Bishop Noel Jones - "NO WEAPON" 9/11 Sermon (2001)

was having [Music] is the restoration of of Israel's mind the difficulty I project is evident because God is endeavoring to change a mindset without changing circumstances the difficulty is trying to get the mind of Israel restored to the point where Israel has Faith again in God now notice what what happens the chastening of God is so perfect that it would almost lead you to believe that he doesn't love you anymore notice if you will the extremities that we operate on moves God in order to change our minds to take us to the Limit of our

endurance simply because we don't change our minds easily and so consequently in order to change our minds he has to allow a chastening that is so intense that he literally has to give us support during the time of Chase because we are of such that to change our mind is so difficult that God has to chasten us to a degree that the chastening itself seems like he doesn't care so 70 years in captivity now God is beginning to reawaken them to Faith and to bring their mindset around to understand that I did not lose control

of the situation because you had to go through this but you had to go through this for me to make you better than you have ever been it is here then that in the Final Chapter and 54 the final verse he says no weapon that is formed against the shall prosper and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shaloud condemn this is the heritage of the Servants of the Lord and their righteousness is of me saith the Lord I want you to look at somebody and just simply say no weapon shall prosper

the the the the circumstance that we find ourselves in is intriguing because the attack that we just went through is actually designed to play with our minds if you notice the the the there is some significance to attacking the financial center because upon attacking the financial Financial Center you actually broach the very core of our Concepts because if we believe anything we believe in the freedom to make money anytime you mess with our money you literally destroy our ability to live the lifestyles we live and so consequently when we begin to deteriorate financially and fall

apart financially then we're not capable of even supporting the military efforts and any other effort that we need to make our country go around to attack us financially and the financial capital is to threaten them the very fabric by which our country runs because believe it or not we're not socialists we are capitalists then of course if you strike at the Pentagon you're going for military leaders and you're going for those people who make policy as it relates to how the military aspect of your country is run now you struck the money center because the

decisions as to how the country is run is going to take money so you strike the money center and then you strike the leaders or the policy makers so not only have you thrown chaos in the financial Fabric or the substratum the foundation of the country you now throw chaos into the leadership the military leadership of the country to retaliate then you turn around and you plan to strike the capital and what you've done now is you've said all right I'm going to destroy the financial base I'm going to destroy the military response space and

I'm going to destroy the governmental base and then you take a shot at the White House and what you've done now is you've systematically taken the head apart and the body's got to fall I want you to think here and understand that nobody intended to invade and take over because there aren't any battleships sitting outside of New York and outside of L.A waiting to come and enslavers nobody is getting ready to come here and and take the country so it seems to me then that the move against us was a calculated move to totally devastate

how we think because the first thing that's going to happen is we're going to say to ourselves if they can take out the richest community in America they can wipe out the military leaders in America they can take care of the president and then knock out the governmental seat then none of us is safe you see this is the whole concept of Terror to take the mind that was sitting quite secure and by one event by one cataclysmic action put the mind in a state that now introduces fear and nervousness that's the whole thought of

Terror the design of Terror is not to invade the country but to invade the minds of the people who are in the country I I think you know it's that the the message then is is being sent to us that even common citizens are vulnerable and so right away what that does is it introduces fear into the mechanics of the human existence and and it breaks down the human mind and now everything that you ever thought you would do is now put on hold uh can I take it further the the sensitivity here then is

is not just to the dead and yes we understand the victims and yes you and I are very sensitive to the victims because we have been raised that way but I point out to you that it goes beyond the victims it goes beyond those who died in the towers and the reason I say that is we have had recently earthquakes that have killed 20 000 people we have had situations globally that others have died and and many have died if you talk about being sensitive to atrocities we have a history of atrocities if you just

read your history books I have some books at home one is called without sanctuary and if you look through and see the lynchings and the killings and all of the things that have gone on throughout the world we should have an historical sensitivity to people who have died in ignoble and catastrophic ways it is not simply our sensitivity to the dead that our problem is our problem goes beyond that because the fear is not just some isolated case we are actually very sensitive about what could happen to us oh I want to take it further

you know and when America heals then we'll have some real good discussions but the sensitivity has in it so others have died in various ways all over the world but we have never come together and prayed when 20 000 people died of an earthquake but we're praying now not so much for the Dead mindset that says eliminate me from the vulnerability of wicked people who want to hurt me now now once I have that kind of mindset I'm really not so much nervous for the dead because they're gone and terror is not to terrify the

debt the terror is to kill them in such a way that the living die in their minds I wish I could talk to you about this uh maybe I'm dyslexic or something but uh what I see here is because we know and we used to people dying but we just don't want people to die in a way that their dying says I can die too I got on a plane yesterday and of course I I I I'm sorry for the victims but when I got on the plane yesterday my thoughts were actually me if you

understand that because because what what Terror does is it does something to somebody else in a manner that you think it can happen to you and so right away the dead have died and served the purpose of the terrorists because if they died in a way that the terrorists can affect you then that's what makes him happy how about I put this we play basketball a lot and and sometimes you're playing ball and uh it's five against five or three against three and the other team's got a guy that's super bad and so what you

want to do is you want somebody to double up on this guy down low you don't want him to get the basket so you say double up on him well who's gonna double up on him because I'm checking my man but but we looked at your man and found out that he is self-chatting nobody needs to check him because he's not going to hurt anybody really it's it's it's really six on four because he's actually on the other team but he's playing for us you see because he's not gonna hurt anything I want you to

see what I'm saying here now notice if you will that once the Dead who died horribly once they have been used to die and the terrorists killed them in order not just to kill them but to kill them in a way that we now join their team now here's how we join the terrorist team we joined their team when they have invaded our minds and our mind no longer stands to resist but rather stands to fear you see I cannot allow myself to join their team by feeding into the fear that they want me to

feel and then I'm already defeated oh I wish somebody listen to me here oh anyway I I said to myself well how can I best explain this and I looked at the word at the word from the Hebrew for Terror and it's it's hot and and it's it's there's many words but this one is is predominant the idea of this word etymologically is to break something to to be broken literally to tear it down to cause it to panic it is a horrible word because what it means is there is an invasion into the substrata

of a man into the spirit of a man literally into his vertebrae I mean if I begin to crack up your bones real good it you can't hold your body together because your bones are broken well this is what the word literally means to break somebody down now notice if you will if you have some plans if you have some dreams if you have some desires if on the 10th God spoke to you to tell you what he needed you to do in 2002. if you have some Ambitions and you have some things to do

and Achieve and all of a sudden one event happens that breaks you spiritually then once you are broken you can no longer hold up your dream can no longer sustain your Visions you can no longer go on to do the things that you are planning to do before the event so what happens now is everything that you thought you would do before it happens what happened just stop you from doing it and what you're saying now is that the event is more significant than the God I serve but God I serve can't get me over

this event and I've just played into the hand of the enemy who's trying to scare me here as long as the enemy is outside I can get through with my victory but I can't afford to let the Enemy Inside because once he gets inside I am defeated I need a word from the Lord and the word from the Lord is no weapon oh I feel like preaching now it is it is it is here when when I look at that the range of meanings uh it literally breaking and then then the second is is a

suggestion that it's interesting and the second meaning is is abstract destruction now notice now the word Terror then it's it's abstract destruction and it's literally breaking through my concept of abstract disstructure now he's got me thinking and perceiving a threat that I don't even see because he's invaded the mind and now my mind is making up things that I don't even see so not only is he threatening me on the outside he's already come inside and so now there goes my joy him there goes my peace the third meaning then obviously is demoralizing he has

now demoralized me I have come to the place now where everything I have is on hold and I feel like my life just has no more meaning because because now I become self-destructive because I quit resisting the attack of the enemy here did you hear what God says and God does not give you anything for your back you have the breastplate of righteousness the helmet of salvation The Shield of Faith you have your waist gird with truth you have won the guesser the gospel but now you have the sword of the spirit but you have

nothing for your back God did not give us anything for our backs because he does not expect us to turn our back on the enemies oh God [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I got to go forward when you put the four things together what you end up now with is the terror of total dismay because now you are confused I told him in Memphis last night at uh Church of God in Christ headquarters that there is no there has never been a time in Ministry where so many questions were asked concerning and about God because it's

in the face of the challenge of the enemy that questions arise out of our experience now finally we are brought to the place where we have to understand how deep we are in Christ it's one thing to shake me superficially it's another thing to shape me until you get into my soul it's another thing to shake me until you're in my mind it's another thing to shake me till you're in my spirit and when you get down into my spirit there had better be something in that spirit that says I will not die but I

shall live uh devil you got to kill me but I'm not gonna kill myself by thinking you can oh I've got to have church in here oh touch somebody tell them no weapon oh God I feel it I feel it I feel it put somebody else look behind you tell them no weapon yeah you talk to somebody oh God become another word here and and and how this this is another word that the Hebrews use and and and it's the synonym is Harrah the synonym and then one is to tremble the other be afraid and

the other is to fear now the Bauhaus is another word that is that is strong here it's an expression of an emotion when somebody is confronted with something suddenly here now notice now you go for the head of the country you go for the financial uh capitals you go for the governmental seeds and and you go for the military seats and then you do it suddenly so what now you have just experienced is a heart attack so the enemy has hit you in your heart and hit you suddenly oh God now we gotta see just

who you are and where you are because this confrontation is unexpected I will say to most of us that's in here the greatest trials we have ever had were trials that were um expected oh yes it's not when the marriage breaks up and you knew it was breaking up it's when somebody just leaves and you don't know why they left I have counseled many people as ever I thought everything was fine I thought everything was fine we were just together last night and then this morning uh somebody knocked on the door and they were serving

me papers and and they're still there eating breakfast and suddenly it's over you see the enemy likes to attack you when you least expect you got a praising God this morning and the enemy attacks you something oh God and when a sudden attack comes you've got to know who to go to immediately you've got to know who to call on right away have you been driving down the highway and all of a sudden you lost control and only one word came out of your mouth Jesus gotta know who to call I'd feel his presence here

oh God it is clear then another word they brought up is called ayam and it means terrible and it's the awesome dread that comes from a mighty Army but in this case The Dread is now in our minds and here is always been the ploy of Satan take your situation make it so awful that it influences your mind to disconnect you from the Lord the Greeks introduce a word and they call it phobosom and we get from that word phobia man and and what that word means is flight in the face of an intimidating enemy

so to be intimidated then is another tool of the enemy he wants you to back up just at the thought of him coming he invades your mind and breaks down your plan so you put your life on hold and you work right into his hand because he killed the dead in such a way that the living moves any strength in their mind so we walk around confused because now we have decided there is nothing to live for because scared to die and we have just played into the hand of the enemy I propose to you

if you plan to get married get married I propose to you if you plan to open a business open it I propose to you if you plan to travel travel be prudent be sagacious but don't stop living your life because then the enemy has already defeated us oh God I feel your presence Touch Somebody real quick and tell them no weapon none whatsoever it is important to see this now because intimidation speaks of a spirit and it's a spirit that prevails upon you and controls you in everything you do and so now the level of

Terror has increased he's attacked where you never go but now you're worried about where you are and then now he's taken you captive without putting a handcuff on you because he can go home and leave you to the devices of your own mind but I refuse to let the devil control my mind because if my mind is connected to my spirit and my spirit is connected to God then all I need is a word from the Lord and God sent me a word when he said no matter how bad the weapon is no weapon [Applause]

I feel it in here Shake somebody's hand like you gonna shake it off and tell him I got too much life to live to stop living now oh God I feel it but the relationship here and the significance have to go into the text and if you notice there's a word in the text that's significant and that is the word forsake if you will look you will see it in verse 6. he's for the Lord had called thee as a woman Forsaken and grieved in spirit a wife of Youth when thou was refused saith the

Lord for a small moment have I forsaken thee but with great mercies will I gather thee we are back then to the question that Associates the god forsaken us to my grace is sufficient and you must understand the technicality here there is no way the enemy can come into any place where the children of God is unless God allows it you have to understand this and that God has to allow you to be breached or the enemy can't get to you if you look at your finances God has to allow it or the enemy can't

get to it if you look at your body God has to allow it or the enemy can't get to it if you look at your relationships God has to allow it or the enemy can't get there but whenever God allows it he does not go away but he moves into another manifestation he becomes my grace is sufficient whatever I allow you to go through I give you Grace to handle it so that when I allow it it does not get in your mind even though it's in your situation I wish I could talk to somebody

here I allow you to be sick but I give your grace to handle the sickness and I allow somebody to walk out of your life but I allow you Grace to handle it till I put somebody else back in your life I allow you know your money to get funny but I give you Grace to handle the funny money until I bless you again whatever I allow I give you Grace to handle so all right they attack New York but they have not attacked my mind because even though God allowed it he gave me Grace

to handle oh I feel the holy spirit in here oh it is important to understand this because now we get a demonstration of the fullness of who he is Touch Somebody look him in the face and tell them you're gonna go through something uh look at somebody else say you're going through something right now there is nobody in here who is not exempt from going through stuff everybody's got to go through some time but I thank God the grace of God helps me to get through what other folk die over [Applause] oh oh I feel

his presence in here how can I take it a little further the demonstration then of God oftentimes is outside our expectation because we have set expectations by what we have preached and therefore nobody expects expects and anything outside of what their mind sets as God will or will not do can I point to you that whenever my expectation of God is so complete and so thorough that it totally envelops who God is then I have just moved into Infinity because the only way to have total expectation as it relates to God is to have the

ability for my expectation to be Beyond his power I point out to you that no matter how much you expect God is beyond your expectation and in this matter he has shown us that when I allow something you don't expect I expect to be what you don't expect uh can I say that again when I allow something you don't expect then I expect to be somebody you don't expect if I allow the sickness that you didn't expect then I'll become the Jehovah roller that that didn't expect I'll be what you don't expect in all of

your life because I'm bigger than your expectation I'm able to do abundantly above all that you ask or even think I feel God In This Place give somebody high five and tell them no weapon no weapon I'd feel something happening in here it is here then that our God brings us to understand that what came upon you is a moment of me forsaking if I forsook you for a moment now when I look at that I said oh my God what are you saying to us he said for 70 years in Israel he said the

only way you are in bondage under Nebuchadnezzar in verse 7 is I forsook you for a moment he gives no credit to the devil he gives no Devil's power he said the only reason you're going through what you're doing is because I step back for a moment now I want you to understand something yeah for those of you who just want to be sad I want you to take another look from another direction if God steps back for one day and the whole world is thrown into this chaos then God must have been stepping with

us all of our many years because I've lived 50 something years and this never happened in my life so what does that tell me God has not stepped back but for a moment he was there with me on the 10th he was there on the 98th the seventh the sixth he's been there since I was born he stepped back on the 11th but he stepped back on the 12th and I want to tell the hidden [Music] but everything's back to normal because the same God who stepped back just wanted me to know I have been

with you all the time and you didn't praise me like your order but understand this if I don't hold you up the enemy will wipe you out but I'm back to let you know no weapon thank you and I feel victory in the house I feel like lifting him up I feel the strength of God in here pull on somebody say come on out of it come on out of it come on out of it you still have dreams to bring to pass you still have contracts to sign you still have records to sing you

still have movies to do you still have planes to catch people to see and places to go and I'm getting ready to live all right [Music] [Applause] and because he stepped back for a moment now Israel becomes like a wife who just lost a husband he deals with the wife of Youth and he says when you were refused and it's like a lonely and what the problem in his is that here you are married to someone from your childhood and all of a sudden they step back and treat you with loathing he says now you're

being you feel like a wife who was married from childhood and now immaturity the husband just backs up not dealing with the kind of wife today because wives today have their own money their own cars their own lives but the wives of this day had nothing and to give your life to a man all of it and suddenly in maturity he starts backing up from you God says you feel like a woman who's been refused like you've been lost like something is wrong with you he said this Affliction has brought you depression and that's about

verse 11 where he says now you're down in the domes and your circumstances are so awful but I want you to do something for me I haven't yet changed the situation but I want you to do something for me if you're field you've got a word from me in your spirit in spite of the circumstance I want you to break out with singing he said sing I want you to sing I heard the psalm and say how can I sing when I'm in a foreign country but I hear the Lord saying sin because I've put

some music in your spirit that says in spite of what you're going through if I could give a song of things to rise up out of your soul then I would know your mind is still in the right place I feel like preaching in here today if I could get somebody who could lift up my hands and said I don't feel no waste time I've come too far I feel the Holy Ghost in there if I could get somebody to raise a song like Blessed assurance Jesus is mine oh what a forte of the Glory

Divine now if I could get somebody to get in that prayer closet and begin to lift up the voice like Paul and Silas in the Midnight Hour and just send a counter-terror attack back to the enemy when he hits you with his best punch you send him a word back I'm still praising my God I'm still up name of my God send a message to who's trying to intimidate you and you let them know by your song you might have messed up my money tried to take out my government but I gotta go that nobody

can bomb I have a God that nobody can tear down he said then when you sing I want you to enlarge your tents I want you to go back to your planning board and build bigger tents cause I'm getting ready to bless you my can never been blessed he prepareth a table in the presence of your enemies I'm getting ready to touch your neighbor say I put some things on hold I'm getting ready to get them off I got some stuff on layaway I'm getting ready to get it out I thought about getting married I'm

gonna do it just a little quicker I'm feel like preaching in here give somebody high five tell them God said build your tent enlarge it you had a one-car garage box and make a two car somebody said three somebody said four gone you're living in a little house and God said buy you a piece of land enlarge your tent sing enlarge your teeth he said fear not don't be afraid because I am your Redeemer the one who forsook you for a minute is the one that's redeeming you I'm getting ready to close but he said

with loving kindness I'll draw you back and let the enemy know his moment is over Shake somebody's hand said the enemy's moment is over it's glory to God time it's a praise time it's lifting him up time he's said be righteous be established then he said teach your children but to say and Lord how can I do it and the battle's not over he said it's already over because no weapon formed against you shall prosper I feel like preaching in here they tried to bankrupt us they just bankrupt themselves the enemy tried to knock me

out but he just knocked himself out because the God I serve has more power than anything in the world I'm getting ready to close but tell your neighbor my mind's been attacked but no psychological weapon my body's been attacked but no physical weapon my money's been attacked but no money weapon because everybody has got to borrow power from God and God told me to tell you he just cut your enemies off he just cut the supply off no more power get him out of your mind so I Rose to tell America get up shake yourself

and tell the devil business as usual we are the children of God I'm getting ready to close you but I heard him say this is the Heritage shakes him out his hand say I got a Heritage power is my Heritage Joy is my Heritage love is my Heritage freedom is my Heritage preaching singing shouting rejoicing is my Heritage and I will lift up the law every day of my life I'm getting ready to have some church in here touch your neighbor say keep on praising him keep on rejoicing keep on lifting him up because no

weapon turned against your back keep on buying keep on selling Shake somebody's hand tell him I'm getting ready to be blessed I'm getting ready to be rich I'm getting ready to Rejoice I'm getting ready to lift him up let somebody say I feel my healing I feel my joy I feel my strength because no weapon get out of my mind you ain't stopping nothing I'll praise him I'll bless him I'll lift him up I'll Magnify Him I'll rejoice in him cause no ever again laughs formed against me shall prosper I have anybody in here do

I have anybody in here who beat sickness Agnes didn't get you do I have anybody in here that drugs didn't defeat you do I have anybody that somebody walking out on you didn't defeat you do I have anybody here who praised him and didn't have a dime in their pocket do I have anybody here that when the enemy rolls up to destroy you he had to back up off him no weapon no formed against me shall prosper touch three people tell them I'm still a child of God and God still delivers sustains sets free against

me Shout the victory is already mine [Applause] [Music] all right [Applause] [Music] take somebody's hand in this building [Music] snap out of it Glory Glory Glory [Applause] I'm talking to some folk good afternoon who have been through some stuff it's not the first time we've been challenged I feel your strength you're touching somebody and you feel their strength I feel you're pulling on the anointing I feel you're pulling on the virtue somebody just touched the Hem of His Garment and the Lord said who touched me greater Bethany touch your Jesus oh yeah somebody touched him

somebody's revived [Music] I don't know how long you've been you've gone through so much to get where you are right now just go let somebody just take it the devil is alive you know how many tears you cry [Music] vacation and get your mind set where it is going to sit down and let it invade my thinking you know how many times God has brought me out and I'm going to sit and question him because he stepped back for a moment I'm glad it was a moment and not a day I'm glad it was a

moment and not a year a little Glory stepped out to show me that I've been your power all along I have been your keeper all alone I have been your strength all along you sit around and complain and look like you don't even know what your priorities are but I want you to know even though I showed you who your power is now that you know no evidence formed against you you're holding somebody's hand who needs to be born of the water and the spirit yes I heard the Lord say except a man be born

again he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven [Music] you must be born of the water in the spirit [Music] but first he must believe the death burial and the resurrection of Jesus Christ he must believe that he is not worthy in and of himself if you're in this room and you feel in your spirit I need to do something more than I've done to establish my relationship with the Lord and that's God talking to you that's God drawing you because no man comes except the father so and I want you to experience the power of

the Holy Spirit I want you to experience the power of the name of Jesus and I want you to experience the power of repentance and conversion repent [Music] and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus for the remission of your sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy spirit I want you to come from all over from the Overflow from the balcony from out front wherever you are there is an experience that you will know you're a child of God I want you to come I you cannot walk out

of here without just break loose those hands and come because you have to say you're Eternal dwelling in order to live without fear just break on and cut come on somebody's moving somebody's rejoicing somebody's rejoicing yeah come on come on whatever they tell you to do when you get to this altar just do it God is going to bless you just do it come on man come on come on come on come on come on ladies come on come on it's God drawing you give God the prayers give God the prey give God lord