Foundation of Our Faith

Drapetomania

Three Angels Broadcasting Network

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Participants: John Lomacang (Host), Dr. Dedrick Blue

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00:21 Hello, friends, and welcome to the 3ABN Worship Center
00:24 here in the beautiful winter Sabbath morning
00:27 and we know that the Lord is going to bless us.
00:29 Can we all say amen to that today?
00:31 Amen.
00:32 We have been blessed this week by the messages
00:34 that Dr. Dedrick Blue have preached.
00:38 He didn't teach, he didn't talk,
00:40 he preached the Word
00:42 and he taught in a wonderful way.
00:44 And we know this morning
00:46 that the Lord has a message in store.
00:48 An unusual titled one I've never heard before,
00:51 Drapetomania.
00:53 Say that with me, Drapetomania.
00:55 What does that mean?
00:57 That's why you need to stay tuned to find out.
01:00 Yesterday, it was about holy laughter
01:02 and the prior message that he began the series with,
01:06 here in our Foundation of Faith series
01:08 was the Coming Superstorm.
01:11 There is one more message
01:12 in this series of four messages
01:14 that he will be preaching this afternoon and titled
01:17 "They shall hunger no more"
01:21 Dr. Dedrick Blue has been in Ministry
01:24 more than 30 years.
01:25 He's been married 33 years,
01:27 he has three grown children and a lovely life
01:30 whom he publicly proclaimed, "I love my wife very much."
01:34 He's been a pastor-teacher, college administrator,
01:37 and his passion for Ministry also leads into the area
01:41 of dealing with affordable housing, health,
01:44 and educational disparities.
01:47 He's currently serving as the Dean
01:49 of the School of Religion at Oakwood University,
01:51 and he's a native of Boston, Massachusetts.
01:55 What a lot to remember! But praise the Lord.
01:58 All that is summarized to say,
02:00 God has been working through his life
02:02 for a number of years.
02:04 Our minister of music is a young lady
02:06 that has blessed my heart tremendously.
02:09 A vocal range that is par on a,
02:12 I haven't heard a vocal range like this in a long time.
02:15 But also the heart for Ministry is really
02:17 what Che Chin King is really all about.
02:20 She is a mother of two, she is a wife,
02:24 she is from Stockbridge, Georgia.
02:26 She has a website, chelauna.com,
02:30 where you can get access to her music
02:32 and a lot of information about how to invite her.
02:35 But this morning, we're gonna be blessed
02:37 with a song that I know is gonna throw your heart.
02:40 I believe we're getting ready for the coming of Jesus.
02:43 And this song, "We shall behold Him,"
02:46 will remind us of that wonderful appearing.
02:49 After this song, the very next voice
02:51 that you'll hear will be that of Dr. Dedrick Blue.
03:03 The sky shall
03:07 Unfold
03:13 Preparing
03:15 His entrance
03:22 The stars shall
03:26 Applaud Him
03:33 With thunders
03:36 Of praise
03:43 The sweet light
03:45 In His eyes
03:52 Shall enhance
03:54 Those awaiting
04:02 And we shall
04:06 Behold Him
04:13 Then face to face
04:21 O we shall
04:26 Behold Him
04:33 Yes, we shall
04:36 Behold Him
04:43 Face to face
04:48 In all of
04:51 His glory
04:58 O we shall
05:00 Behold Him
05:07 Yes, we shall
05:11 Behold Him
05:18 Face to face
05:26 Our Savior
05:31 And Lord
05:38 The angel
05:41 Shall sound
05:48 The shout of His coming
05:56 And they tell me to sleeping
06:00 They're gonna rise
06:05 From their
06:08 Slumbering place
06:18 And those
06:20 Who remain shall
06:27 We shall be changed
06:29 In a moment
06:38 And we shall
06:41 Behold him
06:48 Then face to face
06:58 We shall
07:02 Behold Him
07:08 Oh, yes, we shall
07:11 Behold Him
07:19 Face to face
07:24 In all of
07:26 His glory
07:34 We shall
07:36 Behold Him
07:43 Oh, yes, we shall
07:48 Behold Him
07:54 Face to face
08:03 Our Savior and Lord
08:11 Hallelujah!
08:14 We shall
08:17 Behold Him
08:23 Our Savior
08:31 And Lord
08:39 Savior
08:41 And Lord!
08:56 Oh, amen to that.
08:59 We shell behold Him.
09:02 You know, I'm so looking forward
09:03 to the coming of Jesus Christ.
09:05 Amen. Amen.
09:07 Amen. Now don't get me wrong.
09:11 I like my house.
09:15 I love my wife. I like my job.
09:21 But I'm looking forward
09:22 to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ,
09:25 because I have not seen and ear has not heard,
09:29 neither has it entered into the hearts of men
09:31 that thinks that God asked for prayer first.
09:34 Amen? Amen.
09:35 So yeah, this is a nice place to be,
09:37 and you look like you're all wonderful
09:39 and beautiful people.
09:40 But guess what, when we get to heaven,
09:42 you're gonna be even more beautiful
09:43 than you are now.
09:44 Amen? Amen.
09:46 Matter of fact, I was telling my wife the other day,
09:47 I can hardly wait to get to heaven.
09:48 When I get to heaven,
09:50 I'm gonna have hair back on my bald head once again.
09:52 When I get to Heaven,
09:54 I'm gonna have the body of Arnold Schwarzenegger,
09:55 I'm gonna be looking good, right?
09:57 So I'm looking forward
09:58 to the soon coming of Jesus Christ,
10:00 but not only that,
10:01 I'm looking forward to the end of sin.
10:03 Amen.
10:05 I'm looking forward to the vindication of God.
10:08 I'm looking forward to the triumph of truth.
10:11 I'm looking forward
10:13 to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
10:15 Amen? Amen.
10:17 I want to tell you, this morning,
10:18 I have greatly enjoyed myself being here
10:21 at the Dare to Dream Network.
10:22 What a wonderful place!
10:24 And what a wonderful and tremendous
10:26 and important ministry this is.
10:29 For right now, there are people
10:30 who are sitting in their homes who are watching,
10:33 and there's who are sitting at home watching today,
10:36 I believe that the Holy Spirit allowed you to tune in today
10:40 because God has a message for you.
10:42 Amen.
10:44 As we spend a few moments around the Word of God today.
10:47 I'm gonna ask and pray that wherever you are
10:49 that you would open your Bibles and follow along with us.
10:53 God has a special blessing in store for you this day.
10:57 Let's bow our heads
10:58 as we approach God forward a prayer.
11:01 Our father in heaven, we thank You so very much,
11:06 for that wonderful song sung by Sister King today,
11:10 We shall behold him. Amen.
11:14 Face to face!
11:16 Oh, Lord, that's what we live for,
11:18 and that's what we long for.
11:20 As much we enjoyed this world, we're tired of this old world.
11:23 This old world is not our final home.
11:26 We're looking for a better city
11:27 whose builder and whose maker is God.
11:31 And so Lord,
11:32 because we're looking forward to,
11:34 would You also preparing us.
11:36 And so we ask Him praising in this time of preparation
11:40 that You would open our hearts
11:41 to be receptive to the moving of Your spirit.
11:45 And as we open Your world, dear Lord,
11:47 lead us and guide us into all truth.
11:50 This day send the spirit of the living God
11:52 and bind the forces of the evil one
11:55 and loose someone today from bondage.
11:59 May the words of my mouth
12:00 and the meditations of our hearts
12:03 be acceptable in Thy sight.
12:05 Oh, Lord, our strengthen and Our Redeemer
12:06 in Jesus name.
12:08 Amen. Amen.
12:14 I shall never forgive.
12:20 I was lying in my bed in my room...
12:26 about to go to sleep,
12:30 when all of a sudden I heard the voice
12:34 of about two little children calling my name.
12:38 "Dedrick! Dedrick!"
12:43 I turned around to see if anyone was there,
12:45 but there was no one in the room,
12:47 and so I turned back over to go to sleep.
12:51 But I heard the voices again,
12:53 calling my name "Dedrick, Dedrick,"
12:55 and this time it sounded like more children.
13:00 I put the pillow over my head but it got loud,
13:02 and so I got up and went to the window to look outside
13:05 to see if someone were outside of my window,
13:08 but there was no one there.
13:10 I went to the back of the house
13:12 and opened the back window to see
13:13 if there was someone there, but there was no one there.
13:15 I got back in my bed
13:17 and put the pillow over my head
13:20 to drowned out the sound.
13:22 And all I could hear over and over again
13:24 were children calling my name,
13:28 "Dedrick! Dedrick!"
13:30 Louder and louder and more insistent.
13:34 That night, I did not really believe in God, I didn't.
13:39 I was an evolved atheist, I did not believe in God.
13:43 But you know something,
13:45 when you get scared all of a sudden,
13:46 you know how to believe in God.
13:50 Like when you're in a fox hole and folks are shooting at you,
13:52 you say, "Oh, God!" Right?
13:54 You're in school and you have to take a test,
13:56 and you don't know any answer,
13:57 "Oh, God." Right?
13:58 All of a sudden, I called up on the name of God
14:01 and the voice has stopped.
14:02 The next morning I got up and I went to my mother
14:04 and I said, "Mother, mother, I don't know what's happening,
14:06 I hear people calling my name at night."
14:09 And my mother just looked at me
14:10 and pointed her finger at me in her godly way says,
14:12 "Son, that's because you are not living right."
14:18 She said that devil is after you.
14:21 Have mercy.
14:24 You know, over the years I have learned something,
14:26 I've learned that there is a true statement
14:28 that was written in a book called "Great Controversy,"
14:31 page 516,
14:34 and it says this,
14:36 "There is nothing
14:38 that the great deceiver fears so much
14:42 as that we shall become acquainted with his devices."
14:48 Satan is afraid of the fact
14:50 that we shall pull back the covers
14:51 and find out that really it is him
14:53 who is whispering in our ears.
14:55 It is really him
14:56 who is causing us the trouble and turmoil in our life.
14:59 He fears that more than anything else.
15:03 The title of this morning's message
15:04 is called Drapetomania.
15:07 Drapetomania.
15:09 Now, have you ever heard
15:11 of a mental illness called drapetomania?
15:15 Well, it was prominent
15:16 and quite prevalent back in the 1800s.
15:20 But if you would have checked your diagnostic manual today,
15:23 you would not find drapetomania in there anymore.
15:26 Right?
15:28 But that winter was considered to be very, very
15:29 severe condition and a serious condition.
15:33 What drapetomania was this?
15:36 It was an official psychiatric diagnosis of mental illness
15:43 that was described by an epidemic
15:47 in African Americans, only African Americans.
15:53 Drapetomania was the condition
15:58 that black slaves wanted to be free.
16:05 And so if you are a black slave on a plantation
16:08 and you wanted to be free,
16:09 if you had a compulsion to be free,
16:12 then you were considered to be mentally ill.
16:15 You were a drapetomaniac.
16:19 Listen to this description by Elias B. Caldwell.
16:22 He said, he said this about the slaves,
16:25 "The more you improve the condition of these people,
16:28 the more you cultivate their minds,
16:30 the more miserable you make them.
16:34 You give them a higher relish for those privileges
16:36 which they can never attain
16:38 and turn what we intend for a blessing into a curse."
16:43 So if a Black man want to be free,
16:45 he was called a drapetomaniac,
16:47 he was considered to be one who had a mental disease.
16:51 But I want to let you know this morning
16:53 that I'm a drapetomaniac and I'm a proud drapetomaniac.
16:58 And if drapretomania is a mental illness,
17:00 then I guess, I'm just crazy because I want to be free.
17:04 Amen.
17:05 You see, there's something
17:07 in the bosom of every human being
17:09 that desires freedom.
17:13 There's something that is in our bosom
17:15 that says that we are meant to be more than
17:17 what we are right now.
17:19 There's something inside of us that tells us
17:22 that we are not supposed to settle for the low life
17:24 that we are living at this present time.
17:28 And if drapetomania is an illness,
17:29 then let me be ill, I want to be free.
17:31 Amen.
17:33 I want to be free from the tyranny of Satan.
17:36 And I want to be free from the yoke of the devil.
17:40 I want to be a drapetomaniac
17:42 because I believe this morning
17:45 that God has determined that we shall be free.
17:47 Amen.
17:49 I believe that perhaps they made me someone
17:51 who is listening to me right now,
17:53 who desires freedom.
17:56 Freedom from sin
17:58 and freedom from the sin that does so easily beset you.
18:02 And freedom from the tyranny of devils and demons
18:05 in your life, drapetomania.
18:08 I've text this morning, refined a drapetomaniac,
18:13 in the book of Mark 5, in Mark 5,
18:16 we find a story of a man desiring to be free,
18:21 a drapetomaniac.
18:22 Mark 5, I'm beginning with verse one.
18:26 And the Bible says this,
18:29 "And they came over to the other side of the sea
18:33 into the country of the Gerasenes.
18:37 And when He, Jesus, was coming out of the ship,
18:40 immediately, they met Him a man out of the tombs
18:44 which had an unclean spirit."
18:49 Jesus has just crossed over to see that night.
18:51 And you'll remember
18:52 if you read the previous chapter
18:54 that night as Jesus got into the boat.
18:56 Satan whipped up a storm of satanic fury.
19:00 If you ever read the book "The Desire of Ages,"
19:02 the writer of the book Ellen White says
19:04 that there was a storm that Satan whipped up
19:06 and he designed that storm to kill Jesus.
19:10 The disciples were panicking as water coming into the boat.
19:14 And all of a sudden in the midst of
19:15 that demonic satanic storm,
19:19 Jesus,
19:20 who is the Sovereign King of the universe--
19:22 Amen.
19:23 Is not terrified by the storm,
19:25 instead He raises His hand up to the sky
19:28 and looks at it and says, "Peace, be still."
19:31 And then, immediately,
19:32 the winds whisper an apology to the Savior.
19:37 And immediately the sea becomes calm as glass
19:40 and gently rocks the Savior in the boat.
19:45 After that confrontation,
19:46 Jesus now comes over to the other side of the sea
19:49 and the air is fresh, and the morning is bright,
19:52 and sky is bluer because Jesus is there.
19:56 And the flowers are sweeter because Jesus is there,
19:59 and the birds are chirping more beautiful
20:01 because Jesus is there.
20:04 But then, all of a sudden,
20:05 the morning ear is pierced with the bloodcurdling scream.
20:11 The Bible says that as soon as Jesus got out of the boat,
20:15 they met Him a man who had an unclean spirit.
20:21 Here in the pages of scripture, "The Great Controversy,"
20:24 is being played out in miniature.
20:27 Notice the contrast between the two.
20:31 Jesus stands there calm and erect and direct.
20:36 The man stands there bent,
20:38 and twisted, and nailed,
20:41 Jesus stands there cloved in humanity, divinity,
20:46 cloved in humanity.
20:48 And the man stands there
20:49 with his clothes ripped and torn.
20:53 The man's eyes are darting wildly
20:55 and Jesus eyes are calm and penetrating.
21:00 The man looks like
21:02 what every man will become because of sin,
21:06 but Jesus looks like what every man may become
21:10 because of the victory of Jesus.
21:14 The contrast just stopped, and the Bible says,
21:17 "This man is moved, and motivated,
21:19 and animated, and activated by demons."
21:24 Now I know that these days,
21:26 it's not polite to talk about demons.
21:29 It's seems old fashion in Christian circles.
21:32 It seems a little bit out of date,
21:34 and little anachronistic,
21:38 maybe we should confine demons to scary movies
21:42 and Hollywood tails.
21:45 These days, people tell you
21:46 that the devil does not really exist.
21:49 They are instead,
21:51 they were sociological forces that shape human behavior.
21:55 They say that the devil does not really exists
21:57 that he is merely a mythological creature
22:00 in the Bible used to demonstrate evil
22:03 and an alternative lifestyle.
22:07 They say that the devil does not exist, that instead,
22:11 it is only the darker side of your mind, the eared,
22:15 the undeveloped child, the ancient archetype.
22:19 But when I read my Bible, the Bible is clear,
22:23 the Bible says that,
22:24 "There are such things as unclean spirits."
22:27 And I want to let you know today
22:29 that Stephen King did not invent them,
22:31 and Hollywood did not create them.
22:34 For the Bible says in Revelation 16
22:36 that "Unclean spirits like frogs
22:40 are gone out into the world."
22:43 The Bible makes it plain
22:44 that these are unclean spirits are fallen angels
22:47 under the command of Satan
22:50 who was cast down from heaven
22:52 and he was now down here on earth.
22:55 These demons are spiritual beings.
22:58 For the Bible reminds us
22:59 that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,
23:03 but against principalities and against powers,
23:06 not flesh and blood.
23:07 I wish that the devil were flesh and blood.
23:09 I wish I could get my hands around his neck.
23:13 Come on now.
23:14 But unfortunately, the Bible says,
23:17 "There is a spiritual entity." These are spiritual beings.
23:21 Not only that, the Bible also says
23:23 that these spiritual beings are organized.
23:26 The Bible says
23:28 that they operate in principalities and powers.
23:31 In other words,
23:32 they organize themselves for warfare,
23:36 and they organize a strategy of attack
23:39 against the people of God.
23:42 And we are warned in Revelation 12:12,
23:46 "Woe therefore to the inhibitors
23:48 of the earthen of the sea,
23:49 because the devil has come down
23:52 on to us having great wrap, because he understands,
23:55 he has, but has short time."
23:58 And look what he does, look at what the demons do.
24:02 "They tempt the disobedience", Genesis 3:1.
24:06 "They inflict disease," Job 2:7.
24:10 "They removed good seed that is sowed in the heart,"
24:12 Matthew 13:19.
24:15 "They sow tares," Matthew 13:38.
24:19 "They ruined body and soul," Luke 9:42.
24:23 "They lie," John 8:44.
24:26 "They instigate men to sin," John 13:2.
24:30 "And they preyed upon men and women,"
24:33 1 Peter 5:8.
24:35 "Be sober and Be vigilant
24:36 because you have a survey like a lion roams about
24:41 seeking whom he may devour."
24:44 Demonic activity is real and demons are real.
24:48 And there is a rise in demonic activity
24:51 in the world today.
24:53 You know, during this past year, 2015,
24:57 there was a mass shooting everyday of the year
25:01 in the United States of America,
25:02 every day, every day.
25:06 Now, we don't hear about them all
25:07 and there is a reason why,
25:10 one of the reasons why you don't hear
25:11 about of them all because if people really knew
25:13 what was behind some of these mass murders,
25:15 they would be panic.
25:17 Some of these mass murderers
25:19 actually are being moved and motivated by demons.
25:24 The Oregon shooter
25:25 was into Satanism and into witchcraft.
25:28 Adam Lanza,
25:31 who shot up the children in Newtown, Connecticut,
25:34 was into witchcraft.
25:35 And you can go on and on and on.
25:37 When they go into the background,
25:40 they began to check
25:42 "What makes these people do what they do?"
25:45 There's only one answer that is left.
25:48 John 8:44 says that, "The devil is a liar
25:52 and a murderer from the beginning.
25:55 And demons are stalking the land.
25:58 And they've left unchecked
26:00 every single one of us
26:02 will fall victim to their prey."
26:05 It's only by the grace of God
26:07 holding back the winds of strive
26:09 until the servants of God are sealed.
26:12 And why do they attack?
26:14 Someone said, "Well, they attack."
26:16 But why?
26:17 Why on me? I'm not doing anything.
26:18 Why are demons picking on me?
26:20 Well, demons sometimes attack you
26:22 simply because you are.
26:26 You see, when God made us, He made us in his image.
26:31 Now I remember, I remember,
26:33 when my son was about this height,
26:35 there was somebody,
26:37 there is a little kid who got mad with me.
26:39 Right?
26:40 'Cause I told him to go sit down or something.
26:42 And so he couldn't hit me,
26:45 so he went and found my son and hit my son,
26:48 'cause my son looks like me, he's in my image.
26:51 I call my son-- I used to call him a "mini-me",
26:53 but now he is a--
26:55 I guess I'm a mini him, he's like 6' 3",
26:56 and I'm only 6' 1".
26:58 Now he looks down on top my baldhead
26:59 and pass by top of the head.
27:00 But you're made in the image of the God,
27:03 all right.
27:05 And because you were made in the image of God
27:07 and Satan hates God,
27:09 he attacks you simply because you are.
27:13 Number two, demons attack you because sometimes,
27:15 you give them the right of access.
27:19 You give them the right of access.
27:20 For example, when you start to dabble in the Occult,
27:23 or false religions, or new age movement,
27:26 or sexual lifestyles that have not been
27:31 condoned by the Word of God.
27:35 You know, when I was growing up,
27:36 sin used to be called sin,
27:38 but now we have all kinds of cute names for sin right.
27:40 Don't we?
27:41 Back when I was-- I'm old guy, sin was just sin.
27:45 So lying was just lying,
27:48 but now lying is called prevarication.
27:52 Stealing was just stealing, but now stealing is called
27:55 a misappropriation of funds, right?
27:59 Cheating on your spouses is called cheating on yourself,
28:02 you're an adulterated...
28:04 you're a whoremonger,
28:05 but now it's called an alternative lifestyle
28:08 between two consenting adults, right?
28:11 You know, I mean,
28:12 the devil knows how to wrap it up, right?
28:14 And package it in such a way.
28:16 And so, the lifestyles
28:19 that were once condemned by society
28:22 based upon the Word of God are now condoned.
28:24 And if you speak out against it,
28:27 "There is something that is wrong with you."
28:32 Another way, any type of Satan worshiping,
28:36 whether we do music, or drugs, or alcohol,
28:40 any type of verbal or physical abuse
28:44 is avenue for Satan.
28:46 A promiscuous lifestyle and criminal activity,
28:48 or bringing a cursed object into your home.
28:53 Let me tell you something, I used to live in Thailand,
28:55 I was a student missionary in Thailand.
28:58 I remember leaving Thailand, and one of my students came
29:01 and they gave me a little metal,
29:03 and they said, "Here, teacher, this is for you,
29:06 this little metal will bring you luck."
29:08 And so, I took the metal,
29:10 and it had a picture of a monk on the outside,
29:12 some writing on the outside, some symbols on the back.
29:14 And I took it home and I said,
29:16 "Okay I'm gonna keep it as a beautiful keepsake."
29:17 But, you know, there's something about that metal
29:19 that never made me feel right.
29:22 I put that metal by my bed at night
29:24 because it was a little keepsake.
29:26 I started having strange dreams.
29:27 I said, "Something is not right with this thing, man."
29:30 I finally got that metal and I threw it out.
29:33 And when I threw it out,
29:34 there was peace in my home once again.
29:35 Amen.
29:37 Don't you know and understand that
29:38 there are certain objects that are cursed?
29:40 That's right.
29:41 Don't you know, for example, there are certain movies
29:43 that you can bring into your home that are cursed?
29:45 The people who made them,
29:47 put the curse on them when they made them.
29:49 They prayed to the devil when they were making them.
29:52 And if you don't believe that
29:54 the devil is about cursing people,
29:56 then you are sadly mistaken.
29:58 My wife was on a plane one day,
29:59 and she was sitting next to a man,
30:02 and as she sat next this man,
30:06 the man ordered his vegetarian meal,
30:08 and she ordered a vegetarian meal
30:09 and the stew just came
30:11 and brought her, her vegetarian meal,
30:13 and when she brought him his meal,
30:15 he said, "Oh, no, thank you."
30:16 So my wife was impressed that this man,
30:18 this good looking man was a vegetarian.
30:20 She said, perhaps,
30:22 he is a person of my same faith.
30:25 So she turned to him and said, "Sir, I see you're vegetarian."
30:28 He says, "Yes, I'm a vegetarian."
30:29 She says, "Well, I'm a vegetarian, too."
30:31 And so, she says to him,
30:34 "Do you practice vegetarian for religious reasons?"
30:36 He said, "Oh, yes, I do." She said, "Well, I do, too."
30:40 Right?
30:41 And so she said, "Well, I'm a Christian and I eat
30:45 'cause I'm trying to keep my body
30:46 as the temple of the Holy Ghost."
30:48 And he said, "Well, guess what, I'm a Satanist,
30:51 and I, usually, would eat my vegetarian meal,
30:54 but today I'm fasting and I'm praying
30:57 along with my brothers and sisters
31:00 for the destruction of Christian homes."
31:05 Let me tell you, another way that Satan gets into your life
31:09 and starts to harass you
31:10 is through this third party intervention.
31:13 There are some people who are ought to get you
31:17 and will try any means they can to put a curse on you.
31:22 Now if you don't believe this,
31:23 you need to go to certain parts of the world.
31:26 I was preaching a series one time
31:28 in a country on the other side of the world.
31:30 I won't name the country
31:32 because I don't want to characterize
31:33 all those people.
31:35 But I was there
31:36 and I was preaching on a back alley somewhere,
31:39 all of a sudden, the witch doctors came
31:42 and they wanted to put a curse on me.
31:44 And the whole time I was preaching,
31:45 they were standing around the outside,
31:47 just throwing curses, and yelling, and screaming,
31:49 and the people were terrified.
31:52 When I made my appeal to ask folks
31:54 to come to give their life to Jesus,
31:56 some people came and at that moment,
31:58 the witch doctors could contain themselves no more,
32:00 and they lunged at me,
32:02 as if they were going to try to tear me apart.
32:05 And the elders and the Deacons grabbed them
32:07 to hold them as I was still making my appeal.
32:10 And finally, I say it in the name of Jesus,
32:13 the name of Jesus, "Shut your mouth
32:16 and go back to where you came from!"
32:18 And they shut up and sat down and walked away.
32:21 Sometimes, demonic harassment occurs
32:25 because there were other people
32:26 who were trying to put things on you.
32:29 Sometimes, demonic harassment occurs
32:31 because of things that have transpired in your family.
32:35 Ain't it?
32:36 I come from a long land of spiritual people.
32:41 I had a great grand daddy, who was a preacher,
32:44 but my father wasn't, his son wasn't.
32:48 But my great grand daddy was a powerful preacher,
32:50 built one of the largest Baptist churches
32:52 in North Carolina, right?
32:54 On the other side, I had a great grand daddy
32:57 who never was a ordained minister,
32:59 but he was a powerful preaching elder,
33:01 everyone, always called in to preach
33:03 I never met either one of those men.
33:05 Now listen,
33:08 the call of ministry skipped a couple of generations,
33:11 but it fell on me.
33:13 I read in the Bible, just like God has,
33:16 the levied sin, those who are set aside for peace to it,
33:19 I also believe that God has people
33:22 who He calls to ministry.
33:24 Amen. Am I right?
33:26 There are families who are set aside for ministry
33:29 because somewhere way back in the olden days,
33:32 grand daddy or great, great, great, great,
33:33 great, great grand daddy said,
33:35 "Lord, bless my children and my children
33:38 and my children's children's children."
33:40 Well, just like them, there was somebody praying for me
33:42 before I was born,
33:44 there may be somebody in your background
33:46 or in your life
33:48 who dedicated themselves to the enemy of souls,
33:50 who was praying for you before you were born as well.
33:54 And maybe, just maybe
33:55 the demonic harassment that is in your life
33:58 is the result of the generational curse.
34:01 Now I know some people don't believe
34:03 in generational curses,
34:04 but generational curses are biblical.
34:06 How do I know, because when Adam sinned,
34:08 he passed the generational curse
34:10 on to all of us, isn't that right?
34:14 Soul is set, so perhaps.
34:16 The devil is in your life in one of these ways.
34:20 So this man, the Bible says,
34:22 "This unclean spirit was living amongst the tombs."
34:26 And it says here that, "No man could bind him,
34:28 no, not with chains."
34:30 Listen to it, verse 4,
34:32 "Because He had often been bound with fetters and chains,
34:38 and the chains had been plucked asunder by him,
34:41 and fetters were broken in pieces."
34:43 And it says, "Neither could any man tame Him."
34:48 Hm-mm.
34:49 Listen, those fetters and those chains
34:53 represent society's attempt
34:58 to control demonic behavior.
35:03 We use police to control behavior.
35:08 We use psychologist and psychiatrist
35:10 to control behavior.
35:13 We call it deviant behavior, characteristic disorder,
35:17 multiple personality disorder, we throw drugs at it
35:20 and we make laws forward,
35:22 but we refuse to understand
35:25 that something's can't be treated by drugs and laws,
35:28 isn't that right?
35:30 And if a demon is controlling you,
35:32 then no teacher can tame you, no parent can stop you,
35:35 no spouse can prevent you, no judge can order you,
35:38 and no preacher can pray you through.
35:40 Amen? Amen.
35:42 Am I right?
35:44 Because it says, "Often times, often times,
35:47 he broke the chains."
35:49 And then it says, "And day and night,
35:51 he was always in the mountains and in the tombs crying,
35:55 cutting himself with stones,"
35:56 notice here, that when demon start to activate
36:00 and move into your life,
36:03 it often manifests itself in self-destructive behavior.
36:09 You see, Satan wants to destroy your life.
36:11 And the one thing he cannot create his life,
36:13 and so he would attempt to destroy the life
36:16 that God has given to you.
36:17 So if you are feeling suicidal today,
36:20 or you were in some sort of self-destructive behavior,
36:23 that is sapping the life out of you,
36:25 you need to know and understand
36:26 that that is not of God that is the work of the enemy.
36:31 Now, I don't have much time so I'm gonna have to move on
36:36 'cause I want to get into a good part.
36:37 I don't believe in glorifying the devil.
36:40 I believe in giving Jesus pray. Amen.
36:43 Amen.
36:45 So listen, this man was in a bad state of affairs
36:49 or awful way to go.
36:51 It says though in verse 6,
36:53 "But when he saw Jesus a far off,
36:57 he ran a man and he worshipped him.
37:01 When he saw Jesus a far off, he worshipped him."
37:05 Now something strange about this text
37:07 and I missed it the first time I read it.
37:09 When I went back and I read it again,
37:10 then I saw it more clearly.
37:11 It says, it says this, "When the man saw Jesus,
37:14 the man worshiped."
37:17 Now notice the demons don't worship.
37:21 It's impossible for demon to worship
37:23 because worship is heartfelt praise
37:24 an admiration toward God,
37:26 or worship emerges out of a heart of phrase
37:28 and joy and thanksgiving, right?
37:29 Isn't that right? So demons cannot worship.
37:32 So it says, that when this man saw Jesus, right,
37:35 I can imagine that the demons who were possessing him
37:38 were holding him back and saying to him,
37:40 "I dare you not go worship Jesus," right?
37:44 But it says here, "When the man saw Jesus,
37:47 he couldn't help himself."
37:48 Amen. Amen.
37:50 You see, if you are caught
37:52 in the throes of some demonic possession,
37:55 all you have to do is keep looking at Jesus.
37:58 You might be being harassed, but the demons cannot hold you.
38:01 Am I right?
38:03 All you have to do is turn your eyes upon Jesus
38:05 and look would fall on his wonderful face
38:07 and the things of earth will grow strangely dim
38:09 and the light of his glory and grace.
38:11 The Bible says, "He worshiped."
38:14 He worshipped. Now, I want to tell you.
38:18 You might not have much left inside of you,
38:21 but whatever you have left inside of you,
38:24 if you have to catch a glimpse of the Savior
38:26 move in the direction of God
38:29 for there is help in the direction of Jesus.
38:31 There is hope in the direction of Jesus.
38:33 There is victory in the direction of Jesus.
38:36 Amen. Praise God.
38:38 How do I know?
38:40 Next few minutes let me just share this with you.
38:42 I have many things to share with you.
38:43 You cannot bear them all now. So let me share a few things.
38:50 I grew up in a Christian home,
38:52 but I was far off from being a Christian, far.
38:57 I guess my, my first introduction into,
38:59 into, into the occult was a little game
39:02 called Kreskin's ESP.
39:05 And it had a little pendulum
39:06 and you could hold the pendulum up
39:08 and you would ask it questions, and then it would move,
39:11 it would move this way for yes, and that way for no.
39:13 And then, it will go around in circles for maybe.
39:17 If you held a perfectly still,
39:18 it wouldn't move back and forth.
39:21 In the same way, then when people play
39:22 a Ouija board,
39:23 you know, you don't have to do holding your hands
39:25 perfectly still, it'll move all by itself.
39:27 I thought this was fascinating, and I thought this was fun,
39:30 little did I know and understand,
39:32 what forces were behind it.
39:37 I grew up in a single parent household,
39:38 and my father wasn't then, you know, I grew up sort of,
39:42 not liking my father too much, I hated my father.
39:44 So when I went to church and people would say,
39:46 "Oh, we have to love our heavenly father,"
39:48 I think to myself, "How in the world
39:50 can I love a God,
39:51 a heavenly father who I've not seen,
39:53 and I can't love the earthly father
39:55 who is right here, who I see.
39:58 It was right there and my young heart
39:59 that Satan begin to sow the seeds of rebellion
40:02 and hatred against God.
40:04 So I say this to you, listen to me carefully,
40:07 you don't have to be old to be under the influence of demons,
40:10 demons affect children as well.
40:13 He attacks them at the time of their weakness
40:15 and in the time of their youth.
40:18 In my youth, I loved musicians, I've loved music.
40:21 My father was a musician and I loved,
40:23 I loved to play the drums
40:24 and I would sit there all day long
40:25 and, and play drums
40:27 and I have nothing against drums.
40:28 Drums are just an instrument like any other instrument.
40:31 They can be used for good or used for evil.
40:34 But I've also come to know and understand,
40:36 just like you can make a piano, give glory to God,
40:38 you can make it give glory to the devil as well.
40:40 I've come to know and understand
40:41 that there were times when I was beating that drum
40:43 that something else was working.
40:45 I would find myself beating the drum for hours
40:48 and wake up five hours later
40:51 and not know what happened to the time.
40:55 It's about that time also I started becoming involved
40:58 in an martial arts and Chinese philosophy.
41:02 So I started practicing these things,
41:04 and then as I started moving into the,
41:06 into the realm of telekinesis,
41:08 I wanted to make things move with my mind
41:11 and I would sit there and concentrate on things
41:13 until they can move.
41:15 And then I want to get into telep, telepathy
41:19 and sit there and think thoughts
41:21 and try to put my thoughts inside somebody's head.
41:24 And I would sit there on the train
41:26 and I would see a pretty girl, I would think to myself,
41:29 "Now, you get over it, come over here and talk to me,
41:31 you come over here and talk to me,
41:32 you come over here and talk to me.
41:34 I'm sending you the message come over here and talk to me."
41:37 And guess what?
41:39 She would come over and talk to me.
41:40 And I said to myself, "Oh, what great power I have!"
41:43 Little did I understand how Satan works, right?
41:46 While he was putting the thought in my mind,
41:49 he was also putting the thought in hers.
41:51 It was not my power all,
41:53 it was his power is the puppeteer
41:55 making both of us act.
41:57 Amen.
41:59 It was about that same time,
42:01 that I started hearing the voices.
42:04 First, it was the children in my room,
42:06 and then the voices got louder and more distinct.
42:09 Finally, I'd be walking down the street
42:12 and I would hear the voices say to me,
42:14 "Take that man and kill him.
42:15 Take his head and smash it into the ground.
42:18 Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!"
42:22 It became so bad
42:24 that when I would walk down the street
42:26 and I would see a church,
42:27 I would cross on the other side of the street
42:30 so I wouldn't be on the same side of the street
42:33 as the church.
42:37 One day, one day, I got so scared.
42:43 I didn't know what to do.
42:47 My mother said to me,
42:48 "There's a revival going on in church,
42:49 I want to you to come to that revival."
42:52 "Mom, I ain't going to revival."
42:54 "You need to come to the revival."
42:56 And so for the first time in years,
42:59 I found myself standing at the back of the church.
43:03 And when the preacher made the appeal,
43:05 I found myself strangely walking down to front
43:10 because for the first time in my life,
43:12 I had caught a glimpse of Jesus.
43:15 Amen.
43:18 I never forget the day, when I was getting baptized
43:20 as I was getting baptized,
43:22 I said the story of the other night
43:23 as I was getting baptized.
43:25 I went to the church that day.
43:26 Before I had got to church,
43:28 somebody actually stabbed me in the back,
43:30 on my way to church,
43:31 someone stabbed me in the back on my way to church
43:33 'cause see, Satan will not give up without a fight,
43:35 stabbed me in my back on the way to church.
43:37 But I went to church anyway with the wound in my back.
43:41 When I've got to church
43:42 that the demons were still speaking in my ear
43:45 yelling at me, "Get out of here!
43:46 Get out of here! Run out of here!
43:48 Scream! Scream! Scream!"
43:49 As I got into the pool, I will never forget my,
43:51 my pastor, my pastor held his hand over my head
43:54 and used the past to say good things about you.
43:56 "Oh, I'm we're so glad.
43:57 This man is here to be baptized,
43:59 he loves the Lord."
44:00 My pastors stood and said, "I don't believe that,
44:02 I just don't believe this."
44:07 But the demons were still yelling in my ear
44:10 until he said,
44:12 "I have baptized you in the name of the Father
44:15 and the Son and the Holy Ghost."
44:17 And I went under the water and, immediately,
44:20 when I went under the water, the voices stopped.
44:24 Come on now. Amen.
44:25 Amen.
44:27 When people talk about the role of demons,
44:30 I don't talk theoretically.
44:33 I talk from personal experience.
44:36 I have learned that you can't play around with the devil.
44:40 You can't tiptoe around evil.
44:42 You got to call sin by its right name.
44:45 You've got to stand up for the truth of God.
44:48 And when God opens a door, when God makes an opportunity,
44:52 when he provides a way,
44:54 you need to run in the direction of Jesus.
44:57 The man ran in the direction of Jesus.
45:00 When he saw Jesus, he said, "This is my hope,
45:04 there's something burning inside of me
45:07 that wants to be free.
45:08 I refused to be slave anymore.
45:11 Before, I'd be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave
45:15 and go home to my Lord and be free.
45:18 I'm a cryptomaniac."
45:20 The man ran in the direction of Jesus.
45:23 Well, listen, when the man fell at the feet of Jesus
45:27 and worshipped.
45:29 As he opened his mouth, the demon spoke.
45:33 The demon said, "Jesus, what have we to do with You?
45:36 You've come here to torment us."
45:39 Let me tell you something,
45:42 you might be home right now watching this television.
45:45 And the Lord is speaking to you at this very moment.
45:49 But even as you catch a glimpse of, of Jesus,
45:53 the demons are speaking through you.
45:56 You might be even be cursing the television set right now,
46:00 looking at me calling me a liar.
46:03 But I'm here to tell you that whatever is left inside of you,
46:08 Jesus heals the faint as plea.
46:10 Amen, yes.
46:11 He, he has the humblest call.
46:13 Praise God in our belief.
46:15 There's nothing.
46:16 His arm is not too shorten that he cannot save,
46:18 and His ear is not so heavy that He cannot hear.
46:22 If you call upon Him now,
46:24 He will save you for who so ever calls
46:26 upon the name of the Lord will be saved.
46:28 But pastor, I have tried
46:30 but when I do that, the demon stopped me.
46:32 Here's the thing I like about Jesus.
46:34 Jesus looks at the, at the man who has the demon,
46:38 and the demon is cursing at Jesus,
46:40 but Jesus does not respond to the demon.
46:44 Jesus responds to the need of the man.
46:48 Hallelujah!
46:50 Aren't you glad?
46:51 Aren't you glad that when you mess up,
46:53 God looks at you still, He looks beyond your faults,
46:57 and he addresses your needs?
46:59 Amen. Amen.
47:01 And so He hears the man's unspoken request
47:04 because he sees his humble heart.
47:07 And Jesus says, "In the name of the Father,
47:11 come out of the man."
47:13 Amen.
47:16 Wherever you are at this moment,
47:20 I declare to you that Jesus can and will deliver.
47:28 I read in the Bible that although,
47:33 the devil is the head, although the devil operates
47:36 under principalities and powers,
47:39 Jesus is the head of principalities and powers.
47:41 Amen. Amen.
47:44 I read in the Bible
47:46 that when the enemy shall come in like a flood,
47:50 the Lord will rise up a standard against, you know...
47:52 Praise God.
47:54 I read in the Bible that "The angels of the Lord
47:57 and camps around about them that fear him
48:00 and God delivers them."
48:04 I read, "The greater is He that is in you
48:07 than He that is in the world."
48:10 I read, I read, "If God before you,
48:14 who can be against you."
48:15 Amen.
48:17 I read in the Word of God that,
48:18 "No weapon found against you shall prosper."
48:24 And I believe that.
48:27 God is able.
48:29 But you've got to make up in your mind
48:30 that you weren't off the plantation.
48:33 You know, when the emancipation and proclamation was signed
48:35 and the 13th amendment in 1865 giving the slaves freedom,
48:40 you know, some slaves chose to stay on the plantation
48:44 'cause they felt more comfortable
48:46 to stay on the plantation and when it was to go free.
48:49 You might not know,
48:50 what's on the other side of freedom.
48:52 You might be comfortable right now,
48:54 but that comfort always comes with a price.
48:57 Get up and make your way to Jesus.
48:59 Amen.
49:00 I conclude in the last few minutes
49:01 with this little story,
49:03 there's one illustrator staying for you,
49:05 drapetomania.
49:06 Now, I don't know about you
49:09 but I grew up in a rough neighborhood.
49:13 And my little rough neighborhood,
49:15 we sometimes had people who work the neighborhood,
49:17 they were called insurance men.
49:20 Now, you know, who an insurance man is?
49:23 An insurance man is you either pay the insurance man
49:26 or they'll break your face.
49:30 So I was in a school and there were gangs
49:32 there are gangs that operated in my school.
49:34 And the leader of this one gang his name was Louis King.
49:37 Louis King, was a bad man. He was a bad boy, bad boy.
49:40 He was so bad, that he and his friends
49:43 bragged about killing an old man for 50 cents.
49:46 And they were in the school as the insurance men,
49:48 they were collecting insurance money off of everybody.
49:52 But fortunately, they had never bothered me until one day,
49:54 I went to the bathroom and I went to the bathroom,
49:56 and there in the bathroom was Louis King.
49:58 And Louis King, comes over to me and he says, he says.
50:01 "Hey, man! You've got some money on you."
50:03 I said, "I don't have any money on me."
50:04 He said, "You got some money,"
50:06 and "I don't have any money on me."
50:07 He says, he says, "Give me a nickel."
50:09 Back then, a nickel was a lot of money,
50:10 I'm old man, nickel's a lot of money back then.
50:12 He says, "Give me a nickel.
50:13 If you don't give me a nickel, I'll break your face,"
50:15 and he pulled out his knife and he held it up
50:16 and held his knife up on me, so I found a nickel.
50:18 "Here, Mr. Louis King,"
50:20 So he said, "Next week, I want a dime."
50:24 So the next week, I'm in school minding my own business,
50:27 and Louis King looks at me, he's pointing at me.
50:28 He says, "You got money, my money, that money?"
50:30 I tried to avoid him,
50:31 but he caught me in the hallway,
50:33 "Where's my money? Where's my money?
50:34 If you don't give me my money,"
50:36 he said, "I'm gonna break your face.
50:37 Where's my dime?"
50:38 He pulled out his knife and I said, "Oh, okay Mr. King,
50:40 here's your dime."
50:43 "Next week, I want a quarter."
50:45 Right?
50:46 'Cause listen, that's how,
50:48 that's how the devil operates, isn't it?
50:49 Right?
50:50 He starts off with a little bit,
50:52 but he keeps asking for more,
50:53 that's how he wiggles his way into your life,
50:54 isn't that right?
50:57 So he came back and I gave him a quarter.
50:58 "Next week, I want 50 cents."
51:00 Next week, I want a dollar."
51:02 Now, I'm terrified to death
51:03 like everybody else in the school until finally,
51:06 he gets up to about five dollars.
51:09 The only way out of getting the money,
51:10 I was going to the bottom of my mother's purse,
51:12 trying to find the loose change.
51:14 Until I sat there and thought to myself,
51:17 "My mother works hard for her money
51:18 and Louis King is doing nothing but taking my mother's money.
51:21 He's not going to take my mother's money anymore.
51:24 So I'm gonna go back to school
51:25 and I'm going to tell Mr. Louis king,
51:27 'No, you can't have any more money.'"
51:29 So I would back to school
51:30 and I felt pretty good about myself.
51:31 He says, "Where's my money?"
51:33 I said, "I'm not going to give you any more money."
51:35 He said, "Well, then, I'll break your face."
51:38 He says, "After school, I'm gonna get you,"
51:41 for I am in school all day long
51:43 and the clock is ticking down tick, tick, tick, tick.
51:45 It's getting closer, and closer to the time,
51:47 the school is getting ready to get out.
51:48 And Louis King is standing there looking at me,
51:50 "I'm gonna break your face, I'm gonna break your face."
51:52 And so finally, as the bell rang,
51:54 I ran down the stairs.
51:55 I'm going to dash out the door, be the first one out the door
51:58 before Louis King can get me, but the principle stopped me.
52:01 Alright?
52:02 Louis King caught up with me so,
52:04 they opened the door and I ran,
52:06 I decided to take the long way home
52:08 around the big wall of the mission church.
52:10 But just as I've rounded the wall,
52:12 guess who was waiting there for me?
52:14 Louis King.
52:16 He said, "Now, you don't have my money,
52:17 so I'm gonna break your face."
52:19 And he says, "By the way, I'm not going to dirty my hands
52:21 but you have to let one of my boys
52:22 take care of you."
52:24 He said, he said, he said, "Thomas, take care of him."
52:25 Now Thomas came at me like a raging bull," right?
52:28 He's going to hurt me and I was so afraid,
52:31 I didn't know what to do. I just started swinging.
52:34 I don't know I could fight and he went down.
52:37 Amen.
52:38 He said, "Well, you took care of him,
52:40 but you can't take care of Tony."
52:41 Tony came at me and I was so afraid,
52:43 I just grabbed his head like this
52:44 and I wouldn't let it go and I just swung them around,
52:46 swung him around until finally he fell down.
52:50 Louis King said, "Well, listen,
52:51 you took of this one and you took at that one,
52:53 but you can't beat all of us."
52:54 And so, at that time,
52:56 the whole gang jumped on top of me.
52:58 And they began beating me, and kicking me,
53:01 and stomping my head into the ground.
53:03 And I've thought, "I was dead for sure."
53:06 Isn't that just how the devil does?
53:08 Right?
53:10 He piles up on you.
53:11 He kicks you when you're down.
53:13 He waits till you're at your most vulnerable moment
53:15 and then, he stomps on you.
53:17 But just when I thought all hope was lost,
53:20 I've heard footsteps coming, big heavy footsteps.
53:24 And it was the footsteps of fat Mike.
53:28 Fat Mike was the leader of a rival gang.
53:31 Fat Mike looked over and saw Louis King beating on me
53:34 and he said, "King, what you doing?"
53:35 King says, "I'm just beating this guy down."
53:38 Fat Mike said, "Well, leave him alone."
53:41 And Louis King says, "Who's gonna make me."
53:44 And fat Mike said, "I said, 'Leave him alone.'"
53:47 Now fat Mike was all by himself,
53:48 King had his whole gang.
53:51 "Who go and make me?"
53:53 Fat Mike said, "I say, 'Leave him alone.'"
53:58 And Louis King said, "What?"
54:01 Fat Mike said, "I say, 'Leave him alone.'"
54:09 And fat Mike looked down and he says,
54:10 "Get up, get up, get up."
54:12 "I can't get up, he's got his foot on my head."
54:14 He said, "Get up, get up."
54:16 "I can't get up, he has his foot on my head."
54:18 Fat Mike, said, "Leave him alone."
54:22 And at the command of fat Mike,
54:24 big bad Louis King dropped his head
54:28 took his foot off my head and said, "Okay."
54:32 Fat Mike looked down at me and said, "I said 'Get up.'"
54:37 You know, what I've learned from that story?
54:39 I learned this
54:41 that all the host of all the demons
54:45 and all the world can come after you,
54:48 but it only takes one Jesus, just one Jesus,
54:53 Jesus by himself is able to defeat all the host
54:57 of all the enemies in hell.
54:59 And if you would just trust him and give your life to him,
55:03 he looks down at you and says, "What are you doing down there?
55:06 That's not where you were supposed to be.
55:09 That is not your place.
55:11 There is a better place.
55:12 I have a higher destiny for you,
55:14 a greater calling for you, get up."
55:18 Listen, Louis King took me.
55:21 He put his arm around me.
55:23 He took me to, to the bathroom
55:25 and washed the blood off of my face and sent me home.
55:29 And he said to me, "Listen,
55:31 if you have the message what you would gain,
55:34 well, you come and see me."
55:37 I came back to school,
55:39 I saw Louis King, in the classroom.
55:42 All right?
55:43 But now, I'm not walking in my power,
55:45 I'm walking in the power of fat Mike.
55:48 So he looks at me, right?
55:50 And I look at him,
55:51 and Louis King simply drops his head.
55:54 Listen, when you're walking in the power of Jesus,
55:57 no weapon formed against you can prosper.
56:00 The devil is powerless against you.
56:02 God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above
56:06 that which you could think or ask
56:08 if you trust in his power.
56:11 Today, no matter where you are no matter what you doing,
56:14 God wants to set you free.
56:16 He wants to lose those bonds,
56:18 there is no sin that He cannot forgive.
56:21 There was no chain that he cannot break.
56:24 There was no bondage that he cannot lose.
56:27 If you will only give him a chance,
56:30 he will set you free today.
56:32 In the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus,
56:36 for there is no other name given among men
56:38 whereby we might be saved, but in the name of Jesus.
56:42 Tell that devil,
56:44 "You've got your walking papers now
56:46 'cause I'm a drapetomania.
56:47 I'm crazy about my Jesus.
56:50 I'm crazy to be set free.
56:53 And I'll never go back again, into your bondage."
56:55 Let's pray.
56:56 Father in heaven right now, that person whoever they are,
56:58 where ever they are
57:00 in the name of Jesus set them free,
57:02 come into their homes, and, and to their hearts right now,
57:05 push back the forces of the enemy,
57:07 send your angels that excelled in strength
57:09 to put a head a protection around them.
57:12 Breathe upon them by the life of God,
57:15 and allow them to cast their grace upon Jesus,
57:18 and run in the direction of salvation and victory.
57:21 For Lord, we know that you are our God and our savior.
57:25 In Jesus name.
57:27 Amen. Amen.


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