The Judge, The Adversary & The Widow | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

would you stand with me in honor of the reading of God's Word we're so thankful today is your turning to Luke chapter 18 and verse number one we're so thankful today to have the seals with us today there are evangelistic party resistors seals and their little baby as a Vangelis t'k party and we are so glad to welcome them to Maryville Tennessee today they're going to be blessing us tonight in the evening service and you don't want to miss the dynamic ministry by the seals it's been blessing the body of Christ he's been blessing churches and I look forward I look forward to having him in this pulpit tonight preaching the word brother sister Sanders from South Carolina family of the Snider's are so thankful to have you all in the house of the Lord with us this morning we have many other I think we have several ministers here pastors here thank you so much up we got a multitask for a moment I know you're holding your Bible but you could you put it down for a moment and let's just welcome all of our guests today just came through a fantastic national youth convention and we have the greatest youth group in all the world and at this church amen and I appreciate the students appreciate the students so very very much as a matter of fact tonight tonight I'd like to have that picture that they took Friday night and I'd like to have it almost straight for us see what an awesome group that we had Luke chapter 18 verse number one thank you Jesus he spake a parable unto them to this end that men ought always to pray and not to faint say there was in a city a judge which feared not God nor regarded man there was a widow in that city she came unto him saying avenge me of my adversary and he would not for a while but afterward he said within himself though I fear not God nor regard man yet because this Widow trouble me I will avenge her lest by her continual coming she weary me and the Lord said hear what the unjust judge says and shall not God avenge his own elect which cry day and night unto Him though he may along with them I tell you that he will avenge them speedily nevertheless when the Son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth the Lord I thank you today for this world thank you today for what this word has done to me Lord I ask that you would anoint my lips of clay in my heart that I can speak your word and that he would alter our lives I pray today that this word will loose your spirit to be more powerful in our lives I pray that your own this word today will cause there to be an increase in your spirit God in our lives but also pray that this message today would cause us to resist and restrain the evil one that wants to occupy our body soul and spirit anoint us today Jesus name Amen you may be seated thank you for standing in honor of the reading of God's Word today I want to preach on the subject of the judge the adversary and the widow the judge the adversary and the widow now I want to begin this morning with the adversary and I want you to understand why I want to begin with him because if it had not been for the adversary we would not have a story we would not have a story the story does not begin with the troubled widow woman and the story does not begin with the unjust judge that fears not God nor regards men but we must start the story where the story begins and that is with the adversary the word adversary means opponent the word adversary means enemy we understand this morning that Satan is called our adversary and rightfully so Satan is no one's friend and he is the adversary the enemy the opponent of every person under the sound of my voice today he is our enemy he doesn't like any of us definitely doesn't love any of us it's a matter of fact he absolutely despises the site of each of us because we are made in the image and the likeness of what he attempted to usurp his authority his power and become like God so understand today we begin where all the trouble begins I believe that's a good place to begin isn't it a good place to begin is where the trouble begins as any of you ever had the less than pleasurable experience taking your car to a garage because it's doing a certain thing and you want it fixed and you take it in and they say aha it was this three hundred dollars you get down the road I think some of you already know where I'm going you get down the road maybe twenty or thirty miles and what it was doing because she didn't take it to the shop starts back up so you take it back to the shop and they say well hmm that was broke but now it's just over here okay and then finally finally I know every mechanic in this place today is going like this right finally they find the problem ah this was the problem and you're thinking to yourself I wish you would have found that $13 fuse first do you know we can treat a lot of symptoms in our lives we can address a lot of issues in our lives but I really think you do us good to go to the heart of the trouble and start from there if we can just understand that wouldn't even be a Luke 18:1 through eight if they hadn't admitted under Sara because she can't have troubled widows without having an atmosphere so let's start with the adversary lamentations chapter 1 verse number 10 says the adversary have to spread out his ten upon all her pleasant things for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary whom aboutness command that they should not enter into thus into thy congregation now this one verse here tells us about an adversary and about the church and the church is referred to as a her the adversary is referred to as his because the adversary is Satan and Satan has spread out his hand and he wants to touch the pleasant things of the church he wants to touch the pleasant things of your life because as long as you're living in the light of God's blessings Satan's temptations his deceptive deceitful doctrines can never take root into your life when you're living in the land of the living when you're living in the land of the abundant blessings of God so in order for the adversary to be successful he has got to put his hand upon the pleasant things of your life and you stay with me now he has got to touch the pleasant things of your life notice it says here that she has seen the heathen entered into her sanctuary which was a command for it not to come into the sanctuary now she begins to notice something there is something that should not be in a place this should not be you see Satan the Bible simply says it this way neither give place to the devil neither give place to the devil but sometimes we find him in places that he should not be for example thoughts that are not in alignment with God's will thoughts that bring fear thoughts that breathe doubt all of these thoughts we have to understand the adversary desires to be somewhere where he's not supposed to be as a matter of fact he run reference on the devil the Bible said he the serpent of which he used to deceive the Bible plainly says the serpent was a creature of the field but we don't find him in the field we find him in the garden so number one we find him not in the place that he should be can I tell you today there is a place for Satan in all of our lives there is a place not in my head for the mark not in my heart but there is a place for Satan under my foot that's where he belongs he belongs under my foot he does not belong in my head he does not belong in my heart I need not allow thoughts that are contrary to the will of God and the Word of God too large in my mind I need to identify them that's just not a random thought random thought that came through my mind that's just not something that I woke up with and I have this random thought we have to understand something we've got to identify the root of the problem if you start thinking wrong you're going to start acting wrong and you'll start living wrong but you start thinking right you'll start living right and you'll start doing right so I've got to understand where all the trouble begins with because he's a master he's a master I submit to you that probably the majority of couples that come to me and say we need marriage counseling do not need marriage counseling they need a revelation of who their adversary is you know they need a revelation of who their adversaries I submit to you that people that can't get along together in the church and finally come to a head and they need a meeting with the pastor that they don't need a referee or a moderator or a mediator they need a revelation of who the adversary is you think we'd start doing a whole lot better in our lives if we would start identifying it's not personal it's an adversary you'll notice something with me if you turn to act if you turn to Esther chapter 7 verse number 1 Haman who was typology of the devil Haman so schemes to have the children of Israel annihilated but Esther is in the right place she's close to the king but I want you to notice something with me she knew how to get the king and her adversary in the same room because you'll never get deliverance until you learn how to get your king and your adversary in the same place this very wise woman named Esther she knew that unless she did something as a matter of fact her uncle Mordecai I told her if you knew nothing will get deliverance from another way but you're going to miss the whole destiny of your life for who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this that very wise woman named Esther had the King to make a banquet she invited the king and Haman verse 1 so the king and Haman came to the banquet with Esther the Queen the King said again unto Esther on the second day of the banquet of wine what is thy petition Queen Esther and it shall be granted thee what is that request and this shall be performed even to half of the kingdom and I want you to know something that word there half of the kingdom is not he would literally split the kingdom but it meant that everything in the kingdom is yours then Esther the Queen answered and said if I have found favor in thy sight O king and if it pleases the King let my life be given me at my petition and my people at my request for we are sold I and my people to be destroyed to be slain and to perish but if we had been sold for bondsman and bond women I had held my turn although the enemy could not counter veil the Kings damage then then King has the Ria's answered and said of the Queen Esther who is he and where is he that just pursued in his heart to do so listen to verse 6 and Esther said the adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman then Haman was afraid before the king and Esther please understand that Jews deliverance does not begin until the enemy has been properly identified can I tell you this Sunday morning can I share with you from my heart that we need to take our oppression into the presence of God and then summons the enemy in the same meeting and say begin to let the enemy know I have I have your number I understand what's going on here this is not a personality trait this is not a personality issue this is not some personal preference this flesh I'm just not made that way to like those sort of things can I tell you when we can identify the adversary Satan we have begun the work of total deliverance in our lives how many in this place today with the fergan a man won't joy in your mind how many want peace in your heart how many want prosperity in your marriage how many of you want your children to grow and be productive citizens and workers in the house of God if you set a man to any of these I want you to know you have to be able to identify the adversary the adversary the adversary Acts chapter 10 and verse number 38 the Bible simply says how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil for God was with him can I tell you today that there are extremism in spiritual warfare what a straight extreme is to see a devil behind every tree another extreme is not to believe the devil could be in anything so we have to find a balance because the scripture does say that the devil can oppress our flesh the word oppress means to exercise see if any of you fall in this category see if this could describe anything about your life the word oppress means to exercise harsh control over one to use one's power against one does that fit anybody in this room today when we are fighting when we somehow when we somehow feel like we're fighting against flesh and blood and we get into years and years of going through the same cycle over and over and over and over again wondering if we had a better this or a better job or a better pastor or a better life with things get better but things never get better until you begin to identify the source of the trouble when we begin to identify the one that can oppress then we know that I'm no match for that oppressor I on my own I am no match for the oppressor hear me now we are no match for Satan care how educated you are I don't care how financially secure your art I don't care how how good squeaky clean your behavior record is here mean that this morning you nor I is any match for the devil but allow me to invite the name of Jesus into my life Satan I cannot out thank you but I know one who can Satan I cannot I cannot match up with you glove for glove but let me introduce you to the one that I turned my life over to I am not my own you used to rule me you used to come down and at will order my life but I surrendered my life to one whose name is Jesus he is the eternal God who became flesh 2,000 years ago took on a body hung on a tree suffer bled and died and on the third day rose again and fifty days after that us back his spirit on Pentecost now greater is he that is within me that he in the world come up with you praising with me for a moment so therefore you're not going to oppress me you're not going to oppress me you're not going to oppress my marriage you're not going to have my children you're not going to have my church as a matter of fact Satan you're not going to be anywhere in my life because you don't belong there I believe we've been interred identified the adversary Satan now let's turn to the next character in the parable the widow she is called the widow the word widow simply by definition gives the idea of a deficiency this woman has a deficiency a lack of a husband metaphorically they would represent cities that had been uninhabited and destroyed as widowed cities the reason they would say that city is a widow is because that city had no authority on the inside of it any gang of bandits at any time to come roaming through if there were a few people there they will refer to as Widow people because any Banda bandits the strongest and the biggest yard ruled the day you didn't know from one month to the other what type of government you would have because there was no sole authority in the city it would be called a widowed city a widow is without a husband a widow is without one who to represent her and to provide for her a widow that's not the protection arm of a husband a widow has not the per the provisions brought in from a husband she has the deficiency evidently God took note of this God speaks very strongly in the Bible about widows in Exodus chapter 22 verse 22 listen to what God says listen to what God says ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child if thou afflict them in any wise and they cry at all unto me I will surely hear their cry and my wrath shall wax hot and I will kill you I don't know if the widow needs pitied or not because it seems like that God makes up for her deficiency I will kill you with the sword and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless meet the widow now she has a deficiency but she's also armed with a promise she doesn't have a husband that she can put her hands on but she has a God that she can trust in his word can't you see can't you see I just imagined sometimes that little widow woman was walking down through a path and some robbers came upon her and blessed God if they didn't know the commandment and they started getting out their swords come on Lady give me give me that gold there she might have just flipped over to Exodus 22 and 22 and saying he won't kill do you want God or maybe it even got out in the community what happened to the Banta bandits that came through robbed the widows god let a sword break out so the widow's deficiency is more than made up in the promise of God Deuteronomy chapter 24 verse 17 listen to this once again Deuteronomy 24 17 vouche out not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless nor take a widow's garment to pledge in other words you had to give some earnest money down he is going to get anything their form of credit in that day both seals their form of credit was you gave certain things like any kind of jewelry you had if you wanted to buy those goats you would you would take off your jewelry and give it to him it was a form of a down payment but God said if the widow ever need some credit don't you ever take her garment off of her don't you ever take her widows dormant because that widows garment was a was a dress of identification it identified everybody around that this is a widow coming through here if you want in the favor of God upon your life and you see the widow in her apparent garment come down the street if you want in the favor of God stop your cart take a handful of apples tend them over to her if you wanted the favor of God upon your life be kind to the widow and God would let his favor be upon your life but if the widow did not have her raiment you would not know she was a widow and so God stepped in and God said I I will I will make sure that a widow's garment is never taken as a pledge as a down payment for something you said brother carpenter that's the Old Testament but can I take you to Luke chapter 7 verse number 11 even when God became human flesh God could not pass by a widow without giving her something that she so desperately needed he came to pass chapter 7 verse number 11 and he came to pass after the day after that he went into a city called nain and many of his disciples went with him and much people now when he was come 9:00 to the gate of the city behold there was a dead man carried out the only son of his mother and she was a widow and much of much people of the city was with her and when the Lord saw her please understand something does it saying when the Lord saw the dead man you say when the Lord saw the dead man and when the Lord saw her he had compassion on her and said unto her weep not and he came and touched the bier and they that bear him Stood Still and he said young man I say unto you they arise and he that was dead set up and began to speak and he delivered him to his mother oh what a mighty God we serve I have an opponent I have an adversary I have an enemy and I have a deficiency but praise be unto our God Jehovah praise me under our God today he's already put a word out on us that if you touch them I'll kill you with a sword no wonder he said and this doesn't only apply to a pastor although it's used a lot for a pastor touch not my anointed and do my prophets no harm the anointed is known not only just a man in a pulpit but God's church from the choir law to the ushers God's church is an anointed body in the earth and God's that's not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm Jesus couldn't even pass that funeral processional he didn't see the dead boy he saw the widow he saw her deficiency now let's talk about the third character we've talked about the opponent the adversary Satan we've talked about you and I the widows deficient now let's talk about the unjust judge the unjust judge where does he come in what a description the unjust judge it says you go back there for a moment to Luke 8 Luke 18 the engines the unjust judge feared not God nor regarded man he's unjust he's in a place of authority he rules over all he has all power he's the only one that has power over the adversary but he's done just and he doesn't fear God any regards to no meaning now I don't know how more descriptive you can be of someone who cannot be moved I mean how do you move someone who's wicked to the core how do you move someone that has no moral compass has no regard for God or God's Word and doesn't respect anyone how in the world does a widow have any chance of moving him she comes to him he feels not sorry for her she comes into this courtroom the only place of power the only place of authority she can't get help her adversary cannot be warded off by 1-800 psychic hotlines her adversary cannot be warded off by horoscopes her adversary cannot be warded off by any other power but the power that's in that court she stands there she makes her cry I've got an adversary avenge that's what she's asked him avenge me get him back that's what she's asking for I've been is the cousin of revenge he's done a lot to me it's about time that I have some vengeance avenge me another word another word is another word and I'm totally in the contents of scripture shut his mouth I'm tired of him I'm tired of him asking for payment I'm tired of what he says about me I'm tired of how he wakes me up I'm tired of how he calls me throughout the day I'm tired of how I continue to hear his voice would you shut him up now day 1 day 2 we don't know the number of times but I want to stop here because you will not fully understand until you understand that God has used the most extreme callous hard person in authority it's almost the black velvet that the jeweler lays out in order to put his diamond right in the middle because God paints the sure of a person in authority that's not impossible to move and then God presents himself and he's truly saying I'm opposite of this I'm totally opposite of this you see the unjust judge got weary with the widow showing up and the unjust judge counseled he took a break and went back in the chamber and he began to say these words though I fear not God though I regard not any man yet this woman continually some I say continually this woman continually continually continually shows up with the same old squeaky voice and because I fear not God the man I'm getting weary with this this is wearing me down and so I'm gonna step out here today and I'm going to exercise my authority and I'm gonna tell him I'm gonna tell the bailiffs you go find this woman's adversary and you go bind his mouth you go shut him up you go tell him if he messes with this win a woman anymore he's gonna feel the wrath of my courtroom and what God was saying God was saying if a widow woman could move an unjust judge to avenge her adversary how much more will your father your heavenly Father who is not unjust praise God who is not unjust praise God who is the God of heaven who's a God Nexo loves the world there's not a and there's not a woman there's not a child here today that God does not love if you don't feel love today cannot kill you who put that thought in your mind it wasn't God it was the adversary but I've come to tell you today that God loves you God does care about you God's got a plan for your life oh I wish somebody would help me worship Him just a few moments right and they are God yah God avenge me I don't know about you I don't know about you but the biggest oppression I get is his mouth confessions good for the soul Abraham Lincoln said confessions good for the soul maybe bad for the reputation but it is good for self I can't stand the adversaries mouth I cannot I cannot state his mouth and his mouth has a direct speaker to my mind and if I don't keep my mind stayed on Jesus he's got a whole list of programming he wants to put in there and I'm out the only person here today too sick of his mouth tired of his mouth tired of what he tells me tired of what he says to me man if you're young he says God can't use you get a little of age on you about to celebrate your 60th birthday and he'll start saying you're getting too old for this I hate his mouth have I told you that today I hate his mouth baby's mouth tells us all kind of things tells us all kind of things got to keep my mind stayed on Jesus and if I don't keep my mind good in the state on Jesus every now and then I'll hear his mouth inside my head here that's why we need to stay close to Jesus Church I said that's why we need to stay close to Jesus Church man I'll tell you something will tell you something you're not mature you know don't don't look at it as a mark of maturity that you don't need to do this when you come to church you don't know I just don't have to act like all those other week folks up there but they hang around like I am they're gonna start acting like me I hope not but anyway I want you to know something that's not a mark of maturity you are an open door for the adversary to tell you all your all right oh you're you're okay you know maybe we need to go from not where I sit in church but maybe we need to have the mentality where do I serve in church because sometimes the adversary if he can't keep you from coming to church the next thing he says I just want you sitting in a Pew just go there like a buffet and wait to be fed and wait to see if you can get some Holy Ghost doodads and wait to feel and wait waiting just wait for that no we don't need to do that we need to say Jesus you've got a plan for my life Jesus you've got to work for me to do Lord what do you need dear lord I praise You Jesus I worship You Lord young people students today if you don't learn how to worship God and you don't have them you don't learn how to praise God you're going to hear the voice of the adversary saying get you an education and when you get you an education you'll hear him say you're too smart for that stuff you're too wise for that stuff well that old shouting business that old one God business fellow fanatical business that's for that was for people that can Mayberry in the 1950s that that's not for you the devil is a liar and we need his mouth if you don't stay close to God you'll get them believing somebody around here don't love you if you don't stay close to God you interpret somebody walking by you they don't care for you I'm glad our children in Sunday school should his mouth shut his mouth well I'm not the only one Bible said in mark chapter 1 verse number 34 listening to my Jesus here mark chapter 34 verse number one no excuse me mark chapter 1 verse number 34 mark chapter 1 verse number 34 and He healed many that were sick with divers diseases and cast out many devils and suffered not the devil's to speak because they knew who I'd like to been there so we are because they knew him that's exactly right because the Lord doesn't need a devil telling the world about Jesus because if the world ever wants a devil if the world ever hears about Jesus through a devil it'll always hear it the wrong way it'll be the wrong doctrine it'll be the wrong thing to do it'll be the wrong way to interpret the Bible if the world here's about Jesus through a devil the devil will say the Old Testament doesn't matter we don't have to read the Old Testament anymore and when you read up on a subject such as and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for the promises unto you and to your children to those who are far off that devil will step up and say well that's not for you today that's just for a bunch of other people it's time that we shut the devil's mouth and we begin to experience oh my let me show you exactly what he did in Colossians chapter 2 9 because the only event that I have the ground to stand upon you see Colossians 2:9 these people that pay on a policy they pay on an insurance policy for years and then something happens and they can they can they can cash in on that policy maybe it's a life insurance policy and they have it for years they take that policy and they take that policy in that policy it's what they stand upon this is my policy that's why you need to give me what this policy says is because I've been standing on this policy now this may be as elementary as elementary can be but I'm standing on today two thousand years ago God became flesh and destroyed the adversary that's right he crushed his head he took his heel Genesis 3:1 genesis 3:15 he took his heel and he put his heel on the head of a serpent and the serpent bit him on the hill injecting his most lethal weapon which was the end product of sin which is death Satan thought I've injected him with the venom of death death has ceased but what he did not know was that three days later as god he was God made flesh and when that man that flesh sir come to the venom of death in that man Christ Jesus died and was dead as any man has ever been 72 hours later that same God that caused the conception that same God re-entered into that body and resurrected that body thus that body paid the sin debt thus that body crushed the works of the devil before Calvary we had no hope the adversary was the world champion of sin but ever since Calvary he went into the ring with him and when three days later he walked out gift has been conquered and the Lord Jesus Christ holds up and now he's the old-time champion he's the old-time champion but can I tell you this morning and I'm feeling the goodness of the Lord right now but it's not my mind it's not my powers it's not by the name carpenter it's not by the intellect of carpenter but it's by the name of Jesus did I stand here today it's by the name of Jesus that I have authority in my body it's by the name of Jesus that our marriage is made whole it's by the name of either that our children are serving God it's by the name of Jesus that I preach to you this morning it's by the name of Jesus that we're taking authority musicians would you come Colossians 2 and 9 for in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily and ye are complete in him which is the head of all principality and power in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ buried with him in Baptism wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God who has raised him from the dead and you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh have he quickened together with him having forgiven you all trespasses blotting out the handwriting of Ordinances that was against us that was contrary to us and took it out of the way nailing it to his cross and having spoiled principalities having spoiled principalities spoiled means to take from a principality Satan was the chief principality but God spoiled him having spoiled principalities and powers he made a show of them openly triumphing over them in it do you know when Jesus gave him a little pre moon when Jesus was matched up with Satan after 40 days of fasting and Satan came trying to get him to fall jesus said to him at the end of the last temptation give thee behind me Satan now you know what that meant didn't mean that get behind me so I can go on and do the will of God it's what one King does when one King conquers another King you don't have to wonder when those Kings come back in the city who won because the one out front is the one that one and the one that's behind is the one that was defeated and he said get behind me Satan I want you to get in a defeated place today I want you to get behind me you have been defeated I want you to get behind me can I tell you something today if you're not living and overcoming life it is because you two are behind Jesus you don't need to be behind Jesus you need to be with Jesus you need to be beside Jesus and let the enemy be behind but I have one last it's all sounding good up to this point all sounded good up to this point but it wasn't just the fact we have an unjust judge and it wasn't just the fact that we have an opponent it wasn't just the fact that we have a widow it was the continual cry of the widow you see it's not good enough today for you to see yourself as the widow deficient a widow always has a continual crying for him I never saw this I never really quite grasped this Ephesians 6 and 10 finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and the power of his might put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil schemes for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities let's say against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places wherefore taken to you the whole armour of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand stand therefore having your loins Girt about with truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace above all taking the shield of faith wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God listen to this last piece of armor praying always praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for the state it's wonderful to be dressed up in the armor it's wonderful that truth to know why we're baptized and how we're baptized know how many guns there is it's wonderful that we know all of them but if we failed that last test praying I am G the int means continual we never stop pray we never stop asking can I tell you today please don't lose respect for me but I still fight the adversary and as far as I've got it in my mind sister carpenter I believe I'll fight him all the way to the pearly gates and isn't it interesting that the gates are made of pearl and pearl a pearl is the product of a foreign object getting into the oyster and when that foreign object gets into the oyster the oyster begins to secrete a substance fighting against the foreign object and he keeps secreting and secreting and finally a valuable pearl come on lift your hands right now create an atmosphere in here the adversary doesn't want you to praise God I Got News for you right now the adversary hopes that you don't respond and praise God by name he had Mystery House you don't pray Kika said somebody free this morning Oh God said somebody free right now god oh god there's somebody here in bondage right now in the name of Jesus a camara vuq I stand upon the authority of the cross I stand above the authority of the cross take your hands off my my oh god oh god oh god oh god come on pray right now with me praying the name of Jesus for a moment it's for a moment back to Luke 18 6 because we're ever going to get back at the adversary if I'm ever going to get back in him for what he's done to my life I'm ever going to get back in him I've got to have the ing in my walk with God and the Lord said hear what the unjust judge saith and shall not God avenge his own elect which cry day and night unto him though he bear long with him I tell you that he will avenge them speedily can I tell you that admits the adversary and you need to determine if it's the adversary he will do a quick work this December first Sunday morning he'll do a quick work nevertheless when the Son of man cometh shall he find faith on this earth you know he's looking for this morning some ing people in this place he's looking for some widows that if they have to go to their grave calling out the names of their children who Satan he's got a hold up I'm talking to somebody today if I have to go to my grave seeing God deliver my son from alcohol I shall never stop I and he pray I shall never on the adversary to tell me it's not your heaven I will breathe my last breaths and God said my son free from up I'll breathe my last breath stay and God let my daughter free from true I'll read my last breath asking for deliverance from bows the enemy is no Prince yeah thanks me to God I don't have any children that shake today but I'm gonna start praying right now and I want you to join me in prayer there's anybody in here that's got a son daughter grandchild that's in the throes of seeing today you there in the grip machine right now father in the name of the older come on today a young man a young man came up to me the last night of NYC and he said that's the carpenter would you help me out with spiritual warfare and I told him a few things that I have to do a spiritual warfare and the number one thing I told him is you have to understand what is your flesh and what a spiritual warfare you have to understand what is that you know spirit that is warrior and once you understand that you can begin to do spiritual warfare you've got to know what you're fighting against that's why warfare in the 21st century's difficult because going back to the 20th century you knew who the enemy was they wore a certain uniform they flew a certain flag and you knew who the enemy was and you knew who you were but you know me warfare is different today they camouflage themselves they hide behind people they do all kind of things can I tell you today that one of the things we have to understand as we enter into the battlefield there will be the tremendous binding upon you not to go forward now the devil has caused a lot of us Pentecostals to believe that God is just not ready to move that that is just you know God's not ready to break out yet when in actuality it's the enemy trying to keep you from going beyond your flesh it's not comfortable it's not and if you got any pride you won't do it but you gotta learn how to cry