Armed and Dangerous
Bishop David M. Tucker
September 13, 2015
Ezekiel 37:1-14
1. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the
Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones.
2. And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very
many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O
Lord God, thou knowest.
4. Again he said unto me, Prophecy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye
dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
5. Thus saith the Lord God unot these bones; behold, I will cause breath to enter
into you, and ye shall live:
6. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will brings up flesh upon you, and cover
you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that
I am the Lord.
7. So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise,
and Behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the
skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9. Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say
to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath,
and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
10. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and
they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11. Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel:
behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for
our parts.
12. Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith Lord God; Behold, O my
people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves,
and bring you into the land of Israel.
13. And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my
people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14. And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your
own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it,
saith the Lord.
In most cases when we hear preaching from Ezekial 37 it is used to speak to us of the Power of
God: Reviving, Resurrecting, Restoring.
It shows us how our God can move into the graveyard of our lives and resurrect dreams and
visions, and how he can step into the middle of your chaos and confusion and he can bring order
and peace.
We see God take nothing and through the process of hearing the Word of God and the operation
of the Holy Spirit turn nothing into something great and powerful. And we labor with great
diligence and attention to detail to show how a valley full of dry, desolate, broken, separated,
bones are transformed into the final product of a mighty army standing on their feet ready for
service.
Then we close the bible and shout about the miracle in the valley of dry bones, and then go
home.
But I want to start this message where we usually quit.
I don’t want to preach about the dry bones and I’m not here to prophesy to dry bones tonight, but
(I came here this morning to prophesy to the army of God.)
I want to prophesy to that group of men and women, and young men and and women from every
nation, every station and every condition and circumstance of life that God has called and
anointed and appointed for such a time as this.
I’m not speaking today to the depressed and distressed, I’m not speaking to the fretful and
fearful, and I’m not speaking to the wounded and worried.
I don’t mean to sound cynical or uncaring, because I do care but God has focused my spirit on
another class of people today.
My assignment today is not to the dry bones, but to the Army of God.
There’s not that many in contrast to the valley of dry bones, but in every city, in every church
there are a select few that have answered the call of the Spirit to come up to a higher place and
live on a higher plane.
I’m talking about the Army of the Lord.
They are a rare breed of people who have learned to be soldiers.
We’ve got a lot of Saints in the church, but we don’t have a lot of Soldiers.
We have a lot of Saints holding the fort, but we don’t have many Soldiers possessing the land.
God said: It’s time for the Army of the Lord to come to attention, The adversity is great the
conditions are hard but we were bred for the battle. We are Armed and Dangerous.
Yes there will always be dry bones that need a prophet who will see the plan of God and
prophesy and bring restoration and transformation.
But today, I didn’t come to prophesy to the dry bones, but to prophesy to his Army.
I’m here to prophesy to you the Army of God and God said to tell you that this is your Hour of
Power.
God said he raised you up out of the valley of dry bones.
He said he has brought divine order into your life, he said he has strengthened you and nourished
you by his word, and the wind of his Spirit has filled your lives and stood you up on your feet
and now it’s time for you to fulfill your purpose.
You are Gods hands and feet in the earth, you are the agents of change and deliverance in the
earth.
It was said of the early church: They have turned the world upside down.
It was Gods mighty power flowing through yielded vessels that threw down Satan’s strongholds
and raised up and established the kingdom of God.
The Baton has been passed, The mantle has fallen upon this generation, the mantle has fallen
upon us. (Smith Wigglesworth is not here anymore, Charles Finney and John Wesley, and Maria
Woodworth Etter and Many other great Men and Women of God are not here anymore) It’s our
turn now to pick up the banner and run with it.
The revivals of Azusa Street, Brownsville, and many other glory points are no longer stirred. It’s
time for the army to rise up and stir a new glory.
We are those who have been anointed to break through and set the captives free, we are anointed
to bring deliverance to the bound and oppressed.
God said in Jeremiah 51:20-21 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war, for with thee will I
break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms, and with thee will I break in
pieces the horse and his rider, and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider.
Isaiah 41:15 Behold I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: Thou shalt
thresh the mountains and beat them small and shall make the hills as chaff.
Having Teeth means we’re not all talk, it’s not all hot air, it means we have the power to back it
up.
1 Corinthians 4:20 For the Kingdom of God is not in word but in Power.
Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive Power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you.
Wherever the Kingdom of God is there will be a manifestation of the Power of God
Romans 4:17 For the Kingdom of God is not in meat and drink, but righteousness peace and joy
in the Holy Ghost.
Then listen to what Jesus said:
Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is
within you.
We are the Army of God!
We have been delivered from the hand of the enemy, we’ve been washed in the blood of the
lamb and filled with the HolyGhost and Power!
And we are Armed and Dangerous!
God did not call us into his service, and send us into warfare without weapons.
First of all God has given us his Armour!
Ephesians 6:13-18
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil
day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of
righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of
the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all
perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Then the bible tells us he has given us weapons that are not carnal, but mighty through God to
the pulling down of strongholds and the casting down of imaginations and every high thing that
exalts itself against the knowledge of God. bringing every thought into captivity to to obedience
of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:4-5
I came to tell you tonight: In this battle, and in this warfare, (We have the advantage) We have
been given weapons that the devil has no defense against.
We have the power of the name of Jesus) The name that is above every name, the name that
holds power in three worlds.
Philippians 2:9 -11 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is
above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and
things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father.
Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven
given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Mark 16:17-18 And these signs shall follow them that believe;( In my name) shall they cast out
devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they
shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
And
*We have the power of the blood of Jesus
There’s protection thru the blood
There’s healing thru the blood
There’s deliverance thru the blood
There’s cleansing for your conscience thru the blood
There’s access into the presence of God thru the blood
There is overcoming power thru the blood ( Rev 12:11) And they overcame him by the blood of
the lamb and the word of their testimony.
No wonder the song writer penned the words: There is power in the blood of the lamb.
Those Old timers might not have had a lot of the revelation that we have today, but what they did
know (they knew well) and one of the things they knew well was (There is power in the blood)
They would plead the blood on everything: Children, cats, dogs, garden, house, car.
They wouldn’t go anywhere or do anything without pleading the blood first.
And
*We have the power of the word of God.
The same word that God used to create the universe.
The same word that Jesus used to cast out devils and heal the sick, to open blind eyes and unstop
deaf ears) we have that same word.
That word is eternal (forever O Lord thy word is settled in heaven
Ps 119: 89)
When we use that word it’s the same as if Jesus himself were standing here speaking it.
There is healing power in the word
There is delivering power in the word
Psalm 107:20 He sent his word and healed them and delivered them from all their
destruction’s.
When the devil attacked Jesus in the wilderness he overcame him with the word of God.
The Power that defeated the devil was the word of God in Jesus mouth.
It is written. (Matt 4:3-10)
*We have the weapon and the power of Praise:
Praise is such a powerful weapon that even a prison couldn’t hold the ones who dared to praise
God in their midnight hour.
Praise will knock down walls Praise will open prison doors
Praise will set captives free
Praise will bring divine assistance in your battle
Praise will confuse your enemies
*We have the power of Prayer and Fasting, these are two powerful tools that we often neglect.
Isaiah 58:6 tells us the power in a fast is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands
of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break
every yoke?
Prayer is powerful but fasting multiplies and magnifies the power and the effect of prayer.
Then we have this powerful communication system that the devil can’t understand.
We have the weapon of Praying in the Holy Ghost (praying in Tongues)
When we pray in English or our native tongue, the devil can track us on his radar but when we
start praying in the Spirit, (Praying in Tongues), we disappear off his radar, and we become
invisible.
The Klingons did not invent the cloaking device (That’s a Holy Ghost invention)
On the show Star Trek there was an enemy to the progress of the enterprise and their mission and
they were called the Klingons (and every time Captain Kirk was about to blast them, they would
switch on this cloaking device and disappear off the screen and become invisible).
That’s what happens when we pray in tongues, we get cloaked by the Holy Ghost and the devil
can’t track us anymore.
Whenever I’m praying in English and I feel resistance and I don’t feel like I’m getting through, I
just switch over to another frequency and start praying in tongues and I get cloaked by the Holy
Ghost and I can fly right by the enemy and he doesn’t even know what’s happening.
You are called
You are chosen
You are anointed
And you are Armed and Dangerous (And you have the advantage)
Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.... 1Jn 4:4
The devil underestimated you, the devil underestimated us: We are not some weak kneed, limp
wristed, defeated, discouraged, beat down, head hanging in the dirt, bunch of believers just
trying to hold the fort till Jesus Comes.
We are the Army of God, and we are Armed and Dangerous, and we are Possessing the land.
Luke 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the
power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Matthew 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my
church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Luke 9:1-2 Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority
over all devils, and to cure diseases.
2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
All three of these scriptures describe an army on the move, advancing, marching in power and
authority, treading down every enemy, every devil, every sickness and every disease, breaking
through every obstacle and every hindrance.
That’s the church as God sees it
Tell your neighbor: That’s us
Now tell your neighbor: That’s me
We’re not going in our own authority or our own power, but we are going in the name of Jesus
and the power of the Holy Ghost.
I feel an anointing rising up in here right now.
I feel some bones coming together
I feel some muscles, and tendons and sinews, and skin coming on some bones
And I feel a wind of the Holy Ghost
I feel the breath of God breathing new life into some bones
I feel a fire getting into some bones
I feel a mighty Army rising up in the Spirit
I feel a fight coming back to someone
I feel somebody is jumping back into the battle tonight
Somebody I’m talking to: You’ve had the breath knocked out of you, you took a good hit.
The devil hit you (physically, emotionally, financially, he hit your family) he hit you where it
hurt and knocked you down.
But You’re up again: You’re standing on your feet again, You’ve got your breath back, You’ve
got your fire back and you’ve got your faith back
And you are Armed and Dangerous.