Hey fam, it's Rachel.
I wanted to give you a really quick update because I had planned to do a video about the Jezebel spirit
but as I was filming it got so long. I was like
there's no way I'm gonna be able to finish editing this in time
because there is so much backstory that we need to go over before we can deal with
The Jezebel spirit. We have to know who Jezebel is and because we're still in Genesis
we haven't really talked about her, but you cannot go online,
you cannot walk into a
Charismatic church that somebody isn't teaching about the Jezebel spirit and you're not going to find it in the Bible.
This is not a concept found in the Bible and we're going to go in depth with this.
But as I've done research the farthest back that I can find the Jezebel spirit
being talked about is about 20 years ago
Juanita Bynum who is a televangelist here in the United States did a sermon about the Jezebel spirit
and this has just
morphed into its own theology and it's like when I go online
looking at stuff about the Jezebel spirit. You would have thought that they just took the
DSM-V and just scratch that name out. We don't have a psychiatric manual. This is the Jezebel spirit.
Everything in it is describing a Jezebel spirit and it's just like
people,
this is why
discerning of spirits is so important in the church today. Because
not every single thing that a person does, every single work of the flesh is a
demon, and we live in a culture
where everybody is a professional victim. Where nobody is
responsible for their life. Nobody's responsible for their sin. It's everybody else's fault. It's that woman. She's too good-looking over there.
Oh, it's that woman because of Eve. Oh, it's that person. They made me feel bad about myself.
It's that person that made me covet and it's no different with demons. Oh.
it's not my flesh that needs work. It's a demon. It's Satan because you know why?
People blame these spirits
because if you blame the spirits, you're just a victim. Oh, oh
the devil, the demons were coming after me.
I couldn't do anything about it and they're like, no actually this is just your flesh
because
Jeremiah tells us the heart is
deceptively
wicked above all things. And Jesus tells us it's not what goes into a man that makes him unclean but what comes out of a
man
that makes him unclean and it's the evil thoughts: sexual
Immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, and folly. Oh
wait, I thought all of those were symptoms of a Jezebel spirit, but no, Jesus tells us
these are things that come out of a man's own heart that make him unclean.
James 1:13 through 15 tells us that each person is tempted when he is
lured and tempted by his own desires.
It's your own desires. And then once that desire has conceived and given birth
to sin it then goes on to produce death. It's not a demon. It's your own flesh
and this is why Paul talks so often about
how you have to die to your flesh every single day.
You have to become a new creation in Christ Jesus because our heart is wicked, our sin nature is
in need of sanctification.
Because we still have that sin nature as a human being but we need to become more like Jesus
as we spend time with God, spend time with the Holy Spirit where we become
transformed by His power where we're a new creation in Christ Jesus, so we don't conform to the ways of the world.
Because in Galatians 5 it tells us all the works of the flesh:
adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy,
fits of anger, rivalry, distinctions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and murder.
These aren't demons.
These are your own works of the flesh that are just coming out and if you don't have control,
and we know that one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit is self-control.
He didn't give us a spirit of fear
but of power, love and a sound mind, or you'll see self-control. If we don't practice that self-control,
hey, the works of the flesh are going to come out. This is why Paul tucked in a metaphor about having to beat his body
every single day and so
often, we're quick, we're so quick to blame
Oh, it's a demon because then we'll never have to look into the mirror and say, "Hey,
is how I'm acting in line with how God wants me to behave?" but I want you to notice
Neither in Mark, where Jesus is talking about what defiles man, and not in Galatians where it talks about
the works of the flesh. Do you see boldness,
being sarcastic or being attractive as
works of the flesh? And so often these things are attributed to a Jezebel spirit when in fact
these are tools to help you go out and preach the Gospel.
So I want you to think about that before we get more in depth talking about
specifically Jezebel, because we needed to see what is actually a Jezebel spirit
and what is a work of the flesh?
Because it seems like no matter where you go online or if you walk into a charismatic church, if
you don't want to date a guy - Jezebel spirit - you wear makeup or you look attractive -
Jezebel spirit. Do you preach boldly the Word of God - Jezebel spirit times two - because women aren't supposed to teach the Gospel.
Jezebel spirit. And do you have a sarcastic personality - Jezebel spirit - and it's like
"People, this is why the discerning of spirits is needed for the building up of the church." Because sorry,
sorry to burst your bubble, but not even Satan is omnipresent
so I don't know why you think this Jezebel ho is in every single woman who has ever existed who you feel intimidated
by because that's not the case.
Demons, spirits, are not omnipresent. They can't be in multiple places at once 0 neither
can Satan - only God can do that. So clearly
we need to see what is actually going on with a Jezebel spirit. Who is Jezebel?
What is a Jezebel spirit? And then we can talk more in depth about then discerning the
Jezebel spirit in the church because as is it on a woman or is it more a Jezebel
Theology.? So anyway
that's what I wanted to share with you because the video that I had started to film, it was way too long to finish and
I realized I have so much more that I wanted to share with you before we can really
hunker down and figure out who is the
Jezebel spirit? What is the Jezebel spirit and who has the Jezebel spirit?
So, that's what I wanted to share with you. I hope you will Like, Subscribe, and Share and I will see you later. Bye.