Spiritual Warfare Made Simple // Pastor Vlad

Today I'm going to speak to you about spiritual warfare. When I had an encounter one time that I would say if it wouldn't be for the power of Christ to deliver people, I wouldn't be standing here today. We organized a trip to uh Nigeria. This church service there was not an hour and 20 minutes. It was about 14 or 15 hours long. One service, not multiple services, very long. A lot of people getting delivered, a lot of people get getting set free, a lot of people getting healed. And um I was on the front row. Next thing that happened is that I see they drag a person to the front. Now, this is not new for me when somebody's being dragged to the front and manifesting demons. We've I've seen this before. So, in Africa, I'm like, "This is normal. This is just another day at church. A guy's being dragged in. He's manifesting. Demons are screaming out of him and all of that stuff." And so, the moment the demon comes, demons come out of him, he gets on his knees and he starts crying. Now, in front of me, I see his face change. He was violent, which is usually happens when people have demons inside of them. His eyes were different. They were dark. There was something there that was nefarious and evil. And now his just there's light. There is this collar that is to him. And he raises his hands and he says, "I want to accept Jesus." I was like, "Well, I'm pretty sure you do." He takes the charm out of his body and he said, "I am a member of Boo Haram terrorist group." Now, I'm not an expert on terrorism, but I knew about Boo Haram. They were responsible for 10,000 deaths in Nigeria in 10 years. This is the most vicious, powerful terrorist group. And this guy is one of the members. And he said, "We came here today to kill people. We came with the bomb." And we were waiting outside of the church for your service to end. We were at the cafe watching the live stream so we don't miss the ending of the service. We had a bomb. We planned to put the bomb at the doors. Now, where I was sitting, the church was kind of interesting that there was about maybe 10 rows and then there was an exit door. So, we were literally sitting at the exit door of this service. He said, "As we were waiting for the service to come to an end through the live stream, we started to get tormented and so the rest of my crew left and I decided to stay because I have charms to protect me from Christian influence." I was like, "There's charms for that?" Really? Cuz they definitely Somebody Somebody lied to you. That doesn't work against Christian influence. And so he says, "As this was happening, then I blacked out." But what happened is the owner of the cafe noticed that the guys manifesting in his coffee, called the church. The church sends their watchmen and the watchmen know what to do. They drag THIS GUY TO THE FRONT. They're like, "This is where you belong." So this guy gets delivered. BEFORE HE FINISHES HIS TESTIMONY, their equivalent of FBI rushes into the service and lock him up. Praise the Lord. and he now serves the rest of his testimony, whatever that he's serving at. That night I went to sleep and it dawned on me, had it not been for the power of God to arrest this guy, 60 caskets would have been sent back to the United States and I would have been one of them. So when people talk about deliverance, when people talk about spiritual warfare, to me it's not a topic in the book. It's a reality >> that exists in this world without which if you don't understand it and if you don't work as a Christian with it, you will be a casualty of the spiritual warfare. Out of many reasons I believe in God. One of them is because there's a devil. People will sometimes ask me, how do you know that this is real? Evil in this world is one of the explanations that the Bible gives us that there is evil that fights against a good God. and we are on God's side and he wants us to have victory and he wants us to live in that victory. Next few weeks I'm going to talk about different things. Today I just want to open it up. It's not going to be a comprehensive study but just enough to weten your appetite of what spiritual warfare is and how to be a person that is effective in spiritual warfare. Let me start from the beginning. There are three main extremes when it comes to spiritual warfare. Number one, the devil made me do it. It's when you blame the devil for everything. We have a case right now that is happening that is gaining a lot of attention when a woman killed three of her kids. She said she did it. Her lawyer said she did it. The opposing team said she did it. Um and of course everybody who loves her says she didn't do it. And now it's blamed on hormones or it's blamed on mental illness. She says during the time that she was killing her kids, she told them go be with God. And then she admitted that she was hearing voices. Now whether that's true or not, one thing is certain is that demons and Satan influence people toward evil things. But there's one thing you have to keep in mind is that even if Satan pushes you to do something, Satan is not responsible. The moment you take action, you see Judas and Peter both being influenced by Satan. Satan plants a thought in Judas's mind and Judas plans it. And the Bible says Satan asked to sift Peter like wheat. But Peter repents of his sin. He doesn't say, "Oh, devil made me do it." Judas, he commits suicide, betrays Jesus. So if Satan is responsible for everything that you do, how come two outcomes were different? Peter, he though denies Jesus, repents and Judas betrays Jesus and commits suicide. Satan cannot make you do anything. You still have a choice and you are responsible for your choice, not the devil. The ancient lie of the spiritual warfare is what Eve did. The devil made me do it. And a lot of people do that in spiritual warfare is they take no responsibility for their behavior and they say, "Well, I had tormenting thoughts." That's true. We admit that. We sympathize with the suffering that you have. But as a human being, you are responsible for your behavior and your words, not the devil. The devil will burn in hell for his mistakes, his sins, and you and I carry consequences for ours. The Bible says that Satan came and moved David to take senses of the nation of Israel. Yet, the prophet comes to David and says, "You're the man who committed the sin." And David doesn't say, "Well, Satan made me do it." David says, "I have sinned." So, Satan might be responsible to push you, but it was your decision to jump. >> Kind of like alcohol. If you take alcohol, the alcohol company is not going to court. You're going to court. And you kill somebody under the influence of alcohol. 100% the alcohol made you do it. But it was you who did it. >> We don't take liquor to court. We take the driver to court. Why? because you yielded to the influence of alcohol. You and I have the right to yield to the influence of the devil or to yield to the influence of God. >> And however we yield, we become responsible for that. >> Amen. The second extreme teaching or extreme understanding of spiritual warfare and that is this. So not only God made me do it or the devil made me do it, but the second one is it's all mental. Meaning none of it is spiritual. And it really did not start with cessationism where we deny the supernatural. It started way way back with the Greeks. The world of the ancient world was always overly spiritual. The Hebrew understanding of the world was always unified where the spiritual and the natural are in unity. Your body and your spirit, they're in unity. The body is not evil. The spirit is not better. Both are good. And both need redemption from God. Greeks came in and they divided the spiritual from the natural and they said the spiritual is the ideal and is holy and is perfect. The natural is evil. Your body is trapped in this physical. Your spirit is trapped in this physical world called the body. And your goal is one day to leave this evil world and to be in this ideal world. At first it seems like, oh yeah, this is kind of what we believe. Absolutely not. Because in a Hebrew world view, the spiritual is not better than the physical. The physical is created by God. It is under sin and God seeks to redeem it. Not only the spiritual but also the physical. In the Hebrew world view, both worlds, they intervene in together. God walks among men. God influences the nature. His power splits the Red Sea. God is not on floor two and you on floor one. These two are connected. So we cannot adopt a Greek world view when it comes to our world. The spiritual created the natural. The spiritual affects the natural and the spiritual intervines with the natural. These are not disconnected. Sometimes it's just a mental illness. Sometimes it's a demon. Usually it's both. Sometimes it's just the flesh because your flesh doesn't need the devil to be the devilish. Sometimes it's just the devil, but a lot of times things overlap. And so it's important as Christians that we don't embrace this thing where everything is a demon. Nor do we go to the other extreme where we begin to say, "Well, all of this is mental. All of this is physical. All of that is just mental." Because right now in the spiritual warfare camp, everything is a demon. In the culture, it's just hormones. Right? >> You're the fact you killed your kids. Well, you know what? You need to be excused. Why? Because hormones are the blame. Biology is the blame, my friend. No, no, no, no, no. We take responsibility for our behavior, not our hormones and not demons. But the spiritual affects the natural and the natural collaborates with the spiritual. The third extreme teaching of spiritual warfare or I would say and this exists mainly in a lot of ultra reformed uh circles where God is the blame meaning God allowed it, God created it and God permitted it for his mysterious purpose and glory. The challenge with that understanding is this. It stretches God's sovereignty into something contrary to his character. Evil becomes part of God. But the Bible says God cannot be tempted by evil nor does he tempt anyone. God is light and in him there is no darkness. When you read the Old Testament and you see God allowing or sending an evil spirit. This is describing God's judicial permission and withdrawal of restraint. It is not God manufacturing evil. God sets the boundaries of what evil is permitted to do. God does not author what evil does within those boundaries. God does not author sickness. God does not author death. God does not author abuse. God does not author sickness and disease. Jesus is God in flesh. And Jesus stopped storms. Didn't authorize them. Jesus healed the sick. He didn't sign them. Jesus drove out demons that caused people to be tormented. Jesus is God. And Jesus was at war with evil. God is good and not evil. God is at war with evil. And that is evidenced in Jesus ministry. These are the three extremes that people might have. And we for those of you who are coming to Hungry Jen and you probably have heard the rumor that's a demon church. First of all, I want to let you know we're not a demon church. We are a Jesus church. This is not Vlad's church. This is not this church doesn't belong to any of the pastors. I didn't bleed for this church. I'm not married to this church. Jesus is married to the church and I am a member of this church. But in this church, we do believe in winning souls. In this church, we do believe in making disciples. In this church, we do believe in prayer and in fasting. In this church, we do believe in casting out demons. In this church, we do believe in raising the next generation. So, whatever label people want to put on, they can put on. But I just want to make it clear, not everything is the devil. Not everything is always has a natural explanation. And God is good. He's not evil. And we preach the good news of Jesus Christ. Now with that said, I want to give you three thoughts about spiritual warfare that I want you to keep in mind. Let these be the framework of how you view the spiritual warfare. These three thoughts are also going to be the foundation of when I talk about next time demonization especially even of believers. Number one, Satan is not a match to God. This is important. Spiritual warfare is not the story of two equal powers competing with uncertain outcome. Spiritual warfare is a story of a rebellious creature still on the leash whose defeat was accomplished by the man Jesus. And the same weapons Jesus used to defeat this creature are now available to the believer. I want to make that clear. God and Satan are not in the ring. God has no rival. God never fought Satan. >> His angels did. God never gets involved in the battle below him. >> There is no battle. God even gets involved in. God has no opponent. He's all by himself. >> God is omnipresent, meaning present everywhere. Satan is not. The Bible says in Job, Satan roamed around the earth and God said, "Where were you?" He says, "I went around the earth." He has to go around. God doesn't walk around. He is. He is the I am. FYI, this God is your father. >> FYI, this God has a hope for you. God is also all powerful. It's called omnipotent. All powerful meaning he has all the there is no power anybody who even could think of having that God does not. God is also eternal meaning he has no birthday. Satan had a creation day when he was created and there was a time when Satan was not. There was never a time when God was not. You can't compete with that. God is also all knowing. Satan has limited knowledge in comparison to God. So what does this mean? When you approach the spiritual warfare, you approach it from the biblical foundation. Satan h is your enemy. To God, he is not a worthy opponent. Come on. >> God won't be fighting him >> even in the future. It will be an angel. One of the lowranking angels will come take a chain and bind this guy and lock him up. >> God won't even be involved. And when Jesus comes, the scripture says the Satan's trinity Jesus won't be fighting. He will open his mouth. A sword will come out. Pam, game is over. That's not a fight. That's annihilation. >> That's a total destruction. Why? Any warfare view that exalts Satan into a place of a worthy opponent to God >> puts down the word of God >> and the character of my God. Satan is my opponent. Satan is a rival to me. He was an angel of God and I'm just below the angels. I am a human being who is indwwellled by the Holy Spirit. But I'm not alone. But Satan is not a match to my God. In fact, Colossians chapter 1 says the following. Verse 16. For by him speaks of Jesus, all things were created that are in heaven and are on the earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through him and for him. I want you to notice this. Satan is not operating outside of God's sovereign rule over the earth. There's no this thing where God has his kingdom and somehow there is another realm that exists outside of God that Satan is the king over. That's why even people say, well, you know, Christians cannot be owned by a demon. Can I even suggest to you demons don't own anything. Nothing they have, they own. >> They didn't make anything. All the devil is is a copycat. He didn't create a planet. He didn't create anything. He is a created being. He didn't even create the demons that are subject to him. >> Satan exists because of God. And he depends, HIS EXISTENCE DEPENDS on Christ. >> Imagine that. The Bible says through Jesus everything is made. For Jesus everything is made and it's by Jesus everything is sustained. There is one being that holds the universe and if there are multiple dimensions he holds them as well. If there is life beyond our planet which I don't believe that HE HOLDS THAT LIFE AS WELL. >> ALIENS, >> DEMONS, PRINCIPALITIES, THRONES, there is one being THAT HOLDS EVERYTHING. THAT being is Jesus Christ. And Satan's EXISTENCE DEPENDS ON THAT BEING. SO DON'T EXALT the devil to the place he's not supposed to be in. Do not exaggerate his greatness. >> He is evil. He is nefarious. He is bent on bad. But he is not a match to our God. >> Jesus is the image of invisible God. What's important to highlight as well while I'm at it is you are not the center of the universe. Christ is >> you are not the belly button of the earth. Jesus is. You don't hold by your existence the planets, the gravity and the universe. Christ by himself holds everything. And Satan runs around there. But Satan knows that and you need to know that that his existence depends on Christ holding everything. He doesn't even hold his own existence outside of the power of Christ that holds everything together. And that's important to highlight. That's why in the Old Testament you will see references like God send the spirit. You may say I don't get it. Is demons work for God? Everything God controls. Does it mean that he sends the demons? In a sense, when people disobey God, he removes the restraint that allows demons to exploit your disobedience. >> That's why Paul tells us in Ephesians, do not give place. Why? Because once you give the place, they will exploit it. >> I had in a situation that happened to me in Ukraine. I was struggling with math and the teacher that I had, who was my neighbor, she was a a doctor, and she helped me with math. This teacher had a a German Shepherd. this German Shepherd, this breed she had was 100% demonp possessed, evil as they come. And this German Shepherd, it was probably a killer dog. So, she had him on the leash. And, you know, when I was young, I was very scared of him. But then, as I got used to his violent barks and saliva and everything, I became confident because I knew that this dog was on the leash and I knew that this dog could got could not get past his leash. And the leash was very strong. And so one time I came with my math to have this teacher, you know, help me with my math. And um and I didn't see the dog. I saw his little we call it in Ukrainian uh Buddha. I saw his little dog house, but I didn't see the dog. So uh the curiosity got the best of me. So I put my books down. I decided to go and stick my head into his um house. Now I wasn't that stupid. I understand what some of you thinking. I first from a side looked if there is nothing there. The house was very big. There was nothing there. where I failed to look is behind the house. So, as I got into the place where he usually roams around and I got on my knees uh to stick my head inside of his house, you know, oh, I was like, "Yeah, he's not there." And then I heard the sound heard the sound of something waking up and I heard the sounds of chains. And by the time I stuck my head out of the house, this demon-possessed Leviathan was looking right at me. And he it's it's almost like he's like finally student I will have a fresh meat. All this yelling you did at me all these dust and rocks that I threw at him when the teacher wasn't looking. And so and he's like I will pay you back. And so and paying back he did. He jumped at me like a piece of fresh meat. He started to devour me. Um and I screamed. I mean I I screamed and then he launched onto my leg right here and blood gushing everywhere and I'm beginning to faint. Had it not been for the screaming that I did and the doctor teacher that came down and pulled me out of him, he would have devoured me alive. I would have I would have died that day. And she had to without any anesthesia had to stitch me up because there was so much bites and so much blood. He live stitched me up and saved my life that day. So she didn't just teach me homework. She t she saved me. And uh something I learned that day. Very powerful lesson. When a dog is on a leash, he can only bark. He cannot bite you. But the moment you step on his territory, he's no longer barking. He's devouring. He's biting. But I also learned a third lesson. If you call on the name of Jesus, there is a God who controls even the violent ones. God steps in and pulls the demons out. And not only he takes the demons out, he will stitch your life up. He will bring healing to your soul. He will bring restoration to your life. He will restore your family. He will restore your mind. Can somebody give God some praise for the freedom we've experienced by the power of the name of Jesus Christ? First thing somebody say the devil is no match for God. Say this the devil is no match for God. The second thing and the second truth is the devil is defeated but not retired. The first truth seeks to correct the notion that the devil is powerful all powerful. The second truth seeks to correct the notion that the devil, this is how I heard some charismatics present the devil. The devil is a mouse with no teeth. Yeah, I wish that would be true. Roaring like a lion. That doesn't sound like a mouse. Seek him whom he may devour in book of Revelation. He's going to try to kill you. Uh Jesus says to one of the churches and he deceives. And that doesn't seem like a mouse without teeth. That still seems like a defeated but not retired enemy which is very important. I want you to understand this about the demonic nature. The devil is not passive. He is prowling. He is an aggressive beha. He has an aggressive behavior and he is a predator. The Bible never paints him as retired. Also something that caught my attention. The devil is not waiting to be invited. He initiates invitations. He exploits vulnerabilities. He walks around seeking whom he may devour. Demons are looking for space. He's a hunter. He's a fisher. He's a searcher. He's an expert exploer. Look what the Bible says in First Peter 5:8. Be sober and diligent because your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion. The fact he walks around tells us he's not omnipresent. But the fact that he's not sitting in a cage and waiting for you to practice a Ouija board and bring crystals in your home and summit a demon through necromancy, that is not the devil we're looking for. He's looking for you. Yes. Yes. >> Any spiritual warfare that points the devil as somebody who's busy in Hollywood or Silicon Valley or somewhere in jungles of Mexico, Siberia or India and he is not aggressively, intentionally and passionately looking for you is not a biblical worldview. Peter says he is walking around looking seeking whom he may devour. Matthew 12:43 it says when an unclean spirit goes out of a man he goes through dry places seeking rest and finding none. And then he says meaning demons can speak to other demons. I will return to my house so he treats a human as a house to which I came. And when he comes he finds it empty swept and put in order. He goes in and takes with him seven other spirits that are more wicked and they enter and dwell there. All of this tells us the demon Satan is a displaced entity relocating, scouting, and re-entering with reinforcements. You must understand your flesh is different. It's an internal corrupted nature. But we're talking about a being that is homeless and is looking. It's not standing on the edge of the street with a sign, help me. >> He's looking. He's prowling. He is a predator. We're talking about think of a a lion when you are in the jungle. The lion is not just over there with a sign in the jungle says, "I am hungry. Can somebody give me a piece of steak?" We're talking about a snake. A snake snake is not there knocking on the door say, "Hey, I'm kind of hungry. Can you give me something?" A snake doesn't do that. A snake looks for an opening. A snake exploits vulnerabilities and it attacks. Does not matter if you pay taxes, Democrat or Republican, it attacks. That's how Satan is. He is defeated 100%. He's just not retired. His nature is not passive. His nature is not lukewarm. Satan is not just there waiting for you to pick up a Ouija board. He's pushing ideas for you to do something bad. >> He attacks two ways. He attacks directly and he attacks indirectly. When he attacks directly, he attacks through deception, affliction, and destruction. When he attacks indirectly, he attacks through the flesh, through the world, through the policies, through the principalities, education, and entertainment. In the beginning, when Satan deceived angels, which I I personally believe, this is my speculation, that the angels were deceived by Satan himself to join him on the quest to rebel against God. If he was able to take these angels and convince them that the god that they serve, the god that they see is not worthy to be worshiped and that they could be their own what whatever that he the lie he sold them and they followed him and this is not just some one offended angel because God didn't give him promotion. A lot of them join him. We see also he comes to the garden of Eden and please understand Eve did not have HBO. Eve did not have social media that constantly filtered her with junk and accusation against God. Eve did not grow up in a feministic jezebelicdriven woke culture. Eve was in a perfect world. Eve did not have a carnal nature. Nothing in Eve wanted to disobey God. So Eve had no world to to fight against. And Eve had no internal passion against God to fight with. There comes a voice. And at first this voice says, "Doubt God. Has God really said?" He convinces her. And then she begins to obsess with something she doesn't have. And then he deceives her. You can be God. See, the devil didn't seek Eve to worship the devil. The devil wanted Eve to worship self. >> Deception of the devil has always been this. His goal now few crazy wacko and weirdos are going to worship the devil. The rest of us are normal people. >> The lies he will sell us and our culture is not to worship the devil. It's to worship you. Is to be God's yourself. You don't need God. Be independent of God. And Eve bites of that lie. She becomes deceived. She sells it right away to her husband, gives it to her husband. And next thing it happens, she redefineses good and evil. And after that, we are born no longer just having the devil attacking us directly. We are born with the flesh collaborating with the devil to rebel against God. And because we fill our policies and culture and education, and because we fill political offices, evil of men's heart is reflected in legislation. Evil of men's heart is reflected in the curriculum that we give to kindergartens. So our evil corrupted I'm against God is now perpetrating the culture which the Bible calls the world. And we may look and we was just the devil. But the Bible says the world lies under the sway of the wicked one. Meaning the devil uses the policies, the entertainment, the school system, the politics TO PUSH HIS AGENDA. HE GOT A HELP ON the inside. He has the help in the government and he is with demons pushing everything, my friend. You got you got a problem. And God looks at this and God comes on the scene and he gives me a new heart to fight against the flesh. >> The devil sends demons. God says, "I will send the third person of the trinity to live inside of every person." God comes and says, "I will release my army, my angels to assist you, to minister to you." >> The devil sends lies through curriculum. God sends the spirit field, the sword of the spirit. Every believer has the word that renews our mind and changes our thinking so we don't conform to the culture. EVERY TRICK THE DEVIL HAS, GOD HAS A WEAPON against it. >> So you're not a victim. You're not drowning. You're a soldier. >> Stop being a punching bag for the devil. You're a fighter. But make no mistake, you're in war. Point number three, and that is spiritual warfare is not us trying to get victory over the devil. it it is enforcing Jesus's victory while waiting for his return to finish the devil off completely. Satan is no match for God, but he's still very active. I'm at war because I got all these things he's pushing against me. But I don't fight to get victory. I fight because Jesus has getting given me the victory on the cross. Now the reason why I fight is because Jesus hasn't come yet second time. The second time that he comes, he will finish off the devil. >> So the second time he will destroy what Jesus defeated first time. So people who say that Jesus's cross completely removed the devil, it is not true biblically because there's still the second coming. People who say that Jesus's cross removed all the curses from the planet, that's not true because Revelation says it's at his second coming there will be no more curse. People who say, "Yes, it is true. My flesh was crucified at the cross, but I still wrestle with it. But I wrestle with it from the position of victory that Jesus gave me, looking forward to his second coming." THIS IS OUR HOPE. THIS IS THE BLESSED HOPE THE CHURCH HAS. AND THE BLESSED HOPE IS NOT THAT WE WILL BE A CHRISTIAN NATION. The blessed hope is the King of Kings is coming back. He will finish off the devil. He will finish off that victory that we are fighting from today. >> Can somebody say amen? >> And the weapons of our warfare because of that are this. Salvation is a weapon against the devil because our old man was crucified and we have new desires. They overcame him by the blood of the lamb. The spirit of God is the weapon against the flesh. We live according to the flesh. If you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the flesh, you will live. The scripture is the weapon against the devil. Because the word of God fights lies, patterns, and strongholds, and take on the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Singing to God is a weapon, because worship is a weapon. Out of mouth of babes and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, and to steal the enemy, the avenger. And as they began to praise and sing, the Lord set an ambush. 2 Chronicles 20:22. So as Christians, we're not snowflakes. We are not prisoners. We are not victims. We are not slaves. We are not punching bags for the devil. We are warriors. >> Amen. >> We are soldiers. We engage with the victory that Jesus has given us. When we cast out demons, it's not because we're trying to get a victory over the devil. It's because we are enforcing the victory Jesus gave us over the devil. When we are winning souls and making disciples, planting churches and going into schools, it's not because we want to bring our city to God. God already owns it. We are bringing the victory of our God into a region that we are in. When we are praying for the sick and we see the sick being healed, it's because of the victory on the cross that we enforce on the sickness and the sickness has to go. But we are aware there is coming a day WHERE JESUS WILL FINISH OFF EVERYTHING HE DEFEATED at the cross. Jesus will destroy the antichrist. Jesus will DESTROY THE PRINCIPALITIES. JESUS WILL destroy every curse. JESUS WILL REMOVE EVERY DEMON and every evil in this world and give us brand new bodies. We will no longer have fleshly desires anymore. Right now we are at war. We have victory because of the cross and we have war because he hasn't come second time. Don't flatten everything into what happened at the cross. Jesus coming back to establish what he did at the cross is not lessening the cross. It is all about Jesus. >> So we don't fight for victory. >> We fight from victory. >> But the reason why we fight is because he's coming back again >> to finish off what he started at the cross. At the cross it was final. But the battle rages and we enforce the victory. Would you rise to your feet? I want to give you eight declarations that I want you to say with me right now. Would you repeat with me out loud and clear? Those of you watching us on live stream, you could do that in front of your computer as well. Say this with me. Say, "We declare >> We declare >> that Jesus disarmed >> Jesus >> every ruler and authority >> every ruler >> and triumph over them at the cross >> and triumph over them at the cross. Satan has no claim on us. >> Satan has no claim on us. >> We confess. >> We confess >> that Jesus is the stronger man. >> That Jesus is the stronger man >> who bound the strong man >> bound the strong >> and that we walk away >> and we walk away >> in the plunder >> of his victory. >> Say, Lord, >> Lord, >> crucify in us. >> Crucify us >> what belongs to the flesh. >> Belongs to the >> We take every thought captive. >> Take every thought captive. Sweep our lives clean. >> Sweep our lives clean. >> And fill them with you. >> So nothing else >> finds room to dwell. >> We reject >> the system of this world >> that contradicts God >> that contradicts God. >> We remove >> what's in us >> that's in bed with the devil. >> That's in bed with the devil. >> We resist you. >> Enemy enemy. >> You have no authority here. We declare >> We declare >> that Satan is a defeated >> Satan is a defeated >> created being >> and every plot >> formed against us >> against us >> shall not prosper. >> shall not prosper. We confess. We confess >> that we have overcome >> we >> by the blood of the lamb >> the word of our testimony >> and that every knee >> that every knee >> bows at the name of Jesus >> the name of Jesus >> including every power >> including every >> that is raised against us >> that >> Lord >> make us soldiers >> not slaves >> clothe us in armor >> that's already strong >> put weapons >> Put weapons >> in our hands >> that are already mighty. >> Already mighty >> and teach us to stand. >> And teach us to stand. >> Satan, >> your time is limited. >> Your time is limited >> and already numbered. >> You were defeated at the cross. >> And you will be fully removed. >> You will be fully removed. >> At his coming. >> We do not fear you. >> And we do not yield. >> Ground to you. >> Ground >> right now. >> Right now. >> In Jesus name. >> in Jesus name. >> Come on, give the Lord a clap. Offering. The victory is yours.