We welcome you, Holy Spirit, right now. We thank you that during the time of praise and worship, you you brought us into the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and grace in the time of need. And even now, as we have prayed for the people that were anointed and commissioned, you were there, dear Lord Jesus, to touch and to fill and and to fulfill your promises in the lives of those that we were prayed for. And now we ask you that you will anoint your word that as h I offer my lips, Father God, as a sacrifice of praise to you that the Holy Spirit may use, Father God, let your anointing, Father God, touch the hearts of each of every one of us here tonight. For we need you, Lord Jesus. These are desperately wicked times. We need you now more than ever before. We need your presence. We need your power. You need We need your anointing. So Lord Jesus have your will with us tonight. Amen. Amen. Praise God. You may be seated. Thank you Lord Jesus. Hallelujah.

Praise you father. I want to talk about the uh intercession. Uh I first of all I want to apologize for not making it last week. As you know, we moved to Lake Elsenor and my wife and I first time in the two and a half months we've been there. We ordered pizza on Thursday night and uh oh my god, I puke all night long Thursday night. I mean, and then she started on on uh on Friday morning. We This is incredible. We got in bed at 10 or 11 in the morning and slept like six hours straight. Then we got in bed Friday night at 6 o'clock and we slept until the next day and you know getting up and and getting sick and and all that stuff. But there's no way we could have drove out here. Believe me, uh we were dying. We thought we were poison. We thought they they put poison or something in there. So, but we're here tonight. Um let me show you. If you go to Psalm 18, let me show you what intercession is all about. Intercession is about spiritual warfare. Okay? And and I want you to see um what from from David's uh point of view uh what uh spiritual warfare is all about. The Psalm 8 thing it is all is also in 2 Samuels I believe and is about uh doing spiritual warfare. If you look at verse four Psalm 18 verse4 this is what David says. Now remember David is a mighty man of God. David is anointed of the Holy Spirit and he says the pains of death surrounded me and the floods of ungodliness made me afraid. The sorrows of shield that's hell surrounded me. The snares of death confronted me. That is talking about spiritual attack. David came under a demonic spiritual attack. He says the the spirit of death just came and in around me the floods of ungodliness. That's when all every wicked thing that you can ever think of begin to flow through you through your mind. and all of a sudden you you feel like killing somebody or doing those vile things and you step back and said, "Where in the world was that coming from?" So, he's talking about not only the spirit of death coming after him, but the the this filthy uh uh things that that that surrounded him that made him afraid. He says, "The sorrows of hell shield surrounded me and the snares of that confronted me." He says, "In my distress, I called upon the Lord and I cried out to my God." And then if you go on to read on, he says that God heard his his cry from the temple. And look at verse seven says, "The earth shook and tremble." And it's important that you understand this because the earth is very much connected to spiritual warfare. The spiritual warfare takes place here on the earth. The battle may may have its origins up in there. That's where shield is at. That's where these things are at. But I want you to see that it was down here on the earth where God answer and moved. What does it say there? It says God shook the earth. I don't think this was a regular. It might have been that this was a regular u uh earthquake. But what this is saying is whatever this demonic thing that was rising out of the earth coming against David, God began to shake him. Then he says the foundations of the hills also quake and were shaken because he was angry. And then he talks about like God getting h smoke coming out of his mouth. And this is very important because it symbolizes the word of God. When God speak his word is like a fire. Isaiah says, "Isn't my word like a fire that sets stuff on fire?" Uh, you know, uh, stuff that that needs to be burned out. And he said, "My word like a hammer that breaks rocks into pieces." He says, "He bent down the heavens and came down." And then he says that, um, all of the things uh, verse 12, verse 13, the Lord thunder from heaven, the most high utter his voice, hailstones and calls of fire. And then he goes all the way uh to verse uh 15. The channels of the sea were seen. The foundations of the world were on cover at your rebuke Lord at the blast of the breath of your nostrils. So he's saying that he came under a demonic attack. A demonic attack that originated in hell itself. This is what David is saying. All of the things were coming up against me was like a flood of iniquity. Think of every vile thing you can ever think of. Have it all flowing through you at the same time. Plus at the same time having this fear like a a a spirit that is trying to snuff your life out and you're feeling all like choked to death by this thing. Did you know that more people wake up in the middle of the night frightened or panicked because things like that happen to them? There are people that cannot sleep on their beds. I know many people sit on their sofa with the TV on all night long because they cannot get into that deep area of sleep because that demonic attack is able to come in against them like that. So what we're going to talk about tonight, this is not part of the message, but I want you to see why it is so important to understand spiritual warfare because spiritual warfare does not prevent the enemy from attacking you. But it does enable God when we pray the prayer, when we call upon him to do what he needs to do to get us through and get us over the demonic attack. He says in verse 16, "He sent from above and he took me." Oh, I love that. He says, "God all of a sudden saw that David was in trouble and God just sent from above and took it. He drew me out of the many waters and he delivered me from my strong enemy." And look who the enemy was from those who hated me for they were too strong for me. Those who hated me. Did you know that Satan hates us with a passion? And did you know that Satan the people that he possesses or the people that he works through that hate can be vented out through them? Did you know that people will, especially family members or close friends, can hurt you a lot more than anybody else could ever will? And that's because when Satan is able to come into their their way of thinking, he can vent this hate. And that hate manifests itself through cursing words. I hate you. When that word is spoken like that with the passion that is spoken like that there's a torrent of death that is poured out through that and we need to understand that in the the real spiritual warfare those words have to be confronted in Isaiah 54:17 no weapon formed against me shall prosper meaning that and then it says every word that rises against you meaning that when a word is spoken that word is like a seed that wants to grow into a free, wants to prosper, wants to grow. And that's what Satan does. He speaks the light. And the more that that that light works in us and and and is reinforced by other people, the more hate and the more fear that it builds up on us. And those words have to be condemned. He says, "But every word that rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn." Spiritual warfare is taking the words the Satan speaks against us and making them null and void saying that word is not going to take a stand against me. Now then David goes in it says verse 18 Psalm 18:18 they confronted me in the day of my calamity. You know what the day of your calamity is? Is when you're down. I believe I don't know I didn't research it but I believe that this psalm was written at the lowest part of David's uh sin. I believe like Psalm 51 he was confronted with his sin. That was the day of his calamity. Now David had many days to where he faced calamity. But when you're down, when you're the worst at the worst point in your life, when you're at your lowest point in your life, that is when Satan comes in and he will attack you. He will attack you. He will send that coil to to wrap around your neck and he he will bring those bitter words, those hateful words. He will bring everything he can to destroy you. And this is why we need to know how to call upon the Lord because David says that in the day of his calamity when he was confronted by the enemy, the Lord was his support. In verse 19, he also brought me out into a broad place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. The Lord delighted in David. And yet he was a sinful man. He was a man that failed. Now, here's the key. This is why I'm reading this before I teach the lesson. Here's the key that I want you to understand. It wasn't that David was perfect. It wasn't his calamity. It was brought upon probably by by sins that he did by something where he disobeyed God or some some act that he did because Satan is the accuser of the brethren. And every time we step out of line, he takes advantage of that and he comes like a flood trying to destroy us. But then look at verse 20 because this is the key that I want you to see. David is able to say this. The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands. He has recompensed me.

Now, the very first thing that went through everybody's mind over here is, "Oh, man. I'm in trouble.

I'm in trouble according to my righteousness." But no, this is why I prefaced that where David wasn't a perfect man. David sinned and that's why God allowed to sin. What was it that David was talking about the righteousness of my hand? Did you know that the difference between David and Saul, King Saul, the difference between the two is that Saul was never sure who the real God was. There was no doubt on David's heart who the real God was. He knew that God was Yahweh and he worshiped Yahweh. He prayed Yahweh. He was a a a a man like of flesh like we are. And he had a propensity toward sin. But never ever ever in his heart did he allow another god to take his place. How do I know that? Because when Saul felt abandoned, who did he go to? To the witch of Endor. Whatever you do, my friend, don't ever ever and if you have done it, repent and say, "Lord, I will never do that again." Never seek God through a medium. Never seek God through a fortune teller. never sink out through a saint or through a religious uh h ritual or item. We have to this is at the heart of spiritual warfare. We have to know who the real god is. The real god is a holy god and it's a jealous god. And when you get to to somebody else that imitates god, he doesn't like it. And when that time the of the uh demonic attack comes against you, you better know who the real god is. This is why I come so strong against Christmas and against Easter and all of these pagan rituals that have been uh instituted through the church through the centuries so that the church has no power. Why would the Lord when you say in the name of Jesus and and be healed and and why would the Lord heal it when we're worshiping a Jesus that is not the Jesus of the Bible? You know, if somebody comes and say, "Oh, happy birthday." Well, it's not my birthday today. you know, why would I accept that? And you see that that the church through traditions and through things has been polluted and to where people don't know who God is. You know, it is so easy for a Christian to go from uh uh from reading the Bible and getting the council of God to reading a fortune cookie and getting a revelation from the fortune cookie or reading their horoscope on the newspaper and say, "Oh, well, the Lord spoke to me through that." There's just no difference. We we don't realize it that God is a God that's pure and holy and that is the only thing that's going to keep our hands clean when we know who the real God is and when we pray to the real God. Amen. And the same way and and and it was the same way with u uh with Jonah. Jonah was a man that was in rebellion. And you can read in Jonah chapter 2. He was a man that was in rebellion. The same thing happened to him. the coil, the waters uh surrounded him. The the snares or the coils of hail shield went around him. And when God delivered him, he cried from the uh uh the belly of the fish with he had been dead for three days. He wasn't alive and he was dead. He went down to hell and he cried to the Lord from down in there and God answered him. And then he says, "God rewarded me according to the cleanliness of my hands." And you say, "Well, what do you mean cleanliness of my hand? you were in rebellion to God. God said, "Oh, go over there and you went this way." Well, because he believed that if he went where God went, that God would heal the people. And he didn't want those people to be healed. He believed God. He had faith. He knew who the real God was. And even though he was in rebellion to God, when he called to the real God, the real God answered. So, at the heart of uh spiritual warfare, at the heart of intercession is first of all the foundation. You better know who the real Jesus is. You better know who the real Jesus is. Not everybody that says Jesus or says Lord, Lord is talking about the Jesus you're talking about. Not everybody that's quoting the scripture is talking about the same Jesus of the Bible. And not everybody that is singing son to Lord Lord is singing to our Lord. You know that's that's what one of the Beatles tried to prove. Who was it? Uh uh what was his name? The no the other guy.

Yeah, the one that died. George Harrison. Harrison. George George Harrison tried to prove Yeah. Thank you. But George Harrison tried to prove that anybody could sing to anything. So he wrote a song to Ham Maharaji in India. One of those new age guys or whatever. He My sweet lord. You guys probably remember that song. My sweet lord. My sweet lord. And people think thinking that he was singing it to the Lord Jesus Christ. No, he was singing it to some Maharachi over there in in India or Tibet some place. And he wanted to prove that all you have to do is put word the word Lord to it and everybody will go with it. And ever since that time we have all kinds of son says my sweet Lord my sweet Lord and they say Jesus and they say this and they say that and they're not of God. And if you're going to know about a spiritual warfare and intercession, you better know the real God because it's only in the name. That's the name that God responds to when hell comes after you. You better know you better know Jesus real number. You know, you don't want to get a wrong number. You don't want you don't want to dial Jesus and and and wind up, you know, with a with with with a house of ill repute,

which that that is what the demonic thing is. Go to Ephesians Ephesians chapter 3 and we're going to deal with spiritual warfare. Spiritual warfare. Ephesians chapter 3 verse 10. And the reason why I I put that emphasis on that is because we need to know Jesus, the real Jesus. And you know there is a cost to knowing Jesus. In John uh chapter 6, as a matter of fact, 666 666, he says, "And many of the disciples turn away from Jesus." John 666. That's a sign of of And then uh uh the 12 disciples went to Jesus and and then Jesus said, "Aren't you going to leave me too?" He said, "Where, Lord? We left everything for you." And you know, you want to be with the real Jesus, give everything to the real Jesus. You got nowhere else to go when you run out of things. So, praise God. Ephesians chapter 3, 10.

Now, how many of you know that you're the church, not the building? I mean, thank God for the building and thank God that we're out of the rain and out of the cold, but this is not the building that God dwells in. Back in the old days, they build the tabernacle and then later a temple and the glory of the Lord dwells in the tabernacle in the temple in the holy place in the holy of holies. The shikina glory of God would hover over there. But God says he was looking for a temple that is not made with human hands. Okay? And the temple is you and I. We are the church. When you confess Jesus Christ as your savior, God placed the Holy Spirit within within you as a deposit or as a guaranteed. In other words, there's a stamp in your spirit, the spirit man, the real spirit man. Your spirit man has ears. Not these ears are probably up in here. You know when you see Batman with a little ears up in there, this is your soul has ears. Uh your spirit has ears. Your spirit man is stamped. It says holy to the Lord is reserved. This is what happened when you were born again. Immediately your spirit was stamped with with a holy to the Lord in there meaning it belongs to God. That spirit is the one that that God now wants to that makes God dwell in us where we're the church. In other words, through his spirit, he he says in in John 16, he said, "Father, I will live in them and you will live in them." God and Jesus are both living in us through his spirit. It's just like taking a drop of water and dropping in a huge pool. We are the drop of water, the huge pool or the huge ocean is God. His spirit is in us. We belong to him. That makes us the church. That means that now we're the church. Now, why am I saying that? To the intent. Now, this is Ephesians 3:10. To the intent, now that the manifold wisdom is God, manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church. God has an intention for you. God intended something that he wanted to do through you and through me. When he saved us, he made us a church. The church is the body of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is a head. If you use the body as an example, he is the head. The head, he's sitting at the right hand of the father in heaven. We are his body here on the earth. Okay? And he has a purpose. That's what the word intent means to the intent that that means we have something that God intended for us to do here on earth. Okay? And we're talking about spiritual warfare. We're talking about bringing the kingdom of God here to the earth. Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done where? On the earth. Remember, he shook the earth. God shook the earth. When David was in spiritual warfare, God shook the earth. We are to bring the kingdom of God where to the earth. The kingdom of God is to be brought down to the earth. That's the intention for God for you and me. We are to bring the kingdom of God to the earth. That's God's intent for us. Okay? Okay. And so we read to the intent now that the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to principalities and powers in the where heavenly places. Okay, we're here on the earth. The earth is filling the consequences of the sin that is taking place where this principalities in power. And God says,"I want you to do something to this principality disempowered so I can bring my kingdom here to the earth." Spiritual warfare is about that. Spiritual warfare is about that. If we do not understand anything else, we need to understand that this has to uh be made known. Look, look at look at that again. to the intent now that the manifold wisdom of God might be made known. Might be made known. Meaning something has to be revealed. Something have to be brought out. Something have to be exposed. As a matter of fact, if you look right there, uh I'll just show you one of uh uh six uh where the word mystery appears. Uh Ephesians 6:19, Paul says, Ephesians 6:19, "And for me that utterance may be given to me." He's asking the Ephesians to pray for him. He says, "And for me that utterance might be given to me that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel." The church is to make something known. Okay. The word mystery appears in the Bible 22 times. If you look at in the King James version, the original King James version, which sticks to the most original uh as they translated it, you do not find the word mystery nowhere is in the Old Testament. Look it up. All the mysteries of God were hidden in the Old Testament. They could not be revealed because they're spiritual. They were hidden. It took Jesus to come in and to make the revelation known. And when Jesus came and made the revelation known, now in the New Testament, the word mystery appears 22 times. Why? Because the Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. See, God created everything with 22 letters. That is a celestial uh uh alphabet. No vowels, no nothing. 22 letters. Everything that God ever spoke, he used those 22 letters. Okay? And so the 22 letters represents the completion of the creation of God. And it was hidden in the New Testament in the Old Testament and it is now revealed in the New Testament. Now 22 times appears in the 27 books of the New Testament. And on Ephesians alone, the word mystery appears six times. Six times appears. Why? Because Ephesians is a book about spiritual warfare and bringing revelation into how to do the revelation. This why Paul says uh pray for me that I may be bold and speak the mystery the hidden thing that which been hidden in the gospel. So, we have God intended for us to have as we go back to Ephesians 3:10, God intended for us to make known the manifold wisdom of God. We're to make it known. Now, we're going to break this down. So, first of all, we're going to we know that has to be spoken. We know that it's something that's hidden that has to be revealed. We know that the essence of spiritual warfare is speaking to these principalities and powers. So the first thing we want to deal with is principalities. Verse three, Ephesians 3:10 that to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be may be known by us the church to the principalities and powers. The word principality is a word that means arc. A ray is is a word in in Greek. A ray. And using those huge arches that that they would build in order to enter into a building. Okay, that's where the word arch comes from. Arch. Arch comes from ar meaning a principality or a covering or a ruling. One of the um dictionaries translated as a um a magistrate with jurisdiction over a specific area. A magistrate a magistrate is somebody like a judge that gets appointed and he has jurisdiction over a specific area over an area. Now the word jurisdiction meaning he has authority to speak. iction means words. He has whatever he speaks. See, you go to a court and if you did your your crime over here in in in women, you where you wind up at San Pedro there or or this there's there's a station over here. If you go to Quantum, there's somebody who has a jurisdiction there. If you go to Long Beach, there's a jurisdiction there. If you go to Ingldwood, and you see this judge in in in in Long Beach has no authority over Englewood. You see, his word has no power over there. But if you're in this land over here, he has authority over you. He has power to speak words. That's what jurisdiction means over the area where he's at. So Paul is saying God intended for you and for me to get a hold of the mystery of the gospel of Jesus Christ and to speak to that jurisdiction and tell him, I got something to say to you that is more powerful than whatever you've been saying over here. See, that's what spiritual warfare is. Spiritual warfare is taking the words that God has given us. Hallelujah. And speak to the arch. Now, why? Why? Because this arch or this principality, this arcade, they have authority to speak things against you, against your family, against your children, against your finances, against your health. They do. This is what Satan, he's the accuser of the brethren. He is continuously accusing. you don't deserve to have good health because you smoked for so many years or you did this for so many years and so he speaks like a judge would speak to say I'm putting out a warrant against Marcos and then the powers because you see he said to speak to the principalities and to the powers the powers now go on to enforce the word see they cannot come into your house when there's a Paul, they cannot come into your house without a warrant. Who gives a warrant? The jurisdiction, the principality, the person that has the power, the Joshua magistrate has power to speak and say, "Yes, go search his house." But you got your attorney, Jesus,

who has a greater power, greater word. So then this magistrate, and the reason why I'm here tonight is because I'm speaking about the magistrate that's over women. There's a magistrate over this city and the dude ain't too happy with us because we're messing up his work. Okay? We're messing up his work. But God intended for us to mess up with him. God intended for us to break up this little party that he has going on over here. God intended for us to speak to those principalities and those powers that gang violence and rape and drive by shooting and drugs and alcohol and prostitution are coming down because that's what God intended for us to do. God intended for us to speak to those things. Now the word powers is the word exosa and it means delegated authority of superhuman strength or supernatural power meaning a delegated authority meaning just like Satan gets over there he's got his magistrate over this area and he's watching over and he looks at your family and man I'm I haven't messed with him for a while I'm going to mess with him some more and so he sends some some words against you and then all of a sudden this exosa powers, meaning uh delegated authority. They now have delegated authority from this magistrate to come in and to mess with you. They're going to begin to mess with your marriage. They're going to begin to mess with your family, with your health, with your finances, and they're going to do this thing. Why? Because that's what they have been ordered to do. Okay? But then hold your place here. We're coming back over here. This is such a mother load here. But go with me to Luke 10:19. And then let me show you how Jesus deals with this situation. Luke 10:19. Jesus says, "Behold, I give you the authority." Guess what that word is? Exosa. that delegated authority of superhuman nature or supernatural power. I give you exos. Now that is what the principalities give to the power. The principality speaks and those powers with supernatural powers of the superhuman power come in and begin to mess with you. Well, Jesus says, "I give you exosa to trample on serpents and scorpions." Those are demons in case you're wondering about how they crawl upon the ground upon the earth. I give you authority to trample on serpents and corp and over all the power of the enemy. And I love how it ends and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Now the word power there is dunamis. Dunamos. This is dynamite. That is the power that is manifested. Because you see, exose is delegated authority, but it's not manifested until, in other words, it's not manifested until you become sick. If Satan speaks exosa against you, he authorizes some creature of darkness to come against you. That thing is not manifested until it becomes real, until you become sick or until you get fire, until you fall from grace and and do all kinds of weird things that we don't want to do. Okay? That is how it manifests. That's dunamis. That's power that it forces us is a supernatural strength that causes us to do things we don't want to do. Paul says in in Romans 7:20, "If I do the things that I don't want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it's sin living in me." He says, "I find this power or this law at work within me that the good that I want to do, I cannot do. And the bad that I don't want to do, I can't keep from doing. What am I going to do?" Well, we're going to have to speak to that exosa or to that power with the authority that Jesus said, "I give you authority." Did you know that Jesus has been raised up? And you read that in Ephesians, far above all principalities, far above all powers. He is the head honcho. He is a head honcho over every head honcho there is anywhere. And he has given us authority to speak. He has given us authority to speak. He has given us jurisdiction. He has given us jurisdiction. He has given us authority to speak to the principalities in power. Now a lot of us know that. But what we don't know is we don't know what to say.

Why? Because it's a mystery.

It's been hidden for all of these years and now all of a sudden it is revealed. It's called the manifold wisdom of God. We God intended for us, we the church to make something known to these principalities and power. And this something that we're to make known to them is a manifold wisdom of God. You say, well, what in the world is that? What is the manifold wisdom of God? Manifold wisdom of God is like a manora. This represents the Holy Spirit. The nine uh uh you have the nine uh fruits of the spirit. love, joy, peace, longs, suffering, gentleness, meekness, goodness, faithfulness, self-control, and then you have the uh uh the nine uh gift of the spirit uh word of wisdom, word of knowledge, discernment of spirit, speaking in tongue, interpreting tongues, prophesying, miracles, divine healing, and and divine power. All of the things are represented uh Matthew 5 3- 11, nine spiritual blessings. Well, here God, this manifold wisdom that God is speaking about, although they all fold flow through the Holy Spirit, comes in a seven in a minority. That's what manifold means. A a sevenfold something God has given us. He's being hidden all through the Old Testament and it is now revealed by the Holy Spirit. Let's go to Isaiah. And I believe we'll come back over here. So, you may want to mark it, but let's go to Isaiah 11. And then we'll see how this operated in Jesus because Isaiah is prophesying about Jesus in in Isaiah 11:1 and 2. Now here in in Isaiah chapter 11, Isaiah begins to prophesy about Jesus when he would come. He said, "There shall come forth a rod from the stem of Jesse. A branch shall grow out of his roots." Verse two. And this is this is what the manifold wisdom of God is. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. Now remember, before Jesus went into the ministry, he went to John the Baptist. John the Baptist says, "Behold the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." John the Baptist wanted to be baptized by Jesus. Jesus says, "No, it has to be done this way." As Jesus is baptized, meaning he's reckoning himself as one of us. He is coming. He's bringing himself down as a priest, a minister. He's coming down to our level. When Jesus took his robe, see, Jesus was born a king. He was worshiped as a king. When he was born, he was brought the gift of a king. And for those 12 years uh uh for those 33 years from from from that age up until when he was 30 years old, Jesus could not be touched by Satan. He could not be touched because he was a king. He is a mighty king. Any any demons that would come anywhere, Jesus will be splattered instantly in in the middle. He is a king. But when Jesus said Jesus said, "I I have come to do your will, oh father, because you were tired of of uh uh goats and bulls and the sacrifices. So you prepare a body for me." When he brought that body and he said to John the Baptist, "We have to do it this way." When Jesus took that robe in the spirit, that meant that he took his kingship. He identified himself with you and me. Because the only people that were going to John to be baptized were the sinners, were the prostitutes, were the beggars, were the the the rich of the world. They were all they John was saying, "Repent. The kingdom of God is coming." They didn't want to miss it. Said, "We live in misery and in pain and sorrow. I don't want to miss." So they were repenting. So Jesus comes and he identifies with him. And when Jesus goes onto the water and he comes up, God speaks. He says, "This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased." From that day forward, Jesus walked as a priest, not as a king. He will come back as a king. And we got a glimpse of his kingship when he went up into in in into h into into the mount of transfiguration and he shone in radiance. But no, Satan, he he he was open season for Satan. From that time on, Satan came after him and came after him and tempted him with everything. He says Satan uh Satan tempted Jesus at all points with everything that a person can ever be tempted with. He was tempted. But how was Jesus able to overcome it? Well, what happened when Jesus came up out of the water? The dove, the Holy Spirit lighted on him. And at that time it was given him the manifold wisdom of God. And the manifold wisdom of God is wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, and the fear of the Lord. Now, we need to understand the three main parts. Wisdom, understanding, and knowledge. And to do that, uh, I got to take you to Proverbs 24. Proverbs 24 3 and 4. So you understand, uh, how this manifold wisdom of God operates. Proverbs 24:es 3 and 4 it says there through wisdom a house is built and by understanding it is established and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. Now I want you to see there's three things involved here. This is the manifold wisdom of God. This is what we need to understand when we speak to Satan. Okay? as we speak to Satan. Through wisdom, let me read it again. Through wisdom, a house is built. By understanding it is established, and by knowledge, the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. Now, wisdom is a plan of God. Wisdom is a blueprint. You want to know what what your future is? Look at the wisdom of God. Psalm 129, David says that every single day that I live was written by God on his book way before anything was created. Wisdom is the plan that God has for your life. Now, I'm a contractor. I've been licensed by the state of California since 1973. Now, imagine me coming up to a job site and see the pile of wood. There's sand, there's cement, there's bricks, there's pipes, there's 2x4s, and there's all this construction material. And I whip my contractor's license out. I said, "In the name of my contractor's license, which I am hereby authorized to operate, I command a house to be built. Hey, that's how most Christians do it. In the name of Jesus, they they they just speak." And you see the wisdom of God, the plan and purpose of God does not come into something unless you first understand. I had to go to the blueprints. I had to know where the brick goes, where the pipes go, where the cement goes, where the 2x4s go, where the windows go, where the doors go, where the electricity comes in, where the sewage comes out. Amen. You see, once I have understanding of the plan and purpose of God, the house begins to be built. And before you know it, I got a bunch of rooms where I can put all kinds of good things in it. The fruit of the spirit, love, joy, peace, all of the things are now have a place or a house to dwell in. Amen. So Jesus was given the manifold wisdom of God. He knew what the plan and purpose for him was. He, as a matter of fact, let's go back to Isaiah. Isaiah 11. I got to show you this. This is so neat. I saw it. I seen it before, but didn't hit me like it did this time when I was read it. Look what it says in in 11, I think four. Isaiah 11:4,

but with righteousness. No, wait a minute. That's not it. If the li of the Lord is righteous just he shall strike the earth with mouth. Okay. Where was it? Where was it? Come on. I had something in here that really hit me.

Oh, okay. Here it is. 11:3. It says, "And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord." This is uh Isaiah 11:3. And and that's why I didn't get it. It's in the original King James. It says the uh uh the wisdom uh you know the manifold wisdom of God the landed open shall make him Jesus of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord. Quick understanding of the fear of the Lord. What does it mean quick understanding? I mean if understanding is what gets a house built we want it quick, right? But notice God says they didn't give him the quick understanding to all these other things. The quick understanding was for the fear of the Lord. Why the fear of the Lord? The fear of the Lord is the respect or the understanding of the awesome power of God. See, you don't get a loaded gun and play around with it and toss it around. That is a weapon. That is a loaded weapon. And you have to keep it away from children. You have to know how you got to respect it. You have to have a fear or a respect for this thing. And that's what he's saying here. The very first thing that we need to understand about spiritual warfare is we need to have a quick quick quick learning and understanding of having respect for this thing because this is real. This is powerful. This is works. And if you're going to treat it as a common thing, the Holy Spirit is going to back off and you're not going to have nothing. We need to understand how awesome this thing is. It says Jesus as soon as the Holy Spirit came upon him, he says, you know what? This is now for selfmpowerment.

See, that's the key. The fear of the Lord says this is not for me. This is for use for God. So when Satan comes in and says something to him, Jesus say, "Oh, it is written." Oh yeah, but it's written over here. It is written also. It is written. Why? Jesus did not deviate from the wisdom or the plan of God. Because a lot of people get the revelation of the wisdom of God and know that they have the revelation but their understanding is darkened because they don't have the fear of the Lord or the respect for the things of God. So first of all we need to understand that and I'll and I'll read it uh Isaiah 11:3 and 4. And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord. And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears. You see, when we have this counsel of God, see the council of God, which is his entire word reveals itself or manifests itself to us by wisdom, understanding, and knowledge. Remember this is what the thing the council of God, which is the word of God. We we just read from from Luke uh we just read from Luke 10:19 where he says, "I give you authority over all of the power of the enemy." That's the council of God. This council of God reveals himself through wisdom, understanding and knowledge. Wisdom uh wisdom tells us what the plan of God is. Understanding is is having the knowledge that we do this not for us but for the Lord. And then through the knowledge, we build the house. All of the gift begin to come in but it is all done in the fear of the Lord. So this is what the how the manifold wisdom of God works. He said well what do I do with it one once I understand that the council of God is a wisdom understanding and knowledge that enables me to overthrow the jurisdiction of the enemy over a specific area when it is properly applied. You say well how does that apply to me? Well look at here uh continue reading on 11 3 and 4. and shall make him of quick understanding of the fear of the Lord. This is Isaiah 11:3. And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears, but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the make of the earth. And listen to this. and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the bread of his lips he shall slay the wicked. Notice what happened when the when when the manifold wisdom of God comes and we put it in the proper perspective. It becomes something that we can strike the earth with. Why the earth you say? Why the because that's where the curse is at. That's where the curse is at. Did you know that every time Satan shoots somebody on a driveby, the blood to spills into the ground is crying out? You know that? Did you know that Abel's blood still calls out? Jesus said that. You don't have to turn there, but I'll I'll read it for you. Uh Luke 11:49. Uh Jesus says, "I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and other they will persecute. Therefore, this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all of the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world." And Jesus says, "From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, that blood in the ground is speaking out." You see every time a person is raped, every time anything happens the ground receive that sin and that sin cries out of the ground and that is what Satan feeds on because you see this person violated you and then now Satan well they deserve to do this. You should put a curse on them because they cursed you. They did this to your brother, they did to your sister. So you begin to hate them with a passion and you begin to have this resentment towards them and then that begins to feed and then more blood it is shed and then he goes back and forth the hatfields and the McCoy and before you know it the earth is so full of a curse that nothing but hate and envy and evil and strife comes out of it. Oh, but then all of a sudden God raises up a little you and me. He calls us the church and he said, "Have an intention or have a purpose for you. I want you to get this manifold wisdom of God which I gave you when the Holy Spirit anointed you and I want you to hit the ground with your words."

Look what it says there. I mean, this sounds uh silly. And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth. What is the rod of the mouth? Words. Words. Jurisdiction. Authority to speak words over something. Hallelujah. Ability to speak something. We have exosa. Jesus. I give you. I give you authority. I give you authority of supernatural or superhuman force to do something with it to trample the snakes and the scorpions. And how do you do that? You speak to them. We speak. We smite the earth with the ground. You say, "Well, what do I say to it?" Well, that blood is going to cry out for vengeance until you proclaim the blood of Jesus over that ground. Did you know that when Jesus was hanging on the cross, every drop of blood that hit the earth reverberated all around the globe instantly. Instantly. because that is the only thing that can silence the crowd of the earth. See, the blood of righteous Abel, the first martyr who was killed, had been crying for vengeance. The blood of all the prophets that have been killed have been crying for vengeance. And the blood cries out, "How lord, Lord, how Lord, before you judge the earth, and God says, I have a plan, a mystery. It is hidden. You guys can't see it now, but I'm going to reveal it at the end time. And that is a gospel, a good news that I'm going to take blood that is far superior than the blood of goats and bulls. That is far superior than the hate and the angry and and the sorrow and the pain. I'm going to take a blood that is more superior. And I'm going to spill it on the ground. And that blood is going to cry out for mercy. He's going to cry out for grace. He going to cry out for sinners to repent. Sinners like Paul who was breathing tread. He was speaking the words of hate against Christian and boom, the blood of Jesus came up out of the ground, grabbed him, threw him out of the donkey and then all of a sudden lie came and the man was able to see. Why? Because there were words that was spoken. If you if you look at u I got to hurry because we're running out of time. But if you look at Psalm 119:30, he says, "Where the word of God is, light enters." Let me look at that real quick. Psalm 119 verse 130 it says uh the entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple. Did you know that members of your family who cannot receive the gospel because their spirits are blocking their ears and you speak the gospel to them and they cannot hear it? Did you know that when you speak to the ground that is cursed? The curses that have been spoken of your family, curses of poverty, curses of predition because every time a family member dies and goes to hell, that is a curse of pdition comes from the son of pdition himself which is Satan himself. Okay? You got to strike. You got to speak. You got to come against that curse in the name of Jesus. And did you know that once you speak to the curse and this is what spiritual warfare is, my friend, it begins at home. A person who doesn't care for his family first is worse than an infidel. It begins with the family, begins with us. If your father or your mother, your brother, your sister, they're rebelled. Instead of agreeing with Satan, oh, they're always rebel and nevertheless, go after the spirit that's behind that spirit of rebellion. Speak to the spirit of rebellion. Take your tongue, wag it against that ground, and speak to that curse. I said, I apply the blood of Jesus to my family. and you speak it and you strike the ground with it. And when you strike the ground with it, all of the sudden their ears are going to open up and they're going to hear. You say, "What? I told you that a hund time. Where had you been?" They never heard it. But that day, you did something. You spoke. And then look what happens in in Isaiah 11:4, the end of it. He shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the bread of his lips shall he slay the wicked. I want to finish with um Psalm 22. This is spiritual warfare at the highest highest level. Psalm 22 is Jesus hanging on the cross. Is it Paul the one that said that Jesus took all the principalities and the powers, nailed him to the cross, and made an open spectacle of them? Okay, this this is where it began. This is where it happened. This is where it took place. Psalm 22. Psalm 22 beginning at verse 12. He said, "Many bulls surround me." Now, you read the gospels. There were no bulls around the cross. Were they? He's speaking spiritual. He's looking for the spirit. You know what a bull symbolizes? Spirit of religion because bulls shed their blood. They're ox. They're they're they're the law. They represent the law. They they represent the work. A ox is is fed. It has a yoke that is placed to something. We're bound by the law. We're bound to sin. That's the yoke of sin. The joke is there. Do you know that's the spirit of religion? And that is the strongest spirit there is. The spirit of religion has long long horns, a lot longer than this thing that you see here. And the spirit of religion is goring people up all the time with with words of condemnation. Spirit of religion is the worst. There's more violence and more blood shed over the world over the spirit of religion than over anything else. More Christians gave their life by all the people killing them in the name of Christ. More Jews gave their life by Christian killing them in the name of Christ. But Jesus says, "Many bulls around me." He was talking about those religious spirit. He calls them strong bulls of Bashan and circle me. You're going to realize that in your spiritual warfare, especially in your family, if if you have a Latin heritage like I have, you're dealing with some really nasty spirits of religion. Catholic church. You come from the Catholic church. It's one of the worst curses. There more curses uttered on on on on that than on anything else. Just like the Mason, if you're American, if you're Anglo-Saxon, you you you have that uh that uh Mason curse upon your life. the thing is hanging and it comes through there. If you're from Africa, you got all of those uh uh santia spirits, jungle and and and all the stuff that you, you know, I'm stuck with all three of a part with everything to do with it. But thank God that Jesus dealt with every single one of them. You see, so the first thing as you begin to do intercession, if your family cannot receive the gospel is because they may be under the influence of strong bulls of a time you go into your closet and you begin to speak to the strong bull of ashan and you slaughter that beast with the word of your mouth. You strike that cursed ground that allows that that beast to to live. And you said in the name of Jesus, I am born of the spirit of God. And I come against every generational curse. I come against every line and every word that has ever been spoken against my family. I and you begin to name those curses. And in the name of Jesus, you begin to spray sprinkle the blood of Jesus on it. that ground will go parse and that bull will starve to death within within few few days to a few months that bull of of of religion will die. Why? Because Jesus took it to the cross and he made an open spectacle of it. The next spirit you'll be dealing with the roaring lions staring their prey open their mouth wide against me. Jesus said there were no lions in the cross around Jesus. You know what the lions represent? King rulership. This is the Roman Empire. This is the government. Do you know that the government, our government is demonic? Do you know that our government is in the business of implementing Satan's kingdom upon the earth? The government is in the school trying to steal Christ from your children. What you teach in home, the morality, the the Hollywood, the media, all of that stuff is is a spirit. It's called the spirit of secularism. They call it today. It's a secular government and it's out. And you know what? In our spiritual warfare, we also have authority over that. Why? Because Jesus says that we're made kings and priests. A true priest of God that knows the real name of Jesus is able to take those phony bulls and put them in their place. Also, a king has authority and can tell that that school that is poisoning your children and your grandchildren. You can tell that spirit, do not touch that gentleman. You don't have no no money to send to a private school. The private school may not may be just as worse. You never know. But what I'm saying is you can take authority over that spirit that is ruling that school, over that principle. And you apply the blood of Jesus over that child of yours. You command that spirit, you're not going to steal my child. I am the father. I am the mother. And I'm taking authority over my family. That I am here to declare to you, Satan. That is what you do. To the intent that we speak something, something that is hidden. I know where you are, Satan. I know what you're trying to do. But I'm here to tell you, the Holy Spirit exposed you. And he gave me words of authority. He gave me power. And I'm carrying that authority and that power because you know that in the same way that every time that jurisdiction that that that principality speaks, demons are sent to to carry that out. In the same way, every time you speak the word of God, there's thousands of holy angels that God dispatches immediately to deal with all things. Can you speak the same thing towards your work? Yeah. Yeah. That's