Andrew Wommack: The Believer's Authority - Week 1 - Session 2

welcome to gospel truth with Andrew Wommack a teaching ministry that emphasizes God's unconditional love and grace and now here's Andrew welcome to our Tuesday's broadcast of the gospel truth today I am continuing a series that I started yesterday talking about the believers Authority I have a brand-new book out on this and the subtitle on this book is really interesting it says the believers Authority and then the subtitle says what you didn't learn in church you know there is a lot of teaching on the believers Authority but in my estimation I think it's it leaves something it there's things wanting in it and there's many things than I disagree with and that's the reason that I've taught on this myself but there is a overemphasis in many cases I believe that the way the believers Authority is taught and it of course as you talk about your authority you have to talk about what authority or power does your enemy the devil have and I think it's often way overstated Satan's power and this leads believers into a thing to where they are giving Satan way too much credit they are actually empowering him by doing that so I'm trying to put this back into an a balance we're going to be talking about our authority over the devil but this book I think has a tremendous potential to really touch people's lives this is a brand new book we also have this in CD form and then we have DVDs as seen on television and they would be a blessing to you and one of the things that we're doing now is we have this study guide and it's the same material that's covered in the book but it's in a different format where it asks questions there's an answer key it's set up for a person to facilitate a Bible study or a sunday-school class and there's a DVD in it that allows you to reproduce this book as many times as you need so that like if you are disciple in other people in teaching in class then you can print out the materials you can print out the and things like this so that everybody can have their own copy of this and that's really tremendous we're getting a great response to our study guides we're now putting out a study guide to go with every book that we produce and so these new materials I think are really going to help you to be able to get this teaching and get the full impact of it yesterday I started this teaching and basically what I've done so far is just trying to emphasize that there is a battle going on not directly between God and the devil Jesus has already confronted the devil and he beat him and destroyed him hands down but then the Lord turned his kingdom over to us here on this earth and we have shared authority with him and Satan isn't fighting God directly what he's doing is fighting God's people and if we don't take our authority and exercise it then Satan is able to do things really illegally he's already been conquered he's a defeated foe we have been given the authority to exercise the defeat of Satan but if we are unaware of this Satan comes against us and he in a sense is doing things illegally because we just aren't enforcing the victory that Jesus has bought for us so the point is that Satan isn't fighting God directly what he's doing is fighting God's people and one of the things that he uses is ignorance this is the reason that the Bible says in John chapter 8 verse 32 and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free once you understand that Satan is a defeated foe that we're the ones with the all of the power and authority and that there is absolutely no right for the devil to oppress and destroy people's lives the way that he's doing once you know this and I mean you know it in your on your heart level then you get set free because Satan's only power really is deception now I'm going to expound on that more so I won't go into that a lot right now but later we're going to be talking about this that Satan can't do anything to you without your consent and cooperation and one of the reasons that people yield to the devil so much is because they do not realize we're in a spiritual battle they're thinking that it's just on a human level that you have this sickness that you have this poverty that you have these relational problems that you're having problems at work that everybody else seems to pass you up and nothing ever works for you and people just think it's all on a human level it's all natural when many of these things are demonic in their origin and if you don't understand that and then take your authority and resist the devil the word resist means to actively fight against then he's not going to flee from you and there's a lot of people who are praying and asking God for help but they aren't taking their authority because they don't realize that it's a spiritual battle they are just dealing with things in the natural realm you know I said a lot of things on that yesterday I'm not going to go back and say that but I'm aware that not every person watches this program every day even if you watch it you don't always remember from day to day what was said we get busy with life and all the things we're doing that's the reason that I'm really encouraging you to get this book this study guide the DVDs the CD you need to get this material so that you can review it and go over and over this because these are things that we often let slip and we just don't remember but yesterday I mentioned out of Ephesians chapter 2 verse 2 that there is a spirit of this world the Prince of the power of the air that works in the children of disobedience before we got born again we were all under the control of demonic spirits and I know that there's a lot of people whole not me yes you were according to Ephesians chapter 2 verse 2 and then in Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12 it says that we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places and I know that there are many of you thinking well I don't have I don't ever encounter any demonic stuff the Bible says that it is not flesh and blood it is not just human there is demonic activity many sicknesses are demonic much poverty is demonic there is a demonic attitude of poverty that many of us have been taught to where we are looking to all of these things we're using values that put us in debt and it's demonic and origin and you aren't just going to get a physical answer this is the reason that people win the lottery and they get all of this money and you would think that when they win millions and billions of dollars that all their problems will be over but the scripture says proverbs 23:7 as a man thinks in his heart so is he the reason people are poor is because of wrong attitudes wrong belief systems and much of that not all of it but I would say a large part of it is demonic in its origin especially people who are just have given themselves over to lust and they can't control themselves and so they do things to excess they gamble they eat to access you can eat yourself into poverty they indulge every lust and every desire they don't use any restraint you know you may not see this but if you just keep peeling back the layers at the root of a lot of poverty is just self-indulgent and things that comes from demonic spirits and this is the reason that they win the lottery they get millions of dollars and you would think that to solve their problem but in a matter of years they're back in the same situation because as a person thinks in his heart that's the way that he is it's not because they don't have enough money it's because of the way they think and so you give a person who's thinking incorrectly a lot of money and I guarantee you they will be back in poverty in a short period of time and statistics bear this out that the vast majority the majority of people who win the lottery are in the same or worse financial condition five or ten years down the road because they they had a problem to start with and just giving them more money does not solve the problem man there are some powerful things I could say about that let me give you a scriptural example I made reference to this briefly yesterday but in Matthew chapter 16 Jesus asked his disciples who people were saying that he was and some of them said well you some people say your profit some people say you're Elijah reincarnated some people think you know all these different things and then jesus said unto him in verse 15 he said but whom say ye that I am Simon Peter answered and said thou art the Christ the Son of the Living God men a very clear declaration of the deity of Jesus the fact that he was the Messiah and look at Jesus response to this in verse 17 jesus answered and said unto him blessed art thou simon barjona for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee but my father which is in heaven so Jesus when he heard this declaration said Simon this isn't just human this isn't just natural you didn't figure this out on your own you were inspired by God this is the spirit of the Living God inspiring you to say this this was a confession that was brought forth by the Holy Spirit so here is Jesus saying that you were inspired influenced led by a godly spirit the Holy Spirit that this was inspired by God it didn't just come out of yourself no man on his own the scripture says is that no man speaking by the Spirit of God can call Jesus accursed and no man can say that Jesus is Lord but by the Spirit of the Lord nobody on their own can embrace and confess that you are the Christ the Son of the Living God without being supernaturally inspired if you would just think about what I'm saying right here this is very revealing you don't just say these things on your own it is not human nature to embrace Jesus and to embrace the things of God and to believe that there is a God whom you can't see human nature just human left to themself will not believe for things that they can't see so you have to be inspired by God to believe that Jesus is the Son of God and to embrace him and to seek Him and to serve him and that's what Jesus is saying here it says over in John chapter 6 verse 44 that no and can come under the Father accept the Holy Spirit drawing no person on their own just goes after God but the Holy Spirit draws people there is this godly influence at work to draw people unto God some of you watching this program right now this is abnormal for you to be watching a Christian television program and listening to a guy talk the way I'm doing and yet you kind of were wondering what's going on the Holy Spirit's drawing you the Holy Spirit is speaking to you you feel a drawing in your heart this isn't human it's not natural it's God inspired and that's what Jesus said about Peters statement that he was the Christ the Son of the Living God now that took place in the 17th verse look at this in the 21st verse this is the same day this is just a matter of minutes maybe an hour or two later it says from that time forth begin Jesus to show unto his disciples how that he must go into Jerusalem and suffer many things of the elders and the chief priests and scribes and be killed and be raised again the third day then Peter took him and begin to rebuke him here's the disciple rebuking his teacher and it was because Peter just thought that this is unacceptable we are never going to let anybody kill you we'll fight to the death will defend you Jesus this isn't going to happen so he began to say and rebuke him saying be it far from the lord this shall not be unto thee and look at Jesus reaction he turned and said unto Peter get thee behind me Satan thou art an offence unto me for thou savourest not the things that be of God but those that be of men now here's Jesus speaking to the same person that just moments before he had said Simon this didn't come from you this is inspired by God it was the Holy Spirit that revealed this unto you you are speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in just minutes he turned around and he says get behind me Satan for you are an offense unto God now I don't know how you can read this and not come to the conclusion that the things that people say the things that people do are not all just of their own choosing it is not just them doing it by themselves totally free will but we are influenced by God are we are influenced by the devil I mean that is just so clear in this passage and it's clear it's the same person see these weren't two different people this is the same person that in just moments he said you are the Christ the Son of the Living God and moments later here he is saying that's an not going to happen Jesus we won't let it happen in Jesus turned around and he says get behind me Satan I tell you that is such a dramatic illustration of this that so much of what is going on is not just human there are demonic things happening and if you understand this it's going to make a huge difference in the way you relate to people you know when I first got started in ministry I didn't understand this as well as I do now and I used to take a lot of things personally and think this person's mad at me and why are they doing this and I took offense easier than I do now I have come to realize that people just yield themselves to the devil sometimes they say things that they don't really mean and believe and I've been able to separate and recognize when something is is just inspired by the devil and it's coming against me trying my faith and trying to steal the word from me and because of this I deal with things differently I don't take the same offense I can sit there and be angry at the devil and recognize that this is the devil coming against me and separate that from that person and there's not a perfect separation because Satan couldn't have spoken those things through this person without their cooperation and so there is some responsibility on the person's part but I can recognize that sometimes people just have a flesh flash and that they allow the devil to take charge and I can separate between that and I can turn around and be angry at the devil and rebuke the devil and yet have no animosity whatsoever towards the person I know some of you are thinking this is weird but this is what I'm trying to get raus that there is a spiritual warfare Satan can speak through people and if you understand this it's going to make a difference for one thing you're going to recognize that you're fighting a spiritual power and that spiritual power cannot be overcome in physical natural ways so you getting into the flesh and arguing is not going to solve the problem sometimes you just need to cut to the chase go to the root of the problem deal with the demonic thing and leave out the person who is in between who's being used by the devil and you just need to go straight to the root of that thing you know let me give you an example I hate to use this example because I always get criticized over this and people think I'm just mean and that's but this is my testimony and it really illustrates the point that I'm making and it's about my mother you know I love my mother at the time I'm making this program my mother is 96 years old we have a great relationship and but there was a time that my mother this is back when my son Joshua was just one year old and he's now I think he's turning 35 by the time this program is aired and so that would have been 34 years ago long time ago my mother had tried to stand on healing and she had a failure she didn't get the results that she wanted and so she was kind of wavering on whether this healing thing was of God she thought I was on the lunatic fringe and a little strange and so she had tried to cooperate with me and believe she didn't get the results that she wanted and so she was pretty negative about it and this is back when Jamie and I were in our poverty days and my mother offered to take us on a vacation to the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina and Tennessee so anyway we were going with her and I told her I said we don't have any money but she offered to pay for everything so we were going on this vacation this is right after she had tried to believe her healing had a negative experience and so she had a cold and she really thought I was too extreme on my and about believing for healing and stuff and so as we started the things she was in kind of a bad mood and she started confessing oh I've got this cold Joshua's going to catch my cold and I began to start saying no he's not going to catch your cold and I began to start taking my authority and resisting this realizing that my mother she wasn't aware of it but her negativism and the doubt that she was speaking could have been an inroad into our lives and into her son's life and he could have gotten sick so when she'd say he's going to get catch this cold I'd say no he's not going to catch this cold she said now don't set him in front of the air conditioner he'll blow on him and he'll get cold and she just was speaking negative she was complaining about I don't have the money for this trip and I said well let's turn around now and go home because I don't have any money I can't help you I said if you don't have the money we can't do it and she said oh I've got plenty of money she was just negative she was just having a bad day and anyway this went on all day long and because she's my mother because I loved her I tried to just be positive when she was negative and not do anything but he just kept on and on and on and that night we stayed in a hotel room we all stayed together my mother was in one bed Jamie and I were in another and we brought in a crib and we had Joshua in this crib and anyway we went to bed in about 11 o'clock or 11:30 something like that Joshua woke up and he had this croup in his throat that I mean it was really loud you could have heard it in the next room so I got up I prayed over him I spoke in tongues i rebuked this and within just a matter of moments everything was fine he went back to sleep I put him to bed but for every 30 minutes for hours he would wake up and his crew would be back and it was just this battle going on and somehow he may not really believe this but I think that the reason that it was going on and that we were struggling is because my mother had spoken these negative words she was in disagreement there wasn't unity Satan was using that to hinder our faith and I was just countering it and so here I was rebuking this sickness praying over him speaking in tongues he'd get better I'd put him down but within 30 minutes he'd be back up so that went on from like 11:30 until 2:30 or something like that three in the morning and every 30 minutes I was up and down like a yo-yo praying over my son in any way one time on the way back to bed after I got Joshua down my mother of course had been hearing all of this laying there just listening to it and my mother just spoke I mean real real sarcastically and said admit it Andy he's sick and you know she knew that I wasn't allowing sickness we weren't putting up with sickness I was fighting against it and she just in a sense says it didn't work you lost just admit it that he's sick and you know what this I'm not saying that this is the way you should do things I'm this is my testimony I'm just telling you this is what happened and it does illustrate the point that I'm talking about that when she said that I mean it got all over me it was exactly like Jesus with Peter Jesus loved Peter Jesus wasn't mad at Peter but he recognized that Satan had inspired Peter to say what he said and he turned around and says get behind me Satan you know what I did I remember getting right down in my mother's face and I said Satan in the name of Jesus I rebuke this I refused to accept this unbelief I renounce this in the name of Jesus my son is not sick he is well we refused to accept it and I just spoke directly to the devil that I believe inspired that statement and did you know that Joshua slept the rest of the night he never got sick he never had another problem he was finding the rest of the trip my mother never said a word that night nor the next two days if we were on vacation and she wouldn't talk to me I couldn't make her talk finally two or three days later she said well I'm sorry you think I'm the devil and I tried to explain I said mother I am not mad at you but you just gave in to your doubt you were speaking things and it was inspired by the devil and I said it worked I said I rebuke this and took authority over it and I said I never had another problem with Joshua and I tried to explain to her my mother came around we are great friends I did not hate my mother but I'm just trying to illustrate again I say I share that with reservations because I know I'm going to get people saying that you shouldn't be doing things like this well maybe you could have used more class maybe you could have been more tactful than what I did but the point is we were fighting sickness and I knew that that unbelief was inspired by the devil when I countered it end of situation end of the problem I'm telling you the way that you realize it or not there are a lot of things that are being spoken against you that you may just think it's people and you're trying to deal with it only on a human level but just as Jesus did just as I did likewise you should recognize that there are things that are demonic in origin and you are only going to overcome it if you take your authority and overcome the devil I'm out of time today but I am going to continue this teaching I got a lot more to share on this and I think that this could really help you again I'd like to encourage you to please get the book and the study guide that we're offering here on the believers Authority this is a brand-new teaching our announcer will give you some information and listen and then call or write and join me again tomorrow as we 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through the 23rd Victory Outreach in Amsterdam if you just know what God told you to do then it's not a challenge it's an adventure I wasn't ready to make a commitment until I really knew that this was God so we decided that okay from this point on we're not going to speak to each other we're not gonna write we're not gonna be in contact I gave up marriage and I thought all right that's it I need to read the Bible I need to find out what what it says I need to find out who God is we could be dropped from the helicopter anywhere on the subcontinent of India and somehow God was could direct us God has given us a plan and we're seeing people change forever and it's not just surface it is inner spirit be sure to tune in tomorrow for more gospel truth

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Length: 28min 31sec (1711 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 16 2013