THE MYSTERY OF DOMINION, PART 19: "THE GATES OF HELL" | DR. MIKE WOODS, SR. | 23 MARCH 2026

of that. No, no more death, no more nuclear attacks.

We declare peace in Jerusalem in the name of Jesus. And Father, we declare you're mighty in battle.

And Father, even if the U.S. doesn't intervene quickly, we decree and declare that you will intervene and your blood will cover Jerusalem, your blood will cover Israel. And we declare, Alta Sebe Tosutu, There's a problem. We've laid all this responsibility on worldly leaders who don't follow the leading of the Spirit, who don't have a real relationship with God. But it's the church's responsibility— to control the atmospheres of the world. And we declare the blood of Jesus around the earth. We declare the blood of Jesus over Israel, over America. And we decree and declare that fear will not grip us because Jehovah is your name. Yes, God, arise, oh God.

Yes, God, yes, God. Yes, God, you're the mighty warrior, you're the mighty warrior, you're the mighty warrior.

We don't fear World War III, we don't fear a nuclear war, we don't fear fallouts and need shelters, bombs and diffusions and anthrax and chemical warfare. We have no fear. We trust you, God. What are we doing if we can't really trust him? Why are we here if we really can't trust him?

Jehovah is your name. It is your name.

My name is Michael, but Jehovah is your name. And you have all power in your hand, and we give you the glory. God, see about us.

Stretch forth your long arm and lift us up with your strong hand.

Yeah, I see that, I see that. God is stretching out his long arm. I don't care how far you fall it and how low it is. God, God says this morning, I'm stretching out my long arm and I'm picking you up with my strong hand, and nothing shall befall thee, for I have you covered Trust me.

Eko tabaya. Jehovah is your name. Jehovah is your name. You're the mighty warrior. You're great in battle. Hallelujah. Jesus our King. Jesus our God. Jesus is here. Lift those hands, everybody. Everything you need is here.

Come on, if you just worship him a few moments this morning. Jesus is here. Jesus is here.

Everything you need is here. Everything you need is here. Just worship Him. Healing, it's here. Just worship Him.

Breakthrough, deliverance is here. Burdens removed, yokes destroyed.

Jesus is here. Jehovah is your name. You're the mighty warrior, mighty warrior, great, great Jehovah is You're the mighty warrior, mighty warrior, great in battle. Jehovah is your name. We love you, Jesus. We love you, God. We bless you, oh King. Come thou, almighty King. Sit on us, Jesus. Sit until we're blessed. Sit on us until we're healed. Sit on us until we're free. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being here and on our ears this morning to hear what the Spirit will say to the church. May this word remove burdens and destroy yokes. May it break chains, systems, and structures. May it create new ideals, new entry points into new spaces and places where we can rule and have dominion. Father, we thank you for the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Ghost. Have your way in this place, and we'll bless you and give your name the praise. In Jesus' mighty name. Would you clap your hands and give God glory in this house? Come on, I need you to clap your hands and open up your mouth.

Come on, clap your hands and open your mouth at the same time. Come on, y'all not doing it. Open your mouth, cry out to our King, cry out to our God. We give you glory.

Come on, open your mouth.

To clap is zamar, to clap your hands. Zamar, clap your hands and pull it together. Pull, clap your hands. Katamanda kata. It is a prophetic symbolism that you're pulling together. Hallelujah. What God has already supplied, God has already supplied breakthrough. He's already supplied prosperity. He's already supplied healing. You just gotta praise him in advance. Come on, pull it together. Some of y'all a little slow. Pull together. Come on, clap your hands! Oh, what I hear is good for me, it's good for your favorite artist, but laudate him, applaud him! Pull your money together, pull your resources together, pull your healing together, pull your vision together, pull it together! Open your mouth! We pull it together! We pull it together! We put it together! We pulled it together! We pulled it together! We hook it up! We hooked it up with our hand clap! We hook it up when I had clapped her— we're hooking it up! Hooking it up to your spirit! To yours? We hook it up! We hook ourselves up!

Ahh!

We hook it up, we hook it up, we hook it up, we hook up multi-millions, we hook up innovations, we hook up investments and ideas, we hook up profit and real estate, we hook it up, we hook it up, we hook up our next building, we hook up right our city, we hook it up. We praise you in advance.

Yes, God.

So the next time you get discouraged, just stop in your tracks and hook it up and just go to giving him praise, cuz you're hooking it up, you're hooking it up, you're pulling it together.

Thank you, Jesus. Oh God, we love you, we adore you, we bless you, we honor your name, we honor your name, we lift up our hands, Lord, and honor your name. We honor your name. We honor your name. We lift up our hands, Lord, and honor your name. We honor your name. I'm gonna teach this word. We honor your name. We lift up our hands, Lord, and honor your name. We honor your name. We honor your name. We lift up our hands, Lord, and honor your name. We bless your name. We bless your name. We lift up our hands, Lord, and bless your name. We bless your name.

We bless your name.

We lift up our hands, Lord. And bless your, your name. Thank you, Jesus. Praise the name of Jesus. Praise the name of Jesus. Praise the name of Jesus. He's my rock. He's my fortress. He's my deliverer, in him will I trust. Oh God, praise the name of Jesus. Praise the name of Jesus. Praise the name of Jesus. Jesus, power in the name. Praise the name of Jesus. Praise the name of Jesus. Sing it. He's my rock.

He's my rock.

He's my fortress. He's my fortress. He's my deliverer. He's my deliverer. In him, in him will I trust. Praise the name of Jesus. Esa. Lift those hands. I'm trying to move. Just lift your hands and worship. What a mighty God we serve. Yeah, what a mighty God we serve. Slowly. Yeah. Angels bow before him, heaven and earth adore him. What a mighty God, what a mighty God we serve. Come on, declare it so all hell and a— what a mighty God, what a mighty God we serve. Sing it to him. What a mighty God. What a mighty God we serve. Come on, declare. Angels bow. Angels bow before him. Heaven and earth. Heaven and earth adore him. What a mighty God. We serve. You're the King of all kings. You're the Lord of all lords. And besides you, there is no other. We give you glory, God. All honor belongs to you. All power belongs belongs to you. We bless your name. Thank you, Jesus, for your anointing, Father. Thank you for your anointing. We praise you for your anointing, Jesus. Orang kasikan, nere bingkinskoto ya. We bingiskatai, noko shi ya. We bless your name. Hallelujah! Glory to God! We bless you, Lord. Clap your hands again and bless him. Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus! Glory to God! Well, we're gonna get in his word because I stay in that and we won't get no word today. Glory to God. God is good. I don't know about you, but I was glad when they said to me, let us go to the house of the Lord. I'm always blessed to be in church. Amen. I just don't know how some— we just can stay away from the house, but, uh, hey, we here. Amen. And we thank the Lord for a man to serve him. Glory to God. Uh, this morning I want to, um, dive into something. We're still on gates. I'm going to finish those 6 gates in Nehemiah. Praise the name of God. On Thursday, but tonight and today I'm going to kind of pull this apart. The Lord gave it to me last night when I got home, and I want to talk about the gates of hell. Glory to God. Because one of the biggest challenges— glory to God— and to our live audience, we thank you for being here this morning. Don't, don't scroll because you see the word hell. Yeah, you need this. Glory to God. Stay with us. But we're going to go to Matthew 16, verses 13 through 19. I'm going to put them at the end, and we're going to just kind of build some things through this because I think it's important to understand. Say this one first. Say, first say, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, God wants me to dominate. God wants me to dominate. Say, nothing can stop, nothing can stop my influence. Say, because I have a revelation of Jesus Christ. Many times the systems, the structures of the world stop us from having dominion because unknowingly— listen to this— we have crossed over into hell on earth. Eternal judgment is real, but hell on earth is just as real. How many have ever had hell on earth? Okay, so if you live long enough, you've gone through some things that felt like hell. The reason you got in it It's because you went through a gate and ascribed to a system that— and, and we use terms like, oh, that's just life, everybody gets sick, everybody has problems. We look— we use terms like, oh, that's just gonna happen, this— that's just natural, or life be lifin'. It's lifing the way it is because you went through the gates of hell. We've been teaching about these gates. You just got to choose what gates you're going to live inside of. If you're living in the gates— okay, let me say this: you can have hell on earth and be saved because you went through the wrong gate. That's why we have so many Christians with cancer, so many Christians sick, so many Christians broke. Are y'all hearing this? Because they're living inside of the gates of hell, saved, speaking in tongues, but the systems of hell are the dominant systems of their life. This teaching ain't no shouting teaching, I promise you. So just— okay, I don't even expect you You didn't say nothing. We gotta get out of these gates and we got to move into kingdom gates where the dominant systems are kingdom systems. Because if you really be honest with yourself and study your day-to-day, what system is dominating your life chiefly. God know you pray when you got up. I know you studied your Bible, you watched your favorite preacher on the live, you did all of the religious activities. Now after you did that, what's dominating your life when you get through that? Are you still in pain when you get through that? Are you still broke when you get through there? Are you still battling with sinful habits? All right, okay. I'm just, I'm just asking a question. Don't kill the messenger, okay? But we got to get this, because again, I'm determined that we have dominion. Amen. But if you're in the wrong gate and then delusion sits in and make you feel like, okay, I can stay behind these gates and dominion is just going to come to me It ain't gonna happen. I'm just telling you right now. So here's a question this morning: why would hell want to stop the church or God's people from achieving dominion? I just want you to think about it. Why would even hell be concerned about that? Well, the enemy and his cohorts are concerned about that because the systems of the world understand that if we get in place, the tactics of the devil are eradicated immediately. Somebody say immediately. His power is no more when we are in place. The devil does what he does because we're not in place, in the places we ought to be in place. Oh boy. So let's look at gates. Let's, let's look at this again. We, we're going to restore— we're going to just review this really quick and then we're going to get moving. So gates, and I've already given you this, have a profound significance in the physical and the spiritual realm. Say that, women. Say the physical and the spiritual realm. In the physical realm, you don't go behind gates that you shouldn't go by. You can't ride up to Tyler Perry's house, which is behind a gate, and just decide you're gonna welcome yourself in. They got some people for you. Yeah. And they're going to take you down to Douglas County Jail, where his house in Douglas, because you can't go behind them gates except you're invited. No, we stay right there. We don't need— we don't need them to the end. Listen, these entry points are portals that we cross into to accomplish Watch this. Physical things we do in life or things we accomplish in the spirit. If you don't go— if you're just praying, I want y'all to hear me, and never go through the gate, oh God, your prayers kind of don't leave this realm. You got to tap in so that your prayers can penetrate the realm of the spirit. That happens in faith, because if you're praying and you have no faith— hear me— then you're going to really waste a whole lot of time, because you got to believe when you pray, right? So you got to learn to open the gates and not just have prayer time. So if you're praying and don't really believe what you're praying, you're not going to get results. And that's why many times you don't. Are y'all with me? So these gates in scripture, in biblical times, when you look at them, they weren't just ways you got into cities or buildings or homes. They were actually the central place where life happened. I mean, you had governmental judgments happening at the gate, economic decisions happening at gates. So let's, let's look at some portals we need to pass through. Write these down. There's no, there's no slides for this. Write it down. I got it at the last minute, so there's no slides. You're gonna just take notes. So here's the first one. Gates are places of justice and government. Ruth 4:1-11, and I'm not going to read this, but you can write it down so you can study it later because this is not the meat. I just got to lay a backdrop to where we're going to get. But Boaz goes to the gate and he settles Ruth's redemption at the gate. So watch this, say justice and government. The kingdom of God is a government. Watch this, it is the most superior government that exists. Oh God, not the United States government. Jesus is the King of Kings, so that means our government is superior to the government of United States. But guess what we do? We'll trust the United States government before we trust the King of Kings. Let's go deeper. He, he is the King over every system of the world. So we'll trust in the comfort of these systems before we trust the King, which is why— because again, we're in the wrong gate— which is why we don't get justice. Do you know when God heals your body, that's justice? Because you got a governmental right. Because so justice is when you are— have the opportunity to enjoy your legal privileges, privileges as a citizen. That's justice. If you didn't do nothing and the police came in here and arrested you right now, that's unjust. You got a right to be free. But if you do something and they arrest you, that's a justice as well. Okay, so the reality is God says, I want to be just toward you because I'm a just God. But if we're not showing up at the gate of justice like Boaz to redeem what's rightfully ours— because if you got an issue, in the first place you go is to the world system. It's okay. That just shows how we think. Pain in body, guess what the first place we go? Hospital. Because we've been conditioned And we even use stuff like, well, God used the doctors too. That's an easy way for you not to have faith. I'm gonna just tell you right now, okay? I haven't been to the doctor, but it's because, guess what, my faith wasn't where it needed to be when I was in there. And a lot of times when I got in there, I'm like, Lord, I know you can heal me. I just needed to show up at his gate and believe. I know somebody said, this is— that's too far past. No, you, you got to choose a system. I'm just saying, we've been conditioned. How you gonna trust a doctor more than God and he's still practicing medicine? He ain't even a master of medicine. Everything he doing is an experiment. Yo, he trying to see if it's gonna work. Let me put you on this one, and then we're gonna see in 6 months, see how that medication working. They want you to come back because they want to see if what they gave you working. Are y'all hearing this? But you show up at the gate and get some justice from God who says, with my stripes you are healed. So it's an unjust thing for you to be walking around and not getting what's legally available to you. As a kingdom citizen. Are y'all with me? We need justice in the church. Yeah, you got to believe that justice is yours. But if you go to the gates of hell first— you get in trouble financially, start freaking out, pulling your hair out, trying to get loans, calling everybody. But show up at the gate, you got justice. My God shall supply all your need according to his riches and glory. Show up at the gate. I'm just trying to challenge your thinking this morning. How— where are you showing up when you need a need met? What government are you really in? Okay, number 2, keep it moving. Gates are symbols of power and security. Now we've been teaching this in Nehemiah 3, and we've been seeing how Nehemiah put preference on rebuilding the gates because they were securing the walls, right? But also in Psalm 147 and 13 I'm gonna read this. You don't have to go there, but write it down. Is that— for he strengthens the bars of your gates, watch this, and blesses your children within you. And listen, this emphasizes that God says, I'm gonna strengthen the gates, I'm going to protect your children's children, I'm going to protect your future. With the gates. So you need to, you need to depend on God to protect what's coming. Matter of fact, to protect what already belongs to you. All right, number 3. I'm just, again, I'm just laying a backdrop. I'm not exegeting these at all, uh, but Isaiah 6:11, the prophet talks about the gates always standing open. And that they will never shut down day or night. Watch this, so that the wealth of the nations can be brought to you. So gates here are prophetic in the fact that they declare that what God has promised is going to be brought to you. Are y'all hearing this? But the gate closed, you can't receive the blessing. Or if you're not at the gate.

Are y'all listening?

You got to open the gate up so that the wealth of the Gentiles can be brought to you. The Bible said these gates never close, 24/7, like Walmart, open.

Are y'all, are y'all here?

So you should always have blessing coming in. So what's the problem when we don't? It's we're in the wrong gate. I'm just trying to paint a picture of these gates of hell, how they have us gripped, because the Bible is right. The Bible ain't wrong. The fallacy is always in us when the flow stops. Because the Bible said here these gates are open and they never close. This means you got eternal access to God's stuff. So if you stay open and stay at the gate, you always can access what he has. But if he's the second option You messing up your access. He's got to be priority. Oh, this is going to get worse. Y'all might as well loosen, tighten, unloosen yourself. Revelation 21:25, watch this. The Bible says, its gate shall not be shut at all by day. There shall be no night there. So he's speaking of the gates in heaven. Again, these gates are open. Say open. I need y'all to get that, man. But if you operating in the systems or the gates of hell, you only realize what you got access to. Your daddy owns everything. I'm talking about for real. If your natural daddy owned everything, you'd be all right. Yeah, are y'all hearing it? Because guess what? You had me at comfort, talking to your daddy about what you need. People who are born wealthy have it a little easier than those of us that— what? Because natural resources are there for them. I mean, if you got a daddy that's a billionaire, he give you $20 billion to start a company, of course you can build another billion-dollar company. Are y'all hearing this? But guess what? Okay, so y'all see how easy it is. It ain't no different. You were born again into the wealthiest family that was ever initiated in time. Y'all still don't believe that, right?

Your daddy is rich.

Oh God, have mercy. Are y'all hearing me? Yes, sir. I know y'all don't want me to talk, but I'm trying to get you out of these gates, man, where you, you, you robbing Peter to pay Paul, paycheck to paycheck, always having more month than money. That ain't God's will, cuz you're his child. Say, I'm a child of God. I'm a child of God. Say, I should be overflowing with wealth that comes from the gates of heaven because my daddy is rich.

Rich.

I mean, you can't be afraid to say that. Yeah, daddy. And he loaded. What loaded daddy? You know that children walk around looking like they about to steal something. Are y'all hearing this? Our Father wants to take care of us. All right, number 4, write it down. I ain't— that's not what we're teaching today, but I'm just trying to show you the contrast between gates of hell and gates of heaven. First of all, in Matthew 7:13-14, Jesus begins to use imagery of gates. So we see gates. And so Jesus taught about gates. He used gates often to illustrate truth and prophetic truth and spiritual truth. Watch this, 17, um, Matthew 7:13 and 14. The Bible says, enter by the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction. And there are many who go in by it. I love this. So he contrasts the wide gate leading to destruction, narrow gate leads to life, urging us to enter in at the narrow gate. Notice the, notice the contrast. A lot of folk in the wide gate. It's comfortable in the wide gate. Life is easy in the wide gate. Are y'all hearing this? Life is familiar in the wide gate. But Matthew 7, he says, enter in at the narrow gate. Take the risk and get in where nobody else is going in. Are y'all hearing this? The access in the narrow gate is different. He says it's life. It's— watch this— and the word life there, zoe in Greek, it's the God kind of life. So this is not just a scripture about the afterlife, it's a life— it's a scripture about life. Because people have took this text and made it about heaven and hell. But this again, this is heaven on earth or hell on earth, depending on what gate you go through. You're going through hell because you went through the wrong gate with your saved self, and that's not the will of God.

Help us, Lord.

There won't be no dancing, I already know. I'm telling you. You. But I want y'all to think, why are you in this wide gate and you got all this heavenly stuff available to you if you'll just go through the narrow gate? You don't do the narrow gate. Oh, we— as soon as we get to it, we start making excuses. Oh, it's too small, Lord. I can't get through there. I didn't— I can't— I don't gain a little weight. I can't We start finding ways. I ain't got no support over here. I don't know nobody over here. Yeah, because all your friends, they are in the wide gate partying. Because you're going— but you're gonna have to squeeze through that gate because you're gonna find life. All right, number 5. I ain't got time. The Bible also describes gates as a place of worship and assembly. Gates— in Psalm 104, the psalmist says this, he says, enter his gates with thanksgiving and in his courts with praise. Give thanks unto him and bless his name. So again, this verse is underscoring gates as an entry point into the presence of God, and he tells us how we come before God. Watch this. You should never come before God empty-handed. You should always come with him with worship and praise on your lips, with a mindset to give him what belongs. He said, in a his gates with thanksgiving. Yada, which means you are grateful that you got an opportunity to come before God. You shouldn't come to church or any worship assembly where— and you feel like you're doing people a favor by showing up. My Lord. Listen, I'm so— I'm really— you ain't doing me no favors by showing up because I'm gonna worship and praise God whether you here or not. That point has been proven. That's been proven over time. I have worshiped in the building by myself because it has nothing to do with you. You got to get in your mind, I'm going to church because I'm thankful for the opportunity to get in his presence. See, we— and watch this, this ain't just the gates of the church, but it's anywhere you want God to be. Oh, y'all ain't— so every time you walk through the gate of your house, you ought to be saying, thank you, Jesus, instead of that, you got a roof over your head, because there are some folk that don't have that. So every time you go home, you ought to have some praise on your lips. Instead of complaining about what's going on in your house.

Yes, Lord.

Psalm 104 says you got power to control your atmosphere with the way you enter gates. Yes, Lord. So every room you go in, if you want God there, if you want him to assemble where you are, you better go in with thanksgiving. God, I'm thankful I got an opportunity to be in this meeting, to sit at this table, to come to this job, to live in this house?

Or do I have anybody here that's made up your mind that wherever you're going, whatever you do, you're gonna enter with thanksgiving?

You know, you know what happens if you come to church with thanksgiving? The praise leader ain't got to tell you to praise God. We have to tell you, okay, it's time for the word because you thanking him a little too much now. We have to tell you to sit down. But it ought to be where when you getting out your car and on your way in, so I'm thankful that I got an opportunity because it could have been the other way. I could have been messed up and not have my right frame of mind, but I got a mind to serve you.

I got a mind to worship you.

And you ought to enter with thanksgiving. Like he said, it's courts with Praise. So, so the next phase in that is getting into the court. And when you want to get into the court, you got to have a praise. You got to know how to give God what belongs to him. Oh, I'm not teaching that. Let's, let's, let's go, let's go. I'm not teaching that. We, we, we'll deal with that later. Let's go. Number 6, say, I gotta be thankful. It's a— it opens the gate. It's the key. Number 6: Gates are metaphors for spiritual reality. Watch this. So many times in scripture we see gates representing an openness to God's divine influence. Here's an example: Psalm 24:7. Let's read it. Y'all ready? Lift up your heads, O ye gates. Y'all know that one. And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is the King of Glory? Hallelujah! The Lord strong and mighty. Just sung that, then. The Lord mighty in battle. So he says, lift up your heads. So the gates is in your head. Are y'all hearing this? These gates that represent spiritual reality are in your head. So the reason we end up in a narrow gate, because we lifted our head. Gates open to wide realities. Natural realities that we have deemed as the reality. Do you know what the world as you see it is? A pseudo-manifestation of what's real. For God so loved the world, John 3:16. World, cosmos in Greek, which is a cosmopolitan system that imitates the system of heaven. So the world as you know it is an imitation of what heaven— are y'all hearing this? And we've accepted it as reality. Y'all ever seen the movie The Matrix? Yeah. Okay, so you understand even just from the writers of that movie that you can accept the reality. Are y'all hearing this? That ain't necessarily real. So we— so this is about opening your gates up to the realities of the spirit, just like you allow the worldly systems to incubate in your life and come in and— watch this— create eternal value. Notice he says everlasting doors are open when you open your gates, your eye gate, your ear gate, your mouth gate. So y'all watch what you're looking at. You can't look at everything because your eyes are a gate. Are y'all hearing this? You can't listen to everything because your ears are a gate. Notice how they open and close. Your mouth is a gate. It opens and closes. You gotta watch what you say. That negative talk keeps people in the wide gate. The best way to stand in the narrow gate is to say what God says. Are y'all hearing this? As soon as you get a headache— oh my God, I got a headache— it may be a fact, but that's not truth. Truth is, with his stripes you're healed. So instead of saying, 'I got a headache,' 'I'm healed by his stripes.' Speak to your head and say, 'Peace in the name of Jesus.' Because you've accepted the headache as reality. You've accepted what's the amount of money you got in the bank as reality. Are y'all hearing this? But you gotta look at your bank account and say, okay, that's maybe a fact, but it ain't the truth. Because the truth says my God shall supply everything I need according to his riches and glory. The truth says the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just. So again, y'all get— y'all get what I'm saying? You got to open your gates to the right realities. It may be true that people on your job crazy. Y'all hearing this? But you gotta find a different truth in what God says. God says you're an entrepreneur. God says you're a business owner. You gotta decide to accept that truth and show up at the gate so you can get what you need to start that business. Woo! Lord have mercy. He said, oh, if you lift your head up, you're going to open up eternal doors. You know what that says? That means if I'm walking in the Spirit constantly and accepting his realities, no door will ever be closed to me. The Lord told me, he said, son, about 15 years ago, he said, a lot of the things you're not experiencing right now, you are your own limitation. He said, that door is closed because you have accepted a different reality concerning that door. He said, your reality of worldly thinking led you to believe because of who you are and where you came from, you couldn't walk through that door. When I shifted my reality and opened up my eyes and my mouth and my ears to new revelation, about God and what he could do, those doors opened automatically. Because guess what? It's not about you, it's about him. And all he wants you to do is open your gate so you can receive him. Let me say to the single ladies real quick, because this is apropos right here: your body has a gate in it. You have to be careful who you open that gate to, because the Bible says the two shall be one. So when you open your gate to a person that is not designed to be one with you, or is not your husband every spirit that they carry. It ain't just a physical act. Are y'all hearing this? You have opened your gate up to what's in them. And watch this, in the gates of the spirit, the reality is, while there was no preacher that says, 'For better, for worse, I now pronounce you man and wife,' you just consummated a covenant. The preacher wasn't there, but you got married in the spirit. Y'all ain't got to say nothing. And you became one because, because what consummates marriage is the honeymoon room, for lack of a better word, right? The Bible says, uh, glory— that you can study throughout all the Old Testament. That's the preacher can stand up here all day The marriage ain't consummated until the honeymoon. They leave the church in the limo, they spend a lot of money. If they don't get to the honeymoon room, they were never married, because the man has to enter the gate. Are y'all hearing this? So they can become one. So I'm saying this, single ladies, Protect your gate, save it for the one that's worthy to enter. Are y'all hearing this? Okay, I have to say that in this day and time because in church we think because of grace we can just do what we want to do, but when we do that, we're violating, uh, spiritual realities. And you really need to go back in the spirit and divorce some people you became one with. Some of y'all ain't got the ring, but you married, and you need to go up in the realm of the spirit and get a divorce. Okay, all right, so I doubt that just tied into— okay, yeah, huh, okay, number 7, and then we're gonna get into this. The gates of righteousness. And so though we got to show up at the gates of righteousness so we get access to God's everlasting mercy and God's everlasting justice, let's read this in verse 6, Psalm 118, verses 16 and 18. I'm gonna read it. He said, the right hand of the Lord is exalted. Oh boy. So these are keys to get in the gates of righteousness. You got to first recognize that the right hand of the Lord is exalted. That's his hand of authority. Again, his authority is greater than any other authority.

Say that one.

Say, God's authority is greater than any other authority. Watch this. The Bible says the right hand of the Lord does valiantly, which means he's a royal species, and everything he do is valiant. So if he says it, it's law. It cannot be reversed. Are y'all hearing it? So if God's authority has already spoken over your life and it's been decreed what you're gonna do, what you're gonna be, where you're gonna go, that is valiant. It cannot be changed. I need y'all to grab that. Say, who I am in God. It's irreversible. But you got to show up at the gate of righteousness so you can receive what's right. Y'all got that? Okay, let me keep reading. He says in verse 17, I shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. Now, now, I just, I just want you to understand something. If God has declared life over you and you're in the narrow gate. He said, come that you might have life and have it more abundantly. There's nothing the devil can do when you're under the auspices of God's security, power, influence, and protection to kill you. So let me do this because— and maybe it's not for somebody here, but I believe, I feel this in my spirit— there are death curses that have been released over the life of some people. They're generational curses of death where people are dying prematurely. But I decree and declare this morning, according to the word of God and according to the gates of righteousness, that you shall not die but live. I speak to every system in your natural body, and I rebuke death in the name of Jesus.

Oh my gosh, some of you have been fighting thoughts of death.

How will I die? Will I die prematurely? Will I get cancer?

So will I get a disease? But the devil is a liar. I declare over your life today, you shall not die but live to declare the works of the Lord. Your life is designed to declare the works of God. And I rebuke death in the name of Jesus.

Because if you die before you finish your assignment, before you finish your purpose, That's murder.

But I declare in the name of Jesus, you will not be murdered. You will not leave this place before it's time for you to go.

I rebuke death in the name of Jesus.

Somebody say it, in the name of Jesus. Say, I shall live and not die.

And you know what that means? That means ain't no world war gonna kill you.

You got work to do. You alive because you got work to do. Glory to God.

No disease, no another coming of COVID will kill you. The Lord told me to tell you, you better gird yourself for these gates of the world that's trying to prevail against his righteous gate.

And you got to decide, nothing will take me out of here until I finish what God has called me to do. Y'all ain't got to say nothing them, but I know I'm right about it because the Bible says I will declare the work of the Lord.

My life will speak. I'm not going to leave this place. I got a bill, Rother City, for real. I, I'm not going to leave this place until souls are saved and delivered in every corner of the earth.

I'm not going to leave this place. Glory to the name of gone until the work of God is declared through my life.

That's the case of right, that's justice. God says, I'm not going to kill you, I want you to declare the works of the Lord. Hey, glory to God! Verse 18, he said, the Lord has chastened me severely, but he has not given me over to death. He wants you to be clear. I'm not here to kill you. We have painted this picture of God that he's this mean monster that sits on the throne and wants to kill everybody. The devil is a liar. That's not God's M.O. God loves us and he wants us to operate in his righteousness and see dominion come forth. Then he says, open to me the gates of righteousness and I will go through them and I will praise the Lord. Say that one more time. Say, Lord, open to me the gates of righteousness. Say, when you do, I'll go through them and I'll praise you in Jesus' name. Come on, clap your hands and give God glory for that. So now I'm almost done. That was a lot of introduction. How many give me 5 more minutes? 5 more minutes. Let me see your hand. Give me 5 more minutes. Okay, all right. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, they were like— I'm almost done, seriously. So let's, let's talk about now the gates of hell. But, but we understand now, in order to avoid these gates, we got to go through the gates of righteousness. Say that with me. Say, we got to go through the gates of righteousness. God sends nobody to hell. People who end up in hell, they end up there because of their own decisions. So here's some facts about hell. First of all, you can write it down: hell— because it's, it's remiss to talk about the gates of hell and not talk about hell. We don't hear this preached in church anymore. People don't talk about this word. Matter of fact, if you go to major church growth conferences, they'll tell you that this is one subject you should not preach about if you want your church to grow. That's of the enemy itself. Number 1, write it down: hell is a miserable fate of the wicked. It's the miserable fate of the wicked. Okay, let's look at it. You ain't got to go to these, I'll read them for you. Matthew 25:46, you can write them down. The Bible says, and these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. So again, it's the miserable fate of the wicked, they'll go into everlasting punishment, but the righteous Now watch this. Righteousness is a verb. You get saved, Christ imputes to you righteousness, but then after that it must be lived out. Oh boy, because the doctrines of the devil teach that if you say once, you always say, you can do what you want to do. But the righteous here, the diasuke in Greek, those that have the behavior of their king, those who have the behavior of the one that wears the diadem, diasuke. So if Jesus is your king, then your life should exhibit the behavior of him. Are y'all hearing me? I was playing golf with a guy yesterday and I just told him, I said, man, look, y'all can do all the church work you want because I just be listening. I just got tired. I was okay, let me just tell these folks because I don't care how many folk you feeding, okay? You out, you feeding folk every weekend. You know, I'm playing golf with these— I play— my golf buddies are deacons that really need the Holy Ghost. I'm working on them. Jesus the Christ. And they think just because they're doing the works— but you out here cussing the whole time. You think I don't know it, but in them cups you got alcoholic beverages. Because I can tell from time we get out there to the time we get on the back nine how you acting, talking, and hitting the ball. I know what's in the cup, sir. I don't need you trying to hide it. Don't make it look like it's something— no, no, no, no. We know what's in there. The reality is you can feed all the folk you want, but you gotta live like the king. You can't get in heaven just because you fed someone and then you cheating on your wife. Okay, I'm gonna keep moving. Somebody said this— okay, I'm sorry, but I'm just telling you, the righteous inherits eternal life. Are y'all with me? Okay, let's, let's go a little far. Mark 3:29: But he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness. This is the Bible, y'all. So you can't tell me you're going to heaven anyhow and you blaspheme against the Holy Spirit. The Bible says here you are subject to eternal condemnation because they said he has an unclean spirit. Blasphemy. Watch what's black— what's Watch what blaspheming is. It ain't just disrespect, it's also rejection. If, if you reject God and reject the Holy Spirit, hell— you know, he's saying you really can't go to heaven without the Holy Ghost. For the churches that say we don't need him— are y'all hearing this? You gotta have him, because in this human body you can't live like the king, right? Oh God, you'll be doing— again, you'll be over here in the wide gate. You can't stand the gates of God, so you got to receive him, but you keep rejecting him. You're gonna have hell on earth and hell when you die. Are y'all with me? I just said, don't get mad at me, Jesus said it. The same Jesus, loving Jesus. He's not gonna put you in hell. He loves you. He died for you. Now he's saying, what you gonna do with my death? Are y'all hearing this? Are you gonna keep rejecting me? We talked about it Thursday. We're not gonna keep repenting and laying the foundation of dead works again. No, we got to grow up in God and live like he wants us to live. Oh boy, Lord help us. Hebrews 6:2, let's just go there since I just mentioned it. He says, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and faith toward God, and of doctrinal baptisms, laying on the hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. Listen, this is important because there are so many that do not believe that eternal judgment is real. So we got to teach it. There is an afterlife, and you decide now where you want to spend it. 2 Thessalonians 1:9. The Bible says this, he said, these shall be punished with everlasting destruction. Somebody said, Apostle, why are you preaching like this? I'm preaching like this because I want us to get away from the gates of hell. He said, these shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power. You know what death ultimately is? Separation from God. So if, if you don't have God in your life, you're dead. You're dead on earth, and it's only going to carry on into the afterlife. Lord have mercy. Oh, God can't send people to hell, preacher. Yeah, he said these shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord. God is holy, so he's like, you can't bring that in my presence.

Why die?

And you— we're gonna— why would he die and we still do the same stuff? I don't— you think about it, he bled on that cross for your sin, not for you to keep sinning. Okay, I knew this word wasn't gonna be popular, but but my job is to help you. You don't have to be my friend. I'm not here for that anyway. Matthew 18:8, he said, if your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed rather than having two hands or two feet and be cast into everlasting fire. Now Jesus is not saying cut your extremities off for real. He's giving a parable here, but he's saying if there's something in your life that's offensive to God, stop doing it. Cut it away. I mean, I just don't get it. You, you got Gay churches where the bishop has a first gentleman and they bucking, shouting, speaking in tongues in a familiar spirit. It ain't God. And Judgment Day is going to prove it. You got preachers who are married and got 3, 4 girlfriends in the church.

It's not God.

It's not God. It's not God for us to hurt one another intentionally. I mean, just living, it says if you doing stuff, check yourself and cut it off. When I was coming up, we had a term, we said, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself. That's really what Jesus was saying right here. Check yourself before you wreck yourself, because if you die and you ain't cut that off, the Bible says you'll be cast into everlasting fire. Yeah, I just don't get how people say ain't no hell in all this scripture, that— and they're trying to preach the same Bible. And, and some have gone far to say we need a new Bible. Come on, man. The Bible said the word is spirit and it is life. He says search the scriptures, for in them do you think you have life. Matthew 25:41, the Bible said then he will also say to those on the left hand, depart from me, you're cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels. And his angels. So those that subscribe to the gates of hell and live life in the gates of hell, live life in sin, he said you're going to end up with the devil and his angels. Are y'all here? Yes, sir. Jesus. Jude 1:7. As Sodom and Gomorrah And the cities around them, in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Sexual sin is real, man, and we have to be careful. That we don't buy into again these wide gates. I saw a guy on the podcast and he was talking to another preacher and he said, God never intended on you to wait till you get married to have sex. I listened to it 3 or 4 times. He still— he don't even know where he got it from. He's a single preacher that wants to justify what he's doing. And the preacher that was interviewing, he said, man, I bet your church is packed because you teaching that, because that's what people want to hear. And he really kind of just brought him to the carpet on it, like, okay, this is really why you saying that, because that's not what the Bible says. Sexual sin, it's a violation of covenant not just in your body, but covenant with God, because your body is the temple of God. Why would you put yourself in that position for 2 minutes? And that's about all it is.

Oh yeah, okay.

I mean, you all that for— yeah, come on, man. Okay, I'm gonna keep moving, I'm gonna keep moving. I'm keeping moving. Uh, number 2, write it down. We're talking these some facts about hell.

Hell—

glory to the name of God— is spoken of in these expressive words for those who reject God and his way of life. Here's the first one: fire that shall not be quenched. So this fire is going to burn forever. Good God, I wanted to be encouraged. Yeah, I'm encouraging you. Don't go to hell. I'm trying to tell you, get away from these gates. And if your foot causes you to sin— here we go again, it was your hands before— cut it off. Or it's better for you to enter life lame rather than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched. Say, never be quenched. Never be quenched. Which means it's eternal flames. My God, it's unquenchable, huh? Revelation 9:1, it's the worm that never dies. It said, the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. You talking about some burning. The smoke so thick it darkens the sun. Are y'all listening? I know this is boring to some of y'all. I'm just trying to keep you out of hell, man. Are y'all hearing this? Because reality will never take dominion operating in life. Because you don't— watch this— some people gonna go through hell to hell. That's a dangerous way of life, man. You got hell on earth and then you die and go to hell. That's why I'm teaching this this morning, because we can't take dominion if we living behind hell's gates. Glory to God. Revelation 14:10, the Bible said, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength in the cup of his indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. Rejecting God has a penalty. The wages of sin is death, and the gift of God is eternal life. Boy, this church is quiet. So here's all I'm saying is hell is no place to get right.

Why?

Because the love of God don't go to hell, right? He love you now and is giving you opportunity to get it right now. Hell is no place to pray. Hell is no place to speak in tongues. There's no place to worship. It's a place of torment, and I don't want to go. Let's get to— let's do this text and we're gonna get out of here, man. Matthew 16. This is where I've been trying to get all morning. Say, I gotta storm the gates of hell. Let me show you how to do it. Glory to God. Yeah, put it up. That's— there we go. When Jesus came into the coast of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, who do men say that the Son of Man am? I'm telling you, there's the first point. The only thing that's going to get you out of the gates of hell— and not just hell, in eternal judgment, remember The gates of hell is how you live on earth, the systems you find yourself in. So the first point is right here in Jesus's question: who do men say that I am? That question is proposed to every believer when you're ear hustling in the street. What are people saying about Jesus? You gotta know what everybody else thinks of him. Are y'all hearing this, right? You got to be clear on the world's position of your king. Watch this. Y'all care about what folk think about Trump. Everybody talk about how, how this crazy stuff he do. Are y'all hearing this? So we know that we listen to CNN and see what's going on, but what is the world saying about your king? Okay. And if you listen closely, you'll discover that their views of your king are not congruent many times with yours. Mere time, they don't even believe he's real. Many times they have already passed judgment on the king because of his people. How can they get me to serve their king and they're over here in the wide gate with me.

Watch this.

The kingdom is a reflection of the king in the eyes of onlookers. It always points back to the top. That's why I tell leaders all the time, if you are a leader If you are responsible for what your team does or fails to do, if they ain't doing something, it's not their fault. It is a reflection on your leadership. Are y'all here? And we have to point it at the leader, not the people. If you got a church full of folk and everybody living in sin, I mean, everybody's doing— nobody has a standard. You point it right back to the person standing up there because they don't have one. And listen to what they're saying. So again, who does the world say Jesus is? This ought to be a motivating factor to get to the right gate. If you ever fly, your flight is going to be assigned a gate. If your flight is going out of D1, you show up at E5 if you want to. First of all, they're not gonna even let you on the plane. Are y'all hearing this? Because you're at the wrong gate. Some of us have not taken off and got to our destination because we've been trying to board at the wrong gate. So what is the world saying about our Savior? Let's keep reading. He says, so they said, some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, other Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. This lets me know right here, first of all, Peter was listening because he knew the answer to the question. He was in the midst of them. He knew the answer to the question. Verse 15, he said to them, but who do you say that I am? So it begins again with a revelation of what they say, but then secondly, if we're going to remove the gates of hell, you need to know who you say he is. You need a real revelation of his identity. You ever heard the term actions speak louder than words? If you're at the wrong gate, trusting worldly systems, following worldly ways, it speaks highly to the fact that he has not been revealed to you. This text tells me that God can never be recognized. He has to be revealed. See, we'll try to recognize God through religious activity, through what we do in the church. All the churches looking like— everybody sound like— all the songs sounded like— all the pulpits looking like— all the LED screens have the same flow, and we try to identify God with that, with the smoke and the mirrors.

But God cannot be recognized.

If you're gonna take dominion and get out of hell's gates, you got to get a revelation of who he is. And when you really know who he is, you'll trust him, you'll follow him, you'll go through that narrow gate because you say, it's narrow, and I know it's This looks tight, but he got me. Are y'all hearing this? You won't freak out at the side of every little thing that come up. Are y'all with me? So say, I need a revelation of Jesus. Let's keep reading. He says, but who do you say? Simon Peter said you're the Christ. Son of the living God. So this should be the substratum of every revelation of Jesus. It should be the foundation. Even though your relationship may have a different trajectory than Peter's, if you don't know nothing else, you didn't know he Christ and the Son of the Living God. Because religion will have you believe that he's not a living God, that he's a dead God.

But he's alive.

Are y'all hearing this? He lives in every one of us, and he wants to reveal himself to you. And yeah, not just playing with it. We gotta know he's the Christ, he's the promised Messiah. His whole purpose for showing up on Earth for real was to save them that were lost. Are y'all with me? He's son of a God that's real, that's alive. I need you to register, man, because that'll keep you out the wrong gates. Because the moment you start believing that the world systems and their gates are more alive than God, you're going to lean on that system. Almost done. Verse 17, he says, Jesus answered and said to him, blessed art thou, Simon Barjona. Jesus called his whole government He ain't calling Peter, he said, Simon Bar-Jonah. He said, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. So revelation comes from the Father. So I can't get revelation of who Jesus is if I don't spend time in the presence of the Father. Father, which is another gate I got to open. Are y'all hearing this? Yes. Verse 18, he says, and I also say to you— take me to verse 18 on the screen, Stu. Yeah, that way I can walk up here. He says, and I also say unto thee that thou art Peter. Are y'all ready? And upon this rock I'll build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. So not only do I need a revelation of what they're saying about Jesus, I need a revelation of who he is myself. I need a revelation also of who I am in him. So that we can storm the gates. He said, you are Peter. This word Peter, petra in Greek, it means little rock. So every one of us, we are a little rock. He said, upon this little rock, this revelation that you have. So the church is not built upon title. Titles and positions. Are y'all hearing me? It's not built upon iconolistic names and popularity. The real church is built upon revelation of Jesus. Upon this revelation, this Petra, I'll build my church.

Church.

Jesus says, upon this Petra I'll build my ecclesia. Upon this petros, he's the big rock. So he takes your revelation, puts it on a big rock. Petros, he's the big magnified rock. Where we get in trouble, we start trying to build the church without Jesus. Are y'all listening? We in trouble right now, cuz a lot of what's happening in the body of Christ is little rocks who got a revelation of who they are but don't have a real revelation of who he is. He is. All right, are y'all with me? So they're building kingdoms inside of the gates of hell. They have no power to themselves. This is why we see church everywhere and the gates of hell prevailing, and the people in the gates of hell having the most influence and authority on earth, because we got all these little pebbles that are trying to build it without God. And that's why God would take a little church like this, as I want to show the world a model of how we can build the church, and it don't take a whole bunch of people. Y'all ain't got to say that. It just takes these Petros and the Petros. But if you excuse the Petros, God, we're going to struggle. All right. Oh God, we're never gonna have the influence of dominion that he called us to have out there because we're trying to do it ourselves. Are y'all with me? We can't do this alone. We need him. He said, I'm gonna build my ecclesia, not this building. The called out ones, you're the church. We are the called out ones. We should be showing up in the world as a petra with a petros. See, the world understands that their Petra has influenced so many people that people are under strong delusion to believe that what they're doing is the way. That's why the church looks like the world. We try to do so much like them because we have detached ourselves from from the Petros, and the gates of hell prevail. Are y'all hearing this? Because we out of place. Only way this works is we work with the big rock, and then the gates of hell can't prevail against us. We'll take our place. And I know I've heard— I heard somebody say they were prophesying, said the church is winning. God But listen, when I look at all the battles, we're not winning. We may ultimately win the war. But right now, we look at the world, we're not winning. We're not winning economically. Church is the poorest demographic of people on earth. And our daddy rich. We are the sickest demographic of people on earth, and our Father is a healer. Y'all hearing me? The gates of hell is swarming. That's why we got to take our place, because he says in verse 19, if you do this, I'll give you the keys to the kingdom. This is so good because we, we need keys. Give us access. Yeah, are y'all hearing this? Here's the problem, and, and I'm going home. We're gonna get out of here. Matter of fact, I ain't gonna even make y'all come back tonight. How about that? Glory to God. So because we— I'm gonna get out of here because I, I really, I really feel like being nice today. Okay, so I'm gonna let y'all not come back tonight. Say this for me.

Say, I have—

say, I am a key.

I am a key to the kingdom.

To the kingdom. Watch this. Here's the problem: everybody don't know what key they are. All right, he said, I'm gonna give you the keys to the kingdom. I'm a key. Pastor Jeffrey, key. Everybody in the building is a key. The problem is there's a key ring that God is holding, okay? And when it comes time to open a gate, we can't open it because the key is out of place. The key is not on the ring. Okay, there are things we need to unlock in the world. We cannot unlock them because everybody wants to be an apostle at the wrong gate. Everybody wants to be a prophet. Everybody wants to be an evangelist, the pastor, teacher, when we need some people to go through the narrow gate. So I'm gonna be a a neurosurgeon. I'm gonna be a lawyer. I'm gonna be a politician for the kingdom because the kingdom need this key. We can't have dominion if all the keys are trying to work in the fivefold ministry. I promise you, everybody that say they called to fivefold ministry is not. There are some people that call themselves— it's 5 ministries: apostle, prophet, pastor, evangelist, teacher. I call them the sneaky 5 because people sneak up into those offices and put a title on themselves. But when you do that, you're operating in a wide gate with no power. Oh God. And we got to discover that thing that's less comfortable. All right, and find out what key you really are. Okay, there's somebody in the world that's on their way to hell, enjoying it, dying, and the only way you're gonna stop them is to show up out there with a key. What's gonna happen when the person that needs you to open the door for them, and that open door is going to be the key to them getting saved? Saved. And you can't open it because you ain't even entertained that you actually the key. You, you just existing, trying to get a mic. It's so much more. If I didn't have to hold this, I wouldn't. I do it out of obedience, and I've come to love it because I love him. But the reality is, if I can just do what I do as an entrepreneur I just do that. But you got people who wake up and— God says, I've given you the keys to the kingdom, not church. The keys to access kingdom resources, to access those 7 things we talked about in those gates in the beginning. He said, and whatever you bind on earth— so when you got the key and you know that's your key, whatever you lock up on the earth, God said, I'm gonna lock it up in heaven. Watch this, you got keys to bind sickness, so you should use your key to lock it up when it show up according to the word. You ain't got to accept it. Somebody said, what sickness would teach you? No, God doesn't need sickness to teach you a lesson. He has pastors and teachers for that. They could teach you a lesson. Holy Spirit will teach you. Yes, he will. But I said, he'll lead you in God. He don't need to give you cancer to teach you something. Cancer show up, you better pull out your key and bind it. Stop accepting the cards the devil deal you. You know, they tell you when you playing spades, you got to learn how to play the hand that's dealt you, and they try to translate that foolishness to life. That ain't life. Glory to God. Some, some of them hands you need to throw in and bind them up. And let it know you're illegal. You're in my life illegally. See, when you lock something that breaks the law, you lock it up. Yeah. And God says, if you break the law of wealth and trying to make me poor, locking up poverty. That's why I speak every day, I'll never be broke another day in my life. And guess what? I started speaking that 20-some-odd years ago. I ain't been broke a day in my life since I started saying it.

Amen. Because you gotta bind it up.

Are y'all here? Yes, sir.

Oh my.

He said, if you do it on earth, I'll do it in heaven. Maybe you're living with the sickness because you ain't lock it up. You're living with that pain because you really ain't use your key. Keys. I listen, I, I discovered something so amazing a while back. I put digital locks on my door at the house. I can be over here and lock my house from right here. That's amazing to me. But guess what? It's still a key because it gives access and it denies access. Are y'all with me? You gotta learn to bind up what don't belong. When we lock the door at night, we try to keep out folk that don't belong. Are y'all hearing this? So sickness don't belong with you. It's a part of the gates of hell. Low living don't belong with you. It's a part of the gates of hell. Bind it up. Depression, mental health issues— stop claiming that stuff because the world say, oh, we gotta take care of our mental health. Bind up that crab. All right, are y'all hearing this? Oh, you just— you need a psychologist? No, you need Holy Ghost, and you need to use the power that's been given. Somebody say, oh, Apostle's against therapy. No, I'm not. If you need it, you need it. But if you got the Holy Ghost, I'm telling you, he's a wonderful counselor. Yeah, I know I done been through some stuff that probably would have required therapy on a couch, but thank God I ain't never had to go.

I go right to my wonderful counselor who has brought me through it.

You saved and having a mental breakdown? Come on, that's not how God wants you to live. We're operating in the wrong gate. Just because these people got, got out and talking about all these mental health— everybody, we got to deal with mental health, it's real. I had a breakdown and I'm a preacher. No, you had a breakdown and preach because you ain't spend time with God. There's one guy that he done built a whole podcast on his mental breakdown and quitting pastoring, all this, and everybody loving. But it's cause he ain't got the Holy Ghost. Okay, I'm on his own. Okay, yeah, you got relationship with God, you can bind stuff up. Again, we're gonna either dominate it or we're gonna depart. What are we gonna do? Stop accepting stuff cause you think you supposed those two. I'm almost done. He said, 'Whatsoever you bound on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.' So if you unlock it, God said, 'I'll put my favor on it in heaven as well, because you're using the keys of the kingdom I gave you.' Here's something about key. Pastor Jeffrey, I think he got a digital lock on his door too. It may— it's not the same as mine, probably, but if I went to his door and put in my code, the door is not going to open. Or try to scan my fingerprint on his door, it's not going to open. You got to use what's been given to you. All keys don't work everywhere. I came over here one day and made a mistake. I wasn't looking and was trying to put my house key in this door to open it. The lock was like, what you doing? You ain't gonna get in here till you put the right key in the door. Some doors are closed because you're attempting to use the wrong keys. It's not God, it's not the devil, it's a key issue. All right, I'm almost done. This is the last thing I'm going to give you. Somebody say, Apostle, you've been teaching long. I don't let y'all off tonight, so leave, let, let it go. I'm almost done. Write this down. These last 7 things I'm— because we got to lose some things. Say, I got to lose some things. So I got to bind some things up. Number 1, uncommon dominion requires uncommon keys. You won't tap into this dimension of dominion using the same keys you already been using. Number 2, write it down: Dominion requires favor, and favor is a key that enables you to achieve your assignment. Are y'all with me? So you— some— sometimes we're trying to do things without the favor that comes with it. And it makes it hard, but favor is a key that gives you access to places you otherwise wouldn't have access to without favor. All right, watch this. Attitude and protocol are also keys that control the direction of favor in your life. So sometimes favor stays away because your attitude jacked up. Are y'all hearing me? I'm just trying to help you this morning. And that keeps you in the gates of hell with that attitude and that, you know, always complaining. And listen, you, but you got to adjust that. Cuz favor be looking at you like, uh-uh, fool them. Yeah, favor like, uh-uh, let me find somebody that is compliant. Let me find somebody that got a good attitude. Cuz favor be chilling like, I want to give them this key, but their attitude is jacked all the way up. Are y'all with me? Watch it. And protocol. People— some people call protocol and order religious and traditional, but favor loves order. Yeah, okay. Something as much as be faithful over few, I'll make you ruler over many. So the protocol of order there is, is to be faithful over the little you have. About 30 years ago, and this is a great example, I heard Joyce Meyer say something and it blessed my life, man. She said God got on her because she went to the grocery store and get a buggy and wouldn't take it back to the place it's supposed to go. Okay, all right, because the thing said, return buggy here. Are y'all hearing this? So she would put her groceries in her car and get in her car and leave the buggy right there. Said the Holy Spirit was whooping her tail every time. Okay, and finally he said, the little fox has spoiled the vine. Okay, take that buggy back. Are y'all hearing this? So I can trust you to put other things back in place. Because I always say, if you do one thing one way, you do everything that way. You fool yourself if you want to, but the way you do one thing is the way you do everything. All right, all right. So take that buggy back. Manage the $200 a week you get. Are y'all hearing this? All right, so God can trust you with $2,000 a week, then manage your $2,000 so he can trust you with $20,000 a week. All right, are y'all hearing this? Because if you favor over few, favor will show up and it'll make you rule over many. Y'all with me? Yes, sir. All right, write it down. Number 4: one day of favor is worth a thousand years of labor. Oh God, what a key! I'm just— I'm in this. I can give you 100 keys, but this favor key is real. And this— if you're going to unlock things in the world, you need favor. You're trying to labor and get what you want. God says, all I need to do is give you one day of favor. It's worth 1,000 days of labor. You can put in 40 hours a week for 40 years. God says one day of favor is worth more than that. Somebody said, Apostle, I need some word on it. Okay, I'm gonna give you some word on it because y'all say, I don't know about that. Yeah, let me show you. Ah, glory. Let's just go to it because y'all, yes. Glory to Jesus. Say it with me again. Say, one day of favor, one day of favor, is worth a thousand days of labor, is worth a thousand days of labor. All right, let's go to Genesis 41. I ain't got no slide for it, but let's go since they want some word. Genesis 41. And remember, you ain't got to come back to night, so chill out. Genesis 41, we're just gonna work this out. Glory to God. Genesis 41, we're gonna let the Lord have his way. Genesis 41, verse 39, let's start there. Watch it. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, inasmuch God has shown you all this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you. You shall be over my house, favor, and all my people shall be ruled according to your word, favor. He's talking to Joseph, right? He said, only in regard to the throne will I be greater than you. Verse 41, and Pharaoh said to Joseph, see, somebody say, see, I have set you over all, say, all The land of Egypt. See, favor opened up a gate for him. This man, like the week before this was said to him, was in a pit. Are y'all here? Just, just one week ago, Joseph is in a pit, then goes to prison in that same week. Now all of a sudden he's standing before the Pharaoh in a week. I want y'all to catch that. In a week from the— see, that didn't happen over a big strand of time. That was 7 days. One day of favor got him out of the pit, prison, Potiphar's wife, and got him ruling in the palace. Are y'all hearing this? So say it again. Say, one day of favor. It's worth a thousand years of labor. Oh, y'all didn't say it like you mean to say it again. Say, one day of labor is worth a thousand years of labor. Oh God, favor, this key, man, it exits you from captivity and bondage. Into a place of life and peace and joy, you got to use this key called favor, man. Say, I got the keys. Say, I can't be stopped. All right, number 5: true gratitude. I'll enter his gates with thanksgiving for favor. Will guarantee success. See, you got to recognize favor when it show up, and you got to be thankful for it. True gratitude for favor guarantees success. When you act like you don't appreciate favor, it backs off. It slows down. But you got to be thankful for what he gives you. You— okay, let me give you some work, y'all. Watch it, because even fools— here it is— receive a measure of favor. A lot of times you, you have this key and you don't even know it. Go to Psalm 5. Psalm 5. He said, but let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice. Let them shout for joy because thou defendest them. Let them also love thy name and be joyful-yam thee, for you will bless the righteous with favor, and you will compass him with a shield. Here's the operative word in the text: rejoice, shout. When favor comes, you get happy about it because God has opened the door. He's given you a key to unlock something you couldn't unlock without him. 6. Okay. You know why? Because what you stop celebrating— I gotta say this before I go to 6— stops rewarding. I'll say again, what you stop celebrating stops rewarding. I tell married men, foreplay is not something that happens right before sex. 4Play should be happening all day. It should be happening the life of the marriage. And if you do that, the life of the marriage, the reward is always inevitable. Are y'all hearing this? So you got to celebrate favor so it keeps rewarding you. It won't keep rewarding you because anything unrewarded will exit your life. You got to appreciate what God has given you, or you'll stay in the gates of hell. You'll stay in those systems that ain't interested in giving you no reward, cuz the gates of hell, the way them systems operate inside of there, they're only going to deal with you as long as you're giving them what they need to continue. Okay, favor that's celebrated is always perpetuated and repeated. So when God gives you a favor— I celebrate my wife, that's why I do anything for her, because I want her to perpetuate. Watch this, the Bible said love your wife as Christ loved the church. It never told her to love me. Find it. The Bible never told a wife to love their husband. He told me to love her. But if I sow the seed of love and celebrate her, it's going to come back in harvest. Are y'all hearing this? All right, I'm almost done. 6, favor can stop as quickly as it starts. It's— this is a key, man, to the kingdom that we all have. As soon as it started, can stop. So don't trivialize it. So here, let me write these down. I hate— these are coming to me like this now. Write this down. Faith in God and what he says is the key to consistent favor. And if you know God said it, you won't trivialize it, right? That's why you got to have a revelation of him. We're still in the same teaching, so I got to know who he is. Come on, say it. So I got to know who he is so I won't trivialize what he does. So write this down. Here's, here's, here's some things that stop the flow of favor. Y'all ready? One, favor stops when you trivialize your access to wise counsel. You take for granted the counsel you have in your life. I was telling this young guy yesterday, I said, part of you being a client of mine is not about me making commercials for you, doing marketing for you, creating cinematic storytelling for your company. You have access to my mind. I said, you made your first million last year. Having access to my mind is going to teach you how to maintain that. So that's the value, not what we can do for you with— as far as scaling your brand. You need to celebrate the fact that you got access to me. Are y'all hearing this? When you know who you are, you can talk like When you know what you bring, it's not cocky, it's me knowing what I can help this 33-year-old millionaire keep his money. Are y'all hearing this? Because guess what? If, if he don't listen to wisdom, he's going to lose it all. The reality is you can't trivialize wise counsel. When God gives that to you, you need to celebrate it. Are y'all hearing me? Some people think that's because you could have had someone in your life that don't know nothing, and then watch it, they can know it and not want to share it. Are y'all with me? But when you watch this, here's a, here's a problem. If you got wise counsel and you never lean on it because you think you're as wise as them. That is dangerous because the wise counsel will shut up. It's okay, you think you know as much as me, I ain't going to say nothing then. We going to let you bump your head. I could have saved you $300,000. I could have saved you that sickness if you would listen to do, but you trivialized it because you want to make the wise counselor think, I'm just as smart. That's not what that time is for. It's time to listen, it's time to receive. Are y'all here? Oh God. Number 2, this is another thing that will cause favor to dry up. The river of favor will dry when God observes greed. When God see you greedy, he'll keep you in the gates of hell. He'll say, okay, you want to stay right there because this is not about me, apparently it's about you. Let me tell you one sure way to prove greed in your your life when you refuse to be a tither. The question comes, will a man rob God? It's greedy when you tell me you know God but you withhold what belongs to him. Okay, y'all still here? Yes, sir. See, you can't— I'm, I'm looking at you sideways, really. No matter how deep you are, how loud you pray and can speak in tongues, my God, but you don't tithe. Malachi 3 said, will a man rob God? You're literally speaking in tongues with a Uzi to God's head, cuz you holding on to that 10%. Okay, the Bible said the tent is holy to God, which means it's not yours, right? It belongs to him. So God says, okay, you greedy, cause all I asked you for was a pinch, just a pinch, and you holding that back from me. That's greed, man. So favor said, okay, I can't fool with them because favor doesn't intermingle with the cursed. Ah, okay, no, write it down. Number 3: favor stops when gratitude stops. Watch this, uh, Romans 1:21. He says, because of that, when they knew God, they glorify him not Neither were they thankful. And guess what? God turned them over to a reprobate man. Okay, I'm trying to keep you out the gates of hell, y'all. I'm trying to give— and this is one of 100 keys, and it's just favor that gets us into the gates of righteousness. Number 4, favor stops when you deliberately ignore an instruction from God. You know God said it and you deliberately ignore it like he did. Favor says, okay, they're disobedient. Here's one example in scripture. Saul ignored the instructions of Samuel. To destroy King Agag and all the Amalekites. And guess what happened? Favor stopped. He's— God said, look, I told you to do something, you don't believe it. This— I'm not going to read all this. This is in 1 Samuel 15:9-11 and 26. So guess what happened? Saul was removed from the throne. David was made king. When you ignore an instruction from God, God will move you out of your place, keep you inside of the systems of hell, and give somebody else your seed. Are y'all with me? My God, I don't even want to hit this. The flow of favor, number 5, stops because of arrogance and self-sufficiency. Nebuchadnezzar was arrogant. He hated the authority of God. He hated God's people. God put him in the field and made him live like a beast in the field until his humility came back. Are y'all here? Gates of hell. God took him out of the kingdom, put him in the fields, and live like a beast of field till your humility return. I'm just saying, you shouldn't be living like no beast and you saved. You should be walking in favor. Because you want to be self-sufficient and don't want to depend on God. You make things harder than they need to be. Number 6, write it down: any broken law, ignored law of God stops favor. Any broken or ignored law of God stops favor toward you from God. The scripture said, they are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared nor walking in my law nor in my statues that I have set before them, said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel. He said, behold, I will set my face against you for evil and to cut off all Judah. Jeremiah 44:10-11. God said, Judah means praise. I'm gonna cut off all the ones that praise me. Because they ignore what I tell them to do. Keep you in the gates of hell. Yeah, he love you, but he not going to let you pimp him neither. Yeah. Okay, here we go. Number 7, write it down. Any ignored opportunity to solve a problem stops favor. So you lose favor the moment you ignore a problem you are capable to solve for someone else. You got the capabilities in you to solve the issue, but you don't. And God has called you to solve it, but you ignore it like it's not in front of you. God said, well, I'm getting you favor for you not doing what I asked you to do. Okay, 1 John 3:17. I'm just basing this on scriptures that's right in front of me. 1 John 3:17, but whosoever hath this world's good And see if his brother has a need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? So let's stop ignoring opportunities to solve problems. I mean, favor stops when you follow wrong counsel. Y'all don't believe it? Rehoboam followed wrong counsel. The Bible said 1 Kings 12:13-14, and the king answered the people roughly and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him and spake them after the counsel of young men. They started listening to young men, immature folk. Tragedy was inevitable. Stand in the gates of hell. Listen, I just taught most of this. I'm just giving it to you another way. I want you to use your keys, man. Number 9, write it down: favor stops when you associate with the wrong people. Ah, glory! God said, I cannot release this because you're around these knuckleheads. You're running with people who are not in agreement. How can two walk together except they agree? Listen, I have golf buddies that do what they do because I'm being a light to them. I'm pulling— these deacons are going to be Holy Ghost-filled deacons when I get through with them. One of them done already said, you know, I done changed since I've been coming out here with you, and just stuff I don't want to do no no more. Are y'all hearing this? So the, the process there, you have to be a friend of sinners in that regard, but you can't hang out with people and sin with them, right? Are y'all hearing this? Honestly, you should be able to go to a club and just be a witness. Walk through the club and talk about Jesus to everybody you see. That's your whole purpose for being in the room. You gifted with prophecy? Go to the club and start prophesying. Or will you get caught up in the music? Or you see a Long Island Iced Tea and got to have one? Y'all hearing this? See, somebody looking like they don't know what that is. Yeah, you know what that is. Long Island iced tea. What? No, you know what it is. It ain't Texas sweet tea, I'll tell you that. But you got to stop associating with the wrong people. Example, I'm in the scripture right here, Numbers 16:32-33. You can look it up later. But the children of Korah, they were destroyed just like Korah was, because they were associated with him. Everybody that did not follow Lot and his wife out of Sodom and Gomorrah, they were destroyed. Lot's wife didn't want to leave. She looked back, and the Bible says she turned to a pillar of salt because the favor was on the obedient. To get out of Sodom. Number 10: Favor stops when you dishonor— oh boy— your parents. Let me take you to part B of that, both natural and spiritual. Are y'all hearing this? Yeah. The Bible said a foolish son is a grief to his father. And bitterness to her that bare him, the mother. A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren. So favor stops. You can't get the inheritance of your father and your mother if you don't honor them. Say, honor is important. Honor is important. Yeah, it's important, man. You You can't be so in a shell that you can't honor people. You know, you can't be so high and mighty that you can't honor people. All right, number 11, and I'm done. We're gonna give you this last one. Favor is fair. Yeah, folks, you know, I think about 20 years ago T.D. Jakes was saying favor ain't fair. Big— that ain't biblical. We love you, Bishop, but it ain't biblical. Favor is a key available to everybody. Okay, it's fair and it's just. It ain't fair if you're a pebble in the gates of hell and you feel like you're above everybody else and you just a little pebble in the gates of hell. But in the narrow gate, everybody walks in favor. Are y'all hearing this? Okay. All right, last one, number 7. Write it down. These are— now that was, that was just 11 under, under point number 6. Favor can stop as quickly as it begins, and I gave you 11 reasons why. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I am the teacher. I, yeah, yeah, we got 7. Yeah, all right, write it down and we gonna get out of here. Remember, you ain't got to come back tonight. See, y'all don't even know it's working right now. Why? Because you honoring this teaching and receiving it. Glory to God. The Bible says— and I already know, we said our text last night— there's some folk— see, I want people to understand too about Sunday night. We didn't create that service as an option to Sunday morning. The whole day belong to God. Are y'all hearing this? So I ain't gonna teach the same message on Sunday night I teach Sunday morning. We come back on Sunday night, we gonna get something totally different. It's gonna be in the same vein or wherever we at, but it's gonna be different. Okay, when we got to come back night, number 7, write it down: every seed of favor you sow, every seed of favor you sow schedules a wave of favor in your future. Every seed of faith— so favor is not only a key, but it's a seed you sow and give to other people. A wave of favor in your future. You know why? Because every day is an opportunity to show up in the world, unlock something for someone, lose something for someone, and sow favor. I hear that. Yes, sir. And anybody can sow this seed. It don't require money. Y'all hearing this? You ain't got to be a genius. You ain't got to have 4 degrees. You can sow favor with just love, attentiveness, time. You can sow favor. Ephesians 6:8 says this, it says, knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord. Whether he be bond or free. So watch this, you ain't even got to be saved and you could sow favor and still be blessed of God because you do it. That's how important of a kingdom key this is. That's why there are people who ain't even saved who sow favor and their businesses are blessed. Amen. And here we is trying to just keep everything for ourselves. The devil is a liar, man. When you sow seeds of favor consistently, this is number 1 under 7, you will consistently reap harvest of favor. You know why? Because erratic seeds produce erratic harvests. So you need to be consistent every day in showing favor. Help people you can help, man. Seeds of love, patience, and forgiveness will begin to grow in your life when you are free with showing favor. You can't charge people for favor. Are y'all here with me? Some people try to bottle favor and sell it because they got it on their life. The reality is that's not what it's for. It's freely we've received and freely we give it. Are y'all with me? The harvest of favor— this is how it comes back in— it, number 2 under number 7, is reaped over time. One example is Mordecai in scripture. He was celebrated for the favor he showed as king over time. It didn't come back immediately. So just because you're not seeing an immediate harvest, don't stop sowing favor. Number 3 on the 7, your willingness to sow favor. Is a photograph of your gracious heart. So if you sow in favor, that's what your heart looks like. Glory to God. And you know what I've learned about this? You could try to sow favor to people and they won't all the time receive the favor you're trying to give them. I met— before I went out to play golf yesterday, Saturday morning, I took Saturday morning, met with a potential client. And because he was introduced to me by somebody else, I took like $75,000 off of this $125,000 contract. And I was giving him favor because he had no revelation of value. I'm gonna tell you, he couldn't see it, and he kept trying to see if he could talk me down off favor I already gave him. You, you can't force favor when it's not received. Are y'all hearing this? And don't lower your value when you're trying to give favor. And someone rejects it. Because remember, favor disappears when you don't honor it, when you trivialize it. He trivialized my favor, and he called back, that deal won't be there. It won't. It was just because he had already— he already showed me he has no appreciation of the value what I bring. So if you want me, you have to pay full price. Are y'all hearing this? Uncommon people— it's the next point under 7— sow uncommon favor. If you want to be uncommon, you got to sow uncommon favor. Psalm 112:5: A good man shows favor and lendeth. He will guide his affairs with discretion. Good God, this is good. Thank you, Lord. I had this to teach another time, and the Lord just had me open it up now because it's a key we need to know. Y'all enjoying it? I thank God for a church that love the word. Amen. So, Lord, Pastor been preaching for 1 hour 45. What, what we doing? We're learning, we're growing, man. I could be running around here hollering, standing on chairs and all that, but y'all won't be learning nothing. We'll be excited, but we won't be learning nothing. We learning how to live, man, and walk this dominion out. Okay, ladies, I want you to hear this. Men watching live, men in the room, I want you to listen to what you ought to be doing. Uncommon men sow uncommon favor into uncommon women. If you look at Ruth 2:13-14, you'll see Boaz sowed into Ruth's life. You ought to want to sow. I want to always bless my wife. She'd be telling me all the time, I don't— you ain't got to pay that for that person, I don't need this. She always do that, and I get mad because I'm like, you gotta let me bless you. I'll be telling, look, just be quiet. I'm just doing what I do because at the end of the day, that's who I am. And an uncommon man is going to bless their woman. Are y'all hearing this? Don't take nothing less, ladies. Joker show up and won't do nothing for you. Every time y'all sit down, you putting out your card. Somebody back there said, ain't gonna happen. I like it. That's true. You can't let it happen. That's too much. You're more valuable than that. You showed up to receive. See, men have to get that revelation. Your anatomy suggests you are a receiver. A man's anatomy suggests he is a giver. Some of y'all catch it on 675. The reality is you, you were created to be a receptacle in all sense of the word. They want to try to give you the other thing but don't want to give. And any man that shows up in your life that didn't come to give, he came to take. True. Are y'all here? If he didn't come to give, he came to take. I'm helping somebody. Listen, Jesus even showed us how that looks. Jesus sold favor and forgiveness to the woman who was caught in adultery. Yeah, and here's the thing though, they caught this woman in the act of adultery. Was said they were perverted. They were voyeurs or something, because they— what you watching for? How you catch me in the act? You had to be— are y'all hearing it? You had to be looking. And they brought her before Jesus. And here's what I love. Jesus showed a favor by exposing them. It's in the text. The Bible said it's, it's unwritten, but in his act, the Bible said he bent down and wrote in the ground. And when he did that, the Bible don't tell you what he wrote, but the Bible said that they began to drop their rocks. And after he wrote, he said, if any of you be without sin, cast your first stone. Now, if you study the theological significance of behind what he wrote, the reality is he actually wrote the sins of all the men standing there. Since y'all want to expose her, let me just write down what you doing. Are y'all hearing this? And they dropped the rocks because he's— listen, he said, listen, I got to show this woman favor because of how y'all did this. Yeah, yeah. Are y'all, are y'all here? And he made the whole thing out of a lesson. Glory to God. Y'all stand, I'm done. Glory to God. Jesus, did y'all learn anything today? Y'all hold hands this morning. Let's touch and agree. You're the my Mighty warrior, great in battle. Jehovah is your name. Sing mighty warrior. Everybody sing it. Great in battle. Jehovah is your name. Sing it one more time. Mighty Warrior, great in battle. Jehovah is your name. I'm gonna do a couple of things as we pray. One, I'm gonna pray that you will have a clear revelation— say clear revelation— of how the world views Jesus. Secondly, I'm going to pray that you have a revelation of who he is in your life. That you see him clearly as the Christ, the Son of the Living God. I'm going to pray, glory to God, that you will become the key that God has called you to be, and that you will enter in at the narrow gate, and you will unlock what needs to be unlocked, and you will lock, bind what needs to be bound. And as you unlock, and as you bind and lock, God will loose and bind and lock and bind up in heaven. We're going to pray that that happens in your life and that you will operate within the gates of righteousness, the gates of heaven, that your life will be built around the premise of God's kingdom. And finally, I'm going to pray for favor, that leaving this building today, you will leave with favor. You'll leave with the love, the justice, the wealth, the healthcare, everything the kingdom of God has to offer. It will flow freely in your life. We give you glory for it now, Lord. Come on, begin to pray in the Spirit if you can. Squeeze the hand you're holding, let them know you're there. We're touching and agreeing. Come on, pray, pray, pray in the Holy Ghost. Come on, pray in the Holy Ghost, pray in the Holy Ghost. And if you can't, if you don't have a prayer language, just open your mouth and begin to bless the Lord. With the fruit of your lips.

Come on, come on, come on. We're gonna pray in a moment, but come on, stir it up in your belly. Stir up the key, stir up the key. You are key in the kingdom. You're called to bind, you're called to loose, you're called to lock and unlock. Leba, lift up your heads, O ye gates. And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory will come in. Who is the King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Come on, lift up your head. Leba, open up the gate of your mouth. Declare Jehovah is his name. King is his name. Healing and deliverance is his name. Victory and breakthrough is his name. Come on, Zion, pray through. Lebeska tosha. Come on, church. Lift up your— lift your heads, because we're about to unlock some eternal doors, some doors that will never be closed. We're about to unlock some gates that we've been locked out of. We're about to destroy the gates of hell. Let's talk because of our revelation of Jesus Christ. Come on, open up your mouth. The gates of hell shall not prevail. Die in the name of Jesus. So Father, we thank you.

So no music for a moment.

Pastor, come on, open your mouth as we pray. Come on, fill this room with your voice. Fill this room with your voice. Come on, let it flow out of your spirit and not your flesh. Come on, open up your mouth. Come on, Zion. Zion, what's the matter now? Come on, cry out of your belly. The Bible said when Zion travails, she bring forth Children, come on, open, open your mouth. We bless you, God. We bless you, God. We— come on, open your mouth. We tearing down some gates. In the realm of the spirit. We're tearing down some gates of hell that's erected against your life, against your family, against your finances, against your children, against your vision, your dream. We're tearing down gates, we're storming the gates. Come on! Open your mouth! Come on! Show— show— show— come on, storm the gate! Storm the gate! No longer will you choose sickness over healing. Storm the gate. No longer will we choose poverty over wealth. We storm the gate. We tear down every gate of hell. that emerges from soul ties, that emerges from past failure, past trauma. We tear down the gate that's been erected by bad theology. We come against the gate. We declare the gates of hell shall not prevail against us. We declare You are powerless. You have no authority. We are children of the King. And even as we pray, God is rapturing us out of the wide gate and he's putting us in the narrow gate. We're coming in to the narrow gate where few will find. We're going the way that many fear to go. We bind up mediocrity. We bind up lack of excellence. We bind up slothfulness and we enter in.

We enter in.

Come on, I need you to press in. We're pushing on a gate until it's destroyed. We're going to push until every gate in this region that's not of God comes down. We going to push until every generational curse is broken. We going to go against the gate until we see dominion in our lifetime. We command the gates of hell to be destroyed, and they shall not prevail. We shall find life in the narrow gate. We shall find kingdom life at the narrow gate. Father, I decree and declare for your people that their ears will be clear as to who the world says you are, and it will create an urgency in our heart to be living epistles written and read of men. Father, I decree and declare that we will have full authentic revelation for real of who you are, that you are Christ the Son of the living God, that you are the God of gods, that you are the King of Kings. We'll have revelation that you for real are the Lord of Lords. You're greater than Buddha, you're greater than Muhammad, you're greater than Hare Krishna, you're greater than Confucius, you're greater than any king or president or prime minister that's walking this Earth. Our homage and honor is to you. And so God, release revelation. May we see you like we've never seen you before. May the word of the Lord that was taught this morning keep us out of the gates of hell. And God, we declare that the gates of hell shall not prevail because we know who we are. We are children of of the King. We're children of Abba. We're children of Abba, and we declare it in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus.

And we declare that favor shall be released in our lives.

And Father, we repent for any of those things we've done to cause favor to leave. Father, bring us in right standing so favor will return. God, forgive us for offending favor. Oh God, where we did not celebrate it, where we trivialized God, bring favor back. Letaba. Where we took favor for granted, may we bring favor back. May favor come back. We took it for granted because of sedition, because of religion, because of tradition. But we decree and declare that favor is coming back home, that favor is coming to our lives, that favor is coming to our families. Favor is coming to our children. Favor, favor, favor. We declare, God, that favor is returning. Glory to God. And we thank you, God, that one day of favor is better than a thousand years of labor. We receive favor in our businesses. Favor. In our ministries, favor in our family. God, send favor. We receive it, God. We humble ourselves to know we can't do this without it. We can't dominate without this key. And Father, because of favor, whatever we bind on earth— that's favor. See, it's favor to be given that privilege to lock up and unloose, to lock and unlock is favor. That's favor all by itself that God would tell you, you got favor to bind and favor to loose. He said, if you walk in humility and according to my ways, I'll give you the favor to lock it up and unlock it. And I declare in the name of Jesus, We bind sickness because of favor. We bind cancer. We bind tuberculosis. We bind heart disease. We bind autism. We bind up Alzheimer's. We bind up leukemia. We bind up arrested development. We bind up neuro disease. We bind up everything in our life. We bind up diabetes. We bind up high blood pressure. We bind up— these things are from the gates of hell. And we're— we bind hypertension. We bind cholesterol issues. We bind it up in the name of Jesus. We bind poverty, we bind lack in the name of Jesus. We bind it up, we bind it up, we bind it up, we bind it up. We don't take it, we send you back to the gates of hell from which you came. We use our favor, and we bind it up. You can't have our children. We bind up every generational curse, uh, that— Assigned to our children. We bind every attack on our seed in the name of Jesus. We declare our children will rise up and call you blessed. They'll openly and boldly praise you. They'll openly and boldly worship you. We bind the attacks on our families, and we declare in the name of Jesus The gates of hell cannot hold our family hostage. We decree and declare that we will not stand for it another day. Not another day will we stand for the attack, will we stand for what you're bringing. Devil, you're a liar. We bind you with blood. We bind you with the word. We bind you with favor. We bind you with the anointing, and we declare in the name of Jesus, we are free in Jesus' name. And Father, you said whatever we loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. So we loose healing in this place. for healing and deliverance is the children's bread. We loose healing and we declare everything we bound is healed now. Glory to the name of God. Alzheimer's can't visit our life because healing has been loosed. Autism won't affect our families because healing has been loosed. We use our favor. We use our authority and we thank you for the healing. We thank you for the deliverance. We loose the spirit of Rapha. Glory to the name of God, for you are our healer. Heal and deliver. We loose it now. We loose it now. We receive it now. We believe your report. Whose report will you believe? We shall believe the report of the Lord. Your report says healed. Your report says free. Your report says delivered. Your report says I'm whole in the name of Jesus.

We loose wealth and riches.

You said whatever we loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. I loose the mindset of a billionaire in this room, and I declare in the name of Jesus, the pauper mindset which comes from the gates of hell shall be no more. The poverty mindset shall be no more, but I loose wealth and the wealth mindset into this place today. Every person here and under the sound of my voice, even live, I loose the wealth mindset and I declare it is loosed in heaven. And because of the wealth mindset, Wealth will find us. Thank you for wealth. I loose wealth. I loose multiple millions into the lives of your people. I loose prosperous businesses, prosperous ideas. I declare we'll never be broke another day in our life.

Come on, Pastor Jeffrey, you can play.

I'll never be broke another day in my life. I declare it in the name of Jesus that money is looking for us. I loose the searching anointing where money is looking for us, property is looking for us. Oh my God, investment opportunities are looking for us, real estate is looking for us, and I loose it in the name of Jesus. I loose those 33 acres. I loose the building on Boulder Crest. I loose houses, cars, mansions in this place. I loose businesses. I loose love. I loose companions. I loose husbands. I loose wives. I loose children. I command them to come in the In the name of Jesus, I bind up loneliness and singleness. I remember you said in your word, it's not good for a man to be alone. So I loose companions, I loose husbands and wives in the name of Jesus. Us. Come on, loose your hands and give God praise for what he's loosed. Come on, praise him like favor is on your life. Praise him like you already got victory. Praise him like the door is already open. Praise him Like the healing is done, like the millions is in the bank. Open your mouth and rejoice! Shout! Shout!

Shaka tatamansi.

Favor is here. Favor has come. And now that you understand what it is, you can receive it and rejoice about it. Favor is fair. Favor is yours. Open your mouth and praise him. When you go to the bank you'll find favor. Oh God, oh God, when you go for that business, you'll find favor.

It's yours. Favor is yours. Favor, it's yours. Favor It's yours.

Favor is yours. Come on, receive favor.

Receive the key of favor. Unlock every door. Unlock every door with the key of favor. With the key of favor.

With the key of favor.

Unlock every door with the key of favor. Key of favor. With the key of favor. Key of favor, it's yours. The key of favor. Don't you fear another day. Fear is something that operates within the gates of hell. Inside of the gates of righteousness is nothing but faith. It's the key of Favor. Hallelujah. Favor. Favor. Favor. Favor. Favor. Favor. Hey, let it rain down on us. Let it rain down on us. Let it rain favor. You gotta say, let it rain down favor. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Well, clap your hands and praise God. Yeah, just praise him. Praise him for favor. Let it rain down favor. Hallelujah. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. We receive favor. We receive favor, Lord. We receive favor, Lord. We receive favor, Lord. Favor, Lord. Rain down favor. Uff. Favor. Rain down favor. Thank you, Lord. Usha. We give you praise. We give you glory for favor. Yes, Lord, we give you praise. We give you praise. Glory for favor. You ought to just praise him for favor. It's on your life.

It's yours.

It's yours. We give you praise and glory for favor. Favor, favor, favor, favor, favor, favor. We give you praise, we give you praise and glory for favor. We're going, we're going. We give you praise and glory for favor. Eba sha. We give you praise We give you praise, we give you praise and glory for favor. We give you praise, we give you praise and glory for favor, for favor. For favor, for favor, for favor. We give you praise. Gloring for favor, for favor, for favor. Ika la shana nasiah. For favor, for favor. We demand, for favor, for favor, for favor, for favor. Hallelujah. I glorify you. You're going to see it with your own eyes. You're going to be a witness to favor in your life. It won't just be a cute phrase or colloquialism. You will tangibly experience the blessing of favor. Honor it when it shows up. Celebrate it when it shows up, and it'll keep coming. We give you praise and glory for favor. We give you praise and glory for For favor, for favor, for favor, for favor, for favor. Hallelujah! Can you say hallelujah? Come on, open your mouth and just tell him hallelujah! Glory to Jesus! Thank you, Lord. And the Spirit of Grace say unto you today, you may not understand and you may not be able to analyze what I'm doing for you, but I've thrown you into a season where everything will be unusual. For I say unto you, my children, that this shall be the season of unusual things, and I will show you things that you've never experienced and never known. But I will move in unusual ways. I'll do things you didn't expect. But as you obey and adhere to my voice, you'll receive the blessing of this season of unusual things, and favor shall overwhelm you. For I taught you concerning favor today. So you would recognize it when it shows up, and you'll know how to act when you receive it. Well, the days have come, said the Lord, where I must accelerate you into the place of dominion. I have been using my son to speak to you concerning domination over departure. Listen and take heed, saith the Lord, for I will do things your hands never expected. In this people, I'm going to get the glory, and I'm going to expand your gates to borders and places you never dreamed of. Trust me. Me. Abandon every system that doesn't align with my way and follow me, said God, for your time is now and you indeed are necessary, says the Lord. Thank you, Jesus. We receive, God. We receive it. We receive it. We receive, God. We receive. We receive, God. We, we thank you for the season of unusual things. The season of unusual things. Yes, this is where we are. The season of unusual things. Things won't look like normal. Everything is going to be different. But he told us just to comply and obey and do what he asked of us. Thank you, Lord, my God. Oh Jesus, we give you praise, God. We're going. I'm drunk. I'm trying to move. Jesus, the glory of the Lord is in this room. He is here. Thank you, Jesus. We give you praise and glory for favor. We're going to prepare our hearts really quick to give. If you go to the giving slide for me, and we can give— those of you online, if you have your phone, please put the ways to give in the comments for those that are watching. Uh, anything but PayPal. Something is going wrong with PayPal, still is not fixed. We're probably going to eliminate it altogether. But any other way you choose to give— Zelle, Cash App, website, rodderchurch.com/donate. Give us a seed this morning that says favor, that says I'm sowing for an unlimited harvest of favor to come back into my life. If you haven't been tithing, get your tithe. You owe that to God. Even off that income tax check, you owe him a tithe. It belongs to him. So let's get our seed in the ground. Father, we thank you for every opportunity to give. We pray that these gifts will come back good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over. Shall men give to our bosom, in Jesus' name. Amen. So the ways to give are up. Glory to God. Uh, get your seed in the ground. Just a few announcements while you're giving. Again, we won't be back tonight. Uh, the Holy Ghost has arrested us and we're going to just let him be God. Amen. Amen. Amen. They don't need pushing the issue and coming back because he done did, I think, what we needed for today. So enjoy this evening off. Glory to God. Hallelujah. See, if you comply, you just never know what God will do. Praise God. Just make up in your mind you going to comply. Glory to God. So we thank him. Glory to God. We're going to be having— we missed leadership meeting last Monday. We definitely will be meeting on tomorrow night. So every leader, please be, uh, on the call on Monday night. It's going to be interesting how leaders show up for Monday night but we can't get to church on Sunday. But, uh, that's another message for another day. Um, but let's make sure that we're in place on tomorrow night. Some things I want to share that are very important. On Thursday we are in person. Somebody say Thursdays are in person. Thursdays are in person. So we didn't come back tonight, so come on back Thursday, all right? We'll be here Thursday and, uh, we're going to continue teaching this series on the mystery of dominion. And we got 6 more gates we got to deal with in Nehemiah. So let's show up on Thursday night and let's get what the Lord said. On Saturday, on Saturday, uh, wave your hand back there, Brother Stu. Yeah, wave your hand. On Saturday, uh, I'm going to be having a training with Brother Stu. He's gonna, you know, him and his wife Stephanie are members of this church. So if you want to work in audiovisual, we want you to know how to do it. There are some things that we're going to begin to put together. He is a professional videographer, and, um, so he knows what he's doing. And so we're going to get together on Saturday. If you want to help in that area, you want to learn what we're going to do, meet us here on Saturday at 1 o'clock PM, and we're going to lay it all out for you, okay? So we want you to learn it so you know how to do it, because we're getting ready to start doing some other things with our— we got other cameras we're going to bring in, this camera, we got some roaming cameras. We're going to make our lives look a little different. So, uh, and with our man back there help, he's going to be very instrumental in helping that process because he knows what he's doing. Amen. Amen. So, uh, I'm grateful to that. Uh, so if you want to help with that, be here on Saturday at 1:00 PM. Um, if you haven't registered for the cruise, I'm, I'm really going through all this as drunk as I'm so drunk. God have mercy. If you haven't registered for the cruise, make sure you lock your cabin in. Uh, those of you online, you still have opportunity to do that. Uh, go to aratachurch.com/at-sea, at hyphen sea, and register. Uh, Dominion at Sea is going to be phenomenal. Make sure you get on the boat. Some of you just need some time away, so just, just do it so you can get away. You can't— I told somebody this last night— you really can't be all things to everybody else and you never take care of yourself. Sometimes you got to unplug and take care of you. Amen. So we're going to have opportunity to do that September 5th through the 11th. Make sure you're in the building. Uh, don't forget our Resurrection weekend, um, April 3rd, 4th, and 5th. Good Friday service on Friday the 3rd, Saturday the 4th. We're celebrating our First Lady's birthday for breakfast. She's having a breakfast. If you have not gotten with Pastor Jeffrey, please, we want everybody to pay in advance so that— because they only take one check, so we're going to just pay them one check. So we need to give them a number if you're coming to the breakfast. If you're working it out, you know, come and let's celebrate the First Lady. We're gonna enjoy that Saturday morning. It starts at what, 8 or 8:30? 8:30. So 8:30 AM at the Marriott Marquis at Sear. There's a restaurant inside of there called Sear. Uh, you're gonna love it, it's a great brunch. So come down and, and be with us. And then on Sunday, uh, we're having one service that Sunday. Apostle Nerissa is preaching, and we're going to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and our First Lady at the same time. So be in the building, we're gonna have a good weekend. Amen. Amen. All right, all right, all hearts and minds clear. We going to stand and be dismissed. Y'all stand. Glory to God. Wonderful Jesus. Jesus, I love you. Oh God, I thank you. You know, every service, you know, some services we don't have to lay hands and personally prophesy to people. Cuz the word itself can be so prophetic and profound that if you receive it, it'll push you where you need to be. Amen. So, cuz sometimes that can be a religious pattern that people put on preachers, and they start feeling the need to just pray for people all the time. But sometime God's trying to mature you.

Amen.

Where you don't need that every week. Amen. Are y'all good? And, and I believe he's doing that. That's why we're not seeing that were here recently, you're growing. Amen. And I want you to keep growing and walking with God. So Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you for this word today. Thank you for favor. Seal this with action. We declare the gates of hell would not prevail against us, and that we will operate in the gates of righteousness in the world, and the gates of heaven will be present in the world because we are present and we have the keys. Thank you for the favor to bind and loose. Thank you that you've given us the privilege to lock things and you'll lock them, unlock things and you'll unlock it. And we praise you for that. Now God, bless this week of every person under the sound of my voice. Let your spirit go before them. God, I, I was speaking with Apostle Asia last night about her grandson. I pray for his total healing. I pray for her grandchildren. I pray that you will loose healing in her family and in the bodies of those babies. And we give you praise and glory for it now. We thank you for what's to come, and we declare what's to come is better than what has been. In Jesus' name, amen and amen. Hug somebody, tell them you love them. You are dismissed.