and father we come to you lord god i thank you for your word i think the promises of your work i like you for the power that set your word i'd thank you god that you give us principles to live by that father god you give us a former law and th to honor you to be a follower of jesus christ and there are rewards in their benefits that come with that lord today we're going to be talking about the ultimate power that you give us power and that spiritual authority and father i pray for each person have a greater understanding of the story they have if they're a follower of jesus christ we pray this in jesus name hell it is read a spiritual battle we need to fight the battle on the spirit and not in the flesh too many times we think our battles are fleshly battles when they're not their spiritual battles if you're having with somebody do you think it's all them beyond that conflict or can the enemy be behind that conflict if there's a conflict is not god god doesn't want conflict if you have a brother and a sister laura there's conflict or somebody else that's involved in that not just god i can stand firm against the deception of the enemy that's amazing that and there's many who are deceived by the devil because they haven't put on their armor but we put on the armory and stand firm against anything the devil comes to get to come find every way they can a trip of christians non christian anybody they can they're doing strategy they're sitting down in their planning strategy now we can hear them to get oh my goodness whoa my goodness what's going to happen we're going to do  know is a put on the former god i could stand against whatever they're going to do whatever it is it's amazing to look at scripture the bible says stand firm but there's times we don't stand firm stand firm what you're in a defensive mode we're standing form you're in the defensive mode there's a time to be on the defensive mode but there's a time to be aggressive and we took a take a look at that there's times the fight against the enemy is i know that god wants us to be both a defensive linebacker other times that we need to resist we need to fight to says that resisting the evil day and the evil days talk the talk about the future there's going to be a day in a time of the evil day but guess what does anybody think we live in evil days today do you think that today is a little more wicked than it was last week if not i don't know what papers are read i don't know do you watch t v do you do you live or in the neighborhood you live in because it's getting worse and worse and worse and it says we can resist the evil day and after done everything do what stand firm so i ask you fought you stand firm here is that people do they get in a spiritual warfare battle and you know what they're in a struggle maybe there's a temptation going on and they win that over the temptation and after one of the temptation what do they do they lay down and go to sleep so instead of having the bible here taking a stand the whole time they lay down they put their head in the bible as though they sure hope it works don't work by laying your head on it it works by applying as after we got through a battle what do we do we still stand firm we continue to stand firm why do we stand firm because i'm going to guarantee you there's a battle around the corner so you shouldn't get lackadaisical if what i'm saying is there's some spiritual significance in it and i'm not talking about some people like spiritual authority because of people do back in things spiritual not of god as wacky i'm not trying to teach wackiness all we got spiritual authority and we can name and we look over and say father i got this problem will you take care of it and as a father going to say no i don't want to care but today what would happen if we would get out of the way and we let god take care of it but we wouldn't reach  your help on this and you help me or you have faith for that how about just looking down holy spirit within me you give me help and what if we had faith to believe in you know god convicted me on this because i this all day on i can believe it i love the word i can preach but god said to me are you really walking that out in every area of your life do you have the faith to believe that when somebody is sick and i tell you that you can lay and they can be healed because of my spirit i mean these that we decide that god can't do because we don't have the faith to believe it but we have to believe god you can do anything you live within me i'm trusting you to work and move in me ok i've been talking about we have authority over spirits and dark is and people get h if i conquer something i must now have authority over that thing i conquered so christians have spiritual authority over and i come up to a conclusion we're going to look at it but i'm just going to tell you this look at it again if i'm more than a c authority now i'm not talking about i don't think the devils everywhere because you can't be but the spirits of every no one talking about we're talking about their spears and other days so when i say you come against the devil you know what you're not that important at the over the enemy we have power over the enemy over all the power of the enemy if we have power over if we have if we have power over the power of the enemy we have to have power over  it because you gave him the permission to do it you gave up your authority you said devil walk all over me this says we can tread on surface as scorpions but instead we let them tread all over us is to take an authority we need to walk in the atomic bomb to take you out but you put up the shield of faith in the show to face dobson was a shot of faith mean it means that you believe by faith that he can't attack you you believe by faith you have authority over him and that you take the word of god he said the word of god says i have a the more than conqueror the word of god says all things are possible through christ jesus and you take that should have faith you take a stand against the darts of the enemy james four seven says submit therefore to god resist the devil and he will flee from you you submit to god you resist the devil and he will flee it doesn't say here anywhere does it say submit there for to god resist the devil and maybe he'll run away if he feels like it twenty four hours a day seven days a week we should be saying god help me to submit to you help me to allow you to work in my life that i can do your will in and for living that kind of life to the best that we can we all fall short please hear me i understand we fall short but we need to stop excusing ourselves a you know i'm just a human being no you're not just a human being you're a follower of jesus christ filled with this holy spirit anointed by god to make a difference in this world you're not just a human being you're a man or woman of god the spiritual authority that you can resist the devil and he will flee so i again whatever temptation struggle it is the enemy starts talking to you axes jobs he says people sometimes a stool what do we do we say i am not going to listen to that that is not of god and i don't receive it even in sick this i believe in the doctor but the doctors do a good job of what practicing medicine and they do good job of practicing at it but they got haven't got it figured out yet they're still practicing and are you going to let a doctor who practiced medicine determine your destiny so a doctor says to you only got two months to live you only got ten years live you've got you've got this and you know what you might as well accept your body aches more in my daughter i have these little things on my hands and i always want to make sure it isn't some kind of cancer some kind of day or another he says well that comes with old age does except as they come and go and they disappear  old age ok well ok i don't care if the despond come one age but if it's cancer don't come with old age in my body i might take authority over that cancer in jesus name i don't care what the doctor says that doesn't mean i don't seven years almost seven years free of cancer i said breast cancer don't have a now oh it's in remission i don't care if you want to call remission or she don't have it a doctor says what's called remission i don't care doc what you call i know she don't have it and i don't care about definitions she no longer has breast cancer ok let me tell you something doctors practice medicine but jesus does sick and then we cover there's a whole lot of stuff that is says that we can do to christ jesus when we are believe or a follower of christ does it say that i mean that i'm a break this down have to break a debt much time i got to break it down anything like that there's a good we need to listen to me we need to stop taking the word of god and twisted to make it fit what we've been taught to read believe we need to take the good of god for what it says if it doesn't give a stipulation there is no stipulate say if they've been serving jews for twenty years that's for every single believer who was ever sixteen gives me the answer was the condition for that to happen verse sixteen he has believed it has been better i should be saved but he was displeased shall be condemn so if you believe you've been baptized you can do for seventeen now i'll go on a little side note some will say without proof you have to be baptized no you're not rightly dividing the work because what does this say  has believed has been baptized to be saved but he was disbelief shall be condemned does it say but he was disbelieved and not baptize should be condemned is that a set is it doesn't say that it's about tism is not as not saying this is the former for  salvation what is really saying this is the formula of being obedient to god relieve in christ be obedient for baptism and when you do both then these signs will follow so if you're a believer in christ you've been water baptized you have  you're not condemned and you have authorities so this finished up by looking at what we as christians have as christians we are conquerors through christ jesus christians we have christ in us is greater than the devil as christians we have power over the devil as christians be against him which the flaming hours of the double as christians we can cause the devil to flee from us as christians we can intercede we can stand against brothers as christians being cast out demons as christians we can pray for the sick cover it looks to me that there's a pretty good package that comes with christianity and here's what makes me sad it makes me disappointed this is a great package to sell quote sell of christianity but what if people want to sell a roll today the package they want to sell you can get rich and you can get dish and get within your life that's why believe being a christian is all about is touching others so the question for you as we close what's the question for you why would you not want to be a christian with everything we shared but i want you want to be a committed follower of jesus christ because it takes more than being a christian it takes being a committed follower of christ we did a series that was called more than what was it not a fan then a follower everything i share is not for fans  a good guy i like him you know sometimes me and him and i share a time together every once in a while though we're talking about a committed follower of jesus christ you're committed follower of jesus christ why would you not want to be a committed follower of jesus christ and i'll tell you why because the devil scared to death of the power that christians have so it does all they can to stop people from accepting christ and a good christian to be weak by living a life of sin the reason people accept christ as the devil's doing every can a stop them why don't christians walk in victory why don't they walk in power and authority why don't they overcome you know aman is going to be honest as christians are certain days we need to get set free from and we shouldn't be twenty years later we have the same problems right because the devil scared to death that if we really get the pray for somebody read this pray for healing or pray for god's guidance or whatever it may be that you want to be used by god it says you go to pray for him was the devil going to remind you of this remind you of that sin and he gets you focus on the sin and you forget that you have a today could be your day of deliverance you know what it's a choice is a choice do you want to have deliverance do you want to have freedom do you want to have it alive do you want to walk in spiritual dorothy you have a choice today you have a choice hebrews four seven says today do not harden your hearts there's no know about preaching the word of god i love the word i get excited about the word i can preach it i can shout it i can do everything i can with that word of god to try to get people to to receive it but here's the reality of the holy spirit doesn't work in the heart of the heart and heart it does no good the words are vain they may be seeds maybe it's a hard heart and it takes off a little nick of the hard hear you hear is voice you know heart your hearts sometimes you don't hear his voice when you do respond do you want to tory is overcoming life do you want to be free from the b sin do you want to turn a life except jesus christ as your lord and savior stop waiting for the right moment and guess what jesus wants to be lord and savior and there's some in this room you have yet to make jesus the lord of your life you've made him your savior you accept him into your life but is he truly the lord of your life and the fall of us for all of us there's times it isn't the lord of our life but i'm talking about your lifestyle when people know you as a christian over they question if you're a christian we should live our life as followers of christ that jesus is the lord of our life so the question is where are you at with god where are you are you a follower of jesus christ or are you a fan i get excited when i see the spiritual authority that god gives i get excited at the promise of the word of god but i look and i say you know what in order for that to happen i need to christ or certain days he probably can't trust you with if you're a babe in christ most likely if you only known jesus for a day that you're not going to go around lane has everybody tomorrow and all going to get hild by because god don't want them hill because god don't want to use you those because god knows if you're a babe in christ that you could abuse his power and authority and it could be all about you so there's certain things god says i can't do in your life because you're not ready yet so where are you at with jesus would you say i'm just babbling with god because he's telling you to accept christ as your lord and savior and you're not doing it maybe today saying to you stop stop resisting stop fighting me allow me to work in your life i don't know authority we shouldn't be ashamed of the gospel should be ashamed of god's doing or life that of god is work in our life we shouldn't be ashamed embarrassed to come to an altar to get there and i believe the altar then is it's really not for  lord and savior i pray father god you would still faith that then them the father god they'd be mighty warriors for your kingdom and they become against the strongholds of the enemy not only in their life and the lives of others but lord would be a church made up of victorious warriors for your kingdom to pay for anyone that doesn't know christ the father god you know what's stopping that you know ally of the enemy that they're believe in and i pray father god that you would bring truth to them up father got open up the rejoice you need to know jesus christ your lord and savior jesus said behold i stand at the door and not going to be one hears my voice and opens the door i will come in robust and thirteen's as river calls upon the name of the lord will be today you want to get more information you can always go to our website to learn how to accept jesus christ as your lord and savior you can go to there is hope t v guide or as there is hope t v dot org and we have information on frequently asked questions about christianity we let you know step by step and accept jesus christ you lord and savior encourage you to go to there is hope he or that is there is hope t v dot org also want to know if you would like to talk to me person you can always give me a call toll free anytime one  loving god loving people and loving life so you have an 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 seattle  church is located at six twenty five south west one hundred forty ninth 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