Jimmy Evans – Exposing The Enemy - Exposing Lucifer

thank you so much I was just hoping I could make it up here for y'all stop getting older you know so it is wonderful to be with you I'm so excited about this series exposing the enemy let me do what pastor Robert does let me give you a couple of scriptures to turn to one is isaiah 14 and the other is ezekiel 28 and so those are the two scriptures we're going to read here in just a minute but this is going to be a great series called exposing enemy let me say we're going to be talking about five names and titles of the devil in understanding how he attacks us and how we can overcome him but I want to say this right up front this is not a devil glorifying series this is a God glorifying series so we're going to be talking about the power of God and how God has equipped us to overcome the enemy I want to read four scriptures in in reading these scriptures from the Bible I want you just simply to listen to how many times the devil's mentioned that's all I want you to do because I'm going to make a comment when I'm finished reading these scriptures and so it'll be important so I just remember as I'm reading this how many times the devil's mentioned this is first Peter 5 be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour resist him steadfast in the faith knowing that the same sufferings were experienced by your Brotherhood in the world this is Luke 10 then the seventy returned with joy saying Lord even the demons are subject to us in your name and he said to them I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven behold I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means harm you somebody needs to be thankful that Jesus gave us all authority over the devil that we are not helpless we don't have to fear the devil we have authority over Matthew 4 Jesus was led up by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil and when he had fasted forty days and forty nights afterwards he was hungry and when the tempter came to him he said if you're the Son of God command these Stones become bread and this is Ephesians 6 put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this age against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places therefore take up the whole armour of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all the sins so I hope you just noticed how many times that I mentioned the devil and the reason that's important is 60% of Christians don't believe in the devil according to a 2008 Barna a research survey this is a Christian research firm they interviewed Christians and in 2008 60% of Christians said I don't believe in the devil I believe that number is higher today there are many denominations that do not believe in the devil and they don't believe in Hell they believe that their symbols of evil but they don't believe in them let me say this if what the Bible says about the devil isn't true we shouldn't believe what it says about Jesus it's not a good book it's not a valid book and if what the Bible says about Hell isn't true why should we believe what it says about heaven and by the way Jesus taught more about Hell than he did about heaven here's the point there is a devil and there is a hell and we need to understand it not so that we can focus on it but so that we can be protected let me let me tell you why I'm appreciating these messages about a year ago I was praying one morning and I was just praying about what the Lord wanted me to preach on and the Lord in the spirit realm it just took like 10 seconds the Lord in the spirit realm just parted in my spirit in my heart just parted the curtain and I could see into the spirit realm I could see the demonic and what I saw were Christians being slaughtered right and left by the devil and the Lord said to me teach my people how to overcome the devil and the purpose of this series of messages is not to focus on the devil it's to focus on God in the authority that he has given us to overcome the devil we're overcomers we don't have to be overcome by an evil devil devil we're supposed to be overcomers so I want to talk in this sermon today this is part 1 on exposing Lucifer I want to talk in every one of these messages I'm going to talk about another name or title of the devil and what it means so we're going to talk about exposing Lucifer I ask you to turn to Isaiah 14 in Ezekiel 28 these are the two scriptures in the Old Testament that tell us where the devil came from okay God never makes anything that's not perfect and he made the devil perfect okay so this is Isaiah 14 how your fallen from heaven Oh Lucifer son of the morning how are you were cut down to the ground you who weakened the nation's for you said in your heart I will ascend into heaven I will exalt my throne above the stars of God I will also sit on the Mount of the congregation on the farthest eyes of the north I will ascend above the heights of the clouds I will be like the most time you shall be brought down to Sheol to the lowest steps of the pit those who see you will gaze at you and consider you saying is this the man who made the earth tremble who shook kingdoms who made the worlds as a wilderness and destroyed it cities who did not open the house of his prisoners that's one of the scriptures that tells us the origin of the devil his name was Lucifer which means Light Bearer he was a worship leader in heaven this is not Ezekiel 28 listen to what this says about Satan is heavens worship leader and what happened when he became proud you were the seal of perfection this is verse 12 full of wisdom and perfect in view you were in Eden the garden of God every precious tongue was your covering the sardius topaz in diamond barrel onyx and jasper sapphire turquoise and emerald with gold the workmanship of your temples and pipes was prepared for you on the day that you were created you were the anointed cherub who covers I establish you you were on the holy mountain of God you walked back and forth in the midst of the fiery stones you were perfect in your ways from the day we you were created till iniquity was found in you by the abundance of your trading you became filled with violence within and you sinned therefore I cast you as a profane thing out of the mountain of God and I destroyed you O covering cherub from the midst of the firing stones your heart was lifted up because of your beauty you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor I cast you to the ground I laid you before Kings that they might gaze at you lucifer was a covering cherub in the Garden of God and he was gorgeous he was perfect in gorgeous and beautiful and powerful according to revelation 12:4 when he fell he took a third the angels of heaven with him so this is a very very persuasive individual and one day rather than worshiping God he put his eyes on himself and he says I'm going to be like God I'm going to ascend into heaven and I'm going to put my throne there and I'm going to be like God by the abundance of his trading by the abundance of his success his beauty and everything that God put in him rather than worshiping God the way that he was designed one day he took his eyes off of God and put them on to himself and he was corrupted in God threw him down let me say this the calling heart of the devil is pride the number one way the devil attacks us in our lives is this issue of pride every single one of us deal with it every single one of us have to come against the devil in this area because he's going to come against all of us on a regular basis to try to get us to be proud but here's what the Bible says about pride number one it was how the devil deceived Adam and Eve this is Genesis chapter 3 listen this is the way the devil is still working this is this is this is not how he did to Adam and Eve this way he does all of us the serpent said to the woman you will not surely die he's calling God a liar for God knows in the day that you eat of it your eyes will be open and you will be like God knowing good and evil when the woman saw that the tree was good for food that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree desirable to make one wise she took a bit native fruit she gave her husband with her and he ate then the both eyes of both of them were open they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings this is Satan's strategy he accuses God is being a liar and a bully he says God is holding you down God knows if you eat that fruit you're going to become everything that that you should become God's a bullet he's insecure he's trying to hold you down but sin will make you into the person you should be and you'll be like God you can be your own gut that's what he does the second thing about pride is is that God hates it and actively resisted God hates pride this is proverbs 6 verse 16 these six things Lord hates yes seven are an abomination to him number one is a proud look a lying tongue hands that shed innocent blood a heart that devises wicked plans feet that are Swift and running to evil a false witness who speaks lies and one who sews discord among brethren the number one thing that God hates is pride and the Bible says it's an abomination abomination means a detestable thing again all of us deal with it but this is a serious sin this is what James 4 says he gives more grace therefore he says God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble so you say so God resists the proud no that's not the way that God resists the proud the word resists in James for is the word Antipas oh it means to set yourself in battle formation against God doesn't resist pride like this he resists pride like this you will not succeed I love you too much to bless you when you're walking in the spirit of the devil I will not let you succeed see sometimes when we think the devil's against this it's actually God when you're walking in Pride God's going to resist it because he loves you he loves you he doesn't he doesn't want you to walk in that spirit and to fail so God God resists us and here's the other thing because it's a sin pride is a sin it exposes us to spiritual attacks and it gates our spiritual authority let's read James for word more he gives more grace therefore he says God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble therefore submit to God resist the devil and he will flee from you draw near to God and He will draw near to you cleanse your hands you sinners and purify your hearts you double-minded lament and mourn and weep let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and He will lift you up so here's the triple whammy of pride God resists us the devil of taxes and we have no authority to the answer let me let me go to the answer the answer for pride is worship and I want to say something to you I want to submit this for your consideration I do not believe that the opposite of pride is humility because an unbeliever can be humble a Buddhist can be humble an atheist can be humble anybody can be humble I submit to you that the opposite of pride is worship Satan did not go from humility to prize Satan went from worship to pride Satan was a worship leader in heaven let me say this you will never be in pride when you're worshiping you won't be in pride when you're working [Music] so let me talk about three practical reasons why we worship remember he was the worship leader in heaven until he fell and he was corrupted the number one practical reason worship is the most practical thing on earth the number one practical reason why we worship is to keep Our Lives God centered not me centered it keeps us God centered so this is David the psalmist David and he's speaking to himself here in this home so I'm 103 bless the Lord O my soul he's talking giving commandment to himself all that is within me bless His Holy Name bless the Lord O my soul forget none of his benefits who forgives all your iniquities who heals all your diseases who redeems your life from destruction who crowns you with loving-kindness and tender mercies who satisfies your mouth with good things so that your youth is renewed like the Eagles the Lord executes righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed he made known his ways to Moses his acts to the children of Israel the Lord is merciful and gracious slow to anger abounding in mercy he will not always strive with us nor will he keep his anger forever he has not dealt with us according to our sins nor punished us according to our iniquities for as high as the heavens are above the earth so great is his mercy for those who fear Him as far as the East is from the west so far he has removed our transgressions from us as a father pities as children so the Lord pities those who fear him he knows our frame he remembers that were dust when you pray praise and worship is a discipline that reminds me he's everything to me he's my father he's my friend he's my provider he's my healer he's my protector he pities me he is my righteousness God is everything to me that's what worship does listen to me either you you've seen in the Bible where it says come magnify the Lord with me and it talks let me ask you this question when we worship does God get bigger no God can't get bigger point worship he gets bigger to us worship magnifies the Lord but when you don't worship it minimizes him God doesn't get bigger and smaller than we worship he gets bigger and smaller in our hearts when we worship I am Matt listen I want a big God in a little devil anybody with me what worship does is it makes God bigger and bigger and the devil smaller and smaller and I walk around all day with the big God in a little devil it makes a whole lot of difference but when you don't worship you have a big devil and a little God worship God is everything to us and David is saying listen listen to me so you don't forget any of the benefits of God bless the Lord O my soul remember him worship remembers God praise Thanksgiving remembers God it is not something that we do on Sundays it's not something that we do every now and then is something that we do all the time is where worshipers we remember God here's another thing very practical that worship does it keeps our faith in God strong and active again this is David now Psalm 16 I have set the Lord always before me because he has at my right hand I will not be moved therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices my flesh also will rest in hope so this is this is David now King David and he says I have always set the Lord before me so how do you set the Lord before you well worship prays a prayer meditation on the Bible whatever and what he's saying here is I keep remembering I keep remembering that God is with me it is God with us by the way jesus said we're two or more gather in my name there am your missus is here right now but we're the temple of the Holy Spirit wherever we go God is there right so every day you go through life and you see people and problems and money and issues and challenges and all these things in your life well when you don't set God before you what it means is it's you and then it's you against people it's you against circumstances it's you against problems and it becomes overwhelming but when you set God before you what it means is everything I see I see through a god filter I have set the Lord the forming therefore my heart is glad my glory rejoices my flesh will rest in helps launch listen so David was a Giant Killer so David was a young boy who was a shepherd and he worked in his father's sheep fold and so Goliath and the Philistines had come against Israel for 40 days Goliath was 9 feet tall and every day for 40 days Goliath came down into the valley floor and he looked up at the armies of Israel and he cursed them and he cursed their God and the Bible said for 40 days the trained warriors of Israel shook in their boots for 40 days until a little boy named David showed up at the battle line remember David was worshiper David showed up at the battle line and he heard Goliath taunting the armies of Israel and cursing God and little David who always kept the Lord before him little David said who is this uncircumcised Philistine who's talking bad about our God and he goes over to Saul and said I'll kill him I'll kill him right now let me go killing and Saul said we were just a boy and he's been a warrior since he was a boy David said I don't care can kill him and David said well let me or insult said well let me loan you some armor and he said this doesn't fit this stick and a rock will do and Saul thought well even if you die maybe you'll encourage people going down there and David went down the hill toward Goliath and Goliath said am ia dog that you're throwing sticks at me who in the world is this kid and David said you come against me with sword and spear I come against you in the name of the Living God and this day the Lord will give you into my hands and I'm going to cut your head off and give it to the birds of deer that is a kid with an attitude and the attitude doesn't come from pride the attitude comes from worship I serve a big God I serve a big God I have always set the Lord before me I'm a worshiper I keep reminding myself wherever I go whoever I see whatever I encounter I have a God who's with me and he's a big God and it supercharges my faith here's what David said he said I have always set the Lord for me therefore my heart is glad let me say something to you I hope you remember this the number one thing because his depression is thinking about yourself see pride pride begins by thinking about our self but the Bible says pride goes before destruction pride is going to fail whatever whatever it is that we're walking and pride it's going to fail and when it fails and we don't have God before us we're going to get depressed it's called being a navel gazer just sitting around all day thinking about yourself and here's what Isaiah 61 3 says it's a beautiful scripture God gives us the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness and once you listen to me now listen what about say heaviness depression is not an emotion it's a spirit God has not given us a spirit of fear fear is not a demotion is the spirit if you treat fear like it's your emotion you'll never overcome fear fear is a demon spirit that attacks our emotions and the only way to overcome fear is to address it as an outside entity and take authority over a demon a fear you will not see fear comes to make us make a wrong decision that God will not honor God only honors faith you don't fear depression comes to swallow us up in a blanket of self and negativity it's a spirit God has given us a garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness listen to me this is a garment I had to put it on when the Bible calls something a garment or tells us to put it on it means we have to make that choice every day we don't we don't wake up with it did you know the Bible says put on humility because our sin nature is a prideful sin nature if I'm going to walk as a humble person I've got to make that decision every day listen to me God isn't Rohn on the praises of his people and Satan and God cannot coexist when you're depressed don't sit around thinking about your problems in yourself praise your God put on put on the garment of praise and when you put on the garment of praise the spirit of heaviness is going to leave your life David said I have set I have set the Lord always before me therefore my heart is glad why am I glad because I'm just sitting here thinking about him what happens when I'm not thinking about him I get depressed I get this first I get overwhelmed my glory rejoices then it just means I'm encouraged it encourages me to think about how great my God is the last thing that it says he says my flesh will rest in hope versus anxiety versus anxiety I'm telling you we're living in difficult days but our God has got over everything these may be the end times but they're his times the devil is not in control the Antichrist as I don't control our God is in control in everything we come against he is greater than that thing somebody needs same in this is the absolute truth number three reason that worship is so practical is it keeps everything in its correct perspective without this we get we get all turned in ourselves so the Lord's Prayer Jesus taught us how to pray they came the disciples came to him and said Lord how do we pray and he's one let me teach how to pray and so he taught him the Lord's Prayer here's the last line of the Lord's Prayer Matthew 6:13 yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever this is called acknowledgement of divine right these are these are when it says thee this is a absolute statement not a kingdom but the kingdom so it says here yours is the kingdom yours is the power and yours is the glory forever did you know that we don't have any glory when when we're saying this every day here's what we're saying to God I don't have a kingdom I'm not going to wake up today and go try to build a kingdom because I don't have one you have feeling Kingdom I serve your kingdom I don't have power I've got a little energy the battery is draining but yours is the power if I'm going to live my life the way that I should I have to rely on your power I acknowledge that you have the power and I don't deserve glory I don't have it is wrong for me to live my life to make myself look good it is wrong for me to take any credit for the good that I do in life and someone comes up so you know Jimmy you're just a great guy and I say thanks I've just kind of got a great personality don't I work hard at it I mean I really do I'm not good as they go great you know you notice it someone came up and said Jimmy you're great and what I should have said is thank you anything in me that you see this good came from God I like Tim Tebow and Tim Tebow when he played for Denver I don't like Denver let's be very clear about that the Tim Tebow was nationally ridiculed because when he made a touchdown he would take a knee in point to heaven and if you're an arrogant guy that you know struts around when you do something right that's normal to the world but to find a person who gets credit to God is so unusual these days I do not deserve glory every gift in me was put in me by God every good thing in my life is there because of god god I'm telling you right now yours is the glory and I will not rob you of your glory yours is the kingdom yours is the power yours is the glory forever and I tell you when you say that and mean it you're ready for a good day and he's insulted us prayed every day let me talk for just a minute about the end about the end times and I'm finished this is second Thessalonians two the Antichrist I'm going to talk about the Antichrist in several weeks the Antichrist comes to take God's worship isn't by the way the Antichrist is Satan incarnate this is second Thessalonians 2 listen to what it says that the end game of the devil is remember he tried to take God's glory and he tried to take God's worship and he was cast out of heaven now this is what's going to happen at the end let no one deceive you by any means for that day will not come unless the falling away comes first and a man of sin is revealed the son of perdition who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he sits as God in the temple of God showing himself that he has done the man of sin the Antichrist I believe he's on the earth right now I believe that he will take this place very quickly very soon but when he does his purpose is going to finally get what he's after and what he's after is God's worship and the reason that he'll have so many followers is because the world today is under the influence of the Antichrist I'll read this scripture will close Timothy three Paul tells Timothy no this in the last days perilous times will come for men will be lovers of themselves lovers of money boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy unloving unforgiving slanderers without self-control brutal despisers of good traitors headstrong haughty lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God we living in that world right now the spirit of the Antichrist is everywhere you look and people are haughty and they're proud and that's the spirit the devil and as God's people we are called not just to be humble but to be worshipers and even though pride may be very very normal in the world today the Bible says that it's an abomination to God we all deal with it all of us deal with it but we have to deal with it is an attack we have to deal with it as a sin and the Bible says humble yourself in the eyes of God and he will lift you up submit to God then resist the devil and you will have authority over him listen you don't have authority over the devil when you're walking in the same spirit as him the only way you can defeat a spirit is with the opposite spirit that's why Jesus said love your enemies do good to those who hate you when you fight fire with fire you get a bigger fire so when you're dealing with pride how do you deal with it with humility with not making it about me it's about God I want you if you're comfortable once you bow your heads there if you would I want you to select your hands up if you're comfortable doing that I want you to slip your hands up or were your worshipers Lord we were created to worship you and it's our great joy it is our great joy to worship you we have all all walked in pride at different times and it's a sin and we repent we truly repent and we submit to you God we desperately need you you're everything to us you're everything to us we surrender and we commit ourselves to be worshipers I bind the spirit of depression in the name of Jesus I bind it in Jesus name discouragement and depression you're going to leave right now because we're putting on a garment of praise and we're opening our mouths of we're praising our God and you cannot coexist here we overcome you we overcome you with the praises of our mouth spirit of fear we bind you in the name of Jesus you come to oppress us and to keep us from God's best we say our God is able our God is able you come against us with sword and spear we come against you in the name of the Living God because our God is awesome Lord we give you the glory that you and you alone deserve yours is the glory for the rest of our lives yours is the glory in any circumstance yours is the glory we will not live our lives to make ourselves look great to build a kingdom by our own power we serve the kingdom of God by your power and for your glory and we pray that our life our lives would glorify you that's our prayer that's our prayer let the rest of our lives and everything we do in our lives let it glorify you god I pray I pray for the comfort the peace the blessing of God to rest upon this precious congregation every campus every service I pray that your presence would be very real to us right now Lord and that in our heart and in our minds you would be magnified that is we leave today you would be bigger than when we walked in and all week long we would magnify you all week long we would remember you and we declare God we will defeat a spirit of pride with worship we made up our minds in Jesus mighty name and all God's people said amen

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Length: 31min 32sec (1892 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 08 2017