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TRUE MINISTRIES CHURCH

KEYTOTHE HOUSE

I want to share a couple of things with you tonight. This teaching is calledKey to the House.How many times have you lost the key and havent been able to get in the house. Sometimes

you have to go through the back dooryou have to break a window. Oh man, what did I dowith that key! Sometimes you left the door open.

There are certain keys that God has given us. In fact, there are many keys that God has given us.

There are symbols of keysthere are keys of knowledge, keys of wisdom and so forth. A key is

a representation of something that locks or unlocks. It can lock or unlock knowledge. Therecould be something in your life that you need to be released from. It can bind you or loose you.

A key to a house is very important because the only way you can get into this house is by having

the right keys. The only way to get into the house and maintain the house is by having the right

keys. One of the keys (symbolic) is the number 7 in the bible. Its a representation of a key. Ifyou dont know a combination, which is also a representation of a key, you dont know how to

open something or lock something. There are certain keys that open the mysteries of God in hisword. One of the keys is the number 7. The number 7 is a very important key to me and you.

The number 7 is a representation of the meaning of complete or perfect.

GENESIS 2:1-3

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. Finished was a

representation of something complete. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He

had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. So we seethat number 7 is a representation of finished or what he means by complete or made perfect.

God restedyou dont go rest unless you have completed something. Then God blessed theseventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created

and made. The number 7 is a representation of a blessed number. Why? God blessed the

seventh day. Everyday for me and you is blessed. In fact, in the Old Testament it was known as

the Sabbath day. He blessed that day knowing that everyone would be workingbusybodies inthe worldand he wanted that one day specific day reserved for Him. So he blessed that

seventh day and they acknowledged it as the Sabbath, so they could acknowledge Him. So they

didnt work and they didnt do anything on the Sabbath day. They acknowledged God and spent

time with their families because God is a family God. That was all through the Old Testament.When the New Testament camewhen Jesus came into the world, he said, I am the Lord of the

Sabbath. He said that anyone who came unto Him, that He would give them rest. So every day

for you and I should be the Sabbath day, because we have fellowship with the Lord of theSabbath. If we have our trust in Him and fellowship with Him, everyday should be the Sabbath

for us. Of course there is a specific day that we gather together to worship, but thats not

acknowledged as the Sabbath day because the Sabbath is a representation of a day of rest. Everyday should be a Sabbath for me and you. Every day should be holy and sanctified unto the Lord.

Every single day!

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JOHN 19:28-30

After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplishedaccomplished meaning

finished, completethat the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst! Now a vessel full of sour

wine was sitting there; and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His

mouth. So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, It is finished! And bowing His head,

He gave up His spirit. In other words, he said it was finishedbut something happened beforethis. Seven things happened to Jesus for him to be able to say it was finished. The first thing

that happened to Jesus was that he was whipped. His back was whipped. The second thing that

happened was the thorns were put on his head. The third thing that happened was that his twohands were nailed to the cross. The other thing that happened was his feet were nailed to the

cross. So we see two hands, two feet, his back, his headand there was one other thing. His

side was pierced. Seven places that blood ran from Jesus allowed him to say it was finished,

completed, and perfect. Seven places: his head, his back, his two hands, his two feet and hisside. When Jesus was on the cross, the seven places that his blood ranthat he was able to say it

is finished, it is complete and it is perfect.

ISAIAH

11:1-2There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots.The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, [thats one] the Spirit of wisdom [thats two] and

understanding, [understanding is three] the Spirit of counsel[counsel is four] and might, [might

is five] the Spirit of knowledge [knowledge is six] and of the fear of the LORD [and reverence or

fear is seven]. So we see that he was going to come in the complete fullness of the Spirit of God.

One that was going to come from the stem of Jesse, complete and perfect. Now God also tells ushow we can be complete and perfect. We are working toward perfection, arent we. We know

we still have flaws. But we are working towards perfection in everything we are going through.

The Lord says to count it all joy as you go through trials and tribulations. Why? Because God isbringing us into more and more perfectionin His perfection toward His image and likeness.

Jesus was the image and likeness of the invisible God, because he was God. So he was perfect.

REVELATION 1:18-20

Jesus is speaking and he says, I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am aliveforevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. So we know Jesus holds thekeys to hell and death. Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the

things which will take place after this. The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My righthand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches,

and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches. These angels arerepresentations of messengers. Messengers of God. You can acknowledge them as pastors,

leaders or angels themselves that brought the message to the church. Jesus speaksthere are

seven letters in this church. In other words, there are seven messages in this church to work youand I toward perfection. He gives us warnings in these seven letters. He gives us

encouragement in these seven letters. And he gives us correction and direction in these seven

letters. One of them, the first church he talks about is the loveless church. In other words, theylost their first love. So he brought correction to them. He is telling us because we are the

church. So these letters were to bring completion and perfection in your life and in my life.

Thats why we can read all the letters. Im not going to go into that teaching tonight. Im just

going give you an understanding of the symbolic meaning of seven. He talks about the first

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church being the loveless church because they lost their first love of the Lord. When you lose

your first love of the Lord, you are stumbling. When he is not first in your life, something else is

between you and God. There is no way you are going to walk in perfectionor in the fullness ofGod. The next church is the persecuted church. And we will be persecuted. So he is telling us it

is alright to be persecuted. The next church is the compromising church and there is a warning

for compromising. Compromising means you are not willing to be persecuted. Then there is thecorrupt church. They were the ones who were dealing and dabbling in the affairs of the world.

This was the corrupt church. So he warns usdont touch anything unclean. Then there is the

dead church, and he meant spiritually dead. We must be on fire for God. Alive in the Spirit.Worshipers. Thats what brings life. The Spirit brings life. The bible says the letter kills and the

Spirit brings life. I have been in churches long enough in my life that have been deader than a

doornail! In fact, Jesus was outside of that church I think in some of them. I heard this one

testimony where this dude was sitting on the front sidewalk or the curb of a church and he wasbummed out. And a man came up to him and asked, Whats the matter? And the one sitting on

the sidewalk dejected said,Ive got long hair and the church just wont receive me. They arepreaching the word and whatever, but they just wont receive me. The other man said, Thats

okay, they wont receive me either. Come to find out, that person was Jesus. Hello. Deadchurch. The next church is the faithful church. A faithful church. And we need to be faithful no

matter what. We need to earn Gods trust in our life. We earn Gods trust. If we are faithfulwith the things he has given us the bible says if you are faithful with a little, you get more. So

these are all things that are bringing us into walking more and more in Gods perfection in his

image and likeness. The last church he warns is the lukewarm church. He says if you are

lukewarm he will spew you out of his mouth. He is saying you must be on fire for God. Yourfirst desire must be to please him in all things. No matter what. So we see here he gives us

seven things in seven letters to churches, which if you and I were to go over and search our own

heart we would find out where we are atjust by those seven letters. So we need to buildourselves not only in the word of God but in a relationship with the Spirit of God. So that we

can get counsel, correction and direction from the Spirit of God, because he is our comforter and

he is our teacher. He will bring all things to pass in our life and he will reveal all things in ourlife whether good or evil. So he is always trying to perfect me and you. We are in a constant

walk of working towards perfection and he gives us guidelines to walk in.

MATTHEW 7:24-27

Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise manwho built his house on the rockThis is Jesus speaking to you and meto those who hear his

word. The house represents us. The temple. He is not talking about a physical structure of abuilding. He is talking about a spiritual structure and thats your house and my house. and the

rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall,for it was founded on the rock. This house was beat with wind and rain but he was actuallyparalleling the spiritual and naturalhe was talking about attacks from the powers of darkness

that come against us. The word floodmeans an attack from the powers of darkness. And that

person stood. Many times we have been pushed off that rock because we werent strong in theLord. So we need to build our house according to the ways of God not according to the ways of

man or doctrines of men. But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them,will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. We see that you can build your house

on the rock or on the sand. Verse 27, and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds

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blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall. Let me tell you something.

Many of us who have backsliddengreat was the fall. Because we began to build on the rock,

but got pushed off onto the sand. Then we started building it instead of allowing the Lord tobuild it. So we see that there are wise and foolish. And you and I can be wise or foolish. We

have that choice. We have a choice of where we build. We have a choice of whether we are

going to build with the tools and equipment and blueprints and knowledge and understanding ofGod or on our own. We know that any time we have tried on our own, we fall. Every time you

step in quicksand, you sink.

PROVERBS 24:3, 4

Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established. We see that through

wisdom a house is built. Wisdom is to know what to do with the knowledge. Wisdom tells you

what to do with the knowledge. Many people have knowledge but they dont know what to dowith it. Wisdom is a relationship of fellowshipfellowshipping with wisdom. In fact, the bible

tells us to cry out for wisdom. By knowledge the rooms are filledWe see that there are rooms

in this house. By knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. The

presence of Jesus in those roomsthat is what the precious and pleasant riches are. Wisdombuilds the house and precious riches fill the rooms.

JOHN 14:1-3

Jesus is speaking and he says,Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also inMe. In My Fathers house are many mansionsThe word mansion means dwelling. Or we

could say rooms. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And

if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where Iam, there you may be also. Jesus wants to be united with me and you in oneness. Doesnt the

word say if you abide in me, I abide in you? Didnt Jesus say if you obey my commands that myfather and I would come and dwell with you and sup with you? So look at your temple as now

the house of God. The word says if you abide in me, I abide in you. Doesnt the bible say that

the kingdom of God is neither here nor there but where? Within. You are now the house ofGod, until Jesus comes and takes us from this planet. You are the Fathers house. And in you

are rooms. We want every one of these rooms filled with the Holy Spirit. Every one!

HEBREWS 3:4-6

For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God. And Moses indeed wasfaithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken

afterward, but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the

confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. So we are the house of Christ. Thats

what the word says. Sometimes we look in the mirror and think we certainly dont looklike the

house of Christsometimes we dont feellike we are the house of Christ. And sometimes wejust dont think we are the house of Christ. But we ARE the house of Christ.

2 JOHN 7-10

For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in

the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. Understand that an antichrist is a representation of

a demonic spirit. Every demon is an antichrist. Why? Because they are against Christ. Christ

represents the anointing of God. A believer can have an antichrist. Especially those who come

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against the Spirit of God or the move of God. They have a spirit of antichrist because Christ

means the Anointed One and his anointing. Lets go onLook to yourselves, that we do not

lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward. Why? Because the spiritof antichrist is going to try and come and sway you. When we break covenant with God, we lose

everything that we have worked for. The bible says that when a righteous man turns from his

righteousness that all of his righteousness is blotted out and forgottennot remembered. Butthank God he gives us an opportunity to start over again! Verse 9, Whoever transgresses and

does not abide in the doctrine of Christ, does not have God. Wow! That means that anyone who

transgressesanyone who has been going to church, anyone who has been walking with theLord for a period of time, anyone that chooses not to abide in the doctrine of God and the

doctrine of Christ and walks away from Christ, is not his anymore. Does everyone understand

that? The bible says that we can walk away from the Lordat any time. But that doesnt mean

that person cant be reconciled. God is the God of now. What you do right now is whatsimportant, isnt it. See everything that you did yesterday and that you are wanting to do

tomorrow, has no effect or bearing on what you are doing right now. He is the God of now! If

you died right now, where you go would depend on where you were with God at the time. If you

broke covenant with God at the time you died, you wont go home. If you are right with God atthe time you die, you will. It depends on who you are serving when you die. Who you serve

when you die is where you go. So he warns us and says, Whoever transgresses and does not

abide in the doctrine of Christ, does not have God. Many people have come up and said they

were believers. But yet they dont believe the word. Well, then they are not a believer. He whoabides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. Who brings the Father and the

son? The Holy Spirit. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive

him into your houseWhats he talking about? You! Dont receive him into you! Dont listen

to it! Dont let it get in you! If that person is not carrying the doctrine of Christit says, do not

receive him into your house, nor greet him; for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds. Soyou must understand that we must protect this house.

1 TIMOTHY 4:1

Now the Spirit expressly saysIf the Spirit is expressly saying something, he is lighting this

whole thing up in neon lights. Hes tugging you. Hes saying, Yo! Hey! Whats up??!! Comeon! Listen to me!! Open your eyes!! Its like Jesus when he says,Assuredly I say to you . Wesee here that, the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faithSo he

is warning us. He says some are going to depart from the faith. Why? Giving heed to deceivingspiritsWhats a deceiving spirit? A demon!! An antichrist. It says, giving heedin other

words, LISTENING to them. Giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demonsknownas the doctrine of antichrist. This parallels with 2John and what we just read. Dont let anyone

come to youif they are not abiding in the doctrine of Christ they are abiding in the doctrine of

the antichrist. What is in that individual is a deceiving, seducing spirit trying to sway you fromthe truth of the doctrine of Christ and bring to you a false doctrine. These are known as doctrines

of demons. Now remember doctrines of men come from doctrines of demons. They are the

same. Rules and regulations that man gives are from a demon. Its from an antichrist becausewhat it is trying to do is bring you under the law of rules and regulations instead of fellowship

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So we must have the discernment as to what we are listening towho we are listening to. Many

people are going to knock on your front door and have a bible in their hand. Paul warned us

saying many would come and preach the same gospel but it would be a different Jesus. Hewarned us. He said many will come and preach the same gospel but they will interpret it in a

different way and they wont be preaching the same Jesus. Because the Jesus we know is the

baptizer of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. And He is the way, truth and life.

DEUTERONOMY 8:14

When your heart is lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the

land of Egypt, from the house of bondageEgypt is a representation of the world, worldliness.

Who is the ruler of this world? Satan. So when you are worldly and you are under the authority

of the world, you are under the authority of satan. And you are in bondage. We were inbondage. In fact, our house was known as the house of bondage. Thank God for Jesus!! Who

the Son sets free is free indeed! No longer the house of bondagebut the house of freedom.

The house of the Lord.

2 TIMOTHY 2:19-26

Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: The Lord knows those who are

His, and, Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity. Whoa! So if you are

saying youre a believer, you had better depart from iniquity. Because if you say you are a

believer and are not departing from iniquity, you are not his. In verse 20,But in a great house

there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and

some for dishonor. We want to be a vessel of honor. Therefore if anyone [anyone -- that means

me or you] cleanses himself [that means it is our responsibility] from the latter, he will be a

vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work. Now hetells us what to do. Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with

those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowingthat they generate strife. Strife is demonic. And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be

gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God

perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come totheir senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

We must be able to teach. Now we need to be cleansing ourselves so we can be vessel of honor

ready for the Masters use.

EPHESIANS 6:12

You will hear this over and over again in this ministry. Its the one thing people seem to forget

especially believers. Lets read thisfamous verse together, For we do not wrestle againstflesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of

this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. In other words, you and I

are fighting demonic forces. We are fighting demons. We are not fighting one another. Now

we were just talking about cleansing ourselves from all filthiness. We were just talking aboutmaking sure that no other doctrine came into our spirit or into our housethat was not of the

doctrine of Christ. We just talked about fighting demonic powers. Even Jesus fought demonic

powers. Lets go to Mark 16.

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MARK16:5-11

I want to share with you Jesus cast out a lot of demons himselfin verse 5, And entering the

tombThis was after Jesus rose from the dead and we know that others came down to the tomband entered the tomb. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man clothed in a long white

robe sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed. But he said to them, Do not be alarmed.

You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen! He is not here. See the placewhere they laid Him. But go, tell His disciplesand Peterthat He is going before you into

Galilee; there you will see Him, as He said to you. So they went out quickly and fled from thetomb, for they trembled and were amazed. And they said nothing to anyone, for they were

afraid. Now when He rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary

Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons. She went and told those who had been withHim, as they mourned and wept. And when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by

her, they did not believe. Now, isnt it amazing that he had cast seven demons out of her? Whatdoes seven mean again? Complete. Isnt it amazing that she was the first one he appeared to?

You know how some people say they dont believe in women preachers? Well the first one to

preach the resurrection of Jesus was Mary Magdalene. She went in and told the disciples but

they didnt believe her. So dont let anyone come to you and try to throw some religious garbageon you saying there arent supposed to be women preaching. Because thats just ridiculous! Its

not biblical. The biblical standpoint of this is that there are women preachers. We understandhere that the number seven means complete and perfect. Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene and

there is a reason for this as well as why he cast out seven demons. The bible says in this house

there are rooms. There are seven rooms in this house. Well she was completeand he revealed

himself to her first. She had to be clean. So lets look at our house as the temple and lets lookat it as having seven rooms. Did you ever notice that someone could be praying in the Spirit and

still do wicked things. Well maybe the Holy Ghost is only in one of the rooms and he desires to

be in all the rooms. Did you ever notice that someone could be doing really good in some areas,praying in the Spirit, going to churchbut they have an anger problem. And everything just sets

them off instantly. That means that one of those rooms is not filled with the Holy Ghost. That

room has another person in there. It is so foolish that people think that just because you haveJesus Christ as Lord and Savior that you cannot have a demon. Thats ridiculous. Why do you

think that people backslide and go back out and use or go fornicate? Those demons had gained

access to them. The next thing they know they are seeing shadows and hearing those voices anddoing those things they should not have. Does it mean God has left us? No. Hes still trying to

draw us to himself. He is trying to get us in position for repentance and reconciliation. In the

book of Ephesians is says to be not drunk on wine but be filled with the Holy Spirit. So it is our

responsibility to stay filled with the Holy Spirit. It is our responsibility to stay cleansed. It is ourresponsibility not to go back to those youthful lusts. It is OUR responsibility. Jesus has given us

all the tools. He has already given us everything. He is the way, truth and life. That means he is

the door to all freedom.

MATTHEW 12:43-45; 25-29

When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds

none. Then he says, I will return to my house [Wait a minutewhose house? Remember I

shared before that those demons still look at you as their house! And they will return again and

again. They want their house back. Why? Because they were sitting in an easy city. They

would just sit in there and when they wanted to get fed, would get fed. When they wanted to

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rest, they would rest. Then he says, I will return to my house from which I came. And when hecomes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. In other words, he has been cleaned. He has

been put in order. But its not filled. Hello. Its not filled. It has been cleaned and put in orderbut it hasnt maintained filling of the Holy Spirit. Then he goes and takes with him seven other

spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is

worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation. How many spirits? Seven.Do you think there might be seven rooms in this house? So it is important for us to maintain the

infilling of the Spirit of God in all these rooms. God begins to deal with us as individuals in

certain areas of our lives. The bible says you will know them by their fruits. You can tell byyour fruits what you are dealing with. If you are still lusting, still angry, still have desires for

certain thingsthis means that room has not been filled and cleaned up yet. Remember that the

Lord said many would fall fromtaking heed or listening to deceiving spirits. Thats how they

enter too, just by agreeing with them. Remember a corruptible seed gets planted. Then it getswatered. By listeningthe devil plants a corruptible seed in one of those rooms. Then it grows.

And unless you curse that corruptible seed, or you get rid of it, that thing will grow and will

allow a spirit back in there and you have trouble.

The Lord says it is an abomination to build on the things he has delivered you from. Its an

abomination to Christ. For exampleand this is the best example I can give: cigarettes. Peopleget free from cigarettes. Now they know the Lord, they go back out and they are working again.

Then all of a sudden they pick up a cigarette. What happens then is that they begin to rely on

that cigarette as fulfillment. That means they are building on the things that God has delivered

them from. Thats an abomination to the Lord. That means when they lit that cigarette and put itto their lips they breathed inWhat does breath mean? Spirit. As they breathed in that first

cigarette, a demon just entered one of those rooms. Everyone that I know that has been bound by

drugs and alcohol in any way, when they pick up that first cigarette, its just a matter of a shortperiod of time until they are back out using again. Anyone that has come to Christ. Now we

know that there are many people involved in 12 step programs that are huffing away and

drinking coffee. But they still have demons in them. They are not free yet. Those spirits are justbeing starved. They are not delivered yet. Those demons just cause them to do something else.

They are still fornicating. They are still doing this and whatever. So they are going to hell not

using. And they think they have been clean! Its not about how long you have been cleananymore. Its not about days. Its about relationship. Its about really knowing the King of

Glory.

So we see here that Jesus cast out seven demons from Mary Magdalene and he revealed himselfto her first. We read here now that seven spirits return. We know that the number seven is a

representation of complete, perfect or finished. We know spirits can enter through things of

enticement by taking heedthey plant that corruptible seed. When we sayyes, theyre in! Letsgo a little further. Lets go to verse 25,But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: Every

kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided againstitself will not stand. Do you understand that? If youve got demons in that house, its not goingto stand. Its just a matter of time before it will fall. I was involved in another ministry at one

time and I was pasturing there. The director and myselfbecause of their programming and so

forthI didnt like it. As far as I was concerned it was 12 stepping it. It was supposed to be and

said it was Christ centered. This ministry here is not Christ centered, it is Christ headed.

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Anyway there was a discrepancy. I didnt want to hear the word programming. I didnt want to

hear the word 12 stepping. So when guys would come into this place, I would have them read

deliverance prayers, anoint their head, take them in the back room and cast out devils. Theproblem was when they would come out of the back room, they would pick them back up after a

period of time. This was because they werent being filled with the word of God. They were

memorizing and studying the 12 steps. After a year there, I realized there was a discrepancy andwhat kept coming to me was that this house was going to fall. This ministry is going to fall.

And I said, Lord either remove mebecause at least its a ministry helping and there is not

enough of them out there and hopefully you will rescue the people out of itor change thisdirectors heart and let this be a full-fledged Christheaded ministry and get the 12 steps out of

here. And stop the smoking on the campus and clean it up. Well the next day, or that week, I

got a letter saying he wanted to meet me. That week he asked me to leave. And I thanked the

Lord. They were probably thinking, This guy is a quack! Because they used to come to me andsay, Man you think there is a demon around every corner. I wanted to tell them sometimes,

There is and there is one talking to me right now! But I never did say that. You know that when

there is demonic oppression present, there is deception. Our light would be seen. You would be

able to tell. Most people who have demons dont know it. They dont know it. But after aperiod of time after you have tasted the goodness of the Lord and youve got a demon, you know

it. Someone is usually telling you. Having a demon doesnt mean you are foaming at the mouthand acting goofy. It doesnt mean that you are totally possessed. It means there is a demon in

one of those rooms. It means there is a demon in one of those rooms that needs to get cleaned

out. Lets go on. Verse 26, If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then

will his kingdom stand? And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them

out? Therefore they shall be your judges. But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surelythe kingdom of God has come upon you. Listen to this now, Or how can one enter a strong

mans house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will

plunder his house. Thats talking about demons in a house. Jesus is explaining this. Hes not

talking about the physicalHes talking about the spiritual. And he calls this demon a

strongman. I want to explain what a strongman is. A strongman is a high-ranking demon. In thedemonic world, we have principalities, powers of darkness and so forth. Its a war. Its a

military. There are principalities that are over countries, over nations and over cities. Those are

not demons those are angels that are servants of satan. They are known as principalities.Principalities are not demons. Demons are here on the earth. Demons are disembodied spirits

that desire a body. When satan was removed from the throne room of God he took one-third of

the angels with him. Those angels are not demons. They are still angels. Angels do not possess

bodies, or man I should say. Angels put on fleshand thats a whole other teaching. Demonspossess bodies because they are disembodied spirits that want a body. There are ranking officers

in the demonic military and they fight one another. In fact, they use you to fight one another.

Lets get deep in this. They want to be high-ranking, they are disorderly and they are out forselfish gain. This strongman has demons under his authority. So when you enter a housein

other words, when you are praying for someone, you bind the strongmen in that house.

Sometimes the Lord will tell you to be specific in what they are. Sometimes he will tell you to just do it. But you will know the strongmen by the fruit. By the fruit, you will be able to

identify the tree. You will know what kind of tree it is. If there are oranges, you know its an

orange tree, etc. If there is addiction present, we know that its a strongman. That strongman

can lead to many things. There could be an addiction to perversion. There could be an addition

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to drugs or alcohol. It could be many things. Understand this though, your main concern is to

bind the strongman or you cannot enter the house. Because the strongman is the one thats

giving the orders to the demons that are under him. If you bind the strongman he cant giveorders to the other demons. And then you can command them to go and the strongman will have

to go with them.

Let me share this with you. In your job placeif in the morning you do not attack the devil

before he attacks you, he will get you later. Thats why its important for you to bind the

strongmen that would come against you in your prayers every single day. You can bindstrongmen while you are praying for people. There is no distance in the Spirit. Binding the

strongman does not mean he is bound forever. Its a temporary bind so that you can access and

do your work and then leave. Because if we were to just go around and bind every evil spirit, it

doesnt work. So even before you go to your job placebefore I go minister I bind everystrongman that would try and come against me or that house. Why? So I can enter and plunder

the goods of the evil one. So that I can enter and as the Holy Spirit ministers through this vessel

he can plant the righteous seed. In the hope that seed wont be stolen. You must bind strongmen

every day. Just because you bind it one day doesnt mean it is bound the next. So there could bea strongman in one of those rooms. There is a strongman of jealousy. Under him could be lust

or perversion, murder, rage. All of those things lead to one another. So unless you first bind thatstrongman, the rest of those will still be there. Its important that you take authority and bind

that strongman. Especially before you go to work, when you enter any placeit must be a part

of your life. No matter where my wife and I goeven when we go to a restaurant, we bind the

strongman. Before I come and do a teaching, like I said, I bind the strongmen. Before serviceswe pray and we bind the strongmen and we command them to go.

MATTHEW 16:13-19

When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, Who do

men say that I, the Son of Man, am? So they said, Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, andothers Jeremiah or one of the prophets. He said to them, But who do you say that I am? Simon

Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus answered and

said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you,but My Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rockAndhe means that the rock was the revelation that Jesus is the Christ. Peter is not the rock. The rock

is the revelation that he had that Jesus was the Anointed One and his anointing. He was the

power of God who was known as the Christ. Jesus is the name of the Christ. So he said,Blessed

are you, Simon Bar-Jonahin verse 18 he says,And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on

this rock[or on this revelation]I will build My churchNow who builds the church? The Holy

Spirit. Jesus is the head of the church. The Holy Spirit builds it. Now what does he tell him.

Now that you got this revelation that I am the Anointed One with the anointing and I am going tobuild my church by the anointing, I am going to give you something. I will build My church and

the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom ofheaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on

earth will be loosed in heaven. He said whatever you bind or loose on earthin other words,

whatever you do on the natural sidewhat you speakwill happen on the spiritual side. Its so

important that we take our authority because on this revelationPeople dont bind and loose.

They dont use those keys. Do you know why? Because they dont have that revelation of the

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Anointed One and his anointing. Through the Spirit of God you will get that revelation! These

are keys he has given me and you! A key locks and a key unlocks. Now we have talked about

other keys before, about the keys of symbols and so forth, revealing wisdom and knowledge andmysteries of God. But this key is a key of warfare. Why? So we can expand the Kingdom of

God. By rescuing people, the Kingdom of God is being expanded. By people getting set free

from demonic activity and so forthset free from the bondages of debt. Some people have hadthe spirit of debt brought down from ancestral curses that they cant get rid of. And they are

brought up and learn that they can live with debt. There are so many poor people out there

because they have learned that they can live with debt. Or live in poverty. But God didnt bringpoverty. He brought life more abundantly. Not only is prosperity for you and I, but health and

wisdom and understanding and bringing the truth of these things of the mysteries of God and

promises of God to those who are bound, poor, outcast, lost, blinded. So you and I must use

these keys of binding and loosing. It is important that you use them. These are keys that Jesuspaid the price forthat when he sent the Holy Spirit, these are one of the keys that he has given

you. So whatever you bind on the earth, which means in the naturalwhatever you speak, is

bound in the spiritual. And you will know these spirits by their fruit. So you bind the strongman

in an individualyou bind the spirit and loose the person. There can be more than onestrongman in you at one time. If your rooms are not filled with the Spirit of God, there could be

two strongmen in two rooms. The bible tells us that seven spirits or seven roomsso you canlook at a strongman in each room. But there could be more than one demon in that room. Thats

why there are some people who can worship the Lord, go to bible study and on the outside they

look like they are doing okay but inside they are tormented. Tormented. In fact, they are doing

things behind closed doors that are not right. Because a strongman or demon is there and thatroom has not been cleaned yet. Thats why you see people who go to church, rightand the

next thing you know their wife is calling saying, My husband just came home from church and

beat me up. Something is not right! Or he just left church and went and used. Well that spiritisnt gone then, is he. And hes not filled, is he. Thats why it is so importantif you pour

water in a glass and its not full, that means something else can get in. In fact, you know whats

there? Air. So you need to keep it filled with the right air. The Holy Ghost.

JOHN 11:38-44

I want to share with you whats going on. Lazarus, a friend of Jesus, died. And his sistersMartha and Mary came running to Jesus saying please help him. Jesus took four days to get

there and he is already in the tomb. Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. Itwas a cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus said, Take away the stone. Who took away that

stone? They did. Youve got to move away that stone! Martha, the sister of him who was dead,

said to Him, Lord, by this time there is a stenchIn other words, Lord hes been laying in there

for four days, it stinks. You really dont want to move that stone, do you? We are all going to

smell this out here. She has lost sight of the fact that her brother is dead and Jesus is about toraise him. Because prior to this he said to her,I am the resurrection. In verse 40,Jesus said to

her, Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God? Then theytook away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes

and said, Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me,

but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sentMe. Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth! And

he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped

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with a cloth. Jesus said to them, Loose him, and let him go. There are many people who are

bound. They are bound with graveclothes. Did you notice where they were bound? Hands, feet

and head. In their mind, they are bound. No freedom to walk in the ways of God. No freedomto do the things of God. No freedom of the mind of Christ. They are bound! What are they

bound by? Gravesclothes. Who is the author of death? satan. But who did he tell to loose

Lazarus? Jesus didnt loose him. He said, You loose them. You loose the individual. You bindthe spirit and you loose the individual. Those are keys that God has given me and you. You can

loose yourselfand bind the strongman. Everyday on those daily confessions. Lord I loosemyself from all demonic activity. When I get up every morning the first thing I am doing isbinding powers of darkness, wickedness in heavenly places, every spirit under the authority of

satan, every strongman. Im binding every spirit that would come against my prayers. Then I

begin to loose myself from self-imposed curses and so forth and thats another teaching. I loose

myself from every stronghold. I loose myself from every tormenting spirit. You have theauthority to loose yourself and you have the authority to loose other people. So we see that Jesus

rose him from the dead and said you loose him from these gravesclothes.

MATTHEW

21:12-14Now we are known as the temple of the Holy Spirit. A house. Then Jesus went into the templeof God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of

the money changers and the seats of those who sold dovesThat was worldliness. Jesus

removed the worldliness from the temple. You and I must remove the worldliness from this

temple. And He said to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you

have made it a den of thieves. We dont want our house to be a den of thieves. We want it to bea temple or a house of prayer. Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and Hehealed them. Remember I shared with you, you cant give something you havent got. Its very

important that you be careful and dont let anyone lay hands on you. I do not, even in thechurch, call people up front to lay hands on somebody. I wont do that. Because who knows

where people have been. God has designated elders in the church to lay hands on people. The

bible does say that we can go out and lay hands on people, right. First of all when you are underauthority in a meeting, fellowshipyou must stay under that authority. The bible says let the

elders of the church anoint the head of the sick and they will recover, right. Why? Because the

elders have earned the trust of God to stay clean. To stay clean!! You dont know where thatperson has been. When I was pastor of that place, that I was asked to leave, these guys were all

smoking cigarettes and would be laying hands on one another. And the next thing I know,

everyone is huffing away. They are passing those spirits onto one another. There are three types

of believers. There are the obedient bearing good fruit. There are the disobedient. And thenthere are the granolascalled nutty and fruity!they have gone beyond what God has called

them to do in the Spirit. They have gone beyond their anointing but thats a whole other

teaching called Mixed Anointing. When you go beyond the anointing of what God has calledyou to do, you open the door to familiar spiritsand now they have fellowship with familiar

spirits thinking its the Holy Ghost. And what they say is, God told me this God told me this

God didnt tell them anything.

I PETER2:1-5

Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn

babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted

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that the Lord is gracious. Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, butchosen by God and preciousYou will be rejected by men, but your Daddys always there

willing to receive you, train you, empower you, deliver you, fill you and work through you torescue someone else. In verse 5,you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house,

a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Remember, you are a priest. You are being built a spiritual house and a holy priesthood. Keepyour house clean!! Keep your house clean. I dont care what other people have said. I have

ministered and counseled with many believers that have had demons in them. I have cast out

many demons that were in believers. It is unfortunate that so many believers out there donteven know they have demons in them and they are being tormented. Remember we need to

clean out all the rooms in our house. Our entire house. We want to remove anything that would

hinder us in any way so that we can be filled with the Holy Spirit in every room of our house. In

true reality if there is a spirit there whether it is oppression, depression or possessionwhocares! Lets get rid of it. The bible says we are not fighting flesh and blood, so we must take our

authority! So keep your house clean, stay filled with the Holy Spirit, stay in unity with the

Spirit, look unto Jesus as your hope and deliverer and the author and developer of your faith, and

stir yourself up and dont let go of Him! And HE IS FAITHFUL!!

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