"The Weapons of Our Warfare" Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr. (BeBe Winans singing "Oh It Is Jesus")

[Music] you're gonna be seated for a minute have you stayed back up a little bit this is my friend Reverend Felix Bingham and his wife Tony from Virginia that's hanging out with us today you don't want y'all to show some love [Applause] y'all meet him a little bit legislator go also glad to have my friend BeBe Winans is in I'm gonna put him on the spot and see you see it feel shame for [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] like did me then not hurt Jesus he was standing by to give him a try say already wonderful cheese Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] to what the hell [Applause] Oh [Music] your daddy could do it Jackson Oh [Music] [Music] Oh [Applause] [Music] Oh [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right [Applause] [Music] if you're able to stand the me ask everybody to stand get your neighbor's name y'all be shouting all day y'all be shopping resting today [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] shake three people two or three people's hands say we got the victim [Applause] we got the pitch [Music] [Music] [Music] Bunji [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] man [Applause] my god my god [Applause] you want to just tell them thank you [Music] yours you [Music] alright alright get your neighbors name if you haven't already on both sides get their their name and grab their hands my god [Applause] [Music] if you if you're a guest with us every Sunday we get each other's names and pray we grab hands and we take a minute or two and pray for each other I've been telling the church all day somebody wrote me a letter recently and said why don't we hold hands and I want that person know if you don't like the hold hands you don't have to hold hands just be in the position where you don't have to hold hands but we believe in unity in our church and we believe for one time in our service we take our minds and hearts off of what we want and join collectively with others and pray for one another and it brings a bond of unity and honest that's why we hold hands it's power in unity God moves in unity God does miracles with people like him God answers prayers when people are God opens doors when vision God heals people when people we think I'd do miracles and others believe it so go ahead let's we're gonna take a moment and pray who I pray for the person on both sides [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Father in the name of the Lord Jesus in his we are moved today by the thought all the wonderful things you've done on our behalf we are we are blessed to think about the doors you've opened and the prayers you've answered and the miracles you've wrought and we give you praise in your glory we come in a city and praying for each other calling each other's name out before your altar asking you to work miracles in their life whatever they stand it Anita of rule and reign you be in charge of their life you meet their needs you accommodate whatever they stand at Anita in the name of Jesus and father we confess our sins to you we pray for unsaved people backslidden people unsure people unchurched uncommitted with interceding and praying you were speak to them today Heavenly Father I pray that you put a shield around this place bind every demonic and distract the spirit anoint us to be your mouthpiece Almighty God and your instrument let your Saints be strengthened and edified and that your name get the glory we thank you for what you've already done and what you shall do this day in Jesus name Amen all right you can be seated and I want you to open your Bibles to second Corinthians chapter 10 Thank You BB sir thank you but I know you got a call to catch a flight but thank you so much for coming and making the deposit thank you for being my friend I'm going to read this passage initially from the New International Version in RV but I want to preach from the New King James like I always do but I just wanted you to read the context of this passage that the Apostle Paul writes so that his second letter to the church in Corinth it's a trouble Church with a lot of challenges and problems I like the twelve o'clock service I could take my time in this service I rushed through it in the morning services but I'm going to take my time in this one I thought what y'all would say they remember that's okay it's a church that's had a lot of challenges and issues and problems and in the second in chapter 10 of said Corinthians he wants to address another problem that they have and allow me to read beginning in verse 1 I'm origines first six verses in the NIV by the humility and gentleness of Christ I appeal to you Paul Who am timid went face-to-face with you but bold towards you went away I beg you that when I come I may not have to be has bold as I expect to be towards some of you Joe are some people who who think that we live by the standards of this world for though we live in the world we do not wage war has the world does the weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world on the contrary they have divine power to demolish strongholds we demolish arguments and every pretension every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ and we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience once your obedience is completely that's a profound passage it's amazing and I want to talk to you about it today as well my passage for the day my subject for the day if I was going to use a subject or have a subject is the weapons of our warfare somebody say the weapons of our warfare God has afforded us some weapons for the war that we're in we're in a war know if you know it or not but your life is a war your journey is a war and most of you don't understand it you're in the war and it's a spiritual war you're in a battle for your soul your destiny for you to become and be everything that God has called you to be and everything that God is destined for you to be you and I are in a battle and most of us unfortunately don't recognize that we're in the battle and unfortunately we miss out on being victorious because we don't know we're in a war we are in the war Ernest what I've discovered in my 30 years I've been passed this church for 30 years preaching for 45 and I'm still a young man crazy I discovered in my journey here's one thing I learned about my walk with God every day every time every whatever I was approaching a significant advancement in my life or my ministry just before it happened all hell would break loose and I didn't you know growing up I didn't understand it for a long time I didn't understand it but once I started understanding that the devil is attempting to distract you and get you off track from your assignment and your purpose once I understood that and once I know that now that I know that when I went when all hell breaks loose I get excited because I know something about to break loose up in here up in here took me a while to understand that but I need some of y'all to understand about your life some of y'all quit before it's too soon you walk away you quit the job you walk out of the marriage you you do whatever it is you quit the ministry you quit going to church whatever you encounter some some challenges and efforts and you don't realize that the devil knows that if he puts a little bit of tension between you and your future he can get you to turn away and walk away and quit and cuss God and walk just be frustrated and upset and you miss out but the assignment that we have is to understand that we're in a war somebody say it's a war it is a battle we are in a battle it is a battle for your soul your destiny for your future for God has assigned to your hands to do the devil doesn't want you to get there cause when you get there you will reap havoc on his kingdom you're anointed to do great things you've been called of God to accomplish mighty things in your life there's great incredible people in this church who God is anointed to do significant things and some of you haven't gotten a yet because the devil is trying to frustrate you my assignment is to try to give you the weapons that God gives us to be able to fight this battle we have weapons you have weapons and if you know how to use it you can win the problem is you try to fight your weapons with carnal weapons you're trying to fight the battle and the world with carnal weapons somebody treats you wrong you you want to fight them by cussing them out come on out 12 o'clock this is a custom crowd right here y'all stop acting like y'all don't be cussing they're people y'all because some people out in Jesus name [Applause] but that's not how you fight your battle give it people two piece of your mind telling them off hating on people you don't win like that that's not how we win this battle tell you look at your neighbor said I didn't how you win tell them on the other side stop trying to fight with your flesh the scripture says the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty and God look at this first I love this verse right here in 2nd Corinthians chapter 10 in verse 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds to pull down a stronghold somebody say pull down the stronghold now what's the stronghold the stronghold is it back in the Bible days when they when one nation fought up against another nation or one kingdom against another kingdom but one city against another city when they when they were doing battle they had a place where they kept all their weaponry they had a place that was their strength their stronghold and that's what it was called a stronghold their fortress that's what it was their fortress it's where they went back to regroup where they went back to get strength and unfortunately y'all don't notice the devil has established some strongholds in your life he wants to regroup he comes back and sets up camp in areas of your life and a stronghold but primarily in your life is a belief is what it is something you believe some you believe is where the devil gets his strength he he breaks out his weapons and does his battle in a place of your belief and you have believes that a contrary to the beliefs of God and the devil comes and sets up camp and goes back and gets his strength and all constraints your life and get you to call the shots that he wants you to call not the one God wants you to call the one he wants you to call see ok y'all I feel like I don't know what I'm talking how many I'll ever made a bad decision before some of those bad decisions were fueled by the wrong beliefs you thought that just because a man wanted to have sex with you admit that he loves you y'all still believe that that's why y'all couldn't say memorizing you but you believe that so you marry him you kept hanging out with him even though the scripture says don't be unequally yoked with an unbelievable can I tell y'all something if you all say Amen together nobody know I'm talking about you you had a stronghold and there's a lot of strongholds in you in church people's lives church people have strongholds and things that they they have beliefs that they should have you think if you play the numbers if you play that if you if you play the numbers you gonna get rich you think if you play the numbers of the scriptures that the pastor read today [Applause] and then you say here's what the devil gets you to say and I'm gonna pay tithes home how's it feel tension over on this side of the room I don't know why the scripture says we have to pour down these strongholds and then he tells us how to do it in verse 5 he gives us fire he gives us three keys he tells us in verse five we have we have three keys his verse five casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God there's number one we got it somebody said God gives us the power to cast down say the power to cast down God gives us the power to cast down that's my first point that he gives us the power to cast down arguments the King James Version says imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God God we have God's knowledge and then you have the world's knowledge and we make the mistake in the end the error of holding up the arguments of the world the reasoning the computations the estimates the philosophies of the world and we let those things rule our lives the world says one thing god says something else the world says play the numbers God says no no work y'all see y'all listen hold up y'all just prove me right y'all think giving your tithes is like spinning the wheel no it's not abracadabra pay your tithes and boom you gonna get something back no that's not what ties is you're honoring God then he gave you the strength to go to work and have a child I don't I don't pay my tithes cuz I'm looking for a cash back okay I see I got to teach you all about finances and yeah that's not what ties are it's not it's not Russian Roulette it's not it's not the numbers that some of you that's what you you you you you tryna I'm trying to teach you that there's a world philosophy and that's the world platon numbers gamble God says work earn what the world says be attracted and marry somebody who looks good the scripture says talk to God about who you should get married the world says pick the one with the big booty and now you got women going out paying for big booties come on Halloween for a second you only got to like me I'm telling you true stay right there keep on talking about right there [Applause] that's that's a fact God says you don't you don't choose a person based on what they look like externally because though she might be shapely now she ain't gonna be like that fella she will be like a coca-cola bottle or like and that's that's what got you and attracted you what happens when she becomes a Pepsi liter bottle what happens when [Applause] come on down come on talk come on ma am I saying something design that right it's true you got to learn to not be attracted to people just on the external appearance you got to love people for the person inside of the body that they did you was attracted to the car he drove you didn't even know the car was in his mama's name it one name his car was you gave you gave some status to him cuz of the car he drove you need to ask yourself the question does he have a job can't he keep a job [Applause] you need to ask yourself how many kids does he already have [Applause] cuz y'all y'all y'all get married to somebody got ten kids and he now you don't want him to spend no time with his kids he had those kids for you came oh I'm talking to somebody right now you wrong cuz he had them kids whether you knew about it or not he had those kids before y'all got married I'm feeling something right here on just roll right [Applause] right do you understand what I'm saying we we we approaching it in wrong way but let me let me get back to my message I gotta hurry up I'm asking like I got all day we got a we have to cast down and stop listening to what the world says their philosophies y'all listening to the wrong people with their philosophies and listen to God listen what the law say and the scripture says we got to cast it down say cast down that's the that's the first battle some of you odd the devil has a stronghold because he's got you operating on a belief system and beliefs that are contrary to Scripture and you want to know why why do finances best injector because you listen to the world the world told you use other people's money and now here you are getting credit cards and charging the credit cards and you got you know you can make that payment then you get another car and you can make that payment then you get a third car and you can make that payment now you got 15 cars you try to make the payments on and you can't make the payments on you're stressed out now you came tired and they talk about you can't afford to tithe call me preach Pass I'm doing this the world is the opposite of God the world says shack up don't get marry shack up try it out test the milk before you buy it you don't test no milk before you buy them no you don't go into the seventy Levin over to the milk section take a bottle of milk out pop it open take a swig out of us if you like it if you don't like it but knee back up and put it back in there you don't do that and you sisters and letting the brothers have a taste we are following a philosophy of Beyonce if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it if you liked it if you liked it then you should hold a ring no it's not if you'd like to put a ring on it if you won't it put a ring on [Applause] pastor this is the crowd right here yeah you gotta read all right how long y'all been married 35 this is this is David my 35 years praise the Lord I'm proud of you know somebody's focus shacking up dating married [Music] they're trying it and they bowled about it on their tide check he got both their names and the same Edler [Applause] they bowled about you know ain't no shame in their game one time my wife and I went on a trip we came home we was at the airport waiting on our luggage should come out and a couple was there from Ramallah where they were coming from but they they came up with those they were members of our church so I come to talk find out they married they didn't travel to wherever they went stayed in the same hotel live in the same house and they tell him to pastor [Applause] people used to be ashamed they used to have they had the respect for the past that's hi gopher let's go here hi don't let the they ain't like that no more they because they have embraced the philosophy of the world and I'm telling you if you want the battle is you have to cast that down because you'll end up making decisions that's the opposite of the decisions God wants you to make on top okay let me roll on to the next point [Applause] God gives us power to cast down Dennis it's bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ y'all see that bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ Estus that's the second battlefield that's the second thing we got to do we not only have to cast down but we have to bring every thought in captivity here's the deal if there's nothing else remember buddies we set what you remember this that our battle feel for us to win is it begins by you controlling your thought life your thought life is the battlefield that is them that is the territory of the enemy is getting in your thought life make you think certain way and the devil will have you thinking crazy thoughts and make you think the thoughts came from God now and I noticed this the truth because I know the devil has told me to me in my life until I got his number once I got his number I know how he works I learned how to cast out every thought that's not from God thank all Fabio for that arousing email yeah I was suicidal I was I felt unloved I felt rejected I I had thoughts running in my mind that were not the right thoughts the devil had put terrible thoughts about yourself thoughts about your spouse about your kids about your parents about your church about your very fine pastor the devil put all kinds of thoughts in the money he'll make you think the wrong thoughts and some of you give way to those thoughts so what happens the thought comes skipping into your head your neck it now nobody would come in this building but naked you go get dressed up if you and your right mind you don't get dressed up for you coming here you're gonna say I'm saying that's what y'all do the thought comes in your mind but naked but you dress it up so it could be acceptable [Applause] and you give way to it and then some of y'all start speaking what you think you start communicating with the thoughts on your mind and you gotta weigh the thought that what I thought comes in your mind you have to say is this is this did just all come from God is this thought true is it holy is it pure is it is it is it from God most of the thought y'all get didn't come from God [Applause] I'm trying the scripture says take every thought captive you got to put some handcuffs on it Oh y'all like handcuffs Addison they didn't say nothin I said that they liked handcuffs it's crowd you arrested say this thought didn't come from God everybody this is our battlefield this is how you fight your battles the devil have you thinking terrible things about yourself you too ugly too dark you too light you too fat you too skinny you to this you to that you ain't smart enough you can't do it some of y'all haven't accomplished some of the things that God has for you to do cause the devil that has convinced you in your mind that you're not capable of doing got you looking out of the corner of your eye and people who love you and care about you because he'd have bought the thought in your mind and caught you by the way let me say this for me let me hold the music slow down past I'm trying to see I'm looking at my clock and I've been up for 26 minutes and I feel you know cause y'all time detention is like 25 minutes so I feel I feel stressed I feel pressure because I know y'all go to y'all go to see the 12 o'clock try to go to sleep on you y'all just go the other so the thing I'm trying to tell you I was gonna say something profound but it just gave my mind oh I know what I was gonna say the devil comes after you in seasons and look for when Jesus fasted Jesus had fasted and the Bible says after what he was hungry and tired he tempted the devil tempted Jesus and the scripture says Jesus responded to him with scriptures and after Jesus had responded to him on every temptation with Scripture then the scripture says this and the devil departed from him for a season and that's how it works the devil will leave you alone for a season but it's just for a short time he's coming back and when he comes back some of y'all are not prepared youyou think that once you get over something that's over it's a it's a lifelong jet challenging battle the devil messes with us seasons and so the thing you got to do is is when the thoughts come back I know I wish I could tell you that my suicidal thoughts and my low depression my depression and low thinking thoughts would just disappear they come back but I've learned now when they come back I don't entertain them your problem is you entertain them you have conversations with them you talk to them you have you have a dialogue with them and you let them come into your your mind and communicate with you and and you talk back to it and y'all have a common saying you let them stay you let the thoughts going into the bedroom stay come on in lay down then they come in and bring their friends and their cousins and they have babies and now their children are rolling around in your head and and you believe it's true you walk around thinking the most negative things and you think it's true my assignment is to tell you if you want to win this battle the way we rent the weapon God has given to us to win the battle is to learn how how to take ok let me let me finish with this let me finish with this I think y'all got that point I could go on for the rest of the day on this here's my last point is the power of punishing disobedience which is in verse 6 and let me close what this point sits right here he says and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled be ready to punish disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled and that's an important point too because here's what that means some of y'all are disobedient and you're waiting for the something to come and take you over and stop you from doing it if y'all say Amen together nobody know I'm talking about you you waiting for something to hit you and stop you from drinking stop you from fornicating stop you from getting high stop you from gambling you waiting for something to hit you you go hit you ain't nothing gonna come and just take it away I hate to shock y'all etcetera that's not how it works disobedience is punished when you make a decision to be obedient you got to make the choice I'm going to be obedient and when your obedience is fulfilled then disobedience is punished but it takes you being obedient it requires you to be obedient to God it requires you to say yes to him you got to learn to just do it tell your neighbor just do it just make the right choice Jesus died on the cross he was just so beaten he didn't want to do it his flesh didn't want to do it he prayed I wish you there was a way to just come compassion for me but he said I'm gonna do what I'm supposed to do and he went on to deal with his assignment was and he died on the cross and he suffered in the flesh and they crucified Him and he was buried and and and he deal with God told him to do it when he did what God told him to do he conquered death and got up out of the grave with all powers and when he was obedient to God when he did with God when you get obedient and the obedience for something you got a telling you to get saved today you waiting on something to hit you ain't nothing gonna hit you and the Spirit of God ain't gonna come and drag you by the collar and rip you out your seat and make you come down here say yes sir Jesus it ain't gonna do it you have to be obedient you backslidden ain't not gonna drag you into rededicating yourself to God you have to make the decision I'm gonna be obedient to God the Holy Ghost ain't gonna make you join the First Baptist Church of lean on you have to make the decision to join and get up and come who am I talking to today get your get your behind on up and come on down here right now just get on the unsaved back slidden I assure you don't have a church I'm just get up and come on right now this is the best thing for you to do right at this moment say yes to the Lord Jesus and get your life right with him when your obedience is fulfilled now come on that's right I'm proud young man come on I'm proud [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] Oh [Music] [Music] all right tell me give the Lord a praise for these head [Applause] I'm so proud of you the person behind you is a counselor they'll to take you in the back they don't talk with you find out why you came and they're gonna minister to you you'll leave this building differently than what you came then we pray for You Father thank you for each and every person that has come I know you drew them today by the power of your might I want to pray today in Jesus name that you say the unsaved restore the backslidden father plant the believers fill them all with the power of your presence God and let them be instruments for your kingdom in Jesus name Amen [Applause] praise the Lord give the Lord a shout

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Length: 55min 14sec (3314 seconds)

Published: Mon May 06 2019