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Source: other/transcription (not uploaded); build: dlv.py subtitles --vtt-only 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.950 I'd like to welcome you to a very exciting class. 2 00:00:04.820 --> 00:00:10.150 The subject is exciting, the material is exciting, and you are exciting. 3 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:12.150 So it's wonderful to see you. 4 00:00:12.180 --> 00:00:17.610 We thank you for taking of your very valuable time to sit in a unique class and 5 00:00:17.620 --> 00:00:21.450 study our universe that we live in. 6 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:28.070 There is darkness over a good part of our universe, and we need to understand it. 7 00:00:28.080 --> 00:00:30.210 We need to understand how to deal with it. 8 00:00:30.250 --> 00:00:32.260 And we need to know that we're the conquerors. 9 00:00:32.270 --> 00:00:36.340 Not one place in the entire Bible are you told to fear evil, 10 00:00:36.350 --> 00:00:40.060 to run away from the devil. We're not runaways. 11 00:00:40.070 --> 00:00:43.860 We're not cowards. We're fighters, and we are winners. 12 00:00:43.910 --> 00:00:46.360 We are studying in this class 13 00:00:47.450 --> 00:00:53.360 demons and deliverance, principalities and powers from a teaching 14 00:00:53.370 --> 00:00:58.040 syllabus. from our World Harvard School of Continuous Learning that is here in the 15 00:00:58.050 --> 00:01:01.580 city of South Bend, Indiana, our regular Bible college work. 16 00:01:01.850 --> 00:01:06.860 And we are delighted to share this, not only with our class, but with you. 17 00:01:06.870 --> 00:01:09.200 You can secure this syllabus by ordering it, 18 00:01:09.210 --> 00:01:14.300 and also you can secure from us this 19 00:01:14.310 --> 00:01:19.220 beautiful grouping of tapes, 20 00:01:19.470 --> 00:01:24.600 audio tapes, for this whole series. You can get the entire series together. 21 00:01:24.710 --> 00:01:29.060 And what a volume, what a volume you'd have in your own home. 22 00:01:29.070 --> 00:01:32.760 And to you that have gotten into the visual and the video, 23 00:01:32.770 --> 00:01:36.140 we have it right here in video for you, 24 00:01:36.150 --> 00:01:39.020 so where you can play it on your own TV set. 25 00:01:39.030 --> 00:01:43.960 And possibly that is the best way, possibly that is the best way for you to have it 26 00:01:43.970 --> 00:01:46.340 there in your home. All three ways are great. 27 00:01:46.350 --> 00:01:50.360 Be sure and receive it. In our formal lesson, 28 00:01:51.020 --> 00:01:56.950 In this series, we introduce to you the world that we're in today 29 00:01:56.960 --> 00:02:01.650 and the spiritual needs in this world in which we live. 30 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:06.990 Now, we have a lesson here that's called preparation 31 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:12.950 for action. We thought it was very necessary to prepare our hearts 32 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:14.890 for this type of things. 33 00:02:14.940 --> 00:02:19.890 In the New Testament, we find some brothers. 34 00:02:20.130 --> 00:02:25.300 that went to exercise a spirit, and they found when they got there they were 35 00:02:25.310 --> 00:02:30.860 overcome by this evil, and it tore their clothes off of them and chased them out of 36 00:02:30.870 --> 00:02:34.520 the house. You see, they had not prepared themselves for it. 37 00:02:34.530 --> 00:02:37.180 We feel that preparation is very necessary. 38 00:02:37.290 --> 00:02:42.820 And in the area of casting out of evil spirits, you, 39 00:02:42.830 --> 00:02:45.220 number one, must have some knowledge, you know. 40 00:02:46.010 --> 00:02:48.400 God cannot bless ignorance. God is not ignorant. 41 00:02:48.460 --> 00:02:52.770 The devil is very often ignorant, but God is not ignorant. 42 00:02:53.460 --> 00:02:54.950 God cannot bless ignorance. 43 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:58.850 And so if you wish for God to bless you, then increase your knowledge. 44 00:02:59.160 --> 00:03:01.990 Increase your knowledge. Now, ignorance does not mean that you're stupid. 45 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:03.910 Ignorance only means that you haven't learned yet. 46 00:03:03.940 --> 00:03:05.710 And God wants us to know. 47 00:03:05.720 --> 00:03:11.450 And it's time today to understand the tremendous truths in relationship to 48 00:03:11.460 --> 00:03:16.710 demons and devils and the occult and spiritism. 49 00:03:16.830 --> 00:03:22.500 and all kinds of areas that have to do with the non -Christian 50 00:03:22.640 --> 00:03:24.910 area of the supernatural. 51 00:03:24.940 --> 00:03:27.610 And so in our universe in which we live today, 52 00:03:27.620 --> 00:03:31.770 the first thing I want you to know about it is that our universe is no accident. 53 00:03:32.600 --> 00:03:38.530 Our universe did not evolve through some erratic and fortuitous forces 54 00:03:38.540 --> 00:03:42.730 coming from some unknown origin. 55 00:03:42.780 --> 00:03:48.550 I just can't every day get myself to Come down to understand 56 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:51.070 why a man can put a Ph .D. 57 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:55.490 behind his name and some other letters and say, well, there is no God. 58 00:03:55.640 --> 00:03:59.930 You know, part of you needs help and needs sympathy. 59 00:03:59.940 --> 00:04:02.810 Just look at the stars and tell me there's no God. 60 00:04:02.980 --> 00:04:04.970 You know, how could you say it? 61 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:08.310 You couldn't look at my watch and say there's no watchmaker. 62 00:04:08.320 --> 00:04:11.350 No watchmaker. Oh, yeah, there's a watch. There's no watchmaker. 63 00:04:11.430 --> 00:04:13.320 One time it was a little piece of metal, 64 00:04:13.330 --> 00:04:15.280 and then it screwed around this way and that way, 65 00:04:15.290 --> 00:04:18.460 and it added a little piece here and there, and now after 14 billion years, 66 00:04:18.470 --> 00:04:23.820 there it is. You know, that borders on very dense stupidity. 67 00:04:24.570 --> 00:04:30.120 I can't see. When a man looks at a cow and says there's a beautiful cow, 68 00:04:30.170 --> 00:04:35.440 she eats the green grass, and when she's milked, she's got the white milk, 69 00:04:35.450 --> 00:04:39.540 and when you take the milk and churn it, you've got the yellow butter. 70 00:04:41.060 --> 00:04:45.860 That's a phenomena. That is a phenomena. To look at a chicken, eat worms. 71 00:04:46.010 --> 00:04:47.020 Eat worms. 72 00:04:48.080 --> 00:04:54.270 A black hen eats red worms and lays white eggs, and they're so good. 73 00:04:54.660 --> 00:04:58.610 And then God protects them by putting a shell around it. 74 00:04:58.620 --> 00:05:02.870 You see, you don't understand that. Well, nobody's ever understood it. 75 00:05:02.880 --> 00:05:06.010 They never will understand it, and yet we all love eggs. 76 00:05:06.460 --> 00:05:10.210 We've got to know that there are things in this world that we need some learning 77 00:05:10.220 --> 00:05:15.190 about, and one of them is the negative world that's beyond us. 78 00:05:15.200 --> 00:05:17.690 There are people being hurt today by negative forces, 79 00:05:17.700 --> 00:05:20.990 and they don't know why they are being hurt. 80 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:25.590 And those people need to learn something. So preparation for action. 81 00:05:25.700 --> 00:05:29.630 If the church is going to deal with the problem of demons in the world that we're in 82 00:05:29.640 --> 00:05:32.010 today, that church needs to learn something. 83 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:36.070 And you begin by saying the universe that we live in didn't get here by accident. 84 00:05:36.260 --> 00:05:41.620 It just did not. It did not evolve. No fortuitous force. 85 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:47.070 with unknown origins had any relationship to bringing about the sun, the moon, 86 00:05:47.080 --> 00:05:49.470 the stars, the flowers, the seas, the mountains. 87 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:55.170 All globular and stellar information, 88 00:05:55.180 --> 00:05:58.980 whether it be of speed, of sound, 89 00:05:59.510 --> 00:06:05.340 of light, of color, of weight, it is intelligent. 90 00:06:05.550 --> 00:06:11.310 It does not work fortuitously. It doesn't work one way today. 91 00:06:11.320 --> 00:06:14.410 Light does not travel at one speed today and another speed tomorrow. 92 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:17.290 It does. It simply does not. 93 00:06:17.300 --> 00:06:23.070 And so our information of the whole, 94 00:06:23.140 --> 00:06:28.470 not only this globe, but the whole universe has an intelligent operation and 95 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:30.830 function, and you know it, and everybody else knows it. 96 00:06:30.840 --> 00:06:33.170 We just don't want to give God the glory for it. 97 00:06:33.380 --> 00:06:38.390 That's the amazing thing. The unlimited and immeasurable galaxies. 98 00:06:39.420 --> 00:06:44.650 Every time you hear from the astronomers they found another million stars up there. 99 00:06:44.940 --> 00:06:50.630 They looked into what seemed to be empty space and they got a better telescope and 100 00:06:50.640 --> 00:06:56.190 here they found whole new constellations up there and dimensions with 101 00:06:56.200 --> 00:06:59.890 innumerable bodies of 102 00:06:59.900 --> 00:07:04.990 stars and all kinds of 103 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:08.050 heavenly formations. 104 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:13.630 And what looks like a little spot, they can enlarge their telescope and it becomes 105 00:07:13.640 --> 00:07:15.810 worlds and worlds and worlds. 106 00:07:15.820 --> 00:07:18.990 It should be very easy for those people to say, Our Father, 107 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.090 which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 108 00:07:22.300 --> 00:07:27.210 Hey, yeah, yeah. Now that can't exist by fortuitous forces that don't know what 109 00:07:27.220 --> 00:07:29.130 they're doing, have no understanding of what they're doing, 110 00:07:29.140 --> 00:07:30.230 and they're not intelligent. 111 00:07:31.150 --> 00:07:35.300 So the unlimited, and it is unlimited, and the immeasurable, 112 00:07:35.330 --> 00:07:36.800 and they are immeasurable. 113 00:07:36.830 --> 00:07:41.040 the galaxies of the heavens, of the heavenly bodies, into outer space. 114 00:07:41.050 --> 00:07:46.080 They are vast. They're beyond any human comprehension. 115 00:07:46.330 --> 00:07:50.620 They found the dark holes in space that hold suns and moons and stars are sucked 116 00:07:50.630 --> 00:07:52.740 into them, and they don't even know where they go. 117 00:07:52.830 --> 00:07:54.440 Well, they'll find out one day. 118 00:07:54.710 --> 00:07:56.560 If not in this life and the world to come, 119 00:07:56.570 --> 00:07:58.080 Jesus will take you over and show it to you. 120 00:07:58.310 --> 00:08:01.680 But it's beyond man. It's beyond man. 121 00:08:02.270 --> 00:08:06.480 The functions and the movements of the cosmic dimensions, they're intricate. 122 00:08:06.830 --> 00:08:10.600 And so we have here that they are known in their origin. 123 00:08:10.610 --> 00:08:15.340 They are intelligent. They are vast. 124 00:08:15.550 --> 00:08:17.540 They are intricate. 125 00:08:17.570 --> 00:08:22.660 And you can set your clock by them all the time on this. 126 00:08:22.780 --> 00:08:27.750 on this planet Earth is regulated by that North Star and its relationship to the 127 00:08:27.760 --> 00:08:29.290 Earth on which we are here. 128 00:08:29.420 --> 00:08:34.410 Our time elements are cast and really they're time minutes. 129 00:08:34.880 --> 00:08:37.830 Everything is related to time. 130 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:42.710 All your segments of three o 'clock in one place, four o 'clock in another, 131 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:46.790 is a movement element between the two. 132 00:08:47.020 --> 00:08:50.970 And when we understand these functions of these movements of the cosmic dimensions, 133 00:08:50.980 --> 00:08:52.110 they are intricate. 134 00:08:53.050 --> 00:08:58.520 Our universe in which you and I and which the planet Earth is a finite part of, 135 00:08:58.710 --> 00:09:03.200 we are also a very active part of it, and it's a real place. 136 00:09:03.210 --> 00:09:05.420 It is a real place. 137 00:09:06.190 --> 00:09:11.380 We are not floating in a great confusion system. 138 00:09:11.390 --> 00:09:13.740 It is very real where we are. 139 00:09:13.990 --> 00:09:19.140 Now there are three areas of known 140 00:09:19.150 --> 00:09:22.060 intelligent sources of power. 141 00:09:22.580 --> 00:09:25.710 And this whole series of lessons are going to be on power, 142 00:09:25.860 --> 00:09:31.530 and especially on the power of the devil. Most of his power is assumed power. 143 00:09:32.100 --> 00:09:35.310 You know, when you were a boy, you could have a next -door neighbor that he'd wind 144 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:39.170 up and say, I'm going to suck you, you know, and you took that as power. 145 00:09:39.180 --> 00:09:40.410 You accepted it as power. 146 00:09:40.420 --> 00:09:43.670 But if you sucked him real quick and he ran home to tell his mother, 147 00:09:43.680 --> 00:09:46.790 it was an assumed power, you know. It wasn't real. 148 00:09:46.800 --> 00:09:51.790 It was only imaginary. Now, that is the same relationship with the devil. 149 00:09:51.900 --> 00:09:54.990 He only has power that he steals from you. 150 00:09:55.040 --> 00:09:57.830 He stole it from Adam and Eve in the garden. 151 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:03.430 In Genesis chapter 1, verses 26 and 27, God says to Adam, 152 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:07.170 I give you dominion. Now, if he had it, the devil did not have it. 153 00:10:07.180 --> 00:10:10.530 The devil has no dominion on this earth that belongs to him. 154 00:10:10.780 --> 00:10:14.730 His dominion is the prince and the power of the air up above the earth. 155 00:10:14.740 --> 00:10:19.190 It has no dominion on the earth. And any dominion that he has here, it is assumed. 156 00:10:19.790 --> 00:10:21.680 And it is a pretend. 157 00:10:22.470 --> 00:10:24.160 He pretends that he has it. 158 00:10:24.430 --> 00:10:27.860 He told Jesus, he says, I'll give you all the nations of the world. 159 00:10:28.690 --> 00:10:30.320 Well, they were already his. 160 00:10:30.470 --> 00:10:33.020 What did he mean, give them to him when they were already his? 161 00:10:33.030 --> 00:10:36.380 It was so insignificant, Jesus didn't even answer him back. 162 00:10:36.590 --> 00:10:40.740 He didn't even answer him back. It wasn't even worth a return answer for. 163 00:10:40.750 --> 00:10:45.520 There are three known and intelligent sources of power in the realm of our human 164 00:10:45.530 --> 00:10:49.750 knowledge. Number one is God's power. 165 00:10:50.560 --> 00:10:55.320 Now, God... is the creative and the benevolent 166 00:10:55.330 --> 00:11:00.560 force of power of the universe. He is a personality. 167 00:11:00.990 --> 00:11:04.000 The Bible says the eyes of the Lord run into and fro on the earth. 168 00:11:04.010 --> 00:11:07.260 He has eyes. It says the finger of God wrote the Ten Commandments. 169 00:11:07.270 --> 00:11:11.000 He has fingers. It says that God walks. He has feet. 170 00:11:11.190 --> 00:11:16.810 And so our God, benevolent, creative, 171 00:11:17.430 --> 00:11:21.900 wonderful, beautiful, made the earth in which we live. 172 00:11:21.950 --> 00:11:26.860 Genesis chapter 1, verse 1, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 173 00:11:26.870 --> 00:11:30.520 Acts 10 and 38, the devil came to destroy. 174 00:11:30.530 --> 00:11:34.120 Jesus came that he might bring life. He is the life. 175 00:11:34.150 --> 00:11:39.720 Hebrews 1 and 1, and so we discover that there is God's power. 176 00:11:39.730 --> 00:11:45.500 Now that power that is very much in evidence in the cosmic is also evident 177 00:11:45.510 --> 00:11:48.320 in many places. It makes the flower to bloom. 178 00:11:48.330 --> 00:11:50.560 It makes the grass to grow. 179 00:11:50.700 --> 00:11:56.410 You know, all around us are the visual and 180 00:11:56.420 --> 00:12:02.250 non -visible effects and results of such tremendous power. 181 00:12:02.280 --> 00:12:06.150 God is a power source, and see Him in that area, 182 00:12:06.160 --> 00:12:08.610 and then you won't have to run from evil. 183 00:12:08.620 --> 00:12:13.050 You won't have to run from the devil when you see Him in His proper relationships 184 00:12:13.060 --> 00:12:15.330 with the human person. 185 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:19.530 All right, number two, not only do we have divine power, 186 00:12:19.690 --> 00:12:21.200 in the universe that we live in, 187 00:12:21.210 --> 00:12:25.140 sovereign divine power that is 188 00:12:25.150 --> 00:12:30.640 used through intelligence and through love, 189 00:12:30.870 --> 00:12:35.440 you see, God's power. We then go to man's power. 190 00:12:36.050 --> 00:12:39.960 Man is what we would describe as a neutral power. 191 00:12:40.070 --> 00:12:44.960 He is a neutral power. He's not good or bad initially, is a neutral power, 192 00:12:44.970 --> 00:12:50.730 and that he has a potential to become a part of the good power, 193 00:12:50.760 --> 00:12:55.230 which is God's power, or the negative evil power, 194 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:59.230 which is satanic and demonic and demonish, you see. 195 00:12:59.400 --> 00:13:05.030 The apostle Paul said to man, Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves 196 00:13:05.040 --> 00:13:09.230 servants to obey, his servants are to whom ye obey, 197 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:12.890 whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness? 198 00:13:12.900 --> 00:13:18.370 And so here we discover that man is born in a neutral 199 00:13:18.380 --> 00:13:19.380 relationship. 200 00:13:19.900 --> 00:13:22.850 God wants him to receive his power. 201 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:27.530 But now the Bible says to man, of man, 202 00:13:27.580 --> 00:13:30.250 that whoever you serve, he is your master. 203 00:13:30.750 --> 00:13:35.300 Now, if a man or a woman says, I don't want to serve God, 204 00:13:35.310 --> 00:13:38.060 he only has one other master, and that's the devil. 205 00:13:38.740 --> 00:13:42.090 You say, I'm neutral. There's no neutrality on the face of this earth. 206 00:13:42.100 --> 00:13:44.130 You either belong to God or you don't. 207 00:13:44.140 --> 00:13:46.550 And if you don't, then you're under the devil's power. 208 00:13:46.560 --> 00:13:48.510 If you belong to God, you're under God's power. 209 00:13:48.570 --> 00:13:52.800 There are only three forces and powers known to man. 210 00:13:52.810 --> 00:13:57.440 There are no other resources that you can go to and say, well, I have that power. 211 00:13:57.450 --> 00:13:58.820 There isn't any there. 212 00:13:59.170 --> 00:14:02.900 And in man's power that we're discussing here, 213 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:07.530 it can lend itself to God's power. 214 00:14:07.540 --> 00:14:12.290 For example, I could have a little piece of wire here, 215 00:14:12.300 --> 00:14:17.190 and this wire would not have... Nothing in it, you know. 216 00:14:17.280 --> 00:14:20.570 It would be what we call neutral power. Well, that's like man. 217 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:26.330 Then I can take this wire and I can hook it up here with some energy coming from the 218 00:14:26.340 --> 00:14:31.250 power plant. Then I can hook it up over here to a little piece of machinery and 219 00:14:31.260 --> 00:14:34.350 put them together and the machinery starts working. 220 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:38.590 And that little neutral thing there is no longer neutral. 221 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:42.370 It has associated itself with a source of energy. 222 00:14:42.570 --> 00:14:44.980 It has associated itself with a source of energy, 223 00:14:44.990 --> 00:14:48.460 and now that source of energy comes pouring through the neutrality, 224 00:14:48.470 --> 00:14:51.880 and it makes something happen over here. Now, that's man for you. 225 00:14:52.190 --> 00:14:56.020 Now, man has to decide his source of energy. 226 00:14:56.090 --> 00:14:59.220 Now, you've already decided it. 227 00:15:00.030 --> 00:15:04.280 You're on God's side. You have the positive energy flowing through you. 228 00:15:04.290 --> 00:15:07.660 But there are millions, multiplied millions, 229 00:15:07.670 --> 00:15:10.340 that the whole total source of energy is negative. 230 00:15:10.350 --> 00:15:15.420 It's anger. It's hate. It's envy. It's strife. 231 00:15:15.430 --> 00:15:18.900 It's lust. It is everything except what God is. 232 00:15:19.030 --> 00:15:23.600 They have loaned themselves, their neutrality, 233 00:15:23.670 --> 00:15:27.600 to a source of energy that is completely destructive. 234 00:15:28.030 --> 00:15:30.660 Destructive and evil and bad. 235 00:15:30.670 --> 00:15:33.180 And then over here, they're making some things go around. 236 00:15:33.190 --> 00:15:34.580 They're going backwards, though. 237 00:15:34.750 --> 00:15:38.220 You know, homes are being destroyed, business are being destroyed, 238 00:15:38.330 --> 00:15:42.360 lives are being destroyed for the simple reason that they got their connection with 239 00:15:42.370 --> 00:15:43.560 the wrong source of energy. 240 00:15:44.180 --> 00:15:50.110 So God is the first and greatest positive source of energy in the universe. 241 00:15:50.140 --> 00:15:53.150 Connect yourself with God, and you got it made. 242 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:57.090 You got it made. But then you come to man. 243 00:15:57.140 --> 00:16:01.650 Man can do things. You see, with these two hands, I can do things. 244 00:16:01.790 --> 00:16:05.740 I can do things because I have strength and I have energy here, 245 00:16:05.750 --> 00:16:08.640 but I will have to decide how to use it. 246 00:16:08.650 --> 00:16:12.120 I can use it constructively or destructively. 247 00:16:12.130 --> 00:16:17.140 I can say to God, may I speak truth for you and change lives? 248 00:16:17.170 --> 00:16:20.460 The Lord says yes. Then I take my energy, 249 00:16:20.470 --> 00:16:23.220 pouring for my lungs and my lips and my throat, 250 00:16:23.230 --> 00:16:26.240 and I can pour it out and change lives. 251 00:16:26.250 --> 00:16:30.720 Then I have connected myself with a source of benevolent energy. 252 00:16:30.880 --> 00:16:34.190 pouring through the neutrality into a great need. 253 00:16:34.260 --> 00:16:37.930 And maybe they can only see me. Oh, oh, Sumrall, you are just great. 254 00:16:37.940 --> 00:16:41.570 Oh, you're just great. And you smile and say, whew, 255 00:16:41.580 --> 00:16:44.590 you should have seen me before I got connected with that energy over there. 256 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:47.210 And you see, I wasn't much of anything at all. 257 00:16:47.220 --> 00:16:50.210 But when I got connected with this right source of energy, 258 00:16:50.220 --> 00:16:55.310 I can pray for you and you're healed and I can bless you and you're changed life and 259 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:57.450 you've become a new creature in Christ Jesus. 260 00:16:57.460 --> 00:17:03.220 Not because of... the little wire here that's disconnected, the neutrality wire, 261 00:17:03.230 --> 00:17:08.960 but because I have deemed it wise to connect myself with a source of energy 262 00:17:08.970 --> 00:17:14.500 beyond myself and greater than myself and better than myself. 263 00:17:14.510 --> 00:17:19.880 And when I connect it, then it flows through me to another dimension over here. 264 00:17:19.890 --> 00:17:24.440 And you can only see the part that's blessing you, which is the human element, 265 00:17:24.510 --> 00:17:26.200 which is the neutral element. 266 00:17:27.500 --> 00:17:30.490 He has to teach you. Now listen, this is not really me. 267 00:17:30.500 --> 00:17:35.030 This is God over there behind me. I'm just connected. 268 00:17:35.560 --> 00:17:39.670 And with my connection, I am blessing you with this source of energy. 269 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:45.290 So the two sources of energy we have spoken of is the divine 270 00:17:45.300 --> 00:17:49.270 source that comes from God. It's the greatest source on the face of the universe. 271 00:17:49.280 --> 00:17:54.460 Then you have man. And the Bible specifically says that whoever a man 272 00:17:54.470 --> 00:17:59.220 loans himself, lends himself, becomes a part of, 273 00:17:59.430 --> 00:18:03.300 that he is a servant of that thing. You become a servant of sin. 274 00:18:03.310 --> 00:18:05.140 Did you know it? You become a servant of alcohol. 275 00:18:05.150 --> 00:18:08.580 You become a servant of dope and drugs, you see. 276 00:18:08.590 --> 00:18:10.600 You become a servant of sex. 277 00:18:10.930 --> 00:18:16.660 Wherever you lend yourself the wrong way, you become a slave, a slave over there. 278 00:18:16.670 --> 00:18:20.420 But when you lend yourself unto God, To serve Him, 279 00:18:20.430 --> 00:18:23.620 then flowing from that are the fruit of the Spirit, you know, 280 00:18:23.630 --> 00:18:26.180 the gifts of the Spirit, the blessings of heaven. 281 00:18:27.790 --> 00:18:30.140 Be sure you've got the right connections, 282 00:18:30.190 --> 00:18:35.160 that you're connected with a source of energy that builds up and doesn't knock down. 283 00:18:35.330 --> 00:18:39.440 There are a lot of knockdowners in the world today, but let's go into that. 284 00:18:39.450 --> 00:18:41.580 We have God's source of energy, positive. 285 00:18:41.590 --> 00:18:46.460 We've got man's source of energy, neutral, that can be connected either way. 286 00:18:46.470 --> 00:18:52.720 And then we have... We have one called the devil or Satan or Lucifer, 287 00:18:52.730 --> 00:18:55.140 whatever. The Bible has several names for him. 288 00:18:55.150 --> 00:19:00.820 And this evil one is a malevolent personality. 289 00:19:01.970 --> 00:19:07.860 His whole energy is directed toward destroying whatever God 290 00:19:07.870 --> 00:19:09.860 has done. When we get into heaven, 291 00:19:09.870 --> 00:19:14.320 we may find that he has destroyed stars, constellations. 292 00:19:14.330 --> 00:19:15.840 There's no telling. What are we going to find out? 293 00:19:15.850 --> 00:19:18.270 We'll get over there, that he has done. 294 00:19:18.280 --> 00:19:20.810 We know that here on the earth, when we study him, 295 00:19:20.820 --> 00:19:22.630 he calls the Tower of Babel to be built. 296 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.490 That was man trying to build his way up to heaven without God. 297 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:30.330 He got into Judas. The Bible says that he entered into Judas and made Judas. 298 00:19:30.340 --> 00:19:32.890 He loved Jesus. Judas did love Jesus. 299 00:19:32.900 --> 00:19:34.890 He wouldn't have committed suicide if he hadn't. 300 00:19:34.900 --> 00:19:38.650 But the devil got into him and caused him to make the wrong decision. 301 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:43.430 To be lustful for money, the Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil. 302 00:19:43.520 --> 00:19:48.870 That root choked his whole life being until he wanted 20 pieces of silver, 303 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:52.590 30 pieces of silver more than he wanted anything else in the world. 304 00:19:52.600 --> 00:19:55.570 Then when he got them, like a lot of rich people today, 305 00:19:55.580 --> 00:19:56.970 they got it and don't know what to do with it. 306 00:19:56.980 --> 00:19:59.050 So he just threw the stuff down on the floor. 307 00:19:59.060 --> 00:20:02.350 He didn't want it. He'd connected himself with the wrong source of energy. 308 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:05.410 He'd connected himself with the devil and with Satan. 309 00:20:06.200 --> 00:20:12.160 So when a man does that, he is connecting himself with one who wishes to destroy all 310 00:20:12.170 --> 00:20:13.140 the good things God did. 311 00:20:13.150 --> 00:20:16.740 God is a builder, and he wants to knock down everything that God has done. 312 00:20:17.130 --> 00:20:20.060 God built the Garden of Eden, and don't get worried about it. 313 00:20:20.070 --> 00:20:22.300 He's going to build another one, and you're going to be there, 314 00:20:22.310 --> 00:20:23.310 and I'm going to be there. 315 00:20:23.510 --> 00:20:28.380 He calls it the New Jerusalem, and the trees that were in the first garden, 316 00:20:28.390 --> 00:20:30.880 they're going to be there. The tree of life is going to be there. 317 00:20:31.030 --> 00:20:33.360 The tree of knowledge and good and evil will be there. 318 00:20:33.490 --> 00:20:37.400 One tree will bear fruit, 12 kinds of fruit, 12 times a year. 319 00:20:37.410 --> 00:20:41.740 And just the leaves of the tree will be healing for nations of people that will be 320 00:20:41.750 --> 00:20:45.560 living on planet Earth at that time. And so the end is not yet. 321 00:20:45.630 --> 00:20:48.360 In fact, we've just gotten to the exciting chapter. 322 00:20:48.870 --> 00:20:53.760 And that's the reason why we wish to teach you so thoroughly, so completely, 323 00:20:53.770 --> 00:20:57.780 that you will be on God's side so strong that you will set men free. 324 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:01.090 You know, there are people that want to be free, and they cannot be free. 325 00:21:01.100 --> 00:21:02.410 They cannot free themselves. 326 00:21:02.420 --> 00:21:05.850 They've gotten into the devil's clutches, 327 00:21:05.860 --> 00:21:07.970 and sometimes they got in through ignorance. 328 00:21:08.220 --> 00:21:09.850 Somebody helped them into it. 329 00:21:09.860 --> 00:21:12.010 Sometimes they got in there through transgression, through sin. 330 00:21:12.800 --> 00:21:15.030 Sometimes they get in there through fear, you know. 331 00:21:15.040 --> 00:21:18.290 They get into the devil's clutches, and they need help to get out. 332 00:21:18.320 --> 00:21:21.070 They need what you're hearing right now to get out. 333 00:21:21.080 --> 00:21:22.870 Someone with a positive faith. 334 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:26.350 with a positive trust in the Word of God, who knows what He's saying, 335 00:21:26.360 --> 00:21:29.990 believes what He's saying, has experienced what He's saying, 336 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:32.690 to come and set them free by God's mighty power. 337 00:21:32.700 --> 00:21:36.850 That's our job. How glad we are to be performing the work of God. 338 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:41.770 We find in John 10 and 10, this malevolent personality, 339 00:21:41.780 --> 00:21:47.730 that He has come into this world to be a thief and to be a destroyer and to be a 340 00:21:47.740 --> 00:21:52.190 killer, and that's His business. 341 00:21:52.530 --> 00:21:55.820 He is an internebular gangster. 342 00:21:56.670 --> 00:21:59.020 He has entrance to the throne room of God. 343 00:21:59.030 --> 00:22:02.140 He is the prince and the power of the air above us here. 344 00:22:02.150 --> 00:22:05.160 He walks throughout the earth, and we're going to study that. 345 00:22:05.590 --> 00:22:07.880 If you don't know much about it, just hang with us here, 346 00:22:07.890 --> 00:22:11.580 and we're going to study every department of it. 347 00:22:11.590 --> 00:22:15.960 You're not going to be left in any shadow of ignorance of any kind. 348 00:22:16.040 --> 00:22:17.110 on the face of this earth. 349 00:22:17.120 --> 00:22:20.090 You're going to know the truth and the truth is going to set you free. 350 00:22:20.120 --> 00:22:24.010 I am believing, God, that there will be a million people that will be able to set 351 00:22:24.020 --> 00:22:25.930 other people free from the devil's power. 352 00:22:25.940 --> 00:22:29.270 They'll understand the power of prayer, the power of faith, 353 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:32.790 the power of believing the Bible, you know, 354 00:22:32.800 --> 00:22:36.270 that they will be able to set people free in Jesus' name. 355 00:22:36.280 --> 00:22:39.340 And so this internebular gangster... must be cast down. 356 00:22:39.350 --> 00:22:41.920 He must be defeated. He must be ruined in Jesus. 357 00:22:41.930 --> 00:22:44.300 And John 10 and 10 tells us that's what he is. 358 00:22:44.310 --> 00:22:46.860 But Jesus, I've come to give life and to give it more abundantly. 359 00:22:46.870 --> 00:22:50.760 The devil has caused the ills and sorrows of mankind from the Garden of Eden to this 360 00:22:50.770 --> 00:22:53.540 point in history, further than this point, into the Great Tribulation. 361 00:22:53.550 --> 00:22:58.700 The works of the devil through his fallen angels and their cosmic forces 362 00:22:58.710 --> 00:23:04.300 with their evil designs. And we give you scriptures for that in the syllabus when 363 00:23:04.310 --> 00:23:07.240 you get it. And we have come to know that the holy scriptures, 364 00:23:07.390 --> 00:23:12.620 are the only authoritative source of information about Satan that you're going to 365 00:23:12.630 --> 00:23:15.320 ever get. You won't ever get it in any other book, in any other catalog. 366 00:23:15.650 --> 00:23:16.540 You're going to have to go to the Bible. 367 00:23:16.550 --> 00:23:21.580 The Bible 200 times directly speaks to us of this malevolent personality called the 368 00:23:21.590 --> 00:23:24.320 devil, over 200 times. In Genesis chapter 3, 369 00:23:24.330 --> 00:23:28.800 Satan enters the realm of human activity as an entity, 370 00:23:28.910 --> 00:23:32.920 different from humanity, completely as a fallen angel from heaven. 371 00:23:33.110 --> 00:23:36.460 Job chapter 1 reveals that Satan is an oppressor of good people. 372 00:23:36.470 --> 00:23:39.120 He said, let me oppress Job. I want to oppress Job. 373 00:23:39.130 --> 00:23:43.080 The oppressor is not God. God is not an oppressor, but the devil is an oppressor. 374 00:23:43.090 --> 00:23:46.460 Matthew 4 shows the audacity of this tempter. 375 00:23:46.470 --> 00:23:49.560 He even tempted the Lord Jesus Christ, and if he tempted Christ, 376 00:23:49.570 --> 00:23:52.140 he's sure God will tempt you. You better believe it. 377 00:23:52.250 --> 00:23:56.280 In Revelation chapter 20 and verse 10, it predicts his final incarceration. 378 00:23:56.470 --> 00:24:00.040 We are the victors. We are the winners. Read the last page and find out. 379 00:24:00.950 --> 00:24:05.200 And he will be placed into an eternal confinement because of his rebellion against 380 00:24:05.210 --> 00:24:10.300 God. his hatred toward God and his hurting of human persons like yourself. 381 00:24:10.450 --> 00:24:12.680 The devil does not want the truth. 382 00:24:13.040 --> 00:24:18.070 He doesn't want even the truth about him to be revealed. 383 00:24:18.080 --> 00:24:21.830 He's a hiding creature, hiding behind something all the time. 384 00:24:21.840 --> 00:24:25.270 He doesn't want it disclosed as to where he came from and what he's doing today. 385 00:24:25.280 --> 00:24:28.390 He hates exposure of himself and his deeds. 386 00:24:28.400 --> 00:24:32.730 He is a camouflager, and he camouflages as an angel of light. 387 00:24:32.740 --> 00:24:37.050 In 2 Corinthians 11 and 14, it says that he is as an angel of light, 388 00:24:37.180 --> 00:24:41.650 you see, deceiving people, making people think he's good when he is not good. 389 00:24:42.550 --> 00:24:44.920 There are people that think spiritism is good. 390 00:24:44.930 --> 00:24:47.280 They think occultism is good. 391 00:24:47.600 --> 00:24:50.990 They think the gurus out of India, that they are good, you see, 392 00:24:51.080 --> 00:24:55.150 when actually they have given themselves over to this negative force and they are 393 00:24:55.160 --> 00:25:01.130 seeking information from the netherworld and from the underworld of the spirit. 394 00:25:01.250 --> 00:25:04.780 when they should be seeking the upper world of God for guidance, 395 00:25:04.790 --> 00:25:10.280 and they do not do that. So what we must have is Christian action. 396 00:25:10.390 --> 00:25:16.280 We must have that neutral person of power to receive the upper person of 397 00:25:16.290 --> 00:25:19.040 power and come against the lower person of power. 398 00:25:19.130 --> 00:25:22.790 The Christian is to take action against the devil, 399 00:25:22.800 --> 00:25:26.150 as you will find in Acts chapter 8 and verse 9. 400 00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:31.730 Also in Ephesians 4 and 27, the Word of God warns that believers should not should 401 00:25:31.740 --> 00:25:35.970 give no place to the devil, no honor to him, no praise to him, no fear to him. 402 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:37.990 And I want to tell you one thing. 403 00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:42.710 Don't let anybody tell you that in these classes that the devil is pleased with it 404 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:44.870 and the devil likes it and that we are honoring the devil. 405 00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:47.350 We are destroying him. We are tearing him to pieces. 406 00:25:47.360 --> 00:25:50.030 We're exposing him. We're putting him out of locomotion. 407 00:25:50.040 --> 00:25:52.910 And that's what we want to do. That's what we want to do. 408 00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:57.090 Disciples must believe. They must accept. They must follow the words of God. 409 00:25:57.100 --> 00:25:59.530 And if they don't, then they cannot set humanity free.