Andrew Wommack: The Believer's Authority - Week 1 - Session 4

on a teaching ministry that emphasizes God's unconditional love and grace and now here's Andrew welcome to our Thursday's broadcast of the gospel truth today I'm continuing a series that I started this last Monday talking about the believers Authority and this is a powerful teaching I believe that this is where a lot of Christians are making their mistake they are asking God to do what he told us to do he gave us authority over the devil to resist the devil and Christians are beseeching God and not taking their authority and Satan is winning because we aren't stepping up to the plate and taking the authority that God has given us so this is a major teaching this is a major thing and I have a brand new book out on this I entitled the believers Authority it's subtitled what you didn't learn in church and we also have a study guide on this this is nearly 400 pages I think it's three hundred and seventy or eighty pages and it's really a great deal it's specifically designed to help you teach a Bible study or a Sunday School class something like that there is some material that you read where we start the subject and start it going and then there is a place where you ask questions there's an answer key to those questions there's a teacher's guide section in here there's a list of all of the scriptures that were used in that lesson and it is just a great way to do it plus there is a cd-rom on the inside cover of this that allows you to print this book as many times as you need so if you have 15 or 20 people in a Bible study you could actually fit print out all of the copies so that every person there could have a copy of this in their hand as you go through and disciple them I'm excited about this because really this kind of teaching this subject is something that you need to meditate on you just don't get it by hearing it it's the kind of thing that you need to go through and especially to be able to share it with other people you need to be able to break it down to discuss it I've already covered some things in just the first three days this week that are so contrary why people believe that it takes a while for this to soak down on the inside I've been talking about how we're in a spiritual war we before we really take our authority and use it you've got to realize how serious the situation is and I remember when I was drafted and trained to go into Vietnam everybody knew we were going to Vietnam but you know when you were in basic training they tried to scare you and do things and there was constant I remember that there was just explosions going off all of the time we were always shooting our weapons we were throwing hand grenades when you'd go through these local crawl pits they'd have machine-gun fire above you and then you'd go beside a pit and they'd explode knit it bounce you off the ground and you know there was just all of these explosions and over a period of time I kind of got used to it and when I was in basic I knew that they weren't going to kill me I knew that they were wanting me to live too so I could go to Vietnam and fight the battle and even though they said this is dangerous I knew that they were doing things in a way that you know you would have had to have really done something stupid to get hurt and killed and basic and so anyway even though there was explosions there was rifle fire there was all these things going on I took it all with a grain of salt and over a period of time I kind of got hardened to it to where it didn't even affect me I could sleep through things when there was explosions and stuff going on but I remember when I got into Vietnam and when we landed it long been in Vietnam there is a mortar attack and he wasn't real close but it was close enough that they made us get off and run and crawl to this bunker and get through this mortar attack and we came in in the middle of the night and they processed us and after I think it's 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning I was laying on my bunk and it was one of these metal bunks that had the springs in it and the mattress on it and I was laying on this bunk in Vietnam and you know what there had been explosions going off you could hear it in the distance but like I said I was used to that in basic and I just kind of had hardened myself and it didn't mean anything to me but as I was laying in that bunk trying to go to sleep there the Rockets were coming in and I could hear these explosions and they were close enough to us that my bunk those Springs I was bouncing on my bunk from the explosion of rockets and mortars and I remember laying there and it just dawned on me that this wasn't basic this wasn't friendly fire trying to prepare us for something and teach us this was somebody shooting at us they were trying to kill us and it was close enough that my bunk was bouncing from the explosions and you know what happened I remember laying there and just thinking I'm not in Kansas anymore this isn't this isn't make-believe anymore somebody's trying to kill me and they're close enough that I can feel the percussion from this thing and you know what I mean I got serious all of a sudden it was no longer training all of my antennas went up and they put us through a week of training once we got into Vietnam and you know in basic people half-heartedly paid attention they were goofing around and doing things you know what they had our attention I mean I was listening to everything they said I knew that my life could depend upon it I mean as they were teaching us you could hear the explosions and all of the sounds of war going on in the background and all of a sudden I they had my attention I was completely committed focused I was learning everything they had to tell me and the point that I'm trying to make is that there's a lot of you as Christians that haven't taken this seriously you don't realize that we're in a spiritual war that everything we do every attitude every emotion that you have every action that you have everything that you say everything that you do is either yielding yourself to God and allowing him to have dominance in your life and release his love and all of his blessing or we are allowing Satan to have access to us through our emotions and through the things that we're doing now I know that that's a very simple statement but that is that is something that I Everage person doesn't accept I would say that probably the majority of you watching this program you might sit there and say well yeah that's true but in practical terms you do not live your life that way for instance I can guarantee you there's some of you on your way into work people will cut you off and you say things you may wave at them with one finger you may do things and you you may sit there and say well they don't know I mean I I didn't hurt anybody they didn't hear what I've got to say you're missing the point I use this verse on our program yesterday out of James chapter 3 verse 16 it says for we're envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil work did you know whether the person that cuts you off in traffic here's what you've got to say or not did you know that if you vent and if you do something and yield yourself to the flesh and and yield yourself to anger and bitterness and things like this did you know that you are allowing Satan place in your life and again we're envying and strife is there is confusion Satan is the author of confusion and every evil work you have just opened up a door into your life to the devil and it's amazing to me how people don't realize that we're in a war they don't take it seriously like well I didn't hurt anybody you know my daddy in law he was crate guy we had a good relationship and I like them but bf was he had a little attitude problem and he was very outspoken and I remember being with him one time and he got mad and called a guy in front of him a jerk and he was saying all of these things and just blasting this guy and I've said something I don't remember exactly what it was but I made a reference to that and BF had no connection he says it didn't hurt a person he didn't hear what I said it didn't affect a thing nobody was offended and he didn't realize that whether anybody else hears this or not it's affecting you you are yielding yourself to an attitude that I can guarantee you did not come from God that came from the devil and it opens up a door into your life I remember another instance where I was there was a guy in our church who got born again I mean a dramatic conversion but he had been a total mess prior to this time I mean he was the first person in the history of California who is indicted by a grand jury three times before he was 13 years old he was in and out of reformatories from the time he was five years old he lived a terrible life a terrible ungodly life and when he got born again he did get born again and he was genuinely saved there was a change in him but you know what there was still a lot of things that were being worked out in any way one day I went over to his house I knew he was supposed to be there he had told me to come over so I expected them to be there but I knocked on the door nobody came so what I did I walked around the house into the backyard he worked on old cars and he upholstered them and so I thought maybe he was out there working on one of these cars and when I walked around the side of the house this guy had a fence post and he was beating this car and I mean saying words that I didn't even know what all I meant and he was blasted in this car and yelling and he was beaten the devil out of this car and I came around the corner and this guy saw me and all of a sudden he stops and got a twinge of conviction you know I was a pastor of the church and he stopped and looked at me and he says it's a car he says I didn't hurt anybody he says it doesn't matter if I say something to a car it's a car it's okay I didn't do anything wrong and I had to start teaching him that it doesn't matter if it's a car it doesn't matter if it's a tree it doesn't matter if it's a dog that you're mad it doesn't matter whether the thing that you're mad at is a person or a innate object or an animal if you are giving place to anger like that it says in James chapter one the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God that is an understatement the wrath of man is actually a yielding to the devil God is not the one who inspires us to say these things and the blast things and to do all of this this is being inspired by the devil and you do that again James 3:16 we're in fein and strife is there is confusion and every evil work you've just thrown open the door to the devil and it doesn't matter if it's car doesn't matter if it's a tree doesn't matter what it is you have thrown open the door by your anger and by saying these things and you are just allowing Satan to come in and steal kill and destroy in John chapter 10 it says the thief cometh not but for it to steal kill and to destroy us talking about the devil the rest of the verse goes on to say but I am come that you might have life and have it more abundantly if you yield to Satan if you yield to him whether it's through actions whether it's through words whether it's through emotions when you yield to the devil you are yielding to Satan the author of those things and he is going to come steal kill and to destroy in Romans 6:16 the scripture says know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness when you yield to sin and it doesn't have to be just total rebellion he could just you know you could yield to depression and I know that some of you right now or what that's that's not sin yes it is the Bible says rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice it says in John chapter 16 verse 33 in the world you shall have tribulation but be of good cheer I have overcome the world it says in John 14:1 let not your heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in me it says in Philippians chapter 4 rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice in the Old Testament Deuteronomy chapter 28 it says that God brought judgment upon the children of Israel because they would not praise the Lord for the abundance of all things because they didn't express joy and thankfulness God brought judgment on that God would be unjust to judge you for something that you have no control all over again see what I'm doing I'm hitting up against some concepts right now that are probably hindering some people from receiving because you said pay depression it's just a byproduct I don't choose depression I don't have any authority in this area yes you do our God would be unjust to command you to rejoice in the Lord always he didn't say when you feel like it when everything is going good rejoice in the Lord always if you aren't rejoicing in the Lord you are giving place to the devil you are yielding to the influence and the tendencies and the temptations of the devil and Satan is having inroad into your life and he's affecting you and doing things through this you can't control your emotions again even a large segment of the church will say no emotions this is all humanistic it is just natural it's hormones its chemicals I don't have any control over that's not what the Bible teaches the Bible teaches in James chapter 1 that sin is conceived in your emotions in James chapter 1 verse 14 but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed then when lust hath conceived it brings forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death if you read this in the NIV it talks about desires the word lust has taken on a connotation today where we just think of that as sexual and always demonic but the word lust if you look it up in a dictionary it's just a strong or overpowering desire or emotion this isn't talking about necessarily demonic lust for a person that's not your mate matter of fact the scripture in relations chapter 5 I believe it's verse 16 says the spirit lust against the flesh and the flesh lusts against the spirit in that instance you know that this isn't talking about some sexual desire it's just talking about that the Holy Spirit has strong emotions and wants us to be separated unto God and is jealous over us and so the word lust here is literally talking about in your emotions and notice it says every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust desires emotions and enticed and when your lust your desire or your emotions have conceived it brings force in this verse is saying that sin starts in your emotions most people are looking at the actions of sin they don't want to go out and commit adultery but they will indulge all kinds of emotions that conceive and lead towards the birth of the act of adultery and they don't make this connection they think well all I've got to do is just stop the birth well this is like a woman who doesn't want to have children but she takes no authority no responsibility over her own actions and so she has relationships constantly and she allows people to impregnate her but then she doesn't want the birth and so she uses abortion to stop it and she does all these things most people would say that's irresponsible that's not what you're supposed to do and I agree but you know what spiritually Christians are doing the same things they allow their emotions to go places they should never go they read things they watch things that that conceive lust emotions in their heart and then they try and keep from acting it out I remember a Bible college student that came to me one time and his wife had severe depression and so he brought her into my office and I was talking to her and she was basically telling me that ever since she was a little girl she had severe depression and for one month or two months out of a year she would just be depressed and then she'd snap out of it and she was okay and she was acting like there was no big deal and I was saying look this is serious you need to stop this and she was basically saying no this is the way I am she had accepted it see she didn't realize that there's a spiritual war going on and she didn't realize that when you indulge depression that you are conceiving something and I tried with everything I had to show her these scriptures and to tell her that every time you give place to depression every time you let your emotions go south okay what your justification is you are conceiving something and then you aren't going to like the birth of this it's the devil that's conceiving those negative things on the inside of you and you're trying to stop the birth you don't want to act it out but you don't want to take any responsibility for the conception that's as irresponsible as a woman who has physical relationship with a man all of the time and yet just can't understand why she gets pregnant and why she's giving birth she doesn't want the children but she loves the relationship that's not the way that it works you have to take authority over yourself and I'm telling you that if you have negative emotions there are times that some of you know that you're wrong you know that you shouldn't be griping you know that the Bible says rejoice in the Lord always you know that strength and power is in joy you know this but you feel something so passionately that you just feel like I'm just going to vent I'm going to let all of this out I know I shouldn't but I just think I'd feel better if I do it I felt that way I remember a time that I went to Bridgette Colorado there was 10 people in this church I went there we saw a man raised from the dead and the church grew from 10 to a hundred people in a town of a hundred and forty-four people I gave up everything for the first time in my life I could see light at the end of the tunnel and it wasn't a train it was actually the end and I was seeing success when I was in Childress Texas and I left all of that and went to this little tiny place called Pritchett Colorado if it wasn't the end of the world you could see it from there it was that close I went there laid my life down gave up everything that you know I had been able to accumulate everything that was going good in my life I left it to go to this little tiny place of pretty Colorado and within six months the people were wanting to string me up lynch me they hated me they were circulating rumors that I was having an affair that I was getting drunk doing drugs they lied about me they said anything and everything and I just got tired of it and you know what I was going to have a pity party I mean I was waiting on Jamie and the boys to go to bed and I had determined I was just going to get down and gripe and complain and tell God how upset I was over this I knew it wasn't right but I just that's the way I felt and I just wanted to do it and you know while I was waiting on Jamie and the boys to go to bed praise God the Holy Spirit began to encourage me and by the time they finally got to sleep and I was ready for my pity party I went down and just started praising God and decided I was going to do what the word says and I wasn't going to indulge my flesh and so I can relate to what many of you feel but I'm telling you it's wrong I'm saying that you conceived something every time you have a negative emotion every time you just indulge your desire to gossip every time you sit there and just say well I'm I know I shouldn't say this but I'm just going to go ahead and say every time you give in to the devil you need to recognize we're in a war and it says in 1st Peter chapter 5 verse 8 that be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion goes about seeking whom he may devour if you really understood that we were in a spiritual war if you really understood that Satan is just looking for an inroad into your life just a crack in the door he's wanting the opportunity to come in and just destroy your life if you really knew this and understood that indulging these negative things is giving place to demonic spirits and attitudes and that whatever you do you're going to conceive something that's going to bring forth a birth that you don't want if you really knew that if you really believe that I guarantee you you'd act differently and see this realization that I'm talking about is what caused me not to go ahead and have that pity party even though I had sent out all of my invitations even though all of the demons in Colorado had gathered that just let me vent and take advantage praise God that the Holy Ghost kept me from doing that and saying these things it would have caused negative things in my life and ministry I'm telling you you need to recognize you're in a war you need to take some responsibility you need to take the authority that's been given us and we need to stand up and recognize that you can't just do what you want to do when I realized I was in Vietnam you know what I started acting differently I didn't necessarily want to be in Vietnam I didn't want to be doing those things but the fact was I was there and I had to act accordingly and if I would have acted the same way that I did when I was back in the States and walking in a war zone I could have gotten killed I had to act I didn't like it I didn't want to be there but it was the reality you may not want to face the fact that you're in a battle but you are and you ignoring it is not going to make you exempt all its going to do is guarantee that you lose you need to receive these truths you know the teaching that I'm giving here I've got a brand new book and study guide out on this a CD a DVD set I'd like to encourage you to please get them our announcer is going to give you some information about how you can get these materials and please call or write and get these materials and then join me again tomorrow as we continue the gospel truth the believers Authority is available for the very first time in book form you can receive your copy for seven pounds request book T 327 when you write or call or when you go to our website a Spanish version is also available request book T 735 the believers Authority companion study guide is available for 17 pounds 50 request study guide T 427 when you contact the ministry this teaching is also available in a six part CD album or it's available in a DVD album made from Andrews daily TV broadcast each is offered for 19 pounds request CD album t 1045 C or DVD album t 1045 d the first teaching in the audio CD album titled we're in a spiritual war is also available for three pounds but if you're simply unable to afford it andrew and his partners will provide this first CD free of charge request teaching number TL 18 when you write or call and will be pleased to send it to you you know what I was sharing today is just a very very brief summary of some points and I have so much more material 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telephone our helpline number is zero one nine two two four seven three three hundred we'd like to point out Andrews upcoming speaking schedule he'll be an Amsterdam for the Euro spirit conference May 21st through the 23rd Colorado Springs Colorado for the annual summer family Bible conference June 29th through July 3rd and in South Africa for a gospel truth seminar July 21st through the 23rd for more details on Andrews next meeting in your area call our helpline or visit our website at aw mi dotnet this is Andrew Wommack and I'd like to invite you to join me on May the 21st through the 23rd in Amsterdam I'm going to be speaking at the Euro spirit 2009 and we're going to have a number of different speakers I'll be ministering to each day the 21st through the 23rd of May we're going to be holding this at the Victory Outreach in Amsterdam it's going to be a great time and so all of you watching over god TV I'd encourage you to come and be a part of this May the 21st through the 23rd Victory Outreach in Amsterdam if you just know what God told me 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 gonna 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 a helicopter anywhere on the subcontinent of India and somehow God Woo's 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 but I never could see myself being a missionary because to me a missionary is somebody who really likes to be out there you know who's who likes to stand on the stage and have the million people out in the congregation and preaching to the masses and that is so totally not me you

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Published: Fri Aug 16 2013