The Voice That Wants You to Quit

I want to thank you for joining our broadcast on the Pando App. We love you and we're praying for you. So if you have a Bible today, turn me to the book of Revelation chapter 2, the book of Revelation chapter 2, I will do my best to not be long. I do have 17 pages, but I'm going to try to get through two and a half of them. And while you're turning to the book of Revelation, if you don't know where that's at, it's the last book of the Bible. And so go to the end and then turn left a few pages. I probably 20 years ago heard a story and wanted to preach on it for a long time, but I can never prove it. And I won't preach something that I can't prove. And so I used AI this week. I thought, well, I'm just going to ask AI if it's true. And I know that I knew that 99% of it was true. There was 1% of it that I'd asked some guys to research it out for me and they could never quite get there. But the story is in 1917. I guess I could have asked Sherri out whether or not she was there or not, but it was 1917. And the reason why I want to say this today is I don't want to calm you or calm your fears or calm anything about how you feel about anything that's going on. I want to redirect your passion and your purpose is what I want to do. So 1917, the most powerful church on the face of the earth was the Russian Orthodox Church. And the Russian Orthodox Church was having this general convocation, which for those of you who grew up like me, that would be the general conference. But they were having the general convocation and they weren't going to go in and discuss the weightier things like the color of the rugs in the churches. And on this particular day, the main issue that they were going to discuss was the color of the threads that were on the vestures of the priest's robe. And so they got into their meeting in the morning and they began to have their discussions about the weightier things, the colors of the threads that the priests were going to wear.

And while they were inside their convocation, the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks were having a revolution on the outside. And by the time they ended in deciding who and what color threads they were going to have, the most powerful church on the face of the earth was banned. And a reason why I would say that to you today is that have all the passion you want and the purpose that you want, but make sure it's on the proper things. Arguing about silly things in the church while the churches in desperate need of revival is a waste of your passion and your purpose. Arguing about a donkey and an elephant and forgetting about a lamb who's going to come back on a horse is a waste of your passion and your purpose. What we need is a revival, not in the political area, we need a revival in the spiritual arena. We need a massive revival in this nation. We need missionaries that want to cross the aisle and cross the street and stop stepping over lost people to go around the world. And so for a few folks that don't like it that we're going to a prison, well if the Christians don't go to the prison the Muslims will. So we are either going to have revival or you can kiss your freedoms goodbye. That's about as brass text as I can get. And so I think the church is called up arguing about rugs and arguing about threads and arguing about the priest's robe. I would rather have a priest that had an anointing oil running down his head, down his beard and down his robe and into the kingdom of God so that we can destroy the yolks of bondage that are binding up our generation. And with that I want to talk today about this spirit and again I don't want you to read into what I'm saying. I want you to hear exactly what I'm saying. I think you know me well enough now that I'm going to tell you exactly what I'm thinking. And so let's read Revelation chapter 2 verse 20 with that thought in mind about let's get our prations and our purposes in the right order. And this is Revelation chapter 2 verse 20.

This is Jesus talking to some churches that may I say to you that these churches used to be in a region that was Christian and today this region is not Christian at all. Asia Minor is not Christian at all. So if you don't think it can happen in America it happened in the birthplace. So Revelation chapter 2, verse 20, Jesus talking to some churches, he says, "Nevertheless, I have a few things against you." That's bad when Jesus has got some stuff against you, because you allow that woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, she calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce my servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. Now, let me just clean up a few things here in this text. He's not saying that women shouldn't be preachers and teachers. It's what she was teaching, and she was a self-proclaimed prophetess, and she called herself a prophetess, and then was teaching erroneously in air, and that we have to correct in any person whether they are male or female when they're teaching. All right? So let's not let all the people who are like against women start using that scripture. If people are in the spirit of air, we should correct them, regardless. So this is a series called Jailed, and lastly, we finished up the Four Horns. I did eight weeks in two, let's see if we can do that today a little bit, and I want to talk about this being in jail. And these spirits have put the church in jail because every jail has two things. Has bars you can see, and then a reason why you're there. Has bars you can see, and then we can also say that they're bars you can't see because there's something motivating behind why people are in spiritual jail. The bars are the easy part. You can see them, you can describe them, but what keeps most people in a spiritual cell long after the door is unlocked is their story. To me people are enamored with their story instead of telling their testimony. A story is reciting why you got there, a testimony is how you got out. And the church is too enamored with stories instead of testimony.

So what happens is is somebody, or can I say something, has convinced Christians that a cell is where you belong. And I want to use the next six weeks, maybe more, to talk about Jezebel, which we're going to talk a little bit about today. Her daughter, Athaliah, a man by the name of Ichabod, another spirit called Leviathan. Two fellas, he saw an Eli, and then we'll end with David. The first four are patterns that the enemy has used since before there was even a New Testament church, and he uses these patterns to build a cell around the people of God. And not one of these patterns or these individuals needed to use brute force to accomplish their will. So I think sometimes we think, well, there's going to be a hostile takeover. Let me use an American thought, well, we got the second amendment and I'm going to pull my gun out and I'm going to be all right. They're not going to come in here like that. They don't use brute force and try to rob you. They're thieves. They want to do it when you don't notice and how you don't notice. And so they come in on the sly and they don't need to brute force. What they do need, every one of them, is they need cooperation. They need somebody to cooperate with them. They need a door left unlocked from the inside. They need somebody who has just kind of almost caught up in their own world and forget that there's another world. They need somebody to be caught up in the flesh and think they're warring with somebody in the flesh and you miss that we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principality and power and we leave doors unlocked and we leave windows open and we let our mouth be used by the enemy because we begin to cooperate unknowingly with a spirit who has tried to lock the church up. The last two, they show us what it costs to treat the presence of God lightly and what it looks like when the presence of God has been completely removed.

And so we want to start with this one whose name actually has become a verb. You don't call somebody an athelya. I would ask some of you women, how many of you have ever been called a Jezebel? That's the most it's raising a hand. You know, because we have misinterpreted what this is, years ago we would talk about that they were immodest or wearing makeup or you dropped your standards and you were a Jezebel. We've really missed what Jezebel's trying to do and if we're only caught up on what somebody looks like on the outside, we have missed and we begin to cooperate, may I say, the spiritual realm that's locking people up in jail because we're And so she's become a verb. You know, that person has a Jezebel spirit. That's not on accident. That's actually Jezebel's legacy. And so I want to show you really though how she actually works. Not the movie version, not even the church version. I want to give you the real version. The one that doesn't need a sword because it can send a message. She doesn't need weapons. She has her mouth. The one that doesn't have to kill you if they can get you to quit. She's not out to destroy you and to the point of death. She's just getting you to quit. And then if she can get you to quit, she uses you as an example to the next person she's trying to lock up. Because then she can parade all kinds of people out in front of you and say they tried what you're trying

and look where they ended up. And that's gonna be your story. If you try to do what God has called you to do, you're gonna run up against all of us and you are all alone and you don't even feel the presence of God anymore. And you might as well quit. There are so many people locked up out of their ministries, out of their giftings and out of their talents. And you're blaming pastors and you're blaming the church because you have been confused that pastors are against your ministry. You've been listening to a message that's being used as a weapon to talk you out of the destiny that God has over your life. And I need you to get back into the battle and back into the fight and stop wrestling against flesh and blood and wrestle against principalities and powers that's trying to get you to quit. She's working and she's working overtime. She's the one that right after you've walked through the fire she whispers to you that God has left the building. She whispers to you that you have to give up your future in order to have a present. She's whispering and then shouting and uses other people to send messages because Jezebel's message often misses you when you're in prayer. It's when you come out of prayer

that somebody else picks up the arrow, the message that Jezebel shot at you but missed and they pick it up and tell you what Jezebel has said about you. In other words, there are people that are cooperating with Jezebel unknowingly. They're trying to tell you, hey, as your friend you need to know what's being said about you. No, I don't need to know what's being said about me unless it's what God has to say about me because Jezebel shot an arrow at me and she missed but you picked it up and stabbed me with it. You're cooperating with the spirit of Jezebel. That doesn't mean that you need deliverance, it needs you need to realize that you are cooperating with a spirit that's trying to lock the church up. There's little sayings that the church has adopted. One of them is God used to. That's the message of Jezebel. Well, I remember when, that's the message of Jezebel because God has not changed. What has changed is we have started cooperating with a bunch of backslidden people who are cooperating with a Jezebel spirit to talk the church out of the gifts of the spirit and out of the fruit of the spirit and out of miracles and signs and wonders. Why? Because when miracles and signs and wonders happen, the very thing that defeats the spirit of Jezebel

is created. What is the thing that comes against Jezebel? It is witnesses to the power of Almighty God. And do you remember that you shall be my witnesses? Witnesses of what? The power of God. And if I've witnessed the power of God, Jezebel cannot tell me that it's not real. You remember this online? My grandmother taught me. She said you can never argue with a man who's had an experience. So she has to get the experience out of the church so that she can argue with the man. (audience chattering) Jezebel didn't start as a spirit. She started as a person, a princess. She was the daughter of F. Bell, the king of the Sidotians. She winds up getting married to the king of Israel, Ahab. And on paper, this was a political alliance and this happened all the time. Kings made these political alliances to secure borders, to secure trade. But first Kings, chapter 16 tells us that this one came at a cost that nobody priced into the equation. Let me read it to you, 1631 of first Kings. And it came to pass as though it had been a trivial thing. For him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, this is talking about Ahab,

that he took as wife Jezebel, the daughter of F. Bell, the king of the Sidotians, and here's the key, and he went and he served bail and worshiped him. Notice what the text says. He went and he served Baal. She didn't force her way into the throne room. She was led in. She was invited in. And then once she was in, Baal worship stopped being one option among many, and it become the state policy. Can I tell all of you that are considering marriage right now? That you will either marry somebody who is a lead, or marry somebody who is a launchpad. And if you marry somebody who is a launchpad, make sure they're launching you in the right direction. Because some of you got married and got launched out of the church. You thought that marriage was gonna be the best thing in your life, but you got unequally yoked with somebody who is worshiping another God. Be careful, if they don't serve the Lord Jesus Christ, you need to get them to an altar and make sure that their conversion is real. And they're not just converting to get into your life and bring you out. And maybe I'll preach that tonight at the youth, but I think our youth have gotten it. I think it's the adults that need help. So she has, listen, it's now the state policy.

She has 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah eating at her own table. That's first Kings 18 and 19. So she's not only is it the state worship, they're now invited in to the highest places of government. They're put in there and then once they're in there, now they turn on the prophets of the Lord. Now this is important for us. While Jezebel was killing the Lord's prophets, there was a man by the name of Obadiah. He took a hundred of them and he hid them. 50 to a cave and he fed them bread and water. Can I just caution some of us? There are some things that we need not to put out all over social media. 'Cause if you're gonna hide me and hide my dreams, I don't need you going down to your little Facebook page, feeling sneaky. Some things we need to keep between us and God until God's ready to reveal it. And then we can bring it out in the open because now God has already followed the battles for us. And some of us using our social media to bring battles into our lives that we need not even to fight. In other words, some of y'all share way too much. Having a bad day and the enemy's like, "Yeah, we'll make sure that happens the rest of it too." So he takes a hundred of them, he hid them. 50 to a cave, he fed them bread and water.

First Kings 18, four. And so here he is. He's hiding these people in Jezebel. What happens when a Jezebel spirit happens is people wind up in caves. They wind up in jail. 'Cause we were supposed to be a city set up on a hill that cannot be easily hid. And now the Jezebel spirit is operating. And so in order for us to maintain our faith, we must go down here in a cave. So if you're being driven to a cave, you, my friend, are encountering the spirit of old Jezebel. Jezebel loves for you to be alive, but in captivity. That's the strategy, hiding quiet and cut off. That's the whole strategy. She doesn't need to fill a prison. She just needs to force God's people underground. So this whole series was based on one question. I'll probably ask many of you this question. If Baal worship was the state religion, and she's killed everybody, why, why does the ones that remain, why do they have to die? If you got your way, you got your legal things done, and your way of life is now the law of the land, now in this little moment for once, I do want you to infer a little bit of what I'm saying. 'Cause I want you to see what's happening in our world today by listening to what I'm saying with Jezebel.

She has it down. She doesn't even know there's 450 guys that are hiding in a cave. They're underground, they're quiet. They've been banned off of social media. They've been banned in every area. They have no voice whatsoever. And she's still angry and wants to kill people. She wants to destroy them. There's no prophet left to confront her. There's no one there, and yet there's still an anger on the inside of her that she wants to kill and destroy anything and everybody. Well, the answer, if you will, is this, because the Bible doesn't introduce us to Elijah as a prophet. He was, when we first met, It doesn't say Elijah the prophet from Purpose House. It doesn't say Elijah from Chicago, who knew the word of the Lord. It was just some ordinary man who was on the backside of nowhere who had nodded here to the state religion. He was just somebody that had had enough and when enough was enough, he realized that somebody needed to expose what this Baal God was doing to his land. And so when God came over him, he was not from a clan of prophets and a son of a prophet. He was just Elijah the Tishbite on the backside of nowhere, but he had not bowed his knee to Baal. And God used that man to confront Jezebel. So God can use anybody at any time.

And so the reason why that spirit of death is attached to Jezebel is they have learned their lesson that there can be a Tishbite from Herod or a Tishbite from Marian or a Tishbite from West Frankfort or Elijah from Carbondale or Elijah from Mervisboro who has not yet bowed his knee. And as long as he believes in God, he doesn't need a title, a pastor or prophet or evangelist or missionary. What he needs is a belief in the God that he serves and he can confront a false God and a false religion and bring a whole nation to repentance because he's not yet bowed his knee. And I wonder if there's anybody in Southern Illinois that has that kind of spiritual backbone that says, I'm not going to bow to any other God I know in whom I have believed in. And I am persuaded that he is Abel. (congregation applauding) He's Abel. I serve a God who is able to close down every abortion clinic. I serve a God who is able to close down every strip joint. I serve a God who can save every Democrat and Republican. I serve a God that can convert our governor. I serve a God that can do anything that there is nothing that is impossible with our God. Who else has that kind of belief in their God? God wants to use you, but you can't be in jail.

So why do the prophets have to die? Her own prophets were installed, but she's trying to silence any voice, any voice that would raise up against them. Any voice, a true prophet could walk into the palace uninvited and call a king, a covenant breaker to his face. Nathan did it to David. Samuel did it to Saul. And now this is happening because Elijah walked in and said, there's a three, there's going to be a drought on this land. First king 17-1, there's going to be a drought. Elijah announced the weather pattern. And what was so important about this weather pattern is this was a direct strike on the territory of Baal. He was supposedly the God of rain. Can we as a church stop fussing with symptoms of an issue and go directly at the gods of this world and stop arguing and fussing and say, oh pastor, you need to teach lessons about transgenderism and pastor, you need to teach lessons about homosexuality and pastors, you need to do this. No, what we need to do is point our direction towards Jesus Christ and if Jesus Christ gets in their life, he will lead them in all paths of righteousness and of truth. See, we get caught up in all these other issues. Pastor, have you read this book? And Pastor, have you read that book? I'm just trying to get in my nose in this book

because this book gives me the authority that we need to conquer the issues of our day. And who can conquer the issue of our days? We are more than conquerors, you remember that line? And if you get into the Word of God, why read this book? Let's read this one. So there's a direct strike on the territory of Baal. Every dry day that happened in Israel was a public humiliation of everything that Ojezi had built. 450 prophets could not argue the weather. They were having an experience that they could not deny. So what they did is they could try to outlast him, outlast Elijah or silence him. We can't make it rain, so let's outlast him or we silence him. Can I just tell you like this? Control doesn't fear a crowd, it fears a witness. What this spirit cannot survive is exposure. Once the voice of God keeps vindicating the individual in public on its own turf, the spirit of Jezebel has to go by. So this whole, Jezebel spirit says that miracles and signs and wonders are no longer and they have ceased. Well, what would be the best way to prove that that spirit is wrong? It would be to have miracles and signs and wonders. Oh, God doesn't save anymore. Well, those people are too far gone.

Well, what's the best way to defeat that spirit? Is to watch God save people who are on the othermost and watch those people come up the ranks of Christianity and they become missionaries and preachers and evangelists and prophets and they become the kingdom of God and they are a witness and that spirit can not stand to be exposed. Control doesn't fear, crowd it fears a witness. Let me take you just a few centuries later in scripture. This is a pattern, it's a fingerprint where it wants to silence anything that is a threat to it, anything that can be a witness to it. And just so you know what I'm getting ready to tell you, it never comes out and directly says that what come upon Herod was the spirit of Jezebel but it's the same pattern. So Herod hears that a baby has been born. A witness has been born, something that's going to expose everything that is going wrong in their society. A Messiah has been born, a baby has been born. So what must he do? Well, we can either try to outlast him, but he's eternal. We can try to silence him or we can just kill him. Well, we don't know who to kill. So what does Herod do? Herod says, kill them all. Every male baby, kill them all.

History tells us that they killed so many babies, you can hear the wailing of the mothers for seven miles. Seven miles. That's about from here to the other side of a million. Walking out to get your male and as women crying over in Carterville because their baby has been destroyed. Why? Their baby didn't do anything. But it was the threat that there was another baby that had an anointing on its life that was going to rise up and destroy the kingdom of Herod. Again, I need you to infer just a little bit in what I'm saying. Why do you think that they have properly positioned abortion clinics? Can I just tell you all in Southern Illinois, a little secret? We have a governor who wants this to be the easiest state to get an abortion in the union. Should that not tell you that that, if the enemy has a plan for this region, is it not telling that God has a plan for this region? And if they're killing the babies before they even get out of the womb, and now they're not satisfied with that, if we want to kill them once they're out of the womb, that's okay too, that ought to tell you that there's something about the generation that is coming, that the enemy is very afraid of. Y'all mappin' what I'm droppin'?

And there's a spirit at play here, and we need to rise up against it. The issue is that there is an anointing on this generation that's gonna destroy the yoke of bondage. There's a generation coming up, you heard them lead in worship here today. Don't you think it displeased the enemy that he didn't get the snuff them out in their mother's womb? Instead, they're up on the stage, they're clearing the name of Jesus, and he's sending shivers down the spine of hell, that there's a generation of kids rising up in Purpose House the same way. We can have revival, we can lay hands on the sick and watch them recover. So Herod, who can't find the child, he just widens the net. Let me read to you, Matthew chapter two, verse 16, then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, he was exceedingly angry, and he sent forth, and he put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem, and in all its districts from two years old and under. Different century, same panic. A handful of prophets, a baby and a manger, the disproportionate response is the tell. This kind of fear doesn't measure threats, it reacts to anything it can't control. In both times, the violence missed the target. Jazzy missed the target.

Herod missed the target. God had 7,000 in Israel that Jezebel never even knew about. And Jesus was already in Egypt when hair started killing the babies. Can I just say this to some of you, when Jezy throws out a threat, if God protected people in the Bible, God will protect you. Some of you need a spirit of David to come over the top of you that when Goliath is out there screaming at you, and he's gonna cut your head off, and he's gonna do this, and I'm gonna feed you to the dogs. Listen, if there is an anointing on you to be king, no Goliath is going to destroy you before you get to your destiny. And if God has a destiny over Southern Illinois, and over your life, there is no devil in hell that's gonna prevent you from doing what God has called you to do. So you need to walk out in the battlefield and throw your stone, the rock of your salvation, which is Jesus Christ. don't say, "Hey, I won the battle." Go out there and take the very weapon that he's been threatening you with and finishing them all. So another generation doesn't have to fight that goliath again. This is what we need to do. So if you want to see how Jezebel actually wins, and I'm gonna close here in just a moment,

I got through seven pages. If you want to see how Jezebel actually wins, don't go to her altars. You don't go to her temples. You go to a little vineyard. There's a little vineyard that you need to pay attention to. This little vineyard happened to be on the side of the palace that Ahab could see. And Ahab wants that plot of land. For some reason, he liked in Ahab's vineyard. He wants that and it belongs to this little man named Naboth. And when they go to Naboth and they say, "Hey, Ahab, "he really likes what you got." And it's adjacent, it's property adjacent to the palace. And so we need you to give that to the king. In fact, the king will even buy it from you. And Naboth says, "No." And some of you need to learn the power of a good, no. See, the enemy wants your marriage 'cause it's just property adjacent to your children. And so if he can get your marriage, he's got your children. So he comes and he says, "Hey, I like that property "he got there, I like your marriage." And some of you need to say, "No, no, it's not for sale." So Ahab does what Ahab always does. Ahab is upset. He's in depression. He's in perimenopause. He's struggling with his emotions

'cause he got told no. So the king of Israel goes home. He lies down on his bed. So you may have to help me up. So Ahab goes home, he lies down in his bed. Oh, Jesse comes into the house and says, he's like, "Ahab, what's wrong with you?" Ahab, what's wrong with you? "Naboth told me no." She doesn't say, "You deserve to be told no "because she doesn't care about the God that Naboth serves. "She doesn't care that Naboth told him no, "not because he was being rebellious." See, a lot of folks in church, when somebody says no, they automatically deem somebody rebellious but they don't know that God has given them a conviction about what they're saying no to. See, Naboth inherited that land. It was given to him. And the God of Israel's law said because it was land that was given to him, he could not sell it, nor could he give it away. It was something that he inherited. Can I just preach for a moment right there? See, the Holy Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance. We did not earn it and we did not buy it. So we shouldn't be giving it away, nor should we be trying to sell it. You need to say no. It's not for sale.

What I believe is not for sale. I'm not gonna give it up and I'm not gonna compromise just because you hold a higher position than me. So Ahab says he wouldn't give me the land and he wouldn't sell it to me. And so the Bible says he turns his face to the wall and he refused to eat. He went on an unrequired fast because he was pouting. This is a man who rules an entire nation and he's pouting over a garden. In first Kings, chapter 21 verse seven, Jezebel, his wife said to him, "You now exercise authority over Israel. "All rise, eat your food." You fool. In my mind, she sounds like Mr. T. And let your heart be careful. I will give you the vineyard of Nabata, just real light. I'll give it to you, he wouldn't, I'll give it to you. So then she writes letters. She posts on Facebook about him, sends emails. And she does it in Ahab's name or she created an anonymous account. She does it in Ahab's name This is 1 Kings 21 verse 8. Now, listen to what's in the letter. 1 Kings 21 verses 9 and 10. She wrote in the letter saying, "Proclaim a fast and seek Nabah with the high honor among the people and seek two men, scoundrels, before him to bear witness against him, saying, 'You have blaspheme God and the King.' Then take him out and stone him that he may die." Now, here's a question for you. See, we read that and you're like, "Whoa,

Jezebel just fought a dirty little fight. She doesn't even believe in God. She believes in Baal. Baal is the state religion. She doesn't even want anybody worshiping God, but now that she has an ulterior motive, she's now going to invoke a God that she doesn't even believe in. She's going to invoke law that she doesn't even adhere to. She's going to invoke all these things that the people of God used to believe in, but that she outlawed and banned to kill Nabah. Again, I need you to infer just a little bit into this. We are electing officials who do not believe like you believe, who do not understand the God that you serve, and they're going to use the laws against you, and they don't even believe in them. This is going to give me all kinds of fan mail. Can I just tell the Christian church something? If you are still under the thought that America is a Christian nation, you need to wake up. If you're still under the thought that you're going to be able to worship God without a fight, you need to wake up. If you think that, "Oh, I'm going to do this to the political arena," you need to wake up. You need to wake up to the fact that it is time for war, not with your ARs or your second amendment, but with your knees and with your hands and with your prayers. We better expose this spirit and the church better get serious about it, because if not, you're going to wish the day that you could walk out of here before noon. Here she is. Bail is a state religion. Her prophets are eating at her table. Her altars are standing in Samaria. So if Bail were the authority that mattered in Israel, why would the charge against Naboth be a charge that he cursed Bail? He insulted the king's God. That's not when the charge. The charge is blasphemy against the God of Israel. The offense only exists in a covenant that Jezebel has spent years trying to bury. She spent all these years trying to bury it, but now that is convenient, we're going to pull that out and say, "Naboth has blasphemed God and King." Now, look at what she borrows. She borrows a fast. She says, "We're going to go on a fast." There was no fasting to Bail. That's how Israel gathered when the whole nation was in trouble. They called a fast. So she says, "Okay, we're going to fast." Then she says, "We're going to get elders." Elders, that's how Israel established a court at the city gate. Then she says, "Get two witnesses." That's exactly what the law required in Deuteronomy chapter 17, verses 6 and Deuteronomy chapter 19, verse 15. Then she says, "We're going to stone him," which is the law's own penalty for blasphemy in Leviticus chapter 24, verse 16. So she's

pulling out all this Scripture and using it against Naboth. Jezzi uses Scripture against people who don't realize Scripture. I know the word. No, you don't. The devil knows the word better than you. Demons know more about God than you know about God. You know about Facebook and Twitter and Snapchat and TikTok and you know about all the restaurants in our area because you don't fast. You know everything, but you don't know about God and the enemy is using your God against you. And you don't have enough sense to go, "Listen, I need to try that Spirit and see if it be of God. Try that Spirit and see if it is an angel of life." Because then he's quoting Scripture to you like he quoted Scripture to Jesus in the wilderness and you don't have enough to say, "But it is also written that thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God." So Satan get behind me. So every place of O Jezzi or her little plan, it actually belongs to the Lord who she officially replaced. And now notice the pairing that she puts together, "The God and King in one breath." Israel's Law already tied curse a ruler of your people." There'd be a whole lot of people in trouble on Wednesday. She didn't invent the charge. She picked up the one law that was already on the shelf, and she picked it out because she needed a law that superseded the law that Nabath was being honorable to. He was adhering to the law. He was being devout in his faith, and she's like, "I need to find one reason, because I can't say, "Naboth, you're wrong. I need to find something that trumps what Nabath is standing on, and I need it to be a capital offense so that he is destroyed and he is killed, because we don't need any witnesses to this." We don't need Nabath down the road saying, "I never did that. Let's check the seal and check the handwriting and see if Ahab really did write those letters." We don't need any witnesses to this, and so she has Nabath stoned. Nabath wasn't being stubborn. He's being faithful, and she couldn't win the argument against his faithfulness. So she didn't argue it. She just changed the charge. The same man, same vineyard, new accusation, and the law protected him. The law that protected him is now the weapon that will kill him. Why would a woman who outlawed God reach for his rulebook? Because she knew it would work. If the charges he cursed Baal, nobody in that city felt a thing. The state religion had no grip on their conscience, but he blasphemed God. That landed down on the gut of the people, because they still remembered God. You can change laws, and you can change all you want, but you still can't change my experience. Deep down Jezebel knew

that her altars could not change the people, because the people still remembered what happened on Mount Sinai. The people still remembered the law given in the waters being parted. They remembered that God had brought them out of Egypt. They remembered the Red Sea. They remembered all those things. So she was trying to change the nation's policy, and she did change the nation's policy in the generation, but she couldn't scrub their memory of God. So when she needed good men to do a wicked thing, she didn't ask them to betray their God. She asked them to do it in his name. The woman, the woman who ordered the lie is the one who had spent years cursing the Lord's prophets and tearing down his altars, and now she's directing the trial of a man accused of blasphemy of a very God she doesn't believe in. How twisted up this is. Every box got checked. Fast. Get the elders. Get the witnesses. We got a verdict. Stoning. She didn't need to be right. She just needed to look right. In Ahab, who knew Israel's laws said nothing. He didn't write the letters, but he also didn't stop them. And for any Jezebel to work, you need Ahab and just stay quiet because Ahab liked the outcome of it. He got the vineyard. Naboth was not the only one who died that day. May I tell you? Years later, Jehu would name in 2 Kings, chapter 9 and verse 26, Jehu would name. He said, "The blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons," because the law said, "If Naboth was dead, his sons inherited it." And she didn't want his sons to inherit what Naboth had. She wanted Ahab to have something that was not rightfully his. So she had to kill him and all of his generations said, "Can I just save you?" Your no also affects generations underneath you. And so not only is the enemy after you, he's after your sons and your daughters also. So if you're going to say no to the enemy, realize you're saying no for an entire generation. What do I mean by that? When the enemy brings an addiction, we get you to sell out your birthright. When you say no, you're saving a generation from having to get off that addiction that you just said no to. And your sons and your daughters will either pay the price or they'll live in the blessing. Control is what Jezebel's after and it never announces itself as control. It borrows the language of something that you love and it twists that around to you. It doesn't say, "I want power." It's going to get tight in here for just a moment. It doesn't say, "I want power." It says, "God told me." There is the Trump card of the Pharisees. Pastor, God said to me, "What am I supposed to say against God,

right?" If God told you, "Where does that leave me?" No, no, no. God didn't actually say, "You want power and you're using the language of God to convince." Really, that's just guys that you're in rebellion. Don't touch me, I'm anointed, but you just laid out a bunch of people who were anointed. You just sawing a sword at all kinds of people who are anointed. Rebellion, divisiveness. It doesn't need you to run out your faith, it just needs to twist it. It just needs you to use your faith against the person who won't bend. When the proof is in a process instead of an actual wrong, here's a question that we should ask. If this person gets their way, who gets the vineyard? If they get Pastor Jason and Melissa out of the way, who gets in the way? If we can get John Gordon out what comes in in his place, see, we don't critically think as Christians. All the enemy has to do is show you somebody's life, and then you start attacking them, and you take them down, but what's going to come in its place? If it's Ahab, who's sponsor of the state religion that's going to get Naboth, who was godly's vineyard, somebody else should have said, "Maybe we shouldn't be throwing stones at Naboth." Naboth was just minding his own business, he just had property adjacent, and what we've done in the church is the enemy has just showed us somebody's highlight reel, and we begin to attack them and drove them out of the church, or drove them underground, or drove them into a cave, and drove them out of ministry, and drove them out of their position, and in what has come in their place, somebody who doesn't believe in miracles and signs and wonders, but they have a position, but they have no power. This is what's happening in the church, because Ojezi wants the church to remain a church, but just have no deliverance in it. She wants it to remain a church, but have no worship in it. She wants it to remain a church, but just go through the motions of it, and go home and check the box that you're a Christian, but you don't know who Jesus is.

Because then you'll be the one standing in eternity. Did we not cast out devils in your name? Did we not pray in your name? Did we not do this in your name, and Jesus says, "Depart from me. You worker of iniquity. I never knew you." But I know that Ojezi, and you tolerated her in her church, and I have something against you that you keep allowing her to bring sexual immorality into the church, and you keep tolerating things that I am against. Can you clean the church out so the church can be what I purchased? And when I say clean the church out, I'm not talking about flesh and blood. I'm talking about a spirit. And so let's go back to their old prophet Elijah. Elijah is now the guy on Mount Carmel, fire falls from heaven, 450 prophets were exposed. The people fall in their faces, and after three and a half years of drought, the sky finally opens. I mean, it's the revival of all revivals. And the hand of the Lord comes on Elijah. He outruns Ahab's chariot to an entrance in Jezreel in 1 Kings chapter 18, verse 46. I mean, this is the greatest day of ministry in his life. Everything he's been waiting for, it's happening, it's raining. The prophets of Baal are dead, and then comes chapter 19. Jezebel sent a messenger. There you go. I'll just close right there. Jezreel sent a private message on social media. Jezreel used Yahoo to tell you that you're a woohoo. Jezreel used Gmail to tell you that you don't know what the G represents. Jezreel sent a hotmail to tell you you're a hot mess. Jezreel sent a messenger.

She did not send a weapon. She did not send a sword. She sent a message, and she sent it directly with a messenger who must not have been prayed up. She sent it to him with a messenger. She sent a messenger to Elijah saying, "So let the gods notice the G, let the gods do to me." And more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time, and when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life. He just withstood 450 prophets of Baal to their face, and now a messenger comes to deliver a message, he's unarmed, and that causes Elijah to want to run from the message. You ready for some vulnerability? Do you know why I'm preaching this so passionately? I just went through this about six weeks ago. I went through this so seriously, six weeks ago, I would go home. I don't think the people even hear my voice. And then somebody would send me an email and say, we're not listening to you anymore. And the devil would say, see? They don't listen to you anymore. And then I had lunch the other day with our head of security. Thank God for a spear fill head of security. And I told him I said, hey, here's another avenue of attack that the enemy's been using against me, just literally weaponizing. If I could explain it, it would take me to about seven o'clock tonight to tell you the cacophony of issues that were coming at me about six or seven weeks ago. It would blow your minds. All the things that were coming at me,

things personally, things in the business world, things in the past door well, personal issues. I mean, you name it, every phone call I got, I was like, I just want to run, I just want to run, I just want to run. So I was going to run. I had a house already getting ready to be bought in Orlando, Florida because I was gonna go live with Mickey because it's a magical place and there's no drama there. And we might as well just wave at everybody's name, hey, have a magical day. And I was like, I'm done pastoring. They say, do you want to pass her again? No, I don't want to pass her again. I want to go back to the business world and I don't want to deal with people. And the guy said, what business are you going to get into with all people and I said, I don't care. Make one. Whatever you do, let's buy a laundry mat. I don't have to deal with anybody. Just their dirty laundry. And those of you, you got to see just kind of the public results of what was going on privately. I literally, the spirit that was overcoming and the reason why I'm so serious about it is because I usually go through before you go through it. And so I know that there are people in this room right now that the enemy is whispering to you, you might as well quit. God doesn't listen to you.

God is not hearing you. Your prayers are vain. Just in vain, there's no hope for you. You might as well quit. And so what did Elijah do? Elijah hears this messenger and he runs from the messenger and he runs and he goes and sits under a tree. It's called a broom tree. It was there to sweep all the problems on top of him and just bury him in his woe and bury him. And what happens to us when we get into this spirit is we start projecting everybody else's issues onto ourselves. She's saying to him, hey, I'm going to do to you what you did to those prophets of Baal. And he should have thought, wait a second here. I was able to do that to the prophets of Baal and they couldn't do anything to me. What has changed? Nothing has changed. But when you get caught up in the spirit of Jezebel and that spirit of control, you start projecting everybody else's marriage issues as your marriage issues. And everybody else's issues become your issues. And all of a sudden everything you're going through is amplified and magnified. And you're the only person going through it. And God walks down to Elijah and he said, hey, I've got more guys in a cave that have not bowed their knee either.

You think you're all alone, but you're not alone. If you would get up and go find some people that have not bowed their knee, you would find encouragement and you would find strength because iron sharpens iron. The enemy wants to keep you away from other iron. And he isolates you and he gets you alone. I mean, the staff can tell you I didn't call them. I didn't speak to them. It was quiet in this place. I wouldn't show up to my office. I was all alone. And then I became self prophetic. They don't talk to me. (congregation laughing) Am I lying, staff? They don't talk to me. Nobody wants to talk to me. Right, why would they want to talk to you when you're in the condition you're in? And everything they say is twisted. Oh yeah, you just saying that to me. You love the sermon. Yeah, somebody paid you to say that. (congregation laughing) Oh sure, you're going to root for Notre Dame now. (congregation laughing) God is my witness. I heard Pastor Michael root for Notre Dame last night. (congregation laughing)

Oh sure, sure. Come over to the good team now. Come over here now that we're winning. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's what the enemy does. Everything that somebody tries to do good for you, you're so caught up in that spirit of Jezebel. You twisted around that they're lying and they're manipulative. And you missed the fact that you're being manipulated. Everybody understand what I'm dropping? So what does she do? Here's what Jezebel does. She sends a message, not a sword. Then she sets a clock by tomorrow. At this time, notice the deadline. It's manufactured urgency. Spirit, this spirit loves a deadline because panic doesn't pray. If we can get you into a panic, you won't pray. Listen, God invites. She announces. Then she struck after the victory, not before it. Not in the battle. It was in the exhaustion after the battle. My greatest fight is when I get done preaching. My greatest fight is when I get done counseling. You're exhausted, you've given. And you walk out to your car and the enemy goes, "You didn't do any good."

The enemy is like, "Just repeat these words after me." Stink, stink. Yeah, I stink. And you get in a car and you drive all the way home and you stink because the church is really bad about giving compliments to people. So you don't know if you've helped anybody or not. So she says a clock, she struck after victory. Then she shrank his world. He came to bear shiba, and he left his servant there. Then he went a day's journey alone in the wilderness. Watch that the first casualty of this kind of spirit of heaviness that Jezebel puts on you is your circle. The servant stays behind, the community gets quiet, the phone goes unanswered, and you isolate yourself. And you say, I'm just getting along with God. Isolation is just a symptom of this spirit. It's the delivery system. Then the prayer under a broom tree. A man called, who just called down fire says this. First Kings 19 verse four, but he himself, when a day's journey into the wilderness. And he came and he sat down on a broom tree and he prayed that he might die. He said, it is enough now, Lord, take my life. For I am no better than my father's. It is enough. That's the spirit of finality talking. And Jezebel deals in getting you to a place of finality.

See, last Sunday I was down here worshiping. And I had told the board I needed some time to get my flesh man back in the line with my spirit man. My flesh man was already a Mickey Mouse's front doorstep. My spirit man was like, you got to stay and fight. My flesh man was gone. And any of you want to condemn me for that you face the same battles that I face. So I standing down front and worship services going all last Sunday and I thought, my Lord, you're an idiot, Jason, you should have just left. Literally just standing right there. Or the little girl came down the steps and she's not a little girl anymore. She was a little girl when I got here. I'm seeing the pictures of her in a body cast. She came down and she said, just a couple of weeks ago you were going through what you were going through. The enemy told me that it was enough and I should take my life. And I'm standing here pastor, I'm doing so much better. I'm doing so much better. And I just hugged her and I thought, well, you think that God, I stayed. See, the enemy starts whispering to you that it's over, it's final. Can I just tell you that the spirit of suicide, when we talk about the spirit of suicide, it's not always in the physical. The enemy is trying to get many of you

to commit suicide spiritually to do something that then he can use against you the rest of your life to remind you that you did that every time you try to step out with God. And I feel so strongly in my spirit that many of you have been pushed under a tree and you're saying the words of Elijah, just not in the exact terms you're saying, that's enough. That's enough. I don't feel God like I used to feel him. I don't hear God like I used to hear him. I'm out as well, just say that's enough. Can I tell you that O'Jazzi is pushing you out under a tree and God's getting ready to show up in your life, not to condemn you. Here's what God says to Elijah, Elijah, I think you need some Jesus chicken. I think you need to eat and I think you need a good night of sleep, son, 'cause I'm not through with you yet. I've got a mission for you that's going to finish Jezzie once and for all. So Elijah, I need you to get up. I need you to eat something and I need you to get a good night's sleep so that you'll come to your senses and realize that if I'm not done with you, the enemy can't touch you. So just for a moment with every head bowed, with every eye closed,

if you're in this room right now in the spirit of the enemy, O'Jazzi has begun to shove you under a tree, telling you that it is enough and God has no plan for you and God has no use for you and it's over for you and you've messed up and that messenger just keeps coming to you. I tell you, God's come here today to feed you. He is the bread of life and He is the rest. [BLANK_AUDIO] and he would cause the weary to rest." So if you're under the sound of my voice and the enemy has shoved you into a jail, the jail of, "I need to quit. I need to give up. I need to just stop it. I'm no longer anointed. Nobody hears me. Nobody listens to me. It's over. I might as well just give it up." If that's you in this room today, the Lord has showed up to tell you it's time to eat and it's time to rest because God has a plan for you to finish Jesse once and for all. And the reason why you're going through it is that there's an anointing on your life that the kingdom needs, the body needs. So Lord Jesus right now, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty through you to the pulling down of every stronghold. So Lord, we pull down this stronghold of finality. We pull down this stronghold of his time to quit. We pull down this spirit of resignation. Lord, we pull down this idea that we have resigned ourselves to defeat and poverty and depression and oppression. Instead, Lord, we are going to eat from the bread of life today. We're going to eat from the bread that Lord, you have prepared, that is fresh every day, that sustains us every day, that moves us every day. In every day, Lord, we're going to get up after a good night of sleep and we're going to get up in the morning and we're going to go out and we're going to pick up the bread that you've given to us. That will sustain us for another day.

Lord, we're going to get into your word more than we ever have before. We're going to hear your word more than we're going to hear the messenger of Ogesi. She's run us ragged and now she's running us crazy and she's trying to run us out. But Lord, we're being washed by the water of your word today and sweet rest is coming upon your people through the breath of the Holy Spirit in our lives. And Lord, we're not moving out. Instead, Lord, we're arising and we're going to have a conquering spirit for we can do all things through Christ who gives us the strength and we are more than conquerors through Christ Jesus who gives us the strength. So give strength to your people right now in the matchless name of Jesus Christ. [BLANK_AUDIO]