Binding and Loosing - Pastor Nathaniel Haney - October 25, 2020

amen hallelujah can we stand to our feet this morning praise god amen amen amen amen special touch of the presence of god this morning hallelujah i don't know about you but i'm hungry for the holy ghost today i'm so thankful for the holy ghost today i'm so thankful for his spirit amen thinking about praise this morning i was thinking about worship and i was thinking about how it is amazing how god gets involved with our praise how when we begin to clap our hands and sing to god and shout to god there is a moment where god elevates our worship in the holy ghost and it's almost as if our physical voice and our physical hands they turn into something else than just a physical action but it is the holy spirit that is almost praising through us it's like he's involved with elevating our worship to him hallelujah i don't know about you but that's the kind of praise i want to give god today i don't just want to give him my the clap of my hands and my voice as if it were some type of religious ritual that we do every sunday morning but i want to feel the holy ghost this morning hallelujah i want to praise him in the spirit is anyone with me today i don't just want to be involved like any old religion but i want the holy ghost to be stirred up stirred up in this place amen so right now amen can we just praise him and as the spirit gets involved in your life just let yourself be elevated hallelujah to give god worship in spirit and in truth today father holy we come unto you lord jesus today your people have gathered together both in this place and online god we have gathered to unite our voices god to praise you we unite god our sound together god a joyful noise unto you father and i just pray right now god that as we begin to praise you as we begin to lift up your name as we begin to lift up our voices to you that it would progress god from a humanly voice into a spiritual sound god as we worship you in spirit and in truth god and as we raise our praise to you god reach down god reach down to the holy ghost god stir us up to praise you god in the spirit stir us up to praise you god in the holy ghost father lord take control of our praise today god we wish the divine god the touch of the divine to be in this place [Music] god we just allow you right now to take control father we give you dominion father with this place we give you dominion god in the atmosphere hey oh we give you the lordship father of our lives today in the name of jesus christ we pray oh i feel the holy ghost this morning amen i feel the spirit of god this morning church let's just let him take control today let's let him take control over our lives amen god bless the praise team as they come this morning [Music] amen one more time across the building and wherever you're at let's worship the lord jesus we love you we've come to magnify you and to praise your name jesus hallelujah hallelujah we glorify your name jesus hallelujah we worship you god worship with us this morning amen i love jesus he's my savior when storms are raging you know he's my shelter and where he leads me i will follow i love jesus he loves jesus i will follow [Music] [Music] i [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] and i won't [Applause] [Music] hallelujah he's been so good so good so good so very good oh yeah it's so good he has been so good to me [Applause] hallelujah [Music] this morning [Music] [Music] jesus no other name i know oh yes [Music] jesus oh yes hallelujah [Music] jesus [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] hallelujah other name i know jesus jesus no one's a name under heaven [Music] oh yeah [Music] oh [Music] yes yes [Applause] [Music] [Music] name jesus oh jesus [Music] jesus jesus [Music] jesus oh [Music] jesus hallelujah [Music] come on let's not stop worshiping him this morning jesus we love you we praise your name lord hallelujah hallelujah we worship you lord we glorify [Music] searching heart [Music] this jesus how precious remember of a million shattered parts yes this jesus [Music] this jesus yes this jesus [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] this jesus takes trafficking [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] isn't he [Music] honored and adored and you alone be glorified and praised and you alone be honored and adored and you hallelujah [Music] forever [Applause] [Music] this jesus this jesus hallelujah we'll wait forever foreign oh [Music] hallelujah this jesus [Music] jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] isn't [Music] [Music] he [Music] honored and adored and you alone be glorified and praise [Music] and [Music] we worship you jesus we glorify you jesus we glorify you lord hallelujah [Music] we magnify you lord hallelujah [Music] let's worship the lord this morning you are always fighting for us heaven's angels all around my delight is found in knowing that you wear the victor's crown you're my health and my defender you're my savior and my friend by your grace i live and at the breathe of your greatness in your name i will bow down you can never be defeated before you wear the victor's crown let your glory fill this temple let your power overflow by your grace i live and breathe [Music] you have overcome jesus oh [Music] you can never be defeated for you wear the victor's crowd you are jesus the [Music] grace i messiah and breathe [Applause] [Music] oh yeah [Music] my [Music] oh yeah every must come down [Music] you were buried in the ground but the grave could not contain you for you wear the victory [Music] yes [Music] [Music] shall be broken [Music] is [Music] oh [Applause] you overcome you overcome every high thing must come down every stronghold shall be broken you wear the victor's crown you [Music] shall be broken [Music] hallelujah hallelujah [Music] [Music] jesus christ we worship you jesus we praise you [Music] hallelujah you have overcome you have overcome [Music] let's worship him this morning hallelujah [Music] more [Music] there's a sweet anointing of the holy ghost right now in this sanctuary the sweet presence of the lord is giving us his peace his strength and his anointing if you have a situation right now just simply give it to the lord let's reach for him and say jesus this may be something that we cannot overcome as human beings but we surrender it to you right now in your name jesus we surrender this sickness right now to you jesus we surrender this financial situation and our home right now to you jesus we have faith and believe that this mountain will be removed from our path jesus we need direction right now and what the next step is and we believe it right now that we're gonna get it today right now in this service we're gonna feel your peace about the next direction jesus we surrender it to you father [Music] if you're sitting next to your family let's pray together as the body of christ if you have a prayer request and you're watching online please call the number on your screen right now or chat in the box and brothers and sisters will pray with you today we're going to bind together as the body of christ we're going to pray for one another we're going to pray for our community and for our city jesus right now we ask that every request that's being brought to you right now that your will be done in it we know that by your stripes we are healed we know that you are our provider you are our refuge and our strength and today we come to you in faith believing that you will intervene on our behalf that we have an advocate with you jesus and today we ask right now for every request online for every individual that's watching this service we speak the faith right now in jesus name that they will be touched by your spirit right now as we speak in jesus name we pray lord we ask that you'll touch our president that you anoint him and strengthen him that your will be done in this election let your touch president vice president pence let your spirit be upon him guide him and strengthen him touch this country jesus may your will be done in the supreme court this week let your spirit reign upon judge barrett jesus give her your strength and may your will be done in this confirmation lord we ask right now that you'll touch our governor fill him with your spirit he needs you jesus touch this state jesus we pray lord touch this city and may your will be done with our mayor and let your will be done in this election we give it to you right now in jesus name we pray we speak to the north we speak to the south the east and the west that it must give up the souls that belong to you jesus we surrender this city to you we surrender this church to you we surrender this state and this country to you in your hands help us be the salt and the light for those we come in contact with with a virtually one person give us the boldness to speak faith to speak faith to speak faith to speak faith in you jesus we trust you lord let's thank him all together for hearing our prayer the lord is doing great things in our midst and pastor click the reset button on our 21 days of prayer and fasting he may talk about it more in a few moments but tomorrow in this sanctuary who's going to be here the ladies are going to be right here in this sanctuary tuesday night the children are going to be at west lane wednesday we're going to have service thursday men west lane friday the young adults and the college acts 29 they're going to be at the west lane sanctuary again it's going to be a time in the holy ghost if you enjoyed those prayer meetings thank you jesus all those prayers again on the screen there start at 6 30. great time on the holy ghost it's now time for our sunday morning tithe and offering [Music] if you're here in the sanctuary you can of course give online or you can drop your offering off at the ushers as you exit the facility if you're online you can of course give on the website as well jesus we thank you lord for your many blessings in your provision upon this church and upon us as individuals we ask that your will be done in this offering right now in jesus name we pray provide for every need represented in this sanctuary and provide for every need represented for those that are online right now we ask that you'll touch the body of christ we believe and trust you right now in jesus name we pray amen god bless you as you give this morning [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good morning christian life center uh we are going to get right into the word if you have your bibles turn with me to the book of matthew chapter 16 and we're going to read a few verses of scripture and we have been dealing with matthew 16 verse 13 through 19 uh for about four weeks i think this will be our fifth week maybe our fourth but somewhere in there and uh today we are going to deal with the keys of the kingdom we have been dealing with different pieces of this but we want to deal with the keys of the kingdom and the authority that comes with that so let's start with verse 17 and we'll read through 19 it says and 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 and i say also unto thee that thou art peter and upon this rock i will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it and i want to point to you the fact that it is possessive of christ he says my church and then secondly he says that the gates of hell will not be able to overcome it or subdue it verse 19 and i will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven then charged to his disciples that they should tell no man that he was jesus the christ and so our our subject scripture today is going to be verse 19. i will give unto you the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven praise the lord now it's important that we understand that the keys of the kingdom says i will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom is in the context of the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church if you take the keys of the kingdom or you take the binding and the loosen apart from the context that we are reading about it doesn't make sense of what god is trying to talk to us as believers about and so we have to understand that it is in the context of the gates of hell shall not prevail it's in the context i will build my church now when you go to matthew chapter 18 in the context of matthew 18 chapter 18 we have a we have a story that the lord gives us and he talks about the church releasing people from their sins and having the authority to release them or to hold them accountable and that has to do with uh fellowship membership that doesn't have actually forgiving sins in the sense that we have god authority to forgive people's sins but we have that authority to allow them to be part of the church or to reject them based on what is deemed as their sins truly being repented of or not repented and it's a long story a long lesson there would be a great lesson someday but a lot of people when they read matthew 28 or the matthew 16 verse 19 they always jump to that passage about the forgiveness sin so that's all that that applies to the problem with that conclusion is that it ignores verse 18 that says upon this rock i will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it if we did not have that scripture that was the setting of the context we could easily say yes it's only speaking of the forgiveness of sins accepting and rejecting people into church i do believe that that is part of the apostolic authority is the uh the the leadership of the church uh dealing with people and their lifestyles rather we embrace or we refuse to embrace people i believe that's a piece of it but that in no way is the whole totality of it and yet when you hear people talk over and over so many people when they talk about this will say things like it doesn't mean binding devils it doesn't mean loosing spirits it doesn't mean etc etc but the truth of the matter is it has to come in context and i cannot stress this enough has to come in context that god is building a church now i don't know about everybody's philosophy of what a church is but in my opinion a church is when people are being translated out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light and to get out of the kingdom of darkness you have to bypass some gates that got you blocked in locked in to get out of the kingdom of darkness you have to come through some demon powers that have you in addictions and have your eyes blinded oh hallelujah and some people got this ideal that this isn't connected to that but it's connected to building a church and last time i checked the the main enemy of the church was satan who wanted to stop what god was doing in this world and so when we talk in this context it is important because there are so many people that are embracing the nominal mentality of what the apostolic authority is all about and if we'd embrace that and believe me there's a lot of churches more and more education is beginning to go on in the united pentecostal church and several of the oneness groups and several of the apostolic and pentecostal groups and the more education they get the more they drift to becoming a center with denominal churches that do not have the spirit and do not understand the things that god has given us well i'm not going that way i still believe the word is the word and that the word teaches that there is a church that has to be built out of the rebels of wrecked humanity that satan is trying to keep in bondage and the gates of hell shall not prevail is in context with i will build my church now some people uh there's there's a there's quite a writing out there and quite a teaching that the gates of hell represent death and death did not have the authority over christ jesus the problem with that is i will build my church is not based on death it is based on something that is constructive i'm going to preach today because i feel that i've got a message for a lot of people today that need to hear what god is saying you see the devil will take everything god has given you and he will do his best to minimize it in your mind and make you think that it doesn't have the power or the authority or the thrust or the force that god originally intended it to and so what he does is that he begins to bring in doctrines that are not really in line with the scripture but there are other pieces of scripture someone says do satan do that you better believe he does that when jesus was on a 40-day fast the bible says that satan came to him and begin to quote the bible to him and begin to say now the word of god says this so you need to act on according to this scripture but jesus in his infinite wisdom knew that it was being taken out of context and it was being applied to the wrong and he said i rebuke you get behind me see when he came into the garden with eve and he come to her he began to talk scripture to her hath god said but then he added just enough to take it off center from where it needed to be and he's still doing the same thing to christians today he is still bringing this word and saying yes the bible does say that god's going to build a church and that the gates of hell won't prevail and you'll have power and authority but what that really means is this and then he kind of waters it down and takes the teeth out of it so that the church is really like a lamb without any strength but i want to tell you there's another side to the human christ and it's not just the lamb that was slaying for sinners stead but it's the lamb or the lion of the tribe of judah and some of you need to shift gears and get into that element as the body of christ and become the lion that goes after oh hallelujah and believes that god is gonna do some things so verse 18 says i say the thou art peter upon this rock i'll build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail the gates of hell have to be directly correlated to the building of the church and so they cannot just be speaking of the death of christ they have to be speaking of christ taking from the enemy what he has put in bondage and building as building blocks and making a cavitation for his spirit and so this is where we are at with that so when it says and i will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom first off the keys represent um represent the ability to open things that are locked and to lock things that are open the reason every one of us have a set of keys in our pocket is because you have a car sitting out there that you got to open when you walk out of here now some of you got a little button but it's you understand what i'm saying and when you get home you've got a front door that's locked that you got to stick the key in and turn it to open it to get inside you understand what i'm saying and uh and so the lock is designed to keep bad people out and good people in it's designed to keep people from stealing from the owner and the way he is able to manipulate and control the lock is by a set of keys in his pocket now if you don't have the keys you have to get some bolt cutters you have to get a sledge hammer you have to get a crowbar because it's it you you can't just take the lock and disregard it it needs a key and so when we read this he said i'm going to give you the keys to a specific area the kingdom now the keys to the kingdom mean that what pertains to the kingdom you have the authority to open and to shut he told the church he said i'm going to give you an open door and no man can shut now we'll discuss that a little later today but let me let me put something out here in in this that we go to and let's let's look at this it says i will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom i want you to make a note of this before we go any further if you've got a pencil and pen make a note of if you don't try and memorize it in your brain but binding and loosing is all about delegated authority it's all about delegated authority now jesus said i will build my church now the word my is possessive right we understand that it's possessive and so he's setting himself up as the my i am the master i am the owner i am the possessor this is personally my possession so the church belongs to jesus and i have a little saying nobody owns a church because it belongs to jesus and you cannot own what he owns unless he shares with you but you can't own it apart from jesus nobody owns the church that's why the government can't overreach and shut us down that's why the world can't stop it persecution can't destroy it because it belongs to jesus who is the possessor of this church well hallelujah nobody owns it it belongs to him he said i will build my church now the imagery that is being given here to peter and to the apostles is that peter is standing there and there is a master that owns a kingdom so we got a king and he has a kingdom we understand that right and the king says to a steward he says come here i've got to take a journey to a far away place and i'm going to be gone for a while and why i'm gone i need somebody to manage the kingdom for me i need somebody to manage my affairs for me i need someone to supervise and make sure that everything stays in order and continues to go forward the way that it's supposed to go and he says now back behind the throne room are some storerooms that have some weapons in them if there's an attack against the kingdom we keep them locked up back over here is some wealth that if we need finances for anything we keep that locked up over here are the storehouses of food to feed the people and then this is what i want you to do i want you to keep doing what i've been doing i don't want you to change i want you to rule and reign proxy through me vicariously through me i want to work through you and when i get through my with my business where i'm at i will come back and i want to make sure that what i have been doing while i was here you have kept in force while i've been gone and i'll give an account i'll expect an account of you there'll be some responsibility because with authority comes responsibility and he says now here here are the keys and he says i'm going to give you the keys and whatever within the perimeters of what i do and what i have told you that's the key sometimes people get outside of the perimeters and they get to try and do whatever they want instead of whatever jesus wants and we get in trouble but if we do whatever in the context of the life ministry and teachings of jesus he says if you bind it on earth i'm going to agree to it i i even though i'm in heaven building a city i'm just going to say yes that's the way it's going to be and if you loose it on earth then i'm just going to say yes that's the way because i put him in charge while i'm building a city now in john 1 he says let not your heart be troubled you believe in god in my father's houses are in my father's house singular are many mansions or many dwelling place i go to prepare a place for you and if i go i will come again and receive you take you to myself there's there was a jesus in the flesh here two thousand years ago he knew that he was fixing to leave this world and he called peter who was writing point for so to speak and he said peter i'm going to give you the keys to the kingdom and i got to go but i'll come back again but while i'm gone i'm concerned what i've started is going to fizzle out i'm concerned what i have been doing is going to just dry up and blow away if i don't have a successor if i don't have some people to carry on what i've been doing do we understand that and so the lord said i'm going to give you the keys that i've been operating with i i've been operating with the keys of the kingdom now let's take a look at some of these keys let's go to luke chapter 13 if we would luke chapter 13 verse 10 he says and he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath and behold there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity 18 years and was bowed over bowed over she had a bad uh hunchback her bones were curving and she could not lift herself up and just stand direct and when jesus saw her he called to her and he said unto her woman thou art loosed from thine infirmity now if we stopped right there we would lose the lesson that's fixing to come with this and he laid his hand on her and immediately she was made straight and glorified god thank god for pharisees they have gotten us so much knowledge that we would have never understood if they hadn't been angry about what jesus did do you realize in your life when people push against you often times it's so you can have further understanding what god's doing and how he does it what would your new testament be like matthew mark luke and john if there were no pharisees or no opposition there would be huge gaps of blank spaces and lack of understanding in what jesus did and what he taught but thank god somebody pushed back because then we got to learn what was going on behind the scenes and so the pharisees the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation because that jesus healed on the sabbath day and said unto the people there are six days in which man ought to work in them therefore come and be healed and not on the sabbath day now the truth of the matter is it had nothing to do with the sabbath it had to do with jealousy had to do with control it had to do with being in charge that's all he was just a jealous man who felt like his authority and his preeminence in that little uh church he had had been taken from because god used somebody besides him and that's a good lesson for us if god's using somebody you don't need to be jealous of them worship and give thanks that god's got somebody he can move through that we can see the demonstration and the power of god now the lord said or the lord answered him and said you are a hypocrite does not each one of you on the sabbath go out to his ox or his donkey who's tied up in the stall and lead him away so he can get some water now here we go loosen him letting him go what for for the purpose of drinking so he'd have life so he takes that analogy and he says ought not this woman being a daughter of abraham whom satan hath bound low these 18 years be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day now let's go up to verse 11. it says and behold there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity 18 years and was bowed over and couldn't rise up now in this there are three things we notice first is it doesn't name the spirit other than just it's a spirit of infirmity in other words a problem we got 18 years but when we come down and jesus begins to explain he says this he says this woman has been bound 18 years by satan in god's mind whenever there's a demon power at work it's the same thing as satan because he is the representative of darkness i think some of you don't understand that you're not fighting a bunch of little individual demons that have rebelled against god you're fighting a satan that has an organization you're fighting a satan that has a government of darkness and in god's mind rather it's a demon in somebody or an addiction on somebody or a political issue going on or a disease that's happening god sees it as the work of this angel that was named lucifer that rebelled against him and he says this woman who's been bound by this spirit ought to be loose from the authority and the overreach of satan that sent that spirit to bind her i feel the holy ghost right now we have got to understand that we are in a battle fighting spiritual forces that are the manifest of the kingdom of satan let me let me break it a little more for you let's go to matthew chapter 12. matthew chapter 12 verse 24 it says but when the pharisees heard it they said this fellow doth not cast out devils by uh but by bells above the prince of devils again the pharisees have enabled us to understand what is taking place behind the scenes when jesus is casting out demons and healing people of demon possession thank god for the pharisees verse 25 well it's bells above what does bells above mean it basically means the lord of the dunghill or the lord of the flies and uh it's a it's a it's it's a derogatory uh term and it tells that his whole authority is basically a big old pile of dung if you want to understand what that means drive out to the dairies they collect all that manure to sell for fertilizer and you can smell it for six to ten miles before you get there when you get there they got these big piles of manure you get out on that manure you're going to find a bunch of flies flying around they're going to be on the cows that you get your milk from they're going to be buzzing around and that mountain's going to move you get closer why because them flies like that poop yes they do but one of those flies the lord says is a little bit more powerful than the rest of those flies and he is the lord or the master of all those other flies in other words as filthy and dirty and all their perversion that they have satan is the king of that evilness and that's what's being said here now let's read on because we're fixing to get a fabulous lesson on demon possession he says and jesus knew their thoughts and said unto them every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand now in matthew 16 he says i will give you the keys to the kingdom that's the kingdom of god the kingdom of heaven here we're talking about a kingdom and he's telling them the kingdom of god is not a divided issue it is a unified force because i am the head and this will be my body and so it will go as i have planned and the kingdom of satan at this point is not divided and then he goes on to say if satan cast out satan he is divided now how in the world can satan cast out satan he cast out satan it's hypothetical of course but how could he do it is to understand that satan is the name that represents the angel that is the king of darkness and has all the demons under it and so what the the hypothesis here would be is that satan this fallen angel would come to a demon that is in his ranks that's under his authority and cast him out and say you've got to leave it doesn't work that way satan is coming to that demon and says you got to do your job better you've got to go here you've got to possess them you've got to hold on you've got to abide them you've got to do whatever you can to bring them under but some people got the ideal that there's some kind of a gulf between darkness but when you deal with demon powers you are dealing with satan now believe me there are different levels in that kingdom and there are certain times you may be required to go to certain levels or there may be certain callings that god has us on somebody that deals with certain uh principalities or rulers of darkness that the average person doesn't deal with but the point is is that all of it is of satan now notice and if i by bell's above so the pharisees said that it he did it by bellsville but jesus embraces that statement and says if i buy belzeba he makes an acknowledgement that satan is the lord of the dunghill satan is the lord of the flies in other words i will embrace that that that's a truth but if i buy bezel belt cast out demons by whom do your children cast them out therefore they shall be your judges now that's a powerful lesson satan works with satan and god works with his people some of you ain't got that revelation but it's going to sit down in just a moment satan works with satan and god works with his people and so when we see the powers of darkness at work and we somehow regulate diversity in that realm you can't have it both ways either they're under the influence of satan or they're under the influence of god either god is the director or the flesh and satan are the direction and you got to make up your mind where you stand on this but if i cast out devils by the spirit cast out devils by the spirit of god now notice then the kingdom of god is come unto you so what do we have happening here i am binding satan that's what jesus in essence is saying i just bound satan by the power of god that's in me and when i bound satan by the power of god it was me and cast him out the kingdom of god just came to you you got right on the edge of it didn't say you entered it but it said you was introduced to it you could see it it's right there you are very close when you're dealing with spiritual powers to manifest in the kingdom of god to the world even people that are unregenerated can see that aspect of the kingdom now they can't see the born again and the reconciliation that's taken place but they can see the work of it it's kind of like the wind that blows i can see a tree that has bent down when the wind's really blowing hard but i can't see the wind that's doing it but i have no question that it's the wind that's doing it because it's blowing me too i can feel it and in the spirit when you're dealing with the spirit realm you can't always see these things but you've got to realize and this is where faith and this is where a lot of mistakes are made in the in the church is that what we do not see it's hard to be persistent at and it's hard to continue against because we are a people that we speak it or we say it or we pray it and then we don't feel anything or it just kind of goes away we just give up and that's that and it's over but that's not the way that it happens verse 29 says or else how can one enter into the strongman's house how can you break into a house and steal all of his belongings unless you first bind the owner of that house and then you can rob him he that is not with me is against me and he that gathers not with me scattereth abroad. this is a principle in scripture you can't deal with satan until you bind what he is doing which really means in this passage it goes back to what i said earlier the keys are about authority if satan is doing something i have authority by god to walk in and to bind what is happening and to take or subdue his authority and assert the authority of god based on what god has given me through the handing over of the keys we don't always see it we don't always feel it we don't always know it but the word is always right and there's a lot of people that do not understand this principle how do you bind spirits how do you deal with things like this and so he makes it clear he says you have got to bind this demon power if you want to take now what are the goods here the goods is the human life that's in bondage this man this woman this person is bound with a spirit that's goods to god human beings are the goods because that's what jesus paid the precious blood of jesus for oh you've got to hear me he paid the supreme price so he put a value on human life and human beings way way way up here and by putting a value on those things satan comes along and says i'm going to steal that i'm going to take that for myself and so god says the goods of the devil are the humanity that he has in bondage and so i'm going to give you the authority to go into his house and to bind his power so that human that is good to me that is the spoils to me based on what i did at calvary can be set free and endure and come to eternal life now just a quick look back at genesis chapter 1. verse 26 let's look at the original intent and purpose of humanity genesis chapter 1 verse 26 says and god said let us make man in our image let us make man in our image now i know some people they get off on the trinity there and and the plurality of god and whatnot but it's a real simple solution that we have going on here and whenever you have a plural word of a noun or you have a singular noun uh then the uh pronouns and the attributes and things that describe that have to be the same in the language of hebrew and so god is used as god is used as a singular form here but the word is elohim elohim is a plural word and it's used thousands of times in the bible to speak of the one god of israel and so it has to have because it's a plural word it has a pronoun that has to be in the plural also and so it says let us make man the us in are these words have to be there to work with the elohim in hebrew grammar but at least anyone would make the mistake that it's not a grammar issue all you have to do is read verse 27. so god made man in his singular image there's only one image of god the bible says that jesus christ is the image of the invisible god and it clearly represents that the jews for a long time who believe the lettuce is kind of like a plural of attributes it speaks to the kingdom of the angelic realm that is around but i think the hebrew is the stronger teaching here especially when we consider that the plural of attributes describes god's ability beyond what singularity can do in grammar and so that's why god uses these terms like that but let's back up and let's look at this it says god said let us make man in our image after our likeness now notice what he says and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the crew earth and every uh creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth you and i were originally created to rule to have authority to have dominion that is the purpose god created you here on earth you and i were designed by god to be made like his image what is the image of god the image of god is what sits on the throne and the bible says in colossians and it also says in ephesians it says that principalities and powers and rulers and all of these things and kingdoms and kings were all made by him and it's talking about the image made these things for his glory and for him to be over and god says i'm going to make some humans with me that have that same authority over all this that i can share my government with and can also be in relationship with me these were the two main purposes in the beginning was relationship and authority and god says i'm going to do this now i believe and i'm going to throw this in here someone say this might be a little off to some of you but i believe that speaking in tongues is part of that dominion being reclaimed in the life of the believer and i'm going to get to that here in the future future if we have time today i believe that it's part of that uh dominion that god originally give us now in chapter 3 the bible says that adam and eve fell into sin and you you can read it i've talked about it so much but if you haven't got a good grasp on it you go back and read that in satan tempts them they fall into sin and so forth now at that point man loses his dominion he loses his lordship he lose and he is regulated to spiritual death now death is separation it's not annihilation and i've said this a lot but i will keep hammering this in death is not annihilation nobody once created ever ceases to exist they're only separated from different realms in which creation is exist in and so when we die in this world we are separated from this realm but we are alive in another realm and the goal of this world is for us to get to that realm so we can be unified with those that have left us behind in this realm through the physical death i think of people that i've loved i'll never see them again i'll never know what it's like to see their smile and hear their voice and to worship god with him around the throne if i don't save myself in this world here but if i save myself in this world here and someday put on immortality i will live eternally with those that separated a long time ago in this life for me and we will have future together now that's the first death that's the death that most of us dread so much because it seems so final because we are stuck behind the veil and we can't get and see and reach through what's on the other side except by faith and what's in the word of god which builds the faith and so it's hard for us to step through that veil of flesh and and see the glorious uh creation and the glorious world that is there that the departed believers have went to even though they're in their spirit bodies they haven't got their uh their physical bodies have not been uh glorified yet that happens at resurrection they still get to participate in that because jesus led captivity captive at the resurrection they get reunified with their bodies and there they so so death separates it separates in many ways it separates us from people we love in this world it separates our spirit and soul from our human body our body goes to the grave our spirit and soul if saved go to god it separates us in spiritual ways from god now when you die spiritually there is a gulf that comes between you and god there's separation and when adam and eve died by taking that fruit they were separated from god now that didn't mean they couldn't talk to god they lost their position they lost their fellowship and they lost their relationship with god and they were separated there was a gulf between them and they were on one side god was on the other and of course god kept constantly reaching over trying to build the gap until he got to christ jesus to build the final bridge and caused us to be rebirthed now what happens when the new birth takes place is god's plan to restore you and i back to dominion with him the difficulty is we do not immediately step into all the glory and power and authority we had prior to when we were in that position without sin because we still are encased in a sinful decaying body that has that adamic nation that we're struggling against and only death and resurrection will liberate us from that in the future but at present we are struggling against the outer man and the outer man is struggling against the inner man to have supremacy in the life that we have but when i got born again when you got born again what happened is god started you on the path of restoration now we've all read in second corinthians chapter five it talks about that if any man be and be in christ he is a new creature and we love that verse of scripture but if you continue to read through that it talks about god reconciled us to christ that reconciliation is the process of restoring what has been broken and so when you got born again the process starts that's why we are in a battle and we struggle at times in this life exercise and authority is because we are not yet back to the state we were before the fall but yet god has given us the keys and we are struggling and working with and through what we call flesh that has limitations and so we not only battle devils but we have to battle flesh we have to battle mentality because god wants us to be back to that place when we got born again we begin the process and someday we will be completely restored and living eternally with god now the process amen the process in between this is that why we are on the journey god said i don't have a perfect human like christ christ was the perfect human he was the second adam he was the elder brother you could go through all these terms that a lot of times oneness people kind of get a little nervous about because we don't want to take away from the deity of god in the person of christ but you cannot understand the power of god unless you understand the totality of humanity in the man christ jesus let me say it again you cannot fully understand the power of god unless you understand the totality of humanity that jesus was and so you've got to acknowledge and you've got to know who jesus was and when you understand who jesus was then something begins to happen and he was perfect and when he walked in synagogues demons cried out have you come to torment us before our time have mercy upon us don't send us to the abios yet he walked in other places and they cried out and said we know who you are thou art the christ the son of the living god he spoke to winds and the wind said hey i recognize that voice that's the voice called me into existence that's my creator talking to me he spoke to waters uh and the waters calmed down and said oh the creator's here i didn't realize that i didn't recognize him in that veil of fleshy hat ah i'm talking about jesus the perfect man without sin and that is the image that you and i were made in and what the new birth is restoring us back to now there's times i look in the mirror and i don't even see a close resemblance to jesus christ that's a god's truth i look in the mirror and sometimes i read that book and i don't see any bit of jesus in me compared to who he was because i see so much of what i am in the flesh but i have to have faith in the process and the method of what god chose to redeem man called the blood of jesus because it is in that blood that the restoration starts in what i was in the first adam i am now becoming in the second adam and the ministry of reconciliation is being imputed to me to carry on the ministry of christ while we are on this earth now i feel the holy ghost and i want to say something here the question is i will give unto thee the keys so the statement first and then the question the statement we want to make is that binding and loosing these keys has everything to do with the authority that god is going to stand by when we do something he's going to back us that takes faith to believe that and i'll be the first to tell you there's times where i come up against things and i pray or i speak against it and i can't seem to have the faith that i'm doing any good but just going through motions that's the battle of living in the flesh and i don't think there's ever been a human that hasn't struggled to some level up and down about that but the point is is that i am ordained through the keys to carry on the ministry of jesus christ and i have to be the first to tell you this also i have not even begin to see the tip of the iceberg to what god wants to do in this end time based on what i read in that scripture and what manifests in this world and the reason is is the journey the faith and the understanding and somewhere there's days i'm up here and other days i'm back here and it's that walk like a dance back and forth back and forth but we are working toward finding the place of authority that god had us so the statement is the keys have given you god's authority that jesus had while on earth that's the statement that's what it represents now what do we bind and what do we lose what do we bind what do we lose and the answer is real simple whatever is coming out of hell against god's people that becomes the target of the child of god to bind or to lose and whether we want to admit it or not hell influences everything in this world including you and i and therefore we have choice we either sit down by the rivers of babylon and weep and cry and hang our harps on the willow that's a scripture and a phrase of what happened when they were in exile they said how shall we sing the lord song in a strange land i can't be a christian and separate i can't live for god with all this going around i can't be that person with my faith in the lord god failed me we were carried away captive how can i tell how good god is how can i worship god because i'm not living in my homeland right now but the prophet said i set where they sat i stood where they stood and the heavens opened up and i saw a vision of angels and the word of the lord came unto me you see we are sometimes judging our authority based on the geographical location of situations that life has laid on our doorstep but the prophet knew how to walk through the veil of flesh and get into the realm of the spirit and he stood there while they were weeping and crying and hanging their hearts on the willows and he began to see angels walking up and down he began to hear the word of god coming to him he began to prophesy and the four corners of the wind came together and began to blow i want to tell you it's a decision what we're going to allow to happen in our lives john said i was in the spirit on the lord's day he was on the isle of patmos he was in a slave labor camp because of preaching the gospel and an old man who was in a mine camp to bring out rock to pave and to build rome and they had him in that place and you know what most people would have been doing would have been saying my backaches i'm not gonna make it more in a couple more weeks uh i'm an old person and i've lost everything and we went on and on you know what john did john said i got in the spirit on the lord's day i saw the heavens open up and roll back like the scrolls ah i saw the angel fly across proclaiming the gospel huh i saw the lord sitting on his throne i saw the lamb in the middle of it and then i seen him as the lion of the tribe of judah i want to tell you you can be walking through hell but you can also see the power and the glory of god depending on where you look [Applause] as i was praying about this this week i begin to realize there is still so much that we as a christian church and believers in jesus christ have got to reclaim and take back that god intended for us to have we have got to come and we have got to do and bring forth the work of jesus christ let me let me read you another scripture in john chapter 14. john chapter 14 it says verse 10 believe us thou not that i am in the father and the father in me the words that i speak unto you i speak not of myself but the father that dwelleth in me he doth the works believe me that i am in the father and the father in me or else believe me for the very work's sake verily verily i say unto you he that believeth on me the works that i do shall he do also we're reading from john 14 10. verily verily i say unto you or truly truly this is the truth i am emphasizing how true this statement is that's what verily verily means it's god saying i cannot over emphasize how absolute what i'm saying to you right now is he did this a lot because what he said was truth verily verily i say unto you he that believeth on me the works that i do shall he do also and greater works then these shall he do because i go unto my father now i've heard a lot of people explain greater works let's take greater works out of it just for a moment to talk about it let's say that greater works wasn't in there forget the greater works did it not say the works that i do you will do also whether it's greater works or not did it not say that we were going to do what jesus did so if you want to explain the greater works away and some people do they have different ways in our circles a lot of times people explain the greater works as more people get in the holy ghost there's some truth to that that is the greatest of all miracles as people get in the holy ghost getting born again but you still can't escape the works that i do shall you do also how do you escape something that's so plain and simple in the scripture and so he says here the works that i do shall you do also and then he says and whatsoever he shall ask in my name that will i do that the father may be glorified in the son if you shall ask anything in my name i will do it now when we go back to our text scripture in matthew 16 and we read verse 19 it says and i will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven this binding loosing is primarily done in several different ways but two in the forefront of operation for the church first is the things we say the declarations that we give forth based on the word of god now i will say this i don't think that's a problem to most of us but if there's some there are groups of people that are always running around talking about the confession of faith and and name it and claim it and it's kind of a statement they've been attached with uh not really maybe fair to many of them but this kind of stuff where they just claim this and claim this and say this and then it happens and then there there's there's there's an element where people are scared of this because of its abuse by other groups of christians but you have to remember something and i know some of those christians out there those believers in jesus that have what they call the word of faith some of them are very sincere i had a good friend of mine he's passed away he was older than i was the lord took him home a long time ago when i began to talk to him he he he was a he was baptized the father son of holy ghost he didn't believe in the baptism of the holy ghost and all of things as we understand he believed in the holy ghost but not the way but as we began to talk through the years he ended up getting baptized in jesus name getting filled the holy ghost or he had the holy understanding what the holy ghost was etc etc he was a pastor and began to baptize members of his church and then he left this world way too soon but he was he had a lot of great uh miracles and he was strong in this particular belief system of uh the profession or the confession of faith and um and so i was able to see the depth of sincerity and the level of faith that this man had in what knowledge he had got and the test of that faith and sincerity was when god brought him a greater level of truth that had to do with the baptism in the name of jesus he embraced that and didn't reject it and that tells you a lot about an individual when they say oh i did i see that in the scripture i'll take that too in other words whatever's in there i want we have a tendency to think that well if a group of people use something then it's got to be wrong now what we have to understand is in fact the best way i can explain it is is probably something i've used before but it'd be good here too i go to overseas quite a bit uh and when i go over there sometimes we take money to help the with a meeting or with the natives that are poor for food whatever it may be we take money they always tell us in most of the countries that they have to have brand new hundred dollar bills that come from the bank that have never been used so we have to go to the bank and we have to um request a cert whatever the denomination of monies we're gonna get and then they give us hundred dollar bills fresh off the press they have to order those the reason is is because every six months hundred dollar bills are being adjusted you can't see a lot of it with the natural nine unless it's an old one but they're having because the counterfeits are making a hundred dollar bills and in these nations the banks won't take them because they can't they don't know if they're counterfeits or not and they would lose millions of dollars with people using these hundred dollar bills now why do people counterfeit hundred dollar bills i think the answer is very simple it's worth something there's never been a fake without a pattern of the real years ago my wife used to we used to get go buy these she'd buy these purses that were knock-offs i call them fakes they'd last a few months and then something would break and something break and you realize why someone paid that could for a nice purse it would last them a lifetime or so but she'd buy why did they do that because people want something without paying the price because it has status it has value it has worth and and honestly i'm not around that stuff so i can't tell the difference of drill or not i mean there's some that's really bad jobs i mean i can tell but some of that stuff i can't tell at all if it's real or not my wife would say oh that's a you know she knows all that i don't know that but i can tell when the spirit is a knockoff now that's my world i can tell where the word of god is being manipulated and is a fake i can tell when it's uh when it's a forged hundred dollar bill in the realm of spiritual things because that's where i work most every day and so i've learned that there are things that people have about uh declaration and confession of faith that are absolutely on spot in the word of god and you're going to have people among you that are going to resist that and tell you that god doesn't operate that way that's this group of people that's them what i want to know is is it in here i don't care you know if the catholics believe something and it's in the book i'll embrace it that may scare some of you because i'm not built on what a denomination including the same organization that i'm a part of it don't matter there's things they believe i don't believe and there's things they don't believe that i do believe why because i'm walking by the book and and it don't matter what group of people if they have some truth i can take the truth i don't have to have and accept the other however i'm not going to them to get the truth that's the difference some people go to them and get the truth and they can't separate the bones from the meat they can't separate the truth from the falsehood and they get all caught up in their false doctrines and they're messed up in their mind and they get all destroyed in sight if you want truth go to the word of god and then if you find out somebody hear me now if you find out somebody in some other belief has a bit of that truth don't attack it or walk away from it just say thank god that's one piece we're believing god to give them more in the future but don't let go of truth that god has given you and so here we find where he says and whatsoever he shall bind on earth shall be loosed in heaven whatsoever shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven so the point here is this if you read it closely it says that it's going to bind it on earth and it's going to loosen on earth it's going to bind it in heaven it's going to loosen on heaven there's no authority on earth to dictate what happens in heaven it's important some people get off you don't dictate what's going on in heaven he said i'm going to bind it here on earth and it'll be bound in heaven so my job can only bind on earth i'm going to loose it on earth and it'll be losing my job can only loose on earth i can't do any of that in heaven i don't have the authority i have not been given any of that i'm only a steward over the kingdom on earth until god comes back and sets himself back his head and so he is the final authority let me take you to the book of mark chapter 16. and we're going to start with verse 15. you see when jesus got ready to win so uh in mark he takes us after the resurrection and he has a conversation with us such as a last will and testament i'm getting ready to leave heaven but before i go i want to give you instructions of how to manage my affairs how are you going to do while i'm gone i want to give you the instruction just like that king calls his chief steward and says listen in fact a good example is joseph and pharaoh and he calls joseph uh pharaoh calls joseph and says this is what we want to do and joseph goes and has the signet ring and the authority of the pharaoh and he begins to build the storehouses when jesus left he'd give us the signet ring he give us the authority matthew the last chapter of matthew also is another so you put all these together you but let me read this one to you it says and he said unto them go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature one he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved he that believeth not shall be damned you preach it they believe it the gospel works on the hungry it does not work on those that are full of the world and do not hunger after the things of god and you can't make them eat you can't make them drink you can't force it upon them but you have to allow the hunger in them to respond to the word that has created faith in them and then in faith they will start taking the steps of obedience when i was younger i would get so discouraged i'd teach a whole bible study for months and then when it was over they would not accept it or they'd stay for a little bit and walk away or i'd teach a short bible study and somebody here 15 minutes of it and they were ready to get the holy ghost like that and i couldn't figure it out i realized finally it wasn't on my ability or my teaching it was on that person's heart condition do you know the same is true of the church that's why god can say things to the church and certain people will grab it and do something and others won't do anything with it now verse 17 and these signs shall follow them that believe how do we know that we are preaching the right gospel have the keys to the kingdom so these signs shall follow them that believe in my name first and foremost they shall cast out devils may i read ephesians 6 ephesians 2 it says in you who hath quickened and you hath he quickened that means he's made you alive you were dead in trespasses of sin wherein in times past you walked according to the course of this world according to the prince of the power of the air the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience that tells us that there is some level of oppression and possession every human being that's not in christ and god delivered us when he brought us out of that now that doesn't mean the devil doesn't keep trying to get you back in chains that's his lifelong goal so to speak but he does that let's go to colossians quickly and let's read this same thought here that's going on colossians chapter 12 it says giving thanks unto the father verse 1 12 which hath made us meet to be partakers inheritance of the saints and light who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us in the kingdom of his dear son so god has delivered us both of these represent demon forces that have people in bondage and so these signs shall follow them that believe in my name shall they cast out demon powers that is one of the chief jobs of the church is to deal with demonic pression the bible says if our gospel be hid it be hidden to them in whom the god of this world had blinded their eyes your job and my job is to come against that power darkness but it also has to do with demon possession it has to do with thinking that it's the philosophies that's why casting down every evil imagination that exalts itself against the knowledge of god it has to do with those kind of spirits that get strongholds in a mind it's a widespread of demonic activity in the realm of human beings that god has sent us to be a deliverer when you walk into a place whether you realize it or not you are the chief authority in the spirit realm you may not be the authority in the natural realm that is you may say you're in court the judge is in charge of that courthouse say you're uh in a restaurant and there's a police officer there he's the he's in charge of the law and order on the streets uh you may be in a factory where there's a manager and he is the authority of that place you may be in a restaurant and there's a hostess they're the authority but when it comes to what is behind the scenes you as a child of god are the supreme authority in that restaurant you have keys and you have authority over those demon forces that are in that place and so you have that authority secondly it says they shall speak with new tongues i don't have time for that i wanted to get into that but that have to be another lesson they shall speak with new tongues so casting demons out and praying in other tongues not just the old way and you notice how it uses the word new that has to emphasize the re uh like the capturing of the position that was lost they shall take up serpents now serpents in this context i'm pretty sure would mean uh we're talking about spirituality here uh demon forces uh however we do know that there are incidents in scripture and incidents in life where people have encountered poison in their body and we're not touched by it the bible tells us about paul that was building on the island of maltese and he was building a fire and a serpent dropped out and bit him and he should have died but he just shook it off in the fire and kept building the fire and pretty soon the people said oh he must have been a criminal he escaped the sea but the gods have got him on the land a little while later he just nothing happened they changed their opinion said oh he must be a god funny what miracles make people think and it didn't bother him i remember uh old brother larson starting in columbia the revival there and uh he he was preaching on the street and and the nation for 30 years had rejected his preaching and one day he was down there preaching and and uh he got a huge crowd and he thought i'm finally getting a breakthrough and in the middle of that crowd he was thirsty someone brought him a bottle of coca-cola and he and he and he took that and he began to and he took some drinks of it and he preached a little more he took some drinks of it and the crowd got bigger and bigger and bigger and he thought i'm finally getting my breakthrough these people are coming god's moving after 30 years what he didn't know is they didn't come to watch him drink coca-cola and hear him preach they come to see if he would die by the poison that had been put in that coca-cola and he had no idea he was drinking uh the coke was covering the taste of that and he was drinking that poison and all of a sudden he got through and that's where his breakthrough come is they recognized that there was an authority in this man over the poison that should have killed him and the revival began to break loose there and so there are situations like that i remember sister cole was bit by a cobra in ethiopia they were setting up for the ministry and there was a 12-foot cobra two sections of fence and it spanned the link she reached through to tie up the little chinese lanterns and all of a sudden she felt that pulled her hand through and she had the pricks in her hand where the cobra brother cole stepped around and there was a long snake about 10 12 foot and it was a cobra he said we were so far out in the boondocks we couldn't get any medical help he said and we were uh you know she would be gone anyway within 15 to 30 minutes it kind of begins the paralyzation and the shutting down in the lungs and and all of that began to happen and uh he said but she got bit by he said he said so you know what we did we just kept setting up for the ministers to come and act as if it didn't happen he said and we never did have any effect from it that's the level of faith most of us including myself just don't seem to be there yet but the point is god's working on all of us to get us to that level where we can represent what would be and what is when jesus was on earth and so he says they shall take up serpents if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them and then it says they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover this is a troubling one for many of us because a lot of the people that we pray for have not been healed and some of them it's been terminal sicknesses that have taken it but there is the understanding that we are maturing in christ and by maturing in christ in the doctrine and and in the church we are also maturing in faith and the level of faith is growing by those that are in the word and jesus one time was casting a demon out of a boy in the book of mark and and the and the man said to him your disciples couldn't do it so jesus cast it cast the demon out and when the disciples got alone with him this is what they said why couldn't we cast him out and he said this kind cometh forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting some manuscripts leave out fasting there's always been an attack on it always will but i'm telling you fasting with prayer it makes things supersonic it really affects the prayers of god's people but this is the commission and we have the keys and the authority and so we bind and we lose let me give you an example when elijah and i'm going to use an old testament example because i think it bears a very clear witness when elijah in first uh first kings chapter 18 says the word of the lord came to elijah and said go show yourself to ahab and tell him i will send rain so he goes and he shows himself to ahab and he says let's have a a meeting god's going to send rain and they had the meeting you probably all know the story and the prophets of bell did their deal and then he does his deal and the fire comes down and it still hasn't ringed now here's what you got to understand at that air time they were still writing the bible during the time of elijah they were going to write more books of the bible in the future and the new testament hadn't even yet been written and many prophets were going to write books that hadn't yet been written so the word of the lord coming to him was the equivalent of us having the written word of god today do you understand that just as he didn't have all of that he had the tour and stuff but this the lord came to him it's not equivalent to you getting some whim out here and saying oh you know god spoke to me and it being off base with the written word it was back then he was a man that was going to be in this central figure of the kings and he was going to be and the word of the lord came it had that same concept and so he had a word of the lord what happened is he did what god said based on the word and then when he got all through god's word didn't come to pass god told me he was going to do it if i would show myself there is no mention in the scripture that god said i'm going to do this when you show yourself and then pray that i'll do it and then i'll do it he simply said i will do this if you show yourself to ahab that was the only thing god told him to do and then he would send the rain he showed himself to ahab and god did not send the rain this is a revelation for some of you god didn't send the rain but i'll tell you what did happen that old prophet of god knew something about binding and loosing and he had been responsible for binding the heavens up he knew that he had to be responsible for loosing the heavens god gave him the word to give him the authority i'm going to give you the keys to the heavens that's basically what god said when he said you go and show yourself i'm going to send rain i'm going to give you the keys of the heavens to loose that rain that you've been praying for the last three and a half years that would be bound and when he got through with doing what all he was doing he walked up on that mountain he got down in the ground and he began to pray and he released what had been bound for three and a half years through prayer and so we learn a powerful lesson here that binding and loosing oftentimes begins with the verbal speaking of what god's going to do and then the follow-up of praying and interceding until that loosing is completely manifest in the lives of god's people oh hallelujah sometimes it works the other way around what do we have jesus is in the wilderness praying and fasting 40 days and 40 nights he walks directly out of the wilderness and he picks up the scroll in luke 4 18 and he says the spirit of the lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel and he gives a list of things that god called him to do and he begins to walk out of the synagogue and perform everything that was in the word of god either you will pray before and get it loosed or you will pray after and get it loose but prayer is going to accompany the binding and the loosing of god's people and we have got to understand god has given us a commission in mark we have not seen the totality of this commission yet but we are in the process of reclaiming and finding the ministry of reconciliation that is going to loose god's power in this end time in the church god never intended for his ministry to die up and go away when he ascended into heaven but he called you and he called me that we would go and we would continue doing what jesus did while he was on this earth and so today is a church today is a people of god you cannot look at what the devil is doing and make a decision if god is able and you can't look at who you are as a person and make a decision if you have the authority but you've got to look on the person christ jesus hear the teachings that he taught and understand that it's not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the lord this is the battle of the lords and i am the agent of the lord that is in the forefront of the battle i got to tell somebody today you are god's agent god is not going to come down and do what he has called you to do he doesn't preach the gospel to people i mean there may be exceptions that we don't know about god's sovereign can do what he wants but as a whole he doesn't do the work of a man the best example i can give you right off the top of my head is lazarus in the grave dead three days it was impossible for a human being without the power of god to raise the dead but they could roll a stone away and when he was rolled away and called out they could take the rapping off of him god doesn't do what men can do and women can do but god will do what we cannot do and if you will walk into the situation of your life ah i'm talking about binding things the devil's putting into the life of people of god i'm binding things and loosing things up if the devil has you in bondage you need to lose it if you're struggling with things in your life you need to loose the power of god and let you out to be the christian you need to be oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Applause] and you're god's agent you know why because jesus was the agent of god by him were all things created you know what by him means it means god used jesus to do creation when we talk about jesus we're not taken away from his deity we're talking about him as the image of god the representation the voice the word of god he created all things by his word the bible says what was that word it was the word of jesus christ the incorruptible word that peter talked about when he talked about the incorruptible word of christ the word that the grass withers and the and the flower fadeth but the word of god shall stand forever that word in christ jesus god took him and used him work through him god caused this universe to come into being and today god in christ jesus has ascended back into heaven but has put his spirit into us and he still has a thing that needs to happen in this earth and god is looking for people that can be the means not the source but the means by which the will of god is accomplished you know why there are cities in our nation where the entire town is probably lost and going to hell because preachers all want to go to a church where someone has already broke through the spirit realm built and saved a few saints and feed off of them you know why other churches work to get you to come to their church because they're not doing the work of god they're out of alignment with god's authority if they were doing the work of god they wouldn't be trying to steal saints they'd be going out and delivering people and making saints of them you want to see a preacher that's got off course you want to see a church that's lost its mission you want to see a man that doesn't have the call where it should be look at a man that builds a church off of other people's works and the reason is because you can have 50 churches in one little area and none of those pastors want to get out there and blaze a trail like the old pioneers in a city where everybody's going to hell [Applause] oh i know this is probably not for you but i got listeners that need to hear what i'm preaching today we talk about reaching the world what we mean is getting our neighbors people but when a man gets a burden and he drives into a city limits and his wife is with him and they go in there they're just regular everyday people but they got a call and they got a burden and they say god please use me it's just the humble means of the flesh but take me and use me for your glory and god says by and through them i'm going to build a church and the gates of hell will not prevail against them when god needs the supernatural ministry to begin to flow he doesn't come down and send angels to do the work how many would love an angel to walk in when you're sick and touch you how may love and angel come in and give you revelation how many love an angel come in and hold your hand through a trial they may be there through it all but you're probably not going to see them because god uses people to do people things in the kingdom on this earth he said anoint him with oil he said preach the gospel to every creature that ain't the work of angels that's the work of a human being he said i'm going to give out the gifts of the spirit what are the gifts of the spirit the working of miracles the gift of faith the gifts of healing uh the word of knowledge the word of wisdom and the discerning of spirits the tongues and interpretation of tongues and prophecy and and then there's other gifts that are listed a little further down and and the point is that this is for the human race this isn't for an angelic race god's not restoring satan that fell he's restoring humans that fell back to the place of dominion it's over for the devil but it's not over for us we are the apple of god's eye and god is raising up a church in this end time we could take the world we could take america if people would just do and be what god asked him to do you see jesus said it like this he said not my will but thy will be done he said i i don't do anything except what i see the father do if i see him do it it's going to happen you're going to see me do it i don't speak of my own i speak for him that's what jesus said if we get to that place where the works that we do are what we're seeing god do in his word and through spirit revelation the things that we're talking about are the conversations that god's having you can bind things out and you can bind things near you can loose things out you can loose things near you don't have to live a subject of an authority that has bypassed god's authority satan was never created to rule and have dominion in this earth you and i was this all was made possible when i repented of my sins was baptized in jesus name for the remission of sins and filled with the baptism of the holy ghost and spake with other tongues as the spirit gave the entrance i was put into the kingdom of god as jesus said born again in the process of restoration and yes we're not what we used to be and yes we're not what we're going to be but we're definitely in the right direction on the road to the succession of what god has for us sometimes you have to get up in the devil's face i know i've been going on almost an hour here but i want to tell you sometimes you've got to get up in satan's face you don't just say i rebuke you satan or i command you to let go of this because sometimes you walk away and the devil says i'm not paying attention to them you know why he's an outlaw and outlaws don't operate by the laws of the land we've got signs we've got police officers we've got locks because there's bad people if people didn't have evil in their heart and weren't law breakers you wouldn't need locks on your doors you could set your belongings out nobody would steal them you'd have a simple sign for a law and you wouldn't need a police officer to force it because people would obey it but we have a tendency to be lawbreakers well there's a greater law breaker at work in our world and that's the lawbreaker of satan who broke the laws of god and sometimes people say to him it's like the police somebody's speeding and the police comes by just kind of taps his siren and puts a little light and passes by and just kind of slows him down he passes by and two minutes later they're back at 100 miles an hour that's how it works or someone's getting ready to break in all something the police drives by and they just kind of all stand around act like they're not doing anything and then once he's gone and they're sure he's gone then they go ahead and finish the break in sometimes we're like the police to satan like that we come by and wave at them hey slow down let go of this don't do that and then we drive on by as if that is going to make a law breaker listen to you sometimes you got to get up in his face you have to park the car put your baton on and get your shotgun out and get out of that car and say listen here devil i'm the law in this situation i am the authority in this situation and you are not going to continue on with the work of destruction that you're in you may be praying for a lost loved one and you've prayed to you are blue in the face you've prayed to you've run out of breath and you can't shed a tear you can't even feel anything you know probably what you need to do is get up in satan's face about then god's heard all he can stand from you praying and crying and weeping and asking him to save it's time you do a little something and get up in that devil's face and say listen you are not going to take them to hell i stand in front of you and i refuse to let you pass by me you are going to loose them and to set them free this i claim and plant a flag in this life into the territory of the lord jesus christ i refuse to allow the rebellion to work in them [Applause] you you got to talk to the devil sometimes [Applause] this can be with sickness this can be with demon possession sometimes when i'm praying and fast and demons will just come out very fast and then sometimes when i haven't been on a long fast they'll be delivered just as quick as can be and i get to feeling like everything's fine and then god will send some demon-possessed person that i can't hardly get the demon out and he's telling me you've got to get back in the prayer and back in to faith and you've got to you've got to get back into this realm and we get back into it and those spirits aren't coming out but i learned something not everybody that is possessed with a demon when you walk up and say come out they come out sometimes you wrestle with those spirits now the perfect way is just to walk up and have such authority in god because you have built this authority and say in the name of jesus i command you to come out and that spirit comes out but the perfect way doesn't always work within perfect people and don't act like you're perfect because i know you got the same clay feed i have but sometimes you got to get in there and you just keep telling that devil you are coming out you are coming out you are coming out you're not going to you're not i'm gonna bind you you're letting go of this piece of merchandise that belongs to god it's the same principle when you're praying for a lost level but now you're right up in the face of the individual that's got the demon on them where before it may be an individual that's living in another town or a child or something living in a house who's got a demon on them you're just and everything runs the same gamut in the same way all right when we talk about binding and loosen we're talking about what hell brings against us and we are talking about the authority that god has invested in you i wish somebody would begin to use this authority even if it's in little things that seem so simple if it doesn't belong to the devil i don't want him to have it if it belongs to the church i want to possess it and i definitely don't want the enemy controlling any situation that i live in binding and loosing you got to speak the word of god sometimes you speak it's a it's approximate sometimes you quote whole passages of the times you pray it you pray in tongues this is all the process of binding and loosing you can have victory you can see that authority manifest in your situation amen let's stand if we would sata or satay kata i feel the enemy trying to steal the seed out of some of the hearts today right now i feel the enemy is looking for an open heart to take the seed because this is going to bring repercussions that he can't handle and he wants to get it out of there before it can take root why don't you cover it up in prayer for a moment why don't you put it down in the soil of your heart through prayer talabaha foreign [Music] foreign i wish i had some men that would get a hold of this today god needs some men that would step back into that dominion this morning huh step back into that spiritual dominion huh we as a church we've got a mission to fulfill we've got an enemy to subdue huh we've got a ministry of christ to release god's got a future [Applause] a foreign [Applause] okay [Music] come on church i'm going to press you just a little bit uh i'm going to impress you just a little bit in the spirit this morning huh pray in the holy ghost eyes declare the works of god in your life declare the works of god in your life today oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] we worship you jesus today we worship you jesus today we worship you jesus today we worship you jesus today we worship you jesus today we worship you jesus today hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Applause] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] [Music] foreign what you call me to be oh say yes lord i agree my desire [Music] passionately is to be what you called me to be that's what i'll be [Music] all to be oh say yes lord i agree my desire passionately is to be what you call me to be that's what i'll be what you call me to be [Music] oh say yes [Music] lord i agree my desire [Music] passionately is to be what you call me to be that's what i'll be [Music] i will be what you call me to be oh say yes [Music] lord i agree my desire [Music] that's what i'll be [Music] i will be what you call i have been working with our church uh and uh for the last four or five weeks on this i feel like god wanted me to teach this and i've taught it this is sunday morning it's be a lot more preaching generally i always try and teach something i don't believe in just getting up and rambling and yelling but i've been more in a vein of teaching but there's still been moves of god god's been helping us because god wants this but i would hate i just was sitting over there and you know i'm wore out but a little thought hit me what if there's somebody in here that's not the church that like to be part of it or what if there's somebody in that service that came to be touched by the lord or to have the lord do something for him i want to invite you to come down here we we should never forget that and i'm sorry for people and even before i dealt with that but let's do that if there's anyone here that needs the holy ghost you need to repent or maybe you need a refilling of the holy spirit maybe you're a backslider please come down we want to make sure that that which is most important for eternal please come down here and you can come down here we'll pray with you some of our ministries coming down and we're going to believe god to do it work in you rest of you you can leave when you want or you can stay and pray i feel a good spirit of prayer and i wouldn't quench it if it's on you i'd stay a little bit i'm going to ask him to sing a little bit more but i'd feed it a little bit and let that flame really get where it needs to be and those that are down here we can pray with them however we want so thank you god bless you let's sing it up i will be what you call me to be [Music] [Music] is [Music] i will be what you call [Music] lord i agree my desire [Music] that's what i'll be [Music] i will be what you call me to be lord i agree my desire passionately is to be what you called me to be that's what i'll be i will be what you call me to [Music] i be my desire passionately is to be what you call me to [Music] i will be what you call me [Music] lord i agree my jesus [Music] is lead me lord i will follow lead me lord [Music] i will go [Music] [Music] lord i will go i will go [Music] i will go [Music] leave me lord [Music] me [Music] i will follow [Music] give me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] me you

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