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I want you to know you don't come
here without your Bible.
Otherwise, you're naked.
Clothed with the word of the Lord.
Let's begin in Mark 4.
Let's begin reading at verse 33.
And with many such parables spake he the
word unto them as they were able to
hear it.
Now, remember, he's at the seashore.
He's talking to a multitude.
But without a parable, he spake not unto
them.
And when they were alone, he expounded all
things to his disciples.
And the same day, when the evening was
come, he said, let's pass over to the
other side.
Now, remember, they go across toward the other
side.
A great storm of wind breaks down through
the rest of the chapter.
He stands up, rebukes the wind and the
wave.
And they're fearful and say, what kind of
man is this that heathen winds and waves
obey him?
In chapter 5, they came to the other
side of the sea, to the country of
the Gadarenes.
And he has come out of the ship
of Mithra, met him out of the tombs
of man with an unclean spirit who had
his dwelling among the tombs.
No man could bind him, no, not with
chains, because that he had been often bound
with fetters and chains, and the chains had
been plucked asunder by him and the fetters
broken in pieces.
Neither could any man tame him.
Night and day he was in the mountains,
tombs, crying and cutting himself.
Now, let me just go over the story
with you.
He comes to Jesus and cries with a
loud voice.
Jesus says, come out of the man, thou
unclean spirit.
He asked him what his name was, and
he said his name was Legion, for where
many besought him that they would allow the
legion of demons to go into a herd
of swine nearby.
Verse 12, all the devils besought him, saying,
send us into the swine.
They enter into them.
Jesus gave them leave.
The unclean spirits go into the swine.
The herd run violently down a steep place
to the sea.
Verse 13, they were about two thousand, were
choked in the sea.
They that fed the swine fled and told
it to the city and in the country,
and they went out to see what it
was that was done.
They come to Jesus and see him that
was possessed with the devil and had the
legion sitting and clothed and in his right
mind, and they were afraid.
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, I thank you that you know
what to preach and when to preach and
how to preach it.
Lord Jesus, I ask you now to honor
what you've told me.
You've told me there would be people here.
Lord, it's very unlikely that people would be
here on a Sunday afternoon who would need
this message, but Lord, I will simply obey
you.
I will obey you in this.
I bring it not to the saints, but
I bring this message to just a handful
who may be here, who just slipped in
here, may have come for the first time.
Maybe somebody has been coming to this church
and we have missed them.
They have not yet come to this realization
that they are possessed by unclean spirits.
We pray, Lord Jesus, you give us an
understanding.
I need strength.
I need help with my voice, and I
give you praise.
Lord, I honor you and everything that's to
be said and done in this pulpit.
Lord Jesus, we're here to glorify you.
We're here to magnify your name.
In Jesus' name, I pray.
Amen.
Now, folks, we've been preaching to the saints
here for a long, long time.
You've heard grace.
You've heard the wrath of God.
You've heard how to walk in holiness.
You've heard the covenant and the names of
God.
We've gone through so many truths with you,
but lately the Lord has been leading me
and lately Pastor Carter also and other pastors
to speak evangelistically, to speak to those who
come in our midst.
And you see, God can arrange a whole
service like this to get to one person.
This message, I tell you now, is not
going to relate to most of you.
You're not going to relate to the message.
You may get a truth out of it,
something may open to you in other areas
of truth that you want to pursue, but
I want to speak to those especially who
are battling something so deep and so ferocious
in your life, you can't explain it.
And it can't be explained in any other
way but an unclean spirit, an unclean spirit
that's taken habitation in your heart.
I'm not going to go into some great
message or discussion about demon possession, but we're
going to talk about God's concern and love
even for those who are being manipulated and
controlled by unclean spirits.
And in the chapter I just read to
you, Jesus has just finished a discourse and
in fact he's at the end of his
discourse and he suddenly dismisses, he stops.
Now he's in a boat because of the
press of the crowd and he's in the
sea and he's talking to this great multitude
and something stops him, something stops him right
in his track.
In fact the scripture says in one of
the versions and one of the gospels that
his mother and his brethren sought to seek
to talk to him and he put them
off kindly, but he put them off because
he had a mission, an urgent mission had
come upon him.
Jesus had heard a cry from across the
sea from a single man and he shuts
the whole thing down and he tells the
disciples move on right now across and he
pointed directly across and the same day when
even was come he said unto them let
us pass over to the other side.
Now this time after dismissing the crowd he
didn't invite the disciples to go away and
rest a while with him as he did
on other occasions.
He didn't move on to another mass meeting
to another multitude.
He didn't go to another synagogue to teach.
He shut everything down because there was an
urgent cry.
He heard a wailing cry across the sea.
An amazing thing happens.
Jesus knew the cry was coming from the
region of the Gadarenes and the scripture says
from the country of the Gadarenes and in
the Greek country here is empty, great empty
expanse or large territory and all he knew
this cry was in the area of the
Gadarenes and he evidently had told his disciples
were going to the area just get me
near the shoreline of Gadarenes.
Didn't know exactly where it was but he
knew that there was a there was a
man hurting there was a man crying and
wailing and so they had no I believe
that there are intelligences.
I really believe that there are demonic intelligences
and I can assure you that those those
unclean spirits that wander through dry places seeking
rest flew over that sea to let a
legion of demons know that the son of
God had heard a cry and that he's
heading in their direction.
You can imagine the turmoil of two thousand
some demons leads in the bible says there
are at least two thousand unclean spirits of
this man can you imagine the turmoil because
they knew that when Jesus would come he
could send them into the abyss and they
would be tormented before their time.
They all knew revelation 20 there's not a
demon there's not an unclean spirit in the
atmosphere anywhere the face of this universe that
doesn't know and dread the 20th chapter of
revelation.
They know that the day is going to
come that they're going to be cast into
abyss and be tormented day and night forever.
They know that and they know that Jesus
can come before the time and do it
anytime he chooses.
Now I want you to know no matter
what you may think or maybe what you
feel about it there is not a demon
possessed personal in the face of the earth
if Jesus determines to drive out those demons
they go they are they are gone in
a moment of time nothing can hinder it.
Now this man is crying out day and
night scripture says of some they cried this
is David speaking of idol worship he says
they cry but there's none to save them
this man cried there had been no one
to save him up this time now he'd
been in this position he'd been in this
condition the bible says a long long time
this man is living among the tombs now
it's not a graveyard like we think of
the tombs were cut these are sepulchres of
rock that are hewn into the side of
a mountain and he is chosen one of
those sepulchres for his home and this man
has been changed time and time again now
this man had friends the bible said later
because he went to testify to his friends
Jesus sent him there so you know there
comes a time a man can become so
possessed by sin he can be so possessed
by alcohol or drugs his family will put
up with it for a while because you
see I'm after this afternoon alcoholics drug addicts
those that are hooked on pornography those who
are hooked on gambling I'm after those by
the power of the holy ghost here this
afternoon who have tried with all your power
and all your might and you don't understand
why you're sinking deeper and deeper into this
sin and you're here listening to me in
the annex so you're here in this auditorium
right now and you have a cry in
your heart because you see that man that
was living in the tombs possessed of demons
is here this afternoon he's in this congregation
probably sitting nearby to you it could be
a teenager it could be a woman it
could be a teenage girl I'm talking about
those who have been so bound by sin
unclean spirit has taken control driving you I'm
explaining the person that can't even walk up
past a bar without going into it a
person who trembles at the very thought of
the smell of alcohol who trembles when holding
a bottle in their hand the person so
hooked on pornography can't go past a pornographic
shop without looking in the window or being
drawn in or going to the internet it's
there all the time it just keeps growing
and growing and these these unclean spirits seem
to increase the power of that spirit seems
to increase all the time now the chances
of many walking in here today like that
should be if I were a betting man
be one in a million do you understand
god knows all these odds he knows all
of that just as sure as he knew
and he stopped down and and all of
these pharisees and scribes and all these religious
people they're sitting there listening the lord shuts
it down and see he's shutting it down
right now for we gospel people for just
a bit because he's hearing the cry from
somebody and you're looking and I said this
man this woman may be sitting near you
but I know because I know the work
of the holy spirit that you're in this
building and you're hearing my voice if you're
not hearing my voice in this building you're
going to hear it on tape video or
audio and god is fishing after you because
you heard a cry you said I don't
see anybody sitting next to me while died
I don't see anybody sitting next to me
that hints that they are like this man
possessed unable to control themselves I don't see
that well of course not because you and
I look on the outside and let me
tell you something that's worse than this man
out there in a tombstone living cutting himself
with stones and bleeding and crying out through
the night let me tell you something that's
far worse than that and that's the pain
the mental anguish the mental pain the cry
the miserable cry of somebody who says I
know that I am destroying this temple that
belongs to the holy ghost and him god
said he that destroys this temple I will
destroy him and the conscience is screaming and
the cry of sin is screaming and there's
something inside that as a whole of you
that as hard as you try everything that
you attempt nothing works neither could any man
tame him cutting himself with stones bound by
lust unclean habits a righteous person may sit
by you you see because you're not on
the streets I don't think we have many
street people here today you don't have to
be in the street you can still have
a job you can be sitting here now
and you know what I'm talking about because
you know in your heart you're not in
control anymore of your life something in you
is driving you something you hate to do
how about last night did you get drunk
did you drink again against your will were
you driven to the adulterous bed against again
even though you hate it and now you're
even making yourself comfortable with it and maybe
even loving it because an unclean spirit has
caused you to under to excuse it and
you've even used scripture to excuse it he's
giving you lying spirits did you get high
this past week and hate what you did
it's like the crime you've heard me tell
of these boys that we've dealt with over
the years on drugs so driven by their
habit folks I want you to know it's
not just some kind of a physical substance
it's not some physical power in the drug
itself no if that were it then people
could not stop it like those who go
to jail black muslims couldn't do it black
muslims by the thousands of quitting drugs and
quitting alcohol it was just a substance that
held you it's more than that it's an
unclean spirit behind it it's an unclean spirit
young man who tried so desperately to quit
before he came into our center when he
did get there his arm was burnt because
he thought if he could burn off the
track and so he puts a frying pan
on a hot stove and gets it hot
and wraps a towel around it presses it
to his flesh to try to burn off
the track and he said if I could
burn off the track I can get rid
of my habit and he had to go
and get a fix to kill the pain
of the burn the other boy who got
a pair of handcuffs and handcuffs him to
a steam radiator in three days sitting there
thinking he could cure himself if he couldn't
get out of the room violent need for
drugs pulls an 80 pound radiator out of
the wall and carries that radiator to the
pusher and a boy who loads a needle
with his own blood and he flips it
to the ceiling and he writes in his
own blood help that's the cry I
speak of the soul tormented enslaved by an
unclean spirit bound and crying in the middle
of the night the agony and the hurt
and the cry Jesus heard was not a
cry for help really it wasn't a cry
for mercy wasn't a cry for God it
was just a cry of pain it was
a cry of torment it was a cry
of a lonely man who was driven now
we know the bible here's the cry for
help from those who reach out to God
we know that those who reach out for
mercy the scripture says out of the depths
David said I cried to the Lord and
he heard me there was forgiveness with thee
I cried to the Lord my voice he
heard me from his holy hill this poor
man David's cried I cried the Lord heard
me and saved me out of all my
troubles now that's wonderful we know God hears
that kind of cry but you see there
are there are some people beyond that cry
this was not a cry for God this
was not the cry of the demons God
would never answer cry of a demon it's
the cry he heard above the demon voices
a cry of pain so deep a cry
so deep it touched the heart of God
while he's speaking to thousands Jesus turns around
and he says let's go he's after one
man to answer one cry I'm sure everyone
had given up on this man because they'd
chained and fettered him now when I hear
of chains and fetters I think of self
-help programs that's all because you see that's
exactly what society tries to do we try
to chain that lust we try we we
we take people we isolate them away from
their problem put them in a program all
kinds of alphabet programs and and and what
happens we we clean them up on the
outside and we give them uh some cliches
and we we give them some psychology and
and we say go out and try this
time you can do it we'll give you
a friend and you want a problem just
call this friend and and you can make
it you can make it that's the cry
you can make it these are self-help
health hospitals and clinics and they're run by
good people charitable loving people some have absolutely
given their life and they care about people
but that's not the issue I can prove
to you that all self-help programs that
suggest that an enslaved bound person can get
free by willpower or just setting their mind
to it I want to prove to you
the scripture that's absolutely impossible absolutely impossible Jesus
said you remember this story when the unclean
spirit has gone out of a man he
walked through dry places seeking rest and he
finds none and he saith I will return
into my home my house once I came
out and when he cometh he findeth it
swept and garnished then goeth he and taketh
to him seven other spirits more wicked than
himself they enter in and dwell there and
the last state of that man is worse
than the first now folks I've heard many
people talk about this being some christian that's
all cleaned up but it's not furnished with
the word that's so far from the truth
that had nothing to do with a christian
this is a man that's gone to some
self-help program he's gotten cleaned up temporarily
because I'm going to tell you what the
devil said I'm going back to my house
he could never ever call it his house
if the holy ghost had done a work
in somebody's heart it's no longer his house
he could not return I see a clue
as to why this man was possessed with
so many demons a whole legion this swept
and refurbished house was not the house of
christ absolutely impossible the unclean spirit I'm going
back to my house this is a person
who got a temporary fix through self-help
he got pumped up with positive thoughts and
steps on how to keep himself clean he
changed his own lustful habit for you for
a little while by being secluded asked anybody
that's been through self-help programs program after
program after program and folks I want to
tell you how these things multiply how did
this make it two thousand unclean spirits in
him could it be that he had been
to a first program and they chained him
and they said you're going to be all
right and they gave him steps but you
see the bible said when that unclean spirit
goes out he said I'll return with seven
other spirits more wicked than myself and I'll
tell you what these are intelligent beings and
I you can tell me say look I
kicked my habit on my own I didn't
need christ I didn't need a holy ghost
program I just mud up my mind and
I bit the bullet and I kicked the
habit just like that there's some people say
I did that there are some people that
15 years ago quit using drugs quit using
alcohol I haven't smoked I haven't gambled I
haven't done any of these things five years
10 years 20 years look let me tell
you something how these unclean spirits work this
unclean spirit could have been alcohol could have
been drugs and this was the stronghold and
this intelligence finds that there there's an in
there's a principalities and powers our battle is
against not flesh and blood but principalities and
powers of darkness spiritual wickedness and high places
and here in these high places they that's
not spiritual high places the word spiritual that
means supernatural it these supernatural high places where
these spiritual warfares are being fought there was
an agreement and this is how it works
so many times you see there are other
unclean spirits there's an unclean spirit of lust
the scripture talks about lying spirits spirits of
covetousness spirit of fear of anger murder clamoring
spirits far worse than drugs far worse than
alcohol and you see this one spirit he
said look I'm going back to my house
but it'll be a tough go unless I
keep quiet now let seven of you do
your thing and put it down where you
can understand it lust you go after him
anger you go after him covetousness you take
over but now I'm not going to bother
about his drugs I'm not bothering the alcohol
anymore so we can go around saying I'm
free from alcohol there's no more lust for
alcohol or drugs or gambling but now he's
a covetous man who fight anybody for the
dollar he'll lie and he'll cheat and he'll
have sex he he will have all kinds
of uh lying spirits he'll do anything to
lie he will he will not live like
he did before no he will not be
on the streets they say I'm clean and
he can be possessed there's seven more spirits
more wicked than what than the one who
first possessed him it caused him all his
troubles how many times do you have to
have a self-help program and get a
self-help cleaning and drive up seven when
they're going to have each of them going
to have seven you multiply seven times seven
you get 49 multiply 49 times seven you'll
see how very quickly you can get to
2000 and let me tell you the danger
of it any program and I'm speaking to
the team challenge ministry leaders this Thursday down
in Pennsylvania all the leaders of team challenge
are coming together and I have a message
on my heart and it's it's simply this
I see some of them going now to
psychology and I see them taking other self
-help steps that are are the jargon of
the world and it's not the anointing of
the holy spirit and I'm telling you what
if I don't care what Christian program it
is I don't care if it's down the
bowery here any other mission that one started
under the anointing of the holy ghost and
had authority over the devil and drove the
devil out of people and men who fasted
and prayed and had that authority and then
suddenly they began to go back because they
don't want to pay the price to seek
the face of God and I'm telling you
these programs just open up those who come
to us to seven more spirits more wicked
than themselves we may get them free of
drugs and alcohol and send them out and
full of covetousness and fear that the the
spirit of fear is far worse than any
other other spirit that you can imagine God
said he hates covetous more than any of
these others we can send them out covetous
we can send them out with anger a
spirit of murder you understand what Jesus is
saying how many understanding this how dangerous it
is how dangerous it is to try to
think that we in our own power that
that we through human resources can change lives
impossible and everyone listening to me now I
don't care what you're in there's no doctor
there's no program now if it's a Christ
-centered program where they're going to lay hands
on you and believe that those unclean spirits
can go and their spiritual authority and the
word of the Lord is their text everything's
going to be all right but God help
us otherwise you see when God when God
cleans a house first thing he does is
tear it down come on it's purchased by
the blood of Jesus but he doesn't work
on the old man he said it's a
new man he tears it down he pays
off the mortgage on the land he rebuilds
it and then he moves in first and
then he puts his sign out there under
new management the devil if he came back
couldn't even find it he wouldn't know what
it looks like it's a brand new building
don't tell me that the devil gonna come
back with seven more spirits to somebody truly
born again filled with the holy ghost impossible
what an incredible night it was that night
just before freedom came to this man principalities
and powers in them are in torment they're
frothing they're screaming out using his voice the
inner turmoil must have been something incomprehensible now
why the storm why the storm there's no
question about it the intelligence had gotten to
these legions that Christ is on the way
do you remember what the scripture says in
Job 119 behold there came a great wind
from the wilderness and smote the four corners
of the house and it fell upon Job's
children and they all died God had let
the wall down now Jesus controls but the
prince probably the prince of this air can
cause a storm and this is what happened
he the devil the devil never learns but
somehow they're going to stop him they're going
to try to sink this ship of course
it's a it's a it's a teaching thing
but this this was the enemy trying to
this these demons this this these unclean spirits
did not want to leave this man this
is our habitation this is where we belong
Jesus rises stills the wind and the gnarly
waves and they arrive in the morning and
land and the scripture says and they arrived
and he went forth to the land and
I see Jesus get out of the boat
and he's searching the hills ears tuned to
that cry and suddenly a man comes running
out of the tomb the man is screaming
and wailing unshaven I imagine fingernails and toenails
and the bible said he was naked folks
I see tears in the eyes of our
master I see tears in Jesus eyes as
that man comes he's not going to get
a lecture he's not going to say how
did you get in such a horrible state
why did you sin against such light wasn't
going to get a lecture and I can
see the master's face red hot with anger
against satan and what he does to human
souls human beings there was an anger in
God's heart but you see God had arranged
this meeting Jesus had arranged this meeting this
man falls at his feet now those demons
didn't bow there was something in this man
that was reaching for reality and deliverance was
something there Jesus recognized that when these demons
cry out thinking of themselves only as to
what do we have to do with you
in other words what kind of business is
this we know what the judgment in fact
Matthew says have you come to torment us
before the time we know that we're going
to be judged we know the judgment day
we know what it says in revelation why
are you here now what do we have
to do with you now what issue what's
the issue here this is before the time
it's not right it's not fair they you
think for a moment Jesus would bargain with
the devil Jesus as soon as he saw
the man says come out and and there
they they just say wait before we do
look they had a plan they had a
plan you know what was the bible doesn't
say but I think I know what it
was they saw two they saw two thousand
pigs and by the way most of the
gatherings were Jews this is a forbidden fruit
they're forbidden it was an unclean animal they
weren't to raise it they weren't to touch
it they weren't eating these demons said look
let us go into this herd of swine
and then I I think what they thought
no we'll go in there for temporary habitation
and then when they come to slaughter us
we'll attack the whole city every time they
go to slay it they'll just open up
a vein and we go and we we
go possess the whole city Jesus knew their
plan and he knew pigs can't swim he
dismissed them into the swine and down they
go to the sea and drown and they're
taken out into the abyss the townspeople when
they do come find the man sitting at
the feet of Jesus worshiping clothed and in
his right mind clothed and in his right
mind folks the Lord has arranged another meeting
could it be that today he heard your
cry last night and this past week and
he arranged a whole scene again right out
of this chapter he is recreating that scene
in this house right now he heard your
painful cry and he saw you you see
uh the clothes here represents guilt and and
how people try to just tear off that
guilt and try to run naked without that
guilt and he knows what you've been through
trying to throw off your guilt he knows
how many times you have tried and failed
but somehow he heard your cry i'm gonna
speak to those who somehow relate to what
i'm preaching this afternoon those
with a christian background you fell back you've
gone back to some old sinful way you
say brother dave my heart is so hard
and i'm stubborn i've tried i'm stiff-necked
that's what moses said of all of israel
he said ever since i've known you you've
been stiff-necked you've been a rebellious people
you've been stubborn you don't obey god's word
you don't listen to his word ever since
i've known you you've been stiff-necked and
stubborn but jose 11 8 said god speaking
how shall i give you up ephraim or
israel my heart is turned inside of me
i will not execute the fierceness of my
anger upon you i will not destroy you
ephraim for i'm god and not man man
will forget you man may leave you because
they think you're too hard but i don't
see you that way he said i don't
care you may hear now saying well my
heart is too hard well i want you
to know god took mercy time and time
again on a rebellious stiff-necked people when
he saw the slightest reach toward his heart
i'm going to close in just a few
moments this is not a long message but
i want to come now in closing to
show you what i believe the lord is
trying to teach us as a church out
of this also first of all that the
battle of unclean spirits didn't end when the
last disciple died does it amaze you that
you you read of unclean spirits all through
the new testament you read it all everywhere
jesus when he was casting out unclean spirits
you said well they didn't have hospitals in
those days in those days they called it
madness or or mental disease we call it
mental disease well no no no that's not
mental disease there is there is mental disease
much of it is caused by chemical imbalances
and so forth having nothing to do with
satan although there can be cases of that
so this this is something far beyond that
did you ever wonder why there's so little
said about unclean spirits today why there's so
little authority is it because we've become so
compromised that we're afraid to stand before devils
now we're afraid that like the sons of
uh skeva that they'll leap on you could
it be that when you stand before somebody
that you know is so bound and so
horrendously driven by an unclean spirit that you
do not have what jesus had him saying
satan calling have nothing in me could it
be because you know that jesus said these
kind come forth only by prayer and fasting
you haven't fasted and prayed but i don't
want to tell you something senator i would
tell you something backslidden christian who's now you're
back down and you say i'm lower than
i've ever been before let me tell you
something now listen closely you had an appointment
with jesus he's in this room right now
jesus is here he's in the annex he's
in the balcony he's all over this building
the holy spirit's here and jesus you are
face to face with jesus same jesus who
met this man and you're standing before one
of his servants you see he gave his
servants power over the devil he gave his
servants power of every unclean spirit and i'm
telling you now we're not to fear the
devil and i'm not afraid of the devil
because i can stand here right now through
the blood of jesus and say satan coming
to have nothing in me i can tell
you that i've been fasting and praying and
i can tell you right now i'm not
boasting i'm not challenging the devil but i'm
telling you now if you have an unclean
spirit in you and you're willing to acknowledge
this is something beyond just my nature there's
something that has a hold of me and
i've got to acknowledge now that i am
bound and if you bring that to jesus
today i'm i'm so glad jesus didn't lay
him lay his hand on that man's head
i'm so glad he didn't shake him trying
to shake the devil out i'm so glad
he didn't scream at him because that's what
people are doing they're trying to scream and
chase the devil out people because they don't
have the power the power is the spoken
word it's just a word from the lord
it's the word according to his mind in
his scripture that's all it is when you
come for healing in a few moments nobody
gonna hands on you nobody gonna shake you
nobody gonna scream we're gonna have a bunch
of people around you saying what's your name
trying to get legion hallelujah
something else i believe lord's trying to tell
us least of me yes david go ahead
and preach to your multitudes we preach to
thousands here and everywhere i go this past
weekend in in canada to many thousands go
ahead and preach to your multitudes but don't
ever lose the ear for the single cry
of a hurting broken heart how easy it
is to come to meeting the times square
church and meet with the multitude and come
and sit as jesus explains the word the
holy ghost explains the word to our hearts
and that's wonderful but how easy it is
to walk across and abide people that you
look at you can't see the potential you
can't see the possibilities and you say they're
too hard gone i know there's a couple
right over here a girl and and a
guy that i've seen for four or five
years and three or four others now that
they they die one by one of cancer
and all kinds of diseases and and how
many times i've looked at them and said
ah there's no way they could be clean
and i know i know i've walked past
unclean spirits but god's been speaking in my
heart take time with one individual folks it's
always been that it's always been that god's
telling me that i really don't have the
right to claim the blessing from multitudes until
i claim the power and the authority for
individuals and and so you say god use
me only god to use me all right
go to the lowest go to the most
possessed the most downtrodden person you can have
and go with faith and stay there and
they they they don't even want to talk
you can stand right there and pray quiet
in the name of jesus and so i
pray against every unclean spirit in this man
in every unclean spirit in this woman and
you keep praying until the devil gets tired
of you hanging around you you ask god
to attune your ear and i really believe
that a praying man or praying person is
going somehow that cry going to reach your
ear just as it reached the ear of
christ he was not just looking for it
he was doing this father's business but he
had his ear tuned god give us an
ear tuned to the cry it may be
of a child that you've missed in your
own home let's stand
balcony annex and here in the main floor
some of you gentlemen i'm looking at right
now i'm just scanning the audience and of
course i can't see in the annex but
the lord does i'm not looking for a
a big turnout here i'm looking for the
man i'm looking for the woman who said
pastor david you describe me i'm that man
i'm that woman i'm that boy i'm that
girl i'm that teenager that's me i'm bound
i want to be free if you'll take
the courage to step out like this man
did the moment he was in the presence
of jesus he came leaping and bowed before
him and said jesus set me free i
want you to get right out of your
seat and i want you to come up
here right now and in the in the
annex i want you to come into this
auditorium get go to the to the hallway
go out to the lobby and that usher
show them how to get here to walk
down this aisle you say i gotta have
it david i've got a problem and i
want to be delivered in this meeting now
i know god put this on my heart
i know some have been in the verge
of suicide and lord's they're going to save
you from suicide today devil's not going to
have your life jesus is going to have
it folks i appreciate it there'll be no
clapping from here to the rest of the
message no matter what you see happening here
no clapping just open your heart raise your
hands touch him on the back just touch
him lift your hands thank him right now
be clean in jesus name be clean in
jesus name hallelujah yes worship him now just
worship him every evil spirit departed jesus name
now just love him and
you believe that there's power in jesus to
drive out every evil spirit at every unclean
thing i claim this right now and when
command in jesus name there'd be no manifestation
of any devil here today you cannot manifest
in the presence of the lord now i
want everybody to sing it lift your hands
the question
no it's the word of the lord you
stand and say i am clean i am
free in jesus name uh what room do
the counselors go to now listen to me
please i'd like to have in the annex
and here in the main auditorium we need
some help with our counselors all those appointed
counselors could you race up to that room
right now we're gonna need some help and
all i want you to do is take
them by the hand and pray with them
in faith minister grace and hope and all
of you that came forward right now listen
to me please if you'll go all of
you who say pastor david i've got to
have someone with spiritual authority to just pray
with me i need to be drawn closer
to the lord and i want somebody to
stand in prayer with me who will pray
for me and name my name before the
lord and and take me to the throne
of grace if you can just slip out
now and go up back upstairs those that
came from downstairs from upstairs and those of
you didn't you go into the lobby turn
right up the stairs and they'll direct you
it's in the annex in room 206 and
counselors if you'll go there if you will
please and those that are here and in
the annex there also anyone who go into
room 206 you can just kneel down and
pray and our counselors will be there by
you very quickly amen look at me now
your part now is to give him the
only thing that pleases him in fact without
it you can't please him it's not the
only thing pleasing but without it you can't
please him and that's faith i believe what
god said i believe i met jesus in
a very special way today he breaks the
powers and the chains of darkness no matter
how i feel i stand on his word
i stand on that i take it i
receive it you do that by faith and
you'll see what happens the devil trembles at
faith he trembles when you stand on the
word remember he he tried to get jesus
on that and he finally left jesus because
he couldn't handle the word the devil can't
handle the word stand on the word now
if you will please lord keep those that
you have delivered and let them believe now
with all of their hearts that there is
a freedom a newfound freedom if they receive
it by faith now in jesus name amen
folks want you to turn around and we
have another service in about an hour at
six o'clock here we're going to miss
this service uh but uh those of you
are going to go upstairs uh let's uh
just sing one chorus again give me a
praise chorus and uh let these that are
going that are here at the altar first
get back but somebody want to go into
room 206 if you will please somebody'll be
there waiting for you to pray with you
the lord bless you so much six o
'clock is our next we have a special
speaker tonight very special speaker coming you know
we don't announce our speakers very rarely so
uh telling the lord will bless you hallelujah
this is the conclusion of the message