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A gripping testimony of confronting darkness with the light of Christ, showcasing the strength of prayer and anointing in spiritual warfare.
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The Power of the Holy Spirit 0:01 Welcome to the ALSC podcast. Here at ALSC, we seek the lost, teach the found, and send the disciples. We truly hope you are encouraged by this week's message.0:14 Well, we're excited. We've been in this series called Ghost Stories. And if you're joining us for the first time, if you've missed some of the other messages, don't worry. If you'd like to see and hear them, you can go0:24 to our website or you can go to YouTube, and just type in Abundant Living Family. We're in week 3 of Ghost Stories. Pastor Diego has done an incredible job the past 2 weeks breaking down this0:36 series of Ghost Stories. And the message is all about new King James version, their passage, their translation in the bible doesn't say0:48 Holy Spirit. More of the more modern English versions translate it to Holy Spirit. If That's the old school way. So if you grew up in church and you was in a Pentecostal church or an1:00 apostolic church, you heard the Holy Ghost. Right? And and I just remember, you know, most of us think of when we think of ghosts, we think of someone that goes around haunting someone or we think of1:12 Casper and stuff like that. But I don't know if you've ever had, a ghost story before in your life. I don't know if you've ever been somewhere before. Maybe you heard something that you thought was a little1:24 eerie. Bedroom at night or something like that. Does anyone have a sensation like anything's ever happened before like that? Like you just felt a different spirit in this space.1:35 So I remember when I was 18, I was a new twist. There was a girl I went to high school with, and her sister had really gotten into some demonic stuff. She got into Ouija boards. She got into crystals. She
1:47 got into seances. She got I mean, her sister was just doing everything under the sun. And and for a moment her sister moved out. So this girl that I knew, she moved into her sister's room because it was a
1:59 bigger room. How many of you guys know siblings? When your family member goes off to college, you're scooping up their room. So, so she moves into her room and immediately when she starts to move
2:11 in, over the course of previous nights and as nights go on, she, starts to hear, you know, little voices and clamors. She starts to hear creaking in her in the closet. When
2:23 she's in the living room, she would see the door slammed. And I mean, eventually, she kinda was getting a little fearful. So she, at night, really felt like this, impending depression, this
2:35 anxiety, felt like something what was looking at her. And so about 3 weeks into being in the in this room, she calls me because I was 1 of the only Christians that she knew. So she calls me. She's like, Hey, Adam.
2:46 I think there's this spirit maybe in my room. Here's the backstory. My sister, she's really been doing some demonic stuff. She moved out and, I just can't rid this feeling, this oppression that that is on me.
2:58 And so, you know, me being a young 18 year old just thinking that I could take over the world, I'm like, we're gonna go demon slate tonight. You know? So I'm pumped. Right? So so so we get we got
3:10 I bring 1 of my friends from church, who was in youth ministry with me at the time. And so I bring my friend from church, and we walk in the room, and we in the room, and you know, we're just sitting there quiet for like
3:22 5 minutes. Nothing's happening. And then finally, I tell her, Hey, I you know, I get maybe you've been hearing some stuff, but may maybe your neighbors are just loud. Like, we we're not hearing anything.
3:34 Let's go in the backyard. Maybe you just got some neighbors that are messing with you. Maybe they're throwing a rock. Do you know the houses where she was at? They were really close on top of each other. So I said, let's
3:43 just go investigate the backyard. So we're in the backyard, and next thing you know, we hear this this tack on the window of the room that we were just at. This tack tack tack tack tack tack. And then we start to turn
3:54 around, and then we just hear this smack on the window, bang. And then we turn, and there's this this like this hand that goes across the blinds. And now, I thought I was ready
4:06 to demon slay, But telling telling from, my face that went completely white. So I just think to myself, well, I grew up in
4:18 church. So, all I know is when in doubt, you get holy oil. So I look at the girl and I'm like, do you have any holy oil? She's like, nobody's Christian in this hole. We don't have nothing,
4:30 you know. So I'm like, get me olive oil. So that's basically what anointing oil is. It's olive oil that's been blessed. So I said go so she brings this big old like Italian, olive
4:41 oil jug. And then I just look at it and I'm like, I bless this oil in the name of Jesus. I'm just whatever prayer I know, our father who out in heaven, thy kingdom come. I'm doing everything I
4:53 can to put it in this oil, and so then I go in the room and I just start splashing oil everywhere. Like I'm a priest you've never met in your life. It's just I
5:05 When I was done, the room glistened. It shined. The whole room, but I'm in there and I'm like, I cast this demon out, authority of Jesus. I'm just saying everything that I can and and
5:17 I'm cleansing the place. I'm like, everybody grab hands, grab hands, grab hands. We're just all holding hands in a triangle and we're like, Jesus, this spirit isn't welcome here. We're doing everything we can. And see
5:27 what happens is, is then I left and over the course of some few weeks, she calls me 1 day and she says, hey, ever since you were over, I haven't heard anything anymore.
5:40 Here's the thing, here's the thing, if there's 1 thing that I do appreciate about October, if there's 1 thing that I do recognize about October, is it is
5:52 the 1 month out of the year that majority of people in America recognize that there is another realm outside of our own. That's 1 thing they do recognize. Whether it is
6:03 demonic, whether it is spiritual, they do start to realize there is something else going on. And here's the thing, if you recognize that there is a
6:15 dark space, only logic would bring you to the conclusion that there must be a light space. And so I want to encourage you as we're gonna share
6:27 today, but let October not be a month that we just sound like religious zealots and we make these claims that Satan for some reason has his own month or Satan has his own day. Listen.
6:39 God created all the 12 months. He created all the days. There is not 1 day where God backed out and said, well I'm gonna have all 364 days. Oh, I'll give Satan
6:51 1 day. No. They're all his days. All of them. So it's a great opportunity for us actually to look at the space that most people are recognizing
7:02 there's something else going on and begin to have conversation of what's happening on the other side. What happens on the side? So here's what we gotta recognize, is outside of our own
7:14 space, the physical world that you and I live in, there are 2 kingdoms that exist. 2 kingdoms. There's the kingdom of darkness, and there's the kingdom of light. The month of October,
7:26 many people will just focus on the kingdom to the right. They will focus on the kingdom of the darkness. That's what it's all about. The movies that begin to be portrayed, the horror films that begin to be portrayed,
7:38 all it does is it exposes the right side, the kingdom of darkness. But what we also have to recognize that though the kingdom of darkness exist, so
7:50 does the kingdom of heaven exist. That does exist as well. And you see what happens is, is so many people just focus on the kingdom of darkness this
8:01 month. But what would happen if by the power of the Holy Spirit, we as spirit filled Christians would recognize that this month can also be an incredible month that we expose the kingdom of heaven
8:14 in the way that the kingdom of darkness is exposed. I want you to look at some passages. Colossians chapter 1 verse 13 to 14 says this, he has delivered us from the
8:25 domain, the kingdom of darkness. This is speaking of Jesus. This is the kingdom of darkness is Satan's realm. It's Satan's face that he roams. It's Satan's space that he goes
8:37 and oppresses and depresses and possesses on people. He is in the kingdom of darkness. And so he delivered us, you and I, believers, from the kingdom of
8:49 darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved son in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. You see then we learn of the kingdom of heaven in
9:00 Matthew chapter 13 verse 47. It says this, this is Jesus speaking, Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every
9:12 kind. When it was full, men threw it out ashore, sat down and sorted, the good into the containers but threw away the bad. So it will be at the end of age. The angels so
9:24 this is part of the kingdom of heaven. It's another side of the spirit. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place,
9:36 there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Here's 1 thing that people get really get really good at doing and also Christians get really good at doing.
9:48 We get really good at being scared a lot of times. We get really good at being spiritual when it comes to the side of darkness. I want you to
9:59 imagine this, whether 1 day you invited me or you invited someone else, maybe maybe 1 day you invited me over to your home for dinner. And when I came to your home for dinner, all of a sudden on the dinner table, I
10:11 started to bring out a Ouija board. And then at your dinner table, I started laying out some crystals. And at your dinner table, I started putting down some incense. And at your
10:23 table, I started putting candles in specific angles. And then I pulled out a book that said spells and incantations. And then I or someone else began to read from that
10:34 book. How many of you guys would agree in that moment you would say, no, no, no, no, I don't want this in my house. Would anyone agree? Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Whatever you doing, you ain't gonna do it on my
10:46 property. You're gonna have to leave at this moment. We would all agree. Hey, listen. If I let you do whatever it is you wanna do, I think that there are gonna be some spirits in my home. There's
10:58 gonna be. Can we agree that that would probably happen? Can we agree that there would be issues with that? Can we agree that you would have issues with that? Could you agree that if that happened, you would think that I
11:10 need to do something about it? But for some reason, right now in everyone's head, that became so believable. In everyone's head, you're saying, yeah, I would have an issue if someone did that.
11:23 How come you believe that there is so much power in the kingdom of darkness, but yet you fail to recognize what would happen if on your dinner table you put a bible on the
11:35 table. What would happen if you started putting some worship music in your home? What would happen if you started praying in your house for the first time? Started getting some
11:47 relevant prayers? If you believe that the kingdom of darkness can set an atmosphere, how is it so hard for you and I to believe that the spirit of the living God can transform
11:58 an atmosphere in our home? If that side brings you so much fear, how come the kingdom of heaven does not bring you peace?
12:10 How come? Why is that side so hard to believe for you and I? Why do we believe that Satan has this special dominion over our
12:22 spaces and over our life, but yet we fail to recognize that Jesus won the victory. Jesus sits at the right hand of God. Jesus stopped the head of Satan.
12:35 How much authority is there as a spirit filled believer that you and I have? Jesus says, you and I in acts will have authority. There will be
12:46 power by the spirit. You and I have no idea what God can do through us. If I'd ever met a witch or a royal, a warlock, man, that's
12:58 silly stuff. That's goofy compared to what God can do. It don't scare me. I've met in church. I've met people before who claimed to be witches. To me, it's like my 3 year
13:10 old saying that he's Spiderman. It's like, that's cute. Oh, you're a witch? Oh, that's cute. I got the word of God. I'm I'm filled with the Holy Spirit. What do you think you're gonna do?
13:22 Romans chapter 8 says that the spirit of death has nothing compared to the spirit of life. The Holy Spirit. Why why do we fail to see the power that is in God's hands?
13:34 He created the heavens and the earth. And you and I, we just struggle to transform the spaces of our atmosphere. We'd get offended if someone came under the kingdom of darkness,
13:46 but what we're not doing is we're not joining the fight to bring the kingdom of heaven. And so you and I, we often act like Switzerland. Just neutral. I'm just neutral. I ain't part of the kingdom of darkness. I
13:58 also ain't part of the kingdom of heaven. I'm just neutral. But then let some things start happening really quick. Oh, we all start getting real spiritual real fast. All of a sudden, we don't want to be Switzerland no
14:09 more. We want to we want to join 1 side. You know, it's really big right now. We're seeing in society that people are becoming more and more and more spiritual. There's a lot of people
14:21 through podcasts and social media and other areas who are having a lot of conversations on how to tap into the spiritual world. And so you have a lot of people today, people that you and I
14:33 know, you rub up against them every single day, or maybe you're here in the room. There are some lies that have been going around about things that you can do to tap the spiritual world,
14:45 to try to get healing in your trauma, in your pain, in your past. So what's really big right now, and you have a lot of famous people that are being evangelists for these things, is you have things like DMT
14:57 that have become huge today. It's a pill that becomes a psychedelic. It affects your front gland, which is also known as your third eye, the the side that goes into the spiritual world,
15:09 and so what these things do is it opens your third eye. It taps into the spiritual world. A lot of scientists are doing studies because it has always been believed early on that it was a mental
15:21 psychedelic. What they're actually starting to see now is that it actually is going into a metaphysical space. That's why all the movies that we watch, that we love, are all surrounded around the metaphysics.
15:33 So you love Stranger Things? Why? Because it shows another side of this world. It it taps into a different realm, and we're spiritual people. God has created us, mind, spirit, and
15:45 soul. And so there is something in us that says, hey, I'm not just the physical. But what happens is, is Satan comes in as an angel of light and he says, you aren't just physical. Have you ever
15:57 thought about these things? And so we watch these movies and TV shows, and I'm not saying anything's intrinsically wrong with those, I'm saying there is something inside of us that is making those shows, because we
16:08 recognize there's another side to the world that we live in. So people begin to take DMT to try to tap into that side. Other people will begin to take mushrooms to try to
16:20 get into the psychedelics. People will start to take mushrooms. People will start to do Ayahuasca has become so big. It is a psychedelic tea that comes from Costa Rica and other planes.
16:32 It's starting to be smuggled into America. People are starting to have Ayahuasca parties where you sit and you have a religious pagan ritual that sometimes leads into sex, sometimes leads into orgies,
16:44 or sometimes leads into spaces that you want to go or shouldn't belong in. And a lot of times we want to get into marijuana, not for medical purposes
16:56 because we need the next trip. We need the next high, because I cannot live in this physical world without feeling the pain that I feel. So let me just go get high. Let me escape from this. Let me just go get TMT. But
17:08 here's what I want to tell you, and here's what I want to equip you with, is there are only 2 kingdoms. There's only 2 kingdoms. So if you
17:19 take something and everyone's willing to do it, people are willing to ingest it, eat it, smoke it, cook it, drink it, pop it, whatever we're willing to do just to get to the spiritual
17:31 side. But here's what I'm here to tell you. It's only 2 kingdoms. So whatever side you're getting to, you're either going to the kingdom of darkness, or you're either going to the kingdom of heaven.
17:43 And here's what I'm here to tell you. According to the word of God, there is only 1 way to the Kingdom of Heaven. There's only 1 way. And it is through living a Spirit filled
17:55 life through Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only way to the Father. So I have people that I know. People even who know me in church, I'll run into people, and they'll say, Pastor Adam, I've
18:07 done shrooms. I've done DMT. I've done Ayahuasca. I know people outside the church who have done these things, and they go and find the pastor, the spiritual guy. And first thing they'll ask me is, do you think it was
18:18 real where I went? And I say, yeah. Yeah. I think it was real. Yeah. I definitely think it was real. So you don't think it was all in my head? Oh, no. I don't think it was all in my head. All in your head. And they'll
18:28 say, well, have you ever considered doing it? You're a spiritual guy. What what if it would make you a better preacher to go into that spirit world? What what if it would what what if it would make you understand God
18:39 more if you went into that world? And I tell them this, listen friend. I have no desire. Here's why I have no desire. Because there is no trip, there is no high, there is no thing
18:51 that can compare that can compare to the moments that I've had with God by the power of the Holy Spirit. That trip that trip cannot compare to a
19:03 moment that I've had in worship with God. That high cannot compare to a moment where the Holy Spirit has broken me down to repentance. You're just trying to heal from a couple situations.
19:15 I'm trying to get access to God. I'm trying to get a relationship with God. And so what I know is the only way to do that is through the power of the Holy Spirit. It's being spirit filled. So there's no way so I said,
19:26 no, I don't want to go to that realm. I don't want to go to that realm. There's a guy on YouTube that you could find and he he he actually did, psychedelics and he went to that realm and he was a Christian, he was
19:38 a identified Christian, and what he told himself is, I'm gonna go into that world and I'm a preach the gospel to those, to whatever's on the other side. And he got there and he said, he just saw demon after demon and
19:49 they were saying, what is he doing on our side? What is he doing on our side? He does not belong here, and 1 of the demons said, he has too much authority in here. We have to get him out
20:01 of here. And the and the man says when he was on his trip, he said, Jesus came up to him and said, how about we not do this anymore? Said he heard the voice voice of
20:13 Jesus say, how about we not do this anymore? Because we were not made as physical beings to go into that world. You cannot handle that world, and the reality is as a physical being, if you went into that
20:25 world and saw God without Jesus, you would be consumed with his wrath. It's only through Jesus that we have forgiveness of sins. It's only through Jesus that we have access to God, and so what happens is you and I have
20:37 to be careful, and we have to come to the reality, because it's getting really popular, and I'm getting a call after call after call from people in this church. Should I do it? And let
20:49 me plead with you, absolutely not. Don't do it. What you should do, is you should read your bible. Yep. What you should do, is you should start praying. What you should do, is you should start worshiping the
21:00 God who created all things. That's what we should do. If you want access to heaven, there's only 1 way. We see it because we see Stephen shows us. In Acts chapter 7 verse 55, this is
21:12 what Stephen shows us. It's moments before his death. He just preached the gospel. He's about to be stoned and here's what happens in Stephen's life. It says this, but being full of the Holy
21:24 Spirit I want someone to say full of the Holy Spirit. Full of the Holy Spirit. Not full of DMT. Not full of Ayahuasca. Not full of mushrooms. Not full of
21:35 anything. Full of the Holy Spirit. He gazed intently into heaven, looked into the sky, and in that moment, in that moment he had a vision and he
21:47 saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. And he said, behold I see the heavens opened up and the son of man is standing at
21:59 the right hand of God. He had a holy spirit encounter. He had a moment where he saw God, where he saw Jesus. He had a moment
22:11 with God. How? Being full of the Holy Spirit. That is your access to heaven. It's being spirit filled.
22:23 The Bible says, be sober minded. Why? Because if you ingest anything outside of the Holy Spirit, it will interrupt your ability to have a relationship with God.
22:38 You will be drunk off other things. You will be full of other things, and we too many times are filling ourselves up with way too many other things. It's only by the power of the
22:50 Spirit. If you're taking notes today, the title of the sermon is, What's Your Ghost Story? What's your ghost story? What's your story like, Stephen? Where's moments that you'veShow more
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