War in the Heavens (Part 2)

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   this morning lord that you will send your glory lord the anointing and power of your spirit lord that's it's not enough lord to just for us to go through the motions we know we need your power and your glory god to come down to convict men and women and children to convict them of sin righteousness and judgment to come to convince them of where they are and where they need to be to draw them out of darkness into your marvelous light to break off satanic oppression and chains lord we need your anointing it's the anointing of the holy spirit that destroys the yokes the yokes of sin the yokes of satan the yokes of self lord we pray in the name of jesus for your glory to come down for for power and glory to come down upon auburn and opelika lord upon this region upon the students at that university over there at auburn university we're praying for you your you to rent the heavens and come down and demonstrate the glory of your power the the intense power that is within your presence god your true glory to convict to convict of sin to draw out of darkness to convince people of what is truth and what is a lie to to make the light of the gospel shine bright in the minds of people that satan is blinded father in heaven we just thank you lord for your word we know that you hear our prayers and we believe that you are going to bring forth revival through your glory through your truth through your power as the word of god is preached in truth lord you will bring forth your power jesus name amen and amen i'm believing i'm believing i'm believing god's going to pour out his spirit on all flesh didn't he say that somewhere he promised in acts chapter 2 in joel chapter 2 that in the last days he would pour out his spirit on all flesh your sons and your daughters would prophesy your young men would see visions your old men would dream dreams he promised to do it so when we pray and ask god to pour out his spirit to send his glory to send his power to fill us to anoint us it's not falling on deaf ears amen he is looking for people that will pray his will be done on earth

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   as it is in heaven amen and when people pray those desperate prayers when they get desperate and hungry and desire god he will answer amen and i'm just going to tell you kevin didn't share it last week so shame on kevin but during service last week god showed kevin a powerful vision of god pouring out his spirit on the campus as we're out there preaching and i know that's going to happen because i saw the same thing in in about i think it was march of 2009 i believe the next thing for us as a church will be to go out to the campus with the end times message with some things some some big you know signs and you know to illustrate what we're talking about but we're going to go out there and start preaching some of this stuff and and use it as as debate on the hook to bring people in to listen and then share the gospel with him and again you know what it's not by might nor by power nor by the the power of men's words but god has to pour out his spirit so let that be your prayer in the in in the the rest of this time until jesus comes lord send your glory we need your glory we need your power to touch people when we preach when we witness when we speak let it go forth with power the power of the holy ghost the anointing most most important thing we need and i'll tell you this much the devil hates the anointing of the holy spirit you want to know why he hates it so much several reasons why number one he used to have it he was called the anointed cherub that covers so he used to have the anointing he lost it and god uses the anointing the power of his spirit to break satan's yokes and chains off of people it happened in here last week i want to tell you some powerful chains and darkness broke off of my daughter so much so that it's affecting others in her family amen so god's power it didn't have anything to do with me because i felt as beat up from the last couple of weeks as a person could have felt last week but the anointing of the holy ghost the glory of god came in and i felt that darkness leave her and even i saw it go out the door that satanic darkness so that's why we need to we need the anointing i remember i think it was kenneth not

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   kenneth hagin but i think it was leonard ravenhill and said this he goes sometimes i'm not quite sure what the anointing or unction is but i know what it is not amen sometimes the holy spirit is subtle and he's moving in power and you don't really see it and know it sometimes he comes in in such power you can't miss it you're so overwhelmed by it but i'll tell you what if there's no anointing it becomes very evident amen so that was just a little side note this morning i want you to turn with me we're going to go back we're going to continue this uh series on warfare on spiritual warfare i want you to go back with me to uh revelation chapter 12. we we went to this scripture last week and we're going to start there again because there's some things we're going to bring out but i've entitled this series we're doing here war in the heavens because of because of this passage here in revelation 12 and and another one that we're going to look at in ephesians in just a second um but before i read this let me say this it's kind of where i'm going to start i think this morning but you know i i stand in awe sometimes at the ignorance and stupidity of bible colleges and seminaries that and preachers even pastors and christians who immediately when a person starts talking about spiritual warfare um dealing with demons dealing with the devil understanding how they work how to resist them how to stand against them a lot of things that are in the bible all of a sudden the demons in them rise up and go oh you you you think there's a demon behind every tree or you think there's a demon behind every bush yo you're just one of those fanatics you're just all caught up in demons you should be caught up in the lord jesus christ and immediately i go who didn't say we that jesus is not first when you start talking about that you know i just marvel at him because did god talk about demons and satan in the bible did jesus talk about it did the apostles talk about then why all of a sudden do people lose their minds and get crazy and want to attack somebody that starts talking about i say it's demonic now there are bible colleges and seminaries and pastors and even churches out there that'll teach you you shouldn't you shouldn't think about the devil you shouldn't be focused on demonology or how to deal with demons there's no such thing as as binding demons all this stuff i mean i i read some some stuff last night from different seminaries across the country it was quite amazing and we wonder why that the church church folk and pastors are leaving the ministry

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   in droves these days because they're spiritually emotionally and physically beat up by satanic powers and we we know that paul said in second corinthians chapter two he said if we're ignorant to the devil's devices he will get an advantage over us right i could turn there we might turn there in a minute but hosea 4 6. everybody ought to know that one hosea 4 6 what does that say god said my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge right so we should have an understanding now i will say this if some church or ministry that's all they talk about then yeah maybe they're getting out of balance because there's other issues in the kingdom of god but if they ignore it completely they're going to do it to the the detriment and great harm of their people and if you don't learn this stuff what to do and what you're dealing with then you're going to be found hurt by okay because there's a war and you know what i started thinking about even before before we look at revelation 12 what i got started you know god just started laying on me is you know i mean this started this spiritual warfare with the devil started all the way back in the garden of eden right had eve resisted the devil with the truth of the word of god that she knew she would not have fallen instead she listened to him and gave in that was the first record of spiritual warfare that we have with the human race right it the next thing we see is cain right deciding he was going to offer god the fruits of the ground but god had already showed him that he didn't want the fruits of the ground as an offering it was it had to be and something had to die blood had to be shed and so he wasn't going to accept it cain gets angry then he gets angry and jealous of his brother and it doesn't tell us in genesis that this happened but it does tell us in first john 3 that cain was of that wicked one and slew his brother so that satan came on the sin of cain's jealousy and anger toward his brother opened the door for satan to come in and commit the first murder then we go over just a few chapters that's chapter four then we go over in genesis chapter six and we see that by this time man has become so evil and wicked that fallen angels are having some type of sexual relations with human beings and creating a race of giants in the land and it got so bad that god said man has become so wicked so evil his imaginations of his thought are only evil continually satan was doing everything he could to contaminate the human race and destroy

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