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00:06 #S060 - Smoked Out (Part 1)
00:19 Welcome to the Breath of life television ministries broadcast 00:23 with Pastor Debleaire Snell 00:25 Now in today's episode, 00:27 Pastor Debleaire Snell will continue 00:29 part two of the powerful message titled Smoked Out. 00:34 Now let's go deeper into the word of God. 00:38 You see, just like being in a garage, don't make you a car. 00:43 Being in church don't make you a Christian. 00:47 How many of us understand the same way 00:48 meeting somebody at the bank? It don't mean they got money. 00:52 Many come out in a gym, don't mean that they're in shape. 00:56 Are meeting somebody in the grocery store. 00:57 It don't mean they come. 00:58 You still got to know what's inside of them. 01:02 And see. 01:03 The problem is we began to put down our guards 01:05 just because they attend church or because they're at in name. 01:10 In other words, it's 01:11 not just enough that they have the right appearance 01:14 and you meet them in the right location. 01:15 You got to see what's living inside of them. 01:21 It's crazy. 01:22 I remember I do a lot of preaching in this. 01:25 I was at this one particular conference event and. 01:27 This particular hotel. 01:28 It was a resort and it was also a golf location. 01:33 Now, I need you to be clear 01:34 that your pastor don't play golf at all. 01:37 And it's crazy because I knew it was a golf place. So. 01:40 So somebody had gifted me a golf shirt 01:41 one time, and my man Jeff 01:43 had given me these golf socks and these little golf gloves. 01:47 And so, man, 01:47 I decided that 01:48 one day when I got a break, I was going to go out there 01:49 and just, you know, play me a little time on the golf range. 01:53 And so I need you to go out there, man. 01:54 I don't play golf at all, but I ain't got it. 01:56 You will not be able to tell by looking at me. 01:58 I am playing the part to the tee 02:02 and so I'm out there, man of the golf range. 02:04 And so next to me there were these three guys 02:06 that were waiting for their fourth person to show up. 02:09 But then he called and said that they could 02:10 he couldn't make it. 02:11 And so they were looking for a fourth person 02:14 so they could play two on two. 02:15 And so they saw me in my golf shirt 02:19 and my golf shoes and my socks 02:22 and they was like, Yo, bro, do you want to come play 02:25 some kind of like, Nah, bro, 02:26 you probably don't want to do that. Let me stay over here. 02:30 They just like, no, brought you here in the res. 02:33 We're looking at your little Callaway shirt and your socks. 02:36 Man, we know you can do this. 02:37 I'm like, now you straight and then white man, bro. 02:39 Come on and play, man. We'll cover y'all round. 02:41 That's all right. Let's go in and do this thing. 02:45 And now. 02:45 Now, I need you to know that all they did 02:47 was focus on where they met me and what I was wearing. 02:50 But they didn't see me swing. 02:54 Now, I need you to get that. 02:55 When we get out there, start playing. 02:57 This dude is like a machine gun. 02:58 I'm just spraying that joint all over the place, 03:03 and it's crazy because now 03:04 I'm on a team with one of these brothers, 03:06 and because we're in a pair, I'm bringing his score down. 03:10 And after, 03:10 like, three holes, 03:11 he's like, Bro, if you got something else 03:13 to do, it's okay if you need to go. 03:15 Oh, we know you didn't really want to play. 03:18 Oh, this might not necessarily be up for you. 03:21 I was like, Nah, brother, this round is paid for. 03:23 I got 14 holes left. 03:25 You can't get rid of me. Yeah, you hear what I'm saying? 03:29 And see, 03:30 sometimes we get comfortable because of how they come across 03:34 and where we met them, but we ain't seen their swing 03:39 and we want to get rid of them. 03:40 After three months, I met three holes. 03:44 But it's too late. Then 03:48 second thing this teachers friends of mine 03:50 is that Jesus forces things into the open. 03:57 So the devil comes to church 04:00 and this church is filled with nothing 04:02 but lifeless, sterile, cold religious ceremony. 04:06 So he gets there early. 04:08 In order to make sure he gets his seat, 04:11 he wants to make sure that nobody else sits on his roof. 04:15 And again, I need you to be clear that 04:16 this devil is not this deranged lunatic foaming at the mouth. 04:22 He is well-groomed, he is well-spoken. 04:24 It is literally he is a fixture here 04:27 in this particular church community. 04:29 And I need you to get that. 04:29 His goal 04:31 is essentially to make sure that he sits through this service. 04:34 In fact, when he notices that the Lord of Glory is there, 04:38 he's just got to make sure that he maintains his artifice. 04:41 Because understand. 04:42 That artifice is his strength, 04:44 that covert operation is what gives him his advantage. 04:48 So his goal is just to sit there as quietly as he can 04:52 and come back again on a week that Jesus does not show up. 04:58 And it's crazy because the Bible says 05:01 that Jesus begins to preach 05:07 the Word 05:10 and He does not preach it 05:11 in the cold, lifeless ways of the scribes. 05:15 But the Bible says 05:16 that Jesus preaches this thing with authority 05:21 and understand church that I am a fan of oration 05:24 specifically of great preaching. 05:25 In fact, 05:26 man, if I could, 05:27 I would love to see Martin Luther King 05:29 communicate the gospel in his heyday. 05:33 If I could, I would love to be there. 05:35 When John the Baptist preached 05:37 with such authority that the folk left the city 05:40 and went out into the sticks 05:41 to get a word from John the Baptist. 05:44 But of all the folk that have ever spoken, 05:46 I wish I could have been there to hear Jesus preach 05:52 and understand 05:54 what makes Jesus powerful is he didn't just preach the word. 06:03 He was the word. 06:07 The Bible says in the beginning was the word, 06:11 and the word was with God and the word was God 06:14 and the word became flesh 06:16 and made Himself mobile and walked around us 06:21 and understand that most of us 06:22 have to preach a word 06:24 that comes from outside of us and goes through us. 06:27 But because he is the word, 06:29 he doesn't have to get the word from the outside. 06:32 Oh, Jesus had to do is unzip 06:36 and the word just came flowing out of him. 06:41 Now I need you to know, not only does the word flow 06:44 out of our Lord and Savior, 06:46 I need you to know Helen White and deserve a 06:49 just literally says that when Jesus was here on the Earth 06:52 that He carried around in Him the entire atmosphere. 06:55 Sphere of heaven. 06:56 Colossians chapter two says that in him 06:59 dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily, 07:02 so that as Jesus preaches, 07:04 it is not words 07:05 just being muttered into the air, 07:07 but as He preaches the truth about the kingdom, guess what? 07:10 Heaven begins to fill the space. 07:13 The Father and Spirit begin to fill the space. 07:17 There is a spiritual fumigation that fills up the room, 07:20 and every dark principality begins to tell this. 07:27 On the glory of God. 07:31 And I can see this thing church this devil. 07:36 Says, I just got to make. It through this one service. 07:39 He says, I just need to sit here with applied disinterest. 07:45 I'm going to show Jesus ain't paying nothing 07:48 and no attention and nothing he's gonna say. 07:50 So he sits there with his arms folded 07:53 like some of y'all do when y'all don't like what I'm saying, 07:56 as if I'm going to stop saying it. 07:59 And he sits there with his arms folded in protest of the truth 08:03 that's being spoken. 08:04 But the more the spirit begins to feel the room, 08:07 and the more heaven begins to come near 08:09 all of a sudden, man, that demon, his foot begins to 08:12 suffer a little bit 08:14 because he's uncomfortable in the presence of God. 08:17 After a while, he's got to switch cheeks 08:20 because, man, he can't stand it there in the presence of God. 08:24 After a while, Sweat starts coming down from his brow. 08:27 After a while, he begins to pop his knuckles, 08:30 and even though his mouth is closed, 08:32 those in the inside can hear sounds 08:34 coming from the inside of him. 08:36 They hear something this man 08:42 and something else goes. 08:45 And folk on the right think that he's got Garth 08:49 talk on the left side, think he's got a seizure, 08:53 but the spirit smokes the thing out so bad 08:56 that no matter how hard he tries to contain it, 08:58 no matter how hard he tries to keep it, 09:00 he stands up and he sits back down. 09:03 They think he's getting happy in church, 09:05 but the spirit smokes it out so bad that before he knows it, 09:10 out of one body comes a chorus of voices saying, Jesus, 09:14 leave us alone. 09:22 Because the Spirit smokes out 09:27 that which is not complimentary to him. 09:32 Now I need you to notice something. 09:35 When Jesus sees the man trippin, he doesn't stop preaching. 09:41 Because if he lets the devil retreat that day, 09:45 the man is going to be bound for the rest of his natural 09:49 born life. 09:51 See, I need you to understand something about Jesus. 09:55 See, I need you to notice. 09:59 You notice how in the Old Testament 10:00 you don't really read nothing about demon possession. 10:03 You only see demon possession when Jesus shows up 10:07 and it wasn't that folk weren't possessed before Jesus came, 10:11 but it was the power of Jesus that made the invisible bondage 10:15 obvious for everybody to be able to see 10:18 and see the reason this is powerful church, 10:21 because sometimes we only see the grace of God 10:23 and what he covers. 10:29 But sometimes the power of God is seen in what He exposes, 10:34 and the y'all's going to get quite see. 10:36 Sometimes I need you to know that, man. 10:39 I thank God for the things that he hid it. 10:42 I thank God for the things that he covered. 10:44 But when I look back on my life, 10:46 I thank God for the things that he dragged out of the darkness 10:51 where it could not be hidden or veiled. 10:54 I need you to know Jesus is the cat. 10:55 Well, you're mathematically. 11:00 He knows where all the bodies are buried. 11:02 They are here. What I'm saying. 11:05 But I need somebody to be clear that Jesus, 11:08 whether it's 11:09 in your personal life, whether it is in your work life, 11:12 or whether it is in the corporate church, 11:14 Jesus will never facilitate a cover up 11:19 and grace will never be an alibi 11:21 for your sins. 11:26 And this might not be shouting news, but it's settling news 11:31 because see, there are too many of us 11:33 that are willing to be friends with the enemy in private. 11:37 As long as we can have our Christian facade in public. 11:42 See, we'll do whatever. 11:43 Dirt behind closed doors 11:45 as long as the enemy would permit us to have our veneer. 11:49 As long as we can maintain that perception 11:51 of what people think of us and see the reason 11:54 some of us never attain Christian character 11:57 is because we're content with Christian image. 12:02 As long as I can hold on to our opinion, 12:04 as long as I can manage the narrative around me, 12:07 as long as I can dictate what people think. 12:09 But see, I need you to know that we serve a God 12:12 that and concern nothing about your image. 12:14 You don't care nothing about your family name. 12:17 He ain't concerned nothing about what people think about you. 12:19 He is not functioning in the face of image. 12:22 His image is what people think about you. 12:24 But he wants to develop character 12:25 because that's what God knows about you. 12:29 Are you all here? 12:30 What I'm saying friends. 12:31 And so somewhere in the process, 12:33 he's going to take all of us through some fumigation 12:39 and understand he's not trying to smoke you out. 12:43 He's trying to smoke in you out. 12:49 And he smokes us out in different ways. 12:52 Sometimes he just lets you lie collapse. 12:56 Yeah. 12:59 Sometimes that nasty text you're going to send 13:01 to one person winds up in a group thread. 13:06 Sometimes that 13:07 text from the other women gets opened up on your wife's iPad. 13:12 No matter how much birth control 13:14 and contraception you use, somebody still gets pregnant. 13:18 I need you to know friends of mine 13:20 that God has a way of taking those. 13:22 Things that are in the darkness. 13:24 It won't remain. Oh, y'all quiet today. 13:27 Y'all want this sermon to end? But I'm just getting started. 13:30 I need you to know that the God we serve in order 13:34 to save your soul cannot let it stay under the freeze. 13:40 He cannot let it stay in the cracks in the wall. 13:42 He cannot allow it to remain hidden. 13:44 That which is done in the darkness 13:45 has to come into the light, because the only way 13:50 God can heal is that He can never heal. 13:52 What remains hidden. 13:56 Are you all hear what I'm saying? It hurts. 13:58 So God says, I'm going to walk with 14:00 you and I'm going to come so close to you that those. 14:05 Things that are hidden and in panel get. 14:07 Smoked out so I can heal them. 14:12 Everything. 14:13 The fourth thing this teachers real quick thing to teach us 14:16 is that there's a difference between bondage and rebellion. 14:20 Y'all still with me? 14:23 Look at this statement here. I just took it off. 14:27 I want you to read this real quick. 14:27 Garbage is 255. 14:29 This difference between bondage and rebellion 14:33 when the man. 14:35 So so so he sees Jesus 14:37 when the man tried to appeal to Jesus for help. 14:40 Did y'all see this? 14:43 The man tried to appeal to His Jesus for help. 14:46 The evil spirit put words into his mouth 14:49 and cried out in agony in fear. 14:52 The demonic, 14:53 the money that partially comprehended 14:55 that he was in the presence of the one who could set him free. 14:59 But when he tried to come within reach 15:01 of that mighty hand, another wheel held him up. 15:06 Another's words found utterance through him. 15:10 The conflict between the power of Satan and his own desire 15:15 for freedom was rebel did don't catch this church. 15:20 You see, this man was not in rebellion. 15:24 He's under. Bondage. 15:27 Oh, Jesus. 15:31 This bondage is so heavy that the devil won't 15:35 even let him ask for help. 15:40 And can I suggest that the greatest form of bondage. 15:44 It ain't crack in a mess. 15:46 It ain't pouring in any alcohol. 15:49 It is a soul that the enemy won't even let you say. 15:52 I need help for what. 15:53 I'm going through. 15:57 In other words, he won't even let you form 16:00 your lips to say I need help. 16:02 He won't even let you admit that you, in a struggle. 16:06 As soon as he sees 16:07 that you're about to ask somebody to pray for you, 16:11 all of a sudden, everything in your soul clamps down 16:14 and say, I need you to know 16:14 because there's somebody saying, No oppressor, 16:16 that's not bondage, that's pride. 16:18 Where do you think it come from? 16:21 You realize 16:22 that the original sin is not eating fruit from a tree. 16:26 What a in the original sin was a soul 16:31 that was so impressed and enamored with his own glory 16:34 that he could not even submit 16:36 in the presence of the Almighty God. 16:40 So one of the greatest forms of bondage is pride. 16:42 I are here today, friends. 16:45 So I need you to get. 16:46 That there is a difference. MAN Help me, Lord. 16:49 There's a difference between bondage and rebellion. 16:51 They look. 16:52 They look like one another, but they're not related. 16:56 Okay, I see. 16:57 Rebellion, friends, is the pursuit of perceived. 17:03 Pleasure. 17:05 In a way that's done in ignorance, out of curiosity. 17:09 And some naivete. 17:11 In other words, rebellion is this belief 17:13 that there is this heightened level of existence and freedom 17:17 outside of the wheel and word of God 17:19 that causes me to pursue things 17:21 and go outside of the boundaries of Jesus Christ. 17:25 But see, the problem with rebellion 17:26 is that rebellion can ultimately lead you to bondage, 17:31 because what happens is when you go so far out there, 17:33 there is an invisible line 17:35 that you cross somewhere along the way 17:38 and you don't even realize that you've crossed over 17:40 from curious rebellion to satanic bondage. 17:44 And the problem is, you will never know 17:45 you're in bondage until you try to come out. 17:51 In other words, friends of mine, 17:52 I need you to understand that Samson was in rebellion. 17:57 And then he winds up in bondage because he didn't even know 18:02 that the Spirit 18:03 of God had departed from him. 18:08 Are you hear what I'm saying to. 18:09 The church and say, I need somebody. 18:11 Understand that there's a line that you can't cross and see. 18:14 It's an interesting situation 18:15 because sometimes we misdiagnose things, see? 18:19 We look at certain things and we say, See, when rebellion, 18:24 you have no. Desire. To do good. 18:27 With bondage, you have the desire. 18:29 You just can't carry it out 18:32 right now. Your brand new. 18:34 Bondage, that's the point. I just don't want it. 18:37 But see, once you're in bondage, 18:38 you want to come out, but you can't. 18:41 And see, I need you to know 18:42 that there is a difference between won't stop 18:48 and can't stop 18:51 because you're looking at a young person 18:52 and saying they're so rebellious because they won't stop. 18:55 It's not they won't stop. 18:57 They can't stop. 19:00 It's not that your husband won't stop watching porn. 19:02 He can't stop watching porn. 19:03 It's not that they won't put down. 19:05 They can't put down the weed. 19:07 It's not that they just won't come back. 19:10 They can't come back to church. 19:11 And I need you to understand 19:13 that once you go so far that there becomes this merger 19:19 between the human and the demonic. 19:24 So much, so that you literally operate under the whim 19:28 and the wishes of the enemy. 19:31 Now, I don't care what you want to call it, 19:32 you want to say, Oh, no, I'm not in bondage. 19:34 Maybe they're just addicted, maybe it's a sickness, 19:37 maybe if you call it whatever you want to call it. 19:40 But if you can't control your own will, 19:43 it's because the enemy has the upper hand in your life. 19:47 And that needs somebody to know 19:49 that God is bringing you to a place, friends of mine 19:52 where He doesn't want you to live in bondage. 19:53 See, freedom is not doing whatever you want. 19:57 Freedom is being able to do whatever you want. 20:01 The bondage gets us to a place 20:05 we want to stop. 20:08 We just can't. 20:10 And the only are we to powerless to stop the enemy 20:13 then creates and inflates us 20:16 with so much pride that we can't ask for help. 20:19 And there is this constant cycle of every time we get close, 20:24 the stronghold grows greater and 20:26 we wind up in greater bondage than we were the time before. 20:31 And it's crazy. This thing. About sin. 20:34 Notice that even when Jesus. 20:36 Cast the demon out of the man, 20:39 the Bible says that the Spirit convulsed him. 20:42 King James version says it tore him. 20:45 And in the crazy about sin, he didn't feel nothing 20:47 when the devil was going in. 20:50 He didn't feel nothing until the. 20:51 Devil had to be cast out and see. 20:54 I need you to know it is the nature of bondage 20:56 in all of its sorts. It is seamless. It is easy. 20:59 There are no red. Flags, there are no alarms. 21:02 It is easy when it's coming in to you. 21:06 But there is going to be a struggle 21:08 and there's going to be a fight. 21:11 And there's going to be a protest when it's time. 21:14 For the enemy to be removed from your life. 21:18 So I'm almost there. 21:21 You know, friends in the word Jesus does roughly 21:25 about 37, 38 recorded miracles. 21:28 In fact, when you look in the book 21:29 except the one, Luke says that he actually did 21:31 so many miracles, that man, 21:32 they could not be contained in all the pages of Scripture. 21:36 So when I look at miracles now, I begin 21:38 this kind of say to myself, Why did Jesus want this 21:41 one specifically? 21:42 Why did the Spirit ordained for this one 21:45 to be recorded for our consideration? 21:48 And see, there is a reason that Jesus 21:51 wanted us to see this demon. 21:53 Get defeated in his church. See? 21:56 See the fourth? 21:57 The last thing he needed us to understand 21:59 that the devil is defeated 22:04 by God. No, 22:09 no, no, no, no. Church. He needed you to see 22:13 that the devil is not 22:15 going to be defeated. 22:20 He needed you to recognize that the devil is already defeated. 22:27 No, I need you to look at it in the word. 22:31 Notice that when Jesus shows up, the automatic posture 22:35 of the devil was to assume defeat and destruction. 22:41 In other words, he didn't protest. 22:45 He didn't resist. He didn't put up a fight. 22:48 He just says, I'm Jesus, why are you here? 22:51 We thought we have a little more time. 22:53 Have you come to destroy us already? 22:57 And see the reason I am declaring this 23:00 over the people of God today, I need you to know 23:02 that the devil assumes a posture of submission. 23:06 He literally falls on his face and the presence of the lamb 23:09 that he puts up no resistance 23:10 until the one who was and is and is to come 23:14 see what Jesus wanted us to see was a stark contrast 23:19 between the power of light and the power of darkness. 23:22 Because once the light showed up, 23:25 the darkness automatically submit it. 23:28 Is there anybody that will stand to their feet. 23:32 And say, Lord, I'm done talking about how great he is. 23:37 But I'm going to take some time to celebrate how great you are. 23:41 I'm grateful that the Lord, strong and mighty, 23:44 you are the Lord mighty in battle. 23:47 Lift up your hands, all ye gates, 23:50 and be lifted up the everlasting doors 23:53 so that the King of glory. 23:54 Shall come in. 23:57 Are you tired of just being tired? 24:01 Are you frustrated because your results never change? 24:04 Do you feel like life is just going in circles? 24:08 I'm excited to introduce my newest book entitled 24:12 Excuse This, 24:13 and I'm going to be talking 24:14 about how to cancel the excuses that smother our soul wellness. 24:20 I need you to know that your issue is not 24:21 your circumstances. 24:22 It's not the challenges. 24:24 It is the lies that we tell ourselves about 24:27 why we're not progressing. 24:29 When you tell yourself, I don't have enough time, 24:32 I don't have enough resources, I don't have enough money. 24:35 Those are the excuses that are keeping you 24:37 from becoming whom God has called you to be. 24:40 So this book 24:41 is going to be talking to you about how to manage 24:43 your distractions, how to overcome your fears, 24:46 how to walk through procrastination, 24:49 and to become the best version of yourself. 24:52 So join me on Saturday, April the 13th, as I begin a teaching 24:56 series entitled ExcuseLess. 24:58 Every Saturday and Wednesday, we're going to walk 25:01 through the Word of God and give you the cheat code 25:04 to having a life filled with progress. 25:06 And then I want you to join us starting Sunday, 25:09 April the 14th, for our 21 days of free. 25:13 We're going to march through the content of the book. 25:14 We're going to testify. 25:15 We're going to call on the name of the Lord, 25:17 and we're going to grow as a community of faith. 25:21 You'll be able to get the book ExcuseLess on our Breath of Life 25:25 website at www.breathoflife.tv or on Amazon.com. 25:31 You can join us for 21 days on our Oakwood 25:33 University Church platforms 25:35 and on our Breath of Life platforms. 25:38 I need you to know that we're about to start a revolution. 25:42 There's about to be a growth grenade. 25:45 I would invite you to join me on this journey 25:48 as we begin the process of becoming excuses. 25:55 Hey, family, I know the weekends can be long, 25:59 they can be hard, and you go through a lot. 26:02 And so at the end of each week, 26:04 I want to encourage you to join me 26:07 and the Breath of Life team for the weekend. 26:09 Exhale with BOL We were having these programs on Sunday, 26:15 but now we want to begin the weekend 26:17 giving you a little nourishment, a little nurture, 26:20 giving you a little boost as you start the weekend. 26:23 Every first Friday, I'm going to be doing 26:25 a Bible study entitled to the Playbook, 26:28 where we're going 26:29 to be looking at issues of doctrine and culture 26:32 through the lens of the Scripture. 26:33 You don't have to guess. You don't have to hope. 26:36 God is giving us a script in the word 26:39 because the word is this playbook. 26:41 I'm gonna invite you to join me every second Friday 26:44 for a show called Point of View, 26:45 where Gianna and I do a deep dove into issues of marriage, 26:50 dating and relationships. 26:52 Every third Friday, join Pastor Nugent and myself 26:56 in the Vision Lab, 26:57 where we're going to be making a heavy deposit 27:00 into leaders of all fields. 27:03 We're going to be pouring into 27:04 pastors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, ministry leaders, authors. 27:09 And we're going to be talking 27:10 about how to build that vision 27:12 and move it from an idea to a reality. 27:15 And then on the fourth Friday, 27:16 we're introducing a new program called what just Happened. 27:21 We're going to be looking at 27:22 whatever the trending topics in culture are. 27:25 Danita, Pastor Nugent and myself, 27:28 we're going to be addressing whatever the trending culture 27:30 or topic is for that week or that month. 27:33 We're going to be engaging with you. 27:35 You're going to be answering your questions 27:37 and trying to figure out how we as believers 27:40 find our place in the larger culture. 27:43 We go through a lot 27:44 during the weekends. 27:45 You can get overwhelmed, 27:46 you can get a little stressed out. 27:48 But before you go into the weekend, 27:50 take a moment and join us to stop, breathe and Exhale 27:55 with BOL 28:11 (Breath Of |
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