March 18, 2026 • 56 mins
The ongoing spiritual battle between good and evil began in Genesis and concludes in Revelation. While ultimate victory belongs to God, Believers are called to actively participate in spiritual warfare through worship, faith, and sharing the gospel. Believers need to be “extremely dangerous” to the enemy by resisting spiritual complacency and pursuing the mission of setting the captives free.
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Hello, and welcome to the Porch on Firefall Talk Radio.
I'm Richard Grund. This is where you will find the
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The Upper Room experience is as much for today as
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using both Yeshua and Jesus. When speaking of the Lord,
we prefer the term Messiah rather than Christ, as it
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the porch. Contact us if you need prayer. We'd like
to pray for you because we care about you. Starting out, praise,
I'll praise them for my salvation. I praise them for
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my home, my wife, my sons, daughter in law's grandchildren,
furry kids, everything I have, For His provision and his protection.
For the dreams and the visions that were prophesied in
Joel to twenty eight. They're there if you want them.
I praise them for his divine health and healing, for
his abiding favor, for the continuing revelation by the Holy
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Spirit and for making me a new creation and allowing
me to live in these prophetic times and work in
the family business. Let's pray so I'm one twenty two
verse six. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and they
prosper who love you. I pray for Israel. I pray
for my Jewish brothers and sisters, especially now with everything
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going on in the world. I do so out of
love and concern, but also because the Word tells me to.
I pray for the people in Iran who want to
be free and out from under a repressive regime, and
it seems like outside of Israel, in the US, no
one seems to care. So I pray for those people.
I pray for the soldiers that are fighting to take
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down this evil leadership, that God's will would be done.
I pray for the fatherless, the widows, the persecuted, and
the martyrd the innocence and those who are victims of injustice.
I pray against the slaughter of the innocence, for missing
and exploited children, victims of human sex trafficking. It goes
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on every day, and I pray for them. I pray
for our brothers and sisters around the world that we're
being persecuted for their faith, being slaughtered, having their homes
and their places of worship destroyed. Pray against the growing
religious persecution and anti Semitism which seems to have taken
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over society, which means I pray against the plans and
the effort of the spirit of the Antichrist, who is
behind all of this. I pray for divine wholeness, health
and healing in me and you and all those who
need it, for his protection and his inspiration for the
remnant to wake up and answer the call to do
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what must be done in this hour. I pray for
the open doors, for all the projects and plans that
He's given and the finances to do them. So, Father Abbah, Papa,
we come to you in the name of above all names,
you sure Jesus, your Son. We thank you for loving us.
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We thank you for rescuing us. We thank you for
continuing to take care of us. Lord. Thank you for
the Cross, the empty tomb, the Upper Room, for everything
you've done and everything that you're doing. For sending back
the Holy Spirit to walk with us, teach us, guide us,
inspire us. It's Holy Spirit. That's all we'd like today,
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we'd like revelation knowledge. We'd like to open our hearts
and our minds to you to hear what you have
to say this day on the porch, and I pray
all these things and your shoe his name, Amen.
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registered date of the following information. So the battle that
we see every day begin in Genesis, and it will
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end in revelation, beginning and end and everything in between
until the war ends at the Second Coming. We're right
in the middle of it. The ultimate victory belongs to God,
but we, as believers born again believers, must actively participate
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in the battle for souls, relying on spiritual not worldly means.
The weapons of our warfare are not Carnival the Mighty
through God for pulling down strongholds everything that would exalt
itself above the knowledge of God. So we worship, we
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share the Gospel, and we do it with persistent faith.
All of those are forms of warfare, and we do
it with the assurance that Messiah's presence, his authority, and
his victory empowers the church to fulfill its mission till
his return. We are in a fight to the finish.
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That's what we talked about recently. Reinard Bonki said, Jesus
did not call us to deliver sermons. He called us
to deliver people. I'm not decorating prison cells. I'm setting
the captives free. I really like that quote.
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I'm not decorating prison cells, I'm setting the captives free.
For too long and too often the church is just
decorating prison cells, making people feel comfortable in the body
that they're in, instead of striving to set them free.
The spirit of lawlessness that began in the garden of
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Eden exploded during the days of Noah, and it led
the world into a habitual practice of sin. Bible calls
an iniquity moral corruption, wilful disobedience against God. It's a
deeper level of sin. The Hebrew word for iniquity, avon
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av n, signifies twisted or ongoing sin that is deliberate
and rooted in a hardened heart against God's command. It
implies guilt and wrongdoing, twisting away from what is straight
and right, and the Greek the term that is most
closely associated with iniquity is a nomia an m i,
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a referring to lawlessness or opposition to divine law, as
I have fifty nine to two. But your iniquities have
separated you from God, and your sins have hidden his
face from you so that he will not hear you.
Our sins have cut us off from God. And because
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of sin, he turns away, and he doesn't listen. When
Jesus was on the cross, she was on the cross,
he says, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
At that moment he had become sin for us, and
the Father turned away. Sin separates us from God. Sin
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is the greatest tool of the enemy to destroy our
relationship with God. First John three four says, whoever commits
sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. The evil
in the deception that the man of sin embodies, the
the Antichrist embodies, already exists in the world. That's why
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John says there are many Antichrist presently at work. For
John two eighteen, little children, it is the last hour,
and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming
even now many antichrists, small a as opposed to capital
a have come by which we know that this is
the last hour. So anyone who opposes Messiah and his
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church seeks to deceive others into worshiping false gods instead
of worshiping the Lord. And that's what the antichrist does,
that's what the world does. Tewod Corinthians six poin fourteen.
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers, For what
fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness, and what communion has light
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with darkness. Sin is natural to the child of the devil,
who has sinned from the beginning, but it's un natural
to children of God. And we need to take that stand.
It's not a popular topic. People don't really want to
hear it. Well, you need to hear it, because how
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can we be extremely dangerous to an enemy that we
tolerate and support. How can we be effective in warfare
if we consort with the enemy. Isn't that treason against God?
We are called to restrain it sin and restrain the
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enemy through the power of the Holy Spirit. That's why
the Day of Pentecost happened. Second Thessalonians two seven, for
the mystery of lawlessness. The hidden principle of rebellion against
the constituted authority is already at work in the world,
but it is restrained only by he capital age who
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restrains it is taken out of the way. I believe
that he is the Holy Spirit, and I believe as
long as the Church is here, the Spirit will be here.
But when the Church is removed, the Spirit will be removed,
and it'll go back to the way it used to be,
external manifestations of the Spirit to those that God wants
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to speak to, and it'll be temporary. It won't be infeeling. God,
in his wisdom and his love restrain sin in the
world through the power of the Holy Spirit. The Church
cannot exist without the Spirit's presence. So the removal of
the Church will in effect remove all the restraint on
the power of sin in this world. There will be
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nothing and no one to stand against it. But as
long as the Holy Spirit's here, as long as we're here,
we have the power of the Word of God. We
have the sword of the Spirit to be effectively dangerous
against the power hours of darkness. Well you can say, well,
you know that's not me, Richard. I wasn't chosen for
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that we all were. The church is watered down this message.
It's not comfortable, it doesn't fill the offering plate. John
fifteen sixteen. You didn't choose me, I chose you, says
the Lord. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit,
so that the Father will give you whatever you ask
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for using my name. So the name of the Lord,
the name of Yashiahamashiah, the name of Jesus, the Messiah
still has authority and power. So let's go forth in
his name and conqueror let's be conquerors. Let's conquer and
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set the captives free. John A thirty one was said
to those who believed in him, you are truly my
disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. Well, wouldn't
that mean that there are a lot of people out
there claiming to be believers or following Jesus who aren't
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following his teachings. Really aren't his disciples. You are either
faithful to the world or you're faithful to his word.
That's your choice. That was my choice. It didn't seem
to be a hard choice, but I know for many
it seems to be.
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So.
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When we read the Book of Acts, we discover that
the early Church, having understood this, depended upon prayer to
sustain it. Prayer made them extremely dangerous. Prayer made the
Lord dangerous. He went off by himself to pray in
the mornings, prayed at night all throughout the night. The
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church believed the promises of God and asked God for
whatever they needed. Faith made the Book of Acts church dangerous.
It had no fear, only faith in the Lord. And
that's why it shook the world and turned it upside
down Psalm fifty six, verses three and four. Whenever I
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am afraid, I will trust in you, in God, I
will praise his word in God. I will put my trust.
I will not fear what can flesh do to me. Now,
I know that's not easy. I've been in positions to
pray that prayer and believe it, but also understanding it's
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not easy, but it is necessary if we're gonna complete
the task and make it in this world. Isaiah forty
one to ten. Fear not, for I am with you.
Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will
strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. I will uphold
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you with my righteous right hand. So in the midst
of the trouble, he's there with us. He's there to
hold us with his strong right hand, which tells me,
this is going to be trouble. And we know it.
We see it every day. That's why the word we
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get into the word. We read the examples. We see
what they did and how they did it. Their testimony
is in the Word one Peter one, verse six and seven.
In in this you greatly rejoice, even though now for
a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by
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various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith, which
is much more precious than gold, which is perishable, even
though tested and purified by fire, may be found to
result in your praise and glory and honor at the
revelation of Jesus the Messiah. Holy fire judges the quality
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and the integrity of all it touches, And maybe that's
why people don't want to experience it. They don't want
to be in it cause they know that they're not
going to pass the tests. So when we are tested,
we find out how strong our faith is. Believer's Bible
commentary said Peter contrast our faith with gold of all
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the substances known to man. Gold is the most imperishable.
It can be subjected to intense heat, and might even
seem to be indestructible. But the truth is gold perishes
through use, pressure, and fire. True faith is indestructible. The
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believer may undergo severe tests and trials, but instead of
destroying his faith, they have become food for faith to
feed on. Joe probably sustained heavier losses in one day
than any other man in the history of the world.
Yet he was able to say, in Job thirteen fifteen,
though he slaved me, yet I will trust him. The
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three men in the Babylonian furnace were literally tested by fire.
The fire proved their faith to be real, burned away
the ropes that held them, setting them free Daniel chapter three.
And during their flaming ordeal they had companionship in one
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like the Son of God, as he promised he was there.
The genuineness of faith can only be proved by fire.
When prevailing conditions are favorable, it might be easy to
be a believer, but when the public confession in Messiah
brings persecution and suffering, then the casual followers drift away
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and are lost in the crowd. A religion which costs
nothing is worth nothing. Faith which refuses to pay the
price is spurious. It's the kind of say so faith
that James condemns. Peter, the man who denied the Lord
three times. Peter, the man who rashly cut off the
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ear of the servant. Peter, the man who didn't want
to go speak to the believers at Cornelius's house. Peter,
the man who questioned the Lord going to where he
was going, so I'll never leave you, over and over,
Peter questioning the Lord's relationship with John. But when the
fire came and Peter got filled, he became dangerous. On
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the day of Pentecost, after everything he did, after all
the running acts, Chapter two, verse thirty six, he has
stepped out of course, and he has proclaimed to the
crowd what's really going on here? And then he says, there,
let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God
has made this issue of this Jesus whom you crucified,
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both Lord and Messiah. Now when they heard this, they
would cut to the heart and said to Peter and
the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall
we do? The Holy Spirit convicted them Peter's words were
not his own. And Peter said, repent, and let every
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one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus
the Messiah for the remission of sins, and you shall
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise
is to you and your children, and to all who
are afar off. As many as the Lord our God
would call. And with many other words, he testified and
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exhorted them, saying, be saved from this perverse generation. Be
saved from this perverse generation. And those who gladly received
his word were baptized. And that day about three thousand
souls were added to them. And we know they continued
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on with the doctrine of the apostles and fellowship, breaking bread,
praying with them, praising God and having favor with all people.
And the Lord added to the church daily those who
were being saved. So the mission has begun. They become
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an occupying army. They're setting prisoners free. Three thousand people
saved the first day, set free from bondage and capture
one hundred and twenty in the upper room, multiplied to
threey one hundred and twenty and kept going in an
ongoing campaign. Nothing could stop them now persecution, not becoming martyrs,
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not losing everything. That's what the fire of the spirit
inside of us does. But the one thing they didn't
understand because they really hadn't been listening. And I think
the Church has the same problem is the Kingdom of Darkness,
which is a parallel mirror kingdom to the Kingdom of God,
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is doing exactly everything we're doing, but for themselves. So
whatever we do in the Kingdom of God, they invert
its intention and motivation. It's at war as much with
us as we are with it. So the Book of
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Acts created a paradigm shift, and the Upper Room fire
was greeted with the Great Fire of Rome in sixty
four AD. We see parallel things happening throughout the history
of the Church by side tracks. One of the Kingdom
of God, one of the Kingdom of Darkness, revival fire
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is met by the fires of persecution, back and forth,
it goes on and on. The Great Commission becomes dangerous
to the Kingdom of Darkness, and it should be we
should be extremely dangerous to the God of this world
and has fallen angels in their demonic offspring. But the
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enemy does not relent it won't submit. So each move
of the Kingdom of God is countered, not equally, but
countered by a move of Satan, back and forth, back
and forth. So in the midst of that, in the
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midst of that, we seek a final revival, renewal of
the upper room fire. We want that, We see it
happening all over the world. We pray for it. But
what most don't anticipate is the reactionary response of the enemy.
He's got to profane fire, and they overlap, sometimes back
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to back. Sometimes they take time to manifest. So ignorance
is not an excuse. It's not an excuse from spiritual warfare.
Obsession isn't either. We have to understand why we do
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what we do. We must have a clear, steady mind
and a calm heart. And so during times of extreme danger,
that shift, that activity that drives us and the enemy
responds to the Kingdom of God suffers violence, and the
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violence take it by force. So as the Kingdom increases,
the enemy's effort to stop it increases. It becomes a
reactionary time. We're living in a reactionary time. The harder
we push, the harder they push back. Newton's law of
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physics says for every action, there is an equal and
opposite reaction. Force begets force. Interaction is inevitable. No one
is exempt. Nothing in the universe is exempt from this.
Action will always equal reaction. One of the things I
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think makes us our tea so effective. As we plan
for the reaction, we become proactive against what the response
will be. We are ready for that response. So if
that's the case, then we, as His Church, as His
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sons and his daughters, we need to become extremely dangerous
to the enemy. We need to decide we're going to
take a stand, even if that means it means getting
on our knees. We need to stop being spectators, stop
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being victims, and become gate kickers, because the gates of
Hades shall not prevail against His Church. Another thing Ruyter
Bank said, we need the Great Commission and we have
the Holy Spirit. If we only have the Great Commission
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and only the Spirit, we have power without purpose or
purpose without power. It's a package deal. We need this
package deal now to reignite the passionate relationship the Book
of Acts Church had with the Lord. We don't need
more showy entertainment services. We need to show up for
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a lost and dying world. We're not decorating their prison cells.
We're opening the doors and setting the captives free. And
the only way to do that is not through complacency,
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not through casual spirituality. We have to make a conscious
choice to become extremely dangerous to the enemy and all
of its efforts. Will there be a response, absolutely, I
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just explained that to you. Will there be retaliation more
than likely. But if you're proactive in your prayers and
prepared for it, you're better suited to handle it. They're
going to act against you anyway. We live in a
fallen world. You're marked by the blood. They know you
belong to the lord, your fair game. That's what predators do.
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They see. They see the pack go by, and they
look and see who the strong ones will ignore them.
We won't attack them. We're the old and the young
and the sick sickly. We'll attack the weak ones. We'll
take the easier ones, which is why in wolf packs
you have a leader in the front and a leader
in the back. Yeah. I wish there was a way
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to just only preach or teach nice, soft, soothing message.
That's not the world we live in. At the moment,
then it's only going to get worse. First John three eight,
He who sins is of the devil, For the devil
has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son
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of God was manifested that he might destroy the works
of the devil. The Matthew Henry commentary says, the devil
has designed and endeavored to ruin the work of God
in this world. The Son of God has undertaken the
holy war against him. He came into our world. It
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was manifested in our flesh that he might conquer him
and dissolve his works. Sin. Will he loosen and dissolve
more and more till he has quite destroyed it. Let
us not serve anything or indulge what the Son of
God came to destroy. That's powerful. Let me say that again.
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Let us not serve or indulge what the Son of
God came to destroy the spirit of lawlessness has led
the world into an habitual practice of sin. Sin is
natural to the children of the devil, who has sinned
from the beginning, but unnatural to the child of God.
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So how how how can we be extremely dangerous to
an enemy that we tolerate and support. Do you want
a natural example of that. For whatever reason, I don't
know why the United States government is sending millions of
dollars every month to the terrorist group as Bellah, because
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there's some deal that was cut. I don't know. You know,
when we left Afghanistan, we left billions of weapons and armors,
armoured tanks and missiles and drones and guns. We left
them all behind. So basically we fund and supply our enemies.
That makes absolutely no sense, and yet the Church does
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that in the world with the enemy, the thief, that's
what we're dealing with. We're dealing with a thief. John ten,
starting verse seven, most assuredly, I say to you, I
am the door of the sheep. All whoever came before
me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not
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hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me,
he will be saved and will go in and out
and find pasture. The thief does not come except to
steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come
that they may have life, and they may have it
more abundantly. Who's the thief. The thief is Satan, it's
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the enemy. It's all those in the Kingdom of darkness
s thet onley come in order to steal, kill and
destroy you. Sure came that they could have and enjoy
life in abundance to its full till it overflows. The
Book of Acts Church, the one I set forth as
the example. They knew. They knew that in Him we
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live and move and have our being, that we are
His offspring at seventeen twenty eight. So if in Him
we live and move and have our being, the natural
life which man lives is from God, and they are
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supported in it by Him, and from him they have
all the comforts and the blessings of life. And all motions,
whether internal or external, body or mind, are of God.
None of them are the direction of His providence. They're
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not without the strength of His assistance. There should never
be sin involved in it. There should be no place
for the enemy in it, because each and every day
we should be growing, going and growing in the power
and the providence of God. It's a struggle. It takes effort.
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That's what the Holy Spirit's there to do with you.
When we become born again, we transcend the generic nature
of the world and become very specific to the Kingdom
of God. We are in this world. But we are
not of this world, and he offers a dynamic, explosive, energetic,
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supernatural life to his body through the infilling of the
Holy Spirit. Shouldn't that make us dangerous to the enemy?
It should, so why aren't we? One of the things
that made the Book of Acts Search extremely dangerous was
they followed a basic pattern of waiting on the Lord.
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You know, rash emotional decisions. They waited on the Lord.
That's why I told them that Darian the city of Jerusalem,
until you are endued with power from on high. They
were going to need it. Acx one A. You shall
receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and
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you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all
Judea and Samaria, to the end of the earth. Holy
Spirit comes upon you, marks you, fills you, propels you
out into the world. So in the Upper Room they
came together in unity of purpose, mind and spirit. That's
a pattern dead Pentecost had fully come. They were all
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with one accord in one place. What happened a manifestation
and a dispensation of the Holy Spirit. With the external evidence,
they suddenly came from heaven, a rushing, mighty wind the
sound from heaven. A rushing, mighty wind filled the whole
house where they were sitting, and then there appeared to
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them divided tongues as of fire, and once sat upon
each of them, they were filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit
gave them utterance x two two through four. So now
they have utterance. What happens. They've been given the boldness
to speak. Acts two fourteen. That's where Peter gets that
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boldness to stand up, men of Judea and all who
dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and
heed my words. Later on Acts four, Lord, look upon
their threats. They've been and Peter and John have been
in prison. They come back with the crowd, tell them
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everything that's happened, and they begin to pray. They cry out,
they wanted more, more power, more presence of the Holy Spirit.
What happened, They were filled with the spirit, and where
they were staying was shaken, and they spoke the word
of God with boldness, not fear, not hesitation, boldness. And
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the other thing that happened is conviction of sin. We
already heard in Acts chapter two, Peter has the boldness
to stand up in front of this massive crowd and
tell them, hey, you killed the Messiah. And when they say,
what shall we do? Repent and be saved from this
perverse generation which does what leads to repentance, leads to conversion,
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leads to baptism, leads to change, and they gladly received
Peter's word. I see preachers and teachers saying good things,
but not God things, saying things that don't have the
Holy Spirit on them, that aren't causing change. They're stimulating thought,
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they're informing, they're increasing wisdom and intellect, but they're not
changing lives. All we are called to do is change lives.
Whether you have a PhD or behind your name or
an RIV in front of it is irrelevant. It's about
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getting people saved, healed and delivered, born again, making them disciples,
walking with them, teaching them, struggling with them. And the
one thing that jumps out in next chapter two Holy
the Day of Pentecost had fully come. You see, right away,
the Holy Spirit had something to say, and he wasn't
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going to wait to say it. So he filled them
with the fire and gave them the ability to speak
in new tongues. Because they were going to go out
into the world and they were going to have to
have those tongues, both natural and supernatural. I can tell
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you I've witnessed both. I've seen how the Holy Spirit
can use somebody to speak in the language of somebody's
there that they don't know that language, and the people
receive it, get saved or get healed. I've seen and
used my prayer language, my heavenly language against the enemy.
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The Spirit has got something to say, going to let
him say it, or we're going to hold him back.
We can tell him sit down and be quiet. We
have other things to do today. We need to get
out of here by noon. Oh I can't do that.
People will hate me, people will reject me. I won't
get invited to their parties anymore. You know, Holy Spirit
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had worked with mankind before the creation, through the Old Testament,
profits in the even in the ministry of Yeshua. But
after the Day of Pentecost, the Spirit would dwell in
people and not just come on them, and he would
do it permanently, not temporarily, because it was going to
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be necessary for us to have it until he came back,
or until we were out of here. To do everything
that had to be done. The Spirit dwells in us
and will be with us. John fourteen sixteen through seventeen hour.
Pray the Father, and he will give you another helper
that he may abide with you forever. The Spirit of
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Truth from the world cannot receive because it neither sees
him nor knows him. But you know him, and he
will dwell with you and be in you. If you
don't have this, if you don't experience this, first of all,
maybe you've been told that that's not available anymore. Maybe
you've come from that background. I will tell you what
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I've always told anybody who I've encountered like that. Open
your Bible. First of all, show me where it says that.
Second of all, ask the Lord. Ask the Lord who's right. Lord.
If Richard's right, I want this. If he's not, I
want the words and the scripture to see. Ask him
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to show you the truth. The Spirit of Truth will
do that, and then whatever happens you have to accept.
If the Spirit reveals himself to you, then you have
been given all the evidence you need. What you do
with it then is up to you. You know, in
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the day of Pentecost, which also is when God gave
his law in Mount Sinai, he did it dramatically, accompanied
with thundering and lightnings, and he wrote the law on
tablets of stone. On the day of Pentecost in Jerusalem,
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that day God sent down his Holy Spirit dramatically like
a rushing mighty wind, tongues of fire, sitting upon each disciple,
everybody in that room, exerting, imprinting his influence. The new
law of light and life that would be promoted by
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them would be established by them. And instead of writing
the word on tablets of stone, he wrote them on
their heart, just like he said he would. It was
always his desire. You look at Leviticus twenty six eleven
and twelve. I will set my tabernacle among you, and boy,
it's a glorious, beautiful structure and very dramatic and inspiring.
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But he says, I will set my tabernacle among you,
and my soul shall not abhor you. I will walk
among you and be your God, and you shall be
my people. But now we hold that spirit, we are
the ones instead of the tabernacle of God. Two Corinthians sixth,
starting verse sixteen. What agreement has the temple of God
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with idols, for you are the temple of the Living God.
As God has said, I will dwell in them and
walk among them. I will be their God, and they
shall be my people. Therefore, come out from among them,
be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean,
and I will receive you. I will be a father
to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters,
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says the Lord Almighty. So the purpose of Pentecost was
to initiate the final phase of warfare that began on Calvary,
the restoration of mankind. And I sincerely believed had the
Church never sat down, never let up, had kept their
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foot on the gas pedal, we'd be a lot further
along than we are right now. But to do everything
I just said, we need help. Every day I pray Lord,
and I remind him of what he's told me he
wants me to do for him. I can't do that
without you, Lord, I can't do it without your power,
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can't do it without your provision. And he's chosen to
help us. He chosen to help us help him. Isn't
that amazing? He gives us an assignment and then he
helps us complete it. Powerful dynamic presence of the Holy
Spirit through that fire. It's the fuel. It drives us,
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that upper room fire which hits us in prayer and
hits us in praise. It's a personal one. It can
be applied corporately and individually. It helps us, through the
work of the Kingdom, to do what destroy the work
of the devil, which is what set them free of
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their sins. The Blood did that. He does it. We
just deliver the edict, we enforce it, and the ammunition
is prayer and praise and the power of the Holy Spirit.
We can't do this alone. We can't do it without him.
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He's given us the power, has poured it out upon us.
He has set things in motion. There's a movement. That's
the other thing that the enemy got the Church to
do was sit down, made us comfortable, began to entertain us.
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Then we went to sleep. We need to get back
in action. We need to have a reaction to what
the enemy is doing right now in the world, to
our sons and to our daughters, to our homes, to
our families, in the world around us, in our town,
our society. We need to pray more. The power of
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prayer in the Book of acts. Church was substantial. It
was beyond anything that we could think or imagine. So,
like I said, we're in a fight to the finish.
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We're enduring to the end. Our hearts need to get right,
our thoughts need to get right. You know the thing
about prayer, We talk about faith a lot more than
we do prayer. In the Bible, it devotes five hundred
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verses on prayer, and there's less than five hundred verses
on faith. The people that were movers and shakers, that
are movers and shakers are people of prayer. They follow
the Lord's example, They follow the enemy, what the enemy's doing,
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and they respond accordingly in prayer. They get on their knees.
They don't allow themselves to be just and ask that
the big thing right now going on all around me
in society is the power of deception. If I were
to ask you this question, and I'm going to, but
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what your answer is going to be really important. Are
you expectantly watching for him? Are you expectantly watching for
the return of the king? Either eighty snatch you out
of here, and if you don't believe in that to
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come back the second time, is it on your mind?
Do you pray Marinatha, Come Lord Jesus. He shows us
some prophecy, He gives us dreams and vision. He tells
us what he intends to do, and we should live
a life and shape our life in accordance with that.
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What will it take to wake us? You know, he
warned Matthew twenty four, verses thirty seven thirty nine. But
as it was in the days of Noah, so shall
it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
So many theories about what the days of Noah were, Well,
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the Bible tells us it was a time of sin,
time of debauchery, a time so bad that his only
solution was to wipe them all out and cleanse the world.
We go deeper into the studies and the various other
sources out there, we find out it was a time
of demonic presence on the earth, fallen angels creating mutations
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that we call the Nephilim. Now, whether you believe in
any of that or not as irrelevant. But it was
a time so evil, so awful, that his only solution
was to wipe out every but eight people and start over.
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Don't be troubled, don't be afraid. Trust in his word.
Look for his return. I believe we are the last generation.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
Now.
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Whether that's the case or not, whether that began when
Israel became a nation, and whatever it is, it's very controversial.
I'll just call it that. But what I see in
the spirit, what I see in society indicates to me
we are closer now than we ever ever have been before.
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So the question becomes, will we react, will we respond
to this ongoing battle between good and evil? Doing it
in the power of the Holy Spirit, living out the
authority and the victory and Jeesus, you know, we can
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sing the song victory in Jesus. We can sing all
these songs, and they're great songs, and they have great lyrics,
and they have great spirit behind them. But are we
going to live them? Are we going to do them?
The Book of Acts Church, they didn't have our resources,
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They didn't have all the books, they didn't have all
the stuff that we used today for religious business. These
were not, you know, ordained men by the world. They
were ordained by the Lord. They were filled with the spirit,
but they were not respected in their day. They didn't
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have the funds, they didn't have all the things that
we have access to, and we're doing less than they were.
We worship, we pray, we have faith, we share the Gospel.
We destroy the work of the enemy. We become like them.
We rely upon the power of the Holy Spirit. We
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come together in unity, We come together in agreement. We
pray for one another, we cover one another, and we
set about each day with the attitude. Lord, use me.
I want to be extremely dangerous today. Help me to
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push back against the spiritual complacency and pursue the mission
of setting the captives free. If you join with me
in that prayer, you'll not only see your life change,
you'll see the lives around you begin to change. You'll
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become contagious to them. They'll get inspired, or they might
come under conviction, and then you can help them with
that as well. I don't know how else to put this.
We're not decorating prison cells with setting people free. You're
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no different than anyone else. You're you, and He's in you,
and you have access to his name. Therefore you can
do mighty things, greater things than he did, because he's
sitting at the right hand of the Father. Lord. I
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don't I we want to be extremely dangerous to the
Kingdom of darkness. We want want to be living out
the Great Commission. We have family members that, if something
doesn't change, will spend eternity separated from you and eventually
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in a lake of fire. We have people that we
care about, friends, co workers that don't know you. We
have people that say they know you, but it's obvious
that they don't. They had a religious experience. Touch us
right now, Touch our lips, touch our heart, our mind,
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our eyes, our ears. Help us to love them the unlovable.
Give us the words to say and the words to pray.
And Lord, I pray that this passion, this fervor, and
this desire fills the heart of every listener. Take away
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all their doubts and their fears, take away all the
self consciousness that keeps them from risking. Give them the
courage just to tell one person about you, to just
lead one person to you, rescuing one at a time,
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one at a time, one at a time, and each
person doing the same and replicating the same. So many wounded, herded, dying,
bound up people out there that are waiting for someone
to tell them the truth about Jesus of Nazareth, about
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your shoe. Help us to do that. Fill us, fill
us with the fire like we have never felt before.
And let us please, sincerely, I pray shake this world
one last time before you return. And I pray all
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these things in your Shoea's name. Now, if you agree
with me and you say amen, then you are committing
to this. So if you agree with me, say a man.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the
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Lord make his face to shine upon you and be
gracious to you. May the Lord, may I don't know you,
su A Hamasiah, Jesus the Messiah, lift up his countenance
upon you and give you peace. Give you shall own.
I'm Richard Grund. This has been the Porch on Firefall
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I'm Richard Grund. This is where you will find the
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the priesthood of the believer while regaining the world shaking
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The Upper Room experience is as much for today as
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would have to the Jewish and gentile believers of their day,
using both Yeshua and Jesus. When speaking of the Lord,
we prefer the term Messiah rather than Christ, as it
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the porch. Contact us if you need prayer. We'd like
to pray for you because we care about you. Starting out, praise,
I'll praise them for my salvation. I praise them for
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my home, my wife, my sons, daughter in law's grandchildren,
furry kids, everything I have, For His provision and his protection.
For the dreams and the visions that were prophesied in
Joel to twenty eight. They're there if you want them.
I praise them for his divine health and healing, for
his abiding favor, for the continuing revelation by the Holy
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Spirit and for making me a new creation and allowing
me to live in these prophetic times and work in
the family business. Let's pray so I'm one twenty two
verse six. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and they
prosper who love you. I pray for Israel. I pray
for my Jewish brothers and sisters, especially now with everything
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going on in the world. I do so out of
love and concern, but also because the Word tells me to.
I pray for the people in Iran who want to
be free and out from under a repressive regime, and
it seems like outside of Israel, in the US, no
one seems to care. So I pray for those people.
I pray for the soldiers that are fighting to take
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down this evil leadership, that God's will would be done.
I pray for the fatherless, the widows, the persecuted, and
the martyrd the innocence and those who are victims of injustice.
I pray against the slaughter of the innocence, for missing
and exploited children, victims of human sex trafficking. It goes
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on every day, and I pray for them. I pray
for our brothers and sisters around the world that we're
being persecuted for their faith, being slaughtered, having their homes
and their places of worship destroyed. Pray against the growing
religious persecution and anti Semitism which seems to have taken
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over society, which means I pray against the plans and
the effort of the spirit of the Antichrist, who is
behind all of this. I pray for divine wholeness, health
and healing in me and you and all those who
need it, for his protection and his inspiration for the
remnant to wake up and answer the call to do
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what must be done in this hour. I pray for
the open doors, for all the projects and plans that
He's given and the finances to do them. So, Father Abbah, Papa,
we come to you in the name of above all names,
you sure Jesus, your Son. We thank you for loving us.
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We thank you for rescuing us. We thank you for
continuing to take care of us. Lord. Thank you for
the Cross, the empty tomb, the Upper Room, for everything
you've done and everything that you're doing. For sending back
the Holy Spirit to walk with us, teach us, guide us,
inspire us. It's Holy Spirit. That's all we'd like today,
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we'd like revelation knowledge. We'd like to open our hearts
and our minds to you to hear what you have
to say this day on the porch, and I pray
all these things and your shoe his name, Amen.
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registered date of the following information. So the battle that
we see every day begin in Genesis, and it will
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end in revelation, beginning and end and everything in between
until the war ends at the Second Coming. We're right
in the middle of it. The ultimate victory belongs to God,
but we, as believers born again believers, must actively participate
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in the battle for souls, relying on spiritual not worldly means.
The weapons of our warfare are not Carnival the Mighty
through God for pulling down strongholds everything that would exalt
itself above the knowledge of God. So we worship, we
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share the Gospel, and we do it with persistent faith.
All of those are forms of warfare, and we do
it with the assurance that Messiah's presence, his authority, and
his victory empowers the church to fulfill its mission till
his return. We are in a fight to the finish.
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That's what we talked about recently. Reinard Bonki said, Jesus
did not call us to deliver sermons. He called us
to deliver people. I'm not decorating prison cells. I'm setting
the captives free. I really like that quote.
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I'm not decorating prison cells, I'm setting the captives free.
For too long and too often the church is just
decorating prison cells, making people feel comfortable in the body
that they're in, instead of striving to set them free.
The spirit of lawlessness that began in the garden of
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Eden exploded during the days of Noah, and it led
the world into a habitual practice of sin. Bible calls
an iniquity moral corruption, wilful disobedience against God. It's a
deeper level of sin. The Hebrew word for iniquity, avon
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av n, signifies twisted or ongoing sin that is deliberate
and rooted in a hardened heart against God's command. It
implies guilt and wrongdoing, twisting away from what is straight
and right, and the Greek the term that is most
closely associated with iniquity is a nomia an m i,
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a referring to lawlessness or opposition to divine law, as
I have fifty nine to two. But your iniquities have
separated you from God, and your sins have hidden his
face from you so that he will not hear you.
Our sins have cut us off from God. And because
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of sin, he turns away, and he doesn't listen. When
Jesus was on the cross, she was on the cross,
he says, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
At that moment he had become sin for us, and
the Father turned away. Sin separates us from God. Sin
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is the greatest tool of the enemy to destroy our
relationship with God. First John three four says, whoever commits
sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. The evil
in the deception that the man of sin embodies, the
the Antichrist embodies, already exists in the world. That's why
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John says there are many Antichrist presently at work. For
John two eighteen, little children, it is the last hour,
and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming
even now many antichrists, small a as opposed to capital
a have come by which we know that this is
the last hour. So anyone who opposes Messiah and his
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church seeks to deceive others into worshiping false gods instead
of worshiping the Lord. And that's what the antichrist does,
that's what the world does. Tewod Corinthians six poin fourteen.
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers, For what
fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness, and what communion has light
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with darkness. Sin is natural to the child of the devil,
who has sinned from the beginning, but it's un natural
to children of God. And we need to take that stand.
It's not a popular topic. People don't really want to
hear it. Well, you need to hear it, because how
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can we be extremely dangerous to an enemy that we
tolerate and support. How can we be effective in warfare
if we consort with the enemy. Isn't that treason against God?
We are called to restrain it sin and restrain the
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enemy through the power of the Holy Spirit. That's why
the Day of Pentecost happened. Second Thessalonians two seven, for
the mystery of lawlessness. The hidden principle of rebellion against
the constituted authority is already at work in the world,
but it is restrained only by he capital age who
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restrains it is taken out of the way. I believe
that he is the Holy Spirit, and I believe as
long as the Church is here, the Spirit will be here.
But when the Church is removed, the Spirit will be removed,
and it'll go back to the way it used to be,
external manifestations of the Spirit to those that God wants
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to speak to, and it'll be temporary. It won't be infeeling. God,
in his wisdom and his love restrain sin in the
world through the power of the Holy Spirit. The Church
cannot exist without the Spirit's presence. So the removal of
the Church will in effect remove all the restraint on
the power of sin in this world. There will be
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nothing and no one to stand against it. But as
long as the Holy Spirit's here, as long as we're here,
we have the power of the Word of God. We
have the sword of the Spirit to be effectively dangerous
against the power hours of darkness. Well you can say, well,
you know that's not me, Richard. I wasn't chosen for
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that we all were. The church is watered down this message.
It's not comfortable, it doesn't fill the offering plate. John
fifteen sixteen. You didn't choose me, I chose you, says
the Lord. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit,
so that the Father will give you whatever you ask
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for using my name. So the name of the Lord,
the name of Yashiahamashiah, the name of Jesus, the Messiah
still has authority and power. So let's go forth in
his name and conqueror let's be conquerors. Let's conquer and
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set the captives free. John A thirty one was said
to those who believed in him, you are truly my
disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. Well, wouldn't
that mean that there are a lot of people out
there claiming to be believers or following Jesus who aren't
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following his teachings. Really aren't his disciples. You are either
faithful to the world or you're faithful to his word.
That's your choice. That was my choice. It didn't seem
to be a hard choice, but I know for many
it seems to be.
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So.
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When we read the Book of Acts, we discover that
the early Church, having understood this, depended upon prayer to
sustain it. Prayer made them extremely dangerous. Prayer made the
Lord dangerous. He went off by himself to pray in
the mornings, prayed at night all throughout the night. The
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church believed the promises of God and asked God for
whatever they needed. Faith made the Book of Acts church dangerous.
It had no fear, only faith in the Lord. And
that's why it shook the world and turned it upside
down Psalm fifty six, verses three and four. Whenever I
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am afraid, I will trust in you, in God, I
will praise his word in God. I will put my trust.
I will not fear what can flesh do to me. Now,
I know that's not easy. I've been in positions to
pray that prayer and believe it, but also understanding it's
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not easy, but it is necessary if we're gonna complete
the task and make it in this world. Isaiah forty
one to ten. Fear not, for I am with you.
Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will
strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. I will uphold
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you with my righteous right hand. So in the midst
of the trouble, he's there with us. He's there to
hold us with his strong right hand, which tells me,
this is going to be trouble. And we know it.
We see it every day. That's why the word we
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get into the word. We read the examples. We see
what they did and how they did it. Their testimony
is in the Word one Peter one, verse six and seven.
In in this you greatly rejoice, even though now for
a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by
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various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith, which
is much more precious than gold, which is perishable, even
though tested and purified by fire, may be found to
result in your praise and glory and honor at the
revelation of Jesus the Messiah. Holy fire judges the quality
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and the integrity of all it touches, And maybe that's
why people don't want to experience it. They don't want
to be in it cause they know that they're not
going to pass the tests. So when we are tested,
we find out how strong our faith is. Believer's Bible
commentary said Peter contrast our faith with gold of all
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the substances known to man. Gold is the most imperishable.
It can be subjected to intense heat, and might even
seem to be indestructible. But the truth is gold perishes
through use, pressure, and fire. True faith is indestructible. The
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believer may undergo severe tests and trials, but instead of
destroying his faith, they have become food for faith to
feed on. Joe probably sustained heavier losses in one day
than any other man in the history of the world.
Yet he was able to say, in Job thirteen fifteen,
though he slaved me, yet I will trust him. The
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three men in the Babylonian furnace were literally tested by fire.
The fire proved their faith to be real, burned away
the ropes that held them, setting them free Daniel chapter three.
And during their flaming ordeal they had companionship in one
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like the Son of God, as he promised he was there.
The genuineness of faith can only be proved by fire.
When prevailing conditions are favorable, it might be easy to
be a believer, but when the public confession in Messiah
brings persecution and suffering, then the casual followers drift away
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and are lost in the crowd. A religion which costs
nothing is worth nothing. Faith which refuses to pay the
price is spurious. It's the kind of say so faith
that James condemns. Peter, the man who denied the Lord
three times. Peter, the man who rashly cut off the
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ear of the servant. Peter, the man who didn't want
to go speak to the believers at Cornelius's house. Peter,
the man who questioned the Lord going to where he
was going, so I'll never leave you, over and over,
Peter questioning the Lord's relationship with John. But when the
fire came and Peter got filled, he became dangerous. On
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the day of Pentecost, after everything he did, after all
the running acts, Chapter two, verse thirty six, he has
stepped out of course, and he has proclaimed to the
crowd what's really going on here? And then he says, there,
let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God
has made this issue of this Jesus whom you crucified,
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both Lord and Messiah. Now when they heard this, they
would cut to the heart and said to Peter and
the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall
we do? The Holy Spirit convicted them Peter's words were
not his own. And Peter said, repent, and let every
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one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus
the Messiah for the remission of sins, and you shall
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise
is to you and your children, and to all who
are afar off. As many as the Lord our God
would call. And with many other words, he testified and
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exhorted them, saying, be saved from this perverse generation. Be
saved from this perverse generation. And those who gladly received
his word were baptized. And that day about three thousand
souls were added to them. And we know they continued
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on with the doctrine of the apostles and fellowship, breaking bread,
praying with them, praising God and having favor with all people.
And the Lord added to the church daily those who
were being saved. So the mission has begun. They become
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an occupying army. They're setting prisoners free. Three thousand people
saved the first day, set free from bondage and capture
one hundred and twenty in the upper room, multiplied to
threey one hundred and twenty and kept going in an
ongoing campaign. Nothing could stop them now persecution, not becoming martyrs,
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not losing everything. That's what the fire of the spirit
inside of us does. But the one thing they didn't
understand because they really hadn't been listening. And I think
the Church has the same problem is the Kingdom of Darkness,
which is a parallel mirror kingdom to the Kingdom of God,
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is doing exactly everything we're doing, but for themselves. So
whatever we do in the Kingdom of God, they invert
its intention and motivation. It's at war as much with
us as we are with it. So the Book of
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Acts created a paradigm shift, and the Upper Room fire
was greeted with the Great Fire of Rome in sixty
four AD. We see parallel things happening throughout the history
of the Church by side tracks. One of the Kingdom
of God, one of the Kingdom of Darkness, revival fire
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is met by the fires of persecution, back and forth,
it goes on and on. The Great Commission becomes dangerous
to the Kingdom of Darkness, and it should be we
should be extremely dangerous to the God of this world
and has fallen angels in their demonic offspring. But the
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enemy does not relent it won't submit. So each move
of the Kingdom of God is countered, not equally, but
countered by a move of Satan, back and forth, back
and forth. So in the midst of that, in the
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midst of that, we seek a final revival, renewal of
the upper room fire. We want that, We see it
happening all over the world. We pray for it. But
what most don't anticipate is the reactionary response of the enemy.
He's got to profane fire, and they overlap, sometimes back
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to back. Sometimes they take time to manifest. So ignorance
is not an excuse. It's not an excuse from spiritual warfare.
Obsession isn't either. We have to understand why we do
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what we do. We must have a clear, steady mind
and a calm heart. And so during times of extreme danger,
that shift, that activity that drives us and the enemy
responds to the Kingdom of God suffers violence, and the
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violence take it by force. So as the Kingdom increases,
the enemy's effort to stop it increases. It becomes a
reactionary time. We're living in a reactionary time. The harder
we push, the harder they push back. Newton's law of
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physics says for every action, there is an equal and
opposite reaction. Force begets force. Interaction is inevitable. No one
is exempt. Nothing in the universe is exempt from this.
Action will always equal reaction. One of the things I
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think makes us our tea so effective. As we plan
for the reaction, we become proactive against what the response
will be. We are ready for that response. So if
that's the case, then we, as His Church, as His
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sons and his daughters, we need to become extremely dangerous
to the enemy. We need to decide we're going to
take a stand, even if that means it means getting
on our knees. We need to stop being spectators, stop
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being victims, and become gate kickers, because the gates of
Hades shall not prevail against His Church. Another thing Ruyter
Bank said, we need the Great Commission and we have
the Holy Spirit. If we only have the Great Commission
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and only the Spirit, we have power without purpose or
purpose without power. It's a package deal. We need this
package deal now to reignite the passionate relationship the Book
of Acts Church had with the Lord. We don't need
more showy entertainment services. We need to show up for
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a lost and dying world. We're not decorating their prison cells.
We're opening the doors and setting the captives free. And
the only way to do that is not through complacency,
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not through casual spirituality. We have to make a conscious
choice to become extremely dangerous to the enemy and all
of its efforts. Will there be a response, absolutely, I
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just explained that to you. Will there be retaliation more
than likely. But if you're proactive in your prayers and
prepared for it, you're better suited to handle it. They're
going to act against you anyway. We live in a
fallen world. You're marked by the blood. They know you
belong to the lord, your fair game. That's what predators do.
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They see. They see the pack go by, and they
look and see who the strong ones will ignore them.
We won't attack them. We're the old and the young
and the sick sickly. We'll attack the weak ones. We'll
take the easier ones, which is why in wolf packs
you have a leader in the front and a leader
in the back. Yeah. I wish there was a way
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to just only preach or teach nice, soft, soothing message.
That's not the world we live in. At the moment,
then it's only going to get worse. First John three eight,
He who sins is of the devil, For the devil
has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son
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of God was manifested that he might destroy the works
of the devil. The Matthew Henry commentary says, the devil
has designed and endeavored to ruin the work of God
in this world. The Son of God has undertaken the
holy war against him. He came into our world. It
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was manifested in our flesh that he might conquer him
and dissolve his works. Sin. Will he loosen and dissolve
more and more till he has quite destroyed it. Let
us not serve anything or indulge what the Son of
God came to destroy. That's powerful. Let me say that again.
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Let us not serve or indulge what the Son of
God came to destroy the spirit of lawlessness has led
the world into an habitual practice of sin. Sin is
natural to the children of the devil, who has sinned
from the beginning, but unnatural to the child of God.
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So how how how can we be extremely dangerous to
an enemy that we tolerate and support. Do you want
a natural example of that. For whatever reason, I don't
know why the United States government is sending millions of
dollars every month to the terrorist group as Bellah, because
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there's some deal that was cut. I don't know. You know,
when we left Afghanistan, we left billions of weapons and armors,
armoured tanks and missiles and drones and guns. We left
them all behind. So basically we fund and supply our enemies.
That makes absolutely no sense, and yet the Church does
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that in the world with the enemy, the thief, that's
what we're dealing with. We're dealing with a thief. John ten,
starting verse seven, most assuredly, I say to you, I
am the door of the sheep. All whoever came before
me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not
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hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me,
he will be saved and will go in and out
and find pasture. The thief does not come except to
steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come
that they may have life, and they may have it
more abundantly. Who's the thief. The thief is Satan, it's
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the enemy. It's all those in the Kingdom of darkness
s thet onley come in order to steal, kill and
destroy you. Sure came that they could have and enjoy
life in abundance to its full till it overflows. The
Book of Acts Church, the one I set forth as
the example. They knew. They knew that in Him we
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live and move and have our being, that we are
His offspring at seventeen twenty eight. So if in Him
we live and move and have our being, the natural
life which man lives is from God, and they are
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supported in it by Him, and from him they have
all the comforts and the blessings of life. And all motions,
whether internal or external, body or mind, are of God.
None of them are the direction of His providence. They're
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not without the strength of His assistance. There should never
be sin involved in it. There should be no place
for the enemy in it, because each and every day
we should be growing, going and growing in the power
and the providence of God. It's a struggle. It takes effort.
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That's what the Holy Spirit's there to do with you.
When we become born again, we transcend the generic nature
of the world and become very specific to the Kingdom
of God. We are in this world. But we are
not of this world, and he offers a dynamic, explosive, energetic,
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supernatural life to his body through the infilling of the
Holy Spirit. Shouldn't that make us dangerous to the enemy?
It should, so why aren't we? One of the things
that made the Book of Acts Search extremely dangerous was
they followed a basic pattern of waiting on the Lord.
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You know, rash emotional decisions. They waited on the Lord.
That's why I told them that Darian the city of Jerusalem,
until you are endued with power from on high. They
were going to need it. Acx one A. You shall
receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and
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you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all
Judea and Samaria, to the end of the earth. Holy
Spirit comes upon you, marks you, fills you, propels you
out into the world. So in the Upper Room they
came together in unity of purpose, mind and spirit. That's
a pattern dead Pentecost had fully come. They were all
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with one accord in one place. What happened a manifestation
and a dispensation of the Holy Spirit. With the external evidence,
they suddenly came from heaven, a rushing, mighty wind the
sound from heaven. A rushing, mighty wind filled the whole
house where they were sitting, and then there appeared to
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them divided tongues as of fire, and once sat upon
each of them, they were filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit
gave them utterance x two two through four. So now
they have utterance. What happens. They've been given the boldness
to speak. Acts two fourteen. That's where Peter gets that
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boldness to stand up, men of Judea and all who
dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and
heed my words. Later on Acts four, Lord, look upon
their threats. They've been and Peter and John have been
in prison. They come back with the crowd, tell them
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everything that's happened, and they begin to pray. They cry out,
they wanted more, more power, more presence of the Holy Spirit.
What happened, They were filled with the spirit, and where
they were staying was shaken, and they spoke the word
of God with boldness, not fear, not hesitation, boldness. And
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the other thing that happened is conviction of sin. We
already heard in Acts chapter two, Peter has the boldness
to stand up in front of this massive crowd and
tell them, hey, you killed the Messiah. And when they say,
what shall we do? Repent and be saved from this
perverse generation which does what leads to repentance, leads to conversion,
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leads to baptism, leads to change, and they gladly received
Peter's word. I see preachers and teachers saying good things,
but not God things, saying things that don't have the
Holy Spirit on them, that aren't causing change. They're stimulating thought,
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they're informing, they're increasing wisdom and intellect, but they're not
changing lives. All we are called to do is change lives.
Whether you have a PhD or behind your name or
an RIV in front of it is irrelevant. It's about
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getting people saved, healed and delivered, born again, making them disciples,
walking with them, teaching them, struggling with them. And the
one thing that jumps out in next chapter two Holy
the Day of Pentecost had fully come. You see, right away,
the Holy Spirit had something to say, and he wasn't
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going to wait to say it. So he filled them
with the fire and gave them the ability to speak
in new tongues. Because they were going to go out
into the world and they were going to have to
have those tongues, both natural and supernatural. I can tell
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you I've witnessed both. I've seen how the Holy Spirit
can use somebody to speak in the language of somebody's
there that they don't know that language, and the people
receive it, get saved or get healed. I've seen and
used my prayer language, my heavenly language against the enemy.
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The Spirit has got something to say, going to let
him say it, or we're going to hold him back.
We can tell him sit down and be quiet. We
have other things to do today. We need to get
out of here by noon. Oh I can't do that.
People will hate me, people will reject me. I won't
get invited to their parties anymore. You know, Holy Spirit
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had worked with mankind before the creation, through the Old Testament,
profits in the even in the ministry of Yeshua. But
after the Day of Pentecost, the Spirit would dwell in
people and not just come on them, and he would
do it permanently, not temporarily, because it was going to
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be necessary for us to have it until he came back,
or until we were out of here. To do everything
that had to be done. The Spirit dwells in us
and will be with us. John fourteen sixteen through seventeen hour.
Pray the Father, and he will give you another helper
that he may abide with you forever. The Spirit of
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Truth from the world cannot receive because it neither sees
him nor knows him. But you know him, and he
will dwell with you and be in you. If you
don't have this, if you don't experience this, first of all,
maybe you've been told that that's not available anymore. Maybe
you've come from that background. I will tell you what
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I've always told anybody who I've encountered like that. Open
your Bible. First of all, show me where it says that.
Second of all, ask the Lord. Ask the Lord who's right. Lord.
If Richard's right, I want this. If he's not, I
want the words and the scripture to see. Ask him
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to show you the truth. The Spirit of Truth will
do that, and then whatever happens you have to accept.
If the Spirit reveals himself to you, then you have
been given all the evidence you need. What you do
with it then is up to you. You know, in
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the day of Pentecost, which also is when God gave
his law in Mount Sinai, he did it dramatically, accompanied
with thundering and lightnings, and he wrote the law on
tablets of stone. On the day of Pentecost in Jerusalem,
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that day God sent down his Holy Spirit dramatically like
a rushing mighty wind, tongues of fire, sitting upon each disciple,
everybody in that room, exerting, imprinting his influence. The new
law of light and life that would be promoted by
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them would be established by them. And instead of writing
the word on tablets of stone, he wrote them on
their heart, just like he said he would. It was
always his desire. You look at Leviticus twenty six eleven
and twelve. I will set my tabernacle among you, and boy,
it's a glorious, beautiful structure and very dramatic and inspiring.
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But he says, I will set my tabernacle among you,
and my soul shall not abhor you. I will walk
among you and be your God, and you shall be
my people. But now we hold that spirit, we are
the ones instead of the tabernacle of God. Two Corinthians sixth,
starting verse sixteen. What agreement has the temple of God
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with idols, for you are the temple of the Living God.
As God has said, I will dwell in them and
walk among them. I will be their God, and they
shall be my people. Therefore, come out from among them,
be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean,
and I will receive you. I will be a father
to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters,
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says the Lord Almighty. So the purpose of Pentecost was
to initiate the final phase of warfare that began on Calvary,
the restoration of mankind. And I sincerely believed had the
Church never sat down, never let up, had kept their
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foot on the gas pedal, we'd be a lot further
along than we are right now. But to do everything
I just said, we need help. Every day I pray Lord,
and I remind him of what he's told me he
wants me to do for him. I can't do that
without you, Lord, I can't do it without your power,
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can't do it without your provision. And he's chosen to
help us. He chosen to help us help him. Isn't
that amazing? He gives us an assignment and then he
helps us complete it. Powerful dynamic presence of the Holy
Spirit through that fire. It's the fuel. It drives us,
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that upper room fire which hits us in prayer and
hits us in praise. It's a personal one. It can
be applied corporately and individually. It helps us, through the
work of the Kingdom, to do what destroy the work
of the devil, which is what set them free of
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their sins. The Blood did that. He does it. We
just deliver the edict, we enforce it, and the ammunition
is prayer and praise and the power of the Holy Spirit.
We can't do this alone. We can't do it without him.
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He's given us the power, has poured it out upon us.
He has set things in motion. There's a movement. That's
the other thing that the enemy got the Church to
do was sit down, made us comfortable, began to entertain us.
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Then we went to sleep. We need to get back
in action. We need to have a reaction to what
the enemy is doing right now in the world, to
our sons and to our daughters, to our homes, to
our families, in the world around us, in our town,
our society. We need to pray more. The power of
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prayer in the Book of acts. Church was substantial. It
was beyond anything that we could think or imagine. So,
like I said, we're in a fight to the finish.
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We're enduring to the end. Our hearts need to get right,
our thoughts need to get right. You know the thing
about prayer, We talk about faith a lot more than
we do prayer. In the Bible, it devotes five hundred
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verses on prayer, and there's less than five hundred verses
on faith. The people that were movers and shakers, that
are movers and shakers are people of prayer. They follow
the Lord's example, They follow the enemy, what the enemy's doing,
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and they respond accordingly in prayer. They get on their knees.
They don't allow themselves to be just and ask that
the big thing right now going on all around me
in society is the power of deception. If I were
to ask you this question, and I'm going to, but
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what your answer is going to be really important. Are
you expectantly watching for him? Are you expectantly watching for
the return of the king? Either eighty snatch you out
of here, and if you don't believe in that to
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come back the second time, is it on your mind?
Do you pray Marinatha, Come Lord Jesus. He shows us
some prophecy, He gives us dreams and vision. He tells
us what he intends to do, and we should live
a life and shape our life in accordance with that.
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What will it take to wake us? You know, he
warned Matthew twenty four, verses thirty seven thirty nine. But
as it was in the days of Noah, so shall
it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
So many theories about what the days of Noah were, Well,
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the Bible tells us it was a time of sin,
time of debauchery, a time so bad that his only
solution was to wipe them all out and cleanse the world.
We go deeper into the studies and the various other
sources out there, we find out it was a time
of demonic presence on the earth, fallen angels creating mutations
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that we call the Nephilim. Now, whether you believe in
any of that or not as irrelevant. But it was
a time so evil, so awful, that his only solution
was to wipe out every but eight people and start over.
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Don't be troubled, don't be afraid. Trust in his word.
Look for his return. I believe we are the last generation.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
Whether that's the case or not, whether that began when
Israel became a nation, and whatever it is, it's very controversial.
I'll just call it that. But what I see in
the spirit, what I see in society indicates to me
we are closer now than we ever ever have been before.
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So the question becomes, will we react, will we respond
to this ongoing battle between good and evil? Doing it
in the power of the Holy Spirit, living out the
authority and the victory and Jeesus, you know, we can
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sing the song victory in Jesus. We can sing all
these songs, and they're great songs, and they have great lyrics,
and they have great spirit behind them. But are we
going to live them? Are we going to do them?
The Book of Acts Church, they didn't have our resources,
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They didn't have all the books, they didn't have all
the stuff that we used today for religious business. These
were not, you know, ordained men by the world. They
were ordained by the Lord. They were filled with the spirit,
but they were not respected in their day. They didn't
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have the funds, they didn't have all the things that
we have access to, and we're doing less than they were.
We worship, we pray, we have faith, we share the Gospel.
We destroy the work of the enemy. We become like them.
We rely upon the power of the Holy Spirit. We
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come together in unity, We come together in agreement. We
pray for one another, we cover one another, and we
set about each day with the attitude. Lord, use me.
I want to be extremely dangerous today. Help me to
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push back against the spiritual complacency and pursue the mission
of setting the captives free. If you join with me
in that prayer, you'll not only see your life change,
you'll see the lives around you begin to change. You'll
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become contagious to them. They'll get inspired, or they might
come under conviction, and then you can help them with
that as well. I don't know how else to put this.
We're not decorating prison cells with setting people free. You're
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no different than anyone else. You're you, and He's in you,
and you have access to his name. Therefore you can
do mighty things, greater things than he did, because he's
sitting at the right hand of the Father. Lord. I
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don't I we want to be extremely dangerous to the
Kingdom of darkness. We want want to be living out
the Great Commission. We have family members that, if something
doesn't change, will spend eternity separated from you and eventually
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in a lake of fire. We have people that we
care about, friends, co workers that don't know you. We
have people that say they know you, but it's obvious
that they don't. They had a religious experience. Touch us
right now, Touch our lips, touch our heart, our mind,
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our eyes, our ears. Help us to love them the unlovable.
Give us the words to say and the words to pray.
And Lord, I pray that this passion, this fervor, and
this desire fills the heart of every listener. Take away
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all their doubts and their fears, take away all the
self consciousness that keeps them from risking. Give them the
courage just to tell one person about you, to just
lead one person to you, rescuing one at a time,
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one at a time, one at a time, and each
person doing the same and replicating the same. So many wounded, herded, dying,
bound up people out there that are waiting for someone
to tell them the truth about Jesus of Nazareth, about
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your shoe. Help us to do that. Fill us, fill
us with the fire like we have never felt before.
And let us please, sincerely, I pray shake this world
one last time before you return. And I pray all
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these things in your Shoea's name. Now, if you agree
with me and you say amen, then you are committing
to this. So if you agree with me, say a man.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the
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Lord make his face to shine upon you and be
gracious to you. May the Lord, may I don't know you,
su A Hamasiah, Jesus the Messiah, lift up his countenance
upon you and give you peace. Give you shall own.
I'm Richard Grund. This has been the Porch on Firefall
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