Good evening, family. I trust you all are well again tonight. God bless you abundantly, brothers and sisters.
Everyone live on Facebook, YouTube, and also tonight we are live for the first time on TikTok. So my regards to everyone that is on TikTok with me right now. I've got 26 viewers. God bless you guys, and I believe this evening will be a very informative, instructive, transformative, and I believe liberating session.
Because the Bible says that for lack of knowledge, people perish. So if people perish because of lack of knowledge, I can believe that also having knowledge has this liberating ability; you have this transformative ability in it. So we need to know a lot of things.
We are in the topic of spiritual warfare for almost one month. We dealt with the Jezebel spirit. A lot of people were blessed with that. You can see all the previous videos if you haven't watched that. If you haven't followed that, I believe it to be a blessing to you.
We also spoke about a spirit of rejection and a scene of a Jehovah, which you know falls under the door. You know, when we open the door, we cannot fight the enemy from just outside. Real spiritual warfare starts from within, starts from inside of us.
So tonight, I'm going to deal with a subject that's very dear to me and quite deep. I would love for you to have a cup of coffee, if you can, a cup of tea next to you because it might be a bit of a longer session, but very, very deeply informative, and that could change and transform your prayer life, transform the way you look at things.
As I always say, we are called to walk in victory, and these are some kinds of information that help us walk in victory. I walk in victory because this world is not only physical; it's not only natural. It's not only what you see. There is more going on in the unseen world than you are aware of.
Also, the physical realm, as we know it, is deeply influenced by the spiritual world. So today, we're going to study altars.
Like I said, I'm going to see what is an altar. You know, when you go on the internet or Facebook, mostly you will have thousands and thousands of videos talking about it, and also false prophets that we know, popular ones that we know, always talk about this thing of altars.
So I think two weeks ago, a friend of mine in front of me asked me that, so I promised to bring that topic. Thank God it falls under spiritual warfare, and here we are today talking about the subject of altars. I don't want to be in it for too long, so I just want to compact everything into that one session.
Even though, yes, I don't want to rush it also because understanding is key. We need to understand before we can apply our knowledge.
Okay, what is an altar? You know, when you come to biblical principles or biblical knowledge or biblical patterns, it is always important to know where everything started. If you get to a point sometimes when there's confusion, it is always good to go to the roots and learn about how everything started in the first place.
How did it start? How did it come to pass? How come this came to the scene, and how come altars are so central to worship? Let me tell you a story first before we continue so you can understand also the influence of altars.
Years ago, I was involved in a church back in Togo, and my pastor came with this teaching called spiritual mapping. Those tools are topics that go into deep spiritual warfare that we are not really covering during this podcast. These are things we might do during our closed Zoom sessions.
But spiritual mapping is understanding the spiritual environment of a territory. Like when you get to Paris right now, how to know what spirit is ruling in the atmosphere. Because you must know, Paul says in the book of Ephesians chapter 6, we're not fighting against flesh and blood but against principalities, authorities, and all the spirits we know control territories, nations, and continents.
So spiritual mapping is the way to get out of that state of the spirit. I'm asking you to play around in order to use this strategy, I'll say, or this exercise where you try to discern and identify which is a particular territory.
So we were doing spiritual mapping in where our church was because it's very important in terms of spiritual warfare to identify what main spirit, what is the main most important spirit that is ruling in this territory.
Yep, so I was called into prayer and given directions, and I was praying, "God, show us exactly which spirit is ruling from where the spirit is ruling." Every spirit that rules a territory always rules it from an altar, from a place of altar. I will explain only that.
Okay, they always rule a territory, a life, a family from a place of altar. So as we pray, we are praying to God, "Show us exactly which or where is the altar that is ruling that territory."
I remember we went one Friday; I can't remember the date. We went into the city, and that altar was in the middle of a busy place, a marketplace. So we could not do much. We went there but a few meters away from this altar, and we did some declarations, some proclamations, some prayers against this altar.
We were inspired by, I think, First Kings. I think 14. We're going to read that today when God sent a prophet from Judah to go and speak to Jerusalem. When he got there, instead of speaking to Jeroboam, he spoke to the altar straight.
So why was he speaking to the altar? We will talk about it today.
I really, really want you to listen properly.
So now we went there, and we prayed against that altar. When we went back to church, our church service was so full we ran out of chairs for people. We didn't have chairs.
I remember it was three of us: my pastor, one of the elders, and myself. We looked at each other’s faces, and it was like, "Oh my goodness, oh my goodness."
So this topic of altar is so powerful. You know, altar is so powerful because we remember what we did. We never did evangelism; we didn't go invite people for church and stuff. We went to a place where there's an altar ruling the territory, and we spoke over that altar.
What happened? The altar gave up the souls that it was holding captive over the years. So why was it that that day so many people came to church after that prayer?
So what does that mean? How come an altar can have so much influence on people?
So we're going to read quickly the book of First Kings, like we were reading for so long. I think we were into First Kings for some time, but today we're going to continue again, and I'll read a quick verse.
You know, in the book of—my apologies—in the book of First Kings, if you have a Bible with you, I would love for you to really follow me with that so that we can read it together.
First Kings, one second. First Kings, my apologies for that. First Kings chapter, I think, 13.
Yeah, chapter 13.
Okay, First Kings chapter 13, from verse one:
"Now behold, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the Lord while Jeroboam was standing by the altar which he had built to burn incense. The man cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord."
So the prophet was sent from Judah to Samaria, to the northern kingdom, to King Jeroboam, who had sinned, who had turned people away from God and built altars that are not of God and worshiped, you know, and through that, I would say, trapped the whole nation and deceived them into idol worship.
So God sent this prophet, this man of God, to go and confront what's going on there. So when he came now to the king, he went straight to the place of the altar, and instead of talking to the king, instead of rebuking the king for what he's doing, that we know normally prophets do—prophets, you know, are like that; they're very straightforward.
Some people will say they're rude or they're disrespectful when you come to unrighteousness, when you come to false worship. Prophets can be very wild and very, very angry, okay? Because they reflect how God is feeling at that particular time.
So this prophet comes, and instead of talking to the king, he is talking straight to the altar.
Okay, he's talking to the altar.
So the man of God cried out to the altar by the word of the Lord. You know what the instruction God gave him is to speak to the altar.
Amen.
"And there is the altar, altar that says the Lord: Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and on you shall he sacrifice the bodies of the priests of the high places who burn incense on you. A human bone shall be burned on you."
And he gave a sign the same day saying, "This is a sign which the Lord has spoken: Behold, that the altar shall be split apart, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out."
When the king heard the word of the man of God cry out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam put out his hand from the altar saying, "Seize him!"
And his hand, which he had put out against him, withered so that he was unable to pull it back to himself.
The altar also split apart, and the ashes were poured out from the altar in accordance with the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.
The king answered and said to the man of God, "Please entreat the favor of the Lord your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored to me."
So the man of God entreated the Lord, and the king's hand was restored to him and became as it was before.
Then the king said to the man of God, "Come with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward."
But the man of God said to the king, "Even if you give me half of your house, I will not go with you."
Amen.
So we see here, what I wanted to highlight here is the fact that this man of God comes and is not talking to the king, but he's talking straight to the altar.
Talking to the altar.
The altar is just an object built upon which sacrifices are made, upon which prayers are made, incense are burned. A lot of things are done.
So he's talking now to this altar. Why? Because an altar, I always say, is a place where the divine and the human meet. Humanity and divinity become one.
It is a door, it is a gate into the spiritual realm. Everywhere there's worship, everywhere there's a place where people call upon God or call upon any divinity, there's always an altar involved.
Without an altar, there is no connection with the divine. I will explain to you why we must have an altar to connect with the divine.
This was something that was established by God Himself in the first place. It was not from Satan. Satan always hijacked that because Satan wants to be worshipped also, and he kind of takes the pattern of God, whatever God established, and tries to put a fake system in place that people can follow so that people worship him.
So everything that the devil does, it's always a photocopy that's not certified. It's a non-certified copy of what God does, and he doesn't copy it well anyway.
But that's the thing: that altar is a place where a human connects with their divinity. Humans connect with whatever they're worshipping.
So something—the altar is not really what you're worshipping. The altar is a gateway to whatever you worship, only what you call upon.
Okay, so at that place of, you know, where the altar is, there's spiritual activities going on there. There's quite a lot going on there. There's a spirit that always acts through it.
So when the prophet came from Judah and was speaking to the altar, I believe he's speaking to the spirits behind that altar. He's speaking against the spiritual activity that the gate—the door is shutting, the door that was opened by Jeroboam where demonic entities were going, using to go and control the hearts of man, possess the hearts of man, manipulate the hearts of man, and corrupt all society.
So, I mean, I hope you are with me and you get what I'm saying tonight because it's quite a lot of stuff.
So then, where do altars come from in the first place?
So we see in the Bible, the first time we see an altar is in the book of Genesis. Genesis is the beginning of everything. Everything started at Genesis. Hallelujah.
So Genesis started at the beginning. Genesis chapter four, when God created Adam and Eve, we don't see Him teaching them, you know, asking them to erect an altar. He gave instructions.
I think the instruction is to work the land. And also an instruction was to eat everything, but not the fruit of knowledge of evil and good. And that is it.
And God, the Bible says God used to come and fellowship with them. But we don't see any altar activity in the Garden of Eden.
Okay, then we know what Adam and Eve did. They fell, and God kicked them out of the garden. Then they had children.
And then in chapter four, in chapter four, we see how they have children. We're going to read that quickly from verse one.
"Adam made love with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, 'With the help of the Lord, I have brought forth a man.' Later, she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain kept the soil."
"In the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the Lord."
Listen to me. He, you know, he brought the fruit of the soil as an offering to the Lord. Remember what I said earlier? We haven't seen that pattern with Adam and Eve unless it was there, but the Bible hasn't spoken about it.
But it's only with the children that we see them doing that. The first time you see an offering in the Bible is with Cain and Abel.
Okay, so here they say Cain brought the fruit of the soil as an offering to the Lord. And Abel also brought an offering, fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock.
So he brought it also to the Lord. Definitely, he was burning it on an altar. He was making a sacrifice to God.
So the Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering, the Lord did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
So my highlight, my main point is these two kids making, doing sacrifices to the Lord. And we know that biblically speaking, as we read the Bible, there's no sacrifice without an altar.
Everywhere there's a sacrifice, there's always an altar. And we'll see later, I think it's in chapter eight with Noah.
When Noah came out of the ark, when Noah came out of the ark, let me read it out quickly for you. Genesis chapter eight.
When Noah came out of the ark, he did something very, very powerful here. Let's read from this verse 15.
After God destroyed the world, you know, the world was flooded, and the water went down now. And then God said to Noah, "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the bird, the animal, all the creatures that move along the ground so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it."
Okay, He's reiterating the dominion mandate that He even gave Adam and Eve. So here we see Him giving the same instruction.
So verse 18: "So Noah came out together with his sons and his wife and sons' wives, all the animals, all the creatures that move along the ground, all the birds, everything that moves, everything that moves on the ground and all the birds, everything that moves in the land came out of the ark, one kind after another."
Verse 20: "Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, taking some of the clean animals and clean birds he sacrificed."
So here we see the Bible was clear about Noah building an altar.
So where did Noah get this from? It's not just an inspiration where you just wake up and do that. No, definitely, it was a practice. It was a practice that we saw started with Cain and Abel.
But I don't believe Cain and Abel are the ones that took it. Okay, definitely, their parents taught them also.
It's their parents that taught them that. So it means Adam and Eve also did it, even though the Bible doesn't mention it.
But I'm just assuming that these kids cannot just do that on their own just like that. They were taught by their parents to do sacrifices.
So when they sacrifice, there's always an altar. Altar is involved. Sacrifices are made in the place of altar.
It's wood that you cut with a structure, and you lay it, put fire underneath, and you burn it, and it goes to the Lord.
So without sacrifice, there's no altar. And without altar, there's nothing.
No sacrifice.
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But please feel free to put your comment there. Feel free to, you know, to put your question. If you have any questions, make sure you write it down there.
And it will be my pleasure and my joy to answer you. Amen. Amen. Amen.
I'm getting some comments on TikTok. I mean, I understand about altar. Altar, where exactly should the altar be?
Okay. Yeah, I will answer that now as we continue.
I mean, I think that's a mellow process.
Okay. So now we're talking about how altars started.
So now we see God give instruction. I mean, definitely God taught them how to start these activities, this kind of lifestyle where you come when you worship God, you come to an altar and you give a sacrifice.
So when there is no sacrifice in your life, there is no worship. The centrality, the main component of worship is sacrifice.
And we'll explain that as we continue how sacrifice came into being.
Okay, so because there was no altar in the garden and Adam and Eve have, you know, that things that we see them with their children when they were out of the garden already, and they were out of the garden because of what?
Because of sin. Because of sin.
And we know that when the son, they realized they were naked. And the Bible says God took an animal, killed it, and covered them with the skin of the animal when He took them. He kicked them out of the garden.
So now when they went out of the garden, now they were—since they were now also corrupted, but it was sin now in their nature, sin now through their DNA.
So coming before God, you cannot come before God with sin.
And so the altar—the system was a temporary system that God put in place where our sins are atoned for so that we can connect, we can commune with God.
So in the Old Testament, we have the structure of the altar that was a point of contact, a point of communication between humans and God.
In the New Testament, we have that fulfilled on the cross. Actually, the cross was the main, was the ultimate altar.
So every altar that they have in the Old Testament before was a shadow of the cross because what happened on the cross when Jesus died, that was the ultimate altar and the ultimate sacrifice on the cross.
So in this New Testament, we don't need an altar. We don't need a wooden structure where we sacrifice animals.
We don't have to give an offering anymore for us to atone for our sins. But yes, the nature of sacrifice, still the nature of generosity and giving is still there, but we're going to get there as we continue.
I don't want to jump the gun here.
So the cross was the ultimate altar, the ultimate, the final altar where the matter of sin, the subject of sin has been dealt with forever.
Whatever divides us from God, whatever takes us away from the presence of God, whatever doesn't allow us to enjoy and fellowship with God, that has been dealt with once for all.
But with the system of altar, it has to be done all the time, all the time, all the time.
So we see that now with Adam and Eve, with Cain, where they have this altar system, where they bring their sacrifice every time they don't go, they gave something, they receive whatever they call, whatever they harvest from their labor, they come and bring it to the altar and burn it.
That's why they offer it to the Lord because when they say they offer it to the Lord, the Lord doesn't come with a truck or something. They call it whatever they know.
When you give it to the Lord, it's something that is destroyed completely.
That's why whatever you bring to the altar, it's something that's destroyed completely. It's not something you still look upon.
It's not something you still check if it's there. So check if—no, no, it's something when you bring it there, you have to be burned completely with fire.
As it's burned and prayers are made to the Lord, the Lord receives them, and it has to be done the way God wanted because that's why with Cain and Abel, you can see the way they were doing it.
Abel was doing it properly, but Cain was not following the blueprint because every divinity, every spirit always gives the blueprint of how sacrifice needs to be made for them, you know, and with starting with God.
And we saw even with the devil, the devil took hijack, I'll say, and just stole that principle.
He also came with his own demand. That's why when you see whatever people are sacrificing, you can tell which spirit is behind it because every spirit is defined or is identified through what is being sacrificed to them.
So when we bring things in—all this, and when things were brought into the altar, it was a sign of obedience.
It was an act of obedience, and obedient children of God, obedient worshipers of the Most High have to come and make sacrifices for the Lord.
So it's a sign, it's an act of obedience, it's an act of surrender.
Okay, it's an act of surrender, and it's an act of submission so that you are declaring or you are saying through that act of bringing something to the altar to be sacrificed to the Lord, you are saying, "I'm submitting to the Lord. I'm depending on God. I'm depending on my God. My life doesn't belong to me. This is the divinity I belong to. And also this is what I worship."
So whatever you worship, you're always going to come. You're always going to bring stuff to the altar for this to be sacrificed in the context of the Old Testament.
I'm saying, "Amen."
So we see that with Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and then we see that we just read now from Noah when he came out of the ark.
Noah built something like that, and see what happened.
And then Noah built an altar to the Lord, a man built an altar to the Lord, and taking some of the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed an offering on it.
The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in His heart, "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every creation of the human heart is evil from childhood, and never again will I destroy all living creation as I have done."
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.
And we know after that, He showed a sign of the rainbow.
So when Noah did that, God accepted his sacrifice, and we see what God said after that.
And that's what happened to Abel too. When Abel made his sacrifice, the Lord accepted it.
So it's the Lord—we have to do it according to how it has to be done according to the blueprint of God.
And when it's done according to the blueprint of God, God accepts it, and when He accepts it, what does He do? He blesses that.
He blesses us.
And at the place of the altar is a place of impartation also. It's a place where God empowers us. It's a place where God releases something.
So when it was done, God blessed him.
It will always come when it's done. God bless him will come.
So when Cain was not doing that, God was not blessing him. That's why he got angry, and he ended up killing his brother.
But we're not there in that topic. My topic today is altars.
So we say that with Noah, and after Noah, we see that with Abraham.
Abraham was a man of covenant. He's a man of altar, and he made so many altars.
I think almost ten altars we saw where he built an altar and worshiped the Lord.
And there's always an animal or something put on the altar that had to be burned completely.
It had to be burned.
So when you—an altar, I say, is a place of surrender, is a place of obedience, is a place of submission, and also is a place of impartation.
And it's a place of covenant. It's a place of covenant.
Everywhere there's an altar, you mean there's a covenant between a divinity and people that are doing acts or doing whatever not do on that altar.
So I will say, as worship is concerned, altar is the most powerful, powerful component because without an altar, there's no worship.
And without worship, there's no—as I said earlier.
So later we see that after Abraham, we saw that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob also, we saw that setting up all those altars after some deep revelation with God, he would do an altar.
God would speak to him also.
And then we see later with Moses. Moses actually got a better blueprint than everyone else when God gave him a command to build an ark, to build a temple, a tent, or later become a tabernacle where, you know, David, you know, where this tent had some components inside.
And this tent was something that would help Israel to host the presence of God because one of the cries of Moses is to have God with them, is to have the presence of God with the children of Israel.
So when God gave him that blueprint in the book of Exodus, when God revealed to him, then he built the ark.
He built the ark.
So we're going to look at the structure of the ark. Something very interesting.
Yes, my apologies for my friend on TikTok. You won't see that; you will not see that, but I'll put it later under comment.
But we see here, we see here on the screen for those that are following me on YouTube and Facebook, I think you must be seeing a picture there, and that's a kind of architectural structure of the tabernacle, the tabernacle that Israel had.
So when you see that tabernacle, when you enter from your left with the arrow, when you see where—I don't know if you can see my cursor there on the screen, you see the arrow.
When you get into that place, the first thing you see when you get into that tabernacle, when the priest enters—only the priest is actually allowed into this—but when the priest enters here, the first thing that they come across is what?
It is an altar. It is called the altar of burnt offerings. The altar of burnt offering is the first thing you see.
Okay, the first thing you see.
So then you have the basin level.
So now you have the holy place. When they looked at the Sabbath, when they wash their hands, then you go into the holy place.
So in the holy place, to get into the holy place, there is another altar here between the holy place and the holy of holies. It's called the altar of incense.
And on that altar, there's incense that are burned 24/7, the burned, you know, there's coal there that is burning, and incense is in it burning.
And it's also an altar.
So you have an altar of burnt offering here, and we have the altar of incense.
Yeah, I think the altar is the only thing that you see twice. It's the only component of the tabernacle that you see twice.
And there's other sub-altars. Yeah, actually, some people say you have, in fact, seven, but we won't go into that.
I want to go into those that are literally called altars.
So you have the altar of burnt offering. That's where sacrifices are made, animals are killed, blood is shed here of animals, and then put on this structure here and burned completely.
Amen.
And when the priest got in here, he served at the other player, the holy place, and then we have the incense also that is burning all the time.
And then you go to the holy of holies when you have the lamp there, that the lamp, the oil must be there, and the oil must be burning also 24/7, must never go out.
Okay, so when you see that, you understand that in the structure or in the protocol of getting into God's presence, altars are very central. They're very important because altars deal with our sin.
Altars deal with our cleansing.
Altars prepare our spiritual being to host or to meet our Creator, to meet our God because our God is a holy God, and as sinful as we are, we cannot be in His presence.
But because of His mercy and love and compassion for us, He put this structure that was temporary.
You can see that He put this structure that was temporary. This entire structure was fulfilled at the cross of Calvary.
Everything that happened in this tabernacle happened at the cross on Calvary.
Okay, but we won't go too much into that.
But what I wanted to highlight here this evening is this altar structure that we have, these two altars that we have in the temple, in the tabernacle system that God gave Israel.
And the tabernacle system, which was assembled, which was a temporary structure that God put in place so that His children, so that His people that are called by His name can come to Him and worship Him.
And that's what happened over all the years until Jesus died on the cross.
When Jesus died on the cross, you see this thing here. Nobody gets in here. You look at it. Did you pick up inside you, baby? You make die.
Not everybody goes inside yet, but the veil tore in two when Jesus died and shouted on the cross that it was finished.
You know, there's a curtain here that I'm cutting, tearing into two completely torn.
When you see that, that the veil was torn, it was because this entire system became obsolete.
It became invalid to host God's presence, to walk with God, to come into God's presence in the new covenant, in a new dispensation.
We don't need this structure anymore. It had been accomplished on the cross.
Christ did it. That's why in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, now we can boldly come into the presence of God, be impacted, submit, you know, and submit to God, obey to God, and do everything that used to happen at the altar.
At the altar.
So now we see that the enemy also hijacked this whole thing and put in place protocols where people have to make sacrifices and do some stuff.
And as people do that, it releases demonic powers into communities because you must know, because it's us, altars belong to demons.
When people go, they do sacrifices, it definitely releases demons there.
So when you see heavy demon activity in a city, when you see heavy demonic activity going on in a country, you must know there's demonic altars somewhere that have been serviced by some people.
And those demonic altars are what give access to these demons.
Because through altars, you give permission, you give authority, you give legal right to any spirit to come into your life.
Every altar you go to, whatever you do at that altar, you are giving legal right, you are giving authority, you are giving spirits behind that altar to take control over you.
That's why you, as a head of a family, if you go into a demonic altar to do consultation or do whatever you want to do there, when you do that, what's going to happen is that spirit is going to get released and follow you.
You are entering a covenant with that spirit.
And what's going to happen is it comes and takes possession of everything that you control.
If you are a head of state, it takes over your country. If you are a head of a company, it takes over the whole company.
If you are a chief of a particular land, it takes over that land completely.
So it shows the power of altars.
And you remember in the book of Daniel when Daniel was praying for God to explain a certain dream for him, and God sent Angel Gabriel to come and speak to him and give an explanation of the dream.
What happened? The Bible says that the prince of Persia resisted him.
And Angel Michael had to come and rebuke that prince of Persia before Gabriel would be able to go and deliver the message to Daniel.
But how is that possible that the prince of Persia was able to withstand him?
Because he's an angel from the Lord.
How come a demon can be stronger?
Some say that demon is high in ranking. I don't think it's only that.
I think it's because the people of the land, the people of Persia were worshipping that prince of Persia.
By worshipping him, they were making sacrifices. They were servicing altars of that God.
And as they were doing that, they were giving legal right to that spirit over the land.
They were giving legal right of that spirit over the entire Persia.
So when it's like that, if the people don't turn away and take that legal right away and give it back to God, that demon will be ruling completely, will always be ruling over that territory.
And it's the same principle for us also.
When we are servicing wrong altars, when we are worshipping wrong altars, when we are worshipping wrong divinity through these corrupt altars, all the time we allow demonic activities into our lives.
And even though God wants to use us, we have to take that authority from that spirit.
And how you take it out of him is we stop servicing those altars.
Those altars.
Amen.
So how do you stop servicing it? You stop making sacrifices, you stop giving gifts, you stop doing everything that is required from that altar.
And as you do that, you kind of stop that thing to death, and the spiritual activity of that demon will not continue anymore.
So coming back to the story I shared with you earlier, when we were praying over the territory and we went there and we spoke to that altar, according to what we just read in the book of First Kings chapter 13, we spoke according to the word of the Lord, and we prayed that day, and it said every soul tied under that altar.
Because remember what I say, if the head of that land is servicing that altar, when the spirit is released, it doesn't just control that leader; it takes over the entire territory.
So all the people on that land that are not worshippers of the Almighty will be under the influence of the powers that come out of that altar.
That's why you must pray for our leaders.
That's why the devil loves using our leaders.
Because when the devil got control of a leader, the leader hands over the country to that spirit.
Those spirits take over the land.
They take over the land.
Amen.
They take over the land.
So we have to understand those principles.
And when you understand that, we become a bit more aware of the fact that certain things we cannot do.
When you—some people go sometimes for divination, they go to those fortune tellers or those diviners, those spiritualists, those we call them false prophets, where they were able to see the spiritual realm.
And most of the time, these people, before they will tell you something, they will say, "Bring something. Bring 1,000 rand. Or bring 500 rand. Or sometimes they even give 10 dollars. Give 1 dollar. Whatever you got, bring it. Put it there."
And let me tell you something. They are not just asking you to scam you.
Okay? Yes, they're going to take that money because they're representing the spirit.
They are priests of that spirit.
But what they're doing is, whatever they're asking you is a sacrifice to service that altar.
So as you give them that money, what happens is you are entering into a covenant with a spirit that you have not invited.
You're just curious. You just went to pray. Or you're just desperate for a solution.
And you just went to these fortune tellers to tell you some stuff.
But what you're doing, what you don't realize, you are releasing demonic activity into your life.
Because whatever you give that man, and they will always ask you for something.
Everything they ask you.
I know they ask you to go get a fruit. Go get a particular animal. Get a fowl. Get a cockroach.
God likes asking some funny stuff.
And when you bring that, you are entering into a covenant with a spirit because of this altar.
And that will follow you. It will follow you.
So we have to understand that when we're worshipping God, how are we worshipping Him?
Because God has His own pattern when it comes to His covenant, when it comes to His altar.
Hallelujah.
When it comes to the altar.
That's why as children of God, as children of God, we are people of—when you understand the principle of altars, you understand the principle of sacrifice.
You cannot be a worshipper of God without being a sacrificial person.
Amen.
We're not sacrificing today to get atonement for our sin like it was done in the Old Testament.
But we do that, as Paul says.
I think Paul gave a powerful statement in the book of Romans.
We're going to read that quickly.
The book of Romans chapter 12.
That's one chapter that we read so many times.
Paul made a powerful statement there that for me summarizes everything I'm teaching you tonight.
Romans chapter 12, verse 1:
"Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercy of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your rational act of worship."
You know, Paul was right.
You should understand the sacrificial system.
They understand the temple system.
They understand what was going on there with the altars and the sacrifice and whatever.
So here, based on the New Covenant disposition, Paul is saying, "I urge you to bring what? To present your body as a living sacrifice."
Because usually they come, they bring gold, they bring fowl, they bring all of that to God.
But in the New Covenant, what is Paul saying?
Bring your whole body, your whole being, your whole being, bring it as a living sacrifice.
That's the real sacrifice.
And he's saying, "And that as a living sacrifice, holy and well-pleasing."
And that is your rational act of worship.
So as New Testament believers, we now don't bring just physical stuff, but we bring our whole being.
That's why he told the church of Corinth that we are the temple.
Okay?
So now you say we are the temple of—we are the temple.
And here you say we are the sacrifice.
So when we come to God, we bring our whole being.
And what is he talking about?
Our full heart to God.
That's why as New Testament believers, it is impossible to be a worshipper of the Almighty God in the name of Jesus Christ without being a person of sacrifice.
But sacrifice in a sense where we don't come anymore with something to—there's no more atonement gifting.
There's no more atonement gifting.
There's no more sacrifice for the eleven bread.
No, all of that were fulfilled on the cross.
But because of what Christ has done for us, when we come to the Lord, we bring our whole being.
And when we bring our whole being, we bring everything that belongs to us.
So the real, real, real, I believe, the authentic act of worship is when we give ourselves completely to the Lord.
And when we give it to Him, we give Him to this altar that is in the spirit.
There's no more altar in the natural.
There's no more altar that we go to.
The only altar that we give Him to is Jesus Christ, what He did on the cross.
So when you come to the Lord and give our heart and give our whole being to the Lord, that's us bringing ourselves into the altar.
And when we bring ourselves to the altar, the fire, which the Holy Ghost comes and burns everything.
Because at the place of the altar also is a place of fire.
There's always fire activity on the altar to burn everything that is on the structure.
So when we bring ourselves to the Lord, the Spirit of God coming inside of us does a symbol of the fire of the Holy Ghost, the fire of God coming and taking that sacrifice that has been given to Him.
And that sacrifice is us, is you, is every one of us that come to the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Hallelujah.
The Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
May God bless you abundantly.
May His hands be upon you.
May His favor continue to be with you as you walk into that principle of sacrifice when we understand altars.
I don't want to go too much into the demonic world because I don't want to confuse you.
But we will do that for those that are a bit more interested.
We're going to do that in a closed session on Zoom, and I will let you know very soon.
But just to summarize everything, altar was a temporary structure that God put in place where man can relate with Him, where every human can relate with Him.
And we see that with Abel and Cain.
We see that with Noah, Abraham, and everyone else that followed, Isaac, Jacob, and the whole Israel.
God gave them as a law. An entire book of Leviticus is about that.
Gave them as a law.
And the devil ran through that process over the years until Jesus came and fulfilled it completely on the cross.
And the devil stole the same principle of altars, and through that, he's doing that to win the heart of man.
Because any altar, like I said earlier, every altar we service, we're giving legal right to every spirit to use.
Not just our territory.
When I say use the territory, it's us that make the territory.
We're giving access, legal right to every spirit to use our heart.
Use us to do whatever we want to do.
And that's why it's very dead.
God was so angry to see men of God like Jeroboam and Solomon erecting altars in the land of Israel for idols.
And that was evil.
That was evil.
So may God bless you abundantly as you understand that.
So through that system, it was a temporal system, like I say, but through that, we see the heart of God, who's a heart of sacrifice.
The heart of God, who's a heart of giving.
A heart of always giving away.
Okay?
And what happened at the place of the altar, like I say, is a place of obedience, a place of submission, a place of surrender, a place of covenant, a place of impartation.
Okay?
Impartation.
Whatever spirit you call upon on the altar will control you.
You can be a Christian. You can be a child of God.
If you go to a wrong—that's why it's very—be very careful where you go to.
You know some of those false prophets, they will say, "Bring money into the altar."
And let me correct something.
The stage in a church building or wherever we meet, in a building where we go worship, the stage, what we see there on the stage is not an altar.
I understand the idea behind calling an altar so we can respect it.
But that is not an altar.
It's just a stage that allows us, allows whoever is there to speak and communicate to people.
To be in a higher stage where everyone can see, you can see everyone, and you can speak.
But that stage is not an altar.
Are you with me?
It's not an altar.
Because there's no more altar that we erect.
I know sometimes we call—we talk about, we preach, we say we're doing an altar call for people to come to the altar.
Maybe it's just a way to symbolize it, to be respected.
It's just a way for us to come closer to God.
But literally speaking, biblically speaking, it is not an altar.
And a lot of demonic prophets, they have things buried there.
They have things buried on the stage.
They say, "Come, put the money there. Put the money on the stage. Put the money on the altar."
But sometimes what you don't realize, there's a demonic entity there.
As you put the money there, you are making a covenant.
Your money represents you.
Your money is your blood.
Your money is your soul.
Even if it's 10 cents.
Sometimes they say, "Even if it's 10 cents, put it there."
Why?
Because as you give that, you are entering a covenant with a spirit.
Amen.
And you only break that by renouncing it and not doing it again.
So that's why a lot of false prophets love people sending them money.
They say, "Come into a covenant with me. Come into a covenant with me."
Be very, very, very careful about getting into a covenant with a man.
The only person you get—you need to get into a covenant with God.
And that covenant we see actually on Calvary already.
The only covenant that binds us is the one that happened in Calvary.
The other covenant is just human carnal stuff that we do just to be a bit serious with God.
I understand that.
We must be very, very careful.
Do not ever get into a covenant with a man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous to get into a covenant with man.
Covenant is with God.
And that covenant was made on the cross of, you know, on Calvary.
That wooden structure that the Lord hanged on and bled to death on the third day He rose up.
Okay?
But what happened there?
The blood that was shed there, that covenant was made already.
So as you believe in what was done on that cross, as you believe in the act that happened on that cross, you are entering the covenant with the Lord already.
You don't need to get into a covenant with any human being.
Stop getting into a covenant with people.
It is extremely dangerous
on Jun 27, 2024
