what the Holy Spirit is speaking into my ears, Father God, to speak out. I pray that you anoint our ears to hear, our heart to understand. And Father God, thank you for favor, dear Lord Jesus. We've been battling and battling and battling, Father God. We're ready for a breakthrough. We want a breakthrough tonight, Father God. It doesn't have to show up in the physical, but we want it to take place in the spiritual tonight, Father God. We want those giants, Father God, to be decapitated, Father God. We want whoever is holding the anointing and the finances and and the the release of the good things that you have for us. Whoever is holding him now, we cut those hands off, Father God. We cut shop those heads up, Father God. And we proclaim a release in the spirit tonight, Father God. A release of the abundance of your grace and your mercy and every all the provision that you have already prepared for us in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Uh something strange about the message tonight. Right in the middle of it as I was preparing it, the Lord stopped and when he stopped, I stopped. And then I said, "Well, maybe the Lord will give me the rest of it in the morning." And so I got up this morning and as you can see, we got half a message.

So the other half the Lord will work at us as he sees fit. Okay. I I got to tell you a story. This is really uh uh about the teaching. When I got saved, I definitely had the anointing for teaching. His grandpa was a true teacher of the word and love way that uh that he did all that stuff. And I aspire man. I wanted to be a teacher like him. That was like, you know, my desire and I knew I had the calling. And so, but I was so afraid that I was going to say and write and so I would take his tapes and lesson two and every lesson that I ever taught was what he taught up to the jokes and everything. I wouldn't teach anything else. I was just afraid that I was going to mess up. And that worked for a little while. And then finally uh as as I got grounded a couple of years went by then the Lord began to say you know what you got to speak what I tell you and and then you know man and I thought it oh man I might say something wrong or whatever. So anyway the anointing stopped the anointing stopped and for a year I went by and and always had teaching opportunities. We were doing the different things and uh and just things wasn't working. And then one day the Lord clearly spoke to me. He says, uh, you know, if you want the anointing and the teaching, you have to teach what I give you. And if you make a fool of yourself, you have to be willing to do that. I mean, everybody that serves me had to be willing to do that. You okay? Okay. I thought it was my teaching. Okay. I'm okay here. We're gonna have fun tonight. Uh, so, but anyway, this is this is what happened. Joe Herrera who had a a class that he taught on Monday nights is called Keys to the Kingdom. He invited me to speak and the minute he invited me to speak, the Lord spoke to me and said, "You're going to speak what I tell you to speak and and what I choose." So I said, "Fine." And you know, it was a thing with pride with me. I have to have everything together and everything. So a week goes by, I don't hear nothing from the Lord. Four days go by and so I'm teaching that Monday night and I have nothing, right? And finally that Monday afternoon I get there in my Bible and I pray and says, "Okay, Lord." And once I cross that line, I said to myself, I'll stand up in there. I'll make a fool of myself if I have to, but you know, I'm going to give something that the Lord gives me. As soon as I said that in my heart, the Lord said, I want you to write this. And he gave me three letters. It was joy. J O Y said that's what you're going to teach them. I remember it. I mean, this is so that that is the day that I got hooked to to to being anointed to teach. I stood up and she'll tell you my was there. He was visiting and there was quite a huh her son was and her son was there too. I stood up in there and as I began to say whatever was a joy, the Holy Spirit just came. I mean, possessed me. I had never have felt anything like that. And I began to speak on my Cuban 150 words per second type of speed. And it just like started coming out. And I swear to you, I was like, move back. I was standing here. And this was me over here. And I was rambling and I'm standing. I said, "Man, this is strange. Here I'm speaking. I'm thinking and I'm speaking, but yet I'm like up in here." But there was such an anointing and everybody that was up in there, their mouths just were like it was like the anointing just fell on everybody and on that teaching and from that time forward it felt it, you know, I never done drugs. So I don't know what that feels like, but I know what it feels to shoot something in you because I felt it that one day. From that time on, I says, "Man, this is what I want." And so, you know, every now and then, you know, we always have the anointing. And I've always pray before I prepare and and never know where I'm going and allow the Holy Spirit to take me. But this is one of the few times lately to where the Holy Spirit says we're going to do a half part uh on my own. So anyway, let's begin the Psalm 1913 and Psalm 119 133 and then Romans 6:14. If you have the page there, they're all from the uh New King James Version. But look at uh Psalm 19. He said, "Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless and shall be innocent of great or much transgression." We're going to be talking about dominion. And says there that presump presumptuous sins give the enemy dominion over us. He says, "Keep me from presumptuous sins so that the enemy will not have dominion over me." Okay. Psalm 119 133 said, "Direct my steps by your word and let no iniquity have dominion over me." There's a second thing that can give the dominion that we have to the enemy, iniquity. And iniquity, I spoke on that the whole night last week, but we'll touch in it. In Romans 6:14 says, "For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace." On the uh the definition for dominion means to tread down or to trample down. We have a mentality uh or at least I I had for many years that God somehow um put you in charge of something and it's like uh going to Margaritavville to where you sit by the beach with your coconut umbrella type of thing and you kick your feet back and you watch the the sail ships go by. You know, this is our idea of of when God gives you something. But that's not the idea. If you go to Adam and Eve, when God says, "Let us make man in their own image and let them have dominion." The word dominion means like you build you up a high tower, a watch tower, all that you can see the thing that you've been given dominion. And then you get up in there and then you keep an eye on what the Lord has given you. That's what dominion means. And every time some little critter that doesn't belong there in your terrain starts coming in, you get down and you trample down on that thing. You kick that thing out. See, the the idea here is that God says, "I am putting you in charge." It was um who was it Patton? The one that says when you're in command, command. When you're in charge, do it. You know, don't don't pussyoot around and think, "Well, maybe I'll do this." No, when you're charged, do it. You given a job to do it, do it. That's the heart of dominion. Dominion is doesn't mean, see, nothing gets the Lord more out of it than being lukewarm. And you see that in Revelation, in Revelation chapter 3, the letter to the Leo Deaya, you're lukewarm, so I spit you out. I can't use you. At least if you're raking mad against me like Saul was, I can take that energy and turn it around. You know, at least you're moving. You may be going the wrong way, but at least you're going somewhere. I can turn you around. But if you're just sitting there like a clamp, you know, there's nothing that God can do with it. So the idea of dominion is a a a being in charge and being aggressive and being motivated to do something. Okay? And the thing is that we fail to see that Satan and one-third of all of those angels that fell and follow him are very highly motivated. Those guys don't stop. Have you ever been harassed by the enemy to where he gets in your ear, gets in your case? He just doesn't give up, does it? He doesn't care that you're going to sleep. He doesn't care that you're thirsty. He doesn't care that you have to go to the bathroom. He doesn't care that you got to go. No. He's in your mind. He's in your ear. And he's just there, there, there, there, there. He won't give up. Why? Because he's treading down on us. He has dominion on this area that we're dealing with. And he doesn't give up. You know, I had that that uh revelation when we got back from the trip that one time and I came up into this place. I had the big double sword in in my hand and I looked up and as soon as I saw the the glory of the Lord was like a manifest diamond. I said, "Lord, how beautiful you are." And immediately Satan started jacking up like you know I don't belong there. I can't be shut up. I mean he bugged me. I just said shut up and immediately everything went silent. And so I look again and see this glory. Lord, how beautiful you are. He started again. I said, "Shut up." See, Satan is the accuser. He's, you know, remember the movie The Old Terminator? The guy tells the woman, "He's not going to stop until he kills you. He's just going to go after you." That's what he does. That's what he's programmed to do. We need to understand that. That's how Satan operates. That's how the demons operate. These things are highly motivated to get you to destroy you. And so what God is saying is we have to be highly motivated to destroy him. The Bible says that Jesus came that he might destroy the works of the devil. And you know Jesus was highly motivated. Jesus was highly motivated. He did not spend one single minute of his time wasting it in in watching some Super Bowl or some commercial or something. He was focused. This man came in for a purpose. He says, "I have a cross to go to three and a half years from now." And man, I'm going to go there, but I'm going to kick as many devils out of people as I can before I get there. And when I get there, I'm going to destroy them all. And then I'm going to send the thing in place. The first thing we have to understand that dominion has to do with the exercising of authority. It has to do with trampling on in in in the vision before the one that I just explained to you. I went into three different rooms uh one room at a time and they were all filled with people. And as I'm in there and I'm saying because I'm in this place is more real than where we are. I'm looking at and I'm marveling. I'm saying man what is this place that I'm in and who are these people? a minute the Holy Spirit who was in me speaks from me. He says, "Those are not people. Those are demons." And I say, "Huh?" And and then he he speaks to me. Yeah. You're going to destroy them. I mean, they was led up in this thing. The Holy Spirit says, "Do this." Bam. This baby like 18 months old stood up looking. It's not fair. It's not fair. The Holy Spirit says, "Tell him that it's none of his business." He said, "You got a problem with it? Take it with God." I said, "You have a problem? Take it with God." I took it an 18 months a little and just crushed him right down to the ground. The the voice told me, "That's not a baby. That's a demon." And you're going to crush it. I don't care what form it takes. So, in spiritual warfare, dominion is not a fancy like touch and that thing to where you do the thing. No, in spiritual warfare, we have the authority. We have the power. He raises up his head, you squash him, and that's it. next do the same thing. This is the idea spirit. But you see, we don't have that mindset. We don't have the mindset. This is why deliverance in the places where you sit there and you battle with the demons for 12 hours. I don't see that in the Bible. I don't see Jesus doing that. I don't see Paul doing that. These people couldn't have done all they did if they would have spent 12 hours on the living room on a person. You see, it comes simply by the ability to exercise dominion that we have. You know, so amazing. We can tell Satan who is, you know, as far as our person that that can cause th this dude had had the G to stand up to God. I mean, you got to be pretty up there. Well, Jesus said we have authority over him. Over him. We have authority over him. And that authority is not so that we can reason or or box him in very nicely and say, you know what, I'm going to draw this line. You're not going to cross it. No, that authority is to crush. That's what Jesus did. Jesus crushed the head of Satan. He cracked his skull when he when he crushed it. I think it's Psalm three that says the Lord shatters the teeth of the wicked. You know the picture is here as hell uh knows that that the soul of Jesus is going to come down because he just died on the cross. Him and every demon are blocking this door with all of their might. They're not going to let him in here because he's a higher ruling spirit than any spirit because he's eternal spirit God. So they're blocking the door. Jesus just comes in and kicks the door down. And as he kicks it, he shove his heel right through the mouth of every demon, including Satan. And that's why I said he shatters the teeth of the wicked. The Satan cannot bite you. He's snake without fangs. He has been defanged. So we have to understand that that is at the heart of dominion. But the opposite is true in the scriptures that we just read that if we deal with presumptuous sins, that means uh we're not walking in understanding. What happens is the enemy can take advantage of the advantage. Also, if we do not deal with inequity, he can have dominion over us and also sin. And and notice that he puts in Romans 6:14, you're not under law, but but under grace. So let's begin now with with understanding how this work. Luke 10:19, Jesus says, "Behold, I give you the authority to trample." That means to tread down. That's that's what dominion is. I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Now notice that when Jesus is talking about he's not talking about the creatures that crawl along the ground. This is a picture for us of the spiritual realm. What is a serpent? A serpent hides on the dirt. A serpent it coils up. A serpent can can bite you, can poison you. A serpent can kill you. Corp the same way. So when Jesus is talking about I give you authority, he's not saying I give you authority like these people down in Texas some place over there do. They have a service and they got bunch of snakes and they all handle the snakes and stuff like that. That is not what he's talking about. He's using a physical reality to demonstrate a a a spiritual principle that snakes and scorpions talking about demons talking about principalities and power. And Jesus says, "I give you authority." The word authority is exosa. Exosea means an an ability that comes through privilege. In other words, uh it it is not because of you. It is because of the person that allows you to have that ability or privilege. you know, uh you you can go to a a a ball game and and you buy what you just can't afford, the $6 seat that you're way up in there to where you see the I went to see Karim Abdul Jabar one time to play at the forum and we were right against the wall and it looked like ants running around in the thing and I had good vision back then now I probably wouldn't be able to see it but I mean it it means that you have been given the privilege to move right out to the front right next to the front. That's what exosa means. Meaning you are enabled by privilege. The privilege has been given to you to do this. Now this is different because he says over all the power the power of the enemy is the word uh uh dunamis. The word dunamans means strength or or power. And he says that nothing shall by any means hurt you. Now the difference between authority and power is that authority is bestowed and power is inherited. Now this is very important that we understand this. If you grasp this principle, you will understand this. For example, I'm 222 pounds. Was it 220 this morning? Anyway, I can get a hold of somebody that's 100 pound and he can move a little faster. He can move a little stronger, but if I get on top of him, I got 120 lbs that I can move my weight on. So, you see that is inheritant in me. There's a power that is inherent in me to go against an Now, if I go against a guy that weighs 400 lb and a 6'8, imagine that's going to do to me. So you see power is something that is in you already. Okay? And you can move, you can throw your power around, but your power is limited to what you have. And if you come against an enemy that is more powerful than you, then you're in trouble. You understand that? Also, you can come against a karate dude that only weighs 100 pounds and he can take your 220bs and flip them all over the place. I got into a fight with with a guy in Cuba once. four friends and then he got angry about something and said, "Well, I can beat you." And we got into it. It was pretty big. He uh he weighed probably 120 pounds more than me. He was a pretty big guy and he run out of breath real fast. So I said, "Well, you want to get it on? Let's get out." You know, all the guys were. So we stand in the middle of the room there and we started going and man, I'm quick. I'm I was 122 to 30 pounds at the time and I used to play tags and I was quick. I mean I got up in there, hit him in the face and back off. I run to get behind him so he kept turning. Within 10 minutes he was he couldn't even keep his hands up. I just slap him all around. Slap him all around. I took advantage of this weakness. And that's the problem when we're operating in our own power. Satan is not only more powerful than we are because he's a spirit. He's more knowledgeable than we are because he's been around for 6,000 years. But not only that, he knows our weaknesses. Any time that we try to exercise dominion that is inheriting in our own power, he's going to get us because he's crafty. As a matter of fact, that's how he gets a lot of people. He gets up in there. Oh yeah, man. you you got it all together. You got this and before you know it, you and everything the enemy is telling you, you don't even know. You think it is you who's doing it. But he's the one that's manipulating. But see, authority is different. Authority is different because authority is not something that is inherited in you. It's something that is vested in you. I got a little example there that might help you. Here's a 100 pound police woman. Okay? She doesn't have no strength, physical strength. She doesn't have no power. She don't even have a gun. She's a traffic cop. Okay? But she has a uniform on that says she's with the police department. And here comes this big old 350 lb bley guy driving an 18-wheeler and he's coming like 60 miles an hour down the road. And here's little police woman over there stands up and say, "Huh?" Now, who's got the power and who's got the authority? The guy has the power. He's driving an 18er that can squash her, can squash a tank, can squash anything that gets in his way. That's inherited. That's what an 18-wheeler does. But see, she has the authority. The authority doesn't come inherited on her power. the the authority that she has comes because she's representing she's representing a government. She's representing a city. She's representing a state. She's representing a nation. And if that power violates that authority, he gets into trouble because all the world's going to come upon him before you know it. He'll have 150 cops, tank helicopters, and tanks. If you have to call a nuke pump, they can nuke him. That is the authority that we need to understand. that we have authority, not power. Authority is we have been privileged with ability. That ability is the word of God. As a matter of fact, Psalm uh uh I don't have it here, but we can look at it real quick. Psalm 149. If you look at Psalm 149 verse 9, it says to execute on them the written judgment. This honor have all the same. It's talking about verse seven, to execute vengeance on the nations, punishments on the people. A to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with feathers of iron, to execute on them the written judgment. This honor have all. He's saying all of us, all of the saints of God have the honor, that is a vested privilege, an ability to execute vengeance on nations, punishments on people. We have authority to bind kings with chains. We we can bind their nobles with feeders. And it says all of this come because of verse n to execute on them the written judgment. You see, we have authority that is backed up by the word of God. And that authority vests us with a privilege. Satan can come down the road and he can bring a hundred millions of his demons all with tanks and fire and bring dragons and everything. The word says that you can execute whatever God has written against him. That is our vested authority of script in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Then we just read in Luke where it says nothing shall by any means hurt you. Well, if Satan is coming to hurt you, he's violating the word of God. So I can execute upon him upon his kings, upon his princes, upon his nobles, upon the nation that is backing him up. I can execute the written judgment that is in the name of Jesus you cannot hurt me and I can be a little nothing and he can be all this big old thing but see I have authority he may have power but I have authority I can exercise that authority why because I have dominion to tread down on him but now there's a catch like there's a catch with everything and the catch is that presumptuous ious sins can cause us to give up our dominion. So that's inequity and so that's sin. So let's um deal with one of them at a time. Let's do deal with presumptive sins first. What is presumptive sin? Presump sins is when we engage in warfare against the enemy in our own strength. Selfish motivation will always give the enemy dominion over us because we are operating by our own inherited strength. You see this is at the heart of of uh what u selfishness is. Now don't you think Jesus had authority over Satan? Why is it that Jesus had to be filled with the Holy Spirit to exercise that authority? He's the son of God. Isn't that what Satan said to him? If you're the son of God, you can't turn these stones into bread. I mean, you're hungry. You haven't eaten anything for 40 days. You have power within your own strength. Why don't you do that? Isn't that what the trick was with with uh Eve? They didn't God say this? And then she began to contend with him. What did Jesus say? It is written. See, every time that Jesus says, "It is written," he's saying, "I'm not dealing with you on my own strength, even though I'm the son of God, and even though I have all of this power and authority, I'm dealing with you according to what it is written in the word." The word says, "Thou shalt not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceedth." So, what Jesus was saying is, I'm not here to do my own thing. I'm here because God sent me. You see, I believe that many of the ministers that are into ministry today are not there because of the will of God, but rather because of the will of men, the will of other men on them or their own will. And so, because of that, they're operating in power that is inherited in the self rather than in the authority and the anointing of God. You say, "Well, now you're you're saying a lot there. I'm not judging anybody. What I'm saying is if we're operating under that authority of God, then we will have power of the enemy. You see, if the ministers that operate here in the city of Wington were operating on the the authority, they would be able to stop the train wreck that is going on in this city right now. If this nation of ours was operating under the authority of God, we wouldn't have 40 million babies being aborted in the last 25 years. we wouldn't have all of this um uh uh uh drive by murders. You know, you talk about all of the violent in Iraq. More people die in our cities every day from uh violence, you know, and this is uh you know, something that you just look at a paper uh how many dead bodies, you know, that Anna Nicole Smith just like 39 years old. Uh there's curses upon our people. The the Kennedy family has a curse. Everything just comes down the line. Why can't we break those curses? Well, because if we're operating in our own strength, and I believe that that's what the problem with the church is. The church is operating out of its own strength. The church wants to bring its own perception of the kingdom of God into the earth. And as long as we do that, guess what? We're operating in our own power. So power against power, we lose. Because Satan is more powerful, more knowledgeable than everything. is only when we operate under the authority of the word of God. This is why I believe that it is so important for us to wait on the Lord because we didn't break it and we're not going to fix it. Okay? We just got to operate within a broken system that only God can fix. So, what we got to do is we got to say, "Okay, Lord, how do I fit here? How do I uh uh place myself in a position to where you can use me for whatever benefit you can use me for? And then as we do that and allow the the Holy Spirit, then there's a vesting. You see it if if you go back to the history, Adam, God gave him coats, skins of animals to Adam and his wife. And that authority of Adam was handed down was handed down from generation to generation when Seth who is the one that is said um not uh yeah said the the son of Noah no Shem when Shem the son of Noah to whom that vestage of Adam was given to him the authority Nimro led the rebellion Shem had the power to go on to kill Nimra even though Nimro was a mightier warrior that ever arose. Even though Nimra built cities and and and kingdoms and everything, he had the code of authority. Even though it was this broken down authority of Adam that came out of the even the sinful of and he was able to go in and bring the judgment of God upon the great mighty Nimrod. This nimrod was so powerful. There isn't one single day of your life that you're not touched by what this Nimrod man created. I mean this nimrod is all over the place. You see it on every nation. We watch movies and you know I went to h Key West. I go to the places you see this uh obelisk erected to him. Everywhere you go. We went to uh Louisiana was some old cemeteries from the 1600 and there you see it. Everywhere you go this is all you see. This man was so powerful has such an influence in the whole history of the world. This one man with the old raggedy clothes that he inherited from Adam had authority over him. Why? Because authority always trumps power. See, all authority comes from God. All authority comes from God. God is the ultimate backer of all authority. And when we operate on that authority of God, no matter how broken down, how messed up, how raggedy it is, it is greater than the power of the enemy. So presumptuous sins always have to do with selfish ambition. We have do this presumptuous sin always have to do with selfish ambition. Okay. I cannot go on and and you know I've been waiting now for a year and take on on whoever the principality is over the city that I'm living now in Lake Elsenor which I I've done that three times since I've been there and it was in the last couple of weeks when the Lord brought me up to the level. I want you to challenge his principality that rule over a city and challenge. You cannot do that presumptuously. How do I learn that? Maybe I shouldn't tell you. But you see, you cannot get up in there and declare war against a principality unless God is authorizing you to do it. This is what I'm saying. And what I've been telling friends, this church has been authorized to do that. Okay? It's been on the preparation of this three years. Now, I believe that the time has come for the people within this church to come into a a a an agreement and say, you know what, we are going to challenge the principalities of the cities. And the reason why it's going to work this time is because we're going to challenge the principalities, not presumptuously because we just think this is what God, you know, doing. No, because God is saying the time is here, the time is now. See, the key is waiting for the Lord to open the door. When the Lord opens the door, that's when you go through it. Amen. Now, the second is iniquity. And we dealt with this at length last week. Uh iniquity, idolatry is the root of all iniquity. And in spiritual warfare, one must rid oneself of all idolatry. The reason why Satan contaminates things is so that they become powerless against him. You have to understand that if Satan can contaminate your authority or your power, then he can he's able to survive whatever we're coming against him. For example, if you uh uh prepare a glass full of poison and and then you can dilute that poison, then the poison is have the effect that is supposed to have it. This is what Satan has done against all of us Christians. He has deluded our author our authority because of idolatry. See, idolatry is at the root of Nimrod. Nimrod uh uh who is the baby that is worshiped at Christmas. Who is the uh the the the sun god that they worship in Easter? He is behind the Valentine's the cupid. He's behind the the the dead when the loia muertos or or the Halloween all of the thing is behind all of that. And this religion has permeated society such a great and vast way that our dominion over the enemy has been compromised. So that when we say to Satan, we bind them in the name of Jesus, there's nothing there. And the reason why there's nothing there because we have compromised. You see, idolatry is is harlotry. It's just like uh uh you know you're married to somebody but you're sleeping with somebody else and then you go up in there and and you're showing your wife oh yeah where and everybody out there looking knows that you're sleeping with somebody else. Well what what is to say you have not the respect of the people. I mean, I remember this as a boy growing up in Cuba, seeing um you know, things that you shouldn't see. It's a very small town and and words gets around and seeing a woman and a guy that were married to other people and then you see them on a social setting when they're together. You had no respect for those people. I look at I said, I can't believe that I remember that even as a young man burn my bones. You know, I just get so upset about she knows about it. We had hell for eight years when we first got married. I was so jealous. I mean, I was really messed up by seeing these things. But imagine, put yourself in the position of God. Here you are in the public church in the place and you're going to tell Satan, "I'm going to tell you where to go. Say, I'm going to cast down the spirit of divorce and I'm going to cast out the spirit of drug addiction and I'm going to cast out." And then yet we're in bed with this idolatrous thing that we're sleeping with, you know, with this tradition of men that were there. And and so because of that, there's no authority. There's no power. You're a joke. You know, you get up in there and the demons are sitting on the front row eating popcorn like that thing says. You know, they're just laughing up out loud as you're binding the spirit of the B. You know, I heard so many preachers bind the Bors and the spirit this and the spirit of that man. I there's so many spirits bound. I don't know. There's no room in the whole universe to put them. You know, we have bound so many of them. But yet the effect is not changing. Well, why? Because of idolatry. And uh uh and then you know that's what iniquity is inherited. And it is in our DNA. By the way, I believe that that idolatrous system is so is into our DNA. We so desperately want to bow down to something, worship something. We so desperately want to give into something. And for some reason, we just give it to anybody but to God. For some reason, God, you know, it's like our father. We we may love as your father and everything, but he's the last person that we can go through. We can tell everybody else in the world, you know, I remember I didn't really ever get to kiss my dad and hug him in the neck until he was in the hospital almost dying, you know, until we was able to break through that. There's a a natural uh uh polarization between us and the people that we love, people that we respect that we can't seem to get close to them. But yet, we can go to bed with anybody. We can go out at go to a bar and just tell the bartender everything and more than they ever wanted to hear. Why? Because that that is inherited in it. It's in our DNA. And we have to break through that. If we're going to come into this place to where we're going to counter, exercise our dominion, tread down the enemy, then number one, we need to know that it is when God is telling us, not being presumptuous about it. And number two, we have to get rid of the idolatry. Okay, we're paying a price today. Do you know somebody sent me u uh something? Uh how Lindsay, was it Lisa who sent it? I got the thing. You know how Lindsay hasn't been on TBNN all the year 2006. He got kicked out and now they're signing him back again. He was one of the most popular program. You know why they kicked him out? According to this email they sent us. His program didn't project the spirit of Christmas in the way that they wanted it to. In other words, he didn't put Christmas tree or something when when he was during Christmas. So they can him. Now they want him back because of whatever situation happened there. This is how strong the spirit is. There's a price to pay. Believe me, there is a price to pay. When you decide not to be part of the world, not to be part of the system, not to think like they think and not to do it like to do because you want to walk in the authority and dominion. You want to have that power that when Satan comes against you, you're going to trample him down. You know, see, the dominion doesn't come because you defeat the enemy. Uh, dominion comes because whatever the enemy tried to do to you works out to your advancement. You get kicked out and then you get a better job. Hey, thank you, Satan. You kicked me out of there. Now, God bless me twice. You know, it's just like that. Like the woman that um uh was starving to death, her neighbor was an atheist and she witnessed to him all the time. He hated God with a passion. So he knew every morning she opened her window and prayed to God, "Lord, I need groceries." So he heard it. So he said, "Well, I'm going to go buy groceries and put them on the door and prove her that God doesn't exist." So he went and bought all these groceries, put on her door, knocked and he hid behind the bushes. She came out, "Oh, thank you, God. You gave me all of this food." The guy jumps out of the bush and says, "God didn't do that. I gave it to you. God doesn't exist. I gave it to you." So she looks back to her. Oh God, thank you. you gave me all of this and you got the devil to pay for it. You got the devil to pay for it, you know, and that is in reality. Satan can come after you and make all of the things against you and yet God is going to make it that the things that he meant for evil for you. That's what happened to Joseph wind up to be in your strength. Number three, sin. Now this is very important that we understand this because there's a lot going on in the body now that is dealing with this and it's called the spirit of the Judah. The definition for sin in the New Testament is simply to miss the mark. There's no word in the New Testament that is used for sin. That means like we think of sin, doing bad. In the New Testament, when you're a born again Christian, every time the word says that you sin, meaning you're missing the mark, meaning that you're supposed to hit that spot, and every time you throw it, it's going at a different place. Now, why is this important to understand? Because the Bible says in 1 John chapter 3 that he who is born of God does not sin.

So we cannot sin. We're born again. See, when when you were born again, every sin that you committed from the time that you were conceived to the time that you were that you would that you were to die was nailed to the cross of Jesus. We need to understand that. Now, a lot of people abuse this. And Paul says, "Well, this not a license to sin." I'm of the opinion that if you think that by being born again, you can go and sin all you want to and have a good time because your sins are forgiven. I will question your salvation because when you're saved, you don't like to sin. I mean, you may sin because it's in you and and you got to get this thing out, but but deep inside of you, your spirit is grieved. Okay? That's that's what being born again is. So, but we miss the mark, we can give dominion to the enemy over us. Now, how do we get off the mark? We get off the mark when we wage spiritual warfare. The meaning we try to walk right with God. All spiritual warfare begins by us trying to not sin. Right? That's a very we get save. I don't remember I got saved on a Wednesday. We were taking her dad uh that Friday night or Saturday night to Los Alamito's racetrack for for his uh birthday. We were born on June second born again and he her dad's birthday was in June 5th and we were taking him out for his birthday. I never knew that uh the gambling was wrong in a way. But yet all of a sudden I just felt man that's not a good place for me to be you know all of a sudden I we took him and we went there but there was something in my spirit that says you know you don't belong here anymore. you don't belong here on this racetrack uh uh betting on this horse. Where did that come from? They I had nobody preaching against it. It was just in my spirit. Okay. But when we and and this is what I want to bring when we get born again and then we say, "Okay, I want to walk pleasing God." This is spiritual warfare. And we miss the mark when we do this warfare under the rule of law instead of the power of grace. Because you see the rule of law is like power that is inherited within us. The grace of God is authority that comes out. How is the mountain removed? Zechariah says it is this mountain is removed by grace. Shouting grace to it. Grace to it. So what happens is there's an inherited quality into every born again believer that as soon as you get born to make a set of rules. I'm a Christian now. I'm not going to listen to all these by goodies anymore. I had all of those Beatles records LPs, you know, the big old LPS. I had tons of all of the all of the things. That's the first thing I threw them away. You know, I got saved. I can't listen to this stuff anymore. And I got saved so I don't do this anymore. And I got saved. And before you know it, oh my god, you're saved. You need to find a monastery on a hill someplace and never look at anybody. You have to get rid of every mirror because you cannot even look at yourself. Oh my god, you're sinning. You know,

isn't that true? I mean, I'm I'm bringing it down home. We have this tendency immediately to make all of these kinds of rules. And why is that bad? Because that's how Satan operates. Sa sin takes advantage of the law. You know, I I I can go all day working. I I would get up in the morning, go all day working, and I'd be so busy. I wouldn't eat nothing for 14 hours. But the first day I said, "I'm going to fast." Oh my god, this urge just came in to eat, eat, and eat and eat. And I just couldn't stop eating, stopping myself. First time I I I fasted. I got up in the morning, didn't eat anything. I was so 12 minutes. I told her 11:30 start cooking me some beans and rice fry me a steak and it was done about 5 minutes before midnight and I sat there drooling drooling drooling waiting for the clock and I suddenly hit midnight Oscar I whooped it all up that was my first why because law empowers the enemy law empowers the enemy that's this is why Paul says over here on on on that Romans 6:14 sin shall shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law, but under grace. That's why these people that are wanting to keep the Sabbath mouth. Oh my god, I'm a Jew somehow. You know, you know, all these people that want to keep the law, they should go and and and watch a a rabbi do a circumcision. They should be a witness to that to see how much they're interested in doing that. Again, you know, this is what the the Islamic people do. They beat themselves up, man, until they're bleeding on their back and all of the things. We need to understand that walking the spirit is a new experience every day. We have to see that. Uh Lamentations 3:22 says, "God's uh grace and mercy, they're new every morning." We need to understand that that that whatever uh uh whatever gizmo got you through this month or this year or this day is not going to be the same next time. We need to go God is new every morning. Okay. the the things for example the the desire for for gambling or the desire for smoking or the desire it is only taken away as a revelation of God becomes real to you see if you have a child that is playing with a knife and you know how kids are spoiled and they don't know you take the knife away from him they begin to cry cry cry of course you got to let them cry because you're not them in your right but what if you give them something instead of a knife that's more interesting. A set of keys, maybe a rattle, maybe something that that will bring the attention. Oh, yeah. I'd rather play with this. That That's what grace does. That's what grace does. grace comes and brings us into a place to where this thing that you're doing here, the thing that you're preoccupying yourself with, this things going on with in your mind, this thing that hurts you uh is not as interested as this thing that I have for you. You see, like I said, when when I have that uh Holy Spirit come upon me and teach for the first time something that came from him. I felt the Holy Spirit come inside of me. I felt the Holy Spirit use me and and uh I felt the impact of the anointing. The words that were going out of my mouth had an effect. And she will tell you, everybody that was there was just like that. you know, they they they had an impact. It was something that it wasn't it was going through men, but it was something that God I got so hooked to that I forgot all about the shame of of maybe saying something stupid. See, you may not know this, but every time you teach, especially when you're not been teaching for a while, there always somebody will come in and critique you or criticize you or tell you this is not right or this is. Always, it will always happen. And so, you see, if you're operating in your own power, every time somebody says, "Well, the Bible says this or the Bible says that," they're chipping a little piece of your self-confidence until there's nothing for you to stand on. But you see, if it Holy Spirit that's anointing and that's moving through you, they can call you whatever they want to call you. I said, "Man, I'm high right now. You ain't going to get me off this mountain. I I got something to flow through me right now. Oh, man. Just let me lay hands on you, brother. I'll I'll get that spirit of consolation out of you right now. I Let me show you the light. Let me turn your switch on." You know, your your attitude just completely changes. And that's what grace does. Our walk with God has to be because you see if if if you cross the line immediately you say, "Oh Lord, forgive me. I don't want to ever cross that line again." And then now the focus is on the next line and Satan is going to make all of his guns aim right at that line. And you're not going to have no peace. That's what he's going after. Once the revelation comes that uh I don't have lines, I have authority. I have a vesture. I have a covering. The blood of Jesus is my covering. You see the uh prodigal son had not taken a swine smell in him. His feet still smell. His hair was still filled with whatever bugs were there on the thing. But yet he had a vesture upon him. He had a ring upon his hand and he had the kiss of the father on his neck to say, "You're accepted." You see, I'm sure that after the party was over that night, he went and had the servants boiling some hot water. Said, "Man, I got to get this thing out of me because and there's a time for that. There's a time for cleansing. There's a time. But we have to understand that the grace of God is not dependent upon a law. Once you say to yourself, Satan, I don't care how much vomit you drag me into. You're not going to separate me from the love of God, and you're not going to separate this heart of mine from worshiping God. I know you're a loser. I know you're nothing. And I know that you may have some stuff in me that I'm still working out. But even this is going to work out for my own strength. Even this is going to work out for my salvation. Whatever garbage you're making me eat right now, I'm going to throw it right back into the face to every person that I get to meet, that I get to preach, that I get to minister to. This is the idea. So in spiritual war, if we are to exercise dominion, first of all, we cannot be presumptuous about it. We have to know that God is calling us to do this, that the timing is right, that the door is open. Then we have to get rid of idolatry. Let's find out why we do the things that we do. a tradition. Why do they do things like that? Where's the roots of it? Let's look it up. We have internet. It's the best thing that could ever happen to you. Just print type any word up in there, Amen. And everything you want to know about any subject will come up in there. And then the last thing is we cannot walk by law but by grace. Remember that you are not under law but under grace because it is the grace of God that empowers us. And then, and this is a part where the Lord says, "You're not going to write anything on this identity." We have two scriptures there. 1 Corinthians 15:10, Paul says, "But by the grace of God, I am what I am, and his grace towards me was not in vain." In Titus 2:1, for the grace of God that brings salvation or deliverance from the enemy has appeared to all men. Now notice what Paul says. By the grace of God, I am what I am. This is a very profound statement. You need to you need you need to see this for what it is. Whatever I am right now, I am it by the grace of God. I may failure in the sight of 99% of the people of the world. You see, I may be loser. I may be weak. I may be incompatible to whatever it is, but by the grace of God, I am what I am. Who I identify with. You see, you cannot come against Satan pretending to be somebody. The Bible says your sin will find you out. You want to pretend to be many h you know this was funny one time over there at Harvard Christian Center there was a lot of ministry there was a guy there I seen him a few times he had this nice suit and everything and he was ministering to people like Benny Hinn do he would go I don't want to get close to anybody I had a lot of garlic today so I'm not going to blow close to anybody but he would just try to do what Benny Hinn was doing he had it all down to the thing he was trying and the problem is he blew on them and nobody would pull nothing was happening. You see, he was trying to imitate somebody else. And you know that that's unfortunately we do all the time. We want to be something that we're not. You see, this work for brother so and so, this work for sister so and so. Maybe if I do it this way, maybe if I do it this way. Paul says, "By the grace of God, I am what I am." Who am I? Who am I? That is the in reality the the the question that if we answer that will put us to the position to tread down the enemy because see did not hold somebody else in my place to battle Satan. God called me to tread down. He gave me dominion over a certain space on this earth. I don't care who anybody cares about it or or what they think. I have dominion given by God to me. I the Bible says to do uh from the found of the world, God prepared good works for us that we would do. In other words, I before God ever spoke a grain of sand into existence, God wrote down a list of thing that I was created to do. And when God saved me and put his spirit on me, he commissioned me. He said, "Now you're equipped with my spirit to do what I put you in the earth to do." And everything that happened from that time, June 2nd, 1976, up until now, has been something that's been preparing me for me to identify with what God has called me to be, what God has called me to do. You see, everything in in demonic possession and in deliverance has to do with the identity theft. You see, Satan has convinced every single one of us that we're not what God says that we are. Every demon that ever came into you came for the simple purpose of transforming your mind into thinking or identifying within. I mean, when we got into the ministry of deliverance, this was so obvious to me. Well, I'm Italian, so I have this hot blood and and and I have a temper. You see, that spirit of anger come in and says, I become this person. Same way with the spirit of loss. Some uh liberal some place wrote, "Well, a man's mind goes to sex every 10 seconds or something like that." Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The minute you say that, the spirit comes right in. Oh, yeah. That's it. That's what you are. You're a man. You're going to think about sex every 10 seconds. That's what the spirit says. And so, like that, we have been programmed little by little, little by little, little by little to where we lost our identity. And we are simply a copy or a decoy or a mere shadow of what God intended for us to do. And you see, it's not until we realize, like Paul says, by the grace of God, I am what I am. That what I am is what God says I am. And I'm not going to allow Satan to reign on my parade any longer. I'm not going to allow him to define who I am anymore. I am not going to allow society or the church world or the church system or the system to define who I am any longer. I have my identity stolen from me. Satan came in when I was a kid through all of the garbage that I inherited and through all of the things and he stole my identity. He took false social security numbers. He took a false driver's license and he created an image of himself in me to where I can see myself as nothing but a loser as as as nothing more than than just filling up space to where program or destined to fail and and all of the things is what he has been working in me to make me something that I am not. But by the grace of God, by the grace of God, I'm beginning to realize I have authority over. Did you know that the first time that I realized that revelation and I said, you know, when I first got saved, I tell you, I was on fire for God. And the fact that I would lost in my mind was a battle. And I battled with it for years and years. My wife can testify to that. And it wasn't until I realized that as long as I believe that that's how I was, I'm a man and because I'm a man and that that I that stuff wouldn't go away. It wasn't until I realized I am a man created in the image of God. A man that's created by the image of God does not lust because that's not from God. Satan is the luster. He's the one that wanted to get what God had. That's not God. I realize you're not part of me. That's not in me. I don't want you. You know, when you got lies and you realize that you always had them and so you never knew. So, I mean, you're used to having lies and and have your head itch and you realize you don't have to have lies. There's stuff that you can put on your head and get rid of those little critters and you can get this little comb and you can get all those eggs out. You can get rid of the stuff and you can be free. Once I realize that that I am I'm a man of God, not a man of garbage. Once I realize that, what a revelation. Because then every time the thing will come up, I did not identify with it. Hey, that's not me. I don't think like that. Where you coming from? Hey. Hey, I'm talking to you. What are you doing up there? Yeah, I talk to it. And then I began to realize that there's dominions. I drive around all the time. Some houses I go to and their spirit of loss so strong over there. And I realize all of the thoughts that I used to think were mine, they're tied to a tremendous spirit of loss is connected to an area. And I'm telling you, you stay here, boy. You ain't going nowhere. I'm leaving. And you're not following me. You understand that? Get back, boy. You're not coming. You see, once you identify the enemy and identify who you are in Christ, that is where the battle begins. By the grace of God, I am what I am. And that what I am is a deliverer. Titus says, "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men." This is not just for a certain few. We have to understand that once I identify, see, I identify with the fact that I am a man of God and as a man of God, I am not a liar. I am not called to lie. I am not called to lust. That's not from God. That's not what he me to do. I'm not to walk in fear. Fear is not from God. God has not given me the spirit of fear. I am not a failure. Paul says that God leaves us triumphantly. The heroes were placed in the front of the parade. The big general would walk right in front. That's the word that Paul uses. God has put us triumphantly. When Satan tries to put me on the back of the parade where all the prisoners were going and all of the animals pooped all over the ground and they're walking on this man, when Satan tries to put me back up in there, I have to tread down on the enemy. I have to tread down on the said, "No, my God has put me in front of the prey." And Satan said, "Well, you got poop in your feet." I said, "No, I got the covering of God because the grace of God is sufficient for me. And the grace of God gives me authority over you. And I don't care how big you are, how throne you are, how menacing you are. I have power. And I can be a little old lady and I can put my hand on and said, "Sit down, boy. I'm talking now. You shut up. You hear?" That's authority. That authority comes by the grace of God. How many of us can trust in our own strength? Single one of us. The grace of God. The grace of God is sufficient. And you know what? I got bad like everybody else does. But every morning when I got up, you know, the first thing I do when I wake up, and a lot of times it's in the middle of the night, may still be midnight, but the minute that I wake up, the first thought that comes to my mind is in Psalm um 118. Uh this is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Oh, this day, God made this day. God made me to occupy this day. This day, and I wake up in the morning, that's the first thing I think. But when I go on to prayer, I get up in the air and I get on into prayer, his grace is new every morning. Okay, Lord, I'm taking out the garbage. I'm taking out the garbage, Lord. every failure that I had yesterday, every uh defeat, every fear, every doubt, whatever happened, I'm taking out the garbage. Lord, that's the first thing I do. Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses as I forgive those who trespass against me. And I take the garbage out right then and there. And all the failures of yesterday are not going to. You see, every time Satan say, "Oh, but remember what you did." Hey man, you're talking about eons, Satan. You know, you want to find where that side God has a place on the other side of the world on the deepest ocean. That's where he buried. You want to go dig it up? Go ahead for a long swim. Don't bother me with it. You know, that's where God put it. That is the idea. So, uh I want to bring this on out to the church. This church, this church uh vision for women's ministries will become whatever is the vision of the future is. See, this church will become whatever the vision of this church for this city and for the future is. That is at the heart of it. See, if you look at it, well, there's 1500 churches in the South Bay and and we're just one tiny little percentage of that. If we look at it that way, we'll never amount to anything. But yet, if you say, you know what, God has opened a door for me to bring down the stronghold of principalities and the powers that in the city. God has anointed me for that. God has given me the revelation not to do it presumptuously, but rather to do it according to his word. I'm just here to do execute upon the enemy what is written against him. In other words, God says you're to pull down the principal at some time. So that's what I've been anointed. Then I have this sin of idolatry that is up in there. Okay, Lord, I need to clean house. you begin to clean your your your services, your to get all of the things out and then after that you come to the fact that it is not by might that is not by power but by the spirit of God the grace of God and then once you realize like that you the world might see you as a tiny little church in in the you know go into that Google's map and and look at you're nothing a speck a little speck of dust is here but as far as Satan is concerned you're standing like King David, you standing in front that giant with your slingshot and you said, "How dare you defy the armies of the living God? How dare you uncircumcine Philistine? You may be cursing." You know, did you know that the Philistine cursed David? The Philistine cursed David. Goliath cursed David and said, "I'm going to throw your body to the dogs." He had power and that curse had power in it. But David said to him, "You come to me with this and with that, but I come to you in the name of the Lord. And I'm here to tell you that I'm going to use your own sword. I'm going to cut your head off and I'm going to feed your body to the dogs." Now, who had the more authority and the power? Goliath had all the strength within himself. You see, but David was authorized. He said, "You defied the armies of the living. How dare you dog? How dare you?" That's the attitude. Are we ready to tread down? Are we ready as a church to really mean business with God? You know, Satan can get you on his washing machine and and put you in the spin cycle and and and you won't feel very hot after that. But what we have to realize is that when you come out of the spin cycle, man, you're nice and clean. You're nice and clean, man. That spin cycle gets dirt out of you so good when it spills out like that. SP he gets a dirt and the and the reason why God allows this pain cycle to hit us is because we need to realize how nothing we are yet how great we are in God. Amen. Amen. Praise God. I hope that this blessed you as much as it blessed me. We're going to be praying. If you want to come out and if anybody else wants to come for prayer too, we'll go ahead and pray. Praise God. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah.