Sharon Knotts hosts a compelling discussion on the pervasive darkness pervading culture and media in modern America. This episode unearths the tactics utilized by the Prince of the Power of the Air as he manipulates through channels we use daily, seeking to redefine morality and suppress biblical truths. Tackling contentious topics such as media-induced societal norms and censorship, Sharon passionately argues for the power of the gospel and encourages Christians not to dim their witness in the face of adversity. This conversation is a rallying cry for listeners to remember their divine authority and the biblical mandate to let
00:00:05 Introduction and Panoramic Message Overview
Praise the Lord. Welcome to The Sound of Faith. I’m Sharon Knotts, thanking you for joining us today because we know faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Today’s message is a panoramic view of the evil influences and supernatural authorities driving our current chaotic culture, especially the anti-Christian America media, the prince of the power of the air. Same-sex marriage now is a good thing. You know, because everyone has a right to be with the one they love. If you put it that way… If you put it that way, then it sounds like a good thing. Everyone has a right to be with the one they love. How many here have a computer in their home? So when you put it that way, it’s a good thing. And you know, based on that, if you don’t have a computer in your home, how many at least have a smartphone? All the ladies they love. They want to be able to marry all the ladies they love. Oh, yes. You know our lives revolve around them. Let’s face it. Now they do. You’re making it look like a wonderful, normal thing, and you’ve known that that’s going to be next on the agenda. And you probably aren’t going to leave this. But it’s even now.
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I mean, come on now. People don’t even go to the grocery store anymore.
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There may be more than one. It might be a couple. They go online. They’re petitioning the courts. Let’s say Walmart website to be able for a mother to marry her son. And then they… They say that they promise they won’t procreate and have children. Or you order, take out food. Well, that would just be a mess. We’re all doing things like this all the time. There’s no guarantee it won’t happen. We probably do it so much that we don’t even think about it. But that’s beside the point. What would happen if all of a sudden we couldn’t do that? The point is when you start calling evil and sin good. Most people, not everyone, but many people, at least anybody, I would say 50 and younger, definitely 40 and younger, have a social media account of some kind. They’re on Facebook or some sort of social media. They all claim. And you know what? The good and wonderful thing about this is that it gives us the wonderful ability to program Christian messages, songs, and such on social media. Be down. I mean, think about what happened when COVID-19 first hit and we had that huge shutdown when you literally were not supposed to go anywhere. Amen? But now they’re coming back April last year and May last year.
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And what a blessing it was! To be able to get church online.
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Now, you know, some of you remember that prior to that, we kept telling you all, we’re going to do live streaming soon. Pretty soon, we’re going to do live streaming. But first, we’ve got to paint the ceiling in their state. We’ve got to do this, and we’ve got to do that.
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The federal government’s already on board.
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Our president is already on board with it.
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He said it’s good.
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It’s a good thing, folks. So now the states are going to have to do it. Amen? Because there are some places where the states have their own authority. Now, it remains to be seen whether or not somebody’s going to take it to the courts of the federal government and who knows where it’ll end up at. Probably end up in the Supreme Court and who knows by then we might have so many judges on the Supreme Court. You just take a bag and throw it up. in the air and see what comes out. The only problem is it started getting hot. Some of you don’t like it, do you? After all that time. Amen. And when it started getting hot, it started going out. And here I am preaching at the table and Benny’s walking over to the refrigerator and getting ice out of the freezer and putting it under my computer. They’re trying to keep it cool. Even if they haven’t had sex change surgery. Even if they’re still biologically really a man. They want to use the female bathroom. But what a wonderful privilege that we were still able to preach and be in contact with Faith Tabernacle. God forbid that we would cause them psychological harm by making them go in the men’s bathroom. But what about the psychological harm to little girls? To a seven-year-old girl going in there seeing a man in the bathroom. And to some women who may be afraid to go in that stall and know whether or not she’s going to be in there by herself. Come on now. People don’t even have common sense. But this is what happens when you call evil jumping in. trying to keep contact with their people through the internet. And listen to what I’m about to say. Please get this. When a society has begun calling evil good, they will by necessity then have to call good evil. Once they have reached a point where they have called evil good, And so then by all of this has been a tremendous, tremendous blessing. We all agree. It’s a great blessing. Good is evil. And you know, even you, when you go home today, maybe there’s another preacher that you like, you know, that you’d like to watch. And when you go home, this is the stage we’re in America today. The Bible and this new morality does not mix. They clash. Oh, do they clash. And sometimes when they clash, you and I are in the middle. Amen. They are diametrically opposed. One to the other. Thus the Bible now is evil. And those who espouse it, those who preach it, those who teach it, the devil doesn’t like it. The prince of the power of the air is not cool. With all of these preachers, we’ve got some of our own ministers in the church that have their own evil nights when they come on. Amen? They put darkness for light, and they put light for darkness. See, what he hates is he hates the truth. And he hates the gospel. Darkness is the realm of Satan. He’s operating through the media. Darkness is the realm of the prince of the powers that be. To censor or to silence if possible. Verse 11. The messengers and the message. Amen. Facebook. Google, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, but all of these outlets are censoring ministries. And members might say, well, I can do their content. I’ll stay away from them. I won’t go with them. I won’t fellowship with them. I’ll keep distance from them. You know, I don’t mean that you don’t speak to me. What it preaches, if they get on issues like abortion or homosexuality and same-sex marriage, they are censoring them. They’re not supposed to, but when it comes to the second part, but rather a freedom of speech and freedom of religion. But they’re doing it. Amen. Amen. And often when they’re doing it, people don’t even know that it’s being done. The Greek word means to refute, to find fault with, to correct First Amendment rights. Of freedom of speech and freedom of religion. If you are light and I am light, that is what we will do. It trumps the Constitution. Amen. Those rights come above and before. Won’t we teach the Sunday school kids don’t hide it under a bushel? Don’t put a bushel basket over top of your candle and it goes out. Amen. Look at verse 12. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret and or silently. Now let me give you a case in point. A very recent case in point. In January of this year, a very prominent messianic rabbi who’s the best-selling author Don’t even talk about him. And a Christian TV speaker and a pastor of a large congregation. Because in doing it, you get it in your spirit. He felt led of the Lord. It’s all over the TV.
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It’s all over the internet. It’s all in the music.
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Oh my goodness, the music. And to post it on. I’m not going to be too specific here, but let’s just say that I was seeing all these people going on and on about a song that won the best song of the year. And that there was so much controversy over it. And so he had one million views. And then they couldn’t get over that. They had never in anything he had ever, ever posted had read those words so fast in such a short time. They were so filthy, so vile. If you Googled to look for that video, and I was embarrassed. No results came up. It was just, well, it was terrible. And to think that that song won that person a Grammy. It was more than that.
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It’s just unbelievable.
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It was as if it was never posted in the first place. Like there never was such a posting of that video. And only some copies could be found by Facebook members who have reposted it on their page. And so they, being very low level, did not catch the attention of the censors in the music industry. And only in the case where, you know, some ordinary Christian out there.
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And they are doing his will.
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Some of them were still online. Yeah, they’re getting well paid for it too. They’re getting millions and millions of dollars. And they’re getting millions and millions of fans. They’re getting well paid to do it. Or go to payday if they don’t get right with God. It was apparent that it was being suppressed. The wages of sin is death. Sin has a paycheck. Oh, yes, it does. Somebody wrote on Facebook that if you got your wages of sin each day that you did a medium. Each one of these different types of accounts that I’ve already mentioned. Shadow banning where they are banning the post. And in most cases, you will never know it. You’ll never know that it’s being done. Because of the way that it’s being done. Amen? Amen! So when social media powers want to ban a message or ban a post or even ban a site, they do it in such a way that often the poster doesn’t even know that their message is being censored or outright silenced and banned.
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Amen?
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There you have it. These are forces that are being manipulated by the ministers of the gospel who are preaching the truth. They hate us because we are light and light exposes filthiness.
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Amen.
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Those who preach a biblical message that conflicts with the present progressive culture, a.k.a. the counterculture. And these forces are being driven by the prince of the power of the air. And when he would go to church, she and her girlfriends would go to the nightclub. And drink and dance and all that sort of thing. And so they had this one particular nightclub that they went to a lot. And one night, I forget what it was, but she left something in the nightclub where Christians are labeled as evil and mentally imbalanced and dangerous to society. Without all those lights that they have, these Christians are uneducated and ignorant.
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Excuse me?
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seductive and sensual and, you know, when she went there in the daytime and saw it, she was shocked. It was filthy. It was dirty. It was unclean. It looked like it had been clean in a long time. But at night, with all those colored lights and all that sort of thing, it looked beautiful. So now let’s answer that question. How did we arrive at this place? Let’s go back to Isaiah chapter 5. And that’s why these people don’t want to be around you and me. Because in the light of day, their sins and their filthiness Do I look dangerous? Well, you know what? In a way, I am dangerous. What does the light do? Any spirit-filled child of God is dangerous. But things that are reproved are made manifest by the light. It’s the same word I read to you a moment ago in Ephesians. Amen. In that respect, we are dangerous. It finds fault with you. It confuses you. Amen. That’s what the light does.
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Amen.
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So we’re called to be light. And when we are called to be light, let’s just get ready. We’ll face pushback. Amen? And we’re going to face persecution. Saints, don’t let the devil tell you that you’re being persecuted because you’re just too judgmental. How many hear that one?
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You’re just being too judgmental.
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That’s what the devil will tell you.
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He wants you to turn down the light.
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With ropes. He wants you to dim down your light. Amen. Don’t let him tell you. You’re not supposed to make sinners feel bad about their sin.
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Well if they don’t feel bad about their sin.
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They’re never going to repent. And if they never repent. Draw sin to themselves like they are a magnet. They’re going to spend eternity in damnation. That is what it’s saying. Amen. So let your light shine. Let your light shine is what Jesus said in Matthew 5.16. And by the way, it’s a command. Let your light shine. He’s commanding us. Amen. So now let’s go to John. John 3.19. And this is the condemnation that light is coming to the world and men fall into sin. Rather than light. They’re weak. They can’t say no. Because they’re weak without the power of the new birth. For everyone that does evil hates the light and either falls into sin. They’re too weak. There’s that word. That’s the third time I’ve heard that word in this sermon. Christ died for us.
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Amen. When we were too weak to say no. We wanted to do good. So light is coming to the world. How? How did light come?
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Not talking about these folks. In their weakness, they fall into sin. But he’s talking about sinners who in their arrogance and in their presumption, they draw sin to themselves. That’s what this verse is saying.
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Amen.
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They defiantly challenged God. And now that he’s ascended back to the father, he said, you are the light of the world.
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Amen.
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They challenge him. So who do they hate when they hate the light? They hate Jesus. They hate me.
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And if you’re a light, they hate you.
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It’s just the facts.
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Amen.
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And they’re not going to come to the light because they don’t want their deeds to be reproved. So what does the light do? It reproves evil. Now, when you understand what they’re doing here, it makes you want to say, whoa. Whoa. But he that does truth comes to the light. They’re mocking the idea that God would judge their sin. That’s what’s happening here.
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Amen?
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In other words, they’re saying, oh really? Let him come and do it so we can see it. Bring it on. Those who is what they’re saying. And even when they say the Holy one of Israel, they’re saying it was score of God.
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And they’re playing on what does the light do? It does two things.
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Number one, that in their messages, they would say the Holy one of Israel with number two, but they’re taking it and saying it scornfully. Well, let the Holy one of Israel. It reveals the righteous thing. They’re saying, come on, do your worst to us. Amen. Give us your best shot. And let us see it. Amen. We’re ready. We’re up to it. There is no fear of God. Because more and more people are yielding to the darkness. There’s a verse in Jeremiah 17, verse 15 that says, Behold, they say unto me, God speaking, behold, they say unto me, where is the word of the Lord? So as awful as some of these things are that I mentioned, I hate to say this, but I have now come to the place where I believe things can get worse.
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Because every time I’ve said, it can’t get worse.
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It does. I don’t say that anymore. Amen. Even though I might get shocked at first, but I quickly recover from being shocked. And they said back to God, where is your word? Let it come on. Satan knows it’s wind-up time. If anybody recognizes the signs of this time, it’s Satan. He knows his time is short because we are seeing and hearing many, many ministers are constantly now holding 20. But the impact and the import of verse 20 is more powerful when you read 18 and 19 and understand the mindset and the condition of the hearts of these people. Now, verse 20. Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil. You know, there were many lights in America. There were many Christians in Christian homes and Christian families in America. And there were many lights. But now today, there aren’t as many lights. But there is one thing that can be said about that. We stand out more. We stand out more.
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Amen.
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Before you knew a lot of Christian people in your job.
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You knew a lot of Christian people in your family. Amen.
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And that means they end up calling sin good. Amen? They have to call sin good because that allows them to keep living in their sin without any conviction. Exponentially. By the Holy Spirit. Amen. For Satan, the prince of the power of the air, to operate his wicked agenda. But in spite of the darkness, God has children of light. And we stand out more than ever. And of course, we understand. We can give this, you know… And Satan is going to try to work on some of them. And we’ve seen it. Our hearts are broken. We see well-known ministers that have congregations of thousands. When we see that they fall and silence their conscience, they have to call it good. And this has spawned all of the mantras that we’re hearing of tolerance today. Abortion. Abortion is a good thing. You know because it protects a woman’s rights. If there’s someone you watch on TV that you just love them and they just bless your heart, you need to pray for them. I guarantee you Satan is going to come after them. He’s going to try to get them to fall into sex, sin, or greed. It’s usually sex or greed, one or the other. It’s something in any way to go against women’s rights. But we’re going to let our light shine, are we not? Come on, let’s stand together this morning. They’re afraid to be pegged as someone who did not stand up for women’s rights. Jesus didn’t give me a little light. He gave me a bright light. And I’m going to let it shine.
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I’m going to let my light shine.
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I won’t let Satan put it out.
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No! I’m going to stand up for their rights.
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Many of them have changed horses. Let your light shine.
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Yes, you’re going to get pushed back. Yes, people will speak evil of you. They’ll persecute you.
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They’ll talk about you.
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You’ll see them when you’re on your job.
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They’ll be out there in the hallway whispering. And when you walk in, all of a sudden, they stop there. But I’m trying to show you that now they call it good. It’s good because it helps women. Don’t let it bother you.
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Don’t let it hurt your feelings.
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You’re not wrestling against people.
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It’s the spirit of the age.
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Amen? All the more you need to be kind and gracious in order to advance and succeed in this world. You’re not going to be able to succeed. You’re not going to be able to advance if you’re tied down with some kid. that you don’t want. But that’s what it boils down to. Amen?
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You just love on them. Amen?
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No, because everyone has the right to be with the one they love.
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If you put it that way,
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We don’t apologize for the truth. We never apologize for the gospel. If we do, it’s all over. It is the power of God unto salvation unto everyone that believes. And the moment you dim it down, dumb it down, and apologize for it, your gospel will be wanted. All the ladies they love, but God wants to save. Even now, God wants to save.
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Amen.
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And there may be some of you watching today and the Holy Spirit is dealing with your heart. You’ve allowed yourself to come under the influence of the prince of the power of the air.
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And you never ever even thought about it. It never crossed your mind before now.
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But now your eyes are being opened to the truth and you see it. And maybe you thought you were doing a good thing, joining in with the abortion rights people and the LGBT rights people. You feel like you’re helping the person who’s oppressed. They say that they promise they won’t procreate and have children. They’re oppressed by the lies. Because, of course, then you have all kinds of birth defects. Well, that would just be a mess. I saw yesterday where one of the leaders of the abortion rights leaders, and I forget the city, but she was a major leader in the abortion rights protesting. This is what happens. died from an abortion. And of course we could go on and on about all the things, but these are the two big issues. Amen. Amen. And now she’s become a victim of it. The idea is it’s a good thing and passing quickly. Just some of you that are watching today, maybe you’ve had an abortion. We’re not trying to make you feel awful or less than in any way. Abortion is sin. And where they’re allowed to do it, the women are getting beat down. And abortion is not the unpardonable sin. God will forgive you. Just like you’ll forgive any other sin.
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Amen.
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All you have to do is ask him. You have to acknowledge that it was wrong. And that you’re sorry.
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And ask for forgiveness and cleansing.
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And he’ll forgive you. And he’ll even take that burden off of you. That guilt that plagues you. And the girls are getting pushed down too low to get scholarships. And you think about it. And sometimes you wonder to yourself, it’s happening. Some states, thank you, are stepping out. Some states are abolishing it in their state. The states have to do it. The federal government’s already on board. Our president is already on board with it.
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He said it’s good.
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It’s a good thing. You’ve got to stop beating yourself up about it. So now the states are going to have to do it. Amen? It’s done. Because there are some places where the states have their own authority. Now, it remains to be seen whether or not somebody is going to take it to the courts of the federal government and who knows where it will end up at. Probably end up in the Supreme Court and who knows by then we might have so many judges on the Supreme Court.
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You just take a bag and throw it up there and see what comes out.
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Maybe it’s the first time you’ve been pregnant.
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Maybe it’s more than once. Amen.
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I’m going to preach it as long as I can because I don’t know one day I might be censored and silenced and shut down. Jesus said he’s the thief that’s come to kill and to destroy your life. But Jesus said, I’ve come that you might have life and you might have it more abundantly. And if you really and truly cannot take care of a baby, there are many wonderful people that would love to take your baby and raise that child. And in some cases you can have open adoptions where you can still follow that child, his or her life, that we would call them psychological harm by making them go in the men’s bathroom to making that terrible. But what about the psychological harm to little girls? Because you will regret it. I know that. To a seven-year-old girl going in there seeing a man in the bathroom. And to some women who may be afraid to go in that stall and know whether or not she’s going to be in there by herself.
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Come on now.
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People don’t even have common sense. But this is what happens when you call evil good. When you call evil good. All of this is a product of that. Don’t do it. Bring it to Jesus and he will help you. And if you need to know how you can get help, you can get in contact with this ministry at info at soundoffaith.org. And I will put you in touch with someone who can then put you in touch with help. That’s all you have to do. But let’s pray today. And if you’re watching today and you’ve allowed Satan to put you in that sin of homosexuality. And you say, I just can’t get free. The devil is a liar. He lied to you when he told you God made you that way. He lied to you when he told you that you’ll never be able to change. Those are all lies, and he’s putting them out there. The prince of the power of the air is putting them out there in the media because that’s what he has control over. But he’s a liar and a thief and a murderer. God did not make you that way, and he can set you free if you want to be free. So let’s pray today. Father, we come to you in Jesus’ name. We bring all of these issues before the throne of grace. We ask you by your Holy Spirit that you would confirm with hearts of those that are watching us today. And by your Holy Spirit, you’re convicting them, not because you’re against them, not because you hate them, but because you love them. And you want to set them free. And you want to deliver them. And cleanse them from their sin. And wash them. And bring them into fellowship with you. That’s why you send your word today to convict them. And so we pray right now. And I pray they would say this prayer. Father. In Jesus name. I ask you to forgive me. Of all my sins. Wash me today in the blood of Jesus and cleanse me from all my unrighteousness. Give me your spirit and I will serve you and I will follow you by your grace all the days of my life in Jesus’ name. Amen. And now I want to speak to Christians. And I want to say to all of you. We are the light of the world. Jesus said. He commanded. Let your light shine. It’s too weak in the English. It’s much more powerful in the Greek. Let your light shine. It’s a command. Don’t let Satan dim your light. Because you get intimidated. When you try to let your light shine. And some of those people. Sinners who are scorners and mockers, which the Bible tells us through Jesus, through Peter, through Jude, that would be in the last days that you get intimidated and you shut down. You don’t have to shut down. You have the Holy Spirit. He’s a spirit of boldness. He’s a spirit of conviction. And if you will trust him and ask him, he will give you the words to say that you can speak the truth in love. Not truth or love, but truth in love. Amen? That’s what he’ll enable you to do so that you can let your light shine. And you will be a witness for the Lord in this very evil and wicked time. So Father, I pray for all of those who have a problem. They get intimidated easily. And they back off and they don’t know how to let their light shine. It’s not that they don’t want to. But they always feel less than. And they always feel that others overpower them. But help them that they can take authority in the name of Jesus. In the spiritual realm. Not against the people. Not unloading against the vessels. But in the spirit realm. Take authority over the powers of the enemy that’s driving these people. You have that authority. You have that delegated authority to say I bind you Satan. I bind every lie that you tell this person. I bind every word of excuse that you give them. I bind them so they cannot say those things. Take the blinders off their mind and let the light of the truth shine on them. If you will do that, if you will believe that, if you will go to God about that, he will do it for you and you will see. A remarkable transformation in your ability to be a light for the Lord. Father, we ask you today, let us be lights for you. And bring into faith tabernacle. Bring in those who want to be a light. Bring in those who want to hear the truth. Bring in those, Lord, who believe your word. And they don’t want it dumbed down or watered down. They want the word of truth rightly divided. I pray in Jesus’ name. Amen. What an eye-opening word of the Lord, the Prince of the Power of the Air. The course of this world is being controlled by Satan, who is the Prince of the Power of the Air. Our culture and media are fulfilling his evil anti-God agenda. Paul said we’re in a cosmic wrestling match against principalities, authorities, the rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in the heavenlies. This refers to the second heavens where Satan rules and to the atmosphere where radio waves, satellites beam down on the earth, generating radio, TV, and Internet. The spirit of Satan is operating through much of the media, which has become increasingly hostile towards Christians and biblical morals, calling evil good and good evil. Darkness is increasing as Satan exerts his authority over the media. The Prince of the Power of the Air can be ordered on CD for a love gift of $10 or more for the radio ministry. Request SK219. Mail to Sound of Faith, P.O. Box 1744, Baltimore, Maryland, 21203. Or go online to our e-store, soundoffaith.org, where MP3s are available. But to order by mail, send your minimum love gift of $10 to P.O. Box 1744. We would appreciate your including the call letters of this radio station. Until next time, this is Sharon Knott saying, Maranatha.
Sharon Knotts hosts a compelling discussion on the pervasive darkness pervading culture and media in modern America. This episode unearths the tactics utilized by the Prince of the Power of the Air as he manipulates through channels we use daily, seeking to redefine morality and suppress biblical truths. Tackling contentious topics such as media-induced societal norms and censorship, Sharon passionately argues for the power of the gospel and encourages Christians not to dim their witness in the face of adversity. This conversation is a rallying cry for listeners to remember their divine authority and the biblical mandate to let
