Pastor Léonard Gonitoua passed on several messages on the theme, “Easter, Day of Deliverance, the End of Christian Slavery” during a seven-day seminar of enlightenment and deliverance organized from March 29 to April 4, 2021 at the HOPFAN church (House of Prayer for All Nations) of Boy-Rabe, in Bangui (Central African Republic). He based his sermon on the Book of Exodus, chapter 12, verses 12 to 20.

On the last day of the seminar, Easter Sunday (April 4), the Pastor emphasized the importance of Easter in the Christian life. Here is a summary of his preaching:

“Abraham was 75 years old when GOD called him. This happened after the history of the Tower of Babel, when the inhabitants of the Earth were living in idolatry and all kinds of demonic practices. In Genesis 17:1-7, the Bible tells us that GOD appeared again to Abraham when he was 99 years old. GOD told him, “I am God Almighty.”

Our GOD is The Almighty! JESUS CHRIST is The Almighty GOD! And if GOD is The Almighty, no one else can have a power that exceeds His Almighty Power! You are suffering today because there are small powers that disturb your life. Because there are some curses, witches, magicians, and other experts in evil practices who proved to you that they are strong. But GOD revealed to Abraham that He is The Almighty GOD and told him, “walk before me.”

You too must walk before the LORD! When you walk before GOD, He reveals to you the progression of things that need to happen. GOD wants you to walk ahead so that He will stand behind you to care for you and watch over you. He is there behind you to encourage you too.

Today, just like yesterday, there are demonic principalities that reign with the Devil. There are many people, many forces and many negative, demonic powers that want to harm your life. And these negative powers also existed in the Garden of Eden. If GOD had said to Cain and Abel, “walk before me,” Cain would not have fallen under the influence of these demonic powers to kill his brother Abel. Similarly, if GOD had said to Adam and Eve, “Walk before me,” the Devil would not have succeeded in seducing them into falling.

But to Abraham, GOD said: “Walk before me” … Why? Because you look in front of you. When you walk with children, you ask them to walk in front of you, right? To see them well and to prevent any danger from reaching them.

GOD also told Abraham to have “integrity”. GOD never makes alliances with just anyone. Likewise, a man can’t just stop any woman he sees on the street and tell her he wants to marry her! Any marriage requires getting to know the person, studying and analyzing her/him, etc.

In the case of Abraham, GOD wanted Abraham to walk before Him. He also told him, “be blameless”. Today, many children of GOD do not walk before Him. For some of you, from the moment you were born, you were given certain demonic forces, you were baptized with certain fetishes, you were made to believe that such and such things can protect you … Things should not be like this. If you walk before GOD, He will watch over you. Are you walking before GOD today? Or are you putting GOD behind you? Just as GOD said to Abraham, “be blameless”, GOD also says to you, “be blameless”.

GOD promised Abraham this, “I will confirm my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.” But what was Abraham’s part to make this promise materialize? He had to walk before the Face of GOD and be blameless … On His part, what did GOD do to begin with? He changed Abraham’s name from “Abram” to “Abraham”. And GOD explained to him the meaning of this name by saying: “No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.”

Why do you let yourself be seduced by those who tell you that you have to be in Freemasonry to become great, that you have to do business with fetishes, that you have to enter into witchcraft to be a powerful President?! …

Does this passage in Genesis about GOD’s Blessings on Abraham refer to witch doctors? Did GOD make these beautiful promises to Satan? No! Why in your head do you always have to be or remain small in terms of importance? GOD said to Abraham, “kings will come from you”! This means that if you have faith in GOD, you must prepare your children to become kings! Because of this promise to Abraham, which is also for you.

JESUS CHRIST said: “A city on a hill cannot be hidden.” (Matthew 5:14, NIV) GOD wants great people, great leaders, great authorities to come out of you! But if you are living in sin, can GOD go through you to accomplish what He has planned? With your sin, you will block the positive evolution of your descendants. Do not say, “I have no children.” It is not late; GOD can still give you children.

What is the origin of the slavery you are experiencing today? Maybe your parents or grandparents offered you as a sacrifice to demons! Maybe you were sold to demons! GOD does not want you to doubt Him. On the contrary, He wants you to have a firm assurance of Him.

GOD does everything in His time. Easter is the day, the time of Deliverance … And it is the time to come out of slavery with great riches. We don’t need to force things, because it is the time. It is the time of Deliverance, of Liberation, of Recovery, of Peace. But before that time comes, there must be atonement for sin. For the people of Israel, it was necessary to make atonement for their sins and the sins of Abraham, their father. Do you understand now why in Daniel’s time, the time of deliverance had exceeded seventy years? Because those sins had not been confessed. Daniel understood this and went on a twenty-one day fast. Only to confess the sins of his people, Israel, the sins of his ancestors. And when GOD forgave those sins, Israel was set free.

GOD can also promise to bless you, to heal you, etc. But you have a duty: You have to recognize the Holiness of GOD and come to Him, repent and ask Him for forgiveness for all your sins. GOD can set you free! But as long as the sin is not atoned for, the situation of slavery will remain intact.

Thus, all the miracles that Moses had performed in Egypt could not bring liberation to the people of Israel. Why not? Because the sins of the children of Israel were still there. Our GOD is a GOD of Justice. He cannot get over sin. Until sin is removed, GOD’s promises to you will never be fulfilled. When GOD wanted to atone, to cover the sins of the children of Israel, their deliverance was done with ease.

Verse 8 of Exodus 12 states, “That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire”. Why “roasted over the fire”? It marks the suffering, the judgment of GOD. When JESUS CHRIST was about to be crucified, the soldiers gave him “wine to drink, mixed with gall”, but JESUS CHRIST, after tasting it, refused to drink it. (Matthew 27:34) This “wine mixed with gall” is like vinegar. Test it yourself: Take some vinegar and drink it, and you will see the impact on your heart; your heart will warm up! JESUS CHRIST was hit hard and He suffered. And Exodus 12:8 states that the people of Israel were to eat the lamb with “bitter herbs” …

Verse 10 tells us, “Do not leave any of it till morning.” This means that this operation of eating the slain lamb was to take place in the evening or at night, in secret so that the Egyptians would not see this.

And what does verse 11 say? “This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.” So why all this? Those who know that Deliverance is here must prepare for what comes after Deliverance … Why the “sandals”? To leave the place where one is … And why the belt? Because there is a journey to make, an exit. And the staff? It’s like the shepherd’s crook that you keep in your hand. And all this while eating “in haste” because the people of Israel were about to go out.

In verse 13, GOD declares that He will pass over the Israelites and strike the land of Egypt. GOD had decided to pass over the land of Egypt to exercise His judgments, including against the Egyptian gods to show them that they were unable to protect their children, but that He, GOD, was able to protect His children! And it is GOD Himself who, by the way, would kill all the first-born in the houses where the doors would be without traces of blood of the sacrificial lambs. The Hebrews were spared because of the blood on their doors. When GOD strikes, He spares His people … Likewise, GOD can spare His children from the Coronavirus!

And verse 14 declares, “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD–a lasting ordinance.” The reason we keep the Passover is because GOD said it is a feast we are to keep! It is an everlasting law.

We know that we will continue to face attacks, oppressions, bewitchments from the agents of the Devil who know that we have Deliverance targeting them! Today, the witches, the fetishists, the wicked, and all the other powers of darkness want to continue to make us their slaves because they see the Deliverance that we have in JESUS CHRIST! We must be celebrating!

What the people of Israel had to do in Egypt in Exodus 12:1-14 was the image of what was to happen with JESUS CHRIST. Let’s look at John 1:29: “The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and said, ‘Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.”

The blood of the lamb was there to cover the sins of the Israelites. But JESUS CHRIST is the Lamb of GOD. He died like the lambs that were killed so that Israel could be freed. But for us, the Lamb of GOD, who is CHRIST, who is GOD, is the One who takes away the sin of the world so that the promise made to Abraham (that “all nations on earth will be blessed” through Abraham’s offspring – Genesis 22:18) will be fulfilled! Until the Lamb of GOD died, sin could not be atoned for and this promise could not be fulfilled. Even though the promise is there, until sin is atoned for, that promise can never be fulfilled.

John the Baptist saw JESUS CHRIST and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” The atonement for Adam and Eve’s sin was made by GOD during the death and resurrection of JESUS CHRIST!

There is a spiritual aspect that you must understand here: GOD told the Israelites in Exodus 12 that He would come through, that He would execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. But at what point? After GOD made atonement for the sins of the children of Israel. Likewise, the Blood of JESUS CHRIST, who is the Lamb of GOD, is to take away the sin of the world and GOD is to execute judgments against all the gods! Whether it is your family’s gods, your family’s witchcraft, your family’s magic, etc. We did not ask for this. It is the Grace of GOD! This is the day and this is the time for it!

Someone once asked me, “Why don’t we keep the Sabbath?” Because in the past, we observed the Sabbath on Saturdays. And on what day did JESUS CHRIST rise? Sunday morning. Here is the answer to this question…

JESUS CHRIST died and stayed in the tomb for three days. Then, He rose again on the third day. And that was the day of the Passover … Do you understand? Saturday was the Sabbath and Sunday was the Passover for the Jews.

JESUS CHRIST was resurrected at the Passover. To be more precise: The lamb that the Jews ate in Egypt was never resurrected. But ours? The Lamb of GOD? Why did the Egyptians follow the Jews? Because they ate the lamb that remained in their belly… But Ours came back to Life…

Colossians 2:10 states this, “and you have been given fulness in Christ, who is the Head over every power and authority.” Genesis 17:6 also tells us that “kings will come from you,” that is, princes and kings will come out of you! JESUS CHRIST is above all magicians, all witches, all experts of evil practices, all freemasons, all! The Rosicrucians lied when they said that from the age of 3 to 12, JESUS CHRIST was with them and was trained by their great master … A lie! JESUS CHRIST is not a witch, nor a Rosicrucian or any other agent of the Devil!!!

Verse 11 of Colossians 2 goes on to say, “In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ”. When you accept CHRIST, all the evil that you have in you is circumcised. Therefore, if you are truly converted in CHRIST, you will see boundaries around you … But if you are not truly converted or not converted at all, you will have no boundaries to stop you … You will do evil around you because you are not converted. Those who are truly in JESUS CHRIST have been circumcised with a circumcision that no human hand could perform. Whose hand is it? The Hand of GOD!

Verse 11 refers to circumcision “in the putting off of the sinful nature” or the stripping of the body of the flesh. Take the example of a goat that you have killed. If you want to eat the flesh, you will skin the goat by removing the skin from the flesh, because the skin is stuck to the flesh. In the same way, before our conversion, before our circumcision made by the Hand of GOD, our body is stuck to sin, whether it is the sin of witchcraft, fetishism, etc. But if you have JESUS CHRIST, He will strip you of all those sins you are used to, be it alcoholism, theft, lying, fornication, etc.!

Why did the Egyptians sue the Israelis? Because the decree of the servitude of the Israelites, all the texts concerning the slavery of the Israelites were still applicable. On the other hand, when GOD delivers me, what does He do? He erases the deeds, the documents, the records, everything that was working against me! (Colossians 2, verse 14: “having cancelled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross.”) The Bible states that JESUS CHRIST has “stripped the principalities and the powers” (Colossians 2:15, World English Bible). If JESUS CHRIST “strips”, it means that the power of these principalities and powers is in the skin! Therefore, these rulers and authorities no longer have any power because it has been taken away from them. And who has taken it away? It was JESUS CHRIST! As a result, these rulers and authorities have become like dumb dogs or blind horses … What can a blind horse or a dumb dog do? Even if the dog is the size of a bull, from the moment it is dumb, it becomes useless… Today, the demons have become big but they are dumb!

Whose work is this? It is the work of JESUS CHRIST! The fetishists, the ngangas (“fetishists” in Sango, the national language of the Central African Republic) have no more strength! They are in the swindle, in the lie! Because they do not have any more strength! JESUS CHRIST has stripped them!

The other part of verse 15 tells us that JESUS CHRIST “made a public spectacle of them [the rulers and authorities], triumphing over them by the cross.” When JESUS CHRIST died, the Bible states that the veil that separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place was torn from top to bottom! (Matthew 27:51: “At that moment, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split.”) And before he died, JESUS CHRIST said, “It is finished.” (John 19:30, NIV: “When he had received the drink, Jesus said, ‘It is finished.’ With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.”)

So, if someone comes to you and says, “I am a fetishist, don’t joke with me!”, don’t be afraid because for Satan, it’s over! There is a skin infection called a boil. When the pimple caused by this infection becomes large and matures, the pus inside the pimple drains out on its own …

Sister, Brother, I want you to know today what Satan’s influences are on your life. JESUS CHRIST has already died and risen. When the children of Israel slaughtered the lamb and placed the blood at their gates, GOD struck the Egyptians with death and the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt. If you are struck today, you must come out of the place where you were struck.

GOD has given us the Spirit of elevation, grace, knowledge, wisdom and strength! In JESUS CHRIST. And the Bible states that JESUS CHRIST has redeemed us from the curse! So you who say “I am cursed”, know that if you have received JESUS CHRIST, it is already outdated. You are a son/daughter of GOD. Do not say anymore “I have a night husband”. This “husband” is already dead if you have received JESUS CHRIST. Do not say anymore “I was married to a demon of X, Y, Z”. This demon is already stripped, if you have received JESUS CHRIST. It is dead! And the Bible states, according to the Law, that if a man dies, his wife is free to marry whoever she wants! (Romans 7:2-3) So, as all these demons are dead, you have chosen JESUS CHRIST. So what is the problem?

If you are a thief, the demons of theft must disappear in the Name of JESUS CHRIST. If you are a fornicator, the demons of fornication must disappear in the Name of JESUS CHRIST. If you are into fetishes, witchcraft, etc., the demons linked to these demonic practices must disappear in the Name of JESUS CHRIST.

With JESUS CHRIST, you are no longer a slave to Satan or his demons. It is up to you to make the right choice in following JESUS CHRIST.”

Be blessed in YAHSHUA (JESUS CHRIST).”