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Series Code: BOL
Program Code: BOL000581A
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00:02 Breath of Life Ministries Presents
00:05 Sermon B581 - It's Time to Fight " 00:12 [Breath of Life Theme Music] 00:20 PB: Ephesians 6:10, the Word says "Finally, my brethren, 00:24 be strong." Be what, everybody? Aud.: Be strong. 00:28 PB: "Strong in the Lord, and in the power of his"- 00:30 -what? Aud.: Might. PB: "Put on the whole armour of God, 00:33 that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the"- 00:35 - what, everybody? Aud.: Devil. 00:37 PB: "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, 00:38 but against principalities, against powers, against the 00:40 rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual 00:42 wickedness in high"-- what, everybody? Aud.: Places. 00:45 PB: "Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, 00:48 that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, 00:51 and having done all, to"--do what, everybody? Aud.: Stand. 00:54 PB: It's time to fight. [Aud. reaction] 00:57 PB: Father, bless us now as we go into Your Word. 00:59 Hide us behind Your cross. Speak for Your servants here. 01:02 We'll be careful to give You the praise, the honor and 01:04 the glory. Move at the appeal time, we pray, oh God. 01:06 In Jesus' name. Amen. Aud.: Amen. 01:09 PB: Let me begin this way quickly. Anytime God 01:14 is trying to take you to another level in Him, 01:17 the devil goes crazy. [Aud. reaction] 01:20 PB: You hear me say it all the time. The higher the level, 01:24 the higher the what? Devil. Now, some people will complain, 01:28 "The devil's bothering me. The devil keeps messing with me." 01:30 But you ought to count it all joy, because if the devil 01:33 were not messing with you, I dare that the devil and you- 01:35 -you and the devil--are running in the same direction. 01:40 [Aud. reaction] Now, we're living in a day and age, 01:44 in a time, that is distinctively different than our past. 01:48 It is distinctively different than what we've ever seen 01:51 before, and the devil is not playing with us. Times are 01:55 getting rough. Times are getting what, everybody? 01:57 Aud.: Rough. PB: Times are not only getting rough, 01:59 times are getting tough. Times are getting what, everybody? 02:01 Aud.: Tough. PB: Wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes 02:05 in diverse places, hurricane Harvey is destroying as we speak. 02:10 Tornadoes are in the same vicinity. Terrorist attacks are 02:15 now the norm. Death, disease and destruction are rampant. 02:20 We are not burying people at 90 years old anymore. 02:24 We gotta bury somebody at 16 years old. Gunfire is commonplace. 02:30 Racial disharmony is like never before. We're in 2017, 02:38 not the 1960s, but it's worse now than it was then. 02:46 Are you hearing what I'm saying? Because today unlike the '60s, 02:50 people are today being given the freedom to hate, the right to fight, 02:58 pardon to persecute, and license to kill. Y'all don't hear 03:04 what I'm saying today. [Aud. reaction] 03:06 PB: Our world is on the verge of a nuclear war. 03:10 I was talking to one of our members today, this week. 03:12 And though we hear a lot about nuclear war and atomic bombs 03:17 and whatnot, I'm encouraged because Revelation chapter 7 03:20 is very clear that God is holding back the winds of strife 03:25 till His servants have been sealed. So that means, North Korea, 03:31 the United States, China and Russia and everybody else can talk 03:37 all they want, but they can't do a thing that my God won't permit. 03:44 [Aud. reaction] PB: And while it might seem that an 03:47 atomic bomb or a nuclear bomb has the power to take an 03:51 entire people out, I just believe God's not going to let that happen. 03:55 [Aud. reaction] PB: Because God's Word is true that when 03:59 Jesus comes back, He's coming back for people; that the 04:03 dead in Christ are gonna rise, and then we which are alive 04:06 and remain are gonna be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. 04:09 Which means, if we were all dead from a nuclear attack, 04:12 who would rise and who would Jesus be caught up in the air 04:16 to meet the Lord. Are you hearing what I'm saying? 04:18 So we won't all be taken out, because if we were all taken out, 04:22 who would be among the righteous living when Jesus came back? 04:25 But in the name of Jesus, we gotta fight. 04:28 We gotta do what, everybody? Aud.: Fight. 04:30 PB: Now, I'm not talking about tanks, bombs, guns or fists, 04:34 but I'm talking about fighting in the warfare of God. 04:38 Because what is taking place in the earthly realm is a 04:42 microcosm of what is taking place in the spiritual realm. 04:45 Most Christians have forgotten that the spiritual life 04:49 is not a playground. It's a battlefield. It's a what, everybody? 04:53 Aud.: Battlefield. PB: And unfortunately, too few of God's 04:57 people are armed, equipped and dangerous. [Aud. reaction] 05:02 PB: Now, whether we like it or not, we're engaged in spiritual 05:05 warfare. We're fighting Satan. We're fighting the devil, 05:09 and if we're gonna be successful in this fight--hear, 05:12 hear me well--we'd better recognize that we cannot approach 05:16 today's battles with yesterday's methodologies. 05:20 [Aud. reaction] PB: You can't do 8-track ministry in 05:24 a DVD or digital society. Yes, the devil is the same 05:31 devil that messed with our mamas, daddies, grandmamas 05:35 and granddaddies, but the way the devil is fighting today 05:39 is more violent and vicious than how he fought yesterday. 05:44 Do you believe that everybody? [Aud. reaction] 05:45 PB: Let me tell you something. As I get older, 05:48 I realize that experience is important. Experience will 05:53 trump energy anytime. Let me say that one more time. 05:57 Experience will trump energy anytime. When you have 06:03 experience on a job application you're applying for, 06:07 you can get the employment opportunity based on your 06:10 experience. That's why they want a resume. Everybody say "resume." 06:15 Aud.: Resume. PB: They want to look at your background, 06:17 because experience can tell the interviewer some aspect 06:21 of what they get when they get you. Young people, 06:25 that's why you gotta work. [Aud. reaction] 06:27 PB: You have to work. You do understand that before God, 06:34 brethren, gave Adam Eve, God gave Adam a job. 06:40 [Aud. reaction] PB: If you want to be with me, 06:44 ladies--that's what I'm teaching my daughters. 06:46 I say, repeat after me--if you wanna be with me, 06:50 you gotta have a j-o-b. Are you hearing what I'm saying? 06:53 [Aud. reaction] PB: Are you hearing what I'm saying? 06:55 [Aud. reaction] PB: You gotta work, because you gotta 06:57 get some experience on your resume, so you can get a job. 07:00 But not only that, any psychologist will tell you that 07:04 the best way to determine someone's future behavior is 07:06 to look at their past behavior. So ladies, if he's killed 07:11 the last three women he's dated-- [laughter] 07:14 PB: --it's very likely--Are you hearing what I'm saying?- 07:22 -that if you're woman number 4, the odds are stacked against you. 07:28 Are you hearing what I'm saying? It's lunacy to think 07:31 that you can continue to do the same things and get different 07:34 results. Experience--what did I say, everybody? Aud.: Experience. 07:39 PB: Is a good barometer of what to expect in the future. 07:43 Experience can help you get a job. Experience can help you 07:45 in a tight spot. Experience can help you stop making crazy decisions. 07:49 There are assets to experience. But the flipside of that is 07:54 there are also liabilities to experience, because if you're 07:58 not careful, experiences can put you in a box where you will 08:02 assume that you can win the fight before you the same way you 08:05 won the fight behind you. When experience becomes tradition, 08:12 it becomes dangerous. When you lock God up in a box and you say, 08:20 God, You must always do it this way, you lose the creativity 08:25 of thought and action to be able to progress into new methods 08:30 of rescue that God would have for you, if you could just stop 08:33 worshiping how He did it, and start recognizing He's 08:38 the God that did it! [Aud. reaction] 08:41 PB: You'd be surprised at how some people, 08:44 and how God will give you a new situation, 08:47 but you will ruin it with an old method. 08:49 [Aud. reaction] PB: You'd be surprised. As pastors, 08:53 we talk to families, and you'd be surprised at the 08:55 people who may have resented the way their parents 08:57 raised them, but when the heat is on they act just 08:59 like their parents. You'd be surprised at the boys 09:03 who hated their fathers for beating their mamas, 09:05 and now they're dating or they're married to a lady, 09:08 and the moment things don't go right, they start acting 09:10 like the very thing they hated, because it's difficult 09:13 to break free from where you came from. You'd be surprised 09:18 at church folk who say when they get on the church board, 09:23 when they get on the nominating committee, when they get 09:27 in charge, they're gonna do new things. We have to have 09:32 new ideas, new strategies. But when the mantle of leadership 09:35 is passed on to them, they do the very same things that were 09:38 done before them. Why? You can be in a new place and still 09:42 have an old attitude. And if you don't change your old attitude, 09:47 you will fight in your old methodology. We're in a fight, 09:51 and yes, we have to fight. We're fighting the devil, 09:56 but we have to know that Satan has intensified his efforts. 10:00 So then, the people of God, we also must intensify our efforts. 10:07 We can't fight the same way we used to fight. We have to 10:12 fight harder. We have to fight stronger. We have to fight smarter. 10:17 In this text, Paul gives us insight to the battle we're engaged 10:23 in and the weapons we have to use in the battle. 10:26 Now, I'm not gonna talk so much about the weapons, 10:27 'cause we've preached that before. But when I read this text, 10:30 the first word that seems to leap off the text of the Word for 10:34 me is "stand." Everybody say "stand." Aud.: Stand. 10:36 PB: Put on the whole armor of God that ye may be able 10:40 to withstand--to stand--against the wiles of the devil. 10:43 Notice the text doesn't say retreat. But also notice, 10:50 the text doesn't say advance. The text just says stand, 10:56 which means you don't have to go looking for the devil. 10:59 You don't have to go searching for the devil. You, 11:03 if you're determined to do God's will, if you're determined 11:05 to do God's work, if you're determined to be a worshipper 11:08 and witness for God, you don't have to go looking for the devil. 11:10 The devil will come looking for you. Are you hearing what I'm saying? 11:13 [Aud. reaction] PB: But guess what. When he finds you, 11:15 as Dmitry said, he ought to find a Bible-believing, 11:19 Jesus-loving, Holy Ghost-intoxicated, no scared standing 11:26 child of God. So the Bible tells us to stand. Hurricanes 11:32 are coming, but stand. Tornadoes are coming, but stand. 11:38 Earthquakes are coming, but stand. War is coming, but stand. 11:45 Racism has come, is coming, will continue to come, 11:49 but we gotta stand. [Aud. reaction] 11:51 PB: Let me tell you something. God's Spirit is being 11:55 withdrawn from this earth. [Aud. reaction] 11:57 PB: The Bible says God's Spirit will not always strive 12:00 with man. This is not a time to lay down your religion. 12:04 This is the time to stand and put on the whole armor of God. 12:08 [Aud. reaction] PB: So, older folk, we gotta stand. 12:11 Young folk, you've got to stand. It's the time to stand. 12:15 But then the second word that jumps out at me, two words 12:17 actually, that jump out at me in the text are "put on." 12:20 Everybody say "put on." Aud.: Put on. 12:22 PB: Now, the Greek word and the Greek context for "put on" 12:25 here is panoply, which means, put on and keep on. 12:32 Put on and keep on the armor of God. In other words, 12:40 don't take it off. Keep it on. If we're gonna fight the devil, 12:45 we can't take God's armor off. God has given us everything 12:47 we need to fight, we just gotta keep it on. Because He's 12:50 given us everything we need, we don't fight for victory, 12:53 we fight from victory. [Aud. reaction] 12:57 PB: In the text, Paul also, after he tells us to stand 13:02 and put on keep on, Paul tells us in the text and lets 13:05 us know who we're fighting. We're not fighting each other. 13:11 The person seated next to you is not your enemy. 13:17 We're fighting the devil. Put on the whole armor of God 13:22 that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 13:25 The enemy, friends, is the devil. Now, the "devil" means 13:30 slanderer and accuser, and anytime you get involved in 13:35 and slander, or you're falsely accusing folk, you're acting 13:39 like the devil. [Aud. reaction] 13:42 PB: All right, you don't like that. That's all right. 13:44 Anytime you get involved in slander or you false accuse folk, 13:51 you're acting like the devil. See, all of you don't like that. 13:57 Let me say it again a different way. Some of us, our biggest 14:02 problem is not drinking; it's not drugs. We talk about that 14:07 in church, but that's not our biggest problem. Some of us, 14:10 our biggest problem is not clubbing, not fornication. 14:13 But our biggest problem is our mouth. [Aud. reaction] 14:19 PB: We love to talk about drug abuse. We love to talk about 14:26 substance abuse. We love to talk about fornication. Look at her; 14:32 look at him. But what about slander? What about accusations? 14:40 What about goss--I know I'm preaching, 'cause when you get quiet, 14:43 I know I'm preaching. Preach, Pastor Byrd. [Aud. reaction] 14:44 PB: It's the little, subtle ways we engage in gossip, 14:51 and nobody is spiritual enough to say hold up. Let's pray for 14:57 the person. Because if you do that, that will kill the whole 15:00 conversation. Are you hearing what I'm saying? But too many 15:03 of us are acting like the devil. We spend too much time slandering 15:08 each other, and your neighbor is not the enemy. Paul says the 15:12 devil is the enemy. He's a liar, he's a slanderer, he's the 15:16 accuser of the brethren. I'm not your enemy. You're not my enemy. 15:20 We're not enemies, but you have to understand, the devil 15:24 will use people. [Aud. reaction] 15:26 PB: And if we're not spiritually mature enough, we'll get 15:28 in an argument with somebody and really, we're in a fight 15:31 with the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, 15:34 but against principalities and powers, rulers of the darkness 15:37 of the world, spiritual wickedness in high places. Let me throw 15:40 this in quickly. That's why we need spiritual discernment. 15:43 [Aud. reaction] PB: Listen to me good. We need spiritual discernment. 15:46 Young people, you need spiritual discernment. Old people, 15:47 we need spiritual discernment. Because everything that happens 15:50 in your life is not the devil. [Aud. reaction] 15:54 PB: My tire is flat this morning. Satan flattened my tire. 16:01 [Aud. reaction] PB: No, he didn't. You rolled over a nail, 16:07 that's the devil--that's not the devil, that's a nail. 16:10 Are you hearing what I'm saying? Because when you get 16:13 to the point, the devil did this, the devil did that, 16:15 did that, you start getting spiritually paranoid. 16:19 The devil's on the phone--no he's not, that's your cousin. 16:22 [laughter] PB: That's not the devil. Don't become paranoid. 16:29 Balance religion with reason. Just because God protects me 16:35 doesn't mean I don't lock my house when I leave it. 16:37 I know some people have gone crazy because they were 16:40 so spiritually paranoid. Jesus didn't see a devil under 16:44 every branch, under every tree, in every book or in 16:47 every person. There are some folk who are just mean. 16:51 [Aud. reaction] PB: We're not talking satanic stuff. 16:57 We're talking mean. Saved and mean. [Aud. reaction] 17:02 PB: Sanctified and mean. [Aud. reaction] 17:07 PB: I'm doing the best I can, Sister. Amen. 17:10 [Aud. reaction] PB: That's why we need spiritual discernment, 17:14 because you can't keep crying wolf and blaming the 17:18 devil for everything. Sometime something happens to you, 17:21 when the devil then really does come, nobody's gonna 17:25 come to your rescue. [Aud. reaction] 17:28 PB: Satan is the enemy in the fight, not the person 17:29 seated next to you. Satan is the enemy. 17:31 But my last point is this--I told you I wasn't gonna be long. 17:33 We need energy for this fight against the devil. 17:41 We need some spiritual Gatorade for this fight 17:46 against the devil. Go back to verse number 10, 17:49 then I'm gonna sit down. I'm almost done. 17:51 It gives us some insight about spiritual energy. 17:54 We gotta know how to stand, we gotta know how to 17:56 put on our armor and keep on God's armor, 17:57 but we gotta know Satan is the enemy in the fight. 17:59 But let me tell you about the source of our energy 18:01 for this fight. Where do we get our energy to fight? 18:05 Where do we get our energy to fight off Satan? 18:09 Where do we get our energy to fight off depression? 18:12 Let me tell the young people that are hearing me in this, 18:14 in this place today. If you're ever depressed, 18:16 if you're ever down, before you do anything drastic, 18:20 I want you to come to that office. I don't care how 18:22 many people are lined up to see me, you come to that 18:25 office so I can tell you where you can get some 18:28 spiritual energy to fight off what the devil is trying 18:32 to put on you. Paul says, finally, brethren, 18:35 be strong in the Lord, in the power of His might. 18:40 The source of our energy is not within our selves. 18:45 That's good to know, but there are times because my 18:47 energy level runs low. But the Bible says, be strong 18:51 in the Lord, in the power of His might. That means, 18:56 we draw strength from the power of God's might. 19:00 Not our might, but His might. Not my will, 19:03 by Thy will be done. The word "might" means force, 19:07 it means strength, and the word "power" refers to God's 19:09 dominion and sovereign ability to exercise His power. 19:14 My power, your power, our power to fight the devil comes 19:18 from the Lord. We don't fight the devil in our own strength. 19:23 That's why so many people drop out and fall prey to the devil, 19:26 because you've been fighting the devil in your own strength. 19:28 But you will never defeat the devil by yourself. Paul says, 19:33 be strong in the Lord, in the power of His might. 19:37 But not only--and this is my last part--not only the 19:40 source of our energy, but also the scope of our energy. 19:44 Because when a believer's faith is in God, then God's 19:49 power becomes the power of that believer. [Aud. reaction] 19:54 PB: If we ever grasp that concept as a church, 19:59 that we are as strong in Whom we trust, we will revolutionize this world. 20:06 [Aud. reaction] PB: Let me try it this way. If you trust in yourself, 20:12 then you are as strong as you are. But when you trust in God, 20:20 you are as strong as He is. Somebody's still not getting it. 20:25 Let me try it this way. I can't fly. I know my last name is Byrd-- 20:32 [laughter] PB: --but I can't fly. I tried it as a child. 20:38 My brother and I had bunkbeds. I was on the top bed, 20:40 he was on the bottom bed. I jumped off the bed telling him, 20:42 I can fly. I had the song written before R. Kelly, 20:45 "I Believe I Can Fly." Come on, say amen. 20:48 [Aud. reaction] PB: And I believed I could fly, 20:50 but I jumped and busted my head on the way down, 20:52 had four stitches on the side of my head. 20:54 I learned, you cannot fly. The law of gravity is real. 21:01 I can't fly! But when I put myself in an airplane and 21:07 I yield to the airplane's power, suddenly I have the 21:11 ability to soar 36,000 feet in the air. 21:15 I can't run 70 miles per hour, but when I get in my car 21:20 and yield to my car's power, I suddenly have the ability 21:24 to achieve speeds I could never achieve alone. 21:27 And when my faith is in God, when my faith is in His power, 21:33 then His strength becomes my strength. His power becomes my power. 21:39 That's why the Bible says in Ephesians chapter 3, 21:43 "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding, abundantly, 21:47 above all we could ever ask or think, according to the 21:51 power that works in us." "Greater is he that is in me than 21:58 he that is in the world." Any math teach at Oakwood, 22:01 the college or the academy, will tell you, if you have 22:03 a greater than, then you must have a less than. 22:06 [Aud. reaction] PB: So, whoever the greater is inside of you, 22:12 then he that is in the world is less than Who is inside you. 22:17 And the "greater than" is the Holy Ghost. Now, in the Bible- 22:22 -I'm about to take my seat--there are two types of power. 22:26 Everybody say "dunamis." Aud.: Dunamis. 22:29 PB: Come on, say "dunamis." Aud.: Dunamis. 22:30 PB: That's the miracle-working power. 22:32 Then there's exousia, which is authoritative power. 22:35 Now, exousia gives you the authority to use the dunamis. 22:40 [Aud. reaction] PB: You don't know what you have in you. 22:44 You don't know the strength you have in you. 22:47 You don't know the power that's inside of you. 22:51 The devil is not afraid of you. The devil is afraid 22:55 of Who's inside you. [Aud. reaction] 22:58 PB: You're sitting on a ton of dynamite. 23:02 If you would just realize what you have. 23:05 Let me tell you something. No Christian- 23:07 -I say it all the time--no Christian has ever 23:10 been demon possessed. Check your Bible on that. 23:14 No Christian has ever been demon possessed. 23:17 They may have been influenced, but not possessed. 23:19 Why? Because I'm already possessed by the Holy Ghost. 23:23 [Aud. reaction] PB: And the Holy Ghost and a demon 23:25 can't live inside of me at the same time! [Aud. reaction] 23:28 PB: So you're already possessed by the Holy Ghost. 23:32 What you're dealing with is demonic influence. 23:36 Don't you let anybody tell you you're demon possessed. 23:39 You're not. You're a child of God. Born of His Spirit, 23:44 washed in His blood. You're possessed by the Holy Ghost. 23:49 The devil may try to influence you. All you've got to 23:51 do is yield to the power of God. And so Jesus told His apostles, 23:56 disciples, in Mark 11, Jesus said, "Apostles, have faith in God." 24:01 And when I have faith in God, His power becomes my power. 24:05 His strength becomes my strength, which means I can 24:08 fight the devil, but I don't have to fight the devil 24:12 in my power. Because I'm operating not in my power, 24:15 but I'm operating in the power of God. I'm operating 24:19 in dunamis. I'm operating in exousia. I'm operating- 24:23 -which means I don't even have to wrestle with the devil. 24:26 All I gotta do is let the Lord fight my battles. 24:30 The reason we wrestle with these demons and these people 24:34 in the flesh is because the devil is trying to draw 24:36 some of us into a flesh fight. But in the name of Jesus, 24:40 under the power of the Holy Ghost, you'd better tell 24:44 those demons, look, you've got to go! I'm not fighting 24:48 with you anymore. I'm not wrestling with you anymore. 24:52 Just get out, you've got to go! I speak under the 24:57 authority of exousia power today; authoritative power. 25:02 You've got to go! Have faith in God, because unto 25:08 this mountain you can say, be thou removed. 25:13 It didn't say in the text anything about wrestling. 25:15 It didn't say anything about boxing. Jesus said to 25:20 the demons in the man in Mark chapter 5, "Come out!" 25:23 Jesus didn't wrestle with the man. Jesus didn't 25:27 box the man. Jesus said, come out of the man! 25:31 And if you have faith in God--I'm a witness to this today- 25:35 -when you speak to your mountain, when you tell your 25:39 mountain to be removed--and I've had some mountains 25:42 in my 23 years of pastoring--but when you look those 25:45 demons in the face and you tell those mountains to 25:49 be thou removed, Satan has to go. You tell the devil, 25:54 you and your satanic ways have to go. You can't call 25:57 me anymore, you gotta go. You can't email me anymore, 26:02 you gotta go. You can't snap-chat me anymore, 26:05 you've got to go! You can't Facebook or tweet 26:09 me anymore, you've got to go! Jesus did not 26:13 say climb the mountain. Jesus didn't say like the sun, 26:16 "I'm coming up the rough side of the mountain," 26:18 Jesus never said that. That's not biblical. 26:20 Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus say climb the mountain. 26:24 Jesus said, speak to the mountain. Stop climbing the mountain. 26:31 Stop boxing the mountain. Stop wrestling the mountain. 26:35 Speak to the mountain. That's how you fight the mountain, 26:38 speak to the mountain. Use the authority you have. 26:43 Speak to the mountain! Use the power you've got. 26:47 Speak to the mountain! Be thou removed, 26:50 and cast it in the depths of the sea, for you 26:53 shall have whatever you ask and saith. If you 26:56 want healing, say it. If you want deliverance, 27:00 say it. If you want love, say it. If you want 27:04 financial breakthrough, say it. If you want financial 27:08 clearance, say it. If you want graduation, say it. 27:11 If you want a job, say it. If you want a sound mind, 27:16 say it. If you want salvation, say it. If you want Jesus, say it! 27:22 [Aud. reaction] PB: You don't know what you have, 27:27 you don't know who you are in God. If we would just 27:31 learn how to walk up to our situations and start talking. 27:34 [Aud. reaction] PB: If you just believe, all these 27:40 things are possible to those who believe. 27:47 So my question to you is this. I'm about to end. 27:50 As we engage in spiritual warfare, as it gets 27:53 more tough, more rough, children dying, racism at 28:02 an all-time high, can you believe. Now, everybody 28:11 in this church, everybody watching on the television 28:14 can believe. If Jesus had said, If thou can sing, 28:19 that would have eliminated some of us. If Jesus had said, 28:28 If thou can preach, that would have eliminated some of us. 28:35 But everybody in here can believe. [Aud. reaction] 28:40 PB: So today, if you're sick in your body, 28:45 you can believe that He can heal. [Aud. reaction] 28:51 PB: If you just believe, all things are possible. 28:59 Think about it y'all. I'm about to close, 29:01 but think about it. The first thing that the devil 29:04 did to Eve was to get her to doubt God's word. 29:09 But if you just believe this Word, things will 29:16 start happening. It's time to fight. Don't be scared, 29:23 it's time to fight. [Aud. reaction] 29:27 PB: It's time to fight the devil. It's time to fight. 29:32 Y'all know the story about me in Atlanta. I'm in Atlanta- 29:37 -talking about it's time to fight, y'all know this story- 29:40 -I'm in a rough part of the ATL. [Aud. reaction] 29:45 PB: Y'all think Pastor Byrd's totally white collar. 29:51 I was in a rough--let me, let me test the Atlantans. 29:54 I was, that's where I was, I was driving on Bankhead-- 29:58 [Aud. reaction] PB: --There's a difference between Bankhead 30:02 and Buckhead. Andrew, you know that--there's a difference. 30:06 Down the street from where I used to pastor in Atlanta, Berean, 30:12 there was a street called Bankhead Highway. 30:14 That's why I have to watch Don and praise, 30:16 y'all made me a little nervous, I thought you 30:18 >: Thank you for joining us for another exciting 30:20 Breath of Life television broadcast. 30:21 Tune in next week at the same time, as 30:24 Dr. Byrd will deliver another dynamic message 30:26 from the Lord, just for you. 30:28 Until next time, may God bless you. 30:30 [END] |
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