Sonlight Devotional

Cecil duCille         

Mahomet, IL, July 7, 2003
(Published in Keeping in Touch)

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Father, as we enter into things of the kingdom, we’re asking You kindly, Father, to open us up, that we can really hear Your voice.  Open our ears, Lord God, that we can really absorb the voice of God, for the words that You speak to us, they are Spirit and they are Life.  Help us to live, Lord God.  Oh Jesus, we thank You.  Help us, Lord God.  We thank You, Lord God.  Amen.

We apologize for being so late this morning, trying to pack and everything.  We have still not had perfect control over our physical energy, so when you pray for us, pray for our energy.  I am one of those people who do not believe in old age.  I don’t believe that because I am 80 years of age, my blood shouldn’t flow through my veins like Peter’s.  You know what I mean.  I can’t see through it.  I believe in Caleb, who said, “I am this day 80 years of age and my natural force is not abated, and I’m ready to go and to take the land that God has given me.”  I don’t believe in feebleness.  Praise God.  I believe then, that God keeps us according to our belief, and according to our faith, and I do believe that I will die healthy when I do die.  Thank You, Jesus!  Hallelujah!

Another point I want to touch you with is that I discovered a secret, that when you come into the house of God, or at home, or in the car, or daily walking around doing your business, if you keep the valve open for God to flow in, that the flowing of the Spirit heals the natural body.  I was in Jamaica.  I had a pain in my arm.  I couldn’t lift my hand above this, and the brother began to preach and he said, “I want you all to lift your hands.”  And he said, “If your hand is even paining you, lift it!”  And I lifted my hands.  I believe it’s the energy that came from the living Word that he gave that I accepted that went into my arm.  It’s so simple, and yet so profound that we do not…  I don’t know if we don’t believe it or whatever, we don’t pay much attention to it, that the flowing of the energy of God in this place, it not only heals the soul, but it heals the body!  Amen.  Healing cannot come to the body, unless it comes through the soul.

I remember we were in Miami, and a sister went to South America to be a missionary.  But this sister is one of those (I think we have some of them here, too)  who is so meticulous, washing her hands, everything must be clean.  She shakes your hand and she has to go away and wash her hands, because she shook your hand.  You know, that sort of way that she’s so germ conscious.  Well, she went to the mission field, and the brethren had a feast.  They had a roasted pig, out in the open, you know, turning on the thing, roasting.  After it was roasted, they came along and they cut off pieces and handed them out.  And brethren, everybody, eating, and it came to her turn, and when she saw the flies and everything over the meat, she just couldn’t eat it.  So she said, “I am not feeling too well, so I would like to go home, to rest awhile.”  They said, “Alright,” and they took her home, but they sent somebody with her share of the pig and if you don’t eat, you are against them!  In other words, they feel that you scorn them, or something, that you will not eat their food.  So the woman came and sat down to see her eat it.  And she ate it!  She came back home to Miami, and one whole side of her body started getting dead and slow.  Her arms, her legs couldn’t move.  She was walking and driving and her legs wouldn’t move.  They took her to the doctor.  They gave her all the tests that there could be.  I mean, they tortured her with tests.  She said they put her on some wheel, put dye into her veins and spun her around and they did everything.  Nothing wrong with her.  Physically, no problem.  They couldn’t find anything.  Her husband was a psychologist and he came home and said, “Well, the doctors can’t find anything.  I think I will probably have to give her some placebos and see what happens.”  So he went to the doctor and told the doctor this plan, and so the doctor said, “Aha!  You picked up an amoeba in South America, and we have at last identified it, and so we are going to give you these tablets and it will cure you.”  She took the tablets, and she was better.  What happened?  The sickness came from her mind!  Amen.  All the spirits of hell will be able to minister to you if you have the mind to accept them.  So, they gave her some pills that had nothing in them, and she got better.  She’s better up to this day, I believe.  I haven’t seen her recently.  Praise God.

We would like to take you into a spiritual realm a little above the normal.  You must have heard that I have a name to be a sorcerer, right?  Well, the reason is that from when I was a child I have had spiritual confrontations.  As a child I discovered that you don’t have to be in God to command the spirits to get away from you.  I’m saying this and I don’t know why, but I know, for one thing, that God gave man a mandate.  God gave us a mandate and that mandate was that Adam should rule EVERYTHING that moves in this realm.  We lost it to Satan, but any day you get up and lay hold of it, it’s yours.  Amen.  I want you to understand that.

I’m going to tell you a story, but let’s turn to the Bible, first of all.  Let’s go to Ephesians 6.  I just want you to be with me.  You know, some people do not have a very long spiritual tolerance.  They can’t concentrate very much upon spiritual things, so whenever you find yourself slipping away, just say, “Hallelujah!” and we will pray with you.  So, if anybody feels yourself slipping away to think of other things, you cry out, “Hallelujah!” and everybody will pray for you.

We come to chapter 6, and this man, Paul, must have been way, way, way ahead of the church, of the other pastors, of anybody you know, because Paul himself could not have had these experiences that he wrote about.  He could not have had them.  If you watch his life as a Pharisee, and then he came into God… he spent 14 years in the desert, just fasting and praying and receiving from God.  So these things he received from God, I doubt that he understood everything that he was saying.  He could not understand as we understand now, you know why?  Because the revelation of Jesus Christ is progressive.  He progressed from the foundation of the apostles and prophets.  He gave them the foundation and he progressed unto us, and today we have an authority that Paul did not have.  Can I explain it?  The authority we have now is to kill the devil.  We have the power now because it is the end of time, and God said that at the end of time He would bring forth a people who would be overcomers.   Now, that word “overcomers,” you better watch it well, because it doesn’t mean, sometimes, what we think it means.  In other words, it is almost limitless.  Amen?  We overcome one thing, and immediately we are faced with another.  The moment you overcome that, you qualify to overcome something else.  So, some people get tired.  Everyday battle, battle, battle.  I love the battle!  I love the battle, because it gives you an incentive.  I don’t know if it’s because I used to love to fight so much as a young person.  It’s crazy, you know.  A person used to love fighting, love when you get hit.  If you fight and you don’t get hit, you wouldn’t be too much interested in that fighter.  You wanted to fight somebody who would hit you hard.  Some say it’s masochism.  (Laughter)  Anyhow, praise be to God!

We are supposed to be overcomers, and first of all, the first overcoming is in here inside us.  If you don’t overcome the MAN in you, you are not going to be an overcomer of anything else.  I don’t know if you understand.  Last night we talked about the sexual urge and the things, the burdens that God put upon us as natural men.  It said Elijah was a man, a natural man as we are.  Paul said, “I am natural like any one of you.  I could lead around a wife (1 Corinthians 9).”  He had to tell them that, for some of the people were looking at him up there as if he was not natural.  But the natural man, you have to overcome the natural man!  How do you learn to overcome the natural man?  I can only tell you how God taught me.  As a young fellow, when I say young, I mean in my 20’s, I received the Lord.  He taught me to fast and pray.  He taught me to have food and not eat, hungry, to love what I’m looking at and smelling.  I think the worst thing for a hungry man is a smell.  Oh, it just kills you.  Amen.  I found that out, as a teacher, I used to carry certain perfume and spray it in my class before I gave the lesson.  I’d give the lesson, and those who couldn’t remember it next time, I’d come and spray it and everybody remembered their lesson.  Amen.  The hunger, when you are hungry, and you smell food, fresh food, especially things that you like, it’s like a kind of madness that takes you.  God wants you to be able to have food and not eat it.  Yes!  Some of the brothers feel that, “Boy, I need a wife.  I need a wife so badly.  Oh, you know, I need a wife.”  Let me tell you something.  The person who hasn’t got a wife has less problem of temptation than those who have a wife, for you have to lie down every night with a wife in the bed and you have to be spiritual.  You have to control yourself, and you have to put your desires and your wants away.  So therefore, you have to learn first by fasting, have food, not eat it – hungry.  Have water, not drink it – thirsty.  Yes!  I have gone through thirst that my throat began to split and bleed.  My lips bled because I was thirsty and there was water and I wouldn’t drink it because I was fasting a fast of thirst!  No, I’m not telling you to do it.  I’m not telling you to do it.  Your God must tell you what to do.  As Doug Kleber said, he said, “This is not his (Doug’s) body.  It’s not his (Doug’s) property.  His body is the temple of the living God.”  So if God tells you, “Don’t drink water,” then you don’t.  You see, when Jesus was in the wilderness for 40 days, nobody can convince me that he carried a bottle of water with Him.  Amen.  That was thirst, and thirst becomes a kind of madness.  When you’re thirsty, you have hallucinations, but then, that’s where I was trained.  Amen.  I was trained at the point where we didn’t have breakfast, or lunch, or dinner, but we had to go to take the Word of God and we had to preach, amen, and the children were hungry and they learned not to even say, “I am hungry.”  They just played until they fell asleep.  We learned how to control the body.  When we came into Miami with $12 in our pocket, ready to do a missionary journey, did not know anybody, any organization, in America, nothing… if we had gone to the Salvation Army, that would have been a defeat of the faith that we had in God.  So, we stood and waited until God sent a raven.  Oh, yes.  You know, “Get away from me, you dirty raven!  I don’t want your bread!”  You think that’s what Elijah would have said?  A drunken woman came, fell on the shoulder of my wife with all the liquor coming out of her breath, hugged her and said, “Let’s go to Fort Lauderdale.”  From a drunken woman, we heard the voice of God.  “Get away from me, you drunkard!”  No, we heard the voice of God speaking through a drunken woman, and there our missionary journey started.  We didn’t need a cent.  Oh, praise God.

Verse 12, Ephesians 6, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood.  It’s a deception when you believe that that man is against you.  Look well, and you will see who is really against you.  It is a SPIRIT that is motivating the man and the man is maybe one percent of what you are seeing.  Most of the people that you see around you, I call them “artificial people.”  You see a man coming along, strutting, swaggering, you don’t know what’s in his mind.  Maybe he’s putting that on to deceive you, make you see a bold, brave man when there’s a little whimpering kid inside.  So, we wrestle not against flesh and blood.  Take your eyes off the things that you can see.  The Bible says Jesus did not go by the seeing of the eyes, nor the hearing of His ears.  He was looking at the real thing.  So, we wrestle not against flesh and blood.  Those of you here who believe that somebody is against you, it is the first error that you are making toward that person.  You should go to that person and do EVERYTHING possible to win the person.  HUMBLE yourself to win the person, because YOU know that that person might kill you, but he is not against you.  Your real enemy is the enemy that has the person in bondage, and he’s his enemy and he’s your enemy.  WE DO NOT HAVE HUMAN ENEMIES.  I mean, that sounds very peculiar compared to what’s happening around now.  Men are going around trying to kill, murderers.  THEY ARE NOT OUR ENEMIES.  The spirits that drive them are our enemies.  Guess why God let them loose on you?  Why would God let loose a spirit on you?  He’s given you the power to control them!  Oh, yes!  I was walking in Miami one day, walked into a wrong area, and somebody didn’t like it.  He brought out his dog, a Doberman Pinscher.  He commanded the dog to attack me.  The dog came bounding toward me.  I looked at him and said, “I REBUKE you in the name of Jesus.”  And the dog pulled back, and that man was so shocked, he opened his eyes wide and looked.  It was not the dog.  It was the SPIRIT that they had put in the dog to attack you!  You must realize that we are living in a spiritual realm!  Our realm here is the lowest.  It’s the lowest frequency that we are on here.  There is another frequency up here a little higher where some other spirits are.  Above them there are other spirits higher, and there are other spirits even higher above them.  Amen.  So, if you walk with the Lord, you will overcome in the area that God has given you.  If you get out of your area you’re in trouble, for you’re going to meet spirits that are stronger.  Now, I’m jumping the gun here.  Let’s go on.

Alright.  But against principalities…  Principalities.  Now, what is a prince?  Can you conjure up in your mind what a prince is?  One who is supposed to inherit a kingdom or a throne.  Alright.  Now, when God said, “There’s a prince there,” it means that these spirits that fell from heaven or deliberately threw themselves down, they were promised a kingdom.  Did you hear me?  They were promised a kingdom, but the problem with that promise is that it is the same kingdom that is promised to Jesus Christ.  So, Jesus says, “You are My kingdom.”  And He says, “I’ll make you a kingdom of priests.” (Revelation 1:6)  But this is the same kingdom that Satan has claimed.  Now, what happened?  Satan went out and he took it.  He took it, because you remember now, you and I, we were out there, in the kingdom of the enemy and we were all filled with devils.  So, Satan thought he had won.  But you see, time is only a little speck in the long thing that we call eternity.  That’s eternity here at the beginning, and time is an interruption in eternity, and eternity continues on.  So, all Satan has is a little window of time in which to rule in a kingdom.  So, these princes feel that you belong to them.  Yes.  It was in Freeport that the devil came personally to Burt and told him, “These people are not yours.  They are mine!”  That same thing happened to us up in Morna wherein the devil came into the meeting and said, “I have my people here, also.”  And when he said that, a little girl, 12 years of age, jumped up and said, “Satan, take your people and go!”  Absolute Word of God.  When she said that, three women jumped up and sailed through the door, never to return.

See, I want you to understand that Satan is going around claiming you as his kingdom, so he offers you to certain spirits he calls princes.  So, these spirits expect to inherit you, to have you.  You know, like how you have a herd of cows, and you breed them and you feed them and you kill them and you eat them and you drink their milk and you keep them occupied.  That’s the way Satan is looking at the people of the world as his kingdom.  He offered it to his princes and these princes are generally angels from the second realm of heaven.  I don’t know if you understand what I am talking about now.  Here we are, the heaven of heavens where God is.  Father, Son, Holy Ghost.  Then there’s another realm under it where you have Michael, Gabriel, Satan himself was Heylel before he fell, and God never gives us any other names of angels.  Any other names of angels that you have heard, they are devil angels.  Like Raphael, like Uriel.  Those are not God’s angels.  Unfortunately, I remember a brother told me he went into a brother’s office and there the brother had four angels to the four corners of his office, statues.  One is Raphael, one is Uriel, one is Gabriel, and one is Michael.  You notice they all end in “-el.”  The “-el” part of it is “God.”  See, “messenger of God,” “who is like God,” and then you have Uriel and Raphael, but they all end in God.  They are the high spirits.  Now, these spirits have magnificent power.  I believe, from the third realm, that they have got some of these princes, but these angels (Michael, Gabriel) are stronger, higher, and more powerful than the ordinary angels, and when the ordinary angels can’t get certain things done, they appeal to this higher realm.  Do you remember when Gabriel went with the message and he couldn’t get through because he was facing another angel of the same magnitude as himself?  He could not pass through with the message to the people of God because the people of God were serving the devil.  And Gabriel called back to heaven, and God sent Michael, and when Michael came, Michael showed the Blood, forgiveness of sins.  Forgiveness of sins.  “These people you say are yours, we cover them with the Blood of Jesus!”  And the devil had to back off and the message went to Daniel.  Now, I want you to understand, therefore, where we are, what I’m trying to show you today.  It’s something very profound that God has given me to give you.  I hope you have the energy to accept it.

The princes therefore, and the word “-palities” that they add on to the prince there… if you look at your Bibles you’ll see “princi-.”  It’s two words that they put together.  “Princi-“ means “prince,” and “palities” means “his kingdom.”  So, the people who fight with him are his “pality” and the spirits that go along with him are his “pality,” so when a prince comes to you, he comes and behind him he has strength, a whole “pality” behind him.  A rulership.  So, these princes, then, are going to come against you, the church, and in this hour, many princes are fighting against us.  You can look at some churches and you see that they are taken over completely by a prince that rules them.  Certain things rule in their midst.  Amen.  And you look at another church and you see another prince ruling.  Amen.  Some churches are ruled by a carnal spirit, and the carnal spirit just takes everybody.  Once you become a member of that church, you come under the influence, why?  Because when a person ministers to you, he ministers what is himself, of himself, the Spirit of God coming through him is like pouring water through a pipe that has dye in it and the water comes out colored with the dye.  So, this is one of the reasons you should not give your children to the world to teach them, because every time your children go to a carnal teacher, the child receives not only mathematics, but carnality.  Whatever is wrong with the person… I have known homosexual teachers that have taught children, and the children come out to be homosexuals without the teacher telling them to be homosexuals, because it’s a spirit.  We are ministering on a different plane from the natural.  Jesus said, the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life (John 6:63).  Some words that people speak, they are spirit and they are death!  I don’t know if somebody has ever spoken a word to you that strikes you so hard that it brings a sadness, pain, anger.  Now, you have to be able to resist them.  Somebody should be able to tell you the worst thing in the world and it does not hit inside, because you have a guard up in the spirit.  Amen.  If you knew why the person was coming against you, then you would say, “Oh, I know what it is.  It’s a spirit.  I can see the spirit.”  Look in his eyes while he’s speaking and you see the spirit, yes!  Sometimes he tries to disguise it and cover it up, but you look and you see the spirit coming through him at you.  That spirit wants to hurt you, right, and you get hurt and say, “Boy, I will NEVER do that again.  I will have nothing more to do with this fellow!”  Guess what?  That’s what the spirit ministered to you.  Amen.  Somebody comes and says, “Well, you are a dog!”  You know you’re not a dog, therefore you should turn it back and say, “God, have mercy upon him.  He called me a dog.  That means he’s speaking from another spirit.”  Yes!

Once I was in a service and a sister got up and said, “Stand, Brother duCille.”  I stood up there and she said, “This man is living in adultery.”  And I said, “Praise God.  I’m clean.”  Amen.  The idea is, I didn’t have it against the sister.   I love her dearly, but another spirit had taken hold of her and God allowed her to come against me because God knew I could help her.  The moment I rebuked the spirit, she got a deliverance.  But I don’t get up and say, “OH, you’re a liar, you so-and-so!”  That’s stupid!  That’s exactly what the spirit wants you to do!  The sister is not the liar.  She’s just weak and has been taken over by another spirit, and all you have to do is to quietly come against the spirit and save the person out of this principality.

Now, we’re against princes and their palities and the powers…  Now, this word “exousias” means “authorities.”  That means there are some spirits that get an authority to do so and so to you.  I don’t know if any of you had a spirit sent to you, sent directly against you, to do something to you.  Amen.  When that spirit comes to you and you discern the spirit, amen, and you reject and turn back the spirit, he goes right back and does the same thing to the person who sent him to you.  Amen.  You know the devil wouldn’t want us to hear all of this.  A spirit that comes at you directly directed, it says “exousias,” spirits with authority… do you know that spirits are like dogs that will follow the scent of a person?  Oh, yes.   They will take your clothes and take it to a spirit, just like the police take somebody’s clothes, take it to the dog, let the dog smell it and the dog begins to follow that scent, and follows until he finds the person.  I’m telling you tales out of school, right?  But, therefore, 95%, probably it’s 99%, but I give you benefit of the doubt, 95% of the things that people do, it’s spirit motivated.  It’s not the people.  Very often the people, if they were left alone, they would be pretty nice and they would love you, but there are spirits that are forcing people to do things.  Amen.  You marry a wife, and you know when you married her she was a such a sweet person.  She made a covenant with you.  You made a covenant with her.  Your heart is with her.  Her heart is with you.  And one day she gets up and she slashes you with a word.  It’s not her.  Immediately you should rise up in wisdom and begin to work against that spirit that has dared to come into your house and touch your wife.  Amen!  You see, because you are blind, you are believing that this woman that you married, that God gave to you, is coming against you.  It is because you are blind!  If you were in the Spirit, if you were awake and alive, you would realize that something has come upon her!  Yes!  Something has come upon her and she could not overcome it.  Something stronger than her, and immediately, “How dare you, Satan, to come in here and take charge of my wife!  How dare you to come and cause her to say so and so, or to do so and so!  This woman is of the Lord!  This woman has been given to me of God!  This woman is an anointed son of God!  I will not accept it!!”  Amen.   Hallelujah!  Don’t accept it!  Go against the devil!  Enter into warfare for your household, because the Bible said that if a strong man keeps his house, it takes a stronger man to come into his house and to break up his house (Matthew 12:29, Mark 3:27, Luke 11:21).

Many years ago there was a meeting of witches and wizards and whatever they are.  They came to a conclusion that they must begin to come against the households of all the ministers.  I have seen the deterioration in the household of ministers from that day until this, and the ministry does not understand.  Many of them divorce and remarry and divorce and did not realize that it was a devil coming against their households.  We’re talking about the exusias, the authorities, spiritual authorities.  Against the rulers of the darkness of this world.  The word that Paul used, he said cosmocratoros.  “Cosmo” is world.  You see, rulers, world rulers, so he said against the rulers of the darkness.  Now, we have some rulers of darkness.  I don’t know if you have met any of them.  I’ve met some of them and this particular man I was telling you about that spoke the word, and turned the car over there, this man was very powerful.  When people had their problems with other people, they would go to him and they would pay him to kill or to do whatever is to be done, and he was very boastful.  You’d come to him and he’d say, “You know, So-and-So did so and so to you, do you want me to kill him?”  There was a case where we had a little church up there and this man had his pimiento…Now, pimiento is a spice, a very strong spice, the thing you call allspice, but it’s little grains like black pepper, and it is very valuable.  A sack of pimiento, this thing would value quite a lot of money, because it’s a rare spice.  So, he had his pimiento, and it was dried and ready for market, and then it disappeared.  So he ran down to this man and to tell him.  The man said, “Don’t tell me anything.”  He opened his mouth, he said, “Be quiet.”  He said, “Your name is So-and-So.  You are here because you lost your bag of pimiento.  You want to know who took it.  Your son took it.  Do you want me to hurt him?”  He said, “No, don’t hurt him, just let me get it back.”  He said, “Well, he has already used up part of it, but you can get what is left, about 2/3 of it is left.”  He said, “Alright.”  The man pushed his hand in his pocket, “How much do I owe you?”  He said, “No, don’t pay me.”  He said, “Now, you go home and look at the back of your house on the wall, and you will see your bag of pimiento.  Now, when you go there you take it and take it to the shop and sell it and when you sell it, I want you to put £8 (it was the days of pounds, British pounds) on your table for me and I’ll take it.”

Now, we’re talking about powers.  Now, the next thing happened, the man came up to the church where he lived.  He found his bag of pimiento on the wall.  Can any of you think of how that bag of pimiento got onto the wall?  Can you think of it?  The man (the son) stole it, yet it was on the wall.  Amen.  Spirit work.  He just sent his spirit and either commanded the man (the son) to “put it there or you’re dead.”  The man put it on the wall or the spirits themselves took it and put it on the wall.  Now, I’m telling you of things that you don’t understand that are going on around you!  These powers are exercising powers around you.  Now, after he put it, he took the pimiento, he sold it and he told us all (we were there) what was happening.  He put the money on his table and he went to bed, and when he got up, the money was gone.  If he did not put that money there, he would be a goner.  Yes.  These are the spirits that are working in our midst!  Now, this particular man, the spirits that he worked with had never been conquered, had never been stopped.  He did anything he wanted.  He was so boastful that he would come and he’d say, “Well, you know, I killed So-and-So,” he’d go to the man’s funeral and say, “Well, I killed him, but I’m sorry.  I didn’t know he was such a good man,” and things like that.

Well, one night I was in service.  We were by the roadside preaching.  I mean, the house was by the roadside, and the door was wide open and I was there preaching.  A car drove up outside.  Two men came out with a thing in their hands, like a sack.  When they came in, they deposited it right before me, while I was preaching.  It was a sister, but she was tied up with rope from top to bottom, tied up.  So I said to the men, “Loose her.”  So the men looked at me and took off.  I bent down, pulled the rope, wound it around, took it off, threw it to the ground, said, “In the name of Jesus, sister, be healed!”  The sister, just like she woke up, looked around the congregation and said, “Thank you, Brother duCille,” and she picked up her rope and went back home.  Many things like that happened.  Five mad people, the same kind of thing happened.  Each person had a different set of circumstances.  So, one day, the Lord said to me, “Go down to the stable.”  I left my office and said, “I’m taking a break.”  I walked down to the stable and I saw this man, and the man looked at me and he said, “Ha!  I see!  I see!” and he started walking backwards.  Anytime you see a person walking backwards, he’s of the devil.  If you dream that you see somebody walking backwards, he’s a servant of the devil.  They run backwards, they walk backwards.  Now, I don’t know why.   Maybe David (Walter) knows, but I don’t really know why they do that.  He started walking backwards, walking backwards, and he was confessing to the Lord.  He said, “I see, I see,” and he said, “Everything that I put, you pull.”  I realized then, that in my working for God, I was pulling demons, driving back demons to him, and I didn’t know.  I was just rebuking the spirits that bind the people and setting them free.

You have the power.  Remember now, “All power is given unto you in heaven and on earth (Matthew 28:18).”  Amen.  Why are we suffering like this?  Why do we have our houses being broken up?  Why are we being smashed to pieces?  Amen!  Because God is allowing it!  Now, why would my God allow that?  God has given you a weapon, and if you don’t use it, you are going to die.  I remember David moaning for Abner.  He said, “Abner, ooooh, Abner is a fool!”  Amen.  He said, “He died with his weapon in his sheath.”  He allowed the man to take him and kiss him and plunge his sword into him and kill him when he had his sword in his sheath.  David would have been pleased if he had died fighting.  This is the situation with the church.  Brethren!  The Psalm that Helgi read there for us, He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty (Psalm 91:1).  AMEN!  There’s no excuse for failure!  NO excuse!  The first thing that happens to you when something begins to happen to your life, the devil starts telling you, “Oh, it is natural.  It’s natural.”  It’s not natural!  Sister, (talking to Kate Trotter) it’s not natural for your husband to be taken away from you.  It’s not natural.  Don’t believe, don’t believe any thing else, but that God gave you that man!  Don’t believe that it is God’s will for him to be away from his children!  You have to believe the truth!  Hallelujah!  Begin to command it.  You have a blood covenant with him!  Yes!  You have a blood covenant with him and many times we do not exercise our blood covenant because we are afraid that God might kill him.  Is that true?  Yes.  Many times we are afraid that he might die if God’s going to arrest him, but that man is part of your blood and your body, and you must command God to release him!  But you see, because he might be held by a prince, it is necessary for you to rise up to the place where the power of the prince is before you can overcome him.  Amen.  The church could do it.  Now, what do I mean by that?  I mean, that God has given us power.  I remember my brother, Frank.  I’ve talked about this several times.  He was a wild, wild, fun-loving fellow.  Oh, he would be just going, just going.  When I’d see the man, it would just grieve my soul.  Amen!  You know what I said?  I put my life on the line.  “If that boy does not come to Jesus Christ, kill me.  My life isn’t worth living if Your Word isn’t true to me!  Kill me!”  Amen.  Now, you can’t fool with God.  You can’t say that if you don’t mean it, and you can’t mean it unless you have the spiritual energy.  Are you with me?  There’s one level of energy down here.  There’s another level up here!  If a prince up there holds your family, you’ve got to get up there to knock him out!  You can’t stay down here and win up there!  Don’t you understand?  The frequency on which he operates up there, and the powers that bind your person or your family up are on a higher level.  Stay down here, he doesn’t even hear you.  You rebuke him, and he doesn’t even hear you.  Amen!

I was in India and I don’t know, I provoked the angel of death.  I didn’t willfully do it, but I just started to study about Kali and went into a store with all these images.  I said to the man, “I want to know something about this spirit called Kali.”  He looked at me.  I said, “Yes, do you have any literature here, or anything?”  He said, “Well, this is all I have,” and he gave me a book and I paid him for it and man alive, the man was a worshipper of Kali!  I went directly to his priest of Kali to tell him that I am against Kali without knowing it!  When I went home, the thing came in.  It came in and attacked me, and I grappled with him and started to speak, “In the name of Jesus, I command you to loose your hold…” and it was ineffective.  The spirit of God came to me and whispered in my right ear, and said, “The Blood.”  That’s a different ballgame!!  That’s a higher level!  You can’t talk to him with the words that might be powerful to some spirits.  You have to get up there with him!!  Brethren, I say it every time I preach to you.  Get yourself trained in commanding the Blood of Jesus Christ.  If you are not trained, when you are in battle you will not be able to remember it.  Somehow or the other, the power of the spirit that is before you prevents you from reaching out to the Blood unless you are already in the Blood, unless you are already moving with the Blood.  You know, one time, as a young man, God was teaching me the gospel.  I didn’t go to Bible school, I went to God school, and as He was teaching me the gospel, one of the things He me taught was the crucifixion.  He said, “Come with Me.  Let Me show you the crucifixion.”  Have you ever taken your Bible and gone through the whole crucifixion and imagine what happens?  He took me through the crucifixion and every step of the way I felt the pain, the suffering.  I saw them dragging Him along.  A man spit right in His face with His hands tied.  He carried me to the cross.  I saw the Blood.  You know what happened, brethren?  When the devil, the prince of devils, attacked me, hallelujah, I began to see the Blood again!  Yes!  My mind went back to the Blood of Jesus Christ and when you do that, you are lifted, immediately you are lifted into another realm.  Yes!  “Smite him, Lord!”  The Blood smote him right in the middle of his head and he crumbled to the floor.  OH, God, help us to understand!  Help us, Lord, to understand.

So, the powers and the rulers of the darkness of this world, the darkness… you know what darkness is?  It’s opposite to light, but the darkness cannot overcome the light.  Light overcomes darkness.  I want you to understand that.  So, anytime the darkness comes upon you, turn on the light!  Turn on the light!  Have you ever had a dream where you go to turn on the light, and the light won’t come on?  Turn the bulb, nothing happens?  God wants you to begin to practice to turn on the light!  Hallelujah!

Brother Mike (Waddick), God’s speaking to you.  He’s saying, “Turn on the light.”  Amen.  In other words, this is your eastern gate, your mind.  This is the gate through which God comes.  So many other things crowding up in the gate, preventing God from coming through.  Amen!  Just begin to repeat the Word of God!  Yes!  “I am the Lord thy God, brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage.  I will have no other God beside You.  You are my God, You are my savior.  Deliver me, now, from this darkness that’s coming down upon my soul!!”  Amen, amen.  Begin to talk aloud, begin to read the Bible.  Sometimes your mind is so befuddled that you can’t remember words to say.  Get the Bible, READ IT!  Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;  6Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.  7A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.  8Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked (Psalm 91).  Hallelujah!!!!

WE NEED TO WALK IN THE POWER THAT WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN!  Thirty devils come to you.  They say, “You’re no good.  You cursed yesterday.  You’ve sinned since this morning.  You’re no good!”  When he told me that, I said to him, “Look at you.  Look at YOU to tell me that I am no good.  You were in heaven.  You saw all the glory of God, and you left heaven to go to hell.  WHO ARE YOU to tell me I’m no good??”  Hallelujah!  “He that the Son sets free is free indeed!” (John 8:36)  He said, “Why call ye that which I have cleansed, common and unclean?” (Acts 10)  And God said, “If any man sin, IF ANY MAN SIN, he has an advocate with the Father, even Jesus Christ the righteous (1 John 2:1), that those who walk in Jesus, who walk under the canopy of Jesus Christ, who are part of the Body of Christ because you obey Christ, amen, YOU HAVE NO SIN!”  Amen.  Remember, you just finished killing seven men.  I HAVE NO SIN because Jesus has forgiven me!  I have asked Him to forgive me, and He said, “IF ANY MAN SIN, he has an advocate with the Father, even Jesus Christ the righteous.  I ask you, Father, forgive me of my sins now!  Now, Mr. Devil, you have nothing against me, for my sins are forgiven, under the Blood of Jesus Christ.”   So, we need weapon against weapon.  Fire-power against fire-power.  It’s amazing, you know.  When Hussein heard that the American army was coming, he moved his mighty brigades to meet them.  Most of them never saw what hit them.  The American army destroyed them 20 miles before they got to them.  They were being destroyed from 20 miles away.  Some of them never got a chance to fire a shot.  Amen.  God is talking about powers.  He has given us power over the power of the enemy, the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.  Spiritual wickedness in high… what does that mean?  That means that there’s a wickedness that is higher than you.  Amen.  It’s higher than you.  You have to rise up to combat that wickedness because it is higher than you are.

God is speaking to a people that He has ordained to be overcomers, but as I said before, you cannot overcome unless you over come here in yourself.  You have to overcome in your dining room.  Some of us can’t overcome there.  We keep stuffing our mouths.  We lose the battle before we start fighting.  You have the temple of the living God.  You are going to have to learn to put the temple of the living God in order.  Stop eating so much!  Oh, yes.  When I’m talking about eating, I’m talking about appetites!  If you cannot control your natural appetite to eat, you won’t control yourself sexually, or any other way!   Men have to learn to control themselves!  Amen.  If you have a wife, Paul said, “You should be as if you have none.” (1 Corinthians 7:29)  Amen.  Be as if you had none!  Walking along the street, now on a different level I’m talking, now.  Looking at the people, in their minds, you see written across their minds, “sex.”  They’re walking and they’re looking at you to make sure you see them.  The whole world is taken up by this, why?  It’s the best thing the devil has going for him.  He has caught many men of God on that score.  Amen.  Do you know that after a while the Communists found out that if they, you know they were going through all these kinds of things to put them in to torture and all that sort of thing, to get the men to deny God?  They found out that all they had to do was to get a naked woman and put her in there with them in the cell with them and the only ones who survived were the overcomers, who that didn’t matter to them.  Amen.

We then must begin to address these areas.  We must begin to come face to face with this battle that is before us.  If we do not, we cannot win.  We cannot win, and there are many losers in our midst and the losers are going to lose until they receive the power of God in the various chambers of their souls to give them the victory.  Amen.

So, the powers that be, wickedness in high places.  He said, “Now, if you want to win, you must take unto yourself the WHOLE armor of God.”  What does that mean?  It means if you take one piece, you are still vulnerable in the other places.  You put on the helmet, your head is protected, but the rest of your body is out.  You put on the breastplate of righteousness, you have to have your feet shod or else the enemy can just destroy you by making you not able to walk.  So you have to put on the whole armor.  Let’s look at what Paul here states as the armor.  14Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth.  Come on, now.  You cannot stand if you do not have the truth girding your loins.  A simple thing.  God has put a ministry in the earth.  Apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, teachers.  None of us will stand unless we believe in the Body of  Christ.  Do you hear me?  Amen.

My father died with diabetes.  His sister, my aunt, died with diabetes.  Sister Ann, his next sister, died with diabetes.  The third sister died with diabetes.  There was no diabetes on my mother’s side.  OK.  My brother came to me and said, “Cec, we are in trouble.  We have to get to the doctor.  We have to make sure that we get this thing under our feet, this diabetes business.”  I said, “I rebuke the thought in the name of Jesus.”  He was very unhappy.  He thought I was rebuking him, but I wasn’t really rebuking him.  I was rebuking the spirit of diabetes that was coming at us.  Well, he went to the doctor and tested, and sure enough, he had diabetes.  He began to get treatment, insulin and all that sort of thing.  But I kept on my merry way.  Now, remember, I am 2 years older than he was.  So, one day, George (Herrig) called me and said, “I had a dream about you.”  He said, “I dreamt that you were sitting at the table eating, and you were eating and you had to go down into the basement to fight with a demon that was down there and this demon was coming and you were preparing for this demon, but you were eating as if it was part of the preparation to fight this demon.”  And he said, “Lo and behold, we heard boom, boom, boom.  The demon was coming up.  He was coming up.  And when the demon came forward, it was your brother.”  I said, “Oh!  Nothing but the diabetes!  That’s what it is!”  So, I took heed and ran off to the doctor and got tested.  Sure enough, I had a blood sugar level of  350.  Amen.  Hallelujah.  So I went home.  The doctor said, “Oh, oh, oh, you have to get injections, …”  I said, “Not me, sir.  I am going to deal with it in the way God showed me.”  So I started eating better.  Stopped taking sugar.  Not eating the chocolates and anything, you know.  When I went to Europe, I always came home with a lot of chocolate.  Not eating any sweets and so, it went right down.  I keep watching it.  Now, what is that?  Why am I telling you that?  I’m telling you that if I did not believe that George had the gift, that particular gift of prophecy to have dreams and visions, see, because the prophetic gift is in different ways, you know.  Dreams and visions are one part of it.  You remember Joseph?  He was a dreamer.  So, George is a dreamer and I took it and bam, I got deliverance because I believe in the Body of Christ.  God said, “For this cause, some of you are weak and sickly and some sleep because you do not discern the Body of the Lord.”  Amen!

The world churches teach the rapture.  The doctrine of the rapture started in 1830 with Irving in London, in England.  Actually, it was in Scotland but afterward he moved his headquarters to London.  Now, this doctrine, it was taken by Darby, this theologian Darby.  Not men of great spiritual repute.  Amen.  That’s a nice way of saying that I don’t believe what they did.  Then there was a man named Scoffield, and Scoffield took it and the Scoffield Bible became so prevalent, so widespread, everybody… I remember, as a young Christian, I had to have a Scoffield Bible.  But when you look at the Scoffield Bible, it’s misleading.  It’s not the gospel of Jesus Christ at all.  Amen.  But then, all the churches took from that and began to preach the rapture.  They put it in the Bible schools.  You had to believe the rapture.  When I went to join the Church of God, I had to believe the rapture before I could be ordained in the Church of God.  You can see how important it is.  I was speaking to a man on the phone and he said, “What do you believe, brother?”  I said, “I believe the Word of God.”  He said, “You believe in the rapture?”  I said, “No.”  He said, “Oh, I won’t even talk to you.”  Bam, he dropped the phone.  So, the church began to follow a wrong apostolic leading.  Remember, God sends apostles to the church to be that bar in the tabernacle, that bar, 30 cubits long, that bar to hold the church together, hold them in line.  God will reveal to certain people truths for their time.  Amen?  He called Martin Luther.  He revealed certain truths to Martin Luther for his time.  The Anabaptists came up with certain truths.  Then the Methodists came up with the sanctification truth.  That’s all they had, nothing more, and instead of going on, they rejected every move, rejected the other moves, so then the thing that God had put in the church to lead you and to guide you, you reject it and so the thing that comes forward now is that none of these brethren are hearing from God.  No man who preaches the rapture, that we are going to fly off the earth and leave the earth and God’s going to burn up the whole earth, is preaching the truth.  He has not heard from God.  Now, the truth is, when I heard this first, I went to God.  I said, “Now, God, tell me.  I will not preach it until You tell me!”  For if God doesn’t tell me, how will I know which is true?

So, then,  I went into the Word of God and I found out that rapture is not in the Word of God at all.  The passages that they taught us to preach on rapture were not of God at all.  Like in Matthew 24, in verse 40 and coming down, he said, Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.  As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the time of the end.  Listen now,As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the time of the end.  What happened in the days of Noah?  Who was taken away?  All the sinners were taken away out of the earth, and the Christians were left.  The rapturists turn it upside down.  So, when my brother went and learned all this and came in with his doctorate, with Greek and Hebrew, I was very happy because I could talk to him now.  So we spent a whole night.  I said, “Now, Frank, two in the field, one taken and the other left.  Who was taken and who was left?”  “Oh, sure!  The Christians were taken up on top of the flood and the sinners were left.”  I said, “OK.  Let’s read the Bible.  The scripture said that it was paralambatai.  Paralambano means to take unto yourself a wife. ‘Para’ means grabbing, arresting.”  So, when I showed him that, well, eventually he came to it.  But what am I talking about?  The apostolic leading was wrong.  The apostolic teaching that is showing the way to the people of God was wrong, leading them astray!  So they reject anything that is from God.

Then we have the prophetic ministry.  We don’t respect them.  We don’t respect them.  If somebody prophetically comes and tells me something, my wife tells me something, I say, “Now, where did you get it?  Is it YOU or…”  She said, “Well, it just comes to me.”  I say, “Well, that’s good enough for me.”  Amen.  Because the prophetic ministry is not only speaking through the prophets, but it is speaking through the hearts of all the brethren, because the spirit of prophecy is the Spirit of Christ!  When the prophetic ministry speaks, when he speaks, I have already had it in here.  The Christ in me says, “Aha!”  I am afraid, I am afraid to do anything against what is said by a prophetic ministry!  So, Brother Campbell called me a couple of days ago and said to me, “I have a dream and I’d like to tell you the dream.”  I noticed last night that he kind of cut out that little part.  He still doesn’t want you to be mad with him.  I wish, Brother Campbell, that you wouldn’t care, to be honest with you.  I wish you wouldn’t care who’s mad with you and who is not mad with you.  If God says so, and you feel it right to say it, say it!  It’s only when you have some little secret thing that must be told to the individual, but what happened here the night before you came here, is that we were singing a song and it hit Charley (Trotter).  The very things that you told me you saw in the vision, in the dream, Charley came up here and confessed them, and Brother Tom, Charley’s father, came up here and said, “Yes!”  God told Brother Campbell that Charley would be up here.  You told me four nights ago that Charley was going to be the first one!  Hallelujah!  My God.

We have to begin to believe God now.  Apostles, prophets, evangelists, amen!  Brother David (Walter) is going out as an evangelist and I notice that, when he goes, God makes it a point of his duty to give him some substance wherever he goes.  Amen.  I’m not talking about people, whatever faults we have, but I’m talking about God in us, Christ in us, the hope of glory!  Christ moving in you, Christ moving in you… I’ve no business with your faults!  God will take care of them!  Amen!  MOVE AS GOD WOULD HAVE YOU TO MOVE AND STOP SUBMITTING TO THE SPIRITS OF UNBELIEF!  Hallelujah!  Amen.  If Brother Rodriguez says surely it was Brother David that got in touch with him and so and so and so and we have seen many things like that, amen, instead of sitting back on your haunches and criticizing everything that everybody does, get up and do something!!  Amen!  Hallelujah, hallelujah.

Shepherds.  We lack shepherds.  Oh, we lack shepherds.  There’s nobody here to love the people, who will lay down their lives for them, who will go and seek them out in the darkness and who are looking after them.  I think that the poverty of this specific group is the lack of shepherd ministry.  Does anyone care?  Do we really care?  If such and such a one, we haven’t seen him for a while, he hasn’t come back to service, we don’t know what is wrong with him, a little news might come around and he’s out there eating dirt, and nobody goes after him.  Nobody goes after him.  How many of us have gone after Joe?  How many of us have gone after him physically?  How many of us have gone after Rebekka?  We can’t allow them to stay there!  We will not allow them to stay there!  Somebody should say, “Lord God, kill me unless Joe comes back, or unless Rebekka comes back.”  But you know what?  If you say it of yourself, you’re a goner.  You’re going to die.  If you say it of yourself, you need to have the spiritual ENERGY from God that gives you the compassion for that person, compassion that rises to a level that you put your own heart and life on the line!  Amen!  You understand.  Not one should die in our midst.  Many are walking in the ways of death and hell.  Amen.  There is Joshua.  Amen.  Walking in the ways of hell.  There is his wife, Jennifer.  You ever reach out to them?  Say, “Lord God, reach to Jennifer today.  Amen.  Just reach out to her and bring her back.”  These things are being done by spirits!  Amen!  They are being done by spirits and the spirits are even going as far as dressing up the people like spirits.  You ever look at the costumes that the children wear at Halloween?  These are the spirits that are reigning and ruling in the world around us, the cosmocratoros, the powers of the world that are binding us, binding the church, stopping the church from going.  God Almighty is speaking a word to get the church loose.  The church must move out now and break the power of the devil in our lives!!  Amen.  If you find yourself cursing, that is something wrong.  As Charley said the other night, he found himself cursing, profanity in his mind.  He said that, oh, he wouldn’t talk it out, nobody would hear, because he has it in his mind.  Amen!  That shows that there’s a demon ministering death to his mind and it’s not Charley alone.  He was only the mouthpiece to talk it of what goes through the mind of some of the brethren.  Hallelujah.  Amen!

We wrestle not… so therefore, take unto yourself the truth.  If you don’t have the truth, if your belt is not properly girded, then you have left a space for Satan to administer death to you.  Do you understand?  You’ve left a space.  The truth must be there.  Question everything that you hear and question it and question it and question it until it becomes LIFE to you!  The clean animal chews his cud.  CHEW YOUR CUD!  All the things that I say to you today I want you to go chew them, chew them, chew them, eat them again, until you BELIEVE them!  And if it is a lie, spit it out!!  Yes.  If it’s a lie, you spit it out.

We have realms of warfare.  There are two basic areas that are our undoing.  We are fighting spirits from without, that is, spirits that the devil will send against us, and then we are fighting spirits from within – that which have been planted in us from our blood lines.  As a duCille, or as a member of your family, you have a long line of wicked spirits that claim they are part of your being.  In your soul there was a deficit of demons and when you came to God, you first of all gave some of them a blow and they pulled away from you and then they began to work on you.  I remember what happened when I got saved.  When I got saved, my sister got saved afterwards.  In other words, she was the more vulnerable one.  She got saved.  After she got saved, her daughters got saved and the family began to get saved.  I said to God, “Why?  Why do these people, who never knew about salvation, get saved after I got saved?”  God said, “Well, the demons that had possessed you, they were hit by you and destroyed when you accepted Jesus and turned to God.  And so, those demons can’t go to your family anymore.”  Because, some of them, I put them in the abyss.  Everyone that bothered me, I would put them in the abyss.  Now, I did not see them going down, but I believed it, and I believed it when I saw the effect upon my family, that the demons did not have the power over my family as they used to.

So therefore, Moses was told of God to tell the priests to put on his right shoulder an onyx stone, and upon the onyx stone he would write six names of the six tribes of Israel on his right shoulder, and on his left shoulder he would write the other six names of the six tribes of Israel.  When he came and knelt before God, God accepted him as the priest of Israel, as all Israel.  So, when he said, “Lord, forgive the sins of Your people and my sins also,” then the incense would go up and God would accept him, that the sins of all Israel would be forgiven.  Who do you think you are?  What do you think you are before God?  You are the priest of your family.  I do not care how many dresses you wear or how many pants you wear.  I am not talking about masculinity or femininity.  I AM TALKING ABOUT A DIVINE PRINCIPLE, THAT WHEN YOU KNEEL BEFORE GOD, IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH, YOUR WHOLE FAMILY IS BEFORE GOD!  HALLELUJAH!

You see, these are the terms of the blood covenant.  I do not know if you understand.  You had better study about blood covenant.  If I have a blood covenant with you, and you are in blood covenant with that man, then he has a blood covenant with me!  You understand?  So, the blood covenant that we have among us by the Blood of Jesus Christ extends to your family and to everybody with whom you have a blood covenant.  We have the same blood covenant!  This is the power of the church!  We need to exercise this power!  You understand?

In the third area of the machinations of hell, the workings of hell, there are the spirits of men who are in hell.  Now, I ask you a question, “What is hell?”  Have you ever thought of what hell is?  Where is it?  Where is hell?  Let me tell you.  Hell is a state of existence.  Do you hear me?  Hell is a state of existence that spirits live on who are completely alienated from God.  Now, when a man dies, his body goes to the grave, you know that?  His spirit goes back to God, you know that?  But where does his soul go?  Either in heaven to be with the Lord Jesus, or in hell.  Now, hell, therefore, is the spirits walking to and fro through the earth seeking rest and finding none.  Did Jesus say that?  “Walking to and fro through the earth seeking rest and finding none (Matthew 12:43, Luke 11:24).”  So, if your grandfather was against God and died a sinner, where is he?  He is walking up and down through the earth, seeking rest and finding none!  Do you think he would walk back into your house sometimes?  Do you think he would sometimes try to put his influence upon you sometimes?  Do you think that hell would not use him to bring death and consternation to you?

Now, this is where they said that I am a sorcerer.  Amen!  I can tell you authoritatively I not only see it in my Bible, but I have met these spirits and I have talked to them and I have driven them back.  Amen!  Hallelujah!

I never forgot – I was a little boy and my grandfather, he was sitting at his desk working one night and he heard a sound like someone dragging his feet…[like clump, clump, clump, clump] coming up to his door.  The thing comes up to the door and he knocks, “Bam! Bam! Bam!”

Now, I have always asked God why spirits knock three times, and I have never found out.  But every demon I have known and every devil that I have met who comes and knocks, he knocks three times.  He knocked three times at his door.  Now, listen, I am not telling you fairy tales!  I am telling you something that happened.  [Grandfather] threw the door open, and here stands a boy that had died a few days before.  My grandfather got mad, “Who sent you here?”  “It’s, oh, uh, … it’s my papa.  Papa sent me.”  He said, “GO BACK TO YOUR PAPA!”  And he drew back… “GET BACK TO YOUR PAPA!”  Right back he went.  Is that a fable?  That’s hell.

When people talk – when you preach hell – remember to preach to the sinners and tell them, “This is where you are going to go. You will be walking to and fro through the earth, seeking rest and finding none (Matthew 12:43, Luke 11:24).  You will go to the bars to get a drink, and you will keep on putting the glass to your head and you won’t get any release!  You will want water, and you won’t be able to drink it!  You will have no body, so you will want to seek a body.  You will want somebody else’s body to get into.”  Amen!  Hallelujah!

This is hell!  Preach it!  That’s hell!  Nobody wants to preach the truth, but THAT IS HELL, and let the sinners know that, “That is where you are going! You will be around here walking to and fro until Jesus comes to judge the quick and the dead (2 Timothy 4:1, 1 Peter 4:5)!  Then He will resurrect you to judge you again!  You will pick up that rotten body and come before God to be judged!  THAT IS HELL!”  Amen!

I read books from these mighty men of the Gospel, these theologians, and they will tell you that, “Oh, it is an impersonation of the devil,” that is impersonating that person.  But, let me tell you, I met the person, and it was the person.  IT WAS NO IMPERSONATION!

When Moses died, why did the devil want his body?  Why was the devil upset that God took away the body of Moses and buried him Himself?  Huh?  Why is it then that the same Moses appeared on the Mount of Transfiguration?  Why did he appear in the Mount of Transfiguration in his body?  Because the devil didn’t have it!  Why did the witch of Endor have the power to resurrect Samuel and bring him up from the grave?  Why did she have that power over Samuel and she couldn’t have that power over Moses?   Amen.  Hallelujah!  Oh, Jesus!

These are truths that the church is afraid to preach, and they make all kind of theories to give to you, to feed to you, so that you would not see the truth.  Demons are real!  Devils are real!  Do you hear me?  On the other hand, God’s angels are real!  Amen!  A son of God goes to heaven, and God says (quoting from Hebrews, Chapter 12) we are  a compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, therefore let us be careful how we run the race.”  Why?  They are taking the examples from us.  God will not reveal the endtime truths to the heavenlies.  He is going to reveal it to the church!  Amen!  The scripture (in 1 Peter 1:12) said that the angels desire to look into it!  The angels want to learn!  Heaven wanted to learn.  They sent back Moses and Elias. They sent back Moses and Elias to the transfiguration to ask Jesus about His death, His burial, and His resurrection (Matthew 17).  If they knew, why would they come to ask Him about His death, His burial, and His resurrection?  It is because they did not know.  The church has the revelation of the Christ and the endtime, but the angels have to learn from us!  For we are the people who are under the temptation and the problems and the troubles.  God wants us now to rise up and to begin to speak to the spirits that bother us.

The spirits that touch your family, Brother (Rodriguez).  The spirits.  I want you to rise up and to begin to tell the spirits that come into your family and want to destroy you and your wife… Amen!  I want you to rise up and to TELL THEM that they must go back to hell!  Yes!  “Go right back to hell.”  Amen!  “This is not your place.  I am a son of God, bought and paid for by the Blood of Jesus Christ.”  If you did not have the Blood of Jesus Christ, you could not come and sit here and listen to the Word of God, and you wouldn’t come back, and keep coming back – God is with you!  And He will deliver your household!  He will deliver you.  He will deliver your wife.  He will deliver your household.  You will shout, and be on top of all these devils!  Amen!  Amen!  AMEN!  Yes.  Thank You, Jesus!  Hallelujah!

Ancestral devils will not have the power over us again, for every time you recognize a wrong thing in yourself, you will call upon the name of the Lord.  Hallelujah.  Amen?  If a wrong word slips out of your mouth, if you rebuke somebody, hurt somebody, immediately call upon the name of the Lord, hallelujah, and you will be set free.  Hallelujah.

Ancestral devils must not have any more power over us.  You know, if I were preaching to an African crowd, everybody would understand what I said, because they actually worship these ancestral devils.  Do you see what I mean?  They would all understand, but now God has lifted your understanding to understand.  YOU MUST BELIEVE!

I touched on it, and I am going to touch on it now before I close now, that God has set in the world apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, and teachers. While we move together, we will conquer every force on earth, and the church will be brought to the place of ministry.  In other words, the minister must be done away with, but the church is forever!  Hallelujah!  We are expendable!  We will pass away, and our function will pass.  Amen!   But the people of God, you, the Body of Christ, that is what God wants!  “I AM,” saith the Lord!  Hallelujah!  Amen!

He said, “…that you may be one.”  Let me read this and close.  Turn with me to John 17.  Yes, turn with me to John 17, the beloved apostle.  Remember, God never had any title named, “apostle.”  Amen.  He made us apostles, but it is not a title.  You cannot be “Apostle So-and-So.”  Amen!  He made us prophets, but we do not say, “Prophet Tom,” or “Prophet Burt.”  No!  He made us prophets.  It is not a title!  It is a designation!  A job designation!  Right?  It is a job.  The name of the job is “apostle.”  The name of the job is “prophet.”  Amen!  Amen.

Now, we turn to John 17, and He [Jesus] said here in Verse 20, Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;  Now, you can always remind the devil that Jesus prayed for you.  Jesus prayed for you.  “Jesus prayed for me, therefore you can’t tell me anything else.  Jesus prayed for me.”  Verse 21, That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.  In other words, God is going to use you to let the world know that God sent Jesus.  Amen.  Hallelujah.  22And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:  God wants us to be one even as Christ and God the Father are one!  Meaning to say, I in you and you in me, and we in Christ and Christ in GOD!  Amen!  This is the function, this is the oneness.  I do not care how weak you are.  I do not care how wishy-washy you are.  God has made you to be an overcomer, and that you must be!  Amen!  23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.  So then, in the name of Jesus and by the Blood of Jesus, let us take this food, let us feast upon it night and day, until it becomes a part of us, and let us walk in truth.

If there is someone here who has a problem with anything I have said, speak now.  Speak now.  I want you to tell me what the problem is.  How are you relating?  There might be something there that I probably should have given you a scripture for, and I didn’t give you the scripture.  Let me hear you.  Amen?

 Question:

You said that the devil couldn’t bring Moses back, that God took his body.  But he could bring Samuel back.  Why could he bring Samuel back?  Samuel was a righteous man, wasn’t he?

 Bro. duCille:

Yes.  Yes.  The reason is that Moses went into the heavenlies.  He died without sin.  Samuel died with sin, and everyone who died with sin becomes the property of the devil.  So, Samuel was in hell—although he was comforted.  That part of hell was called “the bosom of Abraham” by the Jews, and “paradise” (Luke 16:22, 23:43).  You see?  Therefore the devil had the power.  He could reason that Samuel had sin, and therefore God could not have taken him up.  But Moses, in the Law, there was one loophole in the Law where someone could go through and be saved and be sinless, and that was the loophole of “sacrifice.”  So, every time Moses went before the Lord, he would carry a sacrifice before God.  He could not approach God without the blood.  So he would have carried his sacrifice.  So Moses is assumed to have carried a lamb with him and made a sacrifice.  His sins were forgiven, he died on the sacrifice, and therefore the devil had no power over his body.

Now, there was one more thought I wanted to bring, and the question is, “Can Christians have devils?”  In your dealing with Christians and with yourself, have you discovered that you can have a devil?  Yes, and you do things that you hate.  You are against it and you repent over it.  Amen.  You didn’t want to do it, but you did it.  That means some spirit caused you to do it.  Now, if Christians can have a devil, suppose you dropped dead right now with all those devils in you.  What happens to the devils?  The devils would depart.  Amen.  But they would have your personality with them.  You gave them the right to manifest in your body and they were manifesting as you.  In other words, you get up and you say a curse word and you are against it and you say, “Oh, I am sorry.”  But the devil that made you say the curse word, he took your identity to say it.  Anybody who heard you, he didn’t say that a devil said it, he said that you said it.  Amen?  So, therefore, you had given the devil the right to speak for you.

Silence?  You had given the right to speak for you.  Now, if you die, that devil could go and impersonate you.  Amen?  Chew upon it.  Come back to me.

 Question:

So, are you saying that demons and those who die and go to hell are the same.

Bro. duCille:

That’s where demons come from!  God never made any demons.  Fallen angels are different from demons.  You notice in the scriptures that the scriptures never call a fallen angel a “demon.”  It calls it a “devil.”  So you have “devils” and you have “demons.”   Demons are human beings.  Now, the Greeks knew that.  Their gods were demons.  So, in the Greek language, they knew that demons were people who died.  And they worshipped the gods as demons.

 Question:

When you said that when a person gives the demon a right to take on your personality, in essence are you saying that it is a “demon possession” that takes place in the individual?

Bro. duCille:

Well, the problem is that a demon cannot “possess” a Christian.  A demon can oppress a Christian.  A demon can express himself through a Christian, but he cannot possess you because you belong to the Lord.  So if you are really saved, and have the Blood of Jesus Christ, though they might occupy different compartments of the soul, they cannot take charge of you and make you just do things that they want you to do.

 Question:

You spoke in Ephesians about principalities and rulers… are these also, are these fallen angels or are these individuals that have died?

 Bro. duCille:

The “princi-” is the fallen angel, and the “palities,” or some of them, are men who died and the devil is using them.  You see?  It’s the kingdom of the devil, exousia, authorities, and rulers of the darkness of this world.  That includes both men and devils.

 Question: 

You talked about we should, under a certain circumstance, we should move in such a manner as to bring back brethren that we have lost – Joe, Bekka – people who are no longer with us but who we wish were.  But we don’t do that just in our own power, we don’t just wake up, you don’t do unless God tells you to….  Can you elaborate on the circumstances in which we should move in that area?

Bro. duCille: 

The circumstance is that the gift of God in you keeps crying out for these people.  There is a compassion, an unrest, a pain!  Hallelujah.  That is what God is using to tell you, “You must pray for them.”  Hallelujah!  Amen!  There is an urge to pray for them, a desire to see them alive.  You do not want to see them go to hell.  That’s the cry of your heart.  So, you don’t need any more motivation besides the Spirit of God in you that is crying out for their deliverance.

Question:

You also spoke of a physical reaching out to them, didn’t you?

Bro. duCille: 

Yes!  There is no way that you can have a spiritual reaching out and not have a… I mean, for the past couple of months, a certain sister is upon my heart.  Every time I turn around I see her, like I see a sister and she looks like her, or I hear her voice, or she just comes before me.  She’s crying out.  She’s crying out.  I take up my telephone and I call her and actually I found that she’s crying out.  I promised her that I will call her again, and you know, it is coming into my spirit that what I should do is call her and say, “Let me send a ticket for you.  You come.  Come to be with the brethren somewhere.”  But, that is the ministry of the Spirit in us, you know.  Like, you heard the story about John, the beloved.  He knew a little boy, and this little boy was part of his church, and he loved him.  Years passed on, and somebody came to him and said, “You know, that great robber chief, who is coming down from the mountains and killing people and robbing them.  It is your little boy.  It is the same boy that you had brought up.”  John began to weep for the boy, and he just started walking up into the den of the robbers, up into the mountains, and he just walked.  The robbers caught him and he said, “Take me to your leader.”  They took him to the leader, and he just hugged him.  The man began to weep, just began to weep.  He didn’t say anything to him, he just led him by his hand down back to the church.  There are things like that, Brother.  If it is in our souls, in our hearts, and we are grieved enough over the condition of these people, we will go after them, physically.  Amen.  Thank you, Jesus.

Question:

You were talking about ancestral spirits, and you were talking about “walking to and fro in the earth seeking rest and finding none” and maybe coming back into whomever they might choose, maybe even their own relatives, family members, to attempt to find some solace or some comfort, and maybe some sin that they had.  When it comes to binding and loosing and dealing with these spirits, are we actually dealing with a principality or a devil spirit, or are we binding “Grandma” and sending her to the abyss?  You know?  And should that matter to us?

Bro. duCille: 

I am glad you brought that up, Brother.  [Laughter]  It’s not Grandma!  It is a demon.  When a person goes to hell, you have given up all human qualities.  You don’t have anymore family.  You are a devil.  You are a demon, part of the satanic kingdom.  You have a kinship to the devil, not to John Brown or Tom Stokes.  So, this is what the devil uses against us, to make us believe that we are dealing with Grandma.  It is not Grandma.  She is dead.  What is there is the demon that she has become.  In other words…I will give you a good example.  In heaven, there was a mighty angle named, “Heylel,” and Heylel would bring forth the glory of God that covers heaven.  He was the covering cherub, that when he ministers life the whole of heaven pulsated with the power of God!  But when he [Heylel] created “Satan,” Heylel was no longer there. [Note: This name “Heylel” is given in Isaiah 14:12, and in the KJB, it is translated at “Lucifer.”  It is number 1966 in the Strong’s Hebrew dictionary.]  Amen!  It was not God’s creation anymore, it was something that was created – a devil.  And so, this is what we are talking about.  Our family is no longer.  We have no kinship to those in hell.  I hope you hear that, brethren.  You have no kinship to those in hell.  You are not binding “Grandma.”  You are binding a devil, a demon – something that is alien to God.  Something that God never made!  But, because we have the power to create, you can take your own self and create a demon out of you.  Yes!

Question:

Is that the same as a disembodied spirit?

Bro. duCille:

That’s where the scripture comes from.  Yes, that’s I Corinthians 5:3 where Paul said, “…lest you be found naked.”  The work “naked” in the Greek, it is translated “disembodied spirit.”  So we are speaking about a spirit that had a body and lost it; and it is seeking rest, seeking a body; seeking other people’s bodies.  Now, fallen angels don’t seek people’s bodies.  No fallen angel wants to come into a house like that, and get bound up, that somebody can rebuke him and cast him into the pit.  He keeps away from that.

Question:

Brother Cecil, the thing you had spoken about years ago that really helped me, I wonder if you could share it.  It was about the story of a person that you knew that did some evil deed and he died.  When he came to you, you asked him if he would repent.  Do you remember what he said to you?  Do you know what I am talking about?  If he had the chance to make things right and to be with the Lord, would he do that?  Do you remember what I am talking about?

Bro. duCille: 

Yes, but not exactly that way.  The story she wants me to tell you is… God taught me the Word of God by experiences and by visions and things like that.  This is the story where it was a fallen angel.  It wasn’t a person.  My friend got to preaching ultimate reconciliation, and he said in his ultimate reconciliation that everybody is going to be saved.  I got really hurt with his preaching, so I went to God in great distress and I said, “But, God, this brother says You made people, and You could not send those people to hell, because You made them.  Those people had no responsibility.  You had the responsibility.”  I said, “My god, what is that?”  God just said, “Alright,” and immediately I went into a vision.  Now, I do not know that I was in a vision.  What I can tell you is the experience that happened to me.  I was kneeling on my knees praying, and I looked and I saw the door start to open.  I knew that a spirit was coming through the door, and that it was no ordinary spirit.  A man came in, and this man – he was a prince, or a king or something.  His bearing was confidence, and everything else.  He walked into the room.  I said, “Hi,” you know, and he said, “Well, let’s cut out all the foolishness.  You know why I am here, and I know why I am here.  Get to it!”  I said, “Okay.  God has promised me that anything I ask Him, He will do it.  Now, if I ask God to put you into heaven, God is going to have to put you into heaven.  But I cannot ask God to put you into heaven unless I know if you want to go back into heaven.”  I realized that I was dealing with a fallen angel.  It was not a demon at all.  He got mad, and in his rage he stomped his foot on the floor, and he cursed God.  He cursed God!  He said, “If He should put me back into heaven, I would go there for one reason – TO DESTROY IT!”  I said, “Boy!  This is enough!”  So, I understood where the ultimate reconciliation was, that it is not God that is keeping them in hell, but it is they who do not want heaven, and hate God so much that they prefer to remain in hell.  Now, you and I cannot understand that, that a spirit would burn in hell for thousands of years, and yet he does not want heaven – he hates God.  So, that is the story, and the rest of it is that he went through the door.  You see, he was so powerful that he knew what I was going to do before I did it.  In other words, our mind is very slow.  They are just so fast that we do not have any computers to compare with the mind of a prince of devils.  He knew what I was going to do and all I saw was his hand closing the door behind him.  So, I rushed out after him, and I said, “I am going to rebuke him no matter what he does.”   When I went out there, he was playing with the children, and he had changed into a nice, friendly uncle – like your uncle playing ball with the children.  I said, “My God, what am I going to do?  I can’t rebuke him before the children.  It will hurt them all.”  God said, “Play ball.”  He said, “Play ball.”  That means to say that we have to go down to the level of the children, and we have to deal with them to get the devils from taking a hold of them.
Praise God, here is a little girl who wants to ask a question.

Question:

If a person preaches the “rapture,” it’s not… they are not of God.  But, I mean, does that mean that they are of the devil?  Because I know some nice people who believe in rapture and stuff like that.

Bro. duCille:

No!  It is that the doctrine is not of God, and the people are not hearing from God.

Question:

But does that mean that they are of the devil?

Bro. duCille:

Not necessarily.  They might just be ignorant.

Question:

Cecil, you said that Moses was the only one before Christ who had the sacrifice so that his body was with God in heaven.  Now, Enoch, and Elijah, with the chariot – were their bodies like Moses’ body?

Bro. duCille:

Yes!  In every dispensation, one person went through.  Enoch went through in the dispensation of innocence out there, and he went though upon faith; and Moses went through by the works of the law; and Elijah went through again by faith; and Jesus went through by the Blood, and He made a way for us to go through.  God bless you.

Question:

What I have is really a comment.  You were speaking of some of the angels that were mentioned [in scripture]; one of them is actually, “Apollyon.”  It’s in the book of Revelation, in the 9th chapter, the 11th verse.  His Hebrew name is “Abaddon,” which means, “the Destroyer.”  And there is another one also, “Jeremiel,” and I believe he is also a fallen angel as well.

Bro. duCille: 

It is the same person.  All those are talking about the devil.  The names you mention they are the same, one devil that is given the same name.  He is Satan, he is Apollyon, he is Abaddon, he is the dragon, he is whatever, but all those names are just to describe his nature.  You see?  For instance, in Isaiah (14:12) they put his name as “Lucifer.”  Now, that was not in the Hebrew!  There was no such name.  It is the Luciferians and the people who worship the stars and all like that (we call them the Saturnalians) that put in that word into the Bible, “Lucifer.”  There is no such word in the Hebrew.  Lucifer is a Latin word, and when that was written, Latin wasn’t yet spoken.  So, it tells us that somebody put in a word that was not there.

Question:

I am going to ask about John the Baptist, and how about Lazarus, too.  What about Lazarus?  Is there anything else that can be said about Lazarus than what we do know?

Bro. duCille:

No.  Lazarus was brought from the grave, and Lazarus died afterwards a natural death.  John the Baptist was beheaded, and all those were resurrected when Jesus Christ was resurrected.  It says, The graves were opened and many came out and showed themselves (Matthew 27:52).  They are in the heavenlies with the Lord Jesus.  Everybody who was in that realm of heaven, a realm we call “hell,” the psalmist David, called it “hell.”  In Psalm 16:10, David called it “hell.”  He said, …thou wilt not leave my soul in hell (Psalm 16:10).  You know?  So, the point is that all those people who were in that realm, when Jesus resurrected, He released them.  So that realm is now in the third heaven.

God bless you.