Spirit of Jezebel, who is she?
Is she real?
You know, there's a lot of mentions in the Bible.
In fact, somebody counted 22 times Jezebel is mentioned
and her husband Ahab mentioned 90 times.
But we really see her in Old Testament, 1 Kings chapter 18
and in the New Testament, Revelation 2:20.
But Jezebel, even though there is no word
specifically in the Bible, spirit of Jezebel
as it says, you know, spirit of heaviness, spirit of fear,
it doesn't use the word spirit of Jezebel yet
because we see her reappearing again in Book of Revelation.
We can assume that a spirit of Jezebel is really
a demonic spirit that inhabits a person that causes them
to be driven by sexual appetites and by control
and false teaching.
The best way to define this Jezebel spirit,
it's pretty much characterized as anyone
who lives like Jezebel did: engaging in immorality,
idolatry, false teaching, and unrepentant sin.
You know, she was guided by no principle
restrained by no fear of God or fear of men,
passionate in her pursuit and attachment of heathen worship.
She spared no pain to maintain idolatry around her
in all of its splendour.
In fact, let's read what the New Testament says
about this Queen Jezebel,
who I believe is still alive and well,
and it operates in a lot of people and even in some churches.
In Revelation 2:20 it says:
Ouch! That's some pretty strong words.
I want you to notice who had this woman operating - the church.
The church had a Jezebel operating in pretty high levels.
So let's look at eight things I want to mention about
this spirit of Jezebel that I believe still operates
and we as pastors, ministers, and believers have to be aware.
Number one, it can operate in men and women.
I remember doing deliverance on one guy,
it's on my YouTube, you can see it--in another city
and was a spirit of Jezebel that was bringing lust in his life
and he was a guy.
After he was delivered, he was freed from pornography.
Number two, this is a spirit that causes control, manipulation
and domination, which is kind of a form of witchcraft.
Jezebel was a control freak.
We must understand that control of people
is a sign of witchcraft.
Control of people, dominating, intimidating, manipulating
is a sign of a Jezebel characteristic.
You might not be comfortable calling it Jezebel spirit
because Bible doesn't say Jezebel spirit, but it's her lane.
Okay? It's her world.
The fruit of the Spirit is self control.
The fruit of Jezebel is people control.
It's controling everything else except self.
A third sign of Jezebel, she's really good at intimidation.
She causes fear, flight, and discouragement.
She didn't kill Elijah, she threatened him.
She sent a messenger to make him run, to make him flee
to make him be discouraged.
Elijah was one of the greatest prophets of Old Testament.
The guy was crazy, okay, he was fearless.
He was reckless. Like, he was scary.
I would be scared of Elijah if I would be Jezebel, okay?
But Jezebel didn't want to kill him
otherwise she wouldn't send a messenger
she would have sent an assassin.
She wanted to scare him. She wanted to make him run.
She wanted to make him overthink.
She wanted to make him complain
and she accomplished that really well
because Elijah ran.
He started to complain he was the only one,
there was nobody else.
"God take my life." He despaired of life.
Even though he just had a great victory on Mount Carmel,
he slaughtered the prophets of Jezebel.
And a lot of times after great victories,
this spirit, this demonic work to bring deep, deep despair
deep discouragement, like, almost like not normal,
like spiritual, you just feel like, " I don't want to live,
I want to quit. I want to give up. I'm burned out."
And that's not to say that we emotionally, physically
get tired and need to be refreshed, renewed
and recalibrated.
But in Elijah's case, Jezebel pushed him over the edge.
Maybe you are experiencing that.
What if I were to tell you that behind some of the burnouts
discouragements, disappointments is an evil spirit?
It's an evil plot and a plan to wear you out, take you out.
The enemy can't attack you head-on,
he wants to wear you out.
Find comfort in a still small voice of God.
Get back in the game and keep on fighting.
Sign number four of a Jezebel spirit
is seduction and sexual immorality.
Jesus made it very clear. He pretty much pulled the curtains
and said this Jezebel she seduces, listen to this
My servants with sexual immorality
or to commit sexual immorality.
Now we see-- How many servants of God and pastors get seduced
and fell into sexual immorality?
I am not in any way going to point fingers or throw stones,
because I myself am in the same danger
to come under discouragement.
And I feel like when the enemy can't take you out
by wearing you out, then the enemy changes the tactic
through seduction.
When Jehu came to destroy Jezebel,
she came out of the window and she put makeup on. Okay?
This wicked queen, she wanted to seduce Jehu.
Revelation chapter 2 says clearly: "Seduces My servants."
That means she is after the preachers.
She is after the ministers, the evangelists.
Why is she after them?
If she can't wear them out, she is going to seduce them. Why?
Because when a person in the place of authority
in the place of influence falls,
their fall doesn't just attack their spouse
influence and affect their spouse,
it affects those that believed in them, followed them,
knew them.
When great preachers like Ravi Zacharias
when great preachers like-- recently not long ago
Carl Lentz, and so many others throughout the history
that fell into sexual immorality
the kind of damage it did to other believers,
the damage it did to the Name of Jesus
was way bigger than if somebody,
an ordinary Christian committed the same sin.
I am not in any way saying that these sins
didn't damage those families,
didn't cause huge pain to those families.
And I'm not in any way saying that these men
are not held accountable and they shouldn't repent
We must understand please pray for your pastors.
Pray for the preachers. Pray for God's servants. Okay?
Because the higher God takes them, the higher God takes them
the more the enemy wants to attack them and those heights
so that when they fall, great is their fall
and many can be affected by their fall.
You know, when David committed sexual immorality with Bathsheba
God says you gave My enemies a reason to reproach
to blaspheme My Name.
And David's consequences were very severe.
And this I believe Jezebel seeks to seduce God's servants
through pornography, through affairs,
and through just flirtations,
all kinds of things to distract them.
If it can't distract them with discouragement,
it will seek distract them with seduction.
This Jezebel, Bible teaches that she prophesies
and teaches in the church.
Now that's crazy. How did she get to the church?
In the Old Testament, Jezebel was fully in control
of religion.
Not only was she a queen, a political figure
she was a religous leader.
She had prophets on her payroll,
and she really controlled the religious climate in her time.
In the Book of Revelation we see a similar thing
where this woman, she declares herself a prophetess
and she teaches.
Meaning she has a place of influence, and she has a place
where she can influence the culture of the church
by her mouth.
This doesn't mean that she was a woman.
We don't know. Maybe a man, maybe a woman and stuff
because a lot of women didn't preach at those times
in those churches.
But maybe she was a woman, maybe she was a man.
It's someone who preaches a false doctrine.
Someone who preaches other truths than the gospel.
And we have to be very careful.
No matter how good they sound,
no matter how good they look,
no matter how much influence they have,
Jezebel is not just a seductive, controlling
you know, infuses you with fear and manipulation
it's also a teacher.
And those of us who teach God's Word,
we have to be very careful that we don't come under influence
by teaching something that is not true to the Scriptures.
Number six is Jezebel quickly rises
to the place of influence and leadership.
She loves to be in the place of leadership.
She was not just a servant, she was a queen.
And in this place, she was a prophetess
in Revelation chapter 2.
She was in the place where she was influencing.
She loves the spotlight.
I'm always cautious when people are addicted to spotlight
when young men and young women cannot live
without a microphone, or they need a podium to feel validated.
They need a place of visibility to feel valued.
It's very dangerous.
And unknowingly, you can yield and give yourself to this spirit
through this insecurity.
You can allow this demonic bully to take over you
and begin to infiltrate the church and the Kingdom of God
through your vulnerability, through your--
not vulnerability through your carelessness
through your desiring for fame, desiring to be known
desiring position of leadership not so you can serve,
but so you can shine.
It's very dangerous because then you can be in that place
and actually bring damage because something else
is controlling you. And you become like a puppet for an evil plot
an evil ploy, an evil spirit.
Number seven, Jezebel thrives where there is weak leadership.
For every Jezebel there is an Ahab.
In fact, Jezebel couldn't do anything without Ahab.
Ahab is the enabler.
Ahab couldn't stand up to her.
Ahab was passive and therefore, God had to use Elijah
to confont Jezebel.
He had to use Jehu to wipe her out, to take her out
because Ahab couldn't do it.
Jezebel thrives in places where leadership
is afraid of confrontation.
Where leadership is so passive,
so fearful of any kind of conflict
that it will cause by confronting Jezebel.
They're just keeping peace at any cost.
Even if it's destroying the ministry,
even if it's causing things to be taught wrong,
"I just don't want to upset people."
And this kind of Ahab attitude is what Jezebel loves.
It thrives in those kinds of environments.
Now, I'm not saying we have to love confrontation,
none of us do.
But part of the challenge of being a Christian leader,
part of the challenge of being a pastor
is you have to spot a Jezebel and you have got to stop her.
And to do that, you have to be confrontive.
To do that, you have to have a spirit of Elijah
you have to have a characteristic of Elijah
where you can face head-on and stop it
and you are not afraid of the consequences.
God even said, He says, I'm going to throw her in the sick bed.
God was confronting her.
So God wants us to rise up against that.
And I'm not talking about now going and attacking
every person that you don't like in the church.
First of all, deal with Jezebel within your life.
Certain habits, attitudes, control tendencies, you know,
discouragements, sexual sins, this desire for fame
desire to be known not so you can make Jesus known
but so you can feel more secure, more confident about yourself.
Deal with those things in your heart first.
We have to deal with-- I have to deal with my own heart
before I deal that with others.
And when I spot things that are out of line,
not to be afraid of men, but to confront things
and to put them in the right place.
Lastly is Jezebel is usually not repentant.
And we see in Kings that Jezebel never repented
she had to be punished.
In the Book of Revelation, God gives her a chance to repent
but God is already saying, I'm throwing her in the sick bed,
meaning I'm going to punish her.
I'm going to discipline her and everyone else
who was involved in her deception.
And He says, if she doesn't repent,
I'm going to start killing things.
I don't know if that's literally killing children.
I don't know about that.
Or this is speaking maybe of some kind of other thing
I don't know but I know there are consequences
to allowing Jezebel to operate in your life.
And so, confront that witch head-on.
Control that wicked queen head-on.
And don't give her a place through discouragement,
through seduction, through control, believing false doctrine
seeking you know, place of leadership to shine
when you don't have the gift and calling to be at that place
because you're just insecure you know, being a bully.
Don't give that Jezebel a place in your life.
Overcome her by repentance,
by trusting in Jesus, preaching the truth
seeking to have self control instead of people control
overcoming discouragement. It's okay to be discouraged
it's not okay to stay like that.
To fighting and fleeing sexual immorality
instead of fleeing your calling.
And seeking to serve instead of to shine
meaning being in the spotlight.
That's what I mean because we are all called to shine as lights
and be the salt.
But I'm talking about, you know, desiring the spotlight
for the sake of being known and famous.
Thank you for watching this video.
I hope that you were challenged and encouraged
to live in the way of Christ
instead of in the way of the wicked queen.
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