Touch your house, touch the hearts of your
people once again, oh God.
Lord, you're coming soon and you're preparing a
bride without spot or wrinkle.
Lord, bless the people to receive your word
and to walk in your engrafted word which
is able to save our souls.
Lord, let there not be found a hardness
of heart in your house, oh God.
May we be able to hear from you
and to respond to you that we may
be healed.
You asked us, oh God, to respond to
your word that we'd not have to be
turned out of the way, but rather healed.
And I ask for healing to move by
the power of your Holy Spirit.
And according to your written word, that healing
would go forth from this pulpit today, oh
God.
Lord, promoting unity and promoting healing among brethren.
God, touching areas where the enemy has gained
access to the hearts of your children.
And putting them to flight like you did
in the days of Gideon when he stood
up against 135,000 Midianites.
God, you set them into confusion and set
their hand one against another.
And a great victory was wrought that day
for Israel.
Let this be a day of great victory,
oh God.
I'm asking today, Lord, that you give wings
to this message, oh Lord.
And send it to every place that it
needs to go, oh God.
Let every set of ears that needs to
hear it, hear it, oh God.
Let it penetrate every heart, every spirit, Lord.
For we're not ignorant to the enemy's devices
and what he's trying to do to the
church in this last hour of time.
But God, go forth with righteousness.
Jesus, ride upon that white horse this day
as King of kings and Lord of lords.
And go throughout the land this day, oh
God.
Smiting the enemies of righteousness, oh God.
Lord, let your people come under servants and
shepherds who have your hearts.
Who have a heart of righteousness and truth
and who will draw you to the heart
of Christ.
Lord, deliver your people from false shepherds.
Father, I ask this in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Revelation chapter 2.
I'm continuing on a series of seven messages
that I'll be preaching on the churches of
Revelation.
This is the fifth message to the church
of Thyatira.
Once again, I'm asking and the Lord is
asking that you would allow Christ to walk
in the place where you are.
These were young churches established primarily by the
missionary journeys of the Apostle Paul in Asia.
And yet, only a short time after Christ,
these churches had carried on.
But some of them had fallen into various
areas of disagreement, I suppose, with the nature
of Christ.
They thought they were doing good, but when
Jesus came into their midst, he exposed things
that, first of all, that were good.
He had a lot of good things to
say about the churches, some of them.
And yet, his very presence, his very manifested
presence, showed up things that were going on
that were not of him.
And we have to ask for that, we
have to long for that if we're truly
children of God.
We have to long for his manifested presence
in our lives, individually as well as corporately.
To say, Jesus, manifest yourself within me.
That if there's something in me, every man's
way is right in his own sight.
The scripture bears witness to that.
But it's the Lord who searches the heart.
And if truly you and I are children
of God, we would say this day, God,
search my heart.
Jesus, manifest your presence within me like you
did to the seven churches of Revelation.
And if there's something good you want to
speak, then Lord, let me hear it.
But if there's something in my life that's
out of order, that's not bringing honor to
your name, if there's something that I have
embraced and done or failed to do, then
Lord Jesus, reveal it to me that I
may turn my feet again unto righteousness and
be used as a vessel to bring honor
to your name.
Revelation chapter 2, beginning at verse 18.
And unto the angel of the church in
Thyatira write, These things saith the Son of
God who has his eyes like unto a
flame of fire and his feet like fine
brass.
I know your works and charity and service
and faith and thy patience and thy works,
and the last to be more than the
first.
Notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee
because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth
herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce
my servants, to commit fornication and to eat
things offered, sacrificed unto idols.
And I gave her space to repent of
her fornication, and she repented not.
Behold, I will cast her into a bed,
and them that commit adultery with her into
great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
And I will kill her children with death,
and all the churches shall know that I
am he which searches the reins and hearts.
And I will give unto every one of
you according to your works.
But unto you I say, and unto the
rest in Thyatira, as many as have not
this doctrine and which have not known the
depths of Satan as they speak, I will
put upon you none other burden.
But that which you have already hold fast
till I come.
And he that overcometh and keepeth my works
unto the end, to him will I give
power over the nations.
He shall rule them with a rod of
iron, as the vessels of a potter shall
they be broken to shivers, even as I
received of my Father.
And I will give him the morning star.
He that has an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit says unto the churches.
Now first of all, in verse 18, Jesus
appearing to this church called Thyatira, identifies himself
as the all-seeing one.
In other words, he says, These things saith
the Son of God, who has his eyes
like unto a flame of fire.
Nothing is hidden from him.
We as people can hide things with religious
trappings.
We can formulate theories about the way we
think things should go or be in the
kingdom of God.
But Christ coming into our midst is the
all-seeing one.
In this assembly today, for example, there's not
one thing in this house that's hidden from
the eyes of God.
Not one thing.
We can hide it from one another.
We can hide it from the leadership.
We can hide it from the congregation.
But we cannot hide it from the eyes
of the all-seeing one.
He also describes himself as having feet like
unto fine brass.
In other words, Christ is standing on a
firm and unshakable foundation.
And it's on this foundation that the church
of Jesus Christ is built.
You cannot build on any other foundation but
that foundation that he has laid.
The day of fire is coming to try
every man's work.
The Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians chapter 3,
verses 12 and 13 says, Now if any
man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious
stones, wood, hay, or stubble, every man's work
shall be made manifest.
For the day shall declare it, because it
shall be revealed by fire.
And the fire shall try every man's work
of what sort it is.
Some men's sins go before, and some follow
after to the judgment.
Some works of righteousness equally will go before
and are known by all, and some will
follow after.
But God's day is coming, and every man's
work is going to be tried of what
sort it really is.
Every one of us individually are going to
stand before the throne of God.
And if we truly have a heart for
Christ, we will want to stand in his
presence now, and to have his light virtually
radiate through our lives.
Verse 19, he talks about Thyatira, and he
says, I know your works, your love, your
service, your faith, your patience, and your last
works are more than the first.
In other words, Thyatira was an increasing church.
They were increasing in love.
They were increasing in devotion.
They were increasing in separation unto the Lord.
They were increasing in service unto God.
And so it was a church that was
growing in the grace and knowledge of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
An incredible thing, and I'm thankful that that's
the very first thing that Jesus revealed to
that church.
And I'm thankful when he speaks to me,
oftentimes it's the first thing he reveals to
my life is the things that I'm doing
well in his sight.
Otherwise, I would be overwhelmed with sorrow.
But there's something that Jesus said I have
against you as a church.
In verse 20, he says, Notwithstanding, I have
a few things against you, because you suffer
that woman Jezebel, which calls herself a prophetess,
to teach and to seduce my servants, to
commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto
idols.
Now who was this Jezebel?
Obviously a person or group of persons, whatever
the case was, that Jesus saw something going
on in that church and he said, I
have an issue with this, and because I
have an issue with this, I have an
issue with you.
Because you are a good church, you're an
increasing church, you're a strong church, you're a
dedicated church.
But for whatever reason, you have allowed this
woman to come into your midst.
You have allowed this spirit to come into
your midst and to teach and seduce my
children to commit fornication and to eat things
offered unto idols.
Who is this Jezebel?
I looked in numerous commentaries to find out
what different historical writers throughout the church age
have said about her.
A man called Hendrickson in Hendrickson's pulpit commentary
said this, said it this way, In the
long, dark world of human infamy, there's not
a darker name than that of Jezebel, the
wife of Ahab.
She was the great seducer to idolatry in
the later history of Israel.
As the worship of the Phoenician Astard, or
Venus, was accompanied with grossest impurity, her name
became synonymous of all that was debasing and
immoral.
Of everything that was debasing and immoral, it
was all boiled down and associated with Jezebel.
Now Hendrickson says, I am disposed to regard
the name here as symbolical of some proud,
persecuting, self-constituted authority on religion, haughtily vaunting
claims of superior religious piety and theological excellence.
The early church historian and writer Matthew Henry,
speaking of this prophetess Jezebel, said, These wicked
seducers are compared to Jezebel and called by
her name.
Jezebel was a persecutor of the prophets of
the Lord and a great patroness of idolaters
and false prophets.
The sin of these seducers is that they
attempt to draw the servants of God into
fornication and to offer sacrifices to idols.
They called themselves prophets, and so would claim
a superior authority and regard to the ministers
of the church.
Others, for example, as the Christian Life Bible,
say that Jezebel was an actual, literal person
in the church of Thyatira.
Now in any event, whether it was a
single person or whether it was a group
of persons, this Jezebel spirit was at work
in the church of Thyatira and had been,
number one, promoting itself as a teacher of
the word.
The Jezebel spirit is never content to sit
and listen and learn and be part of
the body.
The Jezebel spirit will always rise up and
promote itself as a teacher of the word,
but in reality, this spirit or this group
was leading a group of people away from
the presence of God and into fornication and
idolatry.
Every time the devil rises up and begins
to work within the church, there's always a
hook.
There's something in this spirit that grips the
hearts of the unwary and causes them to
believe that what they're hearing is the truth.
We see a clue to the hook in
verse 24.
He says, Number
one, the Jezebel spirit will claim to possess
a deeper revelation of God's word than the
church of Thyatira and its leaders.
That was the spirit of Jezebel in that
generation and it will be the Jezebel spirit
throughout every other generation and every other church.
Beware, beware, beware of people who rise up
in the church body and claim to possess
a deeper revelation of God's word than those
that God has placed in leadership over the
church.
It is also possible that they claim to
have a deeper understanding of the ways of
darkness.
We look in verse 24.
He says, And as many as have not
known this doctrine and which have not known
the depths of Satan as they speak.
The American Standard Version of the Bible translates
this verse by saying, In other words, there's
a claim put forward by these people to
have a deeper understanding of the workings of
darkness than the leadership of the church.
But in reality, they are under the spell
and influence of darkness.
Beware of any group that has a major
focus on darkness that rises up in the
church.
You'll see movements arising all over the land
that have their focus on demons and groupings
of demons and how demons operate, how the
names of demons, the authority structure of demons,
etc., etc., etc.
That kind of theology flies right into the
face of the word of God.
The Apostle Paul, in Romans chapter 16, verses
20 and 21, said these words to the
Roman church, I would have you to be
wise unto that which is good and simple
concerning evil.
And the God of peace shall bruise Satan
under your feet shortly.
Paul is saying to the church, I want
you to know Jesus.
I want you to know this word inside
out and backwards.
I want you to allow this word to
penetrate your very heart and become very much
who and what you are.
Just reading out the old things of your
life and allowing the nature of Christ to
be formed within you.
I don't want you dwelling on what is
evil but dwelling on what is good.
And the God of peace shall bruise Satan
under your feet shortly.
Quite recently, my family and I, we took
a trip, a family holiday for a week
and we went away somewhere.
I went down to the bank just a
few days before we left and I converted
some currency into traveler's checks and I had
some $20 bills, American $20 bills, and took
them to a teller, I had to count
them out.
And the teller had these bills and was
just counting them one after another, as bank
tellers do, very, very quickly, just counting them
over.
And all of a sudden stopped at a
bill and walked over to me, gave it
to another person who came over to me
and said, Mr. Conlon, we're very sorry to
have to tell you but one of the
$20 bills that you've given to us is
a counterfeit bill.
And so I walked over to the teller
after and I said, How did you know
that that was a counterfeit bill?
I looked at it.
I looked at other bills.
They looked virtually the same to me.
And the teller answered me something that, you
know, the scripture says the children of darkness
oft times are wiser than the children of
light.
She said to me something very simple.
She said, I handle so much real money
all the time that just the touch of
something fake I know it right away.
The Royal Bank of Canada, years ago, used
to conduct a counterfeit bill course, a course
in fraud.
And they would send all of their employees,
all of their tellers to this course and
they would spend about three weeks in this
particular course and the whole course, the whole
time that they were on course they never,
ever saw one counterfeit bill.
All they did is study the real.
They studied real ones and fives and tens
and twenties.
They felt them.
They learned about them.
They knew how they were made.
They smelled them and tasted them.
I don't know what else they have to
do on this kind of a course.
But the moment a counterfeit bill would touch
their fingers they would know it.
Beware of groups that have their focus on
the powers of evil.
Remember the words of the Apostle Paul, I
would have you wise unto that which is
good and simple concerning evil.
And the God of peace shall brew Satan
under your feet shortly.
You'll be counting along, you'll be going on
in your Christian walk, studying the word of
God, loving Jesus.
All of a sudden somebody says something and
it stops you, it jars you right in
your tracks because you know, you know the
real.
And as soon as they speak you know
this is not from the Lord because it
jars something in your spirit.
It doesn't feel right.
It doesn't look right.
It doesn't taste right.
Something's wrong with it.
The issue that Christ had against this faithful
church is that most of the people knew
better.
But for some unknown reason they were tolerating
the spirit that was in their midst and
not standing against it.
Jesus said to this church, by your compliance
or by your lack of resistance you are
allowing her to teach and seduce my servants
to commit fornication.
Now in order to understand what type of
fornication Jesus is talking about, we need to
understand what true unity in the spirit is,
what a true bond of unity is.
I think the Apostle Paul puts it forward
the best in Ephesians 5, verses 31 and
32.
He's speaking of a true union between a
man and a woman, a marriage.
And he likens it unto Christ in the
church.
He says, For this cause shall a man
leave his father and mother and shall be
joined unto his wife and they too shall
be one flesh.
This is a great mystery, but I speak
concerning Christ in the church.
The true bride of Christ leaves the things
of the past, leaves the old ways of
thinking, the old ways of doing things, the
old ways of reasoning, the old ways of
loving even, all the old ways as a
man leaves his father and mother.
The true church of Christ leaves what's in
the past in the past.
The ways that we used to think, the
ways we used to walk, the way we
used to live, we leave it in the
past and we come into the presence of
God and are joined together in one Spirit
with Christ.
We take on a new nature.
Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's
a new creature.
The old things pass away and all things
become new.
There's a union with Christ.
A new nature is given unto us and
we put off the old deeds of the
old man.
We put off the old carnal ways and
put on Christ.
And we are renewed in the image of
Christ with holiness in body, soul and spirit.
We become a new person in Christ Jesus.
That's the true unity.
That's what Jesus is coming to the church
for.
That's what He was trying to give revelation
in the seven churches in the book of
Revelation of Christ.
He was coming and showing them directions they
were going in which was taking them away
from that purity of unity and leading them
into a pathway of fornication.
The Spirit of Jezebel pushes the children of
God into spiritual fornication by becoming one in
Spirit with the unsaved of this world.
I'm going to say that once again and
I want you to listen carefully.
The Spirit of Jezebel pushes the children of
God into spiritual fornication by becoming one in
Spirit with the unsaved of the world.
That is the Spirit of Jezebel.
Anybody that ever tries to use that, I've
heard that term bandied about for the last
17, 18 years of being a Christian.
I've heard it used in all kinds of
contexts.
Anybody who uses that in any other context
does not know their Bible and does not
know what they're talking about.
Now Jezebel's Spirit pushes the children of God
like Jezebel did, the wife of Ahab, into
spiritual fornication.
That's what Jezebel did in the Old Testament
and that's what Jezebel was doing in the
church of Thyatira.
She was seducing the servants of God to
commit fornication.
Not physical fornication but spiritual fornication against the
Lord.
Look at the book of Ephesians, please, chapter
2.
Ephesians chapter 2, beginning at verse 1.
I want to show you what a Jezebel
spirit does.
Paul says, And you has he quickened, in
other words, made alive, changed, brought out of
darkness, who were dead in trespasses and sins.
Verse 2, wherein in times past you walked
according to the course of this world.
Did you walk according to the course of
the world before you got saved?
People that are here, did you?
Did you?
Did you hate and lie and lust and
do all these things?
You walked that way according to the prince
of the power of the air.
Who's behind that spirit?
The prince of the power of the air.
The spirit that now works in the children
of disobedience.
There is a spirit, a lawless spirit, working
all throughout the world now.
Bringing us to the fulfillment, the culmination of
all things that will eventually bring the world
to a state of absolute devastation and that
will bring us to the place where Christ
will return in triumph.
There's a spirit working in the children of
disobedience.
If you don't have the Holy Spirit of
God in these coming days, you're not going
to be able to stand against it.
It will overpower you if you're not absolutely
and entirely an embracer of Jesus Christ as
your Lord and Savior and coming King.
There is no other defense against this spirit.
James chapter 4, verse 4.
He says, the apostle James says, You adulterers
and adulteresses.
That's strong terminology.
Do you not know that friendship with the
world is enmity with God?
Therefore, whosoever will be a friend of the
world is the enemy of God.
In other words, he's saying that those that
embrace the thinking and the ways of the
world.
You say you belong to Christ, but you
embrace the world and you embrace the spirit
that works now in the children of disobedience.
That's promoted by the prince of the power
of the air.
And you say you belong to God.
James is saying this is spiritual adultery in
the sight of God.
Galatians chapter 5, please.
Just turn back one book and look there
with me.
Galatians chapter 5.
The apostle Paul talks about this spirit which
is referred to as the flesh consistently throughout
the New Testament.
Galatians chapter 5, verse 19.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest,
which are these adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry,
witchcraft, hatred, violence, simulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
envying, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like.
Of the which I tell you before, as
I've also told you in times past, that
they which do such things shall not inherit
the kingdom of God.
Now an alternate translation for verse 20 says
it this way.
Idolatry, witchcraft, enmities, strife, jealousy, passionate anger, intrigues,
divisions, and sectarian parties.
Or in other words, self-interest groups.
The Jezebels of this church age are hard
at work trying to unite the hearts of
God's children with the spirit of this age.
I want to look at four dominant characteristics
of this age and show you how the
Jezebel spirit is working throughout the church to
unite the hearts of God's people with the
spirit that works in the children of disobedience.
Spiritual fornication.
This age is known for its love of
money.
Would you agree with me on that?
Its lust of money.
Now turn with me to the book of
1 Timothy, please.
Chapter 6.
1 Timothy.
You'll have to turn really fast because we
have a lot of scriptures to go through.
It would be advisable to keep one finger
perhaps at the index of your Bible.
1 Timothy, Chapter 6.
The Apostle Paul now warning.
Paul was always warning, especially to Timothy about
the spirit of lawlessness that would be in
the last days.
In 1 Timothy, Chapter 6, he talks about
those that promote the love of money.
There are no shortage of these Jezebel prophets
throughout the church of Jesus Christ in North
America.
Would you agree with me on that today?
That Jezebel spirit has been running rampant throughout
the church now for probably 20 years or
more.
The Apostle Paul says, If any man teach
otherwise, verse 3.
1 Timothy 6, 3.
If any man teach otherwise and consent not
to wholesome words, even the words of our
Lord Jesus Christ and to the doctrine which
is according to godliness, he is proud, knowing
nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of
words, whereup cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and
destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is
godliness.
From such withdraw thyself.
I believe it's the NIV version of the
Bible.
It says, supposing that godliness is a means
to financial gain.
From such withdraw thyself.
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
We brought nothing into this world and it
is certain we can carry nothing out.
Having food and raiment, let us be there
with content.
Verse 9.
But they that will be rich fall into
temptation and a snare, and into many foolish
and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction
and perdition.
For the love of money is the root
of some evil.
Is that what your Bible says?
All evil.
Which while some coveted after, they have erred
from what?
The faith.
The faith, not from heathenism, not from unregenerate
society, but they have erred from the faith
because of the Jezebel spirit that has been
working and causing spiritual fornication to come into
the hearts and lives of God's people.
Do you not know that friendship with the
world is enmity against God?
You cannot, Jesus said, love God and mammon.
You cannot.
You'll either love one and hate the other
or hate one and love the other, but
you cannot serve both.
They have erred from the faith and pierced
themselves through with many sorrows.
But thou, O man of God, flee these
things.
Run from them and follow after righteousness and
godliness and faith and love and patience and
meekness.
Fight the good fight of faith.
Lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art
also called and has professed a good profession
before many witnesses.
Run from these things, Paul says.
But the apostle Paul, if God anointed the
apostle Paul under the unction of the Holy
Spirit to write this in the word of
God, how much should you and I be
fleeing these things?
You say, oh God, don't let me fall
under the ministry of anybody that will move
me towards loving money.
There are all kinds of pyramid sales organizations
now in the states and networking corporations and
such that have embraced and formulated their own
Jezebel gospel that are somehow telling the people
that through the acquisition of financial and material
things that you're going to be happy and
successful, you're going to prosper, that that's God's
will for your life.
That's a Jezebel spirit drawing the hearts of
those that would escape from them that are
polluted into a worse condition than they were
before.
Better to have not known the way of
truth than after having known it to turn
again to the things that we left behind.
This age is known for its lawlessness and
rebellion.
In 2 Timothy, just turn ahead, 2 Timothy
chapter 3, the apostle Paul in verse 1,
he says, This know also that in the
last days perilous times shall come.
Men will be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,
unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent,
fierce.
Incontinent means unable to retain anything, always learning
and never come to the knowledge of the
truth.
Just like a bucket with no bottom, you
pour in and you pour in, you lift
it up by the handle, there's nothing there,
it all pours out.
That's what incontinent means.
Fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors,
heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than
lovers of God.
Verse 6, For of this sort are they
which creep into houses, they creep into houses,
and they lead captive silly women laden with
sins, led away with diverse lusts, ever learning
and never able to come to the knowledge
of the truth.
Now as Janice and Jambres withstood Moses, so
do these also resist the truth.
Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith.
Now look at me please.
Jezebels are resistors of truth and godly authority.
They cannot come under authority and thus become
their own authority by attempting to attack and
destroy the authority that God has placed over
His church.
Do you hear me clearly this morning?
That's what a Jezebel spirit cannot come under
authority and will not come under authority.
So they must destroy the existing authority in
order that they can establish themselves as an
authority over God's people.
You see an illustration of this in 1
Kings 19.
Please don't turn there.
The prophet Elijah had just confronted the prophets
of Baal on Mount Carmel.
You know the story, the fire of God
had come down.
A great, great victory had been won that
day and the people were turning to the
Lord.
450 prophets of Baal were slain that day
and the people were turning to God.
They said when they saw the fire, when
they saw the holy presence of God on
that altar, they said the Lord is God,
the Lord is God, the Lord is God.
And then the very next day, Jezebel rises
up.
She heard that her prophets were being slain
and sent word to Elijah and said, I
will do the very same thing to you.
I'll take your head off by this.
I'll take your life away by this time
tomorrow.
Elijah represented the authority of God.
God through Elijah was turning the hearts of
the fathers back to their children, the children
to their fathers.
God through Elijah was restoring the holy altar,
was restoring a place of understanding in the
nation.
And Jezebel could not come under that authority
and so she went for the head of
Elijah.
And that's the spirit that you find very
much in this age when God raises up
holy men or women of God that are
turning the people back to the Lord and
away from the spirit of this age.
They will rise up against them and go
for their lives because they cannot come under
authority.
This age is also known for division along
the lines of race, social status and culture.
The apostle James, in James chapter 2, he
talks about not giving preference to those that
are rich over those that are poor, coming
into the house of the Lord.
And God forbid that we should ever fall
to the spirit of this age in the
house of the Lord and start preferring those
that are rich and speaking softly and kindly
to them and speaking harshly to the poor
and giving the good seats to those that
have a lot to give financially to the
church and giving the poor seats to those
that are in rags and have nothing to
give to God.
God says if this ever gets in your
heart, if it ever gets in your church,
you have become judges with evil thoughts.
That's a Jezebel spirit that draws a distinction
in social status.
Jezebels promote division in the body of Christ
based on race and culture.
In Matthew chapter 24, Jesus speaking of the
signs of the last days that we're living
in.
He says nation will rise against nation and
kingdom against kingdom.
The word in Matthew 24 for nation in
the Greek is ethnos, which means ethnic culture
will rise against ethnic culture.
We see that spirit all over the world
now operating in the children of disobedience.
Do we not?
Ethnic culture rising against ethnic culture.
The wars in Bosnia and places like this
and all over the globe now, you're seeing
ethnic culture now rising up against ethnic culture.
We've seen it in different places in the
world and surely as I stand here, these
types of wars are going to break out
over the face of the whole earth before
Christ comes.
It's a spirit moved by the prince of
the power of the air.
Those without the Spirit of God are helpless
to fight against it.
It's a gripping spirit.
It's the spirit of the age, if I
can call it such.
Ethnic culture rising up against ethnic culture.
The apostle Paul in writing to Titus, he
said he was talking about false prophets that
were rising up in the church and one
of the characteristics in Titus chapter 1 verses
12 and 13, he said, one of themselves,
even a prophet of their own, has said
that Christians are always liars, evil beasts and
slow bellies.
You see, there was a man who had
risen up to authority and he was stereotyping
within the body.
And Paul says, this witness is true, wherefore
rebuke them sharply that they may be sound
in the faith.
Paul was saying to Titus, don't let that
spirit of the age get into the church.
The apostle Paul says in Galatians 3.28,
there's neither Jew nor Greek, there's neither bond
nor free, there's neither male nor female, you
are all one in Christ Jesus.
There's neither black, there's not white, there's not
yellow, there's not red, there's not brown in
the body of Christ, you are all one
in Christ Jesus in the house of the
Lord.
A week ago on Christian radio there was
a man that spoke at a promise keepers
convention in the not too distant past and
this man got up and he was pleading
with the people and he was speaking at
this convention and the people of his own
particular race within the church had risen up
and threatened him with physical violence if he
went and spoke at this convention.
They said if you go to this place
you're betraying the brotherhood, whatever that's supposed to
be, you're betraying the brotherhood if you go
there and speak at this conference which is
predominantly men and women or men of another
race.
And he got up and he said at
that meeting, what is that spirit that's moving
within those who say they know the Lord
within my own race and my own culture
that threatens me with physical violence if I
get up to preach the gospel of Jesus
Christ to my brothers in the Lord at
this convention.
What is that spirit and how did it
get into the church?
Several months ago at the end of a
service there was a precious, precious couple who
came to me at the end of a
service back behind the platform and she was
of one race and her husband was of
another race.
They came to the platform, they were in
tears, they said what we see here at
Times Square Church, oh, they said we love
it, it's incredible to see all these people
of different races, of different cultures, different backgrounds
worshipping God with such a unity in the
spirit.
It's just wonderful and they were weeping and
crying.
They said where we come from, it was
another place in this country.
There's not a church to be found like
this anywhere.
She was of one race, he was of
another.
They had one child that had the coloration
of one race and one child that had
more of a coloration of another.
And they said if we go to the
church that is of my husband's race then
the people there will reject me.
I can't even take membership.
We took my husband and children to a
church that's of my race and they wouldn't
allow him membership in the church because he's
of another race.
She said on Sunday morning we have to
drop one of our children off over here
at this church, we have to drop one
of our children.
Oh God!
I feel the pain of that family.
There are preachers rising up now all over
the country that are promoting division based on
race.
They're promoting racial superiority in one form or
another.
I say, I speak prophetically now to all
of these men and women all throughout this
country and anybody who hears my voice on
tape in the future I declare unto you
by the word of the Lord you drop
this hypocrisy this bicycle hypocrisy that you call
Christianity and get saved.
Until you can look a man in the
face and not see beyond the color of
his skin you cannot justifiably say the Spirit
of God is upon your life.
There is no distinction in Christ Jesus.
There's no color, there's no black, there's no
white, there's no brown, there's no red, there's
no yellow in Christ Jesus.
And those who promote division along the lines
of race are the Jezebel prophets of this
age.
I stand against them by the Spirit of
God.
I believe that God's Spirit is going to
raise a standard against them in this hour.
Declare them to be the false prophets in
God's house that they are.
Promoters of hate and bigotry and greed and
envy.
The whole time sanctimoniously using their prophets for
their own political objectives and their own gain.
Children of hell, corrupted, twice dead, plucked up
by the roots to whom the midst of
darkness is reserved forever.
You cannot have the Spirit of God upon
your life and see color in the house
of God.
Several months ago, I believe it was last
July, I preached a message in this church
called that they all may be one.
It was along the lines of prayer that
Jesus prayed to the Father.
He said, Father, I pray that they may
be one as you and I are one.
That the world may know that you have
sent me.
And I talked in that message last July
about the necessity of dropping all of the
racial tags and all of the cultural division
that is so often found.
It's in the world, but I share to
dare not ever be found in the church.
We can't harbor unforgiveness no matter what has
happened in the past.
Do you realize, children of God, it's not
an option to harbor unforgiveness in your life?
Irrespective of what's happened to your family or
your ancestry, whatever the case, it's not an
option.
Jesus said, if you don't forgive every man,
they're trespassers.
Neither will my heavenly Father forgive your trespassers.
I preached on love and unity and forgiveness
and tolerance in the body of Christ.
And the next day, on Monday morning, one
of the ministers in this church walked in
to one of the church offices and a
person who was formerly on the Times Square
church staff, as this person walked by, said,
they're going to hang him.
They're going to hang him.
Making reference to a group of people that
were in this church.
Because I had preached on love, I had
preached on tolerance, I had preached on the
fact that there is no skin color in
the kingdom of God.
There's no preferential treatment in the eyes of
God.
He doesn't see one race above another, one
person above another, one class above another.
And as this minister walked by, this person
said, they're going to hang him.
Now, I have a question for you.
What is the spirit that was in this
group of people that would cause them to
want to hang a man who stands and
preaches love and unity and tolerance in the
body of Christ?
What's the motivating spirit behind that?
My second question is just as stinging.
How did they get into the church in
the first place?
How did it happen that this thing was
able to be promoted in the house of
God?
If you're not sure that you're under a
Jezebel spirited ministry, I have three questions I
want you to ask.
Not only here, but anywhere.
And anybody who hears this message by tape
in the future, if you want to know
if you're under a Jezebel ministry, ask these
three questions to your leadership.
Number one, do you believe that all men
are created equal before God?
Number two, do you believe that God has
equally given the message of reconciliation and equally
commissioned all men of all races without preferring
one above another?
Question number three, do you believe that there
is absolutely no partiality with God?
If you can't get a resounding yes to
those three questions, then my brother and my
sister, you flee out of that place like
you'd run from a rattlesnake.
You get out of there.
They'll talk about freedom.
They'll talk about liberty in these places.
They'll talk about just causes.
But Peter says, we're promising you liberty?
They themselves are the servants of corruption.
They're slaves of corruption while they promise you
liberty.
Lastly, this generation is known for its consistent
evil speaking.
That's the spirit of this age, evil speaking
on a constant basis.
Psalm chapter 12, verse 4, David said, here's
what these people say, who have said with
our tongue, we will prevail.
Our lips are our own.
Who is Lord over us?
The Apostle Paul says in Galatians chapter 5
and verse 14, for all the law is
fulfilled in one word, even in this, you
will love your neighbor as yourself.
Hallelujah.
All the law is fulfilled in one word.
You will love your neighbor as yourself.
Doesn't that fulfill it all?
A teacher came to Jesus tempting him and
said, Master, what's the greatest commandment?
And without hesitation, Jesus said, you love the
Lord your God with all your heart, and
all your soul, and all your mind, and
all your strength.
And the second is like unto it, you
love your neighbor as much as you love
yourself.
On these two hang all the law and
the prophets.
If you love God with all of your
heart, your soul, your mind, and your strength,
then you will automatically love your neighbor, irrespective
of background, or where they come from, or
what they do, or how they smell, or
how they talk, or how they look.
You'll love them because Christ loves them.
But if, he says, you bite and devour
one another, beware lest you be consumed by
one another.
If you bite and devour one another, beware
lest you be consumed by one another.
I have a question for you this day.
Are you taking a stand for righteousness?
Or are you sitting in complacency while the
Jezebel spirit of this age seeks out and
seeks God?
I preached a message several months ago called
Wolves.
And those, in that tape, there are six
strategies at the end to protect yourself from
the strife of tongues.
If you have that tape, may I encourage
you please to listen to it again.
And if you don't, there are 300 copies
available in the Rotunda after the service today.
You can get a copy for your family.
Not one for each in your family, but
one per family.
If we run out of them, you can
order some more and we'll have another print
done by next week.
The cost is very minimal.
If you can't afford it, just tell the
people at the table you can have it
for free.
But please get that tape and listen to
it.
It gives you an incredible strategy at the
end for dealing with the strife of tongues
and protecting yourself from falling prey to a
Jezebel or a wolfish spirit.
I challenge you with all of my heart
as one of the shepherds of this block
in Times Square Church to take a stand.
We hear a lot of talk about zero
tolerance in our society.
I hear on the radio that we have
zero tolerance for alcohol, zero tolerance for abuse,
zero tolerance for this, zero tolerance for that.
But I want to challenge you today that
we need to have zero tolerance in our
lives and in the church for the spirit
of this age.
Absolutely no tolerance for it.
It doesn't belong in us as children of
God.
We're not to be lawless and rebellious.
We're not to be under the strife of
tongues.
We're not to be promoting or being part
of or even giving assent to by our
quietness to the Jezebel spirit of this age.
Now I'll go to Revelation 2.
I want to show you the end of
Jezebel and her followers.
Revelation chapter 2.
Now you see the tenderness of Jesus to
all.
Pastor David preached a message a few weeks
ago talking about the pain in the heart
of God when he has to judge one
of his own children.
In verse 21 he says, I gave her
space to repent of her fornication and she
repented not.
In other words, I gave her time.
I didn't do it right away.
There's a danger sometimes in that though for
those that are caught in iniquity.
In Psalm 50 it says, Because I kept
silence, you thought I was altogether like you
are.
There's a season of silence even sometimes when
we're in sin that God doesn't judge immediately.
He says, I gave her space to repent
of her fornication and she repented not.
Behold, verse 22, I will cast her into
a bed and them that commit adultery with
her into great tribulation except they repent of
their deeds.
The Christian New Testament says, I'm laying her
on a bed of sickness.
The New Evangelistic Bible says, I'm laying her
on a bed of pain and I will
bring great suffering upon those who are unfaithful
with her and I will kill her children
with death.
All the churches shall know that I am
he which searches the reins and hearts and
I will give every one of you according
to your works.
That's the most tragic of all, brothers and
sisters, those who fall prey to this spirit.
There was a God in the Old Testament
called Molech that they would heat up and
cause the arms of it to turn red
hot then they would take their sons and
daughters lay them on the arms and burn
them to death.
The Lord says, I will kill her children
with death.
In other words, because you will be part
of if you let this spirit get a
hold of you you will be in constant
controversy.
You'll be always striving.
You'll be involved in sectarian parties as the
scripture says or self-interest groups.
You'll be always promoting causes other than the
cause of Christ.
Your heart won't be God's heart.
And the most tragic result of this kind
of a religion is that in your children
it burns out of them the desire for
a wholesome relationship with Christ.
Our sons and daughters look at what you're
doing.
They look at what you're embracing.
And they say, I don't want any part
of mom and dad's religion.
If your religion is just constant turmoil and
bickering and division you see the children are
sometimes more wise than the parents are.
They look at it and say, I'm not
living my life like this.
I don't want this.
Do you see the necessity of having holiness
in the house of God?
The righteousness of Jesus in our tongues?
Learning to come under godly authority?
Learning to stay in a place of being
led by the still waters and fed good
pasture?
Do you understand that today?
It's not just for your soul's sake and
my soul's sake, but it's for our sons
and daughters, it's for our children that they
would have a true burning desire for Christ
in their lives.
Now, Jesus says, To those, to he who
overcomes and keeps my works unto the end,
verse 26, I will give him power over
the nations and he shall rule them with
a rod of iron as the vessels of
a potter shall they be broken to shivers
even as I received of my Father.
Now, the apostle Jude gives a glimpse of
this day coming in Jude, verse 14.
He talks about, he says, And Enoch, also
the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying,
Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of
his saints to execute judgment upon all and
to convince all that are ungodly among them
of all their ungodly deeds which they have
ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches
which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own
lusts, their mouths speaking great swelling words, having
men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
But, beloved, remember ye the words which were
spoken before of the apostles of our Lord
Jesus Christ, how they told you there should
be mockers in the last time who should
walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Verse 19, These be they who separate themselves
sensual.
In other words, sensual.
They have not the spirit of God, but
they have the spirit of this age upon
them, bringing about division and murmurings and complainings
and accusations, having not the spirit.
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on the
most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
keep yourselves in the love of God, looking
for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ
unto eternal life.
And if some have compassion making a difference,
and others save with fear, pulling them out
of the fire, hating even the garment spotted
by the flesh, now unto him that is
able to keep you from falling and to
present you faultless before the presence of his
glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise
God our Savior be glory and majesty, dominion
and power, both now and forever.
Amen.
To him that overcomes, Jesus said, I'll give
you power over the nations.
There's a day coming when we're going to
sit and rule and reign with Christ.
There's saints are coming, Jude said, Enoch prophesied
of them, said, the Lord's coming to execute
judgment upon all and to convince them that
are ungodly of their ungodly deeds which they
have ungodly committed and their hard speeches which
ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
You see, these people are not new to
this.
There are people who knew what it was
to take a stand for righteousness on the
earth.
Do you think that you can sit in
this house and murmur and complain?
Do you think you can be part of
God's church and murmur and complain and cause
division and rebellion in the house of God
and then one day you're going to come
riding on a horse and make it all
right on the earth?
No.
Absolutely not.
These people that are riding with Jesus learned
how to do this on this side of
eternity.
They learned how to take a stand against
unrighteousness.
They weren't part of it.
They didn't want it to touch them.
They didn't want any part of the sensuality
of this generation and this age and the
Jezebel spirit of this age.
They wanted to be holy and separated and
set apart for God.
Their very lives were a rebuke to those
that have embraced the spirit of this age.
They didn't sit in a quiet, a quiet
sense, if I can call it such, a
quiet agreement with this thing, but they spoke
up and spoke the truth.
That's why they're riding with Jesus on that
day.
Hallelujah.
And then he says in verse 28, most
importantly, and I will give him the morning
star.
Hallelujah.
Now I want to show you what that
morning star is.
Go to Revelation chapter 22, please.
I'll conclude with this scripture.
I'll give him the morning star.
Revelation chapter 22, verse 13.
Jesus said, I am the Omega, the Alpha,
and the Omega, the beginning and the end,
the first and the last.
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that
they may have right to the tree of
life and may enter in through the gates
of the city.
For without, that's without the kingdom of God,
are dogs and sorcerers, whoremongers, murderers, that's brother
haters.
Jesus said anyone who hates his brother is
a murderer and has no life in him.
Idolaters and whosoever loves and makes a lie.
They're all outside the kingdom of God.
I, Jesus, have sent mine angel to testify
unto you these things in the churches.
That is happening this day as well as
it did back then.
I am the root of the offspring of
David and the bright and morning star.
Hallelujah.
Jesus is saying, Tyra, if you will take
a stand against this thing, if you'll take
a stand in your own heart first, if
you'll take a stand in your home, if
you'll take a stand among your children, if
you'll take a stand in the assembly of
the righteous, I will give you a revelation
of who I am.
Hallelujah.
The one who's walking in the midst of
the seven candlesticks will no longer be an
outside there God, but he will be an
inside you God.
Hallelujah.
I will give you the morning star.
Hallelujah.
If we're truly children of God, the one
thing we should cherish and long for more
than anything in this world is an absolute
revelation of Jesus Christ.
Oh God, be revealed in my life.
Be revealed in my life.
Let your ways become my ways.
Your thoughts are higher than my thoughts and
your ways are higher than my ways.
Let me not be gripped by the spirit
of this age, but let me be gripped
by the spirit of almighty God.
Hallelujah.
By Tyra, if you will stand, I'll give
you the morning star.
I'll give you the morning star.
Jesus is saying, first, I want you to
take a stand for righteousness in my house
and I want you to oppose the spirit
of this age.
Turn with me.
One last scripture.
Psalm 101.
Hallelujah.
Psalm 101.
Take a stand, says the Lord.
Our prayer needs to be, Lord, give me
courage to rise up and recognize and oppose
the Jezebel spirit of this age.
First, in my own life, God, if this
thing has gotten into my heart, give me
the courage to recognize it and to oppose
it.
And second, give me the courage to recognize
it and oppose it in your house.
Thank you, Lord, for giving me discernment and
the courage to stand for righteousness.
David says in Psalm 101, I will sing
of mercy and judgment.
Oh, Lord, will I stand and will I
sing.
I will behave myself wisely in a perfect
way.
Oh, when will thou come unto me?
I will walk within my house with a
perfect heart.
I will set no wicked thing before mine
eyes.
I hate the work of them that turn
aside.
It shall not cleave to me.
If David were here today, he'd say, I'd
hate the Jezebel spirit of this age, the
spirit of lawlessness and division and rebellion, and
it will not get into my heart.
It's not going to cleave to me.
I'm not going to be joined together with
this thing.
I'm going to be joined together with Christ.
The two shall become one flesh.
This is a great mystery.
Nevertheless, I speak concerning Christ and His church.
A froward heart, he said, a crooked heart
or a perverse heart, in other words, will
depart from me.
I will throw a wicked person.
The word no talks about intimate communion.
I will not intimately commune with a person
that has a wicked heart.
I will put them away from me.
I'm separating myself unto the Lord.
God, I'm going to be joined to you
and not to the spirit of this age
and whomever it operates through.
Whoso privileged slanders his neighbor, him will I
cut off.
Whoever slanders his neighbor, I will cut him
off.
Cut him off.
I'm learning that lesson so deeply in my
own heart and as Pastor David has shared
also that God's teaching both of us that
the absolute hatred and the heart of God
for slander.
A froward heart shall depart from me and
whoever privileged slanders his neighbor, him will I
cut off.
He that has a high look and a
proud heart, I will not suffer.
He who exalts himself above the order of
God in his house.
Those that stand up and profess to have
deeper revelation than those that are leading the
church.
Those that stand up and claim to have
a thorough understanding of the patterns and ways
of darkness, I won't have anything more to
do with them.
I won't suffer them.
That's a high look and a proud heart.
I won't have anymore to do with them.
My eyes shall be upon the faithful of
the land that they may dwell with me.
And he that walks in a perfect way,
he shall serve me.
He that works deceit shall not dwell within
my house.
And if David were able to write this,
he couldn't because of the day he had,
but he would say also on the telephone,
he that works deceit shall not dwell within
my house.
I will not let a deceitful worker into
my house, whether it's in person, whether it's
from a fax machine, whether it's on the
telephone, or over the television.
I will not let them into my house
anymore.
He that tells lies shall not tarry in
my sight.
In other words, shall be cast out of
my sight.
I will put them away.
I will take a stand for righteousness.
I will only destroy all the wicked of
the land that I might cut off all
wicked doers from the city of the Lord.
Hallelujah.
Would you please stand?
Hallelujah.
This is Mother's Day.
It was a very hard message for me
to preach on Mother's Day, but it's better
to obey the Lord.
I want to give a word to all
the mothers that are here today.
We have recently, as a church, come through
a season of the strife of tons.
What devastates my heart, I think, more than
anything else, is how the youth group has
been hurt in this house.
We were gaining and building.
We were phoning.
Young people who were backslidden from the Lord,
who had become disillusioned with God, were coming
back into the house of God.
We had gone from 30 or so in
the youth meetings up to 70.
They were growing in grace and knowledge of
Christ.
The strife of tongues got a hold of
some in this house and has virtually almost
devastated that group.
It's the children that get hurt.
I want to challenge you mothers that are
in this house to take a stand for
righteousness.
You're not just fighting for yourself.
You're fighting for your children.
You're fighting for your sons and daughters.
I have heard it justifiably said that the
hand that rocks the cradle shapes the nation.
It's true.
Moms that are here today that have been
involved in the strife of tongues, you need
to turn.
And those that maybe never have, but you
never took a stand against it.
That's what Jesus said to Thyatira.
You're a good church.
You're a working church.
You're a standing church.
But you allowed this woman Jezebel to come
into your midst.
You allowed her to teach and seduce some
of my servants to commit fornication.
And you didn't do anything about it.
You didn't stand against it.
It was going on in your midst and
you just sat there and you said well
we'll let the elders look after it, let
the pastors look after it.
But you didn't speak against it.
You knew it was wrong.
And so now we see the love of
God burnt once again out of the hearts
of some of our teens.
My covenant God give us wisdom in the
hour that we're living in.
There are those who say they're leaders in
the body and yet they sow division and
they come in and bring accusation and slander
against the church.
A true shepherd of God would never hurt
the little lambs, never hurt them.
A true shepherd of God, if he had
a controversy against the church he would pack
his bag, shut his mouth and move on.
But there are harlings over the church, they
don't care about the little ones, they care
about their own reputation, they care about their
own ministries, they care about getting their way
or their chunk
of land
back God in his house.
How dare they claim to be leaders in
the kingdom of God, how dare they before
God and hurt his children.
The prophet Isaiah talked about the spirit of
God when his upon a man gathers up
the lambs in his arms and holds them
close to his heart because his heart is
the heart of God.
Woe be unto those that say they know
God and slander and cause those little ones
that believe in Christ to fall, better for
them that they had tied a millstone around
their neck and be cast into the sea,
because one day they have to stand before
a holy God and give account of every
soul they sent back into hell again.
I'm not angry at anybody in this house.
I'm angry at sin.
I despise it with all of my heart.
Those that stand up under a pretense of
righteousness and take God's children and cast them
into the fire.
Woe be unto all of them.
I charge them before God that they're hypocrites.
I charge them before the Lord.
God said, I have held my peace.
I have kept silence all this time.
And they began to think I was like
they are.
But he said, I will set these things
in order before your eyes.
Will mothers in Zion get a copy of
this tape today and you give it to
every child, every teenager in this house that
has fallen because of the strife of tongues.
Every young person, every family, give them a
copy of it and let them make a
clear-cut decision before God.
I stand against this whole thing in the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Mothers in Zion, take a stand for righteousness
and truth and what you know is right.
Take a stand.
Don't let yourself be ensnared by the strife
of tongues while our children are cast out
of the presence of God.
I invite first the mothers that are here
today and God speaking to your heart.
You say today it was within my power
to do something but I didn't.
But never again, never again, I'm going to
fight for every child that's in this house.
You see these children up singing here today,
how precious they are in the sight of
God.
I was looking at the little ones on
the platform, yearning, just yearning, it was so
wonderful to watch them yearning for the day
they could sing in that choir.
Wouldn't it be awful to see that burned
out of their hearts because of tongues, because
of those that rise up in rebellion and
exalt themselves and those who say they're leaders
and don't care for the little ones.
Never again, never again, never again, I purpose
in my heart, never again, never under any
circumstance.
I will not allow the work of hell
to cling to my spirit under any circumstance.
Mothers that are here today, that maybe it's
within your power to take a stand in
your home or your church or your neighborhood,
your community, but you're timid.
I want to ask you to come to
this altar and I believe with all my
heart that God's going to give you the
strength.
I believe it.
It's Mother's Day and God wants to give
you a gift.
Would you step out from wherever you are
and come to this altar?
Mothers in this house, mothers of Zion, mothers
of Zion, those that want to come and
fight for your children, please just step out
right now wherever you are and come.
There are others here.
I want to let the mothers come first,
all of the mothers first.
I've held my peace for a long time,
but today's the first day I've ever had
a release to speak.
That it be known clearly where I stand
and where the Lord stands in this thing.
There are others here today that you need
courage and conviction to stand against the love
of money and your life and in the
house of God lawlessness and rebellion.
You've seen it but not been able to
stand against it.
Division.
Horrid division along lines of race and social
status and culture.
God forbid that that should ever be found
in this house, in the house of the
Lord, that evil spirit found in God's house.
If there's any of that in your heart,
come and God will give you the courage
to stand against it.
I know that not everybody's going to be
able to come to this altar today.
I gave an altar call along these lines
once before and ran into a real wall.
Only a trickle came out and I knew
in my spirit something's wrong.
There's something a lot bigger here than I
can see or understand.
But this day I see a release in
the spirit.
People are coming.
If you have something in your heart against
somebody because they have a different skin color,
you need to repent.
You may not be able to make it
to this altar because of the volume of
people, but you need to repent today.
That's the spirit of lawlessness and rebellion.
That's the spirit of this age and don't
let any Jezebel ministry come along and plant
it deeper in your heart.
Evil speaking.
Friends, we need to take a stand.
We want the righteousness of Jesus.
We want the manifested presence of Jesus.
Pastor David has been saying for a couple
of weeks now that we feel like we're
on the edge of something.
God wants to take us into somewhere deeper
and do something new and I know what
that edge is.
I've known it in my spirit for a
little while now.
He says you're a good church, but you've
got to take a stand against these things.
You can't be a partaker of them anymore.
You've got to stand for the truth and
for righteousness for you know what it is
and you've got to stand for it now.
Oh, hallelujah.
Anybody now that the Lord has convicted you
today of something in your own life.
You have embraced the spirit of this age.
Would you come?
You say oh, Jesus has walked in the
midst of my candlestick and I see something
in me today.
I've embraced something that's not of God, but
I know how to lay it down.
Jesus has walked in my life.
Just humble yourself.
That's how you lay it down.
Humble yourself.
Don't try to do it in your own
strength.
Come to God and say Lord this is
in my heart.
It's probably been there all my life.
How do I get rid of it?
Humble yourself.
Humble yourself before God and he'll take it
out of your heart.
So help me in the name of God.
We're not going to lose one more young
person out of this house.
Not one more.
I'll fight for them to the last one.
We're not going to lose one more out
of the house of God.
Oh Jesus.
Jesus.
Now I want to ask the mothers that
are here today pray with me this prayer.
Lord Jesus give me the courage to recognize
and to oppose the Jezebel spirit of this
age.
First in my own life.
And secondly in your house.
Thank you Jesus for giving me discernment and
the courage.
And the courage.
And the courage to stand.
We have learned about our children.
Our sons and daughters.
That the wicked one would not come and
destroy any of our children.
Satan we rebuke you in the name of
the Lord.
We stand against you in the name of
Jesus.
We cast you down.
In Jesus' name.
God send revival.
give us the morning star, give our children
the morning star, give this church, Jesus give
us a revelation of who you are in
our hearts and in our lives.
When we gather to meet, may it be
written over this house, Moose here, holiness unto
the Lord.
Hallelujah, hallelujah.