Participants: pr. Carlton P. Byrd
Series Code: BOL
Program Code: BOL000137
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00:01 ♪ (Theme Song) ♪ ♪ Jesus is worthy ♪
00:10 ♪ oh yes, he's worthy ♪ ♪ worthy of all... ♪ 00:18 ♪ all the praise. ♪ See the devil for who he is. 00:23 The devil is a liar. 00:24 Seeing is resisting. 00:25 Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 00:29 All Satan wants to do is steal, kill and destroy. 00:34 All Satan wants to do is divide and conquer. 00:37 It's no mistake that Peter said, be sober, be vigilant, 00:42 because your adversary the devil is as a roaring lion, 00:45 seeking whom he may devour. 00:47 Do you know what devour means? 00:49 Devour means it's not just there to bite you. 00:52 Devour doesn't mean just to scratch you. 00:55 Devour is to destroy you. 00:57 Understand, friends of mine, the devil is not your friend. 01:01 If you look into the mirror and you put in your mind, 01:04 I'd better stop fooling around, I'd better stop 01:07 playing around, I'd better stop, because the devil's 01:10 not trying to scratch me, the devil's not trying 01:12 to bite me, the devil's not trying to scare me, 01:15 the devil is trying to destroy me. 01:17 The devil comes with poison. 01:21 To poison your mind with lies. 01:23 And the devil just doesn't seek to deceive outside 01:26 of the church universal. 01:29 But the devil tries to deceive inside 01:32 the church universal. 01:33 You see, friends of mine, in the church universal, 01:36 which means that's beyond just Oakwood. 01:38 In the church universal, that means it's beyond 01:40 Seventh-day Adventists. 01:41 But in the church universal, there are too many folk who 01:45 don't know the truth. 01:47 We come to church, but we don't know 01:51 what the Bible says. 01:54 We're biblically illiterate. 01:57 We come to church, even in here, even those of us 02:00 raised up in the church, we come to church out of habit, 02:03 we don't know a thing about what the Word of God says. 02:07 We shout and we don't know what we're shouting about. 02:10 We clap, and we don't know what we're clapping about. 02:14 Here we go, I listen to folk all the time, it just blows 02:16 my mind. 02:17 Ooh, that was deep. 02:21 [Laughter] And the person, excuse the double negative, 02:23 the person ain't said nothing. 02:26 It's my baptized brain that makes me want to shout. 02:30 It's my sanctified psyche that makes me lift my hands 02:35 in worship. 02:36 God says they that worship me must worship me in spirit 02:40 and in truth. 02:41 Read the Bible; a chapter a day keeps the devil away. 02:44 [Aud response] Know the Word. 02:47 Know the Word. 02:49 Satan is not afraid of a Bible with dust on it. 02:53 There are so many people whose minds are poisoned 02:55 to the truth, they want to hold onto their own thoughts 02:58 and ideas as to how God ought to operate. 03:01 They feel like because they've lived their life 03:03 a certain way for so long that they forgot to show them 03:07 in the Word that their lifestyle is wrong, or the way 03:09 they live is wrong, or their thinking is wrong, 03:12 that they now want to combat God. 03:16 But let me tell it like it is today. 03:19 Stealing is wrong. 03:22 Thievery is wrong. 03:27 Robbing from God is wrong. 03:32 Smoking is wrong. 03:35 Drinking is wrong. 03:39 Drug abuse is wrong. 03:42 Desecrating God's Sabbath is wrong. 03:47 Gossip is wrong. 03:49 Having a bad attitude is wrong. 03:53 Talking about people is wrong. 03:57 Adultery is wrong. 04:00 Fornication is wrong. 04:03 Homosexuality is wrong. 04:07 Being barely dressed in church is wrong. 04:12 [Aud response] We've got to take off all these 04:15 on-sale and for-sale signs in God's house. 04:19 It's wrong. 04:20 But people don't like to talk about what's wrong 04:23 anymore But wrong is wrong. 04:27 Even in the church, don't let the devil deceive you. 04:31 The Word of God has not changed. 04:33 Our methods may have changed, but the message is still 04:37 the same. 04:38 Jesus loves you. 04:39 Jesus died to save you. 04:41 Jesus is coming back to get you, but wrong is wrong, and he's 04:46 not coming back to get wrong, he's coming back to get right. 04:50 Because ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, 04:54 a holy nation, a peculiar people. 04:57 He's called you out of darkness into 04:59 his marvelous light. 05:01 [Aud response] But people don't want to accept 05:04 the Word of God anymore. 05:05 They don't want to accept it. 05:10 Post-modernism. 05:11 You believe what you want to believe, and I'll believe 05:15 what I want to believe. 05:16 Your truth is your truth, and my truth is my truth, 05:18 and leave me alone. 05:20 Some Christians want to claim the Old Testament 05:22 is no longer binding. 05:23 And all we gotta do is follow the New Testament, 05:25 so we don't have to observe the Sabbath. 05:27 But what they don't understand is that the Sabbath 05:29 is commanded in the Old as well as the New, 05:31 and it's still binding. 05:32 We see different movements in theology today where people 05:35 want to say we're not sinners. 05:37 We're not born in sin, we're not shaped in iniquity. 05:41 In fact, we were born good, but we were corrupted 05:44 by our environment. 05:47 Then there are others who say that all men are good, 05:52 they just have seizures of immorality. 05:55 But the bottom line is that it's a lie. 06:00 The devil would want you to believe about yourself 06:02 that you are spiritually good, but the Word says 06:05 there are none good. 06:06 No, not one. 06:08 So regardless of who you are, regardless of where you are 06:11 in life, the truth is, all of us are sinners saved 06:14 by grace. 06:15 That's the only way we're going to get to heaven. 06:18 That's the only way we're going to be saved. 06:20 I would like to believe that Carlton Byrd 06:22 is a good person. 06:24 I would like to believe that I was born good and I'm a nice 06:27 person, but that's not what God has called for. 06:30 There are a whole lot of folk, church folk, 06:33 that are nice, that are good, that are peaceful 06:38 But God says when of that is through, according to my 06:43 Word, you're still a sinner. 06:45 Because if you're good and nice and pleasing 06:47 and pleasant and all that stuff, if you're all of that and can 06:50 get to the Father, then you don't need my Son, Jesus Christ. 06:53 That he died in vain. 06:54 But I've got a witness in this place that Jesus said, 06:56 I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. 07:00 No man comes to the Father but by me. 07:04 Don't be deceived and think that you can just be a good 07:07 person. 07:08 Well, I'm nice. 07:10 I read the Bible. 07:11 I study my Sabbath School lesson. 07:13 I go to church every week. 07:15 I was born in the church. 07:17 I go to prayer meeting, I go to dorm worship. 07:19 But I know what I'm talking about, because that's how 07:21 I used to be. 07:22 I eat a clean, healthy diet. 07:24 In fact, I'm a vegetarian. 07:25 Did you know Hitler was a vegetarian too? 07:28 [Aud response] And I learned, God had to knock 07:32 me down to my knees with a spiritual arrogance. 07:36 You can still bust hell wide open with a healthy diet, 07:40 clean speech, clean morals, no drinking, no smoking, 07:44 right into hell. 07:45 Don't be consumed by the devil. 07:48 Don't lighten up on God's truth, don't compromise God's word. 07:53 No man can get to the Father but by me, he says. 07:56 There is no other way. 07:58 Buddha can't do it, Confucius can't do it, 08:02 Mohammed can't do it. 08:03 Only Jesus can do it. 08:05 There is no other name under heaven whereby we can be saved 08:09 but the name of Jesus. 08:11 Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 08:16 [Aud response] Number three. Number three, 08:21 the devil wants your mind. 08:24 You gotta know the truth. 08:26 But number three, fear not. 08:31 How do I keep the devil off me? 08:33 Fear not. 08:37 Satan wants to plant fear in us. 08:40 Fear is Satan's calling card. 08:45 Fear him and he comes. 08:47 Fear not and he's kept away. 08:50 2 Timothy 1:7 says, "For my God hath not given us a spirit 08:56 of fear, but a spirit of love, a spirit of power, 09:01 a spirit of sound mind." 09:03 Let me tell you something before I take my seat. 09:06 Satan has to obtain one's consent before he can operate. 09:13 If this consent is withheld, Satan cannot work. 09:17 We were created with a free will. 09:20 Without man's consent, Satan can neither tempt him to sin 09:24 nor attack him at will. 09:26 Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 09:30 To resist means to say, thank you, but I don't want it. 09:38 To resist means to say, thank you, but I don't want it. 09:45 When gossip comes at you, thank you, but I don't want it. 09:51 When negativity comes at you, thank you, but I don't want it. 09:57 When alcohol comes at you, thank you, but I don't want it. 10:03 Ladies, when that proposition comes at you, 10:06 thank you, but I don't want it. 10:09 Brothers, when she comes at you, voluptuous, seductive 10:15 and tempting, how you doing, Pastor Byrd? 10:20 Thank you, but I don't want it! 10:22 [Applause/Laughter] Whatever is offered to you by Satan, 10:25 you must always answer, no thanks. 10:29 Fear not, for fear will bring you to the very thing 10:33 you're afraid of. 10:34 You don't need to fear Satan. 10:36 Let me tell you, Satan cannot overcome us. 10:40 I said, Satan cannot overcome us. 10:43 Satan cannot overpower us. 10:46 Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the 10:50 world. 10:51 Never accept fear. 10:54 Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 10:58 Let me tell you something as I get to my seat. 11:01 The warfare between Satan and us lies not in the 11:04 struggle to win, but rather in stride to avoid defeat. 11:09 You see, many of us have mistaken the concept of war 11:11 with Satan. 11:12 What do you mean, Pastor? 11:13 We think that we must fight in order to win. 11:18 No Christian, however, is able to fight and win. 11:20 We fight because we've already won. 11:24 You see, Jesus has already defeated Satan. 11:30 Satan has already lost his ground. 11:34 Satan's battle today, friends, is to recover. 11:39 Our battle is to retain. 11:40 We don't fight in order to occupy. 11:45 We fight to protect what we have already occupied. 11:49 Satan is already defeated. 11:52 The Lord has overcome. 11:54 The church has overcome. 11:57 The conflict between the church and Satan 12:00 is to protect the Lord's victory, not to win it. 12:04 Our goal is not to wrestle victory from Satan, but 12:07 rather to keep victory from being robbed. 12:10 Satan is a defeated foe. 12:13 Satan is a fugitive. 12:16 Satan is a prisoner. 12:18 You need not be afraid of Satan. 12:23 Satan was done at the cross. 12:26 Satan, think about it, did all he could at the cross. 12:30 But he was defeated and put to shame by Jesus. 12:34 Satan's attack on us can never be greater than his 12:38 attack on Jesus at the cross. 12:40 The same power which raised Jesus from the dead, 12:45 the same power that Jesus had after he was crucified, 12:50 is the same power that defeated Satan at the cross, 12:54 and it's the same power available for us to defeat 12:57 the works of Satan in our daily lives. 13:00 Let me remind you, the devil is not afraid of you. 13:04 I said the devil is not afraid of you. 13:06 The devil is afraid of the Holy Ghost that's in you. 13:11 No demon, no Christian has ever been demon possessed. 13:18 Because if the Holy Ghost is living in you, the devil 13:20 and the Holy Ghost can't live in you at the same time. 13:23 The moment you receive Christ, the moment you 13:27 accept Christ as your personal Savior, you take 13:30 position of what Jesus already did 2,000 years ago. 13:34 Your identity as a child of God, your authority over 13:38 spiritual powers are not things you are receiving, 13:43 or will receive. 13:46 But you have them right now. 13:49 So don't want until the battle is over. 13:56 Shout now. 13:57 You're already spiritually alive. 14:01 You're already a child of God right now. 14:08 You possess all the authority, all the power over the kingdom 14:13 of darkness right now. 14:16 Not only were you made alive in Christ 2,000 years ago, 14:21 but Satan was also disarmed and defeated 2,000 years ago. 14:28 Satan's defeat is not pending. 14:32 His defeat is not future. 14:35 His defeat has already happened. 14:38 You don't fight for Calvary, you fight from Calvary. 14:44 If Satan is already disarmed, why don't we experience 14:49 more victory in our lives. 14:52 I don't understand children of the most High 14:54 God, walking around with their lips poked out, 14:57 walking around with rocks in their jaws. 14:59 I don't understand children of the most High 15:01 God who sit there like God hasn't done something for 15:04 you, like God hasn't raised you, like God 15:07 hasn't kept you, like God hasn't picked you up and turned you 15:10 around, placed your feet on solid ground. 15:14 Satan roams around like a hungry lion, looking 15:17 and sounding ferocious, but I don't have to fear. 15:21 His fangs have been removed, and his claws have been 15:25 declawed. 15:26 But if he can deceive you into believing that he can 15:29 chew you up and spit you out, that he can control 15:32 your behavior, and that's just what he wants to do, 15:35 don't let Satan fake you into defeat. 15:39 Fear not. 15:40 I was reading Ellen White, she says in "Christ's 15:42 Object Lessons" that every manifestation of God's 15:45 power for his people arouses enmity in Satan. 15:49 She says every time God works a miracle on our 15:51 behalf, Satan with his angels works with renewed 15:53 vigor to orchestrate our ruin. 15:57 That he is jealous of all who make Christ their 16:02 strength. 16:03 But she says the good news is that the joy of the Lord 16:07 is my strength, which means victory is mine. 16:17 Victory today is mine. 16:20 I told Satan, get thee behind, victory today is mine. 16:25 Let me close this way. 16:26 Has anybody ever seen a snake die? 16:31 No, 'cause I run from a snake when I see it, eh? 16:36 If you've seen a snake die, you go out and somebody 16:41 chops up that snake, or shoots that snake. 16:47 Snake as dead as it wants to be. 16:51 That old tail just moving. 16:57 Giving the image that it's still alive. 17:02 But it's as dead as it can be. 17:06 And so the Lord says, Devil, on Calvary you may have 17:09 bruised my head, but one day I'm going to crush your head. 17:20 And all you've got right now, brother devil, is the wiggling. 17:24 That's all that's left there. 17:27 You can't bite me, you can't strike me, 17:30 you can't kill unless they let you do it. 17:35 óó somebody today, you need to just take your foot, 17:38 just like this. 17:39 That's why I stomp my foot when I preach. 17:41 And I know the devil isn't physically here, but there 17:44 is a metaphorical expression right here. 17:47 You just oughta say to the devil, I believe I just need 17:50 to step on you right now. 17:53 You stepped on me long enough. 17:56 You trampled on me long enough. 17:58 You walked on me long enough. 18:01 But now I'm going to walk on you. 18:03 Now I'm going to step on you. 18:05 Now I'm going to trample on you. 18:07 The difference is, you can step on me and hurt me, 18:10 but I have the power to step on you and crush you. 18:14 Get the devil off you. 18:16 Devil, get off me. 18:17 Get off me. 18:19 Don't let the devil have your mind. 18:21 Know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. 18:26 Fear not. 18:28 And so it was, imagine, a rooky police officer. 18:35 A rooky traffic cop. 18:39 He approaches a busy intersection, maybe Jordan 18:44 Lane and University Drive. 18:47 He approaches a busy intersection to direct 18:50 traffic for the first time. 18:53 They told this rooky cop at the police academy that all 18:58 he had to do was step in the street, hold up his 19:04 hands, and the cars would stop. 19:08 [piano] And so there he is. 19:11 He stands on the curb, he blows his whistle softly 19:18 [whistles], blows it kind of weak, waves it at 19:22 an oncoming car. 19:23 The car roars over him. 19:30 His authority is diminished by his lack of confidence. 19:37 Now imagine a seasoned officer coming on the scene. 19:44 The seasoned officer sizes up the situation. 19:49 The seasoned officer steps into the street confidently. 19:54 The seasoned officer gives a blast on his whistle. 19:58 He stretches forth his hand with authority, and he says 20:03 to the oncoming cars, "Stop!" There's no doubt 20:06 in his mind that he's in control in that intersection because he 20:09 has a subtle belief in his authority. 20:14 [piano continues] And when you deal with the devil, 20:19 if you don't believe you have authority, you're not going 20:22 to exercise it. 20:24 God doesn't need any cowardly soldiers. 20:28 God doesn't need any wimps in his army. 20:32 If your belief is weak, your expression of it 20:38 will be weak too. 20:39 But if you have confidence in the authority that Jesus 20:42 has given you, if you have confidence in the power 20:45 of the Holy Ghost that is working in you, if you 20:48 have confidence that God has given you the ability to cast 20:51 out demons, to tread upon serpents, if God has 20:56 given you the authority to walk on the devil, then you 20:59 will exercise it with authority. 21:01 Quit getting mad because the pastor or the elders 21:04 didn't come pray on your house. 21:06 Pray on your own house. 21:07 Quit getting mad because the pastor didn't come lay 21:09 his hands on your doorpost. 21:11 Lay your hands on your own doorpost. 21:14 Get some oil and put it up there yourself. 21:17 This is the confidence we have in approaching God, 21:20 that whatever we ask, we know we have asked and it 21:25 shall be given. 21:28 Seek, and ye shall find. 21:31 Knock, and the door shall be opened up to you. 21:34 And you may consider yourself just a rookie 21:38 at the devil's traffic stop in your life. 21:41 But Jesus is a seasoned veteran. 21:47 Jesus is a seasoned veteran. 21:52 And I'm so glad today that I'm in my Jesus. 21:57 I'm so glad that Jesus loves me, and I love me 22:03 some Jesus. 22:04 I'm so glad that Jesus protects me. 22:07 He says, fear thou not, for I am with thee. 22:10 Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. 22:12 I will strengthen thee, yeah, I will help ye, 22:14 I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. 22:16 If God be for us, who can be against us? 22:22 Because no weapon born against you 22:24 is going to prosper. 22:25 It just won't work. 22:27 Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, neither be thy 22:30 envious of the workers of iniquity. 22:33 Understand, my friends, that I can do all things through 22:35 Christ which strengthens me. 22:37 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart. 22:41 Lean not into thine own understanding. 22:43 In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy 22:49 paths. 22:50 I once was young, but now I'm old. 22:53 But I've never seen the righteous forsaken, nor his 22:56 seed begging bread. 23:02 Devil, get off me. 23:06 Devil, get off me. 23:08 Devil, get off my family. 23:12 Devil, get off my friends. 23:14 Devil, get off my church. 23:16 Devil, get off this school. 23:18 Devil, get off this campus. 23:21 Devil, get out of our minds. 23:24 Devil, get out of our bodies. 23:27 Devil, get off us in the name of Jesus. 23:31 Lord, you are the source of my strength. 23:35 You're the strength of my life. 23:38 I lift my hands in total praise to you. 23:40 How do I keep the devil off me? 23:42 How do you keep the devil off you? 23:44 You can't let the devil get in your mind. 23:47 Quit letting things come in your mind. 23:49 Everybody is not talking about you. 23:51 Everybody is not against you. 23:53 Quit letting the devil get in your mind. 23:55 Don't let the devil get in your thoughts. 23:58 Start singing a song about something. 24:00 Start singing a song about Jesus. 24:03 When the devil comes to attack your mind, call the 24:05 name of Jesus. 24:07 When you call the name of Jesus, demons will flee. 24:10 Get the devil out of your mind. 24:15 Number two, the devil is a liar. 24:18 He's a liar, and he's the father of lies. 24:23 You've got to know the truth. 24:27 The truth will set you free. 24:29 And number three, after you don't let the devil in 24:32 your mind, after you know the truth, quit walking 24:37 around here scared of the devil. 24:39 I'm going to lock myself in the house because I'm 24:41 scared of the devil. 24:42 No, no, devil, you better get back. 24:44 You better get back. 24:46 I'm a child of the most High God. 24:49 I'm a soldier in the army of the Lord. 24:52 If I die, let me die in the army of the Lord. 24:58 I've got my war clothes on. 25:00 In the army of the Lord. 25:02 I don't have to get back for anybody. 25:04 Devil, you get back. 25:06 Fear not. 25:07 [piano] Say, I don't know who you are. 25:10 I don't know what the devil is doing to you for 25:14 giving him all that credit. 25:16 In the name of Jesus, don't let him in your 25:20 mind. 25:21 In the name of Jesus, know the Word and know the truth, 25:25 and in the name of Jesus, don't be scared. 25:29 Don't be fearful. 25:30 You're now the people of God, and it doth not yet 25:34 appear what we shall be, but when he doth appear, 25:39 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, we shall see him, 25:47 we shall be like him. 25:51 Hallelujah. 25:53 Christ's return. 25:54 Hallelujah, amen, hallelujah, Christ's 25:58 return. 25:59 Revive us, oh God. 26:03 Again, get the devil off me. 26:08 CJ: The Breath of Life gift offer this week is 26:10 "Help in Daily Living," a practical guide to everyday 26:13 blessings by renowned Christian author, 26:15 Ellen G. 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Box 340, Newbury Park, California 91319. 28:02 Or log onto our web site at www.breathoflife.tv. 28:05 PB: The scope of Satan's operation is in your mind. 28:12 It's in your thought life. 28:15 Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 28:22 Jesus loves you, Jesus died to save you, Jesus is coming |
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