Now playing

12. How To Overcome Snakes

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
December 11, 2024 1h 22m

About this sermon

Camp Title - Warfare Keys. Machaneh Collection - 55. Preached in 2008, Ghana (Elmina) Bishop Dag Heward-Mills is a world-renowned evangelist, bestselling Christian author with over 100 books, and leader of the United Denominations, present in 100+ countries. Through his Healing Jesus Campaigns, thousands have been healed, and millions saved across Africa and beyond. As you follow this podcast, may you begin to know God in a way you have never before! Don’t forget to click the follow button and turn on notifications.

Source: Bishop Dag Heward-Mills

Transcript

Welcome to track #12 of Warfare keys. Good, good. Now where were we yesterday? Snakes. They are territorial. OK, independence characteristic. OK, OK, OK, where's your thing? Number one, they are independent, right #2 is what they hide. So. So that means what? Huh. No, don't hide. Afraid by what? Which is science and symptoms. Must be a Master of Science and symptoms. Do you understand? In other words, you must not be a Doctor Who depends on lab tests and X-rays. You get it. Because there's no X-ray here and there's no lab tests to see certain things. I don't know what I'm saying. How many understand when I say that? Different types of doctors. Many times doctors trained even in Europe, in America, now they can they cannot operate here because I mean they, they are used to you do a test everything you have one put 1 sample of blood into show everything what different things. So a lot of the things in the medical books, we don't diagnose them in Ghana, you know, because the diagnosis is very chemical and you can't easily see. The other day I saw somebody have a disease they diagnosed what they call autoimmune hepatitis. You see that is

Read full transcript

Welcome to track #12 of Warfare keys. Good, good. Now where were we yesterday? Snakes. They are territorial. OK, independence characteristic. OK, OK, OK, where's your thing? Number one, they are independent, right #2 is what they hide. So. So that means what? Huh. No, don't hide. Afraid by what? Which is science and symptoms. Must be a Master of Science and symptoms. Do you understand? In other words, you must not be a Doctor Who depends on lab tests and X-rays. You get it. Because there's no X-ray here and there's no lab tests to see certain things. I don't know what I'm saying. How many understand when I say that? Different types of doctors. Many times doctors trained even in Europe, in America, now they can they cannot operate here because I mean they, they are used to you do a test everything you have one put 1 sample of blood into show everything what different things. So a lot of the things in the medical books, we don't diagnose them in Ghana, you know, because the diagnosis is very chemical and you can't easily see. The other day I saw somebody have a disease they diagnosed what they call autoimmune hepatitis. You see that is somebody who develops antibodies against only the liver, against his liver. You know, it's a very rare and strange disease that took took a long time to diagnose in any normal not feeling well, not feeling it's just normal moving. Otherwise what the person has developed a strange type of hepatitis called autoimmune hepatitis. I said, wow, people are making diagnosis who would have just said it's fever to go take pricy Tamil. You don't understand what I'm saying. Yeah, so become a Master of Science. You should be able to know now. Have you ever thought about it? People who catch snakes, how are they able to catch them? That's one of the questions that have have puzzled me. Have you watched Rambo 4? What are the movie lovers? Should have watched it by now. If you watch from 8:00 till 4, you should have seen Rambo 4. But in Rambo 4, at the beginning of the film, Rambo is found at a certain country and he's doing a job, and his job is catching snakes. Yeah, he goes. He. So when he came back one-on-one of the days, the guy told him, listen, no more Cobras. We we need pythons or no more pythons, enough pythons, we need cobras. And they showed him, he went to town, he went to the forest and he would do something. They didn't able to catch it. You see, just as a Satan, there are people who can catch him. Wow. As a Satan, there are some experts and the devil hates it and hates that people because they are, they are experts at catching serpents. Yeah, not everybody. You and I, we cannot catch a snake. And in the same way, the majority of Christians and the majority of pastors cannot catch snakes. Snakes are allowed to move and manoeuvre and so on, but they don't have don't have the expertise because he did something, something, something then, oh, then he caught the snake. Hey corporate to lift the head like. That and different things. He'll catch it, then he caught it, then he put it in the hand. Then they had a basket, then they put it in. He lifted something, he put it in and hold the basket. Then he was coming like. That Hey, Rambo. Master of snakes, may you be a master of serpents. You see, it's sort of like. Neutralizing. Serpents. Yeah. And you see the ministry, you must become somebody who can neutralize snakes and serpents in your life, in your church and your ministry. And there are certain things that neutralize them. And there are certain things that don't neutralize them. Yeah. So when you become the master of snakes, you. Because you ask yourself, when you go to the forest, how do you see one? Well, how do you know that? But see, one of the things they know they are territorial. They know that if a snake is staying here, it stays here for years. Because I watch this film, they study, they says, oh, 15 years, it's here, the same snake, it doesn't go away. I watch another snake in the Sahara deserts. They were filming it and you see that this snake, it can stay for about one year without eating and it will just be in the sand and then it does something like this and it goes into the sand just with the. Eyes looking hey so you're walking on the sand just. Sandals pure sand and this lake is in the sand. So they were watching it and the lizard came by and the snake was looking and this was saying that it to be a long time before another lizard comes that way. So the snake has to get this thing. So the snake was lying there, but it means the lizard and the lizard ran away and when the laser ran away watching the snake and the snake and went and went back to the same place hiding the. That's how sometimes when you watch the Christian channel, you are not getting much tend to animals. Babu says that for the invisible. Nature. Of God and the attributes and the power of God is seen in the things that are made, being understood by the things that are made. Therefore they are without excuse. Yeah. So you are without excuse when you don't understand the power of God, you don't understand the will of God. You are without excuse when you're done because in the things that are made, you understand and you see how what God is doing and what his power is doing. Yeah. So when I saw Rambo holding the snake, and then I shot another place. Human beings have caught snakes, I realized. There are some people look, these glasses will break again. There are some people who can snake cannot. They are not super whatever. They cannot just pull a church. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They are not all powerful. In fact, there are many things that can overcome them if you can understand them and how they went. Amen. So the next one is this. They depend on surprise, isn't it #4 they poison, they pollute and they corrupt. They poison people. That's why you. That's why we sack. You see many pastors who don't understand a snake will stay with it, you see, and advise it you see and counsel it. And we don't counsel snakes you see, because that one snake will poison a lot. Just it just has to bite at one part of the body to affect the whole body. So when it bites 1 member, it spreads. So people who are not understanding snakes and serpents, they deal with Satan, with counselling. Call the guy, let's talk to him. Let's meet, let's meet him. Let's explain. You can't explain. You can't cancel the devil. Yeah, because the presence of a serpent poisons 1 bad nut. That's what they say about apples. One bad apple, one rotten apple amongst a big pile of apples. It spreads the rot and it affects it. That's the nature of serpents. That's why the bows is cast out. The scorner. A scorner is Satan. Somebody who laughs at you. How many have been laughed at before? How many have been teased before? You didn't like what was being said and the way they were laughing? Raise up your hand if it as you have experienced it before. Yeah, somebody who stones you. It's one of the bad experiences in life. That is why after being laughed at a few times, you do anything in your life not to be laughed at. That's why I was talking to Pastor Paul. Where is he? You know, and he's gone to Venezuela and he speaks Spanish. He, his wife, his daughter, his wife and himself. How old is your daughter? Nine years. His wife, He and his wife, they are speaking Spanish, but not like his daughter. The daughter is speaking Spanish. Like porridge that. Is flowing. They all went at the same time. You went before. It's even worse, but the the reason is that as a grown up, he's afraid of that experience of being laughed at by children. They are not when when you correct them, yes, what is it is this then they say the right one and then they are going on think much. But as you go on, more laughter than you are laughed at. Like that's what that is why I. Don't I can't preach in P. Because you see one word and everybody starts after a three or four times of that thing. He's like. If you went the word is coming, you wouldn't say the word again. How many others believe what I'm talking about? That's why we cannot learn languages and we cannot learn things. It's because we are afraid of being scorned. It's a bad experience. And Satan laughs at people. One day, sit down. I was in my room and I was in, I was in, I was in, I was somewhere, and in the middle of the night, about 3 AMA beam appeared on my right hand side, Satan black and big, and stood on my side. I tell you and laughed at me and it was it was there was the the laughter and there was a face of somebody and laughter and mockery at me. It was one of the most frightening experience because of that. That particular house I became. I didn't like that. I got up at 3 AMI didn't know what to do. And I went and I had communion because when you don't know what to do, have communion. Yeah, and there was mockery, Mock, mock you, your being, your ministry, your calling. You did make you nothing. Hey. And that's the Bible says you don't. You don't advise it. You cast out anybody who is a scholar. It's not that, he said to him. But he doesn't believe in you alone. He doesn't believe in you guys laughing at you. Say what you say I'm going to say to doom. I say, Pastor, let me show you Bunkie's picture. They say real man, of course, but that's why we don't watch Bunkie. At the end. You join from the beginning and you realize that you are somewhere down there on Part 1. You are Part 1, but there's no need. There's a part 4. There's no need. You need to watch part 4 because you are not at part four. Yeah, Part 1. I don't understand the message. Yeah, there are some things I want to tell, but I wouldn't say no, no, no. So they poison, they pollute, and they corrupt. So you don't counsel them. You do what? Professional. It would have been good for you to have had this message some time ago. Yeah, it tried to counsel something that is polluting. As. You cancel the thing, release more pollutant and it spreads more. As you advise the thing vomit another one and it spreads. In the system, the whole water becomes blue because you give the person a chance to speak. That's what they did when they arrested Rollins on on May 29th. They brought him to court. It was their worst mistake. When he gave them a speech, he said, look, I don't know anything about economics, but what I know is how to survive on an empty stomach as you vampires drink the blood of Ghana. These people have done nothing. They were not involved. I am the one. And he spoke, and he spread the the poison and the venom of hatred and revolt in a language that the people understood. Rapsheka and the next time he came to court again the whole place was full. And they have started writing in Berma Camp, not let the blood flow in like something has happened. They were they were wrote in Birmer camp. It's like this. Whatever you know the guy is speaking whatever they wrote on if you read the book. You see, they have. Written in Birmer camp all over. Yeah. And then he they gave him a chance to speak to the defence. You have anything to say? Because before you you are going to, I mean, you can be executed for this. The other thing. Yes, I have something to say. So recently when President Kufu and others came, they had what they call national reconciliation and then they call him again, come and answer questions. This time they were whiter. When he sat down there, they asked him one question. Are you this? Were you this? So no further questions, because he had to. Speak. Rapture guys, The whole of Ghana. They never gave him the to pay him by. About the judges who were killed, about this, about the rebels. He came ready, but I think they asked him, is your name rolling? Whatever said. Yes, OK. Thank you very much. I was watching that thing live on television. We're all waiting to see what's going to happen. So is your name, bro. Alice, were you president from here? Said Yes. Thank you very much. Bye. Finish. You called for a meeting with pastors, leaders, shepherds and a poisonous person and allow the person to you as the person give the chance to say things and to explain and to speak and see you see that this is and you see this is. You see, it's not that we are going to take it as what it is. It is not this. It is this that we are saying. Don't think about that. In the Czech, loyalty is not loyalty or whatever. It's something that we are experiencing practically. Talk about loyalty. So they pollute the poison, the corrupt. One day I went to Malaysia and a certain businessman came to pick me to go and preach early in the morning for businessmen's no fellowship, just prayer meeting. So I asked him, are you in the church? They said, Oh, yeah, I was not a serious prisoner. One day on Sunday morning, instead of going to church, I went forth. I mean, like going swimming and whatever. So we went to this river where there's a waterfall, and we're just, I mean, playing around, fooling around. He said that we were under the waterfall and the water was falling on us. Having a good time Sunday afternoon. And he said a snake. There was a snake in the water and the snake came in the river and came over the waterfall and fell on him as he was bathing and having a good time in the water, not a submarine. I think the snake has also fallen in the water. So when the snake came, the snake took him, picked him. I think it was a Viper, he said. For months I battled for my life. Yeah, since half of my skin almost came off, I was like intensive Tacoma. Test da da da whatever you see when you allow one snake in your chest before you realize the church is now in intensive care. He was in intensive care. Half of the skin of the body came off and he was on machined life support heart this blood transfusions this that differently. In fact, I was watching this. They said that the venom of the Viper is developing and it's becoming. More deadly. Than it has ever been. Yeah. It's this undergoing. What do you call it? And it's more dangerous and more deadly. They don't know why. Just a drop. One day when I was in medical school, in first year, we were studying snakes and there was a man, our Electra white man, when he had a big snake in the lab, a Viper. You see the Viper by the shape of the head, it's like a triangle like this. And when it lies down, the head becomes flat and big like this. So one day we went to the lab and the guy was, I think he was trying to extract venom from the snake. We were there and he put his hand inside. It was his assistant who put his hand inside. They were doing something then. Suddenly, the snake. And then the thing that seemed like this, you should have seen the guy was, I mean, they were seriously were. Just like this, the guy started to move. Around because it was like, I mean it. Was like, this guy can be killed by this thing, Yeah. It was a very dangerous thing, you know, So we were all watching. I mean, I don't know what happened, but I don't think he he died or it was deep, but it saw that Charlie, if one member 1 snake can have just a scratch in one of your shepherds can have a scratch in one of your pastors. Unity Secretary, Where is she? Uh huh. Come. You see, that's why we have this Unity Secretary to discover snakes. Can you find snakes? You have to find snakes under rocks because just a. Scratch. Tea, just a scratch. Yeah. Before you realise the church is in where Intensive care and, and, and they are supporting where the heart of the church drips. In Zurich we have serpents. Yeah. Today we have about four or five of our pastors who are in small town. They are broken away from the church and one snake, one poison. This is the first pastor who left the church some years ago. He sent me a letter saying this about loyalty. He said he has seen that loyalty, loyalty, characteristics of cults, characteristics of counts that we talk about loyalty a lot. So it's like something something that our church cult association by whatever. Yeah. And after today that those words you see the people mentioned those kind of things. So loyalty thing is now is that not what they say what the loyalty is too much. He was scratchy and. Now the church is and we have to give the church drips intensive care. No, you see the guy, it's not that the skin, the skin and the meat under it came off from where the snake bit him, that place and the meat, the meat of the person came off. He said it was totally so he said that from when he recovered. He said that is why I'm the one picking you to. Go to church. That's why I'm the one picking you. The snake came in the water ladder through the water. That was it. The Sunday it was he said it was Sunday. The loyalty is too much. And what there are other things to teach apart from loyalty? Is he after being the pastor of a while must. Preach your own messages. Is he, are you seeing the poison? If you are a pastor of whatever and you are great, show us by your foot your 12 members. You are trying to say whatever. I don't have 12 members. I have more than 12. Churches. I don't understand the message. That's why we have the Unity secretary. What do you think? Is it fantastic how many are going to help to fight Snake from now when you see one, I just say no brother, brother, brother, I cannot entertain you in the. Church, I cannot. Entertain you in the church you see and that is why when you see there something that you discover, you start to counsel if not understood how to. One day I met a certain pastor. It was around January and he had grown very lame. And he said why? I said why, He says because of fasting. I said why? He said. Destroyer, he said. Every year I fast 21 days or 30 days or 40 days on this royalty. In my church, but it doesn't go. So, but when I saw your book See God, there is a way to catch a snake, you don't just go and catch a snake then you pick it to tell like this and give you a dirty slap. And continue on his direction. Yeah, there are expressive ways. One pastor, I went to preach in his church and he's been inviting me every time. But when I came again recently, he said, Bishop, that message, that message, there was no loyalty. And this loyalty, he's a good man. When he said I knew that he wanted me to preach because I have so many messages, I'll preach on loyalty. That message is very good. Yeah. Because. Because because you see he has had around was in his changer. Oh yes, he has bought the chair he has had, I mean different people. Reverend is to come every year Shibundu comes deliverance of this, deliverance of that, deliverance of that. And he was. Struggling so Reverend Steve, my friend, Reverend Steve told him and said I have a certain friend, he has a medicine. For this particular thing, say there make catcher Rambo 4 because not everybody can catch a snake, Not everybody can catch a snake. So The thing is moving around, moving around, moving around, moving around. Not everybody can catch it. Yeah. And you see, because otherwise, like, oh, there's no power in the in the message or there's no power. Is there no miracle that chance? I've been, I've been going there. I've never done even 1 miracle. I've not laid hands on anybody before. But that message, because you don't catch a snake by miracles, because then you see Lucifer's character is disrespect. He said I will ascend and replace the Most High. So one of the thing, yeah, there's no respect. That's one of the things about Satan is there's the lack of respect for anybody. That's why that person could sell in the house. I would I you. Need to be slapped. They don't have the greatest ministers I've heard of Benny Hinn. What have they had? Or Rangoose, who have destabilized them and disturbed them? There is no level that is exempt. From that thing, rebellion and whatever, I don't respect seniority in anything, you see, so. Deliverance and power they see that this is a real man of. God is here. That is not what what you need is that message that can catch the snake. So, and you see, when you look at me, you may not be interested in inviting me because maybe when they're having a big conference, yeah, there's that miracle. They will not invite me, you see. So the guy had to encourage me. Look, you know, this is my friend when it comes to your church. It will change that. When I went once, I caught three of the snakes. For years we have been here, we have not been able to catch any of them. Yeah. Since then, I've been catching the snake for him and I go, I'm coming to catch up. Yeah. Oh, you don't understand the message. Yeah. So you need that message so that that pastor, I was telling you he was growing lean, but you do not. Touch them by fasting. Fasting does not change it at. All. 40 days his meat was gone. Fact. I've never felt so sorry for a pastor but the 40 days fast that could not remove that snake, it's like taking AK47. I'm going to catch a snake. We use a stick, use a stick. Rambo just use a stick. Although he could shoot. When it comes to a stick, use a stick. Something like do something, turn it like this, catch the back at the front, there's some stab. We put it in a bag. Expect. Can you catch snakes? Yeah, catch them. You see, you have to see the science as a unity secretary, the independence, the hiding, the poison, the Tory territorial. Territorialism manifested. Have I told you? Territorial manifested. I don't want to be transferred when you say move. No. Why? That thing that does not want to move, it's a snake. Yeah, for hours. If I said for 16 years the snake would be, it will not. So the reason why they said that was because they were doing a study on the snake and they never had to do anything to find the snake. It was always at the same place, under the same rock, and to go out and hunting and to come back and come and sleep there. But yes. And yes, no matter what, they come and build a house there. They've done this, they've done this, they've done that. It's there. Wow. So territorialism. They don't want to be what transferred. They don't want to be what they don't want to be what transferred. OK, you can say that. Clap for the Unity Secretary. No, I've not given you that they are territorial. Huh. OK, they are territorial. The next one, they produce a lot of babies, no family planning. One snake produces a lot of snakes and I saw a film of a bird chasing the snake and they said that the snake the the birds are such good snake catches that if it were not for the fact that one of the Vipers. Can produce as much as 100. Vipers at a go. They would be extinct, Yeah, because they really suffer. Also the snakes, to get meat, to really suffer, to get something to eat. So they produce a lot. So you see that they're really looking for support. A lot of people are saying, many people are saying. That's why you have to get rid of them quickly before I realize where presence of was. Apart from poisoning, a lot of people still produce a lot of similar evil spirits. Because one evil spirit of rebellion produces lies, another liar, demons of anger, confusion, strife, I mean any kind of chaos. Look, what I'm saying is real passagement has experienced it. What I'm saying now, if he had understood what I was saying earlier, you'll not have joked with such things. You'd have removed all those things long time. He said no, no, no, no, out go, go, go, go. Number six, they see in the dark the eyes of snake and they showed the house next sea. They see like in the dark, they see like you, you become like green, green light and you're just moving. So they see the object like that night vision. Their eyes are like night vision goggles. Yeah. Which, Huh. Yeah, Maybe that was how they produce those bubbles. You see the object of moving in the night like that, you know and. So at a time when you least expect where you think Ableton is OK. Everything is OK. This is not the time for something like that. Not even surprised, but it's like we are all sleeping. Maybe it's the whole vacation or Christmas, or maybe we are grieving or maybe we are happy. They don't think about that at all. Just strike without respect for Easter. Christmas, there's that time. Holiday, there's nothing. Because the time that we would have been sleeping, their eyes are open then #7 they are invisible. They bury themselves in sand and snow. In the Antarctic and the Arctic Ocean areas, Alaska and so on, Can you believe that snakes are there in the. Ice, yeah. In the sun they are there. In the ice they are there. I saw it in the ice. It slipped for the whole year. It doesn't eat even once. Once a year to eat. What kind of animal is this? So that shows you they can be everywhere, whether you are in Congo, whether you are in Ghana, whether you are in the north of Ghana, South of Ghana, Malaysia, Egypt, Asia, Africa is the same thing. Because they are found, as we know what they are, where there is grass, how many are surprised that they are, where there is snow, ice, and they sleep in the ice. They sleep in the ice. Then they wake up one year. They eat. Once a year. Or in the sand. So you are walking on the Sahara, they said, thinking that there's no grass here and it's inside the sand. So next time you are in the Sahara, they said be careful and they have Vipers. Very, very dangerous. Dangerous. Are you there? OK, so those are the characteristics. Now how to overcome snakes. Number one, human intelligence and wisdom. One of the greatest overcomers of snakes are human beings. I watch a film. In that film, the people, when you have a snake, they call the ambulance and they call a snake department in America and the snake, the first squad comes. To save the snake. From you. They don't come to kill the snake. It's a message. Well, they're trying. They're trying to preserve them. So you cut a deadly Viper? The guy will come, he'll catch it. He has a special stick to catch the Viper. I show a woman called that a snake has come to a house and they have to take the snake far away because it's staying in that house for a long time. Doesn't want to go away, doesn't want to be transferred. So the guy comes, do you see, and he transfers the snake far with the car beyond where it can ever come back, do you see? And they try to save themselves. They don't kill them because they are also killing the rats and things in the area. Do you get it? So one of the things that I realized was that, and in that film with Rambo, he had several, this guy had several pots like that, all the snakes that they've caught. I wasn't a documentary. The documentary is like they are, they are business and people are people are afraid of them. A particular tribe. They catch snakes, they are weapons catching snake. They put it in bowls like a flower pot. See the flower pot we have some flower pots are the Kodesh roundish ones and they cover it with a cloth and the snakes are in it in pots. This one is not a Rambo film. They are there and see how they are driving and the snakes out plenty Vipers What? And they take them to people who take the venom because you take the venom out and use it to make anti venom they see. And then when you milk a snake for sometime it has to eat before the venom comes. So when it bites you and all the venom goes out, and then when the venom goes out, it has to eat. If it doesn't eat it, it needs the protein to make the venom. Otherwise there will be not, there will be no venom. So after the snake has been there for some time, they are taking the venom. They have to release it because the venom is finished. So you cut the. So you see that the human beings are masters of the snakes. Masters. I'll use you for this. I'll release you. I'll spare your life. I'll put you here. Oh, put you in a box. I'll put you in a car. Let's go. I'll carry you, put you on my back. Rambo was holding it. I just use a snake. Whatever. So human wisdom and human intelligence can fight sentence and that is why in the Church we are not just using the, I mean, what do you call it, fasting for 40 days and 40 nights. There are certain things we need to do practically, we have. To apply. Wisdom, you see, that's why now in our church, we are not going to allow people to stay for too long at a place. At a certain time you must also. Move. Lest you develop a territorial it is the first a Pentine nature, a territorial something that this is for me, it's for it's in in which way is it for you? That's the. Question that I want to ask, In which way is it for you? How does it become yours? Are you not being helped? Have you not been helped? Is the Church of God's church? You know, the work of God that we are all doing. If everybody was, if President Richard was to sit in London and say it's for me, what would happen to the rest of us? If President John was to say it's for me, you would not have a church in South Africa because the church in South Africa was bought from somewhere like London or America or something. And you wouldn't have the church in in Zambia if South African church has said it's for me because South African church pay for the big church building in in Zambia. So when we start that territorial, they say so human intelligence must be applied and people have to start. We have to start applying certain human Internet. Yeah. Good Shepherd websites and other human strategies, Unity secretaries, you see Winners Chapel, Winners Chapel, they've had several terrible break UPS, especially the one in Accra. It was terrible. It was also ashamed of Ghana behavior or that thing. So recently I was in my office when the pastor of the church, he was our friend. He was even on our Healing Jesus board. He came to see me that he's going, I said. Oh, why so? We are leaving so so I have to go. He has not been there for long. And I found I said now we need to put 2. Years. Off to the next place before you develop. When we want to come and visit your church or we need to, don't come near me. It's for me. It is for me. Why is it for you? In which aspect is for you? Which aspect is for you? Baboons are working and monkeys are coming to eat what the baboons have, have, have, have have gone for cash. The baboons are the baboons have decided that we are not going to be fooled again. We are tired. Mercy, what do you think? Is it powerful? I say. Human intelligence is higher than snakes see human Internet can neutralize the ability of the snake to. Strike it will still. Be that I cannot work that's why we say listen to the tapes, Internet, whatever That's why somebody who doesn't listen to the Internet just. In a car here you say the person is. Very far. Than somebody who is in Papua New Guinea or Australia. You say come for homecoming. Many times, you see, that's what. Come for we encourage the people. Come for homecoming many. Times people have come for homecoming, they come, they see the church, go to the orphanage, go here. Then they'll say when they come to the office, they say, Bishop, we thank God that we came. You see Bishop here. One of the thing that we have seen when we came is we have seen how our money is being used. In fact, from now, I'm going to pay my tithe. I've got your gift because I've seen it for myself. So that means that all along. The all along you had a negative thoughts. All along you had a Serpentine feeling. All along, Satan was working in you. Due to homecoming, you have been here. Of the Serpentine. Feeling. Yeah, that's why I say come for program, bring your church member. That's why you see like witness Chapel and all this. They say Shiloh, everybody is going Night of Bliss, everybody is going shuffling conference, everybody is going this program, everybody is going. It is human. Intelligence that, and wisdom that catches. Next and they will be there, but they cannot bite you, rather will remove their venom. You say open your mouth. Why? I said. Why? Bring it up, close your heart again, I said. We'll use it. To. Make a develop to cure others. Will you be your mother? I said. Open it wider one more time. Something that can kill you and remove. Half of your meat. Something that can put you in intensive care. Will you be on Love one more Time Wider? Bring it out now. Bring it out now, yeah? You take loyalty CDs, we play it in your. Church. You have conventions, you preach just about loyalty. Something hasn't happened in the church, but you are saying it that I'm coming to that. There are 4. Keys. To cut the serpents. Now one of them is human intelligence and wisdom. Yeah, are you there? Yeah #2 another wider. The next one is developing immunity to the venom of the snake by introducing. You see small, small amounts of venom. Now I was watching a snake. That's why I said that you can get more revelation from what he said that for the invisible nature and attributes and power of God, Romans. Chapter one, verse 20 are seen by the things that are made being understood by the things that are made. Therefore, they are without excuse that without excuse or understanding God. You can't excuse yourself. So I was watching. This snake and the snake was moving. Are you with me? Is there any question? The snake was moving and it was going hunting. Then it saw a mountain squirrel. Now that the squirrels are smaller, but this mountain squirrel was fatter like this. Do you see? So as we were watching, it was going and then the squirrel was trying to dodge a thing. Then suddenly the snake did like this. I mean, bit the squirrel, and the squirrel just started up. It was moving. So we're watching Sarah. It's going to die. It was moving. This was moving. It was moving. It never died. Change your stuff. It wouldn't die. Change your stuff. It was moving strong. And they said, they said this animal has developed immunity to the snake. So the snake was. Looking at it. Why are you not dying? And yet a stake bit by doesn't affect. Now that is what happens so that when you. Teach. On loyalty, you introduce little bits of venom like when the some of the venom that they said. The. Loyalty is too much. You see, that's venom. It's somebody's venom. And we, we bring it out. Well, we could have kept quiet about it and not mention, but we bring it so that you develop somewhat mountain squirrel immunity. It's not just immunity, it's a mountain squirrel immunity. Yeah. So we, we, we bring those as a. Percentage, you say? 1 percentage of offerings. So we introduce that word so that you you have time to think about it and think about the nonsensical nature of that thing. It's a stupid statement that somebody can write a letter on. Do you see that we introduce that venom or you say we are a? Cult. You see, you mentioned these poisonous comments and there are some of them are written in the book, not my book. Do the good assistant. What chapter is it? Sayings of A? From the lips of treacherous men, they are all venomous remarks that are designed to produce what mountain squirrel immunity? One day I preach the loyalty. I think it was last year. I preach in Korea and the pastor, the pastor there, where I've been invited to go and speak in Louisiana, he called me. He said, I mean, I met him in the lift and he started to talk. He has a huge one of the top respected miniatures in America. He said man when? You were talking about disloyalty, he said. You address, he said. He said that book, because he has a lot of cells and groups, he said it takes up every demonic thoughts that there was every demonic thoughts that a person can have, the book takes them up. It's. Demonic idea, That's what he said. I remember the way he said demonic. As I said, this is not not the money is the America will say demonic thoughts. Yeah. And you have to take demonic thoughts and demonic words and drop them small. Small to develop what mountain squirrel immunity. Yeah, you have to talk about peoples breaking away from church, starting church, somebody saying Nigerians are they so that Nigerians in the church will not also start to think let's go and talk to all Nigerians. Or if you have a lot of Ivorians or a lot of this other, you mention it. The other time I was preaching that I think it was eyes and I was saying that there are some people who like that my team in who I take myself out as Santis like that. When I say that, I'm putting some venom out there. So that all trees speaking and shanty like whatever should take note so that when that thing comes to you say hey, he said. You'll be still be doing what? Change your style. Change your. I said the screen was dancing. He couldn't die. I said he couldn't die. He couldn't die because that thing, you have had it before. Yeah, You have had that thing before. This thing that you are saying I've had of it before. You say I've seen one of this particular thing before. We were told about it at the camp. We had it. This same idea that you are bringing, it was so busy. I thought that he was going to go instead of going. We watch. And that's couldn't do it. It was surprise. They turn around like this and it's working. It's not is it does? As soon as snakes, they suffer. It's not every time they are successful. Yeah, they're not everywhere. They are successful at the. Venom and all those things work. A lot of places it doesn't work, yeah. Yeah, so everywhere that it works, in some places that we did immunize the people. One guy, he became an Arango in the church and he wanted to leave. So he left and he started to go round the people trying to find this thing, mice and other squirrels and other animals to bites. So one day he met a certain brother who had developed mountain squirrel immunity. And when he met this mountain squirrel, he he gave him can I borrow one of the people? He gave him a a leaflet of his new church. He said come, so the brother to them should come. He said me. I should come, he said. Some years ago, some years ago the. First time I saw a similar snake and we were in a church and the church was working and then one of the pastor broke. Away, he said, to God be the glory. Great things he has done. I separated himself and we all followed him. He bought instruments, he bought a bus, and we saw quickly that God was rather with him rather than with the original church. So we all went there. We were in the church when this brother announced that tomorrow I'm going for American visa to go abroad. And we said God is taking our pastor higher than is now moving into an international ministry. That the Brotherhood, they gave this leaflet, so he said we were so happy with our bus. To God be the glory. No weapon, the right of no weapon form against us can prosper. So when he went for the visa, he was successful and he came back to the church to inform that. So the church prayed for him as he was going, May God be. And he's going for three weeks, Three weeks convention. None of my stories are jokes. All are true. When he went for the convention, God moved powerfully Everywhere he went, this he was doing good. Everywhere he went, he was doing good. So now God was moving all over America. So after three weeks, the people said we need more of you. All I want is more. So then he decided to extend the state. So he called the church and told them that he's coming, that God has opened. Doors. After six weeks. Three months, the pastor who had been given the leaflets, they were there. Six months. The man has not come. One year more doors were still opening. Two years and they were all there waiting with the bus. The bus was there to. God be the glory, no weapon form against us shall prosper. So after some time, most of those who. Had been beaten and have followed and broken the other church and come here. Were now there without a leader and they were now disillusioned because the guy was not returning from America. So after some time decided decided to just leave. So they left and then they came to Lighthouse. So later when they met, he was now praying on the pack and then he met another Viper who was saying that live lighthouse and moving from here to. Just. Here come. And I think they gave him. They started. The first time. I dislocated and I went, but this time snake cannot do anything. And that is one of the ways to overcome snake. There is a, there is, there are people that have, there's a church that has, they just have snakes in the church. They allow the snakes to bite them and they don't die. So as people have developed immunity, they have developed immunity. The thing doesn't work. The third way to. Overcome the serpents and the snakes. IS airstrikes. Air strikes or bed? Strikes, if you remember Rejoiner's book, he met some eagles and he asked the eagles, what do you do? And said we eat snakes. But you see, it was just a nice saying that that day when I watched the snakes, I saw their masters. I would like to get that DVD for us to watch it. Jane, remind me after church. Maybe you have to watch. It as a. Administrator to see you wouldn't believe it, I mean. Falcons. They just come like that. Pick the snake airstrikes you see you, you, you the you see an airstrike is also is both prophetic and spiritual warfare from the air. You see, in as much as fasting and preppers say will not catch the state, it's. Also part of it. Because we are talking about how to catch the state, how to overcome them. It's also demonic. And through prophetic eyes. And seeing things spiritually, you get it. You can see that look. This is a snake look. I have never seen anything like it, Tammy. Then they shot different beds that were killing the snakes. Then they shot a bed which has a red neck and a long beak like this. It's not an eagle. It's not a home. That bed, it lands, I said. And the big is lighted. You will see them walking. On the and. The stick is running. The stick has run inside under the distance. See that? Then they are put the camera inside the rock and you see the stick has come in and the bed is standing there by the with the lens there. If you are bored, come. If you are bored, come out. That is when they wrote. They said in the documentary that if it were not for the fact that one can produce 100, they will they will be extinct because of their beds. Yeah. Air strikes. I think their legs see chicken leg is hard. And then they're scaly, there's no meat there. And then the feathers, the wings, you see long beak and they just. So you see they're flying there with a snake that they've caught, and they bite of the head, bite the head, bite the body. You see? When I saw it, that was my greatest moment. God showed me says snakes are not invisible. They have masters. They have things that can overcome them. They have things that can destroy them. They have things that are masters to them. I tell you, yeah, you don't have to, you see. God is giving us some encouragement against the steppent and the attacks and the presence of invisible powers that fight us. He's giving us encouragement, letting us see that look, it's not like some invincible, impossible battle. They also have their masters. I said they have their masters and so it now makes sense. When in Rejoiner's book, he said what do you do so we are eagles, what do you do say we eat snakes. You see with the long vision and the ability to. Bite. And to take them out, you pick them out and say you out. Hey, we eat snakes, so we must rise in the. Spirit. One day I was in Tulsa, OK and I woke up in the morning and I had a dream and I saw one of the pastors in Accra saying something Hey. So I called Bishop Zack he was in the next to myself. Look at what have what. Dream is this. I've forgotten even the detail of the dream. Do you remember? Yeah, I said. What a strange. Dream about somebody who is just fully working with us, happily not knowing that in the dream it was true air strikes. One day I had a vision. I was a boxer in the dream. In that dream, I am not interested in boxing, but in that dream I was a boxer. See, that's how you know the dreams that are from God. But me, Pennsylvania, I'm a boxer wearing shorts with gloves, and I was Muhammad Ali. And there was another person who was also a boxer, and this boxer was wearing shorts also, but was a. Woman, yeah. And the woman who was the boxer, two of us were in the ring, were fighting and this boxer, I mean, we. Fought. We fought. We fought with dreadful. I mean, we really fought. When I came out of it, I was so tired from the fight. Yeah. And you know who this lady boxer was? She was the person who sings for me before I preach. In those days, no, it's not BDR, it's not BDR, it's not Grace, it's not Vivaldi. It's before that time, when I came out of there, I said no, you see, it was an airstrike. She was one of the talkers. And today, that girl, she cannot join the church, even though she's where the church is and she's somebody who should be in the church. And actually that's the church that she could be. She cannot join because of those days. Oh yeah, It is so that when you attack something, it is flourishing it. Takes a certain. Humility to say I'm going to that church. She's right where the church is. They're not have church. No, whatever. They cannot join. You see, because I saw you in the boxing ring, you're fighting me. She shouldn't join. She should be in another church. Because they hide for a long time and they see in the dark night vision, you see. So in the spirit, you have to know things. You have to know those who love you and those who can hurt you and those who hate you. But I've covered it with something else and you don't have to council, said Snake. Can I discuss something if all here will come off and you'll be in intensive care, But don't counsel them. Mercy, Mercy, are you there or you've gone home? The next one, I've given you 3, right? I'm giving you 4, although there are 6 here #4 by noting the signs of the presence of a snake there. There are some things that snakes do that give themselves away, and we have to do some more research. But one of the things that snakes do to give themselves away, that is they shed their skin. And I was playing golf and I saw snakeskin shit. As I was going to the Bush, I saw the snake and I said, wow, I don't like my ball again. I don't like my ball again. It should be there. That's next. You eat it. I don't like it again. Another sign is the rattle. It makes you know that that that there's one around you see. So that is the science. You have to become a Master of Science and you know that there is one somewhere then. And the third sign of a snake is a baby snakes that are like wems. You know that there is a big one somewhere. See, one day you see a worm and a worm is thinking, as you say, is this a worm or is it a snake? Yeah. How do you differentiate? Let's we have to find. I don't know. They are shiny and they are hard. Their body is hard. Yeah. The body is hard. Why do you have a hard body? Yeah, How many are blessed with a snake? How to overcome snakes? Stand to your feet. How many are now? Expect snake catches. Are you going to watch the Rambo 4? You must watch it between 8:00 and 4:00. After 4 you do what? Evangelism, Evangelism and Witnessing at 4:00 and follow up. Lift your hand and pray for the Lord to give you grace to fight all serpents and snakes in your life and ministry. The. None. The. None. The. None. The. Yes, yes, yes. Thank you Jesus, God bless. Father, thank you for your blessing, Thank you for giving us victory over the serpents, snakes, serpent, that old serpent that deceives the whole world. Thank you for victory. Jesus name Amen.