{"id":16033,"date":"2026-01-26T19:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16033"},"modified":"2026-01-28T20:08:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T01:08:45","slug":"unveiled-faces-sermon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16033\/unveiled-faces-sermon\/","title":{"rendered":"Unveiled Faces sermon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi John,<\/span><\/p>\n

I went and re-listened to your message that Vince just posted on Youtube (Unveiled Faces –\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zvWOHRh4nGY<\/a><\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a great message and very worth listening to again…..\u00a0 In that video, you asked me about something I shared from reading Psalms recently.\u00a0 I had noticed that David often referred to his “enemies” and how much he asked the Lord to deliver him from them.\u00a0 Of course,\u00a0he had physical enemies, but I was asking the Lord what that would be in our time, and I heard something like,\u00a0“Your enemies are spirits, or voices”\u00a0(that trouble you and keep you from the real me, is what He meant.\u00a0 \u00a0It’s an internal thing now.\u00a0 I didn’t do the greatest job of explaining that in the video, so I thought it may help to explain what the Lord was showing me about this.<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, two Psalms that stood out to me were Psalm 27 and 31 (and many others in that section).\u00a0 \u00a0In Psalm 27, David starts out declaring that the Lord is his light and his salvation, and the strength of His life, and who should he fear (but God)?\u00a0\u00a0Then he says in verse 2 ,”When my enemies came upon me to ‘eat my flesh’ (devour me), they stumbled and fell because of God.”\u00a0 That’s what spirits (voices) do.\u00a0 They devour us and make us fearful and send us into retreat.\u00a0 Then David says in verse 5, “For in the time of trouble, he shall hide me in His pavilion,” so that David would\u00a0\u00a0dwell in the house of the Lord forever, and be set upon a rock.\u00a0 And so that his head will be lifted up above his enemies all around him.\u00a0 And THEN he will offer in God’s tabernacle sacrifices of joy, and he will sing praises to God.” And in verse 12, David says, “Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies, for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty,” and he ends by saying, “Wait on the Lord!\u00a0 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thy heart.”\u00a0 These spirits are lying and cruel.\u00a0 But God has the strength we need.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another good Psalm is 31, where David starts with,\u00a0“In thee O Lord do I put my trust, let me never be ashamed.\u00a0 Deliver me in thy righteousness”\u00a0and “Thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy, thou hast set my feet in a large room. . . .\u00a0\u00a0But I trusted in thee O Lord.\u00a0\u00a0I said, Thou art my God.\u00a0 My times are in your hand.\u00a0 Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.\u00a0 Lord, make your face to shine upon thy servant”<\/span><\/p>\n

These are just a few of many Psalms, where I can\u00a0replace\u00a0the word “enemies” with the words “spirits”\u00a0or\u00a0“voices”,\u00a0and it puts it into the now.\u00a0 We are dealing with influences all the time.\u00a0 People, voices, spirits, all trying to separate us or back us up from the\u00a0One who is our rock and our salvation.\u00a0 And David always met it with praising God, and trusting God, and speaking out the praises of his heart to the Lord.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, I hope that makes a little clearer what I was trying to say.\u00a0 It reminded me of how you taught us that we can substitute the words “holy Ghost” for the law,\u00a0statute, etc.,\u00a0in Psalm 119, and that was so helpful.<\/span><\/p>\n

I finished a song called “Unveiled Faces” to kind of go along with your message on the same.\u00a0 Hopefully,\u00a0I can sing it before too long. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

Gary\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hi John, I went and re-listened to your message that Vince just posted on Youtube (Unveiled Faces –\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zvWOHRh4nGY) It’s a great message and very worth listening to again…..\u00a0 In that video, you asked me about something I shared from reading Psalms recently.\u00a0 I had noticed that David often referred to his “enemies” and how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16036,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16033\/revisions\/16036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}