29 Signs of the Jezebel Spirit — Transcript
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- 2:09everybody said in me you have a greater
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- 2:18truth your death and you cannot give the
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- 2:56right my name is Pastor Mark so excited
- 2:58to have you and we're in the middle of a
- 3:00sermon series on Elijah and so what I'm
- 3:03doing is a little four-part series and
- 3:05we're looking at this case study of this
- 3:08relationship between a man named Ahab
- 3:10and his crazy hot wife Jezebel so uh
- 3:14today's talk is 29 signs of the
- 3:16Jezebel's fair so we're going to put up
- 3:17a number and if you'd like to send in a
- 3:19photo of your girlfriend or ex-wife
- 3:21we'll pick 29. amen
- 3:25I mean no I'm just kidding we're not
- 3:26gonna do that some of the dudes are like
- 3:28I got it okay so here's the background
- 3:31of the story of Isaiah if you want to
- 3:33know more we're in it every weekend
- 3:34there's a full study guide First Kings
- 3:3617 through second king stew and the case
- 3:39study is this there is a king he's
- 3:42passive his name is Ahab he's got a wife
- 3:44she's seductive and controlling her name
- 3:47is
- 3:48Jezebel and they're up against the
- 3:51prophet of God Elijah and so we're
- 3:53saying that these are not just three
- 3:55people who used to live but the spirits
- 3:58that empowered them continue their work
- 4:00in new days today the Ahab Spirit would
- 4:03cause people but especially men to be
- 4:06passive indifferent silent it causes
- 4:09people but oftentimes women to be like
- 4:11Jezebel domineering and high controlling
- 4:14and what happens is if you tolerate they
- 4:17will dominate that's how the
- 4:18relationship works and then there is
- 4:21Elijah filled with the spirit of God up
- 4:23against the spirit of Jezebel and the
- 4:25spirit of Ahab we've established as well
- 4:28some people are fully possessed meaning
- 4:31their personality and this Spirit are
- 4:33indistinguishable this Spirit starts to
- 4:36overtake their personality and decision
- 4:38making sometimes this will be clinically
- 4:41diagnosed dissociative identity disorder
- 4:43multiple personality disorder people
- 4:45will talk about hearing voices and
- 4:47sometimes it is just medical or hormonal
- 4:50or chemical but sometimes it's spiritual
- 4:52second phase people are not possessed
- 4:54and controlled but oppressed they got
- 4:56going to get disoriented when they're
- 4:58around these Spirits they lose their
- 4:59bearings they get exhausted they get
- 5:01confused they get brain fog it's a bit
- 5:03of spiritual warfare third
- 5:06some people just have these proclivities
- 5:07and tendencies some of you would be more
- 5:10Ahab if you don't pay attention and have
- 5:12just an intentionality about your life
- 5:14you're going to be more passive you're
- 5:16going to go backward now forward you're
- 5:18going to avoid conflict not say and do
- 5:20what should be done others of you your
- 5:22personality is going to be domineering
- 5:24overbearing right you're going to be the
- 5:26one who is in control and not going to
- 5:29be controlled that can be a personality
- 5:31or a tendency we're going to look at all
- 5:33of this and two things by way of preface
- 5:36and then we'll jump in number one a man
- 5:39or a woman can have an Ahab or a Jezebel
- 5:41spirit or tendency
- 5:43some women are controlling some men are
- 5:45controlling some men are passive some
- 5:46women are passive in my experience it's
- 5:49oftentimes men who are more Ahab passive
- 5:51those women in relationship with those
- 5:53men more domineering overbearing and
- 5:56controlling number two Jezebel is a lot
- 5:59harder to get rid of
- 6:01more difficult to defeat for this reason
- 6:03it's about what control
- 6:07and so Christianity is about being under
- 6:10Authority not being in authority
- 6:12it's about being controlled by the Holy
- 6:14Spirit not controlling others
- 6:16and it's not about dominating it's about
- 6:19surrendering that's how you become a
- 6:21Christian say God you're in charge not
- 6:23me you're in control not me you tell me
- 6:26what to do I don't tell everybody else
- 6:28what to do
- 6:29because the Jezebel tenancy is about
- 6:32control it's more difficult to get rid
- 6:35of something that is jezebelian than
- 6:38something that is Ahab
- 6:40that being said I want to start in
- 6:42Revelation Chapter 2 and uh Jezebel was
- 6:46a woman that lived in the Days of Elijah
- 6:48Jesus rebukes a church in thyatira in
- 6:51Revelation 2 it's a thousand years later
- 6:54so we know it's not the same person but
- 6:57it's the same Spirit working through a
- 7:00different person so here's what Jezebel
- 7:02says our Jesus says rather to Jezebel I
- 7:04Jesus have this against you Jesus
- 7:07confronts Jezebel
- 7:09just like Elijah in the old Covenant
- 7:12confronted Jezebel Jesus confronts
- 7:14Jezebel just like Ahab was tolerating
- 7:17enduring passive toward Jezebel here in
- 7:21the church at thyatira apparently the
- 7:23men
- 7:24passive they were tolerating and so
- 7:28Jesus has to be the Elijah you tolerate
- 7:31that woman Jezebel if you tolerate they
- 7:34will dominate if you don't speak they
- 7:36will speak if you don't lead they will
- 7:38lead if you do not activate they will
- 7:40dominate
- 7:42she calls herself a prophetess she says
- 7:44she's very spiritual oftentimes The
- 7:46Jezebel spirit is very spiritual and
- 7:48very sensual
- 7:50loves church loves to weaponize the
- 7:52Bible loves to misquote the scriptures
- 7:55loves to use even God's word to
- 7:57manipulate and control others
- 8:00calls herself a prophetess and is
- 8:02teaching and I always say if they can't
- 8:04teach they try to block that's just how
- 8:06this works but they're going to make
- 8:07sure to tell everyone what they think
- 8:10seducing my servants we'll get into this
- 8:13for you single guys
- 8:14you single guys need to know you meet a
- 8:16guy you meet a girl immediately you're
- 8:18like she's hot so is hell
- 8:20you know hit the brakes hit the brakes
- 8:23hit the brakes okay you're like oh she's
- 8:26gonna take me to bed her bed's in hell
- 8:28you don't want to go there okay she's
- 8:30seductive she's seducing she's
- 8:32flirtatious she's cute she knows how to
- 8:36flatter
- 8:37yeah she looks She's like you're amazing
- 8:39and you know you're not but it sounds
- 8:40good so you're gonna go with it you're
- 8:43so handsome no one's ever said that
- 8:44because it's a lie okay because it's a
- 8:47lie that's a lie
- 8:49and seducing my servants to practice
- 8:52sexual immorality to eat food sacrifice
- 8:55to Idols to do evil God's patient he
- 8:57says I gave her time to repent but she
- 8:59refuses to repent of her sexual
- 9:02immorality so here's what it usually
- 9:05looks like someone who is domineering
- 9:08overbearing highly emotional
- 9:10manipulative flattering controlling if
- 9:13it's a woman seductive wants to get as
- 9:15close to the leadership as possible and
- 9:18wants you to compromise your integrity
- 9:20and wants you to tolerate their attitude
- 9:22so they can dominate your life
- 9:25seven things that the Jezebels hate are
- 9:27you ready
- 9:28okay some of you are like no but I'm
- 9:31sending this to my wife great oh that's
- 9:32fine too so seven things Jezebels hate
- 9:35and then 22 things Jezebel's control
- 9:37number one Jezebel's hate Authority
- 9:40in the story of Elijah Ahab is in
- 9:45control and she hates him and dominates
- 9:47him
- 9:48there are eight there are prophets of
- 9:50God she murders them
- 9:52uh Elijah is the man of God with the
- 9:55Holy Spirit and she absolutely opposes
- 9:57and attacks him
- 9:59there's a guy named naboth who's got a
- 10:01uh a piece of land and and he has legal
- 10:04right so she murders him to take it if
- 10:07you are in Authority she hates you
- 10:09because she hates Authority she wants to
- 10:12be in Authority will not be under
- 10:14Authority in fact the Holy Spirit
- 10:16reminds me the name Jezebel means
- 10:17without husband
- 10:19now she's married but she doesn't act
- 10:22like it she's fiercely independent
- 10:25in addition hates the word no
- 10:27oftentimes you're not aware that you're
- 10:30dealing with someone who leans more
- 10:32Jezebel until you say this really very
- 10:36controversial word
- 10:38no
- 10:40all of a sudden their personality
- 10:42changes
- 10:43everything's fine as long as you say yes
- 10:45everything changes as soon as you say no
- 10:47some of you know exactly what this is
- 10:49like we were doing fine until I said no
- 10:51and then wow I lit the wick and there
- 10:54was an explosion
- 10:55they don't like being told no and if you
- 10:58tell them no they are going to threaten
- 11:00you intimidate you attack you malign you
- 11:03form an alliance against you and if that
- 11:05doesn't work cry say they're a victim
- 11:07and manipulate you
- 11:09the goal is to get their way
- 11:11in addition they do not like to lose
- 11:14so there's an occasion you'll see it
- 11:16coming up in the story of Elijah there
- 11:19is a showdown between the 850 paid
- 11:22profits of bail and Astra versus the
- 11:24anointed man of God Elijah Elijah calls
- 11:27down fire from heaven God smokes 850
- 11:30false prophets they all were employed by
- 11:33Jezebel it says that they ate at her
- 11:34table meaning she provided for all of
- 11:36their income
- 11:38and though she lost she couldn't handle
- 11:40it so what does she say First Kings 19
- 11:43I'm putting a bounty on Elijah's head
- 11:47the demons can attack me if he's not
- 11:49dead by this time tomorrow she puts a
- 11:5124-hour bounty on his head
- 11:54if you in business or in a divorce or in
- 11:59a custody agreement or even just an
- 12:02argument or a Bible study sort of have a
- 12:05victory over a jezebel it ain't over
- 12:08they're coming back they do not take
- 12:10losing well also they do not number four
- 12:13take a rebuke or correction
- 12:16throughout the entire life of Jezebel
- 12:18not one time is she ever confronted with
- 12:22her wrongdoing and agrees every time she
- 12:25disagrees Elijah the prophet keeps
- 12:28telling her here's what God says she
- 12:30doesn't care
- 12:31there's no repenting there's no
- 12:33relenting there is no recognizing of
- 12:36wrongdoing
- 12:38and if you rebuke them you're not going
- 12:40to get a response from them that they
- 12:42are acknowledging that they have done
- 12:44wrong they will shoot the messenger they
- 12:46will change the subject they will make
- 12:49an excuse they will get emotional they
- 12:52will say that you're being mean-spirited
- 12:54anything other than your right I'm wrong
- 12:56I'm sorry
- 12:58in addition they hate the grace of God
- 13:02they hate the grace of God
- 13:04she hates the grace of God that is at
- 13:07work in and through Elijah
- 13:09and over and over and over this is how
- 13:12these people work especially those who
- 13:14are more religious and in the church
- 13:17I like to call it law for you Grace for
- 13:19me
- 13:21law for you Grace for me meaning I'm
- 13:23going to judge you and I have a problem
- 13:25with you and I didn't like this and you
- 13:27did that wrong and this hurt my feelings
- 13:29and this wasn't said right and I don't
- 13:31think your heart was right and that if
- 13:33you confront them well Grace for me
- 13:36nobody's perfect you should be more
- 13:38loving that's not very kind
- 13:41well it's Grace for everybody law for
- 13:43everybody but if it's Grace for me and
- 13:47law for you that's weaponizing and
- 13:49abusing the word of God that's how these
- 13:52people work in addition they hate men
- 13:56Again The Jezebel tendency can be in a
- 13:58man or a woman but how many men how many
- 14:02men does Jezebel in the story respect
- 14:04and honor zero
- 14:06she dominates her husband she attacks
- 14:09Elijah she murders the prophets of God
- 14:12she closes the Bible teaching schools in
- 14:16addition there's a guy named naboth and
- 14:18she wants to steal his land so she
- 14:20murders him
- 14:22every man she comes in contact with
- 14:25she's a black widow
- 14:27she is unsafe and dangerous she hates
- 14:30men
- 14:32oftentimes this takes root in a woman's
- 14:36life I'll talk about it a little bit at
- 14:37the end through trauma or abuse
- 14:40this is one of the reason why men
- 14:43tolerate women who are more like Jezebel
- 14:47I'm not saying they have the Demonic
- 14:49Spirit maybe it's demonic possession or
- 14:52oppression or tendency
- 14:53but if you know a woman you know that
- 14:55she's had abuse or trauma you know why
- 14:58she's so controlling because she doesn't
- 15:00want to be hurt again
- 15:01and or you know why she's so controlling
- 15:04that someone controlled her and she's
- 15:06never going to be in that position again
- 15:08she's made it in her vow I will not be
- 15:10controlled I will be controlling I will
- 15:13not be dominated I will be dominant
- 15:15that's the inner vow and if you love
- 15:18this person maybe it's your wife
- 15:20maybe it's your daughter
- 15:22if you love this person maybe it's your
- 15:24mother maybe it's your grandmother
- 15:27or he could just feel the air
- 15:28conditioning come on got so chilly
- 15:31you know that they've had some trauma or
- 15:34abuse so you understand why they are the
- 15:37way they are so you tolerate it but
- 15:40here's the point that doesn't heal them
- 15:43that doesn't heal them
- 15:45they need help
- 15:47they need healing
- 15:49I'll talk about this a little more at
- 15:51the end but just because you understand
- 15:53the problem doesn't mean you're helping
- 15:55until you provide a solution
- 15:58I know you've been through a lot I know
- 16:00your first husband did this I know your
- 16:02boyfriend did that I know your dad was
- 16:04like this I know your grandfather was
- 16:06like that I know you were molested when
- 16:08you were little I know that horrible
- 16:10things happen to you in college when you
- 16:12had too much to drink I I understand I'm
- 16:15sorry but we need to get you some help
- 16:19because what happened to you there
- 16:21changed you and it wasn't for the better
- 16:25these women they really struggle with
- 16:27men
- 16:28the woman in the story Jezebel she hates
- 16:32Elijah the most she is committed to his
- 16:35destruction
- 16:36he's the godliest safest man in the
- 16:40story and she thinks he is the biggest
- 16:42threat and the gravest danger
- 16:45number seven truthfulness
- 16:47Jezebel through the story she is
- 16:49consistently dishonest
- 16:52because if your goal is control you will
- 16:56do or say whatever allows you to be
- 16:58dominant and in control
- 17:00including lie
- 17:02so a jezebel doesn't live in the world
- 17:04of right and wrong and true and false
- 17:07and good and evil they live in the world
- 17:09of winning and losing
- 17:11and in the name of winning they're
- 17:13capable of saying and doing almost
- 17:15anything
- 17:16so there's a guy again his name is
- 17:19naboth he's got this piece of land her
- 17:21husband wants it NABA tells him no
- 17:23Jezebel goes and she comes up with a
- 17:26tremendous lie she says naboth cursed
- 17:29the king and God
- 17:31so they murdered him as she took the
- 17:33land
- 17:34for those of you know the story is any
- 17:36of that true no
- 17:39he was an innocent man he said and did
- 17:42nothing wrong she just lied and had it
- 17:44murdered and stole his lamb
- 17:48you know you're up against something
- 17:50that is more jezebelian when they'll say
- 17:52or do anything for the victory there's
- 17:55not much conscience if any
- 17:5822 things Jezebel's control let me just
- 18:00summarize it if I could break it down to
- 18:03two categories these are the two
- 18:05categories that Jezebel tries to control
- 18:06everyone and everything those are the
- 18:09two categories
- 18:11and what you'll find is if you tolerate
- 18:14a jezebel in one area they're moving on
- 18:16to the next
- 18:18some of you have dated these gals been
- 18:19married to these gals done business with
- 18:22these gals like well I'll just let them
- 18:24control the schedule they move on to the
- 18:26checkbook I'll let them have the
- 18:27checkbook great then they're going to
- 18:29take the kids
- 18:30they just keep going
- 18:32their goal is like Satan to rule and
- 18:35Reign to be Sovereign to operate over
- 18:38everyone and everything and as long as
- 18:40you tolerate they will continue to
- 18:42extend their Rule and Reign it is
- 18:44spiritual warfare
- 18:46number one they will control
- 18:47relationships
- 18:49if you're going to have a relationship
- 18:50with them it's on their terms
- 18:53if you're going to have a friend group
- 18:54they're going to control the friend
- 18:55group you can't talk to them you need to
- 18:57side with me you guess them if they're
- 18:59in your family there's all this
- 19:01triangulation in politics
- 19:03are you with that side of the family or
- 19:05our side of the family are you for or
- 19:07against and holidays and birthdays and
- 19:10events you're like this just became so
- 19:12complicated why because someone is
- 19:14controlling all the relationships and
- 19:16they keep pitting one side against
- 19:18another in battle
- 19:19number two they control the money
- 19:22they control the money
- 19:24in Israel this was the king and the
- 19:26Queen
- 19:27she opened churches
- 19:29she ran events she had a staff she
- 19:33controlled the money
- 19:35if you let Jezebel get in control of the
- 19:38checkbook they will control everything
- 19:40if you have a jezebel in a company
- 19:42they're not the leader but they make
- 19:45themselves the leader they control
- 19:47through the finances and the spending
- 19:49Jezebel loves to get their hands on the
- 19:52checkbook this is like Judas
- 19:55Jesus is doing Ministry Judas has his
- 19:58hands in the cookie jar
- 20:00got to be very careful you get an Elijah
- 20:02in the finances not a jezebel
- 20:05in addition number three Jezebel's
- 20:07control governance
- 20:09says that she was a queen of Israel in
- 20:13the Old Testament and she called herself
- 20:15a prophetess in the New Testament she
- 20:18likes titles where she's the boss
- 20:20these people love titles
- 20:23they love Authority they love to be in
- 20:26charge they want to govern
- 20:28if they're in the church they want to
- 20:30get as close to the leader and have as
- 20:32much voice as possible
- 20:34if this is in your family even if
- 20:37they're an extended relative not even
- 20:39immediate family they're going to try
- 20:42and rule over your family they're going
- 20:44to tell you what to do with your
- 20:45marriage and your money and your kids
- 20:47and your grandkids and education and
- 20:50housing and church you don't have to
- 20:52invite them in they'll just start
- 20:54bossing you around
- 20:55and if you tolerate they will dominate
- 20:59they love governance they want to be in
- 21:03control they need to be in charge
- 21:07and so they and this is a religious
- 21:09spirit it's where Jesus says it showed
- 21:12up at the church at thyatira man have
- 21:14you ever been in a church where a
- 21:16jezebel showed up
- 21:18like they've been there 15 minutes
- 21:19they've already made their way to the
- 21:21senior pastor got an email into the
- 21:23board posted something on social media
- 21:25called in a blogger and then declared
- 21:28war and you're like we you didn't even
- 21:30fill out the greeter form yet like you
- 21:33you don't do Jesus you do Jihad you're
- 21:36going right for the throat day one
- 21:39that's how these people and oftentimes
- 21:40they're well we'll talk about this
- 21:42they're very spiritual the Lord told me
- 21:44I had a vision oh a demon told you and
- 21:46you had a nightmare
- 21:48in addition number five
- 21:50um I'll tell you what I think uh number
- 21:52five they hate preaching
- 21:55what Jezebel did in the Old Testament
- 21:57there was a whole bunch of Bible
- 21:58teachers she slaughtered all of them
- 22:01there were schools to Train bible
- 22:03teachers she closed them
- 22:06there's one guy left who's preaching
- 22:08Elijah and she puts a bounty on his head
- 22:12they don't like to be preached at
- 22:15they don't like to be under Authority
- 22:17they don't like to learn they don't like
- 22:19to repent and the preaching of God's
- 22:21word triggers them
- 22:23it triggers them
- 22:25in addition they control information
- 22:28giving it back to the story of naboth
- 22:30he's got a piece of land her husband
- 22:31Ahab wants it he goes to negotiate the
- 22:34deal he doesn't get the deal he goes
- 22:36home he throws a fit like a petulant
- 22:38child
- 22:39what Jezebel does is then she forges his
- 22:42signature
- 22:44falsely accuses naboth has him killed
- 22:48steals his land
- 22:50orges her husband the king's signature
- 22:53and he has no idea
- 22:55she controls information
- 22:57these people are more covert than overt
- 23:01it's all of a sudden you think you know
- 23:05them and then you realize oh you've been
- 23:07reading my text you've been reading my
- 23:08emails you've you've hacked our company
- 23:10server
- 23:12you wouldn't talk to a bunch of other
- 23:13people to kind of do an investigation on
- 23:17me you've met with relatives or
- 23:19co-workers
- 23:21and they have a lot of information but
- 23:23it's like a poker player they don't
- 23:24share it till it benefits them
- 23:26they love to hold information
- 23:29and and let me say this if you give a
- 23:31piece of information to a jezebel guess
- 23:34what they're going to do they're going
- 23:35to weaponize it against you
- 23:37got to be very careful
- 23:39they love to control data and
- 23:41information because it's a way to
- 23:43control
- 23:44these are the people that like to get
- 23:46themselves into the center of gossip
- 23:48these are the people who spend their
- 23:50life on social media gathering
- 23:52information and peering in on other
- 23:53people's lives these are people who in
- 23:56discussions open really nefarious
- 23:59open-ended questions well tell me about
- 24:01so-and-so where do they live how much do
- 24:04they make what's their marriage like
- 24:06they're always gathering information and
- 24:08they hold it
- 24:10and they're very covert this was Judah
- 24:12saskarian he was very covert
- 24:15the the opposite of that is Peter in the
- 24:18disciples Peter's overt you never asked
- 24:21you zero times you got to ask Peter what
- 24:23are you thinking he's telling you
- 24:25know he's just telling you Judas you
- 24:28don't know
- 24:29if you would have looked at the story of
- 24:31Jesus and said okay one of these 12 guys
- 24:34is going to murder him I don't think any
- 24:36of us would have picked Judas like that
- 24:38dude never said or did anything
- 24:40he was just off in the corner
- 24:42controlling the money gathering
- 24:44information covertly making plans
- 24:48sometimes you don't know that these
- 24:49people are plotting against you until
- 24:51the day comes when they destroy you
- 24:54in addition number seven they'll have
- 24:55access to the senior leader
- 24:58if you're a leader in your business if
- 25:00you're a leader in your community if
- 25:01you're a leader in our church if you're
- 25:03a leader in your home or family
- 25:05this Spirit wants to get as close to the
- 25:07top as possible
- 25:10Ahab is the king Jezebel's the queen
- 25:12say it another way Ahab is the head
- 25:15Jezebel is the neck
- 25:17he's the figurehead but she's the
- 25:19control
- 25:20and they like to get to leadership I'll
- 25:22tell you this I've been doing this job
- 25:2427 years
- 25:26as soon as I just uh this will be fun
- 25:30this will be like therapeutic for me so
- 25:33I'll never forget the first time we had
- 25:35a very tiny little Core group I was in
- 25:38my 20s young Pastor didn't know what I
- 25:41was doing I mean our church is like the
- 25:43size of a Mormon family it's like not a
- 25:45big deal you know
- 25:47um
- 25:48and uh and so we finally get a gal comes
- 25:52to the ministry she's a really great
- 25:54gifted talented musician and she walks
- 25:58right up to me
- 25:59my wife's standing there ignores my wife
- 26:02completely ignores my wife comes up
- 26:04grabs my hand looks me in the eye and
- 26:06introduces herself
- 26:08Jezebel
- 26:11he said the Pastor I just would really
- 26:12love to get a cup of coffee my wife is
- 26:15an Elijah
- 26:16right so she got in the middle she's
- 26:18like you need to leave forever uh that's
- 26:21my wife you know I so and I was like
- 26:24honey how did she said I know those
- 26:25women
- 26:26they go right up to the leader they get
- 26:29real close they tell their sad tale they
- 26:33suck you in to rescue them and then they
- 26:36seduce you I was like thanks for telling
- 26:38me thanks for not looking like Elijah
- 26:40but thanks for acting like Elijah's
- 26:42sweetheart I if you're a leader you know
- 26:45exactly what this is like
- 26:47you're like wow they are dangerous and
- 26:50seductive that's what she's trying to do
- 26:53with access to not only Ahab but also to
- 26:56Elijah in addition uh Jezebel's rather
- 27:01like to control the conversation
- 27:03as you read the story First Kings 17 to
- 27:05Second Kings 2
- 27:07she does all the Talking she gets the
- 27:09first word she gets the last word most
- 27:12of the words are her words
- 27:14you know you're in a conversation with
- 27:17someone that is unhealthy when
- 27:19they dominate the conversation they set
- 27:22the conversation they drive the
- 27:24conversation
- 27:25and if you try to get a word in unless
- 27:27you agree with them they're going to run
- 27:29you over in the conversation and then at
- 27:31the end if you try to get a word in they
- 27:33always
- 27:34I always get the last word in
- 27:36is every competition is really in the
- 27:39form of a conversation
- 27:42some of you I could just sense it I love
- 27:44you but some of you are married and
- 27:46you're like my wife she's she just
- 27:50women do talk more than men true
- 27:53yeah they do but if you're in a
- 27:55situation you're like she dominates all
- 27:58the conversations I can't get a word in
- 27:59edgewise if I disagree with her then I
- 28:02got hell to pay and if I say something
- 28:04she disagrees with me walks away and
- 28:06gets the last word that's not a healthy
- 28:08conversation that's a war
- 28:11they also control platforms a platform
- 28:14is a point or position of leadership
- 28:16from which someone exercises Authority
- 28:20so they have these Bible teaching
- 28:22schools she closed them that's literally
- 28:24cancel culture she canceled the
- 28:27Christian Schools
- 28:29Elijah is a preacher
- 28:31he's trying to kill him
- 28:33literally de-platform and silence him
- 28:37her goal over and over and over
- 28:40is to control platforms anywhere there
- 28:43is a leadership position she's either
- 28:46going to take it over or she's going to
- 28:48tear it down that's what they do either
- 28:51I'm in charge or it's getting burned to
- 28:54the ground
- 28:55these people will burn a church to the
- 28:57ground they'll burn a Ministry to the
- 28:59ground they'll burn a business to the
- 29:01ground they'll build they'll burn a
- 29:02family to the ground if they don't get
- 29:04to be in control of the platform
- 29:06if I'm not the boss there will be no
- 29:08boss
- 29:09in addition they control the narrative
- 29:13controlling the narrative is a form of
- 29:15spiritual warfare
- 29:16how the story is told it determines how
- 29:19the people will respond
- 29:22okay and so what happens in a what
- 29:24happens in a an unhealthy situation is
- 29:28someone will try and say what I like to
- 29:29call a negative narrative
- 29:31set a negative narrative and then all
- 29:34the data is interpreted through the
- 29:35negative narrative
- 29:37it's a form of lying and it's a form of
- 29:39dominating and controlling
- 29:41Proverbs says the first person to tell
- 29:44their story sounds right till we hear
- 29:45the other side how many of you have
- 29:47learned this as a dad you got kids what
- 29:49kid runs in tell me what happened you're
- 29:51like well let me check let me check with
- 29:52the other kid
- 29:53it's just because you heard one side of
- 29:55the story it's not always the same side
- 29:57of the story
- 29:58I'll give you an example that comes to
- 29:59mind some years ago my son I had a kid
- 30:02in our house kid came running in our
- 30:04kids were little and the kids cried
- 30:06thrown a fit
- 30:08all hurt mom looks at him what happened
- 30:10uh Pastor Mark's kid punched me
- 30:14mom looks me sick your kid hit my kid
- 30:16what are you gonna do I said let me go
- 30:18ask why
- 30:22I gotta research
- 30:24I go in
- 30:25and uh my son is there and his little
- 30:28sister is crying very big tears she's
- 30:31physically hurt not just emotionally
- 30:33physically emotional
- 30:35I said what happened he said that big
- 30:36kid kept picking on my little sister hit
- 30:39her shoved her yelled at her I told her
- 30:41you stopped picking on my sister or I'm
- 30:44gonna punch you
- 30:45and he can't pick an honor so I punched
- 30:47him
- 30:48hey so so I told so so yeah so his name
- 30:53is Jezebel and um so anyways
- 30:57um so then the mom looks at me she's
- 30:59like your kid hit my kid what are you
- 31:01gonna do I said I'll be back in a minute
- 31:02I'm gonna get him ice cream
- 31:05yeah see it's like they get a reward
- 31:08see we we build men up to bless women
- 31:10and children and that starts with little
- 31:12men
- 31:13okay and so what happens is if you
- 31:15control the narrative everybody runs to
- 31:18a conclusion but actually the person
- 31:19who's innocent could be the one who gets
- 31:21punished
- 31:23this happens all the time it just comes
- 31:25to mind again there's another story in
- 31:27the Old Testament a guy named Joseph
- 31:29okay you see Ahab Jezebel or Elijah he's
- 31:32Elijah
- 31:33Potiphar's wife Ahab Jezebel or Elijah
- 31:36Jezebel
- 31:38every day I mean they you know he's in
- 31:41the castle she shows up she's like let's
- 31:43do it and uh he's uh no I can't do that
- 31:46I love God and I love your husband so
- 31:48then she says he
- 31:50raped her he goes to prison
- 31:54that's the narrative
- 31:56he was innocent he was Elijah she was
- 31:59Jezebel
- 32:00he didn't do anything she lied about
- 32:02everything
- 32:04what a jezebel likes to do is get very
- 32:07emotional very loud tell their story
- 32:10first get on social media make sure
- 32:14they're setting the story because it's a
- 32:16form of control
- 32:18she does this with naboth again back to
- 32:20the story in First Kings
- 32:23naboth cursed God and the King therefore
- 32:26he needs to die that's not the story but
- 32:29that's the story that she told
- 32:32they also love to control a mob
- 32:35they like to get as many people in as
- 32:37possible it's a true build up for the
- 32:39battle
- 32:40if you have a conflict with a jezebel
- 32:42next thing you know you're like man they
- 32:43called all the relatives they sent out
- 32:45emails they posted on social media like
- 32:48man they just set this thing on fire
- 32:49like they did we didn't even talk about
- 32:52it or work it out they just immediately
- 32:54went 0-60 in public
- 32:56well that's what Jezebel does
- 32:59she goes out and she literally pays
- 33:02850 false prophets
- 33:05of Astra and bail she gets a mob
- 33:08together
- 33:09and then what she wants is that mob to
- 33:12have a larger mob of those who are
- 33:15watching join them in all attacking
- 33:18Elijah so she's like I'm going to get my
- 33:20big mob and I want them to go get a
- 33:22really big mob so we can all destroy
- 33:24Elijah
- 33:26it's controlling the mom
- 33:27in addition a jezebel will control the
- 33:30agenda
- 33:33if you're dealing with a jezebel if you
- 33:35go to talk to them about something
- 33:36they're going to change the subject and
- 33:38set the agenda
- 33:39if you're trying to do Christmas with a
- 33:41jezebel and their extended family
- 33:45they are going to tell you what you're
- 33:46going to do you're going to be here at
- 33:48eight rocket open guess and we're gonna
- 33:49have ham and we're gonna we're gonna do
- 33:51this we're gonna be like well can we
- 33:53talk about it no I've got this you know
- 33:54here it is I wrote it down do it's told
- 33:58oh
- 34:00huh
- 34:01this question that comes to mind how
- 34:03many of you moved here
- 34:04to Arizona from another state
- 34:07okay now put your hand down don't put
- 34:09your hand up but how many of you it's
- 34:10because you had to Jezebel in your
- 34:12family and you've moved
- 34:14okay some guys just put their hand up so
- 34:17those are the Elijah so now we know what
- 34:18the truth is but sometimes you're like
- 34:20if I'm around they just control control
- 34:23control
- 34:24they control the agenda they call me
- 34:27we're going to talk now we're going to
- 34:28meet now we're coming over it's the
- 34:30holidays it's like you don't get to
- 34:32control the agenda of our relationship
- 34:34you don't get to control my calendar you
- 34:37don't get to control my budget you're
- 34:39not God you're not sovereign I I didn't
- 34:42surrender my life to you
- 34:45this is Antichrist
- 34:47this is someone who's saying you know I
- 34:50read in the Bible about a sovereign and
- 34:51I thought I should nominate myself
- 34:54in addition they will control time
- 34:58these are all ways to control
- 35:01they will intentionally be late to a
- 35:03meeting
- 35:04or they'll set it show up early to set
- 35:07the environment to control it
- 35:09or they will cancel at the last minute
- 35:13or they will say that they need to go
- 35:15they will control time to control you
- 35:18you're like I've been wanting to talk to
- 35:19them about that a schedule appointment
- 35:21they cancel I schedule appointment they
- 35:23show up late I schedule another
- 35:25appointment they leave early it's
- 35:26control
- 35:27in addition to controlling time
- 35:30they will control decisions
- 35:33they will want to make any and every
- 35:35decision that you will let them
- 35:38any because here's what will happen the
- 35:40worst thing you can do if someone is
- 35:42more Jezebel ask their opinion
- 35:45as soon as you do it's like you've
- 35:47invited them to be Lord of your life
- 35:50and I'll tell you what sometimes people
- 35:52with a Jezebel spirit you don't even
- 35:54need to know them for them to make
- 35:56decisions for you
- 35:58they will just tell you what to do
- 36:00they're they're bossy beyond belief
- 36:02again I'm just verbal processing I
- 36:05should have probably prepared but this
- 36:06just comes to mind I was at the grocery
- 36:08store some years ago
- 36:10and uh we had all of our kids and I
- 36:12don't think we had all five at the time
- 36:13we had like three or four and uh there
- 36:16was two gals in the line behind us and
- 36:18they were talking negatively about our
- 36:19kids
- 36:27I said their ears are little but they do
- 36:29work you know this is very rude this one
- 36:31looks at me she said you shouldn't have
- 36:33any more children
- 36:36I was like your attitude is birth
- 36:38control
- 36:41so I mean you know I was like nobody's
- 36:43going to sleep with that you know so
- 36:46um
- 36:48but at that point it's like yeah I
- 36:49probably shouldn't have said it I'm not
- 36:51saying it was the Holy Spirit but it
- 36:53just came to mind
- 36:54um
- 36:56but at the end of the day it's like who
- 36:58who at the grocery store walks up and
- 37:00makes fertility decisions for strangers
- 37:10you know we're at Safeway
- 37:13but if you let these people make
- 37:15decisions they'll make decisions you
- 37:18know why you chuckle you've had the same
- 37:20experience all right the next one they
- 37:22will control environments you got to go
- 37:25to their house for the meeting
- 37:27no no if we're going to have a conflict
- 37:28you come to my house
- 37:31and they will show up early to set up
- 37:33the environment
- 37:35no we're going to meet at this
- 37:36restaurant we're picking the restaurant
- 37:38well if we're gonna do Christmas we're
- 37:40picking where it's they're always
- 37:41controlling the environment because it's
- 37:43another way to control you
- 37:45if you allow them to control the
- 37:47environment they're not just physically
- 37:49controlling the environment they're
- 37:50spiritually controlling the environment
- 37:53so there's a trend
- 37:55that is now happening and I think it's
- 37:57large part ahabs and Jezebels in
- 37:59marriage
- 38:00the trend is called living alone
- 38:01together
- 38:03what's just the name doesn't sound like
- 38:05Alone Together
- 38:07that's like Christian Science it's like
- 38:09both of those aren't true you know
- 38:13you know Alone Together living alone
- 38:15together
- 38:16and what it is it's a husband and a wife
- 38:19that stay married but they live in two
- 38:22homes
- 38:25they have two homes two bank accounts
- 38:28two schedules two routines two lives and
- 38:32they only come together when she says
- 38:35it's okay
- 38:38we've now got an entire growing family
- 38:41structure marital structure to
- 38:43accommodate Ahab and Jezebel
- 38:45relationships we actually have a name
- 38:46for it living a part together and what
- 38:48that is is this is my environment you're
- 38:51not welcome you get your own environment
- 38:54and if I say so you can come to my house
- 38:56even though we're married
- 39:00ah
- 39:04yeah I'll just be honest with you so for
- 39:06some of you guys this is why I have a
- 39:07man cave
- 39:10this is why you have a bass boat
- 39:12this is why you go to the golf club this
- 39:14is why you join the country club this is
- 39:16why you hunt a lot
- 39:17and none of those things is a sin but if
- 39:20it is my domineering overbearing sort of
- 39:24emotional wife drives me crazy and I
- 39:26don't like to be around her I need to
- 39:27get a different environment
- 39:30then what I would tell you is you need
- 39:32to figure out how to fix that
- 39:33environment
- 39:34some years ago I'll never forget there
- 39:36was a guy in my neighborhood we moved a
- 39:37lot so you don't know what guy this is
- 39:38but he he was we thought he was the nice
- 39:40guy in the neighborhood
- 39:42he would Leaf blow everyone's yard in
- 39:45the whole neighborhood and all we had
- 39:47the most beautiful Street
- 39:49this guy Leaf blow smile big huge
- 39:53earphones I'll never forget one day I
- 39:55went after I said thank you so much for
- 39:57leaf blowing
- 39:58I said just I'm just curious why do you
- 40:01Leaf blow the whole neighborhood he said
- 40:04quote it's louder than my wife
- 40:09[Applause]
- 40:10laughs
- 40:13Ahab the landscaper hey man they have
- 40:16the landscape
- 40:18okay
- 40:19how about are we having fun
- 40:21okay so okay I got a few more a few more
- 40:24uh they will control leaders as I told
- 40:27you she tries to control her husband
- 40:28Ahab she tries to control the profits
- 40:31she tries to control uh Israel the whole
- 40:34nation she tries to control Elijah but
- 40:37really what they like is leaders
- 40:39because leaders are the shortcut to
- 40:41power and control
- 40:43leaders if you are a leader you will
- 40:46deal with a jezebel
- 40:48I promise you
- 40:50in addition they love to control
- 40:53families
- 40:55her family is cursed for Generations
- 40:57their family is cursed for Generations I
- 41:00told you on the weekend Second Kings 11
- 41:03Jezebel has a daughter her daughter's
- 41:06more controlling than she is
- 41:08she has a son who becomes king he rules
- 41:10for a year his mama controls him he dies
- 41:13in battle she then Slaughters all the
- 41:16male relatives so there is no heir to
- 41:19the throne Jezebel's daughter rules and
- 41:21Reigns in Israel Second Kings 11 for six
- 41:24years the only woman in the history of
- 41:27the nation to rule as a queen without a
- 41:30king
- 41:31control control
- 41:33families for Generations
- 41:36hear me in this man let's say there is a
- 41:40woman and it could be a man as well but
- 41:42let's say there's somebody in your
- 41:43family that has more of a jezebel
- 41:45tenancy
- 41:47if you let them they're going to control
- 41:49you your life your marriage guess what
- 41:52happens when you have kids
- 41:54they're going to control your kids
- 41:56guess what happens when your kids have
- 41:58kids that's where my mom and dad are now
- 42:01my mom and dad are awesome and I love
- 42:02them so I'm grateful for them but they
- 42:05will control the whole family
- 42:07extended family as many people as
- 42:10possible for as many generations as
- 42:12possible
- 42:14if you tolerate that you're letting the
- 42:16least healthy person determine your
- 42:18legacy
- 42:19the least healthy person should never
- 42:21determine the Legacy it should only be
- 42:23the most healthy person the Elijah
- 42:26they also control gifts
- 42:28and the reason that a jezebel will give
- 42:31a gift is why
- 42:34now you
- 42:35you owe them
- 42:37this is never Grace based giving this is
- 42:40always strings attached
- 42:43okay I'll give you money if you go to
- 42:45college where I tell you if you send the
- 42:48kids to school where I tell you if you
- 42:50buy the house that I tell you if you
- 42:53move to the city that I tell you if you
- 42:55live in the home that I tell you
- 42:57if you marry who I tell you
- 43:01and some of you
- 43:02you received what you thought was a gift
- 43:04it wasn't it was a bribe
- 43:07later on they're like remember what I
- 43:08gave you you owe me
- 43:10or now I need to speak into your life I
- 43:13gave you money for a house now I get to
- 43:14decide the house now they're in it's
- 43:16control
- 43:18this is why again in the story of naboth
- 43:22she murders him steals the land gives it
- 43:24to her husband it's something that her
- 43:26husband really wanted now
- 43:28he owes her
- 43:30now he owes her
- 43:33anytime she wants to pull out that card
- 43:35she could be like honey here's what I'm
- 43:36telling you to do
- 43:38or to say
- 43:40no I don't want to do that you owe me I
- 43:42murdered naboth and got the land you owe
- 43:44me
- 43:46in addition they will control their
- 43:49image how they appear matters great to
- 43:52them it's not on the inside it's the
- 43:54outside
- 43:55these people love social media
- 43:58they love to portray a life that is an
- 44:02illusion and a delusion
- 44:04they want to appear like they are Godly
- 44:07and beautiful and successful and they're
- 44:10dangerous
- 44:12it says this in Second Kings 9 20.
- 44:13there's a dude named jehu jehu is a dude
- 44:16he's going to murder Jezebel
- 44:19Jezebel here Second Kings nine jehu is
- 44:22coming
- 44:23here's what it says Jezebel painted her
- 44:26eyes and adorned her head
- 44:28her thought was I get my makeup on I
- 44:31turn my underwear to outerwear get my
- 44:33hair done maybe I could sleep with jehu
- 44:35and he won't kill me
- 44:37image Beauty seduction leads to control
- 44:42in addition they will control your
- 44:46energy
- 44:47one Jezebel will wear out a family
- 44:51one Jezebel will wear out a church one
- 44:54Jezebel will wear out a business
- 44:57you'll reach the point where you're like
- 44:58do they ever stop do they sleep
- 45:02like I I make I don't they're so active
- 45:05causing damage and chaos and harm I
- 45:08don't even have time to catch up
- 45:10here's why
- 45:13human beings have limitations
- 45:18demons don't
- 45:20demons don't get the flu
- 45:23demons don't get dehydrated
- 45:25demons don't need a good night's sleep
- 45:29demons don't need a Sabbath day
- 45:32the Bible says of angels that they
- 45:35worship God day and night it says in
- 45:37Revelation 12 the accuser of our
- 45:39Brethren which is Satan
- 45:40he accuses the children of God
- 45:43day and night how many of you can't work
- 45:46three shifts
- 45:48a demon can work three shifts and they
- 45:50can work three shifts 365 days a year
- 45:53if somebody is working by a demonic
- 45:55power they are overwhelming and
- 45:57exhausting I don't even know where they
- 45:59get the energy for that I can't even
- 46:00keep up
- 46:02this happens to Elijah
- 46:05he gets oppressed by the Demonic attack
- 46:07of Jezebel
- 46:09in First Kings 18 he calls down fire
- 46:11from heaven defeats the 850 prophets of
- 46:14Baal First Kings 19 Jezebel puts a curse
- 46:17over him as she makes an inner vow to
- 46:20the Demonic realm says the demons can do
- 46:22harm to me if I don't murder Elijah in
- 46:26the next 24 hours
- 46:28Elijah is so spiritually emotionally
- 46:31physically exhausted
- 46:34he runs he's a man of God just cold down
- 46:37fire from heaven he ran a hundred miles
- 46:40and then he went into the woods and then
- 46:42he laid down and he said I just want to
- 46:45die
- 46:48I'd rather die than continue fighting
- 46:50with this woman and the spirit through
- 46:52this woman
- 46:54he's exhausted
- 46:56God comes to him doesn't rebuke him but
- 47:00instead restores him over the course of
- 47:0240 days God says here's a bite to eat
- 47:04something to drink take a nap take a
- 47:07break he literally is in ICU with God
- 47:11for 40 days
- 47:13because Jezebel wore him out and he's a
- 47:16man of God
- 47:17they will control your energy last two
- 47:21they uh will control your sexuality
- 47:24Revelation 2 says that she calls herself
- 47:27a prophetess a teacher and seduces my
- 47:31servants to sexual immorality
- 47:35every man has got a hook
- 47:39and every man has got a certain bait
- 47:41that Satan will put on that hook
- 47:44for some men it's Fame for some men it's
- 47:47power for some men it's money for most
- 47:49men
- 47:50it's pleasure
- 47:52especially sexual pleasure
- 47:55if a beautiful woman will flirt with you
- 47:57that's
- 47:59if she will
- 48:00initiate with you that's amazing
- 48:04if she will undress for you
- 48:07incredible
- 48:08and if she will do exactly what you want
- 48:11every time
- 48:14you think to yourself that is the most
- 48:17tasty bait I've ever beheld and just
- 48:20know this there's always a hook
- 48:22she's fishing
- 48:25she's fishing for you
- 48:28she's fishing for you
- 48:30and that's what she does with Ahab and
- 48:33that's what she does
- 48:34in Revelation
- 48:37whatever your pleasure is she will bait
- 48:40your hook and what you think is man she
- 48:43must really care about me she's giving
- 48:44me what I want
- 48:47you've been fishing she's going fishing
- 48:52she is going to bait your hook with what
- 48:54you want
- 48:55so she can get that hook in your mouth
- 48:57and reel You In and Club you to death
- 49:01that's how she operates true or false
- 49:04older men would you testify for the
- 49:06younger men
- 49:07true or false true true
- 49:10and then lastly a Jezebel spirit it
- 49:12wants to even control God
- 49:15I mean Jezebel she literally says no
- 49:18more worship of God
- 49:20Elijah says God has something he wants
- 49:23to do God's not allowed to do it
- 49:26Again The Jezebel spirit very spiritual
- 49:29loves church weaponizes the Bible quotes
- 49:31verses very emotional Very sensual
- 49:34But ultimately they won't submit to God
- 49:38let me give you two closing examples you
- 49:40can be a male Jezebel or a female
- 49:42Jezebel
- 49:43male Jezebel
- 49:46patrolling domineering overbearing
- 49:49threatening ruling through fear
- 49:53women and children are afraid of you and
- 49:56sexually
- 49:57you're capable
- 50:00of really gross abuse of a woman or a
- 50:04man
- 50:06assault can go to either gender
- 50:10you can be a male Jezebel
- 50:13what does this look like well there's a
- 50:15guy named Andrew Tate in our culture
- 50:16he's exactly what this looks like
- 50:19he was a big influencer on social media
- 50:21whole generation of young men followed
- 50:24him it was like a demonic parade of
- 50:27disciples
- 50:28he literally calls himself a misogynist
- 50:31which means I use and abuse women and
- 50:33children we build men up to bless women
- 50:35and children
- 50:36he started in a Christian Home became an
- 50:39atheist then said he converted to Islam
- 50:41he's a kickboxer domineering overbearing
- 50:44physically violent sexually assaulting
- 50:46women right now he's sitting in a prison
- 50:48I don't know if he's guilty or Innocent
- 50:50but he's accused of forcing women into
- 50:52prostitution sexual slavery and rape
- 50:54crimes
- 50:57there are certain men they run drug
- 50:59trafficking and human trafficking and
- 51:01cartels and prostitution and I'm telling
- 51:04you right now male Jezebels have taken
- 51:06over the southern border of Arizona
- 51:08and the problem is because we have an
- 51:10Ahab
- 51:12what does it look like to have a female
- 51:14Jezebel well it's probably a little
- 51:16clearer from my talk
- 51:19but what happens is domineering
- 51:22overbearing highly emotional
- 51:24manipulative controlling seductive and
- 51:26sensual
- 51:29what happens then is the Ahab he
- 51:33tolerates so that she dominates
- 51:36and the way this works practically is
- 51:41um let me just say something to the
- 51:43single men
- 51:45single men our world is filled with
- 51:48these women
- 51:50and let me say this if you're a guy
- 51:52who's a Christian you're like I like to
- 51:54help people I like to rescue people I
- 51:56like to see people get delivered be
- 51:59careful
- 52:00a jezebel doesn't want you to save her
- 52:03she wants to drown you
- 52:06if you're a lifeguard saying I'm going
- 52:08to go save the princess she's saying I'm
- 52:10going to drown the Lifeguard
- 52:13let me say this to you single men you
- 52:16young men
- 52:17sometimes these women they're attractive
- 52:20they're aggressive we live in a weird
- 52:23day when I was young you had to work for
- 52:26a woman to sleep with you
- 52:28you men who are young today you have to
- 52:30work not to sleep with those women
- 52:33men men have now got to be on defense if
- 52:35you love Jesus like I'm not trying to
- 52:37have sex with everybody I want to get
- 52:39married and have a family
- 52:42these women are very
- 52:46powerful and they're very present and
- 52:48they're very persistent in our culture
- 52:51these are the gals that'll pursue you
- 52:53they'll flirt with you they'll sleep
- 52:55with you they'll seduce you they'll
- 52:58initiate with you and let me tell you
- 52:59gentlemen
- 53:01it's all about control
- 53:04it's all about her taking away your
- 53:07authority to lead your anointing from
- 53:10God
- 53:11and the destiny that God has for you
- 53:14most of the men that I know who are
- 53:16married to a jezebel started with a
- 53:18dating relationship where she was
- 53:20aggressive seductive sensual enjoyable
- 53:24and then deadly
- 53:27and you're not looking for a good time
- 53:29you're looking for a good wife
- 53:32and you're looking for a good wife with
- 53:33whom you can leave a good Legacy
- 53:36be careful
- 53:38be careful
- 53:39lastly a Jezebel spirit in a female
- 53:42knows that they are in a strategic
- 53:45position because if they attack a man
- 53:48he's in a lose-lose scenario
- 53:50if he goes Ahab and takes it he loses
- 53:54if he pushes back she says he's
- 53:57domineering overbearing unloving
- 53:59controlling hurt her feelings and she's
- 54:01a victim and he's a jezebel
- 54:04and he loses
- 54:06the key in the story is this
- 54:09Jezebel controlling
- 54:12aggressive Ahab passive tolerant Elijah
- 54:17assertive Godly
- 54:19the only way to overcome being in Ahab
- 54:22or dealing with a jezebel is by the
- 54:25power of the Holy Spirit like Elijah
- 54:27he's willing to say no to Jezebel he's
- 54:30willing to say no to Ahab
- 54:32Ahab wants Elijah to tolerate so that
- 54:36she also will dominate and he says no
- 54:39my question to you would be is this and
- 54:42I'm a little bit over
- 54:44um but here's what I want you to talk
- 54:45about the tables what were your mom and
- 54:47dad like we talked about this last week
- 54:49but I want to revisit it
- 54:51your mom or dad was one passive like
- 54:53Ahab controlling like Jezebel or
- 54:55assertive like Elijah what kind of
- 54:57family did you grow up in number two
- 54:58what are you and your spouse if married
- 55:00like is one of you passive like Ahab
- 55:02controlling like Jezebel or assertive
- 55:04like Elijah and what changes do you need
- 55:07to make for your life and family lastly
- 55:09how can we pray for you and I'll close
- 55:12to this and I will close
- 55:16um
- 55:18we all start
- 55:20or Jezebel or more
- 55:23okay
- 55:24nobody starts Elijah
- 55:27nobody just comes out of the womb
- 55:30Elijah
- 55:31we all start Jezebel controlling Ahab
- 55:35Hassan
- 55:36the goal is to be honest and say okay
- 55:37how do I get to Elijah
- 55:40how do I have assertiveness not
- 55:42passiveness or aggressiveness
- 55:45how do I act like Jesus and manifest the
- 55:48fruit of the spirit and if you are
- 55:50married to someone who is unhealthy or
- 55:52unwell
- 55:53how do you get her the help she needs to
- 55:57deal with the trauma she has that causes
- 55:59her to be a person who is maybe not
- 56:03possessed but more
- 56:06prone to become like a jezebel
- 56:08some of you men you've been working
- 56:10around your wives like grenades with a
- 56:12pencil
- 56:13there's certain things you won't talk
- 56:14about
- 56:15there are certain things you won't do
- 56:18you can't even get her to come to this
- 56:19church because
- 56:21of me
- 56:25you're here
- 56:27she's not
- 56:28because you know
- 56:30that if you're going to be Ahab and I'm
- 56:32going to be Elijah then you're going to
- 56:33go home to Jezebel
- 56:35the question is how do you not control
- 56:38your wife
- 56:39and not tolerate your wife let lead your
- 56:42wife to heal your wife
- 56:45so that you can get the best version of
- 56:47her for you and your kids and your
- 56:49grandkids that's what we're going to
- 56:50talk about next week Lord a lot of the
- 56:52lot to cover here Lord
- 56:55and uh Lord we say that the the word of
- 56:57God is Not
- 56:58what used to happen it's what always
- 57:00happens and and God as we look at these
- 57:04three people
- 57:05Ahab Jezebel Elijah God we see ourselves
- 57:09we see relationships we see our spouse
- 57:11we see our parents
- 57:13God we all lean one way or another I
- 57:15Pray by the power of the Holy Spirit you
- 57:17would help each of us men to become more
- 57:19like Elijah filled with the Holy Spirit
- 57:21and more like Jesus
- 57:23God we know that passive men allow harm
- 57:27we know that controlling men cause harm
- 57:30we don't want to watch harm or cause
- 57:32harm
- 57:33we want to build men up to bless women
- 57:35and children to keep them from harm
- 57:38Lord God I pray for these men I pray for
- 57:40their marriages I pray for the single
- 57:42men Lord
- 57:43I pray that they would take this to
- 57:44heart I'm a father with three sons I
- 57:46care very deeply
- 57:48I want these men to not just have a good
- 57:51weekend but a good Legacy
- 57:53and Lord God I pray against the enemy
- 57:55his servants their works and effects we
- 57:57know that these same demonic powers are
- 57:59at work in our day and we can see it God
- 58:01as we put this lens over our culture and
- 58:04our world we can see it
- 58:05we could see seductive satanic sexual
- 58:09sensual spirits
- 58:11and we could see men who are passive
- 58:14and the hook is going in their mouth and
- 58:16they're being controlled and dominated
- 58:17until they're killed and gutted God I
- 58:20pray for these men to have the courage
- 58:21to be like Elijah and God I just pray
- 58:24that we would begin taking steps in the
- 58:26direction of the spirit
- 58:27and Lord God for those men who have
- 58:30learned a little bit would they help
- 58:31pull up the next guy and God for the
- 58:33guys that are just really struggling to
- 58:35hear this because they got to go home
- 58:36and have a conversation I pray that
- 58:38first they'd have a conversation with
- 58:40you hear from you and have a plan to
- 58:43love their wife to lead their family and
- 58:45if she's had trauma and she's
- 58:46controlling and unhealthy that they
- 58:48would get her some help in Jesus name
- 58:50amen love you guys thanks
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