WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.400 But then if you start talking about the fourth dimension 2 00:00:02.400 --> 00:00:04.840 and you say, well, there's also potentially 3 00:00:04.840 --> 00:00:07.560 demons in this room, there's potentially 4 00:00:07.560 --> 00:00:09.920 angels in this room, people will go, what, are you crazy? 5 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:19.360 So right now, in the room, there's 6 00:00:19.360 --> 00:00:24.040 radio waves happening that I cannot see. 7 00:00:24.040 --> 00:00:27.000 We cannot see these radio waves. 8 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:29.240 But there's music flowing through here. 9 00:00:29.240 --> 00:00:30.520 There's voices flowing through. 10 00:00:30.520 --> 00:00:33.360 And if we had a radio with an antenna of some sort, 11 00:00:33.360 --> 00:00:34.200 we could pick it up. 12 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:35.800 Or if we opened up our computer, that's 13 00:00:35.800 --> 00:00:37.340 probably even a better example today. 14 00:00:37.340 --> 00:00:40.600 You open up your computer, and suddenly you see a program. 15 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:45.800 And the music that's all in the room here is pulled in. 16 00:00:45.800 --> 00:00:48.000 And everybody knows that. 17 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:49.640 Everybody accepts that. 18 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:52.000 But then if you start talking about the fourth dimension 19 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:54.440 and you say, well, there's also potentially 20 00:00:54.440 --> 00:00:57.160 demons in this room, there's potentially 21 00:00:57.160 --> 00:00:58.680 angels in this room, people will go, 22 00:00:58.680 --> 00:01:00.240 are you crazy? 23 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:06.280 And MIT even has done studies on haunted houses 24 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:11.240 looking at meters, using meters to measure ghosts. 25 00:01:11.240 --> 00:01:13.320 And you say, well, Steve, are you crazy? 26 00:01:13.320 --> 00:01:14.920 Or what dimension are you on? 27 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:16.640 I'm talking about right now. 28 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:19.200 I'm talking about in some of our universities today. 29 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:21.440 It's in this parapsychology area, 30 00:01:21.440 --> 00:01:23.920 this paraspiritual area. 31 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:29.760 There are PhDs that study this all the time 32 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:32.880 because there is evidence that it's true. 33 00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:35.520 And so some of your most popular programming, 34 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:37.680 some of your most popular TV shows 35 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:39.760 relate to the fourth dimension. 36 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:42.400 You may have watched them, seen them yourself. 37 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:44.320 But I'm a big believer in the fourth dimension, 38 00:01:44.320 --> 00:01:48.080 that there's angels and demons, that God inhabits 39 00:01:48.080 --> 00:01:48.960 the fourth dimension. 40 00:01:48.960 --> 00:01:52.160 The Holy Spirit is there also. 41 00:01:52.160 --> 00:01:53.520 And we can tap into that. 42 00:01:53.520 --> 00:01:59.360 And that Jesus was powerfully used in His ministry 43 00:01:59.360 --> 00:02:02.240 to cast out demons, to heal the sick, 44 00:02:02.240 --> 00:02:06.200 and to do signs and wonders because He was naturally, 45 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:08.840 being a Jew in the Middle East at that time, 46 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:13.960 He was naturally acclimated to the spiritual realm. 47 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:16.720 So it's interesting that the Pharisees, the Sadducees, 48 00:02:16.720 --> 00:02:20.000 and others that confronted Jesus never 49 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:23.520 questioned the reality of the fourth dimension. 50 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:25.760 They questioned His identity. 51 00:02:25.760 --> 00:02:27.640 They questioned Jesus' identity, but they never 52 00:02:27.640 --> 00:02:30.520 questioned the reality of the spiritual warfare, 53 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:33.760 the spiritual power that He came with. 54 00:02:33.760 --> 00:02:37.480 Matter of fact, they said that He was demonized. 55 00:02:37.480 --> 00:02:39.520 They said Jesus was a demon because He 56 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:40.560 was casting out demons. 57 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:42.480 And that's when Jesus said, well, wait. 58 00:02:42.480 --> 00:02:48.280 How can Satan cast out Satan? 59 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:50.680 But their argument was still in the fourth dimension, 60 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:54.760 whereas in the West, where we've been largely programmed 61 00:02:54.760 --> 00:02:59.000 into a type of psychology and also 62 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:03.280 a type of scientific methodology, 63 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:05.440 that if you can't prove something 64 00:03:05.440 --> 00:03:08.440 in the three-dimensional world with sight and sound 65 00:03:08.440 --> 00:03:12.080 and proof, then we're not going to believe it. 66 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:14.040 And that's to our own demise. 67 00:03:14.040 --> 00:03:16.600 That's a wonderful thing in building cars. 68 00:03:16.600 --> 00:03:19.840 And that's a wonderful thing in building rockets. 69 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:24.320 But in the most important area, which is our spiritual life, 70 00:03:24.320 --> 00:03:27.640 we have this what I would call the excluded middle. 71 00:03:27.640 --> 00:03:31.000 And what I mean by that is like, I guess the best way 72 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:33.760 to describe it is if I were to draw it out here, 73 00:03:33.760 --> 00:03:35.200 it's like a circle. 74 00:03:35.200 --> 00:03:40.160 And in this first circle is a spiritual dimension, 75 00:03:40.160 --> 00:03:41.960 what I'm calling the fourth dimension. 76 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:44.480 Then below that circle would be like another circle, 77 00:03:44.480 --> 00:03:46.760 and that's the three-dimensional world. 78 00:03:46.760 --> 00:03:51.160 And in the West, in Western theology, Western science, 79 00:03:51.160 --> 00:03:53.480 the two circles don't meet. 80 00:03:53.480 --> 00:03:54.640 They don't meet each other. 81 00:03:54.640 --> 00:03:57.520 So there's this excluded middle, which 82 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:00.960 means that we don't see the interaction of angels 83 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:02.800 and demons in the three-dimensional world. 84 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:04.680 OK, yeah, yeah, I believe that. 85 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:06.120 I mean, it's in the Bible. 86 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:06.920 I'm a Christian. 87 00:04:06.920 --> 00:04:07.920 I believe in angels. 88 00:04:07.920 --> 00:04:09.040 There's probably angels out there. 89 00:04:09.040 --> 00:04:09.720 There's probably demons. 90 00:04:09.720 --> 00:04:10.720 Jesus cast out demons. 91 00:04:10.720 --> 00:04:12.080 I believe that. 92 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:14.960 But we don't see the interaction of the two, 93 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:19.600 whereas in the 2 3rd world and other parts of the world, 94 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:21.760 those circles overlap. 95 00:04:21.760 --> 00:04:24.520 So that fourth dimension, that three-dimensional world, 96 00:04:24.520 --> 00:04:27.960 they overlap with each other all the time. 97 00:04:27.960 --> 00:04:30.480 So even when I was on the island of Okinawa 98 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:33.920 ministering on these other smaller islands in the South 99 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:36.960 China Sea, we would go out to do evangelism, 100 00:04:36.960 --> 00:04:39.560 show the Jesus film, do things like that. 101 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:44.000 And when I mentioned the demonic and I mentioned spirits, 102 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:45.840 everybody just sat up straighter. 103 00:04:45.840 --> 00:04:48.560 They understood that they already 104 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:51.720 had a dimension of the three-dimensional world 105 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:53.960 interacting with the fourth-dimensional world. 106 00:04:53.960 --> 00:04:57.000 And so that's the world Jesus came into. 107 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.200 And that's what we're challenging you. 108 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:06.700 I'm the one who's kind of getting empowered with empower you in this particular series. 109 00:05:06.700 --> 00:05:10.400 I want to I want to equip you that you don't have to be weird. 110 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:19.300 You don't have to be a nut and you don't have to be crazy to begin to walk in the same power that Jesus walked in. 111 00:05:19.300 --> 00:05:25.600 So the best place to start is the very beginning of Jesus ministry in Luke chapter 4. 112 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:29.600 If you have your Bible, you can look at it later. You can look at it with me right now. 113 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:35.800 But Luke 4 is Jesus being tempted by the devil. 114 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:44.400 And this is kind of interesting because what I like about this particular passage is that the devil actually moves into the three-dimensional world. 115 00:05:44.400 --> 00:05:48.500 And that's what I'm talking about, how the fourth dimension affects a three-dimensional world. 116 00:05:48.500 --> 00:05:53.400 Jesus is getting he got baptized and right after baptism, 117 00:05:53.400 --> 00:05:57.600 he goes into the desert and he's tempted by the devil. 118 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:02.600 And there's this one verse, there's two verses here that are really interesting. 119 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:09.000 When the devil is communicating with Jesus, challenging Jesus, he says this, 120 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:18.400 then the devil taking him up on a high mountain showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 121 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:22.300 And the devil said to him, all this authority, 122 00:06:22.300 --> 00:06:30.600 I will give you and the glory for this has been delivered to me and I give it to whomever I wish. 123 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:40.900 That's interesting. John in 1 John 5 says the whole world is under the sway or under the power of the evil one. 124 00:06:40.900 --> 00:06:45.600 So what the devil is saying is that, look, I have power over the whole world. 125 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:50.300 I have authority over the world. I control governments. 126 00:06:50.300 --> 00:06:54.000 I control leaders. I control people all over the world. 127 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:58.600 And I can give my power and authority to whomever I wish. 128 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:02.600 Now, if that was a lie from and he is the father of lies. 129 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:07.700 But if that was a lie, Jesus certainly would have confronted him on that. 130 00:07:07.700 --> 00:07:12.600 But what Jesus says next is, therefore, he says, get behind me, Satan. 131 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:18.900 So he tells Satan to get behind him, but he never refutes what Satan just said. 132 00:07:18.900 --> 00:07:22.900 So that's the reality. So Jesus is tempted by the devil. 133 00:07:22.900 --> 00:07:24.700 He deals with the devil. It's interesting. 134 00:07:24.700 --> 00:07:29.200 And we'll cover this another time how he deals with the devil. 135 00:07:29.200 --> 00:07:42.400 And the main way he covers his power against Satan is through the word of God and and knowing the word of God and speaking the word of God back to Satan. 136 00:07:42.400 --> 00:07:45.200 But what's interesting is Satan also quotes the Bible. 137 00:07:45.200 --> 00:07:47.700 But anyway, that's another issue. We'll get to that. 138 00:07:47.700 --> 00:07:58.100 But if you have your Bible, you go to verses 31 through 44 at the end of the chapter in Luke, chapter four. 139 00:07:58.100 --> 00:08:01.400 Look what Jesus does. He leaves the devil. 140 00:08:01.400 --> 00:08:05.800 He goes back into his ministry. He's just getting started. 141 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:14.400 And here's what it says. Then he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath. 142 00:08:14.400 --> 00:08:18.500 And they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority. 143 00:08:18.500 --> 00:08:26.500 Now, in the synagogue, there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon. 144 00:08:26.500 --> 00:08:30.400 And he cried out with a loud voice saying, Let us alone. 145 00:08:30.400 --> 00:08:32.900 What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? 146 00:08:32.900 --> 00:08:35.500 Did you come to destroy us? I know who you are. 147 00:08:35.500 --> 00:08:42.299 You're the holy one of God. And then Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be quiet and come out of him. 148 00:08:42.299 --> 00:08:47.800 And when the demon had thrown him in their midst, it came out of him and did not hurt him. 149 00:08:47.800 --> 00:08:52.000 And everyone was amazed. So in the synagogue. 150 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:56.400 OK, so in the church, this guy manifests a demon. 151 00:08:56.400 --> 00:09:01.800 Jesus cast it out. And this confrontation begins. 152 00:09:01.800 --> 00:09:11.100 So my thesis is this, is there's a lot more demonic activity even happening in the church than we even know. 153 00:09:11.100 --> 00:09:15.400 And so part of what I'm talking about was Satan, demons in the fourth dimension in this series. 154 00:09:15.400 --> 00:09:21.600 How do we confront that? How do we minister as Jesus ministered? 155 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:24.800 How do we begin to take on the devil and all his works? 156 00:09:24.800 --> 00:09:30.200 Because this is what is said about Christ in 1 John 3 8. 157 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:38.100 For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil. 158 00:09:38.100 --> 00:09:44.100 So I believe the reason the church has so little power is we do not know how to deal with the works of the devil. 159 00:09:44.100 --> 00:09:50.100 We do not know how to work with how he is, is manifesting himself in the lives of many. 160 00:09:50.100 --> 00:09:58.900 I'm convinced that if we could get good at this, if we could become discerning as Christ wants us to be discerning, 161 00:09:58.900 --> 00:09:59.900 if we could walk in the. 162 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.800 power that Christ has given us through the work of the Holy Spirit, we could probably 163 00:10:04.800 --> 00:10:12.880 walk into most hospitals today, set people free through prayer and through actually declarations 164 00:10:12.880 --> 00:10:16.960 against the works of the enemy, and you'd be amazed what would happen. 165 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.540 And so that's my conviction, and that's what a Kingdom of God revolution looks like to 166 00:10:20.540 --> 00:10:25.800 me is that we can walk in this power that God's given us. 167 00:10:25.800 --> 00:10:34.040 So this all goes back to Genesis 1, 26 through 28, where the man and the woman were commanded 168 00:10:34.040 --> 00:10:38.840 to have, that they had all authority over all of creation, they had authority over all 169 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:40.360 created things. 170 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:41.360 And we've been given that authority. 171 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:43.360 It's the first command in Scripture. 172 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:48.920 Romans 8, 37, yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved 173 00:10:48.920 --> 00:10:49.920 us. 174 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:57.360 So God has given us this power to the degree that, let's look at John 14. 175 00:10:57.360 --> 00:11:05.280 John 14 was the passage that really set me on fire many years ago in the realm of Satan, 176 00:11:05.280 --> 00:11:07.280 demons, and the fourth dimension. 177 00:11:07.280 --> 00:11:10.320 John 14, 12, this is Jesus speaking. 178 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:16.360 Most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also, 179 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:20.400 greater works in these because I go to the Father. 180 00:11:20.400 --> 00:11:25.520 Whatever you ask in my name, that I will do that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 181 00:11:25.520 --> 00:11:28.280 If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. 182 00:11:28.280 --> 00:11:29.880 If you love me, keep my commandments. 183 00:11:29.880 --> 00:11:34.760 So powerful passage about the fact that we can do what Christ did. 184 00:11:34.760 --> 00:11:38.720 We can walk in that same power through the work of the Holy Spirit. 185 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:41.600 So the challenge before us is how do we do it? 186 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:46.600 Well that's what the ongoing series is going to be about is how do we do that? 187 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:48.440 How do we walk in that? 188 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:53.560 But men and women, you have all of the power. 189 00:11:53.560 --> 00:11:56.140 You have all of the authority if you're born again. 190 00:11:56.140 --> 00:12:00.380 If Jesus Christ lives in you and you have the power of the Holy Spirit, you can begin 191 00:12:00.380 --> 00:12:06.520 to discern in the fourth dimension what is going on in the three dimensional world and 192 00:12:06.520 --> 00:12:07.900 walk in that. 193 00:12:07.900 --> 00:12:11.780 So don't be one of those that are living in that excluded middle. 194 00:12:11.780 --> 00:12:18.060 Walk in the power of the Holy Spirit and as you begin to grow in this particular arena, 195 00:12:18.060 --> 00:12:23.780 I promise you, you're going to have a really adventurous, exciting, new Christian life 196 00:12:23.780 --> 00:12:30.300 as you watch what God's going to do because I think God often gives us only what we can 197 00:12:30.300 --> 00:12:31.300 handle. 198 00:12:31.300 --> 00:12:36.900 So to the degree that you get equipped in this arena will be the equipped that it will 199 00:12:36.900 --> 00:12:42.700 be the extent to which God can use you not only to equip others, but also to set the 200 00:12:42.700 --> 00:12:45.700 captives free in a fresh, new way. 201 00:12:45.700 --> 00:12:46.700 God bless you. 202 00:12:46.700 --> 00:12:50.580 Look forward to the series before us and what we're going to learn together.