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You have many friends.

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In this.

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I brought them. Yes. And inside, Jeremiah went ahead and set the table for us today. Invited God in and also was, like, pretty amazing to see that you’re so. Pretty. Yeah.

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Thanks. Some more. Great. What a labor of love. I thought I would just show up here and minister for us and usher in the presence of God. And I love that song that we were singing about when he walks into the room. Everything changes. And I’m telling you right now that Jesus is in this room and everything is changing.

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There is nobody here that is going to be untouched by the presence of God today. That’s his promise to us. And so I’m coming to you, humble, humbled that I got chosen to be a carrier of the heart of God.

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His kingdom message like every other really good preacher before me. So, like, hold on, you’re going to have to just go with this, with me being here. But all these everybody has been talking about, this is like, this is all about how much God loves us and this kingdom message isn’t about overwhelming us. It isn’t about condemning us.

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It isn’t about shaming us. It’s about responding to love and. As Pastor Jonathan mentioned, I’m actually a volunteer in Spirit School of Ministry. And so I’m going to just pause right here and put a shout out, because I think the Spirit School ministry team is awesome.

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I think it’s amazing because it was generated and put in motion many years ago for right now. And so you’re going to like, continue to hear about different things popping up from the spirit school of ministry and ways that we want to pour into the body of Christ, into believers and unbelievers and like, start to just unfold the truth and the promises from heaven.

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All right. So one of those great opportunities is coming up here. It’s like the first weekend of May, and it starts, I think, April 30th. And it’s going to run through May 2nd. And that’s the voice of God who.

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Now, I have to tell you something. I was actually there when the conception of grace of God happened. Okay. So I had the opportunity to see how this is kind of like transpired and and unfolded. And at that time, I actually wasn’t a part of the school of ministry. But once the voice God, voice of God showed up, I was like, every single one of them.

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I’m just going to be here. I just want to be here. Whatever you need me for, I’m showing up. Eventually, I started showing up and they’re like, hey, can you participate in maybe teach or do this? And so I’ve evolved. I’ve gone to a ton of Voice of God.

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But I’ll tell you this much when someone announces there’s a voice of God, I’m starting to actually think, I don’t care what continent that voice of God is on. I want to be there because you know what? The voice of God means? That God is showing up. God’s going to be in that room. God’s going to go ahead and share some truth about this.

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Like reality he has for his people. He is going to open up his floodgates of love. And you know what? I don’t want to miss out. And even though I’ve been to ten, 15, 20 voices of God, I’ve never been to the same one twice.

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Unknown
And that is why when anybody calls me up and says, well, I’ve already done Voice of God, one and two and three. So like, I’m done with this. I’m like, heck no. Show up. Show up. Sign up, come to it. The thing of it is, is that it has more to do than what you can get out of it.

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It has mostly to do what you can bring to it. It has mostly to do with who you are in the body of Christ and who you are as the voice of God here on earth. This is what we were created for. This is who you are. Anyways, I hope that we get too many signups to say. We’ll open up a couple extra classes, right?

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Unknown
Okay. Sorry, I need to.

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Unknown
Keep this water coming and I’m going to be honest with you guys. I’m not technologically inclined. I and I thought I was going to grow up and try and do this electronically, but I also brought my paper just in case. This all fails on me. So lots of learning is happening here. And also you never know it could all fail.

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Unknown
And I’m going to have to speak from my heart about what this is. Right. So here we go. The Kingdom of God series I think is amazing. Believe it or not, actually teach also in junior high. And so there, you know, we’ve been actually studying the kingdom of God and, Jimmy Lou. Right? He’s one of our, partners in crime in that ministry.

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And we’ve been talking about, the kingdom of God. And let’s see. Oh, that’s a I was like, this series is kind of amazing, right? So, like, today, I don’t know. Bob Kirk is really awesome. He he troubleshoot it with me on a title for today because I didn’t know I needed a title. And so like, thank goodness for him.

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He if you have any questions about this message please go to Kirk afterwards. He’s going to have all the answers for you. But today we are talking about the Kingdom of God versus the kingdom of darkness. What it really and done. It’s going to be a good one. I’m hoping to follow that direction, but what’s interesting about this Kingdom of God stuff is actually that in every single thing about the kingdom of God that we have to talk about.

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So it came up like eternal judgment. Oh my gosh, nobody wants to talk about that and be the bearer of that message. Yeah. I watched somebody lay down their life and just talk about how that came from the heart of God and His love. Right. And then, like, how our decisions can, like, lead to consequences and what, like, eternity looks like for us.

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That’s a hard message to bring. And yet it is grounded and it is compelled by love. And so today I’m talking about darkness, the kingdom of darkness.

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And believe it or not, this message is completely grounded in love. Also not to condemn us, not to, do anything. But I think it’s coming at such a time as this right now. I believe that, overcoming darkness, that’s what it was. We’re going to overcome this. All right. So, the prophets of the House have been talking a lot lately about darkness and about these things.

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And so what I’m really wanting to, like, point out to you is that prophets are put in the body of Christ to give us warning, to give us direction and to like, you know, make sure that we’re going to make it to where we’re supposed to go, right. And so even this morning today, Jerusha is talking about this kingdom of darkness.

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And the thing of it is, is that none of this is for us to be afraid. None of this is to spur up fear in any one of us. But we have to be aware. We cannot put our heads in the sand about this. And I think last week, Papa Pete sent in a message from his, you know, healing bed.

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And it was like, be aware, be aware. There is demons out there. There are things happening. But be aware because you know what? It doesn’t matter that they’re there. We already know how the story ends. We already know that we have victory over it. We already know that the power inside of us is greater than the power in the darkness.

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Unknown
Okay. So, because. Let’s see. Because this is the kingdom of God. This is what we were created for. To love and to join. And the purpose and ruling and reigning on the earth. I have, I thought I would go right back to Genesis. I know this is going to be like, what the heck? She’s going back to the beginning of the Bible.

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Unknown
But in Genesis, God says in, chapter one verse 26, Then God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over all of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

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And so God created man in his own image, and the image of God created he them, male and female. He created them, and God blessed them. And God said to them, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves on earth.

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And then in verse 31, he wraps up and it says, and it was so. And God saw that he had, that he had made. And behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day. So God created us for this world. He created man and woman to have dominion and to operate as God is right.

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The original purpose of mankind is to be in God’s image and likeness, and to rule and reign over the earth. And so that brings us to today. Are we willing to know what it is to be in the presence of God, and to have all of our needs met?

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Unknown
So in junior high, we’ve been discussing Oh, I was laughing. This is a funny no, I got to say, God said ruling and reigning over all the animals and stuff, but I don’t think he thought about domesticated animals. And so I am struggling right now because I do not rule over my 10 pound Chihuahua. He is in charge.

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So God’s still working out this message of like, ruling and reigning for me. Just so you know. Okay, so here we are. We’re like talking about the kingdom of God. And in junior high, we’re talking about how there’s three keys of the kingdom. Like this is something that I’ve known and been taught for many generations. And the keys to the kingdom, you must repent and be baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit.

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These are the keys that must be received in faith, repentance, acknowledging that we need God to deliver us and to receive the gift of the new spirit, our God consciousness that’s perfect inside of us, right? Receiving this gift given to us by the blood of the lamb. Or as pastors Pat would, saying by the blood of pastor Love Jesus.

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And then we must be baptized. And how random is it that we threw in a baptism in the middle of this series? I know I thought it was random, but then I was like, oh, maybe God’s trying to work something out in the church. Like maybe this isn’t so random. So like this baptism happens and we’re here talking about how in the baptism he’s saying, I’m going to take that stony heart out of you, and I’m going to give you a heart of flesh.

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I’m going to give you something that can hear from me, and I want you to write my truths in my heart for you on your heart. Later on, you’re going to hear me talk about our heart as like a home or our heart, you know, like we refer interchangeably in these things. But this heart is an important place.

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Unknown
Okay. And then the third place is being filled. The third is being filled with the Holy Spirit. This is our power source. This is when Jesus had to leave earth and God said, I’m going to send the Holy Spirit to be with every single one of you, to be in you. If you receive this gift, then you will have the power of God in you.

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Unknown
Amen. Now, I was thinking about this power because sometimes, I mean, in junior high, we’re talking about it. And it’s like, well, I know about speaking in tongues, but it’s like a a thing I do once when you foreskin to hear at junior high or, you know, it’s just not a part of their daily life. And I love that I can have that open conversation with kids because they’re truthful about it.

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But if I were to have this open conversation with adults around here, how many of us would say that we’re really tapping into that power source of the Holy Spirit? So it’s like all of a sudden I had this image when we were like, really good kids, good Christian kids. We used to have fellowships at our church, at our house.

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Unknown
And Julie, you were there. You know, these things. So all of the houses probably had vents, you know, so we would gather information from our parents, you know, through these vents and find out what was really going on in life and that kind of stuff. Well, I remember listening and there was this one time and we were hearing about how, like, they had guns, they had, you know, they were going to protect themselves.

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Unknown
Oh, yeah, I got my gun. And, you know, we’re going to, you know, in case the bear comes or, you know, this and that and are like looking. And I was like, I’ve never seen that gun. Okay. So like any good child, any time our parents left, we searched. We searched the house for this. Okay. So this was like an active, like attempt to find the gun.

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And time went on, and then all of a sudden, we were in this great hide and seek game. I mean, it was great. And I was about to win. And I’m scooting back and scooting back, and all of a sudden.

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Unknown
I feel this thing and all I yell out is I found it, Jim boom in the house immediately right to me. And he’s like, you found the gun. And I was like, no context at all. He knew. He knew what we had been looking for. Okay. So we’re like, they’re like, oh my gosh. Like because it’s shot back there.

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Unknown
It’s hard that, you know, it’s heavy and like we’re like trying to like figure it out. You know? Now I know as an adult that was not smart of us, but there we are like looking at it and we’re just laughing. We’re like, I don’t know how he thinks he’s going to protect us. I don’t think he can actually bend this far back.

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Unknown
Like, does he know where this thing is? I it’s really heavy. You know, it’s tucked back in there and so then, now that we knew it existed, we had to start the interrogating questions, like just to kind of get him to want to show it to us so we could freely talk about what it looked like and what it was.

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Unknown
Right. So anyhow, years later, we’re at a family dinner and grandma Bella used to come and visit every couple years or every couple there a couple times a year, and we’re sitting at dinner and I just remember my dad telling a story. He’s telling on his mom, you know, and he’s talking about living in the Bronx and how it was really tough and like, hard life.

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And so, he goes, I just remember he goes, yeah, one time there’s like homeless, like maybe like Guy or some, you know, someone that wasn’t supposed to be came walking into our apartment there. And I was like, what? And he goes, and I’m not kidding you. He goes, all of a sudden my mom jumped in the air, grabbed this knife.

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Unknown
That was the decoration. I thought, on the side of the door and have this guy twice her size on the ground with a knife to her throat, and she was whispering something into his ear. She was giving him an opportunity to leave on his own accord and were like Grandma Bella. And she’s like, Bobby, you know? And we’re like, look, this story has legs.

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Unknown
Here she is. And she leans in against nobody’s going to take advantage of anyone in my family. And I was like, oh, she was serious there, right?

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You might be thinking, why is she telling us this crazy story about these Italians? Holy spirit? Is this, like, weapon of choice for us? It’s this thing that we can have, and I have to ask, as is Holy Spirit, something that you hide away deep in a closet that you have to go and find? Or is Holy Spirit.

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Unknown
Boom, right there at the front door of your life, ready to be used and ready to be handled and ready to bring to the third of the enemy? Yeah, I’m just saying. So thank you, Grandma Bella. Yeah, for teaching us that one. Right. So Holy Spirit’s an important part of this, right? This is like where we get our strength.

00:19:07:01 – 00:19:43:00
Unknown
This is where we get just all sorts of power from there. So, I digress, but here we go. So Holy Spirit is where we can overcome because God does, but only God can do through the Holy Spirit, right? So, the Kingdom of God is announcing it’s, righteousness, peace and joy. I think Pastor Jonathan was talking about this, and this is what I want to talk to you about.

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Unknown
Is that this right now thing about righteousness, peace and joy out of John 1010 says, the thief comes only to steal and to kill and destroy. But I came that they might have life and life more abundantly. I looked up that word abundant. Abundant is an overflowing, limitless supply of God’s grace, love, and provision for exceeding material wealth.

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Unknown
It’s derived from a Greek word, Perry, so meaning super abundance. It represents a life filled with spiritual joy, field, and purposeful fulfillment rather than just physical prosperity filled with things that you can take into eternity.

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Unknown
So this is not about just a surviving life type of status. This is not just a living to exist type of status. This kingdom of God life is about thriving. It’s about, going and like growing and there never being something to like, stop it. And I actually believe that I’m here today not to just talk to new believers, but to talk to people who have been serving God for like 40 years.

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Maybe 50 years since the beginning of time. Because this.

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Unknown
Here, this Kingdom of God message is not a retirement message. It’s not a sit by the side type of message. This is a living message. This is a life message. This is the life message that was introduced to word of Life fellowship before time ever began, right? This life message is about living and righteousness, peace and joy, and that there is going to be a people who are going to grab on to this life message and never have to experience death.

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Unknown
This is a life message that was given to Word of Life fellowship, which I’m going to propose today to you. That actually means that this life message means that you can’t do it alone, that you were not meant to do it alone. But this message was never meant to be a one on one thing. Fellowship is about true communion.

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Unknown
It’s about true relationship. It’s something you have to bring yourself to. And if you don’t, then you’re missing it. And that’s why I might be talking to some people who’ve been doing this for a while. Because if you aren’t actively pursuing what we have been called to for the promise is for this church, then I’m telling you, you’re missing it.

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You’re missing it. And that’s not what God wanted, because this abundant life means that the entire world could be falling apart around you. But you have peace. You have peace because the person who holds your life, he’s got it in control.

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It can mean that everything you see in front of you, everything that the enemy holds because he has dominion over this earth, all of that could be in chaos. Yet you know who you are. That’s why I’m going back to the beginning of time. You need to know who you are. This fight between the Kingdom of God and Kingdom of darkness is an identity fight, right?

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Unknown
All right. So if you are not in this room thinking I am actively participating and going after the Kingdom of God, I am actively giving to the Body of Christ. I know that I am needed and valuable. If that’s not you, then you have to be listening right now because we all depend on it. Ha! Okay, I’m going to share a word of the Lord from my sister Katara.

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Unknown
And I just want to, like, go back to, like, Jerry when he was teaching and his kingdom, a message he actually set up. Warning. I think he even spoke to it today. But when God gives us something, we have to be careful not to just hear it and let it keep going. There’s things that we have to do to make it a part of our lives.

00:24:26:12 – 00:24:55:20
Unknown
That’s our responsibility. He’s doing his work of, like, releasing it here on earth. But we have to do the part to, like, rehearse it, go and study it, take it in and move forward with it. So this word of the Lord that was shared by Katara, she says, and I want to share. Or she says, the Lord shared a few things with me that I want you to know.

00:24:55:22 – 00:25:17:08
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Bob is his friend. God doesn’t say that about everyone. God holds the time, that place in the heart beat that is all in his control. Trust him for his perfect timing.

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Unknown
And just like God shocked Bob’s physical heart yesterday and brought him back to life, he shocked all of our hearts, our souls to bring back to life, to jolt our rhythm, to align with his. But he does not control the beat or rhythm of our hearts. We damn. Don’t let this catalyst moment happen without it shocking you into alignment and leaping and keeping it there.

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Unknown
Now, I’ve been like thinking about those words and pondering about it and my uneducated self sitting in the hospital. Something I learned as like doctors don’t really want to shock good hearts, right? They don’t. That’s probably not the best thing for a good heart that’s going for it. And so when I hear this word from God, it’s like he had a shock.

00:26:23:14 – 00:26:42:26
Unknown
His church heart. Which tells me that there was something that wasn’t happening, that going on. Right. We needed something to catch our attention.

00:26:42:28 – 00:27:15:19
Unknown
That’s a lot to hear from God. Because you know what? Looking on the outside, I was like, our church is growing. We’ve got new people walking in the door. It’s thriving. We’ve gone through these changes like leadership, like there’s a lot of great things happening and yet God had to show up and shock us.

00:27:15:21 – 00:27:30:24
Unknown
Right. I haven’t just thinking about a transition that happened many years before that, when my pastor and Saleem transitioned.

00:27:30:26 – 00:27:33:25
Unknown
To pastors.

00:27:33:28 – 00:27:53:03
Unknown
It was an uneasy time in our church, but a great time also. But I remember that people were actually speaking over us, that our church probably couldn’t survive this.

00:27:53:05 – 00:28:28:07
Unknown
The enemy was like planting it, and there was some of us tied up in this fear about it, like, oh, there’s probably some truth. Hey, look at the facts, right? Look at all the churches this has ever happened to. There’s some facts that have happened for other people. Right? And yet we walked through that transition and for me, like my heart was like shirt up in that time because pastor Pat and Celine had been like, serving and youth ministry and like they were my pastors, they were like they had been walking life with me.

00:28:28:07 – 00:28:56:08
Unknown
So I was like, okay, I can’t get behind this, Yeah. And, I wasn’t quite sure about all the other stuff going on in the hearts of their peers, the people that had been doing that all along. And then pastor Pat last week was talking about how we’re coming up on we came up on an anniversary of when Pastor Jonathan and Shelly.

00:28:56:10 – 00:29:01:14
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Transitioned into pastors.

00:29:01:17 – 00:29:37:11
Unknown
And I was like, oh, all right. God. So there’s some things stirring up in hearts. There’s some things that are out there, maybe some, ploys of the enemy where he’s pushing out some, you guys can’t survive this transition type of stuff, right? And so you think, how why does this even relate to darkness? Well, I mean, I could talk to you, and I’m supposed to actually talk to you about, like, some really good demons and spirits, right?

00:29:37:13 – 00:30:17:26
Unknown
So, like, there’s the spirit of, uncleanness. There’s the the strong man, right? There’s like, witchcraft. There’s like, all these things that are like, really big demons and like, lifestyle things or whatever. And I was listening to a podcast from Spirit School of Ministry plug, and in there all of a said it was brought to my attention and memory about, scripture that said, rebellion is like witchcraft stubbornness.

00:30:17:29 – 00:30:33:12
Unknown
Oh my God, these things are like the worst kind of what I would think is a demon or like, thing that you could have in your life, right? Does that happen in a church?

00:30:33:15 – 00:30:38:00
Unknown
Now, never.

00:30:38:03 – 00:31:18:17
Unknown
Oh, God. There’s some people there like. Oh, yeah, I mean, here you are. You got someone who’s like, struggled with pride, who’s struggled with, you know, different elements of this. And yeah, so am I in this place right now acknowledging that if I am not with God, I’m against God. So if God’s plan was to put pastor, Shelly and Jonathan, in charge of this church and if he is pouring his anointing through them and I’m questioning that, am I questioning that or am I questioning God?

00:31:18:19 – 00:31:44:16
Unknown
And where does that come from? That doesn’t come from anywhere other than somewhere personal. This pride thing, this like rebellion thing, like I know better. And if we’re not careful, these things can creep into the church and they can take over. And I might be talking about a really big, obvious thing, but some of you might be sitting there thinking, I have a problem with panel, right?

00:31:44:18 – 00:32:10:12
Unknown
Like I can’t even hear what she’s saying right now. Right. Because I could do it better because I know what God, you know, I got it all. And yet God chose me to be here today to talk to you about this. And I am just trying to be like his heart extended to you. This isn’t a me thing, because I would really hope to never have to walk through.

00:32:10:12 – 00:32:41:09
Unknown
Like figuring this out on my own soul. It’s painful, painful going through that, right? But I’m just talking about this because there’s this need for us to acknowledge that there is real, spirits of darkness that are constantly on the prowl, constantly looking to seek and destroy, constantly, affecting us in many different ways. And if we don’t acknowledge it, then we won’t actually acknowledge who we are.

00:32:41:12 – 00:33:11:11
Unknown
And the power that’s in us. And we won’t step into that place and claim dominion and claim victory and join along with it, because the victory has already been won. Right? So I know that I’m jumping through some of my, message. And so I’m just going to get to like the point. But I was supposed to get two really quick, so I’m supposed to read out of, Luke 11.

00:33:11:14 – 00:33:42:07
Unknown
All right, so my assignment in this Overcoming Darkness comes from this book, and it’s Jesus on his way to Jerusalem. Right. So we’re having this conversation, he’s talking to people. He’s talking to his, disciples, and they’re out there trying to minister in a world where people, like, really needed help. There is like, all sorts of famine and death and horrible things, like people needed miracles, they needed freedom from demons.

00:33:42:07 – 00:34:08:27
Unknown
They needed freedom in their lifestyles. They were worshiping idols and following different doctrines. And they needed, deliverer to come in to deliver them from fear and torment that like, ruled the land. I’m glad that’s not the world we live in now. Right. Okay, so here we go in Matthew 1121 through 26.

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Unknown
I’m going to read in verse Luke, Luke 11. Thank you. 21 through 26 I’m reading in the ESV for my brother David.

00:34:19:19 – 00:34:45:18
Unknown
When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own place, his goods are safe. But when one stronger than he attacks him and overcomes him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divide to spoil. Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

00:34:45:21 – 00:35:12:21
Unknown
When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places, seeking rest and finding. Then it says, I will return to my house from where I came, and when it comes, it finds the house swept up and put in order. Then it goes and it brings seven other little friends. I mean spirit, more evil than itself.

00:35:12:23 – 00:35:25:26
Unknown
And they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that person is worse than where they started. So.

00:35:25:29 – 00:35:55:04
Unknown
Verse 21, this strong man that is armored up protecting, this is the devil. This is his demons. They’re wearing army armor. They’re fighting to protect their like, perceived like control that they think they have. Right. And so they have to do that, though. They have to do that with force brutality. They have to do that by oppressing people.

00:35:55:06 – 00:36:24:29
Unknown
It’s completely dependent on Tiamat. But in verse 22 it says, but when one stronger than him comes and takes away his armor and binds the strong man, the lies in the facade that his power holds, God comes in and remove this stronghold because of his love for you, and he removes all of the furniture and the fixtures that the enemy has decorated your house with.

00:36:25:02 – 00:36:52:28
Unknown
Like that sofa in the middle of your house, that sofa that you lay out on called pity and shame, right? Or the decorations you have on the wall where you like have like that one failure and you put highlighted like lights around it. Right? Just so you never forget where you came from. Like we’re like really good at helping the enemy decorate this house of ours, right?

00:36:53:01 – 00:37:02:13
Unknown
So sometimes when we’re helping the devil decorate our heart,

00:37:02:16 – 00:37:36:24
Unknown
It becomes challenging for us to, like, actually, like, determine, like, what’s the enemy and what’s us like? What are we choosing in this? Right. So. And Jesus in this parable, in this statement, is sharing that God is stronger than the strong man and his deliverance can clean our heart. He is stronger. The victory has already been won. But what we do with that empty house is completely dependent on us.

00:37:36:26 – 00:38:06:13
Unknown
So God is asking us to respond to his love, to respond from a place of authority that we already know who we are, that we already know the power that’s in us, and to change our ways. Because repentance is an action verb requiring action. Right, Lynette? We did those. We had all of those terms with the song. So does this mean that the gospel is like a striving, you must earn it thing?

00:38:06:13 – 00:38:31:13
Unknown
Absolutely not. See, God does the work of setting you free, and this deliverance is a gift that you must receive and obtain in faith. And then we have to fight for it. We have to put some things in motion. We have to change some of our thought patterns and our lifestyle choices that have allowed the enemy to grab hold of us.

00:38:31:15 – 00:38:59:08
Unknown
So one of the key funny thing is we’re actually teaching about deliverance in spirit three right now. I don’t know how this works out all the time, but so this is information that I’ve gathered from these teachings. But one of the and important things that, our revelations and deliverance, I think that came just a few years ago, is that deliverance is about being set free, right?

00:38:59:10 – 00:39:27:19
Unknown
But actually that deliverance being set free is just the first step, but also being delivered to a promise as the second step of deliverance. So there’s two deliveries, there’s a deliverance, a brought into freedom, and then the delivering and setting you into a place where you know you’re supposed to be into your promises. Okay. So go with me here on this one.

00:39:27:22 – 00:39:33:00
Unknown
We’re going to follow the journey of a bunch of Israelites.

00:39:33:03 – 00:40:01:29
Unknown
This is going to sound like an obscene story right here. This, like, people was under like this. Condemnation and under this slavery for like, over 400 years. Interesting. Okay, so people were born into this slavery. They were born into this death sentence they were born in. This is all they knew was to be under somebody. Then God in his mercy sends them a leader that is going to lead them out.

00:40:02:01 – 00:40:33:22
Unknown
And he does some miracle things. I mean, what the heck? He is split, sees, he provides food for everybody like every need of there is, is Matt. There’s like a fire over millions of people to keep them warm when they’re out there in the dark. And then there’s like shade and comfort when it’s hot. Like I if I was there, I definitely would not have like, even second guessed that God was a part of this, right?

00:40:33:23 – 00:41:12:14
Unknown
We’re all like reading that story, thinking that. But I’m going to tell you something. They were trained. They had years of being born into this, mindset of who they were. So they actually just continued in this process where they had like, never seen differently. And I thought it was unique because they had never seen freedom. And so that sense of freedom, that sense of what God wanted for them was like terrifying.

00:41:12:16 – 00:41:32:22
Unknown
And so they’re in this journey and they’re like, what the heck, bring me back? At least they’re I know if I, usually do my work and like, pay attention and like serve the my like lords. Well, at least I’ll get food most of the time and I’ll be able to sleep on the ground or, you know, whatever.

00:41:32:29 – 00:41:51:06
Unknown
Like they’re abuses. Okay, I know how to work in those parameters. And yet God’s like trying to lead them to this place of freedom where he has a land promise for them that’s got, like, great food and all of this stuff there. And they have never even known that. So they’re like.

00:41:51:08 – 00:41:57:18
Unknown
I think it’s just going to be better if we go back.

00:41:57:20 – 00:42:02:28
Unknown
You see?

00:42:03:01 – 00:42:25:19
Unknown
This abundant life that God is proposing to us in this kingdom, living, maybe something you and I have never seen before. So, you know what? Yeah, yeah, but it doesn’t mean.

00:42:25:22 – 00:42:34:21
Unknown
That. My God, who said it was true is going to lie about that.

00:42:34:23 – 00:43:08:17
Unknown
And even if everything else shows up and says something different, I still know that my God is a saving God. I know that my God loves me so much that he wants me to live this abundant life that’s full of peace and joy and righteousness. He wants that for me. If I want to choose to live in that and to capture that and to like, walk in that, that’s a whole nother story.

00:43:08:19 – 00:43:25:25
Unknown
And I have to decide if this fear, this thing that the enemy has been putting out there, you know, with his little demons, like just putting little thoughts and processes out there, like if that is more important than what the promise of God is for me.

00:43:25:27 – 00:43:45:26
Unknown
Now I’m going to, for time’s sake, ask my friend heart, hey, to join me and his friends because I want to show you something. I’m hoping you get a visual. Almost. Believe it or not, I asked my dad if we could, team preach. And he’s like, no.

00:43:45:28 – 00:44:13:15
Unknown
Now he’s talking about what I wanted to do. You have. Okay, who are your friends that you need up here? Fill up. You here. David. Come on. We need some people. Pastor David, come on up. David jumps up. Andrew. Okay. Nice. John. Pastor John oh yeah. Here you guys can stay down here. It’s okay. There you

00:44:13:17 – 00:44:39:18
Unknown
Oh my goodness. Nice Oh your sister your sister. Oh she’s gone okay. Yeah okay I’m also going to bring up here five maybe 5 or 6. Yeah okay. One more. Sure. Okay Maria. Maria. Okay.

00:44:39:21 – 00:45:20:14
Unknown
Okay, so I proposed you guys this idea, like, hey, we’re going to talk about this Kingdom of God thing, right? And being delivered is a very personal thing, but also a very church thing. Okay. And I love that you were choosing some pastors, and this makes some good brothers. Are you guys, like, strong ready for this? Okay, so, God actually showed this to me, and I did this in an encounter, and then, there’s actually a little bit more that he started to, kind of open up to me about, this.

00:45:20:14 – 00:45:41:10
Unknown
So I need you guys to, like, form two lines and face each other right here, because we’re going to do. Yeah, we’re going to do a faith trust transfer. Yeah. I asked my dad if he would do it first, but he said too soon, Peniel. Too soon.

00:45:41:13 – 00:46:09:02
Unknown
Okay. Good. I got a couple laughs. I wasn’t sure how far into this you are. Okay. Sure. Yeah. Yeah, both of us. Okay, so this is one I want to show you. First of all, thanks for doing this with me. So these powers and these things of, like demons and, you know, there are some that hold on to us.

00:46:09:02 – 00:46:46:13
Unknown
Okay? So we’ll go right here so everyone can see this. So there’s some that, like hold on to us. Right. Like so there’s some things that we might have in our life that have a hold of us. And we need God to come in and in his mighty power. Only remove those things from us. Right. And so this is deliverance as God comes in and he releases the hold that the enemy might have, he takes that and he binds it up because he is stronger than the enemy.

00:46:46:13 – 00:47:14:26
Unknown
Right. So you guys following me on this so God can do that? But what God was also showing me is that sometimes there’s things of this world that we hold on to. So I’m this thing of this world. All right. So he’s holding on to me. All right. So God came in, delivered him. And then there’s this part that he has to do where he has to release.

00:47:14:29 – 00:47:40:05
Unknown
Okay. So, come here. We’re going to go on the edge. So when you guys catch him, do you think you’re strong enough to just hold him for a second because there’s going to be like, some more to this, or you’re ready to do this. Okay. So here we are on the edge of this deliverance, on this idea, you know, and God is like looking George in the eye.

00:47:40:05 – 00:47:46:19
Unknown
And he’s like, guess what? Everything here on earth.

00:47:46:21 – 00:48:03:23
Unknown
Has nothing to compare to what I have for you in heaven. Oh my gosh, things are happening. Oh boy. This is going to be a long fall. Believe it or not, we used to do this off of one of the brick walls in front of the fellowship hall.

00:48:03:25 – 00:48:26:29
Unknown
Okay, but the pastors didn’t know, so, you know, it didn’t hurt us. Okay, so God is in this like, love relationship looking at George. And he’s saying, if you let go of what you are holding onto in Earth, I promise you that I have more for you. I have a place for you. And so George is in this struggle where he is holding on.

00:48:26:29 – 00:48:49:11
Unknown
I got you, you know that, right? So you can lean back. You can, like, challenge that, right? So at this point, George is in complete control of when he wants to release what is holding him to this earth. Okay. So he does that and he stands there and he’s dealing with this in his heart. And he’s going, can I do this?

00:48:49:11 – 00:49:02:12
Unknown
Can I let go of this mindset? Can I let go of what’s holding me here on earth? And and when he is ready, because that’s the God we serve, he releases.

00:49:02:15 – 00:49:05:25
Unknown
Yeah.

00:49:05:27 – 00:49:29:16
Unknown
Right here. Oh, yeah. Okay, now you guys start start walking this way a little bit. Turn so you can walk towards me with his feet really quick. Here, Jonathan, stop. Really quick. Here we go. Come this way. Here we go. So this is what God is showing me. This is why this is a church thing. See, God wants to deliver us into the body of Christ.

00:49:29:18 – 00:49:54:19
Unknown
And so there are times when you have to let go of things and you need to be fully carried. So the people you choose to bring around you in life, they start walking in life with you. So we start walking through life. Come this way a little bit, keep holding them, and then all of a sudden, maybe you don’t need this person as much like your feet are coming down so you guys can let his feet down.

00:49:54:22 – 00:50:20:08
Unknown
Oh, yeah. Oh, boy. Okay. Oh, yeah. Oh, we’re going and we keep walking. But look at everyone staying with us. We leave and we’re walking. And as we begin to take hold of God’s truth, then all of a sudden, we don’t actually need someone holding us and carrying us. So as we mature in our walk, we walk in everyone.

00:50:20:08 – 00:50:42:28
Unknown
If you would keep walking with us, he chose all of you to stay in his life. You guys, come on, we’re walking you now. Here we go. So we’re all walking together, right? And then there’s a time where he doesn’t actually need you to hold your arm, his arm up. But you’re just walking in the life. You’re walking life together, and you’re there right?

00:50:43:00 – 00:50:56:07
Unknown
Yeah, yeah. All right. Thank you.

00:50:56:10 – 00:51:17:24
Unknown
Here’s where I want to wrap up with you. What I’m trying to show you is that it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been serving God for. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been doing this thing for the kingdom of life. Message is a fellowship message that requires everybody in the church to participate. There is no room for a person to sit in retirement.

00:51:17:29 – 00:51:36:23
Unknown
There’s no room for a person to sit in their shame. There is no room for any one of us to go ahead and shy away and allow the enemy to take any part of our heart to disqualify us from being a part of the Body of Christ. Because, as you saw, he chose men and women to come around him.

00:51:37:00 – 00:52:01:24
Unknown
He chose pastors to carry his life. You see, the responsibility is, is that when you were delivered into a church, that you go and find people that can surround you, that when you need someone to carry you there, you find a brother and sister that can carry you in that time. And when you need somebody to just be in the room with you, they don’t even have to be touching you, but they’re walking in life with you.

00:52:01:27 – 00:52:23:28
Unknown
This is the bone supplies to bone and flesh of my flesh. This is the blood message of us meeting each other. Do you hear me? The cry from God was that he had to shock his church. He had it coming and say, wake up, there are people dying in here. There are people who don’t even think they belong or exist here.

00:52:24:00 – 00:53:07:18
Unknown
And he’s saying, wake up, wake up, take your place because you’ve already won. The victory is yours. Now we just need to join together and spur each other on. And today might be the day that I’m talking about it, but, you know, I was there. I was there when I needed somebody else to carry me. I was there when I needed people to love me enough to sit with me in the day that my sin I was there and he, God, was good enough to show up for me in his love and to surround me with people he’s going that I’m missing for you.

00:53:07:18 – 00:53:36:20
Unknown
Like lay down your life at times for me, there’s a love that we have to offer each other. This is what Word of Life fellowship is. Me coming in to communion with one another, being with one another, doing it on purpose and for real. And sure, this is the mouth of the enemy. There is no room for him here in this body, and there’s definitely no room in it for your life.

00:53:36:22 – 00:54:01:29
Unknown
And if you can come and submit to that, then we as brothers and sisters can see. We can like walk along with each other and point out the spots, our dark spots, the spots we can’t see. That’s why you need a good brother and sister, that they can point out what the enemy is trying to do and say, you are valuable and you are loved.

00:54:02:01 – 00:54:11:06
Unknown
Let go. Let go of what you’re holding on to but the enemy is trying to support. Let go of it.

00:54:11:08 – 00:54:17:09
Unknown
We need each other.

00:54:17:12 – 00:54:29:03
Unknown
And I think that, you know, this entire day was just set up where God ushered us into his presence so that we could hear this.

00:54:29:05 – 00:54:50:12
Unknown
Because a message of being delivered from the things that are holding us to this earth really, it’s like your hands are like this and you’re gripping on to what you think is super important. And then you open up your hands and you’re able to just let God come in.

00:54:50:14 – 00:55:20:25
Unknown
And that is what he wants to do for each and every one of us. And this message applies to someone who’s been walking with God for 60 years or for one day. Maybe today. You’ve chosen to give your life to God. We need you. We need you. We need you, Seth.

00:55:20:28 – 00:55:31:10
Unknown
Do you believe that? Like this body doesn’t exist, doesn’t, like, operate right without you?

00:55:31:12 – 00:55:40:06
Unknown
And it’s important that every one of us understand that.

00:55:40:09 – 00:56:21:12
Unknown
We can overcome darkness. It’s already been done. The choice today is. Are you going to walk in it? And I know that I brought up some, like, serious things about, like where your heart might be in rebellion or just in, like, frustration of things that might be going on in the church and God and his love is showing up today to just say, it’s okay if today is the day you want to choose to give that to me, I promise I’ll take care of it.

00:56:21:15 – 00:56:37:04
Unknown
And as soon as you release that, you then become a bloodline for this body. You become a power source.

00:56:37:06 – 00:56:51:25
Unknown
So I am thankful. Thankful for you guys. I. I know there’s a pastor needs to come up and do. Thank you for giving me this opportunity.

00:56:51:27 – 00:56:56:23
Unknown
Amen.

00:56:56:26 – 00:57:29:21
Unknown
Oh, boy. Amen. We’re going to be, closing the service here, but, the Spirit of God is here to touch some hearts. And, and so, we’re going to be leaving the altar open here as we close in prayer. And I just want to challenge people. Please, please respond. Your freedom is necessary for our church and for our community.

00:57:29:24 – 00:57:53:18
Unknown
And you walking in a liberty that is full of joy and confidence in what God’s got for you is important for us, and we need it. And so respond to that. Thank you, Pino, for a great word, a great.

00:57:53:20 – 00:58:19:13
Unknown
I’m so grateful for the Spirit Discipleship program. You know, it’s a school of ministry, and there’s a team of teachers there that are doing so many important things. And so, we have a QR code on the back of chairs. It may show up on this screen. Please open that up. Anybody in here may find a need for what you’re going to find there.

00:58:19:13 – 00:58:44:05
Unknown
It’s, it’s going to give information, announcements and and those kinds of, details that are important to us, what we can do through this week and, continuing our, press into the things of God is where we grow in our faith. It’s where we grow and our strength and our ability to, overcome that message is so important.

00:58:44:05 – 00:59:08:04
Unknown
And so, do check it out. It is it is a part of, you know, our world here. So with that, and there’s also a prophetic word about the art that came over here. The Lord is speaking so clearly. And so, and I love it. And so I think I’m going to have Julie write that down, and we’ll, we’ll share it.

00:59:08:04 – 00:59:34:26
Unknown
But, father, I thank you. I thank you for this house. I thank you for the faith that is increasing in our lives and for the word that is going forth. God, our confidence is in you, Jesus, that the strong man able to set us free. Father God, we praise you for this move in this place and cause our lives to bring glory to you and to bring light to our world.

00:59:34:26 – 00:59:55:07
Unknown
In Jesus name, Amen. Amen. For those who are new, we also do fellowship across the way, and it’s an important time for us to get to know each other. We have food prepared for you, and, we’d love to have you join us so we can hear your story so we can find out more about what God is doing.

00:59:55:10 – 00:59:57:23
Unknown
Amen. He blessed church.