Omega Message – December 2003
Cecil duCille
(Message given at the July 2003 Living Word Omega Message Illinois Convention.)
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 do not 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 cannot see through it. I believe like Caleb, who said, “I am this day 85 years of age and my natural force is not abated, and I am ready to go and to take the land that God has given me.” (Josh 14:10-11) I do not 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 could not lift my hand above my head, and the brother began to preach and he said, “I want you all to lift up your hands.” And he said, “If your hand is even paining you, lift it!” And I lifted my hands! I believe that the energy that went into my arm, that it came from the living Word that he gave, that I accepted. And it is so simple, and yet so profound that we do not… I do not know if we do not believe it or whatever, but we do not pay much attention to it, that the flowing of the energy of God in this place, that it not only heals the soul, but it heals the body! Amen. Because healing cannot come to the body unless it comes through the soul.
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 do not have to be in God to command the spirits to get away from you. I am saying this and I do not 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 is yours! Amen. I want you to understand that.
I am going to tell you a story, but let us turn to the Bible, first of all. Let us go to Ephesians 6. I just want you to be with me. You know, some people do not have much tolerance for spiritual things. They cannot 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 just cry out, “Hallelujah!” and everybody will pray for you.
We come to Chapter 6 of Ephesians, and when we think of the apostle Paul, he must have been way, way, way ahead of the church and of the other apostles, and of anybody you know. Paul himself received these things from the Lord, but he could not have personally experienced everything he wrote about. If you watch his life as a Pharisee, and then when 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, and he could not understand as we understand now. Do you know why? Because the revelation of Jesus Christ is progressive, and 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. I wonder if I can explain it to you? The authority that 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 had better watch it well, because sometimes it doesn’t mean what we think it means. In other words, it is almost “limitless.” Amen? We overcome one thing, and immediately we are faced with another. And the moment you overcome that, you qualify to overcome something else.
So some people get tired. Every day—battle, battle, battle! I love the battle! I love the battle, because it gives you an incentive. I do not know if it is because I used to love to fight so much as a young person. It is crazy, you know. I was a person who used to really love fighting, so that if you fight and you do not get hit, you would not be too much interested in that fighter. You wanted to fight somebody who would hit you hard. (Some say that it is masochism.) (Laughter) Anyhow, praise be to God!
We are supposed to be overcomers, and first of all, the first overcoming is in here, inside ourselves. If you do not overcome the man in you, you are not going to be an overcomer of anything else. I do not 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 that 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.” (1Co 9:5) He had to tell them that, for some of the people were looking up to him 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, I received the Lord. When I say “young,” I mean in my 20’s. The Lord taught me to fast and pray. He taught me to have food to eat, and not eat. To be hungry! To love what I am looking at and smelling, and yet not eat. I think the worst thing for a hungry man is a smell. Oh, it just kills you! Amen! The hunger you have when you are hungry and you smell fresh food (especially things that you like)—it is 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 yourselves, and you have to put your desires and your wants away. So, therefore, you have to learn first by FASTING: To have food and not eat it—HUNGRY! To have water and not drink it—THIRSTY! Yes! I have gone through such thirst that my throat began to split and bleed. My lips bleed because I am thirsty, and there is water and I will not drink it because I am fasting a fast of THIRST!
Now, I am not telling you to do it. I am not telling you to do it. Your God must tell you what to do. As Doug shared with us here this morning, he said, “This is not my body. This is not my property.” His body is the temple of the living God. So if God tells you, “Do not drink water,” then you do not drink water. You see, when Jesus was in the wilderness for forty days, nobody can convince me that He carried a bottle of water with Him. Amen.
That was thirst; and thirst can become a kind of madness. When you are thirsty, you have hallucinations; but then that is where I was trained. Amen! I was trained at the point where we did not 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, we did not know anybody, any organization, or anything in America. Nothing! If we had gone to the Salvation Army, that would be a defeat of the faith that we had in God. So we stood and waited until God sent a raven. (1Ki 17:1-6) Oh, yes! But, you know, “Get away from me, you dirty raven! I do not want your bread!” Do you think that is what Elijah would have said? Well, a drunken woman came and fell on the shoulder of my wife (with all the liquor coming out of her breath) and 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! But we heard the voice of God speaking through a drunken woman, and there our missionary journey started. We did not need a cent. Oh, praise God!
Eph 6:12 “FOR WE WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
It is 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. You see, most of the people that you see around you, I call them “artificial people.” You see a man coming along, strutting, swaggering—you do not really know what is in his mind. Maybe he is putting on that to deceive you, to make you see a bold, brave man when there is but a little whimpering kid inside. You see?
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 or by the hearing of His ears. (Is 11:3) He was looking at the real thing. Those of you here who believe that somebody is against you, it is the first error that you are making towards 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 though that person might kill you, but he is not against you. Your real enemy is the spirit that has the person in bondage, and he is his enemy and he is your enemy. We do not have human enemies! I mean, that sounds very peculiar compared to what is happening around now. You know, men are going around trying to kill, and these are men who are just murderers. They are not our enemies. The spirits that drive them are our enemies. And guess why God let them loose on you? Why would God let loose a spirit on you? It is because He has given you the power to CONTROL them!
Oh, yes! I was walking in Miami one day, and I 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 towards me. I looked at him and said, “I REBUKE you in the name of Jesus!” The dog pulled back, and that man was so shocked! He opened his eyes wide and looked. It was not the dog that was hit but it was the spirit that they had put in the dog to attack you!
So you must realize that we are living in a spiritual realm! Our realm here is the lowest. The one we are on, it is the lowest frequency. 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 are in trouble, for you are going to meet spirits that are stronger. Now, I am jumping the gun here, but let us go on.
Eph 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities…”
All right. “…but against principalities…” Principalities. Now, what is a prince? Can you conjure up in your mind what a prince is? Yes, it is one who is supposed to inherit a kingdom or a throne. All right. Now, when God said here that there are principalities, it means that these spirits that fell (or deliberately threw themselves down from heaven) (Jude 1:6), that they were promised a kingdom. Did you hear me? They were promised by Satan a kingdom, but the problem with that promise is that it is the same kingdom that is promised to Jesus Christ. So Jesus says to us, “YOU are My kingdom,” and He says, “I will make you a kingdom of priests.” (Ex 19:6; Re 1:6) Now, what happened? Satan went out and he took it. He took it, because you remember now, you and I were out there in the kingdom of the enemy and we were all filled with devils. So Satan thought that he had won. But you see, time is only a little speck in the long thing that we call eternity. That is eternity here at the beginning, and then a time comes and it is an interruption in eternity; and then the eternity continues. 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 a place called Mona, 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!” It was the absolute Word of God! When she said that, three women jumped up and they sailed through the door, never to return.
You see, I want you to understand that Satan is going around claiming you as his kingdom, and so he has offered you to certain spirits that he calls “Princes.” So these spirits expect to inherit you, to have you. You know, it is 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 multiplying. That is the way Satan is looking at the people of the world. He sees them as his kingdom. So he offered it to his princes, and these princes are generally angels who have fallen from the second realm of heaven.
I do not know if you understand what I am talking about now. Here we are, there is the heaven of heavens, where God (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost) is. Then there is another realm under it where you have the angels Michael, Gabriel, and Heylel. These are their names as given in the Bible, and you notice they all end in “el.” The “el” part of their names, in the Hebrew language, is “God.” You see? So the name Gabriel means “Messenger of God,” and Michael means “Like God.” They are the high spirits. (Note: Heylel is the name in the Hebrew of the angel spoken of in Isaiah 14:12 who fell and became Satan. The KJV translators called him by the name Lucifer, which is the name of the Morning Star god that was worshipped by the Saturnalians.) God never gives us any other names of angels in the Bible and any other names of angels that you have heard of, they are devil angels.
Now, these spirits have magnificent powers. I believe that it is from the third realm that they have gotten some of these princes, but these angels (Michael, Gabriel) are stronger, higher, and more powerful than the ordinary angels, and when the ordinary angels cannot get certain things done, they appeal to this higher realm. Do you remember the time (in Daniel 10) when Gabriel went with the message and he could not 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. Gabriel called back to heaven, and God sent Michael, and when Michael came, Michael showed the blood (forgiveness of sins). Forgiveness of sins! He said, “These people that you say are yours, WE COVER THEM WITH THE BLOOD OF JESUS!” The devil had to back off and the message went through to Daniel. Now, I want you therefore to understand where we are and what I am trying to show you today. It is something very profound that God has given me to give you. I hope you have the energy to accept it.
So if you look at your Bibles you will see the word “principality.” (Ro 8:38; Eph 6:12;) This word, it is two words that they put together: “princi,” which means “prince,” and “pality,” which means “kingdom.” So, the people who fight with a prince 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. He has his whole “pality” behind him! A rulership!
So then these princes 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, (1Co 3:3) and the carnal spirit just takes everybody. Once you become a member of that church, you come under the influence. Why? It is because when a person ministers to you, he ministers to you himself. He ministers to you what is of himself. The Spirit of God coming through him is like water pouring through a pipe that has some dye in it, and the water comes out colored with the dye. 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 also carnality. Whatever belongs to the person, whatever is wrong with the person, the child receives it. 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 is a spirit! We are ministering on a different plane from the natural. Jesus said,
Jn 6:63 “…the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are LIFE.”
Some words that people speak, they are spirit and they are DEATH! I do not know if someone has ever spoken a word to you that strikes you so hard that it brings sadness, pain, or anger to you. Now you have to be able to resist that! 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 is a spirit! I can see the spirit.” Look in his eyes while he is speaking, and you will see the spirit. Yes! Sometimes he tries to disguise it and cover up, but you look and you will see the spirit coming through him, at you!
That spirit wants to hurt you. Right? And you get hurt, and you say, “Oh boy, I will NEVER do that again! I will have nothing more to do with this fellow!” Guess what? That is what the spirit ministered to you! Amen! You are doing just what that spirit wants you to do.
Somebody comes and says, “Well, you are a dog!” You know that you are not a dog, therefore you should turn it back and say, “God, have mercy upon him. He called me a dog. That means he is speaking from another spirit.” Right? 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 am clean!” Amen! The idea is, I did not 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. And the moment I rebuked the spirit, she got a deliverance. But I did not get up and say, “Oh, you are a liar, you so and so!” That is stupid! That is exactly what the spirit wants you to do! The sister is not the liar. She is 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.
Eph 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers…”
Now, we are against these princes and their palities, and these “powers.” Now this word “powers” here is “exousias” in the Greek, and it means “authorities.” That means that there are some spirits that get an authority to do so and so to you, and to do so and so to you. I do not know if any of you have had a spirit sent to you, sent directly against you, to do something to you. Amen. And when that spirit come s to you and you discern the spirit and reject it and turn back the spirit, it turns back to the one who sent him and does to him the same thing he was sent to do to you. Amen. We are talking about a spirit that comes at you directly directed. It says here “powers” (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 who will take somebody’s clothes and take it to the dog and let him smell it, and the dog begins to follow that scent and follows it until he finds the person. (I am telling you tales out of school. Right?) But, therefore, ninety-five percent of the things that people do, it is spirit motivated. It is probably more like ninety-nine percent, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt. It is 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 that when you married her she was 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 is 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, it is because you are blind that you are believing that “This woman that I married, that God gave to me—she is coming against me!” 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 you would say, “How dare you, Satan, to come in here and take charge of my wife! How dare you come in here 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! “DO NOT ACCEPT IT!” Go against the devil! Enter into warfare for your household, because the Bible says that if a strong man keeps his house, it takes a stronger man to come into his house and to break up his house. (Lu 11:21-22)
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. And 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 they have not realized that it has been a devil that is coming against their households. We are talking about the “exousias,” the spiritual “authorities.”
Eph 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers (“exousias”), against the rulers of the darkness of this world…”
The Greek word that Paul used here that means “the rulers of this world,” is “cosmokratoras.” “kosmos” is “world,” and “krateo” is “to rule.” “World rulers.” It says,
Eph 6:12 “…against the rulers of the darkness of this world…”
Now, we have some rulers of “darkness.” I do not know if you have met any of them. I have met some of them, and this particular man (this sorcerer) that I was telling you about, who just spoke the word and turned the car over; 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 them or to do whatever is to be done. He was very boastful, and you would come to him and he would 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 there was a man there who had his pimento. Now, pimento is a spice, a very strong spice. It is the thing that you call “allspice.” It is little grains like black pepper, and it is very valuable. A sack of pimento would value quite a lot of money because it is a rare spice. So he had his pimento, and it was dried and ready for market; and then it disappeared. So he ran down to this man to tell him, and the man said, “Do not tell me anything.” He said, “Be quiet.” He said, “Your name is (so and so). You are here because you lost your bag of pimento. You want to know who took it. It is your son who took it.” He said, “Do you want me to hurt him?” The man said, “No, do not 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 two thirds of it is still left.” He said, “All right.” The man pushed his hand in his pocket and said, “How much do I owe you?” He said, “No, do not pay me.” He said, “You go home now and look at the back of your house on the wall, and you will see your bag of pimento. 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 (8 pounds) on your table for me and I will take it.” It was in the days that they used pounds, British pounds.
Now we are talking about “powers.” The next thing that happened, the man came up to the church where he lived. He found his bag of pimento on the wall. Can any of you think of how that bag of pimento got on the wall? Can you think of it? His son stole it, yet it was there on the wall! Amen. Spirit work! He just sent his spirit and commanded the man (the son), “Either put it there, or you are dead!” The man put it on the wall, or it was the spirits themselves that took it and put it on the wall. Now, I am telling you of things, that you do not understand what is going on around you! These powers are exercising powers around you!
Now, afterwards he took the pimento, 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 sorcerer, the spirits that he worked with, they had never been conquered, they had never been stopped. He did anything to anybody that he wanted. He was so boastful that he would come to the man’s funeral and say, “Well, I killed him, but I am 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 head to toe. So I said to the men, “Loose her.” The men looked at me, and took off. So I bent down, pulled the rope, wound it around, took it off and threw it to the ground. I said, “In the name of Jesus, Sister, be healed!” And 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, and the same kind of thing happened to each of them. 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 I said, “I am 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 is of the devil. If you dream that you see somebody walking backwards, he is a servant of the devil. They run backwards, they walk backwards. Now, I do not really know why they do that. But he started walking backwards, walking backwards, and he was there confessing what the Lord had done. 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 bound the people and I was setting them free.
So you have the power! Remember now,
Mt 28:18 “All POWER is given unto me (you) in heaven and on earth.”
Amen! Why are we suffering like this? Why do we have our houses being broken up? Why are we being smashed to pieces? Amen! It is because God is ALLOWING it! Now why would my God allow that? God has given you a weapon, and if you do not use it, you are going to die.
I remember David moaning for Abner. (2Sam 3:33) He said, “Abner, Oh 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 instead. And this is the situation with the church!
Brethren! The Psalm that Brother Helgi read there for us this morning,
Ps 91:1 “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
“…shall!” Amen! There is 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 is natural.” IT IS NOT NATURAL! Sister, it is not natural for your husband to be taken away from you. It is not natural. Do not believe anything else but that God gave you that man! Do not 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. Isn’t that true? Yes! Many times we are afraid that he might die if God goes 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 have talked about this several times. He was a wild, wild, fun loving fellow! Oh, he would be just going, just going! When I would see the man, it would just grieve my soul. Amen! Do you know what I said? I put my life on the line and I said to God, “If that boy does not come to Jesus Christ, kill me! My life is not worth living if Your Word is not true to me! Kill me!” Amen!
Now, you cannot fool with God. You cannot say that if you do not mean it, and you cannot mean it unless you have the spiritual energy. Are you with me? There is one level of energy down here, and there is another level up here. If a prince up here holds your family, you have to get up there also, to knock him out. YOU CANNOT STAY DOWN HERE AND WIN UP THERE!
Don’t you understand? The frequency on which he operates is up there, and the powers that bind your person or your family are on a higher level. If you stay down here, the spirit does not even hear you. You rebuke him, and he does not even hear you. Amen!
I was in India, and I do not know, I provoked the angel of death. I did not willfully do it but I just started to study about the Hindu god Kali, and I went into a store with all these images and things. 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! Without knowing it, I had gone directly to this priest of Kali and had told him that I am against Kali. 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!” But it was ineffective. The spirit of God came to me and whispered in my right ear, and said, “The blood.” And that is a different ball game! That is a higher level! You cannot talk to him with just 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, then 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. That is, 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 did not 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, and let Me show you the crucifixion.” Have you ever taken your Bible and gone through the whole crucifixion and imagined what all happened there? He took me through the crucifixion and every step of the way I felt the pain, the suffering. I saw them dragging Jesus along. I saw Him with his hands tied and a man spit right in His face. And He carried me to the cross, and I saw the blood!
And do you know what happened, Brethren? In India, when the devil, this prince of devils, attacked me, 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! I said, “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!
Eph 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against… against the rulers of the DARKNESS of this world.”
“the DARKNESS….” Do you know what darkness is? It is opposite to light; but the darkness cannot overcome the light. (Jn 1:5) Light overcomes darkness! I want you to understand that. So any time 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? You turn on the bulb, and nothing happens? God wants you to begin to practice to turn on the light! Hallelujah!
Brother Mike, God is speaking to you. He is 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 are 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, that brought thee out of the land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage.” Say, “I will have no other God beside You. You are my God. You are my savior.” “Deliver me now from this darkness that is coming down upon my soul!” Amen! Amen!
Begin to talk aloud! Begin to read the Bible. Sometimes your mind is so befuddled that you cannot remember words to say. Get the Bible! Read it!
Psalm 91, and Verses 5-8,
Ps 91:5-8 “Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.”
HALLELUJAH!
WE NEED TO WALK IN THE POWER
THAT WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN!
Dirty devils come to you. They say, “You are no good. You cursed yesterday, you have sinned since this morning. You are no good!” When he told me that, I said to him, “Look at YOU. Look at YOU! Who are 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 AM NO GOOD?” Hallelujah!
Jesus said,
“He that the Son sets free is free indeed!” (Jn 8:36)
He said,
“Why call ye that which I have cleansed, common and unclean?” (Ac 10:15)
And God said,
1Jn 2:1 “…And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.”
He said that those who walk in Jesus, those who walk under the canopy of Jesus Christ, those who are part of the body of Christ because you obey Christ—You have no sin! Amen!
Remember now, even if you have just killed seven men, “I HAVE NO SIN BECAUSE JESUS HAS FORGIVEN ME! I have asked Him to forgive me, and He said that if any man sins, 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 and they are under the blood of Jesus Christ.”
So we need weapon against weapon! Firepower against firepower! It is amazing, you know. In Iraq, 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 from twenty miles away before they even got to them. They were being destroyed from twenty 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.
Eph 6:12 “…against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
“…spiritual wickedness in high places.” What does that mean? That means that there is a wickedness that is higher than you. Amen! It is 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 have said before, you cannot overcome unless you overcome here (in yourself). You have to overcome in your dining room. Some of us cannot overcome there. We keep stuffing our mouths, and we lose the battle from before we start fighting. You have the temple of the living God and you are going to have to learn to put the temple of the living God in order!
Stop eating so much! Oh, yes! Listen, when I am talking about eating, I am talking about “appetite.” 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 (in 1 Corinthians 7:29),
1Co 7:29 “But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none”
“BE AS IF YOU HAD NONE!”
I am walking along the street (I am speaking on a different level now) looking at the people, and you see in their minds, written across their minds, “SEX.” They are walking and they are looking at you to make sure that you see them. The whole world is taken up by this! Why? It is because it is the best thing that 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 tempted their captives they would get more out of them. They were going through all these kinds of things to put them into 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 the cell with them; and the only ones who survived were the overcomers. If they had not already learned to overcome, at that time it would be too late. 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! 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 concerning the powers that be, “…spiritual wickedness in high places,” he said here, “Now, if you want to win, you must take unto yourself the WHOLE armor of God.” What does that mean? It means that if you take only one piece of armor, you are still vulnerable in the other places. You put on the helmet and so your head is protected, but the rest of your body is exposed. You put on the breastplate of righteousness, but you also have to have your feet shod or else the enemy can just destroy you by making you to be not able to walk. So you have to put on the whole armor.
Let us look at what Paul here in Ephesians 6 states as the being the armor. Verse 14,
Eph 6:14 “Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth”
Come on, now. You CANNOT stand if you do not have the truth girding your loins. It is a simple thing! God has put a ministry in the earth:
Eph 4:7 “And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and 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—they died with diabetes. Sister Ann, his next sister, died with diabetes. The third sister died with diabetes. Right? However, there was no diabetes on my mother’s side. Okay. 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 diabetes thing under our feet.” 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 two years older than he was. So, one day Brother George 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.” He said, “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, “And 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! It is nothing but the diabetes! That is 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, you have to get injections.” I said, “Not me, sir. I am going to deal with it in the way that God showed me.” So I started eating better. I 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. Now I was not eating any sweets and so the blood sugar level went right down. And I keep watching it.
Now, what is that? Why am I telling you that? I am telling you that if I had not believed that Brother George had the gift, that particular gift of prophecy, to have dreams and visions—because the prophetic gift is in different ways, you know. Dreams and visions are one part of it. You remember Joseph in the Bible? He was a dreamer. So, George is a dreamer, and I took it! And “BAM!” I got deliverance! It is 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. (1Co 11:29-30) Amen!
The world churches teach the rapture. The doctrine of the rapture started in 1830 with the man Irving in London, England. Actually he was in Scotland, but afterwards he moved his headquarters to London. Now, this doctrine was then taken by this theologian, Darby. These were not men of great spiritual repute. Amen. (That is a nice way of saying that I do not believe in what they did.) Then there was a man named Scofield, and Scofield took it and the Scofield Bible became so prevalent and so widespread that everybody wanted to have a Scofield Bible. I remember that as a young Christian I had to have a Scofield Bible. But when you look at the Scofield Bible, it is misleading. It is 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; and 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, “Do 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, (Ex 26:28) that thirty cubits long bar to hold the church together, to hold them in line. Amen? 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 is all that they had, nothing more; and instead of going on they rejected every further move of God! They rejected the other moves. So then the very thing that God had put in the church to lead you and to guide you, you end up rejecting it. And so the thing that comes forward today is that none of these brethren are hearing from God. They teach the “rapture,” the teaching that we are going to fly off the earth and leave the earth and God is going to burn up the whole earth. No man who preaches the rapture 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 does not 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. I found that the all passages that they taught us to preach on the rapture, that it was not of God at all. Like in Matthew 24, in Verse 37 and coming down, he said,
Mt 24:37-42 “But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.”
It says that as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the time of the end. Listen now, 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 is taken and the other left.” Who was taken and who was left?”
He said, “Oh, sure! The Christians were taken up on top of the flood, and the sinners were left.”
I said, “Okay. Let us read the Bible. The scripture said that ‘the one shall be taken, and the other left,’ and the Greek word for ‘taken’ here is “paralambano.” The meaning of this word says that those here who were “taken,” that they were not raptured but that they were “grabbed and arrested.” So I showed him that, and, 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 now they reject anything that is from God!
Then we have the prophetic ministry. We do not respect them. We do not respect them. Amen! If somebody prophetically comes and tells me something, if my wife tells me something, I say, “Now, where did you get it? Is it you or from the Lord?” She says, “Well, it just comes to me.” I say, “Well, that is 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! (Re 19:10) And when the prophetic ministry speaks—when he speaks, I have already had it in here inside. 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 few days ago and said to me, “I have a dream and I would like to tell you the dream.” I noticed last night that he kind of cut out that little part. He still does not want you to be mad with him. But I wish, Brother Campbell that you would not care to be honest with you. I wish that you would not care who is mad with you from who is not mad with you. If God says so, and you feel it right to say it, say it! It is only when you have some little secret thing sometimes that must be told just to the individual; but what happened here the night before you came here, is that we were singing a song and it hit Charley and the very things that you told me you saw in the vision, in the dream, Charley came up here and confessed them. And Charley’s father came up here and confirmed it. God told Brother Campbell that Charley would be up here. You told me some nights before that Charley was going to be the first one. Hallelujah! My God!
We have to begin to believe God now.
Eph 4:11 “And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists….”
Amen! Brother David is going out as an evangelist and I notice that when he goes, God makes it a point to give him some substance wherever he goes. Amen! I am not talking about people, whatever faults we have, but I am talking about “God in us.” I am talking about “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Col 1:27) Christ moving in you, and Christ moving in you! I have 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.
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 is nobody here who loves 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? Amen! Do we really care? There is such and such a one and we have not seen him for a while; he has not come back to service. We do not know what is wrong with him, and then a little news might come around that he is 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 cannot 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 “Lord God, kill me unless Rebekka comes back.”
But you know what? If you just say it of yourself, you are a goner. You are going to die. That is, if you say it of yourself. You need to have the spiritual energy that comes from God that gives you the real compassion for that person. Compassion that rises to a level that you put your own heart and life on the line! Amen! Do 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. Have you ever reached out to them? Say, “Lord God, reach to Jennifer today.” Amen. “Just reach out to her, Lord, and bring her back.”
We pray, because 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. Have you ever looked at the costumes that the children wear at Halloween? These are the spirits that are reigning and ruling in the world around us, the powers of the world (the “cosmokratoras”) that are binding us, binding the church, and 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, you know that it is something that is wrong. As Charley said the other night, he found himself cursing, having profanity in his mind. He said that he would not talk it out and nobody would hear, but that he has it in his mind. Amen! That shows that there is a demon ministering death to his mind. And it is not Charley alone. He was only the mouthpiece to talk it out, of that which goes through the minds of some of the brethren. Hallelujah! Amen!
“For we wrestle not… Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth…”
If you do not 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 have 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 is 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, the spirits that the devil will send against us) and then we are fighting spirits from within (that which has been planted in us from our bloodline). As a duCille, or for you as a member of your family, you have a long line of wicked spirits that claim they are part of your being. There was a host of demons in your soul, 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 came back and 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 did 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 and destroyed when you accepted Jesus and turned to God. And so, those demons cannot go to your family anymore.” Because, you know, 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 and how that the demons did not have the power over my family as they used to.
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 of the 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. (Ex 28:9-12) 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, so that the sins of all Israel would be forgiven. But now, what 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 that man has a blood covenant with me also! Do you understand? So the blood covenant that we have among us by the blood of Jesus Christ, it 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! Do 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 in, 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. (Ec 12:7) You know that? But where does his soul go? Either to heaven to be with the Lord Jesus, or to hell. Now hell, therefore, is the spirits “Walking to and fro through the earth, seeking rest and finding none.” (Job 2:1; Lu 11:24;) Didn’t Jesus say that? “Walking to and fro through the earth seeking rest and finding none.” 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 have said that I am a sorcerer. Amen! But I can tell you authoritatively that 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 asked God why spirits knock three times, and I have never found out. But every demon that I have known, every devil that I have met, when he 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. My 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 is hell!
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! 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!
This is hell! PREACH IT! That is 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. (2Ti 4:1; 1Pe 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 have read books from these mighty men of the Gospel, these theologians, and they will tell you concerning these things, “Oh, it is just an impersonation of the devil. It is not the person, but it is the devil that is impersonating that person.” But let me tell you, I have 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? (Jude 1:9) Why? Why is it then that this same Moses appeared on the Mount of Transfiguration? Why did he appear in the Mount of Transfiguration in his body? (Mr 9:4) 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? (Lu 9:31) Why did she have that power over Samuel, and she could not 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 (I am quoting from Hebrews, Chapter 12) that “We are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, therefore let us be careful how we run the race!” Why? It is because they are taking the examples from us. God will not reveal the end time truths directly to the heavenlies. He is going to reveal it to the CHURCH! (Eph 3:10) Amen! The Scriptures (in 1 Peter 1:12) say that the angels desire to look into it! The angels want to learn! Heaven wanted to learn! They sent back Moses and Elias at the transfiguration to ask Jesus about His death, His burial, and His resurrection. (1Sam 28) 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. It is the church that has the revelation of the Christ and the end time, but the angels have to learn from us! For we are the people who are under the temptation and the problems and troubles. God wants us now to rise up and to begin to speak to the spirits that bother us!
Brother Rodriguez, the spirits that touch your family. I want you to rise up and to begin to speak to the spirits that come into your family and that 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 would not 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, if you hurt somebody, immediately call upon the name of the Lord and you will be set free.
Ancestral devils must not have any more powers over us. You know, if I were preaching to an African crowd, everybody would understand what I have been saying, 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 already and I am going to touch on it now before I close, 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. (4:11-14) 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, but the people of God (You! The body of Christ), that is what God wants! “I AM,” saith the lord! Hallelujah! Amen!
Jesus said, “That they may all be one….” Let me read this and close. Turn with me to John 17. Yes, turn with me to John 17. John, the beloved apostle. Remember now, 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 ! Amen! 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!
Jn 17:20 “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 me, therefore you cannot tell me anything else! Jesus prayed for me!”
Jn 17:21 “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!
Jn 17:22 “And 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!
Jn 17:23 “I 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. 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 did not give you the scripture. Let me hear you? Amen?
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Question: Are you saying that demons and those who die and go to hell are the same?
Brother duCille: That is 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 had died; and they worshipped the gods as demons.
Question: When you said that when a person gives the demon a right to take on their personality, in essence are you saying that it is a “demon possession” that takes place in the individual?
Brother 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 just make you do things that they want you to do.
Question: You spoke in Ephesians about principalities and rulers, are these also fallen angels, or are these individuals that have died?
Brother 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 is the kingdom of the devil; and it speaks of “powers” (exousias, authorities) and “rulers of the darkness of this world.” These include both men and devils.
Question: You talked about how under certain circumstance we should move in such a manner so as to bring back brethren that we have lost, people who are no longer with us but who we wish were. But we do not do that just in our own power. It is not something you just do unless God tells you to. Can you elaborate on the circumstances in which we should move in that area?
Brother 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 that 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 is the cry of your heart. So you do not need any more motivation besides the Spirit of God in you that is crying out for their deliverance.
Question: You were talking about ancestral spirits, and you were talking about them “…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 in 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?
Brother duCille: I am glad you brought that up, Brother. It is not Grandma. It is a demon! When a person goes to hell, you have given up all human qualities. You do not have any more family. You are a devil. You are a demon; you are part of the satanic kingdom. You have a kinship to the devil now and 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.” We read of him in Isaiah 14:12. His name in the Hebrew is “Heylel” (# 1966 in the Strong’s Concordance) but in the KJV it is incorrectly translated as “Lucifer.” Heylel would bring forth the glory of God that covers heaven. He was the “covering cherub,” (Ez 28:16) that when he would minister life, the whole of heaven pulsated with the power of God! But when he (Heylel) created (became) “Satan,” Heylel was no longer there! Amen! It was not God’s creation anymore; it was something else that was created—a devil! And so, this is what we are talking about. It is no longer that we have a kinship with those in our family who have gone to hell. 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?
Brother duCille: That is where the scripture comes from, where Paul said, “…lest you be found naked.” (2Co 5:3) The work “naked” in the Greek, it can be 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 do not 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, there is something you had spoken about years ago, it really helped me. I wonder if you could share it. It was the story about 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? That 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?
Brother duCille: Yes, I remember the story you want me to tell you, but not exactly that way. 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 was not 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, and so I went to God in great distress, and I said, “But God, this brother says that You made people, and You could not send those people to hell, because You made them. That those people had no responsibility. You had the responsibility.” I said, “My God, what is that?”
God just said, “All right,” 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 am 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 like that. His bearing was confidence, and everything else. He walked into the room, and I, you know, said “Hi.” And he said, “Well, let us 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 they 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 I was going to rebuke him, but before I could 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. But 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 like a nice friendly uncle, like your uncle playing ball with the children. And I said, “My God, what am I going to do? I cannot 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.
God Bless you.
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