Kenneth E Hagin The Believer's Authority 02 Excercising Our Authority 110188

laurita guard Heavenly Father we thank you tonight because we've been redeemed by the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ we're in that army of the Lord hallelujah nothing can stop this mighty moving force War II to God we thank you tonight for your great plan of redemption that you plan and since the Lord Jesus Christ to carry out to console me thank you that we're privileged to walk in the light of that Redemption tonight thank you again for your precious Holy written word thank you for your the great mighty Holy Spirit whom you've set to indwell us to be our teacher to be our guide we trust him tonight to live begin us to think through our minds to speak to our lips to unveil the Word of God unto our spirits and we pray for all of us that we shall not just be hearers of the word only but that we shall be doers they're off in jesus name amen amen praise God you may be seated I'll invite you again tonight to open your Bibles to the same scripture we looked at last night to begin with Ephesians chapter 1 and if he's in chapter 3 we shall begin to read with the 16th verse of Ephesians chapter 1 we're Paul writing to the church at Ephesus said that I ceased not to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers that the god of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of glory may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of him the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in saints and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us word who believe according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places far above all principality and power and might and Dominion and ever named this name not only in this world but also in that which is to come and it put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the church which is his body the fullness of him that filleth all in all now that's the end of the first chapter you understand of course that Paul did not ride our letters for the Church of Ephesus in chapter and vs Man divided it in chapter verses for reference say but as we continue to read he still fall in the same theme what he was talking about the revelation that he wanted them to get this read a few verses of the first of the second chapter and you have he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins or in times past ye 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 among whom also we all had our conversation manner of life or conduct in times past in the lust of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and we're by nature the children of Wrath even as others but God who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved us even when we were dead in sins hath quickened us together with Christ by grace you receive and has raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus then we have a prayer in the third chapter of Ephesians at Paul prayed for the church at Ephesus let's begin with the fourteenth verse for which cause for this cause I by my knees under the father of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith that you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with All Saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the love of Christ with passeth knowledge that you might be filled with all the fullness of God now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages world without end amen then another verse Luke the tenth chapter in the nineteenth verse behold I give unto you power or authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you hallelujah now really to get the most out of this message tonight you should have heard the message that went forth last night if you didn't hear it I would encourage you to get the team but now notice this that there are two key phrases in the prayer which Paul prayed for the church at Ephesus as is recorded in this first and second chapter of Ephesians notice the expression in the fees ins 120 and set him talking about Jesus and his own right hand in the heavenly places now notice in the second chapter of the sixth verse and has raised us up together we're talking about the authority of the believer in the mind of God the Father and in the mind of the Lord Jesus Christ we were raised when Christ was raised now notice also that he said in that six verse of that second chapter that he not only raised us up together but he made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus so in the mind of God we were raised when Christ was raised and when Christ sat down we sat down to now that's where we are now I said that's where we are now in the we need to know that we need to realize that now now we're sitting with him with all of the authority that's given unto him and that authority belongs to us we exercise the authority that was given to him because it belongs to us through him you'll notice it said that heavenly places in Christ Jesus hallelujah we help him by carrying out his work upon the earth not only have we been made to sit but also notice where we are sitting notice a 21st verse says we are sitting far above all principality and power and might and Dominion hallelujah I said hallelujah now you remember in Ephesians a sixth chapter in the twelfth verse it said for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places but remember that we're sitting above them with Christ hallelujah not only is Christ seated at the right hand of the Father far above all of these powers but we're there to it said he had made us sit together glory to God now the Word of God tells us to conquer the devil we have the authority to do it can you say Amen I remember 1952 I was holding a revival meeting here in the state of Oklahoma and during that meeting the Lord appeared to me in a vision that was the second time that he well really the third time that he appeared to me first in 1950 and through 1952 1959 the Lord Jesus appeared to me eight different times and three times out of eight talked to me for an hour and a half and this is one of those times i'm not going to all of it but there's something here i want you to get he appeared to me in this vision spoke to me and right at the end of the vision he was talking to me about the devil demons and demon activity and how to exercise authority over there and right at the end of the vision he seemed to be standing up about where the ceiling of the room was and I was kneeling there before him and so here came a demon or an evil spirit between the two of us and put out something like a smoke screen or dark cloud and I couldn't see Jesus anymore and then that demon just jumped up and down he looked a whole lot like a little monkey when I say little monkey i don't mean exactly but I mean about that size and sorta monkey like feast was different but body was sort of like a little monkey and and he jumped up and down and waved his arms and his legs kicked his legs and in a real surreal like voice said yakety yak yak yackety-yak justice real like a whistle almost in pierce ears I couldn't hear one word that Jesus was saying and I couldn't see him because of the dark cloud and I wondered you know just a few seconds I wondered well now why did the Lord permit that why did he let that happen I needed to hear what he was saying and I'm not hearing what he's saying don't he know that I'm not hearing what he's saying why don't he tell that demon to stop why don't he rebuked that demon why don't he make him stop those thoughts are going through my mind that's what I'm a-thinkin but the dark clouds still there I can't see Jesus I can't hear a word he's saying and yet I hear the sound of his voice but it can't distinguish any words and so I almost panicked you know I thought I need to hear that and so suddenly just without thinking I just suddenly said spoke to the spirit and I said I command you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to shut up and to stop now when I said that I mean he just hit the floor care flop the cloud disappeared and i can see jesus standing there then and that little steamin just lay there on the floor and whimpered and whined and shook like a little book that you'd whip you know and then jesus said something that absolutely up ended my theology I mean it was different anything that sometimes our theology needs to be up in to see what you want to jump luton the truth Jesus pointed to that spirit lying there in the floor of whimpering and a whining and a shaken like he's afraid pointed to him and said if you hadn't done something about that I couldn't and I remember I gotta hold my ear and shook him I said Lord you know I didn't hear right now I know that you didn't say that if I hadn't done something about that demon you couldn't you said you wouldn't didn't yet he said I said if you hadn't done something about that demon or evil spirit I couldn't I said there's something wrong with my hearing I'm not a hearing right now you didn't say if I hadn't done something about that spirit demon spirit you couldn't you said you wouldn't didn't yet know he said and spoke real I mean firm and stirred like you know he can get Stern I I don't imagine he looked too happy you know when he took that whip and draw those money chambers changers out of the temple I'm and he looked pretty Stern wouldn't you think so and I mean he got real stern with me and he looked at me verse turned and said no I said I could now I said Lord that's uh that's this differently thing I've ever heard that's different anything I've ever preached myself I said I got can't accept that I don't care if I am seeing you and hearing you talk to me I'll not accept any vision any kind of experience if it can't be proven by the written word and I said I can't accept that unless you give me at least three references but and all of them in the New Testament because we're living in the New Testament because I said the Bible said in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established so you're going to have to give me at least three references in the New Testament for me to accept it you think he got angry with me he smiled in so sweetly and said I'll do you one better i'll give you four well I said I've read the New Testament through 150 times and if there's anything like that in there I don't know it he said why somebody's a lot in there you don't know yet I'm so glad there is amen amen praise God and so Jesus proceeded to get me further in hot water before he got me out you know he'll do that sometimes hey man you see friend what happens with this is that a lot of time people trying to figure things out in their head but we've got to get the revelation of what God's saying in our spirits in our hearts on the inside of us so then Jesus went on said to me there is no place in the New Testament anywhere where any rider that is any of those that wrote a letter to the churches Paul James John Peter Jude any of them that wrote a letter to the churches he said there's no place in the New Testament where any writer told the church to pray to God the Father about the devil our parade told the church to pray to the God the Father to do anything about the devil are prayed that God would rebuke the devil and he said to pray to me Jesus Christ are to God the Father to rebuke the devil is to waste your time I said dear Lord I've wasted a lot of time because I guess we all have a men before the revelation came I've said I've wasted a lot of time see people who ask God to rebuke the devil are wasting their time that's what he told me you see now why the least member of the body of Christ has just as much power over the devil as anyone else now see long time people would think well now Paul's apostle he's got power over the devil somebody specially called of God's got authority over the devil but not me no the least member in the body of Christ has just as much authority over the devil as anyone else amen and unless believers do something about the devil nothing will be done now then here's the scripture turn to Matthew first scripture jesus gave me Matthew records that Christ said when he rose from the dead all power King James all powers give it unto me in heaven and earth and Jesus in talking to me said you know you've looked the word up in the green concordant that word the Greek word also means a fart and it can be translated that way all authority is given unto me in heaven and earth and he said to me if you stop reading right tire jesus said you would say while dear Lord Jesus you do have authority on there but he said I immediately delegated the authority in the earth to the church I immediately said goes it not the next word if not the next word see he's the head we're the body because he is the head because he is victorious because he won the victory over the devil hallelujah he's authorizing us go with my authority now then in hit then he referred to mark you remember marks Gospels little more explicit marked the 16th chapter go thy Lord go is again I go into all the world preach the gospel to every creature he that believeth in his baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be down and these signs shall follow them that believe in my name they will cast out Devils they'll speak with new tongues and so on now the very first sign that was to follow any believer was in my name they will cast out Devils any believer amen these signs shall follow them that believe actually the Greek Testaments a little more explicit it said these signs are followed the believing ones now he's just simply saying that believers will have authority over the devil in fact that's the way Jesus interpreted that scripture to me instead of reading like the King James which says in my name they'll cast out Devils he said the very first sign was that in my name that believer will exercise authority over the devil well you'd have to exercise authority over me couldn't cast any out could you amen in other words they'll break the power of the devil you've got that authority to do it over your own life and over the life of your loved one now you can't go down the street just breaking the power of the devil over everybody because they got a will or their own we'll get to that later on you've got authority over evil spirits but not human spirits so they'll cast out Devils they'll speak with new tongues they'll lay hands on the sick they shall recover notice each time they said they'll do it I doesn't say that Jesus only hands on the sick it says that you do it you lay hands on the sick if you lay hands on the sick you're exercising authority over the devil on over sickness it's you that doesn't now then here's another versi game it James the fourth chapter in the seventh verse James is writing to the churches indeed we noticed that in the fifth chapter 14 verse 15 verses he said is any sick among and I'm called for the elders of the church see the word church there so he sent him James 47 resist the devil and he will flee from you you is the understood subject of the sentence James did not say pray to God so that he God will resist the devil for you James said you resist the devil well you would have to to have authority over him to be able to do it wouldn't you see you're supposed to resist the devil Jim stop thinking about it no Christian is supposed to get anybody else to do anything about the devil for them I said I'll time look at me in that tone of voice I'm telling the truth I said no Christian is supposed to get anybody else or a fellow Christian to do something about the devil in their final and last analysis nobody can anyway they might help you temporarily you're gonna have to learn to exercise your own authority are you listening to me now notice what it said you you is the understood subject of the sentence Audrina put you in there you resist the devil and he'll free from you amen now it doesn't say that he'll free from Jesus it said he'll free from you see the authority is yours let so much that I just don't feel like you're feeling hadn't got anything to do with it that authority is yours whether you feel like it or not but you must exercise it last night we talking about a policeman exercising authority he's standing out in the middle of the street directing traffic he holds up his hand and stops the traffic and flowing this away and everybody stops I've been there I stopped didn't you well he's exercising authority that's invested in him he don't have the strength of the power to stop all those cars they can run over it but he's got authority you know the devil recognize his authority amen absolutely and so that policeman just hold up his hand the traffic all stops because he's authorized to do that well he might not feel like doing it but the authority works whether he feels like it or not and that's where a lot of Christians miss it because they're going by feelings their fates not in their authority their fates and their feelings hallelujah can you say Amen well I knew some way another after that vision my spirit told me that there was the significance in that word flee FL EE free and I knew the meaning of the word in general but I looked it up and addiction they won these big thick ones you know about a foot thick you know and they were several pages on that they even went to the scripture and use these scriptures and i found a definition that i like because it just described what i saw it said to flee from means to run from as in terror to run from as in terror resist the devil and he'll run from you as in terror amen I said amen now most Christians don't know that that they see the devil they run from him as in terror but he's supposed to be running from them so then what I found that definition then I knew on the demon that evil spirit in my vision had begun to whimper and cry and tremble and shake he is scared amen because he knows that he's a defeated foe and he knows now I found out about it now then here's another scripture see that's three now here's four or this is the fourth one actually put the two together Matthew and Mark now first Peter 58 see every single rider in the New Testament writing to Christians writing to believers every single time he tells them to do something about the devil well you have to have authority you couldn't do it could you alright notice what I said first Peter 58 be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil yeah we have an adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour now your adversary means your opponent adversary means your opponent your enemy it means one arrayed against you it's the enemy see the problem with a lot of Christians they say all the devil's after me let's pray y'all pray for me so the devil won't get me well the devil's already gotta tell you the real truth about the matter if you talk that like that you're already got to walk them even to that expression now you can turn in prayer request you can get all the preachers on the radio and television half their wives to pray for you but you'll still be bound because you're not doing anything amen we might as well face up to it we have to do something about it we are told to do something about so that's the picture first of all be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour now what are you going to do about it stick your head in the sand like an ostrich and maybe you go away encourage one another with natural human sympathy well you know every cloud has a silver lining it's a mighty long road it doesn't turn everything it will be better tomorrow no bless God go ahead and do what the Bible said do read the next verse whom resist that's what you're supposed to do whom resist steadfast in the faith knowing that the same afflictions or deflection mean tests and trials same test same trial are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world now the American revised version Reed's instead of reading whom resist steadfast in the faith resistance reads whom resist steadfast in your faith I like that amen now I remember that Jesus said to me Peter writing this letter to believers he said if it had been like folks are today I'm quoting Jesus verbatim he said if his life things were in 1952 and and and we could say today to Peter would have wrote a letter to these Christians and said it's come to my knowledge that God's using our beloved brother Apostle Paul in a special way so that Hank obsessor aprons are being taken from his body under the sick and those that have spirits and demons and the diseases leave them the evil spirits depart from him so I suggest you send to Paul for one of those anxious come on now don't shout me down cause i'm preaching real good that's what Jesus said to me but no he said Peter said you is this the devil you don't have to send to brother Paul God is using Paul but all those devils and sickness and disease that were leaving those people were not Christian people go back to the to the 19th chapter of Acts he was preaching there in Ephesus these people were not Christian people are you listening to me ever believer has the same Authority Paul had in Christ Jesus did you hear me every believer has the same authority that Peter had that's the reason he didn't say well send your request in to me and I'll handle it for you no he went ahead and told him what to do you resist the devil amen but you know we're great getting and wanting somebody else well somebody else to do it for me lady said to me I mean a man said to me bought his wife he said my wife is hearing voices what are you going to do about it ain't gonna do nothing about it what's she going to do about I was holding a meeting in the state of Oregon a number of years ago to be more explicit in the year of 1956 and I started the meeting off and smaller Church wasn't real large Churchill a few hundred i guess the auditorium at seat four or five hundred people and so I just have a healing service lay hands on people twice to weep and so this man brought his wife up in the line I didn't know what because I'm stranger I know the pastor he came from Oklahoma my wife and our standing the Parsons with him so when I got to this lady you could tell by looking at their minds not rider eyes don't look right and so and their husbands along with it holding her mother arm when they took him one by one talk to him find out what's wrong with it so when they got up to me I said well what did you come for he did all the talking he said she came for healing he said she's been two years over in the state institution we used to call him in the same asylums and that sounds a nicer to say state institution you know she had been there two years and said they dismissed her and let her come home she's been home about six months but she's getting back well the fact he said they're gonna take her back again so I want you to pray for her well I lead hands on it started to pray what it did had a revelation thank God for the Holy goat and so I said to the past to east and routes under can we use your office or past to study in fact it was just you come not all that walk upon the platform I said and pastor spoke up and said yes said this man is a deacon here in our church I said well you take your wife there and I'll come that when when I get through here and talk to you and so we we went ahead with the healing line and finished it and then I said to the faster you come and go with me and he told me this is the Deacons wife used to be a Sunday school teacher here for she lost her mind you say uh-oh born-again spirit filled Sunday school teacher can lose their mind go to this silent well emphatically yes he had that so we got in there and we sat down and I said to him and to her she's sitting there I said now I'll tell you why I didn't want to talk out there in front you can't see a lot of think you shouldn't say and anybody that does say a lot of things out in front about people concerning people in a crowd when a lot of folks are there they're nuts they're stupid some things need to be dealt with privately are you listening to me I said are you listening to me holy ghost is not going to embarrass anybody he won't embarrass you so I said now the reason that I did minister to her is because when I touched her and I don't know why it works that way sometime but sometimes it does I knew all about the case you hadn't told me anything except you've been two years in this island I said now let me tell you if I miss it you speak up and tell me you missed it I said now this woman she we're talking back mountain fifties now brother Oral Roberts was holding a meeting over here at Portland and y'all went over there to a meeting and she heard him say that God spoke to him and he did Oklahoma 1947 in an audible voice but remember he wasn't seeking inaudible voice if God wanted to speak that way he could several times he spoken to me that way yeah I suppose I was by myself I guess it's all about it sounded that way to me but I said then she began to seek voices it's unscriptural to seek voices because you've departed from the Word of God and and the devil will accommodate so she began to hear these voices and the drove her crazy so then you took her to Robert's meeting cuz he's still in those tent meetings you know in those days in the 50 you took her to Robert's meetings and he didn't deliver so you're mad at him then you took her to a brother branham came over here to to salem oregon i only knew that by revelation i didn't know otherwise is there he I said you took her to brother Brandon's meeting and brother branham didn't deliver her and you got mad at him and if I endeavored to minister to him I couldn't deliver and then you'd be mad at me because I said you see she's got enough intelligence she knows exactly what I'm saying and then I looked at her and I said you understand everything I'm saying don't you she said sure I do yeah I understand everything you were saying I said you see as long as you only hear those voices you're going to hear them but now if you don't want to hear him I can help you see you can't get people delivered that don't want to be delivered anymore you can get people saved the don't want to be a man and you can't get people healed it don't want to be healed are you listening to me as long as you want it that way it's going to be that ledge she just spoke up said well I want it that way I said I knew you wanted that way that's where he's not didn't minister to the case because it's going to stay that way as long as you want it that way but now if you wouldn't want to be free euless let me know and we'll be able to help you see we can exercise authority amen over the devil and demons but you have something to do and you need to take your place amen and so then a lot of folks are always asking why they don't get healed or why they don't get delivered from this of that the other something's wrong they have ministers to pray for them nothing happens people suggest some time that the minister the pastor can't pray the prayer of faith anymore but are you taking your place now you understand this when people first get saved their baby Christians and right at first God will allow other people to care them for a little while but the time will come that he's going to say you put that big young and down let him walk and if people have been taught correctly then they're going to have a big cry on their hands one time my wife and I was attending a local sectional convention we stayed in the home of some young people actually before she married the young lady was a member of our church and they said to us one day when we got up started to the convention they just had a young baby a few months old this baby had a rupture and they said brother hanging would you pray you're no reason so we prayed the rupture disappeared child was he you and I remember that she said to me but thing and it seems as if the older people the older Saints they don't ever get any results anymore that's the reason I didn't go to them fact I guess everybody in the church prayed for the child the pastor prayed for the child we younger folks there's only one that's ever seem to get any healing now in order to be the other way around people should have grown in faith and should have developed their faith but what happened was they just sit around didn't try to develop anything or you listening and they just thought somebody else can carry me on their faith no the time will come when you have to exercise authority for yourself you'll have to know what belongs to you you'll have to walk in the light of that which is yours but you see if you haven't had right teaching you've continued for years some time in a baby hood state of development never attempted to exercise faith on your own just depending on somebody else's faith in prior the times coming that their faith and prayer won't work anymore many people here in this church have heard Kim talk about when he is 15 years old had been fixed in his ear well he had always just call daddy I'm in when he's 12 years old but if his mother was with me and and the grandmother was with them and she called said son want to know how to call me and said what I'm going to do with this boy I said what's the matter with it well he come in school everybody up here's got the mumps he came in the school did yalls all swelled up and said he'd just been a crying ever since he come in school tried to get me to call she didn't want to call on up telephone bill he said later finally when she put him on he said daddy I know that's the only way I'd get grand motorcar if I just keep crying long enough she defends to give in and said I told grandma I told grandmother's no use of me missing school just called I didn't have him to pray and I'll be all right so I prayed 40 45 minutes of months ago and he's never had him that date of this amen he's 12 now he's 15 but he's got this eerie infection his ears are hurting it kept hurting him I prayed for him just like it did otherwise even come back by and laid hands on him still didn't work so had to take him to the doctor clean the fungus out of his ear doctor said this is a South Sea fungus some of the GIS have brought it back over here from the South Seas it's incurable now if you could live in arizona new mexico somewhere where it's dry you might get by was just cleaning the fungus out of the year about every three months don't go in swimming anymore don't go stay out of water because the more water you around more when it is rather more it grows and time you get to be 40 years old well you'll probably lose hearing in that ear you know they'll all be going I mean the ear will just be of no use to you and there's nothing we can do about nothing medical science can do so I'm away up in Pennsylvania preach it and I went to the Lord about it the Lord said to me now your faith can't work for him anymore you've carried it for 15 years on your faith but it won't work for him anymore because he he's heard you preach faith and healing all of his life I expect him to walk in the light of what he knows now knowing that he's heard you so much he can preach some of your sermons and message with good as you can amen so I got home the next day Christmastime this all had to take him to the doctor to clean the fungus out of his ear on the way back I said son this is the first time in over 15 years actually 15 years and four months you failed to receive healing he said yeah that's right I said you know why that now I begin to tell him what the Lord said when it got out to the police I said you thought all I gonna do just get daddy to free how brother would the pastor to anoint him with all that'll work yeah sometimes it will sometime did more or you listening to me I said you didn't try to exercise any faith feature self no you're just depending on us to do it when I go down to the priests where I said the Lord said you can preach some my sermon as good as I can't he said yeah I've been to doing it he's speaking to some of the young people's using some of my outlines amen so we got to the house about then walked into the living room I said well now what are you gonna do about see we want someone else to but he's got authority now then he's old enough to recognize that authority and he's going to have to walk in that authority if he gets results and so I said to him you want to go through life and never go swimming anymore doctor said stay away from water you want to lose your hearing in that ear no doctor said it's incurable well I said you know how to pray said yeah you know how to breathe God said yeah I said let's get out here and do it then so we got on our knees to large chairs the living room he kept looking at me i said i'm not gonna pray lick I'm not gonna pray Nick you know what I'm into that not one prayer all I'm gonna do is scotch for you you do your friend I'll say Amen so to make a long story short he did his friend got healed amen his ears all right today and he's 23 days past 40 and still got his hearing in fact when he was in the army you know because he is in the intelligence and communication you got to take out here in test you see to be able to hear what's transmitted and that ears strong in the other than if i understand correctly amen I said amen but you see the time came he had to exercise his own authority amen we tried to do it but we couldn't do it we've done it for 50 and you know that's what happens with Christian they just think well they've been praying for me they'll still pray for me sure they'll pray for you and they could do it and carry you when yous emaindi but you're going to have to know what belongs to you you're gonna have to realize that you're sitting there to to right hand of the Father that's the right hand that's the place of authorities of it ever believe forever believer amen your adversary the devil as a rowing on not notice it doesn't say he's a roaring lion said as alluring line walketh about seeking whom he may devour but you can do something about it whom resist steadfast in your faith so Jesus James and Peter tells a believer to do something about the devil now let's see what Paul said this go back to the book of Ephesians again if he's in chapter 4 verse 27 neither give place to the devil the ones that mean don't give the devil any place in you well now you'd have to have authority over him to keep him from it wouldn't you in other words that's what it said neither give place to the devil are don't give the devil any place in you he said that to believers then every believer has the authority over the devil then otherwise you couldn't keep him from taking a place if you give place to the devil listen to me real carefully if you give place to the devil there's nothing that Jesus can do I want to repeat that so important if you give place to the devil there's nothing that Jesus can do because you have the authority not him he had it and got it to his death Bell resurrection but he gave it to you you're seated at the right hand of the Father there's nothing Jesus can do you have the authority and you have given the devil permission to take a place in here nothing Jesus can do about it can you see that unless you do something against the devil Jesus still can't do anything about it in that vision jesus said to me go back to that minute he said to me I've done and heaven is done father God heaven is done all they're ever going to do about the devil until that angel comes down from heaven and binds him puts into the bottomless pit see he's not going to do anything nowadays about the devil are you listening you see he said he arose and had delegated the authority over the devil to the church the believers have been delivered they're not going to get delivered they have been delivered in that turbo you know most creatures are running around trying to get something the Bible said it's already theirs why don't you wake up and start walking in the light amen I noticed Colossians 1 13 who hath delivered us not who's going to deliver us in the sweet bind by sometime after a while who has delivered us from the power of darkness now that can also be translated who's delivered us from the authority of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear son well if I've been delivered from the power the authority of darkness then darkness and in that word darkness is everything that Satan is then darkness Satan his kingdom has no authority over me amen I said amen I'm translated delivered from his authority translated into the kingdom of his dear son praise God for evermore hallelujah you see heaven isn't going to do anything about the devil now you are because you've been delivered so we certainly better wake up anyway change our praying get after the devil we have the authority to do it now what we are sitting we're sitting at the right hand of the Father far above glory to God you know those are two good words to shout about aren't they did you ever shout about far above far above far above what all Dominion and power glory to God principalities that's where we are take her place if we are above these principalities in power then we have authority over them now notice the scripture goes on to say Ephesians 122 go back to there now and have put all things under his feet and gave him to be head over all things to the church the feet are members of the body feet aren't members of the head see he's the head we're the body now look at the 23rd verse which is his body let's read that 22nd versed in Goiania and had put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the church which is his body which is his body the fullness of him that filleth all it all how wonderful it is glory to God to know that the least members of the body of Christ those who are the very soles of the feet are far above far above far above all the mighty sources that we've been considering all the principalities and powers no wonder that Jesus said remember I said even those members that are the soles of the feet are far above no wonder jesus said that Luke 1090 go back there now behold I give under you power or authority to tread on serpents that means walk on them go to God and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy sees using scorpions and serpents symbolically as being demons and evil spirits because he said and over all the power of the enemy didn't it I give you authority to tread on the church has the authority to tread on them hallelujah amen amen see the enemy has been too long walking on us see generally speaking in the church world even belong Pentecostal people you'd think that the devil is bigger than everybody and anybody that he's running everything now we know he's the god of this world second Corinthians 4 for Paul says he's a god of this world but though we're in the world we're not of the world and he doesn't have any right to tread over us or rule us or dominate us in fact he can't unless you let him because these scriptures we just got through reading that was given to the church neither give place to the devil that means you can keep him from taking place Indian that means you've got the authority that means you've got the power that means you've got the ability to do it God's not unjust if he asks you to do something you couldn't do he'd be unjust but he's not unjust Paul states it plainly in Romans 517 did you i'm talking about exercising the authority that's our did you wear your shouting close tonight now look at Romans 5 17 i'm gonna read King James translation first for if by one man's off ense that's Adam sin death arraigned he's talking about spiritual death raining by one much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign are dige and reign in life rain in the next life no in by this life by one Jesus Christ now notice the amplified New Testament says shall reign as kings glory to God I mean that that's either so we're not so isn't it let's see that the truth or a lie I believe it's the truth shall reign as kings in life in life reign as king whoa well it's a God who is it they which receive abundance of Grayson of the gift of righteousness that's us that's us shall reign as kings in life through the one Jesus Christ but when I first came out from the batteries over bunda Pentecostals they used to sing a song and the court part of it went once said here I wonder like a beggar through the heat in the cold I don't sound like meaning does it so many of our songs are involved with unbelief I'd rather hear donkey brayed midnight in a 10 bar but people people believe the song just saying sometimes more than to do this what the Bible said about it we've some some of those songs so long till we believe they're true they'd sing here I wonder like a beggar through the heat in the cold people said a few tears about wandering like a beggar thought God was a blessing him but God's plan is not for you to wander like a beggar through the heat in the cold God's plan is for you to rule and to reign in your life what do you mean to rule and terrain in your life well everything just concerns your life God's plan is for you to rain to rule over circumstances to rue to reign over poverty to rule to reign over disease to rule and terrain over everything else that would hinder you glory to God I said glory to God I said glory to God I'll tell you if you really believe that we'd be shot and so that here is all the way down town town praise God hallelujah now notice the expression amplified shall reign as kings now what do you mean rain is king quad and how does that King read because he has the authority to do it well you reign because you have authority you reign by Christ Jesus I'll tell you sometimes people in the church act like want young mockingbirds you don't ever got the eyes open yet mama comes along two feet of it then you you're hoping them out and just poke anything in the world out well shut your mouth let's God and get into the word don't let people just poke anything in the world out are you listening to me amen amen and then just poke anything your world on them and they don't believe it they think you know well we're supposed to be humble and so therefore we're not supposed to have anything so that had got a thing in the world would be doing it being humble are you listening to me I'm in a preacher I remember several years ago back back in the 50s one minister told me about another preacher said he's very humble until he's one of the most humble men I've ever met said he drives a 1936 Chevrolet 20 year old car I said that's not being humble that's being ignorant but now that's let's that preachers idea of what being humble is that was that preachers idea of humility one fella said you know Jesus and the Apostles never drove a Cadillac course not they didn't have anything but it is Rida dokey and that was the Cadillac of that day amen it was the best means of transportation they had is either that or walk that's better it derived in to walk see sometimes people let the devil cheat them out of the blessings that they could have when God never intended does not did not does not it's not in his plan intend that we should be poverty-stricken amen he said that we're to reign in life rain has amplified said by as kings in life he didn't intend that the devil should dominate us he doesn't intend that the devil should dominate any member of the body of his body amen I'll tell you we ought to get stirred up about it bless God just tell the devil take his hand off of us knopf of our finances and off of our children we've got a right to exercise authority long as those children are smaller that's reason I exercised that authority for 15 years it worked 15 solid years amen then he picked up on it begin to use the same Authority amen thank God for His Word I said thank God for His Word thank God for His Word hallelujah we've got a ride just to tell the devil to stop whatever you're doing right now now sometimes some of the folks you know that no more in the word and have grown because we had the right teacher will have to help temporarily just like we cared kin on our feet for 15 years I remember when my wife and I first married well I just come out of the Baptist just a year before really got the baptism the Holy Ghost spoken to other tongues just a year before and I'm past this little Pentecostal church and so we were married we'll celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary this month these days the first day of November November the 25th we will have been married 50 years well I was a Baptist background shiva's of the methodist backdrop and so we mad 25th day event november 1938 and then in December you know one the first a real cold we'd had some cool spell but a real cold we called him down in Texas a one of those blue northers came in a mad and so Oh Rita said up and I didn't know this for ccc got a sore throat she said when the first a real cold spell comes my throat gets so this or all the winner following a chronic thing just so all the win it I'll have to go to the doctor tomorrow I remember 1938 we didn't have all the so-called miracle drugs you got today they're there they'd mop you throw it out or swap it out you know we're sorry I'll have to go to the doctor tomorrow how my throat swapped out they started to take out in the tonsils a time or two but somebody's no they didn't well now I know you see that that she doesn't know because she hasn't been trained in this she hasn't heard and so I know that I can care her I can exercise authority besides that's my household anyway so I just simply said no we won't go to the doctor tomorrow have your throat swapped out or mopped out that will leave you and will never come back well that was 50 years ago in left turn has never come back I'm talking about that chronic I don't mean she hadn't had a sore throat but not that chronically and she still got her tonsils and incidentally she'll be 70 tomorrow I said a man I'll tell you truth about it most all of us got more authority than what we reckon that work than what we are used in what we recognized and that's a reason we don't not use him cuz we didn't recognize his hours amen I said hey man I said amen hallelujah we must learn to be exalted to the place where God wants us notice what he said look at it again he has raised us up together and he's exalted us from Adam but all he exalted Christ he exalted us too holds your place right there own Ephesians 2 amen turn right on over here to Philippians and you see he's preaching the same thing now notice the ninth verse of the second chapter of Philippians wherefore God also has highly exalted him now when did he exalt him when he raised him from the dead and when he ascended on high and sat down and given him a name above all names and see that name belongs us now go back there with that thought in mind go back to that six verse and has raised us up together and made us sit together hallelujah I said hallelujah we must learn to be exalted to the place where God wants us we didn't exalt ourselves we're not trying to exalt ourselves we're just taking advantage of what belongs to us amen the church fails too often in her ministry of authority and is bowed down in defeat and is overcome with fear but it shouldn't be that way not with any believer go back to Ephesians 122 again real quickly and it put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the church well now he's head he proved that when he was here honor he's head over sickness and disease isn't it I said isn't it he's head over any evil now this reverse the words in order to bring out more clearly the deepest significance of what God sent notice head to the church over all things he is being head over all things is for the church's sake he didn't need to be head over all things for God's sake he didn't need to be head over all things for his own sake but it's far the church's sake we need to set reverently before these mighty truths and with their tremendous of meaning until how hearts grasp what God's saying to us hallelujah wants our spirits gets a revelation of what God's saying will read rich rewards we all know and see the true meaning of God's revelation God has made Christ to be the head over all things to the church it's for our sake that he's the head so that we through him might exercise that authority over all things can you see that hallelujah when we see what belongs to us then we'll enjoy the victory that he has for us now I think that there's no message in all of the New Testament that that ever fights any harder than this one here fight to keep us from getting there but through stubborn faith in Christ the victory can be ours now well glory to God I don't know whether you I've helped you or not but apprec happy hallelujah it wouldn't take much for me to have a east texas press harbor spell glory to God hallelujah so we've been first not talking about the authority that's ours tonight talking about exercising this Authority well we got one more night I don't want to get to everything or not but we're gonna talk about risen with Christ hallelujah raised look at that second where stand up everybody then de open your Bibles to that six verse of the second chapter of Ephesians this is God the Holy Ghost through the Apostle Paul writing to the church to us and has raised us up together I'm risen with Christ and made us sit together with cry in heavenly places glory to God glory to God glory to God amen amen somebody else about what are you doing these day well said I'm just hanging around the cross they ought to be sitting on the throne [Applause] amen sure we come by the cross thank God for the cross but that's not all of it that's just part of amen come on by the cross over to Pentecost some folks came that far got filled with the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues and they've been right there at the door ever since then come on up and sit down [Applause]

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Published: Sat Sep 21 2013