Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries.

All right. Well, I want you to go with me to Genesis 24. We'll take up an offering maybe at some point later on, give some announcements, all of that, but I feel a real flow now to begin to go a direction.

The religious spirit is an interesting one. It's the one I chiefly despise.

The religious spirit is an interesting one. It's a spirit I chiefly despise.

There will never be, Jezebel will never be present where the spirit of religion does not first rule.

I don't teach on this kind of stuff a lot because i think we've had plenty of teaching on it over the years i'm learning what combats things

instead of spending an hour identifying what the spirit is i'd rather spend five minutes telling you how to

eliminate it the way the religious spirit gets eliminated is through the broken box.

When the box is broken, the spirit is quieted.

And Yeshua deals with the entitled mindset of the religious spirit through the excessive worship of the believer operating outside of

entitlement you go home with that as a leader and that helped you tremendously i used to

combat the religious spirit when the religious spirit would manifest you know and i would

come and it's what's interesting's oftentimes it's people who come

out of the most radical deliverance that end up the most susceptible to the religious spirit

and you say well that one thing they're not is religious no they're absolutely religious

they're absolutely baptized in religion why because they were saved out of bondage and put into camps of lawlessness

and the only way that they knew they could maintain their deliverance was by creating a world

where they felt safe from being susceptible to backsliding by living in a false extreme.

And so what the Lord begins to do is he begins to say to us,

how do you keep a people in the flow of the spirit?

Because the chief, listen, the chief end of religion is to

eliminate prophetic flow anywhere there's prophetic flow the spirit of religion immediately begins to

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