Prayer Is a Warfare — B.H. Clendennen

Prayer as the Evening Sacrifice

And the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. I was in Vietnam for seven years during that war. My wife and I were missionaries there. We didn't just live out there continually, but a big part of it was we were there.

Saw Pentecost come the first time. Downtown Saigon was a big incense factory. And in those places, all the little curls burning all the time in Saigon. But you know, you go down to where they made it, and it was a fish market.

It was death. It was garbage. Twenty-five years of war. It was stench. But I don't care what the smell was, you could smell that incense. No matter how rotten the fish were, no matter how much trash is on the street, out of all that, you could pick up the odor of that incense.

David was saying, I know there's a lot of things coming up there, but let this prayer be distinct enough that you hear what I'm saying. Don't let it be just a lot of talk. Don't let me be just up here asking things I don't need.

But let that prayer be like that incense. Out of all the billions that are calling, that there's something about this. He said, let the lifting up of my hands be as the evening sacrifice. You know, in Exodus 29, you have the morning and the evening sacrifice.

The morning, the bullock is slaughtered and the blood taken out and poured on the altar, but the carcasses took outside the city and destroyed, burned. That's Jesus did that. That won't ever happen again.

That's once and for all, that blood was for us. But the evening sacrifice, the blood was there, but the bullock was put on that altar and burned right there. That's us. That's Romans 12 and 1. David said, let that prayer be that, a total, absolute surrender.

That's what it always meant, to lift up your hands. You know, put that gun at you, whatever. You know, I surrender. He said, let my prayer be that. May that be the way it is with us, our prayers. Be so tuned to God and so anointed of the Holy Spirit.

And like that incense, that fragrance comes out. You just can't kill it. We had dinner the other evening and we had making those sandwiches, had those big onions and sister was debating whether she ought to eat those onions.

I said, oh, you can take a half a pot of garlic and kill that every time. I said, just don't worry about it. Let that distinctiveness of that prayer be real. Amen. You know, we, it didn't, how well you can talk.

I've saw people praying, you know, especially in public. And they'll take on a new diction, you know, a different tone of the voice. And they can begin to cry. You know, God knows cons, doesn't he? He just recognized every one of them.

It's just reality he's looking for. Oh, may he help us. I'm so glad that Adrian had another meeting today. Thank God, I was missing this one. Amen. Oh, it's good. We're talking about prayer in these services.

Prayer as Spiritual Warfare in Nehemiah

And I want you to turn with me to the book of Nehemiah this morning. This great man here, Nehemiah chapter 4. I'm going to read verses 9, 17, and 20. 9, 17, and 20. This morning, prayer as a warfare is a title.

For Darren up there in the booth, yesterday we just opened this up just to remind us while you're turning. And it's always good to kind of relook at things, you know, so we know where we're going. Dealing with this thought of prayer, we said there were five aspects of prayer.

Many things may work out from it, but there was communion, submission, petition, cooperation, and conflict. We dealt with those four, first four, yesterday in that lesson. And today we come to this part of it.

And the rest of the week will be taken up with this thought, prayer as a warfare or a conflict. And here in the fourth chapter of the book of Nehemiah, beginning first with verse 9. Nevertheless, we made our prayer unto our God and set a watch against them day and night because of them.

Set a watch against them. Verse 17, move right down. And they which builded on the wall, and they that bear burdens with those that laid it, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other held a weapon.

And then in verse 20. In what place, therefore, you hear the sound of the trumpet, resort you thither unto us. Our God shall fight for us. Now, if you go to the New Testament, to that wonderful book of Ephesians.

In Ephesians chapter 6, Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 18. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit. Watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. Prayer as a warfare.

The Christian life, often, even in the Bible, there's a lot of scriptures that make us know that it is a warfare. And we know that. Today, you have got every kind of a notion coming out. The spiritual warfare.

I even seen on the sign in front of a church of Christ. They're having a series on spiritual warfare. I wondered if they were going to decide to baptize different or something. If this is how the warfare was going to work its way out.

But everywhere there's a sound. Spiritual warfare. Mighty warrior conferences are being held. All the devil has to say, boo, and we run. Amen. We've forsaken the greatest mission fields in the world. That's the inner cities of America.

The church has moved out to safer quarters in the suburbs. And all the while, we're talking about spiritual warfare. Zone off the earth. Amen. To run the devil out of certain sections of the earth. All of this.

And so, I named this just the conflict more than warfare. Because I don't want to get your mind befuddled with a lot of presuppositions. There is a warfare. And it's often reckoned to that. Very often, the appeal is made to sinners out there.

Come and join and enter into the battle of the Lord. You've heard that. But there's an irregularity about such an appeal. Because that sinner don't know nothing about that warfare. I mean, he knows absolutely nothing.

And such a militant company. The real consciousness of the fight or the battle never takes a hold of a human until they're in here. You don't know anything about the battle. Why? Me and the devil never had an argument for 27 years.

I mean, we were as close, I guess, as a man can get. I was on his side. He knew that. So, there's no war in this life. Amen. The battle started when I got into it. Paul wrote about it in Romans 7. That terrible warfare taking place in a man.

Once the camp is invaded by righteousness. And so, to make the appeal to the sinner to come join this battle of the Lord. There's not right. The unconverted don't know a thing on earth about it. For them, it's something merely reported.

It's something you talk about. Objective, outside of themselves. On which they're all together have confused and wrong ideas. But because terrorists have took that up. There's a confused idea about it inside of the church.

As to what spiritual warfare is all about. It's not until you and I are truly in Christ. Born again. Baptized into this body. That we really become to realize what a warfare it is. Now, you have those that talk about spiritual warfare.

Always against the struggle. Playing down the struggle. Oh, it said you get saved. You'll never have another problem. I know the minute they got across the Red Sea. Korah told them that. He said, we're out of Asia.

Now, you'll never hear of this again. You know, all the battles over. But that's not the way it is. The warfare never really begins. Until you're on the inside. Now, you become an object of the devil.

The enemies targeted you now. You know a rabbit, if you just stay still, never get shot at. It's when he jumps up that he gets himself in trouble. You're never exposed till you get into the Christian life.

And you really stand up as a child of God. It's not just the warfare of the Christian life. In the general and ordinary sense. So that we're concerned with at this time. Not just the struggle. It is that warfare which is especially connected with the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Church's Warfare Is the Manifestation of Christ's Life

Of which you and I are here for. It is a testimony of Jesus. That's a spirit of prophecy. That's the reason the church itself becomes a prophet by what it is. Amen. And it is this warfare. And this is the essence of all spiritual warfare.

It isn't that we're out here just against all evil. Marching in the streets trying to stop abortion. I hate abortion. But I know if I can get a woman born again. There won't be any more of that. It isn't out here trying to get people.

They brought that movie Jesus Superstar. Whatever it was. To a theater in Beaumont. And that theater, I mean that movie they tell me. Pictured Jesus as a homosexual. And they were calling, wanting us to come down.

Boycott the theaters. I said, you know folks, I'm against that kind of a thing. He don't need me to protect him. When those fools are all in hell. He's going to be God. He don't have to have somebody to protect him.

He just needs somebody to live for him. You know he needs us to enter into this. And the real warfare. The real warfare is to stifle this life. To stop its manifestation. God has allowed us by the Holy Spirit.

To be possessed with this life. And now it's our responsibility. Not to frustrate this life. But to manifest this life. That men and women around us. Actually know that Christ lives. The whole testimony of the church.

Rests in this fact. You individually. And the church collectively. Do we create conditions of life. On that job. In that school. Wherever we are. Because of our presence there. Do we truly create the conditions of life.

You know, outside of this church. There is wickedness. But inside of here. I said to the pastor last night. I said, we talk about revival. All Chino needs is what was in that church last night. Or in here this morning.

We begin to worship him. You know, that's all. But you can take that man out there. That won't listen to you. It's difficult to talk to him. But you bring him into an atmosphere like this. And all of a sudden.

All those arguments are broken down. He realizes the reality of things. And that's what this warfare is all about. He doesn't about run the demons out of Chino. He'll take care of that. When he comes back with his church.

That'll be. I can tell you. Evil men are going to wax worse and worse. Until the judgment. It's going to be that way. We're not here to make it a better world to live in. We're here to gather people out of it.

For his name. We're here gathering the bride. We're not only the purpose. But we're the means. Through which that purpose is secured. And the only way it can happen. Is for this life. This testimony. Of Jesus be a reality.

Not just something we talk about. But a reality. Now, the general conception of the Christian warfare. Is that which has to do with evils, wrongs, vices. And the things of this world. The human conditions were taught to be otherwise.

And it is there that the mistaken. Misapprehension of the unconverted comes in. They think the church is here. And you listen to these civil religious people. That want to vote politicians in to change things.

Let me tell you something folks. If it could be won by politics. God had a man on the throne once. And run him all the way to a desert. He had just kept Moses on that throne. He would have made him king of Egypt.

And that's how he's going to do the thing. That has nothing to do with it. It's a civil religion that's destroyed us. We're not of this world. Our weapons are not of this world. And the warfare is not as we've tried to put it.

And the confusion that roped off part of the earth. Going to run the devil out of there. The only place he's run out of is out of me. Amen. Out of the church. We set the bounds. But he's still out there trying to get in.

Pressing against us all the time. But the warfare is for the manifestation of this life. All hell is set against it. You know I just in the prayer meeting this morning. God kept bringing to me all along as I was praying.

Resist the devil. Amen. Give no place to the enemy. That sounds like something's attacking me. That I'm sitting here to keep him out. And to keep something in. He said to Timothy guard the deposit. There's something trying to take this away from you.

All of the time. It said they continued steadfastly. That means something was always trying to pull them out. Something's always trying to make them a part of something that they weren't. Always that appeal out there.

To pull us down off. But Tobias said come on down here and let's talk. I'm too busy to get down there and argue with you. I've got a wall to build. There's a kingdom to be put in place. And a life to be manifested.

And that's where the warfare is. They think that to enter into the Christian army means to go out and do battle with evils, with wrongs. And the vices around this world. I hate abortion. I wish it never split the atom.

I hate all of those things out there. But I do know you can't pass laws in Congress and change that. There's only one thing that changes that. Oh Holy Ghost. Revival does come from you. It is by and through this life being made real.

Now when you really come into touch. With the full testimony of the Lord Jesus. Then you begin to develop another consciousness. Or maybe better put better. A new consciousness begins to take a hold of you.

I mean the whole picture begins to change. Now once you've really come in contact. Amen. You develop it. And it's not merely evils, wrongs and sins. That you're up against. But you're dealing with spiritual forces.

Intelligent. Cunning. Malicious. That are back of everything else. It's not the abortion now. But there's something behind that. It's not just the evil in that street. That you're doing warfare with. You know a man can quit smoking, fornicating and lying.

And still go to hell. You can cut off the limbs. It's the roots you've got to get at. And when that new consciousness begins to develop. Then you recognize. My battle is not with that human. It isn't just that drugs.

It's what's behind all of that thing. There's an intelligence far beyond the ability of the human to imagine. And it is tireless in the extreme. You win in one place. He'll come in another. And when you begin to realize this consciousness takes a hold of you.

That I'm not here just to rid the world of evil. I'm here to deal with what's behind all that. It is that warfare that you and I are concerned with. And of which prayer is a major key. Is a major thing.

Prayer as the Battle for the Testimony of Jesus

He looked for a man to stand in the gap. What kind of a gap? He said you break that hedge and serpents bite you. Once that altar has been forsaken. I can tell you anything can come in. Anything can just come in.

Sit down on the pew. Fill the church with prayers. Agents of darkness. Worshipping at our altars. Simply because that hedge was broken. And the serpent came in. And the Bible said they looked so much like us.

That you couldn't tell the difference. Angels had to make the difference in the final analysis. That cannot happen until that which stands against it. That prayer is the only weapon that holds that back.

The prayer life. It is that warfare that we're concerned with. Which is related to the full testimony of Jesus. As to his absolute and perfect sovereignty and lordship in this universe. This is the warfare.

And that warfare is not with things. But with spiritual persons. Headed by the great spiritual personage that the Bible calls the evil one. That's where the war is. And this is where we must keep it. Now spiritual conflict implies a spiritual position.

Spiritual Position and the Nature of the Conflict

What kind of people can't fight spiritual wars? You know, you see that coming out. You just read some of these books. Some of the most foolishness, if you know anything about God at all. Is written under the title of spiritual warfare.

In our district, we have a mighty warriors conference, you know. And I thought now that's wonderful. We just create these mighty warriors. And I began to look into what kind of warriors it was. And they wind up with clown suits and snow cones.

Doing war against Satan on city streets. Now don't you know hell gets disturbed. When you got a bunch of people looking like clowns down on the street. Supposed to be representing the Lord Jesus Christ.

And doing war against the devil. Why, that's him in that suit. If you think anything about anything that will make Jesus look like a clown, folks. We're not talking about a clown. We're talking about the Lord of glory.

We're talking about the name that's above everything. To me, I don't think there's anything more disgraceful. Than to see people dress up like a clown. And supposed to be representing him. Fools mock at sin.

Clowns are always have to deal with lightness and foolishness. Amen. There's nothing foolish. He said don't let foolishness be named among you. I know every time I get on this. I'm treading on somebody and their sacred deal.

This is how they're doing the warfare. Well, I can tell you, you're losing the war if you are. Because that ain't the way it is. Amen. It implies spiritual warfare. Implies a spiritual position. This warfare is related to a position.

It's a consciousness which only comes to us in a certain realm. It don't come until you arrive somewhere in God. Then your eyes are open to the forces about you. Amen. You got somebody in the congregation giving you trouble.

And you just figure this is a problem here. That's not the problem. It's the thing pushing that individual. There's something there somewhere. You got to get behind it to know what it's all about. You may be a Christian.

And you as a Christian may realize that you're up against adversities, difficulties, oppositions. Things which make the Christian life full of conflict and strenuous. And call out all militant features of life.

And yet you may not enter into the ultimate testimony of Jesus at all. You just know things are against you. That's the reason you have so many people every time that things get a little hard. They think God has forsaken them.

They begin to accuse God. Why did God let this happen to me? I can tell you, folks, you don't need that why in there. You fool around, you're going to get AIDS. You can just mark it down. If you smoke, you're going to die with lung cancer.

No need in asking nobody why. And if you don't go on with God, then your life is going to be confused and messed up. But if you go on with God, you're going to meet the devil. There's going to be a war.

All of hell is going to come against you. And everything that can be knocked out is going to be knocked out. If you can be, then I'm not going to see you in the rapture. Now you can mark it down. If you can be shaken, you will be shaken.

Because God doesn't protect His people. He's given me a life that's overcome death. And I must prove that in this world. Spiritual death. Spiritual death is a testimony that you've lost it. But no matter what comes against me, I can stand.

If I keep those loins girt about with truth. This life must be demonstrated now. I represent Christ in a world where He was rejected. Amen. And I must not misrepresent Him. They're going to reject me.

They hated me, He said. They're going to hate you. You're in the same world I'm in. Make me real. There's going to be a war. Everywhere He went. They're trying to throw Him off the cliff. They're trying to find Him to kill Him.

Everywhere He went. It was a constant thing. Why do you think you're going to be different? If the testimony of Jesus is coming through that church. The only reason we're not hated, we don't have any gospel.

Just let the thing be boiled down to a little newspaper deal. But we make Him real. I can tell you. There's going to be a turmoil. There's going to be a war. If you come as a believer to the revelation of the full of Christ.

And His personal sovereignty and lordship. And the greatness of His work of the cross in every realm. Then into the light of the church which is His body. Then you immediately at that point. You enter into the realm of that conflict.

When you see the revelation of the greatness. Of the work of that cross in every realm. And you bring that into that body which we are. And it's at that point in time. There's a different consciousness now.

About what we're warring. And what we're fighting. And you realize city council has no authority over this. If I win here. I'm going to win it in this altar. It is here. The violent take it by force. It is a people that lay hold of God.

When Zion prevails. Sons and daughters are born. Why is that? It's because the devil has taken them captive at his will. Until the church realizes Satan's control over the laws. She's never going to effectively win them.

Because it is at that altar. The Bible said in the book of Isaiah. That he would not open his prison doors. So somebody has to open them. Jesus said the gates of hell will not prevail against you. Gates don't jump up and attack you.

He just said we got to open those gates. The prisoners got to come out. And it cannot happen apart from prayer. One of those times. Two o 'clock, three o 'clock in the morning. I just wake up wide awake.

I ain't hurting. There's nobody breaking into the house. But I'm just wide awake. And I lay there to listen. And I heard this voice. How many people you think in hell because you haven't prayed? How many folks you reckon are lost?

Because you refuse to prevail. If when Zion prevails they're born. Then when Zion don't prevail they're not born. The war isn't won. Somebody has to break that hold of darkness. That's the warfare we're talking about.

Only that life. It's said that that Red Sea fled from the presence of God in Judah. Now until that river is released. Hell isn't going nowhere. Until somebody makes him go away. He is not going away. And that victory isn't won in the calisthenics of religion.

Prayer, Spiritual Authority, and the Defeat of the Enemy

The apostles learned that. They left the altar and found the devil wasn't subject to them. They'd been casting them out. They'd been winning the victory. You get to Mark 9. And this power failed in the hands of the apostles.

Because they thought just learning how to do something is all necessary. But it's keeping in contact with that throne that makes a difference in it all. You become increasingly conscious that it's with the devil directly and nakedly that you have to deal with.

No matter what the thing is. What it looks like. Whether it's finances being stagnated. Or whether there's a gossiping and murmuring going on in the house. You come to learn that it's with the devil directly and nakedly that you're dealing with.

And that you cannot handle him. The seven sons of Seba left bruised and naked. Trying to take on the devil. Apart from the strong man. It's at an altar of God Almighty that the victory is won. And that's the one place most of the churches have left.

You can get them to anything but a prayer meeting. You can get them out to anything but a prayer meeting. But that consciousness is bound up with a specific position. That's what we have to know. That consciousness.

You can't get that carnal mind to know that. The church has to be brought up to a level spiritually. The individual. Before they can recognize where the war is. And if you don't know who the enemy is or where he is.

You're going to lose that war. You can just be sure of that. An experience of believers is that they go on with the Lord. Which means going upward. Away from the earth to the heavenlies. That's what it means going on.

You see the contrast between the Corinthian church and the Ephesian church. It's just a matter of position. That's all. Paul called them both saints. You know, it's hard to even believe they're kinfolks.

But he called them both saints. But the difference was one was in the heavenlies and the other was the earth. You take the word man in the book of Corinthians. And it has all to do with man. Right down here on this earth.

But when you get into the book of Ephesians. It's a heavenly man. We moved out of here. Now we're in the heavenlies. It's not a matter of the things of the earth. And they understood. It was to them Paul wrote.

This Ephesians 6. Where he said put on the whole armor of God. Because you know war against flesh and blood. It was to them he could make. Because they were conscious of where the war was. The Corinthian people.

I'm a Paul myself. Well they said well not me. I'm of Apollos. Amen. All talked as men. And there's no need in telling them about no armor of God. Because they don't know who they're fighting. You don't put this armor on against a human being.

It's a devil. It's invaded that place. And the only way to understand that is at the altar. It is this prayer. Becomes a weapon of conflict. But it never does until you recognize where the war is. As long as you think it's a people.

I've got this brother giving me all this trouble. But what's behind that brother? Amen. Where is it at? I mean you've got to come down to grips with it. You may have to cast the devil out of him. And if you can't then God may have to cast the bodies in out one way or another.

But the thing will have to be purged out. But you've got to recognize that it wasn't just somebody. There's something behind all that. It's always going upward. More and more away from the flesh to the spirit.

And the more closely that the Christian comes in contact with the ultimate spiritual forces of this universe. And the conflict then assumes new forms all along the line. The warfare takes on a new character altogether for spiritual people.

Amen. You keep it down that carnal. You've got people buying airplane tickets to go to Saudi Arabia to run the devil out of there. Amen. And they don't even know who the devil is for the most part. But when you come the more you move away from the earthly to the heavenless.

Then you realize where this warfare is. And you recognize you don't deal with him with words or with arguments. You deal with him the Lord rebukes you Satan. But that's a position you must be in. Or else you're going to leave naked also.

There's no way that you can do this. It is a warfare linked up with the position to which a believer comes. The consciousness comes to us of this only in a certain realm. Only in that spiritual place do you come to understand.

And until you understand then you can't win. It is a fuller measure of spiritual warfare. And being a spiritual warfare it presupposes a spiritual state of the believer. It just absolutely presupposes that.

And again that's the reason God could talk to that Ephesian church along this line. Because they were there. The others would never know. To put that in another way the more spiritual we become. The more spiritual does a warfare become.

And the more intense comes a conflict. Somebody said it seemed like the harder I tried to get closer to God. The worse it gets. Certainly that's so. Amen. Because you're coming up against a more sophisticated devil.

You're not just dealing with snuff now. I'm telling you. That's all down there that's got to be laid aside. You're dealing with the devil. Amen. And of course the more spiritual you come. You said well I fasted and prayed for ten days.

I quit. I'm telling you father I went the worst things God. What do you expect? You're moving out against him. Now you think he's going to play dead because you didn't eat two or three days. No, no. He sees there's a possibility of a breakthrough here.

And I can tell you there's going to be reinforced demons come here. You can believe it. There's a whole lot more demons against Living Waters Church. This January it was when I was here last January. Because you're closer to pushing through.

He's determined. You know always the weak point in the line. When I was in the Marines we began to bolster up. This is where he's coming. We got to have more troops here you know. That's the reason at that point where you're about to break through.

The hell is amassing them demons. Therefore we must come more and more into this altar. When in Azusa Street. Mr. Seymour. That black man that God used to bring that. He was praying five hours a day. And God said to him you're not praying enough is a problem.

So it went to eight hours a day. I mean all hell has come against that little house down there. Because there's going to be a breakthrough. That if Jesus doesn't come. And long enough down the road for historians to write.

I'll promise you. The most powerful revival ever with this earth. Has been what broke out at Azusa Street. There's nobody on this earth that I know of. That didn't at least have a cousin that's Pentecostal.

Wherever you find him. I mean everything everywhere. Has been affected by what broke out. I can tell you if I'd have been the devil. I'd have been over there. And if I was a devil I'd be against what's trying to break loose here.

So the more you move into that spiritual realm. The more intense is this war going to be. And you must be. You must expect that. They told us. When we're going into Peleliu. We're expecting 85 casualties.

In the first wave. I'm in the first wave. Listen. I mean the war got bad. Not only of riding that boat. But in my mind. They said only 15 of us out of the first hundred is going to make it. You know. 150 out of the first thousand.

85%. That's about the way it worked out. The closer you move into it spiritually. The more intense it becomes. The more spiritual the warfare is. In our consciousness. In our knowledge. So that we realize.

That is because. We have become more spiritual. Ourselves. And now we can discern. What's going on. When we're carnal. The warfare is carnal. Now. I speak of believers. Not unbelievers. Because I can tell you.

Sinners are not carnal. They're sinners. That word carnality only applies. To believers. And when we're carnal. Then the weapons are carnal. The unbelievers never referred to as carnal. He's natural. When our warfare is carnal.

We meet men on their own level. I mean. Let me tell you. If they come up with an argument. I just got a good argument. Say God. That's the way it is. If they. If they come with reason. Then meet them with reason.

Come with a fierce temper. Get mad with them. I mean. Just let them know. You're not going to run them over. Me. Amen. They come with criticism. Give them back. What to give you. Amen. Well. He said it to me.

That's when we come. And we believe. We got a right to be bitter. You know. If you. If you're bitter. You've been did wrong. God allowed that to happen. I want you to show you. That's been in you all time.

The battle. The war. Never made anybody. It just showed what is there. All the time. You know. I've had folks. Get up. Walk out. While I preach. Said. Does that bother you? I said. Oh. No. Not at all.

Because. Great peace have they. That love thy law. And nothing offends him. Nothing offends that man. That loves the law of God. He's just very happy. When something comes along. But I can tell you. Whatever went along.

In that life. Whatever happened. In that life. If you love God. Then God allowed that to come. To let you know. What's been there. All the time. Man. Great friend of mine. His wife. Was diagnosed with cancer.

He married a lady from Hawaii. One of the sweetest ladies. I ever met in my life. And. They were very. Very close. And. She's diagnosed. As cancer. For some reason. Another God. Never healed her. She died.

But when. When that cancer. Was diagnosed. And the doctors. Told her. That she couldn't live. He called me up. No. He's a ranting at God. He said. Why doesn't God let this happen? I paid tithe. I did this.

I did that. Amen. I said. I'll tell you why it happened. Because. Of this. Terrible accusation. You're making against God. He said. Well. I'm making that. Because of what happened. I said. Oh no. That's always been in you brother.

It's been there. It just brought it out. God. Let this problem come. To bring out. This awful thing in you. Amen. He knew. That the day. He didn't do. What you wanted to do. You're going to point a finger at him.

And I can tell you. Sir. You can't win. In that. You may. Defeat the adversary. Being a man. But if God. Becomes your adversary. You lost. And you just know that. And when you. When we realize. When we're carnal.

We fight back. With those weapons. Meeting them always. On their level. This is carnal. Warfare. With carnal weapons. When we cease. To be carnal. And quit. All that carnal. Ground. And become totally.

Spiritual. We find ourselves. In a new realm. Now. And we're dealing. With spiritual forces. And not with. Flesh and blood. And so. All bitterness. Is gone. I've had people. I passed. Church. 35 years.