Binding and Loosing Demonic Strongholds | Pastor Steve Gaines | Men of Memphis Conference 2021

man appreciate that take your bibles and turn with me please to mark chapter 3 mark chapter 3 and in just a moment we're going to look at one verse and that is verse 27. and i want to say again how grateful we are that you're here and we appreciate your presence normally we go a friday and saturday night but this year how many of you know that the last 12 months have been unusual does anybody know that yeah so we just appreciate your presence here tonight i want to talk to you tonight about something i've never preached on in my whole life and i've been preaching for 42 years i you say brother steve you may not want to preach on something you've never preached on because it might not be in the bible yes it is i will talk to you tonight about binding and loosing binding and loosing now you say what in the world are you talking about early this past year back in 2020 the lord really burned a scripture verse into my heart and it's mark chapter 3 verse 27. if you don't have a bible just look on the screen and i think we've got it there for you could we read it out loud together off the screen just so that everybody reading the same translation is that all right let's read it together but no one can enter the strong man's house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man and then he will plunder his house you say what in the world does that mean well that's why i'm here i'm here to tell you what it means let's just jump into it and i want to say this to you that first of all and i know that you're not going to have enough notes to write down everything i'm about to give you in fact i would encourage you since you only have a relatively small area to take notes there in your notepad there don't start taking notes unless i tell you right at the end is when we're going to take notes now if you've got plenty of paper besides what we gave you you do whatever you want to do most baptists are going to do whatever they want to do anyway so you know you can always tell a baptist you can't tell them much though i'll tell you that all right i just want to share with you first of all we live in a spirit realm we live in a spirit realm now we don't see it and so we don't pay attention to it very much but we live in a realm of spiritual activity that is really more real it's just as real as what we're doing right now in fact if we could see the spirit act spiritual activity that was going on in this room i think we'd start running let me just share with you god is a spiritual being god the father is referred to as a spirit jesus said in john 4 24 to the lady at the well he said god is spirit those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth god is spirit say that out loud god is spirit jesus possessed a spirit read about it all the time in fact the last thing he said on the cross but in john 11 33 when jesus therefore saw her weeping and the jews who came with her also weeping he was deeply moved in what say it out loud spirit in spirit he was troubled what's the last thing he said i want this to honestly i i don't know what my last words will be it may be that's a big truck i don't know but i i you know i hope it's more spiritual than that you know i hope i say something like this luke 23 46 jesus crying out with a loud voice said father into your hands i commit my what my spirit and he said having said this he breathed his last so the father is a spirit jesus possessed a spirit it's almost redundant to say that the holy spirit is a spirit matthew 3 16 and being baptized jesus came up immediately from the water behold the heavens were opened he saw the spirit of god descending as a dove and lighting on him so god is a spiritual being father son holy spirit and then man is a spiritual being again you have to write this down i'll tell you what we'll do we'll put this online so you can access this access it on our website we'll tell you how to get that hopefully before we leave here tonight okay because i'd like you to have some of these notes man is a spiritual being man is spiritual and physical i don't think anybody completely understands this but we are a trichotomy he said what in the world first thessalonians 5 23 now may god may the god of peace himself sanctify you entirely may your spirit soul and body say that out loud spirit soul and body you're a trichotomy you have three parts to you be preserved complete without blame at the coming of our lord jesus christ now our thoughts are both spiritual and mental first corinthians 2 11 says for who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him even so the thoughts of god no one knows except the spirit of god so we understand our thoughts in our spirit man okay we worship god in spirit we've already referred to that some i'll go back and put another verse with it when jesus was talking to the woman at the well he said in john 23 4 23-24 an hour is coming and now is when true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and in truth for such people the father seeks to be his worshipers i just want to stop right there and preach just a second god is searching this room right now to see who will worship him tonight in spirit and in truth will you let the lord fill you with the spirit and will you let him guide you by his word worship him in spirit and in truth god is spirit those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth and then god god's spirit speaks to man's spirit we did in romans 8 16 the spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of god how do you know you're saved i heard one old preacher knocked it out of the park he said you know it in your knower you just know it how how do i know i'm in love with donna i just know it in my knower how do i know that i'm saved the holy spirit bears witness with my spirit that i belong to the living god i'm a child of god angels are spiritual beings did you know that angels existed before mankind job in job 38 verses 4 through 7 where were you god said job when i laid the foundation of the earth tell me if you know so much who determined its dimension stretched out the surveying line what supports its foundations and who laid its cornerstone as for the morning stars not talking about stars now he's talking about angels they sang together and all the angels shouted for joy that's before any of us or anybody like us was around angels worship god it's all over the bible i preached through revelation last year if you didn't know that angels worship god you didn't come to church much last year or you didn't look online very much last year i'll just take it out of isaiah not revelation it's all over the bible revelation or isaiah 6 1-3 in the year of king uzziah's death i saw the lord aren't you glad that when an earthly throne is empty aren't you glad that heaven's throne is not oh i like that in the year of king uzziah's death king had died but i saw the lord he was sitting on the throne lofty exalted train of his robe filling the temple seraphim that's angels the i am is plural in the hebrew seraph is one angel seraphim many angels stood above him having each having six wings with two he covered his face god was too holy to look upon with two he covered his feet standing on holy ground he's worshiping god with four of his wings and with two he does fly and one called out to another and said holy holy holy is the lord of hosts the whole earth is filled with his glory they're not whispering that up in heaven they're shouting it angels worship god angels good angels serve god and they help man it would blow our minds if we knew how many times god got us out of a fix with an angel in fact some of our angels were probably looking forward when we go on up amen we're wearing them out that's right daniel 6 22 he got thrown in the lion's den king came out and said did they did they kill you daniel are you okay my god sent his angel and shut the lion's mouths they have not harmed me as much as i was found innocent before him and also toward you o king i've committed no crime i love hebrews 1 14 talking about angels serving god and helping man therefore angels are only servants spirits sent to care for people who will inherit salvation and then there are evil angels that serve satan and harm men how many of you read about the gathering demoniac the guy that had the legion of angels anybody know about that i'm talking about you go check it out it's in your bible mark chapter 5 and he literally the man was so filled with demons he literally could break chain supernatural strength and he was being tormented that's what the devil wants for anybody and i want to tell you i just have to tell you right now you don't have a problem with any human being in this world you say sure i do no you don't your problem is not with people your problem is with the devil listen to the in fact let's read this together ephesians 6 12 read it with me good and strong for our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the rulers against the powers against the world forces of this darkness against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places you don't have a problem with people it's the demonic figures behind them and i want to tell you that that's what really i'm trying to get at tonight we're fighting on the wrong battlefield we're fighting people but we don't have to there's another way we can fight and go straight to the source and i'm telling you i'm telling you spiritual warfare is real it is real that's why god wants us to pray that is the number one aspect of spiritual warfare and if you're not in it you're just out here piddling around dealing with people oh what am i going to do about these people and people are important you don't have you don't have a person that's your problem your problem is the devil and the demonic spirits behind those people and we're going to talk about binding and loosing how many of you still with me anybody still with me all right number one we live in a spirit realm say that with me we live in a spirit realm now number two gives christians authority in the spirit realm would you say that with me please jesus gives christians authority in the spirit realm i didn't say power i said authority and there's a difference i saw three memphis policemen out in the front directing traffic let's thank god for our policemen amen let's thank god for them right now amen amen i pray with those brothers every sunday morning at about 7 15 7 20. now do they have power don't answer out loud do they have power to stop a car no but do they have authority to stop a car yes he said what's the difference oh the difference is this walking out in front of a car and let it run over you you ain't got any power do you you don't have the physical power to stop a car but you are authorized you are deputized and when you walk out there in a memphis uniform police uniform and you hold up your hand and you got a whistle and you're packing can you get a witness on that yeah you got authority amen because you represent a higher power hey child of god you've been deputized you've been authorized by almighty god you don't have power to fight the devil but you have authority to fight the devil luke 10 jesus had sent 70 people out to preach the gospel man they had cast out demons they'd led people to jesus they'd seen people healed they had revival they came back luke 10 17 and following the 70 return with joy saying lord even the demons are subject to us in your name jesus said oh i was watching aren't you glad jesus watches over us amen i was watching satan fall from heaven like lightning behold here it is verse 19. let's just read verse 19 together read it with me now behold i have given you what say hell out authority i've given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions now don't look he's not talking about snakes and he's not talking about those little things down in texas my wife was washing her hair and we got we got married moved to texas and she was about to put her face down in the sink to wash the soap out and there was a scorpion right there in her face i'm not talking about that i'm talking about demonic spirits let's go back and read the whole thing again behold i've given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the what say it out loud that's what now that's what we're talking about and nothing will injure you nevertheless don't rejoice in this that the spirits are subject to you but rejoice that your names are recorded in the lamb's book of life your name is recorded in heaven let's thank god that our names are in heaven right now amen there you go there you go thank you lord thank you lord at that very time he rejoiced greatly in the holy spirit and he said i praise you oh father lord of heaven and earth that you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants yes father for this way was well pleasing in your sight you've been authorized so i didn't know that yep you said well i i don't think i've got much authority you know what if you've got as much as barney fife had you you're good to go if you just got one little bullet man let's bring it on amen let's get let's get in the fight but don't be fighting people close your mouth and quit bad-mouthing people even if they cuss at you curse at you whatever you want to call it where i came from it's cussing amen somebody yells at you cuts you off they're not your enemy somebody comes against you for racial reasons they're not your enemy it's who's behind them now i'm just asking do you want to see some real progress or you just want to be fighting with the symptom the rest of your life do you want to get well do you want to see something happen do you want to see mountains move do you want to see something really move not just people not just dealing with folks out here all the time but do you want to bind the source of your problem instead of just the facade of your problem all right number three christians should stand against demonic strong men that with me christians should stand against demonic strongmen now before we go any farther i got to give you a warning here it is never revile demons you say i don't understand i'll say it again never revile demons don't taunt them in jude jude said michael the archangel would not even rebuke the devil he said the lord rebuked you i don't have the power to rebuke the devil but i have the authority and so the difference is i'm going to sick jesus on them the lord rebuke you say that with me the lord rebuke you don't ever get out here and say bring it on devil he will he will and you'll be sorry you said it don't open a door like that you got to be real careful in what i'm talking about you know somebody said i'm just going to leave it alone i don't understand it all okay do that and then just have mediocre experience the rest of your life have things that you won't be able to see god undo i'm telling you binding and loosing is something that we need to learn to do jude chapter 1 there's only one chapter verses 8 and 9 in the same way these people who claim authority from their dreams live immoral lives defy authority and scoff at supernatural beings that is they revile them they just make fun of them but even michael one of the mightiest of the angels did not dare accuse the devil of blasphemy but simply said the lord rebuked you this took place when michael was arguing with the devil about moses bodies notice first of all that the people who were reviling and insulting the devil in the text here there's another text just like this in ii peter by the way i think it's chapter two but all of these people are lost they are not christians who are doing wrong they are lost people and they're doing wrong they're taunting the devil bring it on devil don't ever don't ever taunt the devil don't ever revile the devil don't ever scoff or mock at the don't do that he will come after you he is more powerful than you he is a lot smarter than you and he is wicked he comes to steal kill and destroy you by yourself are no match for the devil and neither is any preacher or anybody else satan's smarter than all of us put together stronger than all of us put together remember those seven sons of skiva he said no i hadn't read about them this week well you need if you don't know the seven sons of skiva are start and read your bible amen they taunted they reviled a demon acts chapter 19 verse 13 but also some of the jewish exorcists who went from place to place attempted to name over those who had the evil spirits the name of the lord jesus saying i adjure you by jesus whom paul preaches can you imagine that walk it up and say i rebuke you i i command you in the name of jesus whom paul preaches and the evil spirit answered this is kind of funny to be honest with you and said to them i recognize jesus i know about paul but who in the world are you and if you want to know what it means in the greek he beat the tar out of them that's what it means verse 16 the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them subdued them i won't tell i don't ever want to be subdued amen he subdued all of them he whipped all of them he whipped all seven of them i don't understand it but when somebody is demonized i'm telling you they've got unusual strength that gathering demoniac could break chains and shackles when they tried to tie him up he subdued all of them overpowered them so that they fled out of the house naked and wounded they were naked running out of there you know what you don't mess around with the devil if you don't know jesus and fear fell among all those and the name of the lord was being magnified don't revile the devil don't taunt the devil don't mock the devil don't scoff at the devil but if you're sick and tired of taking his stuff resist him and bind him resist him james 4 7 through 8. let's read it off the screen resist it let's listen and by the way uh you're supposed to be taking notes in just a minute i'll tell you when all right all right here we go submit therefore i want y'all to read with me now here we go submit therefore to god resist the devil and he will flee from you stop stop stop when did resist turn into ignore why do we never hear about this well i'm just not going to fool with it all right then you're going to live lower than god wants you to live some of you have problems right now and the only way you're going to see it solved is if you resist the enemy and bind it these kind remember that these kind only come out by prayer and fasting jesus there are certain demonic spirits that can't be chased out by a pill or some little encouragement no they they these demonic spirits are real and they only leave when somebody who has authority binds them and loses you say brother steve i've never heard this before in my life i've never preached on it before in my life i've heard about it all my life and i've been operating this in my prayer time for about a year now can i just make a statement i'm seeing some things happen that i've been praying for for years nothing happening if i if i share something that's not in the bible would you please rebuke me let's go back submit therefore to god read it with me i'll submit therefore to god resist the devil and he will flee from you draw near to god he will draw near to you cleanse your hands you sinners purify your hearts you double-minded now how many of you read right there resist the devil and he will flee from you how many of you read that just now how many of you say that's in the bible how many of you say i don't understand it really okay okay all right at least you know it's there first peter 5 8 and 9 be of sober spirit read it with me now be of sober spirit be on the alert your adversary the devil prowls about like a roaring lion seeking someone he what to devour so what do we do next verse here it is but what say it out loud resist him firm in your faith knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world how many of you would say you know what according to scripture i don't understand it fully but i'm supposed to resist the devil anybody out there want to say that am i are you supposed to revile the devil are you supposed to taunt him are you supposed to say bring it on devil and all that no are you supposed to make a joke out of this no but are you supposed to resist him as a man in your house are you supposed to resist him yes you are and then bind demonic strong men now start taking notes there's not gonna be much but i want to give it to you i read mark 3 27 and it's like it exploded in my heart early spring 2020. but no one can enter the strong man's house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man and then he will plunder his house so how does this work well i've got a dear friend who had a situation with his sons and they quit talking to their daddy he didn't do anything sinful but the boys quit talking to their daddy so i've started praying about that and i've started asking god to bind strong men he said how do you know which ones to buy how do you know what to buy this is where you got to pray for something you got to pray for the gifts of the spirit called discerning of spirits pray for discerning of spirit you say that's not a spiritual gift discernment is the gift it is not discernment is not the spiritual gift go read it it's in your bible it's discernment of spirits say it out loud discernment of spirits you say where in the world is that first corinthians 12 10. and i believe if you'll ask the lord what am i up against is it a spirit of immorality is it the spirit of fear god's not given us a spirit of fear but of power and love and of sound is it a spirit of discouragement it is is it a spirit how many of you think that there are literally spirits of discouragement coming against america right now all over the land through all the covet stuff and everything i want to say this to you there can be a lot of different kind of spirits so you have to pray and say lord i'm just going to bind them in general but it sure would be nice to know which ones they are and god will start showing you in certain cases as you start praying he will give you discernment of spirits how many of you follow me so far i know this is different i i get it i get it that's step one ask for discerning spirits god show me what i'm coming against you know i played football a long time ago the older i get the better i was amen can i get a witness out there anybody out there yeah that's right but i'm telling you i would watch film on who i was going to be coming up against if i had a big old offensive tackle i was a defensive end i want to know you know how he moved and all about it and what the plays were and all that i studied him and let me tell you something you need to know what you're up against when you're in a spiritual warfare when you have children that are rebelling you're against you're coming up against a spirit of rebellion and rebellion is like the sin of witchcraft that's what the bible says stubbornness selfishness all kinds separation so i want to know what i'm coming okay step number two ask god to bind the demonic strong man now some people do it on their own i go back look if that angel if michael would say the lord rebuke you that's good enough for me amen i'm not going to get into a mess i'm not going to revile some demon i'm going to ask god to bind the demonic strong i can't even see them anyway i can't see all that stuff don't want to but i believe it's out there now how do you bind demonic spirit you bind them first of all in jesus name say that with me in jesus name paul was in philippi acts 16. listen to what happened to him it happened that as we were going luke is talking because he was with paul there in philippi to the place of prayer notice that where are they going the place of what hey look at me spiritual activity begets spiritual activity you start praying you're going to stir up some spiritual activity as they were going to the place of prayer a slave girl having a spirit of divination met us who was bringing her masters much spirit by fortune telling you know what spirit of divination is in the greek pneuma python she had demonic spirit she was fortune telling don't let anybody tell your fortune it's demonic thank you following after paul and us she kept crying out saying these men are bond servants of the most high god who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation nothing wrong with the content but she wouldn't be quiet she said it while he was preaching she said that whole time he was preaching she kept on she kept on she kept on she continued doing this for many days paul was greatly annoyed he turned around and said to her no said to the what the spirit i command you in the name of jesus christ to come out of her and look at me that demon had no option it that's what they are it it came out at that very moment so i'm going to bind them in the name of jesus i'm going to bind them by the blood of jesus secondly i've got four things we're going to bind them with the name of jesus the blood of jesus revelation 12 11 10 and 11. then i heard a loud voice in heaven saying now the salvation power kingdom of our god and the authority of his christ have come for the accuser of our brethren how many of you know that the devil is our accuser amen the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down he who accuses them before god day and night and they overcame him how did we overcome the devil by the blood of the lamb and because of the word of their testimony and they did not love their lives even unto death i want to tell you the devil hates the blood of jesus so bind him in the name of jesus bind him in the blood of jesus ask the lord to and then by god's word what did jesus use to fight the devil in the wilderness in matthew chapter four it was the sword of the spirit the word of god matthew 3 4 3 and 4 and the tempter came and said to him if you are the son of god command these stones to become bread but he answered and said to them it is written man shall not live on bread alone but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of god he's quoting deuteronomy chapter 8 verse 3 the sword of the spirit so i'm going to rebuke him by the word of god and then by god's spirit jesus said in matthew 12 8 28 but if i cast out demons by the spirit of god then the kingdom of god has come upon you so i'm going to pray i think i'm dealing with a spirit of separation or a spirit of control or a spirit of whatever selfishness a spirit of fear whatever it might be i'm going to come against that and say lord i believe that you've shown me this is a spirit of fear and lord i ask you to bind this strong man of fear in the name of jesus through his shed blood by the power of the holy spirit in the word of god you're gonna get to where you can say those things just real quick and you mean it i'm gonna ask you to buy i can't even see them god but i just believe that they're if they're not fine but lord i believe they're there so bind them in the name of jesus through his shed blood by the power of the holy spirit and the word of god and then we're going to go to step three ask jesus to go into his house and plunder his house now what the bible said no one can enter the strong man's house unless he first binds him and then he will plunder his house so lord i believe i'm dealing with this and lord whatever kind of spirit is even if i don't name it you know where it's there so lord i'm asking you in the name of jesus through his shed blood by the power of the holy spirit the word of god i'm asking you dear god to bind those demonic strong men and plunder their house oh but i'm not through i'm not through there's one more thing one more step i am not only going to bind but now that the demonic spirit has been bound put in chains and jesus has plundered his house and plundered his property i don't even want the thing smelling like the devil i'm going to fumigate it amen i'm going to lose something ask god to lose something in there called the fruit of the holy spirit and so i just say lord in the name of jesus well let me you some of you say well i don't see that in the bible matthew 16 15-19 he said to them but who do you say that i am simon peter said you're the christ the son of the living god blessed are you simon son of john barjona because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you but my father who is in heaven i will also say to you that you are peter upon this rock i'll build my church the gates of hades will not overpower it i will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven whatever you what it's the greek word luo to set free to loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven lord go into that place that you've cleaned up now and loose in their love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness self-control where did i get that galatians 5 22-23 but the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness self-control against such things there is no law that's it we're through and some of y'all are looking at me like a calf at a new gate like a deer in the headlights i don't know what you're talking about but some of you are going to get it i've been praying for over 40 years and i'm seeing god do some things that are just miraculous i'm seeing relationships healed i'm seeing things happen because of the little word that god deposited down in my soul back in february you see i came here to hear about men's ministry well maybe you needed to hear about strong men and maybe the reason you're struggling with what you're struggling with is you've got a strong man latched on to you so i'm a christian demons can't bother me demons bother jesus who do you think you are demons bothered paul and peter and james and they bother you but you don't revile them you don't say bring it on no you don't do that you say i'm no match for you i can't stop you by myself but praise god i'm better than barney fife i'm authorized i'm deputized i don't have the power to stop you devil but i got the authority to stop you i can't stop you but you know jesus can stop you because jesus rendered you impotent and powerless when he died on that cross and when he hollered to telestyle it is finished you shook in your grave knowing that you were through and when he came out of that grave you knew it was all over and ever since then you know that jesus christ is lord to the glory of god the father no i i can't fight you no i i can't fight you i i can't whip you no way i can't do it but i know somebody who can so lord jesus would you help me out here yes son lord would you bind that strong man absolutely strong man be bound even if you don't know his name don't worry about that how many of you know you can smell the devil you know he's there even if you don't know what kind that's okay lord would you bind him yes sir in the name of jesus on it through the blood of jesus on it through the word of god on it through the spirit of god own it would you bind him now lord and would you go in with him bound would you just plunder his house and plunder his property and then lord would you fumigate the whole place with the fruit of the holy ghost would you loose unto that and lord would you let me walk in victory and lord it's not me it's you hey look at me some of you are going to take that little simple outline i gave you and you're going to start fighting where it counts i'll say it to you one more time you don't have any problem with any human being your enemy is not a human being your enemy is the devil and look at me jesus defeated him on the cross and at the resurrection and jesus is on his throne and look at me he has authorized you he has authorized you to have victory in the spirit realm amen i'm through thank you very much stand up worship the lord amen i do want to pray before we go lord in the name of jesus would you pray with me would you just pray this if you want me to to lead us all in a prayer just repeat after me lord jesus help us to walk in the spirit help us to hear from you help us to bind and loose and help us to be the men of god you want us to be thank you for authorizing us in jesus name amen let's give him praise right now give him praise

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Published: Tue Feb 23 2021