How to Defeat the Jezebel Spirit — Transcript

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1. 0:00Spirit of Jezebel, who is she?
2. 0:02Is she real?
3. 0:03You know, there's a lot of mentions in the Bible.
4. 0:05In fact, somebody counted 22 times Jezebel is mentioned
5. 0:09and her husband Ahab mentioned 90 times.
6. 0:12But we really see her in Old Testament, 1 Kings chapter 18
7. 0:17and in the New Testament, Revelation 2:20.
8. 0:21But Jezebel, even though there is no word
9. 0:23specifically in the Bible, spirit of Jezebel
10. 0:26as it says, you know, spirit of heaviness, spirit of fear,
11. 0:29it doesn't use the word spirit of Jezebel yet
12. 0:31because we see her reappearing again in Book of Revelation.
13. 0:35We can assume that a spirit of Jezebel is really
14. 0:38a demonic spirit that inhabits a person that causes them
15. 0:41to be driven by sexual appetites and by control
16. 0:45and false teaching.
17. 0:46The best way to define this Jezebel spirit,
18. 0:49it's pretty much characterized as anyone
19. 0:52who lives like Jezebel did: engaging in immorality,
20. 0:55idolatry, false teaching, and unrepentant sin.
21. 0:59You know, she was guided by no principle
22. 1:01restrained by no fear of God or fear of men,
23. 1:04passionate in her pursuit and attachment of heathen worship.
24. 1:09She spared no pain to maintain idolatry around her
25. 1:13in all of its splendour.
26. 1:14In fact, let's read what the New Testament says
27. 1:17about this Queen Jezebel,
28. 1:19who I believe is still alive and well,
29. 1:22and it operates in a lot of people and even in some churches.
30. 1:26In Revelation 2:20 it says:
31. 2:02Ouch! That's some pretty strong words.
32. 2:05I want you to notice who had this woman operating - the church.
33. 2:10The church had a Jezebel operating in pretty high levels.
34. 2:14So let's look at eight things I want to mention about
35. 2:17this spirit of Jezebel that I believe still operates
36. 2:20and we as pastors, ministers, and believers have to be aware.
37. 2:24Number one, it can operate in men and women.
38. 2:26I remember doing deliverance on one guy,
39. 2:28it's on my YouTube, you can see it--in another city
40. 2:31and was a spirit of Jezebel that was bringing lust in his life
41. 2:34and he was a guy.
42. 2:35After he was delivered, he was freed from pornography.
43. 2:38Number two, this is a spirit that causes control, manipulation
44. 2:41and domination, which is kind of a form of witchcraft.
45. 2:44Jezebel was a control freak.
46. 2:46We must understand that control of people
47. 2:48is a sign of witchcraft.
48. 2:50Control of people, dominating, intimidating, manipulating
49. 2:54is a sign of a Jezebel characteristic.
50. 2:57You might not be comfortable calling it Jezebel spirit
51. 2:59because Bible doesn't say Jezebel spirit, but it's her lane.
52. 3:02Okay? It's her world.
53. 3:04The fruit of the Spirit is self control.
54. 3:06The fruit of Jezebel is people control.
55. 3:08It's controling everything else except self.
56. 3:11A third sign of Jezebel, she's really good at intimidation.
57. 3:15She causes fear, flight, and discouragement.
58. 3:17She didn't kill Elijah, she threatened him.
59. 3:20She sent a messenger to make him run, to make him flee
60. 3:24to make him be discouraged.
61. 3:25Elijah was one of the greatest prophets of Old Testament.
62. 3:28The guy was crazy, okay, he was fearless.
63. 3:30He was reckless. Like, he was scary.
64. 3:33I would be scared of Elijah if I would be Jezebel, okay?
65. 3:36But Jezebel didn't want to kill him
66. 3:38otherwise she wouldn't send a messenger
67. 3:40she would have sent an assassin.
68. 3:42She wanted to scare him. She wanted to make him run.
69. 3:44She wanted to make him overthink.
70. 3:45She wanted to make him complain
71. 3:47and she accomplished that really well
72. 3:49because Elijah ran.
73. 3:51He started to complain he was the only one,
74. 3:53there was nobody else.
75. 3:54"God take my life." He despaired of life.
76. 3:57Even though he just had a great victory on Mount Carmel,
77. 4:00he slaughtered the prophets of Jezebel.
78. 4:02And a lot of times after great victories,
79. 4:04this spirit, this demonic work to bring deep, deep despair
80. 4:10deep discouragement, like, almost like not normal,
81. 4:14like spiritual, you just feel like, " I don't want to live,
82. 4:16I want to quit. I want to give up. I'm burned out."
83. 4:20And that's not to say that we emotionally, physically
84. 4:24get tired and need to be refreshed, renewed
85. 4:27and recalibrated.
86. 4:28But in Elijah's case, Jezebel pushed him over the edge.
87. 4:31Maybe you are experiencing that.
88. 4:32What if I were to tell you that behind some of the burnouts
89. 4:36discouragements, disappointments is an evil spirit?
90. 4:39It's an evil plot and a plan to wear you out, take you out.
91. 4:43The enemy can't attack you head-on,
92. 4:45he wants to wear you out.
93. 4:46Find comfort in a still small voice of God.
94. 4:49Get back in the game and keep on fighting.
95. 4:51Sign number four of a Jezebel spirit
96. 4:54is seduction and sexual immorality.
97. 4:57Jesus made it very clear. He pretty much pulled the curtains
98. 4:59and said this Jezebel she seduces, listen to this
99. 5:03My servants with sexual immorality
100. 5:06or to commit sexual immorality.
101. 5:08Now we see-- How many servants of God and pastors get seduced
102. 5:13and fell into sexual immorality?
103. 5:15I am not in any way going to point fingers or throw stones,
104. 5:19because I myself am in the same danger
105. 5:22to come under discouragement.
106. 5:23And I feel like when the enemy can't take you out
107. 5:26by wearing you out, then the enemy changes the tactic
108. 5:29through seduction.
109. 5:30When Jehu came to destroy Jezebel,
110. 5:33she came out of the window and she put makeup on. Okay?
111. 5:37This wicked queen, she wanted to seduce Jehu.
112. 5:40Revelation chapter 2 says clearly: "Seduces My servants."
113. 5:45That means she is after the preachers.
114. 5:47She is after the ministers, the evangelists.
115. 5:50Why is she after them?
116. 5:51If she can't wear them out, she is going to seduce them. Why?
117. 5:55Because when a person in the place of authority
118. 5:57in the place of influence falls,
119. 6:00their fall doesn't just attack their spouse
120. 6:02influence and affect their spouse,
121. 6:05it affects those that believed in them, followed them,
122. 6:09knew them.
123. 6:09When great preachers like Ravi Zacharias
124. 6:12when great preachers like-- recently not long ago
125. 6:16Carl Lentz, and so many others throughout the history
126. 6:19that fell into sexual immorality
127. 6:21the kind of damage it did to other believers,
128. 6:24the damage it did to the Name of Jesus
129. 6:26was way bigger than if somebody,
130. 6:28an ordinary Christian committed the same sin.
131. 6:30I am not in any way saying that these sins
132. 6:33didn't damage those families,
133. 6:35didn't cause huge pain to those families.
134. 6:37And I'm not in any way saying that these men
135. 6:39are not held accountable and they shouldn't repent
136. 6:42We must understand please pray for your pastors.
137. 6:45Pray for the preachers. Pray for God's servants. Okay?
138. 6:49Because the higher God takes them, the higher God takes them
139. 6:52the more the enemy wants to attack them and those heights
140. 6:56so that when they fall, great is their fall
141. 6:58and many can be affected by their fall.
142. 7:01You know, when David committed sexual immorality with Bathsheba
143. 7:04God says you gave My enemies a reason to reproach
144. 7:08to blaspheme My Name.
145. 7:09And David's consequences were very severe.
146. 7:12And this I believe Jezebel seeks to seduce God's servants
147. 7:16through pornography, through affairs,
148. 7:18and through just flirtations,
149. 7:20all kinds of things to distract them.
150. 7:22If it can't distract them with discouragement,
151. 7:24it will seek distract them with seduction.
152. 7:26This Jezebel, Bible teaches that she prophesies
153. 7:30and teaches in the church.
154. 7:31Now that's crazy. How did she get to the church?
155. 7:34In the Old Testament, Jezebel was fully in control
156. 7:37of religion.
157. 7:38Not only was she a queen, a political figure
158. 7:41she was a religous leader.
159. 7:44She had prophets on her payroll,
160. 7:45and she really controlled the religious climate in her time.
161. 7:49In the Book of Revelation we see a similar thing
162. 7:52where this woman, she declares herself a prophetess
163. 7:55and she teaches.
164. 7:56Meaning she has a place of influence, and she has a place
165. 7:59where she can influence the culture of the church
166. 8:02by her mouth.
167. 8:03This doesn't mean that she was a woman.
168. 8:06We don't know. Maybe a man, maybe a woman and stuff
169. 8:08because a lot of women didn't preach at those times
170. 8:10in those churches.
171. 8:11But maybe she was a woman, maybe she was a man.
172. 8:13It's someone who preaches a false doctrine.
173. 8:17Someone who preaches other truths than the gospel.
174. 8:20And we have to be very careful.
175. 8:22No matter how good they sound,
176. 8:23no matter how good they look,
177. 8:25no matter how much influence they have,
178. 8:27Jezebel is not just a seductive, controlling
179. 8:30you know, infuses you with fear and manipulation
180. 8:34it's also a teacher.
181. 8:35And those of us who teach God's Word,
182. 8:37we have to be very careful that we don't come under influence
183. 8:40by teaching something that is not true to the Scriptures.
184. 8:43Number six is Jezebel quickly rises
185. 8:46to the place of influence and leadership.
186. 8:48She loves to be in the place of leadership.
187. 8:52She was not just a servant, she was a queen.
188. 8:54And in this place, she was a prophetess
189. 8:56in Revelation chapter 2.
190. 8:57She was in the place where she was influencing.
191. 8:59She loves the spotlight.
192. 9:01I'm always cautious when people are addicted to spotlight
193. 9:06when young men and young women cannot live
194. 9:09without a microphone, or they need a podium to feel validated.
195. 9:12They need a place of visibility to feel valued.
196. 9:15It's very dangerous.
197. 9:16And unknowingly, you can yield and give yourself to this spirit
198. 9:21through this insecurity.
199. 9:22You can allow this demonic bully to take over you
200. 9:25and begin to infiltrate the church and the Kingdom of God
201. 9:29through your vulnerability, through your--
202. 9:32not vulnerability through your carelessness
203. 9:34through your desiring for fame, desiring to be known
204. 9:39desiring position of leadership not so you can serve,
205. 9:42but so you can shine.
206. 9:44It's very dangerous because then you can be in that place
207. 9:47and actually bring damage because something else
208. 9:49is controlling you. And you become like a puppet for an evil plot
209. 9:53an evil ploy, an evil spirit.
210. 9:54Number seven, Jezebel thrives where there is weak leadership.
211. 9:59For every Jezebel there is an Ahab.
212. 10:01In fact, Jezebel couldn't do anything without Ahab.
213. 10:04Ahab is the enabler.
214. 10:05Ahab couldn't stand up to her.
215. 10:07Ahab was passive and therefore, God had to use Elijah
216. 10:11to confont Jezebel.
217. 10:12He had to use Jehu to wipe her out, to take her out
218. 10:15because Ahab couldn't do it.
219. 10:17Jezebel thrives in places where leadership
220. 10:21is afraid of confrontation.
221. 10:22Where leadership is so passive,
222. 10:25so fearful of any kind of conflict
223. 10:28that it will cause by confronting Jezebel.
224. 10:31They're just keeping peace at any cost.
225. 10:33Even if it's destroying the ministry,
226. 10:35even if it's causing things to be taught wrong,
227. 10:37"I just don't want to upset people."
228. 10:39And this kind of Ahab attitude is what Jezebel loves.
229. 10:44It thrives in those kinds of environments.
230. 10:47Now, I'm not saying we have to love confrontation,
231. 10:49none of us do.
232. 10:50But part of the challenge of being a Christian leader,
233. 10:53part of the challenge of being a pastor
234. 10:55is you have to spot a Jezebel and you have got to stop her.
235. 10:58And to do that, you have to be confrontive.
236. 11:00To do that, you have to have a spirit of Elijah
237. 11:02you have to have a characteristic of Elijah
238. 11:04where you can face head-on and stop it
239. 11:07and you are not afraid of the consequences.
240. 11:08God even said, He says, I'm going to throw her in the sick bed.
241. 11:11God was confronting her.
242. 11:12So God wants us to rise up against that.
243. 11:14And I'm not talking about now going and attacking
244. 11:16every person that you don't like in the church.
245. 11:18First of all, deal with Jezebel within your life.
246. 11:20Certain habits, attitudes, control tendencies, you know,
247. 11:25discouragements, sexual sins, this desire for fame
248. 11:29desire to be known not so you can make Jesus known
249. 11:32but so you can feel more secure, more confident about yourself.
250. 11:36Deal with those things in your heart first.
251. 11:38We have to deal with-- I have to deal with my own heart
252. 11:40before I deal that with others.
253. 11:42And when I spot things that are out of line,
254. 11:45not to be afraid of men, but to confront things
255. 11:47and to put them in the right place.
256. 11:48Lastly is Jezebel is usually not repentant.
257. 11:53And we see in Kings that Jezebel never repented
258. 11:56she had to be punished.
259. 11:57In the Book of Revelation, God gives her a chance to repent
260. 12:00but God is already saying, I'm throwing her in the sick bed,
261. 12:03meaning I'm going to punish her.
262. 12:04I'm going to discipline her and everyone else
263. 12:06who was involved in her deception.
264. 12:08And He says, if she doesn't repent,
265. 12:10I'm going to start killing things.
266. 12:12I don't know if that's literally killing children.
267. 12:14I don't know about that.
268. 12:15Or this is speaking maybe of some kind of other thing
269. 12:18I don't know but I know there are consequences
270. 12:20to allowing Jezebel to operate in your life.
271. 12:23And so, confront that witch head-on.
272. 12:25Control that wicked queen head-on.
273. 12:28And don't give her a place through discouragement,
274. 12:30through seduction, through control, believing false doctrine
275. 12:34seeking you know, place of leadership to shine
276. 12:37when you don't have the gift and calling to be at that place
277. 12:40because you're just insecure you know, being a bully.
278. 12:42Don't give that Jezebel a place in your life.
279. 12:46Overcome her by repentance,
280. 12:48by trusting in Jesus, preaching the truth
281. 12:51seeking to have self control instead of people control
282. 12:54overcoming discouragement. It's okay to be discouraged
283. 12:57it's not okay to stay like that.
284. 12:59To fighting and fleeing sexual immorality
285. 13:01instead of fleeing your calling.
286. 13:03And seeking to serve instead of to shine
287. 13:06meaning being in the spotlight.
288. 13:07That's what I mean because we are all called to shine as lights
289. 13:10and be the salt.
290. 13:10But I'm talking about, you know, desiring the spotlight
291. 13:13for the sake of being known and famous.
292. 13:15Thank you for watching this video.
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294. 13:18to live in the way of Christ
295. 13:20instead of in the way of the wicked queen.
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