4 Seasons of the Serpent - Part II | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter
by Kenneth Carpenter
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Genesis 3:1, Acts 16:16, 2 Corinthians 1:8-10, Hebrews 11:36, Luke 7:19, Acts 28:3-6, Acts 28:8, Exodus 2:15, Exodus 4:1-3, Revelation 20:1-3, Revelation 21:1, Revelation 22:1, Isaiah 11:6-9, Isaiah 65:20

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Genesis 3 and 1. Genesis 3 and 1 there's an incredible Spirit here tonight there is a spirit of Deliverance here the spirit of power of God here tonight I'm going to tell you a simple little fact it's a simple fact tonight I have a my difficult job my difficult job is to preach to you to believe that's the difficult that's the difficulty of this job it is not difficult for God to move matter of fact he wants to move and I don't I don't believe it was any coincidence that when things finally got aligned and the blood was shed and the mediator was set that the Holy Ghost that had not lived in a human being for six thousand years that the Holy Ghost God's spirit Came From Heaven not as a gentle Summer Breeze not like some scroll that the Bible said when things got lined up when the blood was shed and the mediator was set in heaven the Bible said when the day of Pentecost was fully come there came a sound from Heaven as a rushing Mighty Wind God was in a hurry my difficulty tonight is not to convince you not to convince God to move is to get in your mind that God wants to touch you God wants to move upon you Genesis 3 and 1. now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made and he said unto the woman I want to preach continue to preaching tonight on the four seasons of The Serpent God I love you tonight Lord I'm here to do what you called me to do Lord you not only called me to salvation but shortly thereafter you called me to preach your word Lord here I stand tonight God and I am in need of the anointing that breaks the Yoke I am in need tonight that while I preach that your spirit will move away every Spirit that's opposed to the moving of your spirit Lord I pray tonight that there will be Souls filled with the Holy Ghost I pray tonight God there will be Souls that will be delivered I know that it is your will to fill Souls with the Holy Ghost and I know that is your will to deliver people in this room tonight father if you'll help me I will be so mindful never to glory in your presence I am but a mortal man and limited in a lot of ways but oh God if you will come down tonight and you will catch my lips of clay I can speak the Eternal Word of God and there will be creative power that will be released in this place in Jesus name I pray give him a shout and give him a hand praise tonight come on give him a shout and give him a hand praise season one four seasons of The Serpent you may be seated season one that we began this morning that he is a speaking he is a speaking serpent we went all the way through to where in the end of time the Antichrist and the false prophet will be given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies we begin to tell you how Jesus defeated the speaking serpent the only way the speaking serpent can be defeated when he speaks to you is you must speak back to him the word of God I'm sorry poetry doesn't move him and songs don't move him but when you begin to speak the word of God back to the adversary it is the only it is the only weapon the Bible calls it a two a two edge sword we begin to preach and I got into where all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine reproof and there was when season one came to an end I never got to the next three seasons but I want to thank God there's a gentleman in this city that loves God he loves God he's searching for fullness of Truth he sent me a message today and he said you have totally opened the world the word of God has totally opened my mind I'm studying baptism in the name of Jesus Christ I'm believing by faith that I'm gonna if you're watching tonight I'm believing by faith that it won't be too long in the future I'm going to baptize you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that's the only way to be baptized somebody say the speaking serpent and now I want to introduce you to the next Serpent and I really believe that this is just not just how I'm putting scripture together I believe for the season of this church I believe that what we are going through as a church what we're going through is a people I believe that God enlightened my mind to these verses and these passages of scripture Acts chapter 16 and verse 16 and it came to pass as we went to prayer a certain dams will possess with a spirit of divination met us which brought her Masters much gain by saying the word divination here means python it means a python she was connected to an idol group she was connected to a false god group who had an image of a python snake I a few weeks ago I hit on this subject here this young lady had the spirit this word divination means a python can I tell you when season one of the adversary won't stop you do not relax your guard because the enemy will come in with season two a python is a snake that kills its prey by strangulation a python will wrap around and I I read some things about a python that it has to fall upon you a python is so large a python is so easily seen that it most of the time to be successful it has to fall from a branch down upon its prey I read aware that most of its prey immediately die of cardiac arrest a heart attack but if not the python then begins to twirl and wrap around its victim and it's cutting off the breathing it squeezes and in each time the victim begins to breathe inhale or exhale the python is tightening its grip I call this the season of pressure the serpent The Serpent of pressure there is a serpent of pressure there are things that you and I that you and I will will walk through in the spirit that you and I will walk through in the spirit we are quoting scripture but just somehow we feel like there is this pressure Upon Our Lives we can't put our finger on it we try to go back through our minds and repent of everything we've said not said done not done we're trying to find out what's wrong but this Spirit of python has wrapped around and the spirit of python is trying to squeeze the breath it's trying to squeeze the breath out of you it has been said multiple times here praise is our Lifeline the youth group opened up tonight that praise opens up the windows in the doors of heaven and if there's something that python wants to do if python at the speaking serpent if the speaking serpent cannot overcome us with his lies because we can bat him with the truth of God python comes and begins to squeeze and begins to tighten around us we know that there's something we know that there's something there he's trying to squeeze the praise out of us he is trying to put us into a spirit of pressure Paul in the second book of Corinthians chapter 1 and verse number 8 Paul encountered this again he said for we would not Brethren have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia people that are doing a work for God will will encounter trouble trouble is not a sign that you're out of the will of God trouble can be a sign that you're doing the will of God Paul said I don't want you to be ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia that we were pressed out of measure pressure pressed out of shape pressed measured pressed out of measure above strength we we were pressed so hard that it went beyond our strength in so much that we despaired even of Life Paul Teeters under this pressure about life and about living life he says in verse 9 but we have this sentence of death in ourselves what he's saying there in a few short words we knew that we couldn't last much longer we just knew that the pressure we're under we can't last much longer we but but we were but we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves but in God which raiseth the dead he is saying there that this pressure got to the place to where he said God if you don't help me I can't be helped God if you don't help me I can't I can't be helped and then verse 10 he says God delivered us from so great a death and death deliver and in whom we trust that he will yet Deliver Us Paul said if you're talking about being pressured he said I want you to know that God will come through stay faithful stay true hang in there Paul is saying hang in there unto the pressure don't succumb to the pressure don't throw in the towel with the pressure comes the pressure is there it's normal you're in the process God's making something out of you that diamond that you have on your finger tonight don't you know that that diamond is the product of thousands of years of pressure on a chunk of coal but because it stayed in the ground and it stayed in pressure it is now a most valuable gem called The Diamond can I tell you tonight we as a church are feeling the pressures of hell as never before but I want to send a signal to Hell tonight I want every demon every evil spirit to hear me loud and to hear me clear and I hope that I'm not the only one I'm not throwing in the cow hit me with the best that you've got put me in the pressure cooker if you will but by the grace of God and by the help of God I'm going to stay in this race and not give up can you give him some praise right now pressure pressure pressure Hebrews 11 and 36 talks about a people in Hebrews 11 36 Hebrews is the faith chapter of where the miracle seas are divided in Barren women give birth to children after many years but I'm going to tell you something there's another phase to walking by faith and that is pressure the Bible says in he at Hebrews 11 36 and others women who you talking about others I'm talking about those that the barren wombs that didn't give birth I'm talking about those that didn't have a red sea part and others had had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings yay moreover of bonds and imprisonment I don't believe I'm stretching the word tonight these bonds and imprisonment is a restriction of movement that's what pressure does to you it restricts your movement it restricts you that you don't have all the options that you used to have you're restricted to a certain place I'm convinced tonight that the enemy the python of pressure the pressure serpent has taken many good Bible quoting people down because they succumb to restriction they they succumb to pressure how much longer God knoweth that'd be a good that'd be a good thing to stick on your mirror in your bathroom God knew it God knoweth when things going to change God know it when am I going to come out of this season God know it I've had a lot of people prophesy over me and shake me that I had to go comb my hair after it was over yay this shall end in three days three days it hadn't ended but I got news for you God knoweth I don't know when but I'm gonna get up in the morning and I'm going to say God knoweth and with that appointed time that God knoweth it shall come through you won't always stay under pressure child of God take courage tonight be of good Comfort tonight you won't always be in the season of python if if you can if you can just allow yourself to have faith in God I wish somebody just say God know it God know it the Bible said Jesus Christ testified about John John the Baptist and Jesus said there wasn't a greater that was in a greater Prophet that wasn't a greater man what a great man Jesus is bragging on Jesus Jesus is bragging on this man called John the Baptist Jesus is bragging on this man called John oh John knows who he is John Heralds it out Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world John says to Jesus when Jesus comes to be baptized John says to Jesus says oh no I have need to be baptized of you I I I I have need to be baptized Of You John has such confidence John has such freedom on the shores of the Jordan River John has such Freedom as he's announcing Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world but what happens to you John when python sets in on you what happens to you John because you said you said this I don't know if you understood what you were saying John but you made a statement about Jesus you said it goes like this and you can help me quote it tonight I must decrease that he may increase he said I've got a Ministry I've got to decrease do you know sometimes pressure causes us to decrease sometimes pressure in our life is just what we need we need more that pressure I mean we we get in places in our life when we begin to think things and we begin to have freedoms and we forget to be as thankful as we ought to and sometimes God allows pressure to come to our life because why it's all about Jesus it's all about Jesus our life is not all about us arriving to death Healthy and Wealthy our goal in life this is not Monopoly uh listen our great our grand scheme here is not the game of Monopoly to where we want to end and own all the real estate and all the money and everybody else said no no that's not that's not the goal the goal of a child of God when they draw their last breath did I do my best to tell people about Jesus did I do my best to lead people to Jesus John finds himself being arrested John finds himself the culture changes John finds himself being arrested and John finds himself in a prison sounds like restriction sounds like pressure and in that prison the same man the same man that could say Behold the Lamb of God Luke chapter 7 verse 19 in that prison and John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus saying now John's in prison he sends two disciples to Jesus saying art thou he that should come or look we for another what happened to you John I'll tell you what happened to John pressure got to him pressure got to him to where he began to think in his mind you know I've been doing everything I should have done I I preached a matter of fact I'm in prison because I rebuked the king for his immoral lifestyle I've been doing I introduced I introduced the Lamb of God to the world I've been doing everything I could do why would I ever wind up in here and the only way I would wind up in here is for it maybe he's not who he said he was can I tell you that in prison notice this he sent two of his disciples look at that John Luke 7 19 brother Erickson he sent two of his disciples let me show you something real quick there are some Giants you can kill all by yourself and this is a trick of the devil it is a trick of python to deceive you that you can live for God all by yourself you cannot live for God all by yourself God said it is not good that man be alone but or we seeing a culture of people that that believe they'll tell you they'll tell you oh I'm all right I just don't go to church oh I'm all right I just don't I I just don't go to a house of worship on a regular basis you're not all right you're not all right because there's some Giants you can kill all by yourself David killed Goliath all by himself nobody helped David kill Goliath but David you are going to face a giant in your life and that giant is going to knock you down yeah I'm talking about David the Giant Killer he faced a giant in his older in his old age he faced a giant and when he faced that giant that giant knocked David down to the ground that giant knocked him down to the ground and that giant was about to take his Spear and stab it through the heart of David but David had taken some men into battle with him and when they looked around and they saw their King laying on their back they came up behind that giant and they took that Giant's life and had it not been for the men David had with him David would have been killed by a giant boy how did how does that sound to end your life oh he started out good he killed a giant but boy a giant got him in an end boy that would really inspire all of us to be giant Killers wouldn't it but what I'm trying to tell you tonight is get python Spirit it has done robbed the oxygen from your brain because you think that you can make it all by yourself you are just checking people off I don't need you you didn't park your car right you didn't treat me right you didn't say happy birthday on Facebook you didn't do this to me I'm Xing you out I'm actually you better be careful asking people out of your life because one of these days you're gonna need them to come around and help you and can I just tell any families that are in a little dysfunctional mode right now When I visit nursing homes When I visit nursing homes of men and women they cannot even physically take care of their body they can't feed themselves anymore they can't clean themselves anymore they can't even go to the party by themselves anymore most of the time most of the time it's not a stranger in that room it's a son it's a daughter it's a daughter-in-law it's a son-in-law it's somebody it's a sister it's a cousin so what I'm trying to tell you tonight when python tries to tell you to write your kids off and python tries to tell you the right family members off you're going to need them one day you just may need them to come down to that nursing home when nobody else would have patience with you when nobody else would like to bathe you you just made I'm talking about python tonight we have a book in the Bible called The Book of Jeremiah matter of fact we not only have Jeremiah we not only have Jeremiah we have Jeremiah and lamentation Jeremiah the prophet wrote both Jeremiah and lamentation but can I tell you something tonight you'd have never had Jeremiah limitation had it not been for an Ethiopian and the Bible calls him an Ethiopian which which separates him from the Jew he had a darker skin complexion than the Jews did but when Jeremiah is knee-deep in the city sewer because that's where they put him to die they put him in the city sewer to die he's knee-deep in the city sewer he's about to die rats running around rodents smell is horrible and he's about to die there was a man by the name of ebek limek that came an Ethiopian and he said to the king he said he's going to die down there in that dungeon and the King gave him permission the king gave him permission to go down and oh he back went down with ropes and Claws and he threw some cloths no Rags down and he said Jeremiah put him up under your armpits this is in the Bible said put them up under your armpits Jeremiah and said I'm going to throw this old rope down put that rope under your armpits you know what he was saying I don't want that old rope just cutting away at your skin I don't want that old rope just digging into your skin I I want that cloth to cushion that that rope as we pull you out of there he would have never had Jeremiah and lamentation hadn't somebody come around and said you've got the spirit of python on you and I'm gonna pull you back I'm gonna pull you up out of there that's why I'm telling you the Church of the Living God has never had a race issue we have never had the church I'm not talking about Society I'm talking about the church we have never had a race issue oh God help me Spirit of python that pure Spirit python you keep writing people off your list you keep writing people off your list you you keep xing people off you keep you keep exiting them off your life and you're going to find yourself all alone one day and the devil is going to say I got you right where I want you I got you right where I want you can I tell you something friend we've been going through a trial and we've been going through a test and we've been holding on to God's unchanging hand but I'm going to tell you I have a greater appreciation for this church family like I have never had before we're stronger right now than we've ever been we're stronger right now as a church we're having numbers in attendance right now that we have never had in this church we're not even in a Sunday school drive right now and we're having numbers that that are that that we're breaking record after record after record after record can I tell you right now that if it wasn't for the praying saints of God if it wasn't for the praying people that send a text we're praying for you hang in there God's with you I'm so glad I didn't run you off I'm so glad that I didn't ask you out of my life because there was a giant that could have taken me down but I'm gonna tell you right now I wouldn't be here tonight we're waiting for the prayers of the saints of God you keep asking people out of your life go ahead go ahead grab your family up leave this church there'll come a day that you wished that your children would have made friends with the kids in this church ah you know yeah I know him yeah I know him I'll tell you what I know about him I know that our youth group at its very worst is better than the world's youth group at its very best I just spent I just spent four days with the Juniors and the seniors of ACA set the carpet myself in Orlando and on the same floor with them same floor same floor I know I sleep good but I thought I asked brother Hammond I said man I didn't hear a peep out of them I mean same floor had nothing going on same floor same floor the only thing that happened somebody knocked on my door I looked at the little peephole didn't see anybody very careful how I was open the door and I looked down I saw my grandson Beckham running I said back you knock on my door he pointed his daddy he said my daddy told me to do it yeah I know somebody breaks up with this when some boy does this wrong some girl does that wrong I I get how to I get how all that goes and I'm just going to tell you something if your child is not mature enough to be broke up with they shouldn't be dating you know I'm preaching but I'm going to tell you something there's thousands of people that regret the day they picked their children up and took them out those doors python will make you do crazy things you're going to need you're going to need your church you're going to need you're going to need your family you know it isn't by chance that the final battle that Jesus fought was not on the cross he did not fight a battle on the cross he fought the Battle In The Garden of Gethsemane is it any coincidence that Gethsemane is a place where whole grapes are brought and crushed so that the juices will flow the final test of Jesus Humanity life was in a place called Gethsemane and we could call it the place of python where it wrapped around him till what was on the inside of him came out that press I want you to hear me the pressing serpent the pressing the pressing serpent listen to this very clearly tonight when Satan knows he doesn't when Satan knows it doesn't matter how much pressure he puts on you listen to this verse of scripture there hath no temptation pressure taken you but such is common to man but God will with the temptation make a way I don't know how much I can take I got good news God does and if I'm taking a little bit more it's all because God knows I'm capable of taking a little more when Satan knows it doesn't matter how much pressure he puts on you you're not giving in you won't change your mind about God and God will never change his mind about you he will then go he then goes to cause people to change their mind or opinion or thoughts or questioning motives about you I introduce to you tonight the third season he is a slandering serpent slandering he will slander you if you quote scripture and push him back he'll come back with python but if you endure python he'll come back with slander about your name somebody will slander you somebody will misinterpret something you've done somebody that kind deed that you did somebody will slander that kind deed let's go to scripture to find this out Paul in 275 other passengers have floated ashore after weeks in a storm and the ship has been torn apart Paul alone with 275 other passengers flow to the shore of this island on broken pieces of the ship in Acts chapter 28 verse number 3 when they floated ashore there were that Allen was inhabited by Heathen people Godless people they were heathens they were Godless but they were kind they saw these 276 water-soaked men and they began to build Fires for them in Acts chapter 28 and verse number 3 it says and when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and lay them on the Fire there came out a viper out of the fire out of the Heat and fastened on his hand say those last three words with me on his hand where was the Viper at on his hand and when The Barbarians saw the venomous Beast hang on his hand they shed among themselves no doubt this man is a murderer whom though he hath escape the sea yet Vengeance supper suppereth not to live watch this at first he's a water-soaked man that comes ashore and they have compassion these these barbarians have compassion on him and they build a fire Paul gets up and begins to help gather sticks and when he does a Viper a cobra attaches itself to Paul's hand and when Paul saw this Viper that attached itself to the hand the people changed their view of Paul they looked at him not as a man that needed to be saved but they said among themselves this must be a murderer this must be a wicked man that Vengeance suffereth him not to live look the sea he tried to kill him and now now a Viper a Viper has attached itself so now can't you see what's happening now now the people around Paul the people that Paul wants to eventually preach to is now looking at him not through compassionate eyes but they're looking at him like he's a murderer he he's evidently done something bad because that serpent if he can't get you through if he can't get you through speaking lies and if he cannot get you through python of pressure he will then try to get somebody to talk about you somebody to slander you come on church you've got to get a hide tougher than letting somebody run their mouth about you there's always been gossipers there's always been Slanders there's always been people running their mouths but for God's sake don't let them run you out out of church umbrella they're saying this about you you know what it is do you all know what that sweet spot is of when you get into bed and you you you're just right in between being awake and going to sleep it's it's it's Heavenly it's just that one little spot that this that one little spot it's heavily the blankets are just right the pillow's just right the dogs are positioned just right the wives over here it's just right the fans going overhead my wife read me something on the way to church he said you ever you ever thought people can sleep through a tornado they can sleep through a a siren going off they can sleep through a train coming beside their house but just turn the fan off in your water oh I was in that sweet spot and off in the distance I begin to hear Kenny Kenny and then I heard Kenny Ray and I'm laying like this let's look over there and she's there she's halfway setting up she said doesn't it bother you what people are saying about you foreign doesn't it bother you what people are saying about you it's just going to get deep here I said no she don't bother you I said absolutely not because it's lies you see too many of you are believing what the Slanders are saying about you you cannot help in God is allowed for that to be a serpent a slander but don't let it take your peace I am not what they're saying we are not what they're saying come on if you've been slandered you ought to be shouting right now I'm not what they've said about me that's why I can go to sleep is I don't believe what they're saying about me slander here's what I want to do here's what I want to do acts 28 I hope it's all right tonight when The Barbarians saw the venomous beasts hang on his hand they said among themselves no doubt this man is a murderer whom though he have escaped the sea yet Vengeance suffereth not to live and he shook off the Beast Into the Fire and felt no harm albeit Luke you wrote acts you had to be from East Tennessee only an East Tennessee person could put three words together how be it how be it when they looked and when he should have swollen and fallen down dead suddenly but after they looked a great while and so no saw no harm come to him they changed their minds and said he was a god this is why you can't live by public poll opinions they either have you as a murderer I'm not that or they have you as a God and I'm sure not that but I'll tell you what I am gonna do they were watching him he ought to be swollen by now they were watching him he ought to be sweating by now they were watching him he ought to fall over dead by now they were watching him but when that didn't happen to him they had to change their minds if you're waiting for me to be bitter you just better go somewhere else if you're waiting for me to write a resignation letter you better go somewhere else if you're waiting for me to tell this church well we tried our very best it looks like the devil's knocked us out you better go somewhere else because I'm going to approve come on we are the church we are the mighty Church of Jesus Christ I don't care what they're saying about us right now they're gonna change their minds because I'm Gonna Keep On Ministry hey let's take a praise break right now I'm still gonna pray for him I'm still gonna call the names out of those that that ridicule I'm still gonna pray where'd that Viber hang I'm gonna see if you're listening to me now where's that Viper hanging he shook it off and what look at verse number eight and it came to pass it came to pass that's another way of saying after they changed their mind and said he's a god that the father of cubilous lay sick of a fever of a bloody flux to whom Paul entered in and pray please don't miss this please don't miss this Paul entered in and prayed and laid his you'll never have Healing Hands till you have overcoming hands you'll never have a Healing Ministry till you have an overcoming Ministry Paul snake bit hand was laid on the man's head and he was healed some of the best people to pray for you is people that went through what you're going through and have been Overcomer and they come and pray for you that's why when they call discourage pastors up at camp meetings and conferences we got discouraged pastors would you come pray I go through there brother white laying my hands on when uh no man you're the man of the memorable Miracle you're the man of all you're the man you're the man of the missions given you're the man no no no no no no I'm a man that's overcome discouragement I'm just a man that overcome all of Hell's vices that he did and I'm an overcomer what better man to lay their hands on and praying than somebody that's overcome now stay with me for a moment stay with me for a moment the first 40 Years of Moses life was spent in Egypt he was raised in Pharaoh's Palace Moses could have seen firsthand the power of the word of pharaoh just speak the word and a person loses their life in the presence of pharaoh just speak one word Pharaoh just speak one word pharaoh and a person could could become very wealthy a person could lose their life but just the word of pharaoh a person could have great riches just one word from pharaoh is it any coincidence the Pharaoh War around his head a golden cobra around his turban was a golden cobra the Cobra is chosen because a cobra can spew its venom father than any other snake a cobra doesn't have to bite you he can spew his Venom and they said the most dangerous place that you can receive the Venom from the cobra is in your eyes Moses was well acquainted Moses was well acquainted there were serpents statues cobras statues all over Egypt he was well acquainted Pharaoh wears a golden Cobra around his turban because it it was indicative of all Pharaoh has to say it's a word death Moses takes things into his own hands kills an Egyptian he kills an Egyptian and in Exodus chapter 2 verse number 15 it says now when Pharaoh heard this thing he heard that he had killed an Egyptian Moses killed an Egyptian he sought to slay Moses but Moses fled from the face of pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian the first 40 years he lived in fear no doubt he lived in fear will Pharaoh find me did you know for 40 years the most powerful man in the world can Pharaoh find me a stranger came to town is this somebody from pharaoh for 40 years Moses lived in feared that Pharaoh's warrant would be served and Moses would surely meet death but one day while tending to his father-in-law's sheep Moses sees the most unusual sight he saw a bush that was burning but what made this bush very unusual was the Bush was not being consumed it was burning and burning and burning Moses approaches the bush to look at the bush upon that he hears a voice out of the burning bush it tells him to remove his shoes he's standing on Holy Ground there at that burning there at that burning bush there at that burning bush God began to tell Moses you're going to go back down into Egypt that's what I fear most you're going to go back to Egypt no no no no no no no no I fear Egypt the most you're going to go back to Egypt and you're going to tell pharaoh to let my people go there's a covenant of Abraham here and you're going to tell pharaoh to let my people go and it's a long chapter of Moses offering excuse after excuse but in Exodus chapter 4 verse number one and Moses answered and said but behold God they will not believe me nor hearken into my voice for they will say the Lord hath not appeared unto thee and the Lord said unto him brother Nolan what is that in thine hand and he said a rod and he said cast it cast it on the ground now stop right here for a moment of all the things that God could have chosen to turn that Rod into all the things that God could have chosen to turn that right into he could have chosen to turn the rod into a bow and arrow that would make sense I'm going to war he could have chosen to turn that Rod into spear sword we're going to war but God why do you turn that Rod into a serpent I tell you why I can never use you until you face your fears some people come into this church they're masked up to the hilt but you ain't gonna last long because you're trying to cover up your fears you need to take all the mask off and you need to face your fears when Moses throwed that rod down and that Rod became a serpent Moses just didn't flee from that Rod because it was a serpent he fled because of everything that Rod represented I've been running from Egypt I've been fearing Egypt for 40 years I've seen all these serpents down I've seen all these serpents down in Egypt I've been running stop running stop running stop running tonight God has called you to face your fears God has called you not to mask not to peel not to drink down you've got to pass and you need to face that past and there's no greater way to face that past past than Jesus Christ he can help you on your path well you don't know how many times I've failed you need to understand that's facing your past he said reach down and pick it up he had a stick wood it turned into a serpent flesh he reached down and picked it up it turned back into a stick won't you see that don't you see he gets brave enough to go down and stand brother Troy into pharaohs throne room and Pharaoh says just what makes you think I ought to let all the slaves go Give Me A Sign from your God Moses took that rod threw it down on the ground and that wood Rod became a fleshly reptile Pharaoh sit back for a moment let me show you this you've got to read it very closely the Bible said Pharaoh called his magicians and they did in like manner they didn't change anything only God can take something of one ingredient and turn it into something else only God can turn water into wine only God can take a substance of wood turn it in to a reptile turn it back in to a wood rod and brother cincotta Pharaoh just looked and said look that's a cheap magician's trick that's just a cheap Hocus Pocus trick but something happened the Bible says that Moses Rod serpent opened its mouth and swallowed all of Egypt's supposing serpents shut its mouth and then turned back into a rod I want you to see this with me tonight the rod represents God in eternity he is Spirit by Nature he is Spirit by Nature God came down to earth and became flesh became flesh to do what to open up his mouth on Calvary and to devour all of the sin of the world shut his mouth and now in Christ Jesus is the DNA of Victory is the DNA of an overcomer can I tell you tonight there's no greater name than the name of Jesus there's no greater power than the name of Jesus do you see this did not Jesus say as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness if the son of man be lifted up I will draw all men nigh and to me can I tell you the name of Jesus has overcome every sin every habit you can overcome every Habit in the name of Jesus there is not a problem you cannot you cannot overcome there is not a situation that's bigger than your Jesus there is not a situation that Jesus has to say I'm sorry Jesus is not like a doctor that says I've done all I can do when you call out on the name of Jesus he is able he is able to overcome the speaking serpent the pressuring serpent the speaking serpent the pressuring serpent boy haven't we worked on that old slandering serpent but I think it's time it's amazing how the Bible has bookends to it Genesis 3 all started this sin issue with a speaking serpent Genesis 3. a speaking serpent but there's coming a day in Revelation chapter 20 verse number one it's bookends isn't it Genesis Revelation Genesis 3 he's a speaking serpent Revelation 20 he's still running his mouth he still running his mouth Revelation 21 and I saw an angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand and he laid hold on the Dragon that old serpent which is called the devil and Satan and bound him A Thousand Years I could say it this way he shut him up for a thousand years he shut his mouth you've been speaking for thousands of years Satan but you're going to be shut up and bound for a thousand years I know about you but that's that somebody if they had a car they ought to do they ought to do Circles of victory tonight in this in Victory this is Victory he's going to be shut up one day he laid hold on the dragon that old serpent which is the devil and Satan and bound him A Thousand Years cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up oh I like that and shut him up boy like that and shut him up boy like that and shut him up and set a seal on him that he should deceive the Nations no more kill the Thousand Years should be fulfilled I'm telling you that old servant started running his mouth in Genesis 3. that's why we've got disease that's why we've got crime that's we got drug addiction that's why we've got people dying before they ought to die because of that speaking serpent but there's coming a day when God is going to come down with a great chain now listen to me tonight I'm closing I'm closing but listen please listen to me tonight I believe that what will literally happen in the Book of Revelation we can experience it now in the church how's that Paul said that we put Satan where now if you're smart I don't want the Serpent's tail under my foot but Paul said you put his head under I think that's another way of shutting him up you see a lot of things can go to changing if we just learned how to shut him up as a matter of fact chapter 20 of Revelation talks about him being shut up no wonder chapter 21 verse number one starts out by saying and I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth and then chapter 22 verse number one starts out by saying and he showed me a pure River of Water of Life clear as Crystal proceeding out of the Throne of God in the lamb do you know something God can never show you things until you shut Satan up God is wanting to show you there's victory in your marriage God is wanting to show you your children are going to grow up to be Mighty prayer warriors your children are going to grow up to love God and do an awesome work in the spirit but as long as we're listening to the devil right along as long as we're listening to this and listening to that he can't show you anything he can't show you anything until you shut him up you ought to refuse to allow gossip to come into your home you ought to refuse you you hear me tonight you ought to refuse to let talk about the saints of God come into your home you ought to shut him up you are when that comes across your dinner table and somebody wants to say what this girl did and what that boy did and what this boy did and what that you ought to say time out shut up we don't do that here at our house we're talking about what God is going to do with our children we're talking about what God I'm going to tell you if we could bind the devil's voice because listen It's Not Innocent gossip It's Not Innocent slander it's of the devil it's of hell and it's going to run Souls we gotta shut it up and I tell you that during that 1 000 year Millennial reign of Jesus Christ when Satan is shut up for a thousand years nature begins to change Isaiah 11 and verse 6 Isaiah's telling you what's going to happen during this 1 000 year reign Isaiah 11 verse 6. the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb the leopard shall lie down with the kid the calf and the calf and the Young Lion and the fattening together and a little child shall leave them the cow and the bear shall feed their young ones shall lie down together the lion shall eat straw like an ox and the sucking child shall play on the whole of an ass that that's a spider and the winged child shall put his hands on a cockatrice den that's other spiders they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my Holy Mountain for the Earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea if you shut him up nature changes you shut him up you'll begin to see the people of God through a different lens you shut him up and people that you asked off your list long time ago you're going to get a desire you're going to go have lunch with them you're going to make that friendship right again and things people are going to say man look at those two coming in that's right the cow and the bear that's exactly right because when we get nature change things begin to change how many want to change in your life how many is tired of letting the adversary rule listen to this you say why don't people live long like they did in the Bible days I tell you why they're not living eight nine hundred years the speaking serpent because he started off speaking and you can just Trail it all through the Book of Genesis the age just keeps going down down down down down down down till we're promised three score and ten and then it says you're real blessed a little bit more beat it to that but listen to what happened during the millennial Isaiah 65 and 20. Isaiah 65 20. there shall be no more fence an infant of days nor an old man that hath not fulfilled not filled his days for the child shall die a hundred years old but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed can you imagine can you imagine we've all been celebrating this week such a great tremendous woman of God sister best of Mangan we've all been celebrating on social media she celebrated her 97th birthday this week 97 years old and the woman's going strong just going strong sister Carpenter we were looking at the post and she said oh God let me live that long let me let me this is great she's a tremendous woman of God but if she dies in the next couple years people stand there at a funeral she lived a long time but do you know during the millennial reign of 1 000 years when Satan is shut up that if a child somebody dies and they're a hundred years old they'll come to the funeral and say it's today just a child why because that length of life is going to start being added back in why because he's our trouble see if you can just understand tonight it's not the government stop blaming one party over the other if we can get the adversary where he needs to be tonight you watch the nature change speaking serpent pressing serpent slandering serpent and the last one silent serpent oh I just want to silence him what'd you just stand with me and I just want to silence him right I silence you from my thoughts I silence you from my thought processes I silence you from all the past mistakes that I've made Satan can you not see that I have been forgiven I have been washed silence you tonight come on Church come on pray with me tonight I I silent you say to Satan I silence you you shall not bring that past back up I silence you right now I silence you in my life right now I silence you right now I I take authority over you right now in the name of Jesus I take authority over you right now I silence you right now oh please play Church oh please pray church I silence you right now I silence you right now I I silence that adversary right now some of you are so tormented you need to begin to Proclaim boldly I silence you over my life I am not going to die prematurely I am not going to die from what my parents died from I am not going to die of this disease I am not going to die I am an overcomer I am a new creature in Christ come on I need some intercessors in this house tonight oh God oh God oh God in the name of Jesus I need some intercessors right now please in the name of Jesus stop running from your fear right now stop running from your fear right now let go of the back of that Pew and March to this altar silence the adversary silence his voice silence he'll right now silence him right now I beg you in the name of Jesus I plead with you in the name of Jesus Victory is waiting on you a change in your life is waiting on you I reviewed the speaking serpent come on cow come on I want you to move as close up around the order as you can come on move this closer up around the altar as you can oh my God silence you right now I silence you right now enemy I challenge you right now enemy I silence you by the authority of the name of Jesus Christ I silence you by the authority of the name of Jesus Christ Satan you don't recognize my name but you recognize his name I silence you in the name of Jesus yeah I wish her husband would get a hold of a wife oh God Jesus silence him come on let's go play Church let's don't play it's Warfare against Warfare I silence you tonight I silence you tonight silence you you devil of division you devil of distraction you devil that's robbing us of our peace in the definition silence here silence him he says you can't be delivered silence him the silence him silence him he tells you you'll never be delivered God heal my core God heal my foot silence you the authority of the name of Jesus silence anxiety I silence the devil using that anxiety God is here tonight God is here tonight God is here tonight you hear me silence him silence he has to share it it's your night God wants you to have Victory God wants you to leave with Victory it's your night it's your night good night you're not tonight we win do you hear that adversary we win right before but first fighting for us everywhere we live in the name of Jesus name of Jesus take me when we win foreign thank you foreign but I Know Who Holds my future is my victory moves like a lion who's great ER for us alive I want us right now I want us right now I feel the Holy Ghost so strong to come back here to pray for one specific need I don't want to do I want to divide this up tonight your brain is an organ just like your heart just like your heart your lungs liver your brain is the organ just like that and they're possible just like you could have heart trouble you can have chemical imbalance you can have things in your brain that triggers different emotions different things a depression that go on CE you just take that and put that aside right now because this is what I want to address tonight this is what I want to address tonight I want to address thoughts ingrained opinions that you have of yourself because of how you were treated in Life or wasn't treated and you have in your mind a spirit that you're not worthy you'll never measure up you don't look like a Barbie doll and I don't look like GI Joe and because of that young girls battling their mind has nothing to do with their brain they've allowed the enemy I'm going to tell you something the Bible said Jesus healed a woman who had the spirit of infirmity what infirmity did she have she had a spirit she didn't have infirmity she had just somehow allowed she'd just somehow allowed the spirit of that infirmity to come in just like I battled I battled I was glad to celebrate myself I was glad to celebrate my 47th birthday you know why because I had a voice inside of my head telling me that I would be dead just like my dad was my dad died at 46. and I had that inside of my head nothing wrong with my brain just how life things had happened in life put that inside of my head and through the Holy Ghost that's the only way you can combat a spirit you see the Holy Ghost but I'm telling you right now I'm not telling you I'm not talking about your physical brain of what you've been diagnosed with in your physical brain I'm not touching that tonight I'm talking about the spirit that the enemy has rode into your brain you feel unworthy you feel your second best that's why you're willing to settle second best in life because you feel like your second man but in the name of Jesus Christ and I'm not I'm not sorry we stopped the music and we'll tell you something if music can stop a move of God it wouldn't move it but I want us to pray right now because I want some people to leave this altar different than what they came we're going to rebuke the spirit that tries to come into our minds right now come on with me right now I got to have your help you want to put your hand over on the side of your head you do that so I'm now a new creature I am now a new creature I'm not what I used to be my past is underneath the blood I have been filled with the Holy Ghost I am a brand new creature in Christ Jesus I am not what anyone says about me or thinks about me I am not what was done to me I am not unwanted God has a plan for me come on there's going to be a move of the Holy Ghost come on there's going to be a move of the Holy Ghost I have a great future before me I have a tremendous future before me I am a daughter of the most high God I a son of the most high God have royal blood flowing through my veins oh my God my God I am somebody I am somebody I will never entertain those thoughts again I will never feel sorry for myself no not another minute I'll never feel sorry for myself oh my God come on I will never feel sorry for myself tonight I break that curse I break the curse of wanting self-pity I break the curse of wanting to be pitted my God my God my God my God Jesus Jesus if you have to go home some of you get up early for work I understand that please feel free to dismiss yourself but I got a feeling somebody's gonna stay in this altar I refuse to be pitied I do not want pity I may have been forsaken by my mother and my father but I have a heavenly father that's picked me up come on young lady come on young man come on young man come on young man come on Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah come on those of you that are staying up around the altar lay your hand over on somebody right now we are several young women praying right here if some of the mothers in the church want to get on the platform and come on some of you mothers want to get on the platform and pray come on some of you men want to go through the audience agree yes yes yes does any of you that are watching by way of the World Wide Web let this shame anointing come into your home right now let the same anointing come into your home right now go ahead and begin to walk around the room that you're in this shame anointing and power of the Holy Ghost can be right there in your living room right there in your car wherever you may be there's a tremendous anointing in this house tonight there's a tremendous anointing that's here tonight we have bound the adversary we are doing right now what's going to happen to him in Revelation 20. Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah come on lay your hand over on somebody right now come on lay your hand over on them right now oh my God my God you're going to leave here tonight different than what you came to church you're going to leave here different than what you came tonight I will break this addiction I will through the help of Jesus Christ I will be free I Will Be Drug Free one day I will be alcohol-free one day I will be nicotine free one day I will overcome this through Jesus Christ I will overcome it I will overcome it I will overcome it through Jesus Christ I will be delivered I will have things restored to me I rehab I will have things restored back to me I lost my car I will get my car back my lifestyle caused me to lose my home I will get my home back through Jesus Christ he is going to restore believe it with me all things are possible if you believe tonight oh things are possible I Will Be Drug Free one day I will be alcoholic free one day I will be nicotine free one day I will get back everything the enemy took from me I'll get back the years I wasted God will double the years back to my life he will make me the head and not the tail yes hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah there's war on the floor here tonight somebody's getting desperate I bind you in the name of Jesus I bind you in the name of Jesus I am not trash I am not trash I am not I am not trash I am not dirty I am a cleansed vessel of the king yes come on begin to declare it come on begin to declare it I will be drug-free I will be alcohol-free I will be nicotine free I will be free I will be free I'm on my road to Victory I'm on my road to overcoming yeah yes I hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah how great oh Hallelujah Hallelujah let's shout it Proclaim it shout it Proclaim it believe it get loud about it get loud about it get loud about it turn the volume up turn the volume up in your life I will be alcohol-free I will be drug-free I will be negative free our marriage will be healed oh Hallelujah Believe It Believe It Believe It Believe It Believe It Believe It Believe It Believe It Believe It believe it believe it no one can hold you down no one can keep you back no one can suppress you no one can hold your future it's only you tonight it's only you tonight now Gray oh my God I come to get it tonight I come to get my blessing tonight I come to shut that adversary up tonight I speak peace over marriages I speak peace over marriages tonight oh I speak peace I speak peace over your marriage tonight by the authority of the one who created marriage I speak peace over marriages tonight I speak peace over the children tonight come on do it tonight come on husbands say it loud I speak peace over my marriage I speak peace over my marriage come on wife speaking tonight oh Hallelujah Hallelujah Jesus knew what you're gonna do Jesus knew what you're going to do tonight Lord oh knew what you're gonna do tonight Lord yeah oh mighty God almighty God Jesus oh I rebuke the speaking serpent I rebuke the speaking serpent tonight no weapon formed against me will prosper every tongue will be condemned in judgment I rebuke the speaking serpent tonight with the word of God I rebuke the pressing serpent tonight by pushing with all of my might come on one more time can we push a shout out whoa who shall push out oh yes come on can we stomp our feet on the slander's hand tonight I stubbed my feet on the slander's head tonight come on put the slander under your feet I left one out the Bible said he'll descend from heaven with a great chain in his hand you'll be back Wednesday night because I don't know how I'm going to make this happen my team's gonna have to help me but I'm going to Home Depot or Lowe's and I'm gonna buy me a bunch of chains and I'm gonna cut a couple links out I'm gonna have hundreds of them here and I want you to keep a few little Links of chain in your purse in your pocket when you start hearing them voices you just get that chain out oh my God if there's one thing the devil wants to addict you to is pity young people that were not given parental love will then turn to the next thing they want in their life they didn't get that they'll then turn to pity they want people to pity them that's the last thing you want you don't want to be pity because then you have to go through life mask up as someone that needs pretty pity while the true conqueror is somewhere underneath all that mess the true overcomer and so I'm going to give you a piece of chain on Wednesday night I don't know how many hundreds I'm gonna have to make I don't know how many y'all got to go to work but you got to make it happen we gotta go down there and take that little salt Home Depot I might have a bucket's full of these little links I want you to come get one because the devil is a liar the devil is alive I've told you everything tonight I've told you everything today that you need when he speaks to you speak the word back to you speak the word back to him when he pressures you burst out with praise and worship burst out with praise burst out with worship the best way that you can put the slander under your foot is don't listen to that junk then you'll get it on Wednesday night that little piece of Link that you gonna have in your pocket devil you know what this is don't you you better get used to this bubby because you're gonna wear it one day I'm just giving you a little preview I'm just giving you a little fac preview of what's going to happen in Revelation 20. you're going to get bound with a big chain and your mouth is gonna be shut up I got this little course on my heart right now I got this of course on my heart how great is our God come on now that you're all on the right key sing it real loud right now all right oh God one more time one more time from your heart that's gonna be our theme song that's gonna be our theme song hey man you'll help me tonight y'all are y'all a good church y'all do what Pastor asked you to do I show you things in the Bible you obey it show you things in the Bible you just do it show you things of the Bible I'm gonna ask you to do this I want you to sing that song you sing it all by yourself you get up in the morning and sing it song because our God is great and you sing that song I Don't Care What bondage I don't care what I don't care what's got you bound right now if you'll learn that as your Anthem and when you get in the you get into the fight of that habit if you could just start singing how great almighty god father I love you tonight God keep your hand upon this church bring us back Wednesday night Lord ready to praise you ready to worship you again in Jesus mighty name Give the Lord a hand of praise