Here this morning I want you to turn
with me again to Galatians chapter 3, Galatians
chapter 3, and we already started on this.
I want to continue a bit, I'm not
sure how far I will go here this
morning, and I just want to continue preaching.
I know it's a sad time for us
with funerals and the loss of loved ones,
but we do want to fix our mind
on the Word of God and keep our
eye fixed upon Him.
We want to see the Word of God
spread in this city, and we want to
reach souls for the Lord Jesus Christ.
And my message here this morning continuing, last
time we dealt with witchcraft in the church,
and if you didn't listen that or hear
that message, please go and listen.
It's such an important message for this hour,
witchcraft in the church, but I want to
go a bit further here and give three
remedies for witchcraft in the church.
I want to deal with three specific things
very briefly, but very vitally in the book
of Galatians, and I believe that witchcraft either
obscures them or pushes them aside or covers
them with the darkness of witchcraft, or else
these three things destroy the power of witchcraft
in the church.
Reading from Galatians chapter 3 and verse 1
here this morning, O foolish Galatians, who hath
bewitched you?
And listen, that ye should not obey the
truth.
Immediately Paul begins to show that what it
is for witchcraft to be in the church,
for the influence of certain teachers, suddenly within
real churches, men stop obeying the written truth
and commands of God.
And he goes on, Before whose eyes Jesus
Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among
you, this only would I learn of you.
Received ye the spirit by the works of
the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Are ye so foolish, having begun in the
spirit?
Are ye made perfect by the flesh?
Let's pray here this morning together.
Father, I do pray for this word, Lord
God, that it would be the balm of
Gilead to each one of our hearts.
Father, we want a church, Lord God, that
functions in the Holy Spirit.
We want a church that is centered upon
the finished work of the cross.
We want a church that holds fast to
justification by faith alone, in Christ alone, by
grace alone.
And Lord God, we do want to know
how to walk in the spirit and by
the power of your Holy Spirit.
Father, I do pray to open up these
truths, oh God, that destroy the power of
fleshly witchcraft.
My God, I pray that you expose it,
that you break its power, that we would
be a church so dominated by the finished
work of the cross, by blood redemption, by
a crucified life.
Lord God, that we would be so intimate
with the truth of justification by faith, of
imputed righteousness, that every witchcraft, the power of
it, the fear of it will be broken.
Lord God, be very gracious unto us, and
Lord God, make Christ central in all things
this morning, that your name might be glorified.
Amen.
My second message here on witchcraft, three remedies
for witchcraft in the church.
We have already shown how witchcraft can be
in the church, and it says here in
Galatians 3, chapter 3, verse 1, Oh foolish
Galatians, who have bewitched you?
These were a whole group of churches within
an entire province, and Paul writing to them
as an entire entity, as a whole grouping
of churches, mature as well as young, and
saying that they had been bewitched, and we
want to deal with this here this morning.
In Galatians chapter 5, it says that witchcraft
is a sin of the flesh, or a
manifestation of the flesh.
In other words, the witchcraft we're dealing with
in the book of Galatians, it's a manifestation
of the flesh.
What is the flesh?
It is the old nature, the uncrucified nature,
the fallen nature of man.
The flesh of man is that nature of
Adam that fell in the garden.
It's the nature we are born with, and
that nature is utterly opposed to everything of
God, of his word, his kingdom, and of
his spirit.
It says again in 1 Samuel, chapter 15
and 23, for rebellion is as the sin
of witchcraft.
In our first message, we looked at King
Saul, the first anointed king of Israel, how
that the rebellion in his heart against authority
led him into 38 years of sin.
For 38 years, as he walked in rebellion,
it was as the sin of witchcraft.
In other words, where you get a rebellion
in the heart, it is very similar in
its effect to witchcraft.
You may never cast a spell, and yet
you're operating in a soulish spiritual power that
attracts demonic influence.
It's such a dangerous thing.
We also looked at the prophet Balaam, how
he makes the gifts of God and real
prophecies and manifestations with that which is pure
witchcraft.
He made a mixture of it and led
God's people into sin.
Then thirdly, we looked at that convert Simon,
who had been a sorcerer or a witch.
When he come in, believing, being baptized in
water, and joining the church at Samaria, we
know that his heart was unchanged.
That same heart motive, he wanted to bring
right into the church, and it was pure
witchcraft.
Outwardly, he'd become a Christian, and yet that
heart was still fleshly and still dominated by
witchcraft.
I want to warn you that witchcraft, when
it manifests in the flesh, it is a
very deadly thing.
It seeks to manipulate.
It seeks to dominate.
It seeks to control.
It seeks to influence by emotion, by words,
by actions, by whatever means.
When we look at the Old Testament, we
see that story about Samson and Delilah.
The Philistine soldiers couldn't conquer Samson, so what
did they do?
They went to Delilah, this beautiful, young-looking
lady, and they said, Delilah, we want you
to entice this anointed man of God, and
we'll pay you a lot of money if
you're able to entice him.
And you know the story.
It actually says she tried to get the
secret of his strength and to steal his
strength for the sake of money.
She didn't love him, but she had a
manipulative agenda to destroy that man in order
to gain money, and yet he thought somehow
that she loved him.
It actually says she pressed him daily with
her words and urged him so that his
soul was vexed unto death.
Do you know what that is?
That is emotional witchcraft.
That is witchcraft coming out of the soul
of man, manipulating tears, pressure, maneuvering words, all
of that.
Why?
To get your own means met.
In other words, you use the power of
psyche to bring about an effect.
I want to warn you here this morning
as a church, we as a church have
to understand that we are to reject all
control, manipulation, game playing in the religious realm,
whether it's in a pulpit, whether it's through
some old Christian or some young believer in
the church.
As soon as this witchcraft begins to manifest
as an entity of the flesh, we better
be aware of it.
It is deadly if you come under its
influence.
What does Paul say?
Oh foolish Galatians, you're not using your head.
You don't have your eyes open.
You don't have your ears open.
You're not looking at facts or proof or
evidence.
You're not using your brain or your intelligence.
You're being moved by emotions, by deception, by
lies.
You're being tricked.
You're being fooled.
I want to warn you, we need to
come back to the scripture of God again.
It's being devoid of common sense or biblical
judgment.
It's the lack of using the judgment that
the Bible says we should.
It's to be on sound in your mind
or lacking in the ability to use your
intellect and studying things with scripture.
As we said last time, to be bewitched,
listen what this word bewitched means.
It means that someone comes into the church
and they begin to malign.
They begin to slander.
They begin to speak against.
Why are they doing that?
To mislead by pretense, to bring deception.
And they begin to fascinate or use the
magical arts of charm and praise to deceive
you and turn your attitude either against biblical
doctrine or a church or preachers that are
of God.
This bewitchment is very dangerous.
Listen to me as we begin to look
at three remedies for witchcraft.
You've got to know what witchcraft is as
a manifestation of the flesh.
This word listen to what it is in
the Greek.
Pharmakeia.
Where we get our word pharmacy or drugstore.
In other words, pharmaceia.
To be bewitched.
Paul saying to the Galatians, all of you
churches somehow in a short time have become
bewitched by certain men, certain teachers, certain preachers
that have come down from Jerusalem claiming to
represent the apostles.
These certain band of men have actually bewitched
you.
And this word pharmaceia can be used for
drugs or for a witchcraft spell or for
manipulating religiously.
All of this is summed up in this
word pharmakeia.
Pharmakeia.
That's why drugs is the same as sorcery
or witchcraft.
When we see people in Limerick and they're
operating in drugs, taking heroin or other drugs,
do you realize it's the biblical word for
witchcraft?
Do you know why?
Because when you begin using drugs, it actually
draws the presence of the demonic powers.
Where you have the use of drugs, you
have the operation of demonic powers.
All those drug sellers on the high street
in Limerick, I assure you, Satan has got
a hold of them.
They could be religious.
They could be Catholics.
They could say all manners of prayers.
But if they're selling and using drugs, they're
under the influence of hell.
We need to draw a clear line on
this.
This Greek word pharmakeia is also used in
Revelation chapter 18 for that great city Babylon,
or the headquarters of the last world government
that's going to rule in our world.
Listen to what it says about the judgment
of Babylon.
For by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Babylon is yet to arise, and I believe
we're at the beginning of it.
We're about to see the rise of a
last world government, and it will be called
Babylon.
That's what's going to mark it.
But do you know how this city of
Babylon, this headquarters of Antichrist, do you know
how it's going to deceive the nation?
Through sorceries.
That's why we've got to understand this as
the church.
We've got to understand this because I believe
witchcraft is going to become very prominent in
this hour, even by world politics, right down
to the scum on the local corner of
your street.
I assure you that this deception is going
to be very broad, and we the church
have to have a remedy for it.
We have to have a power that's greater
than it.
We have to have a way to fight
it and to destroy its effects on sinners,
because we're going to win many multitudes, many
thousands out of it.
Do you know Babylon uses sorceries, drugs, the
manipulation of religion.
It uses all of these things.
It uses sorcery, supernatural, demonic powers, manifesting forth
to tell the future or to call fire
from heaven.
Since we don't realize what's just about to
happen in our world, world politics and world
government is about to become very spiritual, very
soulish, and it's going to use the power
of witchcraft.
I do here this morning simply want to
give you three vital truths from Galatians that
either witchcraft obscures in the church or the
church rises up and destroys witchcraft by these
three truths.
The apostle Paul in 2 Timothy chapter 3
and verse 8.
Listen to what he's saying.
He's writing to young Timothy.
Timothy is overseeing an apostolic ministry, the church
at Ephesus.
Paul is writing here from his prison cell
to the young preacher who is there filling
in for him at the church at Ephesus
many years after it had begun.
Listen to what Paul says here.
Now as Janus and Jambres withstood Moses, so
do these also resist the truth.
Now Paul is speaking to Timothy about certain
men who have come into the church at
Ephesus who are resisting the truth, certain men.
And do you know what he's saying to
Timothy?
Just look back to the days of Moses.
It's the very same thing that happened in
Moses' day that is happening in our day
to you, Timothy, in the church at Ephesus.
Certain men are withstanding you, Timothy, in the
church at Ephesus and they're coming into the
church trying to say they're Christians.
Well, he looked back to the days of
Moses and he says it was the same
with Janus and Jambres.
Now who were they?
Who were Janus and Jambres in the days
of Moses?
Listen, we read about them, not by name,
but we have a veiled comment about them
in Exodus chapter 7 and verse 11.
When Moses walked into the palace of Pharaoh
and began to challenge him and called on
10 plagues on the nation to say, let
my people go.
Let Israel go out of this captivity.
When Moses came to deliver God's people and
set them free from the bondage of Pharaoh,
do you know what?
These two men, Janus and Jambres, arose.
Listen carefully from Exodus 7.
Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and
the sorcerers.
Now the magicians of Egypt, they also did
like manner with their enchantments.
Now I want you to notice here the
old Jewish writing say Janus and Jambres were
the leaders of these sorcerers, of these magicians,
of these wise men down in Egypt who
rose up every time Moses done a miracle.
They rose up and they copied it.
You produce frogs, we'll produce frogs.
You do this, we can do the same.
They were using witchcraft to bring this about.
It says then in chapter 7 22, and
the magicians of Egypt did so with their
enchantments and Pharaoh's heart was hardened.
Neither did he hearken unto them as the
Lord had said.
Do you realize Paul is looking back to
the days of Moses and he sees these
two men rise up who withstood the words,
the preaching of Moses.
And do you know what they used?
They used witchcraft, they used enchantments, they used
sorcery, they used tricks.
They done all of this to deceive Pharaoh.
And do you know what?
As soon as they started to play their
religious games, their games that looked like power,
looked like the same power as God, it
looked like their prayers would be answered.
Do you know what?
It hardened the heart of Pharaoh that he
did not listen the word of God.
I'm showing you something very important about witchcraft
that it hardens the heart against the true
word of God.
We read the same in Acts chapter 13
when Paul and Barnabas traveled to the island
of Cyprus and they begin to travel through
preaching from town unto town until finally they
reached a town where the deputy of the
country, the leader of the country, was a
man called Sergius Paulus.
And listen to what it says in Acts
13.
He was a prudent man who called for
Barnabas and Saul and desired to hear the
word of God.
Now here's the leader in this region, in
this country, and he hears about the preaching,
he hears about the miracles, and he calls,
I want to hear the word of God.
But do you know who else was there
in that palace of this great man?
The Bible says a certain sorcerer, a false
prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar-Jesus,
or again it says his name was Elimus,
two names, Elimus the sorcerer.
And listen, this false prophet, it says he
withstood them seeking to turn away the deputy
from the faith.
So he's using all of his witchcraft, all
of his powers of prophecy.
He's claiming to be a Jew, claiming to
be a prophet of God, claiming to be
a representative of God.
But you know what?
He's operating in witchcraft.
And what does he do?
He opposes the preaching of Paul and Barnabas.
But thank God that man of God Paul,
filled with the Holy Spirit, looked upon him
and said thou child of a devil, and
he was struck blind.
Oh that we could do that again in
our meetings.
But do you know Janus and Jambres, what
their name means?
Janus means to seduce, Jambres means rebellion, just
like Saul, King Saul.
So we see the Janus and Jambres, rebellion
and seduction.
That's what marks witchcraft, a deception, a desire,
a fleshly desire in the heart to say,
I want to win you over to my
side.
I don't want you listening that preaching.
I want you to be won over and
I'll deceive, I'll lie, I'll use power, I'll
claim God, I'll use prophecy, I'll do what
it takes.
Since when you get opposition to the real
preaching of the gospel, when you see wicked
men rise up and not only disbelieve or
disagree or but they oppose it, they attack
it.
There is witchcraft operating in the midst of
that.
Witchcraft is in utter opposition to the gospel
of Jesus Christ, to the preaching of the
truth of God's word.
It attacks it, it stands against it.
In the Old Testament we read about Absalom,
the son of David.
He grew up in that home and when
he reached the age of 40 years old,
he started to get ideas.
I should be king.
I should have the position.
I should have the anointing.
I should sit in the throne.
My father is old.
He can't do the job like me.
I'm able to do it far better than
him.
You know what pride leads to?
A great fall.
It is so, so dangerous.
You know what, Absalom, this young man raised
in a godly, godly house under a man
who truly knew God and never tried to
manipulate things.
David never manipulated the situation or used the
gifts of God to gain what he wanted.
He never lifted a finger against Saul to
get into that position.
Oh, never, never.
That's a man who's free of witchcraft.
But look at his son, Absalom, growing up
in his own home.
It says that he got for himself or
prepared chariots, horses, and 50 men to run
before him.
Then he began to rise early to stand
in the gate of the city.
And when people from other towns and villages
came, he called to them.
And in fact, he said, what's your problem?
Then he said, your problem is good.
The thing that you have is good.
I would seek justice for you, but I
don't have the power.
My father has it and he can't hear
you.
But if I had the power, I would
look for justice.
It says he took them by the hand
and he kissed them.
He drew them in close to them.
And it says this, so Absalom stole the
hearts of the men of Israel.
And so began a rebellion against his father,
against the authority of God, against the kingdom
of God.
And you know what, Absalom's rebellion, it swept
the kingdom of David to such an extent.
David had a flea with all his faithful
men.
He went for the hills and there was
a rising of rebellion.
Joab came in on it.
The priests came in on it.
Many others came in on it.
And I can assure you, it was a
rebellion marked by witchcraft.
You see, witchcraft is something that comes out
of the flesh of man.
You go, I'll use words, position, power, influence,
the claim of the power of God.
I'll even display gifts of the Holy Spirit.
You know what I'm trying to do?
I'm trying to steal your heart.
I'm trying to, you know, if any man
tries to claim your heart, unless he's a
tall, handsome guy and you're a beautiful young
girl and both of you are godly and
he's after you, that's okay.
But if anyone else, preacher or not, tries
to claim your heart, instead of making you
fall in love with the Lord Jesus Christ,
there is an issue.
Witchcraft, I don't care how smooth their words
are.
I don't care what they say about you.
I don't care how spiritual they look.
You better be careful.
And this is why John says in 1
John chapter 4 and 1, beloved, believe not
every spirit, but try or test the spirits,
whether they are of God, for many false
prophets are gone out into the world.
I want to give you three warnings here
from the churches of Galatia that Paul warns
about.
He says, O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched
you?
Throughout the entire book of Galatians, these six
chapters, he mentions these individuals.
Remember, Paul had preached the gospel in Galatia.
He is the one that brought the gospel
to them.
He raised up the churches.
He done miracles among them, won them to
Christ, showed them the truth of the gospel.
But several years down the road, or maybe
three years down the road, there came certain
men, he says in Galatians 1 and 6,
but there be some that trouble you or
confuse you and they would pervert the gospel
of Christ.
In other words, turn it inside out.
He also says in chapter 4 and 17,
they zealously affect you, but not well.
In other words, they get you burning, they
get you stirred up, they get you burning
with fire in your heart, but not in
a good way.
These men that have come in, Paul begins
to say, you Galatians, when I first come
amongst you, you treated me like an angel
of God.
That's how you actually treated me.
Now you're almost treating me like a demon.
When I first come among you, you would
have plucked out your eyes and given them
to me.
Now, because I tell you the truth, preach
to you the truth, speak to you the
word of God out of love, but I
cannot say anything but the truth of God,
you hate me.
You hate me.
Since I'm telling you about one of the
greatest apostles who ever walked on the earth,
he raised up all of these churches in
Galatia, and in case you don't know, they
were Celts, they were Gauls.
That's where the name Galatian comes from.
They come from the south of France Gaul,
they spread all the way over to Turkey,
and in that middle region of Turkey that
we've heard about before, these Gauls or these
Celts settled there, and that's who Paul begins
to evangelize.
Paul the apostle was the first in the
east of the entire empire to evangelize the
Celts, and that was finished when Saint Patrick,
300 years later, came to Ireland to preach
the gospel from the apostle Paul in the
first century to Saint Patrick in the fourth
century, evangelizing an entire continent.
What an amazing thing.
It was the same culture and the same
people, and you know what?
They were fickle.
What Paul describes here, they were a people
who fast ran after him and said, we'd
die for you, and very shortly they're wanting
to take his life.
You see, I believe in this story about
these Judaizers, and that's what they're called.
Judaizers, men from Jerusalem who claimed to be
Jews converted to Christ, who believed in the
cross, being born again.
They believed in the ministry of the apostles,
but they come challenging Paul.
They come saying he's not a true apostle.
He's not preaching the truth.
We have a greater revelation.
Well, do you know there was a great
fight in these Galatian churches, and I believe
witchcraft was primary.
It stole the hearts of many believers in
the churches of Galatia, and those who had
once loved Paul now stood in great doubt
about him, and those who once walked in
the true gospel had now changed it for
another gospel, and yet they still thought that
they were walking with Jesus Christ.
I want to give you here three things
that either become obscured by witchcraft, or three
things that defeat and destroy the power of
witchcraft in the church.
They destroy the power of manipulation, of fear,
of control, of drug use.
I can assure you these three things will
destroy the use of drugs in any life,
but it'll also destroy religious schemes using the
gifts and positions of the Holy Spirit for
a person's own end.
Here's my three points here this morning.
First of all, the centrality of the cross.
The centrality of the cross.
Look again, Galatians chapter three and verse one.
Oh foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you that
ye should not obey the truth before whose
eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth,
crucified among you.
Do you know what Paul was saying here?
He was saying, I know you've come under
the power of witchcraft.
Under the influence of these men, they were
operating a witchcraft.
It was a manifestation of their flesh, the
fallen nature.
There's nothing spiritual about it.
Nothing of God.
Out of their flesh came rebellion, witchcraft to
control you.
And they have turned not only individuals against
me, but entire churches across an entire land,
an entire culture.
They have managed to turn.
How And do you know what Paul is
saying here?
Oh foolish Galatians, what has happened to you?
Who have bewitched you?
What has gone on?
How could you have changed sides?
How could this have happened to you?
Do you know why he says it happened
to them?
He says, do you realize that this witchcraft,
this bewitchment has blinded your eyes to the
centrality of Christ crucified?
That's what he's saying here.
I know that there's a spell on you.
I know you must've taken drugs.
I know that you've been manipulated religiously.
Do you know how I know that?
I always preach the cross in your midst.
While I was with you, when these churches
began, we preached about Christ and him crucified.
Paul actually says here that before whose eyes
Jesus Christ had been evidently set forth among
you.
Do you know what evidently set forth among
you means?
I told you last time it's the word
pro grapho.
Another where we get our word graphic to
display a beautiful picture, to draw a beautiful,
clear, distinct picture right in front of your
eyes, right in front of your face.
You know what Paul is saying?
When I come preaching amongst you, I so
preach the word of God that I made
the crucifixion of Christ to be like a
picture set before you.
It was set before your eyes.
You saw Christ crucified as if you'd been
there at the cross seeing Jesus Christ die
for you sinners.
He said, I so preach the gospel.
I so arranged the churches that when we
gathered as the church, the death of Christ
was so evident, so real.
It was like you're gazing upon the crucified
Christ.
When I preached, you could see, you could
smell, you could feel the crucified Christ and
it changed your lives.
It changed your communities.
I held it up before you.
I placarded the message of Christ crucified.
I held it up before your faces.
I was faithful not to preach myself or
a church or a denomination.
I preach Christ and him crucified.
I preach Christ not just glorified at the
right hand of the father, not as a
babe in the manger, not as a man
doing miracles.
Oh yes, all those things are within truth.
But centrally, the most central message that I
preached to you was Christ and him crucified.
No mixture, no changing of the message, no
addition, no subtraction.
I preach to you Christ undiluted.
As we said in 1 Corinthians 11 26,
it says when we break bread together and
drink the cup, you do show the Lord's
death till he come.
You show it.
What are we doing when we break bread
every week in our meeting?
We are showing forth.
We are displaying Christ crucified or the death
of Jesus until he comes again.
Do you realize that God has given us
the Lord's table to keep it before our
eyes?
He died for you sinners.
He suffered on your behalf.
Since I'm talking about the cure for witchcraft,
if you're a manipulator, if you're a liar,
if you're a game player, there is an
answer to destroy witchcraft, not fleshly manipulation in
the house of God.
You know what it is?
It's preaching Christ crucified.
If you really see that Jesus Christ died
and suffered for your sins on the cross,
you're not going to let rebellion in your
heart.
You're not going to turn to witchcraft.
You're not going to manipulate lies and try
to deceive and lie lies.
Do you know what a lie is?
It could be just not telling the truth.
Oh, I didn't lie.
I didn't tell any lie.
Yes, but you didn't tell the truth when
you ought to have told the truth.
That is a lie.
You lied in your heart to manipulate, to
manipulate the situation.
Our people, since when you see that Christ
died for you, a sinner, that because of
your sin, your fallen nature, your flesh, that
you should go to hell eternally.
You know what?
You look on the man of Calvary.
He's not a rebel.
He wasn't a manipulator.
He wasn't a liar.
He wasn't a deceiver.
He didn't pretend gifts and dreams and prophecies
and yet use them to gain money or
to gain power or to gain a position.
He never done that.
Look at the master.
The closer he got to the cross, the
fewer were those who followed him.
He wasn't after the crowds.
He preached the truth of God.
He preached if a man's going to follow
me, let him deny himself, take up his
cross and follow me.
It wasn't crowds that he was looking for.
It was disciples of the cross.
And that's how you discern witchcraft in a
church.
Are they changing or moving aside the message
of the cross in order to fill the
church?
Then there's witchcraft.
Oh, they may not cast any spell, but
I assure you, if they obscure the cross,
instead of seeing what the gospel is, Christ
died for sinners, that this cross means you
must repent to your sin.
We must deal with your sin.
Rebellion must be dealt with in your heart.
Rejection of authority in home or the church
or society.
It's rebellion against the cross of Jesus Christ.
Do you know what the cross does?
It humbles you at the feet of Jesus
Christ.
It brings you low all through this book
of Galatians.
I want to tell you the message of
crosses, of the cross of Christ crucified is
there from Galatians chapter one all the way
through to Galatians chapter six.
You'll find that the cross will rescue you.
It will remove your old sin nature.
It'll restore you.
It will bring reproach upon you.
It will make you to reproduce the life
of God and it will also make you
to rejoice.
Listen, in Galatians chapter one, we have the
cross and salvation.
In Galatians two, the cross and our personal
experience.
In Galatians chapter three, the cross and the
preaching of the gospel.
In Galatians chapter five and six, you have
the cross and persecution.
In Galatians three, the cross and substitution.
And in Galatians five, the cross and holiness.
I could keep going here telling you that
Galatians is filled with the message of the
cross.
When Paul said, who has bewitched you?
Do you know what he done?
He went back and preached again the cross.
Christ died for you.
Christ died for sinners.
Since this is the remedy to witchcraft in
the church, all that manipulation, all the false
manifestations of false revivals, of trying to manipulate
your husband through tears.
Are you husbands trying to control your wife
through threats and abuse?
All of this breaks when we come back
to the cross of Jesus Christ.
You know, if you're a young person, a
child, a son or a daughter in this
meeting, and you're trying to play games in
your home and manipulate and cry and do
those things, you won't do that.
If you look to Jesus down on the
cross for you again, that is unacceptable.
Jesus died that you could be set free
from those things.
But here, look, it's not only Christ down
for us.
The cross, the message of the cross is
only that it's not only that Christ died
for your sins that you could go free.
You know what?
It's also you were crucified with Christ.
Are you a real Christian?
Then why are you blind to the cross?
Oh, why do the, why is it the
message of the cross has been lost in
this generation?
They'll preach about how to feel better, how
to be successful, how to have a good
marriage.
They never mentioned the cross.
They, they, they can teach all manners of
subject and they never take you back to
Christ and him crucified.
Paul said to the Corinthians, when I come
amongst you, I determined, I set myself that
I wouldn't know anything among you apart from
Christ and him crucified.
Saints in your marriage relationship know nothing but
Christ and him crucified.
In this church, whether you preach through the
Lord's table, through the door, or simply sit
there and pray and encourage, don't let any
witchcraft in.
For you to be in Christ, to be
a Christian is to crucify that all fleshly
nature.
Listen in Galatians 2 and 20, I am
crucified with Christ.
Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ
liveth in me and the life I now
live in the flesh or in the body,
I live by the faith of the son
of God who loved me and gave himself
for me.
What is the life of a true Christian?
I glory in the cross.
I glory that he died for me, that
he suffered in my place, that he died
for my sin.
All witchcraft of the flesh was suffered for
at Calvary, but more than that, I was
crucified with Christ that by faith I might
live this new life.
In other words, where I get things coming
out of that flesh, I want to lie,
I want to say things, I want to
use spiritual things, I want to begin to
use it to gain some sort of influence.
Do you know what?
You've got to crucify the flesh with its
manifestations.
Go back, take your old man pops up.
Have any of you had that?
I'm sure all of you are too perfect
for that, but now and again, I get
that old flesh man saying, I would like
to say some things.
You know what I do?
I say, come here with me.
We're going to the cross where you ought
to be.
You've reared up again, but you've got no
right.
No pride isn't going to have its way
here.
Rebellion isn't, manipulation isn't, all of that foolishness.
You know what?
I'm taking you to the cross.
You're to be crucified with him.
You don't improve the old nature.
You crucify it with Christ, with all of
its fleshly natures and manifestations.
Do you find in your life that either
in the last message or this, there's something,
there's something rises up that you go, that's
witchcraft coming out of my flesh.
And believe me, even in a true genuine
believer and not old nature, it's rotten.
Paul says, there's no good thing in me.
That is in my flesh.
My flesh isn't better than the day I
got saved.
It hasn't improved over the years.
It doesn't smell more beautiful.
Not flesh.
Every time it appears, it's stinking and it's
rotten.
It makes suggestions to me.
Just say this, just do this, just ignore
that.
Don't get into trouble over it.
Don't speak the truth of God or preach
it.
Don't preach the true gospel at that funeral.
I have to preach the gospel whether men
curse me or bless me.
This is the first answer or remedy to
witchcraft in the church.
Paul's preaching to all of these churches of
Galatians.
I once knew you.
I once loved you.
You know what he does?
He brings them right back to the cross.
He again, preaches the cross and said, this
witchcraft, the influence of these strange men, you
know what you've done?
You've moved away from the finished work of
Christ.
And you know what?
You began to listen to men.
You began to look to men.
You began to care about men.
Second of all, my second point, the second
remedy that Paul preaches, the second remedy for
witchcraft is justification by faith alone.
Six times in Galatians, as Paul tries to
deal with these bewitched Christians who have changed
or moved their direction, six times he uses
this word justification.
What is justification by faith?
It's how you get saved.
It's how you begin this journey.
It's how you enter a right relationship with
God.
It is how your standing is, your eternal
standing, your destiny before God.
You know, the standing of being justified, it
doesn't grow.
It doesn't change.
It doesn't get less.
You're either justified or you're not justified.
You're either righteous before God or you're not
righteous before God.
It is the fundamental truth of the gospel.
In fact, Martin Luther, who fought his way
out of Catholicism in Germany, do you know
when he first come to the scriptures and
got born again, he actually called justification by
faith his wife.
He said, I am married to the book
of Galatians.
He said, this book of Galatians, more than
any book in the new Testament, I am
married to it.
The book of Galatians is my wife, my
constant companion.
You know why?
He'd looked at the witchcraft of Roman Catholicism.
They come in saying, you've got to do
this.
You've got to do that.
And they said, yes, we believe in Christ.
Yes, we believe in the cross.
Yes, we believe in the finished work of
Calvary, but beware of the buts.
And they began to add their own doctrines
and theology.
Do you realize in the early centuries of
the church, men rose up and come in
amongst the church and they begin to add
things.
In Galatians, in Galatia, those preachers who came
in begin to add circumcision.
Oh yes, you can be born again, but
you must be circumcised.
Oh yes, it's all about the cross, but
you must do this and you must do
that.
And we'll take you back like it's written
in Galatians three.
The only place that deals with curses in
connection with the Christian church is Galatians three.
And it says, if you are justified by
faith, there is no curse on your life.
It is broken.
But these teachers came in and said, oh
no, no, no.
You need to go back to the law,
back to the Old Testament.
Or maybe there's a curse over your life.
Maybe there's a generational curse that come down
from your Freemason grandfather.
You need this curse broken.
Can I tell you, Rory who's in this
meeting, the day he got born again, the
day he put faith in Christ, the day
he experienced justification by faith alone, all the
curses of Freemasonry were broken.
When he come in that door and told
us he had been a Freemason, I didn't
start swishing his back or looking into his
ancestry or saying, have you renounced all of
these curses?
No, I just want to know, have you
believed on Jesus Christ to be justified by
faith alone?
Since I'm telling you about the power to
break witchcraft, not only the finished work of
the cross, not only the centrality of the
cross, but justification by faith alone.
Paul hammers it and we don't have time
to look at it all.
But six times he mentions this beautiful word,
justification.
What does justification mean?
It means just as if you'd never sinned.
It means when you believe in the finished
work of the cross, you are made perfectly
righteous.
Day one, day one, God himself imputes to
you the perfect righteousness of Christ and that
becomes your righteousness, your means of salvation, your
means of standing before God, not how well
you've done the past week.
And I'm not talking about license, you know
that, but I'm talking about what is the
basis of your relationship with God?
How do you know that you're born again?
How do you know that your sins are
forgiven?
Because I believed on Christ, what he done
on the cross, and when I put my
faith in him, God the father took his
perfect righteousness and he put it into my
bank account.
Do you know Paul in this letter gives
a very tragic story, but a very important
testimony.
He's speaking to the Galatian churches and you
know what he does?
He gives them an example in chapter two.
He takes them back a few years previous
and he tells them a testimony and a
story about when he was a Bible teacher
in the church at Antioch.
Him and Barnabas had raised up a glorious
church, a wonderful church through the preaching of
the gospel.
And while they were there, we're told that
Peter came to preach at the church and
they were having wonderful times around the tables,
eating together.
And Peter would sit with the young Gentile
Christians saved out of paganism and all manners
of sinfulness.
And they were sitting there and Peter would
eat with them.
But listen, listen to chapter two, verse 12.
For before that certain came from James, he
did eat with the Gentiles.
But when they come, he withdrew and separated
himself.
Now look what's happening here.
I believe this was witchcraft in operation.
These were religious men who came down from
Jerusalem and it affected Peter, the apostle here
in the church at Antioch.
He was glad to sit with the sinners,
glad to eat with them.
But when those old religious Judaizers, these Christians
who still held on to the law as
the means of salvation.
In other words, they said, you must be
circumcised to be saved.
You must keep the law.
You must keep the Sabbath.
You must keep the feast days.
You must look to the moon and calculate
the right date.
You've got to do all of these things.
Do you know what Peter done?
As soon as he saw them walking in
the door, you know what he done?
It says that he withdrew himself.
And then he separated himself.
You know what he done?
He slowly stood up and began to move
away from the tables.
He become very cautious.
He began to shrink back.
He made a tactical retreat.
He then separated himself from these Gentile Christians.
In other words, he totally separated himself.
He put up a barrier, a boundary.
He kept his distance.
Don't think that this keeping a meter apart
or two meter apart is only new this
year.
Oh no.
Do you realize the spirit of witchcraft and
religion can do the same?
It's like the COVID virus.
I assure you, suddenly everyone's staying away from
you.
I'm in Christian brothers and sisters.
They've never spoken to you.
They've never come to you.
They've never raised a biblical issue, but suddenly
their words change.
Their attitude towards you changes.
Now they distance themselves and you go, what's
wrong?
What's wrong?
You see that's witchcraft friends.
That is witchcraft in the church and it
is devilish.
We're talking about justification by faith alone.
If God has justified a sinner, if he
has made him righteous, if I'm a true
brother in Jesus Christ, don't you allow all
of that religious manipulative game plan to come
in.
We're told that Peter began to fear because
of these men.
Be very careful when you begin to fear
and withdraw yourself and become all conscious, even
though you know in your heart, these Christians
are justified by faith.
They haven't done anything wrong.
You're being influenced by witchcraft.
You're being manipulated.
It goes on to say in chapter 2
and 13, and not only Peter and the
other Jews dissembled, but Peter's doing it.
It must be okay.
It must be.
Look at this preacher.
Be very careful.
Test everything by the word of God.
Stand fast in justification by faith.
You know, if you do or say something
to me, I'm going to come talk to
you.
I don't want to hurt you.
Maybe I've made a mistake.
Maybe I misheard, but you know what?
If some issue arises, I want to go
to you as my brother and sister.
You know what this is?
This is standing and protecting the teaching of
justification by faith.
After Peter had said other Jews dissembled likewise,
you know what that means?
To act hypocritically.
They didn't believe this, but they begin to
act like hypocrites.
They do it outwardly.
They come into unity with these infiltrators.
I'm talking about the power of witchcraft can
begin to make you act hypocritically.
In your heart, you know the truth, but
you are scared.
You're scared to say or defend someone.
You're scared to stand for truth.
You're scared to expose error.
You're scared to say, Peter, that's not right.
You know what?
When we get there, the church is coming
under the influence of witchcraft.
It says, and all of this went on
in so much that even Barnabas also was
carried away with their dissimulation.
Paul's co-labor in the church at Antioch,
even he, first Peter, then the Jews, now
Barnabas, one of the main leaders in the
local church, even he got carried away with
it.
I mean, this was like a flood coming
into the church at Antioch.
It just breezed through, catching Peter, Barnabas, and
many others.
But you know what?
There was a man there who stood against
it, and his name was Paul.
He was a Bible teacher then, not an
apostle.
And he said, they all got carried away
with dissimulation.
Do you know what he done?
It says, I stood Peter to his face,
and I said it unto Peter before them
all.
In other words, publicly, he exposed it.
And you know what?
He began to preach to Peter, and now
to the Galatians, he said, not only did
it rescue Peter and Barnabas and the others,
and it saved the church at Antioch, now
I'm going to preach it again to you,
the Galatian churches.
You know why?
You're under the influence of witchcraft.
You've turned against me.
I've never hurt you.
I've never done anything against you.
And you know what?
When you turn against good Christians, godly, upright,
and preachers who preach truth, when you turn
against them, witchcraft is operating.
I'm going to show you about that.
I've seen it too many times.
What does Paul now preach to Peter and
to the churches of Galatia?
Knowing this, chapter 2, verse 16, knowing this,
that a man is not justified by the
works of the law, but by the faith
of Jesus Christ.
Even we have believed in Christ that we
might be justified by the faith of Christ
and not by the works of the law,
for by the works of the law shall
no flesh be justified.
He began to preach to Peter and Barnabas
and the church at Antioch, and now to
the Galatians, he's writing to them.
He keeps preaching every chapter, justification by faith.
This is the fundamental principle of the Christian
life.
I was made righteous by faith in Christ,
by the grace of God.
It's not by works.
I believe in holiness.
I preach holiness.
I command what the Bible commands.
You know I do in this church.
But I want to tell you, that is
not the foundation.
That does not save you.
You're saved by grace alone, through faith alone,
in Christ alone, in the finished work of
the cross alone.
And it's the Holy Spirit that enables you
to do that.
Do you know that Peter got recovered, and
a few years later, he's writing about Paul
the agent, my dear brother Paul, and all
of his letters.
Isn't it wonderful that Peter, that great preacher
Pentecost, had to be withstood to his face
and say, Peter, you're acting the hypocrite.
Peter, we taught justification by faith, but you're
bringing other regulations in, which are in the
law, but not in Christ, under grace.
You know, I'm against all this Judaistic Christianity
that's come into the church in our day.
Skullcaps.
The Bible says no man is to pray
with his head covered.
And you have them with prayer shawls and
Jewish skullcaps.
And they begin to say, you've got to
keep the feasts of Israel.
No, you do not.
I don't keep Passover.
Christ is my Passover.
You know, justification by faith lifts you out
of religion and out of the attempts of
the flesh to be good enough for God.
And it puts you in faith alone, by
Christ alone.
This is the foundational doctrine of this church.
Not the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Not that we believe in healing.
Not that we believe in evangelizing the world.
We preach Christ and him crucified.
That if any man believes in Christ, he
will be made righteous.
And can I tell you, any drug addict
in this city of Limerick, I don't care
if they're a heroin addict.
I don't care if they're the worst criminal
on the streets.
If they hear the real gospel, believe in
the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be
saved.
You know what?
That drugs addiction will be broken.
It will be broken.
If you believe in Christ, you're going to
be saved and delivered from the power of
drugs.
What is it?
Witchcraft.
It is witchcraft.
It is pharmacia.
It is that binding of hell.
It's demonic power trying to bind you.
It'll be broken by the message of believe
in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Oh, Brother Keith, no, we need inner healing.
We need deliverance.
We need to cast demons out.
We need to go back to your childhood.
We need to counsel you.
I had a pastor, a very sincere man,
just some months ago.
He said, if you want me to counsel
you, just let me know, and I can
counsel you.
Someone said to Candice, if Keith needs someone
to counsel him during this time, just tell
me and I'll do it.
Can I tell you here, at this stage,
you, my wife's a great counselor.
She gives me the word of God.
Says, Keith, you know what the Bible said.
That's a great counselor.
I don't need psychology.
I don't need someone going back to my
childhood.
Just give me the word of God.
That's the kind, any one of you in
this church can remind me of the word
of God.
I thank you for godly counsel.
I do need that.
All these new movements, beware, because there's a
power of witchcraft behind them saying, oh, you
need to add this.
Third and finally, we said, these are the
three points that destroy witchcraft.
First of all, the centrality of the cross.
Second of all, justification by faith alone and
Christ alone.
But third of all, walking in the spirit.
Paul presents these three things as well as
other things, but these three things mainly as
the answer to the Galatians.
He is in a crisis, a rescue mission.
I'm trying to save you from these Judaizers,
from these men who brought you under witchcraft,
who've manipulated you and have turned you aside
from the true gospel of Jesus Christ and
have separated you from me, that burst you
in the gospel, that prayed for you, that
carried you in my heart.
You've been separated and turned aside.
You used to treat me like an angel.
Now you despise me and I have become
your enemy.
But third and finally, in Galatians chapter five,
verse 16 to 25, we actually have this
walking in the spirit.
It says in verse 16, and this is
the answer for witchcraft.
Walk in the spirit and ye shall not
fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Remember witchcraft is a manifestation, one of the
marks of the flesh.
What does Paul say?
If you don't want that flesh to operate,
if you don't want witchcraft to come through
in whatever diverse manner, if you don't want
it to have an effect on your life
or to arise, do you know what?
Walk in the spirit.
Walk in the spirit and ye shall not
fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Or look at verse 25.
If we live in the spirit, let us
also walk in the spirit.
What does it mean to walk in the
spirit?
Now I know we've got a lot of
people in our churches in this hour and
they think walking in the spirit is to
have feelings.
The spirit told me that isn't walking in
the spirit.
That is not what it's talking about here.
People who walk in the spirit in this
hour, they think I had dreams, I had
visions, I had revelations.
God told me this is walking in the
spirit.
You know, a lot of those people who
operate like that, I find they actually operate
in witchcraft.
Does the Holy Spirit speak today?
Yes, he does.
He does speak in a very real way,
but that isn't what it's speaking about here.
There's lots of people who claim guidance by
the Holy Spirit and they're manipulating through their
soul realm.
It is their soul that is trying to
control and is pretending or counterfeiting the Holy
Spirit.
It is witchcraft.
It is demonic and the devil comes in
in the back of that.
But I'm talking about the cure that breaks
the power of witchcraft in a life, in
a church, in a ministry.
It destroys it and Paul preaches it here.
Walk in the spirit.
What is walking in the spirit?
It means to keep in step with the
spirit.
The direction the Holy Spirit walks in, you
choose to walk in the same direction.
You step in his footsteps, the steps that
he makes.
In other words, every situation, every circumstance, every
relationship, what does the Holy Spirit say in
the scriptures?
Do you know this Bible is given by
the Holy Spirit?
He has spoken.
He's given commands on every area of life,
in church, society, our family.
He's given us all this teaching, the Holy
Spirit saith, all this instruction.
And I've met thousands of Christians.
I've tried to talk to so many.
And you know what they say?
I've got the spirit.
I'm walking in the spirit.
And you try to show them what the
Holy Spirit said in the word of God
very clearly.
And they say, oh, no, no, no.
I disagree with that.
No, I'm going to go do this.
You know what?
You're choosing to walk outside the spirit and
you're leaving yourself wide open to witchcraft.
You're either going to walk, if you're looking
for the real, you're either going to walk
in the spirit.
You're going to walk with the spirit in
agreement with the Holy Spirit.
But as soon as you make a conscious
choice to walk out a step with him
and not to walk in unity with him,
you're opening yourself up for deceiving spirits or
witchcraft to influence your life.
You know, the Galatians, they got tricked out
of this.
They got tricked out of this rather than
walking in the spirit.
What did Paul say?
Ye did run well.
Who did hinder you from walking in the
truth?
Do you realize what he says here?
And even in Galatians chapter three and one
again, oh foolish Galatians, who have bewitched you
that ye should not obey the truth.
What is running and walking?
It is obedience to the truth.
These Galatians, they began to say, we've got
to do this and we've got to do
that and we've got to do this.
They begin to add things.
You don't need to add anything that isn't
in this book.
Walk in the truth as it's revealed in
the person of Christ.
Grow in the things of truth.
Walk in justification by faith alone.
But do you know what the Galatians done?
They got bewitched away from this.
They got told you've got to do this
and you've got to do that.
It's not the Holy Spirit in it.
They begin to listen to men rather than
the Holy Spirit.
And the Holy Spirit is very clear in
Galatians 5 and 18.
But if ye be led of the Spirit,
you're not under the law.
Do you realize being led by the Holy
Spirit, walking in agreement with the Holy Spirit,
you'll walk in the covenant of grace and
not the covenant of law.
You'll be deceived if you turn back to
that covenant of the law again.
You know in Galatians it begins to talk
here about this fight between the Holy Spirit
and the flesh of man.
You see the guests of the Holy Spirit
in the real Holy Spirit is very different
than witchcraft in the flesh and yet it
could look the same in the local church.
You could have some old lady prophesying over
younger believers, controlling them, using prophecy, looking very
spiritual.
You know what she is?
She's a witch.
She's a witch in the church.
She's manipulating you.
She's making you to fear.
Oh she's threatening you.
We know an old lady in one particular
church.
The first thing a young convert or a
young lady walks in that church, the first
thing before she even says God bless, she'll
look at you from the top of your
head to the sole of your feet.
You know what that look is to intimidate
you.
That look is to manipulate you.
That is just the beginning.
I'm telling you about real things church and
it's utterly unacceptable in our means.
Don't you go correcting people and other people's
lives in this church when you're not right.
You know what that is?
That's a flesh.
That's the flesh.
When you're trying to sort out other people
and you're pointing things out and you're doing
the same thing.
You know what?
You're in very dangerous ground.
You're trying to manipulate them and you're trying
to control them and get them to do
things that you won't even do.
There's no power in your life and you're
trying to shed your conviction and your condemnation
by telling them that you know the right
thing to do.
You know what?
When you walk in the spirit, you know
it's not by the law that you're saved.
You walk by the power of the Holy
Spirit and this isn't licensed.
You obey the truth.
If you find people in today's church and
they say, I believe in Christ crucified.
I believe in justification by faith.
I believe in being led by the spirit.
I'm free.
I am under grace and they do not
keep the truth of God or obey the
word of God and they say to you,
no, no, I'm under grace.
No, no, no, I'm justified.
I'm right with God.
Do you know what?
They're bewitched.
They've been deceived by a false gospel.
And just like the worst Catholic in the
city, if you find someone who came in
here and said, I believe in Christ and
they're still getting drunk and they're not a
member of a church and they're out there
using drugs or they're sleeping around or one
week they're blaspheming and the next week they're
witnessing to others and saying you're going to
go to hell.
You know what they are?
They're bewitched.
The devil is influencing their life.
And you know what?
Like with Jambreeson jammers, you cannot speak to
them.
Do you know what happens when you go
to speak to them and say, no, no,
one saved, always saved.
I know I'm getting drunk.
I know.
Don't.
I know.
You know what?
That's a bewitched person.
And Paul here dealing with the Galatians.
He said, I am pleading with you.
I'm calling you.
The centrality of the cross, a crucified life
to justification by faith alone.
Hey, sure.
We know that.
No, you don't.
There is a power.
There is a power and justification by faith.
Don't tell me, you know, this simple elementary
truth, since I need grip by it once
more.
And I need to be led by the
spirit of God.
Anyone not obeying the truth is not being
led by the spirit of God.
Saints, if we stick with these three truths,
the centrality of the cross, justification by faith
and being led by the spirit are walking
in step with the spirit.
You know what?
Witchcraft manipulations, lies, false operations of the spirit,
necromancy.
None of this will have any place here
because you know what?
As soon as it appears, if it should
appear like Paul, the apostle will withstand it
to the face publicly.
I'm going to say, brother, that's not okay
here.
We don't do that.
Sister, that's not okay.
Talking behind people's back without going to them.
You know, you'll know about the Morris shell
and Candace has said this before that the
Morris shell, that the daughter, the oldest daughter
of William Booth of the salvation army.
Once she cured someone of gossip and slander
and lies.
They come to her and said, do you
know this?
And she grabbed them by the hand and
said, no, you come with me.
Let's go speak to that person and find
out if that is true.
Well, she gave the biggest shock of that
lady's life.
Can it, can I tell you walking in
the spirit is a wonderful and a beautiful
thing.
Everything is in the open.
Many years ago, there was a lady who
went along, her son had joined the army.
He had served 10 weeks and it was
his pass side parade.
And they all prayed out there, a hundred
men, all marching rank and file, all abreast,
all in the same step.
And do you know what she said?
She had her sister with her and they
had a bit of a dispute.
They're always competing with one another, but she
turned to her sister and she said, look,
Daisy, my Jimmy is the only one in
step.
All the rest of them are out of
step, but my Jimmy is in step.
The only one, you know what?
That's like an awful lot of Christians that
I've met in the church.
They're going, I'm in step and all of
you are out of step.
They're out of step with the word of
God, with the spirit of God, with the
church of God, but they blindly keep saying
that they're in step with the spirit of
God.
Let's walk in the spirit.
Thank God for being justified, made righteous, not
by my good deeds, not by my holiness,
not by my obedience through the earth.
That doesn't make me right with God.
That is the fruit.
That is the fruit of being made righteous.
And you can't separate those things, but that
is not what it means to be born
again.
And you know what?
I want to stay with the cross.
I want to make my boast this morning
in the cross of Jesus Christ.
We've got an answer for the sinners in
this city to break the witchcraft, the drugs,
the manipulations, and the lies.
Let's pray together.
Father, I thank you for this message at
a time where our hearts are heavy because
of things happening in family, but we are
in a warfare for the city.
We are in a warfare in this church.
We have been for seven years and we
will be if you should tarry for another
seven years.
Lord God, we're in the conflict, having to
rebuke and withstand and expose.
Lord God, because we love the gospel, we
love the truth, we love Jesus Christ.
My God, I'm saved by grace alone and
faith alone.
Lord God, we make our stand in the
finished work of the cross.
And Lord God, we don't want our eyes
to be blind.
We know it has to be witchcraft.
If we ever become blind, if we ever
take our eyes off the cross, if we
begin to start disobeying the word of God
and walking in the flesh and operating the
manipulations, witchcraft, rebellion, and all of the sins
of the flesh, it is a sign that
we've taken our eyes off the cross.
By faith, we come here this morning to
fix our eyes on you.
Lord God, shine upon us here this morning.
In Jesus' mighty name, amen, amen.