Nephilim Death Squad - Spiritual Warfare w⧸ Ed Mabrie and John Lenhart

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00:02:27.440 All right, so let's move on from that part now.

00:02:30.680 I have to narrate everything I'm doing as I do it.

00:02:33.660 Joining us today in studio for the first time.

00:02:37.280 We've actually touched each other in a platonic way for the first time.

00:02:41.920 I got tingly from it.

00:02:43.000 How long?

00:02:43.580 Dude, it's been two and a half, almost three years that we've been talking to Ed.

00:02:49.020 Yeah, dude, it's been a long time.

00:02:50.680 We are joined in studio by Ed Mabry and John Lenhardt.

00:02:54.960 So very happy to see you guys here.

00:02:57.800 Before we, what is all that noise?

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00:03:04.060 I'm very excited about this.

00:03:05.020 Where can people find you?

00:03:06.380 They can find me.

00:03:07.120 My main website is faithbyreason.net.

00:03:10.020 That's where you can find everything I've been doing for the last 10, 15 years.

00:03:15.020 Jeez.

00:03:15.900 Yeah, tons of stuff there.

00:03:16.960 You will notice that there has been a change in the layout because I am actually getting up to speed with modernity.

00:03:23.260 And so now my site is more mobile-friendly.

00:03:25.660 I was getting a lot of complaints from people saying that we're having trouble accessing it from our mobile devices.

00:03:30.480 And so I just moved everything over.

00:03:32.260 It was a Herculean task.

00:03:33.340 You say, I'm a Bible reader, not a tech guy.

00:03:36.480 Exactly.

00:03:37.100 Yeah.

00:03:37.440 My generation may have started the Internet, but we didn't master it, apparently.

00:03:40.160 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:03:41.200 Yeah, this kind of stuff is a nightmare.

00:03:42.860 It looks good, though.

00:03:43.440 It looks good.

00:03:44.020 And I guess on mobile now, it's friendly for people.

00:03:46.760 Much more so.

00:03:47.360 And especially for the Spiritual Warfare class, which we'll be talking about today,

00:03:51.300 you can access the spiritual warfare course there and you get it's a 12 month intensive course with

00:03:58.740 that john and i are doing and you can access it there and the other place you can find me is on

00:04:04.260 patreon so patreon.com faith by reason and that's where you can become a member all my content

00:04:11.300 drops there first you can be a part of the of our jehovah story bible study where we go through the

00:04:15.780 entire bible in 12 months from a supernatural point of view we are almost halfway through

00:04:20.340 people are loving it and you also can give me Q&A's there I do Q&A videos for

00:04:26.840 folks and yeah discounts off my books and you also get discounts on something

00:04:32.280 I'm working on right now we talked about the last time I was on and that is some

00:04:35.880 things to help people who are suffering from spiritual attacks at night and in

00:04:39.600 the morning yeah that's right yeah so I that's going to be dropping on the 14th

00:04:43.800 the first one which is for night for people because that's when people are

00:04:48.900 kind of in that phase between their conscious critical mind kind of

00:04:53.280 subsiding and their unconscious taking over when they dream and that is a prime

00:04:56.520 time for that veil to be thinned between the spiritual world and our physical

00:05:01.980 realm and it could be a time when the when you get demonic attacks but it can

00:05:05.700 also be a time you can walk in your authority so I have like 90 minutes of

00:05:10.900 teaching with some great background music to kind of help you get past the

00:05:16.860 Spiritual Attacks, and Walk in Authority.

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00:05:23.680 No charge there.

00:05:24.740 And if you want full eight hours to help you throughout the entire night,

00:05:28.160 you'll be able to download that from faithbyreason.net and from Patreon.

00:05:31.140 That's really cool.

00:05:32.260 Before we go any further, let's also introduce John

00:05:35.060 and talk about where we can find his book.

00:05:38.100 Well, you can find my book at modelinggod.com,

00:05:40.980 but I'm Robin to Ed's Batman.

00:05:45.140 We get this right.

00:05:45.980 So you can find me all the same places supporting it.

00:05:49.180 And that's ModelingGod.com, you said, right?

00:05:51.860 All right.

00:05:52.400 You want to talk about FlowSest, too?

00:05:53.780 No, I just—

00:05:54.360 Okay, just ModelingGod.

00:05:55.140 Never mind.

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00:05:56.740 How dare you?

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00:05:59.200 All right.

00:05:59.640 So, yeah, I like what you were saying there, Ed, about that idea of the veil.

00:06:02.940 I believe that was a little bit of the discussion last time.

00:06:05.040 If that's truly what's happening when you're about to go to sleep, you're going to cross over through the veil, you know,

00:06:11.420 to what might be a spiritual realm where these things have a lot more influence

00:06:15.360 or can interact with you in a way that they can't in the daytime,

00:06:19.440 in the physical sense of reality,

00:06:21.180 then you might want to do some preparation before you do that.

00:06:23.620 Yeah, you want to be ready for it because dreams,

00:06:25.200 and it's something that John and I have talked about a lot in the past,

00:06:28.000 is that God communicates with folks through dreams a lot.

00:06:31.200 There are many examples of that in the Bible.

00:06:32.780 So because you are in your unconscious at that point,

00:06:37.240 the Holy Spirit can speak through your unconscious,

00:06:39.920 but you can also be influenced negatively.

00:06:42.440 And in the mornings, because what I'm going to drop on the 14th is for nights.

00:06:46.780 Mornings, I'll have something for that maybe in like the next month.

00:06:49.820 But as soon as you wake up, when you're in that point where you're transitioning

00:06:52.560 from your unconscious being in charge to your conscious,

00:06:55.880 that's another time when the enemy can start to oppress you 0.97

00:06:59.100 and tell you things like your day is going to suck today. 0.97

00:07:01.160 Yeah. 1.00

00:07:01.660 You are, you're not worthy.

00:07:03.520 Look at all these bad things that are going to happen to you.

00:07:05.940 But if you are prepared for that,

00:07:08.440 you can actually start your day in victory. Yeah. I mean, setting up your day in, in sort of,

00:07:13.560 I'm going to use a word here that might trigger a few people, but like the ritual of waking up,

00:07:17.760 right? Like if you do wake up, cause even outside of that, you wake up with this idea of number one,

00:07:22.500 waking up is kind of rough. You know what I mean? Like the, the, uh, um, uh, abrasive sound of your

00:07:27.880 alarm clock, you know, and, and just everything that goes into it and then having to get up and

00:07:32.180 go through the routine, um, you can easily start your day off on a negative foot and

00:07:38.160 that's going to bleed into the rest of everything that you do that day.

00:07:40.760 But if you can not just invert that, right.

00:07:44.100 And, and turn it into something positive, but turn it into something that's rooted in

00:07:47.260 scripture, that's rooted in, in, you know, taking thoughts captive in Jesus Christ.

00:07:50.940 Like that's going to be, to me, that's the ultimate version of, of starting your day

00:07:54.880 off.

00:07:55.140 Right.

00:07:55.420 And the complete opposite of all the, the drudgery and the heaviness that goes into

00:08:00.260 whatever most people's most people's morning routines are it seems like uh it's that that

00:08:05.400 wouldn't just be a good addendum to your spiritual warfare class but it seems like that would be the

00:08:09.200 basis to it like you everybody starts at the beginning of the day oh yeah and from there how

00:08:13.820 like how you've woken up and how you've slept determines pretty much what happens after but uh

00:08:18.860 could you like just walk us through so we're going to talk about this course yes we're going to talk

00:08:22.740 about what it entails and what you guys have been doing and you are already three months into it i

00:08:27.000 believe right um more we are we started in april so we are working we're almost at month five we're

00:08:31.780 starting month five okay wow so yeah you guys are well like a third through the year all right let's

00:08:38.280 do this okay let's talk about what you've covered already uh spoiler alert uh so but people can still

00:08:45.780 go back is it still it's not available to join yet or what's happening with that so there there

00:08:50.860 are two tiers to the course um the first tier is basically it's self-directed and you can join that

00:08:55.540 anytime um at tier one where you you we recommend you going at one one lesson per week and just

00:09:03.940 ruminate on that and meditate on that and then you can take the next week because you can go

00:09:07.140 at your own pace the tier two is where you have live coaching with myself and john basically two

00:09:13.140 hours every month and you're getting live coaching from us you're asking us your questions we are

00:09:18.500 giving you highlights of what we talked about and we deal with with the special situations we have

00:09:22.340 have a great class right now

00:09:24.200 of just some really awesome people who are

00:09:26.060 growing amazingly. I was going to say, that's got to be

00:09:28.040 like, you're personally interacting with

00:09:30.060 these folks, you're building relationships with

00:09:32.040 them, like you're getting to know,

00:09:33.840 it's interesting for you, right, because you've been building this

00:09:36.080 community, now you're getting to know these people,

00:09:38.320 putting names to faces.

00:09:39.720 Now you see how we feel. 1.00

00:09:42.140 Except I think maybe the dangerous retards 1.00

00:09:44.260 are markedly crazier. 1.00

00:09:46.860 I'm sure there's some overlap.

00:09:48.800 There's so much

00:09:49.840 theology and doctrine

00:09:51.880 in the course, that when we have that two hours, it's mostly 80% personal issues people are dealing

00:09:59.120 with and very personal coaching. And it's amazing. So you really do get to know them very much, but

00:10:04.580 it's not stump the Bible guy. It's more like, how would I wake up? How would I wake up? How would I

00:10:10.960 do this? What's going on with that? Yeah, like real life application. Right. It's awesome.

00:10:15.540 Yeah. And one of our students, he literally said, you guys are rewiring my brain. And that is

00:10:21.540 literal because i mean this john handles all the mind and brain stuff and we'll talk about

00:10:25.160 that what that does and why that's a part of this course because i think some people saw

00:10:29.060 some of john's lessons and they were saying well why do i need to understand my conscious mind

00:10:33.220 versus my unconscious versus almost a silly question but when you get to it it's it's

00:10:38.900 absolutely vital and crucial especially as we're getting further into the course because everything

00:10:44.340 builds on itself so we're going to talk about defense that was our first three months the

00:10:48.760 second three months that we're on now are offense and you cannot do the offense until you have the

00:10:54.520 defense down and it's really vitally important that that idea of the psyche and as it applies

00:11:01.580 to this is i mean to me it strikes me as hugely significant um i i became aware of that when i

00:11:08.060 was younger so they have that that throwaway saying perception is reality and it shouldn't

00:11:11.920 be a throwaway because i do think it's a way of saying it's simplifying the the the way that

00:11:17.480 reality passes through the filter of perception determines your experience entirely. And I

00:11:23.560 realized that the brain is like a muscle. You could just put on rose colored glasses, right?

00:11:27.520 Well, yellow ones, blue ones, rose colored, whatever you got, really anything, just not a

00:11:31.400 clear one. But you know, this, this muscle can be worked out. And that muscle is some people will

00:11:38.860 look at the negative in their life. And it becomes a real problem if you're the type of

00:11:43.080 person that seeks communal interaction by, by bitching and moaning. If you, if you engage in

00:11:48.300 that, because it is the great connective tissue, we're all suffering to some degree. So you could

00:11:51.680 always bank on going up to somebody and bitching about the traffic. They're going to reciprocate

00:11:55.320 with their own woes about their own life. And you're going to build some sort of a relationship

00:11:59.040 there. But when you do that, you work out that muscle and that muscle is finding the things to

00:12:04.780 bitch and moan about. And when you develop that muscle and it becomes really sharp and really

00:12:09.180 adept at finding those things you can find them absolutely everywhere right the same is said for

00:12:13.880 the inverse so if you can start to look at things positively and and the ultimate positivity would

00:12:18.920 be through the scriptural lens but if you can look at things positively you'll begin to work

00:12:23.220 that muscle out next thing you know you'll be able to look everywhere and find something to

00:12:26.980 be positive about or grateful about ideally right and so the psychology of it is is huge and people

00:12:33.220 miss that a lot they think the world is pitted against them but it's your perception that's

00:12:37.840 pit it against you. The thing is, is that it's a combination. So people are saying, you know,

00:12:43.060 there's some people out there going, everything's spiritual. The devil's attacking me. It's all

00:12:47.040 spiritual. And then there's people going, it's all my own fault in my brain. But really it's

00:12:51.980 spiritual cause on a mental, emotional weakness. So if you think about it, the spiritual realm

00:12:58.160 knows your weaknesses. And so it's looking for that angle and it'll come at you differently

00:13:03.300 then it'll come at you. So we want to play defense on this end so that it can attack that. And then

00:13:09.500 when we go offense, we basically say, our example for spiritual warfare is Jesus. And Jesus only

00:13:16.640 and always did what God told him to do. So are you doing spiritual warfare by having God tell

00:13:22.420 you what to do? That's the brain part. So Ed's the guy who's going to load you up with tools.

00:13:27.760 God can't access tools that aren't in you. So you need the tools, but then under pressure,

00:13:33.300 Can you hear from God when you're in stress?

00:13:36.320 And that's my part.

00:13:37.660 So it's really a combination.

00:13:38.800 We are not familiar with anybody doing a spiritual warfare class that counts for both.

00:13:43.840 Yeah, that's our unique, I don't want to call it a selling point per se,

00:13:46.640 but that is our unique angle on spiritual warfare

00:13:48.860 because we looked at a lot of other courses out there to see where can we basically benefit people

00:13:55.100 because if it's not going to be a benefit, let's not do it.

00:13:57.320 But we didn't see anyone doing it from this angle.

00:14:00.520 It was really all about, here's some verses you can pray over, and here's some things you can say, but it almost seemed cookie cutter.

00:14:09.020 It wasn't really geared towards the uniqueness of the person, because if you are just given, here's some prayer, Psalm 91, great psalm, but what if you aren't going through that particular thing?

00:14:20.080 Or what if you don't understand how you're specifically being attacked?

00:14:23.240 There is no blanket spiritual warfare.

00:14:26.320 Of course, that's why the first thing we're teaching you in defense is understanding who you are uniquely.

00:14:32.840 So let's back up a step.

00:14:34.720 It seems like, yeah, because my wife, she's actually over here pressing buttons. 1.00

00:14:39.240 Don't talk to the chat.

00:14:40.600 Tina the Turtle Terminator is in the house. 0.71

00:14:43.560 Let's go.

00:14:44.040 When she was sick, she was going through something.

00:14:46.400 And the two choices that she had were Western medicine, which is like this very hard idea of medicine.

00:14:54.380 And then there's also like, I don't know, Eastern spirituality, which is not necessarily good.

00:14:58.260 But there's a middle ground, which is functional medicine.

00:15:02.320 So functional medicine is going to take the pillars of whatever you are and your ailments.

00:15:07.660 And it's like, oh, how can we bolster this side?

00:15:09.180 Are you weak here?

00:15:10.080 And that's what she did and actually ended up, look at her now, producing.

00:15:16.200 I know, that's technically a downgrade. 0.79

00:15:19.060 Much to the detriment of the turtle life.

00:15:21.540 It seems like that's the attempt that you guys are making with the course.

00:15:24.480 Exactly, and I don't want to take us way off course,

00:15:27.160 but Western medicine is what's known as analysis.

00:15:30.240 They take you apart, and then they treat a part of you in absence of everything else.

00:15:37.080 The functional medicine is synthesis.

00:15:40.080 You step back and you look at the whole thing.

00:15:42.120 And not to plug my books, but Modeling God deals with the smallest system, and then Modeling God's wills deals with the bigger system, the biggest.

00:15:51.100 And if you understand the biggest, you can handle any issue.

00:15:54.800 So that's a synthesis.

00:15:56.820 Basically, both those books are functional or synthesis, because the minute you take something apart, it ceases to exist.

00:16:03.240 Versus if you look at something as a part of a bigger system, and then you can keep that part together and treat it holistically,

00:16:12.000 You're going to dissolve everything.

00:16:13.960 Last time I was on, we talked about dissolve.

00:16:15.440 So, yeah, you nailed it.

00:16:16.900 Functional is that synthesis, and that's our approach, too.

00:16:19.380 We're not going to get into memorize a million things

00:16:21.940 because you're never going to memorize enough, and you're all unique.

00:16:25.160 But you know the principles, and you step back,

00:16:27.720 and you let God flow through you with what Ed puts in you,

00:16:30.880 and God accesses those tools.

00:16:33.100 It has to be comprehensive, right, or else it's going to be take this to solve this,

00:16:37.100 and then that causes that.

00:16:38.200 So take that to solve the thing that this causes,

00:16:40.220 And then it's a never-ending chain of, you know, take this to band-aid that situation.

00:16:44.220 Yeah.

00:16:44.420 Right.

00:16:44.620 That's probably the big-picture goal of the Bible study that I do to help a story.

00:16:49.180 Bible study is to understand God's big-picture will.

00:16:53.460 And if you understand what his—and that's what modeling God's will does as well.

00:16:56.540 If you understand his will, what he wants, and what he wants is Eden.

00:17:00.780 He wants perfect provision, perfect protection, perfect community, and fellowship, intimate fellowship with Jehovah.

00:17:07.040 That's what he wants.

00:17:07.700 That's the big picture.

00:17:08.920 And every part of the Bible is about that.

00:17:11.040 So if you take a piece of the Bible apart and say, I want to look at this verse, and this verse means this.

00:17:15.120 Okay, does it fit with God's will?

00:17:16.720 Are you interpreting it through the lens of here's God's ultimate goal?

00:17:20.320 That's where people get in trouble, right?

00:17:21.340 Out of context scripture.

00:17:22.600 Yeah.

00:17:22.960 It's like if you take a car apart, you pull out the carburetor, the spark plugs.

00:17:26.700 Well, you're just focusing on that.

00:17:28.480 But you need to see how does the spark plug fit in with the rest of the car?

00:17:31.320 Right.

00:17:32.080 Then you have a holistic picture.

00:17:33.940 And the thing is, is God's will is really about how he brings about his will.

00:17:38.460 So the thing really practical, back to practical, it's like something's happened to me.

00:17:43.720 Is this the enemy or is this God?

00:17:45.340 And there is an objective way to figure out if it's God or the enemy.

00:17:49.160 You're talking about testing the spirits?

00:17:50.940 Yeah, and also knowing in your life, like, are you in God's will?

00:17:54.920 You know, that famous, you know, that famous verse that says, don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

00:18:03.020 So renewing means bringing it back out, bring your uniqueness back out.

00:18:06.960 You're not supposed to become something different.

00:18:08.780 Transform is really re-transform.

00:18:10.400 Get back to who God made you to be.

00:18:13.000 We've all been polluted by this world, and we're no longer being who we're supposed to be.

00:18:16.520 That's what I'm trying to do is help people be who they be.

00:18:18.980 So you may know what is the good, pleasing, perfect will of God.

00:18:22.260 To prove you're transformed is you can distinguish God's will.

00:18:26.320 And if someone can't distinguish God's will, they're not transformed.

00:18:29.320 Yeah.

00:18:30.600 So taking that step back to speaking of big picture, so what is spiritual warfare?

00:18:35.660 It's like in a sentence, spiritual warfare is words spoken with authority that allow you to push the enemy out of your life.

00:18:46.200 That is what it is.

00:18:47.480 And we're teaching you, as John said, we're teaching you how to do spiritual warfare the way Jesus did.

00:18:52.540 Jesus didn't do anything physical.

00:18:54.120 He spoke words in authority.

00:18:56.240 That's how he cast demons out.

00:18:57.400 He didn't light candles.

00:18:58.400 He didn't throw holy water on them.

00:18:59.880 He didn't do any kind of interpretive dance or anything like that.

00:19:02.540 He spoke words in authority.

00:19:04.500 But the authority he spoke words to, and this is something I want people to get because it's going to sound counterintuitive.

00:19:10.620 Jesus did not cast out demons through his authority as a son of God.

00:19:15.820 He cast demons out, and this is good news for us. 0.98

00:19:18.460 He cast them out through his authority as a second Adam.

00:19:21.820 Because when Adam and Eve, when they were commissioned by God, God gave them authority over the earth, God over the material realm. 0.50

00:19:30.980 Remember, on the seventh day, God rested.

00:19:32.620 And I know we've talked about this before.

00:19:34.280 When we say God rested, when he said he rested, it doesn't mean he was tired.

00:19:38.300 God ceased his activity, if you interpret it by the original language.

00:19:42.160 It says God ceased his activity of being the first cause.

00:19:45.400 After Genesis chapter 2, God no longer initiates his will unilaterally.

00:19:49.980 Everything he does after that is in response to what we do, to what the Elohim do, and he reacts through justice.

00:19:56.400 He said, Adam and Eve, you're the first cause now. 0.97

00:20:00.040 Adam and Eve had authority over the spiritual realm on earth.

00:20:04.920 So in the garden, when the Nakash, the so-called serpent, was there talking to Eve, 0.76

00:20:09.480 Adam could have said, Nakash, get out of here. 0.99

00:20:11.700 And he would have had to obey. 0.98

00:20:13.120 He didn't.

00:20:13.660 He failed in that sense, but he could have done it.

00:20:15.660 But Jesus was, among other things, Jesus is called the second Adam

00:20:19.160 because his body was a direct creation of God, like Adam's was,

00:20:23.520 and he never sent.

00:20:24.560 He had the authority.

00:20:25.520 So when he gives us that authority, you know, Luke 10, 19, I give you authority to trample on servants and scorpions and nothing shall by any means harm you.

00:20:33.960 He hadn't died yet, but he gave him the authority as a second Adam.

00:20:37.320 So we have the authority through Jesus as a second Adam to use our words to take control over these entities, our sovereignty over them, and cast them out that way. 0.60

00:20:48.380 But we do it through words.

00:20:49.660 Everything in the spiritual realm is done through words.

00:20:53.080 Now, words are good, but do you think that there is a—sometimes people say things and don't mean it. 0.97

00:21:00.880 Sometimes I've said a thing where it's like, you're not going to do that, and I'm like, damn, you might do that.

00:21:04.800 So you know what I mean? 0.92

00:21:05.400 You're talking about conviction.

00:21:06.160 Yeah, talking about conviction, so like your heart behind the words.

00:21:10.840 Obviously, these things have to be paired, right?

00:21:12.980 Because if you just speak a thing, is that respected?

00:21:16.720 So it does say you're going to be judged for every idle word.

00:21:19.680 the first month we cover the word word word okay word up word up i mean given what we're talking

00:21:28.700 about if if speaking words is spiritual warfare then that's probably a great place to start yeah

00:21:34.400 right and it's really informative because one word is graphe that means the written word and

00:21:41.140 you can see that as the what one word is logos you know jesus logos it's the word that brings

00:21:47.840 understanding that's like a human arguing and then one word is rhema and that's the uh basically god

00:21:55.680 speaking through you but we can speak rhema meaning we can speak it as a first cause and so when it

00:22:01.920 talks about blasphemy the holy spirit speaking a word against holy spirit that's rhema if you speak

00:22:08.240 something against holy spirit and give a reason that's logos so it's really important to understand

00:22:14.240 when you read the word word in the bible what word is that saying a written word a word with

00:22:20.400 understanding or you know a revelatory word that's that's the whole key so that's what we want to

00:22:25.580 understand that yeah and so another thing that's that's important to understand as we get into

00:22:31.360 spiritual warfare because i i'm thinking about the questions that were being asked to me early

00:22:36.280 on as we were developing the course and one of the questions i got was well god is all powerful

00:22:40.380 He knows these entities are coming at us and oppressing us and doing all these things.

00:22:45.360 Why doesn't he—what I said earlier is, you know, God is resting.

00:22:53.020 He is at a state where he is not initiating his will.

00:22:55.840 God has to work through us, and that's not diminishing God.

00:22:58.920 That is part of his will.

00:23:00.380 He works through us, and we are part of his story.

00:23:04.780 That's what, you know, the Bible study is all about.

00:23:07.020 We are a part of the story.

00:23:08.220 We are not passive participants.

00:23:10.040 We are active, but he gave us the tools.

00:23:13.800 In a story, Jehovah and Jesus are the ultimate heroes, but we are a part of the story.

00:23:19.880 We have, we're the heroic character in the story.

00:23:22.360 We can overcome our enemy.

00:23:23.680 He gave us the tools to do so.

00:23:25.480 Why doesn't he wipe them out?

00:23:26.500 Because he said, I gave you a sword.

00:23:28.720 I gave you armor.

00:23:30.020 You go in there and you do it because this is your epic story as well.

00:23:33.220 This is like the idea of dispositions that you talk about, the dirty word dispositions.

00:23:37.520 Dispensations?

00:23:38.300 Dispensations.

00:23:38.660 It is a dirty word, right?

00:23:41.220 Now it's so loaded.

00:23:43.140 Even though Paul used the word.

00:23:44.060 People say, there's no dispensation in the Bible.

00:23:45.440 Really, then what did Paul mean when he used that exact word?

00:23:47.340 I'm still struggling to understand what it means,

00:23:49.840 because my understanding of it on a fundamental basis, I agree with.

00:23:53.300 And then the way I see people.

00:23:54.800 I mean, but it's explained it 15 times.

00:23:55.300 Yeah.

00:23:55.960 Well, that's what I'm saying.

00:23:56.760 But then you see people's reaction to it.

00:23:58.180 I'm like, what are you reacting to?

00:23:59.460 Because this seems very straightforward.

00:24:00.780 People don't like the word.

00:24:01.940 Some people are using the word wrong, though.

00:24:03.740 That's why I always ask people, what's your definition of that?

00:24:06.740 And what do you mean by that?

00:24:08.340 Because I hear people use it a lot of different ways.

00:24:10.980 Yeah.

00:24:11.240 And dispensation simply means God deals with people differently in different eras.

00:24:16.420 That's all it means.

00:24:17.440 And if you don't believe that, then I want you to go and eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

00:24:21.820 You can't.

00:24:22.560 You know why?

00:24:23.080 Because it's not there.

00:24:24.240 So that command that God gave Adam and Eve doesn't apply to us.

00:24:27.460 We are not currently under the law.

00:24:29.280 Maybe a delegation would be a better—because it seems like—so we've been delegated power by God,

00:24:34.700 But the way he allows us to use that, it has been different throughout the ages.

00:24:39.800 So, you know, from Eden until now where the church is, I guess he's delegated the church for us to have that and the Holy Spirit to work.

00:24:48.320 So it means administration.

00:24:50.100 Isn't that correct?

00:24:51.420 Yeah, I'm afraid to get way off track on here, but I deal with that in modeling God's wills.

00:24:56.260 And so if you know the story of Job, the entire Bible is in the book of Job, the entire Bible.

00:25:01.240 It talks how God does his will, talks who God is, everything.

00:25:04.700 And the thing is, is that whole story of Job is God proving his point contrastively.

00:25:11.220 And what that means is, is, is he proves it by proving what it's not.

00:25:16.300 So he's like, Job is a good person.

00:25:18.840 And the Satan says, no, he has stuff.

00:25:22.540 Take it away.

00:25:24.040 Job's still a good person.

00:25:25.020 Well, he can do stuff.

00:25:26.200 Give him boils.

00:25:27.460 Job's a good person.

00:25:29.040 God's got a plan for eternity.

00:25:31.740 And he can't just go, let's do that plan.

00:25:34.700 Because you and I could sit there in his plan and go, you know what?

00:25:37.920 I think if he gave us, like, laws, like 9, 10, 11 of them, and if you violate him, you'd die, I bet you everybody would be good.

00:25:46.820 And then, boom, everything would cease to exist because he didn't prove it.

00:25:49.680 What he's really doing is with all seven of these cases, he's doing every possible plan you could have for eternity.

00:25:58.320 That's what all seven of them are.

00:26:00.200 And none of them work.

00:26:01.880 And then he can say, okay, now I can do my eighth plan justly

00:26:05.580 because none of the seven work.

00:26:07.220 That's really what's going on.

00:26:08.400 That's why I'm talking about synthesis.

00:26:10.140 Everybody's going to sit here and talk about dispensation involved.

00:26:12.720 Doesn't this one different than this one?

00:26:14.240 It's like, step back.

00:26:15.860 Why do we even have these?

00:26:17.680 It's because God is proving out his way is right contrastively,

00:26:21.700 just like he did in church.

00:26:22.340 It's like, oh, you think it's going to work?

00:26:23.480 Right.

00:26:23.780 Yep.

00:26:24.360 Because that's what we would say, right?

00:26:25.940 Yep.

00:26:26.120 And then the last one we talk about at the end of the Revelation series,

00:26:29.740 which is on my website, is the millennial reign,

00:26:34.040 where people get everything they say they want in order to be happy.

00:26:37.720 And people say, well, when you ask someone, why don't you believe in God?

00:26:41.080 JT left, okay, so you go ahead.

00:26:42.780 I can talk about the millennial reign being in the future.

00:26:44.820 So that already happened.

00:26:45.860 JT's a good guy.

00:26:46.640 We had a great little conversation when he was here.

00:26:49.580 We didn't talk about Little Season.

00:26:51.260 No, we didn't.

00:26:52.000 That's probably why we had it.

00:26:53.480 But the final millennial reign is when everyone gets what they want.

00:26:56.840 They said, I believe in God if he was here, if he was completely just and ruling justly, if we had everything we needed, perfect provision and peace and all that.

00:27:06.340 Jesus is going to give us that for a thousand years.

00:27:08.420 And what happens after a thousand years?

00:27:09.720 People are going to say, hey, this is great.

00:27:11.340 No, they are going to rebel to the point where—

00:27:14.320 This Satan guy looks all right.

00:27:15.380 Yeah, you know, we're going to go his way.

00:27:16.960 We hate being under this justice because justice means we get punished immediately.

00:27:21.040 So anyway, so the whole point is God can finally say, look, I've given you every rational, reasonable chance.

00:27:27.280 I've tried all these different eras, dispensations, whatever you want to call them.

00:27:30.640 Eras.

00:27:30.780 I like that.

00:27:31.400 Eras is a fair word, yeah.

00:27:32.600 That's a Taylor Swift tour.

00:27:33.800 I don't like that.

00:27:34.580 Is that true?

00:27:35.500 There's always one in every crowd, isn't there?

00:27:37.520 Yeah, please. 1.00

00:27:38.540 A Swifty?

00:27:39.440 Is that what?

00:27:41.240 An anti-Swifty.

00:27:42.440 Now they know too much.

00:27:44.020 They know too much.

00:27:45.220 So yeah, I've given you every opportunity and every single time you choose yourself over me.

00:27:50.160 So now I can justly say only my will is going to bring things about.

00:27:56.320 Only my plan is going to work.

00:27:57.600 So that's where we go.

00:27:58.400 We totally derailed you, by the way.

00:27:59.780 You said dispensation or dispensations, and then we said a bunch of stuff.

00:28:03.600 I mean, but, you know.

00:28:04.800 Yeah, it's all good.

00:28:06.980 IRL this time.

00:28:08.620 How does it feel?

00:28:09.480 How does it feel to be derailed IRL?

00:28:11.880 But you did bring up the defense and talking about what we've talked so far.

00:28:15.880 So the first three months, we talk about defense.

00:28:18.800 And so I'll talk about a little bit of the doctrine, and John can talk about the mind-brain stuff and why that's so important to defense.

00:28:24.820 So defense is teaching you basically how to withstand.

00:28:28.940 Because before you start in this course, oh, no, God's will is down.

00:28:32.920 You know what?

00:28:33.420 Before we go any further, what's interesting about that is I imagine maybe you've come across this in some of the questions from the people that you're engaging with is like, how do I get this thing out of my life?

00:28:43.720 How do I make this stop?

00:28:44.700 And it's like, you can definitely reduce the oppression to a great deal, but withstanding and defense is a long-term game plan.

00:28:54.100 There is no, I'm going to stop the demonic realm, the adversary, Satan, from trying to influence me, trying to tempt me.

00:29:02.980 Like, that doesn't happen.

00:29:04.260 You just are going to be armed with the ability to navigate it.

00:29:07.920 But for the rest of your life, as long as we're in these fleshy suits, we're going to be tempted.

00:29:12.960 Oh, we are.

00:29:13.540 we talked about the whole the morning routine I start my morning every morning

00:29:17.200 now because once we started this class I've been under massive spiritual attack

00:29:20.900 but it's been great because I've been able to bring those victories into this

00:29:24.400 course but I start in the morning with gratitude yeah that's the first thing I

00:29:28.900 start with I start by thanking God for for everything and then I pray my

00:29:33.700 spiritual warfare prayer I bring everything under the authority of

00:29:37.000 Jehovah through Yahushua Jesus yeah I like using his Hebrew name I you know 0.58

00:29:41.740 This is his blood.

00:29:42.880 He gave me this authority.

00:29:43.960 And everything that's coming up against me today, I bind you and all that.

00:29:47.820 I do that whole prayer.

00:29:48.860 That's how I start my day now.

00:29:50.540 So you have to start with that defensive posture because before this, you're being pushed back.

00:29:56.520 You know, the enemy is winning.

00:29:57.860 So the first step is to stop, to get, as John says, you know, you've got to get out of the hold first.

00:30:02.080 So you start with the hold.

00:30:03.060 So we get you to stop being pushed back.

00:30:05.340 You can stand now.

00:30:06.420 And that's what the armor of God is.

00:30:07.900 That's when Paul gives that passage in Ephesians.

00:30:11.360 He starts with, having done all this, stand.

00:30:13.960 So we're teaching you how to withstand.

00:30:16.780 You're not being pushed back anymore.

00:30:18.140 Now you can stand, not just stand firmly, but if you look at the actual language,

00:30:24.180 it means stand in a position of being ready to attack.

00:30:27.240 You're in a defensive posture.

00:30:28.580 If you've ever taken martial arts, you get into a stance.

00:30:32.320 You're in a stance that you can't be pushed back.

00:30:34.760 Now you're ready to go forward.

00:30:36.640 So what we teach you is to, first of all, understand that you have the authority.

00:30:41.860 You're walking in the authority now.

00:30:43.180 You're not a victim.

00:30:44.360 You can win.

00:30:45.700 And then we teach you about the covenants that you make.

00:30:51.200 We've talked about covenants before.

00:30:53.140 Because everything, as I said, everything is about words, but they're also about covenants.

00:30:57.160 God does everything legally.

00:31:01.020 And everything is subject to God's legal structure, including the spiritual realm, including us, including himself.

00:31:08.940 God cannot violate his own laws or he will be unjust, and God can't be unjust.

00:31:12.540 And we get into these covenants.

00:31:14.320 And a covenant, our words spoken over you are that you speak over yourself, that you come into agreement with.

00:31:20.500 And those words give, those covenants give authority to the spiritual realm for good and evil to work through your life.

00:31:26.640 So if you make a negative covenant, if you say, oh, nothing ever works out for me, or if you say whatever the negative thing is you are saying and you get into agreement with it, or if someone says something over your life when you're a kid, when they say, you know what, you'll never live up to your potential, you'll never be worth anything, and you agree with it, now that's a covenant, and now the spiritual enemy can come into your life and make sure that nothing ever works out for you, so forth and so on.

00:31:49.820 And so we teach you how to overcome those covenants, how to break them.

00:31:54.540 And then once you break those covenants, then we switch over.

00:31:58.440 And then this is a good segue into what John does, because you can do that in the spiritual realm.

00:32:02.320 We give you the tools, how to walk in the armor of God, how to break the covenants.

00:32:07.500 But that's the external.

00:32:09.080 Then you've got to work on the internal, who you are in your mind.

00:32:12.040 That's the thing.

00:32:12.700 It's like when we're dealing with these spiritual aspects or principles, it's very abstract because we're physical.

00:32:19.820 we're here so yeah you do need that that other it's stuff that we've been told our whole lives

00:32:24.480 by my mom will tell me this and that and it's like great how do i do it yeah because it's not

00:32:29.220 like a button i can press or an action i can do this something else that a mechanism that i don't

00:32:33.880 know how to use yeah yeah and the thing is no one teaches that and what tends to happen is people

00:32:39.620 who are experiencing that and who are who are very spiritual really they'd be modern day prophets

00:32:45.280 if you think about it like the prophets back then are seeing you were talking about dreams and

00:32:49.660 I always say to the brain, a vision is the same thing as a dream.

00:32:53.600 To your brain, it's the exact same thing.

00:32:55.580 So people, I've encountered a lot of people who either have tried to kill themselves

00:32:59.980 because they were seeing this stuff and they can't deal with it and no one's helped them,

00:33:04.500 or they just don't tell anybody, and then they just suffer.

00:33:07.880 And now they have a way to learn this.

00:33:09.740 So that's how, like, these people have come in.

00:33:11.980 What I do, though, is rather than, like, give you a bunch of things to work on to make you better,

00:33:17.980 I help you understand who you are and we step into that. It's a dissolved thing. If you understand

00:33:23.440 who you are and you understand how your brain actually works, now you're given the tools. Now

00:33:27.860 you're given the manual and now you can, you're not worried about patching holes and falling in

00:33:33.100 holes. You're worried about going up on a mountain, you know, in your uniqueness. So that's what we

00:33:37.600 really do the first three months is to really understand who you are and what it looks like,

00:33:41.560 that transformation. Who did God create you to be and how'd you get so far away from that? Let's

00:33:46.320 bring that back out. Let's, you know, dust the side off and just start going towards that. So

00:33:52.040 that's what happens the first three months is people start acting more like who they are.

00:33:55.360 And then people start to end up acting that way in their marriages. Marriage is a real good

00:34:00.120 cheat code. Cause if, if you got them, cause everything's in agreement and with covenants

00:34:04.980 and stuff. So if you've got a marriage that's really tight and you're both in agreement,

00:34:09.060 you can start praying for all sorts of stuff. Yeah. We do a lot of agreements. Like you do

00:34:13.080 the dishes and i'll stop hitting you it works out really well i don't know your wife looked a little

00:34:19.860 well i got a sink full of dishes sometimes agreements get violated you know it's like

00:34:27.260 crazy um you know you were saying before we we passed the ball i just wanted to touch on this

00:34:32.060 too i've expressed to you um on the show before that i if i'm feeling under the weather i will

00:34:38.880 use specific language and i kind of tread carefully i'll say things like if i if anybody 0.89

00:34:44.060 says things like ain't shit it ain't shit well if somebody like my wife will notice because she's 0.94

00:34:48.560 you know wives are always worried about if you're all right and she'll say you know you look a 0.98

00:34:53.040 little bit this or you seem a little bit and i go i'm coming out of it i was i had if i have to

00:34:58.260 admit it i'll go yeah i had something but i'm coming out of it i'm on the tail end of it now

00:35:01.560 always speak as if it's in the past but not just with sickness like i i i cringe you know internally

00:35:09.680 when i hear people and we've all met these people where nothing seems to go their way

00:35:15.960 and they're constantly telling you that everything is always going wrong this never works out

00:35:21.920 something is oh and then of course if they really get dramatic they'll shake their fist at god

00:35:25.500 because it must be god who is pitted against them and if you walk around with this idea that

00:35:31.460 nothing ever works out nothing's ever going to work out dog like that's how that's going to go

00:35:36.220 so there it works across the spectrum of things health uh you know circumstances in your life

00:35:42.300 relationships all sorts of things in fact one one more that i'll toss in there is the spouse who is

00:35:48.880 always um suspicious that their significant other is cheating to the extent that they actually

00:35:54.660 seemingly manifest that thing to use a new age terminology because the pressures and the stresses

00:36:02.020 that that idea is putting on your relationship will actually cause the very thing that you're

00:36:06.720 afraid of so i call that negative faith and i deal with that in this first because if you think what

00:36:13.120 faith is it's believing without seeing that's a substance right right but it what it really means

00:36:18.160 and again i tell deal this in modern god is it's believing in something you can't see either because

00:36:23.100 it's invisible or it hasn't happened yet. And then five verses later, it literally says,

00:36:28.120 you can't, you know, please God without believing he exists. He can't see. And a rewarder of those

00:36:32.660 who diligently seek him, something that hasn't happened yet. So the thing is, is these people

00:36:36.700 have so much faith that something bad's going to happen that hasn't happened yet. And so what I do

00:36:42.460 is I say to these people, that's what you have faith, but in the wrong thing. Now, can you have

00:36:49.440 that level of faith. Because when I talk about faith, which is a key to healings and all this

00:36:53.860 stuff, people are like, well, I don't know what that feels like. I'm like, oh, you're the first

00:36:58.860 person who knows what it feels like. Because all that negative faith you have, that's what faith

00:37:04.040 really feels like. Now just flip it. There's a Bible study that happens back here weekly. And

00:37:09.520 one day they have this dry erase board. It's hidden behind these curtains right now. But

00:37:12.400 I left this show to go to the bathroom, as I do often. And there's this dry erase board. I passed

00:37:17.740 by it it's got this quote that is a banger and i'll never forget it we should steal it and put 0.63

00:37:22.480 it on a t-shirt it says uh fear is faith in evil i said damn what a way to simplify that you know

00:37:30.380 if you can if you can take a thing a concept that is otherwise convoluted or at least can seem

00:37:35.660 convoluted and reduce it into its simplest form it's always a good move that was that right faith

00:37:42.380 fear is faith in evil like yeah you're right yeah you have a lot of faith yeah in the wrong

00:37:47.160 direction in evil i mean you know to put it dramatically but accurately but it's and maybe

00:37:52.080 it's a good thing that they they've experienced that they just need to be explained to them like

00:37:56.460 a witch would have a very easy time uh converting into christianity and understanding the principles

00:38:02.300 of it and really embracing it quickly because they've already embraced they understand the 0.89

00:38:06.920 spirituality of that side yeah yeah so come in on the other side of it you know it's just they

00:38:11.000 have to know that they're doing it and here's the thing that is also unique to our class because we

00:38:15.620 teach it both ways with the doctrine and the mind and brain, because that covenant that you make

00:38:22.700 with fear, and this is something that, you know, I struggled with, and it was passed down to me

00:38:28.520 from my family, my mom, my grandma, my ancestors, and we're going to talk about generational curses

00:38:34.620 in part three. We'll touch on that today. But when you get into agreement with that, because you hear

00:38:40.580 someone speak fear and you embrace it and you break that covenant well you also have to deal

00:38:46.580 with your unconscious mind because it's manifesting not just because of what the the spiritual enemies

00:38:52.340 are doing because you've given that legal right now they can bring that forth in your life but

00:38:55.660 you're also doing it yourself because your unconscious mind which is what john teaches

00:38:58.800 your unconscious mind is is 90 of your brain it's nine times bigger than your conscious

00:39:02.720 and it it's it's your greatest ally in a sense in that it's going to it's going to follow the

00:39:08.660 patterns you set for it. It's just going to do what you tell it to do. So if your pattern is,

00:39:12.360 I'm never going to be about anything. I'm about, I'm about nothing. I'm no one. I'm nothing. I'm

00:39:16.380 worthless. Oh, your unconscious brain listens and says, Oh, okay. That's what you want. That's 0.99

00:39:20.280 what you'll be. Okay. That's what we are. Right. So that's what you, so now you have two enemies

00:39:24.520 working against you. You have the spiritual enemies and now you have your own unconscious

00:39:28.960 mind working against you. But again, if you do the opposite, break that covenant, and then you

00:39:33.540 also have to break the patterns in your unconscious. That's a part of it as well.

00:39:36.680 This is something that I really enjoyed from – what's his name?

00:39:43.680 Who talks about being the dominant lobster?

00:39:46.340 Jordan Peterson.

00:39:47.240 Jordan Peterson, before he was killed and replaced with Shasha Baron Cohen.

00:39:51.240 He had this –

00:39:52.120 That's actually true.

00:39:52.760 He had this idea that he expressed in the book about the way that you would train the subconscious mind.

00:39:59.020 And he uses the example of agoraphobia, right, the fear of going outdoors.

00:40:02.860 And he says it starts as this small thing.

00:40:04.540 you have let's say a woman who has a negative interaction at a large event let's call it like

00:40:09.900 a concert or something like that and because there's so many people when it's so um high

00:40:14.180 energy she experiences something akin to a panic attack or an anxiety attack and so what then

00:40:19.960 happens is the next time an opportunity arises to go to something like that she declines and the

00:40:24.720 subconscious mind goes okay so things that look like that we say no to and then what happens is

00:40:29.680 it trickles down and instead of being a concert or something like that pick another large scale

00:40:34.400 venue that's not quite as big, maybe just a busy mall on a Saturday where shopping centers can be

00:40:38.720 a little hectic. It reminds her too much of that experience. And so she opts out of that and the

00:40:43.880 subconscious mind goes, okie dokie. And eventually that trickles down to, you know, high pressure

00:40:49.760 traffic situations where there's so many people and there's so many, so much noise. She opts out

00:40:54.400 of that. Now she doesn't go places on certain days of the week because there's too much traffic.

00:40:58.020 She also doesn't go to places where there's too many people because it's too anxiety inducing. 0.63

00:41:01.920 And eventually it leads to full-blown agoraphobia.

00:41:05.140 What's fascinating about that is the spiritual implications of consent.

00:41:09.620 You've consented almost outright to this condition being imposed upon you because you were given an opportunity.

00:41:17.020 Will you go to this thing?

00:41:18.280 And you say no.

00:41:19.360 And you don't realize all the baggage that comes with that.

00:41:22.100 So you've now consented to a litany of different fine print that says, okay, yeah, you weren't going to go to the show,

00:41:28.320 but you're also not going to go to the supermarket on 5 o'clock on a Thursday

00:41:32.440 when everybody's out of work.

00:41:33.460 There's other ways to get there, too.

00:41:34.880 You reminded me of boxers, UFC fighters.

00:41:38.860 These guys, you ever heard someone has a really good chin?

00:41:42.480 Chuck Liddell, the Iceman Chuck Liddell, great chin.

00:41:45.600 Used to stand in there, and he'll knock you out because he can take your punch.

00:41:49.080 He got hit one time by Rashad Evans.

00:41:51.940 Boom.

00:41:52.240 I mean, he hit him with a haymaker from hell just on the right spot,

00:41:56.500 right on the tip of the chin and turned him off after that chuck liddell was easy to knock out

00:42:02.220 his last fight he came back with uh to fight tito ortiz and he jabbed him and he yeah because what

00:42:08.140 happened there effectively is that his brain when you get hit on the chin your brain has a choice

00:42:13.180 and the choice is either to sustain damage or turn off and one yeah once that fighter loses

00:42:19.300 that chin or that iron chin it's just your brain learning it's like anything that resembles that

00:42:24.120 Yeah, you get touched, we're shutting down.

00:42:26.300 And that's what happens.

00:42:27.400 You'll see fighters lose that.

00:42:28.660 But that's not a conscious choice.

00:42:31.440 It's more like we're doing that to you.

00:42:32.880 It is an example.

00:42:33.580 Yeah, and this is what I help people with in my coaching is that your conscious brain,

00:42:37.640 it says 10%, your unconscious is 90%, and you are teaching your unconscious consciously,

00:42:44.040 but you don't realize it.

00:42:45.520 And then your unconscious makes you miserable if you don't do the thing and makes you feel settled if you do it,

00:42:51.420 which is addiction.

00:42:52.040 And so we help a lot of people break addictions, which is which is that third, you know, special situation.

00:42:58.380 That mechanism is actually incredibly useful, though, because I've had it in my life where that thing will my my mind will tear me apart if I don't do a thing.

00:43:08.260 And that thing specifically is if there's fear around it.

00:43:11.340 So throughout my life, there's been a lot of things that I aspired to do, but were kind of scary.

00:43:17.420 You know, martial arts being one of them.

00:43:19.140 and uh i would actually feel terrible and then go towards that thing because i don't want like

00:43:24.640 my uh unconscious mind or subconscious mind that internal narrator nagging me for not doing this

00:43:30.980 thing because of the fear associated with it would actually drive me to it because typically on the

00:43:36.120 other side of you know if it's not a damaging drug uses or something like that typically there is

00:43:41.840 great growth on the other side of anxiety inducing endeavors right and handling internal tension i

00:43:47.980 call that tension. So what you're trying to do is, is deal with the tension. So this, the real

00:43:53.940 thing I tell people is your brain is made to be addicted to something. You, you learn to tie your

00:44:00.860 shoes and then everything in your brain is, is making you learn it so you don't have to think

00:44:07.240 about it. So you don't get rid of an addiction. You have to replace it. That's, and that's how

00:44:13.000 I help people just get rid of these addictions right away is because I understand how the mind

00:44:17.020 and brain works

00:44:17.540 and I understand

00:44:18.040 how they can talk to it

00:44:19.440 and then I understand

00:44:20.380 how they can replace it.

00:44:21.620 But that's what people

00:44:22.420 don't realize

00:44:22.860 is they're forming

00:44:23.500 their own addictions

00:44:24.320 and then they don't want

00:44:26.160 to be addicted to anything.

00:44:27.260 It's a habit.

00:44:28.160 When addiction's good,

00:44:29.080 we call it a habit.

00:44:29.960 Yeah.

00:44:30.160 Good habit is bad.

00:44:31.600 So it's not inherently bad.

00:44:33.240 No.

00:44:33.720 No, right.

00:44:34.120 It's actually miraculous

00:44:35.300 that that mechanism

00:44:36.100 exists within us.

00:44:36.940 It's just how to use it

00:44:38.060 to our advantage.

00:44:38.880 Exactly.

00:44:39.460 I always say that

00:44:39.960 an addiction

00:44:40.600 is an inappropriate response

00:44:42.080 to an appropriate

00:44:43.260 need or desire.

00:44:45.140 That's really

00:44:46.020 what it is and it's unique to you and it's well this is a good time to get into strongholds

00:44:51.820 which was another thing that we talk about in in defense so a stronghold a definition of it's the

00:44:58.040 same as as in a physical war situation a stronghold is where the enemy keeps their weapons

00:45:02.740 and in our strongholds are a place where the enemy keeps their best weapons against us because

00:45:09.420 no matter how well you're doing no matter how much progress you've made if you don't take care

00:45:14.060 your strongholds the enemy knows i can always go there and and and make them fall and you and we

00:45:20.540 all fall usually in three areas and those are our strongholds those are the areas that we always

00:45:27.020 fall on and we teach you how to identify your strongholds because they're unique to you and

00:45:31.420 that's why we spend so much time in the first three months helping you understand who you are

00:45:35.340 uniquely because the enemy is not going to give you a blanket attack he's going to attack they

00:45:40.380 They are going to attack you in the unique ways that you are vulnerable.

00:45:44.720 We talked about mine, traffic.

00:45:46.540 Yeah, yeah.

00:45:47.160 But my response to traffic, because I lose it in traffic when someone cuts me off or anything like that,

00:45:52.580 and I drive like a maniac. 0.98

00:45:55.140 But I had to look at where that came from because it's not some person I don't know being a jerk on the road. 0.99

00:46:01.380 Living in California. 0.98

00:46:02.340 Yeah, it was easy to figure out.

00:46:05.460 What?

00:46:05.540 Yeah. But it traces all the way back to the initial spiritual attack that was put, that was aligned against me, or not aligned against me, or that I suffered when I was a child, when my parents were divorced when I was two years old.

00:46:19.040 Sure.

00:46:19.320 And the enemy was right there telling me, it's your fault. It's because you're worthless. I'm two years old. I had nothing to do with my parents' issues. They had nothing to do with me, but I believed it, made that covenant with it. 1.00

00:46:30.660 And so we talk about fight, flight, or flee.

00:46:34.960 Those are your—freeze, excuse me.

00:46:37.260 Freeze, yeah, yeah.

00:46:37.940 Yeah, fight, flight, or freeze.

00:46:38.920 That's one that was, like, neglected in the conversation for a long time, that freeze element, which is, like, actually probably more common, I would think, especially in—I've seen that most commonly in physical altercations where an individual will just allow a thing to happen to them, and there's no response, and there's no fleeing.

00:46:56.920 There's just taking it.

00:46:57.660 So I teach that in the schools because what's happening is a fight and a flight are both happening, amygdala.

00:47:03.580 And so what I teach teachers to do is don't turn your back because one of those is going to lessen and the other one will take over.

00:47:09.880 Because these teachers, the kid freezes, the teacher turns around and gets hit with a chair.

00:47:13.760 Yeah, yeah.

00:47:14.640 Or the teacher turns around and the kid's gone.

00:47:16.220 Yeah.

00:47:16.640 And so that's why I teach everybody, when you see a freeze, wait for the fight or the flight.

00:47:21.100 One of those is going to take over and the other one falls away.

00:47:24.000 But the brain's getting both.

00:47:25.260 Right.

00:47:25.360 So when I feel that, the rejection, when I feel that worthlessness, I get fight.

00:47:32.260 So that's why I get angry and start going into road rage.

00:47:35.720 But then there are other areas where if I'm not feeling like I'm worthy or something like that, then that's flight.

00:47:43.840 And with flight, for me, it's hiding.

00:47:45.720 When I feel rejected, that's what I hear is like, you know what, no one wants you.

00:47:52.160 You have to go be someone else.

00:47:53.940 No, of course, if I'm in a situation, a social situation, I can't hide physically, but I can hide mentally.

00:47:59.340 So you fight, you start punching.

00:48:02.800 I can stop being Ed Mabry, the perceiver teacher who likes bringing tension and likes pointing out where people are wrong.

00:48:10.120 That's what I do.

00:48:10.980 I point out flaws.

00:48:13.000 Okay.

00:48:13.860 But my point isn't to be negative, even though I'm seen that way.

00:48:17.560 When I point out a flaw, I want you to be more right.

00:48:19.720 I'm trying to make you righteous.

00:48:21.000 I'm saying, you know what, you're wrong there.

00:48:22.360 Let's handle that so he can be right.

00:48:24.700 But that brings a lot of tension.

00:48:26.520 And growing up, I would be rejected for that because I would be called negative.

00:48:30.940 Ed's always bringing out the wrong.

00:48:32.720 He's bringing out the wrong.

00:48:33.560 He's always bringing out the negative and saying, well, I'm rejected.

00:48:36.200 I need to flee.

00:48:37.120 I'm going to hide.

00:48:37.580 I'm going to stop being that guy.

00:48:39.400 I'm going to just be the happy-go-lucky guy.

00:48:42.720 So that was me hiding.

00:48:44.280 But that's a spiritual attack.

00:48:46.380 But that wasn't me.

00:48:47.160 And I'd be miserable because people would say, Ed's such a friendly guy.

00:48:49.640 I'm like, no, I'm not. 1.00

00:48:50.240 I'm a jerk. 1.00

00:48:50.780 You know, I'd like being a jerk. But, you know, I'm hiding. 1.00

00:48:53.900 One of the things you're highlighting here is like the amount of vulnerability it takes to engage in this spiritual warfare the correct way.

00:49:00.720 And it's it's a strange arena, one that I'm a little bit hesitant to go into because of the way that like Western culture has taken vulnerability and used it to prop up victimhood culture.

00:49:12.720 but what strikes me as significant is the victimhood culture is the aspect where all

00:49:18.600 you've done is the first step step of highlighting your vulnerabilities you've not taken any further

00:49:23.320 steps right well because i'm the same way like i'll see a problem and i'll point it out yeah 0.83

00:49:28.520 you're a perceiver she knows and then but i don't see it to point it out to be like that sucks 0.96

00:49:32.940 let's live in that i i pointed i'm like let's fix that shit yeah and but that's the next step 0.99

00:49:38.320 That's step two, right, right. 0.98

00:49:40.060 People just go, I experienced this when I was younger.

00:49:43.120 This thing happened to me, so therefore have some sensitivity or bend yourself to accommodate me.

00:49:48.900 So let's talk about this because this is one of the first things I learned from John when he and I started hanging out.

00:49:53.820 And he teaches – we teach this in the course is that we are all – we all fall upon this spectrum of what's called intangible drivers.

00:50:03.700 We've talked about that on the show before.

00:50:05.420 Romans 12.

00:50:06.400 Romans 12, yes.

00:50:07.060 Yeah, so it's, yeah, John took Romans 12, and he put it into this way.

00:50:12.240 It's not that people falsely receive as a personality test.

00:50:15.680 No, it's telling you who you are without, regardless of your context.

00:50:18.620 So there's a perceiver, which you and I, perceivers, we want people to see what we see.

00:50:22.240 Then you have teachers.

00:50:23.540 Teachers want you to understand.

00:50:25.720 They have compassion.

00:50:26.820 They want you, compassion people want to bear your pain as you grow.

00:50:30.540 Givers, they want to give you something tangible or improve something.

00:50:33.740 Then you have servers.

00:50:34.600 They want to meet a need.

00:50:36.420 Administrators, they want to help a group reach their goal.

00:50:39.200 They're going to tell you what to do.

00:50:40.580 Then you have exhorters.

00:50:41.440 They're the cheerleaders.

00:50:42.160 They want you to feel what they feel.

00:50:43.580 They want you to be excited for the future.

00:50:44.960 Now, if you look at that, if you go through all those steps, that's how you get to righteousness.

00:50:48.660 But you have to start perceiver.

00:50:50.520 We're going to show you where you're wrong.

00:50:51.820 You got to know where you're wrong first.

00:50:53.640 Then the second thing, then a teacher will say, okay, we know why we're wrong.

00:50:57.220 Let's understand the origin of this.

00:50:59.780 Then the compassion person says, let me bear the pain of that.

00:51:02.580 Let's bear the pain of you being wrong and understanding it.

00:51:05.420 Then the giver says, great, let's improve it.

00:51:07.240 Let me give you something that's going to improve it.

00:51:09.100 Then the server says, let's work on that need that that that that that wrong thing was was all about.

00:51:13.940 Let's work on that need.

00:51:15.060 Then the administrator says, here's what we're going to do.

00:51:18.380 You do this.

00:51:19.000 You do that to get to the goal.

00:51:20.320 And then once you get to the goal, the exhorters, the cheerleaders are like, yes, let's move forward.

00:51:24.180 We've gotten the problem taken care of.

00:51:26.380 Let's move it forward.

00:51:27.280 This is actually all of that.

00:51:28.880 The next guy going, there's another problem.

00:51:30.720 Exactly.

00:51:31.160 But you have to go through all that.

00:51:32.640 But everyone loves the exhorters.

00:51:34.440 They're the cheerleaders. 0.97

00:51:35.200 Oh, yeah.

00:51:35.760 Everyone hates the perceivers because all they see is you're pointing out the problem.

00:51:38.660 That's like an influencer, right?

00:51:40.040 That's on Instagram, like, wake up early, get after it.

00:51:42.280 It sounds like...

00:51:43.360 But Top, you and I, without us, there can be no righteousness because you'll never know what's wrong.

00:51:47.580 Have you ever seen that movie, Christina?

00:51:49.340 What's the name of that one?

00:51:50.160 It's a kid's movie where they're all at the control panel.

00:51:52.780 Is that...

00:51:53.320 Oh, about the emotions.

00:51:55.540 Yeah.

00:51:56.580 Oh, yeah, Inside Out.

00:51:57.660 Inside Out.

00:51:58.060 Yeah, it's sort of like that.

00:51:59.560 They don't want sadness, but sadness is a necessary aspect, and they don't want the...

00:52:04.500 All these things kind of are working together to create this whole person.

00:52:08.480 The thing is with the perceivers, I'm married to a perceiver, and the thing is that if they point something out and you try to argue with them, they will not hear you until you say, I see that.

00:52:20.200 Then you can move on.

00:52:21.520 So I teach perceivers how to share who they are so they can change their context.

00:52:29.260 The thing with Ed and I is I'm an administrator teacher.

00:52:32.640 I'm this big picture wanting to do models, and I make these models,

00:52:36.840 and then I talk with Ed the first couple of talks, and he's like,

00:52:39.940 well, you know, here's the thing.

00:52:41.480 This is the problem with your model, this thing here and this thing there,

00:52:44.840 and I'm like, thank you.

00:52:46.420 And he's like, I didn't mean to.

00:52:48.700 No, thank you.

00:52:49.660 So we had a good situation where it was naturally I'm drawing more of him out.

00:52:55.220 I'm like, Ed, be more like this.

00:52:57.160 Give me more of this.

00:52:58.240 I can't really have a model that goes anywhere if I don't have somebody like you

00:53:02.140 you know pushing on that yeah versus some people may not appreciate that i can still teach them

00:53:08.520 how to not you know shut ed down so that's what we're trying to do is help people draw that out

00:53:14.180 but for us naturally it's like when we when we met it was a while for ed to realize you're really

00:53:19.760 not mad at me i'm like i love this yeah i absolutely love this yeah you need it what's

00:53:24.900 so which one is the one that does like a problem solution the best problem solvers in the world are

00:53:31.780 what's called server teacher the the first one is the why it's the effect you want to have on other

00:53:36.020 people the second is the thing you do so these server teachers they see all the way around the

00:53:41.020 problem and then they can explain it and so the those are the best problems i've had this issue

00:53:45.900 uh where i it took me a long time to learn this but my wife would come to me with my wife 0.99

00:53:51.800 would come to me with you know whatever she had that was going on that was bumming her out or

00:53:57.660 you know upsetting her and i was unable to do the thing that she was looking for which is actually

00:54:04.540 just like listen instead what i was doing is like well why don't you do this or why don't you do

00:54:09.780 that and she doesn't want that yeah she doesn't want the solutions necessarily which now i

00:54:13.340 understand the value in in you know what she was actually looking for which was more or less um

00:54:19.280 a place to unload this stress and instead i was like well have you considered maybe what you

00:54:26.260 should be doing is this and it took a long eventually she was like i don't i'm not looking

00:54:30.200 for solutions i'm just looking for you to shut the hell up and listen and i was like oh okay 0.84

00:54:35.000 the thing i think we talked about this one time but women can have up to five thoughts at the 0.73

00:54:39.520 same time that's right we have men can only have one thought at the same time until we deal with

00:54:44.460 that one so what happens is when a woman has six thoughts she crashes so what i tell married

00:54:50.240 couples is, is, and I tell guys, is 10 to 15 minutes every day, basically ask your wife what 0.78

00:54:57.300 she's thinking about. Don't say this. No, you should, this will help both of you. So she knows

00:55:02.240 to do this. She'll talk about it. Don't tell her how to fix it. Don't tell her what to do. Let her

00:55:08.440 talk. She'll file it away. Do that two more times. And if you keep her below five thoughts, she's

00:55:14.840 never going to crash again. And so what I say to the guys is, so if your wife crashes, whose fault

00:55:19.200 is it? It's your fault. It's our fault. We should know if we understand how to do that. We're kind

00:55:27.060 of the mechanics because we only have one thought. They're amazing. Yeah. And the creativity and

00:55:32.020 everything. And we're supposed to be husbanding them. They're the husbandry. And we're supposed

00:55:36.620 to be making them more profitable. And the whole goal is, is if you constantly grow her, then you

00:55:42.080 never get used to her. Then you never get tired of having sex with the same woman. Ah. All right. 0.97

00:55:48.620 Yeah, look at that.

00:55:49.720 Check that out.

00:55:50.820 Jot that one down, audience.

00:55:53.080 Threw that in for free.

00:55:54.160 Yes.

00:55:54.860 So once you know your uniqueness and then you know uniquely where you're falling.

00:56:00.480 And, again, it's three areas, and it's usually going to be an area where you fight, where you run, or where you freeze.

00:56:07.440 And so to me, feeling worthless, I fight.

00:56:10.600 Feeling rejection, I flee.

00:56:12.360 And then for freeze, I don't want to talk about that now because it's somebody we're going to get into later on down the road.

00:56:18.000 But I know where I freeze, too.

00:56:20.660 And then John teaches you what your triggers are because there's something that happens that triggers it.

00:56:26.220 And, again, the trigger for me, traffic.

00:56:29.000 Traffic triggers me, takes me back to when I was a baby, when I was two years old, and I feel worthless again, and I got to fight.

00:56:37.480 But John teaches you how to rehearse those triggers away so that you – and you can explain what that means more.

00:56:44.400 But once you have that rehearsed away, you've taken away that stronghold, and the enemy can't use that against you.

00:56:49.960 You mean like helpless rather than worthless, or I guess it's similar?

00:56:53.520 Similar, yeah.

00:56:54.240 When your amygdala fires, it overwhelms your brain, and then you're not aware.

00:57:00.200 You know, this is where some people, like, I could be sitting talking to you, trigger, get up, kill a person, sit back down.

00:57:06.460 My body reabsorbed adrenaline in 90 seconds, and you go, you just killed.

00:57:09.920 I go, what happened to him?

00:57:10.680 You killed him.

00:57:11.300 I don't remember it.

00:57:12.100 And it'll block it out.

00:57:13.680 So that's kind of what we do.

00:57:15.860 I did this in the school system, and these kids would have, you know, all these seclusions and restraints where they have to grab the kid or put them in a room.

00:57:22.680 We help these kids rehearse their triggers.

00:57:25.480 It's gone.

00:57:26.300 It's a wild idea how much of your response to the world is formed in childhood.

00:57:32.540 Yeah.

00:57:33.220 That's when the enemy starts to attack you.

00:57:34.720 They don't have any honor.

00:57:35.960 They don't wait until you're an adult to start attacking you.

00:57:39.200 Because remember that these entities, they're spiritual.

00:57:42.080 They're higher dimensional beings.

00:57:43.920 They have to occupy at least 11 dimensions.

00:57:46.540 How do we know that?

00:57:47.060 Because according to science, we live in 10 dimensions physically.

00:57:50.660 So that means that the spiritual realm has to be at least one more dimension or possibly more.

00:57:55.440 So they see, even when I was a child, they knew this is a perceiver teacher.

00:57:59.640 This is what he has.

00:58:00.600 This is his state.

00:58:02.740 This is where I can affect him the most.

00:58:05.480 I'm going to make, he's a perceiver.

00:58:07.080 He's going to be telling people where they are wrong.

00:58:09.560 He needs to be brave in order to do that.

00:58:12.080 needs to have resilience. I am going to make him feel rejected and worthless so that he never

00:58:18.620 becomes who he really is. Because here's the thing, when you walk in your uniqueness, you are

00:58:24.060 dangerous to the spiritual realm. And that's what we're teaching you. We are teaching you how to be

00:58:27.700 not a dangerous retard per se, but we are teaching you how to be dangerous to the spiritual realm. 1.00

00:58:33.500 And once you know who you are, your uniqueness, that's what gives you power over the spiritual 1.00

00:58:38.980 realm because you are

00:58:40.960 going, because the Holy Spirit will be flowing

00:58:42.780 through you. And that's the last

00:58:45.040 thing the enemy wants. So they don't want you to be

00:58:46.880 unique. I talk about this in my

00:58:48.860 on faithbyreason.net

00:58:51.120 I have a series on what

00:58:52.860 the purpose of human government

00:58:54.360 the purpose of human government is to make

00:58:56.720 everyone the same. 0.94

00:58:59.180 That's what a governor is. It's like

00:59:00.800 it limits. Public school

00:59:02.880 is like that. Public school, college

00:59:04.880 especially. Everyone has to think the same

00:59:07.000 way about the same thing. You're either a Republican

00:59:08.720 or a Democrat. You are this or that. That's how you're a Californian or Floridian. No,

00:59:15.360 we're all unique. But anything that the enemy can do to make you the same, you're not unique.

00:59:19.880 And once you're not unique, you're not a threat. But in your uniqueness, you are a huge threat.

00:59:24.200 And they know that when you're a child and they begin on you immediately. We have to stamp out

00:59:29.720 your uniqueness. So the attack against you is going to be to dampen your uniqueness. But we

00:59:35.400 want to bring that out and make you dangerous so the dangerous side of this is that i there are

00:59:39.840 what like seven personality types right i mean i mean when i well technically what it's 49 it's

00:59:45.720 49 but go on because you're a combination yeah the why is what is the effect you want to have

00:59:50.640 on others your how is what you do is i'm perceiver teacher i want you to see what i see i do it by

00:59:55.180 teaching you okay yeah that that's that's like that's crazy because you're dealing with a well

01:00:01.240 an eternal realm that's been around forever and there's only there's less than 50 of these pair

01:00:06.140 like pairs and patterns because as we notice archetypes like i could look at somebody

01:00:10.220 and they could tell me a little bit a little about themselves and i could extrapolate from

01:00:14.080 there i'm like this is dangerous that i'm like right on yeah with just just meeting you in a

01:00:18.640 couple of minutes yeah so yeah when you think about further drive us into like even less categories

01:00:24.200 to yeah to further drive you into less categories with an eternal spiritual realm that wants to

01:00:29.180 jam you up in every single possible way and you don't even know who you are in the grand scheme

01:00:33.980 of things is like what the hell is going on here right so the the second uh quarter is offense

01:00:41.540 and the number one offensive weapon is grace and grace is the divine influence on the heart and

01:00:46.960 it's reflection of life grace is god flowing through you we are saved by grace through faith

01:00:52.140 so when you think of these eras i guess we're saying yeah how that grace got delivered was

01:00:57.980 different in different eras god talking to adam it coming through the law now you know in the

01:01:04.460 millennium it's going to be jesus saying it now we have the holy spirit and it flows through us so

01:01:10.780 it's it's always been graced by faith well god's flowing through us flows through our uniqueness

01:01:16.620 so that's the point of modeling god modeling god shows you how to hear from god more often

01:01:21.500 and more clearly and it is by being yourself more god speaking into who you are uniquely

01:01:27.500 And if you're not there, you're not going to hear from God.

01:01:30.440 And then the thing is—

01:01:31.800 Or he's speaking to who you're predestined to be.

01:01:34.180 Who he made you to be.

01:01:35.900 Right.

01:01:36.320 So what happens is it's like an antenna.

01:01:38.400 And so people, like, they don't hear from God.

01:01:40.900 They kind of hear from God.

01:01:41.860 They hear from God clearly.

01:01:42.900 They kind of hear from God.

01:01:43.720 They don't hear from God.

01:01:44.480 Right.

01:01:44.900 And then everybody lives their life going like this through the antenna.

01:01:47.900 But when you understand who you are, you stop there and you just start hearing from God.

01:01:53.380 So that's the benefit.

01:01:54.460 That's kind of interesting because we look at the Bible and we go, God consistently uses crazy people.

01:02:00.420 And, you know, it's not necessarily that they're crazy people.

01:02:04.300 It's that maybe God could effectively communicate with them because even though the world looked at them as crazy people for a number of reasons, depending on who you're talking about, they were authentically themselves and therefore a better conduit.

01:02:18.580 Well, it's the idea of strangers and pilgrims, guys that have realized that they're just passing through,

01:02:23.680 so they're not part of the world belonging to what everybody else thinks.

01:02:27.460 They know who they are, and they don't belong here, but we are here, though.

01:02:33.660 Here's something to keep in mind.

01:02:35.280 Prophets are perceivers.

01:02:37.460 What do they do?

01:02:38.780 Prophets go around telling, here's what's wrong.

01:02:41.700 God can speak to them because God has intangible driver as well.

01:02:45.320 God's intangible driver, God is perceiver, exhorter.

01:02:48.100 Excuse me, exhorted perceiver, sorry.

01:02:50.220 First and last.

01:02:51.100 Yeah.

01:02:51.840 He is the first and the last.

01:02:54.080 A perceiver how just states facts.

01:02:57.020 He states what.

01:02:58.260 That's what God does.

01:02:59.280 Here's what's happening.

01:03:00.260 Here's what's wrong.

01:03:01.000 But God wants us to go forward.

01:03:02.720 That's why he does it.

01:03:04.420 And perceivers, they say what's wrong.

01:03:06.580 And so God can flow through prophets because prophets are perceivers.

01:03:10.440 So God, he says what's wrong, and he wants you to respond by going, that's awesome.

01:03:16.460 There was one person in the Bible who always responded to God saying what was wrong with him immediately.

01:03:23.920 No arguing, no deal-making, no bargaining.

01:03:27.880 Just instantly went, great, let's go for it.

01:03:31.500 And that was David.

01:03:32.540 And what was said about David?

01:03:34.580 He was a man after God's own heart.

01:03:37.060 Yeah.

01:03:37.860 And so what John was saying about how God speaks to you through your uniqueness.

01:03:41.700 perceiver. You know, when God speaks to me is when I tell God where he's not wrong,

01:03:46.860 but where I think he's wrong. And so did David. If you read the Psalms, we talked about this

01:03:51.000 in a previous episode. A lot of the Psalms are David saying, God, why are you so far from me?

01:03:56.440 Why aren't you helping me? God responded to him through that because that's uniquely who David

01:04:02.360 was. He was being himself. He was being himself. And so when I'm saying, God, I don't like the way

01:04:06.740 this is happening. What's going on? Why are you doing it this way? And then I start teaching and

01:04:10.280 I start commentating, and then I start getting answers, and I get the answers more when I'm

01:04:16.260 doing that, when I'm teaching, when I'm explaining, when I'm pointing out what's wrong.

01:04:22.000 God talks to me then.

01:04:22.980 He's not going to talk to me if I'm being an exhorter or if I'm being someone who I'm

01:04:27.540 not.

01:04:27.820 If I'm pretending, God can't speak to me, and that's why the enemy wants you to not

01:04:33.000 be yourself, because not only are you not going to be powerful, God won't be able to

01:04:38.940 speak to you effectively because you're being someone else that makes sense because uh when

01:04:43.260 you're so caught up in trying to be somebody else you can kind of say you know your mind is filled

01:04:49.340 with all kinds of input and all kinds of contradictions all kinds of static and noise

01:04:53.500 have you ever told dave that uh tell ed that you were trying to be like jack sparrow for oh my god

01:04:58.760 when i was a kid uh after um pirates of the caribbean came out yeah i would i had this plague

01:05:06.500 as a child because of you know all sorts of uncertainty in my life uh where i would adopt

01:05:12.840 countless and people would go like oh yeah you're influenced by media it's not uncommon for a kid to

01:05:17.400 act a certain way like no no no no i would take on entire personas um cartman was one of them for

01:05:24.020 a long time that was really bad i was a child i was like a fifth grader talking exactly like

01:05:28.420 cartman um and and jack sparrow and a number of things but you were uh talking before about

01:05:33.900 uh, being a child and, and, you know, we mentioned how kind of insane it is that so much of your,

01:05:40.200 uh, future is determined by the trauma that happens when you're a child.

01:05:44.660 And I think it's going to bring us into something we touched on before we said we were going to

01:05:47.780 talk about, which is a generational iniquity. So if, if the adversary is out to, to kick you

01:05:55.300 off your path, even in childhood, that should be in every adult's mind who, who has a child.

01:06:02.400 what sort of iniquity are you introducing to your bloodline that could give these things

01:06:08.800 stronger access to your kid in other words because if that's the name of the game if you come from a

01:06:15.440 bloodline I came from a bloodline where my grandmother was practicing new age and she was

01:06:20.000 an abductee victim and likely there were things before her that allowed access to her so when I

01:06:26.000 was a kid all sorts of things had access to me and if the name of the game is to disrupt what

01:06:31.560 that kid's going to be, then general iniquity plays a massive role in the access that they have

01:06:37.640 to do just that. Right. And that's part of the offensive spiritual warfare we were talking about.

01:06:42.780 So John was speaking about grace as one of your offensive weapons. So let's talk about what the

01:06:47.780 goal of offensive spiritual warfare is. The goal is it's not to assault Satan. You're not going to

01:06:55.060 smack Satan upside the head. He's not physical. That's what we think. We're going on attack. We're

01:06:58.520 to start doing damage well first of all jesus already did that he he already gave us we already

01:07:03.880 have the victory through him he crushed the head he crushed it it's already done so what we're doing

01:07:08.600 is we the purpose of offensive spiritual warfare is you are pushing the enemy out of your life so

01:07:13.240 step one withstand get you out of the hole get into a stance and now you're ready to go forward

01:07:18.920 now you're going to push forward you are going to start driving them back and so that's what

01:07:23.560 we do and and the first thing we teach and the first thing i teach in offense is understanding

01:07:27.800 who the enemy is, understanding their strengths and their weaknesses, that they, we're going

01:07:32.480 to get to generational curses, but I just wanted to make sure we cover this too, is they can't

01:07:38.080 repent. They are doomed, and they hate being reminded of that. The last thing they want

01:07:43.520 to hear about is, you're going to the lake of fire. That is set in stone. You have your

01:07:48.520 time here. In the pseudepigraphal book of Enoch, we learned that the demons, who are

01:07:53.780 the disembodied spirits of nephilim they they were cursed to roam the earth until that time and

01:07:59.620 that's you know that's why the um the demoniac said to jesus you know why are you here are you

01:08:04.640 here to torment us before the time yeah they know their fate yeah that if you think you have a

01:08:08.560 upcoming court case and that gives you a tremendous amount of anxiety in your personal life imagine

01:08:12.820 what it's like to be this ancient entity that's waiting for the day of judgment i mean yeah that's

01:08:18.380 got to be measures beyond what you're experiencing in uh uh what is it uh jury duty right yeah what

01:08:24.720 i one of the things i say is like if if the devil reminds you of your past remind him of his future

01:08:29.460 yeah like yeah you know i've had some past issues but guess what your future is dog yeah that's a

01:08:34.140 good way to make them flee because it's in the book of james it says submit to god that's like

01:08:39.140 hanging out with somebody that's like every few minutes they're like yo by the way you got court

01:08:42.380 coming dog it's like you know what man i know i was doing a number on you but i don't even want

01:08:46.000 to be around you anymore i gotta get out of here yeah yeah yeah submit to god resist the devil and

01:08:50.660 he will flee from he will run from you but yeah you're right if you're if you're going to if you

01:08:54.880 know you're under house arrest you're about to go to prison yeah and somebody's just coming over

01:08:58.360 reminding you that constantly yeah you want to get away yeah you want to say hey get make sure

01:09:02.140 you work out in the gym yeah so be a plague to satan yeah exactly that's offense you're pushing

01:09:06.800 him out you're making him run because you're like you know dog you know don't drop the soap it's

01:09:10.140 coming it's coming it's gonna be bad yeah yeah yeah yeah that's a great uh great way to put that

01:09:16.340 yeah but but i'll touch on generational curses and we can we can probably circle back to some

01:09:19.780 things so understand what a generational curse is it's important because if people if you think

01:09:26.140 that generational curse is like god putting something on you unilaterally because of something

01:09:31.400 an ancestor did well that seems unjust like i didn't have anything to do with this why am i

01:09:35.260 suffering from it. So what a generational curse is, let's look at the definition of curses and

01:09:40.820 blessings. They're words. Again, everything spiritual is don't the words. When you curse

01:09:45.000 someone, you're speaking something. Just like a blessing is speaking something positive,

01:09:48.440 a curse is speaking something negative. The most common type of generational curses are

01:09:53.120 negative words, covenants that have been passed down generation to generation. And your mother

01:10:00.520 or your dad says them over you and you are in agreement with them because you've seen it play

01:10:07.160 out in their lives. My mom is a great example of this. My mother and my grandmother would always

01:10:12.280 talk about money in a negative sense. We never have enough. Money is a struggle. You know, we're

01:10:17.220 all this. And they would say, and of course, it happened in their lives. They never had much.

01:10:22.620 My mother, you know, the first of our, the first generation to go to, she was part of the first

01:10:27.880 generation to go to college. You know, grandmother, grandfather didn't. They just had barely high

01:10:31.960 school education. So my mother goes to college. She gets her nursing degree. She was the head 0.99

01:10:36.660 nurse at a large hospital in L.A., making good money, but she would never have any. Why? Because

01:10:42.980 something would always happen. The roof leaks. Got to fix it. Car breaks down. Got to fix it.

01:10:47.820 Somebody would need something. She has to give the money. So even though she had money, it always 0.90

01:10:53.100 left because she was always speaking that. And she was speaking with me, and I would start

01:10:57.060 speaking the same things and i was being in agreement with it so that's part that's a type

01:11:01.780 of generational curse and we teach we're going to teach you how to break those how to go to the

01:11:05.860 courtroom that we have access to we didn't talk about council meetings but um today but one of

01:11:11.540 the things you can you have access to as a christian is you are part of the council of god

01:11:16.900 because adam and eve were a part of the council in the garden of eden eden was a garden on top

01:11:22.260 of a mountain where it was called god's holy mountain that's where they would they would be

01:11:25.780 a part of Jehovah's council meetings. And at a council meeting, you have the right and the

01:11:30.660 authority to ask questions, get answers to your questions, to commune with God, and you can get

01:11:35.340 answers about spiritual warfare. What's happening? Who's doing this? You know, what can I pray to

01:11:40.300 make this go away or to address it? But you also have access to the courtroom. Everything is done

01:11:46.280 legally. A legal contract has happened there in the past. What you can do is you can confess

01:11:52.300 those things that other people have done.

01:11:55.160 You can't repent for them because repent is something

01:11:57.120 that has to, directly, that you do.

01:11:59.840 Because repent is turning away.

01:12:01.120 But you can confess the sins of your ancestors.

01:12:04.240 Who did, perfect example

01:12:05.560 of who did this, Daniel.

01:12:07.380 In Daniel's famous prayer,

01:12:09.400 he spent most of that chapter 0.66

01:12:10.800 confessing the sins of Israel. 0.92

01:12:13.800 He didn't do those sins

01:12:14.940 that got them exiled to Babylon, 0.75

01:12:17.080 but he was confessing their sins.

01:12:19.220 And how did God respond? He sent an angel and gave him

01:12:20.980 one of the greatest prophecies in all the Bible.

01:12:23.040 So you can confess the sins of your ancestors on their behalf. 0.67

01:12:26.700 And that's how you break that covenant and break that particular type of generational curse.

01:12:31.840 And then you have to work on your unconscious and start breaking those patterns,

01:12:34.760 start doing the opposite.

01:12:35.460 For example, let's say that you, like me, have that generational curse of scarcity financially.

01:12:42.560 Break the curse and the covenant, but then you have to start doing things.

01:12:47.040 I know that one thing that people who are afraid of money do, never look at their bank account.

01:12:51.800 Start looking at your bank account.

01:12:52.780 Every morning, wake up.

01:12:54.040 It's on your app.

01:12:54.780 Look at your bank account.

01:12:56.380 Say, okay, this is fine.

01:12:57.500 This is okay.

01:12:58.140 This is growing.

01:12:59.440 Understand it's just a number, too.

01:13:00.780 It's just a number.

01:13:01.340 These are numbers.

01:13:02.040 Yeah.

01:13:02.340 Start investing.

01:13:03.540 Just invest a few dollars here or there.

01:13:05.500 You have to start breaking the pattern of being afraid of money and thinking that money is scarce or evil.

01:13:12.020 So you have to start doing those things to break the pattern of your unconscious.

01:13:14.700 By the way, I want to highlight this. Not a bot in the chat said, I think of iniquity like debt. Generational debt gets passed down until it gets paid. And that usage of the word debt and paying that debt is massively applicable when it comes to Christ.

01:13:31.620 There's one more thing, and I want you to take care of, I want you to take over and start talking about some of the generational curses stuff, too.

01:13:36.480 But there's also, you talked about bloodline.

01:13:39.180 There's some research that I've been reading that I'm not going to get too much into this because it's something that I want to talk about in the course.

01:13:45.620 Sure.

01:13:45.800 But there is some actual physiological things that happen when there's generational trauma.

01:13:53.160 Yes, yeah. I saw this article came out recently, said the psychological trauma that a father experiences can be passed down to the offspring and some personality trait or something to that effect.

01:14:01.820 But as many as, and they put a number on like the generations, and I go, it's just science catching up to the Bible.

01:14:08.260 Exactly. That kind of trauma can actually physically pass on.

01:14:12.860 And I'm going to talk about that when we get to the third quarter of the course.

01:14:16.940 But there can be a physical expression of that.

01:14:20.160 But the good news is Jesus died for that already.

01:14:23.240 Yeah, it's been paid.

01:14:24.380 That debt has been paid.

01:14:25.680 The debt has been paid.

01:14:26.520 Right, it's all unconscious, though.

01:14:28.280 That's what's happening is you're observing your parents,

01:14:31.940 and if you don't say, I don't want to do that,

01:14:34.600 because we all grow up looking at our parents going,

01:14:36.760 someday I'm going to be like that.

01:14:38.360 And if we don't say we don't want to be like that when they do different things,

01:14:41.540 our unconscious goes, I'll make sure you do that.

01:14:43.740 So when you're running automatic, it'll do that.

01:14:47.220 And then the effect of that is you'll find it in your blood.

01:14:50.380 You'll find it in your chemistry.

01:14:52.060 All that chemistry stuff is an effect of thinking.

01:14:55.020 And that's what we really pass down.

01:14:56.960 We really pass down a way of thinking and we embrace it unconsciously.

01:15:00.860 When I help women who are attracted to abusive men, I always go somewhere in your life, you dated some abusive guy.

01:15:10.140 Your friends, everybody told you he's abusive and you said out loud, no, he loves me.

01:15:14.460 And you just told your unconscious, that's who you want to juice me towards.

01:15:18.980 Your unconscious is where all your energy is.

01:15:20.920 So if you feel drained, it's your unconscious.

01:15:22.880 If you feel juiced, it's your unconscious.

01:15:25.040 And that's what we're leading.

01:15:26.520 So your unconscious picks things up.

01:15:28.840 And if you don't say stuff to it and tell it what you really want, it assumes you want everything you look at.

01:15:35.140 And then it helps you be attracted to that.

01:15:37.260 Once again, in order to even achieve that or start to steer your unconscious mind or influence it, you have to do a lot of what is the Scientology causing auditing?

01:15:45.980 But like a self audit is a great way to describe effectively what you're doing is I think even within the occult, there is this idea and maybe it's not just the occult.

01:15:55.880 So if it's a biblical principle, you know, forgive me for not knowing.

01:15:58.960 But it's this idea of like know thyself, like to understand yourself, to understand what made you the way you are is once again.

01:16:07.260 it seems to be the first step in in reorienting and then becoming the person that you're supposed

01:16:12.220 to be but there's all of this external uh that happens to us that changes that and then there's

01:16:17.420 this internal battle that augments that even further and but like not knowing yourself just

01:16:22.840 and you know you talked about the the bank account thing this idea of not looking at it that same

01:16:27.780 thing happens with you know audit within the financial sense is one thing but then this

01:16:31.880 internal audit we don't look at that either we don't want to look at the things that made us the

01:16:36.500 way that we are we don't want to look at the past because it's traumatic and and it brings up bad

01:16:41.080 memories but that that thing that tells you not to look at it because there is something whispering

01:16:45.680 to you like don't look at it turn the tv back on put your phone on right get back on twitter

01:16:50.340 whatever distraction distraction distraction will keep you from ever doing that work and that's

01:16:55.680 called stagnancy right yes yeah oh yeah yeah you can remain the exact same flawed person forever

01:17:00.260 that way and it's comfortable that's why i like the intangible driver because you never go to a

01:17:05.520 psychologist and hear him say, you know, you got awesome man syndrome. You're funny. You're,

01:17:10.880 you know, interesting. You're intelligent. Every diagnosis from a psychologist is negative.

01:17:15.800 Yeah.

01:17:16.120 And so people are really afraid of the intangible drivers, but it's who God made you to be.

01:17:20.300 Yeah.

01:17:20.600 It's a positive diagnosis. It's something you want to accentuate.

01:17:24.300 Right.

01:17:24.420 So that's how I help people right off the start.

01:17:28.500 Well, we have a lot of stuff to do today, so we have to start bringing this one in for

01:17:32.240 landing is there anything that you guys want to say as we do have tomorrow i mean tomorrow we have

01:17:35.920 an open schedule so maybe a part tomorrow's the tomorrow's friday but like that's the vip day

01:17:40.720 yeah oh we do have the we do have the morning that's right yeah maybe we'll do a part two and

01:17:45.960 we'll talk about more we'll talk more about the special situations because i think we want to

01:17:49.900 talk about addictions because that's a huge special situation yeah and and the the last

01:17:54.120 quarter is being generative and that is um duplicating what we do building that army of

01:17:59.740 people who are dangerous because of what they know now and so you go through this course then

01:18:04.780 we want you to teach five more people and so forth and so on and that builds the army and that's

01:18:09.120 that's what the last three months were about teaching you how to teach this to others one

01:18:13.880 thing i do want to say before we before we bring it in because i was reminded of the story when

01:18:17.500 john was talking about you know what he teaches to women who who get into abusive relationships

01:18:21.520 um a friend of mine he has a daughter she's she's in her early 20s now but she was when she was a

01:18:27.120 teenager you know she was getting into boys and things like that and she and a few of her friends 1.00

01:18:30.960 were hanging out and I wanted to talk to them but you know teenage girls they don't want to talk to

01:18:34.360 the old guy I'm like but I can help I want to talk to you about the kind of guy you're going

01:18:37.960 to be attracted to and so that perks them up because they were interested in guys and so 0.99

01:18:42.200 I told them because they were saying like why am I attracted to to these guys who are jerks I don't 0.99

01:18:46.700 want to be I said because you what happened the first guy you went out with was probably a bully 0.99

01:18:53.300 Why?

01:18:53.740 Because when you are a girl, a young lady, you realize how unsafe things can be.

01:19:00.360 Guys are bigger and stronger than you.

01:19:01.940 You want to be safe. 1.00

01:19:02.800 Women want to be safe. 1.00

01:19:04.260 We all want to be safe. 1.00

01:19:05.160 Women want to be physically safe.

01:19:07.160 Well, there's a guy who can protect you. 1.00

01:19:09.620 Who's going to protect you?

01:19:10.720 Oh, the biggest, toughest guy. 0.92

01:19:12.280 The biggest, toughest guy is usually either a bully or a jock.

01:19:15.660 So you're attracted to that personality. 1.00

01:19:18.760 and someone tells you when you start dating him oh he's a bully he's a jerk and i said no he's a 0.99

01:19:24.180 good man you just don't know him like i do your unconscious says oh that's what you want you do 0.99

01:19:27.640 that over and over again yeah your unconscious has built that up and so now you're only attracted 0.99

01:19:31.680 to bullies and jerks and then you wonder why why am i never attracted to a good guy why is it when i 0.98

01:19:37.120 go out with a good guy i get the ick as i guess i think that's the common term why do i get the 0.99

01:19:41.580 nice guy type of deal right because you've trained your brain that way so what do you do like john 0.99

01:19:46.700 said, you intentionally say, one, I don't want to date the jerk anymore. And then you have to 1.00

01:19:51.320 do the opposite, intentionally date the good guy. But understand that the good guy is still going

01:19:55.540 to give you the ick at first. What you have to keep doing over and over again is date the good

01:19:59.920 guy and keep saying, this is what I want. These are the things I like about him. And slowly but

01:20:04.660 surely, your unconscious is going to say, oh, this is what you like. Okay, I get it. I get it.

01:20:08.640 I believe you now. I believe you now. Because your unconscious knows when you're full of BS.

01:20:12.900 Yeah. 1.00

01:20:13.360 And if you say, I want the nice guy, but you keep going after the jerk guy, the jerk unconscious says, oh, you're full of shit. 1.00

01:20:19.380 We talk about this all the time on the show, how God will send a strong delusion to those who don't want to see the truth. 1.00

01:20:24.420 And, you know, you even tell me, like, God will give you what you want.

01:20:26.920 What do you want?

01:20:27.900 You know, do you want a relationship with the truth or do you want a relationship with lies?

01:20:31.900 And it strikes me as maybe this is the mechanism by which God achieves that.

01:20:37.540 in you like if you had a biological or psychological mechanism that god created and then used to do

01:20:43.900 just that that this might be it yeah and just to wrap up the story she's in her early 20s now she's

01:20:48.020 engaged to a very nice guy there you go because she she did it she says at first i don't even like

01:20:53.500 him but then i was around him more and my unconscious says okay this is what you want

01:20:57.200 and now she said now he's the cutest thing in the world there you go so that's that's that's how

01:21:01.020 that's like the idea of like learning to love somebody but they're actually like learning to

01:21:05.220 train themselves. Right. Exactly. Attraction can change. Yeah. We can, you know, these people go

01:21:11.040 on one date, go on not attract to them. They're missing out because your attraction can change.

01:21:15.200 It can get more or less. Yeah. All right. Well, I think this is actually hugely

01:21:20.000 kind of important for understanding yourself. Hopefully somebody in the chat. I mean, I,

01:21:26.440 a lot of this resonated with me. It makes a lot of sense. I have a very limited understanding of

01:21:30.480 like human psychology but i i do think i know people better than the average cat and all of

01:21:36.300 that made sense within that context yeah i'm looking forward to we let's do let's do the part

01:21:40.720 two run it back again um yeah i think i think it's going to be a good thing but man ed thanks

01:21:46.100 for coming down thanks for coming down john yeah yeah it's really cool to get you guys here in uh

01:21:50.500 in studio yeah um before we get out of here let's remind everybody we'll start with ed

01:21:54.720 Sure. FaithByReason.net, that's where you can find all the stuff I've been doing for over a decade.

01:22:01.820 It's where you can access the Spiritual Warfare course we've been talking about.

01:22:05.280 You can purchase it there.

01:22:06.960 You can be a part of the Tier 1 now that's still open, and you can self-direct it.

01:22:13.400 Tier 2, we've had to cut because we are almost five months in.

01:22:17.940 It would just be too much for you to catch up.

01:22:20.060 We want to make sure you're getting your money's worth.

01:22:21.500 There's 52 pages of content, by the way.

01:22:24.300 There's a lot of stuff there.

01:22:26.080 So if you become a member, you can get access to all that.

01:22:29.000 We're going to start the Tier 2 again next year when we've gone through this.

01:22:33.640 But we don't want you to spend a bunch of money and not get the full access and get everything that we – and not fully get it.

01:22:40.600 So you can do that there.

01:22:41.420 And also you can go to – my full Revelation series is there as well, 60 episodes.

01:22:46.880 You can also go to my Patreon, patreon.com slash faithbyreason.

01:22:51.760 All the new content drops there first.

01:22:53.840 Q&As, you can be a part of the Bible study there.

01:22:56.340 You're also a part of the Bible study if you enroll in the Spiritual Warfare course.

01:23:01.200 And, yeah, books.

01:23:02.660 I just dropped a new book on the Seven Letters of Seven Churches.

01:23:06.420 I call it the Jesus Code.

01:23:08.780 I think we have a box of books.

01:23:10.940 We have two boxes.

01:23:11.900 I got them up there in storage.

01:23:13.240 Perfect.

01:23:13.440 If you're going to be at Bohemian Grove, you could actually get a copy and then ask Ed to sign it right there.

01:23:18.540 I'll sign it for you, and it'll look like spiders fighting, as my wife says about my situation.

01:23:22.200 I can get all that there.

01:23:23.660 How cool is that?

01:23:24.380 All right.

01:23:25.080 And, John, where can we find your books?

01:23:27.480 Modelinggod.com.

01:23:28.480 And actually, both of these books are part of the Spiritual Warfare course.

01:23:32.180 Very cool.

01:23:32.560 So we actually go through these books.

01:23:34.140 Oh, excellent, excellent.

01:23:35.180 It's like course material.

01:23:36.420 Very cool.

01:23:37.060 Awesome, awesome, awesome.

01:23:38.060 All right, man.

01:23:38.700 Guys, thank you.

01:23:39.680 Another great episode at NDS.

01:23:40.940 I say that every time.

01:23:41.700 But it is always a great episode.

01:23:43.440 i thought so this one in person and this is a big deal guys uh we'll see you next time uh

01:23:49.800 we'll see in a couple minutes but peace

01:23:51.540 they bred with daughters of men and they will do it again

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Nephilim Death Squad - August 15, 2026

Spiritual Warfare w⧸ Ed Mabrie and John Lenhart

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