Priscilla Shirer: Overcoming Distractions from the Enemy | FULL TEACHING | Passion 2018 | TBN

Priscilla Shirer speaks at the 2018 Passion Conference for TBN’s Praise. Listen as she teaches the importance of wearing the armor of God as you fight daily battles.

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0:00 Intro

1:20 Perspective

2:57 Family Testimony

9:40 Identity Changes Your Strategy

16:42 Putting on the Armor of God

19:04 Knowing Your Real Enemy

24:45 Spiritual Weapons

30:02 Righteousness

39:15 Who Are You Impressing?

42:30 Call to Action

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your spiritual heart is comprised of

four things your mind the way you think

your emotions the way you feel your

ambitions what you purpose to do and

your conscience

your conscience is not the voice of god

but your conscience is like this wiring

that helps this microphone amplify my

voice the the conscience is the

microphone that the holy spirit uses to

help you hear the voice of god

[Music]

i cannot even begin to tell you how

excited i am

to be here

thrilled

finally to be a passion this is my

first time being at passion i i’m

the new kid on the block

thank you for making the new kid feel

welcome it is a privilege to be a part

of what god has already been doing

through this movement for these years

these decades that god has been sowing

seed into the lives of

of you

y’all don’t even know what it is that

the lord has in store you can’t even

imagine i’m trying to tell you that

whatever is in your mind right now about

what god might do with your life

it is too small for what he’s actually

planning to do

too small

you cannot fathom what god has in mind

for you

the reason why i can say that with that

much boldness

is because while there are 30 plus

thousand of us that are gathered

together in these three arenas and then

those that are on the other side of the

screen in their homes

30 000 sounds like a big number unless

you consider the fact that with seven

plus billion people on the planet

the fact that he’d let us be the ones

that are recipients of what he’s done

over these last few weekends really it’s

just our last few days really it’s just

a drop in the bucket 30 000 sounds like

a lot but in the grand scheme of all the

people that could have been here y’all

he chose us

that means he intended for you to know

you’re an arrow

that your expectation is that you’re

getting ready to go places the likes of

which you could never imagine

oh i like y’all y’all talk back to me i

go to that kind of a church where they

talk back you know i go to the kind of

church where if the preaching gets

really good to us we might throw

something at the pastor

a shoe a baby anything might go flying

up there

y’all are my people y’all came to have

church

so i have three boys

um it’s a little bit scary to me that

they are nearly it will be very soon in

the next few years will be about your

age three sons the distinguishing

characteristic about my boys is that

they are giants they are huge boys my 15

year old is six foot two inches tall he

wears a size 14 men’s shoe my 13 year

old is about 6 1 he wears a 13 men’s

shoe

and uh they tower over me i have a

nine-year-old who’s coming up in the

ranks with his brothers they are

tall boys somebody come help me feed

these people

and one of the distinguishing

characteristics about or what makes

their size work for them rather is that

they do love sports so whatever sport is

sort of in season that’s what we’re

playing at the time my second son for a

lot of years he’s into basketball now

but for a lot of years baseball was this

thing and i enjoyed that i enjoyed

baseball season i liked going out there

for spring ball i liked spring ball

because you go sit in the cool of the

evening while your kid is practicing i

remember all those years of of little

league when he was just coming up and

we’d sit out there in the cool of the

spring evening under the lights of the

bleachers watching and practice and

enjoying just

that that whole atmosphere i like spring

ball so much the only problem with

spring ball is that it is going to

become summer ball

and i don’t know what happens where you

live wherever you’re coming from but i

can tell you in dallas texas which is

where i still live

and where i was born and raised in

dallas texas in the summertime it

doesn’t warm up slightly

it gets hot

i’m talking about slap your mama hot

that kind of hot the kind of hot where

you feel like the sun must be mad at you

about something like you did something

to the sun and the sun is trying to get

you back all summer long that’s what it

feels like and you’re sitting out there

at a game trying to enjoy your kids game

and it really still is okay when there’s

just one game the problem is that at the

end of every season there’s a tournament

so you got to be out there on a thursday

at 8 a.m and 10 a.m and noon and 2 p.m

and then depending upon how your kids

team did you’re gonna have to come back

on friday at 8 a.m and 10 a.m and then

they give you a little lunch break but

you got to come back for the 2 p.m game

the 4 p.m game and then if your kid’s

team had the nerve to do well you got to

come back again on saturday for the 8

a.m game and 10 a.m and noon and two and

man you’re sitting out there under the

blazing sun trying to be happy that your

kid is doing well

really you’re wondering if it’s ever

okay to pray they lose so you can go

home

i will never confirm nor deny that i

have ever done that

but i will tell you that we were sitting

out there at a tournament so several

years ago

sun was blazing

we were so excited for the lunch break

just because that meant we would be able

to go to a restaurant where there would

be air condition and ice water that

actually had ice in it

we got refreshed we came back

we drove our suv up into the parking lot

opened up the back of the suv so that we

could pull out all the gear that we

needed to go to the next game in the

tournament we were three days into the

tournament hot sweaty they were doing

well we were trying to be excited about

it

ready for the next game i was walking

behind my son to get from where we had

parked the car over toward the dugout

where the next game was going to be

played and so i gathered up all the

stuff you know the ice chest that you

have and the um the umbrella that you

might have to go over your head and you

know the water bottles the the backpacks

the the baseballs the mitts all that

stuff and i was following behind my son

my second son jerry junior is a fairly

gregarious personality he’s outgoing

he’s excited for a challenge

so i could see that in his step as i

followed behind him i could see a skip

in his step his chin was up his

shoulders were back he was excited about

the next game and i got to tell you he’s

pretty good in baseball he has a natural

knack for it i remember at 10 years old

was the first time he got a good hit and

sent it sailing over the fence line at

10 years old and i think it’s partly

because of his size just a lot of power

behind the swing a great as a first

baseman so we were really excited about

his success in baseball and and i

watched him as he kind of hopped and

skipped over to the next game just

excited about the next challenge in the

tournament

but because i was following behind him i

had my eyes glued on him and i could see

when something changed

i could see that as we took the short

walk from where we parked the car over

to the dugout i could see that his

shoulder started to hunch over and his

head hung down

i could see that that that skip that had

been in his step it changed he was kind

of walking like he was nervous he was

wringing his hands a little bit i saw

that he was looking around his eyes

darting and looking a little bit sketchy

i was trying to figure out what happened

to my boy it was a short walk from where

we parked the car over to the dugout and

all of a sudden his countenance had

completely changed so i started looking

around trying to figure out what was

going on why did he look so insecure and

fearful all of a sudden

i realized that as we were going toward

the dugout we were walking past

some kids from another team

they were all laying

on the grass underneath the shade of an

oak tree getting ready for the next game

as i passed them i could see this was

the team we were about to play next

kept walking and i kept getting a look

at these boys

and when i looked at them i realized

what my son’s problem was

we had faced this team before

we had faced them earlier in the season

and when this team had played my son’s

team earlier in the season they had

annihilated us

it had been a complete embarrassment a

complete upset this team right here

y’all they were serious baseball players

but we had to walk right by them to get

to the dugout

as we walked past there were two players

they were talking to each other one was

whispering to the other i think he

thought he was whispering but we could

hear him

he leaned over to the other one and he

said

there goes that big kid from the red sox

team

is he the one that hit the ball and it

went over the fence

yeah he was the one at first base the

one that caught any of the outs that we

got in the game that was him

so

that’s jerry

shire

when my boy heard his name

cross the lips of the opposing team

members

those shoulders that had been hanging

down all of a sudden i watched them pop

back again

i watched his chin go up i watched him

get a little swag back in his step as he

headed over toward the dugout

in fact we had to bring him down a few

notches before the game started

it’s amazing really how your countenance

changes

when you really overhear and understand

what the enemy thinks about you when he

sees you coming

it doesn’t mean that the challenge goes

away it means that in the face of it

you’re different your stance is

different because you recognize that

when the enemy sees a daughter or a son

of god coming his way he’s shaking in

his boots not because of you but because

of the holy spirit of god that lives on

the inside of me

i came to tell somebody today that even

if you don’t believe what it is that the

word of god declares to be true about

you you need to know that the enemy does

he knows that every single thing that

god’s word declares to be true about you

every word that has been declared over

you in these last few days of this

conference even if you’re not convinced

about it the enemy is

he knows that you have been forgiven he

knows that there is therefore now no

condemnation for those of us who are in

christ jesus he knows that you have been

given the victory he knows that you have

been made competent by the spirit of god

he knows that there is therefore now no

condemnation for you or for me no shame

no guilt he knows that you have not been

given a spirit of fear but a power and

love and of a sound mind and y’all he

knows that in the end we win

and i’m saying what ashamed it would be

for the enemy to believe more about your

potential than you do

what ashamed it would be for us to go

out of here with all of this inspiration

that we have been given this investment

of god’s word that he has gathered us

together over the course of these days

to worship in spirit and in truth and to

hear his word declared true over our

lives what a tragedy it would be for us

to walk out of here and still live like

we were before we came through these

doors

so what the enemy will do is scatter

challenge in front of your life because

listen you’re going back home to

challenge y’all do know we going back

home in a little while right

and don’t we wish we could wake up to

this every single day

don’t we wish that we could have god’s

word spoken over our lives with this

much authority and power every single

day and be in the presence of leaders

who can lead us into the presence of god

and worship every single day like this

but the reality is

we’re going back home

the challenges of your university campus

the challenges of your home your

relationships your friendships on your

job those challenges will be sprawled

out in front of you would you get home

and let me tell you something what the

enemy hopes is that the sight of them

will cause you to shrink back in so much

fear and insecurity that you’ll never

step up to the plate of being who god

has called you to be

listen if you place faith in jesus

christ i hope you know that the enemy

understands he cannot destroy you

he knows his chances are over of

destroying you so he is going to spend

the rest of his time and the rest of his

energy just trying to discourage you

trying to distract you so that you’ll

shrink back in fear and insecurity and

not step up to the plate

and be who god has called you to be

it is at least in part to this end

that the apostle paul gives us a passage

of scripture

that has become a lifeline for me

in fact i was talking with christine

yesterday chris and i have known each

other for a very long time very close

friends and she was asking me

what i was going to speak on and i had

several thoughts

of directions that i was

leaning toward

but in the end we as we were talking

the question came up if there was only

one thing you could say to them

if there’s only one message that you

ever have the opportunity

to tell these students these young

people that will be gathered together on

this occasion what would that message be

and there was one thing that immediately

popped into my heart and my mind for you

at the end of this year’s passions

passion conference

it’s the words of the apostle paul

he writes them in the book of ephesians

listen

let me just tell you quickly before i

read this passage you got if you if

you’ve not read the book of ephesians

you’re gonna have to read the book of

ephesians

y’all listen

it’s it’s like for real

the apostle paul y’all know he was a bad

boy he gave us most of what would become

the new testament

letters written to first century

believers that now disciple us and help

us to mature as believers and as the

body of christ and scholars say that of

all of paul’s writing really the cream

of the crop the cherry on top of the

cake is ephesians

because in the book of ephesians y’all

he just spends the first half of the

book just rehearsing who you are as a

daughter or a son he wants to make sure

you step up to the plate rise to the

occasion of who you’ve been recreated in

christ to become those of you who place

faith in jesus christ last night who

stood to your feet at the end of pastor

louie’s message and you placed faith in

jesus listen the old has gone and the

new has come

you’re a daughter you are son and you

have full rights and privileges that

have been granted to you the apostle

paul wants you to know what is the hope

of his calling and choosing you he

writes in the first and second and third

chapter about the treasure that you have

he wants you to know about the mercy

that has been lavished upon you the

grace that has been given to you he

wants you to know that if you’ve been

rejected by everybody else you’ve been

hand-picked chosen and adopted by the

one true god he wants you to know that

if you’ve dug a pit of sin for yourself

that is so deep you can’t find your way

out of it that the mercy of god is so

great and so grand that it can reach

down into any pit and snatch you up out

of it once and for all in fact paul gets

so worked up that by the time he gets to

the middle of the first chapter he

bursts out in a prayer and he says i’m

praying that the eyes of your heart

would be open

so that you would just know what is the

hope of his calling and choosing you

and after going over and over and on and

on about the lavishness the richness the

grace the mercy the goodness the

adoption that has been poured out over

us the forgiveness that has been granted

to us he’s trying to figure out how do i

close this letter to make sure they step

up to the plate

how do i put an exclamation point on

passion 2018 to make sure that what god

has given them they don’t hand over to

the enemy as soon as they walk out the

door

and the apostle paul writes these words

to us

in ephesians chapter 6

beginning in verse 10.

he says

finally

you be strong in the lord

and in the strength of his might

he says put on the full armor of god

so that you may be able to stand firm

against the scheme somebody say schemes

against the schemes of the devil he says

we wrestle not we struggle not against

flesh and blood but against the rulers

against the powers against the world

forces of this darkness against the

spiritual forces of wickedness that are

in the heavenly places he says so

therefore you might as well just go

ahead and put down all the weapons of

this world that aren’t working for you

anyway and take up some weapons that

actually have some power he says take up

the full armor of god so that you may be

able to resist in the evil day and

having done everything to stand firm he

says you ought to just stand firm

therefore

in these few verses of scripture the

apostle paul begins to introduce to us a

concept

that has not been at least in the

context of thus far in church uh

development at that time had not been as

overtly described as it is right now

in paul’s letter

he brings up the topic

of spiritual warfare

he says

you have an enemy

he says i want to make sure that it’s

loud and clear there are other places in

the old testament and throughout

throughout the new york where we can

infer that we have a spiritual unseen

battle going on but this is the first

time that an author comes right out and

says you have an enemy

and he is scheming against you that when

you leave this place in just a little

while when i leave this place in just a

little while you need to know that there

is an enemy he is against you he is not

for you

he plans to do anything and everything

in his power to stir up challenge in

your life enough to cause you to shrink

back and not rise up and stand firm in

the victory that you have been given in

christ jesus that’s why the apostle paul

says

stand

firm

because you have an enemy

an enemy that wants you to think that

just because he is invisible he is also

fictional

he wants to be chalked up to nothing

more than a caricature

a cartoon picture a myth a a character

for a kid’s nursery rhyme he doesn’t

want you to recognize the influence that

he has over your life possibly to to

cause you to never walk into the full

expression of god’s grace and goodness

in your life he is sinister he is a

master illusionist and he is a deceiver

and he hopes to cleverly disguise

himself behind life’s most pressing

problems to where you will forget he is

even there he wants you to point fingers

at him or at her at your boss at your

parent at that particular professor or

your r.a in your dorm he wants you to

think it’s that advisor or it’s that

financial problem anything flesh and

blood because he knows as long as we’re

looking at the flesh and blood we will

direct all the wrong weapons at the

wrong culprit

we’ll think our money will work we’ll

think our rationale and logic will

actually work we think that the diploma

we’re about to to achieve and receive

we’ll think the diploma will be work

worth it we’ll think that the

connections will work anything natural

cannot take care of the supernatural

when your problem is unseen and

spiritual you need weapons that work in

that realm

so the apostle paul says you got to know

first of all that your enemy is not the

person you are sitting next to today

that your enemy is not your parent at

home your enemy is not that professor

that is difficult to work with your real

enemy is not your boss on your part-time

job your real enemy is unseen he is

hoping y’all that we will forget he’s

there

he is the master deceiver

so there’s a little church around the

corner from

my house

in dallas i’ve been taking my kids there

since they were little

to harvest festival that’s basically

this church’s answer to halloween

so we will go there for harvest festival

and this church has a good old-fashioned

trunk or treat

does anybody know what i mean when i say

trunk or treat

okay all right so trunk or treat for

those of you who are not clear on what

that is that’s when members of the

congregation volunteer

they volunteer to bring their cars into

the parking lot on harvest festival

night so that they can open up the trunk

of their car so you go into the parking

lot all the trunks are open

and each person has basically crafted a

carnival game or some sort of fair game

out of the trunk of the car so kids line

up one trunk after the other they play

whatever the game is and then most of

the time whether they win or lose the

person that owns that car gives them a

whole bunch of candy and sends them home

we’re always so grateful

so we stand in line

one car after the other waiting on bags

of candy and we play one game after the

other a few years ago

the biggest line the longest line at the

carnival wasn’t behind the a car it was

behind the bed of a truck it was really

clever

a huge truck had been

parked in the parking lot

and they’d put a step ladder right at

the bed of the truck so that a kid could

walk into the bed of the truck they had

attached a tabletop which was about the

same size as the bed of the truck they

had attached it to the side of the truck

cut six holes into it put some fabric

some drapery over it and out from those

holes every few seconds a puppet would

pop through

they gave the kid a huge plastic mallet

and the job of the kid was to run up and

down the inside of the bed of the truck

as he tried to hit the puppets on top of

the head it was a homemade whack-a-mole

game is what it was

and it was the longest line me and jude

at the time he was like four jude is my

youngest me and jude are standing in

line we’re waiting on our turn behind us

there’s another kid he’s with us his mom

he’s probably four or five as well and

y’all he was hysterical

because he was annoyed at this whole

situation and he was making sure she

knew it

he was first of all annoyed because mom

i don’t understand why i got to stand in

this long line didn’t we come to the

carnival to have fun this ain’t fun

standing in line ain’t fun i have an

idea mom how about this how about i go

play all these other games while you

stand in line and hold our place and

then when it’s our turn i’ll come back

and join you in live

but he was not only annoyed about the

line the four-year-old was also annoyed

because mom i don’t even understand this

game why in the world would i waste all

my energy running up and down the inside

of that truck to hit the puppets on the

top of the head if when i hit them on

the head they’re going to disappear but

then they’re just going to come back as

soon as i hit them on the head what’s

the point of this game

so everybody in the line is laughing

hysterically because this four-year-old

this five-year-old is talking so much

about all of his frustrations

finally he gets so frustrated

that he works himself into a frenzy to

where all i saw out of my peripheral

vision was a four-year-old flash running

past me as he ran forward and he grabbed

the drapery off of the table top and

pulled it clean off

underneath there were three adults with

puppets on each hand

that day we all got a good laugh but we

also got a good lesson

there is always something you can’t see

influencing what you can

and if you spend all of your time your

energy your effort trying to hit at what

you see popping up in your life you’re

gonna be so frustrated and by the way

exhausted because as soon as you take

care of one thing another one is coming

back unless you do what the apostle paul

says pull back the curtain and let the

enemy know we got our eyes on you

and we’re going to use some weapons that

actually work back there behind the

curtain y’all i wish i had learned this

when i was 18 19 20 21 years old that

that person that physical problem isn’t

really where you need to invest your

energy pull back the curtain use the

weapons that actually have power

the apostle paul wants you to know that

the tactics of the enemy are serious

business and so he uses a specific word

to describe them

he says

schemes

listen to me he knows your weaknesses

he knows how to dangle what carrot at

the right time in the right way to make

sure you are snagged in particular

have you ever wondered or found curious

that that particular carrot is always

dangled in front of you when you are

most tired

when you are most vulnerable when you

happen to be most hungry

most alone most weak that particular

carrot the one that wouldn’t mess with

your friend because it’s not her deal

it’s not his deal he’s not enticed by

that but the one that entices you always

shows up at the right time yo that’s not

coincidence that’s a scheme

the enemy is trying to derail you he’s

trying to make sure that you don’t walk

in a manner worthy pleasing of the lord

that you come in here but that you don’t

go out of here the

purpose to live for the glory of god

he’s trying to trip you up

not only for his own benefit but because

he does not want you having access to

everything that you are privy to

as a rightful heir to the king of kings

and the lord of lords

it’s a scheme

so if he’s got tactics

we need tactics

the apostle paul outlines them for us

i’m just going to read them to you

because he says in verse 13 you need the

full armor and here’s what they are

verse 14. he says make sure that your

loins are girded with truth then he says

you need a breastplate and the

breastplate is called righteousness and

then he says in verse 15 you got to have

something for your feet if you want any

hope of being able to move forward

successfully so your feet need to be

shod with the preparation of the gospel

of peace and then not only that but he

says there are some flaming missiles of

the evil one that he fully intends to

send sailing into your path you’re gonna

need a shield and the shield is your

faith and then you know there are lies

there are strongholds that he’s going to

try to erect in your mind you’re going

to need something to protect your mind

he says you need a helmet and the helmet

is your salvation but not only that he

says that you are going to need a sword

really a dagger of the spirit it was

about 18 inches long or so the one the

apostle paul is referring to you need a

dagger so that when the enemy is all up

in your space you’ve got something close

at hand to make sure that he stays at

bay you need a dagger of the spirit and

the dagger is called the what

the word of god

but y’all he doesn’t stop at those six

can i just say that there is one more in

18 verse 18 traditionally it’s taught as

six i really believe there are seven

pieces of armor because in verse 18 he

says

pray

says pray

[Applause]

not like you know a prayer a day to keep

the devil away

not like a prayer over your meal

just because that’s what your mama did

and your grandma did and that’s what

you’re supposed to do

not something quick and casual

fervent

prioritized prayer

y’all you can’t have victory if you

don’t pray

do you hear what i’m saying to you

prayer is the key

that unlocks the resources of heaven so

that they can be unleashed on planet

earth

prayer is the key he’s actually given

you to get all the good stuff down here

because i don’t know about you but i

don’t want to wait to get to heaven to

experience all that god has for me any

bits of heaven he plans to give me on

earth i want it right now

prayer accesses the bits of heaven he

intends to give you now

and prayer listen prayer is what pushes

the kingdom of darkness back

it’s what pushes it back that’s why

jesus said my house shall be called not

a house of good preaching

not a house of good singing

not a house of great spotlights and

production not a house of great cafes i

hope you have all of that enjoy it but

jesus said at the end of the day my

house better be called a house of prayer

because spotlights and fog machines and

great singing and great preaching that

won’t necessarily push the kingdom of

darkness back but when my people who are

called by my name when they will humble

themselves and when they’ll pray he says

then i’m gonna hear from heaven i’m

gonna heal the land the enemy will have

to bend the knee at the name of jesus in

prayer

so pray

there’s one other piece of armor i

couldn’t get by without talking to you

about it for a few moments y’all still

awake everybody game

it’s in verse 14.

he says put on a breastplate

called what

righteousness

righteousness

jerry and i live in a fairly rural part

of dallas fort worth

we like it that way close enough to the

city we can get there quick

but it’s quiet and lazy we live on a

little two-lane sleepy road somebody’s

got some horses over there there’s some

cows over there

and one of my closest friends

lives across the street that’s why we

like it because she’s got a pond in the

front of her property

so i’ll get the boys and the two fishing

poles i bought on sale at the local

walmart i have a tackle box too that i

got on sale there because and you know

we need things we need extra hooks

because the boys always lose the hooks

extra bobber thingies you know because

we need extras of those i also have

gloves in the tackle box because you all

know i don’t mind going fishing but i

ain’t gonna actually touch no fish

so we walk across the street with

whatever hot dog meat we’ve got left

from the week because you know we’re

professional fishermen so our hot dog

meat is our bait

we walk across the street we stand in

this little cove underneath some trees

and we fish just right there most of the

time just a little sun perch stuff like

that we can catch quick in an hour we

can catch like 10 or 12 fish just a

little quick easy little fishing trip

every now and then though i’m feeling

adventurous

what that means is is that we will get

into my friend’s little rowboat they

bought on craigslist it’s metal it’s not

a big deal it’s just a little it’s sea

worthy it can hold us up that’s all we

need

i’ll swim i will uh row out into the

middle and we’ll fish from there every

now and then

but i always think twice before i do it

and here’s the reason

because in order to get in it we first

have to turn it over

they leave it upside down as they should

to drain water while nobody’s using it

so i gotta turn it over to get in it and

what i do know for sure

is that when i turn this thing over

something’s either going to hop out from

underneath it

something’s going to waddle out from

underneath it or worst of all oh

something’s going to slither

out from underneath that boat because

the environment under there is moist and

damp and perfect for critters

do you know what i’ve noticed every

single time we turn it over something

comes out and never once have i had to

write a golden sealed invitation and

send it into the brush nearby

to invite the critters to come and join

us at one o’clock today you’re welcome

never once have i had to invite them

because the environment created by the

upside down boat is invitation enough

righteousness

is right side up living that invites the

sunlight of god’s favor and blessing

upon your life

unrighteousness

is upside down behavior that is out of

alignment with the truth of god that

you’ve been sitting underneath for the

last few days it’s behavior that is out

of alignment with the truth of god to

where you don’t have to invite the enemy

and come and make himself at home in

your life you just keep living upside

down

and the environment created by upside

down behavior is invitation enough

listen to me you can pray against the

enemy till you’re blue in the face but

if you and i leave passion and we do not

walk in holiness we do not live in a

lifestyle that is in alignment with the

truth of god we will have wasted our

breath in prayer

paul says somebody’s got to live right

it’s flat out straight up

holiness

it’s holiness

it’s a word that our our grandmothers

and our grandfathers back in the good

old days when you went to church and you

sat on a wooden pew

it’s before some churches became so

pre-seeker sensitive

i remember y’all i went listen i’m off

track listen i went to a church and they

said we are a pre-secret sensitive

church and so we actually want to sort

of uh in a way they said dull down the

actual

literal name of jesus just so we can get

people in first then we will we will be

more direct later on i said oh you have

invited the wrong person

because there used to be a day in time

where it was just black and white

where there were fewer gray areas and

tolerance yes come as you are but don’t

stay as you are

holiness

brothers and sisters i implore you by

the mercies of god to walk in a manner

worthy of this calling by which you have

been called that every bit of truth that

you have received this weekend to align

your lifestyle to it

to not determine that you will still dig

your heels into the ground and live

immorally or speak immorally or do the

things habits and lifestyles and choices

and relationships that you know are

outside of alignment with the truth of

god turn the boat right side up

so that you can invite the favor of god

on your life the apostle paul says

righteousness is your breastplate the

roman army in the first century they had

many pieces of armor as you know

but the breastplate would have been one

of the most critical the reason why was

because

it obviously protected the most vital

organ they had their heart

the heart is the lifeline for your

physical well-being all of the blood

flow the vitality the energy that you

need to function in every level of your

life comes from the vitality of your

physical heart what the physical heart

is to the physical life your spiritual

heart is to your spiritual life all of

the vitality the energy that you need to

be who god has created you to be to have

fervency in your prayer life to follow

him with passion and with fire to read

the bible and not just be ink on a page

but you hear his voice speaking to you

to have clear reception between you and

the holy spirit you need a vital

spiritual heart that’s why if i were

your enemy more than all else i’d be

after your heart

because one shot to the spiritual heart

will wipe you out

your spiritual heart is comprised of

four things your mind the way you think

your emotions the way you feel your

ambitions what you purpose to do and

your conscience

your conscience is not the voice of god

but your conscience is like this wiring

that helps this microphone amplify my

voice the the conscience is the

microphone that the holy spirit uses to

help you hear the voice of god

so if i were your enemy i’d be after

your heart because if i could get to

your heart that would mean i would have

automatic access to your mind now i

could tinker with your thinking i’d have

automatic access to your emotions i can

mess with the way you feel and make sure

they’re out of alignment with the truth

of god i can mess with your ambitions to

where what you want to do is totally out

of alignment with what god wants you to

do and more than all else i’d want to

make it sure i have a shot to your heart

so that i can short-circuit the wires

between you and the holy spirit

now you can’t even hear god speak to you

because you didn’t have a breastplate on

the apostle paul says holiness is your

breastplate

holiness blocks you from a full frontal

attack of the enemy

holiness keeps the enemy at bay to where

when he comes looking around for some

people that he can infiltrate some

upsell side down environments that he

can fester in he can’t find that with me

or with you because we’ve chosen right

side up living

aligning ourselves with the truth of god

breath place in place securing us

against the schemes of the enemy

holiness is your breastplate

i came to tell you to live right

i came to tell you not to just have

heard all of this

to go home and live in accordance with

it

be

ye

holy

not by your power not by your might but

by the spirit of god

there is no relationship you’re in that

if it is out of alignment with the truth

of god that the holy spirit himself

won’t help you to sever so that you can

walk in holiness

there is no lifestyle you are living

that is too uh that you’re too wound up

in that you can’t break free from no

matter how you feel in this moment you

can walk in holiness

there is no way you have been speaking

no addiction that you have no habit that

you have been festering in your life

that you have been harboring in your

life that the holy spirit won’t empower

you to break free from so that you can

walk underneath the banner the favor of

holiness in your life be

ye holy y’all listen

listen

back in our grandmama and our

grandparents days

great-grandparents

they wanted to honor god more than they

wanted to impress people

see the problem with instagram and

twitter and social media if there’s a

problem y’all the problem is

we want this

we want to be impressive

and if i’m worried for our generation

it is that

we are impressive

but we don’t have breastplates on

it is that we have the applause of

people and our selfies are perfectly lit

and we have a whole bunch of friends and

a whole bunch of instagram likes and

people are following us and the enemy is

thrilled because we have sacrificed

holiness

on the altar of impressing people

you gotta live for the applause of

heaven

you gotta decide i will not be

politically correct before i will choose

to be holy

i will not be impressive before i will

choose to be holy

i may not be the the person that

everybody wants to be around i may not

be the most impressive but what i will

be is holy because a time is coming

y’all where we are gonna see our savior

face to face

and when we see him he will not ask us

how many instagram followers we had

he will not ask us how many friends

liked our post

he will not want to see the selfies that

we took when we see him face to face

he’s going to ask us did we do business

with his son jesus christ

and then

and then we’re gonna give an account

and i don’t know about y’all

but i’m looking for

well done

[Music]

i want a well done

i want jesus to look at me and say you

did the thing girl

not because they bought the books they

bought the bible study they saw the

movie no you did the thing because you

honored me

whether with an audience of one or an

audience of 30 000 you honored me

i came to tell you brothers and sisters

walk with integrity

be

in the dark

who you are in the light

everything that your god has entrusted

to you over these last few days the

enemy does not mind he doesn’t like but

he doesn’t mind that you heard him he

didn’t mind you came here what he minds

is if you leave here and live by what

you heard

[Music]

praise you father

[Music]

if you’re here

[Music]

if you’re in this room stay standing if

you’re in this room or one of the other

arenas that are at home and you know you

are living in a way that is out of

alignment with the truth of god your

breastplate is not in place you are open

to full frontal attack by the enemy

because you haven’t girded yourself with

holy living and maybe you’re in a

situation where you’ve been trying to

live right but by your own strength and

power you just can’t seem to pull it off

and you need the holy spirit to do what

he does

to set you free to empower you to rise

up in victory to step up to the plate

and hit a home run for the kingdom of

god

[Music]

y’all remember

y’all remember in the lion king

[Music]

simba’s messing with the hyenas and he’s

like where and they’re like

seriously

and he does it again

and they’re like you got to be kidding

he does it again

[Music]

and they’re like

no you’ll never take us down you’re too

weak you’re too small you’re too puny by

yourself

he tries it one more time

he lets out his best roar but it sounds

like something big and giant and it

echoes off of the mountains nearby and

the enemy enemies go running away not

because he was the roar but because his

daddy had come up behind him and mufasa

had let out a great roar

the roar of the father is behind you

walk in victory in jesus name amen

[Applause]

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