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Python is the largest snake in the world, it’s a powerful (listen up) it’s a powerful constricting snake that literally chokes the breath out of its victims. You’ve got to listen to me give me your attention and listen.
In Acts 16th chapter the Bible said that Paul and Silas were on a divine assignment. And as they were on their way to the temple to pray the Bible said that there was a woman who was demon possessed with an evil spirit. And the scripture gave the name of the spirit and in Act 16 it said she has <the spirit of Python>. It’s the only time in the book of Acts that the name of the demon is given. There must be something God is trying to give us an insight into, He said it’s a spirit of Python.
Python is not just another snake. You know, snakes in the Bible represent demon's spirits. Jesus said in Luke 10 that we would trend on serpents. The Bible in the book of Genesis tells us that Lucifer slither into the Garden of Eden with the body of serpent. In the book of revelation the Bible calls Satan, “that old serpent”, the devil. That there must be a reason why it was not a spirit of cobra or a spirit of rattle snake but it was a spirit of Python.
This story in Acts 16 is centered around midnight and midnight is always a picture in the scripture as the end time, the nearness of the coming of the Lord. And at midnight the Bible said, “The cry was made, behold the bridegroom cometh. Go out to meet Him.” So God was trying to get you to understand as the midnight generation, the generation that is living, which will see the coming of the Lord. That the predominant spirit that will come against you would be the spirit of Python. And when He wanted you to understand how Python would try to destroy your life, He wanted to have this mental picture in your mind on how a Python kills his victims.
Python is a snake that is after one thing. He doesn't kill his victims by injecting poison like the rattle snake or cobra but the way the Python kills his victims is by coiling himself around them and beginning to squeeze and constrict and choke the very breath out of his victim. You see Python is after one thing. The spirit of Python is after breath.
▶Breath in the Bible represents the spirit of God. Jesus in John chapter 20 breathes on them. And said receive ye the Holy Ghost. In the book of Acts the Holy Spirit came like a mighty rushing wind. Breathe, air, in the Bible represents the spirit, the breath, the life of God and Python comes to choke the life of God out of you. He doesn’t kill his victim instantly but he just begins suddenly, gradually, slowly to choke the liberty out.
At one time some of you were on fire for God, at one time you would come to church and you would raise your hands and praise Him. But when Python begins to get a hold of you, he begins to squeeze and choke the life out of your praise. Choke the breath out of your walk with God. Choke the breath!
It doesn’t happen overnight, at first you can still get your hands up, you can compromise, you can play with sin and at first nothing happens but little by little Python begins to constrict and begins to choke and begins to leave you. Until finally they said the way of the Python kills his victim is every time the victim exhales. He tightens just a little bit more and a little bit more until finally you can’t catch your breath. It’s like you’ll get spiritual asthma. You can get your hands up in church. You can’t breathe spiritually. That’s the operation of the spirit of Python.
(Video playing – Nirvana band)
▶Kurt Cobain had everything. He was married to movie star wife Courtney Love. He had a beautiful 8 year old daughter. He had an incredible mansion in Seattle, Washington. He had sold millions of records. He starts a whole youth movement in America, The Grunge Move. But little by little even though he had everything he was empty inside and Python begins to entangle him. Not only did he have all of the things I had mention but he also had the alcohol problem and he also had a drug problem. Because there is pleasure in sin for season but then Python slowly, it doesn’t happen overnight, but little by little he begins to put the squeeze and starts to choke and suddenly you can’t get free like you could get free. At one time you could put it down but suddenly you can’t just break loose. He was swept into a world of hopelessness and even though he had everything in his mansion in Seattle, one night, in a drunken stoup and high on drugs, he begins to pen his own suicide note. He didn’t feel like life was worth living anymore.
(Music playing)
It was four days later that an electrician went to the mansion of Kurt Cobain and found his body. He left a suicide note. They found beside his body a bottle of liquor. Drugs were in his body. His blank brains(blood) were splattered on the wall. Kurt Cobain wrote this words and I want to read this to you. It’s the actual death letter that he pen to his wife and his 8 year old daughter.
"All the warnings of punk rock 101 courses over the year of my first introduction have proven to be very true. For example, when we are back stage and the lights go out and the manic roar of crowd begins, it doesn’t affect me in the way it used to. The fact is I can’t fool anyone anymore, it simply it unfair to you or me. The worst crime I can think off would be to reap the people of by faking and pretending."
Listen, this is the man that the world tells you, if you get what he’s got, you’d be happy and listen to this that he said in his death note.
"The worst crime I can think of would be to reap the people off by faking and pretending that I’m having 100% fun.
Sometimes I feel as if I have a punch in time clock. Before I walk out on stage, I’ve tried everything within my power to appreciate it but it’s empty. I have a goddess of a wife who sweats ambition, a daughter who reminds me too much of what I use to be. Full of the love and joy, kissing every person she meets because everyone is good and won’t do her no harm. And that terrifies me to the point where I can barely function. I can’t stand the thought of Frances becoming the miserable, self-destructed, death rocker that I have become. Thank you all from the pit of my burning notions stomach for your letters and concerns during the past years. I don’t have the passion anymore. So remember it’s better to burn out than fade away. Frances and Courtney, I’ll be at your altar. Please keep going Courtney for Frances, for her life, which will be so much happier without me.
I love you. I love you."
▶First they’ll get entangled. What I’m speaking right now, if we could see spiritually, some of you who at one time were on fire for God. You were full of anointing. You were full of the power. You couldn’t wait to get to church and praise God. But little by little Python has begun to choke the anointing, the breath, and the life of God out of you. And if we could hear you spiritually, (catching breath) that’s how you came to this convention. And the Bible said that the later in would be worse than the beginning.
(Playing Nirvana Song).
Tupac had it all. Tupac had the Rollsroice. Tupac had the women. Tupac had everything but one bullet took it away. If Tupac had come back he would sing to you about the tagged life. If Tupac could come back he would talk to you about a gang or selling dope. He would tell that dope dealer to go back to hell where he came from. He would tell you young ladies that losing your virginity isn’t worth being popular.
About a year ago my wife and I received a call from Mrs. Evander Holyfield. She’s been watching our television program. She invited us to her mansion in Atlanta to have lunch. And what I’m about to tell you, a lot of people don’t know but it’s the truth. Just hours before Tupac was shot, and he would die three days later, he was shot in a drop-by shooting. Tupac had gone to Las Vegas to see Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield’s fight. And just hours before he was shot, Evander Holyfield felt to talk to Tupac in a private meeting about his soul. Evander said and he said, “Tupac, you know what’s right you know you’re living wrong. You know, Jesus has made a difference in my life. And you need to give your life to the Lord. And Tupac said, “One day but not right know. I’m having too much fun. I got my whole life ahead of me. I know what’s right but not right now. I want to party and young. I want to have a good time. One day, I’m going to get back to church.
The Python had already plan. Can you hear in that intensive care unit in Las Vegas as the breathing machine is going up and down, up and down. Finally, Python takes his last squeeze in Tupac the super star. (Catching last breath) he’s gone. If he could come back, I wonder what he would say.
(Playing Tupac’s Song).
▶Aaliya, according to her own words on her website, developed her talent in the house of God. She began to sing at an early age, the songs of the church. You say it couldn’t happen to me what is happening to them. It already is, and some of it you don’t even know it. You’re already entangled and stocked. You say I can’t control it; the Python is stronger that you are. She had made a movie. Her carrier was on tract. She had sold a million copy of her record. She had gone to the Bahamas to make a brand new video for her new release. But little did she know she would die 22 years of age. Do you understand that her movie even though she’s dead is the No. 1 movie in America as I stand in this platform right now? You guy knows I’m telling you the truth. Prophetically it was named, she didn't know what she was shooting in, that the name of the movie would be a prophecy over her life, "Aaliya Queen of the Dammed”.
(Playing – Because I got high by Shaggy)
▶You know this songs, don’t act the like you’re the holiest young people I’ve ever seen. You know you know this song. Don’t make me look like a fool up here. You know these songs. How many of you know these songs. Now listen, do you understand that nobody just start smoking dope? Pythons after your breathe and some of you are dumb enough to take a cancer stick called the cigarette. See it starts gradually. It’s just a little thing, just a little thing. It’s just a little dirty weed that you put in your mouth. Listen if God wanted you to smoke, He’d put a chimney at the top of your head. And anyhow listen! Really, the cigarettes smoking you suck.
Three hundred and forty thousand people died of cancer last year. Most of those got that cancer from smoking cigarettes. You listen to me right now and you’ve got to have that fit because this is a long service. And you pack your cigarettes up under some suitcase where your youth leader couldn’t find them and you’re having nicotine fit. I’m here to get in your face tonight. I’m here to tell you that it won’t be cool when you’re laying in an intensive care with your hair out because you’re having or taking a therapy dying of cancer. Pythons after your breathe.
You understand, that every time you smoke a cigarette they say that it takes 3 minutes of your life. So it takes you three minutes to smoke it and on the other minute of your life span you just lost three minutes. The average smoker loses fifteen years of their life. And then after you smoke a little cigarette then you start smoking a Jane. It’s just the party I want to fit in. I just want to know what it’s like to get high. Let me tell you what marijuana does that nobody tells you about. Marijuana is a dangerous drug. I know we white washed it. I know we had a president that did it in hell but still a dangerous drug. Listen to me man, let me preach. You know that the latest scientific studies they have done on marijuana? They said that for every joint you smoke it is the equivalent of two packs cigarette. That a joint one joint has ten times the cancer producing agent of a cigarette, ten times.
Marihuana causes cerebral brain damage. That’s obvious by the way these guys have acted up here tonight. Not only that, it means literally they have proven that when you smoke marijuana it kills brain cells and some of you need all the brain cells you can get. You don’t need to be losing any.
This is interesting. In the University of Colorado they just finished the study. They got a bunch of pot heads together and they gave them dope every day for 30 days and they let them get high. At the end of that thirty days without telling the pot smokers they took TAC, which is the high producing element in marijuana. They took it out. The chemical that produces the high feeling, they took out of the marijuana. And yet when the guys starts to smoke in the pot they got just as high as they did before. And they concluded the study by saying; it is possible that when you believe in the drug that your taking you can get something, this is medical doctors, you can get something beside a chemically induced high. When I read that I thought about the fact that the Bible calls, sorcery and witchcraft in the Greek in the book of revelation. It’s the same word "Pharmadechiah” from which we get the word pharmacy or drug usage. Could it be anytime you healed your mind to a drug that you can give yourself over to a demonic state that Satan can slip a demons spirit around you that begins to bind you outwardly but eventually gets inside of you so that you cannot free yourself from it. Nobody takes cocaine without first smoking dope. It all starts with a little compromise and first they are entangled and after they are entangled they overcome. And the later end is worse than the beginning.
(Playing Music)
▶We live in a pornographic world. America is smiting with mud. Our generation is being submerged in a hellish tide of impurity. I want you to listen to me. If you look at pornography, you are getting a blood transfusion from hell. The Bible said in Matthew chapter 6 that the eye is the lamp of the body. In other words if your eye is pure it fills the body with light, but if your eye is dark and it filled with evil and filth, then it fills your body with darkness.
You need to understand something about yourself, you are a visual being. Your eye takes in 4 million bytes of information per second at the speed of 187000 miles per second. Blows it up in to 3D full color and gives motion to it. Your mind automatically converts words into pictures. (Watch this, red apple. You all just saw one did you? Black dog, white horse.) You know why? because you’re a visual being and you mind automatically converts what you see in the picture. That’s why when Satan wants to destroy somebody, the first thing he has to do is get not their body but their mind. And if he can get a grip on your mind to pornography and I just want to preach man and tell you it’s not just forn magazine there something called musical pornography that is just as bad. And it will entangle you and after it entangles you it will overcome you. And the later in, it would be worse than the beginning.
▶I want to tell you something as I was preparing for this message. I’ll rise up with the Lord and I said God can I let them do that on the platform, because these are church kids I’ll be preaching to, then the Lord spoke to me as clear I’ve ever heard Him. He said, “Son you listen, you listen on what about I’m about to tell the young people, the Lord told me to tell you that the devil targets church kids more than any other kids”.
He doesn’t bother you unless you’re bothering him. The way that Python operates is he tries to entangle you in wrong relationships. You can be on fire for God, you can have a calling or an anointing in your life but if you start to get wrap up in the wrong relationship, see I don’t believe that you can just date anybody. I don’t believe in dating around. Wait a minute stop screaming, listen. You can’t just date around, because dating around leads to sleeping around. The young lady says, “But you don't understand. If I don’t fool around…” Please understand one thing cause to another, once he puts his hands on your knee it’s easier to proceed further, ones you allow him to begin to touch parts of you, it’s easier to perceive further, one thing cause for another.
▶(popular song)
I wanna li-li-li-lick you from your head to your toes
And I wanna move from the bed down, to the down to the to the floor
This is not some song that nobody knows. This is the no. 1 song that is on the radio. Listen.
“I want to… ah ah make it so good
You don’t want to leave but I got to know your fantasy
I want to get you in the back seat
Windows up that’s the way you like to fog up, all alert, all reap
Reap the pants; reap the skirt, in the garden, in the dirt, in the sun,
On the shade on top of my escalate.
Baby your girl my friends can trade tag team on the rod on the ocean on the boat
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah give it to me now, give it to me now
You know what disturbs me, is their young people whose setting out there right now. You go to youth group on Wednesday night and you know what’s right. You cannot listen to that kind of music and it will not take your breath away!
Britney Spears have her song that’s in top 10 right now. “I’m a slave for you.
I know I’m not that young but I’ve got feelings too
I need to do what I feel like doing so let me go and just listen
She doesn’t know how prophetic that picture is.
“I know I may come off quiet,
I know I may come off shy,
I cannot hold it I cannot control it
I’m a slave for you
I won’t deny it I won’t trade it
I really wanna dance tonight with you,
I really wanna do what you want me to do.
And young people set and listen to that. See you need to understand something. Your life will always move in the direction of the dominant images you allowed to reside in your mind. Please listen to me. If you allow, see the Bible said that Lot pitched his tent towards the city of sin. He just started looking in that direction the next time you read about him he’s outside the gate of Sodom. The next time you read about him he is inside and bound up because your lives will always begin to move in the direction of the dominant images you allowed to reside in your mind.
▶Some of you are sitting out there, listen to me right now and some of you precious young ladies do all of these kids(performers on the stage) are from my church. I love them dearly. And some of you are under such pressure sexually. That guy has told you that if you don’t put out he doesn’t want you anymore. And the devil is lying to some of you ladies saying, if you want to be popular he will love you if you... Now let me tell you what he’s going to do after he uses you up. He is going to go and he is going to set in the locker room and he is going to tell all his friends what you’ve been doing. And then he’s going to throw you aside and use somebody else when he gets a chance.
This is a picture that hell doesn’t want you to see. Hell doesn’t want you to see, teen pregnancy. Hell doesn’t want you to see yourself in an abortion clinic cutting the baby in pieces. Some of you guys are sitting out there and your Pentecostal playboys, Pentecostal gigolos. While I’m standing up here on this platform you’ve got a condom in your wallet right now. Just copping the crowd loud and hoping you’ll get lucky. I’ve come to deal with the spirit. I’ve come to run it off. I’ve come to untie you. I’ve come to loose you. I’ve come in Jesus name to see you get free.
Listen to me, young people, love gives you a wedding. Lust gives you a condom. Little by little he wants you to give up your virtue, your character, your integrity, your name, your virginity.
▶I want to conclude this message now by telling you what happen to Paul and Silas, because you don’t have to stay bound. Some of you as I preach are as though you now that there is life of God is being choked out of you. Paul and Silas the Bible said, because of the Python spirit were put in a prison. Chains were put on their hands. That’s were Python takes you in the bondage. They couldn’t get free. They couldn’t get their hands loose. They couldn’t get their body free and some of you are there as I speak. The Bible said that the devil made a mistake. You know the devil did make a mistake when he bit Paul and Silas. He did make a mistake when he chain Paul and Silas. He made a mistake when he put Paul and Silas in the same cell. Because if any two believers ever get together, something can happen, I don’t care how bound.
That’s why the devil messed up when he let you come to interface. There are enough of us in here to run every evil spirit out to untie your mind and loose your body. Somebody praise Him in this town. Oh Hallelujah.
▶They were snake bitten in the wilderness in the book of Exodus. Snake bitten, dying from an attack from serpents and the Bible said, God told Moses, “Raise up a brass pole and put a serpent on the breast pole. Now what God may is this, the problem was snakes. But God said the problem was the solution. So if they will look on that serpent on that snake, if they were bitten by the snake, when they look the poison in them will die and they will live.
I can see a mother running to her tent and she leaves her baby up into her Hara. There’s a little snake that has bitten, a deadly snake bit her baby and the babies I barely bitten he’s swelling quickly. She runs out the tent. She turns and just let the baby face the serpent on the brass pole and instantly the poison stopped.
You the young people, the Lord tell me today that the problem is the solution. In other words, if 'the flesh is what gets you into trouble the flesh is what’s going to get you out. If passion in the wrong area what’s what got you in trouble, passion for God is what’s going to get you out. If given your body to the devil got you into trouble, give your body to God, He’s going to let you out. Jesus would look back in his life time and he would say 'as Moses lifted up the serpent, in the wilderness so I will be lifted up.' And if the snake has some if they look on me, if they’ll see my sacrifice, I'll heal them. I’ll loose some. I’ll set them free. He paid the price, He made the sacrifice so that you can be free. Python is going to break and I’m closing my sermon now but listen.
Do you know what the Bible said, Paul and Silas did, they song praises at midnight. And as they sung praises at midnight, God send an earthquake. And here the point I want to get to, the next morning they went back into the prison. After God set them free and they sat down, and the jailer came and said why you are back God has set you free. And they made this powerful statement, they said, “You did not put us in here privately and where not going to leave this house privately”. Wait just one moment, you know that Python has broken off your life. When you are willing, see Paul and Silas was saying, we want the same people who saw us go in, come out, see us come out, we want the same people who watched us when we were once in. Now know that we have been free and you know that you have been free from Python when you go public and you’re not ashamed of Jesus anymore and you want everybody to know it.
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I want you to raise your hand over this building right now, raise them up now the Holy Spirit is here. He said son I want you to give a virgin altar call. What does that mean, it’s too late somebody is saying, No its not. Starting tonight, I’m going to be free my body is not going to be controlled by Python. Some of you, you’ve lost your praise, you’ve lost the breath, you’ve lost the spirit. God wants to breathe on you again tonight. And when you leave this place you going to leave here praying in tongue as the spirit gives you the utterance you’re going to get your breathe back. With every head bowed, every eye close, I want you to stand in your feet.
You know what I feel like God is going to do. He’s going to clean some of you up. He’s going to untie areas of your life that Python already beginning to bind you up in. Some of you are going to have to go home and get rid of some of the musical pornography. Some of you going to have to go get rid of some things in your life and you can’t do it on your own but His power is going to break tonight. With your heads bowed and your eyes closed, if you take Pastor Franklin, that’s me, I’m not going to play God games anymore, I want to give Him everything, I want Python to break. I want to breathe again.
Pray for me. If that’s you raise up your hand, be honest all over this building their going up all over up in the top balcony raise Him high. I want every one of you that have raise your hand to get out from where you are. I don’t care if you’re at the top seat. I’m going to wait on you, I want you to get out from what you are and I want you to feel this whole alter section. The Holy Ghost is fixing the fall in these altar in the mighty way. I sense it in my spirit. And I want you to come.
If you backslider, if you don’t know what your stand with God. If the Python has got you, you want your mind to get loose. Some of you are bound to memory. Some of you need to answer the virgin altar call. You can’t go back in change the past but starting tonight, some of you are in wrong relationships and the devil has got you wrapped up. Dating somebody that’s not even a Christian and the devil has got you wrapped up, and you know you’re already compromising doing things that you know you shouldn’t be doing. The Lords going to loose you and you going to be back and you going to have the boldness you going to be like Paul and Silas that said, “I want everybody to know, I want all my friends to know, I want all the people I'm parted, I’m not the same person.
We’re going to pray this prayer. We’re going to pray this prayer and when we pray it Python is going to loose you. How many of you believe this message is for you tonight. It is for you tonight or it was for somebody out there. It is for you tonight.
Everybody pray this prayer.
Father in Jesus name I come to you tonight and I give you my body. I give you my mind. I give you my eternal spirit. From this night forward I belong to you. I’ll clean my life up. I know the music that I’ve been listening to that grieves your spirit. I know the movies that I’ve been looking at and that grieve your spirit. I know the people that I have been entangled with and I’m not strong enough that is grieving your spirit. So tonight I lay it down, tonight I want my breath back. Tonight I want to raise my hands and not feel dirty anymore. And I feel like I’m not bound anymore. Would you please breath on me one more time would you please touch me one more time. Would you please loose me from Python one more time? I want to breathe again.
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