Casting Out Demons (Part 1)

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   we're admitting lord that we are hungry and thirsty lord for you for your presence we know god that you can open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that there's not room enough to receive or you can open the windows of heaven and step down and manifest your presence and your power in such a way god that you revive your church you revive us where we're dry and struggling where we're dead where we're we're not as passionate and alive as we should be and and you can also move upon the lost and upon the backslidden and lord god we've seen god as we read your word we've seen great times where your presence has come down and brought conviction of sin and you've opened eyes to see that jesus died on the cross for for for sin and that he rose from the dead and that he's the only way and the only hope and the only savior and the only one in this world worth following and worth obeying and lord god you made that so real to people that thousands thousands god on the day of pentecost fell to their knees under conviction and repented and were baptized and came to know jesus as their lord and savior and they were filled with the holy spirit baptized in the spirit and spoke in other tongues lord you've done great and mighty things god you've done great revivals down through history great revivals great moves of the spirit where you where you opened heaven and poured out your spirit lord and thousands upon thousands even hundreds of thousands were saved in in finney's revivals lord god in with wesley and lord we just we know god what you are capable of the azusa street revival or the welsh revival lord god the mighty brownsville revival lord nothing is too hard for you and lord so we pray now for our city and for our region and for oh lord god this place for auburn and opalica in this region we're praying god for true revival to come for you to step down and show your mighty hand in power lord to convict hearts to open blind eyes to break off chains to set captives free father in the mighty name of jesus we ask you to anoint us we ask you to stir us to pray we ask you to stir us the fast we ask you to stir us lord to to turn loose of every thing in this world and to truly make you and your kingdom and your gospel the priority in our lives father we pray that this morning in jesus name amen and amen i don't know about y'all but i felt that this morning amen hallelujah

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   how many of you know that it's the truth the absolute truth that the church of jesus christ is supposed to carry on the ministry of jesus christ i don't know why this is a foreign concept to most of the church world right he came to teach us what to do how to do it to be an example can i ask this question is jesus our example or not you see the church either acts like the pharisees and the sadducees or we act like jesus okay let me give you one example since we're going to be talking about demons today and casting out demons the pharisees sat in the religious authority and religious power they were the church of the day and let's understand something okay as we get into this study everybody wants to say well that was old testament this was new testament there are people that want to argue well jesus was operating under the old covenant i wonder how jesus who had the spirit of god without measure was operating under the old covenant we'll talk about that in a minute okay but the bottom line is jesus came to establish what the new covenant right but let's just understand something that the old covenant was still a covenant with god amen it was a blood covenant it was a covenant of faith and obedience to god it was a covenant that looked forward to the messiah coming the new covenant of course now with the better sacrifice of jesus on the cross we have a better covenant with better promises i'm not saying that but the bottom line is both covenants were fundamentally the same god wanted his children to love him and obey him and to do that to be forgiven and cleansed of your sin you had to bring animal sacrifices blood sacrifices and you had to obey god and exercise faith in god it was the same principle god was training his people for the day when the messiah the lamb of god jesus christ would come and shed his blood on the cross that's what egypt was about that's why they had to kill a lamb and put the blood on the doorpost so the death angel would pass over all that was foreshadowing what jesus would come and do okay but let's just remember god almighty has not changed from old testament to new testament okay let's just get that down to deal with sin you have to repent you had to repent in the old covenant you have to repent in the new covenant you have to you had to

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   have been covered by the blood in the old covenant you had to be covered by the blood in the new covenant amen god has not changed that's why the scripture says and we may turn there in just a second but first corinthians chapter 10 when it talks about them in the wilderness with moses it says there that they did all eat the same spiritual meat and they all drank the same spiritual drink because that rock that followed them was christ this is what we've got to get down in us that the mystery of the gospel of jesus christ is spoken of in the book of revelation when it talks about the lamb of god who was slain before the foundation of the world what see we have got to grasp this concept and quit going well that's old covenant this is new covenant no it's god that's why the verse that little ian here memorized this week about all scripture is given by inspiration of god and is profitable for doctrine for correction for instruction the reason that that is important is because within god almighty everything is accomplished before the foundation of the world see in him you have to understand this in god there is no such thing as time okay he is y'all understand what i'm saying see for him you know the bible says that the worlds were formed by by what basically by god's faith right hebrews chapter 11. see god so believes that what he says is going to happen is going to happen when he says it that it's already done you get what i'm saying because he ain't going to fail right so the lamb was slain before the foundation of the world that's why i believe that christ is god jesus christ is god he is eternal he is not a created being he did not have an origin he is an eternal part of the godhead right and we know that that the bible tells us that jesus appeared to abraham as melchizedek and sat down and preached the gospel to him because in john chapter 8 it says that abraham saw my day jesus said the book of galatians tells us the gospel was preached to abraham now i could go down this list i'm just bringing this up because we've got to we've got to get rid of these ideas that it's old covenant new covenant and that old covenant has nothing to say to us no let me remind you that the apostles now think about this y'all the apostles of our lord jesus christ peter james john thomas matthew all of them did they have a new testament when they

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   preach the gospel to the world no because you know what it is what the new testament is it's it's what they preach to the world it's a record of what god gave them after the resurrection but many years later so for those first 20 30 years do you know what they used to preach jesus to the world the old testament my god we've got churches now this basically says it's obsolete we can't learn anything from it that's old testament don't preach out of that don't teach out of that it's all nonsense we need it all amen did not jesus say that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of god right matthew 4 luke 4 he said that well you know where he was quoting that from deuteronomy right isn't that amazing matter of fact when the devil was tempting jesus and attacking him in the wilderness every scripture jesus quoted was old testament that's funny you know why because there wasn't any such thing as the new testament but yet the word of god was powerful enough to resist the devil face to face amen does everybody say this the old testament is the word of god amen and it's still powerful amen we learn many things from the old testament we learn many things that are principles in the old testament that show us pictures of the new testament now that's very important in many things you have to remember that much of the new testament is just the old testament quoted okay now as we get into this today i want everybody you know we said you know that the church and i stated this in the beginning that the church is supposed to carry on the ministry of jesus right well let's look at that now when jesus came to minister what did he do what did he do jesus came to minister he did mainly three things all right let me give you the three things jesus did in his ministry all right three things jesus did in his ministry number one is he taught the word of god he taught people the word of god actually i believe you could say jesus teaching ministry was his number one priority to teach the word of god to train and make disciples so that they could carry on his ministry his work when he left i'll show you that in a second this is vitally important because there's whole sections of the church

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