The Prince of the Power of the Air. Part 1

Praise the Lord. Welcome to the sound of faith.

Sharon not thanking you for joining us today because we know faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

Today's message is a panoramic view of the evil influences and supernatural authorities driving our current chaotic culture, especially the anti-Christian America media, the prince of the power of the air this morning were going to begin in the book of Ephesians chapter 2. Amen. I gotta tell you that I was stirred up to put this message together after reading some other men of God's words that the Holy Spirit is put on them and so he put it on them and then he put it on me.

So I'm going for it. Amen just given you a warning okay so you know, get ready and here we are in Ephesians chapter 2 verse one and you has he quickened, and that word means made alive, who were were past tense dead in trespasses and sins, wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience so we know that we were born dead. Amen. Everybody here was born dead spiritually speaking, we were all born in sin, shaping in sin and iniquity, and our whole life until we came to Christ, whatever age that may have been different for each one here. I'm sure until that time we were under the influence in of an evil spirit that is now working in the children of disobedience. Those were all present tense is past tense is was good for us when we were but the fact is even now there is a spirit that's working in the children of disobedience when we were under that influence before our salvation. We walked according to the course of this world. We walked according to this dispensation. The age of this world. The dog of the poor is the power of the air. Now the word power here in Greek is asked to see which we all know means authority.

We walked under his authority.

Amen. He had rolled over us.

He is a prince and that is a strong Greek word archon and it means just what it says. He's a prince.

He has authority over a dominion and the dignity and that we see here that the prince of the power of the air has is the air and in the Greek the word is AER air.

We bring it over a IR but it's air and it refers to the atmosphere. Amen. If we would flip over to chapter 6 a look at verse 12, which we all know well but will read it.

Ephesians 612 for we wrestle not against flesh and blood were not wrestle against people. Amen. But against principalities, that means princes that have dominion against powers asked to see amen authorities, against the rulers of the what the darkness of this world there is darkness in this world and their own rulers that are rolling in the darkness of this world it's plural, so we know there are territories where certain rulers are willing but if the ruling over darkness. Amen, against spiritual wickedness in high places, and it would've been better there. If it had been translated in the heavenly's because that's where Satan's realm is operating. I know we always say he's in the pit not yet, not yet. It's coming it's coming.

Amen.

I like my dad. Brother Hardy always used to say were not going to quit when actually he said we ain't going to quit. Let me be, you know, authentic authentic RG party.

We ain't gonna tell we amen. And we know he always used to say.

He told the Lord if you don't already have somebody I want to be a candidate to help throw them in the pit. I'm sure that a lot of folks want to be that one.

Amen. Amen.

So where wrestling were in a wrestling match.

Amen. And it's against the spiritual wickedness in the rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in the heavens is what we are up against. So this person, the prince of the power of the air of this atmosphere of this realm in the heavens where Satan has his domain, which we know is not where God is.

God is in the highest. Amen. The third heaven where we know both Paul and John went and had revelations amen and told us about their going there. But this person is also called the prince of this world. In John 1430. He's called the God of this world and second Corinthians 4 for any is called the prince of demons and Jesus said that he's the prince of demons that Jesus said in Matthew 1224 this is none other than Satan, the adversary of God. Amen we know were told in first John I chapter God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. Satan is his adversary, the prince of darkness. Not only does he exercise authority over this world, and over its systems. He exercises authority over the air. The lower atmosphere of the lower heavens, and you know in the our present digital age almost everything that we do is controlled in some way by radio waves and satellite beams. Amen. You know, think about your TV. All the electronics in your house, your computer, your cell phones. I mean, people have become so digitized today. They have refrigerators that tell them when they're out of mayonnaise. Did you know there such things. I don't have one, but some people cannot turn their lights or in their house unless they tell Alexa do it and you can laugh about that, but it happened to my mom.

So Todd is trying to help my mom out and you know she knows nothing about digital stuff. She can even open email okay but Todd is trying to help her out of course you know he's going to know everything there is to know electronically so he fixed it so that in her living room. All she had to do was say turn on the light will something happened with her power or her Internet coming into her home and so it would work and did you think she could not walk over there and turn it on manually and she kept telling everybody you know me or Betty or Sarah's make some eye needs to come up here. I'm sitting in the dark and will think into our self. You sit in the dark.

Why don't you just get up and turn on the light, but he had that particular lamp. That's right next to her TV chair so that you had to do a by command that's the age that were living in amen and you know there's some people that their whole houses digitized like that and so everything in your home is coming to you and coming to us by some kind of way. That's in the atmosphere, you know, how does that picture on your TV get there.

There's waves in the atmosphere and beams coming down from satellite eat of the generation is coming up now. The millennial's, that's all they know they have no idea what like this without all that right in this domain is being controlled by the plan of the power of the air, the spirit of Satan is operating through the authorities and operating through the control of much of our media now you wonder why you see and hear all the ungodly things that are on the media that anti-God. The anti-Christian anti-Bible the anti-faith let's just say, anti-good because the ones that are in power and position had the spirit of the prince of the power of the air, operating through them to bring forth his agenda. Amen. And that's why things are becoming increasingly hostile towards Christian and biblical teachings and biblical values and morals and, therefore, people of faith, why is there so much hostility we live in a nation that says everybody has a right to believe what they want. You know I can't make you believe what I believe you can make me believe what you believe and that's okay. Everyone has that right. But right is beams system right is being loaded. Amen.

And they are now actively not undercover, not covertly but actively and overtly they are trying to silence preachers of the gospel think now some of you are my age or around my age. Those of you real young, just, you know, maybe sometimes you go on some of his cable TVs and you watch some of those old time shows that when television started in the 1950s. You had shows like I Love Lucy and you know it's still a classic. Amen. I Love Lucy and father knows best and Ozzie and Harriet and those kinda shows. Amen. They were all family oriented family oriented but think about today. The shows have so much sexuality in them and not only that many of the shows belittle the family structure.

They don't have a father and all of the show or if they do not want berate him please made to look like the dogs disrespectful. Amen. And imagine if back in the time of father knows best.

If one of the daughters got pregnant and had an abortion back in the 1950s. Amen know it would've been absolutely unheard-of see it started off a subtle erosion subtly but now it's overt and very pervasive in the last year.

I'm telling you since the new shows have come on for this last year.

I'm sure you're going to agree with me. The L GBD agenda has managed to so influence the producers and the writers you can watch one show with them putting in the story some kind a homosexual relationship and felt it doesn't happen had anything to do with the storyline at all and actually can be a little awkward to work it in because it doesn't really go with the storyline, but they have to put it in their commercials now commercials you can say well your children should be up at 9 o'clock when others commercials now with light homosexual contact use the word contact. Amen they work it in. Somehow, and you get the IDL from the way this is being posted in every shelf you would get the idea that countries day, and that's not true. It's a very small minority, but you wouldn't know that based on what you're seeing on television. Amen. See, it's an attempt to normalize it to normalize the aberrant lifestyle.

It's really only have a small minority. You know the other night. There's a medical show that I follow because I am intrigued by medical shows when they get into this person's about this and they'd always usually put in something that's you never hear about, and I find it interesting and so I'm following one of them shows, but the other night when he came on as soon started the very first opening scene I thought I know were too bad in passionate last open up this medical show that I've been following I could believe it. I had to switch the channel for a while and come back and see if it was safe to watch the story that I normally would watch.

It was shocking and it was cringe worthy to viewers like me who follow these shows and all we want to see is the medical issues and the personal interactions that we would come up against her normal and every day.

Amen. But all the media is getting bolder and they're pushing the envelope further and further and their bowing down to the very tall LGBT agenda and little by little people are becoming accustomed accustomed to seeing it so that after a while they won't be so shocked or offended by it. That is what is behind it all. Amen. Let me tell you folks the authors and writers of the storylines and story plots are not just Hollywood writers and New York producers edged up on the car meeting this is ponds. Amen. He's behind it. Think about your evening news that you watch every night, especially the 24 hour cable news stations, folks, let's be honest, they have abandoned journalistic integrity and it will print right towards what Porter did and didn't check them and print something like the be booted out of that job and nobody else would hire them. Amen. There was a day when that would've been the case but all when they print out right falsehoods and somebody called them on it. They refuse doing it and they come out with some off-the-wall reason. Amen.

When they get away with it. That only makes them more aggressive and Mormon nebula to hygiene the troops and sadly destroying some people's reputations, destroying people's reputations, honest people, with their twisted half-truths feel a half-truth is just as dangerous sometimes more dangerous than a lie because a lie is more easily recognized and proven to be a lie. But when you got a half-truth and you go to try to validate it.

You can find will part is true.

So maybe this part is true. The devil is clever. Amen. And again, these are all being energized by the prince of the power of the air. Some of the names that some of these news anchors on the cable TV stations all Christians is mind blowing. The dental laboratory things that they say about Christians and Christian leaders and they spit it out there and nobody calls him down on it had maybe a bunch of people get on the Internet it'll burn it up. Second, your call in the amount column about the error don't care if I had a million people get on there so you light just to get back on their next time you say something else. Amen. Because they had an audience that receives it, because they are under the influence of the prince of the power of the air. It's the same way with radio you know Christian radio in America has been a staple since January 2, 1921 when the first Christian station to get the call letters right KDK a tame on the air in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Christian radio. Amen.

And our country was blank.

Get it with Christian radio stations. You know you can travel across America East West north-south you listen to Christian radio.

The hall you could go for one station to the next as you went from one territory to another.

Amen. Christian radio reigned in America but let me tell you. Interesting fact in this came out in 2002 in 2002 more Christians listen to Christian radio than even went to church there were 141 million listeners to Christian radio and there were 132 million Christians who were attending church. That's how prevalent Christian radio has been in America but folks in recent years there's been a shift and stations that were once Christian broadcasters for decades and decades are now being sold and bought by secular buyers who were changing the formats from Christian radio to secular radio.

It is happening continually. Even our radio ministry sound of faith has been hit hard in just the last few months and we have lost three major markets.

The Norfolk Virginia area that Dallas Texas area which is huge and for which we got a lot of support and believe it or not, the Portland Oregon area for which we did a lot of support all three of those stations had been sold and the Christian format abandoned and so of course I'm scrambling to try to find stations to replace them there either Arnon or maybe of one or two, and they're already completely filled and sold out because everybody's trying to jump on another station to amen and this is happening and what is that mean and mean scores of preachers, scores of gospel preachers who had these very important outlets to preach the gospel in the message God is given to share with the body of Christ. They no longer have an outlet for that message and it's the prince of the power of the air, who is at work to try to do away with Christian radio.

Now people who work all day on the job. They probably are not able to listen to radio but there are many people that are home and many shut-ins and such that they depend on Christian radio and maybe you do listen to it on your way to work your way home, whether it's Christian music you listen to where some teaching of Christian ministries you listen to. Amen. And this is quickly being abandoned as the prince of the power of the air is invading the territories of Christian radio and you know it's the same with all things Wi-Fi that support the Internet and online media. Now you know Wi-Fi uses radio waves to transmit signals between the devices the computers or whatever it may be nearly everyone has a computer in their home. How many here have a computer in your home.

Okay, that's just about every body and if you don't have a computer in your home. How many at least have a smart phone, then in manner of speaking, you have a computer. Amen.

And you know our lives revolve around them. Let's face it. Now they do. You know you're always checking this or that or the other on your device or you're doing something yourself on your device. Amen. I mean come on now people don't even go to the grocery store anymore.

They go online they go to bed. Let's say Walmart website they go to the groceries dictate I want a BCD and that they come to the door and semi-brings groceries out to you order take-out food where all doing things like this all the time. We probably do it so much that we don't even think about it. What would happen if all the sudden we couldn't do that and most people not everyone, but many people least anybody.

I would say 50 and younger are deftly 40 than younger social media account of some kind.

There on Facebook or some sort of social media outlet. Amen. And you know what the good and wonderful thing about this is that it gives a tea to program Christian message is song in such on social media. Amen.

I mean, think about what happened when COBIT 19 first hit and we had that huge shutdown when you literally were not supposed to go anywhere.

Amen.

In the very beginning back in April last year in May last year and will say no one was to be able to get charge online that you know some of you remember that prior to that, we kept telling you will do live streaming soon.

Pretty soon what to do live streaming, but first we gotta paint the ceiling and we had to do this we gotta do that all these things we had to do in you. We were getting them done that quickly from different reasons, but you know what thoughts were going to go or live streaming where we got plunged into live streaming where you are and we were expecting it was from my kitchen table, but we did miss one Sunday and let me tell you it was many struggles in my kitchen. We were using my laptop. The only problem is, as it started getting hot after all that time and when you started getting hot. It's starting going out and here I am preaching at the table and Benny's walking over to the refrigerator and getting ice out of the freezer, the try typical so I can finish the message.

Amen.

And you know there was a lot of things with the lighting and with the sound and all kinds of stuff. It was crazy that we were still preach the goal of Internet. Amen. You know since then churches are now live streaming.

Let me tell you when we finally realize we have to get some better equipment then put ice cubes under your laptop.

We gotta get a real computer that's made for this and all the stuff that goes with it and when Benny would be searching to find one that would be going here sold out. Go there so we charge and was jumping trying to keep contact with the people through the Internet and now you know many churches are saying like we did. Even when we go back to church were going to stay online for those people who really can't come to church.

There are people who just can't there in nursing homes or maybe they are home, but their immobile and so will can continue to minister to them. Amen.

And so all of this has been a tremendous tremendous blessing. We all agree it's a great blessing. And you know even you when you go home today maybe there's another preacher that you like, you know that you like to watch you go home you'll watch the replay. You know like I like Brother Stottlemyre you know he live streams. He reminds me of Brother Hardy when he was young. He's like a young Brother Hardy way back and so you know you can watch him later and I'm sure y'all have one she loved. Amen. So there are many well-known preachers online not only pastors but teachers and evangelist and profits and they all have something to share with the body of Christ, and I tell you what Doug doesn't like it will these preachers we got some of our own ministers in the church that have their own nights when they come morning, amen. And I know you are and who they are and you probably follow. Amen. Amen.

What an eye-opening word of the Lord, the prince of the power of the air, the course of this world is being controlled by Satan, who is the prince of the power of the air our culture and media are fulfilling his evil anti-God agenda.

Paul said were in a cosmic wrestling match against principalities, authorities, the rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in the heavenly. This refers to the second heavens, where Satan rules and in the atmosphere were radio waves satellites being down on the earth, generating radio, TV and Internet. The spirit of Satan is operating through much of the media which is becoming increasingly hostile towards Christians and biblical morals calling evil good and good evil darkness is increasing as Satan exerts his authority over the media, the prince of the power of the air can be ordered on CD for love gift of $10 or more for the radio ministry request K to 19 mailto sound of faith PO Box 1744 Baltimore, MD 21203 or go online to our E store sound of faith.org where MP3s are available, but to order by mail send your minimum love gift of $10 to PO Box 1744, Baltimore, MD 21203 and request SK to 19. If you enjoy these messages by my father, Brother Hardy and myself.

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