You have overcome.

We dance on an empty grave.

You have overcome.

Say, "You have overcome."

We dance, we dance for the...

We dance for the...

You have, you have overcome.

We've done it.

We dance because You...

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Have.

We, you have, you have overcome.

Yes, you have.

You have overcome.

We, we have overcome.

You have over...

Over.

Yes, you have.

You have over...

Show it.

Does we done?

You have overcome.

Yes, you have overcome.

We, we...

You have overcome.

Over.

Yes, you have.

You have.

We be...

We be overcome.

You, Jesus.

You have overcome.

You over...

Yes, we, we...

Empty.

Jesus.

Over.

One more time.

Yes, we...

An empty grave.

[Music]

We shout, shout, shout in triumph.

Shout in triumph.

He is now.

He is now alive.

Oh, shout, shout, triumph.

Shout and triumph.

Jesus said, Jesus...

[Music]

But that could not hold you down.

Yeah, You are the reason.

King.

Oh, seated in majesty.

Oh, You are the reason.

King.

That cannot hold.

It never could.

It never could hold you down.

You are.

Yes, you are.

Reason.

King.

Seated in majesty.

In majesty.

You reign.

You are reign and king.

Do not hold.

It never could hold you down.

It never could.

For.

Yes, you are.

You are seated in majesty.

In majesty.

Now and always.

You are the reason.

Death could not hold.

Not you.

Never could.

Never could hold you down.

You are.

Oooh, yeah.

Seated in majesty.

Majesty.

You are the reason.

King.

You are the reason.

Death could not hold.

Never could hold you down.

Never could hold you.

You are the reason.

King.

Hey, you're seated in majesty.

Majesty.

Always.

You are the reason.

He said that could not hold.

That could not hold.

Not hold.

You are the...

You are the reason.

King.

You are the reason.

The reason.

Death could not hold.

Death could not hold down.

Death could not hold you down.

See that in majesty.

You are the reason.

King.

You are the reason.

King.

I love...

[Applause]

The...

Say, Hallelujah.

You have won this victory over my life, over my business.

Hallelujah.

You have won it all for...

[Applause]

[Music]

Me.

Hallelujah.

You have won it all for me.

Yeah.

Hallelujah.

You have won it all for me.

Death could not hold.

That could...

You are the reason.

King.

You are the reason.

Hey, see that in majesty.

See that in majesty.

You are the reason.

King.

You are the...

[Music]

Reason.

Yet could not hold.

Could not hold you down.

You are the reason.

King.

You are the king.

Seated in majesty.

You are the reason.

King.

You are the reason.

[Music]

Shout.

Shout it.

Triumph.

There is now.

Alive.

Hey, shout.

Oh, shout it.

Triumph.

Jesus.

Shout.

I on...

[Music]

Empty grave.

You have overcome.

I dance on an empty grave.

Hallelujah.

You have overcome.

I dance on the name.

Jesus.

Great.

You have overcome.

Yes, you have.

You have overcome.

You have over.

Yes, you have.

You have over.

One more time.

Say, you have over.

Yes, you have.

You have overcome.

Yes, you have.

You have overcome.

Death could not hold you down.

You are the reason.

You're seated in majesty.

[Music]

You are the...

[Music]

Reason.

Our God is reason.

Oh, yes.

He is the life.

Is one.

The victory.

Your raise on Earth.

My God is reason.

He is alive.

He has won the...

[Music]

Victory.

My God is reason.

He made a public show of them openly.

[Music]

Triumph.

God is reason.

Here's a life.

Here's one the victory.

He rings on Earth.

My God is reason.

He is alive.

He is one the victory.

[Music]

You are the Living God.

Oh, no one like...

[Music]

You.

You are the Living...

[Music]

God.

Go ahead.

Bless His holy name.

He's the reason we live.

Bless Him.

Appreciate Him.

Bless His holy name.

He's the Ancient of Days.

He's the monarch of the universe.

He's I am that I am.

We worship You, Lord.

Rabbi of all ages.

We glorify Your name.

Thank You, Jesus.

Thank You, Father.

We give You all the glory.

Thank You, Jesus.

Thank You, Father.

For in Jesus' mighty name, we have given thanks.

Amen.

Hallelujah.

Come on.

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord.

Shout to the King of Kings and the Lord of...

[Applause]

Lords.

If you know you are seated with Him in heavenly places, give a shout of...

[Applause]

Praise.

Hallelujah.

Can you turn to someone beside you and tell them the devil is in trouble today?

Hallelujah.

Please, you may take your seats.

Please pay attention to the following announcements.

You're welcome.

Come to Koinonia.

This is the place of encounters.

The mountain of the Lord.

I assure you that the...

I give you a guarantee by the word of God that the version of you that came into this place is not going to be the same version of you that will go out of this place.

Hallelujah.

The Bible says that we go from strength to strength as many as appear before the Lord in Zion.

Hallelujah.

Please pay attention to the following announcements.

We like you to know that we have restrooms on every floor of this building.

So if you want to use the convenience, please feel free to use any of our restrooms on any of the floors.

We also have mobile restrooms outside for those are the overflows.

Praise the name of the Lord.

Also, if you have inquiries concerning the ministry, please feel free to meet our PR team.

They have a desk just at the 4A.

Hallelujah.

Also, if you need medical attention, we have a team of anointed and well-trained medical practitioners to attend to your medical needs.

Hallelujah.

Praise the name of the Lord.

Hallelujah.

For chases of missing items, please do well to meet any of our, any of our ushers or any of the workers with a tag, and they will guide you appropriately.

Hallelujah.

Praise the name of the Lord.

Security is our collective responsibility.

I'd like to crave your indulgence to pay attention to your valuables.

Please keep them in your line of sight at all times.

And I also like to encourage you to cooperate with our protocol and our security personnel.

Hallelujah.

They are here to make sure you are safe.

And as you do that, God will bless you in the mighty name of Jesus.

Also, if you have loved ones and friends who couldn't make it to service, please do well to let them know that they can follow us on our online, on our social media platform platforms.

We are live on Facebook, on YouTube, on Instagram, and also we have a radio platform.

Hallelujah.

Our handle is Koinonia Global.

Praise the name of the Lord.

Hallelujah.

I just want you, I just want your heart to be open.

This is our deliverance series.

God is going to be doing great and mighty things among us.

So I'd like you to minimize distraction.

Please pay attention and key into the service.

Hallelujah.

And I assure you that you will not go back home the same way you came.

That every yoke you stepped into this place with will be broken by the power of God in the mighty name of Jesus.

Hallelujah.

Koinonia is the House of Prayer.

It is time to pray.

Hallelujah.

Can you please stand to your feet and just bless the name of the Lord?

Praise the Lord.

The Bible says for without faith, it is impossible to please God.

That he that comes to God must believe God is, and then is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

I would want you to know tonight that anything you do in an attempt to please God would never go unrewarded.

Hallelujah.

Can you go ahead and bless Him?

Let your Thanksgiving precede your expectation tonight.

Go ahead and thank Him in advance for what God is said to do.

Bless Him in advance.

Thank Him in advance.

Is somebody blessing Him?

Is someone appreciating God tonight?

Father, we thank You.

We bless You.

We give You all the praise.

We give You all the glory.

Aoiya.

Is somebody grateful to God tonight?

Is someone appreciating God tonight?

Let your Thanksgiving precede your...

[Music]

Expectation.

Thank God in advance for what He said to do tonight.

[Music]

We've come to Zion tonight.

The Bible says upon Mount Zion, there shall be deliverance, there shall be holiness, and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

Lift up your voice and cry unto God.

Speak unto God tonight.

Aas.

Anas.

Is someone praying?

Are you praying?

Let incense rise tonight.

Come on, inside, outside.

Lift up your voice and cry unto God.

And the Bible says, for we have come unto Mount Zion, He calls it the city of the Living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly of the Church of the firstborn, whose names are documented, registered in heaven, and to God, who is the judge of all men, and to the spirit of judgment made perfect, and to Jesus.

The Bible calls Him the mediator of the New Covenant, and to the blood, blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than the blood of Abel, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than the blood of Abel.

Father, we thank You.

We bless You.

We give You all the praise.

We give You all the glory.

Revelations, the chapter 5, from the verse 1.

Let's pay attention to the reading of the word of the Lord.

And I saw in the right hand of Him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the back side, sealed with seven seals.

The verse 2.

And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the book and to lose the seals thereof?

The Bible says, and no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book to look thereon.

And I wept much because no man was found worthy to open the book to read the book, neither to look thereon.

The verse 5.

The last verse.

It says, and one of the elders sayth unto me, He says, weep not.

Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, He says, the root of David, He has prevailed.

The Lion of the tribe of Judah has prevailed.

My question is, on this day, when the question was asked as to who was worthy to look upon the book, where was Satan?

Where were the principalities?

Where were powers?

Where were rulers of darkness, spiritual wickedness in high places?

Where were they?

The same throne the enemy desired to sit upon, when the day came that he was beckoned upon, come, he was nowhere to be found.

But the Bible says, the Lion of the tribe of Judah has prevailed.

And on that day, I believe I was in the loins of that Lion.

Can you vibrate tonight if you believe you were in the loins of Jesus when He prevailed?

Can you speak unto God?

Can you lift up your voice and cry unto God tonight?

Can you pray tonight?

Can you pray?

The Lion of the tribe of Judah, He has prevailed.

He has prevailed.

So how come that when the devil sees me, he wants to make manifest his power in my life?

He was called upon and he was nowhere to be found.

Nowhere to be found.

[Music]

If sickness couldn't defeat Jesus, sickness cannot defeat me.

If poverty could not defeat Jesus, poverty cannot defeat me.

If death could not hold Him captive, death cannot hold me captive.

Can you vibrate?

He's your father.

Is somebody praying?

It is our deliverance service.

[Music]

In the name of Jesus.

Last prayer.

And I'm off your feet.

The Bible says in the book of Isaiah, the chapter 10, the verse 27, it says, it shall come to pass in that day that his burden shall be taken away off thy shoulder, and his yoke shall be taken off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

Can you cry one minute unto God?

Father, the anointing required for the lifting off of every yoke, let it rest upon me tonight.

Let it come upon me.

The anointing required to lift up every burden, to lift up every yoke, let it rest upon me.

Let it come upon me.

Oh God, in the name of Jesus.

[Music]

I will not miss my moment tonight.

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Oh.

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[Applause]

[Music]

I love You, Lord, and I lift my voice to...

[Applause]

Worship You, oh my soul, oh my soul, rejoice, rejoice, my...

[Applause]

King.

Oh, in what you hear, let it be Your sweet...

[Music]

Sweet.

Let it be a sweet sound, Lord.

Let it be a sweet, sweet, in Your ears.

Oh, oh, I love You, Lord.

I lift my voice to worship You, oh my soul, oh my soul, rejoice, rejoice in You.

[Music]

Let it be sweet.

Sweet sound.

Let it be a sweet, sweet sound.

Let it be a sweet, sweet sound in Your ears.

Let me hear you say, let it be a sweet.

Let it be Your sweet.

The fragrance of my worship, Lord.

Let it be a sweet.

Oh, let it be, let it be, let it be a sweet sound.

Oh, let it be a sweet...

[Applause]

[Music]

Sound.

Let it be a sweet.

Let it be a sweet sound.

Let it be, let it be, let it be.

[Applause]

Lord, I do not even know how to bring acceptable worship except You teach me, Lord.

Call me.

It is You who works in us, both to will and to do of Your good pleasure.

Let it be a sweet.

I bring my...

To You, Lord.

I bring all that I am, all that I have, all that I become, all I will ever be in Your ears, in Your ears.

I love You, Lord, and I lift this voice You are given to worship.

Oh, can the Lord hear...

[Music]

You?

Take in what you hear, Lord.

[Music]

Let it be.

Oh, let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.

[Music]

Let it be, let it be, let it be, Lord.

Let it be in Your...

[Music]

Something more than gold.

I've got something more than gold.

Something more than life.

I've got something more than gold.

If all I have is Jesus, I've got something that is more than gold.

More precious than silver.

More costly than diamond.

If all I have is Jesus, I have something.

Something more than gold.

I've got something more than gold.

Hey.

Something more than gold.

If all of God is Jesus, I've got something.

Hey.

I tell it to the world.

Jesus is more gold.

Hey.

More than gold.

Hey.

To the world.

Oh, yeah.

More God.

More.

I'll shout.

Let the world hear.

You are my obsession.

I love my life.

My mommy.

Tell it to this world.

More than gold.

I have something more than.

I'm telling it to the world.

Jesus is more...

[Music]

Than.

You're the object of my obsession now and forever.

I am Your.

Your.

I am Yours.

You are.

Be up to my obsession now and forever.

Forever.

Let me hear you say, now forever.

Now.

The object of my.

My obsession.

Now and forever.

Now.

Object.

My obsession.

Now and forever.

I am...

[Music]

Yours.

You have my everything.

You have my.

My everything.

You.

I give my everything.

I love you.

All down.

To surrender.

I give my.

I give.

I give my.

I give my everything.

My everything.

Hallelujah.

Take my everything.

Oh, take my...

[Music]

[Applause]

Everything.

Take my everything.

Oh, take.

Take my everything.

My everything.

Woo.

Say, take my everything.

I give my everything.

Use my everything.

My everything.

Use my everything.

Woo.

Daddy will always tell us there's a realm that is only for dead...

[Music]

Men.

Leave me at the altar with my father.

[Music]

Oh.

Hey.

Leave me at the altar with my God.

[Music]

Oh.

Me at the altar with my father.

Leave me at the altar with my father.

He's my father.

Are the with my father.

Leave me at the altar with my father.

Leave me up the altar with my father.

He's my father.

He's

The position was not available. God can create it, and that's exactly what God has done for us. Can we celebrate God one more time? Praise the Lord! My name is Hope Charles. Last week's Sunday was the first time I was coming for Kunun physically, though I've been following online, but not constantly. Though for about 2 years I've been suffering depression. I actually got married very early and I lost my husband in 2019 with three kids, so I've been going through depression. And I go to church, come back, hear the word of God, and I've actually contemplated and thought of suicide on many occasions.

But last week, when I came for the program, "Complete Deliverance," in fact, how I came was a miracle. Actually, while I was there, I just felt the touch of God, and immediately I left the program. On my way going back, I just discovered this joy I couldn't explain where it came from. I just could not find them, but I just kept thanking God and praying. To that time too, I've been suffering for pile, and then for one week before I came for the program, I was stooling blood. I was stooling blood consistently. Then when I got home, probably the devil wanted me to feel nothing has happened, and then I stool blood from that Sunday till Monday morning.

But on Monday morning, when I woke up and I was taking my bath in the bathroom, after hearing everything the man of God has said on Sunday when he said, "Um, sometimes the devil could bring so many challenges," you know, after hearing everything, I was encouraged because I had so many words in my heart that has been answered. And then that morning, I kept telling God, I said, I was anything, I was weeping, but I told God, I said, "In spite of everything, I still choose to serve you." And then while I was taking my bath, I made that, um, declaration. I went to the hospital, they gave me drugs and all, but I want to stand here to testify because from that day, from that Monday till now, until forever, the pile suddenly disappeared. The blood stopped, and I'm here to return all the glory, honor, and adoration to the King of Kings for the joy He has given me, for the knowledge to know Him better. I'm here to say thank you. Can we join Hope Charles and praise and celebrate the name of the Lord? Coinonia, God has been good to us for all that He has done. I'd like us to lift our voices and lift our hands and just give Him all the glory and praise. God has done us well. He has done mighty things beyond our minds can comprehend, even from all around the world. Father, we bless You. Father, we praise You. We give You all the glory. We give You all the praise. Thank You for confirming Your words with signs following. Thank You for performing the counsel of Your servant. Blessed be Your holy name one more time. Coinonia, can we make a joyful shout to the Lord? Amen.

To take us further in tonight's service, I have the privilege to take tithes and offerings. I would like us to begin to prepare our tithes and offerings tonight. I'd like us to look at the Book of Malachi 3:10. Malachi 3, verse 10. It says, "Bring ye all tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it." We have a commandment from this scripture from the Lord, saying to bring all our tithes, and as well as all our offerings. And God has said, has said we should prove Him in this, if He will not open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that we will not have enough room to contain what is coming. If you are tied tonight, I would like to encourage you to please package your tithe and please make your way forward to the front of your screen. If you're in this auditorium, please come forward here with your tithes. If you're writing a check, please make it payable to Eternity Network International. If you're doing a transfer, the account details are displayed on the screen. It's the Guaranteed Trust Bank, Eternity Network International. If you also would like to make use of the POS machine, officials are going to be standing around all around the auditorium. You can beckon on one of them and make use of the POS machine with your card. And if you want to give cash, envelopes are all around the building, and especially on the chairs. You can just make use of the envelopes to package your tithes, your seeds, and your offerings. Don't forget, the Bible says also, even if it's a prophetic offering, you can bring it. Just ensure it's well labeled. Bring all tithes, bring all offerings into the house of God, and prove me, the Lord says, if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out blessings that we will not have enough room to contain them.

I'd like us to please bow our heads. If you have packaged your seeds, packaged your tithes, packaged your offerings, let's pray together. Our Father and our God, we thank You for this glorious opportunity to worship You with our tithes and our offerings. We thank You and we bless Your name because You are the greatest Giver. Thank You for giving to us. We have returned to honor You with our tithes, with our offerings, and with our seeds. We declare tonight that the devil is rebuked for our sakes in the name of Jesus. And we declare that we experience supernatural harvest in the name of Jesus Christ. We bless You, Father, because we return again with praise, with dancing, with thanks, because we know You will fill our mouths with thanks and with praises in the name of Jesus. Blessed be Your Holy Name forevermore. In Jesus' mighty name, we have prayed. Amen.

Amen. If you are paying your tithe, please make use of the baskets that are in front of you. And if you're in the auditorium, baskets are going to come around so that we can give our offerings. Don't forget, if you want to make use of the POS, there will be officials standing all around. You can beckon on one of them to make use of the POS to worship the Lord with your seeds and with your offerings. God bless you for [Music]. Hallelujah to Him who is worthy to open the scroll and break the seal, be glory, honor, and power forever. [Music] Amen. I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider He has thrown into the sea. I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously. The horse and its rider He has brought into the [Music] Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, praise the Lord. [Music] Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, praise the Lord. Will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider He has thrown into the sea. I will sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously. The horse and its rider He has brought into the [Music] Hallelujah, Hallelujah, [Music] Hallelujah, praise the [Music] Lord. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, praise the [Music] Lord. [Applause] [Music] Lord. Can we lift our voices and release a new sound in the spirit? Lift your voices and begin to release melodies in the spirit. Release those spiritual sounds in the atmosphere. Listen, it's real simple. Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, cover the earth, and gross darkness shall cover the people. But the Lord shall arise, arise upon me, and His glory, His glory shall be seen upon me. Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, cover the earth, and gross darkness shall cover the people. But the Lord shall arise, arise upon me, and His glory, His glory shall be seen upon me. Say, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, cover the earth, and gross darkness shall cover the people. But the Lord shall arise, shall arise upon me, upon me, and His glory, glory, His glory shall be seen. Again, say, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, the earth, and gross darkness shall cover the people. But the Lord shall arise, Hallelujah, upon me, and His glory, glory, His glory, glory, glory, part. You repeat after [Music] me. Let me enjoy. Oh, now you sing real simple. Now you're going this way. [Music] Hallelujah. We release a sound of victory as a spirit. Let's go again. Say, behold, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, cover the earth, and gross darkness. Say it again. Say, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, cover the earth, and gross darkness. [Music] Darkness. Say, the Lord shall behold, the Lord arise, for the Lord shall arise, and His glory shall be, His glory shall be, His glory shall be, His glory shall be one. His glory, glory, glory. [Music] Now listen. Dominion has been given to the saints. Once [Applause] again. Listen. Authority has been given to the church. [Music] Power has been given to the church. Once again. Hey, hey. Dominion has been given to the church. Somebody lift up and shout to the Lord. Listen, for the Bor to arise, some wills to arise, for Joseph to arise, and Daniels to arise, for the kings to be bowed, for the saints to arise, to walk in victory like never before. [Music] Me repeat after me. Listen, listen. I am victorious, and I have overcome. I am victorious. Real simple. And I have overcome. You say, I am victorious, and I have overcome. Oh God, with faith, I have. I am victorious. Declare, and I have. In the name of Jesus. [Applause] [Music] I am victorious, and I have overcome. Think of that challenge. I am victorious, and I have overcome. Shout it loud. Say, I am victorious. Say, I have. I am. We are more than conquerors. Say, I am. I am. One more time. Say, lift up a shout to the Lord. Let the victorious one shout to the Lord. Hallelujah. Because there are kings, there are kingdoms, there are mountains, and there are thrones. But one thing we know, only Jesus will forever. Listen, listen. There are chains, there are curses, but no evil can stand Your power. Only Jesus will reign forever. To His kingdom, there will be no end. Only Jesus will reign forever. To His kingdom, there will be no end. There are names, there are titles, every glory must fade away. But only Jesus will reign forever. To Your [Applause] kingdom. Just lift your hands as we sing and say, to Your kingdom, kingdom, time. Lift your hands and sing to Your kingdom, to Your kingdom, be Your. Say, there are kings, there are kings, there are kingdoms, there are kingdoms, there are mountains, there are mountains, and there are thrones. But only Jesus will forever. To His kingdom, His kingdom. We're going to sing that. Say, say, there are chains, there are chains, there are curses, there are curses. But no evil can stand Your power. No evil can stand. Say it again. Say it again. Say, there are chains, there are chains, there are curses, there are curses. But no evil can stand Your holy. As You, holy, You will reign forever. To His kingdom, His kingdom. Be glory. Only Jesus, only Jesus will reign forever. [Music] For one more time. [Music] Will reign forever. Through His kingdom, be holy and true. Holy and true. Will reign, will reign. You, you, there, be, you, reign, you, ancient of days, King. [Music] God, You are mighty in my life. You are a. You are a. God, You're mighty in this place. Break forth, fountains of the deep, cry [Music] out. Mighty on Your throne. You are mighty on on Your throne. You're mighty on Your throne. Mighty on Your [Music] throne. [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] Hey, listen. We have searched and searched all the earth. Searched and searched all the earth. And we found that, hey. We have searched and searched all the earth. Search and searched eternity. And found that, hey. Lift your voice. Say, say. [Music] This part says, "Wo, wo." Real simple. Can you try it? "Wo." Hey. Say, "We bow before You." As we sing, hey. Say, [Music] Hallelujah. Can you pray in the spirit for a few minutes? Go ahead and pray. God, the King of Kings, the Lord of [Music] Lords. Thank You. You are the Mighty God, the ruler over the nations. We give You, God, the highest praise. From the rising of the sun to the setting of the. Say, we give You, God, the highest praise. From the rising of the sun. Very simple song. We give You, God. We give You, God, the highest praise. From the rising of the sun to the setting of the. We give You, God. You, God, the highest praise. From the rising of the. Just the. We give You, God, the highest. The highest. From the rising of the, the rising of the, the setting of the. We give You, of the, the rising of the, the setting of the. Bless us tonight, oh God. Let there be a mighty move of Your spirit in our midst, giving us understanding, as establishing our victory, granting us command over life and destiny. We submit ourselves to the superior wisdom of Your word, and we pray tonight, as always, that Jesus remains glorified in our lives. Jesus remains glorified in this place. For in Jesus' mighty name, we pray. Amen. God bless you. Good evening. Please be seated. Hallelujah. Complete Deliverance, Part Two. We have a lot to do, and so we have to get to the business of the night immediately. For those of you who are just joining us, we're on a series attempting to study Satan, demons, and the activity of unclean spirits to the end that we understand how to walk experientially in victory. It takes light, and it takes knowledge. This is a kingdom that functions by light, and it is important that believers be equipped. Now, did you know that in the course of my studying this series afresh, I discovered that Jesus never sent any disciples, He never sent the apostles to do anything missions without a thorough understanding of the structure and the system of darkness? It is a risk to ever explore anything that makes for kingdom come in ignorance, especially ignorance of the devices of the devil. Please, you must open up your eyes and your spirit to this teaching. Don't be distracted tonight. Let me do a quick recap. Part One, last week, we started by examining, um, the biblical basis for the study of Satan, demons, and what we call demonology. Is there a biblical basis to study demons, to study Satan, and the operations of darkness? I did teach us that theologically speaking, for anything to be established as doctrine, there are three requirements. Number one, it must be captured in the Old Testament. Number two, it must be captured in the earth walk of Jesus Christ. And number three, it must be captured in the life of the apostles and the early church. And we took out time to examine the concept of Satan, evil, and the reality of the operation of darkness in the Old Testament, using the fall of man, the story of Job, and Israel and their captivity in Egypt. We also looked at the ministry of Jesus, His temptation, Jesus Himself taught on deliverance, Jesus had ministered deliverance. Then we looked at the life of the apostles, Philip in Samaria, Paul mentoring the church in Ephesus and encouraging them, teaching them on the structure of darkness. Apostle Peter encouraged us to be sober and to be vigilant because there was an adversary, the devil, who is seeking whom he would devour. And then John giving us an explanation from his vision in Revelation that Satan was that adversary, Satan, the old serpent. So we established the fact that from the Old Testament, the ministry of Jesus, and the early church, the Bible gives us legitimate grounds to study on Satan and his structure. Then we went further to deal with the origin of Satan. You can get the teaching, "The Origin of Satan." I was not able to touch on demons, but we did look at the origin of Satan. We established a few things: where did he come from? And I explained to us two schools of thought based on scholars and their understandings. We look at Ezekiel 28, Isaiah 14, Revelation 12. These are the fundamental scriptures that talk about Satan. I taught you, um, the principle of prophetic parallels, remember? And then we explained the name Lucifer from the Hebrew tongue, meaning "the shining one," "the light bearer." And that the word devil comes from the Greek word *diabolos*, which means "the accuser" or "the slanderer." And, um, we examined a few names that Satan is called in scripture. He's called Lucifer, the devil, Satan, the thief, the enemy, the evil one, and so on and so forth. And, um, but the most important part of the teaching last week, and I'm doing a quick recap on that, is what does Satan want? Why all of this attack? What exactly is Satan's objective? And, um, we examined from scripture that there are two things based on the revelation of scripture that Satan is out looking for. Number one is dominion, and number two, transgenerational allegiance. Please write that down and never forget it. That behind the ministry of stealing, killing, destruction, behind everything that is anti-Christ and anti-God and anti-kingdom, there is one singular drive that Satan, alongside his demon spirits, seek to achieve: dominion that dominion that was given to man, and then transgenerational allegiance. The reality of transgenerational allegiance is what brought the structure for things like altars, curses, patterns, because the assignment of altars, the assignment of curses, the assignment of patterns is to make for continuity from individual to individual. These are the legitimate systems in the realm of the spirit that can perpetuate evil even when the initiator has left. Are we together? Are you getting my teaching now? We'll do more of that today so that Satan's passion for transgenerational allegiance sponsored his inventing this system that we call curses, this system that we call altars and patterns. Patterns are repetitive occurrences that happen to people within a predefined bloodline. Patterns, you find patterns among family members, usually negative. You find patterns among, um, people within certain regions, patterns of irresponsibility, patterns of anger, patterns of theft, patterns of untimely death. All of these things are Satan's invention towards one goal. I'm demystifying Satan for us so that, um, some of these superstitious ideas, ideas we've had about him, as complicated as Satan and the dark world looks, there has always been a principal motivation or two: dominion, a quest, a thirst, an unbending passion for dominion, and transgenerational allegiance. He told Jesus, "All these have been given to me," but I don't need them all. I need from you is since you are a representation of the image of the Father, bow down to me. Bowing down is a prophetic language. It means acknowledge my lordship over you. Are we together? We wrapped up last week by looking at the fact that everything negative that has happened in your life is happening in your life is not really what Satan is after. So if you see barrenness or poverty or sickness or violence or irresponsibility or moral decadence or any anything at all that is anti-good and anti-Christ, let it be known to you, dear believers, that Satan is not after those things. Those things are only a means to an end. What is the end? That he will gain dominion and he will bring whole territories to submit to him perpetually. And I shared with us that this is the same principle that is used in terrorism. That every time a terrorist captures a family member or a loved one, it is not the person they capture that they are interested in, but they are capturing that person to get the attention of the person, and the thing that they want is that true. So when they capture your child or your loved one, usually they subject them to some kind of torture and they give you an opportunity to hear their cry, and in the presence of that lamentation, you will become emotionally connected to their pain, and you will easily bend to whatever they want. So that's what Satan does. If he makes sure that you don't have a child, or you don't move forward, or there is a death sentence on you in terms of a medical report, he knows that you will not suffer long with pain. You will usually go to look for alternatives. So he will cause the problem and be waiting at the other side of your pain to suggest an idea. Go to the village, go and sacrifice this, bow to this, bow to that. Unfortunately, because Christianity was not as strong as it is now in the days of our parents and grandparents and so on and so forth, most of these people, especially mixing Christianity with traditional African religion, when Satan pressed on them, they went straight to these deities through mediums, and that was an opportunity for Satan. And most of these people, listen carefully, they came into covenants on behalf of whole territories. Make sure that our farms produce food. Make sure that every time our enemies come and want to strike us, let it be raining perpetually so that they will run away. In response, we will worship You, and we will ensure that our children and our children's children worship You. And the devil said, "That's a deal. That's all I want." And in all fairness to him, in many regards, even though he's a deceiver, but in many regards, they kept their own part. Then the missionaries came, and we received Jesus Christ. And listen carefully, in receiving Jesus Christ, what happened was that when we received Jesus Christ, Satan now came, listen carefully, because of ignorance in the complete gospel, say "complete gospel." The missionaries were sincere, but they brought the evangelical dimension of the gospel: Jesus saves, eternal life. But the spiritual intelligence that will help us to maneuver this legal access, he was not brought. So both the missionaries and those who believed in them eventually started dying like chickens, and most people did not know what to do. But thank God for light in the name of Jesus. All Satan is looking for is dominion, the dominion God gave man, and then transgenerational allegiance. So the challenge that you call a financial problem or a demonic problem, the spirits that molest you in dreams, all of those imageries that you see, all of those are coordinated attempts to bring and force you to a point where you go back to the patterns that can now allow him to be Lord over you. Someone shout, "No way!" Part Two. Let's begin our teaching now. It is line upon line, precept upon precept. John 8 and: 36. The Amplified. Let's read it one more time before we begin. This is where we got our theme from, "Complete Deliverance." Can you give it to us? John 8:36. Let's read together. Ready? One to read. "So if the Son liberates you, makes you free men, then you are really and unquestionably free." Hallelujah. Obadiah 1 and verse 17. Obadiah chapter 1 and verse 17. Let's, we can go back to King James. Obadiah 1:17. "But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and Jacob shall possess his possessions." Amen. Now, I'll be teaching you on the structure and the operation of Satan. The structure and the operation of Satan. That also includes demons. We want to look at the structure. How does the demonic kingdom, how is it built? What is the structure like? And what is the modus operandi of Satan? How does he operate? Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord. A few scriptures now, because we are dealing with a very delicate subject, we're going to be doing a lot of scriptural readings, and I want you to write them and then read them. Follow very closely because you will be learning that the greatest antidote to darkness and error is truth. Are we together? Now, Revelation 12. We'll start from verse 7 to 9. Revelation 12:7-9. Is it all right if we read this together? One, two, read. "And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels." Hold on, hold on, hold on. You would notice there, please help me with my screen. You would notice there, the Bible says there was war in heaven. Then it says, Michael and his angels, Michael and his angels, Michael and his, and then they fought against who? And then the dragon fought and his. So immediately we see that there is a structure. Even while it was in heaven, Satan did not do it alone. The Bible acknowledges that there were certain angels that followed that rebellion. Satan and his angels. Allelujah. Satan and his angels. Matthew 25 and verse 41. We're looking at a few scriptures that piece together the structure of the demonic kingdom. Ready? "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." So Satan has subjects. Satan has a system, an organized demonic system. We know that Satan has angels. Second Peter chapter 2 and verse 4. 2 Peter chapter 2 and verse 4. Are you ready? "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment." So it's not only Satan that sinned. He did not sin alone. The Bible tells us that there were angels that sinned. I don't want to complicate your understanding tonight with this story. Matthew 12 and verse 26. Remember this was when Jesus cast out a demon spirit, and then they accused Him. What was the accusation? That He was using Beelzebub, the prince of demons. So Jesus was giving them explanation. Now, are we together? Listen. Let me tell you this. You are not as powerful as your knowledge of spiritual things. You are as powerful as your knowledge of scripture. Knowing spiritual things is not where strength comes from. Knowing the scripture. He says, "Ye shall know the truth." You must be sound in scripture, not just in spiritual things. Just because a thing is spiritual does not mean it is consistent with the word of God. The simplicity of the knowledge of scripture is where the believer's authority comes from. Are we learning now? Please give it back to us. Matthew 12:26. "And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then shall his kingdom stand?" Who tells us here that Satan has a kingdom? Jesus Himself is acknowledging that Satan has a kingdom, and that He intends for His kingdom to stand, but that the only way His kingdom stands is when He's united. If Satan cast out Satan, He's divided against Himself. How then shall His kingdom stand? Now, let's go to the Pauline Epistles. Ephesians, let's start from chapter 1. Ephesians 1 and 21. Ephesians 1:21. Paul began to give us the theological basis for our authority in Christ. And the first basis He gave us is our oneness with Christ. And then second, our positional advantage. And in explaining our positional advantage, He says here that we have been raised with Christ far above. Now He begins to give us an idea of a structure. "Far above principality." Are we still together? "And power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come." That means there is a demonic structure. Are we together? Now, Ephesians chapter 6, please, from verse 11 and 12. Ephesians 6:11 and 12. Ephesians 6. "But put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." Hold on. You see what Paul is telling us here? Paul is speaking to people who are already saved, and he's saying, "If the only thing you have is just the awareness of the new birth experience, you will still be victims." There is something called the whole armor of God. We'll deal with that in Part Three. But it says that it takes the whole armor of God for you to be able to stand against the wiles, the wiles there means the devices, the strategies of the devil. Verse 12. Read with me if you can see it. Ready? One to read. "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood." Hold on. Now be very careful as we read from there. "But against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." It was Paul that began to give us this revelation. How do we trust the revelation of Paul? Because Paul is not Jesus. And if we are to believe Paul, Paul, we must be able to vet where he got his revelation from, because Paul was not part of the disciples that was directly mentored by Jesus. So how then do we trust that what Paul is saying is accurate? Ephesians chapter 3, beginning from verse 3. Before Paul began his discourse, he gave us the basis so that we would not doubt the depth of what he was communicating. Are you ready now? "How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote afore in few words." Verse 4. It says, "Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ." Verse 5. "Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto His holy apostles and prophets by." This is where I was going to. So who revealed to Paul? The Spirit. So we can trust what Paul is saying because we have now examined the basis for his revelation. Are you seeing how doctrine is established? Now, we can't take chances because there were things Paul said that he said, "I speak as a man." In other words, this is my opinion. Do not make a doctrine out of it. But now he's speaking in his capacity as an apostle, and he's saying, "Even though I was not with the disciples learning directly under Jesus, but the Spirit of God has come to grant me access to an explanation of something that was not yet known." That means even when the prophets talked about these things, they were just prophesying. It was not out of knowledge. It was just manifesting the Spirit. Are we learning? Write this down, please. Satan, alongside demons, or what the Bible calls evil or unclean spirits, make up what we call the Satanic Kingdom. Please write it down. Satan, alongside demons, the Bible calls them evil or unclean spirits, make up the Satanic Kingdom. So when we're talking about the Satanic Kingdom, essentially it involves Satan and demon spirits. May I remind you from last week's teaching that I taught you here that the arch-enemy of Satan is not God? The arch-enemy of Satan, Satan, is man. There is no record in scripture, it is impossible, and it does not make spiritual sense and scriptural sense for Satan or God to be the arch-enemy of Satan. The arch-enemy of Satan is man. He does not steal and kill and destroy from God. Are we together now? Yes. There is no mention in the word of Satan attacking the word. But when the word became flesh and it became a man, Satan now followed Him and attacked Him until the wisdom of God led Satan to look like He killed Him, only for Him to resurrect in victory. Are you seeing that now? So Satan, alongside demons and unclean spirits, make up the Satanic Kingdom. Please look up. Some of you may be asking now, "Where do men, human vessels, coming?" Because I'm sure that most of you are waiting anxiously for me to talk about the issue of witches and wizards, and you are wondering why I didn't include them in that list. Now, let me tell you this. Every human vessel, every human vessel that Satan walks through to execute his purposes, listen carefully. Every human vessel that Satan uses is the same vessel intended to bring the glory, to reveal the glory of God. Are we together now? The very nature of operating on Earth here is such that you cannot operate on Earth legitimately without human participation. So the idea of man in partnership with the Holy Spirit is not Satan's idea. It is God's idea. "The heaven of heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth has He that Lord given to the sons of men." Are we together now? Very, very important. So when you are defining the Satanic Kingdom, you don't necessarily bring men. Men were not created by Satan. They are God's creation, and for His glory. He only took advantage of them because of ignorance and in compliance with the law of territory. Is someone understanding this now? What is the assignment of the Demonic Kingdom corporately speaking? We know that Satan has a personal assignment, ultimately to gain dominion and to bring transgenerational allegiance. But as a demonic structure, what exactly is their assignment? Write this down: To fight and frustrate the purposes of God by any and all means. That's it. To fight and frustrate the purposes of God by any and all means. This is the corporate motto and the corporate assignment of the Demonic Kingdom. To fight and frustrate the purposes of God by all means. To fight and frustrate the purposes of God by all means. Please look up. When we say the purposes of God, what are we talking about? Number one, coming to the knowledge of Jesus Christ. The first assignment of Satan, in order of priority, is to stop everybody who is on Earth, if possible, from coming to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. That is plan A. If plan A does not work, and you now give your life to Christ, the next assignment is to frustrate your efficiency in terms of your growth and your efficiency in serving the purposes of God. Is it, is it clear enough now? Everywhere you see Satan, everywhere you see demons, everywhere you see evil men in partnership with these spirits, this is their corporate mandate: to fight and to frustrate the purposes of God. And in order of priority, Satan's plan A is to make sure that they do not come into the knowledge, because the Bible says in John 17 and verse 3, it says, "And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the one true God." John 17:3. This is eternal life. He says, "that they may know You, the one true God, and Jesus whom Thou has sent." Are we together now? What is eternal life? The knowledge of Jesus. Eternal life is not just responding to an altar call. That through the preaching of the Gospel, "I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes." Everyone. Satan and the Satanic Kingdom, corporately speaking, have a singular assignment: to fight and frustrate the purposes of God by any and all means. The key phrase here is "any and all means." Sickness is part of the "any and all means" agenda. Please look up. Delay, any and all means agenda, curses, everything you call destruction, or the expressions of his wickedness, is part of that "any and all means" agenda. If Satan can use an accident, he will use it. If he can use a plane crash, he will use it. If he can use your dying, he will use it. If he can use your being sick, he will use it. Anything at all that will achieve that purpose, he will use it. "Any and all means" is an attempt to describe the extent of his determination and desperation. Can I tell you this? When you want to study desperation, study Satan. A man who is already aware of his imminent defeat, and yet in that imminent defeat, he makes up his mind without fail that he will keep fighting. I hope you know that it's not only Christians that study the Bible. When Satan came to Jesus, at least we know how Jesus learned scripture in the flesh. He went to the temple to study. So how did Satan learn his own? All through scripture. Everybody who understood scripture understood it by study. If man understood scripture, he understood by study. Even the word of God understood scripture as a human vessel by study. So how do you think Satan knew what was written? The only way to be approved is to study. Is that true? Satan, alongside demons and evil spirits, make up the Satanic Kingdom. And then they have a singular assignment: to fight and frustrate the purposes of God by any means. We conclude from these scriptures that Satan has an operational system. Now I want to teach you. We have looked a bit at the structure. I don't want to go into the details. Hopefully, in another teaching that relates to this, we'll look at what principalities and powers and rulers are. But all of these things just define three things. Listen. In understanding, maybe I should just put a word or two. In understanding the structure of Satan, the structure of Satan is defined according to three things: Number one, geography. Number two, functions. Please understand this. Geography means location. There are spirits that reside in heavenly places, that is their jurisdiction. There are spirits that reside in specific geographic regions. For instance, "Gather not us out of this region." Are we together now? So in structuring the Satanic Kingdom, Satan uses a number of factors. Number one is geography. The Bible shows us that these demons themselves, they honor geography. Number two, functions. For instance, you can read in your Bible certain spirits called the spirit of death, a lying spirit, the spirit of infirmity. When we are dealing with deliverance proper, you will be learning that one of the ways we administer scriptural deliverance is not necessarily by knowing the name of every demon. You can identify them by the operation. Are we together now? Yes. In fact, the Bible tells us one time when Jesus came and met an epileptic patient, and the disciples were trying to cast out that demon, and nothing happened. The Bible says He rebuked the deaf and dumb spirit. And then number three, I gave you two. Number three, ranking. There are ranks, not only for angels, but there are ranks even for demon spirits. An example of that we see is in Mark chapter 5. We're coming there when Jesus met the mad man in Gadara, and he said, "What is your name?" He said, "My name is Legion, for we are many." So there was a legion, but it was not a legion that spoke. There was one person who spoke on behalf of that legion. Do you agree that there is ranking? Number two, Jesus Himself was speaking about deliverance, and He said, "When a spirit leaves a man, He says it goes through dry regions." Is that true? Seeking for a place of rest, not finding any. The Bible says he will say, "Let me go back to my house." And it will go back to his house. Who is the house now? The human vessel, or any material vessel. And he will find it swept and clean. And the Bible says that spirit will go back and bring seven others greater than it. So there is ranking, classification. The structure of the Demonic Kingdom. Let me recap again. Number one is based on geography. Geography. There is the prince of Persia. The Bible identifies him with that geography. And then number two, based on what? Function. Infirmity, sickness, conditions, and so on and so forth. And then number three, based on ranking. Let's go to the operational system. I'm, I'm interested in this now. The operational system. We are looking at the structure and the operation of Satan and the Demonic Kingdom. Now we're looking at the operational system. Please look up. Every organization, and indeed every kingdom, has a modus operandi. That means they have a way that they operate. Are we in agreement with that? It is important to know how Satan operates. This is where spiritual intelligence comes in. Please, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ that no spirit would distract you while you are listening to me because for some of you, you are going to be, God is going to be opening up to you. It is no mystery how Satan operates. The word of God in black and white, very clear terms, reveals to us how Satan operates. Two scriptures. Ephesians 6:11. Does Satan have an operational system? Yes, sir. "Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles." The word "wiles" there is the word schemes or devices, the wiles of the devil, schemes of the devil. So Satan does not just attack. There is a system, there is a game plan, there is a destruction plan. He does not just stand up and move around and say, "How do I destroy this family?" There is a plan. 2 Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 1. Let's read together if you can see it projected. One to read. "Lest Satan should gain an advantage of us." Uh-huh. "For we are not ignorant of his devices." Devices, devices, strategies. Now, please play very close attention. Let's identify from scripture some of the things that Satan and demons are involved with. We are looking from the lens of scripture. Now we want to examine a few activities of Satan and demon spirits. The activities help us reveal the structure. Are we together? I mean, the operation. Now, when you look at what Satan does, you also find in what he does, how he does it. Are we learning? I'll be giving you a few scriptures. Number one, Satan and demons fight. Write it down. The Bible shows us that Satan and even demon spirits, that they fight. Revelation 12 and verse 7. Revelation 12 and verse 7. "And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought, and the Bible says the dragon fought and his angels fought." So it is part of Satan's character and it is part of Satan's modus operandi to fight. Two, Satan hinders or he resists. 1 Thessalonians chapter 2 and: 18. Satan resists. Demons resist. It says, "Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us." Who hindered them? Satan. A spirit can hinder men. If Satan can hinder an apostle, it means he can try to hinder breakthrough. He can try to hinder lifting anything that is coming to you for your advantage. It is possible for Satan to try to hinder it. Number three, Satan and demons also, they steal, they kill, and they destroy. John 10:10. Everything that applies to Satan also applies to demon spirits. Satan and indeed demon spirits kill. They steal, they kill, and they destroy. John 10:10. "The thief cometh not, but for to steal." Most serious arm robbers go in groups. Are we together? When they want to rob, say, a bank, you don't find an individual. No matter how strong, usually a coordinated activity. The Bible says, "He cometh not, but for to steal, to kill, and to destroy." So Satan steals what? He steals anything at all. What does he kill? Everyone and everything. Next activity that reveals the modus operandi of Satan. Are you ready? Satan and demons lie. Start that one. John. Okay, let me give you one more scripture about stealing, killing, and destroying. Matthew chapter 13 and verse 19. Please write it down. Matthew 13 and verse 19. The Bible lets us know that Satan is a thief. Jesus was teaching this in the parable of the sower. "When anyone heareth the word of the kingdom and understandeth it not, it says then cometh the wicked one," another word for Satan, "and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart." Can you imagine how Satan steals? He can steal and even enter your heart. Your heart that a doctor needs to use a knife to open it, Satan can enter and steal, or your spirit, or whatever it is. He can steal anything. No wonder he can put a disease in your body without surgery. No wonder he can put anything there, and he can carry something that was good, but in the name of Jesus Christ, he's finally meeting his resistance forever. Next point. Satan and demons lie. John 8:44. Satan, by his consistency of lying, and himself a title that Jesus Himself acknowledged as the father. "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. For he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he is in his default state." That means when Satan speaks a lie, there's no point feeling guilty. That's who he is. There are Yoruba people who speak Yoruba and English and Hausa and other tribes, but when you are speaking your dialect, you speak it with confidence and joy. Here's what the Bible is telling you. You ever doubted Satan's language? What tribe is he? That's it right there. The Bible says that Satan, when he speaketh a lie, Jesus is talking now, "he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it." The word "father" there is the same word that is used towards God, *aba*, an originator and a defender of a cause. That means, it came from you, and you got it to make sure it remains. Ah, the father of lies. I told you to start that one. You will soon know why. Next point, very quickly. Satan is a master of falsehood. He disguises himself. He uses the strategy of disguise or falsehood. The strategy of disguise or falsehood. 2 Corinthians 11 and verse 14. "Satan disguises himself." Are you ready? "And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light." One of the strategies of Satan is that he can use the tool of falsehood. He can disguise himself. Next, Satan deceives. Start that one. Please. Satan deceives. We're studying the modus of operation of Satan. Satan deceives. 2 Corinthians 11 and verse 3. "Satan deceives." He's a master deceiver. Are you learning tonight? "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve." The word there is deceived. He beguiled Eve through his subtilty. So

Your mind should be corrupted from the Simplicity that is in Christ. You know what Paul is saying? Paul is saying that Satan employed a strategy and deceived Eve. You know, I taught you that, um, Adam was not deceived. Adam fell because of love. It was Eve that was deceived. Are we together? Absolutely. It's in your Bible. We're going to read that. Adam was not deceived. It was Eve that fell. Eve was deceived, and Adam followed her because he loved her. The second Adam, who is Jesus, was he deceived? He came willingly because he loved his Eve, the church. The same pattern, you see. So, Adam, Adam was not deceived. It was Eve that was deceived. No, no, no. It doesn't. Listen, listen. This, I, I already know. I know what is in your heart. And, okay, let me show you 1 Timothy 2:2 and verse 4. If you think 1 Timothy 2:4, 1 Timothy 2 and verse 14. [Applause] And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression. Women fall because of deception. Men fall because of [Applause] love. So, next time you say you are falling in love, ask yourself, must you fall? In love is not the issue. Is the that must you? Let's get back to our discussion. We're discussing something very serious tonight. I reject distraction in Jesus' name. Satan deceives. He's a master deceiver. Are we learning? Revelation 12 and verse 9. One last scripture that talks about the extent of his deception. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan, which deceived the whole world. Can you imagine that? He deceives. Finally, we see from scripture that Satan is an accuser. The Bible calls him the accuser of the Brethren. He does not just accuse anyhow. He looks for Brethren, the accuser of the Brethren. We're identifying some of the activities of Satan and demons to be able to help us to peace out by the intelligence of the spirit, a modus operandi, a structure. Now, please write this: Of all the strategies and operations of Satan, of all the strategies and the operations of Satan, the most pronounced in the Bible is deception. Of all the strategies and operations of Satan, the most pronounced in the Bible is deception. Can you imagine that? That of the many strategies that we see that Satan deploys, the most pronounced based on scripture is deception. Please say deception one more time. Say deception. Deception. Write this down. What does it mean to deceive? We are now building an understanding on the operation of Satan, demons, and the dark kingdom. What does it mean to deceive? Are you ready? To deceive means to deliberately cause someone to believe something that is not true. To deceive means to deliberately cause someone to believe something that is not true, usually for personal gain or to take advantage of. I'll take it again. To deceive means to deliberately, underline the word deliberately, please. To deceive means to deliberately cause someone to believe something that is not true. To deliberately cause someone to believe something that is not true. Come on. Usually for personal gain or to take advantage of. We are defining deception now. That to deceive means to deliberately cause someone to believe something that is a lie. It's not true for your personal gain, the gain of the deceiver, or so that the deceiver can take advantage of the deceived. Of all the operations of Satan, the most pronounced according to scripture is deception. That means he's a master. He has mastered the art of making people believe what is a lie. And by causing them to believe it, he can take advantage of them. Let Satan should should take advantage of us because we are not ignorant that he is a deceiver. And that the only way he takes advantage of believers is when he brings you to a point where you believe and are convicted in something that is not true. Powerful. Write this down. Are you learning? Yes. Deception, which is the same thing as falsehood. I want to define it for you now. Deception, which is the same thing as falsehood, is a statement or action that is intended to mislead, hide the truth, or promote a false belief or idea. I'll take it again. Deception, which is the same thing as falsehood. Deception is a statement or action. Is a statement or action that is intended to mislead, hide the truth, or promote a false belief or idea. That's the definition of deception. A statement or action that is intended to mislead, hide the truth, or promote a false belief or idea. Full stop. You may want to add this: It is often done for personal gain. Deception or falsehood is a statement or action that is intended to mislead, hide the truth, promote a false belief or idea. Full stop. It is often done for personal gain. Isn't this powerful? That the chiefest strategy of Satan, as far as carrying out his agenda, is in the midst of all of this activities that we we listed from scripture, that the greatest and the most pronounced is deception. Write this down, please, about deception. Very important point. Deception cannot happen until the deceiver is aware of the truth. Wow. Deception cannot happen until the deceiver is aware of the truth. It's impossible for deception to happen until the deceiver is aware of the truth. Because the assignment of the deceiver is to make the deceived to not understand or not receive the truth. That means for you to be a deceiver, the qualification to be a deceiver is that you must have access to the truth. Deception cannot happen until the deceiver, in this case, Satan, is aware of the truth. So, is it true that Satan knows that Jesus is Lord? Is it true that Jesus, that that Satan knows that there is victory given to the saints? Is it true that he knows that there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved? Is it true that Satan knows that Jesus is now resurrected, holding the keys of life? Is it true that Satan knows that Jesus gave us the authority over him? No wonder he does his ministry of deception so well. Because the basis of deception is that that you must know the truth. Is someone learning now? It is important for a deceiver to be a deceiver in ignorance. Because a deceiver, the character of deception is that the very act of deception is done intentionally. Are we learning? Now, let's take a structured biblical study. I wanted to read a few scriptures that that talk about deception, but we'll jump it for the sake of time. I want us to take one case study. We study now how Satan operates. Are you ready? Want to take one Bible story and then we'll examine it closely. And I taught you here that theologically speaking, there is what we call the law of first mention. That every time you want to study a subject, a thought, or an idea, your first assignment is to go to where it was first referenced in scripture and understand the contextual explanation or usage. That becomes your interpretation everywhere that word or that thought is used. Is that true? So, we'll go to Genesis. But before then, let's look at two or three scriptures. John 8:44. John 8:44. Let's start from where we left up. Jesus is speaking now. And Jesus himself said a few things that are very interesting about the devil. "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth." Do you know what this means? Jesus did not say he was ignorant of the truth. It says he refused to abide, to live in the truth. He willfully came out of that realm of truth. He abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it." Keep that scripture. 2 Corinthians 11:3. 2 Corinthians 11:3. "But I fear, Apostle Paul is speaking to the church in Corinth, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve, so..." Apostle Paul here is using a story to show us the deception of Satan. Are you seeing where Paul is leading us to now? Paul is saying, if you want to study the deception of Satan, study what happened with Satan and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Because he's saying Satan will still use that strategy against you. Are you seeing now? He's saying, just as Satan beguiled Eve through subtlety, he will also come to you and do something to you the same way he worked with Eve. Do you know what he's saying? He's saying, when it has to do with that strategy, it is his master strategy. He will not change it. You study Satan's operation by studying what happened between him and Eve. 1 Timothy 2 and verse 3. Where you read, and laughed. Now, I hope you don't laugh again, because we're getting into a very serious discussion. Now, for Adam was first formed, then Eve. Do we believe this? Yes, sir. Verse 14. "And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression." Join me with me, ladies and gentlemen, let's go to the book of the beginnings and see what exactly happened there. Genesis chapter 3. Story, story, story. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord had made. And he said unto the woman. Now, when you read this, you will think it's just something that happened immediately in a matter of minutes. The Bible is written in summary, and so it does not give us the the depth of the discussion. Because this is, it's not just something that happened within minutes. I told you that in studying scripture, you have to use the mind of literature. You have to use the mind of a historian. You have to use the mind of an archaeologist. And then you have to use the understanding of a spiritual man. These are the four components you need to thoroughly study scripture. If all you have is the mind of a spiritual man, as powerful as that is, you will not really understand the Bible. Because the Bible has a literature component, the Bible has a historical component, the Bible has an archaeological component, and then it has largely a spiritual component. Are we learning? Now, watch carefully, please. We are studying Satan now. And he said unto the woman, "Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree in the garden?" Now, please listen carefully. Go back to verse one. Do you know why Satan came to the woman directly to talk to her? It's not because she was female. There was something about the structure of dominion. Are you getting the point now? That when God gave man dominion in the Garden of Eden, he was very clear that even though Adam and Eve, as spirits, had dominion, but based on that earthly structure within the family context in the garden, Adam, and man, was head over her. Are we together now? And Satan would not come directly and attack the head. But he knew that there was a connection between Adam and Eve. There was something he understood that he would not be able to easily deceive Adam. But he knew that based on that structure, there is a connection between Adam and Eve. And the connection is love. And that genuine love is love that comes with sacrifice. So he didn't need to deal with the man. He was not dealing with the man simply because he knew that once he got the woman, the love the man had for the woman will be why he will fall. So he didn't have to waste his time. Are you getting the idea now? That if I can get, if you will be seeing it, that when, if at she gave her husband what you call eating. Now, for the sake of this discussion, we still keep it at that. Most people think she just ate and called him and said, "Sweetheart, where are you?" You will find out in the Bible, he was standing right there with her. He fell because of love. The Bible says Satan came and met the woman. Now, watch this. Not is the first thing. His conversation with the woman: "Yea, hath God said?" Can you imagine the beginning of his discussion? Mention God. Satan, look at the structure of his deception. "Hath God said?" That means I told you that deception cannot work until what is true is known. Are you seeing the pattern here? Now, Satan wanted all I need to know is what God told you. That is the wrong material for my fabricating my deception. That means Satan has no business coming to your life until God speaks. The moment God speaks, Satan says, "Now I have something to work with." What did God tell you about your child? What did God tell you about your destiny? What did God tell you about your ministry? Deception is not possible until there is an awareness of the truth. In this case, what God said. Because everything God says is "yea" and "amen." "Let God be true, and all men liars." Are we learning? And he said unto the woman, "Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the Garden of Eden?" Are you noticing that there's something with that statement? He was doing something to the truth. When I tell you truth can kill, believe me, it's not only a lie that kills. He did something that forced her to defend what God said. Now, the woman, verse two, the woman said, "Satan, you didn't get that right. Let me correct you. This is what he said: We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden." And he was listening. "But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God had said, ye shall not eat it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die." Satan said, "Thank you." Now, let me show you that I have an advantage of age over you. Verse four. "Do not be ignorant of the devil's devices." Are we learning how Satan operates? Now, when Satan comes to you, the raw material for his attack is what God has said. And the serpent said unto the woman, "Ye shall not surely die." Are you seeing now? Verse. Do you know what he was doing to her here? He was shaking the basis for her obedience. That means now that I know what God has said, I know that faith is obedience. My next assignment is to do something to you for God. Do you know that in the day that ye eat thereof your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as the gods, knowing good and evil?" Satan was saying, "God is so insecure. There is something he's hiding from you. And that is why he vetted out his insecurity by putting a strict rule. Don't mind him. Trust me. There is something I know. When you eat this, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like him, knowing good and evil." Verse 6. "When the woman saw..." Everybody say, "When the woman saw." When the woman saw. H. The discussion started by saying, but by the time we get to this point, she has perceived. So does not just mean eyes. She has conceived as a reality. The woman did not fall by eating the fruit. Eating the fruit was proof she had fallen. This was where the fall started. Perception. Don't think he just came to her one day and spoke to her. No. That's why I told you the Bible is written in summary. You, you need to use. You don't come like that in one day and convince someone. Go and read your Bible. The Bible spoke about Joseph and Potiphar's wife. How many times did she come to him? Frequently. Judas Iscariot. It was not just once they met him and said, "Deceive Jesus." It's within the character of Satan to be consistent. The same way you don't come, and most times you don't meet a woman once and say, "Marry me," and then you have to come again. That structure. Satan was patient and came. And he said, when the, the woman finally saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the. That's not normal scene, my brothers and sisters. M. There is a kind of scene that had attacked her spirit. Are we together? The Bible says the tree to be desired. Look at all this. Look at this emotional expressions. It's more than just seeing a tree. She was always looking, looking at the tree. What did she now see? The Bible says she took of the fruit thereof and did eat. Maybe in another time, as God helps us, I will really explain to you what it really means the concept of the tree and the fruit. But so that I don't disrupt the flow of what we're doing, we'll just accept it as eating. But you see, the concept of eating and the tree, these are, these are prophetic expressions. It may not necessarily mean tree and fruit. But it does not interrupt our understanding even if we understand it that way. So, we'll continue. The Bible says she did it. Please, everybody read the remaining part. "And gave also unto her husband with her." Is it in your Bible? What did he do? Did he throw it? She ate. Now, watch what happened. Do you know that when she ate, there was no effect? It was when he ate that something happened. Because the sheep only scatters when you strike the shepherd. She ate, and she gave him. At from deception, he ate from love. In any case, they ate. That's the bottom line. And then the Bible says, the moment that happened, notice Satan stopped talking to them. It was over. You thought that after eating, you say, "Now, how do you feel?" That is the structure of deception. Now that he had achieved his goal, he will now leave them with God. And he says, "Now, off I go." The Bible says, "The eyes of them were opened." Did he tell them something like that will happen? Absolutely. He said, "Your eyes will open." But they did not understand what he meant. The Bible says, "And they knew." Now, notice what happened here. There was already a disruption in the way God arranged the spirit of a man. Because the way God designed man was the spirit of a man was supposed to have the highest level of ascendance, in direct touch with the spirit of God. The body, body would barely be an instrument of execution. Are we together? The mind, that consists of the will, the emotion, and the intellect, would midwife the spirit and the body. These are just the platforms for the spirit to be able to operate with the body. And now we see that something is wrong. You can see that the soul came alive. "The eyes of them were opened, and they knew they were naked." You see shame, attributes of emotions. They sewed fig leaves and made aprons. They ran away. God is about to speak. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves. Everybody say, "Fear." Fear. They hid themselves from the presence of the Lord. Should you run away from the presence of the Lord? But now we see something happening to them. Are you seeing the, the way Satan works? He did not have to keep talking. The destruction can happen whether he's there or not. It's a programming. He has done something to them. The same way Satan can come and do something to a village, and after 30 years, it is still working, whether he supervises or not. It's like a software. Now he left these people. The next time we hear him talking was in answer to a question God asked him. Left the woman, deception. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of God amongst the trees of the garden. Verse 9. "And the Lord called unto Adam." Are you seeing how God respected his own structure? When he came, he never spoke to the woman until man gave him permission to speak to the woman. When he came, he spoke to the man who had that seat of authority and dominion. "Adam, you are the one I put alongside your wife. What has happened? I look spiritually, and I don't see you sitting on that throne of dominion again." When he said, "Adam, where art thou?" God, God speaks spiritually. There was a position that you could see. You could look down to the earth and know that the man in charge is seated there. It is that same position that the demon said, "Jesus, I know. Paul, I know." When we look in the spirit, we, all those who have dominion, we see that position. "Where are you, Adam? Where are you? You are lost. Adam, who shifted you without pushing you? Who shifted you? Who gained mastery over you and made you to move there? Off you left the place of power. And yet force was not used on you." That is the power of deception. I overcame. Hallelujah. He won the victory. Hallelujah. I over. Hallelujah. I over. Hallelujah. Listen. Are you seeing what Satan did? They thought it was just a conversation. They did not understand the spiritual implication. "Adam, I checked the place of authority, and you are not there. Where are you?" This is a tragedy that came upon men. You need to learn this because he's coming, and he will use the same thing. Remember the structure. What did God say? God did not mean what he will say. And he will keep coming to you every day. He knows that persistence is powerful. Satan does not speak once. Let me tell you how he speaks. He uses words. He uses men. He uses things. He uses pain. He's still the one speaking. He will employ everything until he shifts you from that place. There is a place where when you stand. Adam, now let me teach you something powerful. For as long as man did not cooperate with Satan, Satan looked powerless. He was with them and could not touch them. He was with them and could not touch them. The power of Satan is in your falling for his deception. There was absolutely nothing he could do to Adam and Eve. The best he could do was speak. He had to depend on their seeing and their participating with his lies. And the Lord told him, "Where are you?" Verse 10. Here's what Adam said: "I heard your voice in the garden, but I was afraid." Something has happened to me. I heard your voice clearly. I've not lost my hearing, but I've lost my position. "I was afraid because I was naked." Do you know what that means? The glory and the Shekinah that covers me has left. Something has happened to me, and I hid myself because I know what it means to not be covered by Your glory. Verse 11. "And he said, Who told you that you were naked?" Every time God comes to rescue you, the first question is, "Who told you?" You have opened up your ears to another influence. That means in any case, whether you are restored or you are deceived, it is based on what you were told. Now understand the power of words. No, Adam, you've fallen. "Who told you?" I'm tracing the root cause of your problem. It came from information. Listen carefully, dear father, dear grandfather, dear region, where did this witchcraft come from? It was not from the shrine. It came from "Who told you?" Someone called you and said, "There is a way we make money in Nigeria. You cannot just make money like that." Let me tell you sincerely, if it's money you want to make, there is one man. You say, "No, no, no. Let me think about it." What is what was happening to Eve is happening to you. When Satan uses that man, do you see that? That was the same thing that happened with Jesus. Satan came to Jesus directly. That was the last time he would come directly. The next, next time he used the emotion of Peter, then he used Judas. In any case, he felt he got him. "Who told you that you were naked?" Have you participated with what you heard? Did you do something about what you heard? Because every word we hear does not profit us if we don't mix it with faith. No matter what it is that you hear, if you have not mixed it with faith, the Bible says it will not profit those who hear it. So, if Satan says, "Kill yourself," it remains as a thought for as long as you don't act on it. Wow. If you wake up from a dream, and in that dream you see an accident, and all of a sudden you allow fear, and you start thinking, "That is Satan speaking. So this is how I will die." You are receiving it. You may not know. You don't receive by your hands alone. The principal way of receiving is your mind. You only have with your hand. You receive with your spirit. You receive with your mind. "Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?" The first demonstration of irresponsibility as recorded in the Bible. Are you ready? "And the man said..." Said the woman. Is that the answer? Adam, have you eaten of the tree? Yes or no? What was his answer? "The woman, he's showing you this is the first expression of the weakness that is in humans that we are usually comfortable transferring blames. It is not natural for men to take responsibility." By men here is genderless, humans. "Adam, have you eaten of this?" "The woman that you gave me to be with me." Look at this description. Not longer the woman I love. No longer the one we strolled in the garden together with. "The woman that you gave me to be with me." In other words, it's not my fault. If I were alone, no way. Satan would not get me. I know you are laughing, but you understand what God is teaching us here. "The family I came from is why things are happening like that." That's the same answer you are giving. Why are you not rising? Because we come from a family of idol worship. That's not the answer. I know you can laugh at Eve, but we are learning now that many of us have been making the same thing. And for as long as your answer seeks to transfer blame, salvation will be far from you. Are we learning now? This is a powerful spiritual concept. Two men were hanging on the cross with Jesus Christ. One of them, the Bible called them thieves. And one of them was quarreling, Jesus paraphrasing. "Shame on you. We're on the cross. You can't save us." The other one said, "We are sinners. This man is righteous." Jesus looked at one and said, "Today you will be with me in Paradise." What happened to the other one? Now, watch this. I'm showing you how Satan, how man transferred the dominion to Satan. Watch how it happened. Now, every time you pass blame on anything, you also give that thing authority over you. It's a spiritual principle. Let me repeat myself again. Every time you pass blame on anyone or anything, you give that thing authority over you. Blaming situations and circumstances for your life is giving them authority over you. No matter how legitimate you think it is. The man said, "The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat." He did not answer, "I did eat alone." He had to tie someone else to cushion his guilt. And he said, "Yes, I ate, but hold on, hold on. The woman that you gave me is the cause for it." Now, are you seeing that on legal basis, God could not talk to the woman? Because Satan has handed over responsibility to her. "And the Lord said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done?" Sadly, she made the same mistake. "And the woman said, Satan, the serpent beguiled me, and I did it." "What is this that you have done?" "The serpent beguiled me, and I did it." Verse 14. He goes to Satan. "And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above all beasts of the field: upon thy belly shall thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life." Verse 15. "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." There's no time to now begin to teach you all these things. He says to the woman, he said, "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow shall thou bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." 17. "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, you see now, you you heard the voice of your wife, and you have eaten of the tree, which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shall thou eat of it all the days of thy life." 18. "Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth unto thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field." 19. "In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it was thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." Let's stop there. What do we have to learn from this? Number one lesson. Number one: Understanding the operation of Satan, especially his deceptive nature, which is his strongest point over the saints. Number one, I told you that deception cannot happen until there is the awareness of the truth. Do you know what that means? Everything God tells you by speaking to you or by his word, guard it carefully because somebody is coming there. That adversary is coming to vet what God has told you. When Satan comes to you, his primary assignment is to find out what God said. Because everything God said represents where he's taking you to. Lesson number two. Are you ready? Now, guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it comes the issues of life. Guard your ear gate. Guard your eye gate. Because these are the principal channels through which Satan speaks. Can I tell you this? If you think Satan will always appear to you and talk to you, it may not always happen like that. But he will use your ear gate. He will use your eye gate. Because these are the principal gates to your mind. Very soon, you'll understand what Paul was teaching in his Pauling epistle. Is God helping us tonight? Number three. Faith comes by hearing and hearing and hearing and understanding. It is not just faith towards God comes by hearing the word of God, but faith towards anything comes by hearing the word of that thing. Faith towards destruction comes by hearing the word that makes for destruction. Faith towards failure comes by hearing the word that leads to failure. And hearing again until it crystallizes in your heart. Satan is a master of deception. He uses the word of God to shift you away from your zone of safety, from your zone of power, from your zone of defense. But in the name of Jesus, with this spiritual understanding, someone is gaining momentum and is gaining power to shake off everything that is an arsenal of darkness in the name of Jesus Christ. Christ. Write this down very quickly. Levels of satanic influences. Very powerful truth you're about to learn. There are three levels of satanic influences over the saints as revealed from scripture. Three levels, principally. Number one. Are you ready? Number one is called witchcraft. The first level of satanic influence over the saints is called witchcraft. Galatians chapter 3, please, and verse one. Let's hurry up for sake of time. Galatians 3:1. "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus had been evidently set forth, crucified among you?" Now, please look up. The Bible's idea of witchcraft is not drinking blood and eating flesh. Those are just extended meanings. The Bible's idea of witchcraft is not going to a coven in the night and having a meeting. I'm not negating those things, but I'm telling you that the standard definition of witchcraft from the Bible has nothing to do with any of these things. Witchcraft, according to Bible definition, is anything that can cause you to err using the tool of deception. That is witchcraft. Causing a man to err, causing a man to go out of alignment, using the tool of deception is the Bible's definition of witchcraft. The first way that Satan influences men is through witchcraft. That means he uses the tool of deception to cause you to err. Ephesians chapter 5 and verse 6. Ephesians chapter 5 and verse 6. "Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience." Notice, every time there is witchcraft, you see that there is deviation from the truth. There is disobedience in it. What is witchcraft? I wrote here: to cause you to think, to act, and to talk in error using the tool of deception. What is witchcraft again? To cause you to think, to cause you to act, and to cause you to talk in error using the tool of deception. Second Peter chapter 2, we'll read from verse 1 and 2. Second Peter chapter 2 from verse 1 and 2, very quickly. "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction." Last verse, verse 2. "And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of." This is the character of witchcraft. The practice of witchcraft does not have to do with some crude African type activity, even though there is an expression of it like that. But principally, engaging the tool of deception to cause you to think, to act, and to speak in ways that are inconsistent with God's ways is witchcraft. So, the first demonic influence that Satan has over men, if allowed, is witchcraft. Number two. Are you ready? The second is called manipulation and control of your mind. Manipulation and control of your mind. Please start that one because this is where, even when you are saved, I'm going to be answering the question whether Christians can be possessed or not. Manipulation and control of your mind. This one is principally in the realm of the mind. Your mind containing your will, your emotions, and your intellect. Matthew chapter 16 from verse 22 and 23. Matthew 16:22 and 23. Remember the discussion between Jesus and Peter. Jesus was talking about his dying. And the Bible says Peter took him. Who took him? Peter, one of the chief disciples of of Jesus. He took him and began to rebuke him, saying, "Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not happen to thee." 23. "But he turned, he being Jesus, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offense unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men." You want to find the account that he said Satan has desired to sift you. Go to Luke 22. We'll read 31 and 32. Synoptic account, same message. The Lord said, Luke 22:31 and 32. "The Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 32. But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." Satan came to manipulate the compassion, like I've taught you, of Peter to stop Jesus from dying. Jesus was talking about his death. And to Peter, he did not know this was a man who he was not longer, I mean, that he had said, "I know who thou art. Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God." Next moment, Jesus is telling him, "Get thee behind me, Satan." Number three. The third level of satanic influence. The third level of satanic influence over the saints is called possession, or over men, really, possession. This talks of complete influence and control of your spirit, mind, and body. Possession. Complete influence and control of your spirit, your mind, and your body. Demons can use. Satan can use witchcraft. Next level, manipulation and control of your mind. Third level, complete possession. Influence and control of your spirit, your mind, and your body. Mark chapter 5. Mark chapter 5. "And they came over unto the other side of the sea into the country of the Gadarenes." Let's follow closely now. He's teaching us that it is possible for demons to completely possess a man. "And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tomb a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs." Are you seeing the character of that man now? "And no man could bind him, no, not with chains." Verse 4. "Because that when he had often, when he had been often bound with fetters and chains, the chains had been plucked asunder by him." Can a normal man easily do that? You see that now? "And the fetters has broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones." This is the standard character of demonic possession. That this man is hurting himself with stones, and yet he cannot stop because his spirit, his mental faculties, and sadly, his body is under total control and influence of such a spirit. "When Jesus saw, when he saw Jesus afar off, we're about to learn some lessons now, he ran and worshipped him." I ask you again, does Satan know that Jesus is Lord? He's about to negotiate a deal. Because when he saw Jesus, he knew. That means every time demons see people who understand their authority, they know. He saw Jesus and he knew, and he came and worshipped him and cried with a loud voice, and said, "What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not." Do you know what this means? I use the Father's authority that you submit to to plead with you. I know you are obedient to the Father, and remember he's kind and he's loving. Don't torment us. Look at Satan. For Jesus had said, "Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit." Now, I love Jesus. And he asked him, "What is thy name?" And the man answered, saying, "My name is Legion: for we are many." And he besought him much that he should not send them away out of the country. Are you seeing now? Territorial construct of these spirits. That means, okay, since we are going to leave the man, it looks like that negotiation is not working. Please do us a favor. Can you command that we just come out of him and look for someone within the country? Because based on our structure, this is our territory. Verse 11. "Now there was nigh unto the mountain a great herd of swine feeding." And the devils besought him and said, "I will teach you why demons want bodies." Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. Do you know what lesson? Hold on, please. Go back. Go back. Go back to verse 12. How many of you know that Gadara had so many human beings, and yet the demons are begging? It took us a long time to prepare this body to host us. I thought they would leave and just enter any body. Satan does not have that kind of power to just enter anyhow. It takes a lot. There are processes. He's telling them that even though there are men, as it is right now, the urgency of wanting a body. When are we going to meet a man? Deceive him, manipulate him, until we gain entrance. Let us go to the pigs. Why will Satan have men scattered in the in the Decapolis and yet look for one man? Because there are rules of engagement. I told you, even Jesus knocks to enter your life. So, when you see it look like Satan can just get into any life anyhow, it is a lie. From Adam and Eve, and from this mad man, the demons are pleading. We want to leave, but there are rules of engagement. We're not just going to enter anybody. And remember, these guys that are afraid of entering are not born again because Jesus had not died. And yet he still could not enter them. "Send us to pigs, that we may enter into them." 13. "And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea." Can you see that? Exactly what was happening to the man before was now happening to the pigs. So it was not the bodies, it was the influences that was behind it. Are we together now? The Bible says they ran down to a steep place. There were about 2,000. Look at how that man was suffering. What came out from him entered 2,000 pigs, and all of them could not control themselves. Yet one man was carrying that. Imagine the pain that that man was going through. Let's finish. We're reading to 16. 14. "Now verse 14. And they that fed the swine, and they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done." Verse 15. "And when they come to Jesus, they see that the man who was possessed with the devil and had a legion, they saw him sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind." We discussed that last week. That immediately after the deliverance, you thought the man will go away. But the next thing that happened after deliverance was that he was with Jesus. He did not leave Jesus. Next week, we'll be looking at the three levels of deliverance. That number one, the spirit influences were cast. Number two, he was with Jesus. He remained with Jesus. And he sat down there. And his remaining with Jesus was doing something to his mind. His right mind. "And they were afraid." Last verse. "And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine." Now, can a Christian be possessed with demons? The answer is no. A Christian cannot be possessed with demons. The reason is because of the very character of the administration of eternal life. That eternal life demands that you are joined to Christ. And the Bible says, "He that is joined to Christ is one Spirit." But this is the balance. Just because a Christian cannot be possessed does not mean Satan does not have an activity that a believer can be a victim of. The first two that I listed, witchcraft and manipulation and control, it does not matter how born again that believer is. The cure for witchcraft and the cure for manipulation and control is not just being born again. It's putting on the whole armor of God. I will teach you that one. Are you seeing now? There are many, many believers that are saved and yet will be victims of this. Why? Ephesians 4:18. "Having their understanding darkened." Not having their salvation lost. Having their understanding darkened. "Being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart." A Christian cannot be possessed, but he can be demonized, manipulated, and controlled at the social realm. Absolutely. Here is where we need to balance in the body of Christ. And most of you know that I love the body of Christ. I'm sent to the body of Christ. But let us not give the devil the authorization to prey on our ignorance. Satan came to Jesus, holy Jesus, righteous Jesus, blameless Jesus. He came to him, spoke with him. It took "It is written." It did not take Jesus being the Word to be saved. It didn't take Jesus being born of the Word to be saved from that deception. It took him having not knowledge and replying back, "It is written," and "Get thee behind me." Two things that saved Jesus: "It is written" and "Get thee behind me." Understanding of scripture and understanding of authority. Are we learning now? So, the whole idea that just because you are saved, automatically Satan has nothing to do with your life, it's a lie. It's not true. I can tell you by your authority of scripture, it is not true. The disciples, the apostles, they continue to tell you how that Satan would come and attempt to challenge them, challenge their minds, challenge their body, and they continue to stand with the operation of the word of God. When Jesus entered the temple and preached and rebuked spirits, the people did not show any evidence that they had any spirit at work in them. It was when he gave the command. Hallelujah. Three levels of satanic influences: witchcraft through deception, manipulation and control, largely in the realm of your mind, and then complete possession, influencing your spirit, influencing your mind, and influencing your body. Now, having put down all of these things in our discussion, what then is deliverance? What is deliverance? Exodus 3:7 and 8. What exactly is deliverance? "And the Lord said, Exodus 3:7 and 8. I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows. Please read verse 8 with me. Ready? Read. "And I am come down to deliver them out of the..."

hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land onto a good land and a large unto a land flowing with milk and honey unto a place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. I am come down to deliver them. Take note to take them out and to bring them in. To take them out and to bring them in.

Scripture number two. Colossians chapter 1, verse 13 and 14. Colossians chapter 1, from verse 13 and 14. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and had translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. Verse 14. In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.

Recall that I've taught you here that there are two dimensions when it has to do with the dealings of God and man. Number one, there is the prophetic dimension. Realities from God's standpoint, that every time God speaks, He speaks from a realm that is finished. And number two, there is the experiential manifestation of that which God intended happening in time. Two dimensions. When you read the Bible, you will see God establish certain things. For instance, "None shall say in Zion, I am sick." For instance, we've been delivered. Not, we are being, not, there is deliverance going on. We are delivered. It is our assignment to make that which was spoken become manifest. Are we together now?

You have to understand this. Write this down, please. What is deliverance? I was going through the notes that I made last time. I was doing "Mystery of Deliverance" and I saw this definition. I worked on it a bit, but it's a powerful definition. Listen carefully. Generally speaking, the word deliverance connotes rescue or freedom from bondage, danger, and evil. Generally speaking, the word deliverance connotes rescue or freedom from bondage, danger, and evil. Generally speaking, this is just a general idea. The word deliverance connotes rescue or freedom from bondage, from danger, and from evil. Deliverance also means salvation. Deliverance also means salvation. Generally speaking, deliverance connotes rescue or freedom from bondage, danger, evil.

Let me define deliverance proper now. Deliverance, I wrote here, is the scriptural strategy. Deliverance is the scriptural strategy for experientially establishing. I will take it very slowly because I don't want you to miss anything here. As long as it is obtained, grace to write it, there is victory in that sentence. Are we together? Deliverance is the scriptural strategy for experientially establishing the victory and authority of Jesus Christ. Let me stop there so you write. Deliverance is the scriptural strategy for experientially establishing the victory and authority of Jesus Christ over Satan and demonic forces, as it relates to the life and destiny of the believer. Deliverance is the scriptural strategy for experientially establishing the victory and authority of Jesus Christ. The victory and authority of Jesus Christ over Satan and demonic forces. Come on. Over Satan and demonic forces, as it relates to the life and destiny of the believer. Establishing the victory and authority of Jesus Christ over Satan and demonic forces, as it relates to the life and destiny of the believer. If we are together, say amen. Amen.

Now listen. As I read it without breaking, you've been writing. I want you to hear now. Deliverance is the the scriptural strategy for experientially manifesting establishing the victory and authority of Jesus Christ over Satan and demonic forces, as it relates to the life and destiny of the believer. Write this down. Deliverance, and by extension, spiritual warfare. Please don't be tired of writing. Deliverance, and by extension, spiritual warfare for the believer in Christ. Deliverance, and by extension, spiritual warfare for the believer in Christ, is about establishing and manifesting victory rather than fighting for it. Deliverance, and by extension, spiritual warfare for the believer in Christ, is about establishing, underline establishing, and manifesting victory rather than fighting for it. Second Corinthians 2 and verse 4. That means deliverance, and then it extends to spiritual warfare for the believer in Christ. Our idea of deliverance is not fighting for victory. It's engaging the systems, systems that establish and manifest the victory that has been wrought in Christ. Do you understand this now? It's important to get this definition. It will mean the world as far as challenging and contending for that which Christ has given you is concerned. Because there are ideas about deliverance that connotes fighting Satan. So you are not sure whether you win. You just fight and watch as it happens. That is not scriptural. That will be an endless struggle in ignorance until you are defeated. For the believer, our idea of deliverance is engaging the systems and the forces of victory given to us in Christ to establish and manifest our victory in Christ over Satan, over demons, principalities, and powers. 2 Corinthians 2:14. 2 Corinthians 2:14. Do we have that now?

Thanks be unto God. Let's read together now. "Thanks be unto God, which causeth us to triumph." Where? In Christ. Not by our ability. In Christ. "And make it manifest." That's right. "The savor of his knowledge by us in every place." Now, "Thanks be to God who causes us to triumph." We triumph, but there is one who causes us to triumph. The Bible calls Him Christ Jesus. 1 Corinthians 15:57. First Corinthians 15:57. Let's read together again. Ready? One to read. "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." Shout amen. Amen. "But thanks be to God, which giveth us giveth us the victory." So when it has to do with deliverance, your concern is not fighting Satan. Your concern is not fighting demons. Your concern is not fighting causes. Your concern is not fighting yolks. Are we together? Your concern is taking advantage of what we call the weapons of victory that have been given to you in Christ. We're going to deal with the weapons. What are they? Because the Bible says to put the whole armor of God. But there are weapons of victory that have been given to us. Weapon number one: the power of the Word. Weapon number two: the power of the Blood. Weapon number three: the power of the Name. Given to us. The power of the Word. We deal with that when we go into administering deliverance. The power of the Word, the power of the Blood, the power of the Name. All of them are not doing the same thing. No.

Deliverance is the scriptural strategy for experientially establishing the victory and authority of Jesus Christ over Satan and demonic forces, as it relates to the life and the destiny of the believer. Deliverance, and by extension, spiritual warfare for the believer, is about establishing and manifesting victory rather than fighting for it. We are not fighting for it. We have it already. But now our assignment is to know how to engage it to make it manifest. The Bible says right from the foundations of the Earth, the Lamb was slain. But Jesus had to come physically and engage the tool of being a man, walking in the earth, walk, dying, shedding his blood, going to Hades, resurrecting to make that which was finished become manifest today. Hallelujah. Are you learning now?

Before we pray, let me end tonight's discussion by teaching you something very powerful. Access points. Access points. That means by what access points does Satan and demons get into the life of the believer or find a place in their minds, their bodies? Listen. By the privilege of God's grace, I have studied my Bible from cover to cover. And by the privilege of God's grace, I've had the honor of listening to people who really understand this subject. I have studied my Bible and I found out, as complicated as Satan, curses, yolks, altars, foundations, ancestry, and all these ills are, there are only three access points that Satan has to man, and even the believer. Are you ready now? I may not go into in-depth detail. We'll leave that one for next week because I want us to take the remaining time and pray. For all the sessions, we have some time to pray because there are people who, as you are hearing now, God is granting you that light and you are seeing that the strength of Satan is in my cooperating with him through ignorance, through through deception. He will roar like a lion and act as if he will eat you out. When he does, ask him why he did not enter Eve and Adam immediately. Ask him why, when the spirits left the man, they did not enter another man. He should give you the explanation. Where did he keep his power that he could not simply pick any man? Just because you come from a village where there is that curse does not mean you can allow Satan to just manipulate you like that. Now listen carefully. You about to learn something that is very, very powerful. Access points. Please write. Are you ready? There are three biblical access points. Number one: Covenants. Aha. Covenants. Write it down. The first access point that gives gives Satan legitimate access to the lives of men, sadly, including believers. Covenants. Please just write. Number two: Ignorance. Number three: Disobedience. These are the three biblical access points and the only access points that Satan has. If you ever find Satan manipulating a life, a destiny, a region, a family, I don't care how long, I don't care how great, believe me when I tell you, it is one or more or all of these access points. Number one: Covenants. Number two: Ignorance. Number three: Disobedience. Of the three, the most effective for Satan is covenants. Do you know why? Because covenants have a transgenerational implication. Covenants, ignorance, and disobedience are all interrelated. But covenants seem to be powerful because it is on legal basis.

Let me touch on covenants. The idea of covenant was not invented by Satan. The idea of covenant was invented by God. It was God's own intelligence to manage the inconsistencies and to manage the emotional frailty of man. Listen carefully. God gave man a will, and the fallen man, by his design, is frail with several emotional vacillations. And if man is going to partner with God sustainably, there has to be a way of binding man that is greater than his emotions. Covenants. Because covenant is a non-emotional activity. That means you can't just decide to change it. Anything God wants to do with man that He wants to take seriously, He will tie a covenant to it. "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone forth from my lips." You know, believers play with the idea of covenants. And you will see that everything God takes seriously, marriage, He took it seriously and He tied it to a covenant. Do you know why? Because He knows under normal circumstances, the couple can run away by the next day. So He put covenant, a non-emotional binding, so that it's not about what you feel or you don't feel. There is an influence that is higher than your emotional vacillations. Salvation is a covenant. Whosoever believes Him. If not, there are people who can be so bad they don't deserve to be saved. However, because it is a covenant, "Whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord." It does not matter who that person is, provided you confess with your heart. Let me tell you, if you are given the keys for salvation, there are people whose level of evil, if you see them, you will tell them, "Don't near this altar." However, because it is a covenant, "Whosoever believes in Him." Even if you are Saul, even if you are Paul, whosoever. The only personalities that salvation does not capture are fallen angels. Salvation is not for angels and non-human spirits. I'll be teaching you the rules of engagement. That is why Satan and demons cannot be forgiven. Salvation is for men. Salvation is for men. The benefit of salvation extends to creation. But animals don't have to give their life to Jesus. They are already under the dominion of man. The same way, when Eve ate, nothing happened till Adam ate. That is the same way what animals and plants do does not matter, provided the man in control is still in touch with God. Are you seeing that now? Animals and seeds and all of these only are harsh to man because man had willfully given his authority to Satan. I pray you're getting what I'm teaching you. Covenants are very powerful. Everything that God wants to do with you, if He wants to take you seriously, there will be covenant. Because by the frail nature of men, that's why you hear that there are relationships called covenant relationships. Non-emotional. Is that true? When you get a job, watch this. It may not be called covenant, but there is something given to you called an employment letter. Is that true? It clearly spells the terms. You are going to be giving 500,000 every month. They calculate it for you per annum. You have 30 days, one month leave. You can spread it three or four times. They give you all of those things, and then you sign. The signing is a declaration of your consent that if for any reason I violate these terms, is that true? The company has a right to punish me based on their model operandi. And that if I comply with these terms, I have a right to take the company to court for defaulting. Covenants. Say covenants. Covenant. That is the reason why when Satan came to our forefathers, he did not suggest. He called them and said, "You want me to help you? Let us have an agreement." Now, you see, an altar is simply a system of authorization. Again, we discuss that next week when we talk about altars. An altar, because you will see that what we call the Mercy Seat in heaven, in fact, God Himself seats. His throne is an altar. A system of authorization. "Let us therefore come before the throne of grace, that we may obtain." From that throne, He literally sits on an altar. An altar is a system of authorization. The assignment of an altar is to insist that the terms of a covenant remain binding, even when those who initiated it are no more. An altar is the spiritual system that supervises compliance to covenants. There is no true covenant until there is an altar, and that altar is built and ratified with blood. So that even though our forefathers have long gone, even though those who brought all kinds of demonic things have long gone, but the altars that represent the witness are still there. So after 50 years, 100 years, the spirits have legitimate access to the people within that region. And every time you want to accuse them, they go back and make reference. The altar remains a witness. "I am not an illegal occupant in this land. I was willfully invited." And your forefathers, and you were in the loins of your forefathers. That is the reason why the sacrament of the communion and the sacrament of baptisms, these are covenant type things too. How did you get into Christ? It was by the mystery of that covenant. "Drink this, this is my blood of the New Covenant. Do this as often as you can in remembrance of me." Are we together now?

Watch this. When the angel of death was going to pass over Egypt, remember the condition for salvation was not your personal righteousness. Whether you a Jew or not, just find a house. The house did not have emotions. Provided there's blood on the house, whoever is in it, you are saved. But when you are in that house, even though you are saved, there will still be a difference. If you wanted to become a Jew there, you have to submit yourself to circumcision. However, as far as safety from the angel of death is concerned, the angel does not see men. He's looking for the blood. You know why? Because the angel of death was mandated to kill everybody. And like we say in theology, when he came to some homes, he found them already dead because the blood is a sign that the death that should happen has happened. So the angel of death will pass. As far as the angel of death is concerned, he killed everybody. It's only that when he came, some people, someone had helped him kill the ones in the house. So he moves to the house where there is no blood and creates blood there. Listen. That is the same way when a covenant has been ratified by blood and authorization is given that everybody who comes from this region, this spirit, when you see them, have no fear through ancestry, through bloodline, or through their personal activities, they have brought themselves to that point. That is the reason why when you are dealing with issues of legal access, you do not cast it in Jesus' name. It is the blood that speaks. There are rules of engagement. Look at me. As powerful as God is, He did not cast sin out of man. You will think God will look at man and say, "I am God, I am Creator. Man, be free." No. When He gave Satan the authority, it was willful, and it would take the blood. This is why a lot of believers just pray and say, "It is done," and it is not done because they do not understand the power of the covenant that brought them that trouble. Go and read the history of many lands. You will hear that they buried human beings. They bury people alive. Do you know the power of blood? And the power of human beings were the zenith of God's creation. And you will not just carelessly say, "I don't believe." "I force my mind to think right." You are joking. It takes the blood. And you see, in the realm of the spirit, blood is currency. And from the physical world, you know that there's dollars, there's Naira, there's pounds, there's whatever it is. I don't know how much $1 is to Naira now. Don't say it. Hallelujah. But one thing we know is that it's not one Naira to $1. Are we together? Because the blood of Jesus speaks better things. Every blood speaks something. But with respect to what we want, the only blood that can speak to the degree. 1 million Naira can pay for rent of a certain kind of house. But you can look at a certain house and you know that as wonderful as 1 million is, it can't go beyond it. You will need something else. The blood of Abel, the blood of bulls, the blood of goats, they could do something in the realm of the spirit. But when Jesus came, listen, please don't mix. Next week, as I teach you the power of the blood, the blood is powerful. Everybody's blood, including your own. You will be learning that the blood is one of the witnesses on Earth. Do you know what that means? There are three things that have lived as long as the Earth. One of it is water. This water you are drinking, you are not the first person to drink it because it recycles. You don't know who else has taken it before it got to you. That's why the Bible says water is a witness. It has lived long on Earth, recycling itself. And blood. Nobody invents his own blood. It is passed. That means the blood in every body is typically older than that person, except you are denying biology. Is that true? I'm not a doctor, but let's be intelligent for God's sake. It took that blood to bring you. So the blood cannot be as the same age with you. There are three witnesses in heaven: the Spirit, the Word, and the Father. The Spirit and the Word. And these three agree. And on Earth, there are three witnesses: the Spirit, the Water, and the Blood. Many of us have found ourselves in situations today. Listen to me. We're wrapping up. You are prayed and prayed and prayed and fasted. And as soon as you are done with the fasting, the same you prayed about happens casually, as if you were wasting your time in all that fasting. You were praying to stop some spirit that is coming to molest you. And just when you finish the last fast, that sleep, you just took a little castor, and that spirit comes again to rubbish your fasting. Because there are rules of engagement. There are people who will not listen to me. The fact that you are not listening to me is a sign that there is an attack already. That is a symptom of an attack. Listen. I will always tell you, I'm not just speaking from scripture alone. I'm speaking from experience. There are things in your life that will never grow. There are things in your life that will never thrive until you understand the rules of engagement. For everybody seated here under the sound of my voice, listen to me. Who is trusting God for some kind of liberty for yourself, for your children, or for your family? Please hear me. There are only three access points. As complicated as your life may seem, don't let the devil confuse you. It looks like there are 1 million doorways. It's a lie. There are only three access points: one, covenants; two, ignorance; three, disobedience. That's it. So you know what to close to be free. "And ye shall know the truth." When you know the truth, when both the deceived and the deceiver know the truth, deception dies. The strength of deception is that the deceiver knows the truth, and that's what he uses as an advantage. When the ignorance of the deceived cooperates with the knowledge of the deceiver, deception happens. The cure is not necessarily driving the deceiver alone, but that the deceived must also come to the point of knowledge. When you come to that point of knowledge, now the deceiver does not have an advantage over you. If a visitor comes to meet two of us, or someone comes to meet you and your say, your sibling, and he gives 10,000, and he says, "Give everybody." If you didn't hear it, or you didn't know that there is a share for you there, the person can even give you 1,000, and you can kneel down. He can even say, "Go away. This was for me." Is that true? But if for any reason you find a way, when the person wants to solve that problem, he will come again and he will say, "Let me repeat what I said. I said this 10,000 is for everybody." When you hear it, that contention dies. Because immediately now you know the truth, and based on the truth, you know you can say, "My 10,000. No stories. Hand it over to me now." In peace. Your boldness is based on the quality of the information and the passion that you have. When you rebuke the devil and speak, and then you go back and you are afraid and say, "Ah, did I talk too much? Oh God, forgive me." It's because you are not sure of something that generates the power and the courage. Listen. I have held many charms with my bare hands. I have prayed for many people. This is what I do. I have seen many spirits. I have met many demon spirits. I can tell you, the strength of Satan is in his power to deceive. The strength of Satan is in the continual ignorance of the saints. The strength of Satan is in the inaccurate construction of our spiritual understanding. For John 15 says, "The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not." When you go to your village, you most likely may see shrines. You most likely may see a lot of demonic things around. Just toying it with ignorance will cause you casualties. But when light comes. I don't know how true it is, but I hear it's the story of Archbishop Benson Idahosa. When I think someone dropped a dead chicken or something of that sort, and they saw the chicken, it was supposed to be a ritual for them to die. And they carried the chicken and said, "We can't waste this chicken like this," and they boiled it and ate it in peace, and they went and slept, and they woke up. Because you see, before Satan attacks, he finds out what God told you, and he finds out whether you know and believe what God told you. The trouble is, if you believe what God told you, and you know how to make it happen and remain in your life, now you have defeated him totally. One last scripture, and then we'll begin our prayer. Isaiah 49. Isaiah 49. Let's start from verse, that should be 24. Isaiah 49:24. "Shall the prey be taken from the mighty? It's a question. Or the lawful captive?" You know who a lawful captive is? A lawful captive is one who was bought from a slave master. Because those days, they used to sell human beings just like chickens. And so, if I'm a slave and my slave master comes and exchanges money with someone and they transfer me, I am still a slave. I am a lawful captive. Number two, if a king leads a delegation to go for war and they conquer the people and kill the king, all the people within that land become slaves. Is that true? They are called lawful captives. For instance, Israel in Egypt, they were lawful captives. That's why they could whip them to build those pyramids and all those Egyptian buildings. But he's saying, is there a possibility that when the mighty has taken a prey or the lawful captive, can he be delivered? Let the Lord answer it by himself. "But thus saith the Lord, Even the captive of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered. For I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children." There is a cure to demonic covenants. There is a cure to yolks and spells and hexes and all of these things. Please hear me. There is a cure. When Jesus Christ hung on that cross, it was not just the body of a 33-year-old man hanging. His blood was touching the Earth. That old Earth, that is one of the witnesses. When He drained His blood, and according to the revelation of Paul to the church in Heb, the Hebrew church, when He went as a high priest and a lamb also, He poured His blood once and for all, and He returned back to the Earth and said, "All authority in heaven and on Earth has been given to me." Listen. John said, "I wept for no man." That means men are doomed. "I wept for no man." "Worthy to open the book and unlock the scroll." And the Elder said, "Weep not. Weep not. For behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has prevailed." The word "prevailed" means qualified to open the book and loose the seven seals. Verse 6. "And I beheld, and in the midst of the throne were four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though he had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes." The Lamb that was slain.

Now onto the Lamb upon the throne, we raise up. We raise. For You are God and God alone. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now onto the Lamb upon the throne, we raise the. We raise. For You. For You are God and God alone. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Listen. Can I tell you this? The Lion of the tribe of Judah has prevailed. Listen, listen. There are people today who, under normal circumstances, you should not rise. I don't know what my forefathers did. I don't know what they did in dating. There is what we call AD and BC. Is that true? The middle man was Jesus Christ. I may not know what happened before He came, but the good news is, He came. He came. He came. Please listen to me. Your destiny depends on what you are hearing. Remember everything I taught you today. Satan is not looking for your money. He's not looking for for your fruitfulness. He's not looking for your job. He's not looking for your health. He's looking for loyalty. Transgenerational loyalty. And that the structure of his operation largely is deception. He manipulates strategies that fight the Word of God. The principal raw material for his fashioning his attack against you is the Word of God. It's amazing that it's not only God and believers that use the Word of God. Satan uses it too. It is his principal raw material. Hear me. You hear of young men going to go and do money ritual. You will never see Satan following them. Yet he's the one moving them. Deception. Listen. And when they go and do the money ritual, you will see that there are physical evidences. Money comes. So they will go and do it again because they don't know what else. Satan will never tell you the complete story, and he will never tell you the whole truth. He will doctor the truth to present it in a way that provides an advantage for him. "When the Spirit of Truth is come, He will guide you into all truth." All truth. Satan has deceived pastors. Satan has deceived churches. For instance, the understanding and the theology that you should just concentrate on serving God in your spiritual life and don't worry whether you are doing well or not, whether your finances are doing well. It looks like a sincere message, but that is a destructive message. Many sincere people have received it, and today they cannot pay the school fees of their children, and today they are in trouble. And then for others who come and fall into this deception, everything is about prosperity and prosperity and money and making it and doing all of this, and they forget about strengthening believers to be strong. No knowledge of the truth, no evangelism, no nothing. And people become carnally minded. All they want is competition of clothes and cars and all of that. That is another kind of error. But when the Spirit of Truth comes, He will bring the whole truth and create a balanced, structured growth. Another kind of lie that Satan is so mighty, you don't know what he can do. Be afraid and be watching always. Be in a position of warfare. And by warfare, they mean just be ready to fight. That is not scriptural. It may be sincere here. He may be well-meaning by well-meaning people. But believe me, from the authority of God's Word, that is not the position of the believer. We have been given a position of victory. Victory. Victory in Christ. Then the ones who say, "Ignore everything. Don't worry about anything. Provided you are happy, you are fine." And the devil likes such sermons, and he continues to use sincerity to wreck havoc over people. Satan will join the heads of a husband and wife and stand behind and watch them in ignorance, blaming one another for food, for car, for house rent, and it is none of those issues. The adversary joins the heads of people and goes back and watches with joy. Now you are getting intelligence that everything that happens in your life, among the many factors you put together to interpret the happenings in your life, do not forget to tap into the wisdom of the Spirit. Be able to discern his deception. The way my husband has been behaving in the last two weeks, something is wrong. You don't just say, "I will show you that I'm a wife." You think you just married a foolish person? Where you think like that, he has also deceived you to join your heads together. Indeed, one person has to create the advantage in that equation, and in that case, let it be you. And you go and begin to pray. Now, I will teach you by next week when we are dealing with administering deliverance, because most believers say, "Pray." But most believers don't know what they're saying. This idea of praying does not just mean talk to God. Mmm. God is not the only person you talk to in prayer. There are times you talk to the situation. There are times you talk to the devil. There are times that you talk to, you engage and call into remembrance the integrity of God. All of it is called prayer. So don't say, "I prayed." We need to vet what you did based on the situation you are trying to handle. Just because you were given injection does not mean you were given the right treatment. We have to look at what was wrong with you, and who gave you the injection, and what you were given, and we can say, "No, you have typhoid. This is not the treatment for typhoid." Are we together? So just because you feel the pain of injection, you can say, "I received injection. I should be well." That's what is frustrating many believers. Because they will tell you, "Apostle, I have prayed." You don't look. Nobody prays like me. I agree. Let's hear what you have been saying. Let's understand to whom you have been talking first. Let me know what you want to achieve. You will find out that many believers have just been wasting their time. When they say pray, they just just mean talk, talk loud, add it again to God, round up. You have prayed. You will never get victory that way. It takes intelligence to understand what to say. There were times Jesus spoke to the Father, "Father, I thank thee, because You hear me." And He turned and said, "Open the tomb. Lazarus, come forth." Notice the protocol. When He was about to break bread, He gave thanks and said, "Go and share it." Is that how you multiply? He never said, "Multiply this bread." He just said, "Give thanks. Go and multiply it." When He stood before demons, He did not talk to the Father. He rebuked the spirits. "Go." When He sent the disciples, He said, "In my name." "When you find the spirit, use my office." My name does not mean J-E-S-U-S. My name means the consciousness of my office. I have given you a position. Use it. When you see Satan, and they returned back with shock, and they said, "Even do you know the most outstanding miracles? Every miracle Jesus did had been done in the Old Testament. The only miracle that had not been done in the New Testament was a miracle of deliverance. Never had a man used authority and a name to remove any demon. You don't find that in the Old Testament. You find them playing strings, and the demons leaving. Are we together now? But you do not find anybody using a name to remove any demon. It's not done. Any. In fact, what they do is they will kill the person. They stone the person who is demonized. When he dies, they now frustrate the demon. Because like you have learned, it takes a long time for demons to find bodies. They don't just find any body. They can find any mind, but they don't just find any body. Bodies are scarce. Bodies are scarce. That's why a legion will live in one body because bodies are scarce. Are you ready to pray? I made up my mind that I will open up the truth to God's people to really understand with balance and with understanding. Don't just say, "I'm born again, and everything is over." It may not be very accurate. You need to be instructed and to have superior spiritual understanding. For now, you understand what deliverance is, that it has to do with establishing and manifesting your victory, not fighting for it. Hallelujah. You have won the victory. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You have won it all for me. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You have won the victory. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You have won it all for me. Sing it one more time, and then we pray. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You have won the victory. You have won the victory. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You have won it all for me.

Two prayer points. Prayer Point Number One: I taught you the three levels of demonic influences. You are going to pray and immune yourself by knowledge and declare that in the name of Jesus, the Son of the Living God, for you and for your loved ones, whether it is witchcraft through deception, whether it is manipulation and control of your mental faculties, whether it's possession of your unsaved loved ones, declare in the name of Jesus that you you are free completely from this. Open your mouth and begin to pray. Open your mouth and begin to pray. Open your mouth and begin to pray. Open your mouth and begin to pray. In the name of Jesus, go ahead and pray.

2 Corinthians chapter 10. 2 Corinthians chapter 10. Please give us verse 5. 2 Corinthians 10 and let's start from verse 4. 2 Corinthians 10:4. "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds." You know what a stronghold is? A stronghold is a negative mindset that has been fortified by the presence of demon spirits to ensure that the victim remains in that thought pattern. They are called strongholds. When a wrong mindset now has the fortification of demon spirits, it is that state that makes the Word of God of none effect. "Casting down imaginations from the word, imagery, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity." Help me. "Every thought." This is the realm of warfare. Your mind. Even though Satan knows that you have the victory, he knows that your mind is part of the participatory systems that will make victory manifest. So he will hijack your thinking. Are you ready to pray? Lay your hands on your head, representing your mind, and I want you to begin to prophesy. I have a sound mind in the name of Jesus. A mindset that is word-based, word-compliant, word-based, word-compliant. Someone is praying. Lay your hands on your head, prophetically over your children. Someone is praying. Every wrong thinking, every wrong teaching, every wrong understanding, cultural, demonic, sociological, that is authorizing darkness to take advantage of me, in the name of Jesus, I cast down every imagination. Pray. Sustained faulty thinking patterns that came from culture, that came from your failure, that came from your association, that came from the poor mentorship platforms that has built an inaccurate understanding about God. Every high thing must come down. Every stronghold shall be broken. You wear the victory crown. You overcome. You overcome. Every high thing must come down. Every stronghold shall be broken. You wear the victory crown. You overcome. You overcome. Every high thing must come down. Every prayer Point Number Two. This is the last prayer point now. Please let me pray for you and beseech you, don't miss next week's service. Next week's service is another miracle service. I know we have our monthly miracle service, but that is when I'm going to be ministering. I will be taking out time. We are going to be breaking yolks and curses and all kinds of demonic things. And I will not only be praying for you, I will be teaching you that you will go back home, and it will be like wildfire, that all this nonsense that has trapped people down, it must give way once and for all. Hallelujah.

Now listen to me. You're going to engage the blood. Just one last prayer. Can I tell you this? I told you when Satan is afflicting an individual on legal basis, you don't cast him. You engage the blood. I'll be teaching you more about the blood next week. But you see, the blood is the system that vetoes every legal operation of Satan because the blood is payment too. Are we together? Satan, when we, some of you who are into the financials, banking, and the rest, they call banks systems of settlement. Is that true? If I buy something, and I buy whatever it is, when you pay me, you have settled me. It's a system of a legal transaction. Legal transactions are simply systems of a legal. That's what happens in the realm of the spirit. The blood of Abel was crying because there was injustice. It was crying for a legal. And every time Satan stands to accuse you before God, accuse your family before God, if the blood does not speak, he is right. So what you do in that state is to plead the blood. The moment you plead the blood, the scene of judgment changes. It's no longer you. It will be Jesus standing there. I want you to understand the revelation behind the blood. It does not matter whether some of you here are legal people. The moment you bring the blood, the accused no longer becomes the accused. The accused becomes Jesus. Only one question will be asked of Satan: "Who sinned?" That Jesus was crucified. It was not him. If a sinless man can become guilty, then a guilty man can be declared righteous based on that. The judge of all the ages will say, "You are not guilty." Once and for all. Are you ready to plead the blood? Remember what I taught you now, that in pleading the blood, you no longer become the accused. Your family no longer becomes the accused. Jesus stands in your stead. The Advocate. Now I want you to plead the blood over your wife, your husband, listen, your children, your business, your family. Mention them by name if you can. Every legal access that is given Satan access over my life, by the blood of Jesus, I declare that voice is silenced. Lift your voice and pray. Lift your voice and pray. The Advocate stands in your stead. The Advocate speaks in your stead. The Advocate, He does not fail. The judge of all the Earth. If the sinless one can become the guilty one, then the guilty one can be declared not guilty. Go ahead and let the blood speak. Even for the sins of the fathers, even for the sins of territories, even for the sins of nations, by the blood, we call for the advocacy of Jesus over the matters of life and destiny, over the matters of altars and covenants, over the matters of decrees and agreements, blotting out every handwriting and every ordinance that spoke against us. He nailed it to His cross. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Please shout this. Say after me. Say, "In the name of Jesus, of Jesus, I decree I decree and I declare and I declare that by the blood of Jesus, the blood of the Eternal Covenant, blood of Eternal, every legal access, every legal access that Satan has, that Satan has, over my life, over over my family, over my children, over my territory, by the blood of Jesus, blot, I declare that access, I broken now, broken now. I decree and I declare that I am a partaker of the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Therefore, I pass a decree as one anointed of God. Satan, take your hands off my life, off my job, off my destiny, off my health. I decree it is a new season. I decree only the Word of the Lord comes to pass in my life. Your strategies of deception over me will not work again. I decree that I have spiritual enlightenment. I am a child of God. You have no power over me. The blood speaks against you. It speaks for me. But it speaks against you. In Jesus name, I pray." Give Jesus a big hand clap and a shout of praise.

Hallelujah. We're wrapping up. "Resist the devil, and he will flee." You don't resist him by just saying, "Go." You resist him by bringing forth your strong reasons. He said, "Present your cause. Bring forth your strong reason." The strongest reason is the blood. Are we together? Let me make the altar call. Thank you for your patience. Please, let's keep standing to honor those who would be coming. I told you that salvation is the greatest form of deliverance. Because if you are not a bonafide partaker of the life of God, then you remain on legal basis a victim of Satan. He has right and authorization to afflict you. There are people here, you are listening to me, you are in this auditorium, across the balconies, outside, and following across the globe. You are saying, "Apostle, give me a chance. I need to experience this deliverance fast." Or there are people who are saying, "I need renewal of my relationship with Jesus." Following this series, I have seen the necessity for Jesus. If you belong to any of these two categories, I'm going to count one to very quickly for sake of time. I want you to boldly leave your seat. Remember what I taught you about deception. Don't give in to Satan. And don't wait for someone to stand before you. Come. As I begin to count, I want you to leave your seat. You're inside here, you are around, please give them room so that they can come quickly and come and stand. Let's celebrate them as they come. One. I believe someone is coming to Jesus. Young and old, come to Jesus. Come to Jesus. Is there anyone coming to Jesus? God bless you. God bless you. Coinonia. Celebrate them as they come. God bless you. God bless you. Come right to the front. All overflows. Just move to your LED screens and all following from your homes, following from everywhere. This is your chance to make Jesus Lord of your life. Win that war right now. Do not allow Satan to take advantage of you. There is a bailout system in Christ. Let's celebrate them as they come. Let's celebrate them as they come. Hallelujah. Thank you. Please, if you're coming, just rush and come. I'm about to lead the people through the prayer session right now. I salute every one of you for making this bold and noble decision. God bless you. Please join them quickly. Thank you for making this decision. We're teaching on the deliverance series, and believe me, God means business with us. He means business with you. Thank you for that bold decision. It is only Satan who will be losing in this series, in the name of Jesus Christ. Now, may I request that you lift your right hand? Lift it high above your head, please. If you're joining.

Quickly, just come and stand very quickly, very quickly. God bless you, God bless you, God bless [Applause] you. Hallelujah. Say this after me. Listen, mean it from the depth of your heart. Jesus is here. Say, "Lord Jesus, tonight I have heard your word. I believe that it is within your power to deliver me from the power of sin, Satan, hell, and the grave. I declare that I believe in Jesus, and by my faith in him, I receive eternal life into my spirit. I receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness, and I declare that I reign with Christ. The power of Satan, the power of sin, the power of hell, and the grave is broken over my life. I declare that I am a child of God from tonight until forever. I am a child of God. Amen."

Keep your hands lifted. Father, thank you for these precious ones. They have come declaring their faith in Jesus Christ. By the power of the Holy Spirit, I declare your sins forgiven, and I commend you to the ministry of the word and the ministry of the spirit. I declare may you be grounded and established in righteousness from tonight. You go forward ever and backward never, in Jesus name I pray. Amen and amen.

Let's celebrate them now. I want you to please follow the counselors by my right, which is your left. All of you, just move in concert, and the counselors will have a word or two with you, and you'll be back to your seat. God bless you. Let's celebrate them as they go. Is this the best you can do here? Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.

So, like I announced, next week we'll be wrapping up, and I'm going to be teaching you, administering deliverance. We'll be dealing with the weapons of victory, the whole armor of God, and then we're going to be touching a few things just to guide you, and then we'll spend time praying and trusting God to establish in reality the victory that is in Christ. As for God, he's more than ready to step into our lives. Like I told you, you will experience marvelous testimonies in your life in Jesus name.

Like we did last week, we are fasting on Thursday. I hope that everybody participated in this fast. Please, discipline yourself. Fast on Thursdays. And like I instructed us, between 11:00 and 5:00, 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. every day, choose any one hour and pray. Every day, we're praying all through this series. It's about discipline, it's about, it's not about convenience. Choose any one hour and pray. If you don't know what to pray for, just play worship and pray in the spirit for 1 hour. It is for your own spiritual edification, and the Lord will help us in the name of Jesus Christ.

Now, next week here, whilst we are wrapping up, is going to be a communion service. Hallelujah. We're going to be, hallelujah, we're going to be engaging the word. We're going to serve communion, but probably you may want to come with your own uh bottle or set, just for me to bless it and speak over it, provided you have understanding. I generally hate idolizing these things because there's no power in idolizing it, but with understanding, you can. You have a communion set or something, your wafers and whatever it is, I can bless it for you. But please come prepared. We're going to engage the blood, and we're going to engage the word, engage the name. I'll be teaching you the forces of victory, and we'll be trusting God to establish victory once and for all.

Please invite your family members and do well to invite those who cannot come here to connect by faith, and the Lord will bless them in Jesus name. Hallelujah.

I want you to help me appreciate, um, while, while I was teaching, um, they came, His Royal Highness, the Olu of Warri, and the wife. May God bless you. Let's honor them. Hallelujah. Thank you so much. May the Lord bless you, the Lord honor you, and increase you. And for everyone here, may the Lord honor you in Jesus name, I pray.

Have you been blessed? Please, um, after we share the grace, I want you to do well, um, let me plead with you, if you can, if it's within your power, please, you can extend a lift for someone so that you help God's people to just minimize the traffic. As God grants you grace, the security people are there to help you so that you don't have to be afraid of, um, maybe anyone taking advantage of you. The Lord will bless you, the Lord will increase you in Jesus name.

Father, I pray that you bless your people, that you will experience the reality of the victory that comes with Christ, even this week, in the name of Jesus. May the Lord bless you and cause the word of God to speak over your life. You walk in total victory in the mighty and matchless name of Jesus. I don't have to remind you that you should go to Koinonia Global and listen to this teaching again. Please give your loved ones wherever they are across the globe, listen to it again and again and again and again until it builds your spirit.

Let's share the grace in fellowship. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit, rest and abide with us now and forevermore. Amen. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives as we dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever. Amen. God bless you and see you on [Music] Sunday.

No shadow you won't light up. Mountain you won't climb up, coming after me. No wall you won't kick down. Lie you won't tear down, coming after me. Hey, no shadow you won't light up. Mountain you won't climb up, coming after me. No wall you won't kick down. Lie you won't tear down, coming after me. Don't shadow you won't let up. Don't shadow you won't light up, coming after me. No wall you won't kick down. No, you won't kick down. Oh, there's no shadow you won't light up. Shadow you won't light up. You won't. Coming after me. No wall you won't kick down. You kick [Music] down. Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God. And oh, it chases me down. Fine, still I'm found. These the night tonight, and I couldn't earn it. I don't deserve it. Still you give me yourself away. Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God. No shadow you won't let up. You me. There's no you won't kick down. God, there's no shadow you won't light up. Shadow you won't light up. You. There's no you won't kick down. No, you won't kick down. Now we say, oh, oh, I'm surrounded by you. Hey, oh, oh, I'm surrounded by you. Somebody say, oh, I'm grounded by you. Say, oh. Say again. Say, I'm surrounded by. I'm surrounded by you. Oh, I won't be afraid of the terror by night because. And I won't be afraid of the evil by day because you. For a thousand may fall at my right, but I know you. Hey, 10,000 may fall at my right, but I [Applause] [Music] know. I'm surrounded. I'm surrounded. Surrounded by you. There's no shadow you won't light up. Shadow you won't light up. You won't. Hey, there's no wall you won't kick down. No, you won't kick down. There's no shadow you won't light up. You. There's no, no, no. Walking down. Lie, walk down. Coming out for all the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God. Say, I, I, till you take yourself away. Overwhelming, never. Yeah. [Music] Shadow you won't light up. Mountain you won't climb up, coming after me. No wall you won't kick down. Lie you won't tear down, coming after me. Hey, no shadow you won't light up. Mountain you won't climb up, coming after me. No wall you won't kick down. Lie you won't tear down, coming after me. Don't shadow you won't let up. Don't shadow you won't light up, coming after me. No wall you won't kick down. No, you won't kick. There's no shadow you won't let up. You won't light up. You won't light up. Coming after me. No wall you won't kick down. You kick [Music] down. Oh, the overwhelming.

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COMPLETE DELIVERANCE (PART 2) WITH APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN 13II03II2022

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