Sinners. Sinners. And I'll tell you something else
about a sinner. He'll never be a sinner until God makes him
one. And the minute you become a sinner, you're already saved. You just need to understand YAH. You understand YAH. Now here
in Revelations, Chapter 12. You remember that
we saw these two wonders in heaven. And that woman, you know, the
woman looked what she was like. She had the sun, clothed with
the sun, the moon under her feet, and a head of crowns on her head
of 12 stars. You know, so, now tonight we're
going to talk about the dragon being cast out. You remember
the characters from last week. We had the woman, all of her
glory, there in verse 1. You had the man-child that was
brought forth. She brought forth a man-child
who ruled with a rod of iron. And ruled all nations. And her
child was called up to the very throne of God itself. Called
up to the very throne of God. And then the dragon. He stood
ready to kill that child, destroy that child just as quick as it
was born. He stood before that woman to
devour that child. And he had seven heads and ten
horns. And you know the dragon started
in the Garden of Eden. He started in the Garden of Eden.
Seth was the lion after Abel. Cain slew Abel. So God sent him another son,
Seth. That line was going to go through
Seth. Well, what Satan done, he had the sons of Seth to marry
the daughters of Cain. He said, if I can't keep them
pure, I'll get them to marry these Cainanites, you know, these
daughters of Cain, that wicked one that slew his own brother.
So he thought, I'll get rid of him that way. And then when Noah
was born and come along and he had a son named Shem. Shem is
who all the Israelites came down through. So he thought, well,
I'll destroy them through Noah. Well, he couldn't do that. And
so he went down through history and tried to destroy. He said,
I'll tell you what I'll do. He said, I'll get Noah, I'll
get Shem. Well, he couldn't get Shem to
go after anybody. So what he did next was he Come
to Abraham, and Abraham was God's promised seed. The promised seed
was gonna come through Abraham. So he said, I'll tell you what.
I said, Abraham ain't gonna have no child for a long time. I'll
talk him into having an affair with his maid, and he'll produce
a child, and that child will be his heir, and that'll be it.
He went through, everywhere he's went in history, he's done his
dead level best to stop Christ from coming into this world.
And he done it in every way. You go through the Old Testament
and he done it in so, so many, many ways. And you know I told
you about these symbolic pictures. They symbolize certain things.
The dragon was the devil. The man child was the Lord Jesus
Christ. The woman was the church of the
Lord Jesus. And this shows us the effect
of our Lord's birth this second symbolic picture and his atonement
and his ascension to glory. Now let's start reading together
here in verse 7. And there was war in heaven,
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon
fought and his angels, and prevailed not, neither was their place
found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast
out, that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan, which deceiveth
the whole world. He was cast out into the earth,
and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud
voice saying in heaven, now is come salvation, and strength,
and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ. For
the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them
before our God day and night, And they overcame him by the
blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and
they loved not their lives unto death. Therefore rejoice, ye
heavens, and you that dwell in the earth. Woe to the inhabitants
of the earth and of the sea, for the devil has come down unto
you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a
short time. And when the dragon saw that
he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought
forth the man child. And to the woman were given two
wings of a great eagle. that she might fly into the wilderness
into her place where she is nourished for a time and times and a half
a time from the face of the serpent. And the serpent cast out of his
mouth water as a flood after the woman that he might cause
her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the
woman and the earth swallowed up her mouth and swallowed up
the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. And the dragon
was wroth, he was angry with the woman, and went to make war
with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of
God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. This second picture
shows us the dragon in a great battle, and the salvation of
our God, and how God protects his people. First of all, it
talks about a war. There's a war in heaven. There's
a war in heaven. Michael and his angels. You know
Michael's mentioned four times in the scriptures. Michael the
archangel's mentioned four times. And you find him at first mentioned
in Daniel. And I want you to look in Daniel
with me. And you'll see exactly what's going on here. Daniel
chapter 10 I believe is where I want to look at. Daniel chapter
10. And here we see Daniel receive Michael, the archangel,
mentioned here in Daniel. And look here in Daniel chapter
10 and verse 13. Now Daniel had been praying and
the Lord had blessed him. And an angel with Michael was
going to come and bring him the answer to his questions that
he asked God. But he said, I was coming to
give you what God gave you the answer that God had for your
prayer. There in the last part of verse
12. But when the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me. Now this is Satan he's talking
about. Withstood me one and twenty days. But Lord Michael, one of
the chief princes came to help me, and I remained there with
the kings of Persia. So they had a great battle, had
a great battle. Michael is an angel, great angel,
wonderful angel, blessed angel. Now look down here in verse 20,
chapter 10. Then said he, Norest thou wherefore
I have come unto thee? Talking to Daniel again, Michael
was. And now I'll return to fight with the prince of Persia. I've
got to go back and fight some more. And when I am going forth,
lo, the prince of Grisha shall come. But I will show thee which
is noted in the scripture of truth, and there is none that
holdeth with me in those things but Michael, your prince. And look over here in chapter
12 in verse 1. At that time shall Michael stand
up, the great prince, which standeth up for the children of thy people.
And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never since
there was a nation, even to that same time. And at that time,
thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be written
in the book. So here they had this great war.
In Jude verse 9, it says there that Satan come and disputed with
Michael over where the body of Moses was so they had a fight
over that But they had this great great war in heaven Michael and
his angels fought against the devil and his angels and You
know when it says there was 13 Drug down 13 stars with me drug
down all these devils with him and angels when fallen angels
with him when he come down and And so they're having this great
battle. And I want to tell you this before I get into it. When
we talked the other night about we war against, not against flesh
and blood, but against the principalities and powers and the powers of
darkness. These things goes on between
God and the devil. These things has went on since
God has been and God cast the devil out. There's this awful
fight between good and evil going on all the time. And it's something
that you and I don't see. We don't see the demons. We don't
see God fighting them. We don't see Christ destroying
them. We don't see all the things that
goes on that we don't see. When Satan come walking to and
fro on the face of the earth, and God asked him, said, what
are you doing? He said, I'm seeking to whom I may devour. That's
what he said. Somebody I can fight and eat
him up. And God said to him, have you
ever considered my servant Job, a perfect and an upright man?
Now there's having a conversation about Job, and Job had no idea
that this was going on. He said, Satan said to him, I'll
tell you what, the only way in the world he won't cuss you to
your face is if you take down that hedge. And I guarantee you,
if you take down the hedge and let me get a hold of him, he'll
cuss you to your face. So that's what he's talking about,
the accuser of the brethren. And so Satan has always been
working. The princes of the power of this
hour has been working. Principalities are working. There
is things going on in this world that you and I don't know nothing
about. And it's always against God and always against his Christ.
Always. Catholic Church is against God
and against his Christ. Mary, who everybody worships,
is against God and against his Christ. Is against God and against
His Christ. All these preachers in these
great big buildings are against God and against His Christ. They're
just part of the beast. That's all they are. They're
just part of the beast. In Old Coast we go on this battle,
and it says there in verse 8, they had this great, they fought,
they had this great battle going on up there. And look what it
said in verse 8, and prevail not. He can't win. There's no
way he can win. He can't win. I'll tell you why
here in a minute. Neither was there found any more
place for him in heaven. You know, God cast him out. I
mean, he left heaven. You know, and this is a symbolic
picture here. The dragon wasn't cast out literally. He was held
down in this sense. That he lost his place as accuser
of the brethren. Look what it says down in the
last part of verse 10. For the accuser of our brethren
is cast down which accused them before our God day and night.
You know he lost his place as the accuser of the brethren.
You know why he lost his place? Because like I preached this
morning, our Lord Jesus Christ, by His death on the cross, and
a substitute for His people's sins, our Lord Jesus renders
satisfaction to God once and for all. He satisfied God. Satisfied His righteousness.
Satisfied His holiness. Satisfied His justice. Upheld
His law and honored it and magnified it. And our Lord Jesus Christ,
God said, I saw the travail of his soul and was satisfied. God
said, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. And
I'll tell you this, our Lord Jesus Christ, he renders satisfaction
and so Satan cannot accuse us before God because there's nothing
to accuse us of. What can he accuse us of? Can't
accuse us of sin. There's no condemnation to them
that are in Christ. Huh? He can't accuse us anymore. He'll
try to. He'll try to. He'll try to. He'll try to. If he can't, if
he can't get you one way, he'll get you another. But he's always
working. Always working. And I can't, he can't, he has
no grace to accuse us before God ever anymore. You know why? because all of our sins have
been put away, they've all been gone, they've all been forgot
about, they've all been put in the snips of God's sea, cast
behind his back, cast as far as east is from the west, brought
out as a thick cloud. And every way you can imagine,
they're gone. And I tell you, who shall lay
anything to the charge of God's elect, he said. Who's gonna do
it? You know why I said if nobody
can say anything to the charge of God's elect, the first thing
he said is, Christ died. You can't accuse of one of God's
elect, Christ died. Not only did he die, but he rose
again. So who shall say anything to
the charge of God's elect? Not only did he rise again, but
he said he maketh intercession for them. Oh my, our Lord Jesus Christ
said, I beheld Satan fall as lightning from heaven. I've told
you this before, Martin Luther. He had a, I don't know if it
was a dream or what happened, but he told this and he said,
Satan come with a scroll of his sins. He rolled up this great
old big scroll. Just roll after roll, a big old
scroll with all of his sins on it. He said, Satan? He said, listen,
look down at the bottom of that. It says, been signed with the
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Satan went away. His blood cleanses us from all
sin. And let me tell you a threefold
effect. That's why he can't accuse the
brethren. He can't do it. A threefold effect of the dragon's
defeat when he was cast down. When he was cast down. He prevailed
not, neither was there any place that found any more place for
him. And it says there in verse nine, and the dragon was cast
out, that old serpent called the devil and Satan, which deceiveth
the whole world. He was cast out under the earth
with his angels, which were cast out with him. There's a threefold
effect of the devil's dragon's defeat, the devil's defeat. The
salvation of our Lord was accomplished and it became absolutely manifest.
Look what it says there in verse 10. This is another reason why
he came to Jesus. I heard a loud voice saying in
heaven, by a loud voice, now is come salvation. What? Salvation's come. Where'd it
come from? It came from heaven. And not only salvation, but strength. And the kingdom of our God's
come down. Oh, God's got a kingdom here. And listen to this, in
the power of His Christ. So I tell you what, one effect
of the devil being cast down was the Lord Jesus Christ Himself
bringing salvation and defeating Him and conquering Him and making
manifest the salvation of His people. Look in John chapter
12 with me. John's Gospel chapter 12. John's Gospel, chapter 12. Well,
look what our Master said over there. Look in verse 31. Our Lord said, Now is the judgment
of this world. Now watch this. Now shall the
prince of this world be cast out. Cast out. What he's telling us is here
that he has been judged, the world's been judged. God's people's
been judged, and the devil, because I've been judged, he's got no
more power over anyone for whom Christ died. He don't have any
more power. That's what he's saying. And
if I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me. This, he says,
signifying what death he should die. So you see, Satan, our Lord
said, the prince of this world is judged. He's judged. He's already been judged. That's
why I said his time is short. He knows it's short. Remember
when our Lord would meet those men that had the demons in them,
said, Jesus, why have you come to torment us before our time? A bunch of them said one time,
said, if you cast us out, let us go in them hogs over there.
And I'm going to tell you something. The only place a demon can live
is in a human being. Because he couldn't live in them
hogs, because those hogs killed themselves rather than have demons
in them. And I'll tell you something else, they went down that hill,
and they all got in that water, and they come out the other side
preaching water baptism for salvation. But you think about it, that
man that had that legion of devils in him, He said, if you're going
to cast us out, cast us into those hogs. Those hogs couldn't
take it. They'd rather die than have demons
in them. Huh? Oh my. And I'll tell you
what, salvation's accomplished and it became manifest. The salvation
of our God and His strength and the power of His Christ and the
kingdom of God came. He defeated Satan. Judgment's
already come. And God's power is vindicated
and his authority is revealed in the hearts of his people.
It says there in verse 12, therefore rejoice. Oh, we have great rejoicing. They're rejoicing in heaven over
this. Because Satan is being cast down. And then let me tell
you, here's another effect of the dragon's defeat and being
cast down. The testimony of God's people
because of his defeat. Look what it says there in verse
11. This is our testimony. And they overcame him. Overcame
who? The devil, the dragon, Satan,
that old serpent. They overcame him by the blood
of the lamb. Oh my, that's the only way you
can overcome. by the blood of the Lamb. And
then look what, listen to this, by the word of their testimony.
What's the word of our testimony? What is our testimony right now?
Christ is all, all to Him I owe, Christ is my salvation. Christ
is my righteousness. Christ is my wisdom. Christ is
my sanctification. Christ is my redemption. Christ
is everything to me. And that's what our testimony
is. To Christ be the glory. Salvation came to us by Christ. He was the Lamb slain from the...
That's our testimony. What testimony do we have if
it ain't been Christ? How can we talk about our sins
being done but by the blood of the Lamb? Who else can put away
our sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Huh? There's power in the blood. Oh, listen, I'm telling you.
And I tell you, they overcame by the word of the testimony.
I tell you, that's how we overcome. We testify before God. Testify
for our brethren, testify for our families, testify every opportunity
we get that Christ is my salvation. From Alpha to Omega. He's the
beginning, He's the ending, He's the author, the finisher, He
is all of it. And without Him, I don't have
any. But with Him, I've got it all,
ain't that right? Like you said praying tonight. Nothing. Why? That's our testimony. Perfect. Complete in Him. Loved by Him. Accepted in the
Beloved. Saved according to God's good
pleasure. Saved through the praise of the
glory of His grace. When He made us accepted. Oh,
our testimony goes on and on and on and on and on. And He said, according to the
tender mercy of our Father, He has come to destroy our enemies. And this is the enemy that He
destroyed, one of them. And then they overcame by their
testimony. And look here, not only did they
overcome by the brother lamb, their testimony, but look what
it says there. And they loved not their lives
unto death. You know what that means? That they are gonna persevere. There's no doubt about it that
they're going to persevere. Everyone for whom Christ died,
everyone who confesses Christ to be their all, every single
one of them will die in the faith. Their real goal would be with
Christ when He comes again. There's no doubt about it. Every
single one of them will be in glory because they loved not
their lives. Whose life do they love more
than anything else? The life of our Lord Jesus Christ.
If I don't have Christ, there's no reason to live. You imagine. If you know what sin was, and
what you are now, and didn't know Christ, you know what you'd
do? You'd become a drug addict, you'd become a drug, or you'd
do something, you're about to even kill yourself. Who knows?
But I know this, I know this, that we will persevere. These
all died in the faith. Every single one of them is.
You say, well, I remember Henry Mahan saying one time, he said,
boy, I said, talking about one fellow, he was talking and talking
and talking, he said, he said, well, he said, you know, we was
talking about perseverance, and we got talking later, and he
told me, he said, I don't know about that fellow. I said, you
know, we'll just have to wait and see. But he said, I know some
people are going to persevere. I know some are going to persevere.
There are people that are going to stay with you, they don't
stay with you, they stay with Christ, and stay where the gospel
is. And if a person can leave the
gospel, then if you can leave the gospel, if you can leave
Christ, you've left Him. Leaving the gospel and leaving
Christ is one and the same thing, in my mind. Ain't that right? And that's why he says they overcame.
We're overcomers. We just send ourselves victory
in Jesus. We just got through saying it.
And oh my. And he said, because they love
not their lives unto death. Then look what he says in verse
10. 12, therefore you rejoice. I'm rejoicing right now, just
thinking about it. Look what he said. Therefore
rejoice, ye heavens and ye that dwell in them. Oh my. I tell you, because Satan, the
dragon's been defeated. He's filled with wrath. He's
angry. And this is his second defeat,
you know. It says down there, again in
verse 12. You know, he tried to get the
man-child and he couldn't get him. Then he lost his battle
in heaven and he's cast down. And then he says, Woe to the
inhabitants of the earth and of the sea, for the devil's come
down unto you. Oh my, and he's angry, he's full
of wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. And
oh my, Satan's been cast out of heaven and so he persecutes
the woman because she brought forth that man child. He couldn't
get the child so he starts persecuting the woman. Now look what happens
now. And when the dragon saw him,
verse 13, He knows he's got just a short time. And when the dragon
saw that he was cast under the earth, he persecuted the woman
which brought forth the mankind. He can't get to Christ, so who's
the next best thing he can get to? His church, his people. His church, his people. Christ
is called our husband. He's called our groom. God's
called our husband. And oh my, so he begins to persecute. He said he went to persecute
the woman, which brought forth a man child. I'm gonna start
to tell y'all a little story here. This is the truth. I see
that word persecute. Years and years ago, when I first
come down here, and of course I didn't know nothing, I was
preaching a little old place out here at Thomas Springs, an
old church building out there, a little old church building.
And when we first started meeting in there, we had to use lanterns
to see by. And you know, they had old wooden benches. It was
handmade wooden benches. And this woman, some of Mary's
kin folks was coming, a whole bunch of people were coming.
And I'd come down about every third week. But anyway, to make
a long story short, her son wanted to stay out in the car with his
girlfriend instead of coming into the service. And I said,
no, he can't do that. He can't stay out there with
that girl. I said, either he's going to
leave or he's going to come in. She said, well, I'll tell you
what. I hated that he prosecuted my son. Donnie Bell prosecuted my son.
She knows she didn't persecute, she said prosecute. You know,
I thought when I read that first word persecute, that's what I
thought. I thought boy that woman said prosecute. Prosecuted my
son. No, I didn't prosecute him. Oh
my, but anyway, that's what she said. That's what she said. But
oh my, but the Lord protects his people. He comes out after
this woman, and look what God does for this woman. The Lord
protects his people. He's going to always protect
his people. And to the woman were given two wings of a great
eagle that she might fly into the wilderness into her place
where she is nourished for a time, times, and a half. So I tell
you, wings of an eagle. You know, our Lord talks about
that, talking about lifting his people and carrying his people
on wings of eagles. Look over in Exodus 19. Look
in Exodus, and you know, I know that in Deuteronomy it says this,
but I want to show you a couple of places. Exodus 19, and verse
14. Oh my. You know, we're high under
the shadow of the wing of the Almighty. But oh, look what He
says. God says here about His people,
what He does for them. Look in verse 4. You have seen
what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bear you on eagles'
wings, and brought you to myself. Look over at Deuteronomy 32. Deuteronomy 32. Look what it
says over here. In verse 11. And as an eagle stirreth up her
nest, fluttereth over her young, spread about her wings, taketh
them, and beareth them on her wings. And that's what the Lord
did with us. He carried us on wings of an
eagle. Isaiah said it this way, they
shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. And
they that wait upon the Lord shall be caught up with wings
of an eagle. Oh my. He bears us on wings as
an eagle. And then I'll tell you what,
he protects his people. He gonna bear us up above all
this. And then look what else it says there. He said that she
might give her two wings of a great eagle. So he carries her off
and lets her fly away. That she might fly unto the wilderness. And I'll tell you that's exactly
where we live. We live in the wilderness. I
mean we're in the wilderness. That's why I quit watching the
news. It just, I'm in the wilderness enough. Most of the time, I'm... Somebody in the wilderness. Sometimes
I don't hardly know what's going on. That's how much I'm in the
wilderness. You know, I really am in the
wilderness. And we all are in the wilderness.
And I tell you, we're going through the wilderness. And I tell you,
he prepared a place for them. Then look what it says. And where
she is nourished. Look back up there in verse 6.
And the woman fled into the wilderness. She flew into the wilderness.
Now listen to this. Where she hath a place prepared
of God that they should feed her. Oh my. He prepared a place
for her. God's got a place for His church.
Got a place for His people. Here's a place for His people.
Wherever you go, there's a place for His people. And He gave us
this place and this wilderness for us to gather together. And
He prepared a place for her to feed her. It's just like He did
to children of Israel in the wilderness. He feeds us manna.
He feeds us that bread from heaven. He feeds us the Lord Jesus Christ. He gives us His precious Word.
And oh how precious is God's Word. He gives us His flesh and
He gives us His blood. And the scripture says, She is
nourished. God took it upon Himself to nourish
His children. He took it upon Himself to prepare
a place. And our Lord Jesus Christ said,
I'll go away to prepare you a place. We are prepared people in a prepared
place. And who prepared us? The Lord
did. Who said He's going to nourish
us? The Lord did. The Lord did. He said, she is
nourished. Where she is nourished. Where
she is nourished. And let's look at this. And she
is nourished for a time, times and a half time. There in verse
14. From the face, from the face of the serpent. Now when it says
here for a time, and a times. A time is a year. A times is
two years. And half a time, or at a half
a time, that's six months. 42 months, 12 hours, 60 days. That's a three and a half year
period. You remember in Elijah's time, did God have a place prepared
for him? You remember God's word, the
power of his word was manifest in Elijah's time. There he was. They were so despised by the
world. Ahab and Jezebel. They hated
God. They hated Elijah. They hated
all the prophets. And they wanted all the prophets
dead. They wanted them all slain. And
they sent out men to kill them. And Elijah prayed that it wouldn't
rain for three and a half years. And it didn't rain. Well, what
did God do? He said, Elijah, you go over
and sit down there by that book. after he fought those 450 false
prophets, and God's Word was made manifest, who was God, who
God was. Who is the Lord? They said, we
know that the Lord, He is God and Him alone. But anyway, he
said, now, Elijah, they come out to kill him. There's an ashtray.
Now, Jezebel said, as long as I live, he said, he's gonna die.
God said, go over there and sit down by that brook. Every day
here comes a raven over there with a piece of bread for him.
Every day here comes a bird. Got him something to eat. Had he sat by that brook and
he had good fresh water to drink. Oh there was false prophets everywhere. And God took care of God's people
and He took care of them in a miraculous way. And then when it's over,
you know how God took care of Elijah? He went to a widow's
house. She was out picking up sticks.
I'm telling you how God takes care of his people, nourishes
his people, protects his people. She was out and she was going
to have one last meal. They had enough meal in her bowl,
enough oil in her crews to make one last meal because of this
drought. She said, I'm going to eat it
and me and my sons are going to sit down here and starve to
death and there ain't nothing else we can do. Elijah said,
feed me. She said, I can't. He said, feed
me. So she gave him that cake, and every time she went to that
mill, Bob, there was food in the mill in it every single time.
And you know, and that was all in that cruise every single time.
You think God ain't gonna take care of his people? People say,
well let's start, no we're not gonna, no we're not. Uh-uh, God's
gonna take care of us. And you remember, And I just said, Lord, I'm the
only one left! Ain't nobody left but me! They
tore down your orders, they killed all your prophets, and I'm the
only one left! God said, Elijah, I've got 7,000 that ain't bowed
a knee to Baal, and nor kissed him. I've got 7,000 over there,
and I've been, and so and so, who was feeding them and going
over there taking care of them. God's always had a people, and
he's always provided for them, and he's always nourished them,
and he always has something prepared for them when the time comes.
Ain't that right? Oh. So the first time, times
and a half and a half time, is talked about in Daniel. And that's
called the period of the Antichrist. And I'll tell you, even in John's
day, the Antichrist was already here. They were expecting some
great man to come along with great swelling words. But oh
my. And this time was 42 months,
1260 days. And I think, personally, that
this time is the whole gospel age. The whole gospel age. And I tell you what, so that's
what it is. It's this time because you hear it over and over and
over again. In Daniel, in different places. Ezekiel, you talk about
this time, it's the whole gospel age. The gospel age. It's a time. Then we'll have times. And then
there'll be a close to the end. Huh? And then look what it says
there in verse 15. And the serpent cast out of his
mouth water as a flood. Oh my, he's got a lot of power. And he spewed out of his mouth
water as a flood after that woman out in the wilderness. That he
might cause her to be carried away with the flood. If I can't
get her one way, I'll get her another. You know why they say
the flood of lies. The flood of deception. And oh my. And he spews out of
his mouth, hoping to have her destroyed, carried away. And
I tell you what, you know what this flood that come out of him
was? Flood of lies. A whole flood of lies. A whole flood of delusions. Oh, you know how many people
God has deluded? Oh, they work false miracles. False miracles. You watch these
fellows on TV talking about their miracles and all the miracles
that they do. Oh, you send me $100 and I'll
send you this piece of cloth I've prayed over. And it'll do
something for you. Well, you'll get so much money. If it does that for you, for
us, why don't you keep it yourself? And you take care of getting
your own money. But they wanted to sell everybody something.
And they talk about miracles. Anybody remember Benny Hinn?
Oh, what an idiot. But anyway, he lived in a $6
or $7 million house. That's how much money he made
doing false miracles. Follow that crutch! Get out of
that wheelchair! They got people salted in there. Billy Graham, Bennett, all these
bigger businesses do the same thing. They've got people sitting
in the congregation when they get ready to give the invitation,
they've got people salted in there, and they'll all get up
and start walking because they know if somebody starts doing
it, then everybody else will get up and start following them.
So they get somebody in there, you know, they'll have a shoe
on that makes them look like they got one leg shorter than
the other and they'll get up there and he'll go to work and
work and he'll pull that shoe off and next thing you know that
person, oh boy, I've been healed! And it's just as funny as a three
dollar bill. It's make-believe. But I'll tell you what, the devil
uses that stuff. People say, I know it's real,
I've seen it with myself. That's why I said wrestling's
real. That's like the end of Rasmus
Will. If you play Rasmus Will, you'll
be the end of miracles. I tell you, I don't know why
I say things I say. And all about, he does these
false wonders, and he's got religious, oh, he's got religiousisms everywhere. He started denominationalism,
you know that? He started Seven Day Adventist.
He started Pentecostalism. He started the Mormons. He started
every cult that's ever been. He started water baptism. He
started every false, and you know how you can tell a false
prophet? They harp on one thing. They harp on one thing. That's
all that harp on. One single thing. Oh, water baptism. Seven days, we got to worship
on Saturday. And then the Jehovah Witness
said, well, the rest is the beast in the thousand years. I can't think of the fellow's
name that started Pentecostalism. But oh, and then he started legalism.
He started courts. And I'll tell you the biggest
lie that he's ever told. Make people believe that He doesn't
exist. And there's lots of people who
don't believe it. Don't believe it exists. Huh? Oh my! But the true believers, they're
not fooled. They said, if they say Christ
is over here, or Christ is over there, or Christ is over there,
don't believe them! He said, for many false Christs
and false prophets shall arise, and shall deceive many. They shall not deceive the elect. That's what he told us. Ain't
that right? And our Lord said, a stranger they won't follow.
Worldly people and foolish people in the world of this world, they
drink in his lies like drinking water out of a cup. And then
let me, hurry, I'm taking too long. What it says then there
in verse 17, and I'll wind this thing up. And the earth helped the woman.
The earth is the Lord's in the fullness. And the earth opened
her mouth. And you know what the earth did? Swallowed up that
flood. God said, I'll swallow up that flood. He ain't going
to bother that woman. I'm not going to let him bother that
woman. And so he couldn't get the woman.
So what did he do? He went to make war with the
remnant of her seed, the church. Who are they? Those that keep
the commandments of God. And again, that have the testimony
of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was angry. He can't get the
child. He can't get the woman. He's
been cast out. So what does he do? He comes
and makes war with us. But I'll tell you one thing.
He can't win. And I'll tell you what. He's
after individual believers. Said He goes about as a roaring
lion, seeking whom He may divide. In another place He's called
an angel of light. In another place He's called
a preacher of righteousness. But I'll tell you, our Lord said
they overcame Him. They overcame Him. Huh? Overcame Him. He ain't go... He's God's devil. He's God's
devil. Ain't that right? He's God's
devil. Our Father, oh blessed Father,
precious name, glorious name, blessed, blessed name of the
Lord Jesus Christ, our blessed hope, our testimony, thank you
for the blood of the Lamb washed us from our sins. Thank you for
giving us the victory in our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you
that our Lord Jesus Christ cast the prince of this world out.
And we can't be judged anymore. That our Lord makes intercession
for us. He's our advocate. Jesus Christ the righteous. He's
our advocate. Thank you for that. We bless
you for it. God bless these dear saints.
Bless the gospel. Bring glory to yourself through
it. And do it for Christ's sake. Amen. Amen. He's the Savior of
my soul. Jesus, my Jesus. He's the Savior of my soul. He's the Savior of my soul. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. He's the Savior of my soul. He's the Savior of my soul. And He's the only one. Amen. See you Wednesday.