The Housetop

Strongholds give place to demons who want to wage war by attacking the weaknesses in our lives and tormenting our walk with Christ.  We need to demolish these strongholds and bring them to where they are useless for any demonic activity.

Deliverance is found at the cross of Jesus Christ. It is the power of God for your deliverance. It is the power of God unto salvation. It is the power of God that will heal you.

The cross of Jesus Christ is the power of God to a full salvation that can set you free.

If you have a stronghold with a demon oppressing and tormenting you, you find yourself unable to control your actions, repeatedly cycling in sin, you cannot get out of this or that issue, it's time to go to the cross and through the cross. It's time to get your victory in Christ Jesus.

Just because you are a religious person does not mean you cannot be demonized.

We are in a great falling away. The devil has opened his mouth and released a flood of lies upon the earth. This deception is even within the church. An oversimplistic way to Christianity is being offered up that’s not biblical. People are attempting to enter through a door other than the cross.

Without signs of repentance, fruits unto holiness, a new birth, or a new creature, people are saying, “I'm saved, and I'm going to heaven in the end.” This is deception. We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are Christians when all we're doing is sitting there hearing things. It is a feast at the Tree of Knowledge, and it has permeated society.

The gospel is showing no restraining power because its presentation is false. There’s a foundational element that's wrong. This doctrine of demons is another gospel with another Jesus that has very little to do with biblical Christianity. 

There's a way to preach that will not deliver people from sin. Because of this, sin is rampant in church, with the church sinner being no different from the street sinner. We are seeing the manifestation of the man of sin because man has been unbridled in his lusts.

Don’t brush this off as though it couldn’t be you.

Religious affiliation, water baptism, or church attendance is not going to cut it. You need holiness, repentance, and the true cross of Jesus Christ.

Strongmen are demon spirits that literally torment the people of God.

Jesus cast demons out with His word, and likewise, the Word of God will drive demons out of our lives. That’s why it is so important to have a strong relationship with the Word of God. The more we saturate our heart and mind in God's Word, the less room a demon has to occupy our life. The Word of God is how we break though strongholds and the torment these demons can bring.

There are 4 realms of demons: Physical, soulish (mental/emotional), moral, and religious. The objective of this teaching is to identify and shine light on the strongmen who seek to mar the image of God in our lives.

We have been given authority and power to cast out devils, heal the sick, and raise the dead. We need a spirit of faith and expectancy to rise up, so we don’t fall in a position of unbelief, unable to do the job Jesus wants us to do.

When God gives someone truth and they refuse to obey, He gives them over to blindness in their heart and mind. Darkness on the imagination is the first move of the judgment of God. This volatile land is where demonic reasonings and arguments exalt themselves in our mind and come against what we know about God.

Hordes of demons attack the mind. The devil does not want us to think the way God thinks. Our victory in Christianity is found in our mind as we cast down these warped imaginations and we bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

We have patterns of thought, often developed in our youth, that we use to process anything that comes into our heart. When these are contrary to the Word of God, we need a changing of the way we think. This can be done through the gift of grace called repentance. This renewing of the mind is the way to demolish strongholds.

We need to know the truth and let it make us free.  The Word of God needs to be in us so we can discern the error and the folly of the wicked.

Where there was once darkened blindness, God wants to command the light to come on.

When the First Adam sinned, his breath kept going but his spirit died. This created an expiration date on the house of the soul, his physical body.

The First Adam was a man of the earth, and we are all born into this realm. We bear the image of the earthly and want the things of the earth. Apart from Christ, we have spiritual death inside and await the eventual physical death, followed by the eternal judgment of the soul.

While the First Adam was a fallen creature doomed, the Second Adam, Jesus, was a quickening spirit. His affection was not for the earth, but for heaven.

The Second Adam was a picture of the recreation of man to live within the Kingdom of God. He was the divine seed of God and bypassed the fallen seed of man. He lived a separated life detached from the world.

As sons and daughters of God, we are invited into this same transformation by which we can start a new life through the Son of God. Jesus is calling us out of the earthly into the image of the heavenly. It’s called being born again.

So many today who claim to be Christians live like the First Adam and are stuck in the soulish realm with a dead spirit. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. We need the same quickening spirit as the Second Adam.

When the Spirit of God fills the heart of man, we begin to live as a Second Adam. The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead quickens our mortal bodies, and now inside of these decaying vessels is an eternal spirit that is living. There’s a detachment from this world and a heart set on eternity when we become affiliated with the Second Adam. 

The power of the resurrection is not futuristic.  Jesus is calling sons and daughters to Himself to walk in the same power of the Holy Spirit that raised Him from the dead.

False prophets have infiltrated our churches. There are wolves in sheep's clothing of a lying gospel with a lying grace. Everything is about our prosperity, happiness, breakthrough, and destiny. We are a generation filled with lies. We have lost our collective minds in Christianity because we have lost the way.  We are following God based on what He can do for us, instead of what we can do for Him.

The separated life God wants for us isn’t popular today. We have learned to incorporate worldliness into Christianity and feel good about it. But this is a deception. The spirit of Antichrist teaches us to love the world and everything in the world, and through much wantonness they allure us through the flesh. They promise us everything our flesh desires.

Instead of being on the narrow path, many people today are following Jesus in a broad way. Being deceived by doctrines of devils, seducing spirits of error, and damnable heresies has put them on a wide, destructive path.

How do we know we are some of the few who have found the way of the cross and the way of holiness?

- Ask: He who asks believing will receive.

Scripture tells us when we make petition to God and believe, we will receive what we are asking for. But we are in an unbelieving generation with multitudes of people claiming to practice Christianity, yet having no faith in God or the Word of God.

People in every religion and denomination pray, but no one expects answers. Maybe we aren’t receiving because we don’t have faith.  Science, pride, human reasoning, lack of experience, unbelief, and false doctrine may be some reasons why prayer isn’t answered. When we get unbelief, offense, and unforgiveness out of us, we can receive the things of God.

- Seek: The diligent search of the Word of God.

God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Faith starts initially as a gift from God, and then is encouraged and built up when we diligently seek out the Word of God.

We don’t get gold, silver, and precious stones on the top of the ground. We have to dig for these things just like we have to dig for the riches of God’s treasure and seek Him out. You have to seek out the gold of your faith, the silver of your redemption, and the jewels of your heaven.

- Knock: Communion with God when we communicate face to face with Him.

There are so few who want to go in and commune with God and Him with us. But God wants His people to dwell in communion with Him. Whenever we really reach where God wants us to be, it is us knocking, wanting to see Him face to face.

If we could learn to laser focus without quitting, we would find the tenacity it takes to break through with God.

The epitome of the answered prayer is the presence of God.  It’s not what we can get out of God, but it is God Himself.

- The Golden Rule

The summary of all we read in the old covenant – “Whatever you would that men would do to you, do also unto them.” If you are bold enough to ask God to help you, to seek Him, to knock for His presence, we need to have a godlike nature and character and begin to do for others what we ask Him to do for us.

The Old Testament law and prophets is easily transferred to a New Testament vision. It is what God was trying to get across all along. Love Him and let it pour out to others. The more you receive the love of God, the more you should reciprocate it to others.   People ought to know God because they know you, because you are overflowing with the goodness of His presence.

If we have the audacity to ask, seek, and knock, then we should be willing to listen, give, and open up to those who are seeking it from us.