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Ephesians 6:10,13 -Spiritual Warfare- Pastor Rick Beaudry 2026-05-31

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Ephesians chapter six verses 10 through 13. Would you please stand with me as we read God's holy word together? Ephesians chapter six beginning with verse 10. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all, to stand. Father, we thank you for your holy word. And, Lord, we thank you for the instruction in your word that, Lord, you're teaching us how to stand, how to withstand the wicked one, the powers of evil, the powers of darkness. And, Lord, we thank you that you desire to equip us and to help us to gain the victory. We thank you, Lord, that we're a part of the victory of your son, that he spoiled already all principalities and powers he triumphed over them. And and, Lord, greater is he that's in us than he that's in the world. And since you're for us, who can be against us, Lord? But we do engage. We engage in battle. And, Lord, we pray that evermore you'd help us to be good soldiers, that we'd not retreat, we'd not hide, we'd not go AWOL. Lord, we pray that we would engage the enemy, and Lord that we would do it in the power, not of the flesh, but in the power of your holy spirit. So teach us, Lord, how we might gain victory on a regular basis, and Lord to walk in that victory, to walk in that power of the holy spirit that gives us a victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil. In Jesus' name, pray. Amen. Would you please be seated? Jesus never promised, that our best life now, you know, would take place, you know, presently. And he he didn't depict the Christian life as a board game to be played. You know, we're playing Christianity. The abundant life that Jesus promised is a quality of life. And the devil, on the other hand, he wants to steal, to kill, to destroy, and, we don't wanna live a defeated Christian life, not to say that the devil can steal our salvation, our salvation's secure. But we as Christians, many of us, we've never grown. We've never grown in the Lord. We're still babes in Christ. And as babes in Christ in our carnality, we're easily manipulated and and moved about by the wicked one, the the demons and the principalities and the powers. They're a mean of of manipulation and condemnation and lying. We're so incredibly susceptible to deception. The greatest weapon the devil has is that of deception. And because the church, many in the church today, are biblically illiterate and don't know the word of God, and the devil does know the word of God, we're so incredibly deceived and defeated by the wicked one. And so that's why we place great emphasis upon the teaching of God's word and not just an intellectual consent or accumulation of knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, love edifies, but to apply these truths to our lives. And so when we're tempted, we see that Jesus was tempted, and every time he was tempted, he counteracted the lie of the wicked one with the word of God. He kept saying, it is written. It is written. It is written. And that's what we must do. We must take the sword of the spirit. We'll get into that next week. The sword of the spirit, which is the word of God, and we need to to counteract. We need to be on the offensive, in many cases with the wicked one. And unfortunately, many many today think of the church. Warren Wiersbe said, Christianity is not a playground. It's a battleground. And we see that imagery that Paul is depicting and telling Timothy to war a good warfare and be a soldier and all that. And Paul is chained to a Roman centurion, a Roman soldier in prison. And next week, we're gonna see where he uses it as a metaphor of the different weaponry, the different armor that the Roman soldier has, and he's going to correlate it to the spiritual armor that we have. We remember that when David went into battle with Goliath, he couldn't wear the armor of king Saul. It wasn't fit for him. And so he had to he had to rely upon the Lord completely, so too you and I, where the battle belongs to the Lord. And, David went out there with a shepherd boy slingshot with a laser guided stone that hit Goliath, the only place in his body that he didn't have armor, right in the forehead, and it sunk deep. And then he fell down like a tree being being cut down. And then David, this striping, you know, that David goes over there and takes Goliath's sword because David doesn't even have a sword, and cuts off the giant's head and holds the head up to, you know, and emboldening the Israelites, emboldening them to come against the Philistines. And God's looking. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of a man or a woman whose heart is perfect toward God. And the nation of Israel is waiting there for a leader, somebody that would lead, that would engage in battle. But everybody were so afraid. They were so incredibly afraid of this nine foot six tall Goliath of Gath, you know, the Philistines. So too when the children of Israel were coming out of Egypt and headed toward the promised land, that 12 spies were sent in to spy out the land. And 10 came back with an unbelieving report. Unbelieving report. They came back, and they said that there's giants. There's walled cities. We're like grasshoppers in their sight. And the people, the unbelief melted the hearts of the people that they wouldn't even engage in battle. And then you have Caleb and Joshua. You know, they wanted to go right now. And Joshua, forty years or excuse me. Caleb, forty years later, man, he was he was he had to wait for forty more years. And all those, like, twenty years and and older, you know, they perished over that period of time except for Caleb and Joshua. This whole new generation going into the land and the the emphasis upon trusting in the Lord and the Lord teaching them that he'll bring water out of the rock, and he'll he'll bring manna down from heaven, and he'll continue to protect them and provide for them and and fight for them. And we, in many cases, we don't want to engage the enemy. And I see Christianity today as wanting to be friends with the enemy. And so we we structure our churches to be very much like the world, to blend in with the world and to not be offensive to the world. We don't wanna engage. We wanna be in denial. We wanna act like, you know, the whole United States and all the politicians and the president and everybody are Christians, and they're on our side. Peter Thiel's gonna talk four different lectures on the Antichrist. He's building the beast system, but the the dumbing down of the church is the problem. We're just so incredibly biblically illiterate. We can't even we can't even see the enemy. We don't even know who the enemy is. And and Satan's greatest ploy, I believe, is twofold. One is to deceive, you know, obviously deceive us, but part of that deception, Jesus said, take heed that no man deceive you, is he's appearing as an angel of light. He's appearing as one of us. And we've got all these politicians, mouthed, on the one hand building the beast system, the data centers, and all the stuff that's gonna enslave us. And on the other hand, I've got a Trump bible. You know? And I'm gonna build statues, gold statues of me and everything. Which is it? They're exhorting people to pray and exhorting people to, you know, the two hundred fifty year anniversary of of America, and yet, you know, you can't have you can't have clean, good drinking water and bitter out of the same out of the same well. It's one or the other. You know? And Jesus said, beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, and that's the that's what the devil's doing today. And I believe the big part of it is the enemy knows what we wanna hear, and we don't wanna engage. We don't wanna fight. We don't wanna tell the truth. We don't wanna stand for the truth. Because as soon as we stand for the truth and refute what's being said, we lose lots of friends. Whole lot of people hate us. And so people want to be under the radar. They wanna find a place of escape. And so the Japanese come in and bomb Pearl Harbor, and we wanna we wanna escape the war somehow. We wanna act like things will just get better. You know? It's mind blowing to me. Just absolutely mind blowing, the war that we're in, and and how unwilling, especially the big pastors, how unwilling they are to engage. They're getting the talking points from Fox News. They're taking the talking points of the media, which the devil owns, the prince, the power, the air, the mainstream media, the fake news, and they take that fake news, and they blend it into what we're gonna talk about in the church. Or we're gonna get it from the psychiatrist and the psychologist and the the therapeutic aspects of making people feel good. Make them feel good as the Russians and the Chinese are marching in. You know? And that's that's a vivid picture. But the demons the demons that are that are permeating our culture and the laws that are being passed, and over and over and over again, we're losing our freedom and our way of life. And there's only, like, six seminaries, six schools that teach pastors in our country now that are conservative. Everybody else is liberal. And and the word of God, as I said, is not taught in the churches in America. It's rare to find a church that takes you from Genesis to Revelation, that teaches prophecy, and therein lies the problem. You're not equipped. What if you went to war, but you didn't go through basic training? What if what if your your your superiors didn't get you ready for the the battle that's ahead? They said, oh, no. There's no real battle. The devil doesn't exist. There's no opposition. Just go along to get along. You know? We're all Christians. It's mind blowing to me. Absolutely mind blowing. Jesus never tried to soft sell Christianity as many are doing today. Jesus said in John fifteen twenty, if they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If you're not being persecuted, it's because you're compromised, because you're not a threat to the kingdom of darkness. As soon as you stand up and tell the truth and refute the lies, expose the lie, devil hates being exposed, you're gonna be a target. You're gonna be under attack. Soon as as soon as you speak up, as soon as you act like John the Baptist, you're gonna lose your head. Wanna keep your head? Stay under the radar. Stay down. Go hide somewhere. Find a place to hide. Find a church that just talks about smooth things. Blessed are ye, Jesus said in Luke six twenty two. Blessed, that word blessed means, oh, how happy. Blessed are ye when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and and cast out your name as evil for the son of man's sake. So remember, it's Jesus the devil hates. It's Jesus that people hate. And it's a blessing for you when you're not a part of the group anymore, when you're cast out of their company, when they're slandering you and saying things bad about you. That that means that that, you know, what you were doing, what you were saying, you threw a rock into a group of wolves, and you hear the one whelping. Yelp. Yelp. Yelp. You know? That's the one you hit. They got hit. They don't like it. And they're gonna try and attack you, but really it's Jesus they hate. The opposition, the conflict, the spiritual warfare is to be expected. We need to expect it. We can't shrink from it. We can't hide from it. And you cannot negotiate. You cannot wash your hands of Jesus and hang out with Pontius Pilate and Herod and the boys. It doesn't work. It's light and darkness. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them in Ephesians five eleven. What does light have in common with darkness? They can't have it both. They can't play both sides. You can't build the beast system, and at the same time claim to be a Christian and produce a bible. You can't. It's one or the other. I don't know why that's so hard to understand. The Peter Thiel, the Palantir, the the I I told a bunch of you that if you wanted to get wealthy, just invest in Palantir. You could see the beast system coming. First day in office, Trump inaugurates the the Stargate Project, half a, you know, $500,000,000,000 paid to Palantir to build this this enormous system of of tracking and tracing and finding enemies in The Middle East and used for warfare. And Alex Karp, the the partner of of Peter Thiel and all, you know, boasting about them killing people with this technology. Locating AI, using AI to find the targets, to find these these enemies of Israel and all. And somehow, we're being duped into thinking this mad rush in AI that it's a that it's a competition to beat the Chinese and the rest of the world for supremacy. Well, then why did president Trump and the tech giants go to China recently? Because they're helping the Chinese in their AI movement. The whole world has to have this AI, not just America. The whole world needs it for the banking system, the Bank of International Settlements to have even Iran who's rogue, doesn't wanna sell oil, who wants to be rogue in their sale of oil according to Catherine Austin Fitts. So you've gotta hit Iran and bring them into the fold of the Bank of International Settlements, of the tokenization and the cryptocurrency and all. We're headed toward a reset. We're headed toward a loss of freedom. And yet you wanna raise your hands and go whoop it up with these Christian nationalists that think they're gonna usher in the return of Jesus? It's it's one or the other. I don't know why that's so hard for for people to understand except that we're stupid. The idiocracy, we don't understand the the the the battle that we're in for truth. And so Jesus said in Luke twenty two twenty three to Peter, he said, Satan has desired you that he may sift you as wheat. He wants to beat on you, Peter. But I prayed for you that your faith fail not, and when you're converted, strengthen your brethren. So what he's saying to Peter, teach the boys how to stand. You're gonna get beaten. Satan's gonna beat on you, but I'm praying for you that your faith fail not. Your faith's gonna get stronger as you engage in this battle, Peter. Peter, you can't run the other way. Peter, the night in which I was betrayed, the night in which I was crucified, you denied me on three different occasions. After the resurrection, you're emboldened. You're able to sleep in acts chapter 12. You're you don't fear death anymore. And now Peter, you're entering into a a battle zone with the devil. He's he's he's targeting you because you're a leader among these men. And if you love me, Peter, feed the sheep. Strengthen your brethren. Peter's trying to leave his calling and go back to fishing even after the resurrection. I'm going fishing. And the boys went with him, and Jesus Jesus met them on the shores of the Sea Of Galilee. Children, you caught any fish? And it's a reminder of when he first called them three and a half years earlier When he told them I'd make you fishers of men. He's saying, Peter, I haven't given up on you. You failed. You're defeated. You denied me on three occasions. You've seen me resurrected, and still, you see yourself as condemned. I don't see you as condemned. I'm gonna restore you. Peter, I told you ahead of time, you're not gonna be able to do it without my help. And now you're humbled. Now you're broken. Even though you're a strong man physically, you're no match for the devil. You're no match for the principalities and powers in and of your own intellect and your own strength. So in that failure, Peter, now you need to really come to terms of the reliance upon the Holy Spirit, to rely upon me to gain that victory and not be defeated. Teach the others how to stand, to keep standing. How are we to remain standing? Number one, reliance. Rely upon God's strength. Verse 10, finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. The self reliant are defeated. We are no match for the globalist. We're no match for their technology, their AI, and all this stuff. We we're gonna be twisted, and we won't know which ends up. We won't know what's true. So we need to go to a higher level of understanding, that'd be the word of God. And the power of the holy spirit to have discernment to spot the lies. You can the AI can twist the scripture just a tiny bit just as the devil did quoting Psalm 91 when he said to Jesus, you know, jump off of here. I'll give his angels charge of you lest you dash your foot against a stone. And Jesus comes back with, it is written, thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God. I'm not gonna tempt God. And the devil's frustrated. And Jesus is relying upon his father. He's relying upon the word of God. We cannot do it in self reliance no matter how strong we think we are. Many of us are forty year Christians, thirty year, twenty year, ten year, but we're still babes in Christ. We're weak. We're beggarly because we weren't taught the word of God. We don't have the strength to engage, to fight because our pastors didn't teach us the word of God. And others of us, we've studied God's word our whole life. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God. We've been students of prophecy. We kinda have an overview of what's happening. It encourages us to know that we're on track, that we're not being deceived. Excuse me. Got a hairball there. And so we continue, but we don't wanna be puffed up and prideful. If any man thinks he's stand, take heed lest he fall. Because the devil can wait for David. He can wait till you're in your fifties to slay you, to take you out with a Bathsheba, to take you out with Uriah. You become very quickly, you become a liar, an adulterer, a murderer, and you try to cover your sin if you're not careful. And boy, what a legacy. Your your time when kings go out to battle, you're idle. It's a time of prosperity that you're the weakest. So it's when you think you're the strongest that you're actually the weakest. The devil's waiting for you. You wanna finish well. You wanna fight a good fight. You wanna finish your course. You don't wanna fail at the end. You fought so many battles beforehand, and you watch God give you the victory. You don't wanna give up now. You don't wanna rely upon the flesh. There's a man in Judges chapter fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen, one that the children hear about in Sunday school named Samson. And Samson was born to Manoah, and and his wife doesn't name her. But in any event, Samson's mother was barren, much like Hannah, much like Zechariah's wife Elizabeth. God, when he wants to do a great thing in many cases, in many events, he'll deny first of all. And he'll bring forth a person's attention unto God, crying out to God, and and then God brings forth the reason for the bareness that this child that's gonna be born is gonna be special. This is gonna be a Nazarite. This is gonna be like, you know, later John the Baptist, a Nazarite for Zechariah and Elizabeth. He's gonna be a forerunner for Jesus. But this Samson, Sampson's gonna be a judge. He's gonna serve for twenty years, and he's instructed the parents are instructed, don't, drink any wine or strong drink, you know, missus Sampson, missus Manoah, while you're pregnant, And, and don't cut his hair. Don't ever cut his hair. Let him be a hippie. And, he's gonna be a Nazarite. He's gonna take a Nazarite vow. He's separated unto me. And so Sampson is growing up, and in a course of time, he he tells mom and dad that I want this woman. I want this girl here. I wanna marry this Philistine woman. And and they said, no. You know, why don't why don't you take one of the children of Israel? You know? Why would you take it from these foreigners, the Philistines? And the Holy Spirit says, in the commentary there that, they knew not that God had intended this so that God could use Samson to take out, you know, a bunch of the Philistines, to use them to war against their enemy, the Philistines. They were subservient to the Philistines. And so Samson, as he's, heading over for the for the wedding, for the marriage, and they have a seven day feast for the for the groomsmen, you know, and all, and there's 30 groomsmen there with him. And, Samson, as he's heading over there, mom and dad are not quite near him, and he, he's attacked by a lion. The devil goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. And Samson, the holy it says, and the holy spirit came upon Samson. And when the holy spirit came upon Samson, he shredded that lion apart, just broke it apart, and then he continued on. And then when he came back a little later, he saw that there was a honey. There was a, the honeybees had went in there and made a hive within the carcass of this lion. And then he formulates a riddle. You know, what strength came out of the eater and sweetness out of out of let's see. Strength came out of the eater and sweetness, Anyway, sweetness out of the lion. And so you'll have to look it up. Let's see here. Strength came out of the eater. Anyway, and sweetness. I forget the other word. But, in any event, he did a riddle with the groomsmen and said that there'd be 30 changes of clothing, of, shirts and a and a outer garment of whoever could figure out the riddle. And so they couldn't figure out the riddle in the third day. By the seventh day, they still couldn't, so they came to the bride to be of his wife of Samson and threatened to kill her, burn her, and burn her father's house and the whole place down. And and they said, you better press Samson and get the the answer to that riddle, or we're gonna burn you down and all that. So she pressed him. He gave her the the answer, and they produced the answer on the day. And he said, hey. If you hadn't been, you know, plowing with my heifer, you'd have never you'd have never known that. The guys don't use that vernacular. That won't work for you. And and so they got it, and he was incensed. And he went out to the area of Ashkelon, and he killed 30 of the Philistines and took their garments and brought them back and the whole thing. Then he left the whole area. He was disgusted. And while he was gone, the father of the bride gave her to one of the groomsmen, the best man, and Sampson came back during the time of harvest and, found out that, the switcheroo was done. And, he said, take the younger, you know, daughter. She's even better looking and all. And Samson was angry, and Samson crazy. Samson went out and caught 300 foxes. How do you catch 300 foxes? And then he takes the foxes, and two by two, he ties their tails together and puts a torch there. It's a time of harvest, and he sends them out into the fields, the cornfields, the vineyards, all the area of the Philistines what they're growing, and burns them all up. Crazy. These guys are incensed, and they they they come and they wanna grab hold of Samson and bind them. And, they come to the Israelites and and, demand Samson, and they talk to Samson. And he says, as long as you don't kill me. So they bind Samson, and they take him back, and and Samson's able to just break the the ropes and just break it right off. And then he's able to leave the city, and he grabs the the doors and the gates and everything, and he's he's just leaving on his own and all. And then a little while later, now he's serving the Lord for twenty years, and about twenty years in, he decides he wants Delilah. He's looking for a woman. He went into a harlot, then he came out of that, and then he came forth with Delilah. And and he met his mansion, Delilah. She's she's gonna get it out of him. And, you know the story. And so Samson, being mightily used of the Lord, the Holy Spirit come upon him, and day by day, the men of the city are offering enormous amounts of money to Delilah and her family to come up with the secret of Samson's strength. What's the secret of your strength? Your education, your money, your health, wealth. You attend Calvary Bremerton? Good luck with that. And Sampson was able to mess around with a dead carcass and not lose his strength with the lion. Samson was able to dabble and partying with wine and strong drink at these places he'd go and not lose his strength. And now Delilah's asked him the secretive strength, and he says, take seven vines and and bind me with seven new vines, and I'll be as weak as any other man. And she bound them with the seven new vines, and Samson, the Philistines are upon you. And he broke them like like you put it, you know, with a with a flame. It just burst. And she's saying, you're mocking me. You're mocking me. Well, if you take seven new ropes seven new ropes and buy me with seven new ropes, I'll be as weak as any other man. Samson, the Philistines are upon you, and he breaks the ropes. And he says, if you as she's crying now, you're mocking me. If you take my hair uh-oh, Samson. Careful. Careful. If you take my hair and you braid it with a weaver's beam, put a pin in it, a man bun. You give me a man bun, and I'll be as weak as any other man. And the Philistines are upon you. The Philistines are upon you, and he throws it all off and wipes them out and the whole thing, and they couldn't get ahold of him. Now they're getting really mad. They're getting really mad. Delilah's really mad, and she's crying. She's sobbing. You're mocking me. You're mocking me, the whole thing. And and then he finally relented. He said, hey. If you shave my head if you shave my head, I'll be as weak as any other man. Samson was able to violate his Nazarite vow up to that point and always be able to reach back within the well and have the strength. But now now she puts Samson asleep on her knees. She has a guy come in to shave his head. He goes bald. And she says, Samson, the Philistines are upon you. And it says a very, very sad thing here. It says, and Samson knew not that the Holy Spirit had departed. How sad. How incredibly sad. And he thought he could reach into the well and fight the Philistines as before, and it says Samson was as weak as any other man. They immediately bound him, and then they plucked out his eyes, and then they caused him to grind meal like a big ox for sport, like a circus, you know, guy. And so we look at that, and we say that sin binds, sin blinds, and sin will cause you to grind. But the grace is such, not only did the word of the Lord come to Jonah a second time, but Samson's hair began to grow back. And as he's standing there blinded, he wants to avenge his eyes, and he puts his arms up on the pillars, has a boy bring him over to the pillars. There's 3,000 Philistines in the stadium worshiping Dagon, and Samson cries out to the Lord that the Lord would give him that strength, and the Holy Spirit came upon him. He pulled the pillars, and he brought the house down upon himself in a suicide. And but he took 3,000 of the Philistines killing more in his death than he did in his whole life, and he served the Lord as a judge of Israel for twenty years. But what a lesson for you and I. What's the secret of Samson's strength? His reliance upon God. It wasn't the hair. The hair just symbolized his reliance upon God. And once the hair was gone, it was time for the Lord to show him that you didn't value your Nazarite relationship. Do you value your relationship with Jesus? The secret of your strength is your relationship with Jesus. You always keep Jesus between you and the devil, and Jesus will fight for you. You rely upon him. Jesus said, without me, you can do nothing. But as Paul says, I can do all things. Philippians four thirteen. I can through all do all things through Christ who strengthens me, the reliance upon him. The Lord is our source. It says, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. The devil's no match for you in the power of his might. John fifteen five, without me, you can do nothing. But I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Many are the afflictions of the righteous in Psalm thirty four nineteen, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers them out of them all. If you don't wanna be afflicted, then don't be righteous. Be carnal. Be fleshly. Blend in with the world, and the devil leave you alone. You'll have a false sense of security. You'll be saying, Lord, Lord. And he'll say, away from me, I never knew you, you that practice iniquity. The children of Israel, they defeated those at Jericho. They encompassed the walls of Jericho 13 times. They they they shouted. They they blew the trumpet, and the walls fell outward. And Rahab's there with the scarlet cord, and and they go in and they subdue the whole city, and they were instructed that to not take any of the spoil, that the spoil all belonged to the Lord. And then there was a guy named Achan, and the whole nation was Achan because of Achan. And Achan took a talent of silver and some Babylonians garments, and he buried it underneath the ground in his tent. And the children of Israel presumptuously after that great victory, be careful when God gives you a great victory because you can be presumptuous and just assume that the next time you engage even a lesser enemy that they're no match. And what happened? They didn't pray. They didn't pray before they engaged the next city of AI. They didn't pray. They didn't ask God. They didn't inquire of God. Had they prayed, had they inquired of God, they'd known that there was sin in the camp, that they were defiled, that they were neutralized, that they were they were unable to face their enemies. Remember, this says stand, withstand. You gotta be frontal. The armor is on the front, not on the back. You're you're gonna be fleeing from your enemies if you're not as bold as a lion, and that you know you're in God's will and that God's fighting for you. You're not gonna have that boldness. You're gonna be compromised. You're gonna be defiled, not able to face the enemy. And then Joshua seven twelve, it says, Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turn their backs before their enemies. They went into retreat mode because, oh, they just had this great victory at Jericho. AI was a little group of people. We could snuff them out, and yet they were snuffing out the Israelites. And Joshua's just all chagrin. What's up? What's what's the matter, Lord? What's happening? And he had to do lots, and he had to had to decipher who it was that compromised, who it was that didn't listen. God said you're compromised. There's sin in the camp. And then Achan confessed, and they executed Achan, and then they go back up against AI, and they win. But they were compromised. Their enemies were able to put them on the run. And Romans seven eighteen says, in me that is my flesh dwells no good thing. You can't rely upon how good you think you are. In me that is in my flesh dwells no good thing. Paul said in Philippians three verse three, I have no confidence in the flesh. This isn't a battle that you can win in the flesh. You are you are inferior to these spiritual entities that have been fighting human beings for a long time. They got our numbers, so to speak. In second Chronicles 16, there's another king named king Asa, and he's a he's a king of the nation of Judah. And he made an alliance with Ben Hadad, the king of Syria. And because of that alliance, relying upon him, God was very, very displeased that king Asa, who was when he was small in his sight, was powerful because he was relying upon the Lord. But later in his life, when he when he thought he was really all that, when he believed his press clippings, rather than relying upon the Lord, he gave money and made a league with Ben Hadid, the Syrian, to go after, the Israelites. And, and then later, a really sad thing happened to king Asa toward the end of his life. He got sick in his feet. His feet were sick. He had a disease. And he was so angry at God, he wouldn't pray and ask God to heal him. He relied, it says, upon the physicians. And it says that Asa died. And then it says in Isaiah or excuse me, second Chronicles sixteen nine, that the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of a man whose heart is perfect toward God. Asa's heart was divided. God's looking for people that are gonna trust him completely. Lord, we're gonna attempt something that's so big, it's bound to fail unless you're in it. We don't know what to do, Lord. There's Jehoshaphat in second Chronicles 20, king Jehoshaphat. And king Jehoshaphat, he he also did did a bad thing in making a league with king Ahab. And Jehu rebuked him for it and all. But in chapter twenty, second Chronicles 20, the Lord is is working on Jehoshaphat, and he's a good king. And God sent the Moabites and the Ammonites and the men of Mount Seir, and there was Ethiopians and or excuse me. Before that, he'd had a victory with the Ethiopians. And there was so big of a invading military campaign that Jehoshaphat said, we have no power. We we don't know what we're gonna do. And so as he's crying out to the Lord, as he's pleading with the Lord, that's the right thing to do, cry out to the Lord when you don't know what to do. And he's crying out and he's saying, Lord, we have no power against this invading army. They're they're much superior to us. We're we're not gonna be able to whoop them. And then he says, and neither know we what to do. Isn't that a hard admission? Don't we always think we know what to do, how to problem solve and fix the problems? Imagine our president saying, God, we don't know what to do. That's the furthest thing from his his whole confidence thing. Boastful. Always boasting. We don't know what to do. That's humility. God resists the proud. He gives grace to the humble. And then the Lord sent the prophet to him and said, you don't you're not gonna need to fight against this invading host. The battle belongs to the Lord, much like David heard. And so the Moabites, the Ammonites, the men of Mount Seir, as they're there in their encampment, they begin to fight against each other. God discomfited them. And when was it triggered? When Jehoshaphat had the singers. He had the worship leaders. He had the worship leaders come and just start worshiping at the battlefield. The battle belongs to the Lord. And as they worshiped the Lord, the enemy was defeated in that the other side began to be divided and conquered, fighting against each other, discombined them. For three days, they were out there grabbing the spoil. Such a huge, huge victory and a great lesson to us to not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead. In second Timothy one verse seven, God has not given us the spirit of fear, but a power of love and of a sound mind. I remember when COVID happened, people were paralyzed with fear. A woman was just awarded 17,000,000 for saying for suing her employer who fired her for not taking the job. Imagine that. God, the people were so paralyzed with fear. Unbelievable fear for a lie. Completely lied to. Every country in the world in sync, in harmony, lying to their people, imposing the lockdowns and the mass and the whole protocol in the hospitals. And and it wasn't the COVID, it was the jab. MRNA jab. Aaron Rogers said, I think I'm on the right side of history as an NFL quarterback in refusing to take the jab. You don't see a whole lot of of media talking about died suddenly, an enormous amount of people that died from it because of a lie, and they're just getting started. Population reduction's the goal. The water, the food, the the the sprays are all designed to make it so our children can't get pregnant. And so that we get sickness, we get toxicity, and we die of all these different different things they're bringing about. They want a population of 500,000,000 people. The Georgia Guidestones, they got rid of them, but they expressed it. 500,000,000 is their is their number to serve the rest of them. Be not thou therefore ashamed of your testimony of the Lord nor of his prisoner, but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God. So my little grandson, Gideon, we were in the pool the other day, and I said, hey. Anybody wanna be baptized? And he said, I do, papa. I do. And I said, well, honey, let's do it at the picnic. Oh, I I wanna do it, you know, in private. And I said, oh, honey, the whole point of baptism is a testimony to everybody. Testifying, you're identifying with the death, the burial, the resurrection of Jesus. We wanna do it publicly. And he's thinking about it. Right? He's he's thinking. I wanna get him thinking. And, we don't we don't put our light under a bushel. We're gonna let everybody see it. We're gonna let we're we're not ashamed. And I can understand us being shy, if you will. That's understandable. But don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner. So Paul is looking at it as I'm not a prisoner of Rome. I'm the Lord's prisoner. He's put me here. And that should embolden Timothy. That should embolden everybody else. And yet at the end, Paul said, all men had forsaken him. But the Lord didn't forsake him. The Lord stood with him. David, when he was at Ziklag and all of his family and all of his mighty men's, people were taken, they were gonna stone David. And it says, and David encouraged himself with his God. He got alone with the Lord. And then the Lord gave David the plan of attack to retrieve everything that was taken. He was a hero, but there was a point in time where the people, the other mighty men were so angry. They they cried till they couldn't cry anymore, and they were so angry they're gonna stone David. They're gonna stone Moses. We're gonna blame the leader. He's the one that got us here. He's the one that got us into this mess. We're gonna get rid of him. He says, but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God. So don't do it in your flesh. There's gonna be affliction. There's gonna be attacks. When you tell the truth, the enemy's gonna not like it, but endure it in the power of God. And so how are we to remain standing? Reliance, rely upon God's strength. Secondly, readiness. Be ready. Don't be caught off guard. You're on watch. You're a watchman, and you have watchmen that need to be watching, looking up, knowing the time in which we're living, knowing how close we are to the return of the Lord Jesus, but also knowing the time of deception we're living in, knowing that almost everything you hear is a lie today. It's gonna take great discernment, great reliance on the holy spirit to decipher what is true. With Pontius Pilate, what is truth? Such an era. And Jesus said in Matthew 24 that the antichrist and the false prophet, the East Christ and false prophets, are gonna have such incredible power with lying signs and wonders that if it were possible, they would deceive even the very elect. Even the even the very best at the time of the tribulation period, if it were possible, even the nation of Israel would be deceived, his elect. Crazy times of deception. And, you know, it's getting harder and harder and harder to convince people of the truth who are deceived. They're doubling down. They're drinking more Kool Aid. They don't wanna be wrong. They're they're gonna follow these false shepherds to the slaughterhouse. They're gonna follow them all the way. You you can't extricate them. You can't rescue them. You can't reach into the fire and get them out. They're they're just they're just gonna stay with what they what they believe. I haven't had one person come back to me and tell me, pastor, you're right. They're doubling down. They're angry. You mentioned Trump. We're out of here. We're leaving. It's so over the top. It's so unbelievable. And I I can't find any big pastor, the big ones, that are willing to mention his name. They might mention the Antichrist. They might mention well, Billy Crone mentioned JD Frogwell. Those are the only two I know. All these prophecy experts, they'll just now start to talk about AI and the data centers and the b system and the pound tier, and they mention all that, but they won't mention his name. That means you're gonna lose a lot of people. We don't wanna lose people. And and it it's it's so you gotta be ready. These guys aren't ready. What are they holding on to? They're supposed to be watchmen on the wall. He says, put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Put on means once and for all. Never be disarmed. Don't ever be disarmed. Don't ever think that you can drop your guard. You're in a battle. And my wife, Kathy, always likes to say, Rick, the devil always goes after the weakest link. Think in your sphere of responsibility, your family, your friends, and you're watching trying to protect them all, to bathe them in prayer and and refute the lies and coach them and help them and train them and disciple them. Who in your family is the weakest link? That's the one the devil's gonna take down to try and neutralize the rest of you, to get you to quit, to get you to disengage. The battle's too costly. I can't keep going. I've gotta stop, and I've gotta grab this person to my family. We need to flee now. We need to flee somewhere else where it's easier. No. If you don't love Jesus more than son or daughter, father or mother, you aren't worthy of him. You love him, and you keep doing what he's called you to do. And that weak link, you're gonna pray, and it's gonna break your heart, and you're gonna intercede, and you're gonna model the Christian life. And over the course of time, you're gonna watch to see if they're able to to endure the time of affliction. And so put on once and for all. Never be disarmed. The word stand means holding a critical position when under attack. Those of you that have fought, you know that position. Hold your position. My grandkids, when they play airsoft, when they're when they're shooting their guns all over the property, you'll always hear Gideon say, get cover. Get cover. He understands taking cover. And when we watch military movies or stuff, he'll he'll point it out. They're not taking cover. Their dad has taught them part of the strategy of warfare. Holding the critical position when under attack. We wanna hold the high ground. We gotta get the high ground. Hold the high ground. We need the moral high ground, America. We we are gonna be defeated if we're corrupt, if we're evil. Our form of government is wholly inadequate for an immoral, ungodly people. America's strong because America's godly. When America ceases to be godly, America will be weak like Samson, like all the other nations. What's the secret of your strength, America? It's Jesus. It's the bible in our schools. It's prayer. It's Jesus all through the fabric of our society. And don't believe the lies on the twenty two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this country as they try to white coat the facts. Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for white washing the sepulchre to make it look good from the outside, but he said inwardly, were full of dead men's bones corruption. Those are the facts. We don't wanna hear the facts. We wanna play like Pollyanna. We wanna play little fables and believe lies and feel goods and therapy and but stand holding a critical position when under attack. And the word wilds means strategic strategies, schemes, tricks. The devil's a strategist. He's gonna trick you. He's gonna scheme. That's why Peter says in first Peter five verse eight, be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Satan can't be everywhere at once. He's got principalities and powers helping him, demons. One third of the host fell with Lucifer, and he's the he's the leader of these demons. But Satan himself, he goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Jesus exposed him in John ten ten. I've come that you might have life, that you might have it more abundantly. But the thief comes not but to steal, to kill, and to destroy. And if you have a Christian marriage, you are an affront. You are a threat to the kingdom of darkness. Christian children you're raising, you're a bible thumper, a bible believer, you stand for truth, you are a target. And there's less and less and less of us today. When there's a lot more of us, a lot more, it's harder for the powers of darkness to prevail in a community. But when nobody's willing to stand up for coach Joe, simply in trouble for praying, and then he wins a court case in Bremerton, and he comes back to the school and they ostracize him, why wouldn't he move to Florida? Where are the Christians to stand with him? Because he had the guts to say, I'm gonna pray with these men who who elect exercise their free will to pray. And the courts exonerate coach Joe, but everybody's forgotten him now. What kind of city? What kind of community we live in? What kind of church are we playing? What do you want for your kids? Gonna make him out to be an evil man? His crime? What's my crime? I I wanted to pray with the boys. Did he touch any of them? Do anything in a oh, no. No Epstein files on coach Joe. What was his crime? What was that crime at Calvary Bremerton? They were teaching the kids the Abeka curriculum. We're gonna shut them down. Did anybody come to our aid? No. The newspaper printed a derogatory comment about us. No facts, lies. And the Christians believed the lies and fled. And where do they flee? To new startup movement, the Rick Warren movement. How's that working for you? No bible. Dummy down. No prophecy. Powerless. He brought the world into the church. You're part of the whole globalist plan. And now what's happening? The young people are running to Catholicism. They're leaving Protestant churches, the the three legged stool purpose driven churches, the kids are screaming. They're leaving because of lack of authenticity. They see through the scam of the lights and the smoke and all the stuff that's supposed to attract them. They see through it, and they want authenticity. And they misconstrue that ritualistic, going through the motions, religious exercises, authenticity. And in John four, Jesus told the woman, God seeks those that would worship him in spirit and in truth. No spirit, just ritual religious activity. Where's the Holy Spirit? Ichabod, the spirit of the Lord has departed the tactics of the wicked one. He joins the church. In Jude one verse three, earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. Contend means it's a fight. Earnestly, with all you got, contend for the faith. I know how to be popular. I used to have some friends. All you do if you want friends is just talk about things they like to talk about. Don't talk about things that, you know, your wife will tell you. Don't talk about that when we go over there. And when you're when you're even in church before you're a pastor, you know, you don't have to always be on the muscle. You don't always have to it's not your job. You know, I'd like to it's his job. It's a pastor's job to correct that heresy or correct that wrong. And yet my heart will stir, and I'll start, like, shaking if I don't say something because it's just it's the Holy Spirit stirring my heart, whether it's a teacher in class or somebody that introduces something that's just so false. I can't just let it go. And you make a lot of enemies when you do that. If you want friends, just go with the flow. Go with the flow and call it love. Call it love, and go with the crew that says, judge not lest ye be judged. Who are you to judge my truth? That's my truth. Well, I'm sorry, but your truth is contrary to what the Bible says. And here's the verse. Well, you know, well, you know Just like, let's do something else if we're not gonna follow the Lord. You know? You're being tricked. You're being neutralized. Earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. And what did it cost the apostles to deliver this faith, this body of truth to us? It cost them their lives. They gave up their lives to preserve the word of God. During the dark ages of 03/13 when Constantine nationalized the church and the professionals, like we're seeing today, the politicians, these unregenerate politicians began to feign that they were saved, that they were Christians too, and the Catholic church began to dominate. And you had you had the true church, the Waldensas, who are wiped out by the church, by that official government entity like the beast, the woman riding the beast, the religion riding the coattail of Constantine's government. And then they go out to weed out the true believers who have a bible and are following the bible. They don't want anyone to have a bible because they want to use religion to control the people. And it produced what we call the dark ages. And then a guy named Martin Luther rediscovered the doctrine of justification by grace through faith alone. And he began to expose all the fallacious false doctrine that the Catholics brought into the global church, purgatory and paying for indulgences and on and on and on, things that brought nickels into the coffers. All about making money, church incorporated, and controlling the people. In first Timothy one eighteen, he says, war a good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience, which some having put away concerning faith have been shipwrecked. So they're falling away. They're shipwrecked in their faith. They can't take it anymore. They're leaving. They're apostate. They're falling away from the truth. Luke eighteen eight says, when the son of man comes, shall he find faith on the earth? There gonna be any believers? Satan wants to destroy your faith in God. He wants to knock you down and out. Stand against his lies. His greatest weapon is deception. If you know the truth, he can't deceive you. How are we to remain standing? Number one, reliance. Rely upon God for strength. Number two, readiness. Be ready. Don't be caught off guard. Thirdly, reconnaissance. Expose the enemy. Exploit his weaknesses. You need to have intel. In every battle, you need to have intel. You need to know what your enemy's doing, where they're at, what they're amassing. And with all your satellites and everything, you wanna be able to watch them. You wanna see where their nukes are, their weapons, their greatest strength, their weaknesses. You don't wanna be caught by surprise. And you're gonna formulate a counter strategy based upon truth. But if you have been sown lies and your frame of reference is a lie, you believe a lie, you're gonna be caught off guard. You gotta be ready. Expose the enemy. Exploit his weaknesses. Verse 12. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. It's a spiritual warfare. Spirit beings. In Daniel 10, you see a picture of Daniel praying for twenty one days, and and Gabriel and Michael are are helping out. And Gabriel comes back and says, Daniel, beloved of the Lord, you know, from the very first that you began to pray till the present, you know, we heard your prayers. They're precious before God. But we were engaged. We were fighting in the spiritual realm with the prince of Greece that's gonna come later and the prince of Persia. There's a there's an entity that his sphere of influence, his sphere of responsibility, the devil has divided with a grid. He's developed a grid over the whole earth because the devil's not omnipresent, but he has innumerable, you know, one third of the stars fell with Lucifer of the angels. They're fallen angels. They're demons. He's the leader of the demons, and he puts them in strategic zones and places. In Bremerton here, there are demons that this is their sphere of responsibility. In Persia, present day Iran, Gabriel was fighting with that prince of Persia. There was a battle going on. Twenty one days till they could subdue him and come and give give Daniel a message and speak to Daniel. So when you're praying and you don't see results right away, keep praying. Continue to pray. You are engaged in spiritual battle when you pray, when you intercede on behalf of somebody that you see being destroyed, being taken down, shipwrecked. They've been abandoned by their husband, by their wife. Their kid has been ripped off. Their their kid has crashed, shipwrecked, and drug drug abuse, alcohol abuse, in jail, whatever it may be. Families breaking down, people suffering. You intercede in prayer. You're fighting in that spiritual realm. We fight not against flesh and blood. The devil manipulates the Bill Gates. He manipulates these politicians. He manipulates them. But the real battle's in the spiritual realm. If you win the battle on your knees, you win the battle of them. But if you don't have the guts to expose them, if you don't have a jurisprudence system that will arrest a Bill Gates with all the evidence of a Bill Gates and a George Soros and all the Epstein people, if you don't have a legal system that's gonna protect you and arrest these fools, you got no chance. All the voting in the world isn't gonna change a thing. You lost the spiritual battle. People don't care. How do you get people to care? It's in the spiritual realm where God moves upon the hearts of the people, and they're unwilling to be bought off. The media is bought off. They do vast amounts of money to pump, pump, pump with promotion and to lie to people that that vaccine is good, and crickets and bugs to eat for your protein is good. You know? There's a whole marketing campaign and strategy, and people buy into it. And and I'm afraid that many of us are already eating bug protein. I don't want to admit it, but if we're eating processed foods, it's ground up. It's in the little fine and words changed in the in the list of ingredients. Be careful. Eat God's food. That's the best way. Eat a lot of eggs. Know where your food is sourced. Get back to the simple things. I mean, it's it's dangerous out there. Your water supply, everything is tainted. Everything the spraying that's going on. Everything, the toxicity, everything's designed to steal, to kill, to destroy. The data centers are taking all the electricity, taking all the water. They're exploding in growth. The cameras, the six g, and the people have the audacity to applaud those that are installing it and passing legislation for it. And I and I didn't mention this name, Trump and his boys. They immediately invested in Palantir and are making enormous amounts of money, the Trump family, off of every move they make, knowing the direction of the technology and how it's gonna be used. The oil, just just these people are just pillaging, raping and pillaging, and setting themselves up to go underground when the people on the surface realize how they've been duped. When they gonna know? When the bank account shut off. When the EBT cards don't work anymore. When you're forced, like in Vietnam, 83,000,000 people had their bank account shut off until they went in and had a biometric ID established in their account. The Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. The banker's bank. Centralized banking. Revelation thirteen sixteen through 18. No man's gonna buy or sell without a mark on his right hand or his forehead. Spiritual warfare, spiritual beings. Second Corinthians two eleven, lest Satan should get an advantage of us, for we're not ignorant of his devices, that were devices, strategies. Do you understand the strategies of the wicked one? One of the one one of the greatest strategies of the wicked one that's done the most damage in this church and and Christendom is the strategy of divide and conquer. Divide this group. We could be moving forward and gaining momentum, and we're just really taking the city, and then the enemy may not hit with a frontal attack using the state to shut you down, not at first. He'll get the people fighting among themselves and gossiping, slandering. And once that takes place, once once that whole division takes place, then in time, we quench the Holy Spirit, we grieve the Holy Spirit, and now we're not relying upon the Holy Spirit. And we lose the sweetness that makes us wanna come to church and be with each other. We lose the sweetness. We lose the love. We're we're battling against each other. We're angry. We're not getting our way, and I've seen it happen. It's just ugly. It's so ugly. And the devil just sits back and laughs. Why are we ignorant of his devices, his strategies to divide and conquer? Presently, the devil is using a strategy of dividing and conquering Americans. You got people hating Democrats, hating Republicans, hating ethnic groups, hating people that won't go along with, you know, gender chaos and all the other chaos that's being introduced to divide all of us. I don't hate Democrats. I don't hate Iran. I don't hate Russia. I'm being lied to. The people there are like you and I. Fastest growing church in the world's in Iran. I always preach, go for the head of the snake. Who's the head of the snake? Let's deal with the head of the snake. Let's not fall for this. The serpent. The serpent's moving this. Don't don't get divided. If the best the pastor can do is demonize Democrats, he's a pretty weak pastor. That's so obvious. You're playing you're playing the talking points of Fox News. It's idiocy. Thomas Massey lost the election because of the Diebold machines, because of the the whole voting system that's slanted. You don't nobody nobody is is wins an election. They're appointed by the globalists who control all the algorithms and everything. Why don't people get that? It's so obvious. And so what's the end goal? Crisis reaction solution. The strategy. Let Biden let Biden steal the election. Everybody knows he stole it. What's that do? It causes people to lose confidence in the electoral system. What's the solution? A real ID. Not only did he steal election, but he brought in all these illegal aliens from everywhere who are not being deported by ICE, but ICE is here with other soldiers on the ground because we're going to martial law. Because when people's EBT cards are shut off, when the money stops, when the merry-go-round stops, everyone's gonna go insane, but it'll be too late. So the solution is the real ID because the whole financial system cannot work. It cannot work without the digital ID. Everyone has to have a digital ID. So how can we stop the immigration crisis? Everyone has to have an ID. How can we stop the the voting crisis? Everyone has to have an ID. We're not gonna need a wall. You don't need to build a wall because we're going from Greenland to Venezuela. There aren't gonna be any walls once everybody has an ID. The world's gonna be divided into 10 regions, but only educated Christians would understand the strategy. We're moving in this direction. Revelation seventeen seventeen, God says, he puts it in the hearts of these globalists. He didn't say globalists, but in the hearts of these men to do according to his will. The stage is being set. Donald Trump is serving Jesus Christ. He is building the beast system for the Antichrist. There's gonna be a day when Jesus goes head to head with the devil's champion, and he destroys him with the brightness of his coming, the sword of his mouth, drops dead near Basra and the false prophet. And the devil, he's taken by an angel and put into the abyss. End of story. But presently, people's free will is being exposed by what they choose. Will they choose Barabbas or Jesus? Will they choose the antichrist or hold to Jesus? I encourage you to hold to Jesus. The strategies, the tricks, the schemes of the wicked one were not ignorant of his devices. Who is your enemy? His name is Satan. He which means adversary. The word devil means accuser in Revelation 12. He's the accuser of the brethren. He uses the letter of the law to accuse you, to condemn you. The Holy Spirit convicts you, but shows you the cross that you've been forgiven. The devil's a liar. You're not condemned. He's a slanderer. He likes to slander and talk bad about you. In Isaiah fourteen twelve, he's Lucifer, a fallen angel. His five I will prideful statements of unbelief. He's delusional if he thinks that he's gonna be God. In Ezekiel twenty eight fourteen, he's described as the anointed cherub. Cherub is an exalted angel of rank. You got angels. You've got which are messengers. You've got seraphim, m, in Isaiah six, plural, seraph angels. You have cherub angels. Cherubim is plural, and he's an exalted and anointed cherub angel. In Genesis three, he's the serpent. The serpent that noticed deceived Eve and brought Adam to the place of disobedience. Adam was not deceived. Adam chose to disobey. He transgressed. But Eve was beguiled. She was deceived. In Luke eleven fifteen, he's described as the ruler of the demons. In John sixteen eleven, he's the ruler of this world. So you look at this world system, he's the one behind it. All the elected politicians, all the kings, all the he's the prince, the power of the air, the ruler of these principalities and powers, and he and these men and women in authority, and they're compromised. They're controlled. They've been hollowed out with all sorts of sexual things and stuff that the controllers absolutely control them, and it's demonic. And yet Christian pastors think they can go yuck it up with them because it makes them even bigger in popularity, and it fosters an even greater lie that these politicians are working with the church, and we're gonna get our conservative country, our Republican country back if we just vote harder, if we just get the right guys in there. Probably one of the biggest lies we face presently. Nothing short of repentance can restore this country. Judgment begins at the house of God, that the church come to the place of repenting, turning our hearts back toward God. But if we're of the opinion that, hey, we're rich and increased with goods in need of nothing, and we've kicked Jesus out of the church, we don't see the need for repentance because we got the money. We got the stuff. Church Incorporated. And the biggest deterrent I see of the big church pastors is why they won't say anything. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says a lot of heresy isn't what you say, it's what you won't say. And you live in the past, you talk about solid strong doctrine of the past. It's solid doctrine, not saying anything wrong. But in the present tense, you won't mention a thing. Why? Because you're afraid of being targeted and losing your money. You have millions of dollars in the bank, and you don't wanna be targeted with lawsuits and things that would take you out of favor with your following even. Too much to lose. Too much to lose. Not gonna do it. So reconnaissance, you gotta you gotta have intel. Gotta know what's going on. The devil's a deceiver. He's the god of this world in second Corinthians four verse four. In Ephesians two two, he's the prince of the power of the air. He's the dragon. He's the vile one. He's the tempter. He's an angel of light. And I think that's his greatest disguise presently, is an angel of light. And Jesus warned that the wolves will come in sheep's clothing. That's the greatest methodology presently because the church is so stupid. They can't see. They don't understand. They can't comprehend. It's so easy to spot. Jesus said, you'll know them by their feet. Just look at what they're doing. Look at what they're doing. They're building the beast system. End of story. It's not for your good. It's tyranny, and it's taking down America. It's taking down the world. In second Corinthians 10 verse three, though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh. The devil is not omniscient, which means he doesn't know everything. He needs these data centers. He needs the cameras. He needs the microphones. He needs the six g. He needs things to happen quickly. He wants your electricity. Now in building these data centers, what happened the lie, the argument of your carbon footprint? Where'd climate change and carbon footprint go? That was one means of controlling you. That's out the window now. We want nuclear reactors. We want the oil. We want the electricity. We want all the energy we can get because AI is dependent upon energy. And we're gonna use more energy than anybody. We're gonna cut you off, and we're gonna raise your prices so high, you're gonna have to use less. And the water? Bill Gates and the rest of them are offering farmers enormous amounts of money for the aquifer and the land to build these data centers. It's so in your face. It's so clear. The beast system's being built on your watch, on my watch. It's not hard to see. He's not omniscient. He doesn't know everything. He's not omnipotent. He's not all powerful, and he's not omnipresent. He's not God. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, speaking fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down the strongholds. How are we gonna pull down the spiritual strongholds? Downtown 4th Street, Brittany told me, just had a witch coven meeting. Shut down the street to invite the witches and all the warlocks and all the decadent ungodliness to be right there on 4th Street. Not a peep. Heck, the the parents in the churches teach their kids Harry Potter. I'll bet you a bunch of Christian people went down there with their kids to learn spells and practice witchcraft, the alcohol, and call it Christianity. Some of the youth groups, I'm told, have the the stations that are in Harry Potter, but they just changed the name of the rooms. Mind blowing. But mighty a God to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations. And the imagination, people imagine things. Oh, on YouTube Prophet, oh, I died, and here's what I was shown while I died and all. Casting down imaginations in every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. And here's the key. Here's the key if you wanna win. It's so crucial. And bringing into captivity every thought, every thought. The battle is for your mind. It's indoctrination. It's brainwashing what's taking place. Of you and your children, of family, a brainwashing is taking place. Taking every thought, you gotta filter it through God's word. You gotta compare every thought, every idea, everything that you're seemingly hearing or knowing, the direction people are going to check it out with the word of God, to the obedience of Christ. A war for truth. Satan is the father of lies. He's a liar and he's a murderer. How are we to remain standing? Number one, reliance, rely upon God for strength. Readiness, be ready, don't be caught off guard. Reconnaissance, expose the enemy, exploit his weaknesses. And fourthly, resistance. Withstand. Verse 13. Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand. Be armed against evil. Be relentless. No matter how many people over the years threaten me, leverage me, quit tithing, and talk to my wife, letting them letting her know they're gonna quit tithing, knowing we're poor, knowing we're gonna lose everything, we still never ever back down. I'll live in my car before I ever give in to that sort of tyranny. Not gonna happen. So don't even try. Don't tell me you wanna go out to coffee and tell me that you're gonna leave the church if I talk about this, that, or the other or name Donald Trump. Don't speak in his name. We're out of here. You really think that's gonna work with me or my wife? They're so surprised when Kathy's like, didn't even wince. There's the door. I'm not gonna undermine Rick. He's the pastor. Trump needs to be exposed. If you don't understand that, there's something wrong with you. When we years ago when we attacked, and we attacked. When you talk about reconnaissance, I spent all morning for years reading. I don't watch Fox News. I don't have normal media. I have to find out that from the big pastors, their talking points. I find alternative news sources where guys are telling the truth, exposing, like one presently, a real good one's Leo Holman. Real good guy to get info on what's going on. Or Brit Gillette or Wine Press. There's several of them. Several independent journalists. Now let me give you one that's better than all of them and is not a Christian. She's better than the pastors. The prophecy experts that should know, but they're afraid. Whitney Webb. Whitney Webb is a journalist that digs in, catches them in their lies, looks for patents, their own documents. You wanna know about Epstein? You wanna know about the present banking system that's coming? You talk, you look at her. Go on YouTube. You wanna know about the tokenization and the financial thing and the tenocracy? You look for Patrick Wood. Twenty some years, he's been exposing what's coming. And a guy that's doing a real, real good job is our friend Mark Dinsmore. And what's happening to Mark Dinsmore as he's as he's being bolder, and he's going on Facebook, and he's writing paragraphs and little comments on events that are happening, things that are happening. He's exposing, and he's doing a great job. What happened to him at the church that he went to? They kicked him out. He got kicked out. Now what's happening to him? It's relentless, the stuff that's happening to them. His leg got crushed by a car. Guy fell off a ladder, 87 years old, in the hospital. Shelley's dad died. I mean, they went to the hospital last year over 200 times, caring for loved ones, his mom and his sister and all. I mean, these guys are always under attack. Why? Shelley said, Mark's telling too much truth again. Devil hates it. Devil hates if you expose him. That's why the pastors won't do it. Number one, the people don't wanna hear it. They wanna go to a church where they don't have to hear about these things. And you talk to your friends, none of them have to hear this stuff because they're filled with anxiety and the Xanax and all the other stuff they take to try and keep them calm. That pastor Rick's a nut job. He makes my heart race. He he makes me sweat in church. I can't even sleep at night, the stuff that he talks about. Unless you're already dead, and Christ is living through you. If you're holding on to this world, and you're trying to hold on to this world, and pastor Rick's showing how it's fading away because Jesus is coming again. That's not doom and gloom. That's the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and savior. How are you gonna be salt and light, church? How are you gonna slow down that putrefication, that corruption By speaking the truth. But you're gonna be under attack. You might lose your job. You're gonna lose friends. If you're a pastor like me, the church is gonna barely stay alive. You're gonna be like George Bailey. You're gonna have a dollar at the end of the day. But Potteryville's right down the street because people quit. They didn't act like George and stand for truth and stand against evil. And what do they get? They get a 4th Street with demonic witchcraft being accepted, being acceptable. Kick a church out of the downtown. Get rid of them. Not one regret. Kick coach Joe out. Not one regret. All he wanted to do was pray, and all we wanted to do is bring the gospel, to bring light to a dark blighted community. And we, from day one, were treated like the enemy By the mayor, the previous mayor, the second mayor, Kerry Bozeman, he treated us really good. But the previous one, q thirteen news did a thing against us, Kitsap Sun did a thing against us. And we just kept taking it, kept fighting it because my attitude was turn the light on, the darkness flees. I underestimated the wicked one. I greatly underestimated the wicked one. I thought we were invincible if we were doing the right thing. I had no idea that when a church becomes so divided that we quench and grieve the holy spirit, and God says, okay. We'll give it back to the devil. But we're still standing. Everybody expected us to run away. No. We're humbled. We're humbled. We're broken, but we're still withstanding the wicked one. We're speaking the truth. Be armed against evil. No compromise. No tolerance of evil. No political correctness. James four seven says, submit yourselves therefore to God, resist the devil, and he'll flee from you. Keep resisting. Be sober, be vigilant, for your adversary, the devil goes about like a roaring lion seeking who may he may devour. Now you have the temptation of Jesus as the devil tempted him in in Matthew four, but also in Luke four, there's a passage that's not in Matthew's account. At the very end there, it says, and the devil left him for a season. So the devil's gonna come and tempt you, and you're gonna win, and you're gonna counteract it. And Jesus can say, it is written. It is written. It is written. He's gonna be gone, Satan. And he goes away for a little while, and then he's coming back. So you keep resisting. You be armed. You be ready. Be vigilant. Be armed against evil. No compromise, no joining, no negotiating. When Nehemiah was rebuilding the walls, Tobiah and Sambalat came and wanted to join him. The unbelievers wanted to come and join and be a a part of the process. They were trying to trick Nehemiah. And in fifty and two days, God raised those walls, and all the enemies looked on and knew that it was wrath of God. You can join with the world. You can get loans, and you can get grants and all sorts of things to try and fund your operation, but you're not gonna be able to preach the gospel. You're gonna be censored. Better to go broke. Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier. God has chosen you to be a soldier. You're the resistance. You're the one standing against the wicked one. Stay focused. Keep watch. Hold your ground. Keep fighting the good fight. Love and be loyal to the captain of our faith. Jesus won. That's the good news. He already won. In Colossians two fourteen and fifteen, it says blotting out the handwriting see, Satan thought that if I can just kill him, if I can kill the son of God, if I can get him crucified and the people choose Barabbas, then we win. I'll get the kingdom. But Satan lost. It was his biggest lost. Jesus was able to say, no man takes my life from me. I willingly lay it down. I have power to lay it down, power to take it again. The devil didn't quite see that. So blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us. What's that mean? The law was against you. The law condemned you. And he took the accusation. He took the charges against you, which is death. The wage of sin is death, and it's on the cross there. And he blotted it out that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way and nailed it to the cross. It is finished, tetelestai, paid in full. There's no charges against you. He won. And then it says, and having spoiled principalities and powers. Who are we fighting against? The devil. Principalities, powers, the leaders of darkness. And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly triumphing over them in it. So he that ascended, first descended in Ephesians four, to the lower parts of the earth. And he went into that place of Hades or Sheol, that double compartment in Luke 16, where on the one side was Lazarus and Abraham's bosom. This day you'll be of the in paradise, he said to the thief on the cross. And then on the other side, there's a gulf. On the other side, there's a place of torment where the rich man was crying out to father Abraham to have Lazarus over and dip his finger into the water to touch his tongue because he agreed with his torment. And Jesus said, no. There's a great gulf between the two. You can't come over here. We can't go over there. We'll send back someone to tell my brother. I got five brothers. If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they hear or be persuaded the one be raised from the dead. They got the Old Testament. They got the prophecies. They got the Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them. You guys seem to disregard that. And so Jesus emptied out that compartment of all the Old Testament saints that are awaiting the crucifixion. And Peter tells us that he proclaimed victory. He didn't preach the gospel and give anybody a a new chance, a fresh chance. No. It's appointed on all men once to die, and then the judgment. No second chance. But he proclaimed victory to all the principalities and the powers, all the demons. Everybody heard in hell that Jesus won, that he raised himself from the dead. He spoiled all principalities and powers. Triumph. The triumphal victory when Jesus come. He's going up the Mount Of Olives into the city, a triumphant general, a triumphant victor, having slain all of his enemies in the blood as high as the horse's bridle. He's king of kings and lord of lords. He wins. Hallelujah. So no matter how much you and I fail, Jesus has already won, and his victory is our victory. And we are gonna fail. We are gonna sin. If we say we have no sin, we lie and the truth isn't in us. There's times where we are still gonna continue to fail, but we're gonna get stronger and stronger and stronger as time goes on, and we're gonna be wiser and wiser concerning the enemy's lies. And we continue to fight. We never give up because we know we fight from a position of strength of already having won. He's spoiled. Greater is he that's in us than he that's in the world. In Luke ten eighteen, Jesus said, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you the power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall be shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding, in this rejoice, not that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. The disciples are enamored with their power. Well, this kind cometh not out but through prayer and fasting, the life of the spirit relying upon the Lord. In Jude 24, now unto him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, still standing because Jesus has overcome. That's the only reason we're still standing, is because we're relying upon Jesus. Yes. We get knocked down. The disciples get knocked down. People in Nigeria get knocked down. But to be absent of the body is to be present with the Lord. Jesus said, don't fear them that can kill your body. That's their threat. I'm gonna kill you if you don't give in. I'm leveraging you, Rick. You say his name anymore. We're gonna kill you. The name of Jesus. Don't fear him who can kill your body, but fear him who can not only kill your body, but cast your soul into hell. Fear God. God's the one that's gonna determine your eternal destiny. Have a respect and a fear for God, greater respect and fear than that of the devil or his minions that are threatening that the most they can do is kill your body. And to be asked from the body is to be present with the Lord. They did you a favor. Let's pray. Father, thank you that you've already won. Thank you that Jesus already has led the way. He's conquered sin and death and hell, and and Lord, we are recipients of his victory. And Lord, we pray evermore that you would continue to teach us to fight. And Lord, we pray that you'd awaken more and more of the big name pastors who have a far greater influence than I do to waken to waken and boldly proclaim the truth, not be afraid of their faces, not be afraid of what they might lose. Lord, it's it's ridiculous to hear these guys talking about why we gotta snuff out Iran because of nine eleven. Don't they get it? Nine eleven was a scam. If they don't know that, what their whole world view is skewed. They don't they don't get it. The ways that we're being deceived. Lord, awaken the guys. Help them. How could they be be so knowledgeable and yet be so blind or unwilling, lacking courage? Nobody's gonna listen to me, Lord. I've had thirty one years to try and make a difference. And, you know there's very, very few people that even consider what we teach and preach here. But, Lord, some of your big guys, they got big audiences. They could reach thousands with the truth. We pray, Lord, that you would embolden them. And, Lord, we pray as a small little remnant church, Lord, that we stay the course, that we never compromise, no matter how much pressure is upon us to conform and to give into the world so that we can grow. Lord, help us to grow spiritually from within, the quality of life, the life of the spirit. Give us the victory, Lord. Help us to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil day by day as we rely upon you in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Sunday Service

Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, teach the Word of God cover to cover, chapter by chapter, and verse by verse. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes on Mondays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.

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