The Enemy – Satan’s #1 Weapon Part 2 - Time to break your contracts!

welcome everyone it's the start of a new month my name is vince and i'm ali and from the rock living room to yours welcome we are so glad that you are joining us today did you miss us it's been a couple weeks right you missed a little bit just a little bit i feel like they're missing us so if you missed us in the chat go ahead and drop that in there just kidding we're excited that you're here with us this morning we are about to start worship in a minute but before we do here is a reminder to hit that share button right now so that other people can have the chance to tune in don't wait do it right now that's right and before we get started we want to let you know that today we're going to be taking communion as a family now's a great time to pause grab some communion elements now it doesn't have to be fancy crackers and juice coffee cake and coffee whatever you've got available that's what we want you to use the point is to have a moment in which we receive god's grace through this beautiful act remembering and reflecting on what jesus has done and looking forward to what he will do all right you know what to do if you didn't share please do so now and we'll see you in a little bit oh lord how excellent is your name in all the earth be magnified in this place let's worship the lord together hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] you set your glory above the heavens and the earth no praise is high enough to express how great you are [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] your [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] is there is no phrase that is [Music] my [Music] [Music] please [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] hey [Music] look at your situation right now [Music] [Music] is thank you jesus you are almighty god and we worship you through thick and thin good time and bad times god you are always good to us so we worship you in this place come on church sing with us here we go [Music] [Music] oh is [Music] me [Music] oh [Applause] yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] huh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey [Music] yes [Music] [Music] i won't forget the wonder of how you brought deliverance the exodus of my heart you found me you free me help back the waters for my release [Applause] [Music] deep hallelujah [Music] [Music] you [Music] you're the god who fights for me [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Applause] [Music] we praise the god who sets us free in jesus name me foreign [Music] [Music] hallelujah hallelujah [Music] you have led me through the deep you have led me through the deep hallelujah [Music] you let us [Music] you wanted [Music] you want my strength i'm holding on [Music] i love you i love you [Music] you my faithful father you took me [Music] remembering [Applause] [Applause] oh i love you i love you i love you i love you is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] fully letting go i'm surrendered to your [Music] father you will never change [Music] you hold me close [Music] holding on to grace fully letting go i'm surrendered to your ways the anchor for my soul father you will never i change you i love you question as we prepare to take our offering and thank you for all your generosity it has been epic uh over the last year and a half with covet and all the turmoil in our lives so i want to thank you and uh from the bottom of my heart we have been able to continue the ministry do ministry continue to keep our staff and serve san diego and the world so thank you very much and may god honor you and i have a question for you do you think it matters the attitude that you have when you give we never want you to give um feeling like i got to do it we want you to give because you get to do it and so i just wanted to ask you do you think that it matters that you constantly have a cheerful attitude here's what the bible says in second corinthians 9 6 he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly he who sows bountifully will reap bountifully and then it says let each one give as he purposes in his heart not grudgingly of necessity for god loves a cheerful giver now then look what it says god is able to make all grace abound towards you all grace towards you all grace to abound towards you that you always having all sufficiency in all things always having all sufficiency in all things may have an abundance of every good work three things god loves a cheerful giver cheerful to receive god's grace in your life you want to be cheerful god's going to i'm giving and i'm going to be cheerful because god's grace i'm going to receive it yes that's what he promised in his word and you're going to get it you are cheerful that god's grace will result in your needs being met god's going to eat your meat meet your knees that's what he does that's what he does and then third cheerful that god's grace fuels god's word god has not blessed you just to be blessing you he's blessing you so you can be cheerful but also that he can use you to bless somebody else and so i want to pray for you that you would be a cheerful giver and that you would see the grace of god in your life and how he is honoring your faith lord thank you so much for this opportunity to give i pray you bless the giver i play you pray you bless them bountifully i pray you meet all their needs i pray that you would bless them with all sufficiency for everything they ever do and that you refuel your work in their life in jesus name amen if you would like to give just text the word give to 52525 that's give to 52525 and again thank you very much from the bottom of all of our hearts for your generosity god bless you i'm holding on to hope i'm surrendered to your weight the anger for my soul father you will never change i love you i love you i'm holding on to hope i'm holding on to grace oh forever oh me [Music] i'm surrendered to your ways the anchor for my soul father you will never change i love you god i love you i love you i love you i love you [Music] hi everyone thank you for being with us today as we worship god together we're so glad to see so many of you tuning in today i'm vince and i'm allie and from the rock living room to yours welcome we're so grateful that you guys are joining us for the very first day here in august summer is in full swing here in san diego the weather is perfect what we got going on like 60 degrees 70 degrees maybe 80 a little bit the weather is perfect so come and join us please you know what else is in full swing are the summer olympics after a year of waiting they finally launched jesus i love them i usually throw a big party for them and i'm sure we have a lot of other olympic fans as well so put in the chat what your favorite event to watch is i love track and field personally what do you like to watch i love following basketball i'm also excited that they actually made skateboarding a sport that's right so it's about time so we're excited but hey vince let's get back to business for all of you who may be tuning in for the first time we want to invite you to learn a little bit more about our online church family and about the rock in general go ahead and visit sdrock.com info or text info two five two five two five to learn what we are about that's right one of the best ways to learn more about our church is through our life class it's the best place to get started if you want to get connected whether you've been a part of the rock for a long time or just a short time this class gives you the opportunity to learn more about who the rock church is how we got started and where our save equip and sin mission is leading us you'll also discover how god uniquely designed you to make a difference in the lives of those around you we've got in-person options available for our friends in san diego but we also have an online campus specific class that we want to invite you to to learn more about life class visit sdrock.com lifeclass or text life to 52525 yes and those classes events are happening every sunday so guess what you can jump in today do so and another note another thing i want to encourage you to learn more about today is groups here's the thing church is not and has never been about just attending a service church is about being a part of a body of believers that pursue god wholeheartedly and represent jesus to the world and in order to do this well we need to be rooted in rich community and we need to have consistent rhythms of connecting with other believers we have so many groups that meet online so you can get plugged in wherever you are joining us from if you're interested in starting or joining a group visit scrock.com groups or text groups to 52525 family today we're going to celebrate communion together so i want to remind you run to your fridge you can grab some crackers or some juice or whatever you have to participate as we remember christ's sacrifice for us today's message will be the second week in the enemy series that we started last sunday last week was really powerful and it gave us a chance to grapple with the reality of sin in the world and how we can walk in victory and in righteousness as we get ready to hear the message today let's take a moment to prepare our hearts as we pray father thank you so much for your word being taught to us in a way that transforms our lives we thank you for our pastor and for this time together as a family spirit move upon our hearts and we pray that we don't leave the same that we came in in jesus name amen amen how you doing everybody pastor miles here happy sunday happy sunday uh i am so excited because today you are going to learn about your relationship your partnership with the devil but more importantly how to break that partnership listen hit the share button because i know everybody you know has uh contracts with the devil everybody you know and we're going to tear those contracts up today and break those agreements now you're probably thinking what does that mean you're going to learn so text the word uh uh share hit the share button get this word out to your friends and let's stand up and pray in honor of god we're going to stand up and pray and we're going to declare power over our life lord thank you so much for your faithfulness thank you for being the god of truth thank you that you're going to expose the lies of the liar and set people free today in jesus name amen amen let's get your bibles out get your bibles out uh we are going to get into the word today on account of three say word one two three word word okay get it out turn to uh genesis chapter one genesis chapter one we are going to go back to genesis we're in genesis last week talk about the double devil's number one weapon and by the way if you weren't here last week get the message we talked about the devil's number one weapon that he uses against you every day he is your enemy when you get arguments with people you're not getting arguments that the enemy's not the person we don't wrestle against flesh and blood we wrestle against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places and so that's the devil and so understand there's always a spiritual battle going on between you and everybody you know you have to understand that and so the devil's number one weapon as we talked last week was that you can sin and have no consequences and you could be like god knowing good and evil look it up genesis chapter three we're gonna go back there today but first i want to tell you a story um i was in costa rica for two weeks established in costa rica cinco anos about five years ago and when i was there i was asking my teacher i asked my teacher how do you say girlfriend and boyfriend and they said novio for boyfriend girlfriend is novia and then they said there's another term they use amigo con de lechos i'm piecing the words together because i'm learning spanish and i'm like amigo is friend cohn is with that show says right but it's really friends with right or friends with benefits and i was like oh but you're not really my girlfriend you're not really my boyfriend you just have benefits i give you i give you freedoms i give you access every now and then so it's not like we're really dating we just have this little side deal okay i got my contract with my girlfriend over here but i got a little side deal working with you amigo con darechos friends with benefits you have a friends with benefits friend with rights relationship with the devil every time you sin you make an agreement with the devil now you may say i'm a christian i go to church i praise the lord word jesus and all kind of stuff but every time you sin you say god god hold up i'm a sign watch this watch this watch this watch me watch me i'm a sign of agreement with the devil we're going to talk about that today but then we're going to break this agreement up now let's start in the beginning you and i were created to walk with god speak with god represent god you and i were created to rule genesis chapter 1 says let us make man our image according to our likeness 126 let us make man that image according to our likeness and let them man have dominion authority over the efficiency the birds of the air over the cattle and over every creeping thing that creeps on the ground genesis 1 26 god created us to rule we're supposed to take care of the earth he made the earth it was beautiful he said it was good he said don't mess it up don't mess it up we were made in his image i am a g e i am a ge you are made individually unique there is nobody like you psalm 139 13 14 says for you for you for my inward parts you covered me in my mother's womb i will praise you for i am fearfully and wonderfully made marvelous all your works that my soul knows very well there's nobody like you knowing what your eye color eye pattern fingerprint pattern knowing with your dna no one is like you on the planet your individual individually unique that's i in the word image the word the letter m in the word image is that god created you to be a moral mirror he said be holy for i am holy we are to reflect his holiness i in the word image of god is individually unique m is uh we are moral mirrors a is you were given the authority to rule god said have dominion over the efficiency god gave us the authority to rule the letter g in the word image is that we are created to be god's friend greater love has no one than this than to lay down his life for his friends god considers his friend and the word image i-m-a-g-e-e is eternal john tells us john 14 says let not your heart be troubled you believe in god believe also in me in my father's house on many mansions if it were not so i would have told you i go to prepare a place for you and if i go and prepare a place for you i will come again and receive you to myself that where i am there you may be also and where i go you the way you may know now god created us in his image individually unique there's nobody like you you are a moral mirror created to reflect the glory of god you are given the authority to rule you are god's friend jesus god's friend and you were made to be eternal god put eternity in you so therefore here we are main image god to have this incredible supernatural eternal authoritative relationship with god to be his moral mirror to reflect his glory on earth and then the devil comes and the only reason this is so critical for you to know the only way the devil has authority over your life is this you give it to him the only way the devil has authority over your life is if you give it to him and you say to him devil i'm gonna get my contract out devil i'm gonna sign a deal with you i'm gonna give you authority over this part of my life and here it is and you give that contract there you do that every day now we're going to break this contract today but some of y'all got some nasty ugly agreements with the devil let's go back to genesis chapter 3. the same passage we looked at last week it's okay the word of god has layers of truth and they're awesome genesis chapter 3 verse 1-3 look what it says god said let us speak i'm sorry genesis chapter 3 let me get it genesis chapter 3 it says the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the lord god had made and he said to the woman has god indeed and said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden we looked at this last week don't trip there's a lot of truth in this and the woman said we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden god has said you shall not eat nor shall you touch unless you die and the devil said to the woman you will not die for god knows in the day you eat your eyes will be open and you'll be like god no good and evil now this is the number one weapon you can sin and not have consequence and you will be like god the devil can say anything he wants the question is what are you going to do so the devil says hey eve god what are god saying she says i can't eat from that tree and the devil says well i'll make a deal with you i can make your life better if you trust me one god is holding out on you you're not going to die if you eat that tree you're going to be like god so let's make an agreement that you will believe me and do what i say and not believe god here's the contract that's exactly what happened and he was like so woman saw that the tree was good for food pleasant to the eyes a tree desirable to make one wise she said devil i agree with you you just sold me on your contract happens every day when the devil hits his number one weapon on you you sign a contract with him to trust him more than god now how many times has the devil told you you're ugly and fat and you believe it you're never going to be married no one's ever going to love you you're never going to have a good job you're never going to be blessed god's not going to answer your prayer you're never going to have enough money to be comfortable you're never going to be comfortable with the money you have constant lies and every time you believe him you sign a contract with him you say now god's telling you you're beautiful god's telling you you're valuable god's telling you he loves you god's telling you he wants to bless you god's telling you he wants to bless you financially healthy healthy he wants you to trust him in your giving of your time your talent your treasure god's telling you he wants to go to church read the bible and and and obey him god's telling you he wants you to be generous he wants you to be self-sacrificial he doesn't want you to be egotistical but humble he wants to be patient kind and if you do those things he'll bless you and the devil says don't do those things do the opposite and you have to decide who you believe and the devil's going to tell you his number one weapon if you do what i say you're going to be like god and you won't have any consequences if you don't obey him and then you go okay i agree with you and you sign the contract and when you sign a contract you give him legal authority over your life think about it i should do cocaine so as soon as i heard the devil say cocaine can make you happier than not having cocaine i signed a contract says i am going to agree the devil and use cocaine and i'm giving you legal authority to bless me with all the benefits of cocaine here's the god said to the devil about job behold all that he has is in your power only do not lay a hand on his person he gave the devil authority over a certain part of his life he said you can only go this far can only go this far and job ended up being being losing a lot and then getting back tenfold and was happy but the point is the devil only goes as far as he's allowed and and part of that is in that one when we have responsibility is when we say i'm giving it to you so if you go out there and cheating your wife or your husband you are telling the devil i believe i will be happier than if i'm unfaithful than if i'm faithful and i am given authority of the devil in my life in that area so i am going to say i am going to trust pornography in my life and so i am given authority of pornography over my life over my brain over my body or my relationship i'm going to trust drugs and alcohol in my life i'm giving authority of that over my life i'm going to trust the seat so i give authority of deceit deceit do your magic for me unfaithfulness do your magic for me being lazy do your magic for me what do you think about this if any sane person got up and said okay i'm going to have a conversation with devil by the way you're never going to have all the machine come in your room and have a conversation ain't going to be like that it's gonna be a nice little soft little voice that sounds like you that sounds kind of rational but a little little deceitful and you're like it's not that bad sometimes that devil might be a smooth brother it might be some swirly wiggly jiggly female whatever it is how whatever package it comes it's gonna come maybe money maybe a nice shiny car some nice shiny drew what how would ever want you he'll get you but as soon as you make that agreement you are saying number one i'm making an agreement to trust you and i'm giving you legal authority to do whatever you want you can't use drugs until drugs don't have your impact on me you're telling the drugs i surrender and if you look at it that way you wouldn't do it because you would realize it's going nowhere so what do you do the only thing you can do is break those agreements and to break those agreements in jesus name number five satan satanic agreements can only be broken in jesus name the bible says in matthew 28 18 jesus came and spoke saying all authority all authority has been given me in heaven and on earth go therefore make disciples of all nations baptized in the name of the father son holy spirit teaching them to observe all that i command you and lo i'm with you to the end of age but he says all authority if you ask anything in my name with my authority i will do it so what we're going to do in a minute is we are going to break these agreements now symbolically what i'm going to do is i'm going to tear this paper up because as we pray this i want you to maybe get a piece of paper out is to tear up the agreements and you have to think what yours are is it drugs and alcohol agreement is it a lying agreement is it the agreement that you are less than that god doesn't love you like he loves that person that god's not gonna bless you like he blessed that person is that your agreement do you believe that and after we break this agreement we're gonna give you a chance to ask christ to be your savior they want to take communion so i want you to think about the agreements and and and if after we're done you can write down some of the agreements and the more you can write the more you can break the more you can acknowledge the more freedom you're going to have and some of these agreements have been things you believed about yourself since you were a little kid your mother your father said something to you and you held it a friend a neighbor said something to you someone did something to you violated you and you held it and the devil's been using it in your life it's now time to say i don't believe that anymore i'm not going to hold that truth anymore i'm not going to be subjected and submitted to that truth i'm not going to let that that lie have authority over me so i want you to pray declare this over yourself right now we're gonna break these agreements just look at me and declare this out loud say in jesus name i break all agreements and contracts i've made with the devil and declare the blood of jesus over my sin in jesus name i exercise authority given to me by jesus and commands satan out of my life in jesus name i establish a contract with god's prophetic testimony of my kingdom purpose god has declared something over your life and in jesus name i commit doing whatever it takes to fulfill god's prophetic testimony over my life in jesus name i pray amen and i break the contract i'm going to challenge you go home write your contract write out the contracts that you have you have them in your heart now you got to write them on paper so you could see them and then break them in jesus name we're going to take communion and hopefully you have some bread some juice fruit of the vine with you and when we take communion we are declaring that we understand jesus died and rose from the dead for our sin and we are declaring allegiance submission union with him in his death and resurrection so before we do that we want to give you an opportunity to ask him to forgive you of your sin so just look at me and say jesus i surrender my life to you i realize i'm a sinner and that the penalty of my sin is death but i believe you died and rose for me for me and i surrendered my life to you in jesus name amen if you prayed that prayer plea please text the word saved to 52525 and we want to help you in your relationship with god but i want you to get out the bread and some juice or glass of wine whatever it is you're gonna take your communion with and we are going to declare that we remember that jesus died for our sin and rose from the dead and recommit our life to him when he says do this and remember to me he says when you think of me i want you to think of my death i want you to think of my sacrifice and then i want you to recommit yourself to living a life of sacrifice so get out the bread and pray this prayer with me say dear god i remember that you died and that you rose and that you were beat and that you suffered and that you were whipped so i take this bread acknowledging that confessing my submission to you in jesus name amen get out your juice or whatever you have this is the blood of the new covenant and old testament they would shed animal blood but then jesus shed his sinless blood once and for all and so as you take this you are acknowledging that you have been cleansed of the blood of jesus and that you are forgiven once and for all lord we thank you so much for your faithfulness thank you so much for your goodness and i pray that everyone listening would understand the power of your death and resurrection and the power of your sinless blood and the extent to which we have been eternally forgiven pray this in jesus name amen if you prayed that prayer with us you tore up that contract you had communion i want you to understand spiritually you have been set free but now you have to live it every single day if you text the word save to five to five to five we wanna help you in that relationship in that journey but it is a constant every day journey the devil's going to come after you you're going to have temptations you're going to hear about in your head i can get away with it i can decide good and evil on my own but you must stay faithful to the word of god to prayer come to church get us in a group get someone in your life who can help you like iron sharpens iron help you in your relationship with god i'm in a small group i have a small group of people i meet with all the time to encourage them they encourage me you can't do this alone i remember one time i was in hawaii on a vacation and i was on a cliff and the cliff went down probably 500 feet to rocks i would have died and this voice feeling presence came over me to jump and it was so real that i literally had to walk away from the edge because it was i felt like i was going to go it was that real the devil is real he's very subtle he very rarely show himself to you or reveal himself to you in a really powerful tangible way he's very subtle that's why you must be faithful every single day i want to pray for you before i go because i'm so excited about you being set free but you need to walk in that freedom every day lord i pray for every person listening i pray in jesus name for power for clarity for courage and boldness and patience to walk with you faithfully one day at a time and to surround themselves with people of god who can encourage them and speak life to them in jesus name amen god bless you we'll see you next week i don't know about you vince but today's sermon was incredibly incredibly powerful i also love when our congregation comes together and celebrates communion together and i actually don't want to rush too quickly from this moment if you prayed that prayer with pastor miles it is important that you understand that you get to walk in victory according to romans 6 we don't have to be slaves to sin because we are alive in god better preach aly come on now i want to encourage you to continue to allow the holy spirit to speak into this area of your life this week carve out space get in the word and make sure you prepare your hearts to listen to his voice amen amen i'm gonna do that i definitely plan to do that this week well before we wrap up family we want to remind you that we have an online weekly bulletin available if you want to learn more about upcoming events visit sunday sdrout.com or text bulletin to 52525 to get access i saw some really cool events on their events yeah and before we close we want to remind you that the rock school of ministry is starting fall classes at the end of august there's so many cool classes on there and paths for everyone whether you simply want to do a deeper dive into theology be better equipped to serve or whether you desire to go to seminary one day the cool thing is that you can take these classes online from anywhere in the world if you want to learn more and take the first step about being equipped for ministry visit rockschoolofministry.com or text the letters rsom252525 well family vets i think i'm starting to feel a little bit of sweat around my eyes because the time that we're not really looking for is here we have to say goodbye but guess what we're gonna see you guys next week but remember before you go please please please follow us on all of our social platforms at the rock san diego and head over to our youtube channel for more rock messages and content we will see you guys very soon take care and god bless you [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] you

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