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you're the healer you're the deliverer lord we lift up a friend tanner this morning a friend of john lord we lift him up we've been in a car accident in serious condition well we pray god for your mercy and his life in this young man's life we pray for your healing power to touch tanner lord there uh where he's been airlifted to atlanta where we pray god for you to touch his brain and the swelling and the injuries from the car accident we pray that your hands would lay upon him jesus and bring healing and bring deliverance and bring life bring your power into this situation lord we've seen you do miracles god you you do miracles lord you heal and you deliver and you you god you work miracles for people and we just lift up tanner this morning and we pray for him to be healed we pray for miracle power to touch him in the mighty name of jesus christ lord this morning we agree together that the power of the holy ghost the power of jesus christ the blood of jesus christ that by your stripes lord we were healed healing is bought and paid for and your children can intercede and step in the gap and say lord please have mercy on this on this person on this soul have mercy on them and work in their lives and lord you hear and you answer lord and we thank you for that and lord we lift up this morning judge moore judge roy moore our supreme court justice here in alabama who has lost family members and friends in a plane crash lord we ask you to be with him and his family through this difficult time we pray god for your healing power we pray for your anointing we pray for your blessing upon him well we pray god that you would reveal the truth and and what happened here and be with him lord and we pray god for your blessings on this service that you would open our eyes this morning it's in jesus name we pray amen and amen well hallelujah we want to welcome those of you here this morning fire and grace church those listening by shoutcast radio by blog talk radio we welcome you to fire and grace church i'm pastor dean odle and we're here in alabama we love alabama i love alabama anyway i'm not talking about the crimson tide either i'm talking about the state of alabama i love my i love my home state amen can somebody save me all right well the lord yesterday evening kind of dropped something in my heart that i really wasn't planning on doing this morning so i want you to take your bibles out we're going to discuss a very important subject and a very heavy subject and i'm just going to call it satan's secret agents yes
okay let's pray father in jesus name we just pray over the congregation this morning seems to be some attacks or whether it be fear or witchcraft or heaviness or oppression we just bind demonic forces we bind those spirits sent by witches and satanists and enemies we break their curses we break their power we break every spell spoken i bind every demonic force i bind satan i bind principalities and power i rebuke them i command them to stop their maneuvers and to go from us right now go from this building go from each and every person here in the name of jesus christ of nazareth father we resist the devil and he must flee from us that is what your word says when we resist he must flee so in jesus name we decree it this morning amen and amen this is one of the most important issues in the body of christ because jesus made this statement he's he told us to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves right everybody knows that scripture right but i'm afraid that the church the majority of the church of jesus christ is not wise as a serpent they're not smart they're not understanding they're not full of wisdom and discernment they walk around in a haze in a fantasy world that doesn't really exist and satan is the master of disguise he's the master of deception he's the master of hiding behind things that look good the master of it and this morning the concept that you need to get a hold of is that there are people in the church and i said this on facebook this morning in introducing this message and inviting people to tune in but we need to understand this morning that we should not be surprised that the churches most all churches have been infiltrated by very real enemies i'm not talking about just the spiritual forces of satan i'm not talking about just unseen spirits of the devil i'm talking about people who come into a church who pretend to be a christian they pretend to be something they're not and they are full their full intention and pre-meditated plan is to come in and to divide and to destroy and to deceive and to cause chaos and division and all kinds of spiritual problems some of them are satanists and know what they're doing they're sent by a coven of witches they're sent by satan himself some of them are freemasons some of the freemasons on the higher level know that they are working for satan so the freemasons sometimes in the
satanist are working together sometimes it is full on wiccans new agers and of course the worst of the worst and yes there's somebody worse than satanist yes the jesuits the roman catholic jesuits they make satanists look like nice people but the churches have been infiltrated and right now especially folks the churches and a lot of people don't have any comprehension the big churches the big visible influential money churches don't even realize that their church is full of satanists freemasons illuminati and even now i'm going to go ahead and tell you that many churches have government agents in them as well now let me go ahead and blow your minds at this point in history we've even had some men and women who went to seminary who went and got bible college and bible university and seminary degrees and postgraduate degrees in christian theology who all along never were christians they knew they were serving satan their plan was to build a resume to build credibility and now honestly they pastor some of the largest churches in america and the world and they are going to begin and some of them already have but they're going to begin to betray the true christians now we're going to talk about this this morning because i'm going to give you some scripture we're going to talk about it because i can show you in the scripture but i want to i want to quote an ancient chinese general how many have heard of sons some have sixth century chinese general who wrote the book called the art of war he was a brilliant general brilliant at military strategy and operations matter of fact most generals have read his work most everyone has read his book the art of war but he made this statement in the art of war i believe it's in chapter one that all warfare is based on deception all true and good warfare is based on deception now let's just understand folks this very clearly we as christians and the bible makes this very clear that we are in a
spiritual war and sometimes i'm just going ahead and say sometimes this spiritual war becomes very physical as well the devil's desire and satan's agents desires not only to attack you in the spirit realm to attack you with witchcraft and evil spirits but it's to affect your physical life your mental and emotional life is to affect what goes on in a church and they're very effective but something that some rule or sun tzu however you pronounce it there's and they say there's different pronunciations but this is what he said chapter 13 in his book was all about the use of secret agents the use of intelligence gathering and this is what he said he said of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent a borrower will work more liberal than those different secret agents of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations he stated secret operations are essential in war upon them the army relies to make its every move satan understands that his most powerful weapon in this spiritual war against us is to infiltrate us with his agents to infiltrate the church why this is a surprise to christians i'll never understand because many will think you're crazy when you start talking about this but let's look at some scriptures on it first let's go to second corinthians chapter 11. i got my pentecostal white hanky today forgot that was in my bible second corinthians there's actually several fascinating parts to this chapter second corinthians chapter 11. everybody there second corinthians chapter 11. now i talked about this a few weeks ago but what's what's what's amazing about this is the context in which this scripture's in so we'll get the context of the chapter because there's three parts in this chapter that all flow together and guess what they talk about secret agents in the church satan's agents disguising themselves on purpose but he starts off saying look to god that you could bear with me a little in my falling 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 so your life should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in christ for if he that cometh so he's telling us people are going to come and preach another jesus whom we have not preached or if you receive another spirit which you have not received or another gospel which you have not accepted you might well bear with him now why would you why would he be worried that the church would accept someone coming in to midst who would teach at different jesus have a different spirit other than the holy spirit they would have an evil spirit on them and they would preach a different gospel why would he be concerned about this if this individual of these people who would come to deceive would not try to disguise themselves as christians that's why he says you might bear with them that means you might accept them why because they're going to hide themselves they're going to talk christianees they're going to talk like they're men and women of prayer they're going to use all the right words a lot of them are going to give lots of money to the church they're going to be respected men and women in the community they'll get slapped on boards of churches they'll get ordained as deacons whether their character or fruit bears out what they are but because they know what to say they know how to dress they know how to give certain amounts of money in certain places [Music] the church who's so fleshly driven by money and appearance ignores little bits of error where these people may be slipping their error in a lot of people ignore the discernment just can't accept the fact that this you know well-dressed well-spoken successful person in secret really worships satan in secret is really a witch and secret has evil plans to divide and destroy and bring destruction into your church it's just the christian the weak christian mind that won't accept this book instead goes by what they see like the five sentences [Music] they get deceived matter of fact i've had satanists tell me you know the most difficult christians to deceive are the ones who will not take anyone or anything at face value they're constant examining
praying checking not trusting immediately you know that it's it's it's bible to not trust someone who claims to be a christian immediately do you know that do you know that the apostles wouldn't even accept paul's conversion until barnabas said no no no i've watched him i've seen the fruit of his life and it says when they perceive the grace that came on as they talked to barnabas and paul as the grace meaning the witness of the holy spirit came on them then they gave to paul the right hand of fellowship they didn't even accept paul immediately they won't accept anybody they say they're a christian better wake up folks because i'm going to tell you right now years ago one of my first converts was a satanist when she got saved she took me to a very large church in town a spirit-filled charismatic pentecostal church that had about 800 members at the time we went and sat in the back row she leaned over me and she said what do you see i said i see a big church she was how many people you think here i said oh seven or eight hundred she said half of them [Music] are satanists that i was in now here's another question and of course she said many of them have been in that church for years right but think about this how many of them have been going to that church these satanists posing as christians how many of them have been going to that church for years and made friends with people in the church i'm talking about friends fellowship eat together go to bible studies together go to prayer meetings together and they play the game they're great actors they play the game and this is what makes it hard as well no i've heard people say no i know them i know them do you do you really not always let's keep reading in this chapter it gets more interesting of course some were attacking paul's apostleship his authority i like what paul says and we're reading verse six he says but
though i be rude in speech yet not knowledge i like that because i've been accused of being rude at times he said although i've been rude in speech and yet not in knowledge that we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things have i committed an offense and abasing myself that you might be exalted because i have preached unto you the gospel of god freely i robbed other churches taking wages of them to do you service and when i was present with you and wanted i was chargeable to no man for that which was lacking to me the brother which came from macedonia supplied and then all things i've kept myself from being burdensome unto you and so will i keep myself because somewhere accusing him of just being out for money and it funny that this church actually didn't give him any but they were accusing him of being out for money and yet he was still serving them for nothing he said another church had to come here and provide for me even though i'm i was there to serve you and then interesting but but anyway so he's talking about that he says verse 10 he says as the truth of christ is in me no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of aca therefore because i love you not he says god knoweth but what i do that will i do that i may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion that wherein they glory they may be found even as we now look at verse 13 he says for such are false apostles deceitful workers transforming themselves into the apostles of christ and no marvel or we shouldn't be surprised for satan himself is transformed into an angel of light therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according to their works now here's what's interesting if you look up the greek words in this passage for such are false apostles deceitful workers the words and the language of the greek language and the definitions of these words do not mean people who are just deceived themselves and don't know what they're doing these words show people who intentionally disguise themselves they transform it literally what that means they purposefully disguise themselves they pretend to be something that they're not to pretend to be something you're not you do that intentionally it's not an accident it's not you know oh they're just they're just ignorant they don't know any better no no the words here he says these are false apostles and the word apostle means one who is sent from christ so he said these are people who claim to be sent from jesus christ as a messenger as a
representative of jesus christ but they are deceitful that means full of guile and the words there again show that they purposefully lie they purposely deceive they purposely transform themselves to look like ministers of righteousness [Music] it's not an accident i'm going to say it again it's not an accident it's not they don't know better paul's warning just like satan transformed do you think satan's doing it by accident when he when he puts on a disguise to look like an angel of light on purpose as does his servants his ministers that's why paul said come on church it is no great thing don't be amazed don't be surprised see a lot of people we talk about ribs and sheep's clothing you know jesus said in matthew 7 15 beware of wolves and sheep's clothing we think i don't know where christians get this stuff in their heads we think that that's the obvious false prophets and teachers out there that are no just the the mental picture that jesus is giving is that it looks just like a sheep that's like a sheep looks just like a christian talks like a christian looks like the real thing but inside they are wolf they're ready to strike they're waiting for blood they're ready to devour you and destroy you it's the full intent they put on the sheep's clothing fully with the intention so they can get your trust so they can destroy you okay now i want to say i have a lot of experience with this this is not something i'm just preaching from a book i read or from my own imagination am i right mine michaels will be back in those days now let's keep reading here so we have that do you notice the context the first few verses don't let satan deceive your mind there's going to be people come and preach a different jesus a different gospel and have another spirit and they might deceive you and then he says don't be surprised satan's servants come and fully disguise themselves and pretend to be christians and pretend to be your friends pretend to be your buddy pretend to be even some of them pretend to be preachers and pastors and evangelists
some of them now have very big churches okay and this is what's hard to imagine oh we just think that some of them just started out right and lost their way some did but the fact remains that a lot of them started out with the full intention to do what they're doing let's keep reading though as he goes on down to talk about the things that he has gone through let's start reading in verse 16. we'll just read from there he says i say again let no man thank me a fool if otherwise yet as a fool receive me that i may boast myself a little that which i speak i speak it not after the lord but as it were foolishly in this confidence of boasting and basically what paul's saying is i hate even having this talk like this because i'm having to give you my credentials because you are believing these liars and i'm having to explain to you the difference between the two using my own life as an example i don't have to talk about except right he sustained that that many glory after the flesh i will also glory he says for you suffer fools gladly seeing that you're wise that's a christians boy they love these foolish preachers but anyway let's keep going don't want diagrams too far verse 24 you suffer if a man bring you into bondage if a man devour you if a man take of you if a man exalt himself if the man smite you on the face i speak his concerning reproach as though we have been weak how i'll be it whensoever he is bold i speak foolishly i am bold also are they hebrews so am i are they israelites so am i are they the seed of abraham so am i are they the ministers of christ i speak as a fool i am more in labors more abundant in stripes above measure imprisons more frequent in death often of the jews five times received i forty stripes take one thrice or three times was i beaten with rods once i was stoned thrice i suffered wreck a night and a day i have spent in the deep now listen here he says in journeys often in perils of waters in perils of robbers in perils by my own countrymen in perils by the heathen in perils in the city in perils in the wilderness in perils in the sea and you all underline this little phrase that gets overlooked in perils among false god and brethren and thirst and fasting coughing and cold in nakedness and he describes those things that are on the outside without that which cometh on me daily the care of all the churches so i'm going to state right here when he says in perils this word in the greek means danger
now this means you're in danger of suffering harm and loss y'all can look me up later and check it out so he said we were in danger now the word here also is false brethren sudo or pseudo is the word the greek for false brethren adelphas is where we get philadelphia that means brotherly love fuller meaning love adelphus meaning brotherly false brethren here's what's interesting the word the greek word here again means someone who is an imposter someone who is disguising themselves on purpose [Music] oh boy i think many of you many of you here today many of you listen to me by radio my podcast i think many of you would be surprised if the lord ever yanked back the curtain completely and showed you everyone who is really an enemy who is really one of satan's secret agents [Music] you would be shocked y'all see that now let me give you another verse let's go to psalm 55 then i'm going to tell you a few things psalm 55. this is a psalm of david writing about his betrayal many people don't know the story behind absalom's betrayal of his father but one of the things that happened was david's closest advisor a hitherfail how many have ever heard of a hitherfail david's closest advisor and friend for a long time [Music] turned against him now i know this is a little different but this principle i'm going to give you here is true now that's what many believe he's talking about here
but let's read this psalm 55 verse 1. this is matter of fact that the heading in my bible says betrayed it says give here to my prayer o god and hide not thyself for my supplication attended to me and hear me i mourn in my complaint and make a noise because of the voice of the enemy because of the oppression of the wicked for they cast iniquity upon me and in wrath they hate me my heart is sore pain within me now listen to this the terrors of death are fallen upon me fearfulness and trembling are calm upon me horror have overwhelmed me this is what many christians do not understand that witchcraft witches and satanists do have great power and they send great spiritual forces against you and they can bring great oppression they can bring great terror and fearfulness at times they can attack you in your dreams i'm going to talk more about this in a second but what i'm saying is david was explaining this the voice of the enemy they're speaking against me the very definition of witchcraft is to use words to curse or afflict another person and we know that proverbs 18 says what the death and life is in the power of the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof so if we can speak life by speaking the word of god and speaking the truth and speaking the gospel of jesus the enemy and the secret agents of satan know the power of speaking death speaking destruction speaking curses and incantations listen folks i'm going to tell you right now if there was no power in witchcraft if satan didn't give power to his people there wouldn't be anything to tempt them to draw them in it is the lust for power it is the lust for control the ability to manipulate situations using supernatural power when you reject jesus christ and walk away from god when you want to do it all yourself when you want to be wicked and you want to have it your way witchcraft is simple you know i made a statement earlier this week to someone i said you know what and two in the church world that faith for things that are not god's will it's just witchcraft when you start trying to use faith speaking things into existence when it's not god's will for you or forcing matters that are not god's will for you you're starting to operate in witchcraft because your development gets god's will and direction for your life and when you start rebelling rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft the bible talks about witches and satanists and fortune tellers and mediums and the power that they have and if you don't believe me that jesus said is luke 10 19 17 18 19. that's what jesus said he said i beheld satan as lightning fall from heaven behold i give unto you power over all the power of the enemy
so he didn't deny satan has power he said i've given you power over that power but what what with christians is ignorance and laziness to use the weapons of our warfare that jesus has given us keep us from overcoming satan's power but jesus acknowledged that satan and the demonic forces had power i i marvel where christians walk around satan don't have any power what what book are you reading he has power look at what he did he even has a limited amount of power to use the elements when when he went and asked uh god for permission to attack job's family and job's business and and everything that job had even job's health the lord said you can do it and he said he used the wind to knock the house down where job's children grown children were living and killed all of them satan did that not god satan has power demons have power fallen angels have power and what happens is they tempt people witches and satanists to that they will let their power work through them and they also don't really reveal that they're using them because a human being has spiritual power as well because we have a human spirit and what they don't tell them is they're going to use their human spirit as well okay but satan knows this okay and jesus most of the most of jesus people because we live in candy land you know the bible gives the imagery of war that we're in a spiritual war fight the good fight of faith be a good soldier endure hardness resist the devil and he will free beware that the enemy is like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour but what we get into oh you their marriage and their children were being destroyed you've been shocked you've got the victory all day long but ignorance is not bliss when it comes to the devil right or his servants the best weapon against the enemy is knowledge of how they work that's interesting because general sun tzu said the more
you know your enemy and the more you know yourself the more effective you will be in the battle know your enemy know yourself knowing part of us knowing ourselves is to know that without jesus giving us revelation without jesus giving us anointing and power and without us staying in the word and seeking god for revelation knowledge and discernment we can do nothing of ourselves the christian has to understand that unless they stay close to jesus unless they stay in the word unless they employ the weapons of the warfare that god's given us we understand we will be defeated by satan the person that walks around shouting i got the victory and it has no concept of this glory on how to fight it or or because i'm saved and the blood of jesus on me the devil can't touch me these are just lies you walk around with your head in the clouds as a space cadet or your head stuck in the sand or playing candy land and thinking it's real life you're gonna get hurt you're going to suffer some harm and loss and and i'm just going to say this real plain and real blunt there are a lot of churches out there that are so infiltrated and so taken over by satan's agents whether they are freemasons or satanist witches government agents even plants if god's people were listening to him they would get out of those places because there's no hope for many of them well i'm going to stay in and change this place no you're not it's been this way 100 years you're not going to change it and the shock that's coming because jesus said this in matthew 24 about the last days the shock that's coming is the day of great betrayal when it's these so-called christians that start turning into the other christians oh it's coming let me i y'all thought i forgot psalm 55 but it didn't he said my heart verse 4 sore pain within me and the terrors of death have fallen upon me fearfulness and trembling are come upon me and horror hath overwhelmed me and then david said oh that i had wings of a dove for then i would fly away and be at rest low then i would wonder fall off and remain in the wilderness he's describing just the warfare he's going through because of these enemies he says if i had those wings of a dove look at verse 8 i would hasten my escape
from the windy storm in tempest he says destroy o lord and divide their tongues finds full violence and strife in the city day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof mischief offspring in the midst of it wickedness in the midst there have deceit and guile depart not from her streets and then he says this very closely for it was not an enemy that reproached me then i could have borne it neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me then i would have hid myself from him but it was thou you a man my equal my guide my acquaintance we took sweet counsel together and walked unto the house of god in company but david says about this person once he realized the truth that death seats upon them and let them go down quick into hell for wickedness is in their dwelling and among them as for me i will call upon god and the lord jehovah yahweh shall save me evening and morning and noon shall i pray and cry aloud and he shall hear my voice he has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me for there were many with me god shall hear and afflict them even he that abideth of old because they have no changes therefore they fear not god and you can just go on and look verse 21 i love what he says about these people these enemies that go to the house of god with you he says the words of his mouth were smoother than butter but war was in his heart his words were softer than folks we've been warned turn with one more scripture then i'm going to share a few things go to revelation chapter 3. actually we're going to go to two more passages go to revelation 3 quickly this entered the church of philadelphia jesus speaks these words and today's one of the church is verse 7 today the little churches of philadelphia are right these things sayeth me that is holy he that is true he that hath the key of david he that openeth and no man shutteth and shutteth that no man openeth i know thy works behold i have set before thee an open door and no man can shed it for thou strength that has kept my word has not denied my name behold i will make them of the synagogue of satan i will make them of the church of satan which say they are jews or say they are christians and are not but do lie behold i will make them to come and to worship before thy feet and to know that i have loved thee [Music]
here's jesus [Music] to the church of part of us let's back up in chapter two this is interesting right here the church of pergamos you think the church can't be infiltrated by satan then what he says pergamos chapter two verse 12 until the angel of the church of pergamos write these things saith he which has a sharp sword with two bridges i know thy works it won't have dwellest even where satan's seat is and i behold as fast my name and has not denied my faith even in those days wherein antipas was my faithful martyr who was slain among you where satan dwelleth look at verse 18 church of thyatira this is ancient angel of the church with thy entire life these things saith the son of god who has his eyes i can do a flame of fire and his feet like in the fine brass i know thy works of charity and sweetness and faith i know thy patience and thy works and the last to be more than the first notwithstanding i have a few things against thee because god suffers that woman jezebel now in the old testament i believe he used this name specifically for a reason jezebel was the name of ahab's wife she was a witch she was a sorceress she was evil she hated and tried to kill the prophets of god she hated the things of the lord god jehovah the creator she hated those things and tried to wipe them out he worshiped al-qaeda she worshiped baal she worshiped ashtareth she practiced sacrifice child sacrifice and human sacrifice she was an evil witch but he speaks to his church he says you have a lot of good things in you but you allow that woman jezebel which calls herself a prophetess she wasn't a prophetess she called herself one she calls herself what is a prophetess someone who speaks for god speaks by inspiration of the holy ghost she claimed to speak for god she called herself a prophetess that says and he says you allow this woman who calls herself a prophet to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed to idols so he's saying you allow this woman who calls herself a prophetess she is putting on a a facade you would allow her to teach so she was able listen she was able to fool a first century church pastor who probably knew paul and peter and james and john at minimum knew the apostle john
and these pastors got deceived by this woman so she must have been really good at her counterfeit prophetic gifts of satan that they allowed her to take to the church and nobody even though she was seducing people to commit fornication into sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols that's to compromise with pagan rituals and things subtly jesus has to speak to the apostle john on the isle of patmos and say deal with this woman get her out this is why the churches don't mess up and let me just on this note right here understand this these witches these satanists these freemasons these illuminati these people who come into the church and on purpose pretend to be and have demonic power where they can operate in supernatural gifts and appear to be spiritual these people know they get in there so that they can teach things that are not quite right so that they can also through laying out of hands praying for you letting our hands transfer their evil spirits and that's why they get in there and they gain trust oh i'll pray for you can i pray for you i know you're going through a hard time how many have you ever went to a church went to a sunday school class went to a bible study went to something that's supposed to be good and you opened and you met some person that you really didn't know that well or maybe you did but you let somebody say oh let me pray for you and let them lay hands but your situation got 10 times worse or you started having sexual struggles lost struggles that you've never had before or maybe they just intensified 100 see these jezebels are in the church now they're pushing things like contemplative prayer praying with vain repetitions visualization techniques that come from buddhism and hinduism and all witches know the way they contact the spirit world to develop what they call the third eye is through visualization you forming images in your mind and they've got christians now participating in these rituals thinking because they've slapped christian names on them then we got essential oils we've got all the alternative medicine techniques now that that used to just be in buddhism and hinduism and you know now we got yoga classes in the church
and yoga the entire every position of yoga was designed as a bow to the sun god and we got christians thinking oh these things are okay it's just exercise or it's just nutrition or hey oh and here's the here's the kicker oh well it helped me i got healed of this oh really do you think people in africa go to witch doctors and it doesn't work what about santeria priests people get healed of things a demonic healing is interesting though because you can get a demonic healing you go to you know as some people i know got somebody acupuncture for somebody that had asthma and the asthma left but it's a trade-off because other more severe demonic problems came you don't play with the devil and get off scot-free right the church is filled up with this and so what these and what these enemies do is they hide behind ignorance they hide behind this false teaching don't they mind let me explain something to you especially in the days that we are approaching do not trust anyone easily do not let anyone pray for you or lay hands on you if you don't know for a fact the fruit of their life and have witnessed the holy spirit power on their lives period and i'm not talking about i'm not talking about even if you think you've witnessed it i'm talking about you know that you know it's going to be very important in the days ahead about who we let in our homes see just to tell you a quick story here and i've shared this with some of you but i've had them come to church and and let me just add this i am not even perfect in this either because some of these people are very good and unless jesus reveals them at times they're so good you won't know it i don't know it i you know just like joshua said to the woman that came up and fell at his feet it's like what's wrong you know his servant said what's wrong with her and he said i don't know the lord hadn't shown me if the lord didn't show you some things you're not gonna know but there are some things you can look for and this is what's so bad is that christians ignore
red flags and warning signs all the time we just ignore god tries to tell us god tries to warn us god tries to show us but we just ignore as we go by more what we see what we hear and it's just hard for us to fathom that somebody who looks just like us talks like us has children like us part of the pta part of the bible study group it's just hard for us to fathom that they're out to get us that they're out to destroy you we don't like to think along those lines but you know what the bible said we should think of them on those lines all right i'll show you in a second show you another verse but i remember when i was pastoring the church in montgomery and this particular young lady you know i was in my mid-20s when i started that church i was married and i remember this particular young lady she was probably early twenties probably around the same age but i remember she started coming to our bible study every friday night and over time she started coming to our church well i remember in the bible study that she would come usually dressed a little inappropriately for a christian woman and i also began to notice and of course other people did as well that she would sit and do things that were inappropriate okay sit in ways not might be like let's just put it that way and do things that weren't like ladylike now she was an attractive young lady but the spirit coming off of her was just dripping with lust and sexual immorality and even though her word sounded christian this what she was projecting was a very lustful spirit and listen you have to understand most people who are in witchcraft or satanism the occult are very perverted people they're into all kind of sexual um [Music] perversion and things even in their their rituals and in their satanic meetings and their covered meetings and things that they go it's very perverted and just sex sex sex and rituals rituals which is just so anybody's in that anyway is going to be very perverted and very inappropriate right well anyway i just you know i'll let people like that come to a bible study but then she started coming to church
sunday morning started coming to church then i noticed that she kept trying to when we would sing in praise and worship she would try to really sit nearby and and really interrupt praise and worship with singing that was way too loud and off and and i mean i finally tell her i said you just need to quiet down and y'all know i get kind of loud in church so it's not about that i just finally told us that you just need to you need to follow and not try to lead but then i began to suspect something then at that time of course we had children's church we had children's ministry nursery really mainly at that time where we had because we had a bunch of little ones and she wanted to get involved she started pushing to get involved with the children the the lord really came on me as a pastor and said do not let her do anything in this church and i already knew it i was like yes i know lord and then he told me very importantly he said she is not what she pretends to be so few weeks later she comes to a friday night bible study at my house and forgets her notebook and her notebook had a calendar in it and so the notebook gets knocked off the counter and just falls open to some little entries in her calendar about the time she started coming to our church new assignment dean odle make him fall sexual sin within two years she was assigned to me and sent to me so that removed all doubt the lord had shown me anyway she was a witch so finally i let her keep coming and then she made the mistake in one service without me allowing it while i had my head bowed she reached over an aisle and laid hands on somebody a terrible attack came on that person i had to deal with that problem i won't go into details but i had to deal with that problem until finally someone who had been even further back had seen her reach over the aisle lay hands on that person and they told me i saw this woman lay hands on this person so when i bound the demons transfer and cast them out immediately the problem went away so i said that's it so i brought this woman in young lady and i said so now we're gonna have a little talk
now i never said you're a witch i never said you're a satanist because of course that'll drive people out of their minds and they'll go out and lie and you know all that kind of stuff but it's what i said to him i said you're going to have one opportunity today one opportunity to tell me the truth if you don't tell me the truth you will not be allowed back to this church ever again you need to understand something that i already know the truth [Music] and i don't know if you don't tell me i said in fact i said i know who you are i know what you're doing i know why you're sitting here i said now i've helped people out of what you're into i said but if you lie to me and deny it so we're done here i said but if you tell me the truth and you want to get out of this mess and you want to really follow jesus i said i'll lay my life down i'll fight for you i'll stand with you we'll win this battle against satan i don't know what you're talking about wrong answer sweetie so when i pressed it she again i don't know what you're talking about yes you do you do exactly know what what i'm talking about i don't know what you're talking about so then of course she starts crying tears running down her face oh i don't know why you're doing this and i said you know what you can dry it up because that doesn't move me one bit i know who you are she stopped immediately looked at me and just smiled see now i knew said last chance are you gonna tell me the truth do you want out of this she just looked at me with this guy said get out don't ever come back which problem solved for that season anyway all right now that's just one story of many that i can tell you but this perils and false brothers she brought danger with her she brought sexual immorality with her she brought evil spirits with her and she was doing everything that she could do to transfer those spirits to church members and church people and they will bring oppression and they will bring sickness and they will bring division and strife and they will bring false teaching and they will bring compromise they they come in with spirits and if allowed to minister remember we just read it the church of thy torah allowed her jezebel to minister
and that allowing her to teach and that allowing her to minister in her demonic gifts her faults counterfeit gifts or or psychic abilities we'll call them those things caused people in the church to be seduced into fornication all forms of sexual immorality and to begin to compromise with idols and idolatry and paganism so listen whenever you see a church starting to head down the road it's full of sexual immorality sexual sin they're compromising with pagan techniques and pagan rituals and pagan things let me tell you it's been infiltrated i knew i was in a church in montgomery a very large church before i started pastoring the church that i started in montgomery i was going to a very large church there in the city and the woman who headed up the biggest bible study in the church was a witch and i won't go into how i found out how i figured it out but i did and then they tried to get rid of me what was amazing was people all around her that she prayed for all the time that she fellowship were all the time died of cancer yeah i also had a man that posed that posed as a pastor of a church who threatened me once i started figuring out what him and his associate pastor were really satanists threatened mike threatened me and the day that i exposed them i was shot at well i say the day the next day i confronted them on a wednesday and i was shot at on a thursday the next day so it was less than 24 hours though so this is a very real battle let's turn to one more passage and i know i need to stop here go to second timothy some people are probably thinking wow second timothy chapter three we're going to start at verse 1. remember paul used the word perils in danger
this is how he described the last days he said in the last days this know also that in the last days perilous or very dangerous times shall come why for men should be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy without natural affection truth breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good traitors might want to underline that we're traitors what is a traitor traitors heady high-minded lovers of pleasure more than lovers of god but these people that he's just defined now we all think these are just wicked evil people right traitors and blasphemers and disobedient and unholy and all these things we think well that's just some heathen no he says these people he continues semicolon verse five having a form of godliness but denying denying the power thereof a form an appearance an outward appearance of christianity but there are no more christians than a rock right and that's what he says for of this order they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with divers lust meaning that's all they do is creep around in sexual immorality adultery fornication homosexuality pornography that's just all they do is creep around creepers ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth now here's this is what a lot of people look over these next few passages here he says now as or like jannie's genes and jamborees or janies and jamborees withstood or fought against moses so do these also resist the truth men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith what who were janies and jamborees these two men were the egyptian magicians whom when moses threw his rod down by the supernatural power of god when he threw his rod down and it turned into a serpent and when he would take it up again it would turn back into his rod these are the men who also threw down rods and they turned into serpents these egyptian magicians these weren't just illusions they weren't just tricks it wasn't just smoke and mirrors these are guys operating at very very depth of satanic power signs and wonders and the very abilities of satan now what i love about the story is when they threw their rods down and they turned into serpents moses threw himself again
there but see again he's saying there are going to be people fight against you that have the supernatural power of satan and you're going to have to know how to fight back and overcome that so he says like jennings and jamborees then he gives us a little more information it's not going to be exactly the same in one sense it was obvious that they were priests of ra priest of satan they didn't hide it but he goes on to say look at verse 12 or verse 11 i mean 13 whatever he says but evil men and seducers shall act worse and worse deceiving and being deceived if you look up the word seducers in the greek language it was originally the word goes and it means an imposter a wizard who mother spells who is also an imposter an imposter is someone who assumes an identity a false identity in order to deceive it's done on purpose so what he's telling you is like jenny's and jamboree's fought against moses with supernatural satanic power supernatural signs and wonders that were from the devil he says that they're going to be these seducers these wizards who mother spells who use supernatural power but who disguise themselves as imposters secret agents of satan in the church and what does he tell them to do you want to know how to not be deceived the first thing he says he continues he said but continue in the things which you have learned and has been assured of knowing of whom you have learned them and that from a child that has known the holy scriptures which are able to make the rise into salvation through faith which is in christ jesus all scripture is given by inspiration of god and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction and righteousness that the man of god may be perfect thoroughly furnished unto all good works the first thing to be able to discern these people is you better know the word of god better than they do and let me just say this you should because they have an evil spirit they don't have the help of a teacher you have a holy spirit living in you you should be diligent to continue in studying and reading and meditating on the word of god so you'll know the word of god better than your enemy knows the word of god the word of god knowledge of the word revelation of the word understanding of the word is the only way you're going to combat these evil forces listen i know my first sign that somebody might be off is when they're teaching something that's obviously wrong and claiming that it's it's bible doctrine that's your first red flag
right there oh i don't believe in demons oh oh we don't talk about demons in church really why do the apostles talk about it we don't talk about we don't bind demons we don't rebuke demons we don't believe that's for today red flag number one right if they're doing number two if they're doing immoral and unethical things just should at least throw up a red flag could be a christian with a character problem but again it could be a full-on deceiver we have to see we have to just check it and see right number three the only way you're gonna know for sure is the holy spirit giving you discernment speaking to you about it [Music] most christians get a grieve or a check in their spirit around a person and ignore that a lot of christians ignore the ongoing bad fruit coming from somebody and what i mean is you get around them and crap keeps happening to you bad stuff an atmosphere of of demonic power yeah that's how we figured out the whole essential oil thing right brought it in a couple of families here brought it into the home all kind of crazy demonic activity start demonic attacks start back that had been stopped and fought off doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out hmm everything was fine going good this comes in and all this demonic activity and oppression and problems start coming i remember the first time one of those diffusers was diffusing that stuff it was nearly choked me to death the spirits working off that essential oil crap nearly killed me demons were manifesting and hopping on people's beds and moving stuff little sign there you know i think it's weird a lot of christians think it's normal to have all kind of demonic activity in their house and bad evil dreams constantly and all kind of other stuff going on and all sicknesses all the time that's normal no it's not normal all right you know i love dr rebecca brown's book he came to set the captives free for some of you listen to this if you listen to what's on the internet the satanist and the fake christians out there the trolls and everybody else that's out there on the internet
uh have done their best to try to destroy her and her reputation and talk about lies about her and everything i know the woman personally she helped me through my deliverance in 1989 90. i spent time with her she came to montgomery me and another pastor hosted dr rebecca brown for a whole week there i spent a whole week with her and her husband um we've talked on the phone at different times uh but you know what i went through when i led that girl to the lord who was i i went through with her before i had ever heard of the book and so after i went through that whole ordeal with leading a satanist out of satanism and what i went through and the attack and everything that i got got revealed and all the spiritual warfare that happened um then i got a hold of dr rebecca brown's book he came to set the captives free that she i think she published it in 86 or 88 87 somewhere in that range but i remember reading it and go everything in here i witnessed myself i knew she was telling the truth and of course when i met her when i sat on the platform every every day and every night that she preached and i felt the glory and presence of god you know i'm saying i saw what the woman taught she taught the word of god i saw the power of the holy ghost on her i felt the witness of the holy spirit i know she's real i don't care what anybody says about her out there see what i'm saying you can't listen to people standing lie about me it's past this fake pastor who's really a satanist but he pretends to be a christian pastor he's slandered me for 20 years in this town he's literally recently kept people from coming to this church he's still slandering me the lord will reward him for his works feel sorry for him but here's where was i dr brown rebecca brown in the back of her book and i found this to be true and i'm just going to go through it by memory but she lists eight things the plan the the satanic plan that satan has used to infiltrate a church it's going to help some pastor somebody out there but one of the first ones is they profess or claim to be a christian we've kind of already covered that some of you may have to help me see if i can do this by memory number two is they build credibility usually by trying to teach a bible study or become a prayer leader or a cell group leader or a life group leader or and by giving money and amazing that money has so much influence and sway in the church right so they build credit so number one they profess number two they build credibility number three they desire and push their way or try to get into teaching positions so they can start subtly changing foundational doctrines in the church
they start rumors about key leaders in the church lies things that aren't true and start filtering them around the church to to destroy the leadership oh and they'll do it in nice subtle ways you know you just really need to pray for elders so and so right rumors things that have no basis in truth but if enough people pass them along in a church but they're usually started by these people number five without teaching about satan and how he operates in spiritual warfare keep that out deliverance that's got to be stopped we can't have that in the church one of the things they use all the time oh don't talk about the devil you're giving glory to him well i guess paul and peter and john yes ridiculous some of the stuff that happened number six break up and divide family units and that's where it's a constant we get the women over here doing this and the men over here doing that the children over here doing this and the youth over here doing that that's why there's a lot of division in church there's a lot of division in the family i'm not saying it's wrong to do those things but they like to divide especially get teenagers and children away from their parents and then teach them things that are wrong listen folks listen to me there are a lot of youth pastors there are a lot of pastors there's a lot of elders in churches there's a lot of deacons they are satanists they are posers they are freemasons they don't believe what we believe they're lifting the church okay number seven was direct attacks of witchcraft against key members of the church this is why it's so important to pray for your pastor pray for your leaders pray for each other buying the demons resist the devil break curses off and witchcraft off break it off and pray and intercede for people because you don't understand if you have especially if you have never been in a position of leadership in the church you have no comprehension the warfare that the devil brings and satanists brings and these enemies bring and i know i skipped one what was that what was my help which might not forget well they were one they were together yeah because she used that example
um but listen to me stay in the word don't immediately trust anyone until they've proven themselves acquaint yourself with the holy spirit so he can show you and speak to you oh yes that is it i don't know if i got these in order but one of them is to stop hinder or destroy the prayer meetings of the church that's right you lay hands on that's more about leaders who we ordain to ministry because if i ordain somebody to ministry who's got issues i become the participant for their problem um there's a great betrayal coming you guys and i'm just i'm just going to say it this way as i close with this today there are christians in churches that are going to be shocked when it's their pastor their associate pastor their youth pastor that encourages them to take the mark of the beast or that turns them in and gets them put in a prison camp yeah sure he just went and got the book i'm going to read them just like they were written in here just quickly the the eight point plan i'm just going to read the headings if i can get to it i guess i need to get out from under the well i had it ah no this is a new book it's in good shape that's why it's hard to turn the pages well something different here hey you find it for me while i finish it it's right there somewhere i think i'm flipping over pages what was i telling you though can i just say it's not all what it appears to be there's a lot of people who aren't what they appear to
time while that be with that yeah i asked to show me everybody around me who was involved in that or whatever he told me exactly got in here mike said that back when all that was going on with that pastor and god was revealing it the lord he asked the lord to reveal to him everybody that was involved in that mess around him and he said the lord told him he couldn't have it and it is true you couldn't handle everything i think that's why god just reveals bits and pieces that become important but if you don't stay close to the lord and you don't stay sensitive and you don't stay in the word you don't say this and keeping your your your senses sharp your spiritual sense is sharp and you're going to put your you'll find yourself in peril in danger among false brothers but here's what she said let me i did pretty good number one was a profession of faith um they gotta you know usually go forward at altars and stuff number two was build credibility that's usually by uh giving a lot of money or you know looking like you're starting prayer meetings and things of that nature trying to be spiritual number three you're right paul was destroy the prayer base of the church the devil fights the true prayer ministry of a church more than anything else that's why the contemplative prayer movement has been so powerful because the devil has undermined the prayer lives and the prayer ministry of churches he did it to a very large church here in auburn he completely destroyed and undermined the prayer ministry by introducing these hindu pagan buddhist techniques and it's just a powerless church now um number five was teach and change doctrines so they desire to get in sunday school positions and leadership positions oh i'm sorry did i skip one oh four was rumors i didn't have that one right i remembered four was rumors number five was teach and change doctrines number six was break up family units um number seven was stop all accurate teaching about satan and number eight was direct attacks by witchcraft against key members of the church um and you know i'll tell you it doesn't it doesn't just mean the pastor of the church either i had a man who was one of my elders in the church that i pastored in montgomery and he was he was a good brother i mean he was diligent man he prayed he he he was a giver and i mean he wasn't a rich man but boy he was a giver and i remember when i published my first book grace abuse and it went out in charisma magazine and all that happened and i started getting these invitations from all over the world and i had interpretations of australia and all this but there i got this one invitation from a pastor on the island of mauritius i didn't even know where mauritius was at
the time but i felt immediately drawn to that and felt like i should go there to preach so just on a sunday morning i shared that i felt like god wanted me to accept this invitation to this little island out in the middle of the indian ocean and go preach there you know that that morning i mean he got up right after service and he came to me and he gave me i think it was about twenty five hundred dollars which paid for the whole trip round trip tickets for two people everything we needed i mean it paid for the whole trip he just knew he said god told me to do it here's the money you go go as soon as you you know as y'all can get it set up immediately after that the attacks came because this island i come to find out was steeped in hinduism and particularly to the goddess khali the goddess or shiva the goddess of destruction and that this was an island given over to kali and the demonic side of hinduism the real deep demonic side where they practice ritual blood sacrifices and ritual sacrifice even human sacrifice and that one of these temples these kali hindu temples was like two doors down from where the pastor lived and the moment that i said we're going there to preach and minister because this man was such a key prayer warrior and he was such a key giver in the church the devil tried to kill him immediately and he was a truck driver that's how he wasn't a rich man but he he strong man he was a former marine and i mean he was a marine mp which means he they picked him to keep other marines in line okay this guy was big and he was strong and he was unloading you know in his truck he was unloading he said he had a load of empty beer kegs full trailer full of them and he was unloading them and he got down and was just snatching them and throwing them off and he reached down to snatch one up and when he did it was full he didn't realize it was full still full of beer and he went and snatched it when he did he felt something tear he felt a pain in his chest he said it was on a friday he said he drove home and he noticed he was just having excruciating pain in his chest he notices getting hard to breathe well he stayed that way all weekend that was friday saturday sunday he didn't make it to church i'm like he always made it to church he wouldn't miss church for nothing so i go to his house what's going on with you man because i don't know but i'm in excruciating pain said well it's time for you to go to the hospital then took him to the hospital come to find out that on friday his lung collapsed that he had a spur or something and when he strained his chest cavity his lungs and the doctors were in amazement that over the weekend that his other lung didn't collapse from having to overwork
he stayed in the hospital over six weeks they punctured him again he looked like somebody had hit him with machine gun fire trying to get his loan to reinflate and i mean at times he thought he wasn't gonna make it out of the hospital and i would go up there and the power of darkness the oppression of satan was so strong and we would just pray for him and pray for him but the lord taught me a lesson the devil won't just go after me or a pastor or a leader of a church he'll go after anybody who's going to help them support them pray for them give to them that's why the devil fights giving he fights he fights every aspect keep you from prayer meetings keep you out of your personal prayer closet keep you get you sick so you can't get to church or you can't get to you know it's just he he knows you know that's why i say all the time i need all of you you know i need your prayers i need your your encouragement i need your support i need your um your attendance you don't even know how sometimes just you being here encourages me when i'm having a rough day or a rough week you know blesses me seeing you guys here whether you give a prophetic word or a tongue or interpretation or whether you whether you contribute to the service at all just seeing you that encourages me and strengthens me so we need each other and we're in a real battle and we're in a real fight and it's only going to increase in the days ahead satan's going to send people he has sent people to this church and and they're not here anymore but that doesn't mean he won't try again he's getting embarrassed and i'm hoping i can to embarrass him and his uh secret agents so be very careful out there amen it's not everyone a lot of angels of light a lot of false brethren a lot of false apostles and deceitful workers a lot of imposters walk carefully let's pray father we thank you we thank you for this and lord i pray that i know that there's some things god that you want to reveal to everyone here everyone listening there's some people around them that god wants to reveal the truth god you want to reveal the truth to them so that you can protect them and help them protect their families and their spiritual lives and their homes and their church from being divided or destroyed or deceived father we pray in jesus name that lord everyone here everyone in the sound of my voice everyone that hears as much i pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation lord that the eyes of their understanding would be enlightened i pray god that you would begin to uncover things that are hidden i pray god you'll
begin to reveal wolves and sheep's clothing i pray you'll begin to reveal satanists and witches that are in positions in the churches father i pray that you'll begin to expose these enemies and and cause the true body of christ to fight in the spirit to fight in prayer to fight and fasting to fight and binding and breaking curses to fight by even at times if it need be removing themselves from a situation or removing someone from their church or their fellowship father we pray in the name of jesus that you would write just just raise up leaders god raise up men and women who will have some backbone and some strength and not allow the sheep to be devoured by wolves and deceivers and liars and false teachers and false prophets and and enemies in our midst god i pray in the name of jesus that you will help the churches and the people out there and the people even us lord we need to we we could be deceived we could be attacked we could be infiltrated as well lord at times so lord i pray for wisdom and discernment and revelation and and the ability god to deal with it and confront it and drive it out lord a pastor elders in the church are supposed to protect the flock the best of their ability from the wolves in sheep's clothing reveal oh god expose satan's secret agents to us i pray this in jesus name amen well amen i hope you learned something today you know here's a sad thing too i've experienced over the years that a lot of young preachers god called them they got on fire for god got filled with the holy ghost god called them to preach and then they married witch married a real witch who was sent to deceive them see i'm gonna be blunt but even a man of god can get blinded by cleavage you know what i'm saying that's why it's so important not to be led by your flesh but there's men who men of god that called anointed powerful men and married the wrong woman and it's a lot of a lot of women a lot of godly women called to be leaders the wrong men and it screwed up everything messed up their entire lives messed up their ministry i mean just destroyed a lot of what god wanted to do so this is not a game i mean i remember when i was a singles minister i went up to some women who were getting involved with certain guys in the church and i i mean i just went to him and just flat told him i said you can listen are you not listen but that man is a deceiver and a liar
and it's not what he pretends to be and you keep going down this road and it's going to be disaster some listen some didn't listen i've seen the disasters one woman made the mistake in the singles ministry she made the mistake of marrying a muslim man and then they had children and what he did as soon as they had children together he took the children and went back to iran and she i'm telling you disasters don't be unequally yoked together disasters in the church so we could talk about this all day couldn't we we need to check out the offering this morning let's everybody uh bow paul would you pray over the offering this morning heavenly father we come before you we thank you and praise you for your work here for what you're doing in each of our lives we pray gifts the offerings multiply them further your kingdom build us up and continue to provide for us we bless you and pray in jesus name amen amen um yeah those of you listening to blog talk those of you listening to shoutcast we've enjoyed you being with us appreciate it give us a shout uh through facebook or email or the websites denotal.org or let us know you're out there god bless