? (Theme Song) ? ?
Jesus is worthy. . . ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy.
. . ? ? worthy of all... ?
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(Music) PB: The
Apostle Paul says
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in II Corinthians
10:4-5, "For the weapons of our
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warfare are not
carnal, but mighty through God
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to the pulling
down of strong holds;.
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Casting down imaginations,
and every high thing
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that exalteth itself
against the knowledge of God,
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and bringing into
captivity every thought to the
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obedience of Christ."
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Today I'm not going to be long
before you, but I just want to
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speak on the subject, "How
to Handle Strongholds." The
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pulling down of strongholds,
the demolition it is and
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removal of your old ways of
thinking, so that the actual
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presence of Jesus Christ
can be manifested in your life.
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Now, that's the
pulling down of strongholds.
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But what,
quickly, are strongholds?
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Strongholds in the
Old Testament, they had an
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interesting definition.
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Because in the Old Testament
strongholds were fortified
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dwellings in warfare
that protected people
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from the enemy.
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If you wanted to be protected
from the enemy, you went
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to a stronghold and
you would stay there.
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This is where we find
David when David was trying
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to run from Saul in
the strongholds of Heress.
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Because strongholds were
physical structures like caves
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where people could hide
in difficult times when they
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were being assaulted.
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But when we look in
the New Testament, Paul
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has a different
definition for strongholds.
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Paul deals with strongholds
from this perspective.
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Paul says strongholds are
speculations or lofty things
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that rise up against
the knowledge of God.
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Strongholds, in other words,
are any type of thinking that
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exalts itself above
the knowledge of God, which
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means you're giving the
devil a place of influence
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in your life.
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So any thoughts in your
life that I have, that you have,
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that rises above the knowledge
of God is a stronghold.
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And the devil uses that
place in your life as a point of
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attack in order to get you
going down a path of carnality
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and self-destruction,
because everything that has ever
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manifested in your
life, it started in your mind.
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What do you think,
and why do you think?
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The Bible says that when
you find Jesus you ought to be
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transformed by the
renewing of your mind.
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Because the most important
thing for any believer is to
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understand that
salvation is really a changing
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of your mind.
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When you truly find Jesus,
yes, your heart gets changed.
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Yore not the same
person you used to be.
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The way you think changes,
the way you talk changes,
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the people you hang
out with, they change.
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You're not the
same when you speak.
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When you find
Jesus, your outlook on life
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is totally different.
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When you fall in love with Jes,
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as somebody knows
that when they fell in love
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with Jesus, that was the
best thing that ever happened
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in your life.
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Somebody today knows what
I'm talking about when I say
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what a wonderful change
in my life has been wraught.
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Since Jesus came into my
heart, but on your journey,
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your heart is not
what's keeping you from looking
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like Christ.
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It's your head.
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Every temptation you deal
with, every struggle you have
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in your life, it's not
an issue of your heart.
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Half the stuff you've
been tempted with, you really
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don't like it.
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It's not in your
heart, it's just something
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you want to try
because your head said it
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might be good.
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Well, then, a
stronghold is a mindset.
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Mindset impregnated with
hopelessness that causes me
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to accept something that's
contrary to the will of God.
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Sometimes a stronghold
can be that thing that says,
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there is no hope.
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Your situation
will never get better.
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You will never accomplish that.
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Your mama was nothing,
your daddy was nothing,
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you will be nothing.
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Why are you trying to do that?
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You will never be this.
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And so what happens,
it will impregnate your
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thought process and
therefore what begins
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to happen, it
begins to move you contrary
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to the will of God.
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Let me tell you something: you
can hear the Word of God every
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week, but if that stronghold
is in your mind, guess what?
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That stronghold is going
to try to rise above, in your
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mind, every word
that's being preached to you.
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So you come to church, you
hear the man of God, you hear
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the woman of God, and
that stronghold says, yeah,
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I hear that, but.
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Yeah, that's true, but.
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You see, you always
have a but, but God always
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has a but for your but.
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So what's interesting is, when
I look at Romans 6:6, the Word
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says, "Knowing this, that our
old man is crucified with him,
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that the body of sin might
be destroyed, that henceforth we
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should not serve sin."
Now, here is the issue for real,
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authentic salvation.
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That I have to view
salvation as a crucifixion.
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Salvation is a crucifixion.
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Paul said, "I die daily."
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So if I have said in my
heart that I love Jesus and
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I'm trying to work out my
salvation and I'm trying to be
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more like him, then I
have to say, what in my life
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did I crucify?
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Because the old man has to
die if the new man is going
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to come to the forefront.
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Because you can't bring
the old man with you and try to
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fit the old man and the new man.
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It's not going to work.
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Strongholds, then,
are not random thoughts.
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Strongholds are
not occasional sin.
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That's not a stronghold.
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Strongholds are areas in your
life that have you in bondage,
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and you're having a hard
time trying to break loose
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from them.
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Now, let's be honest.
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How many folk in this
place have some stuff in their
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lives--I mean, I know you love
the Lord with all your heart.
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The question of your
loving God is not the issue.
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You wouldn't be in church today
if you didn't love the Lord.
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You wouldn't be in church
this long if you didn't love
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the Lord.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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But the question is,
how did it take root?
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How did it start in your life?
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The only way I'm going to be
able to deal with a stronghold
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is to go back where it started.
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I can't deal with the fruit
until I deal with the roots.
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So you keep asking
all the wrong questions.
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Why did he do that?
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Why does she do that?
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That's not the real question.
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Friends, the real
question is, what caused you
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to desire to do that?
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How did that even come
in your mind to do that?
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Where did that come from?
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What's the source of it?
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The Bible says in I John 5:19,
"And we know that we are of
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God, and the whole world lieth
in wickedness." Now, when I
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look at this, and I have to
go back up for a minute, because
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again, you can't just
read text, but you've got
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to read the context
surrounding the text.
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So I have to go back
one verse, to verse 18, to
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understand what
verse 19 is saying.
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Verse 18 says, "We know
that whosoever is born of God
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sinneth not; but he that
is begotten of God keepeth
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himself, and that wicked
one toucheth him not." Verse 19:
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"And we know that we are of
God, and the whole world lieth
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in wickedness." So how do
we live in the world without
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being influenced by the world?
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We're in this world,
but we're told we're not
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to be of the world.
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How do we live in
this world without being
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influenced by the world?
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It's not easy, particularly
in my formative years
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when I'm most
influenced by my environment.
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What does
formative mean, Pastor Byrd?
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Formative is just a big word
to say, when you were a baby.
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In your early years, it wasn't
like you could just say, when
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you were out playing with your
friends in the neighborhood,
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you could not say when
you were a child, I don't
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want to play with you.
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You were just playing
with whoever was outside.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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Strongholds, then, are an
accumulation of uncrucified
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thoughts and unsanctified
attitudes that have ruled your
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life since you were born.
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Many of the opinions about
life are ours only because we
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know of no other way to think.
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So we protect our ideas and we
justify our opinions as though
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we were born in the womb.
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We think that these are our
own thoughts, but they're not.
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That is the
environment you were raised in.
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This is the thought pattern
that you were exposed to, and
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as a result, you
defended stuff that wasn't even
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yours to defend.
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That's why Solomon writes
in Proverbs 23:7: "As a man
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thinketh in his heart, so is
he." And so now what happens?
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Strongholds take hold because
it is the way in which your
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environment and the
people in your environment have
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spoken in your life.
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A stronghold can just
be a frame of thought.
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The way you think about
anything can be a stronghold.
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Now, quickly,
then I'll take my seat.
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There are some
common strongholds that all
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of us deal with.
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Here are a few.
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Fear is a stronghold.
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Resentment is a stronghold.
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Bitterness is a stronghold.
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This is the stuff that
has you, but y don't have
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control over it.
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Bitterness, you can't let it go.
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I'm always afraid, I'm
always resentful, I'm so bitter.
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Unforgiveness is a stronghold.
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That's the one the
enemy will keep feeding you.
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It's a shame how they did you.
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They let
so-and-so sing the solo.
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And so every time
you see them you see,
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look at them, look at them.
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They're probably
talking about you now.
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It's in your head.
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You shouldn't let them
run you over like that.
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You shouldn't let
them treat you like that.
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And so what do you do?
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You cut your eyes at them.
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You know how we do.
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[laughter] Apathy.
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Complacency.
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They are strongholds.
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Unbelief is a major stronghold.
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I just won't believe.
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Depression.
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Depression is real, too.
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Depression is a stronghold.
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Can't break it.
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Anxiety, stronghold.
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Always nervous.
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What are you nervous for?
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I just don't know how
things are going to work out.
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In the church,
lukewarm-ness is a stronghold.
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You can't make up your
mind if you want to be in or
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if you want to be out.
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Are you with us or are you not?
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Are you in the
river or on the bank?
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How long ye halt ye
between two opinions?
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If the Lord be God,
you've got to follow him.
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But you're lukewarm.
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Sinful thoughts are strongholds.
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Pastor Byrd, what do you mean?
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Let me make this plain.
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What if somebody could take
a cable and hook it up to your
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ear and download on some
big screen what's on your mind?
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What would your movie be rated?
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Thank God that doesn't happen,
because some of us would have
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bootlegged that already.
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Come on, say amen.
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Lust is a stronghold.
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Pride is a stronghold.
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Greed is a stronghold.
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Drugs are strongholds.
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Alcohol, a stronghold.
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But there are faith principles
for the pulling down of
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strongholds.
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II Corinthians 10:4-5
says that we have to bring our
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thoughts into captivity.
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When you bring your thoughts
into captivity, what you're
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saying is, arrest my
thoughts, I will not allow
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my thought life to
dictate my destiny.
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But can we be honest?
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Strongholds are
not easy to overcome.
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But I have three principles
that I believe will help you
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to break
strongholds, then I'll sit down.
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Let's be honest in these
three things, because this is
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something the church
has been in denial about.
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Strongholds, stuff that's been
in you for a long time, they
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are hard to break.
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You see, people getting saved
in Jesus and finding Jesus and
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loving Jesus, people accepting
Jesus initially, it's like
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vanilla ice cream.
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You can eat vanilla ice cream
all of your life, and then all
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of a sudden somebody will tell
you, you need to eat chocolate
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and put vanilla down.
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So you get
excited and you say, okay,
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I'll eat chocolate now.
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I won't eat and
taste vanilla anymore.
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So you go through the act
of pickg up chocolate, but
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because you've been
eating vanilla all of your life,
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that's all you know.
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So you're trying your best
to stay with chocolate, but then
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you relapse late at
night, and you say, "I want some
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vanilla." You can't figure
out why you're craving vanilla
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even though your heart has
chocolate and your hand has
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chocolate, but vanilla
has been in your spirit
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all those years.
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So now all of a
sudden you start having this,
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what I call, in the
closet swirl desserts.
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[laughter] You start
mixing vanilla with chocolate.
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But let me tell you
the moral of this story.
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The closer you get to
God, the less vanilla ought
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to be in your chocolate.
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Unless you're working
with Neapolitan, have a whole
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'nother thing to work on.
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Come on, say Amen.
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So the whole point I'm
making, before I give you three
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things, is what Paul
deals with in Romans 7.
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Paul says, I've
got this problem.
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Paul says, I've
got this stronghold,
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I've got this issue.
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What is it, Paul?
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Paul says, "That that
I want to do, I don't do.
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That that I don't want to do,
I do." This is messing with me
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and messing with my mind,
because the will to do I know.
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But how to do
it, I don't know how.
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I know I have a
desire to do right, but how
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to do right, I just
can't figure it out, it's like
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a civil war inside me,
pulling me in different
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directions, and I just came
to the conclusion that I'm a
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wretched man before God.
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But I thank God, through Jesus
Christ, who gives me the power
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and the victory
to get through this.
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The truth is this, friends
of mine: I don't care how deep
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you are, strongholds are
very difficult, and the very
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problem is this.
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Until the church is
honest about everyday struggles,
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people will never get
delivered because we'll never
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be able to call out what you
are taking responsibility for.
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See, God can
instantly set somebody free.
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God can do it.
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I've got some folk out
here who believe, and I believe
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that they know that.
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But to be instantly set free
is to take responsibility for
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the journey and the struggle.
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Here are three principles.
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How do you break strongholds,
not only break them, but keep
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them broken?
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Number one: authority.
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In order to break a
stronghold, you've got to
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learn how to use the
authority of Jesus' name to bind
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and take authority
over Satan's tivity.
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This is something you
have been taking for granted.
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But you have to take
full advantage of it.
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You have to take authority.
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What am I talking about?
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Go to Mark 3:27.
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The Bible says, "No man
can enter into a strong man's
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house, and spoil his goods,
except he will first bind the
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strong man; and then he
will spoil his house." What is
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that text saying to us?
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The devil can't come in
your house and take your stuff
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unless he first binds you up.
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The devil knows the
authority that you have.
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The devil knows that you're
sitting on a ton of dynamite.
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The devil knows you have
the authority that you have.
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So he has to get you
tied up in something, get you
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distracted over something,
so then he can come in.
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Because if you are free, if
you are loose, the devil knows
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you've got authority over him.
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Why do you think he takes
all of these elaborate methods
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to get you tied up?
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You've got to learn, and
listen to me good, you've got
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to learn how to issue a spoken
command to the devil, that he
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is bound and he must
leave the stronghold.
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You've got to learn how to
issue a verbal command to the
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devil: get thee behind me,
Satan, in the name of Jesus.
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In Mark 16:17, the Bible says,
"And these signs shall follow
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them that believe; In my name
shall they cast out devils."
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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Get this in your
spirit as quickly as you can.
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You've got to understand,
child of God, how to use the
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name of Jesus, because in
Jesus' name, demons stickle.
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At Jesus' name, devils tremble.
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You've got to understand
how to use the name of Jesus.
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And you also have to understand
that when you use Jesus'
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name, it's nothing to play with.
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Stop playing with Jesus' name.
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You've got to start walking
in authority in Jesus' name.
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Somebody already
knows how his name works.
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The problem is when you
get upset, the devil has
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you using other words.
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But you need to learn
how to use the right words.
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Because if you can
just say, Satan, I bind you
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in the name of Jesus.
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Hallelujah.
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Here it is: Peter d John, in
Acts, chapter 3, there's a man
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at the gate called Beautiful.
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He's bound, he's
bound because he's begging.
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He's lame, he's
got all these issues.
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He asks these two preachers,
Peter and John, fresh from an
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apostolic experience, he
said, "Alms for the poor,
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alms for the poor.
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Can you help me out." Peter
looks at him and said, "Silver
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and gold have I none.
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But such as we have, in
the name of Jesus, get up and
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walk." And the man took
up his bed and he walked.
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There'authority when you
use the name of Jesus, when you
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can just walk around
your house, when the devil's
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running through your house,
folks are cussin' and fussin',
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folk have attitudes, you'll
go in the room and you'll start
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crying, no, honey child,
get your head up, and start
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calling on the name of Jesus.
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I declare peace in this
house, Jesus, I speak it
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over my house.
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I speak it over my bed
before my spouse lies down.
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I speak it over
the dinner table,
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I speak it over my children,
I speak it over my car.
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I walk in authority.
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Say the name Jesus.
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Stop being a wuss.
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There's authority in his name.
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Then number two,
quickly. - Intercession.
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Let me be clear, and I don't
mind if I step on some toes.
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They holler, say ouch.
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If the shoe fits, wear it.
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You've got to learn how
to come together with other
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like believers and pray to
intercede against strongholds
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until you get some results.
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You need some Holy Ghost
intoxicators, arms waving,
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tongues speaking--not speaking
in tongues like we think about
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that, but I'm talking
about calling on the name
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of Jesus' friends.
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So you can break some
strongholds in your life.
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You need some good
interceptors in your life.
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That's why I tell you, I
don't let everybody pray for me.
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When it comes to strongholds
in my life, when it comes to
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specific areas, even Jesus
had his peter, James and John.
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Nothing wrong with Andrew,
nothing wrong with Bartholomew,
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but everybody needs
their own Peter, James
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and John.
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And when it comes to specific
areas in my life, I've got key
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people that I have
assigned to pray for me.
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And you ought to have it to.
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Everybody, let me be clear.
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They're telling you
they're praying for you,
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ain't praying for you.
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You want folks to be
in agreement with what you
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believe in God for.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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That's why when you look at
Matthew 17:9, the Bible says,
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"Then came the disciples
to Jesus apart, and said, Why
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could we not cast him
out?' And Jesus said to them,
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Because of your unbelief."
If you had the faith the size of
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a mustard seed, you could say
to this mountain, be removed.
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Jesus never said, climb up
the rough side of the mountain.
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Jesus said, "Speak to the
mountain, and say thou, be
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removed, and it would
leave from this place.
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Nothing shall be impossible
for you." Verse 21: "Howbeit
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this kind goeth not out but
by prayer and fasting." I've
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learned in my life, there are
some things that only come by
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prayer and fasting.
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You have to learn, hallelujah,
to go on and just talk to God.
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You've got to stop being cute.
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You've got to say to God,
Lord, I've got to be honest.
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I can't keep doing this.
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I can't keep living like this.
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Lord, this is too strong for me.
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I need you to break this, I
need some folk who are around
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me who can believe me for my
breakthrough, because I cannot
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go on and let this
thing self-destruct who I am.
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Let me tell you something.
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Every day you've got to pray
and you've got to believe God,
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and you've got to fast
and open up your spirit, so
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intercession can
take place in your life.
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Somebody knows, you can
pray your way out of some stuff.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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Because you can pray
your way out of some stuff.
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Sometimes in your prayer or
intercession, God will prevent
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also some stuff from
coming to you, hallelujah.
00:23:24.86\00:23:28.80
Finally, number
three: displacement.
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What does this mean?
00:23:31.23\00:23:34.76
Establish the presence of God.
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When Satan has been
commanded to leave your life,
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you better fill it
with the presence of God.
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Because in the presence of
God there is fullness of joy.
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Because where the spirit
of the Lord is, Satan isn't.
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Because wherever there
is liberty, Satan can't be.
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Because Satan hates worship.
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Oh, you all don't hear me.
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Satan hates worship.
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Why do you think in the Three
Angels' Messages of Revelation
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14 it says, "Worship him
that made heaven and earth,
00:24:11.93\00:24:17.36
the seas and the
fountains of water"?
00:24:17.36\00:24:19.43
Satan hates it
when I worship God.
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But when you come to the point
that you become an authentic
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worshipper, and you don't
care what anyone thinks or says,
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when you get to the point
where you create an environment
00:24:33.36\00:24:36.73
of worship, the glory of
God will run Satan out of town.
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I believe I've got some
witnesses up in here who know
00:24:44.06\00:24:47.43
what I'm talking about.
00:24:47.43\00:24:49.36
You've got to learn
how to tell Satan, Satan,
00:24:49.36\00:24:52.40
you have no place.
00:24:52.40\00:24:53.36
I displace you
through my worship.
00:24:53.36\00:24:56.86
And let me throw this
in before I take my seat.
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You don't just have to
be at church to worship.
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[applause] I had praise
and worship this morning
00:25:03.63\00:25:08.13
in my shower.
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I wish I had
witness in this place.
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In the shower, at
the breakfast table.
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You better learn
how to worship God.
00:25:13.60\00:25:15.86
And worship Him in
spirit and in truth.
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Because when the
praises go up, the blessings
00:25:18.60\00:25:20.03
come down.
00:25:20.03\00:25:22.56
When you begin to praise
God, things begin to happen.
00:25:22.56\00:25:26.36
And I was glad when they
said unto me, let us go into
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the house of the Lord.
00:25:30.40\00:25:31.56
Oh, taste and see
that the Lord is good.
00:25:31.56\00:25:35.23
His mercy endureth forever.
00:25:35.23\00:25:37.36
Oh, come and magnify
the Lord with me, and let us
00:25:37.36\00:25:41.73
exalt his name together.
00:25:41.73\00:25:42.96
I will bless the Lord at
all times, and his praise shall
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continually be in my mouth.
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Bless the Lord, O my
soul, and all that is within me,
00:25:48.33\00:25:53.50
bless his holy name.
00:25:53.50\00:25:56.70
You've got to take authority,
you've got to learn how to
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fast and pray, you've got
to learn how to worship God,
00:25:59.56\00:26:03.46
displace the devil
and put God in his place.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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