(October 1986) 01 - Spiritual Warfare — Ray Lowe

The Prophets’ Failure to Prepare Israel for Battle

I want you to turn with me this morning to Ezekiel, chapter 13, we're going to read five verses of Scripture. I appreciate the brother that was here before me, I'm just sorry he fooled with some of the messes, the sermon I was going to preach, and you know, and GW did out in the Sunday school class, so I'm going to just repeat what they've already said.

Okay, let's read from Ezekiel, chapter 13, and verse number 1,. And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts.

Hear ye the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God, Woe unto the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit and have seen nothing. I want to call your attention to something before we go any further.

I want you to understand here that God is not speaking to false prophets as we categorize false prophets. He's not saying say to the prophets of Baal, He's not saying prophesy to the prophets of the groves, He's not saying prophesy to the prophets of Astaroth or whatever Old Testament shrine or God that they worship and prophets that proclaim that God.

He is saying prophesy to the prophets of Israel. You notice that? Okay, prophesy to the prophets of Israel. O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the desert. You have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge, for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord.

The greatest indictment and the greatest condemnation of the ministry anywhere in God's whole entire book is found in these five verses of Scripture where God is saying to one prophet, don't worry about the congregation in this particular passage, I want you to deal with the prophets of Israel.

And here's the problem, here's the problem. They have not gone up into the gaps. They have not done their duty. And that is they have not prepared a people to stand in the battle. Notice that word. They have not prepared the people to stand in the battle when?

In the day of the Lord. Now, I don't know whether you know this or not, but this entire Bible is a book that deals with warfare and battle. Over 500 times that word war or battle is used in some form or some way or another.

So when you read the Bible, you're dealing with a book that deals with the subject of warfare. Ever since Satan's sin, exalted himself above the throne of God, crawled into that serpent, ever high he got into where Adam and Eve was, mankind has been in a battle, amen?

He's been at war with something, is that true? He's been at war with the powers of darkness. Now here was a call of the prophets as far as Israel was concerned. They were to build a wall. Here, see, here's the story.

They were to build a hedge and that word hedge is the same thing as the word wall. And it's the same thing that's used in the sixth chapter of Ephesians with the word shield. Shield, wall, and hedge are synonymous terms.

They mean the same thing. He simply said, you have not prepared the people to have the shield that they can stand against their enemy in the day of the Lord. Now, I don't know how long I'm going to be here.

I don't know what all is going to happen. I don't know how much money I'm going to get. I didn't ask the preacher. And to be honest with you, I really don't care. Because the Lord meets the need, amen?

But I want to tell you something, folks. All that I could do for you while I'm here, young folks, you certainly included. In fact, you're at the top of the list. I don't know what God's going to do from now until Wednesday night, and you don't either.

But all that I could do for you, if I could put one of these blessing plans on you, that you'd never have any more financial problems, anything that I could do with you, let's just lob it all right there.

If I don't prepare you, if my preaching and my ministry does not prepare you for the battle, I have wasted your time. I have wasted my time. I have wasted this pastor's time, and any money you give me, I don't deserve it.

If I do not prepare you in my ministry and through my ministry for the battle that you're not going to be in, you're already in. There's not a person here today, young and old alike, that you're not in some kind of battle or some kind of struggle.

And you may have it camouflaged and hid from the past and from everybody else, but you're in a battle today because we have entered the prophetic time called the day of the Lord. And I don't care who you read behind, whether it's old or new, every one of them, when they explain the character of the end time, they explain it as a time of war, is that right?

You read Matthew 24, and the first thing Jesus said when He, in question concerning the end time and the second come the Lord and the destruction of Jerusalem, the first thing He said, said, don't let nobody, don't let no man deceive you.

The second thing He said, He said, many shall come in my name, saying, I'm Christ. The third thing He said was, it's going to be a time of war. It's going to be a time of war and rumors of wars. And if you just keep reading Matthew 24, then He just puts in line those wars, wars and rumors of wars.

There's going to be a war with the pestilence. There's going to be war between the nations. There's going to be war. There's going to be war in the household. There's going to be war in the families. Is that true?

There's going to be hatred of one another. Folks going to betray one another. All kinds of wars are going to be taking place. The character of the end, whether you read it Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, Zephaniah, Amos, Joel, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, anywhere you read concerning the last days, you can boil it down to one thing, it's a time of battle and it's a time of war.

The Church Must Identify the Real Enemy

There's going to be war in these end times. How many is in a battle today in some sort of another? Now if you'll notice, if you'll notice, and you've got to give the government credit, we're all the time declaring war on something, is that right?

The latest war we've declared, the president at the top of the list just gave a national speech, we're fixing to declare war on crime, on drugs, right? Six or seven years ago we declared a war on crime and you just trace it on back, we've declared a war on poverty, we've declared a war on all the social zeal and we've declared a war on this and we've declared war on that.

We're all the time declaring war. Is that true? Everybody but the church. And see the problem is, all these times that the government's declaring war, they're only dealing with the symptoms of the war.

They're dealing with the symptoms, they're not dealing with the problem. And see, the problem is, is we can't fight the war. The number one rule of fighting the warfare, you've got to know who your enemy is.

I went in the army in 1957, I was 17 years old, I weighed 110 pounds. If I'd have weighed another ounce, they wouldn't have let me in. In ten weeks the government put 44 pounds on me and then they sent me to school and while in school we studied more about the enemy than we did about the weapons we had.

They drilled us, you've got to know your enemy, you've got to know how he is. I left school, they sent me to South Korea and I was one day driving a jeep for a lieutenant. We went up on a high mountain in South Korea to look into North Korea in the 1st Cavalry Division.

He was a part of what they called back then the Intelligence Corps. And we looked over the DMZ, we were there to guard the DMZ, but on this particular day we went on top of this mountain with this squad of men and the lieutenant and we spent all day long just looking at the enemy.

We just, you know, looked at him. You couldn't see much, you could see a movement here and a movement there. But I learned that day, I learned that day that wars and battles are won and lost according to knowing what the enemy is up to.

Is that true? How many of you believe you know what the enemy is up to? How many remembers the Prophet Elijah as he lay in his bedchamber and knew every move the enemy was fixed to make? And because he knew it, he was able to give right down to the cross of the teeth and the dot of the eye every move the enemy was going to make.

And because of this, he was able to cause God's people to win the battles. Is that true? So our problem today is we're all the time declaring war, but we've never been able to declare war on the devil because we don't know where he's at.

Years ago, God spoke to me, I was pastor of a church in Mississippi, and brother, we was on the road. I mean, we were moving, we were knocking out walls. Man, you're talking about on the road, we was on the move.

We were bowling, skating, we were rolling and building, and I could get up on Sunday morning and man, I could raise X amount of dollars, I need X amount, we fixed to do this. And it was no problem, I had folks that was willing to finance the plan, and boy, we was rolling and we was moving.

And right in the middle of that, God spoke to me and said, you doing this, I hadn't got nothing to do with it. And man, it knocked me down and I didn't know what to do. And it took me a few days to get my mind back together.

And the Lord spoke to me and he said, I'm going to show you where the devil's at. I'm going to show you Satan's seat. And I never heard nobody preach on Satan's seat. I never heard nobody even mention the term.

But to one of the churches, the Lord said, I know where Satan's seat is, I know his base of operation, I know where his throne is, I know where he works from, I know all about him. And brother and sister, if there's anything that we need to know today, we need to have a good educational program on putting the devil out to us where we can declare war on the powers of darkness.

Spiritual Warfare Behind Social Crisis

Now we are going to lose a war on crime, I mean on drugs. We are going to lose that war unless the church, the sanctified, the Holy Ghost filled, unless the pulpit gets involved and except the spirit-filled people get involved, we're going to lose every war that the government launches is because they're dealing with the symptoms and you can't stop it until you deal with where the problem's at.

The cause of it, amen? How many of you believe there's a cause of drug abuse today? So the indictment against the minister was, is you have not prepared the people for the battle in the day of the Lord.

Now, this is heavy but I got to tell you this, I believe I as a preacher, any preacher here, any minister, and any, wherever you minister, I don't care who you are or what you are, amen, if you're a parent here, I'm going to put the blame on you too, I do not believe we have prepared young folks for the battle.

They cannot cope with it. I've got a sister sitting here this morning that just a few weeks ago, her step 22-year-old boy put a bullet in him to commit suicide. Every 10 minutes in the United States now, there's a young person either overdosing, suicide, or they're shooting themselves.

Every 10 minutes in the United States, there's a young person taking their life. Y 'all listening? Okay. The doctor as he dealt with her stepson, of course he made it, he's alive, but here's what the doctor said.

He said, these kids, he said, we're digging bullets out of kids every day now. This is a hospital in Rockdale County, not too far from here. He said, every day, we're digging bullets out of children, out of kids, young people.

He said, here's the problem. He said, they cannot cope with the pressures. You look up the word in Matthew 24, that word tribulation, there's coming tribulation. Look and see what it means. It means a great pressure, a time of great pressure.

We've not prepared young people for the battle at their ends, is that true? Back when I was a boy, the only thing we got into was smoking rabbit tobacco behind the barn. Is that right? Got a menu whipping for smoking rabbit tobacco rolled up in a brown paper bag.

Okay. Or we jump out of a, well, we didn't have the car, jump out of a wagon and steal somebody's watermelons. Okay. That's all we got into. You know, stuff like that. I did buy me a plug of tobacco one time and got a whipping for that.

But I want you to know it's a different story now. It's a whole, all together, different ball game. This is why God's going to have to restructure the church. We're shooting at soldiers that don't even exist anymore.

And there's a new crop of enemy soldiers out there that we're going to have to wake up to, learn how to battle with him, learn how to go to war with him, learn how to lock horns with him, or we're going to lose the battle in this last hour.

Because kids out there today are not battling smoking rabbit tobacco, they're not out there battling or stealing somebody's watermelons. They out there in these schools, they out there in the public, they out there in their gathering places, they're facing uncleanliness, they're facing perverted spirits.

Y 'all listening to me? All over this country, Pentecostal preachers are crying, my girl's perverted, my girl's a lesbian, my boy's a homosexual, my boy's on drugs. Out of Pentecostal homes, full gospel homes everywhere, kids are falling into the piles of darkness, kids are falling into promiscuous sex, and I just passed the Assembly of God church, I'd have about 250 if I was there this morning, I had three cases of sexual child abuse, I had three young girls pregnant without a legal daddy, my God, I had divorce in just about every other home, you've never seen so many battles, you've never seen so many problems, are y 'all listening to me?

Because we are fighting a war with the powers of darkness. People for this hour. Now the biggest mistake we made years ago, we started telling them they wasn't gonna be here. Office this week, I done too much hard work driving that tractor and trailer, my back got out of whack, and I go to a bone cracker, and I knew this particular chiropractor, she's a lady, and boy, she can break you too, I'm telling you, but as I lay there after she done broke me up good, I said to her, where do you go to church?

She said, I'm a trunk Baptist. I said, I've heard of all kind, but never that kind. She said, I got my lead in my trunk. Said, I'll tell you why. She said, Ray, she said the world around us is dying and going to hell, and I'm tired of a social program, I'm tired of all this mess the church is doing, and we're losing every day.

Every ten minutes there's a young person blowing their brains out. How can you believe we're winning when 80 of our young people's either on drugs or alcohol? Come go with me to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the month of May and June, when all the schools turn out, and I want you to see thousands of young people in a drunken stupor.

I want you to see trucks as they back up and haul off. I'm talking about dump loads, dump loads of beer and all the rubbish that young people leave. I want you to walk through the parking lots of Howard Johnson's and Holiday Inn and watch young people having open sex, and you're talking about we're winning the battle, we're losing every day.

A Fresh Word from Heaven in the Pulpit

I want you to know God's fixed to do something about the battle we're in. I said God's fixed to do something about the battle, and the first thing He's doing, He's doing something in the pulpit. He's getting the prophets of Israel when they'll quit following their foolish ideas and their misleading thoughts and get back to where we can hear the voice of God.

Can you say amen and once again be led by the Holy Ghost and bring a word to that pulpit fresh from that glory world that you can stand on in these hours? I traveled for 17 years full time as an evangelist, and you know as an evangelist you can operate on seven sermons.

If the Lord don't lead you to go eight nights, and if He does, you can shout them one night because folks are shouting out anything. I had more than seven because I had run 32 night meetings. Seventeen years as an evangelist, God stopped me in 1980, put me to pass in the church, and I preached a year and a half, and I done said everything I knew from Genesis to Revelations, I was out of something to say, and I would get a preacher in trouble.

When you got to go day in and a week in and a week out, three sermons a week, and they want something different every service. A year and a half I said, Dear God, I'm in trouble, what am I going to do?

I'm going to do what I want all the other preachers doing, I'm going down to the bookstore and I'm going to buy that John R. Rice book, got a thousand sermon topics in it. That'll last me at least three years.

I said, true, so help me God, I'd run out of something to say, and of course I done got that church on the road with that bunch of foolishness. I said, I'm going down to buy me a sermon topic book, John R. Rice and some of these other folks, and I know John R. Rice is Baptist, but he's got some good thoughts and I'd build something around those thoughts.

I'd keep this bunch happy anyhow and keep my salary rolling. I started getting in my car to go to the Christian bookstore. God said to me, the only thing that will help my people is a word from heaven.

You get up on heaven altar, you spend some time in prayer, I'll give you a message straight from the throne room, you take it to my people, and on that word they can stand and fight the powers of darkness.

I begin to get up every morning early as I do every morning now, I go to the Lord in prayer, I spend quality time with him every morning, and as I begin to do it, God begin to pour a message in me. The problem was, it was out of step with what I'd been doing, it was out of time with what the church was doing, it was contrary to what most preachers was doing, it was a new move, it was a new word, it was a fresh word, but it was a word that would give the people something that they could stand against the powers of darkness with.

It was a word that you could take to the bank with you. The first thing God's doing, He's getting that pulpit straight. I believe we have failed this generation. I believe the pulpit has failed this generation.

And I'd say that you better not say that you'll get in trouble talking about us preachers. But I can say it, because I'm a part of it. I said I'm a part of it. I believe that we have failed because we have not prepared the people to do battle in the day of the Lord.

Equipping Believers for Spiritual Warfare

For the first few years that I sat under a preacher, he prepared me to go out and hunt a booger man. He'd get up every Sunday morning and say, boy, there's a booger man out there. I went out looking for a booger man.

I never could find a booger man, but I run headlong into a devil. Hadn't found a booger man yet, but I fought a cowpen full of devil's men. True, they didn't prepare me for the battle. I had to do it myself.

I had to get along with God in fasting and prayer to realize there's a devil out there. I want to share something with you. Brother, this is going to back up what you said. 1969, we was in Auburn, Georgia.

We had just closed a 14-night revival. And you know, usually when you close revival, it's been what we measure good. And what we measure good is how many is there, and how many noses and nickels is there.

You know, that's how we measure. And it was good, I think. Looking back on it now, I don't know how good it was, but then it was good. OK? Usually a man doesn't preach 14 nights and done all we done back in 1969.

Boy, you were exhausted and you could just go home and relax and you know and all. That'd be the end of it till the next meeting. But in this particular meeting, I went home that night, laid down, but I couldn't go to sleep.

The sleep would not come. And I said, Lord, there's something wrong. I felt a load on my chest. And I said, Lord, what's wrong? This is very unusual that I can't sleep after such a strenuous revival. What's wrong?

I wrestled that thing to three o 'clock in the morning. I couldn't get sleep to come. So I got up, got dressed, got in my van, started riding. I rode down the four lane almost to the Florida line, got back about five thirty, six o 'clock that morning.

Tired. I'm talking about tired physically, but still I couldn't sleep. But I laid down anyway. And as I laid down, I went into, how many believe that the Holy Ghost can still give you dreams and visions?

I have this vision. I saw this field that I would say was at least one hundred acres. And in this field, the grass was about 18 inches to 24 inches high. And I had one foot in that field, fixed to walk into that field.

As I started to go, I heard a voice off behind me say, don't go. I thought, this is strange. You know, God would be telling you to go. But then, you know, I turned back to watch that voice. And as I turned, I felt the power grab a hold of me and turn me back around to face that field.

And then when I faced the field, my eyes was opened. And in that tall grass, about every 15 yards, lay the most deadly looking serpent that my eyes had ever seen. I couldn't see them with the natural eye.

First time I looked, I could not see them. It was only as this power turned me and said for me to look, could I see the serpents? And every 15 yards, they were hidden in the grass. You couldn't see them.

But they were rusted. They were deadly. I knew they were deadly. And I thought, dear God. And that thing that had me took my eyes across the whole field just slowly. And all what I saw, about every 15 to 20 yards hidden in the grass of that field, lay the most, oh God, the most evil looking serpent that you ever, you can't imagine what I was seeing.

So it startled me. I turned back to watch the voice. I said to that voice that was said to me, don't you go. I said, what am I seeing? I heard that same voice say these words to me. You're seeing Ephesians 6 and 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

Finally, my brother, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole arm of God that you might be able to stand in what day? What day? The day of evil. Put on the whole arm of God that you might be able to stand in the day of evil.

The Lord said to me, don't you walk in that field until you're equipped with the whole armor? Fasted for the next 14 days. Sister Ruth saying, Lord, how do you put on the whole armor? What is the whole armor?

How do you suit up? How do you get suited up? How do you do war with this principality? How do you do war with the powers of darkness? How do you do it? Show me how. Put the armor on me. You know, I want to get suited up.

I want to go. The 14th day, I heard the Lord Jesus say these words to me. I believe this is in Romans 14. He said, put on the Lord Jesus Christ. Make no provision for the flesh to fulfill it in the lust thereof.

He said, sell out to me. Give yourself to me. I'll suit you up. I'll fix you up. I'll give you what you need. And you can walk through this world and do war with the powers of darkness. So I tell you, I really like this.

I have to put on the Lord Jesus Christ. I set out to change my nature. I set out to change my anger. You know, I'm high strung and high tempered and, you know, still get up on the wrong side of the bed, as we say it, bite my tongue and hit myself in the nose and do everything I could do, try to control my temper and get everything right.

But I learned it don't come that way. It has to be a work of God in your life. I said it has to be a work of God in your life. You slurp over this old love we got going today, it's not real. The first principle of love, you got to hate sin.

And the second principle of love, you correct those that's wrong. We've used this thing called love and we produce today, preachers as perverts. We've got everything in our churches today, except what ought to be in there because the devil's used the same scheme on us.

Leadership, Holiness, and the Church’s Calling

He used those saps. And you won't let me in on the inside because you don't love us. Brother, love is not a bunch of baloney. It's not a fleshly thing. It's the thing that comes from God. And it's the only thing you can combat the spirit and the power we offer gifts in 1986.

There's a war going on, folks. This preacher right here is not called a stone mountain to win no popularity contest. But if you obey God, you ain't going to be Reverend Hite in this county. You're going to be a man that no has been known to preach God's word.

You ain't going to be loved by everybody. You ain't going to have your name on the marquee of all the civic clubs. You're going to be known as a man. Hallelujah. With a word from heaven. Hallelujah. And I don't care if you're a Sunday school teacher.

I don't care if you're a schoolteacher. I don't care if you're a parent. I don't care what you are. If you're in a role of leadership, your calling is twofold. Number one, you're to prepare the people for the day of the battle in the day of the Lord.

We're going back to this bonecracker picking a brain a little bit. And I said, you know, David Wilkerson. Oh, yeah, I read all his books. I said, have you read Set the Trumpet to Your Mouth? No, that was next in line.

I'm thinking about something, Brother Lowe. All right. She said, the Bible is a book to Christians. I read to a lost man. Ain't one word not to a lost man, that's repent. Rest of us, me and you, that book belongs to us.

God wants me and you to read that book. Man on the street, if he read, he couldn't understand it. The church book. She said, you know, it's strange. She said, all my life I've been taught that, you know, we weren't going to see all this mess we're seeing.

Instead, if that's not us. I don't see why God didn't just leave it out. I stayed three days on the Bible. I come back with the revelation, take it to the preacher. I said, praise God, look what I found.

He said, that's on the Jews. I said, I'll be back. I'm going to find something else to go back to a few more days. Come out with something. Ray, I'm sorry, but that's in the millennial. Come back to Ruth about the third time with a revelation from God.

I said, hey, man, look what I found. Oh, but I'm sorry that don't mean you. I looked at that man. I said, please, sir, tell me if there's anything in this book for me. Hey, it's for you. It's to tell you how you at war.

Oh, I'm not. Yes, you are. You're a human being today. You at war with the powers of darkness. Is that true? You're at war. Young people's at war. Parents are at war. Marriages are at war. Churches are at war.

Ministers are at war. Everybody's at war. The government's at war. We battle with the powers of darkness. And except we get suited up and fixed up, we're going to lose a war with the powers of darkness.

Jim Heights called to do two things. Number one, to prepare you people to do battle with the powers of darkness. Number two, he's called to equip the Saints for the work of the ministry. How many believe the Saints ought to be equipped to do the work of the ministry?

Equipping the Saints Instead of Overburdening the Pastor

Equipping the Saints, getting the Saints ready. Amen. Get the Saints involved. Get the Saints put on the whole armor. Thinking minister. We're killing preachers with the system we got. He does all the praying.

He does all the visiting. He does all the fasting. He does it all. They told me in the name of God, we hired you to do it. Come down and tell me, said, boy, I know family. You really need to visit. So why don't you visit?

You sorry outfit. Why don't we can't fast and pray? Y 'all got us running everywhere. Old Deeks won't deek. They do everything but deek now. I want to preach. They just ain't capable because God didn't call them there.

We got so things so out of out of. See, everything's wrong. Everything ain't right. God's going to restructure this thing because we at war with the powers of darkness. How many of us went war tonight this morning with the powers of darkness?

We're playing no games. Hey, we are playing no games. Mental health people, state of Mississippi told me a few weeks ago, a few months ago, they said we used to have one case of sexual child molestation per week.

Now we have in 10 to 20. And the government's not the answer. This political machine is raised in this country is not the answer. Did you know the church, the born again people has elected the last three presidents, we put Jim in the White House, we put Reagan in the White House twice.

And my man's Reagan. I'll tell you right off, right up front. I like the man. But they don't have the answer. You know who's got the answer here, it sits right here. We got it. We got it. But what we got to do, we got to get suited up to do war with it.

Hey, man, how many believes we got to do war with the powers of darkness? We're not playing games, brother and sister. This is not a ball field up here this morning. This is a battleground. We at war.

The Armor of God and the Battle of the Last Days

We at war. We're all out war. The devil's pulled out all stops. The character of the end time is a time of battle. Your people go to heaven, you go battle hell to the day you leave here, you go battle drugs, you go battle unclean sex, you go battle perversion, you go battle everything that hell can vomit out.

Oh, preacher, you way out of step. No, I'm back in step. I've been out of step. I'm back in step now. I just had a boy saved in a tent revival. And boy, I like this. I believe when you get saved, things change.

He come back next morning, said I took all my records, my rock records. I took all my filthy magazines. Praise God. I took everything. I pulled up the marijuana plants in my mobile home. I put them all in an old abandoned well.

And the next thing going is my TV. He said, I'm saved by God's power. Don't need drugs. Don't need all that old filthy mess. Don't need all that rock and roll and all that junk. Praise God. I found the answer to my problems.

Jesus Christ is the answer. Hallelujah. And I don't need all this mess. I wish we could have another book burning, another record smashing, praise God. And the church wake back up. Quit playing games with the powers of darkness.

Let's get suited up, brother and sister. God has made provision. We do not have to go out half cart with a pop gun to fight the devil. Jesus got a cannon. We can have the whole arm of God. Please, I got to put that on you.

Revival as God’s Answer to Social Evils

We are at war. I tell you what, let's do. Let's get us some cards and march against abortion. If you get a legislative bill to stop abortion, you're going to start finding your trash cans full of babies.

Let's do war against the thing that's causing babies to be born. How are you going to do war against that? Fix it where everybody can't do it? No, get them saved now. Quit that foolishness. Stepped on the islands of Wales, totally given to sin.

The churches were dead. Empty on Sunday nights. The pubs were full. Everybody was drunk. He walked that island for 11 years, screaming, God, give me Wales, lest I die. Give me revival, lest I die. I want to die if you can't do something for the islands of Wales, the island of Wales.

And in 11 years of prayer and fasting and seeking God, revival broke out. There was no marching to stop the booze, no marching to close the pubs. But when revival broke out, there was nobody left to drink the booze and the pubs had to close.

I believe we have the answer. How many believe we got the answer today? But it's going to take drastic and radical surgery surgery to deal with the problems that we face and get us ready to do battle with the powers of darkness.

Spiritual Discernment for Families and Schools

And you folks that's got children going to school, you folks got kids out in the public, you better learn something about demonic, satanic powers. I had a boy call me from Texas not long ago, and he said, Brother Lowe, unless God intervenes, I got a boy that's going to be a homosexual.

I said, man, where'd you get it? You've had him in church all of his life. He said, at school. I said, you better get a hold of God and get a hold of God. Because you're dealing with an unclean spirit.

We're at war, Brother, with the powers of darkness. And nobody here is exempt. I don't care what your name is. I don't care where your money is in the bank at. I don't care what you've got. There's no barriers for the powers of darkness.

He's in every home. Is that true? He's in the land. He's moving everywhere. Nobody's exempt. Everybody's fallen a victim to the powers of darkness. No family is exempt. You can throw your name at him.