Lightly edited for readability while preserving the speaker’s meaning and substantive statements.
thank you we worship you we give you thanks Lord for the blood of Jesus shed on the cross that that blood is what makes Lord our possible Lord for us to be forgiven of sin that gives us victory over the devil and demons where we are grateful for the power of the blood of Jesus that your love was demonstrated through the cross and through the resurrection we worship you today we exalt you today we thank you God for all that you do Lord we praise you in Jesus name amen and amen all right you may be seated this morning we welcome you to fire in Grace Church welcome those of you listening by Blog Talk Radio and mixler and those watching Facebook live this morning hopefully it'll be working correctly today all right got a word to share with you last two mornings it seems like the Lord uh wanted me to get up at the same time four o'clock in the morning I woke up both mornings just wide awake and just went ahead and got up to pray but the Lord really really spoke this to me because I didn't study any of this I didn't prepare any of this last night or up to this week but it just felt very strongly impressed that we needed to dig into this today so we're going to talk about living under satanic influence um we're going to go through quite a few scriptures today so keep up with me if you can living under satanic influence and you can go ahead and put up the first picture he's going to have a few a few slides this morning for us but I want to say this this morning that for the Christian um and whether you're a Christian or not this is reality right we're living in a world that's full of satanic influence in fact the first scripture I want to go to is second Corinthians chapter 4. I'm going to show where a few verses here where we know the entire world the Bible speaks God speaks that the entire world is under the influence of Satan fallen angels and the demons so let's start in second Corinthians chapter four just to make our case this morning and here's what the Apostle Paul said to the Corinthian Church we'll start at verse 1. he said therefore seeing we have received or seeing that we have this ministry as we have received Mercy we faint not but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to Every Man's conscience in the sight of God
but if our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost in whom the God of this world Satan the power and authority over the evil sinful darkness of this world and unsaved people that's why it's little G it says but if our gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost in whom the God of this world Satan has blinded the minds of them which believe not lest the light and the Glorious gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them for we preach not ourselves but Christ Jesus the Lord and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake now let's go to another one Revelation chapter 12. everybody with me Revelation chapter 12 . I'm going to lay the foundation this morning not taking anything for granted foreign 12 says this verse 7 is where we'll start reading everybody with me I'm just looking at something different here all right let's read this verse Revelation 12 verse 7. I want everybody to get there and there was war in heaven Michael and his angels fought against the dragon which is Satan and the dragon fought in his angels so the Bible teaches there's a spiritual war going on in the Heavenly realm constantly against the angels of God the forces of God Michael and his angels against the dragon and the Fallen Angels and it says and prevailed not neither was their place found any more in heaven and the Great Dragon was cast out that old serpent called the devil and Satan which deceiveth the whole world he was cast out into the Earth and his angels were cast out with him now I want everybody to see that it says that Satan and just so you won't mistake who it is he says that old serpent called the devil and Satan which deceiveth the whole world so Satan and the Fallen Angels have successfully deceived the whole world and they've been doing it for thousands of years but that is their job is to influence what people think what people believe so that they can ultimately influence how people act I mean what you meditate on and what you think on constantly is what you will believe and it is what you will eventually do okay that's a that's a known fact all right so I want you to see that let's go to one more passage dealing with unbelievers and then we'll start dealing with born-again Christian believers who are under satanic influence uh Revel I mean Ephesians chapter 2 let's go to Ephesians chapter 2
thank you and we'll start reading there at verse 1. now of course in chapter one he's speaking about Jesus shedding his blood and being raised from the dead for us and he's speaking to people and I love Ephesians in fact let's look at Ephesians 1 1 so we know who Paul is talking to a lot of people think don't pay attention to these things who the writer is addressing but it says Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God to the Saints which were at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus so if there's any confusion about who Paul is writing the book of Ephesians 2 he makes it clear he says it's to the Saints which are at Ephesus that means Born Again Christians that believe in Jesus as their lord and savior God In the Flesh died on died on the cross and rose from the dead Born Again believer Saints and then he says and to the faithful in Christ Jesus everybody know not every Christian is faithful in Christ Jesus right we have some Unfaithful servants right so that's important to remember so we see who he's writing to and then we can jump over into verse two and then he says and you speaking to the Christians the Saints and the faithful in Christ Jesus at Ephesus is he says in you hath he quickened or made alive who were dead in trespasses and sins meaning when you believe in Jesus and you confess him as Lord and you repent of your sins and you're born again you become a Believer literally Jesus makes you alive he's spiritually alive you were spiritually dead in sin he washes your sins away but he also resurrects your dead spirit makes it alive there's a supernatural thing that happens when you're born again and if it didn't happen then you're not born again amen all right then he says this you hath he quickened or Made Alive who were dead in trespasses and sins wherein in times past you walked according to the course of this world according to the prince and the power of the air that is Satan the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience so the spirit of the prince of the power of the air the devil his spirit his spirits I should say the evil spirits the fallen angels and the demons it says where does it say it says Works in the children of Disobedience okay we're supposed to be as Christians we're supposed to be the children of obedience right if you're not the Bible is very clear that you're under satanic influence let me just say that real clearly if you're not a true born-again bible-believing Christian who loves Jesus and believes
what the Bible says about Jesus and you know you've been saved if you're not living for God through Jesus Christ then you are under and you are living under satanic influence it's that simple I don't care if you believe in Satan or not or you believe in demons or not or you you may be an atheist or an agnostic out there watching you'll say I believe I don't believe any of this well that's proof you're under satanic influence amen if the gospel is hid to you if you don't believe it or you don't understand it or you haven't received the the love and the mercy of God through the cross of Jesus Christ and his resurrection to love you and to die for your sins and all he wants you to do is confess him and believe in him and follow him to give you forgiveness and eternal life if if you don't want to believe that and that gospel is hid to you then the Bible is clear that the God of this world the little G Satan that Spirit The Prince and power of the air that evil spirit that deceives the whole world he has blinded your mind he has deceived you and you are under that satanic influence nothing you can do about it either Jesus is the only answer to deliverance and freedom and Hope from this satanic influence and satanic power okay but the devil and his demon spirits and the fallen angels are working everywhere in fact I'm getting ready you know a message about uh you know the Flat Earth part five and and I'm beginning to find out that the Illuminati the Satanist the Freemasons the high level occultists they all understand the truth about this they understand the truth that the sky is going to that it's solid and that it's going to fracture and shatter and crash down one day they they know this I can't tell you how many I found videos of well-known bands I'm not going to say in singers who we know are satanists part of the Illuminati and they've got the songs talking about the day the sky begins to fall and it crash down they know what's coming so you know what you know what's sad a lot of the satanists and the witches and the Illuminati they know more truth about the spirit world and what's going on and even about end times Bible prophecy than most Christians do that's really it's really sad and they project their knowledge in their movies and in their music and they laugh at us because most Christians are absolutely ignorant of these things absolutely ignorant that so many Christians are so under satanic influence that they can't even they
can't even tell when one of these satanists tells them straight out in a song or a movie or you know a book exactly what they believe and exactly what's going on they still won't believe it they still just think it's make believe right and these folks are telling you what they believe John knows it straight up tell you what what they believe oh and I forgot not just music not just music or television but the video games they're preaching their message they know the truth and they know what's coming they just believe they're gonna there's gonna be a different outcome they believe they're going to fight Jesus when he returns and win that's what they believe that's what X-Men what is it Armageddon X-Men apocalypse that's what that whole theme's about they're going to fight God when he returns and win but I want to give you another picture let's look at this one you want to talk about the Bible giving a vivid picture of demonic influence satanic influence go to Revelation chapter 16. you see a vivid picture of this the Lord showed John what's going to happen at the very end when the armies of the world the Satan the people that have followed the devil and the Antichrist are going to gather the armies of the world to fight at the battle of Armageddon there's something that we just kind of read over a lot of times how all that comes about but it's a vivid picture of satanic influence let's go to Revelation 16 and verse 12. and the sixth Angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates and the water thereof was dried up that the way of the kings of the East might be prepared now listen very closely to this John is seeing a vision he's seeing the future but he's seeing it in the spirit realm he's seeing both what's going on in the Physical Realm as well as what's going on in the spirit realm and he says the Euphrates river is going to be dried up all right something that's that's something that's going to happen in the Physical Realm and then he says in verse 13 and I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon out of Satan's mouth out of the mouth of the beast that's the Antichrist and out of the mouth of the false prophet which will be the final Pope for they are the spirits of devils working miracles which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the Battle of that great day of God almighty and it says behold Jesus speaks here he says behold I come as a thief blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked and they see his shame and verse 16 and he gathered them together into the place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon so
literally the sixth Angel when he pours out his vial what's going to happen is the Euphrates river is going to be dried up to prepare for the armies of the kings of the East but what's going to influence them there God shows us real clearly that satanic evil spirits are going to go out of the mouth of Satan out of the mouth of the Antichrist the world leader and out of the mouth of the false prophet the final Pope these unclean spirits are going to go out of their mouths and go influence these Kings to come to this battle and God is going to allow it to happen because he's going to gather them there to finish them off right but is that not a vivid picture of satanic influence to the nations of the world to Kings and leaders and armies and you think that these forces can't influence your mind no they're very good they're very good at influencing your thoughts let's say this where you say well now I'm a born-again Believer so the devil can't touch me right well not exactly so so let's go to First Timothy 4 1 and see First Timothy 4 1. doing a little teaching this morning first Timothy 4 1. I want everybody to turn there we're not we're not in a hurry today I don't care if you look on your phone or an iPad or actual real Bible you know in the days ahead you might want to have a real Bible around because these Electronics might just stop working especially for Christians they might just cut us off even if they don't cut off everything all right First Timothy 4 1 says this now the spirit and Paul's talking here about the Holy Spirit coming upon him he says now the spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times the end times the last days at the end of the age he says some shall depart from the faith giving heed or listening to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils now folks I'm going to you to understand something the word here when it says giving heed to seducing Spirits literally means that there will be some believers who will allow their minds to become possessed by demon spirits that will seduce them and influence them away from the faith of Jesus Christ away from the truth of the word of God away from from church away from from True True Churches anyway away from True uh true ministers true Christians who will you know confront them and tell them the truth
folks I want to tell you don't tell me that a Christian cannot be influenced in their mind and their mind even come under demonic control satanic influence in fact some Christians even now are living under continual satanic demonic bombardment in their minds because they don't either they don't know how to fight the pastors hadn't taught them how to fight are they don't know about deliverance and getting free from those things and or they don't know to recognize to begin to recognize when these thoughts are coming into their minds all right I wanted you to I wanted this to stand out I'm going to read this again now the spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times particularly in the last days the End of the Age close to the second coming of Jesus however you want to say that all of those are correct phrases he said in the latter times some shall depart from the faith because they will give heed they will allow Satan demon Spirits seducing spirits to bring in false teachings meaning wrong beliefs wrong ideas things that are not God's will things that are not in God's word and literally allow their minds to become possessed okay you don't think some people's minds are possessed how many Christians out there are on antidepressants and anti-psychotic drugs and why are they on these antidepressants and antipsychotics and anti uh anxiety medication because their minds are being possessed and controlled and tormented constantly and the only relief they go and go get because they don't know how to fight and live for God the only relief they can get is to go run and and do some drugs I used to be folks couldn't get all those drugs so they had to use alcohol or marijuana or whatever but the bottom line is don't tell me people's Christian's mind listen I've been I've been a pastor now for almost 30 years the minister I've counseled a lot of people over the years Christian born again Spirit-filled people that love God and I'm telling you tormented in their minds fear lust anger controlled by false doctrines of men that they've believed now let me show you something all satanic influence starts in your mind but where Satan's trying to work it down into he's trying to work it from your mind down into your heart or down into your spirit and one and where he once he gets it solidified in your mind then once he works it down in your heart you're in big trouble see this is what happened to Judas I'm
going to read the verses here in a minute but Judas all of his the satanic influence that Judas lived under was in his mind until the Last Supper when it says Jesus handed him the the piece of bread and it says Satan entered him but it all started in his mind first he listened to the Demonic the satanic influence to betray Jesus and finally it went from his head and once it went from his head to his heart he acted upon it don't tell me listen adultery for instance a Christian that commits the sin of adultery I promise you it didn't start out one day all of a sudden he fell into a bed somewhere and committed adultery right it started in his or her mind first and then it got entertained and continued and it didn't get cast out and bound and cast out and rejected and resisted and so that satanic influence went from the brain to the thought life into the heart and then it was acted upon because once something gets in your heart you got to do it why do you think it says these words about when we get saved it's got to be more in your head because Romans 10 9 says this that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead you shall be it can't just be a head knowledge or what we call mental assent there's got to be heart revelation of who Jesus is and what it means to be saved and to repent and truly believe from the heart that's why it says in Mark chapter 11 verse 22 and 23 when he says have faith in God and he says this what did he say he says you have to believe right you have to believe in your heart the things that you say and they will come to pass see the problem is a lot of people say they believe but they don't believe from the heart I mean I could preach on that message right there for like that's not even part of this today I'm trying to get you to understand something see something this is why it's important to meditate on the scriptures and obey the word of God and spend time in prayer because that what you're doing is you're getting the scriptures and the spirit of the scriptures with the Holy Spirit you're getting those the truth not just in your head but as you meditate on them and as you believe them and as you choose to begin to act upon them you get them from your head down in your heart see nobody there's no atheist or agnostic or scientists that can come along and and make me not believe in God there's no one that can come along and and make me not believe the scripture is
one because I've walked with God long enough I've I've studied this word long enough I've had enough experiences with him and fighting the devil and the demons I know it's real I know it's true it's not just in my head it's not just head knowledge see I'm gonna tell you something else this is why a lot of people say why your preaching is different I listen to you and I've had people say this it's just different when I listen to you verses when I listen to somebody else and I said the difference is this the difference is is that most of what I preach on I don't just preach from I learned it I read it I learned it and I filed it it's I've lived it I've experienced it I've gone through it I put it to practice I put it to the test right and I know God is true whether it be the subject of Deliverance and demons fighting demons and casting demons out of people it's not just because I read it in the book I have actually done it I've actually had demons cast out of me I've been through it I cast demons out of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people in the mighty name of Jesus so I know more than just what the book says I have experienced it so it's gone from my head to my heart and you can't take that away from me amen I know healing Jesus heals I've seen the dead Rays the crippled walk the death here in the name of Jesus Christ he said well I prayed and I didn't get healed I don't care I know that Jesus still heals amen oh I didn't I went to somebody for deliverance and it didn't work I don't care Jesus still in the name of Jesus we can still cast out demons somebody might not be walking in faith to the minister or the receive the person trying to receive Ministry but bottom line I know it works seen it work too many times the word of God is true the word of God works the Holy Spirit works for us what Jesus has done on the cross in the name of Jesus is powerful amen I know what it is to be forgiven I know what it is to hear God's voice I know what it is to have a vision from God a Dream from God and watch it come to pass I know what it is for God to reveal to me the secrets of men and women's hearts and to tell them and watch them cry so don't tell me get it if you've got a problem with doubt it's because you hadn't spent enough time getting it in you in your head and then down in your heart by doing somebody need to hear that somebody needed to hear that this morning all right
let's go on now so first Timothy 4 1 it says people are going to depart from the faith because they're going to give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils but it can be more subtle than that oh I'm feeling good this morning y'all need to pay attention let's go to Second Corinthians chapter 11. verses one through four second Corinthians chapter 11. this is when it gets a little more subtle now I've kind of been talking in broader terms this morning but remember I'm talking about today particularly Christians born-again Christians in church church folk even in this church living their lives under satanic influence and a lot of them don't even realize it a lot of them don't even know they listening to a spirit of Jezebel when I talk about that too in a minute Spirit of Jezebel spirit of Ahab Spirit of Absalom there's a lot of things that creep in different Spirits influencing different people in different ways and someone don't even recognize that they're under the influence of these things right I mean I mean well-meaning people Christian people born again people don't realize that they're listening to these Spirits these evil spirits and they're acting upon them and I'm gonna talk about how they get legal right to influence us different ways and that influence can can get stronger right but second Corinthians chapter 11 I guess Kevin's got it up before I do here we'll see yes remember who Paul's speaking to again he's speaking to Christians speaking to the Church of Corinth to Born Again tongue talking Spirit-filled Christians they still had issues some of them still had sexual sin and idolatry and God's trying to get them to get out of their sin and grow up and mature and become obedient Christians but Paul says this to him second Corinthians chapter 11 he said wood to God you could bear with me a little in my Folly because they were calling some of them were calling Paul foolish so he said hey just bear with me in my foolishness let's see how foolish I am he said with the god that you could bear with me a little in my folly and indeed bear with me for I am jealous over you with a Godly jealousy for I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ but I fear lest by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety everybody say this to me so your minds
let me hear you I can't so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ I'm gonna reread that he said but I fear he's speaking of Christians he said but I fear that as are just like the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety meaning it wasn't overt I'm going to show you what that is in a minute through his subtlety your minds should be corrupted Paul was saying Christians your minds can be corrupted by Satan's influence his subtlety and you can be corrupted from the Simplicity that is in Christ now let me just say this before I go any further you want to know what the Simplicity of Jesus Christ is the Simplicity of Christ is this believe the word of God the scriptures The Gospel According to the scriptures hate sin repent of sin obey the word of God pray fast and learn to hear the voice of God so you can do the will of God it's simple right God wants us to believe his word to act upon his word and become intimate enough with him that we can hear his voice and be led by his holy spirit in Jesus name and so if you're if something's pulling you away from believing what's in the scriptures if something's pulling you away into another gospel a different gospel if something's pulling you away from the foundational doctrines of New Testament Christianity if something's pulling you away from intimacy with the Lord and hearing his voice and doing his will then guess what your mind is being influenced it's being corrupted from this simplicity now just because it says it's simple doesn't mean it's easy it's a simple understanding but it's not always easy to practice to do it right we'll talk about that in a minute y'all are y'all staying with me y'all with me because I'm going somewhere with this now when he says here but I fear less by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through it slowly so your mind should be corrupted now this is really what I want to get at the subtlety of how Satan corrupts your mind so we're going to go to Genesis 2 and 3. please stay with me I know this is some stuff that I've covered in previous sermons but I promise you there's some new stuff here today that the Lord wants me to emphasize to you okay we'll come back to Second Corinthians 10 in just a moment but go to Genesis
chapter 2. because we're going to look at how the serpent beguiled Eve now we need to understand first of all that Adam and Eve are a type and Shadow an example to us as born-again Believers how do I know this because Adam and Eve right God had just made them Adam God made Adam from the dust of the ground he formed his body and then it said he breathed into Adam and Adam became a living Soul right and right after that God said it's not good that man should be alone I will make a help meet for him and so he caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam he took a rib out of Adam and he formed Eve and she became a living Soul male and female God created we didn't come from monkeys you folks at still believing NASA remember these are the same people tell you you come from monkeys so keep trusting them if you want to I'm not right we didn't come from monkeys God created us in his own image all right so God makes Adam and Eve they were New Creations does that sound familiar second Corinthians 5 17 says this if any man be in Christ he is a new creature New Creation old things have passed away All Things become new So Adam and Eve were New Creations and upon being those New Creations they were also sinless meaning no sin was in their lives they had not sinned until a little further here so Adam and Eve were holy they were pure they were chased they were clean morally spiritually physically in every way they were pure from sin isn't it amazing that when we come to Jesus Through the blood of Jesus by faith in the blood of Jesus by repentance of sin by salvation being born again it says that we can become New Creations completely washed completely cleansed completely holy completely pure of sin through the blood of Jesus it's a it's an Amer it's an amazing thing in fact you know back in 1987 when I really repented of my sin and made Jesus Lord of my life and I was truly truly forgiving and cleansed my buddies my best friends they were living they lived here in Opelika I was in Arkansas for a year when I came back I wrote them some letters you know back then we didn't have email so I actually wrote physical letters right so my best friends I'm talking about my best friends that I drank and beer with all the time and liquor and smoke joints and did cocaine and parted in this town
and thought went to bars I was going to bars in this town from the time I was 14. right they knew Dean they knew all about my sexual immorality they knew all about my fighting they knew all about my drinking and party they knew all about all evil Dean we were some of us you know one of my friends we were friends from like fourth grade some of them I even from kindergarten right so they knew it when I came back after I truly repented and and Jesus had washed me clean this was a testimony of two of my best friends after they got saved they said man when you came back here and we saw you and now here's a guy Craig was one of them it wasn't a church goer he said man I looked in your eyes he said it was like light was coming out of your eyes and he said I can't explain it but it looked like somebody cleaned you up on the inside and you were shy this is somebody that didn't know christianese and Bible talk and Christian you know lingo amen because the eyes are the window to the soul I believe that Genesis chapter 2. Adam and Eve in the garden I just went through their creation let's go to verse 15. Genesis 2 15 and the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and keep it and the Lord God commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil Thou shalt not eat of it for the day that thou eatest thereof Thou shalt surely die and the Lord said it is not good that man should be alone and then he goes on to make the help meat for him so let's go over to chapter 3. so God makes Adam puts him in this Garden that God created Paradise Eden and in this Garden in Paradise there were two trees the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life now there were other trees many other fruit trees and plenty of things for food but these particular trees had spiritual power as well as physical attributes so you have the tree of the knowledge everybody say tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil Good and Evil Good and Evil and the Tree of Life all right so God says to the to the man to the
woman to Adam and Eve you can eat every tree but the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil see we always focus on evil the over evil that's out there we don't understand that there's a good that's also evil it appears to be good it has an outward appearance but it's still part of the evil tree that was forbidden so the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil God says you don't need a this tree now we know the story but I want to focus in on let's read because we're talking about as the serpent beguiled Eve Paul said he's going to work on the church Christians the same way so we need to study how did Satan work on Eve the new creation who was sinless who had a relationship with God how did Satan work on this perfect being sinless beings sinless human and get her to sin how did he do it all right let's read it Genesis 3 verse 1 now the serpent was more subtle the native reached to the field which the Lord God had made and he said unto the woman ye hath God said You shall not eat of every tree of the garden so first of all let's look at what Satan does Satan first of all tries to make Eve feel like she's missing out can I say this that one of the greatest Temptations one of the greatest problems to get Christians out of the will of God to get Christians under satanic influence and to get them in trouble is Satan begins to make you feel discontented with what he's given you and where he's placed you you're not content you're not content with your spouse you may not be content with your job you may not can be content with where you live what city you live in or house you live in this this lack of contentment what did Paul say in Philippians he said what whether I have a lot whether I have a little I have learned in every state to be content see let me just say this real quick sometimes the will of God places you in circumstances and situations that are not easy they're difficult they test you but it is the will of God and if you allow yourself to become discontented with where God has you at a certain time where God's told you this is what I want you to do I want you to be or who I want you to be married to look most divorces are not about lust they're about discontentment you hear what I said most divorce most Affairs lust is not
the primary reason it's there but it's discontentment I'm I'm not getting my emotional needs better I'm not getting my physical needs met I'm not getting my sexual needs now whatever it is I'm just not content I'm not happy anymore but with marriage God said you made a commitment it's a covenant and it doesn't go by your feelings of contentment right it goes by your commitment to God in his word right so let's keep reading so he the serpent begins to make Eve feel like she's gonna miss out oh you can eat you you can't eat of every tree in the garden you can't have everything that's why hey debt problem in America you know what that is because we can't have everything we want right now so they came up with credit cards right but still it's discontentment I want the new car now I want the vacation now I want this now for the devil said you mean you can't have everything you can Capital One what's in your wallet nothing but they'll give you a piece of plastic so you can have every tree and everything you have what you want right so I'm telling you there's nothing new Under the Sun people let's keep reading so this discontentment and the woman said to the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the Trees of the garden but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden God hath said You shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch it lest you die and the serpent said unto the woman you shall not surely die and herein is the next lie you can disobey God I mean we have entire churches and seminaries and denominations that teach this lie and that lie is you can disobey God's Commandments you can willfully transgress God's Commandments has told you that you will die in sin or you will experience the wages of sin which is death and the Devil comes along and says you will not die you're once saved always saved no matter how you live Calvinism the Baptist Church teaches this false this satanic idea there are not consequences Eternal consequences to transgression and breaking God's law listen that's why that's what possessed of the devil who will lead the Antichrist world but think about it the Bible calls him in second Thessalonians the man of Perdition of
the man of lawlessness right no law no Commandments the chief you know what the the chief law of witches in the Satanic Bible and in Aleister Crowley's book about do as thou will do what you want to do you want to know that the the that is the tenant the foundational doctrine of Satanism and following Satan is do what you want to do and there are no consequences God will not do anything about it Morongo right so he says you will not surely die but now let's keep going so then the devil says for God doesn't know that the day you eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and you shall be as Gods knowing Good and Evil the promise God's keeping back wisdom and knowledge and experiences from you right more of that discontentment thing and basically what it accuses God see let me just say this before we go any further sin When God Says for instance you shall not be a drunkard no drunkard will under the Kingdom of Heaven you can't be a habitually practicing drunker right but the devil come back in oh but wait wait wait wait can't you know God God knows that you gotta have a beer once in a while go out with your friends and relax and the same thing God that God's okay be all right right see where where it all starts right let's keep reading you know I didn't even plan on doing all of this but here look here look at verse six this is what I really want to focus in on verse six and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave it also unto her husband with her and he did eat in the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked and so on and so forth and this is what opened the door to Satan sin death destruction say why Adam and he didn't die yes they did they died spiritually that's when the human Spirit died and the connection to God was broken and they would have died physically but God stepped in and he killed an animal and it says clothed them with coats of skin so blood was shed and this was a picture of the coming sacrifice to come Jesus would be the sacrifice for sin all the way back to
Genesis right but let's let's look at this this is what really jumped off the page at me this morning as I was praying over this message and meditating on the word and this is where the satanic influence when it really begins to take hold in your brain listen to me listen closely to this and you can put up that that word here in a second the Greek word but before you do that notice it says this it says and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food okay God has said you don't eat at this tree you don't touch this tree our biggest problem when we start getting off base out of the will of God under satanic influence is when we start looking at things through human logic alone oh it's it's good for food to be good for me this is where people are Christians are practicing yoga now oh it's good exercise it's good stretching it'd be good for me to get up do something like that doesn't matter that every position is about to the sun god doesn't matter that it comes out of paganism doesn't matter God said don't touch that stuff don't play with that stuff don't be like the pagans of the world don't meditate like them don't chant like them don't pray like them oh no it'd be fine be fine yoga is fine know the whole the whole reason of yoga is to open you up to the Kundalini spirit and you know what that means serpent power that's the Hindu term Kundalini for serpent power right y'all with me on that now it says it's good for food human logic this is when we say stuff like this let's say for instance I remember let's go back to 19 to 2008. Nancy and I are preparing to get married we know we're supposed to get married I've just taken a job no it's the Lord's will for me to take a job as a pastor at a church in Washington DC no doubt in my mind knew it was from the Lord but I was torn up about it because I hate big cities I I really don't like big cities and I'm a southern boy I like the South I'm sorry that's the way it is I like the South and I didn't want to go there because my girls Caitlyn and Bethany were here in Alabama so I didn't want to be 800 miles from my my girls even though they were teenagers at the time I still didn't want to be that far away from them right they live with their mother here in Alabama and you want to talk about somebody being torn up over it
but see here's what I could have done I could have started going into my human logic well Nancy's here and you know she's got a house in Georgia we just need to stay in Georgia I can start a church in Georgia or I can do ministry in Georgia or we can you know I could come up with all kinds of things out of my own logic right this is what gets us in trouble many times being led by the Holy Spirit doing what God wants us to do has nothing to do with human logic right like he told Joshua March around Jericho seven times oh seven days and say nothing on the seventh day whatever Shout and the wall will fall down does that make any logic in our head that that's going to work right or when they walk up to the Dead Sea and the Lord tells Moses stretch out your rod over the sea what's that going to do had anyone seen a sea part open before what did Moses do walks down to the sea oh actually what the Lord said is amazing he tells Moses you divide the sea what yes walk down to the to the Sea and stretch forth Your Rod you do it I can't do that God right but you can do anything if you're obeying God amen God says to do it I heard some preacher say years ago if God says jump through the hole in the wall right there and there's no hole you jump and while you're in there he'll make the hole right that's faith hear what I'm saying so the first problem she got into was human logic it's good for food second thing was it was pleasant to the eyes oh well it looks good looks like a good idea pleasing to the eyes a little eye candy all right that's where a lot of men and women get themselves in trouble right man I need to date her she looks good well she might be a witch from Hell A Jezebel okay what she looks like right oh I need me a man I need a man really well that one right there that you think you need won't keep a job drinks beer beat his last wife but that's the one you need well he's good looking good luck this Pleasant to the eyes crap
gets us in trouble but don't we see that everywhere don't we that make the cars beautiful and shiny and sleek all the commercials are shiny and sleek and Beautiful People right but it's all to get you to do what they want you to do you cannot be fooled by either listen to me one of the reasons Christians are deceived and come under satanic influence is too often they go by the way things look on the outward appearance the good part of the tree oh but he couldn't be he couldn't be a false prophet he talks about Jesus he could be a false teacher he reads from the Bible or just like Joel Osteen oh to so many people they think he's so good yeah he is he's the good side of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil he's the one that gets up with the scriptures but only the ones that are positive nothing negative that's not his ministry he says we don't talk about hell we don't talk about Sin we don't talk about judgment we don't talk about end time prophecy no Joel says that's not his calling and people go oh man isn't Joe good he's got the biggest church in the land well yeah you tell people what they want to hear you pass out candy and cotton candy instead of broccoli it's easy Pleasant to the eyes and here we go and a tree to be desired to make one wise oh my see this is the big problem with the world right now with the church world there's a whole bunch of people listen I remember Larry Lee Dr Larry Lee years ago being at Southwestern Theological Seminary in Fort Worth Texas right and he said that in his senior year graduate year I guess doctoral year of getting his PhD THD whatever he is sitting in a class and they are studying the first 11 chapters of Genesis and the professor of the Seminary now we're talking about the Baptist one of the Baptist you know meccas of seminaries Southwestern Theological Seminary Fort Worth Texas in the 70s in a more conservative time for Christianity in America he says they're studying the first 11 chapter of Genesis and the professor says well there probably was never a man named Adam it's never a man named Noah these are just stories to tell us thank
you so Larry Lee says he raises his hand and he says to the professor well Jesus thought they were real and said they were real Paul thought they were real and the professor says these words well they just didn't have the information we have today and that's when you know you are now eating from the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil because you think you are wiser than God you think there is wisdom to be found outside of obeying God one of my favorite passages there is no wisdom or counsel against the Lord so I got news for you you folks out there you better listen to me you folks out there that have a problem with what I've been teaching about what the Bible says is about the Earth is flat and it's covered by a dome of molten glass and that there's an above and there's a beneath and that the sun moon and stars you've got a problem with that I mean there's Christians that I'm born again Spirit filters they got a serious problem with me over this issue all right but their problem is is that they have eaten of this tree right here and this tree says that there is wisdom or knowledge out there that is contrary to God's word and I'm sorry but the scriptures are playing psalm 19. First Chronicles Joshua Joshua told the Son and the moon to stand still he didn't tell the Earth to stop spinning Psalm 19 says the son runs in a circuit around us over us as a man running a race God said the Sun the moon and the stars are inside the firmament inside's where the birds fly and the clouds are and you know what's amazing is you'll find out maybe next week we'll get to it there's Old Testament and New Testament scriptures say the Earth is flat yes I've had people say the Bible didn't say that I'll show you it does again Old Testament and New Testament but oh no no no no no no no no no no no we got wisdom you need to eat this tree of knowledge of Good and Evil and believe the scientists NASA well well let me ask something what scientists out there what evolutionist what atheist agnostic scientist is going to accept the fact that we believe in a man who died on a cross and three days later rose from the dead who do they accept that truth
no so why are you worried about them accepting what the Bible says about the nature of the Earth the sky the sun and the moon the stars why why it's really boils down to this I want I I don't want to be looked at as crazy keep following the crowd God's word is true I'm gonna show you I'm getting the testimonies in videos we've been put up with two months ago we're hitting 21 000 views on those two between those two videos there's a hunger for truth and you know when you can observe it with your eyes test it with a telescope or a camera and it's in the scriptures that ought to be enough but no too many of you have eaten of this tree right here too many Christians your wisdom comes from the Satanic World System and don't tell me that they are not but let's put up the they know what they're doing look at this look look at this Apple look at that the most wealthy most influential I mean look at iPads iPhones Mac computers the Apple 2E one of the first computers ever made right one of the most successful companies in the world they pick the bite out of the Apple the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil and they're telling you think differently think different what are they talking about not the way God thinks not what the scriptures say not the truth of God think different this is what the devil said I mean this could this could be this is the modern translation of Genesis 3. God said don't eat of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil don't sin don't disobey you will die they come along no think differently that's the devil's whole message to Eve think differently than God's word said nowhere does the bible say that the Earth moves over and over again it says that the Earth is still and it rests Zechariah 1 11. that the world the Earth is immovable but NASA says we're flying through the universe around the Sun oh they showed us pictures oh that's all they got to do you get what I'm saying if you will not believe God's word all of it then you will be deceived you know I can't remember the philosopher I don't even know I don't even think it was a Christian philosopher it said there's two ways to be deceived one is to believe a lie the second way is to refuse to believe what is true if you refuse to believe what is true you have nothing left but the lies
was it da Vinci look at this go go ahead to uh yeah the first Apple right bite into an apple and the first Apple computer once it was mass produced look at the price on that that's the price they pick 666.66 666. you don't think that they they just mock us they just throw it in your face and this man what's his name again jobs Steve Jobs the man who gave you this dies of cancer unsaved yeah he thought differently and he's in hell he dies of cancer an unbeliever Buddhist whatever he ended up saying he was but he dies of cancer billionaire but he chose the wisdom and the path of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil the serpent and he's dead and he's burning in hell and he wishes that he would have thought the way God wanted him to think right y'all hear me there's a good side to this tree a lot of people think well I'm good I'm being good you know I shared that last week about righteousness there's a lot of people who think well if I give money to charities if I don't hurt anybody if I'm a decent person blah blah blah blah blah that God way my good deeds versus my bad Deeds and I'll go to heaven this is what most people believe if they believe in the afterlife if they believe in eternity they believe this but see that's the satanic influence the Bible doesn't say God weighs your good deeds versus your bad Deeds it says You must Believe In His only begotten son you must confess him as Lord and savior you must believe in your heart that when you was raised from the dead the third day you must believe that he is the only sacrifice for sins the only one that can wash sin away you have to believe and experience that and if you want to be with him you're going to have to agree with him about Sin see it like if my older children Caitlyn and Bethany if they want to live in my house guess what they're welcome they need a place to stay come on but they'll live according to my rules
or they won't live in my house they're not going to bring pornography drugs witchcraft a cursed object you see what I'm saying I love them do anything I could for them but they're not bringing that in my house God's the same way if you love him and you believe in him and you trust him then you'll turn loose of what he wants you to turn loose enough amen because you'll know he's looking out for you you know I want my girls to live right for God because I know not only is it about eternity but I know it's the best thing for them in this world it's the it's the safest place to be the safest place to be is you know in in God's will in obedience that's the safest place to be in this world it doesn't matter where you are if you're in God's will and you're in his perfect plan for your life and you're in his uh obeying his word obeying his law that's the safest place to be amen I need to finish this though oh all right let's go to another Passage this may be the last one second Corinthians chapter 10. everybody go second Corinthians chapter 10. he tells us the weapons of our Warfare if I want everybody to get there if you're watching Facebook if you're listening you need to look at it second Corinthians 10 let's go down to verse three I'm going to read verses three through six here's what he says for the weapons of our Warfare are not carnal they're not just physical they're not fleshly the weapons of our Warfare this spiritual warfare are not carnal But Mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds casting down imaginations and every High thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to The Obedience of Christ is that up here let's look at this right here let's break this down God says the whole world is deceived by Satan says the whole world the children of Disobedience that the The Prince and the power of the air Satan Works in them he's deceiving the whole world Fallen Angels evil spirits are
everywhere demon Spirits are influencing every unsaved person that is not born again but within the church Satan uses more subtlety with Christians we've proven that right but here he says I want you to cast down imaginations now let's look at this here's the Greek word for imaginations the original Greek word lagismos it is the origin of the word logic computation reasoning thought so what he's saying here is we're gonna have to cast down imaginations now listen to me real closely here just for a second okay we have got to to to get free from satanic living under satanic influence and bring every thought to be able to cast down imaginations and get free from safe and bring every thought to The Obedience of Christ we have got to learn what these are what what imaginations are huh and imaginations and I'm coming back to this human logic now let me explain this too many Christians right now Spirit-filled in church about different things their marriage their church maybe their Pastor maybe uh their relationships within church maybe situations where they're kids situations where there's maybe some friction or some offense or whatever there's a lot of people out there that in their head a lot it they have their own imagination or their own logic and they think the situation is the way they think it is they're convinced of it but let me tell you something what I've discovered are all these years being a pastor even now examining situations that are going on and even in our church here I'm going to tell you most Christians that think they have a situation figured out do not it's not because they're stupid or ignorant or anything else most Christians have wrong ideas or wrong imaginations or their own human logic because they haven't spent enough time praying fasting and meditating in the word to hear what the Holy Spirit has to say about the matter and nine times out of ten what the Holy Spirit wants to tell you about a situation is a lot different than what you're thinking about it and if we would do this if we would seek to hear God's voice and discern the situations in the spirit and not go by
our own logic our own ideas if we would do that there would be a lot more unity in the house of God there would be a lot more restored relationships there'd be a lot less offense there would be a lot less sin going on in the church world if we would just slow down enough and pray and fast and listen to God and meditating the word so that we can hear what he's saying about a situation this is so important for instance there's a situation right now how do I put this there's a there's a situation where someone actually thanks another person is offended with a third party okay but they don't even know the real situation that's going on with that third party but they've got they think they've got it figured out and I'm like they don't have it figured out they don't have the situation discerned properly but they think they do and let me just say this this is where pastors and the flock butt heads if you have a pastor that actually prays and has some discernment there's a lot of them that don't everything's done in their head by their own logic by their schooling by their books and their commentaries or whatever it's all there's no being led by the Holy Spirit there's no Revelation knowledge there's no seeing through a situation they use psychology instead of Discerning the situation but if you have a pastor that actually hears from God and discerns has discernment don't butt heads that's what I I butted heads with a young man the other day who he's 20 maybe he's 22 Maybe but I'm sitting there going you're 22 years old you might be have been saved for maybe two or three four years maybe at the most and he thought he thought he had a situation Discerning figured out and he didn't have he he wasn't even close but would not listen I'm like son I've been in this thing for 30 years listen they refused so you know what I did bye
bye no not being mean he got a little disrespectful and he's like I've got Elders that agree with me on them all right then go to them stay off my page stay off my church stay off my Ministry you go go trust them go you don't trust what I'm saying to you you don't trust the scriptures I'm giving you don't trust what I'm the discernment I'm giving you the experience I'm giving you over many years of doing this then go find somebody else I will not waste my time with you I know that may sound harsh but I'm just not going to do it I got too many people especially across you know through our Outreach here that want to hear so if you want to butt heads with me think you have situations figured out that you really don't have any discernment on again you can look at the outward appearance of things you can come up with your own logic and your own opinions and your own thoughts of the matter but it doesn't mean that you've heard from the Holy Spirit and have discernment on the matter I can give the perfect example Acts chapter 16. I'll just quote this you can go read it later Acts chapter 16 Paul is preaching right Paul is is ministering and it says that there was a woman there possessed with a spirit of divination and it says she came up as Paul and then would Minister day by day in this area it says that she would come up and say these men are Servants of the most high God would show us the way of salvation now she was speaking the absolute truth nothing she was saying on the outside looked wrong in fact most people most ministers would say oh this is our most enthusiastic new church member right here right they said she did this many days she would come up to where Paul and and uh was it Barnabas or silence I'm trying to think Silas by this time yeah and they're preaching and they're ministering and many days she would come out and say these men she would profit these men are Servants of the most high God would show us the way of salvation absolutely truth but it said Paul being grieved in his spirit what that means is Paul began to go it looks right on the outside it sounds right she's not saying anything doctrinally incorrect here but Paul discerned that an evil spirit was working through her trying to attach itself to his ministry and finally it says that Paul being greed heavy in his Spirit he discerned in the spirit what was going on turned and commanded the spirit of
divination the people say it's a python spirit it's not a python it's pythian it was a group of women who were witches they were into divination for the Temple of Apollo um the Oracle of Delphi you can look at all that up it's pythian it's not python all right but she was one of the priestesses training under the main witch at the Oracle of Delphi and Paul discerned the spirit was trying to infiltrate his ministry and see what these people do is they'll try to infiltrate they'll say the right thing they'll act the right way and most ministers are busy and they don't pick up on it immediately but any minister of God or Christian that's got discernment and listening to the holy spirit it's finally going to quit listening to what they're hearing with their ears their physical ears and what they're seeing on the outside they're finally going to get with get with God and get some discernment and see through it we've got to see through these things listen if you're a Christian and you're not Discerning the spirits working behind people in situations and finding out the real it's time it's because you're not praying enough you're not fasting enough you're not in the word enough and you're letting other influences you're spending too much time watching TV reading secular novels listening to secular music and you wonder why you can't discern and hear God's voice you wonder why you're deceived all the time while you get misled why things don't work out for you why why I have people all the time well how do I know the will of God how can I hear from God Christians and I'm like you're never going to if you don't spend some time with him and some of you need Deliverance because your past some of you are past just influence in your brain or even in your heart and I didn't even get to Judas I I mean that's that's the whole thing y'all want me to do it all right let's finish it I'm sorry this is a little longer Dave it's a lot to it I want you to see this though this is how you you see things in the in on the outside and and one person one person who's operating in an evil spirit who might sound good and this is what Judas did let's look at this everybody go with me to John the Gospel of John I'm gonna finish up with Judas here the Gospel of John chapter 12. okay now I've preached on this before it's been several years ago I shared this little nugget of Truth but I want you to see this we've many many many new listeners since then all
right so listen closely to this we're going to read from John 12 and Matthew 26 these are accounts of the same situation okay but not exactly the same this is what paying attention to details okay let's look at it we know that Judas was under the influence of the devil now let's read this John chapter 12 verse 1 talking about living under satanic influence then Jesus six days before the Passover notice it says six days everybody say six days before the Passover so six days before Jesus would be have the last supper and be crucified six days it says he was in the town of Bethany where Lazarus which had been raised from the dead who are which uh where Lazarus was which had been raised from the dead whom he had raised from the dead there they made him a supper and Martha served but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him then Mary or then took Mary a pound of ointment of spiknerd very costly an anointed defeat of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment then saith everybody say this one one of his disciples Judas Iscariot who's under the influence in his mind right now of the evil one of Satan one of the disciples Judas Iscariot Simon's son which should betray him said this why was not this ointment sold for 300 Pence and given to the poor now does that sound good that sounds good doesn't it oh he wanted to sell this ointment this very expensive ointment and give it to the poor this was a waste The Pour It On Jesus feet what are you thinking Mary human logic the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil the good side we want to help the poor with this we should have sold this and helped the poor y'all know how many Church Deacon meetings Elder meetings go just like this a lot of ideas about what should be done right that's why we don't have those right look what he says here he asked the question why was this this not this ointment sold for 300 Pence and give it to the poor now look at verse six gives us the the discernment here it says this he said not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief and had the bag and bear what was put therein but notice what Jesus said so the guy's motives is wrong though it sounds good on the outside but his motives are wrong and then said Jesus let her alone
against the day of my bearing has she kept this for the poor always you have with you but may you have not always I want you to see that right there so Jesus said leave her alone so Jesus wasn't bothered by this in fact what I believe is the Holy Spirit Led Mary to do this okay I believe this was the high priest anointing before Jesus would go do his high Priestly work that's a whole other message there right but the Holy Spirit Led her to do something that on the outside appeared like she was wasting this expensive oil but listen to me when you spend time with God and when you obey the holy spirit of God and when you're doing what you're supposed to be it may look to other people like you're not doing the right thing but as long as you're doing what Jesus wants you to do what the holy spirit's leading you to do it doesn't matter but notice the one who was already under the influence in his mind of Satan is the one that started complaining but he always he made it sound like she was doing something wrong and that he had a better idea human logic not Holy Ghost leading but this was six days before the Passover now let's go to Matthew 26. Matthew 26. hold your finger there on John 12 and we'll come right back to it Matthew 26 everybody say six days today six days y'all there oh let me see here okay verse one and it came to pass when Jesus had finished all these things he said unto his disciples you know that after two days everybody say two days after two days the Feast of Passover is the Feast of Passover and the son of man is betrayed to be crucified whoa wait a minute now so we're four days later right if we had six days to the Passover in Bethany and now we're four days later but still two days before the Passover so before the Last Supper before the crucifixion notice what it says here let's keep reading then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes and the Elders of the people under the Palace of the high priest he was called Caiaphas and consulted that they might take Jesus by subtlety and kill him but they said not on the feast day lest there being uproar among the people now look at this verse 6 now when Jesus was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper so he's still in the same town but four days later he's going to visit with somebody else going to hang out in somebody else's house right so Jesus was still in the town of Bethany and in the house of Simon the
lever they came unto him a woman having an alabaster box a very precious ointment imported on his head not his feet this time no look at verse eight but when his disciples saw it they had indignation and said to what purpose is this waste for this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor and when Jesus understood it he said to them why trouble you the woman for she hath wrought a good work upon me for you have the poor always with you but be you have not always for that she hath poured this ointment on my body she did it for my burial verily I say unto you that whosoever or wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world there shall also this that this woman had done be told for a memorial for her then one of the twelve called Judas Iscariot went into the chief priest notice it went the satanic influence of Judas against the woman Mary who came in four days before and anointed his feet that that satanic influence and that negative attitude and those negative words spoken four days later they're in the house another house in the same town and Simon the leper's house and another woman comes in and anoints his head now it's all the disciples see this this is how satanic influence spread through your mouth speaking your own ideas and agreeing with people who are speaking their own ideas oops you want to talk about strife and Division in a church this is how it happens right here now think about this this is coming this this started with Judas who had been with Jesus nearly every single day for three years seeing the sick Hill the demons cast out and yet he was still under satanic influence now back to John 13 look at this this will really take it full circle here verse 1. now before the Feast of Passover when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the father having loved his own which were in the world he loved them unto the end and supper being ended now listen to this and supper being ended the devil having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot Simon's son to betray him Jesus knowing that the father had given all things into his hand that he was come from God and went to God he rises from supper and this is when he washes everyone's feet let's skip on over he said verse 11 he said for he knew who should betray him therefore he said you are not all clean so after that he had washed their feet he had taken the garments his garments was set down he said unto them know you what I have done
unto you and then of course I'm I'm not going to read all this let's go on over verse 21 and when Jesus had said thus he was troubled in the spirit and testified and said verily verily I say unto you that one of you shall betray me then the disciples looked on one another doubting of whom he spake now there was leaning on Jesus bosom one of the disciples whom Jesus loved Simon Peter therefore beckoned him that he should ask who it should be and then lying on Jesus breath he said that him Lord who is it and Jesus said he it is to whom I shall give a stop and when I have dipped it and when he had dipped the SOB he gave it to Judas Iscariot the son of Simon look at verse 27 and after the SOP Satan entered into him then said Jesus unto him that that thou doest do quickly so you see the satanic influence in the life of an apostle the Apostle Judas it had been in his mind for years that he had his own agenda he had his own agenda he wanted Jesus to fight the Romans and restore Israel to its political power and you know what Judas probably knew the scriptures about the Messiah I have no doubt that Judas believed Jesus was the Messiah but what he was looking at was the scripture said the Messiah would become the King of Kings and the Lord of lords over all the nations of the world and rule them with a rod of iron and he was looking at that and guess so guess what he had scriptural backing to what he believed but he was in the wrong timing and discernment of and how to work it out this is where so many Christians are they think well I got a scripture yeah but you don't really understand what you're talking about you're not Discerning the time in the season you're in you're not Discerning the situation you're not rightly dividing it and understanding it in its context a lot of times so what did he say here Judas had his own agenda and then we just read what the influence that was in his mind it said in the first part there it went into his heart to betray Jesus see this is this a lot of people think that Judas betraying Jesus was about the 30 pieces of silver it was not it had nothing to do with the money even though he loved money it wasn't about the money he was trying to force Jesus into a situation to do what he wanted and this is where Christians live I want it my way Lord I want you to do this the way I
wanted God right and so guess what when Jesus stepped back because Judas didn't understand the context of the scriptures that the Messiah would come the first time to die for sin to be the Lamb of God and that later on he would come a second time to be the king of kings and Lord because he didn't fully understand the scriptures and didn't discern the season he was in he tried to force Jesus to be the king of kings and Jesus didn't come to be the king of kings the first time he came to be the lamb that was sacrificed for our sin so boom Judas is in the wrong he goes and he betrays Jesus and the reason I know it wasn't about the money is because when he sees Jesus lets them arrest him and he sees that Jesus is going to allow himself to die he doesn't even understand the concept even though Jesus been trying to explain it to him for three years and so he doesn't even understand that the Messiah had to be crucified and so he when he sees Jesus is condemned he runs and he throws the money back into the temple he throws it back he doesn't want the money he wanted Jesus to do it his way he had his own agenda he thought he had his scripture on backing he thought he had it all figured out but he was under satanic influence and so he throws it down and here's the final thing we know he was under satanic influence because what does he do instead of falling on his knees and goes I borrow it I sin I have my own agenda I had everything figured out with my own human logic I have my own imaginations I've been under satanic influence I've been a thief I've been a sinner instead of just saying God forgive me have mercy on me he goes out and he kills himself and and suicide listen to me suicide like in this situation suicide is the ultimate it's the ultimate sin of I'm gonna I'm gonna do it my way and he commits suicide and Jesus says about Judas it would have been better for him never to have been born not because Judah sinned not because Judas betrayed him because Judas committed suicide and went to hell and will never get out all because he lived in the ministry for three plus years under satanic influence and when it all didn't go down the way he wanted it to go down or thought it should go down or had it figured out to go down because that was an idol in his heart he couldn't live I have Christians right now I I have some that say they're a Christian comma I don't want to live I don't want to live you're under satanic influence and if you commit suicide you're going to hell I don't care how many pastors tell you that people commit suicide don't go to hell they go to hell I'm sorry
I'm not going to candy coat it that'll thin the ministry out even further there Robert Kevin it shows if somebody listen if somebody commits suicide I'm just going to tell you if somebody commits suicide it shows that something's been wrong in their mind and their heart and I'm not talking about mental illness I'm talking about they've been listening to lies of the devil and believing them for a long time and if you believed what Jesus said and you believe what the word of God said you wouldn't kill yourself because if you destroy the temple of God it says God will destroy you well if you commit suicide you destroy the temple what's left to destroy he's talking about your soul in Hell Eternal damnation Eternal punishment Eternal destruction a second that's second Corinthians chapter 3 verse 18. that's what it says real simple or First Corinthians chapter three I'm sorry so there's none of this Judas committed suicide Saul committed suicide why because they started Living in Disobedience to God's word and evil spirits beginning influence and they finally gave into it it's not hard to figure out you better get close to Jesus and you better start resisting the devil binding those demons and stop thinking you have everything figured out stay humble stay teachable stay in the word of God keep studying because listen 30 I'm still learning I'm still studying and I'm still learning listen to the Holy Spirit let him show you you may think you see a situation fine you may think you have it figured out you may think you have a relationship figured out or a problem figured out you may think you've got your problems in your church figured out but you don't I guarantee you spend some time fasting and praying for your pastor instead of criticizing him and maybe you'll find out what's really going on maybe you'll find out that he's just under attack maybe you'll find out that he didn't call you back because or because the text didn't go through that he's not upset at you I mean there was a guy that that emailed me the other day and he's a wonderful he's a wonderful friend but I've been so busy it's great I actually had started typing an answer to him and forgot to finish it or got distracted and it was still partially tight but not sent and so I mean it was only like two days and he and he he he messaged me last night and he's like I hope I hadn't done something to upset you and I'm like no man I said I just been busy and I said I you know I actually typed and started to answer
but see in his head it got in his head that I was upset with him I wasn't upset with him we get these things in our heads that are not true and we let ourselves get upset or depressed or angry or offended living under satanic influence don't do it maybe one day I get to finish Deliverance that we started the other night I don't know the Deliverance again message because that's even a worse degree of living under satanic influence but we got to stop I gotta stop appreciate y'all appreciate those of you listening I hope you learned something today if I could get it across I don't even know if that continued I hope it did it didn't okay those of you by mixler Blog Talk we're going to get out of here you can go ahead and we'll say our goodbyes and let's pray Father in heaven we thank you for the truth we thank you for those scriptures that you've given us Lord to give us truth to give us understanding but also Lord we need your Holy Spirit we need you to guide us through those scriptures that we can hear what you're saying and doing that we can discern situations in the spirit father help us become more spirit-led people than our carnal mind leading us let us be more led by your the wisdom of the Holy Spirit than our human wisdom human logic father I pray this today in Jesus name amen