1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,760 Welcome to Logan City Christian Church podcast where we bring God's Word to you weekly. 2 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:17,280 We pray that what you hear will bring clarity to your situation and open doors in your life. 3 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:18,160 Enjoy the message. 4 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:37,280 I believe we get so used to having a service that we sometimes forget the person that we come here for. 5 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:47,440 We can get so used to doing life Monday through to Friday and Saturday and come here Sunday and 6 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:56,080 somehow expect to fit God in our timeline, in our schedule. 7 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:12,400 I believe the Lord is wanting for all of us including myself to bring us deeper 8 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:17,200 in a way we've never experienced God before. 9 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:31,520 And the fruit of that is when we are experiencing God in a deeper way at home, personally, 10 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:38,480 we see the difference that we collectively bring here on Sundays. 11 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:43,520 When believers are lukewarm 12 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:53,920 and they come together, well we could only expect to see a lukewarm service. 13 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:01,600 But when the Church of Jesus Christ is seeking God, 14 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:07,600 is seeking God, that is surrendered to God. 15 00:02:10,640 --> 00:02:17,760 When we meet corporately in a gathering, the Holy Spirit moves so powerfully. 16 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:34,480 See a lot of the time we want a man of God or a woman of God to step up and break through and do 17 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:48,160 all the work for us and God is saying, no I've given my spirit to all flesh. 18 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,840 Because he's given his spirit to all flesh. 19 00:02:53,840 --> 00:03:02,960 That you and I have the authority of Christ, we have the power of Christ. 20 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:13,360 You and I are anointed and a holy people set apart to God for his work. 21 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:20,160 So when you and I are growing in the things of God, are surrendering to God daily, 22 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:27,760 seeking God and receiving from God, when we come here together, 23 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:34,240 the most natural thing for God to do is move. 24 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:46,080 I know the Lord is calling us, all of us, 25 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,280 myself included, more than anyone I suppose, 26 00:03:52,400 --> 00:04:02,400 to get to know the Lord in a deeper way, a way that we have never experienced or known Him before. 27 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:12,240 That the church may truly shine, really, really burn bright, burn hot in this dark, cold, dying world. 28 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:19,760 That the Lord is bringing this church to a point and other churches 29 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:26,800 where we can see the Lord, the Lord is bringing the church to a point and other churches 30 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:31,600 where it's no longer about us. 31 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:44,320 That we see the call of Abraham, that God calls him, 32 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:51,680 and we read how it says that, and I will bless you and make you a great nation and in you, 33 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:56,960 and we read how it says that, and I will bless you and make you a great nation and in you, 34 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,800 all the nations of the earth shall be blessed. 35 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,360 And we read that Abraham was a friend of God, 36 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:13,760 but at the end of the day, the call on Abraham's life was bigger than himself, 37 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:20,960 was bigger than the blessing that he received, was bigger than Isaac, his son. 38 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:36,000 The call of God on Abraham's life was to establish a nation and that his son, Jesus, God's son, 39 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Jesus Christ, would come through and be the saviour of the world. 40 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:58,000 I hear many people saying that we are in the last of the last days and that is so true. 41 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:06,080 It is as if there's just a moment left on the face of the earth. 42 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:13,280 And this is why God is saying, that church, this is bigger than you. 43 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:23,120 This is bigger than me. This is bigger than us of what we want to do, what we feel is the 44 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:31,200 call or not call to do, the struggle of fully surrendering to God. 45 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:41,440 The Lord is saying, church, I'm calling you. I am calling you into a deeper relationship with me. 46 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:48,720 Where you are going, where I am leading you, you have no place in the world. 47 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:56,400 I am calling you into a deeper relationship with me. Where you are going, where I am leading you, 48 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:19,600 you have no place in the world. I am calling you into a deeper relationship with me. 49 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:30,800 Church, I feel just such a stirring, such a strong stirring. I don't know whether to start. 50 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,080 I don't know whether to wait. I don't know what to do. 51 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:42,480 I don't know what to do. 52 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:50,080 I know that one thing I don't want to do is to get in the Lord's way this morning. 53 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,080 I mean, we need a touch from heaven like never before. 54 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:06,080 Whether we're doing well or struggling, we need a touch from the Lord. 55 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:14,480 We need a touch from the Lord. 56 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:28,880 Glory be to God. Glory be to our Almighty God. 57 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:38,480 I 58 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,440 We're going to read from Psalm 91 this morning. 59 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:55,040 So if you want to turn your Bibles there to Psalm 91. 60 00:08:55,040 --> 00:09:03,600 While you're turning there, Lord, we just thank you for this morning, God. We thank you for your word. 61 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:11,120 Lord, we know your word is a lamp unto our feet and a light into our path. It is our direction. 62 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:17,440 You guide us through your word. God, we thank you for sending the Holy Spirit, who is our Comforter, 63 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:21,120 the one who comes aside and leads us. And so Holy Spirit, 64 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:24,080 we are so dependent on you this morning. 65 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:32,400 You are our strength. You are our joy. You are the one that gets us through everything. 66 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:42,720 Lord, we thank you for seed sowing in Jesus' name, the seed of your word. God, I pray that 67 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:48,880 you would open all of our hearts, myself included, God. Lord, that our hearts would be good 68 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:55,920 soil for your seed to be implanted and grow and bear good fruit in our lives. 69 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:03,520 Holy Spirit, that throughout the week you would water that seed that has been sown. Lord, 70 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:08,000 that we would dwell on your word. Lord, we would meditate on the things of the Spirit 71 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:15,600 in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Psalm 91, we're going to read from verse one. 72 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:17,840 Psalm 91, we're going to read from verse one. 73 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:33,520 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 74 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:44,000 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress. My God in Him I will trust. 75 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:54,960 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the phallum and from the perilous pestilence. 76 00:10:54,960 --> 00:11:02,320 He shall cover you with His feathers and under His wings you shall take refuge. 77 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,600 His truth shall be your shield and buckler. 78 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:18,080 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day, 79 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:28,960 nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. 80 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:38,720 A thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, 81 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:41,760 but it shall not come near you. 82 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:47,280 Only with your eyes shall you look and see the reward of the wicked, 83 00:11:48,720 --> 00:12:05,200 because you have made the Lord who is my refuge, even the Most High God, your dwelling place. 84 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:12,560 No evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling. 85 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:21,200 For He shall give His angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways. 86 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:30,320 In their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone. 87 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:39,760 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, the young lion and the serpent, you shall trample underfoot. 88 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:49,440 Because He has set His love upon me, therefore I will deliver Him. I will set Him on high, 89 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:59,920 because He has known my name. He shall set His love upon me, therefore I will deliver Him. 90 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:10,400 I will set Him on high, because He has known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer Him. 91 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:17,600 I will be with Him in trouble, I will deliver Him and honour Him. 92 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:25,200 With long life I will satisfy Him and show Him my salvation. 93 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:30,800 Glory be to God. Glory to you God. 94 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:41,120 Even though this is a psalm and a very famous psalm, Psalm 91, 95 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:49,040 one that we've all heard a million times, one that we love hearing every time it gets read out, 96 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:54,640 church we have to understand that this is a promise from God. 97 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:05,520 And so when we hear Psalm 91 or we read it, it's great, it's fantastic, it brings comfort to our hearts, 98 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:10,000 but I guess the biggest mistake we could ever make 99 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:18,880 is when we take a promise of God and not fully get into the depths of what God is trying to bring 100 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:23,600 out of His Word, what He's trying to show us, the character of who He is. 101 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:35,120 It's a bit of a shame that sometimes we can miss the very depths and parts of what God is trying to 102 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:42,640 bring out of His Word. It's a bit of a shame that sometimes we can miss the very depths and power 103 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:51,040 of God's Word, that we can hear it and love it and pray it and wish for it to be over our lives, 104 00:14:51,040 --> 00:15:02,880 but sometimes we never actually see the fulfillment of God's Word of His Scripture in our lives. 105 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:09,920 And so this morning I want to get into mainly the first three chapters, we'll get into the fourth 106 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:14,880 as well, but mainly I want to focus on, sorry, verses, verse one, two and three. 107 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:15,920 And so, 108 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:24,400 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 109 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:31,920 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God in Him I will trust. 110 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:37,600 I want to bring out two key words here this morning. 111 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:43,200 The first one is dwell and the second one is abide. 112 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,320 And when we fully understand these two words 113 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:51,760 and we 114 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:57,200 put it into our lives, it becomes part of us. 115 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,840 That's when we experience the fullness of God's Word. 116 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:08,560 See, like God's Word, whenever we read God's Word, and I feel like I'm jumping right ahead, but 117 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:14,560 I feel like I just need to say it right now, we have to understand this one thing, 118 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:23,120 is that the promises of God are not just a promise to us, they're promises to us. 119 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:31,440 I just need to say it right now, we have to understand this one thing, is that the promises 120 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:41,440 of God are always conditional. Can I get an amen for that? We read in Deuteronomy 28 121 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:52,800 of how God commands His people that blessed is He who does this and blessed is He who does that. 122 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:58,080 And blessed is the person that does this and blessed they shall be coming in, 123 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:03,440 blessed they shall be going out, their kneading bowl shall be full, the blessings of God. And 124 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:12,560 we read that God brings His Word out saying blessed is He who practices or does a certain thing. 125 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:18,640 And Psalm 91 is exactly the same, He who dwells in the secret place shall abide 126 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:23,440 under the shadow of the Almighty. I will save the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, 127 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:29,280 my God in Him I will trust. We're going to look at dwells and abide. The word dwell means to sit 128 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:41,120 and to remain. To sit or to remain, to dwell, to be in a place, to be in a place, 129 00:17:41,120 --> 00:17:51,600 to be in a place. And the word abide in a lot of other scriptures, abide can be to get along with, 130 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:59,440 to go with, to cooperate with. But here it's talking about to lodge, to stay the night, 131 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:09,200 being in a place. And so when we read this in context, we see that it is a person who, 132 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:19,440 like I said, I jumped way too far ahead, but those who dwell, who sit and remain in the secret place 133 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:28,080 of the Most High shall abide, shall dwell under the shadow of God. Can I get a raise of hands? 134 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:35,040 Who in their Christian walk would love to just dwell under the covering and the blessings of God? 135 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:41,760 I mean, you'd be silly not to raise your hand here this morning. I mean, it says that those who dwell 136 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:52,800 in the secret place shall abide. There's a guarantee of abiding under the shadow of God, 137 00:18:52,800 --> 00:19:00,160 under His hand, under His blessing, under all the promises of God that you and I can stay and remain 138 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:06,000 and remain in that place, but it is conditional to the word those who dwell. 139 00:19:09,120 --> 00:19:15,920 Are we seeing this morning that those who dwell in the secret place, 140 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,840 not just those who believe in God, 141 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:28,400 not those who once said a prayer and at one point in their life can remember that 142 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:35,760 they accepted Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, not those who are preaching every week or singing 143 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:40,960 every week or street witnessing or laying hands on the sick and seeing them recover, 144 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:49,040 it's saying those who dwell. And so those here this morning that you feel like, God, I don't know 145 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:55,760 what you've called me to do or God, I feel like my job in your kingdom is just to come in and sit down 146 00:19:55,760 --> 00:20:01,520 and sit down and then go home and, but it's saying it doesn't matter whether you're up here behind 147 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:08,480 a pulpit or sitting down or whatever it may be, that the Word of God is saying those who dwell. 148 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:18,000 And so the invitation is for every born-again believer. 149 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:27,760 That last week we got into Hebrews, that getting into the throne room of grace, getting before God, 150 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:32,880 a dwelling place where we're in the presence of God is speaking about the same thing here. 151 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:41,760 Those who dwell in the secret place shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 152 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:51,600 Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. In Genesis 6.5, I might just quickly turn there, 153 00:20:53,040 --> 00:21:03,120 Genesis 6.5, we read about Noah and that at that time, that time on the face of the earth, 154 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:14,560 where it says that the thoughts and the intent of man was only evil. Church, it's sort of like 155 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:21,760 our world we're living in today, the most easy thing for us to do is turn on the TV and see evil 156 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:28,720 on the news or to go out and see evil surrounding us wherever we may go. Evil is a common thing 157 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:39,440 these days. We see that people can just be so rude, so harsh, do bad things. 158 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:51,200 Same when Noah was on the face of the earth. And Genesis chapter 6 verses 5 to 7 159 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:57,760 says this, then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every 160 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:10,080 intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that he made 161 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:20,000 man on the earth, and he was grieved in his heart. So the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have 162 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:29,120 created from the face of the earth, both man and beasts, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I 163 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:40,160 am sorry that I've made them. Verse 8, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 164 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:48,160 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 165 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:54,720 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 166 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:05,920 You and I can be living or working in a place that is surrounded by gossiping, 167 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:17,360 surrounded by swearing, surrounded by rude jokes, surrounded by people hating on you. 168 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:23,920 You can be persecuted for standing up for righteousness in your family or around your 169 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:34,880 friends or your workplace or wherever it may be. Reading this, I see that here's a man of God 170 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:43,520 living in a time where evil is all around him, and the greatest influence on Noah's life 171 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:53,760 could have been an evil lifestyle. But it says, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 172 00:23:54,720 --> 00:24:02,800 And as we continue on, we understand why. In verse 9, it says, Noah was a just man, 173 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:15,440 perfect in his generations. Now you ready for this? Because this is the key, Noah walked with God. 174 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:24,960 Noah walked with God, 175 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:33,520 the same way that God is calling you and I into a deeper walk, a deeper relationship, 176 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:42,560 a deeper prayer life, deeper, more meaningful, more powerful time reading and studying the words. 177 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:52,640 Noah walked with God, and we see that God didn't have favorites on the face of the earth. 178 00:24:54,480 --> 00:25:03,920 It's just that Noah found the grace of God, the favor of God, only because he walked with God. 179 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:12,080 Now you and I have access to that very same grace here on earth that we see that when we get into 180 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:21,200 walk, it actually talks about he habitually walked. It was a habit. He did this all the time. Noah's 181 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:30,560 life was just encompassed. It was surrounded by the grace of God. And it's a very important 182 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:39,120 thing, that Noah's life was just encompassed. It was surrounded. It was founded on God. 183 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:46,240 That I'm sure that if you walked into Noah's house at that time, that it would have been a clean home 184 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:53,120 with no idolatry, with no sinful things, that there wouldn't have been any demons interfering 185 00:25:53,120 --> 00:26:01,200 in the presence of God, I'm sure. I could imagine that a man that habitually walks with God could 186 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:09,760 only see the grace and favor upon his life. See, men, when you and I, when we as head of the home, 187 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:19,920 take up our role as priest of the home, and we know that we are that spiritual covering over our 188 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:25,760 wife and children, but we pray and we seek God where we do what we actually know we should be doing. 189 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:34,320 A change will take place. And so we could be driving in the car and say, oh God, why is my 190 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:39,120 life so bad? I wish this could change. God, I just want you to take this away and fix this and fix 191 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:50,320 that. Maybe he's saying, I'm wanting you to take up the role as priest. 192 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,360 We see this in the life of Noah, 193 00:26:55,440 --> 00:27:03,680 where Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord because Noah walked with God. 194 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,040 You look at a few generations before, we see the same thing with Enoch, 195 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:19,440 where Enoch walked with God. Once again, it was that habitual fellowship. Every moment of every day, 196 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:28,800 this man was led by God, had fellowship with God, Enoch walked with God, and it says that 197 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:35,760 Enoch never tasted death, that actually God just took him. That one day Enoch was here and the next 198 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:42,400 he was gone, taken straight to heaven. I mean, that's pretty cool. 199 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:53,680 The two things that these men had in common is they both walked with God. 200 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,600 They both walked with God. 201 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:10,160 Matthew 6 says this, and this is talking about the secret place. 202 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:19,680 Matthew 6 says, but you, when you pray, 203 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:25,600 go into your room and when you have shut your door, 204 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:33,680 pray to the Father who is in the secret place, and your Father who sees in secret 205 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:41,600 will reward you openly. Here we go again, Jesus speaking now, 206 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:51,440 Jesus speaking now, and another promise from God, but there are conditions to it. 207 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:59,280 Jesus tells us, even to this day, church, but when you pray, 208 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:07,760 have you noticed how we didn't say if you pray? If you ever get the chance, 209 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:13,040 if you feel like it, if you just happen to think about it, 210 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:22,400 I mean, I feel like the bar's being raised really high this morning. I'm not trying to be harsh or rude, but 211 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:32,720 I have to speak what I'm really feeling the Lord saying, but when you pray, in other words, Jesus 212 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:42,960 has an expectation for his church to pray, for the priest of the home to pray, for parents to pray, 213 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:50,640 for those couples that are married to pray, for parents and their children to pray, 214 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:57,680 for pastors to pray, for preachers to pray, 215 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:09,120 for preachers to pray. But when you pray, now listen to what he says, go into your what? 216 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:18,800 Let me hear you church, go into your what? In your room, hallelujah, and when you have what? 217 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:28,880 Shut your door, pray to you, who? God our Father, who is in what? The secret place. 218 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:38,240 It's conditional. He's saying shut your door. In other words, there are times, there should be 219 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:47,360 frequent times, just the same way that Noah dwelt and was in the room, hallelujah, 220 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:55,120 Noah dwelt and walked with God, habitually lived with God. He's saying church, you need to get into 221 00:30:55,120 --> 00:31:06,800 a place of isolation. This deep walk with God. See, I understand the busy lifestyle and I'm so guilty 222 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:13,200 myself of committing this crime, but always fitting into God while I'm just praying in the car, 223 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:18,960 or praying while I'm doing this, or praying while I'm doing this. And church, it gets us by, 224 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:26,880 but the call of God on our lives to that deep spiritual connection with the Lord comes when we 225 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:35,680 are in a place of isolation. We see the very ministry of Jesus was founded on this, when 226 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:42,240 everyone, like let's say when we read the gospels and we see Jesus doing miracles and casting out 227 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:47,760 demons and doing all these incredible things, at the end of the day, everyone went home, 228 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:58,640 Jesus went to the mountain to pray. 229 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:06,560 It's hard. 230 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:21,520 But this life we live is such a busy life. I get that, I understand that, I live that. 231 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,760 But if we were to take Matthew 6 for what it really says, 232 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:35,680 we don't have a choice when it comes to prayer. 233 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:47,440 And when we can get in the secret place, when we, bit by bit, start getting in our room, 234 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:59,120 closing our door to people, might even be your kids, I feel like some parents are like, 235 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:05,280 oh, I'm going to get away from my kids for half an hour. Praise the Lord, I'm getting a break. 236 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:11,520 Husbands, if you want some time to yourself, just say, honey, I'm going to be with the Lord, 237 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:17,520 and shut your door. Women when it's your turn, wives, mothers when it's your turn, 238 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:25,600 say, husband, I'm going to be with God, shut your door. And get with God. 239 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:31,440 Cry out to God, be real with God, open your heart before God, experience the presence of God, 240 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:37,760 the fullness of God, His joy that He has, that is always there through every circumstance 241 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:44,320 and every situation, that joy that cannot be taken from you by sickness or disease or financial 242 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:52,000 struggle. We experience that in the secret place. We receive it there, and we take it with our lives 243 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:58,400 no matter where we go, what we do, wherever we may be, we receive that. And in that place of 244 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:07,440 isolation, where it's just us and God, our room becomes holy ground. Church isn't that good. 245 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:13,520 That I don't have to travel all the way around the world to go to a fancy church or a temple 246 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:19,760 or a mosque or whatever it may be that people are doing, we can get before God in any place 247 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:26,080 where it's just me and Him. And I know that I'm going to be in the presence of God. 248 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:32,880 Just the same way that God revealed Himself to Moses and said, take the sandals off your feet 249 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:38,080 for the place where you stand is holy ground, we can be in the exact same place. 250 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:46,880 Could you imagine the presence of God flooding your house, flooding your home, 251 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:56,560 that the things that used to entertain us are just dead now. The struggles that would pull us down 252 00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:00,000 and keep us in bondage have been broken. 253 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:05,200 The struggles that would pull us down and keep us in bondage have been broken. 254 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:10,880 The secret place. 255 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:14,560 Because as it says, 256 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:23,360 and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. 257 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:33,200 When we practice this, when we live this, there is a reward that comes with it. 258 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:40,400 Hallelujah. One being the protection that we read about in Psalm 91 that He who dwells, 259 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:47,360 He who constantly gets in the secret place where we can get into that place 260 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:53,520 where we shut the door, it's just us and God and we're seeking God when that becomes our dwelling 261 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:59,600 place, our place of habitation, our place of visitation where we are always there. 262 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:07,760 We see the promises of Psalm 91 that we shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Now I 263 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:17,520 we shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Now I understand that we pray Psalm 91. When we 264 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:25,120 dedicate children here in this church, we pray and we personalise Psalm 91 over that child. 265 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:32,480 When we send missionaries off overseas, we pray Psalm 91. But can I just say this one thing, 266 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:37,120 that it's not just for babies being dedicated or missionaries being sent over. You and I, 267 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:42,000 when we practice getting before God in the secret place, Psalm 91 happens. 268 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:49,200 We don't have to repeat it over and over and over again or know it off the top of our heads. 269 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:59,040 It just happens. Why? Because it's God's Word and when we obey God's Word, He abides. He delivers. 270 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:07,440 God is a God of truth. He honours His Word. He is a man that He should not lie. 271 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:16,160 And so when we read in verse three, 272 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:23,760 surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence. 273 00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:33,120 We understand that there's a lot going on in this world. I remember in my late teens and early 274 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:47,600 twenties, I had this... How do I say it? I had plans, I had goals, very ambitious, knew what I wanted, 275 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:53,360 thought it was just, this is how life is going to be. It wasn't too long until I realised 276 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:59,760 how out of control I really was when it comes to life circumstances. Who knows what I'm talking 277 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:08,720 about? And now I'm all for planning. I'm all for having visions. I'm all for moving in a direction. 278 00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:16,160 That's biblical. That's godly. That's wise. And so you and I, we're all going to be thinking, 279 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:22,720 what are the things that we're going to be doing in our lives? And so you and I, as people, are to 280 00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:27,600 have goals, goals in our life, in our marriage, in our finances and all these things, they're good. 281 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:33,680 But at the end of the day, it's all subject to change. That there are things that happen in life 282 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:41,200 that are out of our control. I mean, we see in Job chapter one, Job is doing amazing. 283 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:48,000 And I remember, in these times where it was just like, God, how could this happen? 284 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:56,400 I have my plans. Lord, how could you allow this heartache or this struggle 285 00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:02,080 to be lost in the hands of God? And I remember, I remember when I was in the church, 286 00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:06,320 I was in the church, I was in the church, I was in the church, I was in the church, 287 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:13,840 Lord, how could you allow this heartache or this struggle? God, I feel like I've honoured you so 288 00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:22,400 far with my life. I haven't turned my back on you. I haven't rebelled in any way. I love you. I want 289 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:29,840 to serve you, God. I love your Word. Your Word is truth. How could this happen? Lord, everything 290 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:35,600 that I've been putting in place and wanting to see take place in my life, God, it feels like you've 291 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:47,920 just cut it somehow. And so, when we read that God, He, shall deliver us from the snare of the 292 00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:57,360 fallow, we have to understand this one thing, that there is a person out there, not of flesh or blood, 293 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:05,520 but there is a person out there who's after you, who is after me. And when we get down to Job and 294 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:12,880 and his story, we understand that Satan was after Job himself. See, in Genesis chapter one and two, 295 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:21,120 we read how God created the world by speaking. Amen. And so, we now understand, if you didn't 296 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:28,480 before, we understand that everything we see with our eyes, everything that is physical, tangible, 297 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:36,000 was created by the invisible, the spiritual, that there is a war going on that we cannot see with 298 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:43,840 our eyes. Hallelujah. And you and I, when we surrender our lives to Christ and we're living 299 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:49,840 for God, you and I have switched from the kingdom of darkness and we have been placed in the kingdom 300 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:57,440 of light, a glorious, marvelous miracle that is taking place. But it comes at a cost. You and I, 301 00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:04,800 the day we got saved, we put on these targets over our bodies saying, Satan, shoot me. 302 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:15,840 Now, you might be thinking, no, I never did that. Yes, you did, unwillingly. 303 00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,160 That's why it's so easy to live lukewarm for the Lord. 304 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:26,240 That's why it's so hard to keep pressing on and pressing on and pressing on towards the goal, 305 00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:32,400 as Paul says, to continually seek Him. We see Paul, a man of God, that just goes through so many, 306 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:37,280 went through so many struggles. Why? Because he had a bigger target than anyone else. 307 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:45,840 It's as if this spiritual war between God and Satan is being played out here on earth, 308 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:53,600 just as if church, sorry, not church, just as if earth is some kind of giant chessboard. 309 00:41:53,600 --> 00:42:03,840 You know what I'm trying to say? It's like we're being used whether we realize it. I heard a saying, 310 00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:11,520 which was incredible, he says, God has a great power, and he's a great man. 311 00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:17,520 He's a great man. He's a great man. He's a great man. He's a great man. He's a great man. 312 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:24,720 He's a great man. He's a great man. He's a great man. He's a great man. He's emblematic of the 313 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:26,480 ity around His Kingdom. He was a great man. He's emblematic of the Our Lady of Manhood. 314 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:32,320 disciple that God has. He's emblematic of whatever Satan plays with His kingdom. 315 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:38,400 And then he says, God has a plan for you. He says, God has a plan for me. 316 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:44,720 He says, God has a plan for my kingdom, God's a plan for me to stop you fromuges즈 317 00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:50,640 but no. I've seen over the years so many people taking captive through many different things, 318 00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:58,160 allowing Satan to come in. See, 1 Peter 5, 8 says this, be sober, be vigilant because your adversary, 319 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:06,800 the devil, walks about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. In other words, 320 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:14,160 you and I, we are, yes, when we dwell in the secret place of the Most High, we abide under the shadow 321 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:22,080 of the Almighty. God's hand is upon His church to those who dwell. Amen. So we understand that 322 00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:28,560 principle this morning, but we also have to be careful knowing that the moment I stop dwelling, 323 00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:36,000 that I have to understand that Satan is out there and his will for my life is still very real. 324 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:48,240 John 10, 10, the thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy, but Jesus says, 325 00:43:48,240 --> 00:43:54,400 I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly. 326 00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:58,640 There's the two wheels right there summed up in one verse. 327 00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:04,240 Surely he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler. A snare can be different. 328 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:13,280 I mean, we are all different people. We have different likes, dislikes, whatever it may be. 329 00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:18,320 We have different strengths and we have different weaknesses. Amen. 330 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:27,600 And we understand now that because of those differences that you and I have, what may work 331 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:38,240 for my wife may not necessarily work for me. So if Satan is trying to pull my wife down, 332 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:46,160 he's going to use something different. He's going to use the same thing that I'm going to use. 333 00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:51,600 He's going to use something different than what he will use for me to try and pull me down. 334 00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:56,880 I know this. I know my wife. I know that we're different. Our struggles are different. 335 00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:05,120 So I know that what Satan uses against her is different than what Satan uses against me. 336 00:45:06,240 --> 00:45:13,600 And so we see all different types of evil, whether it may be unforgiveness, sexual immorality, 337 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:24,720 morality, gossip, idolatry, adultery, pride, whatever it may be. What works on one doesn't 338 00:45:24,720 --> 00:45:33,040 necessarily work on the other, yet Satan knows, as it says, he walks around like a roaring lion. 339 00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:39,360 He's looking for someone to get, to grab hold of, to devour, to destroy. 340 00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:44,080 That there's no partnership with the devil. Once he gets hold of someone, 341 00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:51,120 his only intention is to destroy. And the fruit, we see fruit of these consequences, 342 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:57,360 giving into these snares, being snared, means that we can open our lives up to things like 343 00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:04,880 depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, bitterness, hatred, unforgiveness. The list just goes on and 344 00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:11,280 on and on that we understand that this is very real being played out in our life today, 345 00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:17,280 that there is a spiritual wall going on in heaven and you and I need to be careful of the things we 346 00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:25,840 say, what we open our hearts and our minds to, because Satan is laying snares for you and I. 347 00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:33,040 Now, you're probably thinking, Gus, my week's been hard enough, this is the last thing I wanted to hear. 348 00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:41,760 Couldn't you just tell me that God loves me? Well, God loves you with an everlasting love. 349 00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:51,120 And we're going through God's word this morning because of love. And sometimes because of love, 350 00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:58,480 we tell the truth. I mean, who watched the podcast on Friday or whenever it was? 351 00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:04,800 Mike said something fantastic. We're working with Christ in the ministry, aren't we? Those who are, 352 00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:10,640 amen, those who are in the ministry, we're not doing a job that means, we're partnered with Christ, 353 00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:16,240 we're moving in His power. And when we're in a partnership, we're working together, 354 00:47:16,240 --> 00:47:23,200 when we're not doing our job, Mike said this, that Christ is close and loving enough 355 00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:28,880 to give us a nudge and say, hey, come on, just fix this area in your life. 356 00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:35,200 It's only going to benefit you. He doesn't get down and say, oh, you've messed up, it's all over. 357 00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:44,160 Sometimes we see an attractiveness in snares. Sometimes these snares that Satan lays out in 358 00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:54,480 our lives is actually very attractive. We see that there's a snare that was laid out in our lives, 359 00:47:54,480 --> 00:48:01,280 in the garden in Genesis chapter three. And that snare, when it come upon Adam and Eve, 360 00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:07,360 we see that there was a consequence to the entrapment, a consequence to sin, 361 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:13,840 that there was a spiritual separation from man and God, and that there was a spiritual separation 362 00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:20,880 from the devil, and that there was a spiritual separation from the devil, and that there was a 363 00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:30,960 spiritual separation from man and God. The very way that God created the world, the very way that 364 00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:39,680 He designed man to be in a certain relationship, a closeness, a pure and holy walk with God, 365 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:45,760 was separated because of a snare. And snares are always attractive. 366 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:51,360 First John 2, 15 and 16 says this, do not love the world or the things of the world. 367 00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:58,400 If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Verse 16, 368 00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:08,560 for all that is in the world, three things, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, 369 00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:15,840 and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 370 00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:26,480 Even the garden being tempted by Satan, we see so clearly that Satan is there with this snare 371 00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:35,440 of forbidden fruit, offering it on a silver platter to Eve, and the fruit of the garden 372 00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:42,880 on a silver platter to Eve, and let's look at what gets her, the lust of the flesh. 373 00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:54,400 Genesis 3 says that it was good for what? Food. The lust of the eyes, we see that she saw 374 00:49:54,960 --> 00:50:00,560 that it was pleasant to the eyes, and the pride of life, 375 00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:08,640 she saw that it was a tree desirable to make one wise. 376 00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:18,240 And so no matter which way we look at the fall of man in the garden of Eden, 377 00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:28,720 that snare that Satan laid was so attractive. Very, very beautiful. 378 00:50:28,720 --> 00:50:33,760 And James chapter 4, 1 says, where do wars and fights come from among you? 379 00:50:34,720 --> 00:50:39,600 Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? 380 00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:47,600 Hallelujah. Do they not come from these things in our heart that have not been dealt with? 381 00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:57,760 See, in James we see that he uses an example as a hunter. Let me get to this. 382 00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:03,600 In James chapter 1, let's quickly read this. James chapter 1, 12 and 14 says, 383 00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:09,200 blessed is the man who endures temptation. In other words, when Eve was being tempted, 384 00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:17,360 that snare was laid out that they saw that she was a hunter, and they saw that she was 385 00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:21,920 a hunter, and they saw it, and it pulled the heart, yet they resisted that temptation. 386 00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:30,720 Now you and I face temptations, and having being tempted isn't sin. If it was, we would see when 387 00:51:30,720 --> 00:51:37,760 Jesus was tempted by Satan, we know that Jesus never sinned, right? That he was pure, holy, 388 00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:43,600 never sinned. He was the Son of God. He offered sinless blood as a sacrifice for all mankind, 389 00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:49,520 yet Jesus was tempted. So when you and I get to this point of temptation, don't think, oh my 390 00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:55,760 goodness, I've failed. How could I have this evil thought? How could I have this feeling? Oh, 391 00:51:55,760 --> 00:52:03,520 wretched man, all these things don't get down. Say, Lord, my flesh is rising up, but I'm 392 00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:09,520 surrendering to you. Hallelujah. But James is saying, blessed is the man or the woman who 393 00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:17,040 endures temptation, for when he or she has been approved, he or she will receive the crown of life 394 00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:21,920 which the Lord has promised to those who love him. Let no one say when he is tempted, 395 00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:30,240 I am tempted by God. Did you hear that church? Does God tempt us? No. For God cannot be tempted 396 00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:35,840 by evil, nor does he himself tempt anyone, but each one is tempted when he is drawn away 397 00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:43,680 by his own desires and enticed. See, James is saying that just the same way that a man goes 398 00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:48,800 out fishing, are there any fishermen here or fishing women, whatever you call it? I don't know. 399 00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:57,280 But when you go out, whatever you want to catch, you've got your rig, your rod, your reel, your 400 00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:05,040 bait, your setup, your lure, whatever it may be to catch something specific. And so Satan is the same 401 00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:17,760 way. Did you know Satan didn't offer Eve a chainsaw? I'm sorry, that's a bad example. That's all I could 402 00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:27,120 think of just then. Lord help me. But I can picture just Eve walking past and seeing this going, 403 00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:35,280 I wonder what that tastes like. And then a week later, geez, that's starting to look really good. 404 00:53:38,720 --> 00:53:44,160 And then some time passed, walking past it again, I wonder how much I would actually know 405 00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:51,520 if I just bit of that fruit, if I could just taste it. It looks so good. 406 00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:58,640 And sometimes we can give in to sin because we are drawn away by things that are in here. 407 00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:09,440 And now there is a moment in everyone's life where we get snared. It happens. All right, 408 00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:12,640 now I'm going to finish on this. You're like, thank you, Lord. 409 00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:21,120 Jesus was tempted, but he prayed. The power of Psalm 91, he who dwells in the secret place of 410 00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:26,560 the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge 411 00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:32,160 and my fortress, my God in him I will trust. Do you know, even when you're snared, 412 00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:38,000 it's good to trust in the Lord. Even when you're snared, it's good to trust in the Lord. 413 00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:44,480 Even when you've made a mistake and you know you've gotten yourself into a situation, Lord, 414 00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:52,960 I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that. That was stupid of me to do. Don't wallow. Don't allow 415 00:54:52,960 --> 00:55:01,120 Satan to keep you down. It is good to trust in the Lord because it says, surely he shall deliver you. 416 00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:08,080 Surely God shall deliver you. He shall deliver me from what? The hand of the snower, 417 00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:13,760 from the snare of the fowler and from perilous pestilence. In other words, there is not a thing 418 00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:24,560 that we face that God cannot deliver. Hallelujah. Jesus says this, as I close on my last scripture, 419 00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:36,720 Jesus says this, as I close on my last scripture. Now when I read this, we always read this scripture 420 00:55:36,720 --> 00:55:42,960 when times are good, when we're cruising well, when we feel motivated, when we've been praying, 421 00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:48,080 when we're kicking goals. Jesus says this, 422 00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:59,920 behold, I give you, me, you, us, the church, I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions 423 00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:08,080 and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means harm you. 424 00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:20,080 Nothing shall by any means harm us. We know that no weapon formed against us, 425 00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:29,600 formed or fashioned made specifically for you, made specifically for me to entice me, to pull me out 426 00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:38,320 and snare me, shall prosper for those who dwell, for those who abide under the shadow, 427 00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:45,840 because God's hand is upon us. But Jesus says, behold, I give you the authority to trample. 428 00:56:46,720 --> 00:56:53,040 We have that authority. When you and I are snared, we have the authority. 429 00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:58,640 When darkness is surrounding our lives, we have the authority. 430 00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:20,400 When Satan has come and said it's all over, just quit. We have the authority. 431 00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:36,400 on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. You can also find us at LoganCityChristianChurch.com. See you next week.