Wickedness in Heavenly Places

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   [Music] Hallelujah good morning Lord we thank you We Worship You Lord we say good morning to you that we love you with all of our hearts soul mind and strength today God we worship you Jesus we do pray that you will give us Holy Fire more of your presence in our lives you'll help us realize that we need you more now than ever before God is spiritual warfare is increasing across the Earth and upon your people really upon everybody in the world Lord we need your anointing we need your strength we need your wisdom we need to know your word we need to know how to fight when we pray this in Jesus name amen all right you may be seated this morning welcome you to Fire and Grace Church you know people ask me I'm going to say this people ask me why why is our name fire and Grace oh it's real simple Jesus said he would baptize Us in the Holy Spirit and fire right Hebrews 12 the last verse what is it well not last verse verse Hebrews 12 29 says our God is a consuming fire amen so he's both Grace and gives us mercy and forgiveness opportunity Jesus to be right with him so that's Grace we we don't earn it but we must believe it and follow him but we also need the fire of the Holy Ghost so that's what our name is all about that's why we're fire in Grace Church um we're not trying to be scary you know we're just trying to it is a Biblical name the fire of God the biblical thing amen um take your Bibles and I want you to turn first to Ephesians chapter six this morning I've just been seeking the Lord about which direction to go with this today and really wasn't settled even this morning but sometimes you just need to get in praise and worship and quiet everything down and listen to the Lord but we're going to talk about spiritual warfare that's increasing across the Earth right now and explain that those attacks are going to change the course of Nations but they're going to affect individuals as well so let me let everybody turn there because I want you to see this this morning let them take anything for granted about the subject of spiritual warfare uh but Ephesians chapter 6 we're going to start reading it verse 10 and this is what the word of God says he says finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against The Wiles of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against Powers against the rulers of the

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   darkness of this world and against spiritual wickedness in high places or that could be translated Wicked Spirits in Heavenly places I'm going to explain that in a minute some of your translations may actually say that he says wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day I want you to underline that if you're taking notes just pay attention to that first of all he says we don't wrestle against flesh and blood but it's against principalities Powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world then he says there's an evil day what's an evil day an evil day is the day that evil prevails where evil spreads where evil increases he says wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that you'll be able to stand or to withstand in the evil day and having done all the stand there for having your loins gird about with truth having on the breastplate of righteousness and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace above all taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God praying always everybody quotes this passage and they tend to stop before this verse praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching there and see with all perseverance and supplication for All Saints and then Paul the Apostle asked this and for me pray for me that utterance may be given to me that I may open my mouth boldly to make known The Mystery of the Gospel um I think from time to time we have to be remembered that we are fighting a spiritual war against very real fallen angels demon spirits and the spiritual wickedness that comes from people through people because you know a lot of times we don't realize that human beings are Spirit soul and body and so human beings can use their Spirit most witches and new agers understand that they they learn how to literally through demonic power take their Spirit out of their body and travel that's called astral projection some call it Soul travel but they take their body out and they will literally attack you in the spirit Realm so you have a battle on several fronts you're dealing with spirits in the Heavenly places in high places I'll get to that explain that in a second you're dealing with Fallen Angels demons and human spirits a lot of people think you're looking at me like a new dog a dog with a new dish I should say some people think that fallen angels and demons are the same thing they're not

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   okay I'm not going to get into all that this morning but there's different classes here in Ephesians 6 he says in verse 12 that we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities that means chief Chief it's actually the word in the Greek RK which means Chief and rank princes okay principalities so they're fallen angels that are Prince called princes all right and they are the chief in rank those that's why you see in the Bible you see the good Angels you mentioned in the bible like Gabriel Michael they're called archangels okay Lucifer whom we call Satan now his real name was halal when he was in heaven as the worship leader he was one of the three Chief archangels all right now the Bible tells us one-third of the Angels left with Halal or Lucifer Satan one-third left with him but most of them after they sinned with the women on the Earth the Sons and Daughters of Adam and Eve after they many of them came down many of those Fallen Angels came down and they actually had sexual relations with human women and created the race called the Nephilim the Giants that were half human and half Fallen Angel all these myths you guys think that were missed they're not myths there were really half humans and half little G God upon the Earth Hercules is not a myth but you and you got to realize too they're coming back again but God took these angels and I'm going to show you some of these most all of these fallen angels because they sinned with the women and created this race this half-breed race called the Nephilim the Rafael you can read about us in the Bible he created this happen he writes to destroy the human race to pollute the human DNA Human Genome so the Messiah could not come that was Satan's plan way way back that's why God sent the flood a lot of people don't know that you know when it talks about the flood it says man wickedness became great upon the Earth but then in in Genesis 6 God ties it to the Fallen Angels who were with the human women who created The Mighty Men of renown the Nephilim the Giants and God said I'm gonna I'm gonna wipe out man off the Earth and when he said he found Noah he said no I found Grace in his sight and Noah was perfect not a perfect man because no man has lived a perfect life and never sinned he said Noah was perfect in his Generations meaning he was not polluted with the Nephilim bloodline that was polluting the bloodline of the human race so because of that great sin of the Fallen Angels many of them were so wicked and so evil that God took them and he had Michael and his other Angels

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   take them and chain them under the Earth um some of them are chained and put in a place called The Abyss in the Greek abyssuo the bottomless pit some are under the Earth some are in the Great river Euphrates right now chained under that River some are in Tartarus gehenna the underworld but some of them still roam the Earth and what you have to understand is the principalities the fallen angels that are left here rule over Nations and influence Kings and kingdoms now if you don't believe me I'm going to show you that go to Daniel chapter 10. Daniel chapter 10 we're going to start reading at verse one here everybody with me and for some of you that say well we don't we're not in the Old Testament we're in the New Testament the Bible says all scripture is given by inspiration of God and it's profitable for Doctrine so we go back to the Old Testament to get a a view of what I'm talking about let's look at it Daniel chapter 10 it says in the third year of Cyrus King of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel whose name was called Belta shazar that was his Chaldean name and the thing was true but the time appointed was long and he understood the thing and had understanding of the vision and in those days our Daniel was mourning three four weeks this means he was fasting said I ate no Pleasant bread neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth neither did I anoint myself at all till three whole weeks were fulfilled and on the fourth and 20th day of the first month I was by beside the Great River which is to hit a cow then I lift up my eyes and looked and behold a certain man clothed in linen whose Lawns were girded with fine gold of you fast his body was like in the barrel his face the appearance of lightning his eyes his lamps of fire his arms were in his feet were like the colors of polished brass and the voice of his words were like the voice of a multitude this is a vision of Jesus that's exactly what the Apostle John reveals that Jesus looks like now in his resurrected form in the Book of Revelation chapter one so he sees this and I Daniel alone saw the vision for the men that were with me saw not the vision but a great quaking fell upon them so that they fled to hide themselves so the power of God don't tell me the power of God can't fall on you and make you shake and tremble you know we got whole denominations to think that's of the devil but let me tell you the power of God really falls on you something's going to happen you're gonna cry you're gonna shake you might laugh you might fall down you might run in fear there's no telling what might happen right depends on what God's trying to deal with in your life right

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