Today in world literature, I attempt to give an overview of the history of Asia so that we can better read the writers of China, Japan, and India. Central in this discussion is the fact that it is important to be familiar with the context in which literature appears. That is, while it is important to know the formal elements of a work, its plot, theme, point of view, symbols, and allusions, it is also important to know something of the culture of the writer. In this way, we can better understand the position of a writer in a non-Western culture. Asia is the largest and most heavily populated of the world's continents. Containing about 60% of its people, China alone has 1.3 billion people. Asia was often under European control in the 20th century and is now largely free of that control. The cessation of European control was especially symbolic on June 30, 1997, when Great Britain returned Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, an act which leaves the West feeling, as Time Magazine reported it, guilty, ignoble, and very anxious. How to understand this immense land mass stretching from the eastern shores of the Atlantic Ocean, halfway around the world to the western shores of the Pacific Ocean? To begin, it is important to understand something of Asia before the 19th century interactions with the West. The vast subcontinent of India witnessed the development of several early civilizations, and its enduring legacy is the three great religions that flourished in the 6th and 5th centuries B.C., Hinduism, Jinnism, and Buddhism. China witnessed the important teaching of Confucius and his teachings of orderly and stable human relationships, setting forth a family as the basic unit within society. In Japan, in the 11th century, witnessed such classics as the tale of the Genji, a classic story of court life. The values taught by the Buddha and Confucius endured to the present, and the order of culture exemplified in the word feudalism endured in Japan well into the 19th century. For Asia, the 20th century was marked by rapid, nearly uncontrollable change in their societies, briefly brought by the aggressive military, economic, and colonizing activities of Western culture. Countries such as Brazil, Holland, France, and the United States forced Asian citizens to accept unjust terms for trade. This kind of colonialism is well documented. In China's recently published Atlas of Shame, a catalog of its abasement set the hands of the colonial powers during the past 155 years. On the first on the list is the role of Britain, aided by American merchants in 1840, who turned battleship guns on Canton in order to ram opium down Chinese throats, and to open China to foreign exploitation. In Japan, colonialism is symbolized by Commodore Perry's 1953 arrival in Japan with his gunboat diplomacy. And the aggressive activities of England regarding India are explicit in a memorable quote from Lord Kitchener, a distinguished 19th century military commander there. He wrote, It is the consciousness of the inherent superiority of the European, which has won for us India. However well educated a native might be, and however brave he may prove himself, I believe there is no task we can bestow upon him, which would cause him to be considered an equal with a British officer. It is just such assumptions that caused Mahatma Gandhi to mobilize his nation towards independence. With the caveat to look to the cultural history of Asia before the 19th century in a realization that the dangers of colonialism in the 19th century were manifest, let's now turn ourselves to defining moments of Japan, India, China in the last two centuries. Commodore Perry's sudden invasive appearance humiliated and embarrassed the Japanese. When formed diplomats and merchants began to settle in Yokohama, a radical samurai, aristocratic knights of feudal Japan, reacted with a wave of anti-foreign terrorism and anti-government assassinations between 1858 and 1869. Then 1867, a coalition led by patriotic summarize seized control of the government. This was the Magi Restoration, a great turning point in Japanese development. At first the goal was to meet the foreign threat, then in about face the young reformers of the Magi Japan dropped their anti-form attacks and introduced a series of measures to reform Japan along modern Western lines. The samurai class was abolished and a strong central state government was formed. In time Japan successfully copied the imperialism of Western society, including its own expansionism. Japan defeated China in a war for Korea in 1894 and 1895. Japan collided with Russia in 1904 and emerged with victory. Japan indeed demonstrated that a modern Asian nation could defeat a Western nation. The effects of the Magi Restoration to build a powerful nationalistic state and resist Western imperialism was spectacularly successful and deeply impressive to Japan's fellow Asians. The First World War brought more triumph for Japan, which seized Germany's Asian holdings. The nation's economy expanded enormously. In the 1920s the nation made further progress. Japan became immersed in world trade and of course became vulnerable to economic international economy, thus reinforcing the belief that internationalism was an aspect of the nation that was a matter of life or death. Cohesive leadership, which had played such an important role in Japan's modernization by the major reformers, had ceased to exist. Fanatic nationalism emerged in Japan, just as it did in Europe. These ultra-nationalists were violently anti-Western. They rejected democracy, corporations, Marxist socialism, reviving Ole Miss. They stressed the emperor's godlike qualities and the Sumerai warrior's code of honor and obedience. They believed in Asia for the Asians. When the Great Depression hit the world in the 1930s, it also hit Japan as exports and wages faltered. The ultra-nationalists blamed the system and citizens listened. Engaged in an undeclared war against China since 1937, Japan's rulers had increasingly come into conflict with the Pacific Basin's other great power, the United States. Tension mounted on on December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. In the Battle of the Coral Sea in May of 1942, Allied naval and air power stopped the Japanese advance. The Battle of Midway Island established Allied naval superiority in the Pacific, and the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. In Hiroshima, the casualties numbered nearly 130,000, and 99% of the city was leveled on August 14, 1945. Japan surrendered. After the surrender, American occupation forces landed in Tokyo and Yokohama areas. The American commander, Douglas MacArthur, led the occupation. Fundamental reforms were put into place to make Japan a democratic society along American's lines. A demilitarization and a systematic purge took place, and over 220,000 politicians and businessmen were declared ineligible for office. A Japanese armed force didn't exist, was abolished. Land reform also took place, and as a result, the small independent peasant became the supporter of post-war democracy. By the late 1940s and early 1950s, the United States began to see Japan as a potential ally, especially when China turned decisively to communism. The United States ended its occupation in 1952. The Japanese applied their exceptional powers to rebuilding their country. Between 1950 and 1970, Japan's economy grew 10% per year. Almost three times that of the United States. In 1986, the average per capita income in Japan exceeded that of the United States. Yet it is important to realize that this astonishing economic surge had its own deep roots in Japanese culture. Recall, as I said earlier, that we must look at the past if we were to understand the present. A culturally homogeneous Japanese society put as it had traditionally the needs of the group before the individual. The tight-knit group-oriented society towards an economy that could efficiently compete in a world... Government and big business, often this alliance is referred to in a derogatory fashion as Japan Incorporated, shared roles and growth. As during the Meijai Restoration, government bureaucrats directed and fostered the efforts of business leaders. The government, for example, decided which loans were important and made loans to encourage the creation of powerful industries. Efficiency, quality and quantity were the watchwords. Business hired workers for life and placed the center of life around the corporation. Indeed, students interested in post-World War II restructuring in Japan in America's response to it should take time to read David Halberstam's The Reckoning, published in 1986. This non-fiction chronicle by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author sets forth Japan's Nissan and Detroit's Ford Motor Company as a clash that tells much about the end of the American century of dominance. If this is the context then in which literary works appear, what text may then shed further light on Japanese culture? To begin, I strongly recommend that students read Yukio Mishima's The Sea of Fertility, a cycle of four novels that include Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of Dawn, and The Decay of the Angel. While Professor Kimmelman will have more to say about Mishima later in this series, especially about his short story, Patriotism, it is important to recognize that these novels are indispensable to understanding the subtleties of Japanese culture in its relation to the West. Hiyashi Fumiko's Late Chrysanthemums provides a stunning story that describes a woman in Japanese culture, winner of the Women's Prize for Literature in 1948. The story critiques women's roles and dependency. Significant also is a theme of aging that is portrayed in the main character, the Gisha Kim. And students will find complex Kim's reaction to World War II at a time. Fumiko writes, Kim had suffered at Hiroshima for some reason she thought it was always the most tempestuous times that made one feel nostalgic later. Now that she was over the wearied world seemed to be strangely quiet as if one were living in a vacuum. The story provides important insights into human expectations as they are played out in post-World War II Japan. Women's roles are also examined in the pan, the pot, the fire I have before me by Ishigaki Rin. Published in the 1950s, the poem can be viewed as an early statement of changing roles of Japanese women after the war. As the poet validates traditional work for women, cooking was mysteriously assigned to women as a role, but I don't think that was unfortunate with new work. Let us study government, economy, literature as sincerely as we cook potatoes and meat, not for vanity and promotion, so what everyone may serve, so everyone may work for love. Moriyoko's short story, Spring Storm, is a contemporary treatment of the intermixing of Western and Japanese cultures, an important characteristic of contemporary Japan. In this story we see two young actors whose romance is scripted by the relationship between European actress Ingrid Bergman and her husband, Roberto Rossellini. Students of contemporary Japanese culture will also want to read Kobo Abbi's one act play, The Man Who Turned Into a Stick. The play is actually an allegorical treatment of alienation by allegory, that is, we mean, that a play is intended to be read in a figurative or moral level. The setting of the play is especially unattractive urban landscape, suggesting that the change in Japanese culture from rural to an urban economy is often accompanied by unhappiness and alienation. Central to the story is The Stick Man. His existence is characterized by a lack of humankind so grave that he has been transformed into a stick, an inanimate object that is entirely passive. Students will no doubt watch the draw comparisons here between the character in this play and Gregor Zamsa in Czechoslovakia's short story, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. This play deserves careful attention that is a depiction of the dehumanizing aspects of modern life in contemporary Japan. If read with mission as patriotism, the comparison will reveal divergent views of moral life in Japan. Certainly the question of how life is to be lived is of paramount importance to the residents of Hong Kong as the Republic of China in 1997 welcomes the form of British colony back into the empire. How is it, it might be asked, that Great Britain considered Hong Kong its colony in the first place? The answer to that question reveals much about Asia in the 20th century. Just as there was anti-Foreign sentiment in Japan, so too was there such a sentiment in China. This anti-Foreign attitude is reflected by the boxer uprising in China between 1898 and 1900. By the end of the 19th century, both Japan and the West had interests in China. In June, some 140,000 rebels belonging to an anti-Foreign society called righteous harmonious fists or translated into English boxes occupied Beijing and attacked Westerners and Christians there. The siege was ended by an international force of British, French, U.S., German and Japanese troops. Foreign influence spread even more. Significantly in 1913 the Menchu dynasty was overthrown and a thousand years of emperors and empires ended. As would it should be noted, ancient Confucius ethics were subordinated to rulers. A coalition of revolutionaries proclaimed a Western-style republic. Although China proclaimed its neutrality during World War II, the Treaty of Versailles agreed to let Japan retain holdings of China's Shandong province. On May 14, 1919, which is now famously known as the May 4 movement, 3,000 students from Beijing universities protested the decision of the Versailles Peace Conference. The nationalist movement continued as a political force throughout the 20s and attempted to create a nationalist spirit with a program that would allow China to become an independent nation in the modern world. Recall that this was also the period of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. A political act that in its anti-imperialism was similar in many ways to the May 4th Revolution. Indeed, it may be said that the May 4th movement stimulated support for the nationalists who had marshal under Chiang Kai-shek and led to the formation of the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese communists interpreted Marxist Leninism to appeal to the masses. Mao Zedong argued in 1927 as follows, the force of the peasantry is like that of the raging winds and driving rain. It is rapidly increasing in violence. No force can stand in its way. Peasantry will tear apart all nests which binded and hasten along the road to liberation. They will bury beneath them all forces of imperialism, militarism, corrupt officialdom, village bosses, and evil gentry. Every revolutionary party, every revolutionary comrade will be subjected to this scrutiny and be accepted or rejected by them. Under Mao Zedong, China transformed itself into a strong one-party communist state. In the 1950s, Mao and his party looked on the Soviet Union for inspiration as a result, temples and churches were closed, religion was prosecuted. In the 1960s, however, the former Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev split from China. In 1965, Mao moved his nation forward through what was called the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution. Its object was to purge the party of bureaucrats and to recapture the revolutionary spirit. Army and students reacted positively and formed themselves into radical caudras called red guards. As is the case in any purge, there were casualties, party officials, professors, intellectuals were placed and isolated in remote villages in order to purify themselves with heavy labor. In that, the Cultural Revolution created chaos, a shift back to more conservative government eventually occurred by 1972. China and the United States formed a limited reconciliation that endures today despite China's harsh treatments of its students on June 4th, 1989 when army tax crushed exuberant demonstrators advocating democracy and Tiananmen Square. Students interested in the shifting values in China will do well to re-lail Taitai's a daughter of Han. This autobiography of a Chinese woman provides insight into traditional Chinese family life and its transformation. Students will also want to read Su's Tong's wives and concubines, the novel upon which the 1991 film Raise the Red Lantern was based. Here students will find treatment of the role of women in China in the early 20th century. I note here, on the use of film in the study of world literature, as was the case in fiction, poetry, drama, film is an important part of cultural communication. As students of literature, we must move beyond the traditional view that film is something below literature, something inferior to the written word. Although much film and just as much fiction is the product of mass culture, film provides important insights into the ways that we are with each other. In addition to the use of film, you also may be able to put your critical of human to the test if you use film. What you may ask is the significance of the Chinese film The Opium War being released at the exact same time that Hong Kong has returned to the People's Republic. What you may ask is the difference between The Opium War, a film that the Chinese government is encouraging all to see, and Temptress Moon, a film that is presently banned in China. Regarding Chinese fiction, students will run to read Lu Sun's and Ding Ling, two authors treated by Diane Simmons, later in this series. For an allegorical treatment of China's social and political problems, students will also want to read Chan Yu's Hot on the Mountain, especially looking to the symbol of the scissors as the instrument of class division that led to communist revolution. And insights into the place of the individual of the Cultural Revolution can be found in examination in a poem entitled Dark Night on a Southbound Train. Perhaps the most diverse area in Asia is the Republic of India, home to the Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, unlike Japan and China, which had independence and unlike Africa, which were annexed by Europe only at the end of the 19th century, India was ruled by Britain for a very long time. Yet by 1907, the Indian National Conference was calling for complete independence. Drilling World War II, about 1.2 million Indian soldiers and laborers volunteered for duty degree Britain served in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. However, the war at England instituted repressive measures resulting in a wave of rioting across India. The tormented relationship between India and England was crystallized at the Amritsar Massacre in which an English commandeer fired into the crowd, a crowd of Hindus gathered for a religious festival, killing 379 Indians and wounding over 1,100 others. That India did not turn to violence as due to the influence of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the 20th century, Mahatma Gandhi. A student of law educated in England, Gandhi saw inequality firsthand as a lawyer in South Africa. There he formulated his concept of nonviolent resistance, a tactic that would prove decisive in India's freedom. Returning to India in 1915, Gandhi launched a national campaign on nonviolent resistance to British rule. It was worthwhile to pause here to listen to Gandhi's words regarding the courage required by passive resistance. He writes, What do you think? Where is courage required? A blowing others to pieces from behind a cannon? Or with a smiling face to approach a cannon or be blown to pieces? Who is a true warrior? He who keeps death always as his bosom friend? Or he who controls the death of others? Believe me that a man devoid of courage and manhood can never be a passive resistance. Finally, in 1947, British India was divided into independent nations, India and Pakistan. Hoster relations between the two free nations, however, in what are called the Indian-Pakistan Wars of 1947, 48, 1965, and 1971 occurred. Internally, military political parties became a persistent problem. Despite ethnic tensions, however, Indian has remained committed to free elections and to a representative government. Modern concern for Indian writers includes such themes as critique of social problems. Among women writers is a special concern of the patriarchal structures that exploit and devalue women as exemplified and mahaswait the devas' breath giver. In this series, Dr. David Rothenberg gives special attention to devas' work. Two is among post-colonial nations. There is criticism of the society itself as seen in Ruth Chablava's The Interview. Most significantly, there is the work of Salman Rushdie and the controversy surrounding his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. Born into a Muslim family in Bombay in 1947, Rushdie studied at Cambridge University. His first published novel appeared, A Revision of a Persian Altar Form, in 1975. In Midnight's Children, published in 1981, he traces the history of India before and after independence. But it was the Satanic Verses winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Award that brought controversy. In the novel, the author examines his Muslim faith through a dream sequence in which the Prophet Muhammad appears. This depiction of the Quran believed to be the sacred word of God caused outrage among Muslims. The Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran announced a death sentence for Rushdie and promised a reward of $1 million for his death. He went into hiding. While he continues to publish, the January March 1989 events surrounding the publication of his book remind us of deeply felt religious convictions and how those intersect with the literary imagination. As a note, for an indication of the enormous significance of this controversy in the literary world, see Wards for Salman Rushdie in the New York Times Book Review for March 12, 1989. Here, 28 distinguished writers from 21 countries speak to him from a place of relative location, the nation of literature. Here are the words offered by Achebe. What does one say? I think probably all I can say is don't despair. The world has become a very dangerous place, but it is our responsibility to keep fighting for freedom of the human spirit. It's not just for writers that we must do this, but for everyone. If we secure this freedom, the whole world benefits. Japan, China, India. We speak of Asia, which Asia are we examining? In this brief lecture, we have not mentioned, for example, Malaysia or Singapore or Vietnam, although Dr. Robert Friedman, however, will discuss the work of the Indian-Asian writer Primojator. As you watch the following lectures in this segment on Asia, keep in mind the history of the region.  And as you identify and discuss these themes, realize that you are, in all likelihood, among the first generation of American students to study literature in a truly global context. Why so much history in a literature class? Stephen Greenblatt, who invented the term New Historicism, gives the reason. He reminds us that literature is interlocked with culture. Literature is a manifestation of the codes by which behavior is shaped, a reflection of the codes of the culture. As Greenblatt proposes, we should approach literature to discover its interconnectedness, the life and behavior of the author, and the belief systems of the cultures in which the work was written.


Testing one two three four. I Went back to see my dad at the end of July. He's 91. He's got cancer welcome back to see how he was doing and I was supposed to come back on a Wednesday this was near the end of July I think and I Took my sister and my dad out for some Chinese food Yeah Got home that night Man, I had a pain right here in my stomach that I Was tired. I thought well, I'm gonna take a three-hour nap. I got up. I still wasn't feeling well start doing the Tums the next morning was Wednesday I flew home and Wasn't feeling too good. So I went to bed Thursday. I had a couple counseling appointments I got up and came down here in the middle of the first counseling session This thing fired up again, and I couldn't make it and so I went home Slept for the rest of the day. I got up Friday morning and a man I'm not feeling well.  They said hey dude Your gallbladder is about to blow and he said You need to go from my office now over to the emergency room. I Said it's that it's that bad. He said yeah, I said the don't worry about it gallbladder is an easy operation everybody has a Gallbladder surgery no big deal. You can live without a gallbladder. I thought that was weird You know why God give me a gallbladder if I didn't need it I said okay. Well, I'll take your word for it. So I stumbled over to JC Lincoln Hospital North up on Deer Valley there you know and sat in a emergency room for three hours Finally got in I had brought my medical records with me and I said hey I need an emergency gallbladder surgery. Whatever that is No problem. We do those took me back in put me in a room Late around there for two hours nurse come in. Hey, why are you in here? I said I'm supposed to have an emergency gallbladder surgery. Okay. Now. I'm starting to sense I'm in a little trouble Well, it didn't long after that I go they cart me off to another room. I Get a doctor they schedule me for surgery and I had forgotten that I was in a trauma center and That means they get any kind of patient over there, right and So people were coming in you know gunshots Axes in their heads different things and obviously that's going to bump a gallbladder surgery with an axe in your head So finally the next day I got my surgery scheduled the doctor comes in and says hey You're going in at about an hour or so. Oh gotta be great. He says now. It's just the gallbladder surgery. No big deal We do and we put four holes in your Stomach now. It's no we don't cut them open anymore. It's in 45-minute operation slam dunk deal short recovery period I'm thinking I'm not even going to have to cancel really that many counseling appointments. I've You know, I might miss one teaching. Nope. No problem at all. I Said to the doctor have you ever had any? Gallbladder surgeries go bad. Oh, yeah. I mean is there anything can go bad during the surgery. So, oh, yeah Every surgery has bad stuff This and that and that has happened before I said well has it ever happened any your patients? Oh, yeah I've had three or four bad Cases and I said well what happened when we did this and that and they recovered and everything's fine But you know 99% of the time. It's a slam dunk. You'll be fine. I said, oh, I wasn't thinking anything of it I was expecting to come home click click like the next day, you know I wasn't making any plans to stay at John C. Lincoln Hospital. I Get into the surgery room finally and they get in there to go get the gallbladder And this thing shot My gallbladder is disintegrating While they're taking it out. It's got pus in it. It's got infection.   It kind of looks like urine and it's infection and My light right lung is filling up now So they said you're gonna have to go in for a second surgery. Oh great They go in for the second surgery they stick to tubes in my lungs back here One of them is connected to a box Draining out this yellow fluid two liters of it initially Then it starts seeping out after that, you know, then there's another tube in there.  I said I'm thinking this guy's gonna milk the insurance for everything this thing is worth I've never had a problem with my heart in my whole life.  There's nothing wrong with my heart It's a what's wrong with my heart doc. Nios. You have it a regular irregular heart arrhythma. I Said this this guy must think I was born at night That's made up Nobody has a regular irregular order. Okay. He's he this is an insurance scam So I'm playing along with the guy. I said, well, how does that work? Oh, he says you can have this condition And not even know you have some people are born with it and I said, well, I get a physical over here. I get a kg not how come then the oh one show up on a kg. Oh Grage that's interesting and I said doc I'm not feeling too well to say the least I had this stabbing knifing pain in my back from these tubes go in there and My heart rate had gone crazy. It was like 160 beats a minute So now the hospital is scared to death that I'm gonna have a heart attack or a stroke So now I got more of these bags on these racks one of them's for Infection what is it where they call it stuff for infection? antibiotic bags Heart condition bags They're trying to get my heart to slow down my blood pressures going crazy. It's all going bad And about two o'clock in the morning the next the next day. I'm laying in bed and the devil got me I Was so sick. I literally couldn't believe it. I've never been that sick before in my life and I started Having questions I started questioning myself Years ago the Lord told me I was getting a deliverance revival and I believed it and I had all kinds of other things that I knew was going to happen But now I was questioning everything. I started questioning myself and then I I started questioning my own life I felt like I was gonna die. It was weird. I thought well, maybe I missed a cue somewhere Maybe I maybe I'm wrong Maybe I didn't read the Lord properly.  Maybe I was supposed to Work here for a while then someone else was gonna take over and things were you know I had all these weird thoughts coming through my head and then while I was laying in bed about two in the morning a strange light Shot through my room. It was weird and then up on the ceiling there. There was this weird Oh Fluffy manifestation of something I started thinking oh great now the demons are coming for me And I'm not in a mood for the demons so I was I was not feeling one and The next morning the cardiologist came in and I said a doc How's that regular irregular heartbeat doing? Yeah, I knew he was lying I Knew an insurance scam when I seen I used to work in insurance years ago and he goes At four o'clock in the morning it disappeared I said what are you talking about? He said I don't know it just disappeared and it left I said He said all your vital signs returned normal Your heart rates fine now. There's no sign of a irregular regular heartbeat Thing whatever that was. I think he submitted his bill. So now it's time to get rid of it I Looked at all my vital signs oxygen good blood pressure normal heart rate normal everything normal I've got still got this massive stabbing pain in my back but From that moment on when I talked to that doctor I changed my attitude and I Clicked over and I said wait a minute. I did not misread this thing This is gonna happen. I'm gonna live This is a blip on the screen I'm gonna fully recover and I'm gonna win this thing After he told me that Yeah, yeah That's right Soon as I heard I got rid of my regular regular heartbeat Some of you may have it you may not know it because there's no symptoms and There's a heavy billing for it After that I started to get out of my bed and I would get up and I would Walk like my dad could outrun me now. I Got on the walker. I Could hardly stand a difficulty walking and I was walking up and down the halls I was saying to myself. I got to get out of here When I first got in there a nurse says to me, you know, it's not a very pleasant thing to come to a hospital After she said that I knew I was in deep trouble. I Said I've got to get out of this place because I I couldn't stand it there anymore. I'd been laying in bed for Seven or eight or nine days. I hadn't had a bowel movement in a week Yeah That's some pretty good constipation I Was having to pee in this plastic container had a little handle on it and All this medication they had turned me into a Walgreens pharmacy.  It's unbelievable Well, this arm here started to develop strange My muscles started to turn hard like they were dying or something So they had to put a warning on this no blood out of this hand. Well, then this one here. I didn't have evanes left So I told him I don't want to give any more blood. Oh, that's that off alarm system in the hospital Oh, everybody all shook up now. I don't I don't have any veins left. There's nothing to stick here No, we've got to keep sticking.  I'd heard other people had them I didn't even know anything about them other than they hurt. Well, the doctor comes in. Hey, you're quarantined I'm quarantined. Oh can't wait You can't leave this room in addition anybody that comes in the room has to put on these space suits So you don't pick up a touch and drip infection.  I got to get out of here and I mean fast Several nights. I'd woken up in the middle of night heaving sweat and all my sheets and like In the salt They never changed it. I'd sit there for two days and soaked sheets.  This is okay. That's okay This is okay. That's okay. I don't need to be in the hospital if I've got shingles Why do I need to be hospitalized people have shingles at home? That's a normal thing I said well, we want to check you out and do this now. So I don't want to be checked out anymore I said do you have a sheet that I could sign that says the patients? Refusing medical care. I'm getting a heck out of here. I can't take this anymore. I don't even know what the form is called AMA so it's called What against medical advice. Yeah, not the American Medical Association. No and they probably wrote it Well as soon as I said that oh that set off more alarms Doctors started coming in so you know what? Yeah, you could probably be discharged and get out of here tomorrow. I Got discharged and I went home my poor wife She she's not here. She was she just left My poor wife had to take care of me. I Got home and I put the first day. I was home, which was August 4th. I Said some lofty goals for myself. Oh, I was I was gonna work my way through this goal number one Get to the bathroom Sit on the bathrooms do and get up by myself. There you go. The second big goal. I had was to take a shower Yes, sir. The third goal was to walk into the other living room and get me easy chair Fourth goal click. I got stuck listening to those Kavanaugh hearings. I made everything worse The day before I left the hospital the lung doctor comes in he says brother He says Michael said we looked at your x-rays and this and that he says your lungs are not filling up anymore I said they're not great. Well take the can I get these tubes pulled out of my back? He said yeah, there's no reason we can't do that. I said, well can what about right now? Right this second. Let's do it right now. So I got up and bent over the Bed and pulled my you ever seen those hospital outfits there. They're lovely And the doctor goes well, okay. Yeah, I guess I can do it now He calls somebody and bring me a tool in bring me this in He tells me to hum while he's pulling them out just hum a little bit Okay, I'll humor this guy I think he bandaged it up or something. I got out of there as fast as I possibly could The first week I was home. I did nothing because I couldn't do anything God miracle happened.  My sheets were dry at home. I couldn't believe it The second week I said, you know, I'm gonna live I got to get through this started going back to the gym Getting the weights next day hit the pool Next day away hit the pool next day back and forth crawling back bad things happen For good reason And this thing has been a great blessing to me. I'm so glad it happened It was the hardest thing I've ever done But I've changed as a person one thing I've changed in I Got a lot more compassion for people who are in the hospital. I Was it near death's door when I was in there and there were people there sicker than me and mercy knocked on my hospital door and Mercy's gonna knock on your door tonight Amen. Amen. All right there our seminar is on familiar spirits. We do it every Halloween They're the demons that are gonna take over the planet when the Antichrist shows up The websites getting staggering numbers of hits Couple hundred thousand a month. Somebody told me it's going great. 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Thank you I'll see you in Tucson for a healing and deliverance service at the Tucson City Center next month We had a family come up here yesterday from Tucson it was Incredible what happened to that family? It was utterly amazing son got delivered and the mother got delivered. It was really some God's merciful. Okay exceedingly abundantly above Is our Bible study for tonight? Based on what scripture? This one you know what it is says now into him who was able to do exceedingly Hooper is the Greek word that means above if you're here Hooper means He's there. All right exceedingly Abundantly above and beyond Parasas and above that He's able to do above Beyond and then above that All you're able to Ask or think And these verses are a lot more complicated than you think But if you break them down, they make perfect sense I tell you is the Greek word that means to ask for something that You've already been told is yours And you can have it's not the Greek word used to ask for something like what time is it or Where you want to eat that's an information question This one means to ask for something that you've already been promised and told you could have You're simply asking For something that's already yours by definition The person asking that way Already believes it will you help me that's a different Greek word You're asking a question to get some information and you're down here. You're not sure they'll show up. You're not sure they'll Drive you there. You're not sure they'll give you something this word means you're asking for something that's already been Promise to you that you can you're asking for it Like it's already yours Why is that important in the verse it triggers Above beyond and then above again That's what triggers it Lord you think you could help me with this Doesn't trigger it Lord will you help me doesn't trigger it. What are you asking for? No, al is the Greek word That doesn't mean you just think about something casually. It means to ponder it God told you you could have it and You pondered it and now you're asking for it as if it's already yours If you casually read the verse in English, it appears to be false Why asked it never happened? it's how you ask and How you think how's it all accomplished according to the what? Supernatural power dunamis is supernatural power That and our jail that's a verb in Greek it means To energize the person like a battery Inside the battery is energy stored. That's where we would get an English word energy these miracles above beyond and then above that occur When your supernatural power of the Holy Ghost is Triggered when you ask Knowing it's already yours The energy is in the volcano But it's triggered when it blows inside every volcano The energy's in there the lava is there the magma is there the heat the power Why doesn't do anything until it blows? That's what that verse is saying. Let's see it in action second Corinthians chapter 14. Let's go back 3000 years and Go see King Asa Abijah died it says and His son Asa replaced him as the king of Judah right now the kingdom is split back then Israel is the northern kingdom Judah is the southern kingdom Asa is the king over the southern kingdom and his kingdom was quiet for 10 Years the first 10 years of this kingdom doing great no wars Everything is cool Asa did that which was good and Right in the eyes of the Lord and The in this text I didn't put it in here, but it goes through there and lists 22 Good things he did Very much like a born-again Christian Who has his first love? That ever happened to you Anybody ever have a born-again experience? I Mean a real one raise your hand. Did you have a first love period? Ah Remember that all that first love period was fantastic You wanted to do everything right for the Lord. You cared about him. You didn't want to screw up You wanted to obey you wanted to be with him. You wanted to do what was right ah Asa is there with you. He's doing everything, right? Asa had an army that was huge All kinds of warriors spear carriers Or spear chuckers Shields bows everything He has all kinds of men of valor men of valor where people were experienced in warfare There came out against them Zara the Ethiopian Now we got a big problem here The Bible says when the enemy comes in like a flood the spirit of the Lord Raises up a standard against him. It says in that verse well The Ethiopian king decides to wipe out Judah and he's got a much bigger army one million soldiers and on top of that 300 chariots which would be equivalent in World War two of tanks So now you've got a mismatch here and Judah and Asa are gonna lose They can't win. He knows it then Asa went out against them and they set their way in battle. Yeah this is kind of like Fighting with relatives You don't just start fighting you kind of line up and yell at each other Before it starts you ever had a fight with a relative. Oh, yeah, lots of them.  You got to stare the guy down. Well, that's what they did back then they would This army here would line up on that hill These armies here would line up on that hood and then the kings would make a decision on whether or not They wanted to get her done That's what's happening here. It's a face off Asa takes a look at his competitor and Decides to do the right thing He cries out to the Lord his God now in the King James Bible, which is the one I use the capitalized Lord means When it's capitalized in the Old Testament the word Lord is Yahweh Okay, they translated it Lord capitalized He cried to Yahweh his God the Greek word is Elohim He said Lord or Jehovah. It is nothing with you to help Whether there are many or whether those who have no power. What a great prayer That's a smart prayer.   That's a great prayer of prayer, isn't it? Yeah, what you're doing you're reminding the Holy Ghost. Listen if this thing goes back It's gonna look bad for you Not just me And you got to defend your great name So here's what we need we need Victory that's a great prayer try it sometimes Now Lord we this goes bad on us.  Oh The Holy Ghost hears and prayers that click scene Let me tell you a little bit about the Holy Ghost. I know a lot about him, which is to say I know almost nothing But one thing I've learned about him When you try or need something exceedingly doesn't do it for him It's not enough Abundantly is better That's not enough either. He wants exceedingly abundantly above When you pray a prayer and you ask for this that's not good enough for you He doesn't like just of that see He's kind of greedy for good things You pray for that and that isn't enough for you not good enough now Exceedingly is good not good enough Abundantly that's better not good enough for him.  Have you ever seen Ethiopians? You ever seen it Ethiopian I feel sorry for them the nutrition thing over there apparently is very bad and Their stomachs don't develop right So they the poor people when they grow up. They're very thin Nowadays I'm not talking about back then Then Okay, when I was in the hospital a disabled Ethiopian could have beaten me up I was so weak and out of it If you get beat up by an Ethiopian now, that's not good You got problems Some 90 pound guy kicking your face in Uh-uh Something long Well right here you got Ethiopians getting ready to kick these guys faces in these Jews and Judah is gonna fall Well, they go to Jehovah and He answers their prayer right here verse 12. He smashes them before Asa and Before Judah what happened there they became spectators You know, that's right. See if you'll reach out with your faith and trust the Lord The Bible says he will fight for you and you can sit in the bleachers and watch the other guy get his face kicked You can be a come a spectator In victory Asa and then stood back and watched it happen. How did it happen? I don't know my guess is a bunch of a Bunch of angels went down there and did I don't know started doing stuff I don't know what happened the Bible doesn't say but we do know they were destroyed and Then after they were being destroyed the Bible says they ran a smart move and Asa and the soldiers pursued them clear to career Okay, here's what we're talking about here Here's the area now here's Israel up here right Syria is up here Here's the area we're talking about and this is about 20 25 miles here. They chase them Quite a ways in addition to that since they're succeedingly abundantly above The Ethiopians were not only overthrown They could not recover themselves They were destroyed before Jehovah and his host Notice that God will fight for you if you will trust it and Abundantly they carried away the spoils of the Ethiopian army Which was more than Asa asked for Then it says they smote all the other cities near Greer and the fear of the Lord came upon all of them They spoiled all the cities and there was exceedingly Exceedingly much spoil and in Aramaic that is translated as That's an anointed contribution this is exceedingly abundantly above Asa got his prayer answered and Everything else answered why the Holy Ghost doesn't like just Exceedingly he's not satisfied That's a counselor on drug treatment centers for several years and The Christian addicts that were in these programs They had this problem right here. They had exceedingly They didn't have abundantly above most of them just wanted to stop using They just want to pray enough. I don't want to be addicted anymore. The Holy Ghost doesn't just Want you to be healed of an addiction, but that's that's not where he's at. He doesn't like that See exceedingly is not working for him He wants abundantly above that Asa Got exceedingly abundantly above What he could think or ask More than he could think about and more than he could ask It says they smoked the tents and the cattle and took the sheep The camels and everything else and they returned to Jerusalem. Okay total victory The spirit of God then comes on The prophet as a wrap he goes to Asa and he says hey, I want to tell you something Jehovah is with you While you are with him Notice the qualification there notice the difference after Calvary I Will never leave the nor forsake That includes backslash Includes people down and out includes people in the hospital No matter what you do after you become a child of God He never leaves you or forsakes you in the Old Testament the standard was different. I Will be with you Jehovah said if you're with me if You forsake me Yahweh said I will forsake you With the addition of the precious blood of Christ that is no longer the case Every backslider every person that's down and out every person that's beaten and discouraged The Holy Ghost is still right there. He says to him listen Since I'm with you now be strong And don't let your hands be weak. What's he doing there in American Christianity? We call that if Thou can't believe all things are possible to him that Stand fast in the Liberty Where in Christ has set you free and don't become entangled again with the yoga That's what he would say now. This is what he said 3,000 years ago. Hey, be strong Yahweh's with you. Don't let your hands be weak You will be rewarded in the New Testament That is an eternal promise and it covers every little thing you do Even a cup of water in the name of the Lord is recorded in heaven and placed on your scroll there For judgment day's rewards the littlest thing done with integrity and a good heart is Recorded by the Holy Ghost and is on your account For eternity You and your work will be rewarded says the Lord When Asa heard the prophecy he took courage and Like you used to be Remember when you were on fire for the Lord years ago all you loved you You couldn't wait to serve me and you were doing everything right You're so happy you wanted to make him happy Asa is right there with you. He got rid of all the idols out of the land of Judah He brought to the house of God the things his father Dedicated silver the gold Cancels and there was no war until the 35th year of his reign Odds you like that story? That's a good one Born again Christian on fire for God first love Working for Jesus wanting to do the right thing dedicated Ready to go Unfortunately while you were doing that you were spotted in the spirit world Not by the Holy Ghost. Oh, he already had you the dark side saw you They said hey, we can't have this person going through life on Fire for God. No, no, no, we can't do that.  It's a promotion.  You Didn't have your antenna up like you used to have it You started focusing on all these trials. The devil was dumping you bad relationships crazy children layoffs heartaches sicknesses negative people criticizing and running you down all These things started to stack up in your soul You started to fade away again Guess what happened to Asa He got used to being comfortable and in the 36th year of his reign Bashar the king of Israel from the north came against Judah and built up Raymond To the intent that nobody could come or go what was happening there over all those years people were leaving Israel as Bashar was an idol worshiper and Israel was rotten and people were leaving Israel and They weren't illegal immigrants. They were illegal excrements They were leaving the country not trying to get in and They weren't going where into Judah Everybody wanted to be down there. Why? They were serving Jehovah They were living in peace and prosperity Israel was jacked up So Bashar says hey, I got to stop this exodus or everybody's gonna leave So he goes to rama the main road between northern Israel and Judah and he Blocks it. He builds it up. He stops it Asa sees it and What does he do? Oh No, he pulls an American Christian He goes listen. I I'll handle this myself. I Got the brains and the knowledge and the experience that do this myself I'm gonna do it myself. I'm gonna think about this myself plan it out myself Not gonna consult the Lord and get an okay or a stop or a go. I'm good. I'm gonna do this thing myself Very common for Christians He brings out the silver and gold He goes in and he starts stealing stuff from the Lord That's happening to you happened to you used to reserve this amount of time for God This amount of time for church or whatever it was this amount of time for but and as the Temptations and the pressure and the pain and the disappointments and the responsibilities and the cares of this life mounting up you started to take time from father that you used to give him and Dispense it in other areas He starts to rob the house of God with treasures takes the gold and the silver out and he sends it to who? Who? Yeah, and out of that he was a idol worshipping King of Syria So this day Syria is still a problem. Now. Here's what we're talking about real quick Here's Israel here. Here's Syria up here, and here's Rama Which was the main route between the two northern and the southern Kingdom? The King builds this city up and spends considerable time and money Stopping this loss of people he stops the immigration and there's Syria So here's the area. We're talking about Israel Juga and Syria. Well, he goes to the king of Syria and he agrees So the king of Syria then does what? He says hey, you had a league between me and you as there was between my father and your father. Hey Here I'm sending you this money like a bribe and the king of Syria says gotcha I'll join you break your league with the Shah Israel so that he may depart from me. He's figuring this out himself.  You thought you could figure it out yourself.  You thought you could figure it out yourself So you went ahead and did it and some of the things you did and some of the things you tried worked Not everything you did failed You're not a stupid person so the king of Syria attacks the king of Israel and it came to pass King of Israel stops building Rama And has to go back and fight this world with Syria Yeah, so Asa is using his mind His intelligence his knowledge and it appears to be working that appears to be working and You have had some success using your mind your knowledge your experience your understanding and You have had some successes and it appears to be working The nightmare you're going to be facing later is You're going to find out something. It's not going to work Devil is going to outsmart you Then Asa took all Judah Went up to Rama and guess what they did They raided the city and they took all the assets the king of Israel had put in the city And this looks great Asa looks like a road scholar He's doing great in addition they took all the assets the king of Israel Took down there Stole them and use that equipment to build up other cities of His and these were the two there's Rama and here's the two cities. They took the Produce and product and timber and everything else over to this thing's working great Couldn't be any better Asa is killing it or so he thinks at the time And I the seer Came to Asa. What's the difference between a seer and a prophet? Well, Ra is the Hebrew word for a seer and that was a prophet who could hear in the spirit world and See in the spirit So a seer would have things like visions and Things like that a now B is a regular prophet and they only hear from God. They don't see the other thing so a seer by definition is Is an upgrade? Upgraded prophet So God sends him a seer top notch And he says thus sayeth the Lord because you relied on the king of Syria and not on the Lord your God the host of the king of Syria escaped out it Had Asa not done it himself God had exceedingly abundantly above waiting for him again Just like he does you if you hadn't decided to figure it out yourself Marry the person you wanted to marry without getting a check from God Taking a job. You didn't get a check for moving out of state. Remember that one Getting involved in a business remember that one if you hadn't God had Exceedingly abundantly above waiting for you in the shadows. You didn't see Jehovah was not only going to give Asa the king of Israel He was going to give him the king of Syria and their country as well Asa would have had the whole kit and Kaboodle That's Hebrew Had you not done it your way? And you had success your way not everything you did was wrong You got some benefit out of it Don't you see how the demons work? They will give you false ideas and give you temporary benefits from it To get you to think a you know what you're doing and be God is blessing When in fact the whole thing was the setup Every good and perfect gift comes from above From the father of lights in whom there's no variableness. It doesn't say every good gift Every good thing you accomplished and did is not necessarily from God It could be from the devil You got in a relationship oops you didn't get an okay for that from the Lord Everything was going good for a while and then guess what came to breakfast Hell You decided to move out of state you needed a change. You didn't get an okay from the Lord. You got there People were happy to see you for a while things were going good for a while then guess what happened Oops, you're like brother Mike at the hospital can't have a bowel movement not good See once you do it on your own the devil will help you Temporarily Giving you an illusion and better yet a delusion That you are following the Lord that you're getting blessed by God and around the corner is Agility Ah saw got all the timber. He got all the spoils Oops, but he could have had Syria and Israel see the holy ghost he don't like exceeding Exceeding means good and he can do it if he has to but he don't like stopping there Bugsy see it's exceedingly abundantly not good enough Bob That that's when he gets going That's what he really likes That's what he won't If you do it yourself you can get some temporary exceedingly oh Yeah, the relationship will go good for a while. Oh, you cheat on me the kids obey for a while.     You'll felt thrown on in here. He said you could have had all of that and Here's what God is telling you now For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro Throughout the whole earth to do what to show himself strong On behalf of those whose hearts are perfect toward him. He remains focused there It doesn't mean you're perfect and sinless perfectly focused there I saw Because he was intelligent because he had had years of peace and prosperity He had lost his edge. You ever see that movie sniper? Do you see that movie? This is the sniper guy used to take a Fingernail file You see that movie and he would he was filing down his trigger finger remember that the guy said we were you trying?  Oh, yeah. How you doing brother? I'm doing good. I'm I'm CNS man six months That guy's gonna relapse. I didn't hear you. Yeah, you did The devil was telling me you're cleaning silver for sick.  You're fine. You're doing great That's a setup. They relapse shortly after they have in their minds Overcome the addiction Once you get a little softer this Thing starts to grow back you haven't been filing it Devil comes looking for you He got us All these years. Hey, I'm on top of it. Peace prosperity. It's all good. Oh the devil was Slowly Haitian Waiting for it. This is gonna blow your mind demons will wait sometimes decades To destroy a person's life Sometimes spirits get in people's bodies when they're young and they never manifest until they're old Some of these spirits are on assignment They enter the person's body and they go dormant Waiting for a specific time a relationship. I'll break down a disappointment Somebody comes along somebody says something somebody doesn't they're waiting almost in a way like a time bomb and the person doesn't know They're in there. I just told you about a couple that came up here from Tucson. The mother got a massive deliverance She didn't know they were in there when I first started to talk to get in And they go dormant and they wait because Their opportunists bought it out. They think about it. I saw It's all good Soon as you start thinking it's all good Soon as your fingerprint starts to grow back, you're gonna miss a target. It's gonna hit you I said I got caught you have done foolishly Therefore for the rest of your time you will have wars oh Let me tell you something if you do it your way the demons will help you get temporary success They will I don't mean to use this term. I don't know what other term to use They will bless you So to speak spirits are able to remove Adversity as well as they can bring it to you. So if they can remove adversity from you and lull you into An asa sleep They will nail you worse later Most born-again Christians are spiritually ignorant. They think when things are going well for them It's got to be a hundred percent God not realizing it could be you have done foolishly You could have not not only just had Judah and Israel Exceeding funnily you could have had above.  They take it out on others Who had nothing to do with it? You ever seen that happen? Asa is one of those people he Attacks God he gets mad at God when he screws up Happens all the time, but Lord I thought when this happened and that happened. It was all good I thought it was you how in God's name did all these bad things start happening to me the demons tell him Oh, it was God.  I also got mad at God and took it out on God's prophet and through the guy in prison In addition to that he flew into a rage and started to attack people and hurt people that had nothing to do with his mistake Some people get so angry at themselves. They can't take it. They won't accept responsibility for what they've done so they dump on other people Asa trashed everybody can get his hands on because he blew Everything he could have had it all and he lost Guess what happened as soon as you got mad at God as soon as you Falsely accused him of stuff as soon as you start blaming him for stuff that opened the door To the devil and he sent spirits into your life Asa picked up a spirit of infirmity and he picked up a terminal illness And guess what it was exceedingly great Why? He stole God's stuff and gave it to the king of Syria He handled the whole thing with his own wisdom his own knowledge and an own experience, which was excellent by the way He was intelligent as are you he was experienced as are you but he made the horrible mistake Getting okay What he found out about that he and only he Had screwed everything up He couldn't accept it So he had to hurt everybody around him when he did and when you did that to your family When you did that to your friends When you did that for the people at church when you got mad at God and blamed him for something That gave the devil legal rights to send you Spirits he picked up the spirit of infirmity and got sick and guess what happened Some people get so mad. They never repent. Hey That's the power of anger Angers like he was so mad That even after the devil Attacked him He would not go back to God and apologize and Ask for help guess what he had The New Testament would call it Stuck darkness Is a disease That will destroy every any Christian on my radio program. I've been on the radio for 16 years I've done a couple dozen shows over the years at least on Mega-church pastors TV preachers who have fallen you know what happened to him Exactly what happened to us in almost every single case The devil came to this minister this pastor Told him what a wonderful job. He was doing how great He or she was how smart they was how good they were What a great teacher and preacher they are how? Magnetically personal their personality is and he puffed them up to use a King James term first in every case then because of that The pastor or the preacher had secret sins in Their lives that they let stay there See you're not thinking about your personal sins while I'm telling you what a wonderful person you You're not focused on that Now that's the last thing you're thinking about That's the thing that got them later the little sin Little foxes got on the lines the little ones did Stole all the fruit the little ones not the big Nobody saw the little ones coming You can see a big fox or a wolf coming in the little ones. No, they're harder to spot What did he do? He went to his physicians doesn't say what kind of physicians he went to but Jews had physicians, but the ones from Egypt they did witchcraft If these were Egyptian physicians He went to someone who did witchcraft The Jewish physicians you'd used holistic medications and plants and stuff like that But either way instead of going to the Lord he went to man You see that it wasn't that he believed in both He had rejected the Lord and put all his faith in Let me explain something to you. You've got a demonic illness in your body It will you can if you catch it early enough, it will respond to secular medical treatment See you can get the cancer out of there with a load of chemo for a while And you can go into what they call it. Yes Why the root of it? was a spirit Spirits don't respond to chemo therapy They don't like it and they don't want the person well all they do is simply a regroup and start over. Oh Yeah, you got rid of that the same person out of your life that you shouldn't have been with You didn't see it at the time. You should never have had anything to do You finally got rid of them. Oh miracle happened Miracle happened guess what happened then in the spirit world. They just simply regrouped. Oh You got rid of the person we sent you the first time They just simply go get another one for you.  They don't do that. Oh, I went to the physicians and guess what happened to He died two years later. He put that seer in prison remember that He threw him in prison. He started abusing people who had nothing to do with it.   He wouldn't repent. Oh Listen to me when something bad happens to you stop right there Stop right there. The Holy Ghost knows all about He knew it was coming. He knew what was going to happen when it landed Hey, stop and think for a second No, is there more to the circumstance than meets the eye is there a spiritual Thing connected to it. I know running is easy quitting is easy Fighting back for a while. I know those instant reaction that we all have them. We're all human Wait a minute. There's something spiritual going on here.  He lives in sin. Duh.  Oh my god My child's in this environment.  Listen If you step back and take a look at this thing You can see what's going on in the spirit a few years before this happened They had a semi-open marriage Hey as A counselor I Would recommend you not do that as a Christian I'm telling you when you sleep with somebody else who has demons or your spouse has demons They transfer into you You can pick up transfers They're fooling around and What a surprise Color me stunned when she Came in for a threesome and He developed desires for her Not the wife What are you thinking about having a threesome? Well, you say why would never do that. Hey, that's I know you wouldn't Don't raise your hand But there are a lot of people that have done that and have had threesomes. That's not that unusual Okay Just because you have a dozen doesn't mean it's not at me. Okay, you're not omniscient this week Well, listen what happened is if you bring in if you're your husband you He you want to please your husband and spice up your this and that or whatever you're doing for whatever reason you did it And you let some of the girl come in and you have a threesome and you have intercourse with some of the girl You could pick up a transfer spirit and that person could have start having a desire for the other person From the Mike's a genius. Well, believe it or not, that's exactly what happened He then is Now more attracted to the fill-in woman than the wife and she was part of the initial Now he left with her shocking toned I like to fell out of chair when I heard I didn't even flinch when I heard that story Why I knew what happened because I stepped the back and looked in the spirit It was a setup the demons set her up now Now they're getting to where they really want to be They're torturing her by having a husband who is completely betrayed Destroy the child morally and spiritually I'm trying to get her to turn that child over the Lord and Get healed first I'm trying to do that's not happened That's the only way the child can be saved. I'm trying to get her To change because I'm after the child He's dead Guess what happens When you're famous and you look good like one of these four Hollywood people they all 99% of them dying go right straight to hell, but they have these great funerals Everybody thinks they're great. It's it's a party See God looks on the heart man looks on the outward appearance God looks upon the heart Asa appeared to be a great man and By secular standards, he was a great man.  I Could have used a load of that quickly Because I'll be honest with you this is the all-off the record. I wasn't smelling too good at the hospital Yes, sir. I needed some sweet over of divers kinds. That's what I needed and I needed some spices. I Sure did one here, too He dies and goes to hell Like Hollywood stars, but everybody thinks they're great. So they have this wonderful funeral for him and it's all a fraud They made him very great burning for him Yeah, this is not where you want to be you want to have character integrity now Not After you're dead Thus sayeth the Lord Jeremiah 17 cursed Be the man or woman that trusts in man and makes flesh his arm and Whose heart? Departs from Jehovah Now this verse has been misinterpreted over the years It's not talking about Cutting human beings off and doing everything yourself. That's not what it means You know you need a ride You pray to Lord. Hey, I can't get somewhere here and there and somebody calls and say yeah, I'll give you a ride Okay, that's God helping you. There's nothing wrong with that People can help you you can help them. It's fine. Hey brother Mike. I need I got tonsillitis. I Need surgery Did you pray and ask God to hear you? Yes, and he didn't okay? Well, there must be something else up or something blocking it Is it a sin to go to a doctor and get your tonsils removed? No, it's not a sin Hey, better than Mike. I've got high blood pressure. No, it's not that's not what this verse is talking about It's talking about people like Asa Who turned their back on God and forsook him and then trust it only in the arms of flesh of humans It's not talking about getting help from other people you can still trust the Lord and Believe in the Lord and receive help from others. Can you not? That's that's not what it says. It says departs whose heart departs from the lower He will be like the heath and the desert and He will not see when good comes He will inhabit the parched places of the wilderness listen if you're in a parched place right now We can fix that tonight That's all fixable All you have to do is the opposite of Asa in the second part of this array You've already been Asa in the first part, haven't you? Won't you there one time? Oh man on fire for God. Oh, you love didn't you? I'm talking about you now You were doing things right.  You weren't putting the best foot forward But devil saw it and he beat you down Let your guard down. Oops. You got you can be restored The Holy Spirit is looking for you to be not just exceedingly Restored no, that's not enough for him. Uh-huh. He doesn't like to stop there bothers me It's exceedingly abundantly that's good, too That's for you. That's not enough for God In the deliverance ministry one of the heartbreaking things you run into here It's people who come in For their initial deliverance and it goes well. I've had hundreds of cases like that It goes well And After that the demons tell the person You are doing great You feel better. Don't you? Oh, yeah Yeah, you you're not eating as much. You're not drinking anymore. You're sleeping better. That's the first thing I get the email That's one of the first ones I get brother Mike after my deliverance. I slept like a baby. That's it. I Said that's good. We're happy for you. We love it Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. I go through it in that order Then I explained to them remember that list I sent you Okay, we need to renew our minds and Finish our deliverance because God's got a call on your life and a destiny for you and One Deliverance session although it went well and we're grateful for and that's our that's what we do here We're trying to get that initial session booming and In most cases it happens That's not the end of this thing The devil will tell you because things are going well like assa. Hey, you're killing them. Look at all these years. No wars You're fine. You got it man. You're so smart. You can handle anything anybody with this track record Gosh, you're on top of it Asa you got it, baby oops Don't you see it? Can you see it? As soon as you think You're you're doing well As soon as you think things are going well all of a sudden You'll get hit and you do the if you do the opposite of us at a night and accept responsibility We're making mistakes and screwing up the city which we all do by the way You're not in the boat by yourself. Oh, no, we're all Human everybody makes mistakes Well, there knows that if you'll do the opposite of Asa Repentant come to the Lord. You'll get Syria and Israel and Judah exceedingly abundantly up up Don't know if the lights there. Let's pray Lord Jesus the Holy Spirit is here tonight and He wants us to make you happy He's here tonight with the blood of Jesus and the broken body of Jesus Christ the Son of God that equates to miracles healings deliverances and Restoration Lord not trying to be critical, but there's a couple of Asas in here tonight They started out great And you were so happy with them and so pleased with them and the devil saw it and brought them adversities Trials stress and pressure bad people Broken-down cars negative co-workers Critical family members whatever it was and And they lost their first love in the Holy Spirit is an expert in restoring Restoring their first love and Jesus mentioned it in Revelation we need a restoration of first love Father in Jesus name No one in this room tonight Is going to die like us angry bitter Frustrated Mad at you Lord frustrated with you disappointed in you. No No That will not happen Asa died and was lost No one in this room will be Killed no one will die and no one will be lost because every single person here We started out strong and Stumbled over adversity It's going to take responsibility for it and repent of it tonight and be delivered in here Every single one of them. There's no asses leaving this building. I'm asking you Lord for mercy on my friends I'm asking you for mercy the people you love Which is every single person sitting in this room Without an exception The Lord I know that you for sick people in the Old Testament when they first took you first If they wouldn't forsake you I know you would never forsake them But I know even though Someone is back slain or discouraged or has lost their first love Now because of the cross of Calvary You never leave them and you will never forsake them That's what you said and I believe your word what you said is The law of the Lord each person in this room right now who's an assa starting out? Well But now you're in a skit Now you're struggling I want you to raise your hand so I can pray for you right now. Just lift your hands up You started out like assa and in fact you remember that Years ago you remember it almost like like it was a honeymoon You remember it years ago almost like oh Like you could Like it was the best time of your life. Do you remember that? You still can feel it You still see it.   Do you know what your roots are? Listen to me It's your first love. That's your real roots. It's not in it's not at home when you were a kid It's not grade school. It's not back on the old days.   It's not going to happen. You're gonna take responsibility You're gonna apologize for the Lord Of course, you apologize.  Of course you would that's just Common courtesy to say the least at a minimum You're gonna tell him you're sorry because you are sorry.  It was the devil that tricked you. He fooled you He fooled you and listen, we all get fooled Here and there nobody's perfect No one Trust me Nobody is we all need help sometimes All of us we can all apologize And receive the Holy Ghost again Yes, and he could just come to right in easily Jesus comes right in You just open your heart. He comes right in there. He is right there You come right in help me with this girl. Come on. Thank you Jesus. She has a sense of the spirit You just he just comes right in If you open your heart and relax, that's all you gotta do That's how you gotta do. Here's how you do it. You just lovingly say it lovingly Lord Jesus. I'm so sorry, right Eric You just telling you're sorry You just telling you're sorry and you win it You just telling you're sorry That's how you do it. I'm just sorry lord. I love you. I want me first love back I've wasted too many years on broken relationships Bad advice hurtful people I'm so sorry Please forgive me. Just say it. Just say it. I'm helping you right now. Just follow me. Jesus. I'm so sorry Just forgive me lord. I'm gonna lay aside my asa pride My asa arrogance. I'm gonna lay it aside right now in the name of jesus I'm gonna lay it aside right now And this spirit of infirmity that got in my body I opened the door I got caught like asa And this spirit's trying to give me a disease He's trying to give me a disease He's trying to give me a disease and I won't receive it. I'm not gonna receive it I want this thing out of my body and my brain and my soul right now in the name of jesus I command you to come out of me right this second I command you to come out of me right this second That evil spirit in my body that tells me to use food as a comfort I'll repent of that and I command that evil to come out of me right now in the name of jesus I lay aside my pride now lord And my spiritual pride. I let it go Right now. I'm letting it go Now in jesus holding I command you to lose me spirit Let me go right now. I command you to let me go right this second Come out right now in the name of jesus come out of there Go, let me go ahead a girl. You're telling me to let me go In the name of jesus.  I want you out of my body right now get Out of my body right this second all these people that criticized me and ran me down all of them From my childhood forward I want them gone. I released them to you lord. There it goes.  There he is. There he comes. Here he comes Here it comes. Come on out. Come on out.  There he comes.  I find your power spirit.   That's a holy ghost That's the spirit of the lord. There's the spirit of the lord Here comes the holy ghost There he is sweetheart. Honey.  Just receive it I receive it right now in the name of jesus keep coughing take a cough come out in jesus money There it comes. Come on out Satan the show get out buddy Come out asa Asa Asa Asa come out Elegance Drive Asa Come out hold that honey. Let your tears go. Come on. You're getting healed tonight Asa I bind your power Lord give this man of God his tears back Giving back his holy ghost tears His tears holy ghost tears And heal Yeah, that's him close your eyes.  I should have never even shaken his hand Let alone slept with him.  Come on Come on Thank you, jesus Come up there. Keep coughing come out.  Here he comes. Here he comes.  Come on there devils right now. Don't you try to hide come on over right now. There it comes next come out right now Come out right now When did this start Like two months And who was there What do you mean Like you I body go From the neighbor Okay, can you remember their names? Can you see their faces in your mind?  What was that guy's name? What was that guy's name? What was that guy's name he exposed himself? I don't know He needs her okay ready.   What do you mean you don't know?  Yeah, that that sounds like a curse.  I don't know but I've seen the devil in some people's eyes Did they ever hate you? Do you know if anybody ever said they hated you or put a curse on you? Have you ever been married? Yes, how many times? After the marriage who was the first husband? Why'd you leave me? Why? What was his name? Wayne. Okay, raise your hands. Lord Jesus. I'm so incredibly sorry That satan tricked me And lied to me And I believed him I listened to him and I believed And that spirit that was lying to me Got into my brain And he's been lying to me ever since And I lived in adultery for 20 years That was the spirit lying to me again. I am so sorry Lord. I'm so sorry There it is let your tears go come on let him go. There it is. That's a holy ghost touching you go Let your tears go. I'm so sorry Lord.  I'm so sorry.  I'm so sorry Lord. I love you. I love you I'm so sorry. I love you. Restore me Restore me Restore me Lord I love you You spirit of fear I bind your power. I command you at the count of three to come out of the woman of God One Two Three Oh There it goes. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus Thank you lord Come on Just repent of it Telling you're sorry What happened to you? I've been coming for a couple weeks. Um, what's a new problem? A lot of things I feel like without anxiety, depression, lust, um, pride, self-righteousness. How old are you? 18? 18? Wow. And were you hurt real bad when you were in grade school? What happened? My mom and all kinds of bullying in school and Oh, you got bullied in school? Yeah And then how about preschool? Was it bad when you was little? Um, I don't remember preschool that far back, but my mom was still the same way in preschool Were you ever molested? By my mom, yes Was it fondly? Yeah Was it intercourse soon?  Um, she's at home. She's come here before Okay, how old were you when you got fond of her? Fourth grade? Okay, what's your mom's name? Lila Okay, ready?  I know you've got a call on his life I know you've been hunting for it Lord Jesus when he was young When he was young His mother did something for Because she has lost these She has lost When she touched him one transferred in one transferred in He's in there And tonight we are going to do exactly what you told us to do lord We're going to forgive mother We're going to forgive her and ask you to bless her And we're going to release her I release my mother from my soul And give her to the lord And I let this lost demon come out In the name of Jesus Los Low self-esteem Fear Out Come out Come out Come out Come out In the name of Jesus Let's get that gun up It's so big Hey, that's a purposeful purposeful He healed you up to bring you back bring us back.    What was his name? Bill Bill and Susie Lord Forgive me for having bad feelings When I was younger about my mother and her boyfriend I'm asking you to forgive me Because at one point I hated them for what they've done to me They not only That spirits into my body They've ruined my self-esteem I Gave me a low self-consent They raped me And today I choose in the name of Jesus to forgive them Both of them I Forgive them for raping me I forgive them for raping My mother and her boyfriend. I Forgive them right now let your tears go Give them right now let your tears go come on.   I'm releasing my mother. I'm releasing bill Come on out now Come on Yes, get out of my body right now come on sweetheart.   You come out of his nose right there.  Come on out. Come on out Come on out. Come on out. Come on out Come on out Come on Get out body I don't need a mother.   Brainy brainy. Okay. Now. Listen. That's what happened.  I grew up Catholic and I came back to God right five years ago Then as of the last probably year and a half Right year and a half ago. I got my first deliverance for watching YouTube videos And then I've got into self-deliverance probably believe myself I don't know maybe 12 more demons and then I still have this issue Oh, that's okay. Now what you're doing is right It's like layers So the more gallon spirit the infirmity he's down here. Just haven't got you now.   That's your That's your first line of offense Now do you have any bad feelings about your mother at all emotions negative emotions when you're around her now Do you feel negative? Still the same way she's always been so she brings it back up, but I don't I feel like I've forgiven her I don't have any negative emotions towards her. I believe that you know I was supposed to honor my mother my father my mother's passed on my mother I know that but I mean when you're around her you sense or feel anything like yuck Only when she starts in on me again That's what I mean when she continues and then I wish he can't stop it because she has a rejection That's what she does. Yes, you know, it's a leopard has spots, right?  Why didn't you that you sense or feel anything? You feel like hey, I got to get out of here. Oh, yeah Bingo now Her rejection spirit It's working yours That's where those feelings come from it's him She's a setup a plant go see your mother click Stop all your deliverance and only get him out focus on him It's how you know it was a spirit of rejection that's him Her and his work tag team wrestling and then these emotions you're having God knows that He knows it's not you That's why you have that's why you have the anointing and that's why you're love He knows it's not you it's grandma leave it. It's grandma Shut the deliverance down Except for one guy one person We do that Said don't put deliverance down.  I see what he's doing now It's not my mother and I can release her from my soul.    I want my grandmother my mother out of my soul. I have a heavenly father I don't need a mother or grandfather or grandmother. I don't need any of my relatives.  Say it.   Oh perfect listen your mother's in and deep trouble. Here's why She has rejection demons And it comes from years of abuse These spirits get in to the person's body and then they draw in abusers So the person mysteriously and miraculously keeps meeting people who can do them no good and Eventually hurt them and by the time they get her age they've got a laundry list of them of people who have mistreated them and betrayed them and verbally abused them and criticized them and lied to them that that scene scenario See he's drawing them in If a person has a spirit that spirit can communicate with this spirit, so it's like a homing device See they draws in And the only way to break this curse offer is If we do Matthew chapter 5 it says Love your enemies Bless those who curse you and pray for those who just fight for the usual She has a laundry list see and then When she was young she would listen to demons She listened to them. She left her first husband He said there it is right there. That's a wound crying come on out Let your tears go see that wound the Holy Spirit's removing that wound as I was talking to you come on out right now She has the anointing on it right now. So you take advantage of it when they have the anointing She has a nice anointing. She doesn't use it Come on now, sweetheart. Let it go.  She's been unhappy and hurt for decades and you've had enough Come on take a big breath. Thank you Jesus. I release these abusers From my soul right now. Let them go out. They go breathe.  Yeah, come on come on. So go now Come out of me. Come out of me. What's the name of that guy she lived with?  Come on out Jack. There it is It's wounds from Jack. Come on out. Let your tears go Jack. Come on Come on out Come out abuse.   Come on. I Want all Jack's lies His wounds and his spirits out of me Out of my body Come on get out of there. Come on out. What you need? What's wrong with you Come on delivered of Oh It was the best. It was the best. And I got a different one to drop. Oh, and there we go. The second half of the week. About two weeks ago. Five days. Five days. I took 67 damage.  The enemy wanted to kill me. I was trying to kill people. I was taking 14 days. Four days straight. Now I've been killed. Seven days. After I got delivered. Eight days. I just killed more. More. More. You're looking for a greater ability. I've learned how to train tongues. You did? Let me hear it. Stop. You have your ripple tongues but it's partially popped. Let's fix it. Yes, sir. Just follow me. What a great mouth. Zendolia. A deep chill. Now did you notice I was speaking in short syllables? Yes. And I was using different syllables? Yes. Did you notice that yours was quick fixian? Yes yes yes. Now let's try it again, let's say here, okay, now let's try it again, this time you follow me and then you use your language, but use different syllables. Ready? Yes. Perfect, like that, just like that. Keep going, keep going. How you doing? What you need? Emma. Emma, yeah, what you need from the Lord tonight? Where are you here? I am to the other guy who never come to me back again. Say that again? I want protection, God protect me always and never devil come to me back again. Oh. I need protection from the Lord Jesus Christ. No, I mean from what? For fear, for fear, for fear, for fear. You have fear? My, I have, not fear, I have anger. How'd that go? Yeah, rank it. No. Yes, but not loud like he. Let's hear it. Okay, stop, yeah that's good. You have a legitimate gift of tongue, but it's blunt. Yours is like his. It was, it was blunt. It helped me. And it's easy to fix. It helped me. Yeah, I'll do it now. His just got fixed. That's why I'm here. And now, uh, repeat after me. Borava. Borava. Kelo sata. Kelo sata. Nekoma. Nekoma. Pandoria. Pandoria. Fula shate. Fula shate. Nekoba. Nekoba. What happened to notice that I was speaking in short syllables? But I was using different ones. Different syllables? Notice that? Yes. Let's try it again. And this time, you follow me and then you add some syllables from your language. But make, do use different ones. Okay. Ready? Yes. Korra sata. Korra sata. annoyed. for that. out. Good girls. Speak it out. Speak it out Good girl keep going different syllables Hers just got fixed Okay, now I'll show you how to draw in the holy ghost Speaking tongues like you were Perfect for now now Start speak like you were only put a little hum to it and sing the Lord a worship song like this Remoxabelolatoremosha Andorravala Remoxevola Goramoshevola Good girl keep going Goramoshevola Andorravala Lafrivohause And singing the Lord Goraveolatore Andorravala Goramoshevaleremoshevola Goraveolatore Andorravala Andorravala Goramoshevola Goramoshevola Goramoshevola Andorravala You just put a hum to it and sing the Lord a song Andorravala Your mother is doing it Doraremo Doraremoshevola There you go Sing it out Goramoshevola Arara Singing in tongues cause in the holy ghost Goramoshevola Goraveolatore Goraveolatore Goraveolatore Goraveolatore Goraveolatore Goraveolatore How's this girl doing? She's got a wound that she wants to hold on to What's the wound involving? This one is like Kundalini Kundalini You got Kundalini? How'd you get it? A church? I think maybe I provided a church Or maybe either like my deep massage therapy They talked to me Okay Okay, yeah, it could have come from either But normally that's not the root problem usually Usually now Now, were you hurt real bad as a kid? Yeah, I remember when we had the counseling session My dad, my mom, she died Now, did you forgive them, Lea? Did you forgive him yet? Did you get his demons out of there?  Okay Did you repent of that? You did How did you repent?   Hit the bell Bingo! Go down to the article The glorious gift of hate Read that article, YouTubers Use your authority And fight back I will be here to help you Next Friday at 7 o'clock Why? Because we're all friends We love each other See you next time