scripture: "Then I said, 'Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.'" Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged." The last prophecies that were given this morning were focused on speaking, brother, about the sin that God will judge and how God will judge that sin when we accept God's call to come and cast our burdens, our inclinations, our weaknesses, our sins, and the Lord will then remove them from our lives, and we will be purified. What God is going to do has a very powerful meaning because it will lead us to recover the purity with which Asmodeus is defeated. The meaning of purity, then, is to return to being pure, clean, to the person. It is to return to the purity of the mind, to the person. It is to walk, to that person. Note this that I am going to say, in the good sense of the word, but based on the Old Testament, but I am going to give you the symbolism this morning: to make oneself ceremonially or ritually clean, to practice honor, or to become a person of honor. So, when we are introduced into that process to achieve purity, we are sealed with the state that means or is called purified, and that expression means the state or condition where blessing is capable of resting there. That is, a purified person comes to establish themselves in a state where the condition they have is that he or she is capable of retaining and that the blessing of God rests upon them. All blessed be his name, the capacity to retain the blessing, that is what God wants in our lives. That is why the scripture says that he who loves purity of heart has grace on his lips. Again, the mouth, and the king is his friend. How many want Christ as a friend? So, mental, physical, and spiritual cleansing is not achieved with a ritual but with a daily struggle that you are winning to rise up. God wants, God expects, God longs for you to rise up each day, each moment. If the battle came, if an attack came, do not remain discouraged, brother. There is an opportunity for you. The favor of God can be for you this morning. The blood of Christ can purify you. The power of the Spirit can lift you up. You can rise up. Fight that first battle. Say, "I will rise up."
I will remain prostrate. I am going to come to understand the importance of purity in my life, and I will then clothe myself in the manner in which Asmodeus is confronted. Then, Asmodeus is not confronted with the armor of Ephesians 6:12, but rather is confronted with a garment of purity, represented in the priestly vestments. Today you will know what the priesthood is, from what you already know. Let me add a grain of sand. Today you will realize that in the priesthood, we see reflected the importance of purity in order to penetrate then, territories without fear of being contaminated, because integrity in our lives, your integrity and mine, makes us solvent for any attack from this principality, Asmodeus. You know how today, in the society in which we live, wherever we go, we are being bombarded at every moment by images, by influences, by subliminal messages, by intentional messages that aim, brother, to change our mentality of purity, to change our soul, and even to lead our body to practice, to participate in things that are, brother, not accepted or acceptable by God. That is the daily battle. Perhaps at times we can enter places where it was not our intention to go, it was not our will to go, but rather, due to some circumstance, we penetrate certain spheres that are plagued with influences, that are spiritual atmospheres that some brothers have authorized for spirits to enter this earthly atmosphere, spirits that come with the intention of affecting, of contaminating, of clinging to our clothes, of clinging to our bodies like vector spirits within the house, and they often operate during the early morning when our body rests, when our mind has been bombarded by erotic fantasies, what do I know. Then they arise to try to contaminate us, but if we are clothed all the time, understanding the time, to be redundant, that we are living, then if we are living and clothed in purity, due to any circumstance that we have entered some place, God will not allow intoxication to enter through any of the doors, which are the doors of the soul, neither through what you hear, nor through what you see, nor through what you are going to smell, nor through what you are going to consume with your mouth, nor through what you are going to touch, much less will it enter through the gates of our soul. It will not be the old areas that will serve as gates, because that vestment has the greatest symbolism of purity with which God wants to clothe you to be able to confront Asmodeus. First we will deliver, and then we will clothe, and then we will confront Asmodeus. You will remove him from your life, you will remove him from your house, you will remove him from your lineage. God wants you and me to be, brother, the priest who will neutralize Asmodeus, who will stop him. Now the house where Asmodeus entered will no longer be poor, but rather Asmodeus will be poor, who entered that house where there is a priest clothed in purity. Blessed be God. Now look. Then I will go quickly because of how much I want to address each part of that vestment. It has the same power as the vestment of the armor of the Roman soldier. Now it is with integrity that we confront Asmodeus, with purity that we confront Asmodeus. One of the parts that the priest had was called the pectoral, and the pectoral's numerical value in biblical gematria is 426 + 358 + 2 = 789. 789 is the same numerical value as the word "pursuing justice," because we are priests in the order of Melchizedek, king of peace and king of justice. We have to pursue justice. The pectoral was to prevent the distortion of justice and not fall into injustice. The pectoral was for the priest as the source of his justice given by God. The pectoral, then, was to combat and fight against injustice. Remember what I told you then, that we have the right to defend ourselves from our accusers, and we have the opportunity, brother, to defend ourselves from that which is not true and which is a false accusation that is being raised. If we clothe ourselves with this first element, it means taking God's justice in our chest and living with it to confront all the injustice of the spiritual world, and in this case, of the principality Asmodeus, who committed an injustice by falling from the hierarchy of seraphim. Second, the ephod. Its numerical value in gematria is 91, and 91 is the same numerical value as the word "Amen." The ephod was the vestment that went under the pectoral and represented the true faith of worship to the one God. The ephod was for the priest what freed him from idolatry and from being subservient to other gods. The ephod was to combat and fight against idolatry, against the world of gods, against the world of principalities. How many say Glory to God for that! The robe. Its numerical value in gematria is 158, and one hundred, pardon, 150. And 150 is the same numerical value as the expression "appropriate words," which are 64 + 85 + 1 = 150. The robe was the vestment that freed him from slander and negative words and accusations. Listen to this, brother. The next is what is called in the Bible "inner garments" or "undergarments." Its numerical value in gematria is 220. 220 is the same numerical value, listen, of the words "sexual purity." Interesting, brother. 219 + 1 = 220. The undergarments were the piece that reminded him that he had to guard himself from sexual immorality and all sexual sin. It is interesting that the words related to the gematria of the undergarments mean sexual purity. The next was the tunic. Its numerical value is 870. 870 is the same numerical value as the expression that means "with a peaceful heart on earth," 293 + 409 + 32 + 35 + 1 = 870. The tunic was white, reaching to the feet of the robe, and it freed the priest from shedding blood. He was innocent and it helped him combat the slaughter of the earth, since the tendency outside of Israel was the slaughter of human beings. So the tunic, which had to do with a peaceful heart on earth, also represents that in spiritual warfare, in the mind of a pure person, the Bible says, "and the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly." A war that is waged in peace because you have purity, and purity is the solvency of integrity that you have to tell Asmodeus, "You cannot against me, Asmodeus, because I have clothed myself with garments of purity." The turban. Its numerical value is 660, and this is the same value as the words, listen to this: "He will have a humble spirit." [Music] A humble spirit. This appears in the beatitudes, and a humble spirit is a spirit in a man or woman who is always in need of God, who always feels in need of God, who will always be in need of Him, who will cry out to Him every day, who is in need, and will always have God's intervention in favor of their life. So the turban was the piece that he wore on his head and freed him from falling into haughtiness of spirit. His head was protected. The sash. Its numerical value in gematria is 62, and this is the same value as the words "to contemplate," according to the Old Testament, the words of the Torah. But for us, it means to contemplate the words of the Holy Scriptures. Amen. Which means 42 + 19 + 2 = 62. The sash was the piece that was tied around the waist. It was to gird his loins with the truth of God. It freed him from heresy and false doctrines. This part of the body was where the sash was girded, brother, and it represented, and represents for us, that purity must always be nourished by the abundance of the word of God on your loins, tied to your waist, because in that you will find your strength, protected and founded in the word of God, and Asmodeus will not be able to do anything against us. Lastly, the diadem with the letters that say "Holiness to Jehovah." Its numerical value is 191, and this is the same value as the words "in honor of God and of all people." That is why I spoke to you about honor and respect before, because it has to do with the fact that holiness in the mind of the man and woman of God also connects them with the culture of honor. Remember that the principle of honor is that God honors those who honor Him, and there are different levels of honor. There is the first level of honor that belongs to God. After the level of honor comes honor to parents, honor to biological parents, honor to spiritual parents, honor to ministers also comes, and brother, honor, beloved brother, to different hierarchies. But those to whom honor is given must all be givers of life. That is why honor, the culture of honor, is for those who have received the life of God, and that is why God is the first to whom honor is given, because He is a source of life. Parents are a source of life, and ministers are a source of life. If we honor these levels of honor, we are in a culture of honor, and that determines that you and I have a mentality of holiness that keeps us in that purity and in that peace. Give applause to the Lord of glory. Then, fight the war against Asmodeus, the entity that corrupts, the entity that seduces, the entity that intoxicates, the entity that operates now in antithesis, that after knowing and being in the nature of being an entity that purified, that said "Holy, Holy, Holy," is now an entity that moves the unclean, that moves, brother, profanation, and that we can only overcome with a garment of purity. And to obtain it, we must surrender and recognize all that Asmodeus has sown in our hearts to be able to have the solvency to clothe ourselves. Before receiving his vestments, the priest was cleansed with water, anointed with oil, and clothed, and he could function and penetrate spiritual dimensions. You and I can do it, and God will place within your heart the conviction that a level of authority that we did not have has arrived, and that will be confronting principalities. I want to invite you, on this first opportunity, to dare, then, this morning, first to renounce all of this, whatever the enemy may have wanted to sow, in order to then clothe ourselves with that garment of purity. I know that this morning God has spoken to many people. I know that the Spirit has been convicting some people that it is time to rise up and overcome the influence of Asmodeus. I want to invite you to place on your feet. I believe we have taken advantage of the time, we have advanced enough to be able to minister this morning. We are going to remove receivers that serve Asmodeus as a landing strip. Those who have suffered what I have tried to explain under the term profanation and have struggled with it. People who were sexually abused from childhood, perhaps the abuse was not consummated, perhaps there was only a touch, and that has affected you, prejudiced you, so that even if you are part of a virgin church, perhaps you lack the purity to complete the level of a pure virgin. Perhaps due to some emotional or sentimental problem, you surrendered to sexual sin, and your body and your soul were profaned. God wants to restore your purity today. God does not condemn you or accuse you. What God wants, through His Spirit, is to touch your heart, to lead you to repentance so that you may confess this morning and separate yourself forever, and that the influences, the negative thoughts that try to affect you, can no longer come. There are people who have been victims of witchcraft, of sorcery. There are people who have been pursued by negative things for a long time, constant accidents in their family, premature deaths, illnesses with which you have struggled, you have been physically worn out, you have spent all your resources, and perhaps you have come to say, "I have nothing left." This is the moment when the Lord can take action. Asmodeus cannot operate except by having an argument where he requests to intervene legally. Let us remove them. Begin to renounce something that you have detected in your life, brother. That is our battle. That is what God wants us to do. No one can do anything for you, no one, if first you do not renounce. There is no minister on the face of the earth in this era with so much anointing to break chains if first there is no renunciation, if first there is no repentance, if first you do not reject, repudiate, abort in the name of Jesus. Identify, please, help me, if you have been under the siege of Asmodeus. Let's go. This is your battle. Fight it. The Holy Spirit will give you the words, He will give you the conviction. Let's go, church, blessed of God, men and women, young and old. Let's abort the receiver. That's right, groaning, crying. You have already identified it. You know that it is Asmodeus, and Ram. Asmodeus will be defeated this morning. Asmodeus will be defeated by the power of Christ, by the faith of my brothers, by the desire to be free of them, by the longing to cut off this principality from the bloodline forever. Let's go, brother. The Lord has already begun to break the chains. [Music] Some will leave. That spirit entered through one door and has seven to leave. Asmodeus, in the name of Jesus, I confront you today and I give you the order to leave. Through one door you entered, and you have seven to leave, from above and from below. Out, out, Asmodeus! I call you to battle in the name of Jesus! Free, brother! We break all witchcraft! Free! May I see me! My sister! Free! Free! By the finger of Jehovah! His name! In the name of Jesus! I rebuke you, Asmodeus! I rebuke you! At the feet of Christ, I order you! Free! Free! Out of your life! By the finger of Jehovah! Out! Uprooted in the name of Jesus! The influence of Asmodeus is broken! I need servants to help me minister, please, in the name of Jesus! Free! Free! Blessed people! The time of your visitation has come! The power of Christ to break your chains, your bonds, in the name of Jesus! Out! Emerge! In the name of Jesus, and free! This is your day! Free! Free! Free! Emerge! Everything, come out of your hiding places! Asmodeus! Emerge! Emerge! By the finger of Jehovah! Free! Free! Free! Out! The finger of Jehovah! Out! In the name of Jesus! Free! Out! Emerge! Subdue! We subdue Asmodeus in the name of Jesus! Free! Free! Free! By the finger of Jehovah! Man, this is your day! This is your day! This is your day! Free! In the name of Jesus! Free! [Music] Free! Power of God! Power of God! Power of God! In the name of Jesus! Free! Free! Man! Free! I proclaim your [Music] freedom! I proclaim your freedom in the name of Jesus! In the name of Jesus, that chain of Asmodeus is broken! The chain of Asmodeus is broken! There, in the back, receive the power of Christ that liberates! Cry out for your freedom! We unleash liberation! We unleash liberation! We unleash liberation! We unleash liberation! In the name of Jesus! Receive! We unleash that power! We unleash that power! Man, touch Him! M! In the name of Jesus! Freedom! I proclaim your freedom! Those battles you have been having, I uproot them today! I order Asmodeus: Out! Out! In the name of Jesus! Receive! Receive your freedom! In the name of Jesus! You are uprooted from all evil influence over your life, and I proclaim your liberation! I proclaim your freedom! I proclaim your liberation! There in the middle, receive the liberation of the Christ of glory! [Music] I order! Go to the feet of Christ! In the name of Jesus! Now, you begin to confront Him! Let's go! Begin to rebuke Him! Raise your voice, people! Tell Asmodeus: I rebuke you! Asmodeus! I order you to leave my house! Come out of my family! Begin to deliver a member of your family, even if they are not here, even if they are not parents, the children! Confront them, because you are solvent to do so! Fight the battle for your lineage! Fight the battle for those in your house! Tear him away from the dominion of Asmodeus! Out, spirit of lust! Out, spirit of laziness! We break with adultery, with the problems of the flesh! There is the Lord working! There is your Lord supporting you! [Music] Backing you up! In the name of Jesus! Receive! Receive! Receive! Let the Lord deliver you! Get up! Look at me, sister! Sister! Sister who is looking at me! Mama! Open your eyes! What is her name? I proclaim your freedom! I tell Asmodeus: You have no more authority over your life! I declare you released! I declare you free! Everything, emerge! Emerge! Everything! [Music] Out! Out! In the name of Jesus! Free! In the name of Jesus! Powerful! [Music] From their hands! Father, in the name of Jesus, as priests of a new order, we come receiving the garment of purity in our lives, in this people, men and women, young and old, apostolic. I am declaring the word that today clothes you with a garment of purity, a priestly garment, so that Asmodeus may never again have dominion over you. I declare, listen well, Asmodeus, I have removed the receivers that serve you, and I declare this people in integrity, in cleanliness, and in purity, in the powerful name of Jesus! Jesus! [Music] Raise your hands! In the name of Jesus! Father, in the name of Jesus, we renounce every spirit of counterattack, every spirit of vengeance. We close ourselves to every spirit. No spirit of intimidation or fear will come. We declare ourselves in the written word: "The angel of the Lord encamps around each of us, He will guard us and defend us." I bless you in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, may the blessing of the Most High be upon you. We give you glory! Hallelujah! Everything will be broken! Everything will be purified today in the powerful name of Jesus!