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0:05How many of you believe it's wrong for a Christian tobe drunk with wine?
0:10All right. Logically it must be equally wrong for a Christian
0:14not to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
0:16The same verse says both.
0:19I believe it's probably more serious
0:22not to be filled with the Holy Spirit
0:23than it is to be drunk with wine. I mean that.
0:28It doesn't fit in with some theology but I actually mean it.
0:31I think God can more easily help a person
0:33who got drunk once or twice
0:36than he can help a person who's never filled with the Holy Spirit.
0:40That's the way I view it on the basis of Scripture and experience.
0:46The third principle is live by the word of God.
0:51This cannot be emphasized too strongly.
0:53You do not live by your feelings.
0:58You're not right because you feel right.
1:01This is so true about the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
1:03How do you know you got the baptism in the Holy Spirit?
1:05'I know I got it, I feel wonderful.'
1:08Yeah, but tomorrow morning you'll feel awful
1:10and then you'll know you didn't get it.
1:13Never let feelings be decisive.
1:17How do I know I've got the Holy Spirit?
1:19Because I asked God for the Holy Spirit
1:22and he promised if I asked for bread I'd never get a stone.
1:26That's how I know. I know by Scripture.
1:30I have the scriptural testimony.
1:32I have the promise, Luke 11:13,
1:35I have the evidence, Acts 2:4.
1:37That's how I know. What I feel is secondary.
1:42In the Christian life there are three F's
1:44and they go in a certain order. Facts, faith, feelings.
1:50The basis is fact, that's the fact of the word of God.
1:54On that you add by faith and your feelings follow.
1:59But never let your feelings dictate to you
2:02because they'll mislead you.
2:05Matthew 4 tells us the temptation of Jesus.
2:09Notice this temptation came to him
2:11after the Holy Spirit had come upon him.
2:15Normally you will have temptations
2:18after you have been baptized in the Holy Spirit
2:20that you would have had before.
2:24If you study these temptations,
2:26none of them could have come to Jesus
2:29before he was moving in the supernatural realm.
2:31Every one of them involved the possession of supernatural power.
2:36The same is true after you are baptized in the Holy Spirit,
2:40it's the time you will really be tempted.
2:43I meet many Christians who are not quite sure
2:45whether there's a personal devil or not.
2:48I hardly ever meet a person baptized in the Holy Spirit
2:51who doesn't know the answer to that one!
2:53That's one of the things you find out quickly
2:56when you're baptized in the Holy Spirit.
2:58The Holy Spirit reveals the identity of the enemy.
3:01That's why a lot of lukewarm
3:04churchgoers don't like Holy Spirit religion
3:06because it brings too much out into the open.
3:09They'd rather have it all kept under cover.
3:12The Holy Spirit doesn't keep things under cover.
3:15He forces the enemy out into the open.
3:17Another thing I'll say about the baptism in the Holy Spirit is
3:20many people don't know they have demons
3:22'till they get baptized in the Holy Spirit.
3:25That sounds strange. I know some theology doesn't fit in with that
3:29but I've been in that theological position
3:30that some of you are in and it isn't relevant to experience.
3:35Furthermore, it has no support in Scripture.
3:38Demons get stirred up when the Holy Spirit comes in,
3:40they don't have it all their own way any longer.
3:43If they haven't been driven out prior to receiving the baptism,
3:47then they're going to kick up more trouble
3:50and make more fuss than you've ever experienced in your life before.
3:53I believe ideally the scriptural order is
3:58these signs that follow them that believe.
4:00Number one, in my name they shall cast out the demons.
4:04Number two, they shall speak with tongues.
4:07But lots of places, it ain't being done that way yet.
4:15Let's hope one day it will.
4:17At the moment it really isn't possible to do it that way
4:20because most professing Christians today
4:23until they're baptized in the Holy Spirit wouldn't believe in demons.
4:27See? So, though it's not the ideal we have to work
4:31on the level on which we find ourselves.
4:34When Jesus received the anointing of the Holy Spirit,
4:39then for the first time so far as we know,
4:42he was subjected to direct satanic confrontation and temptation.
4:49In dealing with Satan Jesus used only one weapon.
4:55What was that? The Scripture, the sword of the Spirit
5:00which is the word of God.
5:02Each temptation Jesus began his answer with the phrase
5:08'It is written, it is written, it is written.'
5:11And you must do the same.
5:14This means you must get acquainted with the word of God.
5:17Jesus didn't have a concordance out there in the desert.
5:20He probably didn't even have the Scriptures.
5:22But he had it inside him.
5:24David said, 'Thy word have I hidden,
5:26treasured up in my heart that I might not sin against thee.'
5:32If you're baptized in the Holy Spirit,
5:34the next most urgent need in your life
5:36is to get to know the Scriptures thoroughly
5:40and have them available.
5:44You'll have to live by the word.
5:47Not by church traditions, not by what people say,
5:51not by your feelings but by the written word of God.
5:58The next principle is found there in the fourth statement,
6:05put on the whole armor of God.
6:07Let's look at Ephesians 6:10-18.
6:21These words are written to every believer,
6:24not to a special group like missionaries
6:25or preachers or evangelists but to every believer.
6:29Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord,
6:33and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God,
6:38that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
6:41You are going to be confronted with the wiles,
6:43the deceptions of the devil.
6:46For we wrestle [we're in a wrestling match]
6:49not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
6:51against powers, against the rulers
6:54of the darkness of this present world,
6:56against spirits of wickedness in the heavenlies.
6:59Our wrestling match is with spirits,
7:02not with flesh and blood. Wherefore.
7:05And you remember what Charles said about wherefore and therefore?
7:07When you find a therefore you find out what it's there for.
7:09Because of this, therefore, verse 13:
7:14Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God.
7:18Notice you have to take it. God doesn't drop it on you.
7:21You have to acquire it, you have to take it to yourself.
7:27that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day,
7:30and having done all, to stand.
7:32There's going to come the evil day.
7:34Don't be upset about that, it comes to every believer.
7:38There's the evil day, there's the day of pressure,
7:40the day of testing, the day of misunderstanding,
7:42the day of opposition, the day of loneliness.
7:46You're going to go through it, every child of God does.
7:48We must, the Scripture says,
7:50through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of heaven.
7:53I don't believe that just means get to heaven.
7:56I mean, it gets into living in the kingdom of heaven right now,
7:59it's through opposition.
8:02It's through trouble, it's through testing
8:04that we come into that kind of living.
8:09Stand therefore, and now Paul lists six pieces of equipment.
8:14We cannot really call them armor but equipment.
8:17I'll go through them quickly, they're taken from the pattern
8:20of the Roman soldier in Paul's day.
8:22I don't want to dwell on most of them
8:24but I suggest you make a study of them for yourself.
8:28Number one, having your loins gird about with truth,
8:30the girdle of truth. Now, the girdle in
8:33ancient clothing was something around your loins
8:36which enabled you to lift up your lower hanging garment
8:40to leave your lower legs clear
8:43so that you could act freely without tripping over your own garments.
8:47Many times the Bible speaks about girding up
8:49the loins of your mind and so on.
8:51If you've ever lived in Palestine or those countries
8:54you'll know if you ever see a woman
8:56that's got to sweep the floor or do anything,
8:58the first thing she does is gather up her skirt
9:00and tuck it into her girdle so that her legs are free to move.
9:05Until you've put on the girdle of truth,
9:07when you try to move around, and get active you're going to trip up.
9:11So the first thing to put on is truth.
9:14Truth, I believe, in two forms.
9:17The truth of God's word and the truth about ourselves.
9:21This is basic to deliverance.
9:23Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
9:27You've got to start being honest.
9:30Drop off all the religious phrases you've learned,
9:34what I call the religious cop-outs
9:37and start saying what you mean.
9:39There's never been a time when so many people
9:42say so many sloppy words about faith.
9:46Lots of people talk about faith
9:48but they're just misusing the word.
9:51I had a little kind of encounter with a lady the other day.
9:54I trust she's forgiven me but she got up, and left me in tears.
9:58We've got to be real. Be honest.
10:03Come to the moment of truth,
10:05face the facts about yourself, about your situation,
10:08about your wife and husband and children, about the church.
10:12It's awful but you'll get over the shock.
10:16Without truth you're never going to make any progress.
10:19The whole basis of it. What does God require?
10:22Truth in the inward parts. And then he said,
10:25'In the hidden part thou will make me to know wisdom.'
10:27Sincerity in the inner part will bring revelation from God,
10:32but not without. Alright.
10:35The next one, the breastplate of righteousness.
10:39The are of the heart covered with the righteousness
10:42which is by faith of Jesus Christ.
10:45For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness. All right?
10:53Not the righteousness of good works
10:55but the righteousness received by faith of Jesus Christ.
10:58On no other basis than that Jesus died,
11:02was made sin for us, rose again
11:05and his righteousness is now imputed to us by faith.
11:10The next one, your feet shod
11:12with the preparation of the gospel of peace.
11:14The shoes [or the boots] of preparation for the gospel of peace.
11:20You have to be prepared to be a witness or a minister of the gospel.
11:25You have to have your shoes on.
11:27When we were in action in the North African desert
11:29in the second world war, if the enemy were close
11:33we were never allowed to sleep with our boots off,
11:35we had to keep out boots on night and day.
11:38In an emergency, if you had to reach out in the dark
11:41and grope for your boots and put them on,
11:44the thing would have passed before you were able to do anything about it.
11:47This has always been so vivid to me.
11:49If you don't have on the boots of the preparation of the gospel,
11:52the opportunity to witness, to serve,
11:55to minister will come
11:57and you'll still be looking up your Scriptures.
12:00You have to be prepared, you have to know the word of God,
12:03you have to be prepared in prayer.
12:05You have to have the peace of God to minister
12:07so that when people come to you in distress you don't say,
12:10'Let me go away and pray for half an hour, and I'll give you an answer,'
12:13you have it out of you right there.
12:15The preparation of the gospel of peace which is the boots.
12:19Then above all, or over all, taking the shield of faith.
12:23There are two kinds of shield in the New Testament.
12:26One is a circular, small, round shield
12:29and the other is a great, big, oval shield.
12:32This is the oval, long shield which is spoken of here,
12:35something that can cover the whole man.
12:37You can hide completely behind this shield. That's faith.
12:42The total covering faith which covers every aspect of your life,
12:46your family, you business, your circumstances, your children;
12:50everything is covered by this great shield of faith.
12:55It can quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
12:59Verse 17, two more vital pieces of armor.
13:02The helmet of salvation
13:05and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.
13:08We've dealt already with the sword of the Spirit,
13:11let me take a moment to deal with the helmet of salvation.
13:14What area of the body does the helmet protect? The head.
13:18What does the head represent in your spiritual experience?
13:24Yes, in the body, but in your inner spiritual experience?
13:28The mind, the thought life, whatever way you like to put it.
13:33I have discovered by experience many Christians
13:37have their minds unprotected,
13:40they do not have on the helmet.
13:42They get wounded in the head
13:45and then they can't use the rest of the armor
13:48because they don't have the strength.
13:49I've learned this the hard way by personal experience.
13:53When I got delivered from the spirit of depression
13:56years ago God showed me now you're delivered,
13:58now you've got to learn how to stay delivered.
14:01God showed me these two things which I'm sharing
14:03with you now, the helmet of salvation
14:05and the other garment I'll show you in a moment.
14:09I realized that my main problem was in my thought life.
14:13I didn't have control over it.
14:14All sorts of negative, upsetting, disturbing,
14:19frustrating thoughts, resentment, fear of failure, unbelief, doubt,
14:26indecision would come crowding into my mind.
14:30I was having a continual inner struggle.
14:33I think it's true to say that most people are like icebergs:
14:38that which shows above the surface
14:40is only a small part of the total personality.
14:44There's things going on inside most people
14:46which don't show above the surface unless you have discernment.
14:50This was certainly true in my case.
14:53My problem was in the realm of the mind.
14:55My mind was highly trained,
14:58it was the thing I'd relied on all my life.
15:01Actually, the more intellectual you are,
15:04the more liable you are to have problems with your mind
15:08because you're more prone to rely on it.
15:12The Bible says, 'Cursed is the man who trusteth in man
15:17and maketh flesh [the carnal mind]
15:19his arm and whose heart departeth from the Lord.'
15:23Very often the simple, unsophisticated person
15:26is not so prone to rely upon the mind
15:29and doesn't have the same problems with the mind.
15:31It's not that there's anything wrong with being educated or trained.
15:34An educated and trained mind is a wonderful thing
15:37but it's an instrument.
15:39You better make sure who's using the instrument.
15:44Well, God showed me that I needed protection
15:46and as I thought about this I thought,
15:48'Well, there's one piece that must be for the mind,
15:51it's the helmet.' I read in Ephesians 6:17
15:54where it said the 'helmet of salvation.'
15:57I said to myself, 'Do I have the helmet or don't I?
15:59I'm saved, does that mean I have the helmet of salvation?'
16:03I had a Bible with cross references
16:05and I saw there was a cross reference to 1 Thessalonians 5:8.
16:09I turned over there and read these words.
16:11But let us who are of the day be sober,
16:14putting on the breastplate of faith and love;
16:18and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
16:22When I read the word 'hope' I got a sudden complete sermon.
16:26I saw that there was one thing that had never been preached to me.
16:29Paul says in 1 Corinthians 14:14:
16:32Now abideth faith, hope, love.
16:36These are the three abiding realities.
16:39I'd heard many sermons on faith, a lot of sermons on love
16:44and never one sermon on hope all my life.
16:46I had to preach myself the first one.
16:49I came to see that this was what was missing in me.
16:53Faith in the Scriptures is in the heart.
16:57Mental faith is not the faith the Scripture deals with.
17:00With the heart man believeth.
17:02Lots of people have got tremendous faith
17:04but it's in the mind and it doesn't do what
17:07heart faith does. That's why they're surprised
17:10when they say 'I believe' and nothing happens.
17:12They do believe but it's in the mind.
17:14Faith is in the heart.
17:17So it's not for the mind.
17:19But there is something for the mind, what's that?
17:22Hope. Here's the secret. What is hope?
17:26I define it as this. A confident, unwavering expectation of good.
17:32That's in the mind. You know what I was?
17:36By birth and upbringing I was a professional pessimist.
17:42I was born one to start with and brought up to be one.
17:45In my family, if you weren't worrying about something
17:47you'd have to be worrying about what you weren't worrying about.
17:51I look back, my mother's with the Lord now
17:54but my dear mother was like that.
17:56She was worried if I wasn't worrying.
18:00Well, this had a deep effect upon me.
18:04When I was delivered from the demon of depression
18:08then God showed me, 'Now you're free
18:11to cultivate different thought reactions and patterns.
18:15Before you weren't free. But now you are.'
18:18Deliverance doesn't do it all,
18:20deliverance sets you free and then you have to do it.
18:25I realized that when I was a pessimist
18:28I was denying my faith in Jesus Christ.
18:31Pessimism is a denial of your faith as a Christian.
18:34You say give me a Scripture. Only one is needed. Romans 8:28.
18:39We know that all things work together
18:41for good to them that love God.
18:44If you love God and are called,
18:46all things are working together for good.
18:48If all things are working together for good
18:50there can never be a logical reason for pessimism.
18:54Every time you're a pessimist you're denying the word of God
18:57and you're denying your faith in God and Jesus Christ.
19:00I had to deliberately replace pessimism by optimism.
19:05It didn't happen in a week, it didn't happen in a month,
19:08it didn't happen in a year;, but it has happened.
19:12Today I'm a trained optimist.
19:17I mean that! I trained myself to be an optimist.
19:20Every time I find that pessimistic reaction
19:23beginning to come back I say, 'Wait a minute.
19:26There's no room for that.' This is the helmet, it's hope.
19:31A confident, mental expectation of that which is good.
19:37It says faith is the substance of things hoped for.
19:44Faith is in the now, hope is in the future.
19:49Each has its place.
19:51Hope is based on faith, faith is the substance.
19:55Faith is in the heart.
19:57Faith is for now and never for the future.
20:00Hope is in the mind and it's for the future.
20:04There's some beautiful Scriptures,
20:06I wish I could preach you a sermon on hope.
20:08Let me give you the one in Hebrews 6:19-20:
20:12Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul,
20:17both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into the veil;
20:22whither the forerunner [Jesus] is for us entered.
20:27Hope is the anchor.
20:31Why do you need an anchor? Why does a ship need an anchor?
20:34Because, a ship is floating around in a basically
20:37unstable element which is water.
20:39No matter how much that ship may want to be stabilized,
20:43there's nothing in the water to make that ship stable, is there?
20:47What does the ship have to do? It has to pass its anchor
20:50out from itself through the water
20:53and into another element that is stable.
20:55What's that? I like to say the rock.
20:59One is hope, it's your anchor.
21:03You live in a realm that's impermanent, unstable, insecure.
21:08In your material situation
21:10and circumstances there is no basis for security.
21:15I smile when I see insurance companies advertise peace of mind.
21:19As if they had the ability to give peace of mind.
21:24They don't. You can have all the insurance in the world
21:27and be riddled with insecurity
21:30because it doesn't depend on those things.
21:32When you've passed your anchor out of time into eternity
21:38and fastened it in the rock,
21:40then you're little boat is secure.
21:44The anchor is hope.
21:47Praise the Lord. Put it on. Use it.
21:50Also, it speaks about hope. I didn't want to do this
21:53but in Hebrews 5 it says 'it's like the horns of the altar.
21:57We fled for refuge to the hope set before us.'
22:00You know, in desperation a man who is being pursued by his enemies
22:04would flee to the altar and grasp the altar by its horns
22:08and no one dared to pull a man away from the horns of the altar.
22:11When you're in absolute desperation
22:14and all the demons are on your tail, what do you do?
22:17Get to the altar and grab the horns and hold on.
22:20The horns are hope. Never give up your hope.
22:24The world may collapse around you
22:27but God is still on is throne.
22:30Now there's a garment of praise.
22:32I've got five more minutes and a lot to cover.
22:36It says in Isaiah 61. We will read it quickly.
22:44This is what Jesus proclaimed in the synagogue in Nazareth.
22:48It's quoted in Luke 4:18 and following when he said:
22:53The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.
22:55He quoted this Scripture, let's read it.
22:57John Wesley said when he quoted these words,
23:00'Is there ever been a preacher of the gospel
23:02of whom these words were not true?'
23:05That was his comment. In other words, every preacher of the gospel
23:08should be able to say these words.
23:11The Spirit of the Lord is upon me;
23:13because the Lord hath anointed me
23:14to preach good tidings unto the meek;
23:17he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
23:19to proclaim liberty to the captives,
23:21and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
23:24to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
23:26And notice in the synagogue, he stopped there.
23:29He did not say 'the day of vengeance of our God'
23:32because he came to bring grace, not judgment.
23:35Judgment will be on the next visit.
23:39To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion,
23:42to give unto them beauty for ashes,
23:45the oil of joy in place of mourning,
23:48the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
23:53If you've had the spirit of heaviness,
23:55you don't want it back, put on the garment of praise.
24:00When you're wearing the garment of praise,
24:02the spirit of heaviness does not like to come near you.
24:06This is a true story and it illustrates this.
24:10I was in London years back as a pastor and a lady arrived
24:13who was a member of our congregation,
24:15dragging a rather reluctant husband by her hand.
24:17Without warning said, 'This is my husband.
24:20He's a backslider, he's just come out of prison,
24:22he's got an evil spirit. Will you pray for him?'
24:26In those days, praying for a person with an evil spirit
24:29was an embarrassment to me. I didn't know what to do
24:32but we had with us a couple of Russian Jewesses
24:36who'd been saved in the Baptist church in Russian
24:38and later received the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
24:41They said in Russia the Baptists
24:43are more Pentecostal than the Pentecostals are in Europe.
24:47When they started praying
24:49they didn't care about what the neighbors thought,
24:50they just let go and praised God.
24:53We started to pray in a sort of vague way
24:55that people do pray when they think they ought to be doing
24:57something but don't know what to do
24:59which is the normal way most Christians treat evil spirits.
25:03We were really praising the Lord
25:06and this poor man who'd just come out of prison
25:09came up to me privately and said, 'I think I'm going.'
25:12I said, 'Why?' He said, 'Too much noise.'
25:18I didn't have an answer ready but God gave me one.
25:22I said, 'I'll tell you who doesn't like the noise.
25:24It's the devil. He doesn't like the noise
25:27because we're praising Jesus and he never likes that.
25:30You've got two alternatives.
25:33You can go now and the devil will go with you
25:36or you can stay and the devil will go without you.'
25:39He said, 'I'll stay.'
25:42I made a promise without meditating.
25:44A few minutes later he came up to me and said,
25:46'It just left, it left my throat.'
25:48I didn't understand really what he was saying.
25:50But the devil left because he couldn't stand
25:52the atmosphere of praise any longer.
25:56If you put on the garment of praise,
25:58you embarrass the devil much more
26:00than he can ever embarrass you. Don't wait to feel like it.
26:04Praise is a sacrifice, Hebrews 13:15:
26:07By him [Jesus Christ] therefore
26:09let us offer the sacrifice of praise unto God continually.
26:17Just saying it in my heart. No. that is, the fruit of our lips.
26:22That's not in your heart, that's out loud, out of your mouth.
26:27That's what God requires.
26:29David said when he was in the court of a heathen king
26:33slobbering on his beard, and scribbling on the door,
26:36pretending to be mad in order to save his life,
26:38do you know what he said? He wrote Psalm 34.
26:41Remember, that's when it was written and the first verse says:
26:44I will bless the Lord at all times,
26:49his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
26:53There is never a time and there is never a place
26:57when you should not be praising the Lord.
27:02If you put on that garment you'll enjoy it.
27:07Alright. Now we've got a minute and a half
27:11to deal with the other three things
27:12Cultivate right relationships.
27:14I'm preaching on that the other time.
27:17Be careful about going back into resentment,
27:21bitterness and unforgiveness.
27:24Cultivate. The moment you feel resentment
27:27rising up against that husband of yours, check it.
27:32I say replace the negative by the positive.
27:35'Brother Prince, I just resent him.
27:37What am I to do?' Pray for him.
27:40I don't believe you can resent someone
27:42and pray for them at the same time.
27:44So replace the negative by the positive.
27:46You'll have to be on your guard
27:48because resentment is a habit with many of us.
27:50I'll tell you another habit that most of us have
27:52and I'm not innocent.
27:55I'll tell you truthfully, and I'll say this in front of my wife.
27:59There are some situations in our home when my wife and I
28:02start to discuss certain things I say to her,
28:04'We should just as well play a tape recording of this
28:06because we both know what we're going to say now
28:08for the next five minutes.'
28:13When I say that then I say,
28:15'Let's switch off the tape recorder, shall we?'
28:18Stop it now.
28:21The beginning of strife, the Bible says in a rather vulgar,
28:24plain way, is as when one letteth out water.
28:28So stop before you start.
28:30You know how difficult it is once you've started, to stop!
28:46We've got two more things. Number six,
28:49cultivate right fellowship.
28:50You've got a good Scripture there about light
28:54cannot have fellowship with darkness.
28:57I don't mean that you separate yourself from the world
29:00and go into a convent but do not
29:02go around with the negative people.
29:06Cultivate positive people,
29:08people that will build up your faith,
29:10strengthen you, encourage you.
29:12If you've taken a stand for healing don't go back
29:15to the people that believe healing ended with the apostles.
29:18I'll tell you two things that come by hearing.
29:20One of them you know. Romans 10:17:
29:23Faith cometh by hearing. Do you know the other one? Unbelief.
29:28Jesus said, 'Take heed what you hear and take heed how you hear.'
29:34The book of Proverbs says, 'Cease, my son,
29:38to hear the instruction which causeth thee
29:41to err from the words of truth.'
29:44I'll tell you, if I wanted to keep my faith up
29:47I'd never go listen to some of the sermons
29:49that you people go and listen to on Sunday morning.
29:52I just couldn't do it, that's all.
29:54I don't want to fill my mind with negative poison
29:58and then try to live a victorious life. I couldn't do it.
30:01Maybe you're better than I am, maybe you're stronger.
30:03But you cannot feed on faith destroying sermons,
30:07literature and conversation
30:09and then expect to be a victorious believing Christian.
30:12It just cannot be done.
30:16What comes in has to come out somewhere.
30:19If you admit it to your heart
30:21it's going to be expressed in your living.
30:23'Keep thy heart with all diligence,
30:26for out of it are the issues of life.'
30:29If it gets in here it's got to be expressed in what you do.
30:32It matters what you believe.
30:37This goes beyond just what church you attend,
30:40it goes to the whole question of whom you spend your time with.
30:43What kind of people you listen over the telephone to,
30:47because a lot of people have a lot of problems
30:49through listening to the wrong kind of telephone talk.
30:53Finally, and this is the last, make Jesus central.
30:59Don't go off on a tangent about demons.
31:03See, you can be one-sided about anything
31:05in the Christian life except Jesus.
31:08You can be one-sided about tongues,
31:10one- sided about healing, one-sided about divine order,
31:13one-sided about women not speaking in the church,
31:16one-sided about demons.
31:17You can be one-sided about anything except Jesus.
31:21He's the center, he's the author, he's the finisher,
31:23he's the foundation and he's the coping stone.
31:27Keep Jesus in the center. I realize for many of you
31:30being confronted with this type of message
31:32and deliverance service, it makes a powerful impact.
31:36I can believe that.
31:37For the next few weeks you're going to wander around,
31:40'Do I have a demon? Does he have a demon?
31:41Does my preacher have a demon?' And so on.
31:43Well, they may all have demons.
31:45But don't become demon preoccupied? All right.
31:49It will take a little while to fit in to your total Christian believing,
31:54you've got to find a new style for demons.
31:59But don't let it dominate you.
32:02I give you that beautiful Scripture and then we close.
32:05Jesus said when he went to the cross:
32:07Now is the judgment of this world
32:10[now at the cross through what Jesus did]
32:12is the prince of this world [Satan] cast out.
32:16He's cast out, there's a vacuum.
32:19Who's going to fill it? The next Scripture is:
32:21And I, if I be lifted up from the earth,
32:25will draw all men unto me.
32:27Make it your supreme aim
32:30always to uplift and glorify Jesus.
32:35For more information about Derek Prince or Derek Prince Ministries
32:38visit us online at: DerekPrince.org.

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