Kynan Bridges wants to close the door on the demonic trio of slander, gossip and offense. These unwelcome guests have gained momentum in our culture and in the church. They ruin marriages, relationships, destroy churches and discredit those in spiritual leadership. Unwittingly, believers aid these spirits daily. And usually the accuser operates undetected.
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A world beyond the one we know?
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Sid Roth has spent over 35 years
researching the strange world of
the supernatural.
Join Sid for this edition of
It’s Supernatural!
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Sid: Hello.
Sid Roth here.
Welcome to my world where it’s
naturally supernatural.
Most believers do not know this,
but the recent presidential
election was designed by the
evil one to destroy many
of your destinies.
You don’t know this, but you see
the devil wasn’t concerned.
You think the devil was
concerned about voting?
No.
He was concerned about your
heart.
Next on this edition of It’s
Supernatural!
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Most of you think the very
transgression in the Bible was
Eve eating that forbidden fruit,
but Kynan,
you said no.
Kynan Bridges: No.
Sid: What was it?
Kynan Bridges: The first
transgression in the
Bible was slander.
Sid: Slander?
Kynan Bridges: Yes.
Because the Bible says that
Satan or the serpent came to Eve
and he began to question God’s
reputation.
You see, slander is defined as a
damaging statement about
someone’s character or
reputation.
When Eve was presented with the
opportunity to eat the fruit,
the enemy told her that you will
not surely die.
In other words, God is not
telling you the truth.
He said one thing, but he means
something else and it was her
doubt and her suspicion that
caused her to
disobey God’s commands.
You see, the word “Satan”
actually is the Hebrew “Shatan”
and it means an adversary, but
it also means one
who breaks faith.
In other words, when there is
slander operating our faith and
trust in the character of the
person slandered is damaged,
is broken so that we no longer
see them the same way again.
And that’s exactly what happened
to Eve in the garden.
Sid: But look at the
repercussion.
Kynan Bridges: Yes.
Sid: Do you think it could be
serious for a believer that the
repercussion, in fact, you call
something the demonic trio.
Kynan Bridges: Yes.
Sid: Explain that.
Kynan Bridges: Well I believe
that slander and gossip,
and offense is what I call the
demonic trio,
in other words, slander, gossip
and offense.
And I want us to think about it
this way.
Imagine somebody had a
debilitating virus like
bacterial meningitis, for
example.
You can carry bacterial
meningitis and not even
know you have it.
Guess where you carry it?
In your mouth.
So when somebody releases the
virus or the bacteria it can
infect another person and get
pass their blood brain barrier
into their brain and kill them.
So I believe that what Satan has
done has attempted to infect the
church with offense and his
means of doing that is through
slander and gossip.
Sid: You know, I have never seen
a time in my entire life that
it’s almost okay to slander and
gossip when let’s say,
take the most recent
presidential election.
I mean, families are being
divided.
I’ve never seen such division
and it’s like we watch the news,
and you put it in and it comes
out,
and we’re saying the same
negative things.
It’s hateful.
How does a Christian fall into
such a trap?
Kynan Bridges: Well it’s very
simple.
Why would Eve risk everything
because of a conversation?
Sid: She wouldn’t.
Kynan Bridges: Watch this.
When we talk about the serpent
and how he spoke to Eve,
the word “serpent” actually
means divination,
which means that what was
happening to Eve while she was
listening to the accuser, she
was being brought under a spell.
And Sid, there are millions of
Christians who are spellbound.
They are literally under a
satanic influence.
You see, people don’t recognize
that slander is actually a form
of witchcraft and I’ll tell you
why.
The definition of witchcraft in
the New Testament is the word,
“pharmakeia”.
It means where we get the word
“pharmacy” from,
illicit drugs, drugs that put
people in an altered state of
consciousness, drugs that
manipulate and control.
Well guess what Sid, we have
many pharmacists in the church
and in the schools, and in the
families.
These are people who with their
words poison other people and
bring those people into a spell,
bring them into an altered state
of consciousness so that they
don’t even realize what they’re
doing anymore.
They don’t realize what they’re
saying.
And I always ask people this
question: Who’s in your ear?
Who are you listening to?
Sid: But what someone hears
doesn’t really affect them.
Most people think it’s nothing.
Kynan Bridges: Oh no, no, no,
absolutely.
What we hear affects every
aspect.
First of all, the first thing
that we hear it affects
what we see.
You see, when Eve heard the
conversation she saw
the tree differently.
When I hear something it affects
everything that I see.
It affects my ability to
perceive,
my ability to see, my ability to
see things clearly.
Sid: How would that affect our
destiny?
Kynan Bridges: Well that has a
power to stagnate your destiny.
I’ll give you an example.
The Lord gave me a vision and I
saw two believers,
they were outside of a church
and they were talking.
And as they were talking to each
other there were two demons on
each of their shoulders, and the
demons would whisper lies into
their ears.
Now Sid, they never even
questioned whether or not these
were true statements.
Now watch this.
As they begin to hear these
whispers in their ear,
they begin to look at each other
differently.
Their countenance has changed.
Then the most dramatic thing
happened.
You want to know what happened
in my vision?
The demons began to vomit on
each of the believers and it was
like this slime.
It was this filthy slime.
And I asked God, I said, “God,
what is that?”
He said.
“That’s slander, gossip and
offense.”
He said, “It is a substance from
the underworld.”
What if I told people that
slander and offense was a
satanic substance that can
contaminate their spiritual life
and keep them from fulfilling
their destiny,
literally keep you from
realizing God’s purpose for your
life and abort your destiny
prematurely.
Sid: That’s pretty serious
stuff.
That’s as serious as what
happened to Eve as far
as I’m concerned.
Kynan Bridges: That’s right.
Sid: What about sickness?
Can it affect our health?
Kynan Bridges: I was ministering
to people and I was trying to
figure out why people weren’t
getting healed.
And God told me, he said,
“You’re not dealing with the
right thing.
You need to address the elephant
in the room.
So I began to pray for people
who had been lied on,
people who had been offended,
who had been hurt.
And I called an alter call.
One woman came down who had been
devastated.
I mean her body was wracked with
rheumatoid arthritis.
Now with further investigation
we realized that this woman had
been through a nasty divorce,
her husband had said awful
things about her.
She was bitter toward him and as
a result it was
affecting her health.
When I led her through a prayer
of release she was
instantly healed.
Woman: God, set me free of
bitterness in Jesus’ name.
I’m healed!
I’m healed!
Kynan Bridges: She went to the
doctor and they couldn’t even
find any rheumatoid in her body
anymore.
So we see that what we accept
into our heart has tremendous
ramifications even for our
health.
Sid: I believe that man of you,
you’re out of control.
I even see myself doing it when
I watch the news and I hear
these things.
My temper, my anger goes up.
But you know what, there is a
vaccine and when you take this
vaccine you will have it under
control,
and when you have it under
control you will walk in the
promises of God.
When we come back we’ll hear
about this vaccine.
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Sid: Kynan, you have an analogy
that really spells out how
offense operates on us.
It has to do with the dark
alley.
Kynan Bridges: Okay.
So imagine people walking down a
dark alley.
It’s pitch black.
You can’t see anything in front
of you.
And I remember being in an
experience when I went to Africa
one time.
I couldn’t see anything.
There were no generators, no
nothing,
no light.
And so you’re walking down this
dark path.
You can’t see what you’re
stumbling.
In fact in this particular
instance there was a black viper
right by my foot.
I didn’t even see it.
The person behind me happened to
step on it.
And I believe that many people
are stumbling in the dark.
That’s what offense is like.
The Bible calls it a snare.
It’s actually a stumbling block.
That’s what the word “offense”
means.
It means something that causes
us to get trapped or stuck.
So there are millions of
believers,
they don’t know why they are
stumbling.
They don’t know why, why am I
not healed.
Why can’t I have any joy?
Why have I yet to fulfill my
purpose?
They’ve been saved 20 years and
yet they’ve never fulfilled
their calling.
They are literally walking in
the dark and they know what
they’re stumbling at.
The Bible tells us, it says, “He
that hates his brother stumbles
in darkness,” and he can’t see
where he’s going.
And so this is what the enemy
wants.
He wants us in darkness so that
we can’t see our purpose.
We can’t see where we’re going.
Sid: We literally have an
assassin that’s coming out to
kill us, but we’re actually
being used by that assassin and
we don’t even realize it.
Kynan Bridges: God gave me this
analogy.
Satan moved out of the church a
long time ago and he hired hit
men to do his bidding.
Now who are his hit men?
This is going to be very scary
for some people.
Believers, people who love God,
people who are sincere in their
walk, but are unknowingly
assassinating others in the
church, unknowingly
assassinating others in their
family, on their job, they don’t
realize that they’re working for
the enemy.
But I believe, if I can do this,
Sid,
I want to release you from that
contract.
You’re fired.
You’re not going to work for the
enemy anymore.
You’re going to work for the
King of King and the Lord of
Lords, not the accuser of the
brethren,
but the healer of the nations.
Sid: Is there a vaccine, if you
will,
because I’ll take it.
Now I don’t take a lot of
vaccines for other reasons,
but this vaccine I want for this
virus.
Is there?
Kynan Bridges: There is a
vaccine.
You know, here’s what we have to
do.
First of all, we have to
forgive.
You see, God forgave us.
The Bible says God, for Christ’s
sake,
forgave us.
None of us deserve forgiveness.
That’s why it’s called
forgiveness.
And we’re required to forgive
people who don’t even
acknowledge they’re wrong.
And this is why, Sid.
Forgiveness is not for them,
it’s for you.
It’s for you because you’re the
one that is going
to experience freedom.
You’re the one that’s going to
have peace.
Sid: And not gossiping.
It isn’t for them, it’s for you,
but it destroys people.
You know what, it works both
ways.
Kynan Bridges: It works both
ways.
And then we have to repent.
This is the vaccine.
We have to change our thinking.
What if people understood that
every time you said something
about someone a dagger went into
that person’s heart or a dagger
went into someone’s heart.
Many people would be convicted
of mass murder because our words
are like swords.
This is what the scripture says.
It says, “The talebearer, their
words are like wounds going into
the inward parts.”
See, I want people to have a
visual of this,
Sid, and recognize what’s
happening.
Satan is the only one who gains
from accusation.
We gain nothing from it.
Sid: Give me one other clue on
this vaccine.
Kynan Bridges: You have to
avoid.
Sid: Avoid?
Kynan Bridges: Avoid Sid: Avoid
what?
Kynan Bridges: Avoid
conversations that are demonic,
conversations that don’t glorify
God,
conversations that don’t redeem.
The Bible says in Romans 16,
“Mark those which cause offense
and avoid them.”
Now what this means is I’m not
saying cut off all your friends
and all this kind of stuff, but
what I’m saying
is taking a stand.
Now if you realize it’s your
destiny depending on what you
heard and what you said, you
will be very protective of the
words coming out of your mouth.
Sid: That’s a mouthful.
Your destiny.
When we come back I’m going to
have Kynan tell a true story
about a young man that tried to
kill a woman,
went to prison and what
happened.
Unbelievable.
We’ll be right back.
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Sid: A young African-American
boy tried to kill an elderly
white woman, hurt her, I mean,
horribly.
Tell me that story, Kynan.
Kynan Bridges: It’s a very
powerful story, Sid.
This young man is sort of a
menace and doesn’t have a father
figure in his life, and so he
resorts to a life of crime,
violence, robbing, stealing,
etc. And he happens to victimize
this woman and he hurt her
really bad,
and of course, he want to
prison.
He was convicted and went to
prison.
But the amazing part of the
story is the response
of the woman.
She forgave him, not only that,
but she began to correspond with
him in prison and to bless him
and tell him,
you know what, you can start
over again,
you can have a better life.
I mean, isn’t that amazing.
When he gets out of prison they
meet for the first person since
the event and they embrace one
another.
And he says, “You know what, you
changed my life because when you
forgave me I realized that that
wasn’t who I am.
That wasn’t who I was created to
be.
God had a bigger purpose for me
in life.”
And now this man is reintroduced
back into society and he’s going
to do great things.
But what would have happened if
she didn’t forgive him?
Now I’m not saying it’s easy to
forgive.
Sid: If she hadn’t, I bet he
would have gone into society and
done even worse.
Kynan Bridges: Yes because he
was in the prison of her
unforgiveness.
That’s what happens.
When we hold on to offenses we
hold people hostage,
and guess what, we have to be
the prison guard.
So we’re right there with them
while they’re in prison.
Neither one of us is going
anywhere.
Sid: We’re both in prison.
Kynan Bridges: We’re both in
prison.
Sid: I mean, it’s time to be
free.
When you understand the
repercussions of what happened,
when you lend yourself to do
these unbiblical things,
you said every believer, every
church needs an ICU unit.
Kynan Bridges: That’s right,
intensive care unit.
Every believer, every hospital,
every good hospital has an
intensive care unit, and this is
where the worse cases go.
This is where the most
traumatized,
the most debilitated, the most
wounded people go and they have
specialists that can administer
care to these people.
It’s usually a separate
part from the other part
of the hospital.
Every church, every family,
every believer needs an ICU.
In other words, we need to
understand that many times when
people hurt or offend us it’s
because they’re wounded.
When you’re wounded you’re prone
to attack.
When you’re hurt you’re prone to
hurt and that’s why we need an
ICU, a place where people can
heal.
You know, there are people
watching even right now,
Sid, that believe, I don’t
belong in the church.
I don’t belong in this family.
I’m too damaged.
There is nothing that can be
done for me.
But I want people to understand
that the Holy Spirit is the
chief of the ICU and he can heal
the most wounded person.
He can restore the most broken.
He can literally rehabilitate
the fallen if we
will allow him to.
Sid: You have a term you use:
grace space.
Explain.
Kynan Bridges: We have to have a
grace space as believers.
Don’t automatically come to a
conclusion about someone.
Don’t automatically accept a
narrative.
Don’t automatically.
Sid: The truth is we don’t have
all of the facts.
There’s only person that has all
the facts,
that’s God.
Kynan Bridges: That’s right.
Sid: Tell me that story, very
poignant,
about that wise grandfather.
Kynan Bridges: The wise
grandfather,
you know, it’s so funny.
I love this story.
Two little girls are playing and
they have the crayons and
everything.
And one of the little girls, the
granddaughter,
breaks the crayon in half.
And so she goes to the
grandfather and says,
“Granddad, I broke my crayon.
I’m so upset.”
And he takes the crayon.
He’s a wise grandfather.
He takes the crayon and takes a
piece of paper and he begins to
draw with the crayon and he
shows her and says,
“Listen sweetie, broken crayons
still color”.
And there are people, if I can
just speak to the audience,
there are some people, you have
been broken,
you have been wounded by the
church,
you have been wounded by your
family,
you’ve been wounded by those in
authority and you need to know
that you are not damaged goods.
Broken crayons still color.
We forget the fact that he is
the potter and cannot the potter
heal the clay.
Cannot he restore the clay?
Cannot he make you the way he
wants you to be?
Receive him even now.
Sid: Jesus said a very
penetrating question,
“Will you be made whole?”
Kynan Bridges: That’s right.
Sid: Comment on that.
Kynan Bridges: You know, a lot
of people are broken.
I counsel and it’s so funny
because sometimes we can be so
engulfed in our brokenness that
we don’t understand that that’s
not what God wants us to be.
And when Jesus went to the pool
of Bethesda,
a place of healing, everybody
was waiting to get in the water.
This man had been there for 38
years and Jesus asked him,
he said, “Will you be made whole
today?”
Then his next words were very
powerful.
He said, “Rise.
Take up your bed and walk.”
I believe it’s time for people
to rise up out of their pain,
rise up out of their offense,
take up their bed and walk in
their purpose.
This is what God is calling us
to do in this hour.
Sid: I want you to charge people
to do that right now.
Kynan Bridges: You know, you’re
listening to me right now,
you say, I hear what you’re
saying,
I know it’s scriptural, but I
can’t.
I’m too hurt, I’m too wounded.
Do you know that I was wounded,
too?
I was broken, too, even as a
pastor.
One day in my room I’m sitting
there and the Lord Jesus walked
into my room and he laid his
hands on my heart,
and he gave me a new heart.
He gave me a new compassion for
people and I believe he wants to
do the same for you right now.
As you stretch your hands,
Father,
in Jesus’ name, I declare that
everyone watching me and
listening to my voice will
receive the healing that you
desire for them to experience.
I charge you now to rise up,
take up your bed and walk.
You will not stay in a bed of
offense.
You will not stay in a bed of
affliction.
You will not stay in a place of
stagnation,
but you will rise up today and
fulfill your purpose once and
for all in Jesus’ name.
Sid: Now you know the truth and
I say to you the truth has made
you free.
Sid: Next week on It’s
Supernatural!
My guest says that the veil
between Heaven and Earth is
getting thinner.
That’s why we’re hearing of so
many people having visitations
to Heaven, so many people see in
the invisible world,
seeing angels.
And she says she can teach you
to see into this
invisible realm.
Anyone interested?
Me, too.
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