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00:01 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
00:05 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:09 >>FOR NINE MONTHS BETWEEN 1898 AND 1899, TWO FAMOUS MAN-EATING 00:14 LIONS OF TSAVO TERRORIZED WORKERS EMPLOYED IN THE 00:17 CONSTRUCTION OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE IN UGANDA. 00:20 AS THE DEATH TOLL ROSE, CONSTRUCTION WAS BROUGHT TO A 00:24 VIRTUAL STANDSTILL. THE WORKERS SAID THEY REFUSED TO 00:27 CONTINUE UNTIL PROTECTION COULD BE PROVIDED. FINALLY, THE REIGN 00:31 OF TERROR WAS BROUGHT TO AN END WHEN LIEUTENANT COLONEL 00:34 J.H. PATTERSON SUCCEEDED IN TRACKING AND KILLING THE TWO 00:38 LIONS THAT HAD DEVOURED 135 MEN. THE LIONS ARE NOW ON PERMANENT 00:44 DISPLAY IN THE FIELD MUSEUM OF CHICAGO. EVEN MORE DEADLY WAS A 00:49 TIGRESS IN INDIA THAT WAS REPORTED TO HAVE KILLED 00:52 AND EATEN 436 PEOPLE IN 1907 BEFORE IT WAS KILLED. 00:57 BUT THE RECORD FOR MAN EATING GOES TO ONE LION THAT HAS 01:00 DEVOURED MORE THAN ALL THESE OTHER CATS COMBINED. 01:03 1 PETER CHAPTER 5, VERSE 8 ADVISES US, "BE SOBER, BE 01:08 VIGILANT, BECAUSE YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL IS GOING AROUND LIKE A 01:11 ROARING LION, SEEKING WHOM HE MIGHT DEVOUR." 01:15 SO HOW CAN WE BE PROTECTED AGAINST THIS MAN EATER? 01:19 JOIN ME, FRIENDS, TODAY, AS WE CONTINUE OUR EXPLORATION TO 01:23 UNDERSTAND THE ORIGINATOR OF SIN, THE DEVIL. 01:30 >>TONIGHT WE'VE GOT A SUBJECT THAT I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO 01:32 FIND VERY INTERESTING AND I HOPE YOU'LL PRAY AS WE PROCEED, 01:36 BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THAT ARCHFIEND AND 01:39 'WHY IS THERE EVIL IN THE WORLD TODAY?' DEALING WITH THE 01:42 VILLAIN OF REVELATION, BETTER KNOWN AS THE DEVIL. 01:48 SATAN IS THAT ARCHFIEND. HE IS VERY REAL. 01:52 I BELIEVE THAT, NOT ONLY DOES GOD SEND GOOD ANGELS TO OUR 01:55 MEETINGS, I BELIEVE THAT THE DEVIL TRIES TO SEND 01:57 REPRESENTATIVES TO DISTRACT AND KEEP PEOPLE FROM HEARING THE 02:00 WORD. THERE ARE BATTLES THAT ARE RAGING. PAUL TALKS ABOUT US NOT 02:04 WRESTLING AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST 02:06 PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS - SPIRITUAL FORCES OF 02:09 WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES. THERE IS A GOD, THERE ARE GOOD 02:14 ANGELS, AND THERE IS A DEVIL - THERE IS AN EVIL POWER IN THE 02:17 WORLD. I THINK, AS YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENED IN HISTORY, 02:21 YOU'D HAVE TO SAY THAT THERE IS EVIL. 02:24 YOU LOOK AT WHAT SOME TERRORISTS DO, WHERE THEY PUT A PERSON IN A 02:26 CAGE AND DOUSE THEM WITH GASOLINE AND VIDEOTAPE AS THEY 02:30 SET THEM ON FIRE - THAT IS JUST INCARNATE EVIL. 02:34 ONE OF THE REASONS SOME PEOPLE TURN TO GOD IS THEY SAY, 'YOU 02:36 KNOW, I WASN'T SO SURE ABOUT GOD BUT, WHEN I BECAME CONVINCED 02:39 THAT THERE WAS ABSOLUTE EVIL, THEN I THOUGHT, THERE MUST BE 02:43 GOOD. THERE MUST BE GOD.' >>AMEN. 02:45 >>AND WE CAN CERTAINLY SEE THE EVIDENCE FOR EVIL IN THE WORLD. 02:48 WHEN GOD CREATED ADAM AND EVE, WHAT WAS THE ONE THING HE 02:51 FORBADE THEM FROM DOING? HE SAID, "BUT OF THE TREE OF THE 02:55 KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, YOU SHALL NOT EAT OF IT." AMEN? 03:00 AND THAT, BY THE WAY, IS GENESIS 2:17. 03:02 HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, YOU'RE FREE. THIS IS A PARADISE. 03:05 I'VE MADE THIS BEAUTIFUL WORLD - BEAUTIFUL GARDEN - IT'S ALL 03:07 YOURS. I'VE GOT ONE RESTRICTION: THE 03:10 DEVIL'S BEEN TOLD THE ONLY PLACE THAT HE CAN CAMPAIGN 03:14 IS AT THAT TREE. AND YOU CAN CHOOSE TO REJECT HIM 03:16 AND RESIST HIM AND YOU'LL NEVER HAVE ANY PROBLEMS. 03:18 BUT, IF YOU ENGAGE HIM, IT COULD BE DEADLY. 03:22 DON'T EAT FROM THIS FORBIDDEN FRUIT.' AND THEY DIDN'T LISTEN - 03:26 THE FRUIT OF THE TREE, YEAH. HE SAID, "FOR IN THE DAY THAT 03:29 YOU EAT OF IT YOU SHALL SURELY DIE." 03:33 NOW, WHAT THE LORD MEANS BY THAT IS, 'IN DYING, YOU WILL DIE' - 03:36 IS THE WAY THAT READS IN THE HEBREW - THAT YOU WILL 03:38 DEFINITELY DIE EVENTUALLY. THEY DIED SPIRITUALLY THE DAY 03:42 THEY DISOBEYED AND, OF COURSE, ADAM AND EVE BOTH DIED 03:45 WITHIN THAT FIRST MILLENNIA. 'A DAY WITH THE LORD IS LIKE 03:47 A THOUSAND YEARS,' RIGHT? AND SO, WE KNOW THE STORY. 03:53 WHAT MEDIUM DID SATAN USE TO DECEIVE EVE AND WHAT LIES DID 03:57 SATAN TELL HER? WELL, YOU KNOW, HE APPEARED 04:01 THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF A SERPENT. NOW, THE SERPENT IS JUST ANOTHER 04:05 CREATURE, BUT IT SAYS IT WAS A VERY HYPNOTIC, BEAUTIFUL, 04:08 SUBTLE CREATURE. "NOW THE SERPENT WAS MORE 04:11 CUNNING THAN ANY BEAST OF THE FIELD WHICH THE LORD GOD HAD 04:14 MADE...THEN THE SERPENT SAID TO THE WOMAN, 'YOU WILL NOT SURELY 04:18 DIE.'" FIRST QUESTION IN THE BIBLE IS HE QUESTIONED GOD'S 04:22 WORD - 'HATH GOD SAID' - YOU NOTICE THE CYNICISM - 04:26 DOUBTING THE WORD OF GOD. ALL THE SIN IN OUR WORLD TODAY 04:28 COMES FROM THE DEVIL DOUBTING THE WORD OF GOD. 04:31 AND HE SAID, 'YOU'RE NOT REALLY GOING TO DIE. 04:33 DON'T - GOD DIDN'T REALLY MEAN WHAT HE SAID.' AND, BECAUSE OUR 04:36 FIRST PARENTS CHOSE NOT TO BELIEVE GOD'S WORD AND, INSTEAD, 04:40 THEY BELIEVED THE DEVIL, WE'VE GOT ALL THESE PROBLEMS. 04:42 REVELATION 12 - NOTICE, SATAN IS ALSO CALLED 'THAT OLD SERPENT' - 04:47 "...THE DRAGON WAS CAST OUT, THAT SERPENT...CALLED THE DEVIL 04:50 AND SATAN" - SO THERE'S NO QUESTION WHO THE DRAGON, WHO THE 04:53 SERPENT, WHO THE DEVIL - YOU KNOW, THE WORD 'SATAN' MEANS 04:57 'ADVERSARY'. AND, IF YOU TAKE THE WORD 04:59 'DEVIL' AND YOU TAKE OFF THE 'D', WHAT DO YOU HAVE? 05:02 >>EVIL. >>EVIL. HE IS CONSUMMATE EVIL. 05:06 AND THEN, FINALLY, THAT FIRST PROPHECY - THE LORD SAYS, THERE 05:09 IN GENESIS 3:15, "I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN YOU AND THE 05:14 WOMAN, AND BETWEEN YOUR SEED AND HER SEED;" AND SO, THROUGH THE 05:17 BOOK OF REVELATION AND ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE, YOU SEE THIS 05:19 CONTEST GOING ON BETWEEN THE SEED OF THE WOMAN - CHRIST'S 05:24 FOLLOWERS - AND - OF COURSE, JESUS IS THE ULTIMATE SEED OF 05:28 THE WOMAN - AND THE DRAGON - THE DEVIL - BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND 05:31 EVIL. YOU'VE ALL HEARD THE FAIRY TALES 05:34 ABOUT THE KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR THAT SAVES THE 05:37 MAIDEN FROM THE DRAGON. KIND OF - ALL THOSE ARE KIND OF 05:41 ROOTED IN SOME TRUTH THAT YOU FIND IN THE BIBLE. 05:44 YOU CAN ALSO SEE IT AGAIN HERE IN REVELATION 12:17 WHERE IT 05:47 TELLS US THAT "THE DRAGON WAS ENRAGED WITH THE WOMAN, AND HE 05:51 WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING," - YOU SEE 05:54 JESUS - GENESIS - TALKED ABOUT THE SEED OF THE WOMAN. 05:57 HERE, YOU GO TO THE END OF THE BIBLE - BEGINNING OF THE BIBLE 05:59 YOU'VE GOT THE DRAGON, THE SERPENT, THE WOMAN, THE SEED OF 06:02 THE WOMAN. NOW YOU GO TO REVELATION, YOU'VE 06:04 GOT THE DRAGON, THE SERPENT, AND THE WOMAN - AND HE'S TRYING TO 06:08 DESTROY THE SEED OF THE WOMAN. WE'LL GET BACK TO 06:10 THAT ON ANOTHER STUDY. WHO DOES HE ESPECIALLY HATE? 06:14 THE DESCENDANTS OF THE WOMAN "WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF 06:17 GOD AND THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS" - THEY'VE GOT THE TESTIMONY OF 06:22 JESUS. AND SO, THE DEVIL HATES PEOPLE 06:24 THAT OBEY GOD'S COMMANDMENTS. SO, WHY WAS EATING A PIECE OF 06:29 FRUIT SUCH A DEADLY OFFENSE? IT'S JUST A PIECE OF FRUIT; WHY 06:33 ALL THE TROUBLE IN THE WORLD FROM EATING THE WRONG THING? 06:36 WELL, BECAUSE, FIRST OF ALL, GOD COMMANDED THEM NOT TO. 06:39 I DID AN AMAZING FACT - YOU KNOW, EVERY WEEK WE DO AMAZING 06:41 FACTS ON OUR RADIO PROGRAM AND I DID AN AMAZING FACT ABOUT THE 06:46 MANCHINEEL TREE - THEY ACTUALLY GROW HERE IN FLORIDA AND AROUND 06:49 THE CARIBBEAN - AND IT'S CALLED 'THE TREE OF DEATH'. 06:53 COLUMBUS CALLED THEM 'DEATH APPLES'. THEY HAVE APPLES AND 06:57 THEY LOOK VERY LUSCIOUS. THEY EVEN SMELL SWEET. 07:00 BUT IF YOU EAT ONE YOU COULD EASILY DIE. 07:02 IT'LL CAUSE - IT'LL BURN YOUR THROAT - YOUR THROAT WOULD SWELL 07:04 UP AND IT CAN CAUSE - IT WILL CAUSE ALL KINDS OF GASTRONOMICAL 07:07 PROBLEMS AND PERMANENT INJURY AND LIVER AND KIDNEY PROBLEMS. 07:11 IF YOU'RE EVEN UNDER THAT TREE WHEN IT'S RAINING, THE SAP FROM 07:14 THE TREE COMING ONTO YOUR SKIN CAN BLISTER YOUR SKIN. 07:18 IT'S A VERY TOXIC TREE. AND THEY'VE GOT THESE SIGNS 07:20 EVERYWHERE - 'WARNING! - STAY AWAY FROM THIS TREE!' 07:25 I READ ABOUT A TOURIST THAT WAS IN SOME CARIBBEAN ISLAND WHERE 07:28 THERE WAS ONE OF THESE TREES - THEY KEEP THEM FOR EROSION ON 07:30 THE COAST - AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE A SIGN. 07:34 AND SHE AND HER FRIEND SAID, 'OH, THAT LOOKS GOOD.' AND, OH, 07:37 THEY HAD ALL KINDS OF MISERABLE PROBLEMS AND PAIN AND SUFFERING 07:40 BECAUSE THEY ATE THIS DEADLY TREE. 07:42 WELL, GOD TOLD ADAM AND EVE NOT TO EAT THE TREE AND, IT WASN'T 07:46 THAT THE FRUIT HURT THEM, IT WAS THE DISOBEDIENCE THAT DID IT. 07:49 YOU SEE, THE BIBLE SAYS, IN ROMANS 6:16, "DO YOU NOT KNOW 07:53 THAT TO WHOM YOU PRESENT YOURSELVES SLAVES [OR SERVANTS] 07:57 TO OBEY, YOU ARE THAT ONE'S SLAVES WHOM YOU OBEY, WHETHER OF 08:01 SIN LEADING TO DEATH, OR OF OBEDIENCE LEADING TO 08:04 RIGHTEOUSNESS." AND, WHEN ADAM AND EVE DECIDED 08:07 TO FOLLOW THE TEACHINGS - OR THE SUGGESTION OF THE SERPENT - THE 08:11 DEVIL, INSTEAD OF GOD, THEY SURRENDERED THE DOMINION OF THIS 08:15 WORLD THAT GOD HAD GIVEN ADAM AND EVE, TO THE ENEMY. 08:19 YOU SEE, ADAM WAS TO HAVE DOMINION OF THE WORLD - AND EVE. 08:22 AND WHEN THEY CHOSE TO LISTEN TO THE DEVIL INSTEAD OF GOD, THEY 08:24 HANDED OVER THE KEYS AND THE DEVIL DECIDED TO CONTINUE HIS 08:28 REBELLION WITH THIS PLANET AS THE BEACHHEAD FOR HIS WAR 08:33 AGAINST GOD. WHAT ARE SOME OF SATAN'S METHODS 08:36 THAT HE USES TO DECEIVE, DISCOURAGE, OR TO DESTROY 08:39 PEOPLE? WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH 08:42 A LIST OF THINGS HERE. FIRST OF ALL, IT SAYS SATAN IS 08:46 THE ONE WHO DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD. SATAN IS A DECEIVER. 08:48 DECEPTION IS THE CO-MINGLING OF TRUTH AND ERROR. 08:52 HE WILL TAKE SOMETHING GOOD AND HE'LL MIX IN SOMETHING BAD. 08:55 AND YOU DON'T REALIZE HOW DEADLY AND DANGEROUS IT IS. 08:58 HE CAME TO JESUS IN THE WILDERNESS AND HE TEMPTED HIM. 09:02 DO YOU THINK THE DEVIL APPEARED AS - WHEN THE DEVIL CAME TO 09:05 TEMPT JESUS IN THE WILDERNESS AND HE'S FASTED 40 DAYS, YOU 09:08 THINK SATAN JUST KIND OF PLOPPED DOWN ON THE GROUND AND HE HAD 09:11 HIS RED LEOTARDS AND HIS, YOU KNOW, HIS GOAT FEET - I NEVER 09:14 DID MENTION THE GOAT FEET. HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE 09:16 DEVIL'S GOT GOAT FEET, RIGHT? I'M BEING SARCASTIC, SORRY. 09:19 AND HE, YOU KNOW, HIS HORNS AND HIS BAT WINGS AND HE SAID, 'I'VE 09:22 GOT A PROPOSITION FOR YOU.' WOULD YOU LISTEN TO ANYBODY THAT 09:25 LOOKED LIKE THAT, THAT CAME WITH A PROPOSITION? 09:28 HOW DO YOU THINK HE APPEARED TO JESUS? 09:31 REMEMBER, WE QUOTED THAT VERSE - HE CAN APPEAR AS AN ANGEL OF 09:34 LIGHT. HE WAS BEING DECEPTIVE. CHRIST WAS THERE IN THE 09:37 WILDERNESS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL. SATAN TEMPTS. 09:41 NOW, YOU'LL OFTEN SAY, 'JESUS SAVE ME' - AND I ALMOST HAD A 09:44 CAR ACCIDENT BUT JESUS SAVED ME.' REALLY, JESUS PROBABLY DID 09:47 IT THROUGH HIS ANGELS. SOMETIMES YOU'LL SAY 'THE DEVIL 09:51 TEMPTED ME.' I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU REMEMBER A COMEDIAN 09:54 NAMED FLIP WILSON. HE BECAME FAMOUS FOR SAYING, 09:56 'THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT.' THE DEVIL - CAN THE DEVIL MAKE YOU? 10:00 NOT UNLESS YOU'RE DEMON POSSESSED - MOST OF US HAVE TO 10:02 COOPERATE. WE SURRENDER OUR WILLS. 10:04 IF THE DEVIL HAD TAKEN EVE AND HELD HER TO THE GROUND AND 10:07 PUSHED THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT IN HER MOUTH, IT WOULD NOT HAVE 10:10 BEEN A SIN. BUT SHE HAD TO WILLINGLY CHOOSE. 10:14 AND, TYPICALLY WHEN WE SIN, WE ARE CHOOSING TO DO WHAT WE KNOW 10:18 IS NOT RIGHT. SO HE'S A TEMPTER. CAN THE DEVIL WORK MIRACLES? 10:24 REVELATION CHAPTER 16, VERSE 14 - AND OUR SPECIAL EMPHASIS IN 10:27 OUR PROPHECY ENCOUNTER IN REVELATION SAYS, 'THEY ARE THE 10:30 SPIRITS OF DEVILS WORKING MIRACLES. 10:33 SO, CAN THE DEVIL COUNTERFEIT THE MIRACLES OF GOD? 10:37 YOU REMEMBER THE STORY IN THE BIBLE WHEN MOSES CAME BEFORE 10:40 PHARAOH AND SAID, 'LET MY PEOPLE GO' AND TO SHOW THAT GOD WAS 10:42 WITH HIM HE THREW HIS STAFF DOWN AND IT TURNED INTO A SERPENT. 10:45 THE PHARAOH CALLED IN HIS MAGICIANS - THEY THREW DOWN 10:49 THEIR STAFFS - THEY TURNED INTO SERPENTS. 10:52 WAS THAT THE POWER OF GOD OR THE POWER OF THE DEVIL? 10:56 SATAN CAN DO SIGNS AND WONDERS AND MIRACLES. 10:58 SO SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, I LISTEN TO THAT PASTOR BECAUSE HE 11:00 DOES MIRACLES - HE DOES SIGNS AND WONDERS.' IF HE'S NOT 11:04 FOLLOWING THE WORD OF GOD, THOSE MIRACLES CAN BE COUNTERFEITS. 11:08 AND SO, DON'T FORGET THE DEVIL CAN COUNTERFEIT THOSE SIGNS 11:11 AND WONDERS. IN FACT, REVELATION 13:13 - THAT 11:15 SAME CHAPTER WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THE MARK OF THE BEAST, IT 11:17 SAYS, "HE PERFORMS GREAT SIGNS, SO THAT HE EVEN MAKES FIRE COME 11:21 DOWN FROM HEAVEN ON THE EARTH IN THE SIGHT OF MEN." 11:24 THE DEVIL DOES HAVE POWER AND SO, OUR DECISION ABOUT FOLLOWING 11:28 JESUS CANNOT BE BASED UPON SIGNS AND WONDERS AND MIRACLES, IT 11:32 NEEDS TO BE BASED UPON 'THUS SAITH THE LORD' - AMEN? 11:36 BECAUSE SATAN, HIMSELF, CAN BE TRANSFORMED INTO AN ANGEL OF 11:40 LIGHT. MATTER OF FACT, I BELIEVE THE 11:42 MASTERPIECE - SEE, GOD CAME INTO THE WORLD THROUGH A MAN, 11:48 JESUS, TO TEACH US THE TRUTH. BEFORE THE END OF TIME, I 11:51 THINK SATAN IS GOING TO EITHER THOROUGHLY POSSESS A MAN OR 11:55 IMPERSONATE CHRIST, AND HE'S GOING TO TRY TO DO HIS 11:58 MASTERPIECE PERFORMANCE PRETENDING TO BE CHRIST. 12:02 JESUS SAID, 'THERE'LL BE FALSE CHRISTS AND FALSE PROPHETS' - 12:04 AND THERE HAVE BEEN THROUGH HISTORY - BUT I'LL TELL YOU, IN 12:07 THE LAST DAYS, I THINK THAT HE IS SAVING HIS MAIN ACT FOR THE 12:11 FINAL DAYS WHEN HE IS GOING TO CLAIM TO BE CHRIST. 12:14 ISN'T THAT WHAT HE ALWAYS WANTED, TO BE JESUS? 12:16 HE'S GOING TO ACT THAT OUT IN THE WORLD AND HE'LL DO SIGNS AND 12:18 WONDERS AND HE WILL QUOTE THE BIBLE AND, IF IT WERE POSSIBLE, 12:22 EVEN THE VERY ELECT WOULD BE DECEIVED. 12:24 WHAT WILL PREVENT THE VERY ELECT FROM BEING DECEIVED? 12:27 THEY'RE GOING TO SEE AN INCONSISTENCY BETWEEN WHAT THIS 12:30 FALSE CHRIST SAYS AND WHAT JESUS SAID IN HIS WORD. 12:34 THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO KNOW OUR BIBLES, AMEN? 12:38 >>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS, IN JUST A MOMENT WE'LL BE BACK TO 12:40 COMPLETE TODAY'S PRESENTATION. HAVE YOU EVER HAD FRIENDS ASK 12:44 YOU, 'IF GOD IS GOOD, AND IF HE'S LOVING, THEN 12:46 WHY IS THERE EVIL? WHY DO THE INNOCENT SUFFER?' 12:49 WE HAVE A VERY SPECIAL, POWERFUL DVD DOCUMENTARY WE'D LIKE TO 12:53 SEND YOU FOR FREE, IT'S CALLED THE COSMIC CONFLICT . 12:56 THIS COMPELLING MOVIE TRACES THE ORIGIN OF SIN AND TALKS ABOUT 13:00 LUCIFER'S REBELLION. IT HELPS US UNDERSTAND WHY THERE 13:03 IS EVIL IN THE WORLD TODAY AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, HOW YOU 13:06 CAN HAVE VICTORY OVER SIN. TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE 13:10 PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #809 OR 13:14 VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS. AND, AFTER YOU WATCH THIS 13:16 INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, BE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 13:19 SO, HOW ABOUT WE GET BACK TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN 13:22 SOME MORE AMAZING FACTS FROM THE WORD OF GOD? 13:26 >>JESUS WARNED US, IN MATTHEW 7, BEWARE OF THE DEVIL THAT HE IS 13:31 AS - IT SAYS, 'THESE FALSE PROPHETS WHO WILL COME TO YOU IN 13:34 SHEEP'S CLOTHING, BUT INWARDLY THEY ARE RAVENING WOLVES.' 13:39 AND, I THINK WE ALL KNOW THERE HAVE BEEN SOME PASTORS AND 13:41 EVANGELISTS OUT THERE THAT THEY PUT ON A GOOD SHOW, BUT ON THE 13:46 INSIDE IT WAS ALL ABOUT THEM - IT WAS ALL ABOUT GAINING MONEY 13:50 OR WEALTH OR FAME, BUT THE MINISTERS OF CHRIST ARE GOING TO 13:53 LIFT UP CHRIST AND HIS WORD. REVELATION 12:10 - ANOTHER THING 13:57 THE DEVIL DOES - HE'S CALLED 'THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN'. 14:02 HE'S ALWAYS CASTING INNUENDO. YOU REMEMBER THE STORY IN THE 14:05 BIBLE WHERE, AT THE SUPPER, MARY GAVE THIS BEAUTIFUL GIFT TO 14:09 JESUS AND SHE ANOINTED HIS FEET - ANOINTED HIS HEAD AND HIS FEET 14:12 WITH THIS OIL AND CRIED AND WASHED HIS FEET WITH HER TEARS. 14:15 YOU REMEMBER THE STORY? AND JUDAS SAW HER GENEROSITY 14:18 AND IT - IT CONVICTED HIS GREED, BECAUSE HE WAS A THIEF, AND HE 14:22 SAID, 'WHAT A TERRIBLE WASTE OF MONEY. 14:24 ALL THIS COULD HAVE BEEN SOLD AND GIVEN TO THE POOR.' 14:27 HE BEGAN TO ACCUSE HER - THAT'S THE SPIRIT OF THE DEVIL. 14:29 YOU REMEMBER WHEN SATAN, IN THE BIBLE, IN THE BOOK OF JOB, SATAN 14:32 APPEARS TO THE LORD AND SAYS, 'OH, THE ONLY REASON JOB SERVES 14:35 YOU IS BECAUSE YOU'VE HEDGED HIM IN.' AND YOU CAN READ IN THE 14:38 BOOK OF ZECHARIAH HOW THE DEVIL IS THERE - HE'S POINTING TO 14:40 JOSHUA THE HIGH PRIEST AND HE'S ACCUSING HIS DIRTY GARMENTS. 14:44 SATAN IS ALWAYS ACCUSING GOD'S PEOPLE. 14:46 JESUS CAME TO RESURRECT MOSES AND THE DEVIL SAID, 'YOU CAN'T 14:49 HAVE HIM, HE SINNED. AND MICHAEL SAID, 'THE LORD 14:52 REBUKE THEE.' SO THE DEVIL IS ALWAYS - HE'S OUT TO GET US - 14:56 HE'S TO ACCUSE US BEFORE GOD - THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN. 14:59 YOU PROBABLY KNOW SOME PEOPLE LIKE THAT, RIGHT? 15:02 ALWAYS GOSSIPING AND PUTTING OTHER PEOPLE DOWN - THAT'S NOT 15:04 THE SPIRIT OF GOD. SOMETHING ELSE WE LEARNED ABOUT 15:07 HIM, JESUS SAID, 'HE IS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING.' 15:13 HOW POWERFUL AND EFFECTIVE ARE SATAN'S TEMPTATIONS 15:16 AND HIS STRATEGIES? THAT'S OUR NEXT QUESTION. 15:19 WELL, IT SAYS THERE'LL BE FALSE CHRISTS AND FALSE PROPHETS. 15:22 THEY WILL RISE AND THEY'RE GOING TO SHOW GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS 15:26 TO DECEIVE MANY. WE ALSO JUST READ ABOUT THAT - 15:28 SIGNS AND WONDERS - DEVILS - IN REVELATION. 15:31 IT GOES ON TO SAY, IN MATTHEW 24, 'IF IT WERE POSSIBLE THEY'D 15:34 DECEIVE EVEN THE VERY ELECT.' "BE SOBER, BE VIGILANT;" - PETER 15:39 SAYS - 1 PETER 5:8 - "BECAUSE YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL WALKS 15:43 ABOUT LIKE A ROARING LION, SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR." 15:47 I REMEMBER ABOUT A YEAR AGO, KAREN AND I WERE IN SOUTH AFRICA 15:50 WITH PASTOR ROSS AND HIS WIFE, AND WE WENT TO THIS PARK AND WE 15:53 SAW THE WORLD'S LARGEST PRIDE OF WHITE LIONS. AND THEY'RE 15:59 BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK AT BUT, BOY THEY WERE VICIOUS WHEN THEY FED 16:01 THEM. WE GOT TO WATCH THEM WHEN THEY ATE. THEY WEREN'T VERY - 16:03 YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T SHARE VERY WELL - LIONS - AND LIONS USE 16:08 DECEPTION WHEN THEY HUNT. THEY GET - YOU KNOW, ONE LION 16:11 GOES AROUND BEHIND THE GAZELLE OR THE ZEBRA AND THE OTHER ONE 16:14 ROARS AND THEY'D GO RUNNING OFF INTO THE MOUTH OF THE LIONESSES. 16:17 THE DEVIL USES DECEPTION - HE'S PROWLING ALL THE TIME - PACING - 16:22 TRYING TO FIND SOMEONE TO DEVOUR. IT SAYS, 'BE SOBER, BE 16:25 VIGILANT' - AND RESIST HIM STEADFAST IN THE FAITH. HE'S 16:30 SEEKING WHOM HE MIGHT DEVOUR. NOW THERE ARE THREE PRINCIPLE 16:33 AREAS OF TEMPTATION - THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT - YOU'VE GOT THE 16:37 LUST OF THE FLESH, THE LUST OF THE EYES, THE PRIDE OF LIFE. 16:40 THESE ARE THE SAME THREE AREAS WHERE JESUS WAS TEMPTED. 16:44 HE CAME TO CHRIST, HE SAID, 'IF YOU'RE THE SON OF GOD, COMMAND 16:47 THAT THESE STONES BECOME BREAD.' - THIS IS A PHYSICAL TEMPTATION. 16:50 YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, 'OH, JESUS HAS NEVER BEEN TEMPTED 16:53 LIKE ME. HE DIDN'T HAVE TO STRUGGLE WITH 16:54 CIGARETTES.' OR MAYBE HE DIDN'T HAVE TO STRUGGLE - MAYBE YOU'VE 16:57 GOT A CRACK ADDICTION - IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT IT IS - IT 17:00 MIGHT BE FOOD - WHATEVER YOUR ADDICTION IS. 17:02 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT YOU'VE GOT THE LUST OF THE FLESH - 17:05 PHYSICAL ADDICTION - WHATEVER IT IS, JESUS GOT THE VICTORY OVER 17:08 THAT. YOU CAN GET THE VICTORY 17:09 THROUGH CHRIST. THAT WAS ONE CATEGORY. 17:12 JESUS ANSWERED WITH THE WORD OF GOD, 'IT IS WRITTEN, 'MAN SHALL 17:15 NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM 17:19 THE MOUTH OF GOD.'' SO, IN THE WORD OF GOD IS WHERE YOU FIND 17:22 THE ANTIDOTE FOR THESE TEMPTATIONS. 17:24 THERE'S POWER IN THE WORD OF GOD. 17:26 THE WORLD CAME INTO EXISTENCE THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD. 17:29 AND SO, WHEN WE SPEAK AND CLAIM THE PROMISES OF GOD, HE GIVES US 17:31 VICTORY. >>AMEN. 17:33 >>THEN THE DEVIL TOOK HIM TO THE HOLY CITY AND HE SET HIM ON THE 17:36 PINNACLE OF THE TEMPLE AND HE SAID, 'IF YOU ARE THE SON OF 17:40 GOD, THROW YOURSELF DOWN, FOR IT IS WRITTEN' - WHOA, WHAT? 17:44 NOW THE DEVIL'S QUOTING THE BIBLE. 17:46 YOU MEAN THE DEVIL READS THE BIBLE? 17:47 I THOUGHT THE DEVIL WAS AFRAID OF THE BIBLE. 17:49 YOU THINK OWNING A BIBLE'S GOING TO SCARE THE DEVIL. 17:52 'PASTOR DOUG, THE DEVIL WON'T BOTHER ME. 17:53 I'VE GOT A BIBLE RIGHT BY MY NIGHTSTAND. 17:55 I NEVER READ IT, BUT IT'S THERE.' IT'S LIKE MY FRIEND WHO 17:58 HUNG A CROSS FROM HIS MIRROR, I SAID, 'WHAT'S THAT FOR?' 18:00 I SAID, 'YOU'RE NOT VERY RELIGIOUS.' HE SAID,' 'I DON'T 18:02 WANT TO HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN I'M DRIVING DRUNK SO I HANG MY CROSS 18:05 UP THERE.' GOOD LUCK CHARM - 'NO, I DON'T TAKE UP MY CROSS, 18:09 BUT I HANG IT ON MY MIRROR' - AS THOUGH THERE'S SOME VALUE IN 18:12 THAT. THAT'S NOT WHAT'S GOING TO SAVE YOU. 18:14 OWNING A BIBLE'S NOT GOING TO SAVE YOU. 18:16 'THY WORD I HAVE HIDDEN IN MY HEART THAT I MIGHT NOT SIN 18:20 AGAINST YOU.' YOU'VE GOT TO READ IT AND THEN YOU QUOTE IT BACK TO 18:23 THE DEVIL. SO HE'S QUOTING 18:24 THE BIBLE TO JESUS. 'IT IS WRITTEN, 'HE'LL GIVE HIS 18:29 ANGEL CHARGE OVER YOU.'' HE'S QUOTING - OR MISQUOTING, 18:31 ACTUALLY, PSALM 91. HE DIDN'T QUOTE THE WHOLE THING. 18:34 JESUS CAME BACK AND 'OH, IT IS WRITTEN, 'YOU SHALL NOT TEMPT 18:37 THE LORD YOUR GOD.'' BY THE WAY, ALL THREE TIMES, WHEN JESUS MET 18:41 THE TEMPTATIONS OF THE DEVIL, HE QUOTES FROM THE BOOK 18:43 DEUTERONOMY. SO, OLD TESTAMENT WAS GOOD 18:47 ENOUGH FOR JESUS, IT STILL SHOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH 18:48 FOR US TODAY, TOO, RIGHT? ALONG WITH THE NEW TESTAMENT. 18:51 BUT DON'T THROW AWAY YOUR OLD TESTAMENT. 18:54 AGAIN, THE DEVIL TOOK HIM TO AN EXCEEDING HIGH MOUNTAIN AND HE 18:56 SHOWS HIM ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN ALL THEIR GLORY. 19:00 HE DOESN'T SHOW THE SLUMS, HE DOESN'T SHOW THE PROBLEMS, HE 19:02 DOESN'T SHOW THE TRAFFIC JAMS. HE SAYS, 'ALL THIS I'LL GIVE 19:05 YOU IF YOU JUST FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP ME.' 19:07 NOW THE DEVIL IS SHOWING HIS TRUE COLORS. 19:09 WHAT DID HE WANT? >>WORSHIP. 19:11 >>HE WANTS THE WORSHIP - IF JESUS WOULD WORSHIP HIM HE WOULD 19:13 BE GOD. HE SAID, 'YOU DON'T HAVE TO DIE. 19:16 YOU'VE COME TO DIE - YOU DON'T HAVE TO DIE, JUST BOW DOWN AND 19:19 WORSHIP ME. I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU.' 19:21 AND WHAT DID JESUS SAY? "GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN. 19:25 YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD GOD AND HIM ONLY SHALL YOU SERVE. 19:29 YOU SHALL NOT HAVE OTHER GODS." AND THE DEVIL LEFT HIM FOR A 19:33 SEASON. THE BIBLE SAYS, 'RESIST THE 19:35 DEVIL AND HE'LL FLEE FROM YOU.' AND YOU READ, AGAIN, IN 19:38 EPHESIANS 6:11, "PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD THAT YOU 19:42 MIGHT BE ABLE TO STAND AGAINST THE WILES OF THE DEVIL." 19:44 GOD KNOWS WE'RE GOING TO HAVE BATTLES AND WE NEED TO BE ARMED. 19:48 YOU NEED TO RESIST. YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED, EVERY 19:50 DAY, TO DENY SELF AND SAY 'YES' TO JESUS. 19:52 AND, THE MORE YOU LOVE JESUS, THE EASIER IT IS TO OBEY HIM AND 19:57 RESIST THE DEVIL. >>AMEN. 19:59 >>BECAUSE THE DEVIL WILL ALWAYS APPEAL TO YOUR SELFISHNESS. 20:01 AND, AGAIN, IT SAYS IN EPHESIANS 6:17, "...THE SWORD OF THE 20:05 SPIRIT, WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD;" 'THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK 20:09 AND POWERFUL AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD. 20:12 REVELATION - JESUS IS PICTURED, IN CHAPTER 19, COMING WITH A 20:15 SWORD COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH, MEANING THE WORD OF GOD IS IN 20:18 HIS MOUTH. THERE YOU'VE GOT THAT VERSE IN 20:20 HEBREWS 4, VERSE 12, "FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS LIVING AND 20:24 POWERFUL, AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD," - YOU READ THE 20:27 WORD, IT'LL CONVICT YOU FROM SIN. 20:29 BUT YOU ALSO FIND PROMISES AND POWER IN THE WORD TO RESIST 20:32 TEMPTATION. I THINK IT WAS D.L. 20:35 MOODY THAT SAID, 'THE BIBLE WILL KEEP YOU FROM SIN OR SIN WILL 20:37 KEEP YOU FROM THE BIBLE.' SO, IF YOU'RE STRUGGLING WITH 20:40 TEMPTATION, THE DEVIL HATES WHEN PEOPLE ARE ON THEIR KNEES AND IN 20:43 THE WORD. AMEN? 20:45 THEREFORE, SUBMIT YOURSELF TO GOD - GREAT PROMISE IN THE BOOK 20:48 OF JAMES CHAPTER 4 - "SUBMIT TO GOD. 20:51 RESIST THE DEVIL" - YOU CAN'T RESIST THE DEVIL UNTIL YOU 20:53 SURRENDER TO GOD - "SUBMIT TO GOD. 20:55 RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU. 20:58 DRAW NEAR TO GOD AND HE WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU." 21:02 >>AMEN. >>AMEN? 21:03 >>AMEN. >>WHO MAKES THE FINAL, COMPLETE 21:05 ERADICATION OF SIN FROM THE UNIVERSE A CERTAINTY? 21:10 1 JOHN 3:8 - "FOR THIS IS THE PURPOSE THE SON OF GOD WAS 21:13 MANIFESTED, THAT HE MIGHT DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL." 21:17 JESUS IS GOING TO COMPLETELY ERASE WHAT THE DEVIL HAS DONE. 21:21 HE BEGAN ON THE CROSS. HE WILL COMPLETE IT WITH HIS 21:24 COMING AND THE GREAT JUDGMENT, BUT THE LORD IS GOING TO - 21:27 AND HE CAN GIVE YOU COMPLETE RECOVERY IN YOUR LIFE TOO. 21:31 I HAVEN'T MET A PERSON WHO HAD A SIN THAT WAS TOO BIG FOR JESUS. 21:34 I HAVE KNOWN PEOPLE THAT HAVE GOTTEN THE VICTORY OVER ALCOHOL 21:37 AND CIGARETTES AND DRUG AND ABUSE AND ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS 21:41 BECAUSE THEY GOT A NEW HEART AND THEY BECAME A NEW CREATURE. 21:45 AND WHAT HE DID FOR THEM HE CAN DO FOR YOU. 21:46 >>AMEN. >>DON'T STOP BELIEVING 21:48 THAT GOD IS MORE POWERFUL. AND, AGAIN, IT GOES ON TO SAY IN 21:52 HEBREWS 2, VERSE 14, "INASMUCH THEN AS THE CHILDREN HAVE 21:55 PARTAKEN OF FLESH AND BLOOD, HE (JESUS) HIMSELF LIKEWISE SHARED 22:00 IN THE SAME, THAT THROUGH DEATH HE MIGHT DESTROY HIM WHO HAD THE 22:04 POWER OF DEATH, THAT IS, THE DEVIL." 22:07 THROUGH THE DEATH OF CHRIST HE IS GOING TO DESTROY THE POWER OF 22:10 SATAN AND WHAT HE'S DONE. SO WHAT IS IT THAT FOREVER 22:14 SETTLES THE HORRIBLE PROBLEM OF SIN? AND WILL SIN EVER RISE UP 22:18 AGAIN THE SECOND TIME? NO. 22:22 WHAT SETTLES IT IS THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS. 22:25 AND YOU CAN READ IN THE BOOK OF NAHUM - A LITTLE BOOK IN THE 22:27 BIBLE, BUT IT'S GOT A GREAT PROMISE THERE - CHAPTER 1, VERSE 22:30 9 "...AFFLICTION (SIN) WILL NOT RISE UP A SECOND TIME." 22:35 >>AMEN. >>YOU KNOW, WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM 22:36 THE DEAD, DID HE STILL HAVE THE NAIL SCARS IN HIS HANDS? 22:39 >>YES. >>IT'S LIKE THAT VERSE IN 22:41 ZECHARIAH, 'AND ONE SHALL SAY UNTO HIM, 'WHAT ARE THESE 22:44 WOUNDS IN YOUR HANDS?'' SOME OF THESE OLD TESTAMENT 22:47 CHARACTERS, THEY MAY GET THERE AND SAY, 'WHAT HAPPENED, LORD? 22:50 WE DON'T UNDERSTAND.' WHEN JESUS ROSE, HE STILL HAD THE SCARS. 22:54 AND, THROUGH ETERNITY, WHEN WE SEE THE SCARS IN HIS HANDS, 22:56 WE'LL SEE HOW MUCH HE PAID THAT WE MIGHT BE FORGIVEN. 22:59 THE UNIVERSE WILL NEVER WANT TO REPEAT THE EXPERIMENT OF 23:03 SELFISHNESS AND SIN AGAIN. IT WILL BE FOREVER CURED. 23:06 YOU'LL NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT AGAIN. 23:08 THERE'S A BEAUTIFUL APPEAL IN THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL 18, VERSE 23:11 30, "REPENT AND TURN FROM ALL OF YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS, SO THAT 23:17 INIQUITY WILL NOT BE YOUR RUIN. 23:19 CAST AWAY FROM YOU ALL THE TRANSGRESSIONS WHICH YOU HAVE 23:22 COMMITTED, AND GET YOURSELVES A NEW HEART" - HE SAYS, 'I'M 23:25 OFFERING IT TO YOU' - "AND A NEW SPIRIT. 23:27 FOR WHY SHOULD YOU DIE, O HOUSES OF ISRAEL?" 23:30 MOSES - HE SAID, 'I'M SETTING BEFORE YOU LIFE AND GOOD, 23:33 BLESSING AND DEATH' - 'LIFE AND DEATH, BLESSING AND CURSING' - 23:37 YOU CHOOSE - 'CHOOSE LIFE,' HE SAID. 23:39 THE DEVIL CAME INTO THE WORLD AND HE BROUGHT DEATH AND SIN AND 23:42 SUFFERING. GOD HAS NO PLEASURE IN THE DEATH OF ANYONE. 23:46 YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER HEARING A STORY YEARS AGO, ABOUT A FATHER 23:50 THAT WAS SAILING THROUGH SOME WARM CARIBBEAN WATER - JUST A 23:54 FATHER AND TWO BOYS ON AN EXCURSION. 23:56 HE WAS A GOOD SAILOR AND HE TOOK HIS BOYS ALONG - TEENAGE BOYS - 23:59 AND, AT ONE POINT, THEY WERE GOING THROUGH SOME ISLANDS - MY 24:02 DAD - I USED TO LIVE IN MIAMI - HE'D TAKE US ON THE BOAT THROUGH 24:04 THE ISLANDS DOWN THERE IN THE CARIBBEAN. 24:06 AND THE FATHER TOLD THE BOYS - THEY'RE ON A SAILBOAT - HE SAID, 24:09 'NOW, WE'RE GOING BY A SECTION OF WATERS - THERE'S A CHICKEN 24:13 SLAUGHTERHOUSE ON THAT ISLAND OVER THERE AND THERE'S A LOT OF 24:15 SHARKS AND THEY'RE VERY VICIOUS BECAUSE THEY'VE GOTTEN THE TASTE 24:19 OF BLOOD. DON'T FALL IN THE WATER HERE. 24:22 THERE'S PLACES YOU CAN SNORKEL AND DIVE AND IT'S GREAT, BUT 24:24 DON'T GO IN THE WATER HERE.' THE BOYS, THEY HADN'T SEEN ANY 24:28 SHARKS AND THEY WERE RUNNING AROUND PLAYING ON THE DECK OF 24:30 THE SHIP AND ONE OF THEM - WRESTLING WITH HIS BROTHER - HE 24:33 GRABBED HIS T-SHIRT AND HE STARTED TO TUMBLE OVER AND HE 24:36 PULLED HIS BROTHER WITH HIM. 24:37 THEY BOTH WENT SPLASH OFF INTO THE WARM CARIBBEAN WATERS. 24:41 WELL, THE FATHER HEARD THE SPLASH AND HE WENT RUNNING UP ON 24:43 DECK AND, OF COURSE, THE BOAT IS MOVING ALONG, IT'S JUST SAILING 24:46 SLOWLY, AND HE DROPPED THE SAIL AND HE DID WHAT HE COULD TO STOP 24:50 THE BOAT AND HE LOOKED OFF AND HE SAW HIS BOYS - IT WAS A CALM 24:52 DAY - HE SAW HIS BOYS OFF THERE PUSHING AND SPLASHING AND RIGHT 24:57 AT THAT POINT, THE FATHER, FOR JUST A MOMENT HE SAW A DORSAL 24:59 FIN POP OVER THE SURFACE. FROM HIS VANTAGE IN THE BOAT HE 25:04 COULD SEE IT, BUT THEY COULDN'T SEE IT. 25:06 AND HE SAID, 'BOYS, THERE'S SHARKS! 25:07 GET QUICKLY AND CALMLY BACK TO THE BOAT.' THE BOYS LOOKED AT 25:11 EACH OTHER AND THEY SAID, 'OH MAN, DAD IS TRYING TO SCARE US. 25:15 WE'VE BEEN SAILING FOR DAYS, WE HAVE NOT SEEN A SINGLE SHARK. 25:18 HE'S JUST' - THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IT. 25:20 AND THEN THEY SAID, 'OKAY, HELP, SHARK! SHARK!' 25:23 AND THEY STARTED TO PRETEND AND THEY'RE SWIMMING VERY SLOWLY 25:26 BACK TO THE BOAT. YOU KNOW, THEY'RE LIKE 5O YARDS 25:28 AWAY AND THE FATHER SAW THE SHARKS BEGINNING TO GATHER. 25:32 HE COULD SEE UP IN THE BOAT - THE SHARKS WERE UNDERNEATH THE 25:35 SURFACE AND THEY WERE TIGHTENING THEIR CIRCLE. 25:38 AND, YOU KNOW THE WAY A SHARK WORKS, IT'LL CONTINUE TO CLOSE 25:40 THE CIRCLE AND IT GETS CLOSER - AND ONE OF THEM, IT EVENTUALLY 25:42 HAS THE COURAGE TO COME IN AND BITE. 25:44 AND ONCE THEY TASTE BLOOD, THEY THEN GO INTO A FRENZY AND THEY 25:49 CAN SMELL ONE DROP OF BLOOD IN LIKE 38,000 OR MILLION GALLONS 25:52 OF WATER - IT'S PHENOMENAL. BUT HE SAW THEM CLOSING THEIR 25:57 CIRCLE AND HE REALIZED THAT THERE WAS JUST A WHOLE HERD OF 26:00 SHARKS OUT THERE THAT WERE GOING TO COME IN. 26:03 HE WAS GOING TO LOSE HIS BOYS. 26:04 AND, IN A DESPERATE, FINAL MEASURE TO SAVE HIS BOYS, THE 26:07 FATHER RAN BELOW DECK, HE WENT TO THE GALLEY, HE GRABBED A 26:10 KNIFE, HE RAN UP ON TOP OF THE BOAT, HE CUT HIS WRISTS, HE DOVE 26:14 IN THE WATER AND HE SWAM IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION. 26:19 ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE BOYS SAW, AS THE WATER BEGAN TO CHURN AND 26:22 TURN RED OFF IN THIS OTHER DIRECTION AND - NOW HERE'S THE 26:27 QUESTION: IF THOSE BOYS DECIDE TO STAY IN THE WATER, IS THERE 26:31 ANYTHING MORE THEIR FATHER CAN DO FOR THEM? AFTER GOD GAVE HIS 26:36 SON AND HE POURED OUT HIS BLOOD TO SAVE US FROM THE DEVIL, IF WE 26:40 CHOOSE TO STAY IN THE WORLD AND IN SIN, WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT 26:44 HIM TO GIVE THAN HIS LIFE - TO SAVE YOU? 26:52 >>WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW GOD'S PLAN FOR OUR BROKEN WORLD, AS 26:55 REVEALED IN BIBLE PROPHECY? 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