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Wommack a teaching ministry that
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grace and now here’s Andrew welcome to
our Monday’s broadcast of the gospel
truth and today I am really excited
about a brand new series that I’m
beginning today called the believers
Authority and what this is talking about
is that we are in a spiritual war
there’s a battle raging between the
kingdom of light and the kingdom of
darkness and we are the deciding voice
vote in this battle and it’s in us
taking our authority that either we win
or lose and most people aren’t aware of
this and let me just mention before I
get right into that that I’ve got this
brand new book this is the very first
time we’ve advertised it entitled the
believers Authority and the subtitle is
what you didn’t learn in church and I
tell you this is a great teaching we’re
going to be talking about some things
one of the things we’re going to cover
is who made Satan and the obvious answer
to that is that God made everything but
I think that there’s some things we’re
going to share here
they’re going to make a big difference
we’re going to discuss what I believe to
be a major problem in the body of Christ
today about spiritual warfare I think
it’s one of the most weird abused areas
and I know that by saying that without
any explanation I may offend people but
I encourage you to stay tuned because
there are some things here we need to
learn also we have this recorded live
this is a live DVD teaching that I did
it one of our gospel truth seminars on
the authority of the believer we’ve got
the TV programs that you can get
actually from there of course here is a
CD set that we have on that and we have
this study guide and as you can see this
is a huge study guide and it goes
through this entire teaching in a format
where you can teach other people and I
really like this this is one of the
things that we’ve been doing lately is
putting out all of our books in a study
guide form to facilitate Bible studies
or sunday-school teaching and we are
getting
some great response from that so anyway
we’re beginning this brand new teaching
talking about the believers Authority
and I believe that this is one of the
most important things that the Lord has
ever taught me of course I say that
about just about everything I teach but
I really believe that I teach just basic
things fundamental things that are
absolutely essential to the Christian
life and I really feel that this is an
area that most people are allowing Satan
to beat them in is because they don’t
know the authority that God has given us
and so there’s many believers that are
just passively dealing with their
problems and petitioning God and asking
God for deliverance for instance from
sickness and disease not understanding
that God gave the power to heal to us it
is not up to God whether or not you get
healed and whether you petition him but
you have to understand your authority
and take your authority and Bible says
in James 4:7 submit yourselves therefore
unto God resist the devil and he will
flee from you
the Lord put the responsibility on the
believer to resist the devil the word
resist means to actively fight against
and as we resist the devil he flees from
us and yet most Christians today are
asking God to get the devil off their
back asking God to heal them asking God
to prosper them and the Bible says in
Deuteronomy 8:18 that you shall remember
the Lord your God for it is he that
gives you the power to get wealth God
doesn’t give us wealth he has given us
power and the authority to use that
power and it’s not up to you praying and
asking God to give you money you need to
recognize God has empowered you and you
need to accept the responsibility take
that authority and begin to start
releasing the things of God through you
using your authority as a believer I
don’t know if you got what I just said
but that’s major if you could have
understood I guarantee you the vast
majority of people watching this program
all over the world if you could have
gotten the true
Jews out of the just those few
introductory remarks I made if that was
to make its full impact on you it would
revolutionize your life your health
would spring forth your prosperity would
spring forth you would recognize in
relationships with other people if you
truly understood the believers Authority
how that there’s a spiritual warfare
going on I guarantee it would change the
way that you relate to other people but
let me just introduce this by making a
statement that is going to shock some of
you but really most believers are very
humanistic in their dealings on a daily
basis now the word humanist our
humanistic is very offensive to most
believers of course there’s a humanist
manifesto and Alan went along Dylan is
but basically people who call themselves
human estoy
God deny that there is any spiritual
power either God or the devil they think
everything is only on a human level
therefore any problems that you have
there is no spiritual basis to any of it
everything is just physical sickness is
all physical emotional problems are all
physical relations are all physical
everything has its answer in people they
don’t believe in God or any spiritual
realm and of course that’s offensive to
believers but did you know that to a
large degree most believers live their
life like a humanist not realizing that
there are spiritual powers going on and
warring against us every day let me just
give you a couple of for instance I
won’t take time to turn over and
establish this we’ll be going through a
lot of this in more detail and looking
at it closer but there are many times
I’d say close to 50% of all of the
healings that Jesus produced when he was
praying for people were spiritual he
would cast a spirit of deafness out of a
person and instantly they would hear
dumbness not an ability not to speak was
demonic a fever in the eighth chapter of
the book of Matthew where Peters
mother-in-law
a fever he rebuked the fever in other
words implying that there was a
spiritual power behind it so a fever a
headache was something that was demonic
in origin the woman who was bent over
and couldn’t lift herself up which would
be comparable to curvature of the spine
today and things like that that was
demonic Jesus many times cast demons out
of people to affect a physical healing
as a matter of fact it says in Acts
chapter 10 verse 38 it says how that God
anointed Jesus of Nazareth with power
and with the Holy Ghost who went about
doing good healing all that were
oppressed of the devil that verse makes
it very clear that the physical healings
they were oppressions of the devil now I
don’t believe that every physical
sickness is demonic like for instance if
you cut yourself with a saw or something
I don’t believe it’s demonic that caused
your finger to fall off or if you get an
infection I think some things are
natural but there certainly are
instances in the Word of God
where sickness had a spiritual reason
and if you are trying to deal with
sickness that has a spiritual root and
you’re trying to deal with it with
physical things then that’s humanistic
you are denying the spiritual power that
is behind it and I can tell you many
instances that I’ve prayed with people
in nice they say things like well the
doctors are just baffled they’ve run
every test there’s no reason they can’t
find any reason why these things are
doing and so as I pray with them the
Lord speaks to me and shows me that the
reason that the doctors can’t find any
physical thing that’s causing it is
because it’s not physical its spiritual
and there are many times I would suspect
hundreds maybe thousands of times that
I’ve prayed with people and take an
authority over a demonic thing and
seeing people instantly delivered and
set free and it’s because there wasn’t a
physical route of this thing it was
spiritual in its nature and again see if
you I know that most of the people
probably watching my broadcast right now
all over the world what I’m saying is a
it’s kind of offensive it’s out of the
norm
and you think oh I’m not sure that
that’s so but see again to me that
reflects how you monistic we’ve become
even in the body of Christ to where we
are looking for a physical organic
reason for all physical sickness we do
the same thing with emotional things
many believers are thinking that there
is just some imbalance in their hormones
they’ve got a chemical imbalance they’ve
got all of these things they’re looking
for some organic reason when there are
plenty of examples in scripture where
things are demonic in origin origin and
see if you don’t understand this if you
don’t recognize it we’re in a spiritual
war and so you go about trying to fix
your physical body your emotions your
finances relationships I’m going to show
you some scriptures where Jesus turned
around and I mean – Peter just said get
behind me Satan and he wasn’t talking to
Peter calling him the devil but there
was a demonic power speaking through him
that was causing problems Jesus
perceived that and very clearly made the
statement that Satan was the one
inspiring why Peter had to say that’s in
the 16th chapter of the book of Matthew
we’re going to talk about that in more
detail but see if you don’t understand
this that relationships finances
physical things all kinds of things I
have as a route a spiritual origin Satan
is coming against you we are in a battle
every single day and if you don’t
understand that that doesn’t mean that
the battle isn’t raging that doesn’t
mean that you’re exempt from the war
just because you don’t acknowledge it no
it’s raging and what it means is if you
aren’t aware that many things I could
even say probably most things that we
are dealing with have a spiritual root
to it and if you don’t know how to take
your authority and resist the devil to
see him flee from you it doesn’t mean
you won’t be in the battle it just means
you’re going to lose the battle because
you can’t win a spiritual battle with
physical weapons you can’t fight in the
flesh you’ve got to recognize that there
is a demonic realm out there demons are
real they are not all in some
third-world country where they have
doctors and they’re still practicing
pagan rituals in all of the developed
countries in the United States Europe
all across the world every place that
this program has been watch there is
demonic activity and there are things
going on and you’ve got to be aware of
this spiritual warfare and recognize
that you have to take your authority and
use it to win this war it is not going
to be won automatically it is not going
to be won without your awareness and
without you dealing with it I’ll tell
you that is just so simple and yet again
I say that most Christians are not
focused on the spiritual realm they
aren’t aware of the activity of demons
and because of it that is just giving
Satan a free hand to rule and to do it e
wants to do so part of this series is
just being making you aware that there
is a spiritual warfare going on and that
we have to take our authority and use it
in order to see victory let me use this
verse out of seasons chapter 2 and in
verse 1 it says and you hath II
quickened who were dead in trespasses
and sins wherein in time past you walked
according to the course of this world
according to the Prince of the power of
the air the spirit that now worketh in
the children of disobedience notice in
verse 2 it says it before you got born
again you walked according to the course
of this world according to the Prince of
the power of the air the spirit that now
worketh in the children of disobedience
this isn’t just a statement that is made
about one person who was very given over
to the devil like the gathering demoniac
and marked the 5th chapter or something
like this this is just a blanket
statement that before you were born
again every one of you now think about
this some of you are going to struggle
with this but according to this verse
the spirit of this world the Prince of
the power of the air worked in every one
of us before we were born again now
there are many of you that would just
reject
that out of hand and say there’s no way
I wasn’t demon-possessed and I’m not
going to get into this I’m just going to
mention this and we’re going to go on
but I’m not going to debate being
possessed oppressed depressed some
people make a major deal and say a
Christian could never be possessed you
could only be oppressed and they make a
big deal in the Greek the word in every
instance where it talks about a person
having a demon it basically literally
transliterate stew being demonized it’s
just saying that Satan is afflicting you
there are varying degrees sometimes he
just inspires you as I’ve already used
that example about Peter Peter had just
made the statement that you are the
Christ the Son of the Living God a
tremendous statement that Jesus said
blessed are You Simon bar Jonah for
flesh and blood didn’t reveal this to
you but my father which is in heaven he
credited that with an inspiration from
the Holy Ghost and said that it was
through the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit that he was able to make this
great confession and in just minutes
Peter turned around when Jesus said that
he was going to be crucified and buried
and then risen on the third day and
Peter turn around says that be far from
you Lord it’ll never happen I’ll defend
you to the death and Jesus turned right
around him just minutes after he had
complimented on him on being inspired by
the Lord and he said get behind me Satan
for you and a are an offense to the
things of God and he recognized that
Satan was behind those those statements
you know I know that many of you get
shocked with this in fact well I’ve
never had the devil use me man anytime
you get into anger and bitterness and
fear and you gripe and complain and you
gossip and you do so there’s just so
many things we’re going to be expanding
on this in a lot greater way did you
know that that is yielding to the
influence to the suggestions to the
promptings of demonic things now we have
a fallen nature that of course some of
these things just seem to come normally
especially before you’re born again but
there is demonic powers that inspire
people and cause offense
and do all of these things and if you
aren’t aware of that well then you just
are missing the truth here that every
one of us every one of us not some
novice not the really bad ones not that
just terrible god haters every one of us
walked according to the course of this
world the Prince of the power of the air
the spirit that is now working in the
children of disobedience this is talking
about a spirit a spirit a demonic power
that is operating in unbelievers there
is a spirit of Antichrist that is loosed
in this world and I know that I’m
unsettling some of you because you’ve
got your life all figured out and it’s
just so simple and you don’t realize you
just have ignored the spiritual realm
you are looking at everything in a
totally humanistic way and you just
think that there’s a physical reason for
everything and I’m unsettling some idea
to bring this up but this is what the
Bible teaches and if you aren’t aware
that it is not just people that you’re
dealing with there are demonic powers
operating through people and that’s
causing a lot of things if you don’t
know that and if you’re trying to just
deal with people on a human level and
not recognizing that there is a demonic
power operating behind and through
people then you are going to be
ineffective here’s another scripture in
the book Ephesians chapter 6 and in
verse 11 it says put on the whole armour
of God that you may be able to stand
against the wiles of the devil it’s
talking here that we are resisting the
devil there is a spiritual warfare and
then in the next verse it says for we
wrestle not against flesh and blood but
against principalities against powers
against the rulers of the darkness of
this world against spiritual wickedness
in high places that’s just as plain as
you can make it we are not wrestling
against flesh and blood there are some
of you watching this program that think
boy those kids of mine and I just can’t
understand why they’re doing this and
you’re trying to deal with everything
only in a physical humanistic way even
as believers you may be praying and
asking God for intervention but you
think it’s all just organic you think
it’s there
hormones because they turned a teenager
in and something happened I’m telling
you that there is demonic intervention
and if you don’t recognize that some
things I’m not saying that everything
but some things are demonic in their
origin if you don’t understand this and
if you’re dealing with things only from
a human standpoint and thinking that
there is only a physical organic reason
just a chemical reason in there you know
as they’re changing in their body that
there’s just natural physical things if
you think everything is totally natural
you are totally in violation of what the
scripture is saying right here because
we are not wrestling against flesh and
blood you aren’t wrestling against your
children
you aren’t wrestling against your mate
you aren’t wrestling against your boss
or the person that’s at work it’s not
just physical it’s not just human there
are demonic powers operating behind the
scenes that are inspiring people and you
know the sad thing is that it seems like
that there are many more people who are
yielded to in cooperating with the devil
then there are people who are
cooperating with God I mean there are
many people that are just allowing the
devil full access to them and there is
hatred and bitterness and strife and
selfishness and criticism there are
people at work that will stab you in the
back and you look at it as well what’s
wrong with that person well some of them
have just given themself over to the
devil and there are demonic things
operating through them and you are again
let me just say that you are not going
to win a spiritual battle with physical
weapons it’s not going to be natural the
point I’m trying to get across is I
begin this series on the believers
Authority before I get to talking about
how you where you get this authority
from how you use it who you use it
against and all of the things that we’ll
be dealing with you’ve got to realize
that it is not just natural what is
going on there is demonic
there are demonic forces at work behind
the scenes now let me just balance this
as I
go through this series I’m going to
spend a lot of time trying to balance
this but let me just say today in a
balance all the things that I’ve said
that if you are just hearing this for
the first time and all of a sudden you
know you realize that some of the things
that you’ve been dealing with in just
the natural room you now realize that
there’s a spiritual power behind it
there is a danger that you get to where
you see a demon on every doorknob to
where you think that every time a person
twitches you know if they have an eye
twitch or any habit that you think that
that’s a demon controlling them I
remember those things in my own life
when I first came into this I saw a
demon everywhere I thought everything is
totally domani that’s not what I’m
saying I mean I think that sometimes the
devil actually takes notes on us you
know I believe that they might have a
manager’s meeting in Hell and boy they
were reporting there saying boy did you
see how this person screwed up their
life did you see the way that they have
totally destroyed their life and so many
terrible things have happened and
probably those demons come back and
report and the devil is taking notes on
us and saying I’ve never thought of that
I never thought of how I could destroy a
person’s life I mean I’m sure that the
demon sometimes are amazed at the way we
supernaturally destroy our own lives and
some of the things that we do I am NOT
saying that everything that happens is
demonic we live in a world that is
fallen we live among people that have a
fallen human nature and there is plenty
of bad and evil things that happen
without demonic intervention and so
there has to be some discernment as we
go through this I’m going to be talking
a lot about this and I’m going to be
talking about how you have to take
responsibility for your own actions you
can’t just blame everything on the devil
it’s totally incorrect to say well the
devil made me do it one of the major
points and I’m going to make as we go
through this series is that the devil
never made anybody do anything he can’t
force you to do anything all he can do
is tempt you he can’t do any
into you without your consent and
cooperation and so there’s abuses on
both sides of this there are many people
I would say the majority of people go
through their life really not even
understanding that there is a spiritual
war they are fighting things in the
human arena thinking that all of their
problems physical financial emotional
relational everything is just human and
so therefore they’re only using human
effort human power and they aren’t
getting the results because they don’t
recognize it’s a demonic root to the
thing I’d say that that’s where most
people err but then there are some
people that go the other direction that
put so much emphasis on the devil that
they take no personal responsibility and
they say well the devil made me do it
when that’s not true
he can’t force you to do anything
there’s a balance between these two and
I just wanted to mention that we’re
going to get into a lot more detail and
deal with that in greater depth but you
need to recognize that there is a
spiritual war and that we have the power
and the authority to use God’s power and
it depends on whether you use it as to
whether Satan is going to be overcome
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on the believers Authority what you
didn’t learn in church it’s going to
make a huge difference this is one of
the foundational things that God has
taught me and I tell you it makes a big
difference in my life I believe that
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today we’d like to point out andrew’s
upcoming speaking schedule he’ll be an
Amsterdam for the Euro spirit conference
May 21st through the 23rd Colorado
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through July 3rd and in South Africa for
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going to be speaking at the Euro spirit
2009 and we’re going to have a number of
different speakers I’ll be ministering
to each day the 21st through the 23rd of
May we’re going to be holding this at
the Victory Outreach in Amsterdam it’s
going to be a great time and so all of
you watching over God TV I’d encourage
you to come and be a part of this May
the 21st through the 23rd Victory
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if you just know what God told you to do
then it’s not a challenge it’s an
adventure I wasn’t ready to make a
commitment until I really knew that this
was God so we decided that okay from
this point on we’re not gonna speak to
each other we’re not gonna write we’re
not gonna be in contact I gave up
marriage and I thought all right that’s
it I need to read the Bible I need to
find out what what it says I need to
find out who God is we could be dropped
from a helicopter anywhere on the
subcontinent of India and somehow God
was could direct us
God has given us a plan and we’re seeing
people change forever and it’s not just
surface it is in their spirit
be sure to tune in tomorrow for more
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