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0:00 We continue to consider on today's fixing the money thing.0:07 But I tell you what, freedom is better than bondage. Anything. Being happy and not depressed is better any day. Being full of the joy of the Lord is better any0:19 day. And God wants you free.0:23 Gary concludes his teaching on overcoming today's culture and securing your future. Consider your freedom today on fixing the money thing.0:34 I'm Gary Kasim, and for 9 years, we lived in a chaotic, stress filled, visionless life, I cried out to God. He said, I want0:46 my people free.0:47 America's financial coach, Gary Kasid, shares the kingdom principles that changed his life, defeated his death, and0:55 set him free. You'll never find your destiny until you fix the money thing. Welcome to fixing the money thing. We are continuing our discussion1:07 from yesterday about the deception that the enemy wants you to believe and how it comes to pass. You know, we travel quite a bit. We're in a lot of places, churches and things, and Drenda, we have seen1:19 an increase of demonic oppression like I have never seen before in Yes,1:25 manifestations in services, but the good news is, we've also got the opportunity to do what the Bible says. Amen. To cast out devils.1:34 Right.1:34 To speak to those, take authority of those spirits and take authority of what they're doing to people, and see them set free.1:40 Oh, that's an amazing1:41 And even in our own services in church, seeing the convicting power of God, these things manifest, but then we deal with them. We're able to take authority Right. And then see the person come back free.1:52 March 16. That's part of our assignment.1:55 Yes.1:55 Cast out demons. But I wanna tell you 1 story, just to set the stage for a message we're gonna go to in a minute. After 1 service, this young lady walks up to us, to me and handed me a card, our our visitor card,2:07 and it was folded over, and she didn't say anything. She handed to me, I opened it up and said, God told me to come here today. This is her first time here. God told me to come here today.2:19 My family is being tormented by demons. And of course, you were there beside me and Mhmm. Started praying for her and the demon manifested, or there are demons, there were more than 1 there,2:31 manifested just like the Bible, you know, with screams, foaming at the mouths, reading on the floor, and the demon spoke to us, tried to commit carry on a conversation, which we didn't allow it to do.2:43 But I, you know, I realized I'm talking to a living spiritual being that is trying to talk to me, that is holding this woman2:54 hostage.2:55 It's an alien entity. It has no place there.2:58 Yes. But, the realization of the reality of that is just staggering.3:04 Mhmm. And then to see using the authority of the name of3:08 Jesus Christ.3:09 Yes. And spending time there, that girl was delivered.3:13 Absolutely. She changed.3:15 Afterwards, had bruises on her face. We didn't touch her, but those spirits were contending and fighting for the3:22 right to be She came back. A week later, came back to church.3:25 Mhmm. Free.3:25 Now, was free when she left. She came back and she brought those photos where she looked like someone beat her. Mhmm. We hadn't touched her. Those demons, she was wrestling those demons. But she said, it's your first3:35 time here. How did you3:36 Come here. How did you find3:38 us? She said, God told me to come here.3:40 Mhmm.3:41 And she had a dream. And in the dream, she saw a picture of a church. She was crying out for help.3:47 And she didn't know God. She didn't know God. But when we're all desperate, that's how I got saved too. Yeah. Was I said God, if you're real, you know me. If it's not too late for me, please help me. And that's what she3:56 did.3:56 That's right. She cried out. She cried out, and she had a dream. In the dream, she had a picture of a church building. She had no idea where it was. So she asked, well she drew As soon as she woke up,4:08 she drew the picture that she saw in the dream and she asked her mother, do you know of any place that looks like this? And her mother had seen our church somewhere. And so she said, this might be it. So she came to4:19 church and is set free. I wanna put on the screen right now the picture that week she came back. She brought the drawing and gave it to me. She said, you can keep this. And you can see the comparison4:31 of our church and the drawing she has, an amazing story.4:36 And she brought her children with her.4:39 Right.4:39 Her children got born again. Then she water baptized with our pastoral team4:45 Yes.4:45 Her children. And then the follow her husband came to see the baptism. The following week, he gave his life to4:52 Jesus. Amen.4:53 Weekend I talked to him and he wasn't quite ready. He said he thought about it. I asked him, have you received Jesus as your savior? And he said, I've thought about it. And next week he said, the best5:05 decision you'll ever make. And the following week, he went ahead and received Jesus as his And so this is God moving just like the book of5:16 Acts. Is the book. We are in the book of Acts. The Acts isn't finished yet.5:19 That's right. And we also jumped into a taxi cab.5:22 Can I add 1 thing to Absolutely? When she, that day she was delivered, she wore glasses. She went to put them on and everything was blurry. She realized she was completely healed, didn't need to wear glasses. Her5:33 hearing, was impaired, was completely healed. So this whole family's life has been changed. We have authority over demons, and they are more active as nation5:46 makes laws inviting them in, and social media is training people to to believe what Satan has. But people are hungry as the taxi cab ride we had together.5:56 Yeah. Think I'll I think I'll share that after Okay. When we close today. I want you to get into this teaching. It's so powerful. Gary did a message about how these spirits operate and6:07 how they get into authority, if you will,6:10 and people's6:11 lives. How they get involved in people's lives. Cause And you have a scripture that you shared about6:16 Well, First Timothy 4 says in later times, that would be today of course, that people will abandon the faith, which means abandon what God says. Mhmm. And follow lying6:28 spirits, which means a different voice like in the Garden of Eden. Satan said, did God really say they're gonna come against God's word and if you don't know God's word, you're open for deception. We talk6:40 about this and this is vital. People say, what does this have to do with finances? Just about everything. Just about everything. The blessing of God, hearing God, getting business ideas. You've gotta stay free, friend.6:51 And the enemy does not want you to hear God and to be free and to prosper by the direction of the Holy Spirit.6:58 And the culture is pumping this stuff And Satan is behind that to lure people into his traps of sin. Let's go there to that message now.7:08 Who are you listening to? What are you feeding on? Are you endangering your destiny, your prosperity, your life? From Faith Life Church in New Albany, Ohio, Gary's life7:20 changing message, consider your freedom. Now on fixing the money thing.7:27 Over the last few months, as you know, Dre and I travel quite a bit. We have the opportunity to teach and preach conferences and other churches. And over the last few months, we have seen a great7:39 increase in demonic activity. Demons manifest in the service coming out with shrieks and screams or manifestations. People needing deliverance, asking for7:50 prayer. And so I began to ask the Lord, you know, what what is going on? Well there's a couple things. For instance, and again this is just 1 of many examples I could give, but the Walking8:02 Dead series has been going strong for, and that's a zombie show, you know, it's about dead people, zombies, you know. And been running for 12 years, and the8:14 amazing thing is from 18 to 49 year olds, it was the most popular show in the history of TV. More people watched it than any other broadcast in the history of television.8:27 And so 12 seasons and I think it ended last year, I think. But I found out that they have 7 sequels coming out this year and next year. So8:39 The Walking Dead, here's a couple titles. Tales from The Walking Dead, Fear of The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead, Dead City, I mean it goes on. But the word dead is in every title. So it should give you a clue, right?8:52 How many have recognized the number of horror movies increasing, especially Halloween? I mean, online, it's these horrible advertisements of these horrible movies. Horror movies are increasing.9:04 For an example, in the year 2200 horror movies were filmed, but in 20 16, 1000 were filmed. And so we see a great increase of9:16 people having interest in demonic horror movies. A book coming out called The Rise of Devil Worship in the United States by a gentleman, Billy Crone, did a study9:28 and found out that 66 percent of church attenders do not believe there is a real Satan or real demons. That's incredible, church9:39 people. A new Pew Research study says that witches in the United States now outnumber the Presbyterian membership role.9:51 Can't make this up. This is happening. Social media is leading the way, infiltrating into our homes, our society, and into our families' lives with all kinds of perverse10:03 things that Satan wants you to feed on. I found out recently a new study that 50 percent of elementary students carry smartphones. Friend,10:15 if you're a parent, please understand that an elementary student does not need a smartphone. They do not need access to the perverse internet, especially at that age.10:27 Now another thing is happening. Pornography is huge and of course the Internet makes that available anywhere and everywhere. The top porn sites, I won't name its name, but the top porn site has10:39 more daily visitors than Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter combined. Friend, a society, a family, a culture cannot survive10:51 feeding on this trash. And we need to understand that, that this is a plot against families, against everything righteous that there is. You have to11:03 know what God says. In this hour it's life and death. It's always been life and death, but it happens faster now. Everything's sped up. So much trash hitting you right and left. I11:15 say, Pastor, how do I handle this then? Okay. How do I get free? How do I discern desire? How do I get rid of the desire? I don't wanna do that. I don't. I have this compulsion. I mean, how do I get free of that? I'm11:26 glad you asked. First John 1 9, you better know this scripture. It's life and death for you. You better know it. If we confess, that's the first step. A lot of people don't confess.11:38 But when they hear truth, it will illuminate their need to confess. So thank God for that. Okay. If you confess your sin, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our11:50 sins and purify us from unrighteousness. So he is our high priest of this new covenant. The Bible says if we have sin, we have an advocate with the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is our high priest. Notice12:02 it does not say ask for forgiveness. So you you you blow it. You do something. You know You know it's wrong and you blow it. Do not If you're a believer, you don't don't ask for forgiveness.12:14 It doesn't say that. Forgiveness is a law of the kingdom. It's already in place. What it says is when you confess your12:26 sin, you're acknowledging the law. And it says that Jesus, your high priest, is your advocate, is going to what? Be12:38 faithful with what? Faithful to do what? And just. What's just means? It means administration of law. He has no choice. It is not God choosing to God already chose12:50 to forgive you before you were born. This is a finished work. It is a legal document in heaven. It's done. You're simply taking advantage of it. You're simply confessing, laying claim to that law.13:02 Your attorney, if you will, your high priest is now your advocate with the Father presenting him with the legal document essentially of what he provided for of your cleansing and your13:13 forgiveness. Does that make any sense? So you receive it by faith. By faith I'm forgiven. I don't beg for forgiveness. I don't, you13:25 know, when you make a mistake, you feel horrible and condemned. Understand God never condemns, he convicts. That condemnation does not come from God.13:37 You confess that sin, believe what God says, Jesus is faithful to forgive you of that sin because that's the law, if you13:49 confess it. But here's the part you really have to grab hold of. And he will cleanse us or purify us from unrighteousness. Now by faith, this is the part you really have to14:01 grab hold of because this is the cleansing of the compulsion, the guilt, the bondage. You're going to believe God to cleanse you. Forgiveness, yes.14:13 But it needs to go past that and to cleanse you of that compulsion. Let me say it this way, of that desire. You know, it's interesting in our14:24 culture. I don't drink alcohol. Never had an interest in it. I was there and my grandfather died of alcoholism. My dad, the day he died,14:36 held a bottle up and said this is what killed him. It had great impact on my life. But you know, I've tasted it. It's horrible stuff. I can't even I really have a hard time believing how people can I don't understand the14:47 lure? I can't I can't figure it out. I think Coke tastes better. But anyway, I mean, I don't, you know. I walk into a store which has14:58 rows and rows of alcohol, all kinds and quiet. Total peace. There's no noise. There's no voice.15:12 Nothing. Doesn't move me. No voice. No temptation. No compulsion. Nothing. I'm I'm free. You understand what I'm saying? It's like walking down the street something. Nothing. 0.15:24 Now, if I get close to a jolly pirate donut shop, that'll speak to me. There's Long John's with the15:36 vanilla cream and the chocolate icing, Just hot off the grill. You're hot off the Don't go there. Now, know, really no15:47 difference. It talks to me. I'm sure people here could care less about donuts. But15:59 God will remove that compulsion and you'll get stronger and maybe you can have a donut once in a while. But if you have to have 10 of them, you're in16:11 idolatry and you're in bondage. And you need to have self control. The Bible says, fruit of the spirit is self control. God will help you.16:23 Because I want to be free. I don't want voices yakking at me and talking to me. You want another donut? Think about the donut. Think about the, well I know it's almost lunchtime, but you know what I'm saying. It16:35 talks to you, you know. That's not freedom. Freedom is peace. I'm free. I'm not tempted. I'm not, this thing's not yacking at me, right? Compulsion. So when it says he cleanses you of16:46 unrighteousness, he's gonna cleanse you of that compulsion, that desire. So let's say you go out. You mess up. And so you go through John -first16:58 John one:nine. And you confess that by faith, even though you feel horrible, you feel guilty, you pay no attention to your emotions because this is a legal issue. You don't17:10 have to feel like you own your car. You have the title. Right? Someone tries to take it, you don't have to judge your emotions. You pull the title out and say, it's my car. Okay. This is a legal issue.17:22 So let's say you do that by faith and in 10 minutes you go out and do the same thing again. What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? You're going to do the same thing. You say, well17:34 pastor, I just did that and just did it again. Listen, stop that. You have to stand on the Word of God because you can't deliver yourself. You would have already done that if you could have. You can't get free17:45 yourself. You're trapped. But God will deliver you, and you have the Word of God, the living and active Word of God. And if you will do what the Bible says, you will walk out of that thing. So maybe the first day you17:55 have to do it 25 times. You mean 25? Yeah, every time you take a bite of that donut and you set it down and you keep looking at it, but first off, get it out of sight. Cleanse your house. Get stuff away from you18:07 so you can walk free. But let's say that you do fall into that trap again 25 times. Or maybe the next day it'd be 10 times and the next day it'd be 5 times. See, if you will stay on the word of18:19 God and you by faith, your emotions will go nuts. Forget your emotions. This is a legal issue. That is 1 of the biggest things you gotta learn. It has no bearing on your emotions at all.18:31 It's a legal issue. You can say it in tears. You can say it however. You can say, This is my legal right. I confess by the Word of God I am free from18:43 that compulsion. That desire does not move me. I am not led by that desire. It has no control over me. In the name of Jesus, I am free of that thing. And you believe it, you say it. And you go18:55 out and do it again, you say it all over again. Say it all over again. This is how you get free of habits, how you change your life. That's how it works. You19:08 need to be free. The enemy will set things in front of you, but you don't have to go down the street where she lives. You don't have to go into the19:19 Jolly Pirate donut shop where you have the smells and the pictures and other people eating the donuts. You know and you should know there's certain places that you really don't need to be.19:36 The Holy Spirit will help you. But I tell you what, freedom is better than bondage any day. Being happy and not depressed is better any day. Being19:47 full of the joy of the Lord is better any day. And God wants you free. He wants you able to hear his voice, be led in life by his voice. So you have to learn19:59 to submit to God. Trust him. He wants to help you be free. He's got a greater life than that donut. Trust me. Let20:11 me say it again. There's a greater future for you than that donut. So when God gives us his truth, it's for your freedom. And I'm telling you, freedom is so20:23 much better than pizza. Or donuts. Or whatever it is. Alcohol, whatever it is. I'm telling you, freedom. Jesus20:35 will set you free. He'll set you free. I'm telling you, he'll set you free. I know the enemy's lied to you all these years and said, you can never you'll never do that. You'll never do that. You'll never do that. You20:44 can't do that. You can't that's a lie. You can do all things in Christ who strengthens you. Your life can change. But let me ask you, what are you putting up with? Why are you putting up with it?20:58 Why are you putting up with it? Don't go down that road. Make a decision for freedom.21:11 An important message, absolutely an important message to pay heed to. Drea, you mentioned the taxicab ride we had over in London. Why don't you tell us21:21 about that? Well, 1 thing about darkness and light, it is growing vastly so clear, the 2 differences. And so, we jumped into a taxicab in London, driving from the hotel to the airport.21:33 It was almost an hour drive. And a couple that was in the taxi cab with us, I put a little nugget out there and about something in the culture, and he jumped right on it. And what I found out is, they recognize the evil21:45 that's going on. They see you know, we talk about the culture and the different areas the enemies try to set up camp and occupy, that Gary's trying to help us instead to occupy.21:55 Yes.21:55 You know, he knows about that, so he starts talking. And then he says, with all this evil, there has to be good. And I said, and a God that loves you. And he was like, well, if there's a God that loves us and cares about22:06 us, why is he letting this happen? So, Gary went on to teach him about jurisdiction. Then, he says to Gary, he goes, you taught me more in this ride than I've heard my whole Roman Catholic upbringing. And,22:18 then he said, I've gotten into the psychic area because I'm trying to figure out how to get to this good. Well, then I kinda took that from there and started talking to him about Jesus, about the road to father, and how22:29 we receive Jesus as our savior, and asked, invited them to get born again. And they did. They received Jesus, they repeated the prayer. The taxi cab cab driver was driving super22:39 slow Slowed way down.22:40 Looking in the rearview mirror22:41 To make sure he had time.22:42 Smiling at Gary, watching the whole thing go down. And we had this opportunity. Were delivered and freed.22:47 They were22:48 he began to weep and weeping. He kept saying, I don't know why I'm crying. I said, I do. And then, I was able to prophetically speak over him and his his fiancee. And, anyway, we saw them in this 123:00 drive because they see there's evil. This is an opportunity. Because there is gross darkness trying to cover the earth, people knows things are not right. And when they know things aren't right, we're23:11 able, you're able to speak into their life and say, there is a God and the only way out of this evil is to become a believer in his kingdom, to come out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom23:22 Yes.23:22 Of God's son. And deliverance happens. Freedom happens. People get born again. It's a great opportunity.23:28 Yeah.23:28 And so we we were thrilled. At the end, they were taking your website. Everything they were like, we're gonna follow you. We're like, yes, follow us as we follow Jesus.23:36 People are God is good. They're not interested in religion. No. They're interested in freedom and truth. And Jesus is the truth and the word of God.23:43 So the good news is people are getting freedom as they see darkness. They also know there must be God and there must be light.23:51 They want free.23:52 Yes. And today, if you're struggling with anything, or you'd like to receive Jesus as your savior, we would love to pray with you. So we have people right now that are waiting to pray with you, help take24:03 authority over anything that might be, oppressing you, hurting you, and also just call in the name of Jesus and you shall be saved.24:11 Hey, we're out of time, but we have a lot of great material at garykasey dot com. And by the way, Dorinda's new book, Fight Like Heaven, talks more about the culture. You might wanna check that out at drinda dot com as24:21 well. But, garykasey dot com, a lot of great material about winning in life, learning how to hear God's voice, learning how to follow the spirit of God. It will help change your life and set your feet on a solid24:33 foundation.24:34 Yes.24:34 And we'll see you next time. Same place, same time.
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