The Name Above All Names

[Music] rise up in jesus name open eyes and heal the land rise up declare his truth we're the ones who cannot live [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is i want to welcome everybody here this morning we are pleased to have you with us both those who are here physically but also those that are watching by internet and so we're going to get started if you have your bibles we're going to go through some scriptures today and we're going to look at something that you've heard me mention before and of course because of the topic years ago back when i was in martial arts we were always looking for that one technique that one technique that would work against anything and you would drill that and drill that and we had it narrowed down to about between three and five kind of we'd say okay this you know five would work these five would work pretty much with everything three would work with about 80 so that's what you spent your time training and whenever i and i had become a christian when i was nine i started following god more awareness when i was 17 and then my commitment grew and knowing what i'm supposed to be doing actually grew but whenever i got out of martial arts and i started really focusing on what i was called to do it was amazing because i still had the same mindset i kept thinking because i saw all these people doing all these things they were doing all these different things and none of them worked and or very few of them and sometimes one would work and then the next time it wouldn't work and then sometimes this would work and then it wouldn't work and so it was just scattered and you know people thought well if we pray longer pray harder pray louder sing louder sing longer whatever it is and they had all these ideas and i noticed that most of them that didn't help and so i was really frustrated and but i had that same mindset that there should be something that worked all the time and as i started studying i realized going through the bible that there really is something that works all the time if you work it all the time and that's real simple it's just the name of jesus the name of jesus always works when there's faith in that name and so we could say faith in the name of jesus we can narrow it down to those two things you might say but if you can have faith in the name of jesus then everything else should work every time you have to use that name and what i started looking at was number one as we all know and we say it and a lot of people don't believe it but we still say it uh and and it is true that many times people say well i use the name of jesus but it didn't work well it's true in the sense that you might have used the name of jesus like an incantation you know kind of like witches do by trying to invoke something but that's not how it works but now we always say well the greatest miracle is getting born again well we know that's true at the same time people honestly just tend not to get as excited about somebody getting saved as they do somebody getting out of a wheelchair which proves we still go more by sight sometimes than by faith and by believing what the word of god says now that being said knowing that the being born again is the greatest miracle the greatest thing that could actually happen on earth then we can also know that if you get saved you're saved by the name of jesus and by faith in that name and so if you believe let's just say it this way if you got born again you've already experienced the greatest miracle that can ever happen and number two if you have faith enough to experience the greatest miracle that can ever happen you obviously have faith to experience lesser things if you want to call them lesser it kind of depends on where you're at at the time a person dying of cancer might not think that healing is lesser but it's kind of all on your perspective but this morning i wanted to talk about the name of jesus because and one of the things that we've that i've been looking at personally is that the purpose of this church this ministry what we do around the world the purpose is to train believers to be able to function in jesus's stead bottom line is what it comes down to that we are to be him to the people and that whatever he can do and has done we should be able to do and be able to demonstrate amen do you agree with that so we have to decide how to do that and the only way that i have found really to do that obviously there's a bunch of pieces to this renewing the mind of course is vital but if we just hit along the surface and be very superficial about it then we can expect very superficial results and so what we have to look at is some things there are there are times you know uh different times i was studying different things but in everything regardless whether it was bible whether it was back in martial art days or anything else there were times that i had to put everything else aside and focus on that thing and when i focused on that thing then i would get good at that that would learn it function in it it would work for me whatever it was and this was true like i said whether it was bible or maybe when you were in college or in school somewhere you had to give yourself to that study for a while say look i see all this going on but i can't do that now i've got to do this i've got i've got a test coming up i've got something going on and i've got to get ready for that so i've got to go study i've got to focus on this and too often in our christian lives we forget that i can guarantee you tomorrow you got a test coming up you don't know where it is you don't know when it's going to happen but you got a test coming up and so really for us we have to live at a place where what we do and what we believe works for us if not then why believe it i mean god is pretty simple if you if you love him you keep his commandments you love your neighbor then he said if you abide in me and my words abide in you you can ask what you will and it shall be done so either he's telling the truth or he's not and if he's not then he's a liar and if he's a liar then we might as well hang it up and go do something else but the fact is because he is telling the truth then if there is failure the failure is on our part and so i wanted to look at the name of jesus here just shortly and i doubt if i'll get through all of it i know i won't get through all of it about the name of jesus i know that but i'm talking about my notes i doubt if i get through all my notes today so we'll get we'll see how far we get but the key to this is this and and again i love what uh smith wigglesworth i he wrote something here uh let's see yeah he says we must not be content with a mere theory of faith we must have faith within us so that we move from the ordinary to the extraordinary now think about that a lot of people have a theory of faith they can teach faith they can talk faith they they can quote scriptures and yet their life is defeated and honestly what you believe is what you have faith in or you should have faith for i guess we could say but what you have what you believe shows in your life you can't say well here here's my life but here's what i believe no what you believe you see in your life it's that simple why because you have what you believe the problem is most people don't believe what they think they believe and too often they keep their minds on other things so they will never really believe what they say they believe and too often we have what we call mental ascent that means we agree with the word yep yep that's the bible it's the word of god yes it's true and they stop right there but having faith is not yep that's the bible and it's true having faith in god is that's true for me it's mine we walk together god and i walk together and what he said is true and this is how i live and you see it in your life now there are stages of growth of course so everybody's not gonna just jump in and be operating at a hundred percent we understand that but even in that there should be growth and over a period of time your life should display the characteristics of christ and display the blessings of god in other words if if you're always in need always hurting always sick always there's always something going on then you need to analyze your life and say okay what in what areas or am i not believing because it's easy sometimes when you get sick to actually have your faith shift to where you're believing in sickness and so when i say believing in sickness we don't we do not teach that sickness doesn't exist all right sickness exists and it will kill you if you don't deal with it what we teach is that we don't believe that sickness has the right to live in our bodies because our bodies belong to jesus and therefore it is our job as good stewards of our bodies for him that we are to keep sickness and disease out of our lives now before you can keep it out you got to get it out so that's the first stage is getting it out and that's one of the reasons why i want to talk about this this morning because we're going to be talking about it in both sessions but one of the things that i found is that most people have faith in the name of jesus to get saved they have faith in the name of jesus that of who he was of what he did but many don't have faith in jesus and especially in the name of jesus of who he is and what he's doing and so at some point we have to make that shift from just an idea or just the religious theory of faith to where we live faith you know it's amazing to me over in the hebrews in the beginning of chapter six it even talks about it says that let us leave these fundamentals these basic principles and he said in that that he says not going again back to these things in other words we shouldn't have to go back again and teach faith we shouldn't have to go back in and teach the resurrection from the dead we shouldn't have to do these things in other words he said by reason of time we have been in this faith long enough that we know these things and it was really really amazing because he says not going back or laying again the foundation of faith towards god and yet if you cut out teaching faith towards god 99 of the churches in america would have to shut down why because that's what they teach is you have to have faith now now there's a difference in giving people the word of god and them getting faith and walking with god in faith and having faith towards god but that's totally different than teaching people and telling you got to have faith you need to have faith you should have faith see we we shouldn't even be teaching along those lines how you got saved is how you live this life in other words you see it in the bible somebody convinced you that certain scriptures were true you decided to to believe it to act upon it and now you live as though that is true and you see changes in your life and that's how you do everything in the bible it's that simple you know one of the things that i actually wrote down it's been weighing on me heavily probably the three top things that i can think of that are the most damaging to the body of christ is these three wrong teachings number one the wrong teaching of the sovereignty of god that god is in total control and he's only in control of what you give him control of in your life it's that simple now he can turn things around but if he has to turn things around it means he wasn't in control right just something to think about right and it's funny the people that want to say he's in total control are also the ones that always say well he turns all things to the good you know and then they start mixing scriptures but so the first one would be the and i'm not saying this is first in in order of importance i'm just saying the first word mention is the wrong teaching on the sovereignty of god the second one is wrong teaching on being led by the spirit of god what it means to be led what the bible talks about about being led because p that has stopped so many christians from doing what they know they should be doing and then number three wrong teaching on the anointing because that has become this mystical it's become a god in itself to many people and and they talk about the anointing and sometimes it's from the from the pulpit of a uh i'm special and you're not and you you know you can't know the things i can know which is all garbage and so then on the other end it's the idea of well the anointing comes on a person and they can do these things but when the anointing lives they can't do them well if the anointing comes and goes they get saved and lost because the anointing is the holy spirit and you have an anointing that abides amen it doesn't come and go it doesn't wane you come and go you know you we say well the anointing is stronger but then it weakened or it or it lifted no no no you got stronger and then you weakened right and that's all that is is how much you let him out now so to me these are the three worst teachings in the body of christ because it does so much damage and it infiltrates and everything else what i want to show you this morning is how the name of jesus can be applied anywhere anytime for anything and you can have faith in that name and you've probably already had faith in that name so now it's time to expand and have faith in that name in other areas amen so philippians chapter 2 verse 9 wherefore god also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name you hear that a name above every name so whatever name you can come up with his name is above it and now it's not just being above it because you can have a name above and nothing happened to anything below but we go on to read in verse 10 that at the name of jesus every knee should bow do you hear that every knee of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth now what does that mean that means everything in heaven answers to the name of jesus that means everything on earth can change based on the name of jesus and it also means that demons devils fallen angels whatever you want to call anything in that realm they all have to bow their name their need to the name of jesus because i don't care what name they have it's below the name of jesus amen now then it says in verse 11 and that every tongue should confess that jesus christ is lord to the glory of god the father so let's just go through some of these scriptures i'll show you how they were used and how important they are that it is that we have an understanding of the name of jesus we're going to be hitting on this and it'll probably be for a couple of weeks and i'll be gone next week of course but when i get back we will probably be picking this up because if you can get this everything you do will work do you get that so it would behoove us to old english word behoove you might have to look that up i don't know but but it would be to us to actually dig into this and find out what is as and there's several good books about the name of jesus at least two of them one is called the wonderful name of jesus by e.w kenyon and the other was called the name of jesus by kenneth hagin and there's others out there too there's plenty of them out there but i know of those two probably the best and so in acts chapter 16. acts chapter 16 verse 16. and it came to pass as we went to prayer a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us which brought her masters much gain by sooth saying now notice a spirit of divination means she was a fortune teller now think about this this is she had a spirit actually the original greek says she had a spirit of python a python spirit that actually gave now notices knowledge fortune future that kind of thing and what it was it was a fortune telling spirit so first off this tells us two things soothsayers fortune tellers is a demon spirit and christians are forbidden to use them right and that includes anything else now let me tell you a close cousin to this spirit okay it's called the internet because every day there's 1500 different videos coming out about what's going to happen in two weeks next week this is gonna happen you watch next month it's always future never happens but it's always future and then you got christians that are spreading that stuff around and they end up talking about it like it's the gospel and they wouldn't know the gospel if it walked up and slapped them in the face because they spend all their time watching stupid videos by stupid people that are preaching to stupid people watching it [Laughter] you do not have time to watch that garbage you need faith in god you need to walk in faith in god and you don't get it by watching youtube videos about the end of tomorrow and the sky is falling so you have to get your face in the bible another quote all lack of faith is due to not feeding on the word of god you need it daily do you get that you need to focus not look to the left or to the right and you'll recognize i'm speaking scriptures here and that you're to meditate there in day and night meditate when you rise and when you go to bed that means focus on the word of god that means keep your mind on the word of god he said that he will keep you in perfect peace because your mind is stayed upon him not stayed upon what's supposed to happen next week that nobody even knows if it's going to happen god might be trying to make sure that doesn't happen but you're so busy as a christian and there's power in your words and you keep spreading that garbage that god might have actually a hard time getting things done because he can't get his people to speak truth because they're too busy speaking lies that are told to them by people that are their job is to lie to people at some point we're going to get decide what's important and what's true because i can guarantee you the knowledge of that stuff ain't gonna help you it ain't gonna happen well i need to know what's coming so i can prepare you can't prepare enough that's the problem well but this is this is gonna last for three years okay to try to store food for three years see what happens because as soon as your neighbors run out they're going to raid your pantry what are you going to do shoot them the awful quiet okay you're going to shoot them we got that all right now so just saying no matter god has a way of things working out certain ways that he can know what you're going to do and and i'm not saying that he put you to the test at times but there are times that whenever you just like with abraham i mean abraham he you know god didn't tell abraham to stop before he raised the knife it was while the knife was in midair that he said don't do it why because he said now i know that you fear me now i know and so we have to realize sometimes that everything we're doing is a test in one way or another every everything we're doing shows our faith in god shows our faith either our faith in god or our faith in the arm of flesh you know and and i can't well i know of certain particular stories both the bible and in modern times where people had stored up certain things only to open it and find that there were worms and stuff in the food that stored up and as we used to say especially with flower and things like that bold weevils those things would come in and make a mess and you can't even use the stuff anymore but that's where people's faith is when the bible says that we are to have faith in the name of jesus we were talking about some of that stuff the other day and somebody was telling me and they're like well i guess you're the right person to be around because you believe that god can feed you like you did elijah i said and bring have a bird bring it to you better be a big bird it's gonna have to carry a lot another bird with it called a chicken [Music] so we'll see what it can carry but whatever it is it's going to be something but yeah i do believe no matter what if if my faith is in god he will take care of me now that doesn't mean be stupid and you know try to drive your car without gas or you know well i'm just going to believe god's going to fill my gas tank uh if you got money in your pocket and there's gas at the station go fill it up real simple amen don't don't sit back and keep your money in your pocket and expect god to fill your gas tank now if you give your money out to the poor then god may fill your gas tank or to feed the hungry or whatever you understand what i'm saying but we have to realize that if we're going to have faith in god it starts with faith in the name of jesus because he told us this is how we get them to watch our i'll go into the scriptures but he said that this girl this damsel possessed with the spirit of divination met us and which brought her masters much gained by saying now think about this this girl had masters she had owners she was a slave girl and she had a demon which apparently i don't know how she got this demon or when she got it if she was a slave girl and then got the demon or had the demon and they bought her because they saw that she had some kind of talent but regardless they were making money keeping her possessed do you realize that that's how bad people are here's this girl think of this this girl is possessed of a devil tormented why because devils don't just possess you and don't torment you and so she was tormented she had a spirit of a divination a fortune telling spirit and these owners of hers made sure that they kept her in a way that she would keep that spirit they made sure nobody would set her free why because they made she made them money think about that that's very close today to like the sex trafficking stuff where people keep people down and keep them in bondage to make them money and when people go through that stuff even though it's not even of their own accord they also get demons because of how they're kept in these things so it's the same thing same type of attitude in people today so it says here in verse 17 the same followed paul and us and cried saying these men are the servants of the most high god which show unto us the way of salvation now notice she's following them along she has a demon and she's basically telling the truth except if you read it in the greek if you read this in the greek it says not not well i'm just going to point out one point because it says in the king james these men are servants of the most high god true which show unto us the way of salvation that's king james that's true the original greek says which show unto us a way of salvation so she was actually lying slightly twisting it so what was she doing she was promoting their ministry which would give credit to her some give her some credibility but now i love this part in verse 18 and this did she many days but paul being grieved turned now watch and said to the spirit i command thee in the name of jesus christ to come out of her and he came out the same hour he that spirit was a he in a her do you get that so a her can have a he spirit today they call that transgender okay so just winning friends all over right now but here's the good news you can be free by the name of jesus christ but you got to find a preacher with enough guts to call it what it is and command it to come out and not be afraid of getting you know canceled somewhere or getting somebody you know marching out in front but signs telling you you're intolerant and that you're a hater you bet i am i hate sin i hate people being in bondage i hate oppression and if people want to line up out front come on line up out front bring your signs make it plain tell me what you are and i will look at you like a healing line and i will go down the line and cast every spirit out of you standing in front of this building try me and see we ain't afraid of no devils and i don't care how much governmental authority they have they still have to bow to the name of jesus amen and we'll see when that happens how many of you are here we're with you brother we're watching on tv we're watching you okay we'll see now but notice this spirit came out of her that self-same hour that same hour think about that and he he said to the spirit i command thee in the name of jesus christ to come out of her he used that name why because that demon and every demon knows it as the ballots need to the name of jesus the um in acts chapter nine we'll keep going here real quick acts chapter nine where are we at yeah we're good verse 27 but barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared unto them of course he's talking about saul who became paul and declared unto them how he had seen the lord in the way and that he had spoken to him and how he had preached boldly at damascus in the name of jesus and he was with them coming in and going out of jerusalem and he spoke boldly in the name of the lord jesus notice how many times it says that this is one of the primary aspects or primary characteristics of being filled with the spirit if you have received the baptism of the spirit and and are filled with the spirit of god then you will speak boldly in the name of jesus doesn't mean you're always preaching but you will speak boldly in the name of jesus and he spoke boldly in the name of jesus and disputed against the grecians but they went about to slay him acts 2. now i know we're backing up a little bit acts 2 verse 38 then peter said unto them repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus christ why for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the holy ghost for the promise is unto you and to your children and to all that are far off even as many as the lord our god shall call do you hear that the promise of the holy spirit is to every person that god has called if you are called now that does not mean called to ministry in the sense of being an apostle prophet evangelist pastor teacher it means that he has called to him right and so basically it means if you're a christian you are called why because we know from romans of course that if you're called then you're also been justified and justified you've been glorified you know all this so this is who you are and if you have been called then you have been called to actually receive the gift of the holy spirit now he says in verse 40 and with many other words that he testified and exhorts saying save yourselves from this untoward generation then they that gladly received his word were baptized and the same day they were added unto them about three thousand souls and these three thousand souls watch us continue steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayers and fear came upon every soul and the watch and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles wonders and signs how do they do them in the name of jesus that name above all names you need to focus on the name of jesus a bit you need to start reading your bible about the name of jesus going into the scriptures talking about the name it says in acts chapter 3 verse 1 now peter and john went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer being the ninth hour that's at 3 p.m and a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called beautiful to ask alms of them that entered into the temple whose seeing peter and john about to go into the temple asking alms and peter fastening his eyes upon him with john said look on us and he gave heed unto them expecting to receive something of them then peter said silver and gold have i none but such as i have this man knew he had something such as i have give i thee he knew he had it and he knew he could give it away in the name of jesus christ of nazareth rise up and walk notice that's a command it wasn't a request he didn't pray he was going to pray he had not yet prayed and he took him by the right hand lifted him up and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength and he leaping up stood and walked and entered with them into the temple walking and leaping and praising god and all the people saw him walking and praising god and they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the beautiful gate of the temple and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him and as the lame man which was healed held peter and john all the people ran together unto them in the porch and it's called solomon's greatly wondering and when peter saw it he answered unto the people you men of israel why marvel ye at this or why look ye so earnestly on us as though by our own power our holiness we had made this man to walk now right there he just shot down the fact that he did this because he was an apostle or he did this because he had something special that other people didn't have because then he says if you're going down to verse 16 and it says and his name through faith in his name talk about the name of jesus hath made this man strong do you hear that his name through faith in his name made that man strong so you have two things here number one you have the name of jesus and then you have faith in that name and when you have faith in that name it causes the lame to walk amen it wasn't because he was an apostle it wasn't because he was special wasn't because of any special power or any special gifting he said what i have i give you in the name of jesus christ of nazareth rise up and walk what did he have he had the name well how did we how did he know he had the name because jesus said all authority in heaven and earth has been given unto me therefore you go and he said and in my name if you believe these signs will follow see we have to realize it is in that name but many people have all these other things just like i talked about while ago the sovereignty of god wrong teaching concerning the anointing wrong teaching concerning being led by the spirit no you don't have to be led by the spirit to use the name all you gotta do is see a need and you can use that name and when you do that you're being led by the spirit the problem is you many i'm not saying you i'm just saying people tend to think in the body of christ that being led by the spirit has some type of feeling associated with it so they can know when they're being led by the spirit jesus made that very clear he said what is how is the holy spirit he's like the wind that blows nobody knows where he comes from or where he goes but we think we can feel him and we think that that feeling we get has to do with him leading us no he's a spirit he's not flesh he doesn't lead you by the flesh he doesn't lead you by feeling why because we walk by faith and not by sight which also means not by hearing also not by feeling amen so you can operate by faith in the name of jesus anytime there is a need and any time you function in the name of jesus i understand there's two ways to use the name of jesus one is by using the name and saying in the name of jesus which we typically do because we want people to know that we're connected to him and that it's him doing it but the bible also tells us and i'll give you the scripture in just a minute where it actually tells us that everything we do we are to do in the name of jesus everything think about that it says in him we live and move and have our being in him in who in jesus it's that name it's amazing you read through the scriptures i was just looking at some of the different scriptures about it he says here and watch and his name verse 16 through faith in his name has made this man strong whom you see and know yea the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all and what you're going down to verse 19 he says repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the lord if you go to acts chapter 4 verse 1 and i'll try to read this one let's see here yeah i'll go ahead verse 1 and as they spoken to the people the priests and the captain of the temple and the sadducees came upon them being grieved that they taught the people and preached through jesus the resurrection of the dead now notice it was the sadducees that came up and they didn't believe in a resurrection but notice they were preaching through jesus so how did they know how who they were preaching through they had used the name of jesus then he said in in verse three and they laid hands on them not the kind of hands you want laid down on you they laid hands on them and put them in the hole put them in prison until the next day for it was now even tied so they said no we don't want them doing this so arrest them how bit many of them which heard the word believed and the number of the men was about five thousand and it came to pass on the moral that their rulers and elders and scribes and anas the high priest and caiaphas and john and alexander and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest were gathered together at jerusalem and when they had set them in the midst they asked by what power notice what they ask them by what power or by what name have you done this then peter filled with the holy ghost said unto them you rulers of the people and elders of israel if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man by what means he is made whole be it known unto you all and to all the people of israel that by the name of jesus christ of nazareth whom you crucified whom god raised from the dead even by him does this man stand here before you whole and look at that that by the name of jesus christ of nazareth by that name this man he said you cannot deny the fact that this man was lame and now he's healed now notice what this good deed did it got them arrested think about that but they said it was this he said all these are gathered there and he said it's by the name of jesus that this man was made whole he said in verse 11 this is a stone which was said it not by you builders which has become the head of the corner in other words this jesus whom you crucified god raised up you couldn't even kill him and keep him dead why because this is the one that jesus that god set this jesus of nazareth to be the cornerstone that our entire nation must be built upon then look at verse 12 neither is there salvation in any other you hear that no other name watches for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved that name of jesus that name there is only one way to the father and that's jesus it's not muhammad it's not buddha it's not self-help amen it's not tony robbins it's not oprah those names won't get you anywhere in the spirit realm well they'll get you somewhere but not we're not where you want to go all right it's the name of jesus that is above every other name and every other name has to bow its knee now that also means the name cancer has to bow its knee it means that the name covet has to bow its name because i could get started on that but we want today but i will tell you if there's a name out there that's hurting people the name of jesus is above that name and can stop it amen amen now he says now watch this now when they in verse 13 now when they saw the boldness of peter and john and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men they marveled and they took knowledge of them that they had been with jesus see jesus can take ignorant and unlearned men and make people marvel at it he does it pretty much every sunday right so and beholding the man which was hill standing with them they could say nothing against it but when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council they conferred among themselves saying what shall we do to these men for that indeed a notable miracle has been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in jerusalem in other words everybody knows it what are we going to do about this we don't like it but it says we cannot deny it but that is spread no further among the people let us straightly threaten them that they speak henceforth to no man in this name see they didn't mind you talking philosophy they didn't mind you talking theology they just didn't want you to talk the name of jesus why because that name bothers people that don't know him he says here and when they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of jesus but peter and john answered and said unto them whether it be right in the sight of god to hearken unto you more than unto god you judge for we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard so when they had further threatened them you notice that they threatened them and then peter said we're not going to listen to you then they further threaten them oh so you you seriously threaten us now okay it's amazing my mind went to a movie clip that's sorry a few good men oh you seriously object okay i strenuously object okay that that you object you understand what i'm saying in a court case you can object just because you strength strenuously object isn't going to make the objection work it's the same thing here we threatened you and did okay so you you seriously threaten oh okay so we should listen to you now because the other threat we didn't listen to but this one we should listen to because you you are seriously threatening us now okay but you're still not doing anything to us do you get that people quit before anything ever happens why because the wicked flee when none pursue but the righteous are as bold as a lion amen too many people quit when somebody says i'm fixing to punch you oh okay i'll stop no punch them first no wait that's not true my dad always told me you never threaten a man what you're going to do you do it if you're going to threaten him you're threatening from a position of weakness why because they knew they couldn't do anything and i'm sure the apostles probably figured that out too because why couldn't they do something because the people knew about it and a notable miracle had taken place so there was really not much they could do about at that point but here they're threatening them but notice and it's funny because people talk about well it's like walking through the valley of the shadow of death why are you worried about the shadow of death my shadow never killed anybody amen so you shouldn't fear walking through the valley of the shadow of death especially if you know god is with you amen matter of fact if god's with you your shadow ought to be healing people amen i mean look if we either believe this or it's or we don't this bible is either true or it's not if it's true and whatever if we have what they had we can do what they did amen but we're not going to get that by just being typical everyday little christians that come to church on sunday and go back home and live your you know secular life the rest of the week doesn't work that way you if you were born again and you have the spirit of god then you you have power in you that wants to get out but it can't if you have too many layers of you left if you have too many layers of the world too many layers of of your secular reasoning too many layers of news everything that keeps the spirit of god trapped inside but if you stay focused on the word of god and this is what you read it's what you think it's what you talk about then he gets closer to the surface and why because more of you is peeling away but it's so much more exciting to have some new news tidbit than it is to tell people scripture that they've heard for the last 50 years but i'll tell you what it's the people that stay in the scripture that'll be standing whenever all the dust settles why because if you stand on the word the word will stand with you if you're going to be if your mind automatically goes to all these other stuff then that's where you that's what you believe oh no no no i believe the bible i'm i'm just staying aware of this other stuff well you're more aware of it than you are the bible you either believe the bible or you don't if you believe it you're going to do it but there has to be that break there has to be that i'll tell you what it is you have to get fed up with being normal because it normal doesn't work you know contrary to popular opinion normal does not work it's like wigglesworth said i want to get you to a place where you're no longer ordinary but you're extraordinary i want to get you at a place where you were fed up with being ordinary he said i want to get you to a place in the world where you will laugh at the impossible think about that i i can tell you different stories different things i've seen in my own life different things going on but i can tell you if you walk with god and you stay in his word and that word is foremost in your life to where this is what you live it's what you breathe it's what you talk about then the impossible will happen around you and when it does you'll be amazed but not near as amazed as the people that are looking at you and watching you why because they they can't figure out how you can do that because to them you're just you know this crazy person you're just a person that's still well they're just religious or they're just off into this or whatever it is uh then why do you go to them when you need help see people always you're either helping or needing help that's the way life is and you have to decide if you're going to be a helper or if you're going to need help and now is the time to be ready to help amen we've never been in a time in my lifetime where so many people have been so much in fear that they need deliverance from a spirit of fear that's the first thing most people need deliverance from right now the spirit of fear after that and from that spirit of fear the stress comes from fear and a lot of sickness and ailments come from stress and it just wears people down and the enemy has a heyday just can come right on in because their immune system is depleted because they're so worried about everything in reality you have to realize that if you have the name of jesus nothing can stand before you and when you put your hand on something it flees it doesn't jump on you i get that question from so many christians well what about whenever you know if i cast the devil out can it jump on me it don't want to if you can cast it out it wants to get as far from you as possible matter of fact honestly usually it will leave before you get there usually it will try to run off and hide so that when you get there it doesn't show anything the devil's best tactic is to act like he doesn't exist and to stay quiet he doesn't usually like to speak up he only does that when he has to but you have to realize god wants to walk in you he wants to talk in you he wants to live his life through you because we have this in us but most people never let him out and and if they do it's only when they when they are in real need rather than letting him out regularly for other people it's amazing when you let him out for other people you hardly ever have a real need you personally it's amazing the more you help others the less help you need but you have the power of god if you have received the baptism the holy spirit again quoting wigglesworth he said it is an insult to god to ask god for power after you have received the baptism of the holy ghost he said you have power you need to act we've been convinced oh the sovereignty of god i don't want to mess that up oh i don't know if i'm being led maybe this is just me what if it is if you're helping somebody so what maybe it is just you if it could be just you it couldn't be because you're human and your intentions are not generally toward other people most humans are self-centered and selfish so if you're doing something for others it probably ain't you that makes sense we have to realize that but people say well but what if what if it's me and what if it's not god uh if you're going to help somebody who cares where it comes from who cares if that you are god who cares about that well you know if i just don't want to do anything of my own accord yeah you do you do it all the time it's amazing you only ask god if it's his will when you don't want to do something if you want to do it you don't even ask him you just go do it and he's usually happy about it depending on what you're doing does it make sense so i gotta stop yeah i'll finish with this last verse here he says for we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard in verse 21 so when they had further threatened them oh there it is again further threaten them they let them go finding nothing how they might punish them because of the people for all men glorified god for that which was done so all that threatening and they let them go imagine that so and we could go on and on we'll probably pick this up in a part two in the future because i definitely want to be um i definitely want to carry this on start thinking more about the name of jesus and the power of that name faith in that name will work now if you use it don't have faith in the name it won't work but if you have faith in the name of jesus which means you got saved and you can look at that and say okay in the name of jesus what does that mean what would he do if he were here and whatever he would do if he were here you can do in the name of jesus do you get that whatever he could do if he were here you can do in the name of jesus why because he is here in you and when you use that name actually what it says in uh one verse i will tell you this and i know i gotta stop in john yeah john chapter 14 and verse 13 it says and whatsoever you shall ask in my name that will i do that the father may be glorified in the son if you shall ask anything in my name i will do it here that he repeated himself twice repeated himself twice that means this is important guys listen whatever you ask in my name that will i do that's the king james original greek it's even stronger he says whatsoever you shall ask in my name that i will be doing think about that whatever you asking the father in my name that i will be doing in other words you're going to ask the father he's going to grant it and i'm going to do it and so it's him doing it do you get that when you use the name of jesus you're calling jesus onto the scene so that he can do what he would do if he were there in the flesh i wrote a tract 30 years ago a little bitty track called if if you got no guts god gets no glory you have to have gus to actually step out and trust god and when you put your hand out his hand goes out but if you got no guts to stick your hand out he gets no glory because nothing's gonna happen but when you put that hand out in the name of jesus guess what he's on the scene and especially if we have two or three gathered together come on he said there am i in the midst of you i'm right there amen when you use that name it's you are causing him to come on the scene and do what he would do if he were there in the flesh think about that that alone should give you encouragement and honestly just faith in the name of jesus even stronger amen joking anything out of this this morning that name's above all names amen amen amen

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Length: 53min 24sec (3204 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 30 2021