following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all up and door church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church father as we look at our new lesson closing all the open doors our lives i pray that we can learn the principle that if we close the doors to bitterness forgive unforgiveness bitterroot judgments ever whatever it may be willful sin whatever it may is close a door so those things that we can live a more victorious life so how close to see what this concept means about closing open doors and we pray this in jesus name even hail this is called close the doors in our lives and if you look at it as a couple of things here that we want to take a look at we're going to take a look at what is an open door what is a closed door we're going to take a look at how can the enemy come into our life and in bring confusion in his traction into  jesus was speaking so this is jesus speaking and jesus this is the start of his ministry and he's saying this is what my ministry is all about and what is this ministry all about it says what is to preach good news his ministry is about freedom for prisoners recovery of sight for blind how we know that he did healed the blind but how about those who are spiritually blind and then it says to release the oppressed to become the lord's favor so jesus ministry was to seppi people free without be a pretty good way to summarize it and so the introduction says in the scripture above jesus quoted for the book of isaiah and described his ministry here on the earth good news for the poor sight for the blind freedom for the captives and liberty to the oppressed are intricate parts of his ministry to us as we receive his healing touch our lives we are transformed from hurting wounded individuals into oaks of righteousness the planting of the lord isaiah sixty one three so we become strong and vibrant believers to displa mahdi in all aspects of our lives before we go any further it says here that jesus ministry was to what so that he could bring healing to our lives so we could be transformed from hurting wounded individuals into oaks of righteousness and you say  be a wounded herd individual if you don't move beyond the past you live in the past that whatever happened in the past whatever wounds scars damage happen your life it will just be repeated over and over and over again because you're living in the past and so he wants to deliver us from the past he wants to be healing to us bring healing to our lives and then in isaiah sixty one three it says that we're to become all kinds of righteousness that are planted by the lord now i want you to think something about  righteousness he said all kinds of righteousness there's a reason he said oaks instead of binds all stay where they're planted and they put their roots down deep right so if you plant an oak tree it's going to wind up fifty hundred two hundred years later where is it going to be right where you planted it how many know that god wants us to be like the oak tree that's what it's hard it's solid and it stays where it's planted that when we accept christ we should be solid with christ we should stay we're christ is planted us so with the concept is is if you're not an oak and you're a vine having a lot of people that are vines it is bounce all over the place whatever it feels like doing i do if i feel like doing this i do this i feel like doing this i do this and they're bouncing all over the place they have no steadiness in their life they're controlled by their emotions right if you're oak of righteousness you're not controlled by your your your emotions your control by the word of god because you're solid in christ and so the concept of an oak tree is a state's rights planet how many know there is one the most beautiful woods you can make anything out of and there something about all just started out about all there other thing is when you stand ok and then you put your stain on it the grain comes out it's out of the yolk you can't hide the grain it just stands out further every flex what it is is a beautiful wood what to say we're supposed to be beautiful they were supposed to look like jesus that we should reflect the character of jesus christ and all that we do now if you want to be in all of righteousness you're going to have to close some doors when you close the doors of the influence of saints in your life you can look more like an oak but if you don't close those doors that there are doors that allow say to come into your life you know what happens if you see it all when it's solid it is strong the wind will knock the oak over no cause as deep roots may sway it and it may have a little crooked little look to it but it is strong it's solid is because they were it's planted if we don't close the doors in our life what happens when the enemy starts to come in because we have allowed him to come in certain things our life we become wishy washy and all of a sudden we love god and sometimes we don't love god sometimes we want to serve sometimes we don't is because our roots are solid in christ jesus and if you if you want to be sol in christ jesus you have to close the doors if we're going to move beyond the past that we must not repeat the sins of the past they should not be part of our life today is that true whatever i did in the past so listen many times  stuck in the past because what people have done to us it wasn't what we did is what they did us a somebody did something to me they wounded me these scarred me maybe i grew up in a terrible home a father that wasn't there whatever it may be so the lot of wounds there's a lot of scars or things in the past had nothing to do with me i was the innocent party i was the victim the problem is is that after that abuses happen it's how we deal with that abuse determines who's the guilty party and what i mean by that if abuse me my dad is guilty to the day he dies he's guilty unless he repeats the problem isn't my dad though you know what the problem is we've been talking about all along what is the problem our way of dealing with the views our way of handling that all the different things we've been talking about and so what happens is that if we don't move beyond the past we'll repeat the sins of the past so i had sins of bitterness man on forgiveness judgments intervallic all those different things if i don't move on the past i still walk on them one of the ways to move beyond the plas is we have to close the doors to what the enemy wants to do in our life because how many no satan would like us to play the tape of the past how do you know he'll remind us of the tape of the past and so we want to close those doors god's will for us is that we experience the bunnet life that he desires to give us do you believe that g have an abundant life doesn't what have you abundant life a joyful life a life that's fruitful he absolutely wants that for you if you don't believe he wants that for you that you don't know the real god because the true god of heaven is a g want you to have an abundant life the scripture is clear however that satan will try to short circuit god's plan for us do you believe that you believe that the devil doesn't want you to have an abundant life but the devil wants you to be w miserable just distant in total misery that's his goal that's his desire so is there a battle going on there's a battle between god and satan in our life and so say to try to sort sort circuit god's plan for us his mission is to kill still and destroy him and kill you physically but he can kill you spiritually he may not kill you physically but he can mess up your mind so you feel like you wish you could die so he kills stills and destroys the god's will that we have life we have it more abundantly so let's look at how satan gaze into into our lives and how to close those doors that may have a lot of interests so satan is going to try to get into our lives some way to control our lives some way to ruin our lives and this is what  many many many christians they accept jesus christ as lord and savior but nobody teaches them most of what we've been teaching and you accept jesus into your life nobody tells you hey you need to stop doing the sinews doing before nobody says that you're opening the door for the enemy  attack you nobody says that you should close the doors of sin and in fact there's a lot of people in our society today except jesus there are these going to be great and just live the way you want to live because you know grace abounds and god loves you no matter what you do don't matter what you do it amid a few saying god loves lives in a way that's not he's not legally has the right to do so let me give an example that in the natural realm you have a door and on that door you have a little people and on that door you have a little chain now the concept that little chain is what you look at the people to see who it is and if you can see it is you can crack the door open a little bit and you can still see and they can come in that's the theory right ok so illegal intrusion is somebody knocks on the door you say who is it and they don't say who they are are you going to open the door for and you better not and let me tell you something you'd better not open the door to think that little chains going to keep that intruder out so you don't open the door because you know who's at the door and the person goes and they kick the door and they have intruded illegally right everybody understands that that's the physical natural now look at what satan does how he does illegal intrusion number one say it has no legal legal rights in the life of a believer if you have accepted jesus christ your lord and savior satan has no right to have any power control over you he is rights have been taken away when you accept christ you're covered by the blood of jesus christ you are walking in his righteousness you have been set apart for him all the promises are there of you are a follower of jesus christ satan has no power north already over you has every understand that ok so if he is an illegal intruder that means he trespasses deliberately hoping that you'll let him come into your life so what does that mean he brings temptation your way he brings trials your way so what happens is is you're a believer in jesus christ you're walking with god you're committed to jesus the best that you know how to be committed to him with the level of your relationship with him and you're doing all that you know to do and the reason i say that the level you know because i know if you're of a christian one month that's different in a christian than twenty years twenty years later you should know more than somebody at one month but if you've been a christian for one day god is going to keep you safe he's obligated to even if you don't know everything about the bible god will keep you safe satan has no authority over you if your believe in jesus christ but what happens in a legal intrusion is satan will start to try to trespass and he's going to see if you're going to give him permission so he'll find ways to do that with anybody can think of some ways what about lust can he just bring bring a for a man a beautiful gorgeous woman that stress than not very good and he does that to what to try and what to intrude into your life to get you to lust to get you to  so he would do different things whatever it may be maybe as temptation of drugs whatever it may be but he's trying to get in there and he is seeing can i get in so that's it should say right off the bat if you don't want him to bother you don't participate in the temptation that he brings your way because if you give him permission then by participate in this saying he is no longer ill legally intruding and went about that in a moment but right now to illegal intrusion number two if he just six twelve to eighteen tells us how the devil continually fires is darts and accusations against us always trying to pierce or armor but if we keep or armor on he will not be able to gain entrance there all the time to go in through all the armor and everything else but just take this principle say you physically had armor on ok and the way that the some is going to attack you is they got out to a final hole in your armor right how do they do that they  a knife they stick you they poke because where they're trying to find they're trying to find where that armor has a hole in it and so the devil keep attacking you and here's one of the ways it talks about here that he to actually if he fires accusation against you you're not really a christian you don't really love god look what you did yesterday you're a terrible christian look what you did to day hour two hours ago you know what if you really love god you wouldn't take that job you know what if you really and then he goes on and on and on now is there some things that he says they can be true there's probably some things that he says that is true so at that point in time when he says those things are true that should be the holy spirit can fix you while what the devil just said about me is true  that door then that makes sense so he's trying to get in he's trying to get in he's trying to find ways to get in number three james four seven eight give us further instructions how to thwart the devil's plans against us as we draw near to god and resist the devil who will flee the devil will flee but what is the first thing we have to do we have to resist but was a say does the first thing to resist was the first thing as we draw near to god so we get close to god then resist how many know if you resist without being close to god you're not going to good luck out of it you have to do what you get close to god you draw near to god then you resist the devil and then he will flee and then the scripture says give him no place in your life no giving room in your life to all out him to come into your life you have a choice in that or not in other words keep your house clean what does it mean to keep your house clean how do you keep your house clean spiritually confess your sins this is why we have guys that relapse and i push him hard to  they did why they did it how they did it you know i'm doing that not to become miserable i'm doing that so they get their house clean because if you confess that you say you know pastor riches is what i did this this and this this why did this this and this thinking the enemy use it against you over and over again has going to be very hard because it's out in the open but what if you keep it secret what does he do he keeps bringing it up bring it up and he knows or keep it in secret so he can use the ginsu we need to keep our house is because then if you have a hole in your armor it will the other person know they'll see it so what can they do help you to patch it up but if i'm out going out to war take a little i'm going out to war you know i'm a lone ranger you know i don't need anybody i've got all the weaponry i need you might have all the weapons that you need to be able to fat against the enemy if there's only one problem you thought about all the weapons you have you did think about your armor see a flak jacket that has holes that since you found out the sun we played around with the the computer system in the same she wary the mist everything up i noticed the last half hour you had a frown on your face and you seem to be very angry you're walking like this we just think that maybe there's a god there's a little bit of a hole in your armor you might want to take care of that and if you really want to walk a victory you know you say always a show point but i don't my frustration was showing lord help me and not say lord help me cover up my frustration  so doesn't show lord take my frustration away that's the difference number four if the devil is only an intruder is no right in our lives then we need only to bind him and cast him out to solve the problem and you hear that my wind all had nothing to do with my last name and not the do it my my bloodline had nothing do with my genealogy it had to do with the fact that i live in a fallen broken world and probably somebody that threw a rock at our you know what just through vibrations a stuff a cracked and then out of that you get it fixed but if you believe the curse you believe the lie in the devil comes in and then you start believe it says you know what yeah it probably is the dover luck and when it's going to happen next to my car you just set yourself up when you just give the devil permission to do it do it again out of it so there has to be a place where we take a stand and then as we finish up or look at legal intrusion so how can the devil legally  intrude you mean to tell me the devil has permission to be able to legally intrude absolutely if you choose for twenty seven warns us that not to get the devil foothold in our lives not to give a devil foothold was that mean to give him a foothold giving room so if i am an alcoholic and i go to a bar to get a coke have i given the devil permission absolutely i've given him permission he has every right to intrude at that point in time and it says here not to give a foothold don't let him get in don't give him permission to get in romans six sixteen makes it clear that we've become slaves to whatever we offer selves to obey so if i'm a slave to righteousness then i'll walk in freedom and victory if i'm a slave to sin what'll happen i'm going to walk in bondage and so i have a choice to have a choice of what i'm going to submit myself to so if i submit myself as a slave to sin does that give the devil legal permission to enter into my life absolutely so if you walk in willful blatant sin you've said come on in so here is how it is you got that little door you know what the little people you've got the chain there say oh i like that you open up the door says come audience in that's one way but some of us are not that blatant in our sin we're more spiritual so this is what we do when the dot com is and we can't see th crack the door open wondering who's there as a friend of mine he's not trying to hide he'd be right at the people where i can see him as is playing a trick on me like i would do but out of it is that you turn around and you open th door and your you look at did a little crack i wonder who's there you just gave the devil permission and what that means is you don't blatantly sin but you turn around and you kind of dabble you know i  don't do hardcore pornography i do soft core pornography i don't do heavy drugs i do a little bit of marijuana every day for three hours a day but at least i'm not a cocaine you know i only have a sip of booze only three times a day but i happen to do it while i'm driving because i got those little bottles i just have a little you know just something to kind of make me feel good as i drive cause i'm really tense when i drive are those all  but we justify and say well it's not blatant sin it doesn't matter if it's late in sin if you open yourself up to sin you're giving the devil permission to come in and the people fail to understand that there's a curse that comes with that if you walk in sin and way you want just a little devil do you let me tell you a little dab of whatever devil wants you to do you know take care of you you don't really take care of you yes but do a stick on you you play with a little bit a sin and you think you know what i just got a little bit i'm not to let it get on me if you play a little bit of sin was a going to do is going to attach itself on you and then you're trying to get rid of it and i know how many you guys used cream but you really put in oil in your hair i mean to try to get look at this whole concept of legal intrusion illegal intrusion i pray father god that we would keep our hearts door closed to sin that went to patient comes our way when the devil tries to throw stuff at us that we would not participate in fact we would take a stand it says satan you're trespassing you don't belong in this heart of mine you don't belong in this body of mine you do not belong in this mind of mine and you're trespassing as satan i cast you out in jesus name we take authority over those temptations and when they come our way we say doesn't belong to me as somebody else wants this they can have a but it isn't mine to take and if we have that heart the attitude that mind set lord then we can close those doors of the enemy would like to enter in and get us back and up and caught up all over again and next week as we talk about what those doors are i pray father god that we would make a decision that when we are aware of those ways of the devil can get in that we'd make sure that we move those things out of our life each of us have areas where the devil knows how to get in i pray the lord we would allow your holy spirit to work in those areas of our life and that father we would be able to walk in the victory that you have force in jesus name questions about christianity we let you know step by step accept jesus christ your lord and savior encourage you to go to there is hope t v or that is there is hope t v dot org also on let you know if you would like to talk to me person you can always give me a call toll free anytime committed to loving god loving people and loving life seattle open door church once you know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves you there doors are open to anyone and everyone their services are sunday mornings at eleven