Releasing the Power of the Holy Ghost — David Wilkerson

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The Truth That Sets People Free

...power of the Holy Ghost, releasing the overcoming power of the Holy Ghost. This is a covenant message, and we're going to believe the Lord to open our eyes and our understanding this morning. Let's pray.

Heavenly Father, I thank you for the Word. Lord, when I see people running all over the world looking for someone to lay hands on them, looking for some kind of emotional experience, I thank God that in New York City you've raised up a people that hunger for truth, because it's truth alone that sets people free.

It is only the truth. It is knowing the truth. You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. God, without that hunger, we will not grow. There will not be a people able to withstand what's coming in these last days.

And I pray, Lord, that you give us truth in this house, the truth of the living God. Lord, do something in our hearts by the power of your truth today. Sanctify this vessel. Let me speak as the oracle of God and not of man.

Give us ears to hear what the Spirit has to say this morning. I humble myself. I plead nothing but the covering of the blood, no other gift, no other blessing, no other claim, no other plea, but the blood of Jesus.

Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord, for your Word. Now sanctify it and meet us, I pray. Amen. Releasing the overcoming power of the Holy Spirit. I want to talk to you about two men in this church. They're not here this morning, so don't look around.

They're both drug addicts at one time, both married with children. They came to this church and gave their heart to the Lord, and we took them into our rehabilitation program, and I watched them because they would sit here in the church, and I was aware of them, and in fact, I had talked to them privately, both of them.

They had both lived horrible lives, addicted to lust, to pornography. They were adulterers and fornicators and drugs and alcohol and everything, and the Lord saved them. He claimed both to be saved. Now, they had lived as con artists.

They tried to con their wives. They conned everybody. They tried to con us when they first came in, and it didn't work. And I watched them, and there was one of them, especially I thought, this brother, he was so cooperative, he was so kind and obedient, and he'd sit here in the church and worship God and praise the Lord so beautifully, and I thought, man, he's bypassing the other man by leaps and bounds because the other man, the other brother that was saved, he had such a battle.

He was always crying, always seemed depressed, and he never lifted his head hardly in worship, and there seemed to be a burden on his heart. He struggled with the rules. He struggled with so many things, and I thought, man, he's just not making any progress.

But you see, man always has a tendency to look on the outward appearance, but God looks in the heart. And this man that I thought was making so much progress was not making any progress at all. The other man, God bless his heart, he began to start confessing everything God was dealing with.

He had his head down because he was repenting, and the Holy Ghost was showing him things in his life, and it burdened him. He couldn't be happy because he was under great conviction. And I watched these two men, and I saw the Holy Ghost not on the one that I thought.

You see, we get our eyes, we look on the outward appearance because, you know, one looks a little more handsome perhaps and the other's got buck teeth or something. But you see, we judge by appearance.

We judge by what people say, but God looks past it all into the heart. And he saw in this young man's heart something. In fact, the young man I had my eye on left. In fact, I don't know where he is now, but the other brother's still going on strong with the Lord and God's dealt with him.

The Holy Ghost’s Power Over Sin

And I began to question, God, what did you see in him? What was the release? He has power in his life. The Holy Ghost is working. He has power and victory over his habits. He has power and victory over his gambling.

He has no lust problem now, and the Holy Ghost power has been released in him. What is it that you see in a man that qualifies him for release of Holy Ghost power to overcome sin? The Bible says, Now, we preach in this church, if you surrender your life to Jesus Christ, you give him your heart, then the Holy Spirit will come and give you power to live a victorious life.

We preach that in this church. We preach you can be free from the power of sin. The Holy Ghost will enable you to defeat every lust and temptation. But folks, God's been dealing with me. God helping me.

I will never again in this church or any place I preach, make that offer to everybody who comes to the altar, because that offer is not good to everyone who comes and says, Lord, Lord. It has to be qualified.

In fact, this release of Holy Ghost power to overcome sin is given only to a select people. And I want you to see this, and this explains why so many Christians can serve God. They come and claim to be saved, and they go year after year, and there's no victory in their life.

They still fight a lust problem. They're fighting sin all their life, and they finally come to the conclusion that's the way the Christian life is lived. And they carry this body of sin around the rest of their life.

They drag it around. And they say, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? They come to a conclusion because they have no victory. There is no power. They've been told by pastors and churches, and they've heard it.

The Holy Ghost will enable you. He will give you the enabling power to conquer sin. And they don't have that enabling power. They're still weak after 10 years, 5, 15 years, 20 years. They're still indulging in the same things, and they have no victory.

Certainly, certain of the people came to the disciples of Jesus and said, we would see Jesus. And Jesus, the Bible says, wouldn't commit himself because he knew what was in their hearts. And this Holy Ghost power is not committed to everyone who starts out for the kingdom.

Not at all. I tell people when they come to this altar, I say, now, you've given your heart to Jesus. Now, will you just go out and trust him for the enabling power to give you authority over the dominion of sin?

I was mistaken. I was wrong. Because I can't make that promise anymore because of the light that I've received from the Holy Ghost and the covenant, the new covenant. And I want you to follow me very closely.

I believe that there are three prerequisites. There are three conditions that are necessary before the power of the Holy Spirit is released in any believer. And we're going to consider all three of them.

You know, I have preached this for years, that you can't fight sin in your own power or your own ability. You have no human energy that is a match for the lust and the temptation that comes out of the pits of hell.

And I've said God, by his Spirit, can deliver you. And there are many that are in this building right now that you've confessed Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. But in all honesty, you do not have the victory in your life.

You are still indulging. You sin, confess, sin, confess. There is no victory. You may have been saved out of a... You say, I was saved as a homosexual. And here you sit in this church now and you still are battling that.

You are still falling into that sin. You may have had a problem with adultery and you go so long and you fight it in your human power and your ability and then you fall back into it. There's some of you that are sitting here listening to me now and those who hear this tape that are absolutely indulging in sin and they don't have the victory.

They can sing, they can shout, they can raise their hands in church and say, I am delivered. And in truth, they are not delivered. They are not delivered. The power of the Holy Ghost has not been released.

The power of the Holy Ghost is not at work empowering them over sin. I've had a deep burning hunger in me for months to understand what the Lord is looking for in a vessel. What kind of a heart is he looking for that he may release this power of the Holy Spirit?

We know that that power has been given. God has said that it's through the power of the Holy Spirit. If ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live. Through the Spirit. So everywhere you go into New Testament all the epistles, Paul makes it very, very clear that there is an enabling power that there is no sin that can't be conquered.

There's no limitation, whether it's homosexuality, lesbianism, drunkenness, gambling, covetousness, anger, bitterness, depression, whatever the storehold may be. The power of the Holy Ghost is more than able.

There is an all-conquering power in the Holy Ghost that is offered. Let me tell you first of all what these prerequisites are to qualify you for release of the power of the Holy Ghost in your life against sin.

And then we'll take them one by one. Number one. The prerequisite of release of the Holy Ghost is a heart that's set holy upon the Lord. Number two. A desire to obey God in every area of your life. Number three.

A stepping out in faith and the willingness and the power of the Holy Ghost to work in your life. Let's start with number one. The first prerequisite to having the power of the Holy Ghost released in your life.

A Heart Set Wholly Upon the Lord

Do you want... Do you want this incredible all-encompassing power of the Holy Ghost in your life? Do you want it released in your life? Now the Holy Ghost abides in you but that Holy Ghost power will not be released until you meet these three qualifications, these three prerequisites.

Nothing could be clearer in all of Scripture. First of all, a heart set holy upon the Lord. I want you to go to the eighth chapter of Acts and I'm going to show you a man who met all three qualifications and we'll go through it, please.

Acts, the eighth chapter. Oh, beloved, I am so glad. I'm so hungry for truth. Don't you? The truth that sets men free. Hey, look at me for just a minute. You can get on a bus or a plane or train and go to some meet and get zapped and somebody knock you out and you can shake until...

You can't shake anymore. But if you don't have the truth in you, you cannot come out of it and be free. You'll go right back to your sins. You'll go back to your lust. That's not what I want. I told the Holy Ghost and I said, Lord, you can do anything you want.

You come down, knock everybody in this church. You can just absolutely knock everybody out in the power of the Holy Ghost. You can do anything you choose. We don't have control of this service. You do.

But folks, before anything else and above everything else, it is the truth that sets man free. You have to have the truth. I want this truth in you today. This truth will deliver you. Acts 8, you'll find a man who qualifies all these prerequisites.

There's an Ethiopian gentleman, a statesman, who went to Jerusalem to worship. He's heading home now from that worship gathering and he's in the desert of Gaza heading back to Ethiopia. I'm sure he has a drive with a chariot.

He's in the back of the chariot and this man is a student of the Word of God. He's studying the book of Isaiah. He's been to Jerusalem. He's puzzled by the 53rd chapter of Isaiah, the same chapter that puzzles every unconverted Jew on the face of the earth today.

They can't understand their own prophet Isaiah about this lamb that was going to come and be slain. And he goes to Jerusalem. I'm sure he went from scribe to scribe to Pharisee to Sadducee and he's asking, who is this man that's going to be slaughtered?

A lamb slaughtered. Who is this man that's going to die for sins? And he couldn't get his answer. He couldn't satisfy the question of his mind. He's a hungry man. He doesn't have the light. He doesn't know about Jesus.

He's hungry. He's thirsty. There was an Ethiopian eunuch of great authority. Chapter 8, verse 27. Acts 8, verse 27. Are you there? Let's go to verse 27 -28. He arose and went. Behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candacy, queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem to worship.

He was returning and was sitting in his chair and read Isaiah as the prophet. Now, listen to me please. Here's a man who's spiritually blind, but he's deeply hungry for truth. He's a religious man, but he has such a heart set on God.

I can say absolutely emphatically that this Ethiopian had a heart that was wholly given to God, that was set on God. And how can I make that statement? How can I look at a man in a desert and there's only a few Scriptures given about him, but how can I declare to you that he had the kind of heart that God is looking for to release his power of the Holy Ghost?

Emphatically I can say to you he had a heart that was set on God because he loved God's Word. He was a student of the Word of God. He studied. He was probing. He was looking. He was searching. He was searching after the Lamb.

What are you searching for? Are you going about the land? Are you going about searching for an experience? Or is there something in you that has neglected this Holy Scripture? There can be no release of Holy Ghost's power in any life until you develop a sincere desire for the milk of the Word of God.

There has to be a sincere desire for this milk. I heard a statement by a man who was leading a revival in the land where many people are flocking. And the statement was because he sensed that the people were restless.

He said, Just hold steady. We'll get to the good stuff in just a bit. The good stuff was when the preaching was over and when people were invited to come up and have hands laid upon them and people began to fall on the floor and people began to shake.

That was the good stuff. The Word of God is boring to some people because they don't have that love. They don't have that heart. They don't have the heart for the Word of God. When people come to this altar, we're going to tell them from now on that power cannot be released until you go from this altar and you go home and you get this Scripture out and you pray, Oh God, by your Spirit, open this to me.

I want to know about the Lamb of God. I want to know who this is that made a sacrifice for my sins. I want to know how He delivers me. Folks, you have to not just do it because I tell you or a pastor tells you, but you pray, Oh God, I want the power of the Holy Ghost released in me.

The power of the Holy Ghost comes through His Word. That's where faith comes from. That's where the power comes from. The Word of the Living God. This is positively the number one mark of a believer who has a heart that's set on the Lord.

An ever increasing hunger to study and to know the Word of God. You can tell me this morning that you love the Lord. You can tell me that you've given your whole heart to Him. You say, Jesus is my Lord.

I love Him with all my heart. I know where I stand and I know I'm saved. I have a heart for God. And I'm going to come back to you. And I'm going to ask you, if that's so, how much time have you been spending?

Are you a student of this Word? This past week, how many chapters have you read? How much have you gone into this book to study the Lamb of God? What kind of a hunger has there been in your heart for His Word?

I'm telling you now, if you do not have a hunger for His Word, if this is not your daily bread, if you're not in here getting life, you have no heart for Him. You have no heart for Him. And the power of the Holy Ghost will never, ever, ever be released in your life.

You can never be able to battle against any sin. You can't battle against any kind of depression. You can't battle against fear. You can't battle against covetousness. You cannot face any lust. Nothing.

That's why so many Christians are weak. They are frail. And they are falling on the left and the right because they are illiterate about the Word of God. The entire charismatic movement today is primarily illiterate about justification by faith.

Illiterate about the victory of the cross. Illiterate about sanctification and mortifying the flesh. Illiterate about the new covenant. Why? Because they want somebody to spoon-feed them. We don't have Christians digging into these last days.

Folks, dark clouds are coming. All hell is going to be released if you are not into this book. If you are not a student, if you are not praying, Holy Ghost, reveal Your Word to me. You are not going to make it in these last days.

You are not going to make it. You say, Brother Wilkins, isn't that strong? Oh, that I could make it even stronger. That I could make it even stronger. David said, Our steps are ordered by the Word. Psalm 119, 133.

David said, My heart standeth in awe of Thy Word. You are not in awe of that Word if you don't pick it up. You are not in awe of that book if you don't read it. You are not in awe of the book. You are not asking God to direct your steps, tell you how to get out of your bondages.

The Scripture says, David said, Thou hast magnified Thy Word above Thy name. We see so many today still bound and chained by sin and able to come into freedom. But you see, it's because people have neglected this book.

They've absolutely neglected the living Word of God. In this 8th chapter, you see the story of another man by the name of Simon. Philip has been having a great revival in Samaria. And he sees the signs and miracles.

And the Scripture says, Simon himself, now this man was into witchcraft. Simon himself believed also. When he was baptized, he contended with Philip and wondered, beholding. In other words, his eyes were on the miracles and signs which were done.

This man is not into the Word of God. This man is marveling at all the signs and wonders. He stands there amazed. This is something. He's excited. And then when the Holy Ghost is given by the laying on of hands, and there's people speaking in new languages, he even offers money for it.

But you see, Peter comes along and he said, Your heart's not right, Simon, in the sight of God. And then listen to what he added. Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter. He said, You have no part, you have no right to the work of the Holy Spirit in your life.

This is the work of the Holy Spirit that's happening here. The laying on of hands, you have nothing to do with the work of the ministry of the Holy Spirit because your heart's not right. You have your eyes on the signs and wonders and miracles.

And as wonderful as all of that is, you have no foundation of the Word of God. You have no, you have no love for the Word of God. Philip is preaching it. Philip gives himself to prayer and the study of the Word of God as all the apostles did.

And those who are assigned at Jerusalem to wait on tables. This man is given to the Word. He's given to prayer. But this man has his eyes only on the excitement of the signs and the wonders and the miracles.

The Ethiopian is a different kind. He's not seen any miracle. He's not seen any sign. He knows nothing about gifts. He's got a hungry heart. He has a hungry heart. I know charismatic Christians who all they talk about is power.

Oh, I've been to such a meeting. There's such power there. Brother so-and-so is such a man of power. I've had people coming back saying, Brother Wilson, we need more power in this church. And they talk power, power, power, power.

But my Bible says unless you know the Word of God, you're going to make an error. And you don't know, you don't know power till you know the Word the Scripture says. Jesus said to the Sadducee, You do err not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

You don't know the Scriptures so you don't understand what real power is. The real power is to overcome sin, flesh, and the devil. The real power is to preach under an unction and people are broken from the chains of sin.

Hebrews 4 .12, The Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than a two-edged sword, a deserter of the thoughts and intents of the heart. He said that's power. When the Word comes and discerns your heart.

Hallelujah. A minister friend told me that he spent hours and days and weeks and even months praying to be delivered from a lingering lust for heroin. He'd been saved. But that lust was still there. In fact, he's the gentleman who said he rubbed his face in the carpet.

He was so desperate. Cried and wept for weeks, hours a day for freedom. And I stopped and I said, let me ask you a question. He was a minister, a fallen minister. I said, in the last two years, my brother, in all honesty, how much time have you spent in the Word of God?

In this past month, this past week, he just shook his head. He said, I'm not into the Word. But he's been going to revival meetings every night. Feeding his soul on revival. I said, you're not going to make it that way.

And that's the reason you fell in the first place. You had no power. Because you didn't have a heart for the Word of God. And God's not going to release His power to you until He sees you diligent in this Word.

Enabling power of the Holy Spirit to break sins. Power will never be released in those who don't desire the sincere milk of the Word of God. If your heart's not right with God in this matter, you cannot have that power released in your life.

A Desire to Obey God Immediately

Let's go to the second qualification or prerequisite. And this is a desire to obey God in every area of your life right now. To obey right now. When the Word of God comes to you. When the conviction comes.

You don't wait. You say, I want to obey right now. We preach that we don't have the power to fight sin in the flesh. But we also preach that a heart that is wholly given to God is one that desires to obey the Lord in all things.

The Ethiopian did not have a revelation of Jesus Christ yet. But one thing he had. When he got the Word. When he heard it. He was ready immediately to obey. God's looking over the whole earth. Remember the Bible said His eyes go to and fro through the whole earth.

Seeking a heart like this. That he may show himself mighty to those who are wholly set upon him. It's an amazing thing to look at this man in the wilderness. Here is God. Creator God. The one who numbers every hair on every head.

He who knows every sparrow that falls to the ground. He who hung the universe and all the cosmoses and all of the worlds and the planets and hold them in their orbits. He's looking over the whole earth for a heart that's wholly set on Him.

Ready to obey. Loving His Word. He looks into a wilderness. It's almost as though the whole world. God says, yes. It's kept by His Word. But He turns away from all of creation. He turns away from all of the planets.

And He looks at a man. He's looking at a heart in that desert. In the back of a chariot. With His Word open in His lap. And a man who's saying, if you'll reveal this to me, Lord, I'll do everything you tell me.

I want to please you. I want to know you. Here's a man that's hungering and thirsting after the Lord. And when God saw that kind of heart. He dispatches the Holy Spirit on a special mission. And He's told the Holy Spirit goes and brings Philip.

Breaks him away from a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Samaria. And He says, now go down into the desert. There's a highway to Gaza. Through the Gaza Strip. Go down there. The Holy Ghost sends this prophet.

And here he is walking down the road not knowing why he's there. Folks, I want to tell you. God is saying something to us in this. This is not just a story. He's trying to tell you how quickly the Holy Ghost responds to a heart that is wholly given to Him.

How God almost seems to put away the details of the whole universe. Because He finds a heart. And here comes a chariot. That Ethiopian. The Holy Ghost has arranged all of this. Think of it. The Holy Ghost arranges it.

You talk about a release of Holy Ghost power. He released this prophet. He sends him down the same road. And here comes the chariot. And the Holy Ghost says, Philip. Get in the chariot. Introduce yourself.

The next scene. This man of God, Philip. Is preaching Jesus to this Ethiopian.

This is the end of side one. You may now turn the tape over to side two.

Philip Preaches Jesus to the Ethiopian

What a wonderful thing the Holy Ghost is doing here. And folks, He will do that for you. He will do it for me when He finds the Ethiopian type heart. God sees this little hungry black man. The statesman.

Treasure of the Queen. A man of dignity. A man of authority. But a man who's willing to say, I don't know anything. Because Philip says, do you understand what you're reading? He says, how can I unless somebody shows me.

He didn't have that proud religious spirit. He says, I don't know anything. Can you show me? He said, oh, can I show you? Now he knows why God sent him. He preaches Jesus. He said, that's the Lamb of God.

That's Jesus that they crucified. He was buried. He's raised from the dead. He ascended to the Father. And those who repent and believe and are baptized in water. Shall be saved eternally. He says, the Lamb who died for me.

And if I obey Him, I'm saved if I believe. There's water right there. There's a pond. Hinders me. He's turning to the prophet. He says, is there anything in my life? Expose it. Is there anything that would hinder my blessing the Lord and being pleasing in His sight?

What would hinder me? I want to go all the way now. Right now. That's what God's looking for. Before He releases His power. He's not praying. He's not coming to somebody that's got a habit or a lust. They said, well, Lord, a little at a time.

I'll break away a little here and a little here. I want to tell you something. You can't put channels to sin. It overflows its banks all the time. You cannot channel sin. You can't channel lust. It always overflows its borders.

You cannot channel it. You cannot put borders to your lust. It will flow over. And He's saying, now. I want to obey my Jesus now. He's my Lord now. I believe I'm going down in the waters. Glory be to God.

Believe and be baptized and thou shall be saved. This is the heart that God is looking for. Do you know something? God has a unique plan of deliverance for every single believer. He's got a unique plan to bring you out of bondage, all kinds of bondage.

He has a readiness to show Himself mighty to you. And you show me a brother or sister that is ready to dig into the Word of God and give themselves to this book and to the Christ. This was the Word and the Word was God.

The Word was with God. This is Christ Himself. The revelation of who Jesus is. And a heart that's obedient, ready to obey right now when the Holy Ghost convicts. Right now when He's at work. And I'll show you somebody's going to start having the Holy Ghost released in power in their life.

You know, it's amazing. The Scripture says they went down in the water and they come out. And the Scripture says that Philip was carried away and the Ethiopian went on his way rejoicing. And I say, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

There's two men and a driver and nobody in sight anywhere. And they go down into the pond. He's baptized. And they're coming out of the water and one of them disappears. And all the Bible says, he went on his way rejoicing.

And I'm thinking, I'd be standing around, where'd he go, where'd he go? I'd be running to the driver and say, did you see him? Is this a dream? I'll tell you what, you know why the Lord doesn't go into detail on that?

Because you see, Philip's not the main character here. He's not the figure that God's talking about. He's talking about the Ethiopian. He's talking about a heart that He's looking for. And He's not one you get your eyes on Philip.

The whole thing is about, yes, it's about the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Philip is there to show you to the extreme the Holy Ghost will go to answer you when your heart is right. You understand that?

The Spirit of the Lord took him away. And the third prerequisite for release of the power of the Holy Spirit is a stepping out in faith. He commanded the chariot to stand still. And they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and He baptized him.

Stepping Out in Faith Under the Spirit’s Direction

I've been so thrilled in recent weeks as the Holy Spirit's been opening to me and showing me how the Holy Ghost comes to give us power, enabling power over sin. The Lord showed me years ago that in my last days, the time that I had in my last days, that He would allow me to go to ministers' conferences and share my heart.

And I said, Lord, I don't have the message yet. He's just beginning to give me the message. And it's along these very lines. But I've been thrilling to see how the Holy Ghost is so wanting to deliver.

And let me tell you how He does it. Let me show you right now. If you are ready to go into His Word, and if you are praying, God, I want to obey You now. I don't want to live with my sin. You have to have the place where I say, I hate my sin.

I hate whatever's holding me back. And I want deliverance. I want to obey You now in every area of my life. I don't want anything in my life that is not open. I want to be able to look any prophet in the eye.

I want to be able to sit in any kind of message and rejoice in it. And not have to say, oh boy, that's me. Yes, I receive it, but I don't want to have to point to any sin in my life. I want power over every sin, every lust, every temptation.

I want the power of God's Holy Spirit enabling me, delivering me. Because the Bible said, God knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, 2 Peter 2. He knows how. God has a plan. Now, let me take you back to Pharaoh.

Israel at the Red Sea and God’s Deliverance

The children of Israel, follow me very closely now. The children of Israel are told by God to encamp on this side of the Red Sea. On the Egyptian side of the Red Sea. And he encamps there. Now, the Lord knows He's going to take them over.

He's going to open the sea. He knows that. Why didn't God do that the night before Pharaoh comes? Why does He wait? Why does He wait? In fact, He won't let Moses move. He won't let him move. God's already given the plan.

Moses knows they're going to cross that sea. And they're going to go on dry ground. But God waits until they hear the roar and the snorting of the horses. And the rattling of the chariot wheels. And the loud war cries of the soldiers of Pharaoh.

They're able to stand on the mountain and see that cloud of dust coming. Why does God wait that long? Because God has a score to settle. God says, I'm not just going to take you across. I'm not going to just give you the victory.

If I take you across and I don't deal with your enemy in a definite way. If I don't make a statement in hell, so to speak. You're going to be afraid the rest of your life. You're afraid they're going to build a bridge.

They're going to come after you. And so God says, no. I'm going to be honored on this. They're going to know who I am. Pharaoh's going to know. Pharaoh's a type of the devil. His army's a type of the demonic host of hell coming against you.

God says, no, I'm not just going to set you free from your sin. I'm going to let devil know and hell know. I'm going to make a statement that you're mine. He can't have you. His battle with you is over.