2 Corinthians 10:4-6 4(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 6And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Fight for Every Inch
Testimony (Raising Dead Boy)
53-1203 · West Palm Beach, Florida
14 …You’ve got to go do it. And you’ve got to fight for every inch of ground that you have. Every man in here that’s born again of the Spirit of God, knows that you’ve had to fight for every inch of ground, toe the mark with Satan. Isn’t that right? Friends, this is not a picnic. This is a battleground. See? We never come here to—to eat cookies and—and so forth. We’re in a battle.
Trained & Brought Up: How to Fortify
A Deceived Church, By The World
59-0628M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
8 Remember, we are not on a picnic, but we’re in a battlefield. Many people just think that when they become a Christian that that’s all they need to do, that that settles it forever, as they are a Christian and everything’s going to come easy. Don’t never get that in your head. For, I become a Christian to fight, fight the good fight of faith. I become a Christian, to get in the battle lines. We are Christian soldiers, and we got to be trained and brought up, and know all the techniques of the enemy, to know how to fortify, to know how to—to fight the fight. And we can only do that as the Holy Spirit will reveal it to us. We cannot take what some other nation tells us when we go to war, some of their ideas. But we got to take our own ideas, the way the Holy Spirit would direct us, and what ideas He would give us, because He is the Commandering Chief of the army of the Christians.
Battle is On
The Pool Of Bethesda
50-0811 · Cleveland, Ohio
16 …But the battle is on, right against wrong, skepticism against the Word of God, faith against unbelief. O Father may the Angels of God wave their white flag, the banners of the cross, and may the Holy Spirit rise tonight. May signs and wonders be done. We give You all things, believing them…
2 Corinthians 2:11 11Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
- Take an evil spirit so easy and NOT KNOW IT!!
Christianity Versus Idolatry
61-1217 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
79 That’s right, you’ve got to know the Word! Stay on the Word! See, the great battle is at hand. Now, we’ve played church for years and years, but the hour has come now that when Jambres and Jannes will withstand Moses as the Bible said they would. And it’s going to be spiritual battle, conflict. There will be some just continue on, the denominational church will just move right on into domination and go on the way it goes. But I mean the real true believer is coming to that battlefield, and you had better be versed and know what you’re doing, or you could take an evil spirit so easy and not know. If it’s contrary to this Word, don’t believe it! Stay with that Word!
2 Corinthians 11:1-4 1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. 2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. (Paul was to watch over them.) 3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
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This battle is not being fought because there is a question of who is the most powerful, God or Satan.
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God could end the battle any time He wants to but we are tested.
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We must keep the enemy in his place!
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We must never let Satan get in control.
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God wants His children to be FREE.
2 Corinthians 3:17 17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
- In the kingdom of Satan there is nothing to look to but DARKNESS, FEAR, OPPRESSION, and BONDAGE. But in the kingdom of God there is FAITH and FREEDOM.
Broke Every Slave Belt, Every Fetter
Go, Tell
60-0417M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
80 As we continue a moment, with the slaves, and our thought. There was a proclamation, Emancipation of the Proclamation, that was signed, and the slaves was going to be free upon a certain day. You don’t know, oh, if you’ve, never met Christ, you never know what that meant to them slaves. When it went, the message throughout the land, that, “You’re going to be free on such-and-such a day, at daylight. You’re going to be free. You’ll not have to wear slave belts anymore, neither will you get any more whippings. But you are free, and you are a citizen of this great United States. You are not no more a slave, after daylight on a certain-certain morning.” Oh, with, great anticipations, they waited.
81 If the sinner could only see that! If the sinner would only hear the true Gospel! Not the joining of as church; but the preaching of the Gospel, that you can be free from sin, that you can be free from your sickness. “At a certain-certain time,” that’s the time you believe.
82 You know, those slaves were so excited and under such anticipation, waiting for the hour that they would be free, until, they tell me, that they gathered at the bottom of the hill, mothers and little children, all gathered, and some of the old. And they climbed up to the top of the hill, around, midnight. They knowed when the day breaked and the sun come up, that they would be free. It wouldn’t take over one half of a minute to shine the sun from the top of the hill, but some of them was up on top the hill, watching, watching. “Oh, when the sun rises, we are free.” That was the s-o-n…or, s-u-n.
83 But when the S-o-n rises one of these days! And when the S-o-n rose some nineteen hundred years ago, He broke every slave belt, He set every captive free, He healed every sickness, He gave freedom to those who are in bondage. How we ought to climb and watch!
84 And when the sun peeped up, first, the man was at the highest, saw it, and, he shouted down to the next man, “We are free!” And the next man shouted to the man farther down the hill, “We are free!” Until it come to the camp, “We are free!” For, the sun was arising, they were waiting, waiting, waiting for that hour.
85 How much more ought we to be waiting, today, for the S-o-n of God. We are free from sin. We are free from the shackles. We are free from habits. We are free from smoking, drinking, carousing, because the S-o-n of God has raised from the grave and has broke every fetter. All condemnation is gone! The debt has been paid. The penalty is paid. The sins are washed away, and we are free. Oh, we are free, people! Slavery? Freedom, when the Son of God rises with healing in His wings!
Freedom involves choices that we must make.
We Have a Responsibility
God Doesn’t Call Man To Judgment Without First Warning Him
63-0724 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
40 Now, because, we have a responsibility that we’ve got to answer to God someday for. Every man that come on the face of the earth has to answer to God for a responsibility. And, to many of us, a stewardship, we have to answer for. We…This responsibility is a stewardship that’s been committed to us by God, I don’t care what it is. As I said a few moments ago, “a housewife,” then be a genuine housewife. That’s right. If it’s to be a farmer, be a genuine farmer. Whatever it is that God has put you to do, you got a stewardship to that, you’ve got to answer to God for, because it takes all these things to do it.
A Prisoner
63-0717 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
47 Now, we’re all born, a free moral agent, to make any decision that we wish to. God justly does that. Because, He must put every man on the same basis, or He put the wrong man on…He put the first man on the wrong basis, that He put on free moral agency. See? We’re just exactly, tonight, like Adam and Eve. There’s no different. Right and wrong sets before either one of us. Life and death, we can make our choice; up to you, to make it. See?
48 That’s the way Adam and Eve did, and, see, and—and they made the wrong choice. And now, by that, put the whole race, of human race, under death, the penalty of death.
49 And then God came down in the form of man and took that death, and paid the penalty of death, that the…His subjects that desired to—to be free could go free.
Filled with Something
What Was The Holy Ghost Given For?
59-1217 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
137 Amen! What are we going to do? Each person setting here is filled with something.
Then I’m going to close; may have to, after that.
You’re filled with something. You can’t set there without being full of something. You’ve got a life in you. That life governs you, and that life is governed by a spirit.
Now, you might be full of the world, loving the world or the things of the world. God be merciful to you.
You might be full of creeds from some church, some little prayers that you say, you think it’s going to pray to some dead person, or—or make some kind of a sign across you. God be merciful to you.
138 And you may be full of religion, and that’s worse yet. That’s right. That’s right. The Bible said, “In the last days they’d be very religious, having a form of godliness; having a form of godliness, but denying the Power thereof: from such turn away.”
If you are full of religion, you’re miserable; just religion, that’s all. If you’re full of creeds, you don’t know what you’re talking about. If you’re full of the world, you’re blind.
139 And then, again, you may be full of the Holy Ghost. Amen. I hope you are. And, if you’re not, I hope you get full. And if you’re full of the Holy Ghost, what you got? You got Power. You got love. You got peace. “My peace I’ll give unto you; not as the world, giveth I you.” You got peace. You’re sealed. You got a sign. Amen. You got rest. You got joy unspeakable, and full of glory. You’re anchored. Oh, my! That’s what you are, with the Holy Ghost. You have…If you got full of the Holy Ghost, “You have passed from death unto Life,” waiting for the general resurrection in the last day.
I Am The Resurrection And Life
63-1118 · Campbellsville, Kentucky
64 Like the world. Jesus said, “You cannot serve God and mammon.” Mammon is the “world.” Can’t serve God and world at the same time.
65 We have our choice. We can be germitized by God, by His Holy Spirit, and we have Eternal Life. If we don’t, when we die, that’s it. We’re ready for the Judgment then, why we didn’t do it, then the punishment. It follows that, for rejecting It.
Just Once More, Lord
63-1201E · Shreveport, Louisiana
74 Samson prayed right, “Lord, let me die with these Philistines.” Oh, my! See what it’s going to cost him? What if God answers his prayer? “Let me die.” Oh! I like that.
75 Was it Patrick Henry said, “Give me liberty or give me death”? That’s right.
76 All right, that’s it, liberty or death! It’s back to God, or—or death. What are we going to do? What are we mimicking? What are we try to play, Christianity? If the Holy Ghost is still the Holy Ghost that fell at Pentecost, It still does the same things It did then. The same Power, the same Spirit, It’ll work the same way. We don’t need a council of churches. We need the Bible back in action. That’s exactly.
77 Now we find out that Samson prayed right, “Lord, let me die with the enemy,” die to the enemy that had got him in that way. If there is anything that people ought to pray for, tonight! And we see the thing that’s done this, is getting away from the Bible, to a creed. Then, die with the thing, get out of it! Die to it. Samson was willing to pay the price to get the Power of God back again. There is a price to be paid for It, but, today, the people don’t seem to do it.
Only one thing will set you free and that is the Word.
Choose the Word!
John 8:31-37 31Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? 34Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. 35And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. 36If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. 37I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
The Second Seal
63-0319 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
216 And when a man turns down the Gospel Truth, Satan marks him (where?) at his ear. He deafens him so he can’t hear the Truth no more, and he’s finished. He stays with the group that he’s with, if he won’t hear the Truth. No.
217 “You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” See, the Truth makes free.
The Token
64-0308 · Dallas, Texas
152 That’s a cutting Message, but it’s the Truth. That’s what we need, is Truth. God help us to know Truth. “You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” I claim that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I believe that God gives the Holy Ghost as a Token, right now, just before the exodus, of the—of the Bride going out of the church.
153 I believe there is so much tommyrot, and people saying they shouted, they spoke in tongues. I believe in those things; but you can’t rely on that. How can you rely on that, and then deny the Word? See?
154 The Token is the Word identified in you, living Itself out. ** That’s** God being His Own interpreter. You don’t have to say, “Well, now, you interpret my tongue.” That ain’t it. He interprets your life by the Word. When He takes your word, what you are, and identify His Word through there, there don’t need any interpretation, it’s already there. God does His Own interpretation, and we’ve had these promises for the day.
Calling Jesus on the Scene
63-0804E · Chicago, Illinois
69 Where the battle is, is right up there with Satan. Not somebody who kisses the babies, and—and buries the dead, and—and carries a penknife; but somebody with a two-handed sword, right up in the front of the battle. That’s the one, see. That’s the thing that counts. That’s where the heat of the battle is on. That’s where the enemy stands.
And Knoweth It Not
65-0815 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
288 If he’s a president…Where is our John Quincy Adamses? Where is our Abraham Lincolns, men of principle? Where is our Patrick Henry, said, “Give me liberty or give me death”?
289 Where is a man that stands for what’s right? Where is the man that’s not afraid to speak out? Regardless, the whole world’s against him, speak out for what’s right; and stand for it and die for it. Where is our Arnold von Winkelried again today? Where is men of integrity? Where is men with spirit? They’re so wishy-washy and gaumed up until they don’t know where they stand.
290 God, let me stand with the principles of one Man, as a minister, the Word of Jesus Christ. “For heavens and earth will pass away, but It’ll never fail. On this Rock I’ll build My Church; the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
The Choosing of a Bride
65-0429E · Los Angeles, California
41 And it’s a dangerous thing to wait till that last hour, too, because you might take on something that you could never shake out of it. You know, there is a time when you can be warned, then, if you step across that line of warning, then you’re already marked on the other side, branded.
42 Remember, when the jubilee year come, and the—the priest rode with his trumpet sounding, that every slave could go free. But if they refused to accept their freedom, then he had to be taken to the temple, to a post, and an awl bore him through the ear, and then he served his master always. It was put on his ear as a type, of hearing. “Faith cometh by hearing.” He heard that trumpet, but he didn’t want to listen to it.
43 And many time, men and women hear God’s Truth, and see It vindicated and proven, Truth, but yet they don’t want to hear It. There’s some other reason. There’s some other choosing that they have, than to face up to Truth and facts, therefore their ears can be closed to the Gospel. They’ll never hear It again. My advice to you, when God speaks to your heart, you act right then.
2 Corinthians 10:4-6 4(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 6And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (AMP) 3For though we walk (live) in the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons. 4For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds, 5[Inasmuch as we] refute) (ESV-Destroy) arguments and theories and reasonings (ESV-lofty opinions) and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One),
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (CJB) For although we do live in the world, we do not wage war in a worldly way; because the weapons we use to wage war are not worldly. On the contrary, they have God’s power for demolishing strongholds. We demolish arguments and every arrogance that raises itself up against the knowledge of God**; we take every thought captive and make it obey the Messiah.
2 Corinthians 10:5 (NAS) We are destroying speculations* and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.
This IS the biggest portion of WARFARE that we are engaged in!!!
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To Cast down IMAGINATIONS
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Three Witnesses
51-0728 · Eerie, Pennsylvania
18 …God, wake us up from this sense bound dream that we’re in; may we go beyond this sphere, up into this—the place where all things are possible, and there lay hold on Eternal Life and on Divine healing, and tonight walk out of here victorious in Christ Jesus. For we ask it in His Name. Amen.
The Greatest Battle Ever Fought
62-0311 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
466 “Give away, Satan!” What’s the matter, soldiers? Don’t you think we can conquer? [Congregation rejoices and says, “Amen.”—Ed.] He’s already conquered. We are more than victors in Christ Jesus. Every devil cast out, everything else. Amen.
Colossians 2:14-17 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it*. 16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Trojan Horse—Gaining Entrance
1 Peter 5:8-9 (KJVS) 8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
The story of the Trojan Horse is well-known. First mentioned in the Odyssey, it describes how Greek soldiers were able to take the city of Troy after a fruitless ten-year siege by hiding in a giant horse supposedly left as an offering to the goddess Athena.
The Trojan horse itself was a huge hollow wooden horse constructed by the Greeks to gain entrance into Troy during the Trojan War. The horse was built by Epeius, a master carpenter.
The Greeks, pretending to desert the war, sailed to the nearby island of Tenedos, leaving behind Sinon, who persuaded the Trojans that the horse was an offering to Athena (goddess of war) that would make Troy impregnable.
Despite the warnings of Laocoön and Cassandra, the horse was taken inside the city gates. That night Greek warriors emerged from it and opened the gates to let in the returned Greek army.
Today, the term “TROJAN HORSE” is still used to refer to any kind of deception or trick that involves getting a target willingly to allow an enemy into a secure place.
The Trojan horse is also the source of the nickname “Trojans” for computer programs — called malware — that can infect computer systems.
A Deceived Church, By the World
59-0628M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
61 Where is our Power? Where’s our glory? What is it? Because we went after the wisdom of man instead of the Power of God! Why, they got our preachers and things is so stiff and starchy, till they’ve organized us till we’re so starchy and stiffnecked, till people…Do you ever hear a shout in the church anymore? You never hear anybody cry. The mourner’s bench is put in the basement. There’s no more glory in the church. All we do is sit back just as stiff as we can be. We’re not free. We’re bound. The devil, with his modernistic demons, has bound the church of the living God. That’s right. There’s no more Power in the church. There’s no more freedom. The people are so starchy and stiff! Why, the God can come into the midst of Pentecostal people, and show that He’s God, and prove His signs of His resurrection, it don’t even shake them. Glory! Why, it’s a disgrace! I walk across the country, God working, performing signs, and people sit, and, “Well, I guess that’s all right. Oh, I know it can be done.” It doesn’t move them! Why? They’re bound with Delilah, the world. They’re in fetters.
62 Now they’ve even got them into, bound them into a confederation. “The Philistines are on thee, Samson.” What you going to do about it?
63 “Oh, we’ve got great denominations.” Sure. “We have greater membership than we ever had.” But where’s the Spirit? Where’s the Holy Ghost?
64 That’s what the devil has done. It’s wooed into the church. It’s kept wooing the church, “Come to me, I’ll give you a great big tabernacle over here if you’ll just do this. If you’ll get rid of that fanatic preacher you got, and get a man, a Doctor of Divinity that’s got some sense, we’ll build a nice big classical church and we’ll be like the rest of them.” Shame on you! Rather have a man that didn’t know split coffee from beans, but was filled with the Holy Ghost, that was uncompromised, by the Power of God.
65 But it’s got, oh, so starchy, till some poor saint can break through in the meeting and speak in tongues, or shout a little bit, or do something, and the rest of them will all gander around and look. “What was that? Well, wonder why? That must be a fanatic dropped in somewhere.” You know that’s the truth! Some poor saint step in, get happy enough to raise their hands, and cry and praise the Lord, somebody who will holler “amen” to the preaching of the Gospel, and the rest of them turn around and see what he said. That’s Pentecostals. What’s the matter? You’re patterning after the Methodist, after the Baptist; they patterned after the Catholic; Catholic patterned after hell. And, all together, it all after hell! Right.
66 Delilah has wooed you into big churches, fine, educated ministers, take the better class. “Well, you know, So-and-so down here is a millionaire, if we would just get him to come into our congregation! Oh, my!” If he isn’t born again, then he doesn’t deserve to be there. I don’t care if he’s got a million dollars. If he owns forty Cadillacs, whatever he’s got, he’s got to be borned again, come right down to a new birth and be regenerated by the Holy Ghost, and come out of there in a new birth, snotting (excuse me), a-crying and screaming, and carrying on like the rest of them do, and live a life afterwards to prove he’s got It. Amen. That’s what you need.
67 “Samson, the Philistines is upon thee.” The Communists is upon thee. The world’s upon thee. The devil’s upon thee.
The Rejected King
60-0610 · Chautauqua, Ohio
60 Now, we find out then, when a man rejects the leading of the Holy Spirit… You know what God did for Saul? He give him an evil spirit to lead him. Now, how about that? He give him an evil spirit; God gave him an evil spirit to lead him. So when a man rejects the leading of the Holy Spirit, or any person rejects the leading of the Holy Spirit, you got a devil on you to lead you. That’s exactly the Bible.
Oh, God, I wish we could have a revival. I wished there could come a time that when the Holy Spirit could really get into the hearts of the American people again, that they would see it’s Him. They want to look, say, “Well, now look. I can’t cooperate in this meeting because my church don’t…” What difference does that make? What’s that got to do with it? “Well, I’ll tell you; they—they believe in this, and we don’t believe that.” As long as they’re preaching the Bible, and the whole Bible, and the full Gospel, and nothing but the truth, listen to it. Long as they’re led by the Spirit, believe in it. And God will make Himself known.
If a man is led by the Spirit of God, God will make Hisself known to that person. Yes, sir. God promised to. So in doing that, we know then that—that the Holy Spirit leads the people and God takes care of it. Amen. You believe that with all your heart? Certainly, we do. All right.
Spirit Realm: nervousness, depression, arrogance, sullen ungodly spirits, insanity, worldly spirits, spirit of darkness, drinking, smoking, bad habits.
Physical Realm: tumor, cancer, pneumonia, arthritis, cataracts, rheumatism, tuberculosis, epilepsy, asthmatic conditions, germ diseases, ulcer, deafness, blindness etc.
Religious Realm: Unclean spirits, spirit of doubt, superstition, unbelief and sin.