WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.320 One of the biggest struggles that we as believers have is the temptations that come our way and 2 00:00:06.760 --> 00:00:13.160 The arch enemy of God is Satan and even Jesus said Satan only comes to steal kill and destroy 3 00:00:13.280 --> 00:00:16.360 But I came that you might have a life and might have it more abundantly 4 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:27.680 So even Jesus spoke of this spiritual battle between Satan and demons 5 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:34.300 To the believer and when you are not following Christ, you are not an enemy of Satan 6 00:00:34.300 --> 00:00:38.840 But now you are as a Jesus revolutionary is a Jesus follower 7 00:00:39.160 --> 00:00:46.240 There are satanic and demonic powers that are after you. You see Satan hates you and 8 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:53.280 He hates you because number one you're created in the image of God. So you kind of look like God and 9 00:00:53.680 --> 00:01:00.360 And Satan hates that and secondly now that you're a Jesus follower and you're a believer in Christ 10 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:07.880 Your actions and your lifestyle is going to be a direct attack on the darkness 11 00:01:07.880 --> 00:01:14.960 You now have the light the light lives within you and you're going to start experiencing darkness all around you that you never 12 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:20.720 experienced before so what I want to do is talk about Satan demons in the fourth dimension and 13 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:27.440 And and how they work how they influence us I'm not going to go into the aspects of demon possession 14 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:30.240 That's another series that I do 15 00:01:30.600 --> 00:01:34.520 But in this one, I want you to understand the victory that you do have in Christ 16 00:01:34.520 --> 00:01:41.960 But before that I want you to understand the background of who Satan is. So in Ezekiel 28 17 00:01:42.720 --> 00:01:48.160 We have a passage that talks about the history of Satan 18 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:53.160 Let me read it you were anointed the anointed cherub who covers I 19 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:56.440 Established you you were on the holy mountain of God 20 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:02.200 You walked back and forth in the midst of the fiery stones 21 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:08.199 So here's what we know first of all about Satan is that Satan was an anointed angel anointed angel 22 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:10.720 over the government of God 23 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:18.000 Probably an archangel. It doesn't say that specifically but many theologians believe that Satan 24 00:02:18.480 --> 00:02:24.640 IE called also Lucifer was a shining light of God an 25 00:02:25.160 --> 00:02:30.320 Angel of God a created being Lucifer means the idea of light and shining light 26 00:02:30.880 --> 00:02:34.360 Then the passage goes on to say this very interesting 27 00:02:34.760 --> 00:02:39.600 You are perfect in your ways from the day you were created till iniquity 28 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:45.240 Was found in you so, you know you you if you're talking to your kids ever about sin 29 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:49.120 A lot of times the question comes up. Where did sin start? Where did sin begin? 30 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:55.840 Well, it didn't actually begin with Adam and Eve in Genesis 3. It began in the heart of Satan 31 00:02:55.920 --> 00:02:57.920 so something of a 32 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:00.400 regeneration of pride 33 00:03:00.440 --> 00:03:02.520 came up within Satan and 34 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:07.520 He rebelled against God, but here's the key point here the key point 35 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:10.800 And this is really important because so many people can elevate 36 00:03:11.200 --> 00:03:17.480 Satan to a source of power and a level of power. That's just not accurate compared to God 37 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:23.240 Satan was a created being it says here. It was a created by God. So God is always 38 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:24.800 over 39 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:29.760 Satan you have Christ living within you greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world 40 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:37.480 You have greater power than Satan does believe it or not. You have greater power than Satan does well our passage continues 41 00:03:37.480 --> 00:03:40.560 It says by the abundance of your trading 42 00:03:41.200 --> 00:03:46.120 You became filled with violence within and you sinned 43 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:54.520 Therefore I have cast you as a profane thing out of the mountain of God and a destroyed you Oh 44 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:57.680 Covering chair. That's where we get the idea of Satan being an 45 00:03:58.480 --> 00:04:05.040 Angel or a created being from the midst of the fiery stones. So in this passage 46 00:04:06.040 --> 00:04:07.840 The Prophet 47 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:09.840 is speaking of 48 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:13.920 Some kind of violence some kind of a violent anger 49 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:19.880 within Lucifer within Satan that erupted against God 50 00:04:20.320 --> 00:04:26.960 Sinned against God and God cast this cherub this angelic spirit being 51 00:04:27.280 --> 00:04:29.920 Down to the earth it continues 52 00:04:30.640 --> 00:04:35.440 Your heart verse 17 was lifted up because of your beauty 53 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:40.920 You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground 54 00:04:41.440 --> 00:04:44.120 So it appears that the beauty 55 00:04:45.080 --> 00:04:47.080 that resulted in pride 56 00:04:47.640 --> 00:04:49.440 within Lucifer 57 00:04:49.440 --> 00:04:54.360 Caused this rebellion against God and we're going to learn why this happened in just a moment 58 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:56.360 But this is the this is the main point 59 00:04:56.840 --> 00:04:58.840 Satan's a created being 60 00:04:58.840 --> 00:05:01.200 Probably 61 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:08.240 of an archangel or arch cherub some spirit being that sin began to be generated within 62 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:17.240 its heart he was cast down to the earth so in Isaiah 14 now Isaiah speaks of what actually 63 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:25.080 happened in Satan's heart let me read it how are you fallen from heaven oh Lucifer 64 00:05:25.080 --> 00:05:31.560 son of the morning how you are cut down to the ground and you have weakened the nation 65 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:37.600 so again we see that Lucifer or Satan was cast down to the earth pride was birthed in 66 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:44.800 Satan's heart and then we see we call them I call them the five I wills these five I 67 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:50.720 wills in rebellion against God which I believe are always the rebellion of all of us in our 68 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:56.360 lives I think you could say that sin always begins with my will be done rather than thy 69 00:05:56.360 --> 00:06:03.080 will be done and it started all right here so Isaiah continues for you have said in your 70 00:06:03.080 --> 00:06:09.480 heart speaking of Lucifer I will ascend into heaven I will exalt my throne above the stars 71 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:15.240 of God I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the furthest sides of the 72 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:22.440 north I will ascend above the heights of the clouds and I will be like the most high 73 00:06:22.440 --> 00:06:29.960 so Satan wanted to be like God Satan wanted to be in control of all aspects of creation 74 00:06:29.960 --> 00:06:37.280 Satan came directly in rebellion against God because of the pride of his own beauty and 75 00:06:37.280 --> 00:06:44.400 God dealt with him cast him down to the earth now Satan's on the earth okay so let's just 76 00:06:44.400 --> 00:06:52.320 get that straight Satan rules over the earth and in one particular temptation in which 77 00:06:52.320 --> 00:06:58.440 Satan or Lucifer comes against Jesus he says I have control over all the earth and Jesus 78 00:06:58.440 --> 00:07:04.680 acknowledges that that is true so where did demons come from what is it with demons well 79 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:12.920 in Revelation 12 we have this cryptic verse which most theologians believe is the beginning 80 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:19.900 of how demons came to be with Satan here's what it says in Revelation 12 and another 81 00:07:19.900 --> 00:07:26.080 sign appeared in heaven behold a great fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns 82 00:07:26.080 --> 00:07:33.480 and seven diadems on his head his tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them 83 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:39.600 down to the earth so we believe that a third of the angels the spirit beings in the fourth 84 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:47.560 dimensional world rebelled with Lucifer or Satan and came down to the earth so this unseen 85 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:52.840 dimension which I'm calling the fourth dimension and when I say the fourth dimension I'm making 86 00:07:52.840 --> 00:07:57.640 that in juxtaposition to the three-dimensional world that we live in what we can see and 87 00:07:57.640 --> 00:08:04.360 feel with our senses is a fourth dimensional world and this is where Satan this is where 88 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:11.080 demons this is where angelic spirits and angels hover they're around here there's probably 89 00:08:11.080 --> 00:08:15.960 angels in your car right now there's there's angels in your room right now there's angels 90 00:08:15.960 --> 00:08:21.720 in this room where we are and it's the only way I can describe it is it's it's sort of 91 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:29.320 like radio transmission so there are there are sounds there are words there are even 92 00:08:29.320 --> 00:08:36.440 pictures floating through the air right now in this room and if I have an antenna I can 93 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:43.080 pick it up on my TV set or I can or I can pick it up in a radio transmission so in that 94 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:50.760 frequency that we would call like radio transmission or TV transmission there's a fourth dimensional 95 00:08:50.760 --> 00:08:56.960 world where spirits are and so and so I'm not going to talk about how demon possession 96 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:04.560 happens here only to say that there are demons here they can be all around and Jesus squarely 97 00:09:04.560 --> 00:09:11.760 dealt with them so right after Jesus was baptized it says he went into the wilderness in Luke 98 00:09:11.760 --> 00:09:19.840 chapter 4 1 through 19 he's tempted by Satan so Satan actually literally comes to him and 99 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:26.040 begins to tempt him then Jesus comes out of that temptation and he begins to cast out 100 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:33.400 demons wherever he goes so Jesus probably the most important ministry of Jesus besides the 101 00:09:33.400 --> 00:09:41.160 literal proclamation of the good news of the kingdom of God was he was casting out demons 102 00:09:41.160 --> 00:09:47.800 wherever Jesus went he was casting out demons he was about the villages the cities the towns 103 00:09:47.800 --> 00:09:56.680 casting out demons and healing the sick so Jesus came with his light to drive back darkness 104 00:09:56.680 --> 00:09:59.800 and in Ephesians 2 2 we read you 105 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.240 once walked according to the course of this world, 106 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:07.240 according to the prince of the power of the air, 107 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:08.760 that's speaking of Satan, 108 00:10:08.760 --> 00:10:12.040 the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience. 109 00:10:12.040 --> 00:10:15.760 So before you were a believer in Christ, 110 00:10:15.760 --> 00:10:17.680 before you began this journey 111 00:10:17.680 --> 00:10:19.520 of being a kingdom revolutionary, 112 00:10:19.520 --> 00:10:23.160 you were living in a world where Satan and demons 113 00:10:23.160 --> 00:10:26.040 had control over your thoughts and your actions. 114 00:10:26.040 --> 00:10:27.920 Well, you're a believer now. 115 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:31.880 And in Christ, you have a new power living within you. 116 00:10:31.880 --> 00:10:34.240 In 1 John 3, 8, we read, 117 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:36.920 he who sins is of the devil, 118 00:10:36.920 --> 00:10:39.160 for the devil has sinned from the beginning. 119 00:10:39.160 --> 00:10:42.600 For this purpose, the son of God was manifested 120 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:46.680 that he might destroy the works of the devil. 121 00:10:46.680 --> 00:10:50.640 So men and women, the spirit of God lives within you 122 00:10:50.640 --> 00:10:54.400 and you are now walking in a new kind of victory. 123 00:10:54.400 --> 00:10:57.040 You can say no to temptation. 124 00:10:57.040 --> 00:10:59.680 You can say no to the works of the devil. 125 00:10:59.680 --> 00:11:03.800 You can tell demons to leave in the name of Jesus 126 00:11:03.800 --> 00:11:05.640 and they will leave. 127 00:11:05.640 --> 00:11:06.640 Because the scriptures say, 128 00:11:06.640 --> 00:11:10.080 greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. 129 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:15.080 That spirit of God, that same authority that Jesus said, 130 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:17.720 destroy the works of the devil, 131 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:18.920 now lives within you 132 00:11:18.920 --> 00:11:21.040 and you have that power living within you. 133 00:11:21.040 --> 00:11:23.080 And it's actually part of your mandate. 134 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:26.280 So if we were to go to back to Genesis 1, 135 00:11:26.280 --> 00:11:29.200 listen to the first command, 136 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:33.120 the first mission given to Adam and Eve 137 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:34.640 when they were created. 138 00:11:34.640 --> 00:11:37.320 Then God said, let us make man in our own image, 139 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:39.160 according to our likeness. 140 00:11:39.160 --> 00:11:41.000 That means the image of God. 141 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.920 Let them, meaning man, male and female, 142 00:11:43.920 --> 00:11:46.600 have dominion over the fish of the sea, 143 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:49.080 over the birds of the air and over the cattle, 144 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:51.480 over all the earth and over every creeping thing 145 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:52.760 that creeps on the earth. 146 00:11:52.760 --> 00:11:56.520 So God created man in his own image. 147 00:11:56.520 --> 00:12:00.760 In the image of God, he created him male and female. 148 00:12:00.760 --> 00:12:02.320 He created them. 149 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:04.920 Then God blessed them and said to them, 150 00:12:04.920 --> 00:12:09.240 be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth, subdue it, 151 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:12.720 have dominion over the fish of the sea, 152 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:13.760 over the birds of the air 153 00:12:13.760 --> 00:12:18.520 and over every living thing that moves on the earth. 154 00:12:18.520 --> 00:12:19.760 You see? 155 00:12:19.760 --> 00:12:22.400 You see what the original mandate was 156 00:12:22.400 --> 00:12:23.560 for all of us? 157 00:12:23.560 --> 00:12:26.600 That we have authority and power 158 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:29.280 over every living thing on earth. 159 00:12:29.280 --> 00:12:31.920 That includes Satan and demons. 160 00:12:31.920 --> 00:12:34.120 And you now have Jesus Christ living within you. 161 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:37.280 You have his power working within you. 162 00:12:37.280 --> 00:12:40.440 And that power to cast out demons 163 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:41.600 is something that you have. 164 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:44.280 And you may begin on a regular basis 165 00:12:44.280 --> 00:12:47.100 when you feel temptations, tell the devil to leave. 166 00:12:47.100 --> 00:12:47.940 Tell him to leave. 167 00:12:47.940 --> 00:12:51.840 Tell him to get out of here in the name of Jesus. 168 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:54.240 In Romans 8, 37, we read, 169 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:57.880 in all these things, we are more than conquerors 170 00:12:57.880 --> 00:13:00.400 through him who loved us. 171 00:13:00.400 --> 00:13:03.240 So you have this greater spirit, 172 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:05.920 this greater power living within you. 173 00:13:05.920 --> 00:13:08.880 And I wanna challenge you to go after that. 174 00:13:08.880 --> 00:13:11.360 When you see darkness around you, 175 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.160 when you experience darkness around you, 176 00:13:13.160 --> 00:13:17.560 when you feel temptations and pressure and anxiety coming, 177 00:13:17.560 --> 00:13:20.080 tell it to leave in the name of Jesus 178 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:22.720 because greater is he that is in you. 179 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:24.000 Now that means the Holy Spirit. 180 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.320 Greater is he that is in you than he, 181 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:29.280 meaning Satan and demons that are in the world. 182 00:13:29.280 --> 00:13:32.040 You can walk with that kind of authority and power, 183 00:13:32.040 --> 00:13:34.560 the same authority and the same power 184 00:13:34.560 --> 00:13:36.200 that Jesus Christ had. 185 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:38.880 So God bless you and start taking authority 186 00:13:38.880 --> 00:13:41.600 over your life in the power of the Holy Spirit.