(Blood Covenant) 4 - the War Against the Covenant — Milton Green

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Well, I hear you've been having a good time here at night. Oh boy, that's just great. I think there's a lot of people finding out they're free. Well, I wish I could have been here with you. We've also been having a good time over at Park Avenue with Peter Lord of the evenings.

The War Against the Covenant

Now, we have been talking about the covenant, and will you agree with me that there's been a lot of things hidden from us about the covenant? There has been a lot of deception, hasn't there? All right, what we want to begin talking about today is the forces that have brought this deception to us, the forces that we have been prevailed upon to ignore.

And when you're ignoring the devil, he really doesn't bleed, does he? While we've been ignoring him, what he's done, he has been perverting everything. He's been perverting righteousness. He's been perverting holiness.

He's been perverting discernment. He's been perverting overcoming the world of flesh and the devil. If you're not overcoming the world of flesh and the devil, the world of flesh and the devil is overcoming you.

If you're not doing signs and wonders, you'll become a sign and wonder. That's over in the curses in 28th chapter of Deuteronomy. And all signs and wonders that we do is against Satan. We don't need to protect him anymore and his demons.

They've run this thing long enough, haven't they? And I want you to realize, and I'm dead serious with you folks, and this is why it's so important to me that you just, you don't let your mind drift off when the Lord's putting the word in your heart and mind of a morning, that you have to take thoughts captive because the enemy, while he's doing that, will shoot you a dart and there's something he knows you're going to have to do during the day to get your mind off the Lord and get it on the worries of the world.

That is the war. And whenever you have time with the Lord, that he's speaking and talking to you, or I'm telling you what to do, you get your mind trained and nothing else is important except to hear from him.

You forget about time and everything else. Now, what we want to begin sharing about this morning is the war against the covenant. And there is a war against the covenant. It's everything that God is, there's a counterfeit of.

There is a mystery of godliness, and there is a mystery of iniquity. Another way to say it, there's an antichrist. And you know, we have a choice. Where are we going to walk and where are we going to receive?

The Mystery of Godliness and the Mystery of Iniquity

You know, the Holy Spirit wants to be an expression of the Lord Jesus Christ in the flesh, through the flesh, in us. But also the counterfeit of this is that the spirit of Satan, which is the demons, want to be an expression of Satan through people, which he is all through this world.

I mean this world is an expression, and the people of this world are an expression of Satan. And this is what we are called out of. So another way to say it, that the mystery of godliness is a process of God being manifested in the flesh, and the mystery of iniquity is a process that Satan is manifested in the flesh.

Now, you're going to come in to understand this right here. And I want to tell you right now that what we share with you, when we get to Saturday, it's going to be one of the most amazing times you've ever spent in your life, what we dig out of this Word.

I want to tell you in advance. And I want to tell you something that what we share in here is not the whole loaf, but I want to tell you that today is a time of grace, that God is fast revealing the hidden things of this Word, and no smart folks are figuring it out.

It's all grace. And he wants you to be in the Word, and he wants you to receive from him. And the Lord can show you something that the whole world doesn't know. But we are going to first look at the mystery of godliness, and I don't want you to turn, but in 1 Timothy it tells us about the great is the mystery of godliness.

Christ as the Second Adam and Mediator

And see, when the time came for Jesus to redeem men from the curse of sin, it was necessary for him, he laid aside his heavenly glory, and he became a man, didn't he? He took on the robe of flesh. Christ descended from the throne.

He laid aside his crown and his robes. He arrayed himself in the garment of a servant, and doing this, he subjected himself as a servant. We know in 1 Corinthians 15 that Jesus was the second Adam. Now, there's a lot of remarks and things that I told you yesterday down here that's going to start clearing up today.

He was the second Adam, and this is on your notes, and I hope that you'll make sure that you have a list of all the scriptures, because that's important. When you become in covenant with God Almighty through Jesus Christ, I want you to know that you are a new creation.

Old things have passed away. You no longer walk, talk, and act like the world. You die to the lust and deceit of this carton. And you are a new creation. And Jesus was the firstborn of that new creation.

He came, and he was called and is called the Son of Man. That's where he took on our name. We know in 1 Timothy 2 that when Jesus returned to heaven, he returned with a glorified flesh body. For there is one God, one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ.

Now, you remember when we were talking about what Jesus came to do to make covenant with us, that the Spirit of God would come in us, that this covenant would be in our hearts, and that through us that the Spirit of God would be an expression of God.

Contrasting Christ and the Antichrist

Now, the opposite of that is Satan and the works, the mystery of iniquity. See, that is the opposite of the mystery of godliness. And I just want to give you some comparisons, because this is something coming to you all the time.

And if you have no discernment, if the Spirit of God not there to show you the difference, you'll believe that bitter is sweet. You'll believe that darkness is light. In other words, you absolutely, the people of this world, I don't care how much they've got, what kind of name they have, or what their position is, or who they think they are, I want you to know they're slaves of Satan.

They're puppets, the very last one of them. And you're going to see this in the Word, because we're moving into this thing now. We just kind of talked about it a little as we were sharing about covenant.

And I want you to know that these forces of darkness are set on destruction. Their schemes is to kill you. The whole, everyone in this world, destroy them continually. And they are effectively doing it, and they're laughing their heads off.

They gleefully rejoice in the cause you to stumble, to take every bit of joy or anything good in your life, to destroy it and take it from you. They rejoice in destruction. And we choose. We choose where we want to live and where we want to walk.

Christ came in his Father's name. You've got to understand this. Everything that God is, there's a counterfeit of. See, Christ came in his Father's name. The Antichrist come in Satan's name. Christ humbles himself.

All right, then you see the Antichrist over here. You'll see the world over here, and you'll see what Satan is doing with the world. See, like Christ humbles himself over here, and, of course, he wants us to humble ourselves.

Well, over here, the Antichrist exalts himself. And, of course, when he exalts himself, he exalts the things in the world. Christ is despised. The Antichrist is admired, and that's the way it is in the world, selfishness, self-centeredness.

Christ does the Father's will. The Antichrist does Satan's will. Christ came to save. Antichrist came to destroy. Christ is the true vine. The Antichrist is the vine of the world. Christ is the truth.

The Antichrist is a liar. Christ is the Holy One. The Antichrist is the lawless one. Christ is the Son of God. The Antichrist is the son of perdition, Satan. Christ, the mystery of godliness, is God manifested in the flesh.

The Antichrist, the mystery of iniquity, be Satan manifested in the flesh. And you know that you're going to know them by their what. And we are going to see that. All of us, you remember the scripture in Isaiah, where the trees of the field clap their hands?

Spiritual Seed, Fruit, and Covenant Life

And you'll see what kind of seed is on your soil, but what kind of fruit. Whose seed? If you're receiving Satan's seed up here, the demon's seed right here, you're bearing fruit from. And you're walking around as a tree, an expression of Satan, because you won't talk and act like Satan.

Because you become in the image and likeness of Satan when you receive those seeds into your heart and your land. Are you hearing me? Now, the opposite of that. See, the only way you can be fruitful for God is walking in covenants.

So here is his seed. And this seed comes into you. And in your land, you're a tree of the field. When you receive this seed, it performs its work in you. And then you become fruitful. And you walk, talk, and become the image and the likeness of God.

And that's the reverse order from Adam where he fell. He started up in the image and likeness of God, didn't he? And then he became earthly. Is that right? So now we know the process is reversed. Isn't that right?

Because we're being conformed to the image of Jesus Christ, who is the exact image and representation of God Almighty. Is that correct? Now, when you have an understanding of what the enemy is doing, folks, and then you see where you are right here in the Word, you know what happens?

Brother, you know how to deal with it. You can't deal with it when you're playing church and funeral. This is serious. The bottom line is heaven or hell. I mean for many people. I mean that sit on church pews and people all around us.

This is serious. It doesn't matter. It matters what people think, but it matters more what God says. That's what matters. Because we'll say what God says. See, Satan is so that he couldn't stamp out the church by violence, which is what he's done, and persecution.

So Satan today has changed his tactics and he's seducing the church to conformity to the world. Do you realize that? The church is being seduced and conforming to the ways of walk, talking, and acting like the world.

Well, he's got them. His hope is this gospel of social service or form. See, a form of godliness is not godliness. Amen. And we'll take a place of a gospel of grace and it diverts or perverts. If he can't prevent something, he perverts it.

And then the attention of the church will be turned from the word, which he's effectively done. Now, I want to share with you something that happened with me as a new Christian. A very broken life. One of the most broken lives you've ever known.

Testimony of Deliverance and Grace

I'm telling you as a child. Let me just tell you the truth. A very demonized child. Tormented child. And as I was in school as a small boy and I knew, I saw I was a little quicker. And I realized that in the first couple of grades than some of the others.

But an interesting thing happened. I started to get slower and the rest started getting faster than me. Because there was something happening to me. And this environment and my life and the powers of darkness were just taking more of my life.

I came to a place in school I couldn't even study. I never did get out of high school. I got out with a test, but I didn't. I come to the place where I couldn't even study books. And I just tried such a tormented person.

And I came, I'll not go through. Already three years old and somebody asked over there, so might as well tell you I'm 54 now. So I've been a Christian for 11 years. And in these 11, I'm telling you I was a dying man.

And it was all over. You talk about zero with the rim off of it. Now brother, that's where the Lord came to me. And if anybody has any understanding or comprehending the grace of God. I want to tell you what I do.

Because he came to someone and made a mockery of him. I want to give you an example. You know the song that we sing when we all get to heaven? I was a steel rigger foreman. And I used to do things just, well, it's just kind of like the devil.

You know when you blow on the devil, who do you act like? You act like the devil. And I would kind of get them to sing our song. We call our song, when we all get to heaven, ha ha ha. And then is that dying person that was crawling around on the floor as I was later on.

There was slobber running off my chin. And God in his grace just came and changed my life overnight. And to wake up the person that I became overnight. I can't tell you folks, when you're already tied in a knot.

And this is the night that I die and go to hell. When I go to sleep, this is the night. Because I knew I was the rottenest person to ever live. I knew me better than anyone. And then to find myself, to find myself in the place of grace that the Lord had put me.

And so I just became very serious about what God said. And I still am. Because no one could help me. I mean it was really all over for me. But the devil had just beat my brains out. I couldn't tell you the time.

We're not any image building except Jesus are we? I was in more than one mental hospital. Because see I didn't know to turn to Jesus. Because when I was a small boy, what I saw and think in church. I knew that they couldn't help me.

They couldn't even help themselves. And I always kind of thought if they got a place in heaven, surely to God I've got one somewhere. I remember the first place. I was in this veterans hospital for six months.

I'd been drugged. And at the end I told this man. I mean I was, I was around 30 something years old then. And I felt all the change I had because I couldn't understand all these. Why is all these things just happening?

See I'd been beat to pieces. You know what am I, what I know about demons. See I was in church and didn't even understand about Jesus. And so I just poured out. I told this man this is the final day where I was going to get to him.

He was going to have a conference. And he was going to, I was going to get the answers of life from this man. And he said across his desk from me. And he said, Mill, when you first came here and began sharing with me the things that you shared with me about yourself.

I bothered to check in your home territory to see if these things were true. I called long distance. And I found out they were. He said, Mill, and here it's coming. And see I'm not just sitting there, I'm leaning forward folks.

I'm a, you don't know, you can't know what kind of a hurting man that I was. And I was leaning forward to hear. I wanted to hear the answers to this because I mean. You know, I figured this is all I, I put your part to live like this.

And so I leaned forward and the man said, Mill. What you need is a religious experience. But you can't have one. I don't know, you know. The only other place I had to turn, you know, they couldn't do anything to me.

You know, to probably turn to God. And someone was cutting me off right there. He said, but you can't have one. And you know what, the only thing, what the man's telling me, the only thing answered I could have in life.

He already told me what it was and he turns around and says I can't have it. And see my confidence, my heart is to this person. See, my heart's not on the Lord. My heart's trusting this man. He said, because Mill, you can't have faith.

Now what do you think that the demons did right there? And I was talking to a demon. And I left there. And what do you think, do you think things got better? Or they got worse? Well, I won't go into anything else.

I went back to that motel room. And I hadn't even thought of it and all the Lord, the Lord just spoke to me. He said, now Mill, do you remember when you were here before in this town? Do you remember what was happening to you?

And now I want to remind you who's working through you. Because now you have me. And I just almost went through the wall. It's all right. So what did the Lord, what would the Lord do with somebody that had just, I mean, such torment.

I just can't tell you. I used to go for five days and nights and not even eat or sleep drugs. I couldn't tell you that. See, I had to have an escape of so torment. See, that's what a lot of people drink.

They say it's the only thing they can find to escape, to get away from it. See, the enemy just gets you deeper. He's just like a, you know, you ever see a dog? He gets a hold and he gets a bigger hold and bigger.

See, people get worse instead of better when they don't turn to Jesus. You see, I didn't know this. And I wasn't, the ignorance that I had wasn't being blessed. I mean, I'm telling you, I got worse. And then wouldn't it be just like God to take someone like me a zero, to take a nothing, and just turn him back against the powers of darkness.

The Lord began showing me things as a brand new Christian. I don't have time to go into all these things, but he began a process of just showing me some things about the powers of darkness. And see, when I come to a place like I am before you right now, see, I know I don't have any natural ability because I couldn't even carry on a conversation for three years, I've got to say.

I really couldn't, see. See, the only time I could talk is when I was out witnessing from the Spirit of God. I just love to hear myself talk, it's the only time I could talk. Because of the brain cells and things through the surgery, I'd been on a heart and lung machine through the drugs and the thinking like that.

And then the Lord in his word just began restoring me. See, I know when I come up here and stand before you, see, I don't have any natural ability that I can fall back on. If it's not grace and if it's not God, every time I go I'm something, every time.

Boy, I'm going to tell you God's something. He sure can do a bunch. He began showing me things about the powers of darkness and they just continued just to beat my head off. Because there's a learning process.

When I first learned that, I thought I'd just help him out, get rid of all of them. And he just let me just kind of flounder around until finally I quit talking to people about it. I set aside all the books and I just quit.

And when I got out of it, but then he could get into it. See, he could get me into it. And so I went to a lay revival. Not a lay revival, but I'd been going to lay revivals. I love to go to churches and have the fellowship with others where I take people out and go witness and things of this nature.

And I was invited to come up to Graceland Baptist Church in New Albany, Indiana, which is in the greater Louisville area, right across the river from Louisville. It's the largest Baptist church in that area.

It is the largest Baptist church in Indiana. And I just went up there to witness. I took a Baptist pastor with me. I had a Methodist pastor with me. And I was going there for three days. And when I got there, I won't go into the details.

I'll just simply tell you that a demonized situation, just a man I knew in my heart, is in my heart to just do it. The Lord had already shown me things. I knew the man. Of course, he figured that he knew more than anyone there.

And it wasn't that anything was wrong with the man. He was just doing all he knew. But the Lord had shown me a little more than he had him. These people didn't know me, and I wasn't going to impress myself in front of them.

And two pastors were already set to leave, and I was fixing to leave. I knew the night before they were going to deal with this person. So what happened right before he was getting up there, and I knew what he was doing and what he was saying was wrong, but he had good intentions.

The man meant well by what he was doing. And all of a sudden, just bang, a headache come over him, not where he sat down, but it put him out on the floor. And I knew the Lord had just let him just kind of be removed out of the way because he had already put something in my heart.

I was already seeing things like that. And so I immediately, I told them that I believed the Lord wanted to use me here. And we moved to another location. This pastor had about ten people in his staff, most all of them there.

Jim Hilton was there. And that's back when I went through manifestations. See, I didn't know you didn't have to go through manifestations. And so this was one of those manifestation things, one of those Hollywood things, you know, that we've been programmed to come to our mind when you see something like this.

It's not like television or Hollywood, okay? But anyway, the pastor saw this man being set free. All of them did. He couldn't touch me. And I'll not go into the things that happened there, but like I tell you, I don't go through manifestations.

Usually if I see manifestation, I say, well, I go witness to that person, tell them about Jesus so they can get saved, or else put them out because they're letting the devil use them to disrupt or something.

And if they're not put, they don't want to be put out, I just catch it up and where it stands. But in this particular situation, I just, I never heard such crying and brokenness behind me as I was hearing this particular time.

And this was pretty intense. Now see, what would take me three days to do back then, I do in five minutes now, or three. But see, I just didn't know. And they still, things will change a year from now, from right now.

You have to walk in what light you have. You don't get boxed in to somebody else. You just get boxed in to Jesus. And so I just had to turn around and look. And I turned around and looked at this pastor.

And it was a pastor. He had a hand up there and just, I remember the color, just ashen. And he was, I'd never seen such a broken man in my life. And of course, I realized and found out later what he's thinking.

He's going back all the years of his ministry. Where he'd taught, you see, he'd taught in seminary at the same time. He was teaching often over in seminary over in Louisville, and still was this summer.

He's going back through all the years of his ministry. And all the hurting people. And all the time he'd been dealing with the symptoms instead of the source. This man on Sunday morning just, I mean, he absolutely bent himself over the altar.

Instead of being there for that day and going there for three days. I stayed at Graceland Baptist Church as this revival continued over four months. I stayed there for three months. And day and night, all I did was cast demons out of church members.

I started with the staff. And pretty soon after three, see, I already knew people was walking in the walls had demon problems. But what I was encountering right there, I was getting information. I was finding out how these demons got into these people.

I was finding out how long they'd been there. I was finding out about sickness and disease. And I tell you, I never heard anything like this in my life. I never read anything in the books or heard anything like this.

I mean, a whole bunch. And bondage. And I, see, that just wouldn't compute. And here I am talking the thing. I'm casting them out of them. The ones that meant business about walking the Lord saved me.

The others just, they just come back. That's how they got there in the first place. People walking out of their cartons. I had a rest after I left there that three months. I went to six or seven churches the next year and all six or seven pastors.

Every pastor went to deliver some demons. Is this telling you something, folks? Is this trying to tell you that there might have been someone asleep around the day? Are you beginning to see that the only thing that matters is what God says?

See, you've learned enough to know that you better not be afraid of demons. You better be fearing God. Is that right? I gave a testimony in a convention center. There was a James in January of this last year.

And I came to a point where I said something about demons. And I watched this puzzled look on people's face. You know, we've been so programmed. You know, demons, they can't get past the stained glass.

They sure won't come past that. And I saw this puzzled look, and I don't know, I just said this. I said, folks, if Christians can't have demons, then the top evangelists and pastors in the Baptist denomination are lost, because I've been watching the Lord set afree from demons.

And it got quiet, kind of like it is here right now. There's a war against the covenant, folks. It's a war, as Jack says, we haven't showed up for. So what do you think the enemy has been doing when you don't show up for the war?

And so God, in his grace, from the time that I told you I was 43 years old, I saw the church in bondage. I knew it was in bondage from the time I said, he's going to go tell something. You can't go tell anyone anything spiritual.

Just get that straight. The only thing that's related spiritually is what the Spirit of God relates. Or you can relate it, but no one can't see it. Because when you start talking to someone, when you start talking, it's just like when you go to witness, there's somebody else talking to them, too.

And they already got that person programmed, and they'll talk them out of it. That's why when you go to witness, you go and give them 25 straight things, and some off-the-wall things, the only thing on your mind.

They look you right in the eye, and you know they're not hearing a thing you say, because there's some other fishermen, too. They're called demons. They fish, and everything that God is is a counterfeit of.

And when you have understanding, folks, then you know how to walk in covenant, and you understand the Word of God. You've got an enemy. I'll tell you, this thing is serious, folks. It's more serious than what they think in Nashville.

It's more serious than what they think in Rome, what the Charismatics think, what the Pentecostal thinks, what anybody thinks. You understand that? Demons and folks have been running this thing too long.

And God has given light, and he's given understanding, and it's grace. It's all God that no one should boast. He's not going to make any reputations for anyone. He's not going to make any name for any churches.

Forget it. Or any people. He's making a name for himself. Now, we're going to see how. And when we get through Saturday, you're going to see how the church got captured. But your Bible is sitting in your lap.

It's there. Because I saw it, and I saw it everywhere but in the Word. I didn't see it here. It don't count. You can't go. You can't walk on experiences. You can only walk here. And then the Lord went through a time when my wife and I were being tested, and there was rejection.

There was a lot of rejection. You know, we found ourselves in a very lonely place. And we'd left some things, and the Lord, there's no phone calls. There's no people come around us. And it was during this time that the Lord began.

Sometimes maybe I'd sleep one hour, and the rest of the night he would keep me all night long, just showing me the things that I'll be sharing with you. And then I came to a place there. I remember I looked at that Bible one day, and I got afraid.

If I read one word out of that Bible, I believe I'd blow up, disintegrate, if I get one more thing out of that Bible that he had given me so much because I didn't have sorted out what he had to give me.

I already saw it, but I didn't have it put together. And then I said, God, now you've showed this to me, and I see it. And I will say it. I'll proclaim it. But the thing about it, first place, I can't even go tell anyone what you've showed me because you can't do this in 25 words or less.

I'd like for you, when we get through Saturday, to try to put a label on this if you can. You just try to do it, and if you do it, I'd like to know what it is. So I couldn't go tell anyone what I saw in this Bible that we're all supposed to be walking in.

And the second place, I said, I know church let me share what you showed me there anyway. So there I've got it, now what? And it's just like God to have one of the biggest bandits there are in the country to call me.

Say, will you go on a trip with me? And he'll get on a trip, and then I get to reading the Word and get to praying with him, and God just changed his life. Of course, you know it's James, probably. And it's just like God, if you can't get in a church, he just set up something at the evangelist's office right there and have a church come to you.

And that's exactly what happened. It started out with eight people, and it began increasing. It happened, nobody planned it, it just happened. I mean, it happened. Well, he got changed, he wanted to stop, the staff got changed, and then he wanted, so he started getting other people.

And the next thing you know, we moved five different times, and the place where we moved down at the Dunphy in Dallas has now filled up where we're looking at another place to move to again, and God just keeps saying from a point of zero that God would turn around and just manifest his grace to somebody like me.

See, I'm all the normal that God, that I could ever say anything that you'd be interested in. You can't know what it is for me to stand before people and think it is. You know, I'm so aware of that, and see.

But anyway, I'm going to do it in Jesus' name. But John 10 .10 says this enemy is killing you, destroying you, and stealing from you. And the Word says in the last days there's going to be a church that's falling asleep.

The Church’s Captivity and Spiritual Warfare

Is that correct? Well, do you believe the church is ignoring the war? Don't tell me it already left John 10 .10. I just told you what's in it. Why is it we don't know anything about this enemy? It's been real convenient for them to ignore the minute.

Hasn't it been real convenient? See, if you don't ignore the devil today like everybody else, you have an extreme view. If you don't ignore the devil like everybody else, you've gone off the deep end.

If you don't ignore the devil like everybody else, you've gone charismatic, and that ruined you right then in Baptist circles. I'll tell you, there's some precious people out there. I'll tell you, they need about as much help as Baptist people out there.

There's a whole bunch that's in bondage. Can I just go ahead and tell you? What if someone come up to Paul and said, Paul, do you see a demon behind every bush? Then Paul would have just stopped, and we wouldn't have had two-thirds of the Bible New Testament written, would we?

Don't you know Paul to just sit down? God, now I can't go on in this apostle business. You're worried because this is hurting my reputation, and my image is not looking good to have to deal with demons, and so I can't write the Bible, God.

You can't write none of the Bible through me. What about people with ministries today? God, I can't handle that part of the Bible, because it'll hurt my ministry, and you see, I'm helping you out with my ministry.

Don't you ever go away from here saying, I see a demon behind every bush. I see 75, and I'll be glad when the church sees them too. Said the gates of hell are not going to prevail against the church. The demons are tearing church doors down, folks.