Deliverance Demands A Transformation | Associate Pastor Chad Erickson

turn with me to Romans chapter 12 verse 2 and as you're turning there I too want to welcome all of our guests along with Pastor Carpenter Pastor Hammond thank you amen for being here for our third Sunday night of Revival in the month of April and can't tell you how much I enjoyed Pastor Carpenter as he led us off and then of course last Sunday night Pastor Hammond did such an incredible job and Pastor Hammond he he did a great job convincing us the healing healing is for us a lot of times it's easy to to throw off and say well I believe that God can heal you I believe you can heal your mother he can he can heal your daughter but last week Pastor Hammond did such a great deal a great job convincing us that healing is for us my my task tonight is a little different my task is not to convince you that you can't be delivered I believe my task tonight is to convince you that you need Deliverance look with me in Romans chapter 12 verse 2 and and I'm just gonna I'm gonna piggyback on last week Pastor Hammond did it to me and uh this week Pastor Carpenter starts talking about denomic activity and I thought well I'm going to be maybe preaching some demons out of some people tonight so we'll just we'll just kind of go right along and we're just going to move in the spirit I'm just going to piggyback onto his amazing message this morning but Romans 12 and 2 says and be not conformed to this world conform simply means copying the actions of others conformed to This World by be ye transformed by the renewing or or recreating of your mind that she may prove what is that good and acceptable imperfect will of God let me just say I'll add this for your life all right the will of God for you if we can figure out good acceptable and perfect what those three things are to God I just believe the will of God has been done in our lives today again I as I've already said I I'm hoping I can convince somebody the Deliverance that all of us need in in our lives my title is simply this Deliverance Demands a transformation Deliverance demands transformation put your Bibles down come on let's just lift the Hands to Heaven father we love you oh God I'm so grateful for the Revival spirit that I feel in the air Lord I just feel that it's in the atmosphere though there's a spirit of restoration in the house there's a spirit of healing that's still here from last Sunday Lord It's lord it's here from this morning Lord the power Lord God that's just been in this house so I just believe in today Lord God that you can deliver somebody out of things Lord God that have them bound that have them tied up locked up chained up I believe you're going to set some people free of some things oh God that are ruling over their life and Lord God I just believe that healing is here I believe salvation is here and I believe that Deliverance is in the house tonight if you believe that clap your hands onto the Lord come on let's love the Lord in this place the Lord we bless your name oh we give you glory we give you honor we give you praise this here in this place you may be seated in Jesus name I'm looking forward next Sunday concludes our last Revival Service uh Pastor Nolan is going to be preaching on the infilling the outpouring of the Holy Ghost and I cannot wait to see what happens next week matter of fact I I want to get some things out of people this week that God could put his Spirit into maybe next week amen Deliverance can be a really uncomfortable subject let's just be honest you know I I begin I begin as I was studying I began to think to myself you know I've got to be careful as I'm beginning to to preach about Deliverance not to look at people or call people's names because I sure wouldn't want people to think that I'm calling them out on on whatever I'm preaching about and then the more I got to stay I thought to myself you know what I'm just going to preach to everybody therefore Pastor Fallon therefore nobody's going to get offended because I'm just gonna I'm just gonna kind of jump to my conclusion here right at the beginning I got some things that I personally I got to get some stuff out of my life there's some there's some strongholds in my life that I want to tear down and I hope you feel the same way yeah I hope you didn't just come thinking that this was just for drug addicts and alcoholics and you know sometimes you hear the word deliverance and we think about people getting delivered from from an alcoholic lifestyle or or tobacco or some kind of sexual lust a lot of times we'll think about people that that may need deliverance from from from being a liar or a cheater being a crook or being a gossiper or a slanderer a backbiter a hater right that's we kind of think about um but there's strongholds that are even harder to detect and sometimes people can hide strongholds that they're dealing with strongholds called fear stronghold strongholds called distress in insecurity in her in bitterness guilt strongholds called offense they could absolutely get into your mind in a way and take control of you it's a spirit and I lost my monitors I had them real goodness for a moment I just kind of lost them thank you brother AJ you're doing amazing back there but there's a there's a spirit that can take place inside of you and how many know the devil is a liar the devil is a liar and all he looks for is just a way to get in perfect thank you sir a way to get in and if he can find his way in if he is not dealt with let me tell you something when we're silent when the enemy begins to speak he just assumes that we agree with whatever he's saying and if we're not careful over amount of time we can allow things a cape to roll over in our mind over and over and over and if we don't cast it down if we don't cast it out we begin to believe the things that we're thinking I was reminded as I was beginning to study about this I I was reminded of my of my first house my my first house we built uh I don't know if it was Sears I don't know if it's Lowe's or Home Depot whoever it was they brought my washer and dryer in when they installed my washer if you've ever seen this or been a part of of building um they they have they have a couple places that you can pop out and put the drain down into you know I'm talking about I don't know why there's more than one I don't know if people have two washers I don't know I don't have one but for whatever reason whoever installed my washer they popped out both of those plugs and of course it was not a big deal at the time because they knew where the drain was and so they they put they put the hose that you know it looks like this kind of kind of goes over and uh everything was good until my washer started acting up and somebody came North to my washer and they plugged it into the wrong hole they put in a yes somebody said ooh cause you know what happened they plugged into the dummy hole which goes down into my wall and so for I don't know how long I don't even know if I was married yeah I might still been a bachelor I I think I Was A Bachelor still because my wife would have caught on a whole lot quicker than I did next thing I know I thought man I smell mold and what did you know when they finally came and figured out what was wrong and opened up my wall my walls were filled with water because that washer had just now I probably didn't do laundry very often but whenever I did do laundry that washer was draining into my wall and it reminded me of people that allowed the devil just to keep on in putting stuff into them and unless we do something about it unless we say devil I refuse to believe the lies that you're telling me right I refuse to allow you to put a spirit Within Me oh we're going to preach here in just a moment because I believe their spirits of bitterness their spirits of unforgiveness their Spirits even of guilt then if we don't if we don't get a hold of those if we don't get delivered of those spirits oh come on somebody if we don't get our walls aren't going to be filled with water there's going to come a time when our house is gonna fall and it's gonna be because we don't do anything about the lies of the enemy I just I don't believe I just kind of believe in in in and humor me with this thought but I kind of believe that there might be somebody that's here tonight they got on the phone and started inviting maybe a cousin that was maybe addicted to something or a friend that was maybe addicted to something oh we're having a Deliverance service and we gotta we gotta get them out we got to get to the house of the Lord they're gonna be delivered and and some something inside of me I began to think there might be somebody who has a spirit that's attacking them spiritually that's stronger than the spirit that's attacking your friend with drugs and alcohol there could be a spirit that gets a hold of you that's stronger than crack cocaine that's stronger than heroin that's stronger than meth there's spirits that can get a hold of us now now listen I'm so thankful that pastor preached what he did this morning because they kind of opened up the door because a lot of people are kind of a little bit uh when we start talking about Dynamic activity they people kind of start well I just don't know I believe in angels but those demons I don't know that's that's that sounds like Halloween to me oh you better believe let me tell you something I I'm not talking about a pitchfork a little tail with a fork at the end but you better believe that there's spirits that are looking to attach itself and now now now in the days of Jesus now we realize that Jesus walked the Earth in the Old Testament right I know it's in the New Testament I know but we realize that that he was still walking the Earth under the Old Law until he until he died and buried was resurrected until the Holy Ghost was poured out they were still living in the days of Law and in those days there were people he read through your Bible there's all kinds of people that were demon-possessed because they had Demons of Idols that under the law people worshiped those idols and so they were filled with the same demons that they were worshiping these Idols of and so all through there Jesus man uh Bible talks about their their being lunatics and people that lost their mind people jumping in the fire and Jesus goes off into Islands there's people uh running through the tombs without clothes on right we we know the stories of Jesus as he came in and delivered but we have all kinds of those demons but not the same as they had then because now under grace we we have we wrestle not against flesh and blood oh no but we still have to wrestle against principalities and powers and darkness so if you will go with me because a lot of times we we think of drugs and sexual immorality and we we think of of alcohol and tobacco and all those things and and I believe there's somebody here tonight you can be delivered if you came here tonight want to be delivered to that stuff I believe you can be delivered of that stuff I believe our God is able if he can deliver you out of spiritual things I promise you he can deliver you out of physical things nothing's too powerful for our God I don't want to bring a a into this that Alcoholics Anonymous I I said it just a couple Wednesdays ago the very first thing is you got to realize you got a problem you gotta you gotta realize that hey I need help and the worst thing that we could be would be Apostolic Pentecostals who want to wear nice suits and and wear pretty dresses and have our hair all up and and act like nothing's wrong like we got everything together when Jesus is walking up and down the aisle saying hey I would deliver you from some stuff if you would admit to it if you even wanted to be delivered I would deliver you from some stuff but it says you you too worried about your pride and two words about people what they're going to think about you you come to church and act like everything's going all right got a nice car got a nice house got a pretty little family got two boys two girls whatever it is and you think everything's okay it's not okay if anything has you bound it's not okay but I've got good news tonight because we've come to a service tonight we're gonna focus on the things that might have our minds bound I listen I want to see every bridge and every homeless person they're alcoholics and what I want to see all those people come in I want to see all those people saved I want to see them all delivered and set free but listen I want the people in these roles in these sections right here to be set free from what has us bound foreign the very same endorphins they give a mental release when somebody shoots up a drug or the very same endorphins that are released in your brain when you coddle the offense that is locked up in your heart yeah this is Medical Science right let me read to you endorphins are released when your body feels physical pain emotional pain or mental stress your body releases endorphins to help you survive and when you feel pain nerves in your body send pain signals to your brain your brain releases endorphins to block the nerve cells that receive the pain signals and so what's happening is a person becomes addicted to the way they feel when they coddle emotional pain and mental stress you ever wonder why there's some people that that's all they do is worry all the time and you try to fix their worry you try to tell them it's going to it's kind of right God's got this you you tell him hey you know your budget looks good man you got finances coming you got a good job but they just worry worry there's a reason why because those endorphins as as they worry and they coddle that problem that issue that fear as they begin to talk more and more about it there's something that's released in their brain and it blocks the pain it blocks the emotion it not only blocks it sometimes it even creates a good feeling inside of their minds listen there's things that we could be addicted to that we don't even realize we're so concerned about all these other more important addictions God I want my life I want it to be nothing more than being submitted to you yeah I want it to be nothing more I don't want anything else ruling me I don't want any emotions ruling me I'm not I don't want medications ruling me I don't want nothing nothing I the only ruling that takes place in my life has got to be for my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ I'm going to preach about that in just a few moments but I believe people are bound physically and I also believe people are bound spiritually but here's where it is there has to be a transformation in order listen there is not good enough it's not good enough just to be delivered we got to be transformed there's got to be a renewing there there's going to be a change over in the mind a recreation of the way we think there's got to be a paradigm shift Ah that's what I've come to preach about look with me in second Corinthians 10 and 3. this is this is Paul I'm gonna read a couple verses here Paul says for though we walk in the flesh we do not Ward after the flesh for the weapons of our Warfare are not carnal that's fleshly But Mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds let me clearly Define what a stronghold is it's a spiritual name nature of the addiction that's what a stronghold is it's the core issue behind the addiction it's it's the spiritual side of the addiction and here's the here's the problem there's a lot of people that just want to manage their symptoms they try to dead in the symptoms but that does not fix the underlying issue of the addiction of the stronghorn I've said already by drugs alcohol pornography gluttony lying cheating Back Body profanity rage lust fear anxiety offense these are all strongholds that keep a person bound it keeps the person held hostage in our society refers to this sin as addiction but when the Bible talks about it it talks about strongholds strongholds some some people learn how to settle or or just pretend that the stronghold is no longer there they do everything they can to protect reputation instead of pulling the stronghold down they press down it's kind of like a trash compactor they don't pull it down they press it down if you've ever had my in-laws the Commerce they had a trash compactor in their last house we hated that thing do you ever feel we just need a mic down here that we could just have like ongoing commentary so yeah yeah put tuna cans down there and let me tell you something when a tuna can gets pressed down four days later you gotta tune a house but that's what people do even with their issues they they don't pull down so they just press them they compact them down and you know what that does that gives more room for more issues and problems it's kind of like it's kind of like pain management you you've heard this is a new term pharmaceutical term because it's the pharmaceutical companies that enjoy selling us medications that manage the pain there's no more they're not trying to fix your issue they're not trying to they're not trying to get rid of what you have they're just trying to manage what you have there's a lot of money in Pharmaceuticals let me tell you something I and listen I'm thankful for science I'm thankful for medicine I'm thankful that God has given wisdom and knowledge to me I'm thankful for all that but I think we've taken a little too far when all we want to do is manage things just keep your issue we'll make you feel better just keep your problem keep your sickness keep your disease we'll just make sure that you don't know you have it that kind of brings me back to Deliverance because people are compacting they're not pulling down struggles they're just compacting stuff and managing stuff to where hey nobody will even realize that I've got a problem if I can compact it and hide it and keep people from realizing it's going on in my life but the more you compare to the more that happens and you can pack that down and the more sunk until over time over time you're bringing a you're bringing a compacted bag of junk out to your garbage dumpster and you're dripping stuff all over your floor come on somebody help me I'm just trying to be real I'm trying to preach where we're living look back behind you like oh come on somebody got tuna drippings all the way to the garbage people just Managed IT they compact they manage they compact they manage but the Bible says we must pull down every stronghold listen if you've been born again time we gotta stop making excuses for flesh and be loosed be set free be delivered and let transformation begin I gotta move because I gotta I got a place I'm trying to get to but second Corinthians chapter 10 verse 4. look look here II Corinthians 10 and 4 to the Church of Corinth it reads for the weapons of our Warfare are not carnal which is fleshy read that but the mighty through God's pulling out strong ones okay here we go verse five casting down imaginations in every High or lofty thing that exalteth itself or is raised up against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought oh right there every thought to The Obedience of Christ another translation makes a little clearer says we destroy arguments in every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God and take every thought captive to obey Christ the problem with addictions or strongholds is they produce lofty things let me Define what a lofty thing is the the English synonym to the Greek word for lofty is partition I preached about this a few years ago you might remember it but I brought in a partition uh you know it would be something that you would use to to separate your room uh maybe maybe there's something maybe you got a water heater that's maybe in part of your living space and you don't you you bring people over to your house and you don't want them to see the water heater so you you put a partition up in order so they can't see what's behind the partition you know I'm going with this and so you have two sides of the room you don't want information from one side to get to the other side well I got news for you I believe that Satan has that same idea when it comes to our mind he raises up these lofty he raises up this partition between what we know is right and the consequences for what we do if we do wrong oh come on think about this and this this happens and naturally I heard Pastor Hammond talking about this matter of fact I believe uh in the last passion for Purity we talked about this but young people they haven't developed the frontal lobe of their brains yet and in that frontal lobe it's where you understand that there's consequences for actions that are wrong there's there's consequences for sin if you will and so a lot of times that's why young people that's why children have parents because we we have developed our frontal lobe and and we we know what happens and there's repercussions for sin we understand and so we try that's why it's up to us to make sure our kids are in at a certain time that that our kids aren't with certain people and our kids are in the front seat not the back seat and that's why they have parents because they can't quite compute it it's not their fault it hasn't developed yet however I believe that there's a spirit they can rise up within our mind and partition off from the knowledge of God from the knowledge of right and wrong oh I believe that if we allow it to happen if we don't tear it down if we don't tear the the speculations and the thoughts that are raised up in this partition against the knowledge of God I just believe the enemy looks and says you don't even know what truth is anymore I see it happen all the time people that people that know people that people that have been filled with the gift of the Holy Ghost people who have repented people who have gone to the water in baptism I see them making some of the craziest decisions and you say to yourself how can you make a crazy I went to Bible school with with 200 and some students and and probably half of them I don't know where they're living now they're they're surely not in church anymore we heard the same exact Professor speaking we heard the same exact messages we went to the same Chapel Services we went to the same Calvary Tabernacle Services we went on the same Chorale tour together how is it that that takes place I'll tell you it's very simple something raised up in their mind and they didn't pull it down they left it there and so what well how do you define truth well some people Define Truth by what the news says in their favorite news outlet they Define that's what truth is or or some people well what is truth to you I'll tell you what truth is to me truth is anything anything that I read in the newspaper that must be truth there's only one truth Jesus said I am the way the truth but let me tell you something there's an enemy inside that's working against our minds he's a liar and he has a voice and he's whispering to people and he's trying to convince us the truth goes outside of Jesus Christ there's truth Beyond Jesus and let me tell you something if we ever get to that place where we don't know the difference between right and wrong if we ever get to the place oh my God John 8 32 says and ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free oh think about it it's gonna make us free knowing truth which simply means this if we don't know truth or if truth is not being revealed to us let me tell you what that means that means you're gonna fall you're going to falter you're gonna fail but if we can pull down their partition the devise truth from who we are and for what we know to be true in right if we could pull that down then we're going to understand exactly who we are and Truth Is What Makes Us free oh yes well free when I'm talking about Freedom let me address the verse that sometimes we misinterpret second Corinthians 3 17 says and we know it now the Lord is that spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty and I know listen I'm a worship leader I love Colton reciting this verse when it's time for worship service it feels good oh you got to get up and say hey the spirit of the Lord is here and we're free because of it but that's not really the correct interpretation of what this verse is trying to tell us it's simply saying where their spirit is the Lord there is Liberty where the spirit is the Lord now we don't use the word Lord like they did back then back then you called your boss the one that that signs your paycheck you would call them that was your lord you you were their servant you worked for them they were your lord when the Lord went away what happened the servants sometimes would play right and when they would call Jesus the Lord it wasn't just a it wasn't just a preferred pronoun of some sort they were saying he is Lord over us we are in submission now that's a big word right there we are in submission to him and so what they were simply saying was when we are submitted to the spirit of the Lord lordship when we're submitted to him that's when freedom and liberty can be found I don't want to cross theological swords with anyone I know some people here are going to I don't know if the Lord's here we're free well I wish that was the case but let me tell you something it doesn't say Liberty comes with worshiping the spirit or receiving the spirit it says when we make him a Lord that's when Liberty we see people get the Holy Ghost In The Altar and if all we have to have is the spear within us or the spirit of the Lord here to have Liberty why in the world do they not come back why do we see them next time we see them on a newspaper in the arrested section do they have a do they receive a different Holy Ghost than we received was a little less powerful or a little less Authority than pastor preached brought this morning oh no absolutely not they receive the same power and authority they just didn't submit to that spirit don't get discouraged when you teach a Bible study and somebody comes to the church and receives the Holy Ghost and they never darken the doors again won't they'll answer your phone calls don't be discouraged of that that's not your fault let me tell you what happened there they they got it they received it but they refused to submit to it and so guess what whatever they've been bound with they're still bound with that Spirit there's no Freedom there's no Liberty because the spirit of the Lord is not Lord over their life where the spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty where the spirit of the Lord is there is the liver is he if he will rest underneath him oh my God those that resist oh if you resist submission look at Ron James 4 and 7 says submit yourselves therefore to God resist the devil and he will flee from you so resistance is the opposite of submission a person that is addicted is submitted to the wrong things and he's also resisting the wrong things but he that is free he that is that Liberty he is submitted to the right things and he is resisting the right things it's word a stronghold causes a person to resist God and submit to the devil that's why it's so important that we understand God if we can be in submission to you Lord I've got your spirit inside of me even even the Apostle Paul even the Apostle Paul he started talking about that inside of him he feels sometimes like a war is going on he said I would to do good but I don't know sometimes my flesh Rises up and sometimes he was saying I'm not in submission to the spirit and if the flesh overcomes the spirit then I sin but he said that's not what I want I want my spirit to be over the the Flesh and I want my flesh submitted to the spirit Paul said I I Die daily and the reason why he said it was because there were strongholds in his life that he wanted to pull down oh yes come on we can't make all the Bible characters all superheroes there was only one superhero that walked the Earth everybody else was just like you and me fought the same fights that we fight we're flesh just like you and me Christ Jesus was the only man who walked the Earth in perfection come on if the Apostle Paul had a fight against his flesh don't you know you and I we got to start fighting against our flesh oh Paul come on speak to me Paul what do I need to do submit yourself to the Lord and resist the devil submit yourself to the Lord and resist the devil let the Lord Reign Over your life and you'll be free let them Reign let them Reign let him be Lord of everything you are and you will be free indeed when the spirit is Lord there is liberty liberty is freedom freedom is Deliverance the the American Heritage dictionary says that the word Freedom means a state of Independence or the condition of being freed from outside influences and interesting enough that's the very same definition the dictionary gives for the word Deliverance when the spirit is Lord there's going to be Deliverance in your life which means when the spirit is the Lord there's going to be bondage there's going to be addiction there's going to be strongholds they're going to try to hold us back there's gonna be things going on in our mind trying to convince us that God is not able to see us through that God is not able to deliver but if we get upon us a spirit of transformation oh that's what I've really come to preach about tonight I know this is the night of Deliverance but if you all get delivered and you don't get transformed the very same thing that had a hold of you tonight before you're delivered is going to find his way back into your body because transformation has got to take place there must be a renewing of the mind if there's gonna be the casting out of anything something has to take its place there's a void there's a void every spirit that is cast out must be replaced with something to fill the void that the unclean Spirit vacated come on think about this I want to be transparent with you I've got a lot of good got a lot of good going on spiritually I've got a lot of good but there are some fleshly strongholds and and listen Paul Paul being well listen I'll get in line with Paul there's certain things that fleshly I've got the war against my soul and thank God I've never had to face the addiction of drugs or or alcohol or tobacco and I thank God I've never felt what it feels like uh to be on addicted to those or even have to come off those drugs some of you have felt that some of you know what that feels like but listen I've had other strongholds I've had other strongholds uh such as health Health yeah you say health how is that a stronghold that's how it's a stronghold God said that our bodies are the Temple of the Holy Ghost and it bothers me because sometimes hey I'm like the next guy I like food I'm a foodie I I I travel across the world I enjoy all types of food oh I enjoy all types of you ask my wife I probably my least favorite food is probably American food it is I I'm I'm not against it if you like hamburgers or hot dogs that's great man I love Thai oh I love Thai food Ali I love me some red curry yellow curry not so much I like the red curry massimon curry my fave I get it with extra cashews a Thai Cuisine I think the owner the owner watches us regularly and I'm so thankful for him because because he feeds me his wife feeds me well I love all types of food but but here's here's the problem I've lost probably some over 20 pounds in the last couple months but when thank you somebody's lying because um I got on my digital scale the other day and it still labels me obese and that's offensive I don't know if if my navel needs to have a relationship with my spine I don't know what's going to have to happen but but I just so happen to know that the next level down from obese is over fat and then fat and then healthy Reggie I I'd like seven steps away and obviously somebody lied to me this morning somebody's like you turned sideways and I didn't see you either you're lying on my scales line because it's called me obese but but there's a spirit that if I'm not careful can attach itself to me and I forget the consequences follow me with this the consequences of not being healthy are not good and if if that's stronghold if that stronghold Rises up the Bible calls it gluttony if that if that stronghold Rises up and I ignore the fact that my body is the Temple of the Lord and I'm preaching myself I'm not preaching to y'all I'm the obese one preaching myself but I find no difference if I'm smoking if I'm drinking and messing up my body if I'm doing drugs it's messing up my body this the temple the Holy Ghost or if I'm eating myself to death I can preach it because I'm obese but I feel listen there's there's a mental stronghold and even on the road to health and and this is where I want some of you to kind of kind of plug in what I'm saying I know I'm kind of I'm kind of using a little bit of humor here but you got a plug-in because there's so many other spirits that do the very same thing to make us forget and make us look and say well at least I'm not shooting up heroin at least I'm not on meth at least I don't drink I don't drink any hard liquor like I know some people and there's there's so there's a stronghold that will begin to rise up inside of our minds and make us feel like we're all right with the spirit that has us bound come on you're gonna have to help me in here I hope I'm not preaching a bunch of angels with Halos and wings tonight I hope you're like me I hope you're like Paul I hope you got some things inside here that you gotta say God tonight during this altar's purpose I gotta get delivered I've gotta allow strongholds to be pulled down I refuse I refuse to allow things that control me but you gotta I said earlier you gotta replace you you got to learn how to replace if something gets taken out there's a void there that needs to be something needs to go up in there and let me go back to my little my little lifestyle change I'm really working on that I know I've been I've been talking about bad about the lifestyle change but I'm working on it I'm working on a lifestyle change but but they said you got to replace those things that you really enjoy you're gonna have to find things that you can eat like like you're gonna have to change your diet in a way to change your palate to where you like things that are healthy such as I used to pray God turn this Cheeto into a carrot on the way down but now I'm just I'm just gonna be honest with you the devil is a liar but I am not I'm starting to like carrots I love apples because that's all they let us eat is apples called an apple day so I've learned I I go to Amber's Market there's like three types of apples that I go I make sure I go I go to Amber's Market I get those those they got some good good apples I'm talking they taste so good and the doctor said it's okay because usually what I've learned is if it tastes good spit it out right quick it's like that's good get it out of your mouth but man all of a sudden your palate begins to change and where once you had a spirit inside of you whoo whether it's a lustful Spirit a lion spirit that's that's got you entangled in all kind of sexual imra if you can get that out and get delivered of that and you can put something in his place and you can change your palate now this is application right here I'm preaching application because I love all I love sauces and I love dressings and I thought to myself how in the world am I gonna change my lifestyle not a diet but a lifestyle how am I going to change this when I love so I love Salsas I love hot sauces I love fire I love it hotter the better give me spice number five I'm hotter the better I I love honey mustard I love all these different kind of sauces and I found out that there are sugar-free sauces that taste good I thought I can do this because I can replace that stuff and O'Charley's this high in calories sugar I can replace it with something sugar-free and keep me in fat burning mode so I began to think tonight oh God if we could get some people delivered out oh get them delivered out of junk that has them bound but we got to put something back in them we got to give them something that's going to take a place oh let me tell you something if you haven't been filled with the Holy Ghost that's a given because the spirit of God when you take those evil spirits out oh there's a spirit that's waiting right there saying hey if you clean out your temple I'll gladly get inside of this I'll glad you feel it I'll gladly make it a throne room I'll set up my throne in your body if you'll go up to the water and if you'll get baptized then Jesus Jesus name and get your sins washed away there's a spirit saying hi the spirit of the Lord is saying I want to get inside of you I'll give you the power and the authority the pastor preach about this morning I'll give that to you I'll take out the very thing that caused you to you couldn't even sleep at night because you're so worried you have so much fear you couldn't even sleep at night but I'll put my spirit inside of you in your sleep like a baby but you won't sleep like a baby you'll sleep like somebody that sleeps tonight listen you don't have to wait till next Sunday I believe the Holy Ghost is going to get poured out next Sunday but it can get poured out tonight you can walk through here you can lift up your hands and say God I'm ready to release and pull down every stronghold in my life and I'm making room for you I'm making room for your spirit I'm making room for a change I believe there's transformation in this house I believe there's so much more so much more than just Deliverance I believe there's going to be transformation in this house stand with me stay with me but the question is how bad do you want Deliverance because it's going to take a lot of work and anytime I preach on a subject I just naturally this I do this naturally I like to see what other people are preaching on the same subject I get on YouTube if you're a preacher if you're a teacher if you speak at all you know what I'm talking about it's like Lord I want you I'm going to preach exactly what you tell me I just want to kind of just see what what have you been telling other people to preach man I got on I saw some of the craziest sermon brother step I saw some of the craziest services and I'm not talking about these weren't these weren't snake handlers in the hills of Kentucky no offense to my Kentucky people these were like these were like just the relevant churches I'm talking about I'm talking about the Contemporary lights were turned off churches okay and I got to notice him that they had a Deliverance service every Sunday and now now listen it gets way out there matter of fact it's pretty it's kind of entertaining but it gets out there I mean they're bringing trash cans in front of people casting Spirits out of them you know they're throwing up into the trash cans I I don't know I'm not I'm not making fun of it I'm sure there's some truth to the matter but what I noticed this is what I noticed they had to do it every week in the same people were coming up for deliverance every single week Philadelphia I got to thinking there's no transformation sure if you want to be delivered tonight there is there's no doubt in my mind you will be delivered but the problem then is yes can you stay delivered or are you gonna be like that church where the very next Sunday next Sunday you're coming down here for the very same thing again I call it the cycle of sin or God delivers you there's no transformation so you just it's right back inside of you by Friday night you're right back the exact same place you were last Friday night and Sunday you get delivered and guess what there's no transformation so the very next Friday you're back to the exact same place it's a sin cycle oh God but if there was somebody in this place that would make up in their mind I'm not just gonna be delivered tonight I'm gonna allow transformation to begin I'm gonna allow there to be a change inside of me Lord God I'm gonna replace Lord the things that you're gonna remove out of my life I believe there needs to be some eviction notices going on tonight I'm talking about things that are in the house that have no business in the house and I believe there's somebody in this place today that is going to Simply say I refuse to be controlled by anything other than God he is my controller he is my Lord he's my master nothing else can be my master somebody you're addicted to some kind of drug you've got a drug in your system right now I believe you're going to get delivered but there has to be an eviction notice where you say you can't come back here in three days I believe there's somebody here today that you are under distress you have insecurities maybe there's offenses maybe somebody in your past did you wrong and you've allowed that just to remain in your mind there's got to be an eviction notice that you say get out of my mind get out of my thoughts I'm sick and tired of thinking about you over and over and over again I'm sick and tired of being hurt I refuse to allow bitterness to take control of my mind get out here is your eviction notice I believe there's people here today that are that are suffering from generational curses yes you are I know I've heard it I I know sometimes I believe in generous and curses and sometimes I don't but then I always go back and I see we're the same people suffer from the same things and allow those same spirits to get a hold of them and maybe it's not a curse but maybe it's just a spirit that grabs hold of you because it had a hold of your mama maybe you had a hold of your daddy oh maybe your daddy couldn't stay out of jail and so therefore you think that that's just your destiny too maybe your parents they couldn't keep our marriage together so you think that's your destiny too well it's not if you allow your whole if you allow the Lord to be Lord of all if you allow his Spirit to Reign Over you if you allow him to be your master there's liberty where the spirit of the Lord is there is Deliverance he where the spirit is the hey there's liberty there's liberty there's liberty I just wonder I just wonder if we could just if we could just say hey I look good I dressed up smell good wearing my best come to church but there's just some things that I need evicted out of my life I wonder if we just feel this Altar and I I know you probably thought we're gonna have a line for those that were addicted to hardcore stuff but what about you what about you that just as I'm sick and tired of being pounded by the same thing I'm sick and tired of listening to The Voice uh oh the enemy want to tell me that I can't make it I can't live for God I can't succeed in the Kingdom I I'll never have a Ministry oh he's a liar the devil is a liar the devil is a liar come on you gotta tell right now Jesus I Need You Lord God to take some stuff out I need you to deliver me I want them in the Ministries let me go around we're gonna pray we don't want to know what you need to live with son that's not even important you know what it is God knows what it is the devil knows what it is all we gotta do is pay be free in Jesus name be free in Jesus name be delivered in Jesus name be set free in Jesus name really let him go let her go pull down every stronghold pull down every stronghold I believe there's freedom in the house the Liberator is here the Liberator is here come on right now throw your hands up to heaven and say I will be free I will be free I am a winner I'm not a loser I'm Victorious I'm not I wanna be free I want your Holy Ghost to take the place of sin I want the spirit to overcome My Flesh my carnality in Jesus name come on lift up your voices there's to be a shout that comes out It's gotta be loud enough for you to hear thank you really set free yeah foreign the Warriors in your eyes somebody else and pray for them but I wish right here right now you begin to pray for me and on fire hate dinner oh come on that's right that's right hey not my brother not my sister but it's me oh Lord standing in the need of prayer not my brother not my sister but it's me it's me changed my mind how change me rearrange me Transform Me renew you know foreign foreign he is not Victory he is my strength here's the warrior foreign thank you Jesus Christ excuse me is our Victory is the Warriors don't make this declaration right here oh Jesus he's always foreign he is our Victory he is the Warriors foreign foreign Jesus Christ I don't love you always foreign baptize you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remissions of your sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost thank you thank you everybody on a professional for your faith and obedience to the word of God I do now indeed baptize you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ through the message of your sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost foreign thank you very much yes this is what I don't know Jesus foreign salvation everything Jesus everything everything I need is in that name could I ask you tonight if you're not already standing will you stand with me right now brothers and sisters and if I could have your undivided attention tonight We Have Heard from Heaven tonight We Have Heard from heaven turn to your neighbor right now and say we've heard from heaven we've heard from Heaven tonight we've heard from Heaven tonight we've heard from heaven now now give me your attention back now give me your attention back um thoughts thoughts this is what we got to work on this is what we got to work on our thoughts our thoughts God gave up on a generation do you know why that he Damned Noah's generation to destruction it was over brother Purdue thoughts he said when I look down to that generation and I saw that the thoughts of their heart were only Wicked continually God said God said I can't help them because they don't have any thoughts of change no thoughts of change what we have to do tonight in the name of Jesus we have to go to war against thoughts that do not belong in our minds thoughts that do not belong in our minds now let me have your attention please please feel so strong about this he's been an anointing upon my heart today from the time I got up this morning thoughts thoughts we have to battle them it's not a coincidence Brother John that Jesus Christ was crucified on a hill called gargotha or known brother Marshall as the place of the skull I've been to Israel then I've seen that mountain he was crucified on and it looks like the skull of a man the eyes the mouth and the realm Cranium here no coincidence that that would be the place that we could plant his cross because right there is where the battle is either one or the Battle Is Lost the thoughts that we allow to come through our mind here's how important it is people say well I have these feelings you know why you have these feelings is because you first had thoughts thoughts sister Wilson turn into feelings well I just feel like everyone opening phrase of people that want counseling they begin by saying I just feel like well you know why they feel that way thoughts thoughts thoughts but here's the thing that written down thoughts become feelings and feelings become moons and I don't know about you but I've only heard it used in a couple of ways that guy's in a good mood you know why he's in a good mood he's had good thoughts you know why he's in a good mood his good thoughts turned into good feelings and feelings turn into moods but how many of you heard her say man he's in a bad mood you know why he's in a bad mood because he's been having bad thoughts and he's been having bad thoughts made bad feelings but here it is your identity tonight your identity nobody identifies you by your thoughts you know why they they can't really read your thoughts and nobody identifies you from your feelings because you feel a lot of ways but do you know you get your identity not from your feelings and you don't get your identity from your thoughts you know where you get your identity from your mood people can identify Who You Are because of the basic mood that you're in folks we got to go to war you got you got to go to war it's more than a fast choir song on Sunday not going to give you the victory you've got to get out of here tonight and you got to work on your thoughts let's say wait a minute well brother Carpenter I don't even know who my daddy is I I'm being raised by by my grandmother by my grandparents I've been set back in life and I am just destined not to go anywhere you're going to have that because you think that your thoughts can transcend your situation that you're in I'm not alone I am a blood-filled baptized in Jesus name child of the most high God and he is bigger than my circumstances I wish somebody was shot bigger he is bigger than my circumstances but as long as you let your circumstances as long as you let your circumstances dictate your thoughts you'll stay right there in that little container a double-minded man how many ways is he unstable in all of his way folks we've got to get out here and go to war tonight man this ain't the end of the service this is the beginning of the service you got to get out of here you got to start controlling your thoughts man I'm dreading to Mars change that thought I'm looking forward to tomorrow man I'm just dreading something no no change your thoughts I'm looking forward to another day that God that God folks we heard from Heaven tonight we heard from heaven and I are you ready to get an instructor controlling these thoughts Lord we listen we control our thoughts there ain't no telling what kind of service we'll have Wednesday night when we get back hey while I'm on the subject Friday night we've got spring program somebody holler out tell me what time it starts seven o'clock it starts at seven o'clock now normally we don't push spring program because normally normally it's packed and it's going to be packed again but I need some of you to show up that love souls and we need to put some Jesus loving on the guests that are here we need to let them know hey we love you and it's a little it's a the the spring program gonna be a great time come on out spend about an hour with us help me shake help me shake a bunch of hands on Friday night because we want to see them uh I want to give praise to something they've been using a new method brother Hammond had you hold your phone up tonight about Facebook uh they told me uh before Easter they said could we spend a little money and put an ad on Facebook that blankets this area how much money do we spend on that 45 dollars how many did we reach with it and you know the the reach of it or just 65 000 all right that not dollars now this is people that we reach all right for 45 say 45 dollars do you know that we had three people here that was a direct result of seeing Facebook okay great that great thoughts thoughts feelings feelings moods and identity