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1 SAMUEL 24 The Court of Heaven
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Following clues that David the Psalmist has left us, Brendan peels back the secret of the Court of Heaven!
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Introduction to David's Story
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Hello there everybody, you're incredibly welcome to the next installment in our study on the life of David. You know, as I've been reading David's story, I've just fallen love with it all over again. He's always been one of my all-time favourite Bible heroes, but oh my goodness, once you get into the nitty gritty of it, his life is just phenomenal.
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and Amazing and incredible, such high... points and such low lows, such an emotional roller coaster, really.
Revelation of Heavenly Courts
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But yet, as I was reading it, just there, yesterday morning, actually, um I'm filming this on the 1st of December, so on the last day of November, felt the Holy Spirit say the courts of heaven.
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And i responded, eh! So I began to read through his his experiences and his prayers and his worship songs with more attention, just giving them a fine come.
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And he had a revelation on something that sadly think a lot of us have forgotten in the last 3,000 years. And actually we need to get it back in such an amazing and powerful way.
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Turn with me to Psalm chapter 7, verse 8. It says, let the Lord judge the peoples. Judge, keep that in mind. Vindicate me, Lord, another courtroom term.
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Vindicate me, Lord, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity, O Most High God.
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Psalm 54, verse Save me o God, by your name. Vindicate me by your might. Again, there's vindicate. Another crime and punishment word, another courtroom word.
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And then in 1 Samuel 24, chapter where spares Saul's life for the first time.
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verse 11, says, See, my father, look at this piece of your robe in my hand. I cut off the corner of your robe, but I didn't kill you. I could have, but didn't.
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See that there is nothing in my hand to indicate I'm guilty of wrongdoing or rebellion. Guilty of wrongdoing. Another courtroom term.
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A few verses later, 14 to 15. Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Who are you pursuing? a dead dog? ah flea?
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blood-sucking insect, the shepherd and soldier like David would have ah seen a lot and he would have been very familiar with the discomfort of their bites.
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Verse 15, may the Lord be our judge again, the judge, and decide between us. May he consider my cause and uphold it. Today you might say, it may he consider my case.
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May he vindicate me by delivering me from your hand. Psalm 26, 1. Vindicate me, Lord, for I have led a blameless life. Not a sinless life, but a blameless life, a life of integrity. To the full measure, to the complete measure of my faith in you.
Jesus as Judge and Satan's Role
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And when he inevitably failed, as all people do, he'd offer grain sacrifices or animal sacrifices, he was on to say, I've trusted in the Lord and have not faltered.
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wasn't sinless, but he was blameless through his trust. He was blameless through his faith.
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So there we have guilty, blameless, vindicate, and judge. And you know, Jesus is the judge of heaven. A lot of people think that God's the judge and Jesus just sits there doing nothing. No.
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No, Jesus would later say that no one had ever seen God the Father except the Son who had come from him. So when Job had this revelation of what was going on in the world of heaven and Job talks to her one, I mean, he could see the Lord sitting on ah on a throne.
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um So you saw Jesus. Jesus is the judge of heaven.
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So therefore, we can infer that David had a revelation revelation on the courts of heaven, on the courtroom of heaven. revelation that sure lot of people know much more than I do.
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But something that not a lot of Christians necessarily talk about. a lot of us kind settle for the blood. The blood's great, the blood is good, I'm a Christian, I'm saved. And you are, and that's amazing. And if you're not...
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Get saved. Jesus makes everything better.
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But we do have an evil enemy. An enemy who is a slanderer. An enemy who is a snake. An enemy who is a dragon. A devourer. It's called the devil.
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Lucifer. Satan. Many other names.
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And he will try to convince you that you're a pile of crap. That you're less than the dirt beneath someone else's shoe. That you're not really sage. You're not a real Christian.
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You will try to create openings in your life, like open doors. had not even intended on using that as a visual aid. There you go.
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So that he can get one up on you. That can get revenge on you for choosing Jesus.
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He looks for open doors to put hooks into you. Like a hook around your nose to lead you along like an oxen. Like a bull.
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So we need to know our enemy. And we need to know how he operates. And we need to know what to do about it. We're told a lot about the devil in the Bible.
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Genesis 3.14 is particularly telling. It says that he, the serpent, the snake, would go about to the earth for the rest of his life, devouring the dust.
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What is the dust? It's people. Adam was made from the dust. Jesus prophesied that Satan would spend the rest of his life devouring human beings.
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Job 1.7 says, Jesus asked the devil, not because Jesus was ignorant, Jesus knows everything, but he's always interested in our answer. Asked, where have you been? What have you been getting up to?
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And the devil responds, oh, I've been going to and fro. I've been going all around the world, here and there. 1 Peter 5.8 combines the two.
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combines Genesis 3.14 and 1.7. And it says that he prowls like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. So he goes about all the time, all around the world, looking to steal, kill and destroy on mass to destroy as many lives as possible.
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He has a lot of names in the Bible. We're going to look at two of them today. One of them is Satan, which means the accuser. In Revelation 12, 7 to 10, we're told that he goes up to heaven day and night, and he accuses the brethren.
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He doesn't go up there it' to badmouth or backtalk evil people. They're very easy to find. and They're very easy to identify. But he goes instead up to heaven, and he reports on the activities or inactivities of God's kids.
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Good things that they did not do. Good things they did not say. Wicked things that they said. Wicked things that they did.
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He's also called Beelzebub, the princely ruler of demons. The word ruler there in Greek means a magistrate in a judicial proceeding, as in Matthew 12, 24.
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This is what we mean when we say don't give the enemy legal ground. We see in Ezekiel that God has angel scribes who watch people, who monitor them, who take notes on them.
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Why? Because God created them and wants them to do something. but
Exploring Job's Life and Vulnerabilities
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And when you get to heaven, you'll be able to read all these reports, what these angels wrote about you.
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But the Empire of Darkness is a counterfeit. Kingdom. They looked at everything that heaven did and they perverted it, they twisted it, or they said, let's be inspired, let's copy it, but let's do it in a wicked way with nefarious intentions.
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So they're taking notes, we call these familiar spirits. They follow family lines through the generations. They take notes, they say, okay, well this person struggled with this, so presumably their son will.
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Okay, well, she did this, so we can now afflict her daughter in the same way. Well, if we follow the bloodline, this happened a thousand years ago, and in the case of, let's say, 20 generations, they did this and this and this, so how about this person, we'll afflict them with this, we'll take this strategy, we'll take inspiration from that generation.
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And if you come into agreement with the enemy, they can say, ah, we have a legal ground to attack you, we have a legal ground tofflic to afflict you. That is what Job is ultimately about, is the enemy looking for territory in Job's life, looking for commonality, to exploit a vulnerability.
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But Job didn't have any in that era, i in that time, so the enemy just decided to overstep and try to destroy his life anyway.
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If there was any open door in his life, we could say, job chapter 3, that it was fear. The thing I feared has happened, the dreaded has come upon me. But in terms of sin, he lived a blameless life. Not a sinless life, but a
Prayer and Spiritual Warfare
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blameless life.
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He chose to live in a way that was pleasing unto God, a life of integrity, a life that was upright, a life that was in moral standing.
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So when the enemy goes into heaven every day and he has a report on you, he's got your report card, And he says, ha ha, did you know that this person did this? Are you aware this person said this? Are you aware that that Christian does not believe that they're a temple of Holy Spirit? They actually believe they're a pile of crap because their parents told them that.
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Do you believe that? Look at this woman over here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. She says she's a Christian. But say oh, she might sing a lovely song on the worship team. But I know where she was last night.
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The enemy looks for opportunities to exploit, to take advantage, to hurt, to destroy. So what do you do? This is a revelation called the court of heaven.
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You can take the enemy to court. He's already in the court of heaven. There is one room in heaven he's allowed access to. This is a courtly throne room ah in which he badmintones you, he insults you, He tries to tear you to shreds. He tries to convince the Father not to love you anymore.
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But you, prayerfully, can go there and you can put the enemy in his place. Here's a sample of what that can look like. Father in heaven, i purpose to come boldly before your throne of grace to find mercy and grace to help in time of need.
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I enter your gates with thanksgiving and into your courts with praise. Here in this court, I hide myself in Christ Jesus. And from this secret place, I perform this renunciation.
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I renounce the evil I've been involved in That could be pornography, adultery, lust, harbouring murderous hatred to sort or it towards someone. It could be bullying, it could be petty thieving, whatever it is.
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I pull up the hidden documents detailing every unholy covenant. contract, agreement, certificate, oath and vow entangling us, entangling me to the enemy, and command that they be stamped the blood of Jesus.
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Every report that the enemy has written against me, every report card, let's use the soccer analogy, every yellow card, every red card, every warning, every disqualification that says, ha, you're a scumbag, I can take advantage, I can take hold on your life.
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Stamped them with the blood of Jesus. Because Jesus said at the Last Supper that the Prince of this world is coming, but he has no power over me because he has nothing in me.
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We have no commonality, so I have no vulnerability to him. That's why we don't say Jesus was murdered. We say he was sacrificed. He gave himself up.
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He sacrificed himself for us. He was never weaker than the devil. He was never weaker than the Pharisees or the Sadducees or the Sanhedrin or the Romans. He was always more powerful, but he gave himself up willingly.
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And I call for everything that the enemy has written against me to be nailed to the cross of Jesus Christ and burned with holy consuming fire. I command every single word that I have ever spoken that was out of alignment with God, every lie I've ever believed that is contrary to the word of God, to join them on that cross of Calvary, to be nailed there, and to be consumed with the fire of God.
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I now deed all territory that can be in your mind, your heart, your body, your home, your school, your workplace. It can be physical, it can be abstract, it can be spiritual, it can be soulish.
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I now deed all territory where I am captive to the enemy or in any way entangled to the enemy over to the kingdom of God. And I invite you, Lord Jesus, to take the throne and to rule over this territory with your rod of iron.
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with the i e tsunami of your river of life, with hailstones and lightning that you have stored up in storehouses in heaven, with fetters bind my enemy and I rebuke him or her, there are female demons too, I call for liberation I declare that I am free and free indeed, which is what Jesus died to give me in the first place.
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In the name of Jesus, I now bind all gatekeepers, another word for demons, and discover each and every portal access point connecting us and allowing for unholy traffic between us.
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This could be something in your home, it could be a book on the shelf. could be a necklace that's actually a cultic.
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It could be something that's been passed down through generations, a family heirloom, but actually it was used in witchcraft or in a demonic ritual. And that might sound very out there to some of you. i'm sorry to tell you this, it is far more common than I could possibly have realized. But I've learned last year, year and a half, what people have in their homes and what they're up to it would astound you.
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It could be an article of clothing that represents something defiled.
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It could be a statue of a god or goddess, a graven image. These are portals. They give the enemy legal ground, the enemy can dwell within them or enter your house through them.
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I place the blood of Jesus upon every portal access point, and I seal them with Holy Spirit. I declare that they are put to sleep and permanently deactivated from this point in time and out of time, because there's no time in the spirit realm, forward and backward and in every direction.
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i take the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God, and I sever, insert your spiritual enemy here, lust, pornography, trauma, adultery, bitterness,
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masturbation, you know what it is, you declare it. I take the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God, and I sever that from myself in every ungodly way that he or she has been entangled.
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And you know what? It's not always a demon. It could be a person.
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I call for angels to untangle and separate us. escorting our parts to the places where they belong. any soul tie has occurred, any tie to another person that's ungodly, or a demon, whatever it is, broken in Jesus' name. Because the blood of Jesus is sufficient.
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And the blood says I'm clean. The blood says I'm holy, I'm set apart. The blood says I am guiltless, innocent. The blood says I am right, but God, I'm righteous.
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The blood of Jesus says that I'm justified. It's just as if I'd never sinned once in my life. The blood of Jesus says I am found free. Forgiven, redeemed, restored, pure, and a right standing with God.
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I'm a temple of Holy Spirit. It's no longer I who live, it's Christ who lives within me. The blood says I'm reconciled to him. The blood says I'm his son. If you're a woman, the blood says I'm his daughter.
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And I stand on his word alone. I come out of agreement with the enemy's lies and into alignment with God's truth. And don't just say that, you have to mean it. And that is a major one, especially when it comes to identity.
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A lot of Christians are very quick to sneer men saying, a lady, or women saying, i' a man. a lot of Christians don't even believe in their own identity.
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Read Paul's letters, that will tell you who you are.
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And lastly, i decree an edict of retaliation. All attempts at retaliation and backlash will be sentenced and judged immediately in the court of heaven.
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up to and including destruction of all owned territory and trade routes implicated, and the permanent removal of all title because there are demonic kings their are demonic lords they do like titles inheritance, status, prestige, calling and ability in the spirit.
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Let this be read in every realm, age, dimension and timeline that Jesus would have as a warning. I call for this to be posted outside of my sphere and realm.
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In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. And amen. So remember, friends, absolutely nothing on this earth is more powerful than blood of Jesus.
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Nothing speaks a better word than the blood of Jesus. Nothing is more definitive. Nothing is more revealing. Nothing is more telling. And nothing... Is your identification more certain and more sure?
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You've been adopted into the family of Jesus. So when the enemy presents an opportunity for you to sin, you say, nope I will not be a dog that returns to his vomit. That's not happening. will get a new bloodline, get a new bloodstream, it's the blood of heaven.
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Jesus' blood flows through my veins. It identifies me. It makes me who I am. I'll have no part in this.
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But in the moments when you do inevitably fail,
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take it to the court of heaven.
Enemy's Manipulation and Spiritual Laws
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Because the enemy is a judicial magistrate. He knows the law of God through and through. He knows it enough to disregard it.
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He knows enough to bend it. He knows enough to twist it. He knows it enough to manipulate it, to be a stricture to people, a restriction rather than a structure.
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He knows it well enough to not convict people, which is when you have that lightbulb moment of, dang it, did I seriously think that was okay? God, let's have do-over. Let's turn things around.
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But instead to get you stuck in condemnation of hating yourself. Or hating God, because you assume he's rejected you and is going to forsake you, so you choose to reject him first.
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It's how he manipulates, how he operates.
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But also, he looks for opportunities to afflict you. To persecute you. To get one up on you.
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To put people in your life who will be there for your detriment. drive crazy. Demons in your life to absolutely sabotage you, to steal the things that God has for you.
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I'm not saying every time something goes wrong in your life, it's because you sinned. Adam and Eve were perfect, and Satan still trespassed in their life in the Garden of Eden to tempt them.
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You have an evil enemy. in me He's not a Jiminy Cricket, okay? He doesn't. me make your nose longer in the hope that you turn back to Jesus.
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He's just evil.
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But there are ways in which we can make this war against the darkness very easy for him. We shouldn't. We should make it as difficult for him as possible by the way of righteous life.
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But you do mess up, take him to court. To the courts of heaven. And you say, Jesus...
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That thing I did, that thing I said, that thing I believed.
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No more. If you have a Buddha statue in your house, smash it with a hammer and chuck it in the bin If you have jewelry with Hindu designs that cannot stay in your house, you have to get rid it.
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If you have books on paganism.
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I'm not talking a Christian book informing you about paganism. I'm not talking about a book that was written to lull you into paganism. You know, through the fishing line. throughout reel you in No.
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Not bad enough. Burn it in the fire. Don't even give it to the charity shop. Don't sell it on Facebook Marketplace someone else can get bewitched.
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Destroy it. have nothing to do with the darkness. You that's what repentance actually is. I really, really, really hate when hear Christians use the word repent about 95% of the time.
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Because what they use it for is lock yourself in your prayer closet and tell God what a horrible, terrible person you are for three hours. That's a sorry!
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Now, repent, Was it word used back in Jesus' day when the army was walking in a certain direction? If they had to turn around, the commander would shout, Repent!
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And the people turned around went the opposite direction.
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Repentance doesn't mean feel bad about yourself. It doesn't mean you have to tell everybody what a naughty Christian you were. But you're a bad boy. That was my impression of that um a sheep.
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now
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means you go the opposite direction. If you thought that you were scum, you see yourself as a son.
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Godson.
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If you had a mouth like a sailor, only use your mouths to bless.
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If you were a wild one for fiddling with your taxes, or if you're Not in your thirties.
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I know. Stealing money from your mother's purse so you could buy sweeties or don't know, whatever kids do these days. You stop stealing and instead you grow in the fruit of Holy Spirit and the fruit of generosity.
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Do the opposite.
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You renounce, you say God,
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Not doing this anymore.
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No. No longer. can't be part of this. I can't pretend this is okay. I can't play footsie with the darkness. I won't.
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You bind your enemy. Enemy, I bind you. It's like you're putting it in chains and fetters.
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I rebuke you. Get out of my body, get out of my house, get out of my life.
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Get out of my family.
Empowerment Through Biblical Revelations
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You take it to court and you say absolutely every note that's been written, every photograph that's been taken, every observance that's been recorded the spirit realm.
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Burn them up, oh God, with your all-consuming fire. got no record of this. It's the enemy once. he's got his hooks in on me. He's got start from scratch.
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Don't make it easy for the darkness.
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This is the revelation that David had. Vindicate me. Am I guilty of wrongdoing? You're the judge. But a lot of us don't really talk about that anymore.
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But we need to. We need to get back to the revelation that's been Hidden in the word of God for us. Not from us. God's secrets are hidden for us.
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To empower us, to equip us. So that we can humiliate the enemy in our time. Destabilize his empire in our time.
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Disenfranchise our spiritual enemies in our time.
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Dismantle the operations of darkness in our time. help destroy the spiritual weapons he has fashioned against us in our time.
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And then push back, by extension, the forces of evil in the natural realm in our time.
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jesus name amen the duke