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And again, when I get back, we'll give you a report of what took place and maybe post some things on social media along the way as well. So the day after the assassination attempt of President Trump, I was scheduled to preach at a local church. It is pastored by a young man that I've known since he was a little, little boy. His mom and dad work in our ministry, help lead our ministry overseeing the ministry operation and finances.
We've been friends for 40 plus years. He's got a new church plant in the North Carolina area near where we live. And I was preaching for him the day after the near assassination attempt. So on the one hand, I wanted to address the shaking that was taking place in our society. I wanted to talk briefly at the beginning about what was going on, not prophetic Bible things like that, like this, the near assassination attempt ties in with this Bible verse, nothing like that, but just, okay, what's going on?
What in the world is happening in America now? And how can we respond? But then God laid a message on my heart.
In fact, it was that morning when I got up and I was on my knees praying, I sensed this need to bring a message from Zechariah, the third chapter. So what we're going to do, and you, you won't see the video of the message. It was just audio recorded, but again, for all those listening on radio and podcasts, same voice as always. So what we're going to do the rest of the broadcast after this initial introduction is just take you into the message itself.
So that's what you're going to hear. It's a message that was preached the day after the assassination attempt of President Trump where miraculously, literally by the skin of his teeth, he escaped being killed by an assassin. And before we get into the message, just a few minutes of introduction. So in the Bible, we know this character, this malevolent evil character known as Satan or the devil. And Satan is actually from the Hebrew Hasatan, the accuser or the adversary. The root satan can mean to oppose or to accuse. So we have that verbal root several times, someone standing by to accuse you.
It is also to oppose more broadly. So Hasatan is the preeminent accuser, the preeminent adversary, the Satan, literally. And then ultimately it becomes a proper name, not the Satan, but simply Satan, the devil, Diabolos in Greek. And we know all of the evil things associated with him in scripture. We know that he is a seducer. We know that he is a murderer. We know that he is a liar. We know that he is a deceiver. We know that he oversees in a hierarchical way an army of demonic forces, fallen angels, demonic forces, these different beings.
He oversees them. And there is a concerted attack against God's people and against the purposes of God in the earth. And on the one hand, we can exaggerate the presence and activity of Satan. One of my colleagues many years ago made the comment to me, some of you Christians seem to have a great big devil.
I have a great big God. Well, I always want the emphasis to be on the great big God that we serve. And in fact, I am not a demon-conscious, devil-conscious person. In other words, I'm not walking around all day every day rebuking the devil. I'm not looking at everything that happens as that's the demon, that's the demon, this is the devil, that's Satan. A lot of stuff that happens is just life in this fallen world.
For example, if you have the local the local government and they're negligent with funds and expenditure of funds and they let the roads get run down over a period of time, you'll get potholes. And if you're driving and there's a pothole you hadn't seen before and your car goes through it and damages the car because it's a deep pothole, okay, that wasn't the devil necessarily or the demon guided your car in that way. And then there are things that we do just by our own free will volitionally that are destructive, that are harmful, and because of that we have bad things happen as a consequence of stupid decisions that we make. However, we do not want to downplay the reality of the spiritual realm. If you go through the New Testament, you'll see lots and lots of references to demons, lots and lots of references to Satan. And we are told in Jacob, James, the fourth chapter, to resist the devil, submit ourselves to God and resist the devil and he'll flee. 1 Peter 5, it says that we should be sober and vigilant because our adversary, the devil, goes about like a roaring lion looking for those he can devour. People say, well, he doesn't have any teeth since the cross, he doesn't have any teeth.
My question is, is he going to gum you to death? Is he just a roaring lion with no bite? Oh, obviously he's been defeated at the cross, but we must take the authority of Jesus to live out that victory over him, otherwise he is still active. And there is this picture in the book of Revelation, the 12th chapter, and it mentions Satan accusing God's people before God's throne, day and night. Revelation is filled with symbolic vision. We can debate whether that is a present thing going on, whether Satan has been fully cast down from access to heaven since the cross.
We can debate all that. We can wonder about what that even looked like, Satan bringing accusation before the throne of God. We have in the book of Job, the first two chapters, a vivid illustration of what it looked like in Job's day, where Satan came with the divine beings, with the angels, to bring accusation against Job. But Zechariah 3 opens up some of the spiritual dimensions of this. And this message, when I preached it, brought tremendous encouragement.
This new church plant seemed to be a really timely word. And I know that what I preached that morning, and you're about to hear the message, so I've just got this introduction, and then the rest of the show is going to be the message with me coming in and out at the beginning and end of each segment. So this is my introduction, and then we get into the message itself. I believe you're going to find it relevant because often we don't realize that there is a defilement that we experience when we are lied about and accused by Satan. Wherever the accusations are going, if it's just in the spiritual realm bombarding our minds, if it's being suggested to other people lies about us or dredging up things that God has covered and forgiven, that there is this bombardment that we experience that is unhealthy, and that's what we unpack in this message. It can also be as people behind our back, that you sometimes feel something spiritually. Have you ever walked into a room and you realize, okay, something's not right here, something's not right, what did I do, why are you looking at me like that? Well, they were talking, they were talking.
Well, that's often how it is in the spiritual realm. In Zechariah 3, a passage that many of us are not familiar with because it's in an Old Testament book with a lot of visionary material that may be a little obscure to us as we read it, it's got this vivid picture of Joshua, the high priest, who in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah is known by his shorter name Yeshua. You'll see it with a J in our English translations, Jeshua, but it's Yeshua, which is the Hebrew name for Jesus. Joshua, the high priest, standing before the Lord in filthy garments, and Hasatan, the accuser, Satan, the adversary by his side, accusing him. Alright, let us now open up the message.
We'll just get it started and then we'll come back and conclude the rest of the show. Let's turn to Zechariah chapter 3. If you need a title for this message, it is Defiled by the Accuser of the Brethren. Defiled by the Accuser of the Brethren. Zechariah chapter 3.
So here's the context. Zechariah is written after the Jewish people have returned from exile. They have been in Babylonian exile. Many have remained in Babylon. Some have returned to rebuild Jerusalem, to rebuild the temple, to rebuild their lives.
They're harassed on every side and they are still just this small group trying to rebuild society. And Joshua was the high priest. So here's an angel showing this to Zechariah in a vision.
Chapter 3 verse 1. Then he showed me Joshua, the high priest, standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. The Hebrew word for Satan literally is the adversary or the accuser. Hasatan in Hebrew is the adversary or the accuser. And that's who he is.
That's what he's doing here. He is standing at the right hand of Joshua to accuse him. So here is Joshua. He's standing before the angel of the Lord. He's in God's presence, yet he's being accused by the adversary. And the Lord said to Satan, the Lord rebuke you, O Satan. The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you. Is not this a brand plucked from the fire? Now Joshua was standing before the angel clothed with filthy garments.
Clothed with filthy garments. Many times we are polluted not by what's inside us but what is outside of us. Okay on the other side of the break we are going to get right into the message. Let me say in advance shout out of appreciation to our co-sponsor TriVita. I love to use their wellness supplements every single day. I encourage you to check them out and remember 100% of your first order is donated to TriVita. TriVita donates right back to the line of fire and over time will subsequent orders.
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May you live with greater wellness. It's the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown. Get on the line of fire by calling 866-34-TRUTH. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown.
Welcome back to a special edition of the line of fire where you get to tell me where you think I'm wrong. You do that really any day that the phone lines are open you can call in and differ with me and I love that. I love for some that just say Dr. Brown I don't see it the way you do and we have a friendly discussion and I love it when people are going to call in and tell me I'm ignorant and biased and blind and all that and lay out their argument and then I get to respond. It's the joy of live talk radio. I've often said that when people are bold enough to invite me to come on a college campus which is rare sadly but when they do invite me when Christian groups do invite me I normally say can you find someone to do a debate with me. You want me to talk about a controversial issue about politics or culture or theology or something can you find someone to debate me a professor a qualified spokesperson from the other side so that the students and the faculty that come can hear both sides.
I love that and if they say we can't find anyone to do it then I say all right can we make sure we have open mic Q&A at the end so people can challenge me. That is a major reason that we have live radio so you can call in with your differences. Now if you're unable to call right you listen and it's like your work schedule or whatever it does not permit you to listen live or to call during our live broadcast and you're really mad at me well you can just we've got lots of pictures of me online or just search for my name you'll see pictures just take one of those print it up and and put it on the wall make it into a dartboard and you can just get all your anger out there and and maybe once you get the anger out you can just pray that God would bring all of us closer to his heart to his mind. All right so following through with a tweet uh interacting with a brother pastor honors me in the Lord and the same with him I honor him in the Lord here's why I'm not a Calvinist as much as I appreciate that the Calvinistic emphasis on God being God and God carrying out his purposes on the earth I see from Genesis to Revelation the emphasis the call on us to choose choose choose choose and I see God's pleasure when we choose rightly by his grace I see God's grief when we when we reject his free offer of grace this to me does not speak of predestination but of freedom within these parameters that God has given us. I also see clearly as I look at scripture that Jesus dies to make the salvation of the entire world possible that he clearly sheds his blood for each and every human being on the planet and to infallibly secure the salvation of those who believe that is another reason that I cannot believe in Calvinism it's clear he can grieve and quench the spirit who calls us to the Lord who calls us to the cross and of course Calvinists would agree with some of what I'm saying but here's here's the other point that I want to make with all respect to my Calvinist friends and Dr. White if you're if you're driving or rowing or just don't you lose your focus let the adrenaline go in here a little bit uh but my my dear Calvinist friend with with whom I've had some wonderful debates and then our favorite is when we get to debate together against others which we've only gotten to do a couple of times so far but here's here's the other big issue I have with Calvinism that Calvinism is the Calvinist gospel calls on people to do what they cannot do and that God will not empower them to do in other words it calls on a cripple to walk without giving power to that cripple to walk it calls on a non-believer to believe without giving that believer the power to believe a Calvinist would say you must be born again before you can believe so God is to give you a new birth because before you can respond and if he chooses not to give you a new birth you cannot respond therefore you're called to believe but you're unable to believe if you're not elect and then even if you did believe it wouldn't apply because Jesus didn't die for you if you're not elect according to Calvinism these are just a few of the reasons with all respect I don't believe in Calvinism the reason I don't believe in cessationism is because again with no insult intended for my cessationist friends the new testament is explicit that the gifts will continue until Jesus returns that the outpouring of the spirit and prophecy and dreams and visions are for the last days that that it is not until we see the Lord face to face that these things will pass away and on the flip side we are exhorted like 1st Corinthians 14 to earnestly desire the gifts especially that we can prophesy so if we're not earnestly desiring them then we're disobeying a divine mandate I tried to become a Calvinist late 70s early 80s I distanced myself to become a cessationist excuse me I tried to I read books against gifts and power the spirit today I question things I but the testament of scripture was too strong and then confirmed by the testimony of the spirit in my own life just check out a book like Craig Keener's Miracles today it's so overwhelming the abundance of documented evidence of miraculous healings I mean overwhelming you can't deny God's supernaturally healing on a regular basis around the world today as for post-millennial the reason I don't believe that that the gospel will triumph over the entire world that the entire world will be called Christianized in the best sense of the world before Jesus returns is because there's so much in scripture about the end of the age being a time of parallel extremes that the wheat and the tears are there right to the end that the harvest is the end of the age with both good and bad that when Jesus returns he's going to destroy an Antichrist and destroy the wicked it's just overwhelming testimony of the presence of the wicked on the earth 2 Thessalonians 1 Zechariah 12 Zechariah 14 many other passages end time prophecies in the new testament about deception so just as you have end time prophecies about our point you have deception as for covenant theology if God's promises to Israel are not true if they're not going to be literally fulfilled with a return to the land and with a massive national turning of in faith then how can you trust any promises God's made I mean just Jeremiah 31 verse 31 to 37 the new covenant's made but look at what follows in verses 35 to 37 this is to me a matter of the integrity of God all right but but thanks for for posting that um grace for the prize you believe with the reform is that true faith will always result in obedience but the 600,000 men who crossed the red sea Hebrews 11 29 notes their faith went on to be unfaithful in the desert true faith is therefore a no true Scotsman fallacy first john 219 notwithstanding that namely those who went out from us speaking about the Antichrist among us those who went out from us were not really among us if they really were they would have believed well of course you do have to deal with first john 219 with the no true Scotsman fallacy that was setting something up that that can't exist but let me just point out something to you in uh in in Hebrews since Hebrews 11 29 was quoted let's just take a look in oh let's see uh Hebrews let me get this up here Hebrews there we go let's go to Hebrews the third chapter all right Hebrews chapter three and let's see what's written there so this it's a call for us to to follow Jesus the apostle the high priest of our confession today if we hear his voice we don't harden our hearts like the Israelites did when they tested god see to it my brothers verse 12 that no evil unbelieving heart is found in any of you is shown by your turning away from the living god and now it goes on you know why didn't those who came out of the wilderness receive rest and let's get to the next chapter it says this therefore as long as the promise of entering his rest remains valid let us be afraid otherwise some of you will fail to reach it because we have had the good news told to us as they just as as well as to them but the message they heard did not help them because they were not united by faith with those who listen to it the Hebrews 4 is telling us after warning us not to harden our hearts in the third chapter and and then repeating that warning from psalm 95 it's telling us that the many of the Israelites who came out of Egypt did not mix these words with faith and that's why they perished if they had true faith it would have been manifest in obedience and and Jacob James chapter 2 is quite explicit on that show me your faith by your works right by faith they went through the red sea as if it were dry land it doesn't say that they all had faith they they went through listening to Moses Moses had faith right so they trusted Moses Moses had faith and obeyed god so they stepped in by faith but did they have saving faith did they have faith in god themselves no Hebrews 4 tells us that they did not so true faith will be accompanied by obedience if it's not it's not saving faith it's not true faith as James Edwin Orr said the only proof of the new birth is the new life Hebrews itself explicitly refutes this idea so let's read the word in context and let's not find an excuse for it I'm Paul Burnett a board-certified doctor of holistic health and I want to take this opportunity to talk to you about the importance of healthy blood flow and how it's enhanced by a miracle molecule known as nitric oxide you see blood vessels release nitric oxide which increases blood flow known as something called vasodilatation at Triveda we take blood flow seriously for our members and we've developed a nitric oxide plus supplement that has been formulated with natural ingredients designed to maximize nitric oxide production in our blood vessels which increases blood flow you may be wondering why you don't have as much energy as you used to one study that I came across revealed that by the age of 40 we only produce about 50 of the nitric oxide production as compared to our 20s and by the age of 70 the study showed that we're only producing about 15 to 25 percent I have good news as we age there's another way for our body to increase nitric oxide production and that's by converting nitrates and vegetables like beetroot into nitric oxide bottom line with more nitric oxide we stimulate more blood flow to our vital organs and we experience more energy while supporting healthy blood pressure Triveda's nitric oxide plus has been formulated to increase nitric oxide production and blood flow at every age to place your order for products to support your wellness goals call 1-800-771-5584 or online at triveda.com as a Triveda introductory offer use promo code brown25 and receive a 25% discount on the products of your choice call 1-800-771-5584 800-771-5584 may you live with greater wellness it's the line of fire with your host dr michael brown get on the line of fire by calling eight six six three four truth here again is dr michael brown thanks for joining us friends on the line of fire we continue with the message that i preached the day after the attempted assassination of donald trump at our home congregation fire remember the when we were using a building at the ymca and i was on my way into the building got up that morning and i was on my way in and i felt unclean something felt miserably wrong i felt unclean i didn't know why so i went through my mind did i have some weird dream you ever have a weird dream just like really weird you wake up feeling weird no no dream i thought did nance said i have an argument about something i mean it would have been the only time up to that point but did we have an argument 48 years but we had an argument didn't we one time 48 years of marriage i think maybe do we have an argument was no did i do something wrong is there something no i didn't know what it was but i felt defilement on it when i finished the message i saw some emails and it was in the early days of me getting involved in the culture was probably closer to 20 years ago the early days of me getting involved in the culture wars that i was now becoming an internet presence interacting and and overnight this flood of defilement had come people attacking me from every level lying about me to every kind of unclean attack and i was feeling some of those barbs even though i didn't know about the words that were actually being spoken you could feel some of that demonic attack and and there is this this flood it's like satan just belches out stuff and and it gets on you and then and the the way that we are hated by so many the way the gospel is reviled the way that jesus is mocked it can make you feel unclean we're not even conscious of it and sometimes just the social media world we live in where everybody's got an opinion and we so freely speak things that are injurious and destructive you can be affected by it you don't even know it because it's out there and and forget people there's a devil and there are demons and that's one of the tactics slander you speak against you make you feel miserable all the time it takes away your confidence in god's presence it takes away the sense of assurance but listen if you have your assurance in the sight of god if you know that you know you are right with him you are immovable you are unshakable but if you're trying to believe god and what about this and what about this i'm not sure this is hanging over me and you feel that junk it robs you of your assurance there's the old charles wesleyham and and it's it's a classic about what new life what conversion looks like and and he it talks about the the chains falling off and the lights shining in but one of the stands is bold i approach the eternal throne to claim the crown the crown through christ my own there is this holy boldness hebrews 10 says we we enter the the throne room with with boldness because of the blood of jesus and the accusations of the enemy and the defilement of the enemy rob that assurance and when you are robbed of that you lose a holy confidence that's essential you cannot war effectively you cannot stand effectively when those things hang over you and it's it's also a method of the devil to always bring up your past and to always bring up stuff that god is forgiven and god is cleansed and god is dealt with because god forgives and forgets but the devil never forgets and he doesn't want you to ever forget and he wants you to have this mentality that you can do the will of god it's kind of like this this agreement that's made sometimes you'll see it in and maybe a boxing match where where one guy's getting totally outmatched and the commentator will say that the guy getting outmatched he just kind of made a tacit agreement i won't really hit back but don't hurt me in other words i know i'm going to lose but i don't want to get knocked out so let up a little bit and there's almost this unknown agreement that we make with the devil i won't walk the boat if you don't bother me i won't start trouble if you don't harass me and my family anymore i won't be aggressive as as long as you don't try to hurt me because it's too painful it's too difficult it's too dangerous and the very thing that that god wants us to do is to know that we're forgiven and free and clean and go out and said oh there's free is the thing satan wants to stop and he'll stop by being try to stop us by being an accuser or then to hang fear over us if you do this remember last remember last time you fasted you prayed you went for and then you had that car crash or remember last time you set someone free and then fell into sin yourself remember that and don't cross don't cross the line stay in your little christian cage and don't cause trouble for anybody and i will not mess with you and your family and we we live with this fear we live in captivity and some of us we don't even realize it in some cases it's gone on for decades because we got hurt we got burned it it took it's like a kick in the gut and it took the wind out of our sails and we've never recovered i i realized that with with areas of healing many years ago losing a couple of agonizing battles were it was for years fighting and fighting and then seeing people die of cancer and then when i when i checked my my prayer journal years later i said isn't this wild that i was fasting a lot more before those losses than after it i didn't even realize that i didn't make a connection but it took some wind out of myself it happens to us you went for it you you were you stepped out you believed god you fell flat on your face and now there's this spiritual passivity you're not even conscious of it and it's it's part of the the filthy garments thing it's part of the accuser of the brethren it's part of this this failure to fully apprehend what jesus has done for us and the new life that we have in him and the fact that his strength is made perfect in our weakness this is one of the things i've leaned into in in recent years strength out of weakness because god god really had to show me this that that mixed in my life there was a god confidence mixed in with a self-confidence and i can't say it's a hundred percent gone god only knows that but i can say there's a tremendous death blow that was dealt to so much of the self-confidence and now i've i've learned to glory and weakness not sin not sickness but weakness i can't tell you how many times i've gotten up to preach and just feeling this pressure of the enemy and this attack of the enemy and this sense of god's not with you and and as literally this has been a habit for years as i walk up there's no pulpit to walk up here no steps to walk up but many times with each step i say strength out of weakness strength out of weakness and my entire confidence is in god zero me a hundred percent him and with that attitude it's not satan attacking you it's satan attacking the lord when you understand that it's it's not satan's personal grudge with you it's him trying to stop you through his demonic powers from doing what god's called you to do he holds us hostage in different ways through fear fear of the past fear of the past fear of the future lies from the enemy and it hangs over us and because of that we are not free and many times as i've gotten involved in difficult situations painful situations controversial situations you end up getting attacked from every side you you end up in a lose-lose situation you ever tried to mediate a dispute between people and and and you you had friends on both sides you try to mediate the dispute and in the end you lose friends on both sides and and and there's this thing you say i don't want to do that again it's too painful and god's saying is there anybody that will stay is there anybody that'll step up or are we all just going to be looking for damage control all the time when i was in india last year was my 29th trip and for some reason many of the times when i go there there is a major attack on my life or we're in the midst of a real real severe ministry test or it's just a time where i have to hear from god i don't plan it don't schedule like it just happens and this last time i was in the midst of living out zechariah 3 i was in the midst of trying to navigate through a massive international church crisis and somehow found myself in the thick of it and there was just this accusation and this junk coming from every angle as well as in particular coming from the devil himself and i was with my two spiritual armor bearers these two men of god that i'm very close to about 50 years old one leads a house of prayer in texas the other these admissions work in the philippines the one of the philippines used to work for our ministry years ago and god really laid it on their hearts to be armor bearers and every week we're in touch just praying with me and for me they were both with me in india we planned it out way in advance with their wives who are also people of women of prayer and we were there together and we just had this this intense time of prayer this intense time of crying out to god together and as we were praying these brothers just came around me and i remember one of them just doing this to me just and i it's exactly what i felt like getting the junk off getting the defilement off getting the accusations off getting the garbage off and everything just lifted and shifted dramatically this was the last thing on my mind to preach about but it was as i woke up this morning it came to mind again that many of you are wearing these filthy garments and and you feel defiled you feel defiled because of the lies of the world you feel defiled because of the oppression of the enemy you feel defiled because the enemy keeps trying to bring up your past you feel defiled because there's this fear that holds you but whatever it is you may not even know where it's coming from but it's paralyzing it stops us from doing what god wants us to do it's not a matter of being insensitive to the spirit when the spirit convicts us of sin we're on our face lord wash me cleanse me when the spirit convicts us of wrong behavior we humble ourselves to people forgive me i'm not talking about being insensitive i'm not talking about being spiritually cocky i'm talking about knowing that we're cleansed and knowing that we're washed and knowing that jesus is our advocate and knowing that he ever lives to make intercession for us and knowing that his blood really does wash away our sins and god really does remember them no more and truly greater is the one in us than the one that's in the world look at the end of romans 8 romans chapter 8 romans 8 beginning in verse 31 after paul has laid out god's glorious plan of redemption romans 8 31 what then shall we say to these things if god is for us who can be against us friends those are not words on a page that there is no higher reality than those words we maybe at our best day we grasp like one one-thousandth of the reality of that it's so completely overwhelming he who did not spare his own son that gave him up for us all how will he not also with him graciously give us off some of you live with this idea that god forgave me and let me in if he really doesn't like that all right we've got one more segment to go of the message defiled by the accuser of the brethren i'm paul brunette a board certified doctor of holistic health and i want to take this opportunity to talk to you about the importance of healthy blood flow and how it's enhanced by a miracle molecule known as nitric oxide you see blood vessels release nitric oxide which increases blood flow known as something called vasodilatation at triveda we take blood flow seriously for our members and we've developed a nitric oxide plus supplement that has been formulated with natural ingredients designed to maximize nitric oxide production in our blood vessels which increases blood flow you may be wondering why you don't have as much energy as you used to one study that i came across revealed that by the age of 40 we only produce about 50 of the nitric oxide production as compared to our 20s and by the age of 70 the study showed that we're only producing about 15 to 25 i have good news as we age there's another way for our body to increase nitric oxide production and that's by converting nitrates and 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faithful sir you you live with this sense of he's he's always unhappy with it's like you live in god's doghouse and it's not because of sin in your life it's because of lies it's because of lack of consciousness of this reality if if jesus died for you how much more is he going to do the rest look at what it says who shall bring any charge against god's elect it is god who justifies gus is that i got you i've got you here who is to condemn christ jesus is the one who died more than that who was raised who is at the right hand of god who indeed is interceding for us who shall separate us from the love of christ shall tribulation he's he's not saying this won't happen it will happen tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sore as it is written for your sake we're being killed all the day long we're regarded as sheep to be slaughtered yeah we're going through hell on earth yeah we're under attack as i speak brothers and sisters around the world are being attacked or killed or put in prison or tortured yeah this is happening no this this doesn't stop us this doesn't separate us and all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us thank you lord you know going through all this hell and all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us for i'm sure they needed death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor height nor death nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of god and christ jesus our lord i want to tell you one more story and then we're gonna we're gonna pray and break some of this stuff off of you you know so it was trip number three to india nancy had been with me on the first two and then on the fourth but she wasn't with me on this one and my brother yeh supadam one of my closest friends in the world truest christian that i know he was an untouchable raised horribly almost died of malnutrition as a boy grew up hating the system became an alcoholic atheist violent man involved in terrorist activities against the rich radically saved in his early 20s we started working together but but we didn't have the relationship then that we have now and as as the services are going on i was there for a month we didn't seem to be in sync kind of preaching in one direction i didn't feel like he was totally with me translating and he said brother we're going to cancel the day meetings we are normally speaking to leaders in the day and big rallies at night he said we're going to cancel the meeting so you can pray all day and just leaves me in my little room to pray all day it's one thing when you determine i'm going to get alone and pray it's another thing when someone closes the door leaves and says you're going to pray all day like okay i'm going to pray all day but we're still not in harmony and and it's it's from city to city i remember yesupadam saying maybe it's because nancy's not here with you and you don't seem the same i'm thinking i'm the same you're not the same i don't have just it's this conflict and i'm going all the way over to india for a month and it's very challenging trip and we're staying in very difficult places and the travel and all that so i'm starting to get a bit of an attitude so we get to to another city and it's it's a city where yesupadam used to share the gospel and he was stoned for preaching and the the elders that stoned him actually became the the elders of the church when they got saved these hindu elders about 75% of the village got saved so first time we're doing major rallies back there and the opening night after the worship i'm ready to speak and a storm comes in and that's it meeting's over people scatter they just wear many of them the only clothes they own scatter and now we're just left in this field full of puddles like what in the world what happened so the next night i'm preaching away and i can't can't find my rhythm earlier in the evening the platform that we're on started to collapse this is makeshift platform we're sitting there during the service and starts to collapse literally as we're sitting there on it so the guys get off the stage just now i'm up to preach and yesupadam and i just can't seem to connect and i can't kind of get in a groove with my message and i for some reason as i said it i even said why am i saying these words i said and god said let there be light and there was light something about the kingdom of god and the moment i said it all the lights went out literally i speak through let there be the lights go all the lights go out that moment and the enemy's right in my ear saying oh you serve a very powerful god very oh your god very he can't even take a little demon in a in a city here in india very powerful god yesupadam leans over to me and he says when the lights come back on end the message and give it to me for the altar call so the lights come back on after a while i preach maybe five minutes and i give it to him for an altar call i guess he was afraid the power would go out again and just wanted to end the meeting quickly instead i sit down and he preaches for 45 minutes and i'm i'm i'm completely in the flesh now i am furious i'm thinking if you and i got a lot of time to stew because he keeps preaching and i don't understand the word he's saying it's telegu all i hear is blah blah blah blah blah blah and i'm waiting for the altar calls 45 minutes five minutes and i'm thinking brother if you don't like my preaching just tell me you don't like my preaching i'm in the flesh i'm angry i remember thinking to myself he's a good preacher what does he need me a white face a white face draws the crowds is that why i'm here i mean i'm annoyed we're ahead every crazy thing the platform starting off you ever see i'm picture this as you're preaching the platform starts to collapse that's what happened during the service now the power goes out now this so the message ends he finally gives the altar call and we go walking back he said brother why did you end the message i said why did you tell me to end the message he said brother you preach maybe like five minutes before five minutes later why did you end the message i said why did you tell me to end the message he said i said to you when the lights come on and you end the message give it to me for the altar call i said you didn't tell me when the lights come on end the message? He said no. I said when the lights come on and you end the message give it to me for the altar call.
I said so at that point we smiled at each other. It's like okay this is the devil trying to get in here and I remember the next day the fields were dry enough for a meeting and I preached. I preached from the book of Numbers in the 13th chapter Joshua and Caleb saying we can take the land that once we realized that it was the enemy trying to harass us and divide us now we stood together against him and this holy boldness and this holy confidence rose.
So I want you to stand to your feet today. I don't pretend to know anything about anybody's lives here. The Lord has not revealed anything to me. He's not showing me what's going on. I just feel that this message is relevant. Jesus. Jesus. Come on let's pray.
We want everybody to leave free clean in the name of Jesus. Come on let's press in. There's an atmosphere we have to break right here all right.
I'm not trying to get you emotional but let's focus and press in right now. Let's all pray together in Jesus name. Come on lift your voices.
Everybody start praying. Father. Father. Father in the name of Jesus. Father in the name of Jesus. Breakthroughs.
Breakthroughs. Lord I break the lies of the enemy. The Lord rebuke you Satan. The Lord rebuke you Satan. The Lord rebuke you Satan. The Lord rebuke your defiling lies. The Lord rebuke your accusations. Jesus is the one who died. Jesus is the one who rose. There is no accusation against the saints of God and the presence of God. You are cleansed.
You are washed. Lord every failure of the past. Every shortcoming. Every weakness in our lives today. May that be an opportunity for the gospel.
May that be a platform for your glory. Everything meant for evil. Turn it for good.
Everything meant for evil. Turn it for good. Lord I break the lies of vulnerability. I break the lies of fragility. I break the lies of always falling short.
I break the lies that are spoken by people and by demons and by our own and by our own minds. Cleanse us Lord. Cleanse us Lord. Put beautiful clean garments on us. Beautiful clean garments on us.
Priestly garments. Dress us up in your presence Lord with the righteousness of your son. With a turban on our head. With confidence. With holy boldness. Lord put a fire within us to say to the enemy everything you meant for evil.
God is going to turn for good. May there be a holy confidence that says to the enemy you messed with the wrong person because the Holy Spirit lives inside of me. And Lord out of our weakness make your strength be known.
Out of our weakness make your strength known. Bless your name Lord. Bless your name. We just need to worship together and get our hearts and heads in this holy presence. And then when you leave you may need to just the earliest opportunity you have you just may need to get alone with God or just immerse yourself in the word and just get cleansed and get cleansed and cleansed by his presence.
Let it be just like coming in from the mud and the muck and you're sweating just the water just pours over you and washes everything away. The blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. The blood of Jesus removes all defilement. The blood of Jesus makes us holy.
The blood of Jesus gives us confidence to enter the holy place. Filthy garments gone. Defiling thoughts gone. Cleansed righteous in your presence. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Friends I pray that message was a blessing to you. I hope it ministered faith grace to your heart even liberty for some oppression you've been going through. Share it with a friend if it was a blessing to you. And join me for the next broadcast. We've got some special pre-recorded broadcasts Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of this week as I'm ministering the Lord's youth gathering in Mexico City.
