Andrew Wommack’s daily TV program: Gospel Truth

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so let me real quickly just share some

things with you I’m not going to try and

go long you know there’s a lot of people

that come and want me to pray for them

but they don’t want to just sit here and

learn the word and do these kind of

things but that’s like what Greg was

teaching today they want the spectacular

they want God to take them by the hand

and just do it for them but one of the

things that we rejoice at it carries

Bible College so much is that it’s not

built around a personality or a special

gifting it’s the Word of God and you can

take the Word of God and get healed of

anything and we have seen hundreds

probably thousands and thousands of

people healed by just hearing the word

and getting the word in them and that’s

what excites me I can’t go home with you

these instructors can’t go home with you

but you can take the word home and the

Holy Spirit will quicken it to you and

you can be healed so real quickly let me

just say that on my first session I was

talking about how that everything is

already done God didn’t create men and

then as an afterthought start meeting

his needs he created everything that it

took to supply Adam and Eve’s needs

before they were ever created and the

same thing is true for us God has

already blessed us with all spiritual

blessings in heavenly places in Christ

Jesus anything you will ever need has

already been done it’s not a matter of

getting God to do it God has already

done it it’s you receiving and resting

in what God has already done what Greg

was saying you know especially that part

in mark chapter 4:35 into the first part

of Mark chapter 5

that’s exactly God said go to the other

side don’t go halfway and drown and the

fight was for them to just trust in what

God said and not go but what they saw so

God has already provided everything

anything that you need is already done

it’s not a matter of learning how to get

God to do something and I tell you this

is a dividing point between mature and

immature Christians mature Christians

begin to start trusting and resting in

the fact that God you’ve done it

and I don’t care what it looks like I

don’t care what my senses are telling me

what my body feels I don’t care about

any of these things this is what you

said you’ve done and I’m trusting and

resting in you we’ve talked about those

things and that is really beginning to

be mature when you quit trying to get

God to do something and you start

trusting that he’s already supplied it

and it’s just a matter of you calming

yourself staying calm staying in faith

and being patient and you will see the

salvation of the Lord

and then I stalking last night about

that one of the most asked question

which all of these things are related is

people say why did God let this happen

that shows that you don’t understand

that God gave authority to us I use

those verses out of Genesis chapter 1

and God gave us authority it’s not God

who released sickness and death into

this earth we did we empowered the devil

we’re the ones that loosed him and it’s

not God who controls everything God has

a plan for every one of us but God’s

plan does not automatically come to pass

you have to cooperate with God a verse

that I often quote is Ephesians chapter

3 verse 20 now into him who is able to

do exceeding abundantly above all we ask

or think and most people just stop right

there you’ll hear you’ll see signs about

this plants and people making statements

that God is able to do exceeding

abundantly above all we asked to think

that’s not a true statement somebody

says well it’s right there in Scripture

it says it no it goes on to say

according to the word according to means

proportional or to the degree of the

power that works in us God gave

authority over this earth to people with

a physical human body and God didn’t

have a physical human body by doing that

and saying I give you Dominion you then

that meant only people with physical

human bodies had authority in this earth

and you know I’m going to say a lot of

things here that normally how it’s been

two or three hours teaching this I’m

going to try and save in 30 minutes so

I’m not going to give you all of the

verification but you could go study this

and I’ve got teaching on this that you

that will give you the references and

everything but in John chapter 5 this

tells you why Jesus had to become a man

I don’t know if you’ve ever asked these

questions but I remember as a kid asking

people why did Jesus have to come to the

earth and die didn’t God God couldn’t

have God has provided salvation some

other way why did he choose that way I

asked these questions and nobody ever

answered them they just thought well

it’s you know the way God chosen no

there’s a specific reason why Jesus had

to become a man because it all goes back

to the fact that God releases his power

through words he created this entire

universe you and me by words Hebrews

chapter 11 verse 3 the worlds were

framed by the Word of God Genesis

chapter 1 he said let there be light

when God speaks words us psalms chapter

89 verse 34 it’s a covenant it becomes a

binding contract God cannot lie Hebrews

chapter 6 and so when God says something

he is bound by his word we violate our

word all the time and if we say

something I’ll be there at seven o’clock

and it winds up being later well I’m

sorry I missed it no big deal but God

doesn’t do that if God was to say he was

going to be there at seven o’clock and

he showed up at 7:01 the entire universe

would self-destruct it would implode

because he holds all things together by

the power of his word once God says

something he cannot he will not violate

it so when God said you have dominion

you rule this earth you subdue it you

control all of these animals you control

everything by God doing that he took

himself out of control he gave control

to us God does not directly control

things here on this earth he controls it

through people

and this is the reason Jesus had to

become a man because God looked we use

that verse on Monday night in Ezekiel

chapter 22 verse 20 and he says I looked

for a man that would stand in the gap

and I couldn’t find any and so it goes

on to say I’ll have to do it myself and

Jesus had to become a man

because authority was invested in

physical human beings I tell you what

I’ve just said right here is awesome

if you understood this it would answer

lots of questions I haven’t got time to

really go into all of this but let me

just say that God is a spirit John

chapter 4 verse 24 God is a spirit and

because he gave authority over this

earth to physical human beings God did

not have absolute control and authority

over this earth he would have had to

have violated his word to come in and

say guys this is not what I intended I

take back all of this authority and

power and now I’m going to set things

straight no he had to allow the earth to

spin out of control because he gave

authority does and he didn’t put any

strings attached to it and say as long

as you do what I want you to do then you

can continue to rule no he just said you

have dominion this is yours rule II

subdue it and when we turned it over to

the devil that is not what God intended

but he would have been unjust to come

down here and wipe out the devil and

stop everything and just straighten

everything out he had to speak to people

and only to the degree that people

submit to God is he able to control

things through them that’s a huge

statement right there

there’s people we’re in a political year

people running for office and you will

hear Christians all the time well the

heart of the King is in the hand of the

Lord and like the rivers of water he’ll

turn it whichever he wants and they take

from that and say that God controls

everything and they’ll say well it must

be a God’s will that Obama was president

that bush was present

after all you know God controls all

these things God doesn’t control that

God does not control who gets in office

and I man I opened up a can of worms

right there I hadn’t even got time to

defend that but that is not true I

believe it grieves God some of the

people to get in office

God does not control all of this God

does not do that we vote and if you

don’t vote you are controlling who gets

into office you need to vote God doesn’t

control all this stuff and so anyway God

gave people with physical human bodies

authority and since God didn’t have a

body he’s a spirit God was limited to

only he was limited to what he could do

to the degree that people would yield to

him and this is the reason that Jesus

had to become a man because there was

none of us that were yielding to him

properly there was always more people

yielding to the devil Satan you know God

is a spirit but Satan is also a spirit

Satan doesn’t have a physical body he

may have a spiritual body but he doesn’t

have a physical body like what we are

talking about Satan didn’t have

authority to do anything in the earth

Satan can only do something if a person

with a physical body yields to him and

empowers him this is why in the fifth

chapter of the book of Mark if you would

have gone on in read where Greg was

ministering this morning you’ll find out

that that gadarene demoniac when those

demons came out they begged Jesus let us

enter into these swine you know why they

wanted to enter into a pig because a pig

has more authority than a devil because

it’s got a physical body a worm has more

authority than a devil slime algae

bacteria has more authority than the

devil because it’s physical Satan can’t

do anything without something physical

yielding to him he can do more through a

pig than he can do without some physical

body he has to have your consent and

your cooperation to get

anything done and man I’m struggling to

know what to share I’m just going to say

some stuff quickly I’m not going to be

able to explain it this may really rub

you the wrong way but I believe that

this is why I believe that Satan’s

transgression against God came in the

Garden of Eden not in a pre-adamic

civilization

the earth hasn’t existed for billions of

years and Satan ruled over and then

Genesis chapter 1 is the recreation of

the earth I could prove all of that

stuff if I had time but just use this

logic you know people use a verse out of

Revelation chapter 12 that says that

Satan the dragon took one-third of the

stars and cast them to the earth and

that is the only verse in the Bible that

people use to say that one third of the

Angels rebelled with Satan and he fell

now to me that’s symbolic and it’s I

guess it’s possible that it does say

that the dragon that is talking about is

Satan but that’s symbolic and to build a

doctrine that one-third of the Angels

fell and transgressed with Lucifer and

stuff that’s stretching it so I’m not

even sure that’s what he’s talking about

but let me just say alright I’ll give

you that that’s talking about Satan

taking one third of the Angels in his

transgression had done would it be for

the devil to take one third of the

angels and do a frontal attack on God

with two thirds of the angels still

intact if he had 100% of the Angels he

couldn’t have overcome God because God’s

the creator and he would have defeated

them all if he had Adam this whole thing

that Satan just assaulted God and

transgressed against God and stuff

doesn’t make sense because he didn’t

have any power against God God would

have overcome him you know what I

believe he did it says

Isaiah chapter 14 that he was Lucifer

the Sun of the morning and then in

Ezekiel chapter 28 it describes how he

was in the Garden of Eden every precious

stone was his covering and it lists the

gold and the burl and the Onyx and the

diamond and all of these things

it describes Lucifer in a perfect state

in the Garden of Eden Hebrews chapter 1

verse 14 talks about the angels and it

says are they not all ministering

spirits sent forth to minister for those

who shall be heirs of salvation angels

were created to serve us and to minister

to us and I believe that Lucifer was

created by God he was this anointed

angel and he was put in the Garden of

Eden to serve Adam and Eve he was not a

fallen being at that time if that would

be like me taking my children and

putting them out in the backyard and

saying there’s a lion out there be

careful

had the irresponsible it’d be

irresponsible for God to put Adam and

Eve in the Garden of Eden with this huge

demonic force there that was going to

tempt them he wasn’t Satan he was

Lucifer in the Garden of Eden and zekiel

chapter 28 describes that and I believe

that it was there that his transgression

against God happened he came against

God’s people because God gave mankind an

authority and power that even angels

didn’t have their authority and powers

delegated but iers he gave us authority

and power and says it’s yours do with it

what you want

and Satan saw a in God’s armor you

and me and if he could get us to submit

to him then we would take the god-given

Authority and power that God gave us the

rule and we would transfer it to the

devil

it says in Romans chapter 6 verse 16

know you not that to whom ye yield

yourselves servants to obey his servants

ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin

unto death or of obedience unto

righteousness even though that verse was

written yet you know the Word of God is

eternal it was these truths were

rooo before they were ever written down

and canonized and put into a Bible and

so this was a law of God that whoever

you yield yourself to you become his

servant so if Satan could get mankind to

submit and yielding him then the power

God had given us for good would be

transferred to him and he could use it

in a sense it’s like if you go into a

bank and you’ve got all these armed

guards standing around to protect that

Bank there’s no way that you could

overpower them their firepower is

greater but you know what you could do

you could take a hostage and stick a

knife to a hostage neck and say you give

me this money or I’ll kill this hostage

and even though they outnumber you and

they could overpower you because they

don’t want to hurt the hostage you can

actually rob a bank and get away with it

by taking a hostage in a sense Satan

knew he could never fight against God he

could never overcome God so what he did

he came to Adam and Eve as the one who

was supposed to be serving us and he

tempted them and deceived them and when

we submitted unto them then God if he

would have wanted to wipe out the devil

he would have had to have wiped out Adam

and Eve the whole human race because we

wilfully gave Satan that power we

willfully submitted to him so anyway

I’ve said these things really quickly

but you can take it as Andy ology if you

want but I believe that Satan’s

transgression took place in the Garden

of Eden and God had made Lucifer

Isaiah chapter 14 I believe it’s verse

12

he’s called Lucifer that you know who

made Satan we did we empowered him and

this really blesses me because that

means that Satan isn’t using some

angelic power some superhuman power you

know what he’s doing is using the

authority and the power that God gave

mankind and his only weapon against us

is deception we have to believe a lie

and cooperate with it and we

in power the devil that’s the reason he

didn’t come in a mammoth and put his

foot on Eve’s head and say eat the tree

or I’ll squash you he didn’t have any

power to do anything that’s the reason

that God could let Adam and Eve go on

their own because they had absolute

total authority and power and no animal

no nothing could have intimidated them

there were no demons that could have

intimidated them and forced them to do

anything they were absolute rulers and

if they would just obey Him

nothing bad could have happened to them

they were absolutely safe but they were

deceived the devil Cain not through some

animal to intimidate them but he came

with the smartest the slighest animal

the serpent and deceived them and got

them to questioning God thinking that

God was holding out on them and they

willfully disobeyed God and they

willfully obeyed the devil and by doing

so we created Satan

it is human power and authority that was

given to Satan and once you understand

that then that just lowers him down to a

level that hey you are using the power

that God originally intended for us and

only physical human bodies have this

power Jesus became a man and in John

chapter 5 he says this is the reason I

have power to execute judgment is

because I am the son of man I have a

physical body this physical body is what

now put the devil in problems because in

a sense Satan had taken man as a hostage

God if you touch me they willingly gave

me this authority if you wipe me out

you’ll have to wipe them out and because

of God’s great love for mankind

he allowed things to continue out of

control because he loved us and he had a

plan of redeeming us but then Jesus

became one of the hostages he became a

man and now the devil was in trouble he

had been hiding we were his shield

blocking God’s judgment but now Jesus

was flesh and man he took it to the

devil and Satan so stupid he took Jesus

right into his domain killed him and

took him to hell and man Jesus came out

of hell but the keys of death and of

Hell and gave us back all his power and

authority and I’m telling you Satan

can’t do anything to you without your

consent and cooperation

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