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Doug Batchelor: For nine months
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between 1898 and 1899
two famous man-eating lions
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of Tsavo terrorized workers
employed in the construction
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of a railway bridge in Uganda.
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As the death toll rose,
construction was brought
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to a virtual standstill.
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The workers said they refused
to continue until protection
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could be provided.
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Finally, the reign of
terror was brought to an end
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when Lieutenant
Colonel J.H. Patterson
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succeeded in tracking
and killing the two lions
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that had devoured 135 men.
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The lions are now
on permanent display
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in the Field Museum of Chicago.
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Even more deadly was a tigress
in India that was reported to
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have killed and eaten 436 people
in 1907 before it was killed.
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But the record for
man-eating goes to one lion that
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has devoured more than
all these other cats combined.
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1 Peter chapter 5, verse
8, advises us, "Be sober,
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be vigilant
because your adversary,
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the devil is going
around like a roaring lion,
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seeking whom he might devour."
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So, how can we be protected
against this man-eater?
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Join me, friends, today,
as we continue our exploration
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to understand the
originator of sin, the devil.
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Doug: Well, friends, we have
a very important study, tonight.
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We're going to be talking about
why is there evil in the world?
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And this is one
of the big reasons
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that some people have
problems believing in God.
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They say, "If there's a
God, and if God is good,
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then why is there
so much suffering?
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Why would God create this
world, and innocent children,
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innocent people suffer?
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If God is powerful, then
why doesn't He stop the evil?
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If He can do anything,
why doesn't He just make
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everybody be good and
make everything peaceful?"
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And people struggle
with the problem of evil.
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It's one of the most important
questions, and I tell you
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there's nothing more important
than what we're talking about.
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There are two titanic powers
that are at war in the world
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today, and there's a reason
that God does not just snap
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His fingers and
annihilate Satan.
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And when you understand
the issue, what's going on
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behind the scene, it
begins to make a lot more sense.
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Our study tonight is
on "The Prince of Pride."
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And we're going to be
dealing with the subject
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of did God make a devil?
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Is there a devil?
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Why is there evil in the world?
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Now, this is not a subject that
I enjoy talking about because
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I'm preoccupied with the devil.
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As a matter of fact, I avoid
ministers that want to always
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preach and talk about the devil.
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But I think it's appropriate to
talk about what God talks about,
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and there's warnings in the
Bible about the power of evil.
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Even professional
boxers or football players,
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before they go to engage
an opponent, they sit down
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with a coach, and they watch
videos and films of the tactics
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of the enemy, so to speak,
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so they can
understand what's going on.
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The Lord wants us to understand
something about the nature
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and the tactics of the devil.
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And I can tell you the devil's
not happy about this program,
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tonight, because we're going to
be exposing what his plans are.
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The Bible tells us and
Jesus warns us about that.
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The devil is mentioned quite
a bit in the book of Revelation.
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What powerful beings work
under the devil's command?
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You can read here in Revelation
12, verse 4, "His tail drew
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a third of the stars of heaven
and threw them to the earth."
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Who are these stars
that were following Lucifer?
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They're angels, also.
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You can look at
Revelation chapter 12, verse 9,
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"He was cast to the earth, and
his angels were cast with him."
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So, most of the
time when we say,
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"Well, the devil tempted me,"
or "The devil made me do this,"
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of course, the devil
doesn't make you do anything
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unless you're demon possessed.
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It was Flip Wilson
who used to always say,
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"The devil made me do it."
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You can't
always blame the devil.
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And first of all, the
devil is not omnipotent.
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He doesn't know everything.
He can't read minds and hearts.
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But the devil has
fallen angels, his minions,
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probably millions of them,
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one-third of the
angels in heaven.
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And if God has guardian
angels for every person,
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and there are billions of people
in the world today--you know,
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the Bible actually
gives us the highest number
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that is found in Greek.
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It applies to the angels
of God: 10,000 times 1,000--
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10,000 times 10,000
and thousands of thousands.
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It tries to describe this
innumerable company of angels.
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They're described as coming
in a cloud when Jesus returns.
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So, God's got a lot angels,
but one-third of them followed
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Lucifer in his rebellion.
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He kept saying, "You
know, God's not fair.
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We should have more freedom.
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We don't need
God's laws to govern us.
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We should make our own.
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We should have the power of God
to create, have our own worlds."
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And as he began to plant
those desires in his heart,
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in the hearts of
the other angels--
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by the way, what did
he tell Adam and Eve?
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"If you eat this
fruit, you'll be like God."
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That's what he wanted.
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He began to plant his desires
in the hearts of the angels,
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and they followed
him in his rebellion.
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Ultimately, they were cast
to the earth because it was only
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on earth that Satan found
another race of creatures,
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made in God's image, that
followed him instead of God.
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God said, "Do
not eat of the tree."
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The Word of God said,
"Do not eat of the tree."
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Lucifer said, "Go
ahead and eat of the tree.
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You'll be like God."
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Adam and Eve had
to make a decision.
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"Who do we obey?"
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When they chose to obey
Lucifer, instead of God,
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Paul says in Romans
chapter 6, "Whoever you obey,
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that's whose servant you are."
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The dominion of the
world that Adam had received
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was handed over to the devil.
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And even Jesus calls the
devil the prince of this world.
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Said, "The prince
of this world comes,
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and he has nothing in me."
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That's why the devil said
to Jesus, "If you fall down
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and worship me, you don't
need to die for this world.
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I'll give it to you."
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He claims the
dominion of this world.
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When the devil meets God
in some heavenly meeting,
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and God said,
"Where did you come from?"
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God knew, but He's
asking for the sake of others.
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Said, "I came from
the earth, from walking up
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and down and to and fro in it.
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It's my territory."
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So, people say, "Why is there
all this evil in the world?"
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It's because our first parents
made a decision not to follow
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God, and God allow--He
allows things to play out.
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You know, we live in a
country where we get to elect
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our leaders.
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And what we elect we experience
for the next four years,
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good or bad.
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I'm not advocating any party.
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It's just you're going to
live with the consequences
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of your choices, and that's
what's happening in the world
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right now is we are
living out the consequences of
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the choices that were
made by our first parents,
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but it's going to
come to an end soon.
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God just wanted the whole
world to see what is the result
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of following the
devil's government.
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The devil said,
"If I was in charge,
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we'd be happier
in the universe."
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God said, "All right, you found
a world that's listening to you.
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Let's see how that goes."
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What methods does
Satan use in his work?
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Answer A: "Satan, who
deceives the whole world."
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This is from
Revelation 12, verse 9.
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Satan is the great deceiver.
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Now, you know what deception is.
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Deception is not just the same
thing as just telling a lie.
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Deception is when you
commingle truth with error.
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See, in one sense, the
devil's got an advantage
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over God because
God can only use truth.
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God does not lie,
and God cannot sin.
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The devil can, he can
tell the truth when it's to his
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advantage, and then he
mixes in a lie, and he deceives.
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He wins people's
support, and then he lies.
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He gives you, you
know, 99% orange juice
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and one drop of strychnine,
and then you're poisoned.
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So, the devil is
a great deceiver.
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And how much of the world does
the Bible say he's deceived?
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The whole world--we
just saw on the screen.
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Is there a devil? "No, no, no."
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The devil loves that.
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People don't
think he really exists.
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I should mention at this
point, folks that do think
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of the devil got a
totally distorted concept.
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All right, bear with
me for just a moment.
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Close your eyes for four
seconds, just close your eyes.
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Picture the devil.
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I don't want you to
meditate on it, but if you were
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to picture the devil,
okay, what did you see?
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How many saw red leotards?
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Anybody see a goatee?
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Any of your devils in
your mind have a goatee?
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I see there are one
or two goatees out there.
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Horns anyone?
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Yeah.
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Pitchfork?
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The trident, you know--
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Ostensibly, he's supposed
to cook people evenly in hell.
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That's why he uses that.
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And he has sinister eyes, and
he's got goat hooves, you know,
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and he's got bat wings,
and people say, you know,
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"What does the devil look like?"
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But in reality, the Bible tells
us he is a beautiful angel--
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a lot of misunderstandings--
deceives the whole world.
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Jesus was tempted.
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The devil's a tempter.
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You can read answer B: "He
was there in the wilderness
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forty days tempted by Satan."
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And the three principle
temptations of the devil,
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through Jesus, cover really
all the potential temptations.
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And in Jesus overcoming
those temptations, which were
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the lust of the
flesh, the lust of the eyes,
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and the pride of life,
in his overcoming those,
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it's a pattern that
we can be overcomers
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because Jesus overcame.
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There is no sin that you cannot
overcome with Jesus's help.
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You can resist temptation.
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By the way, it is
not a sin to be tempted.
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Was Jesus tempted?
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We're all tempted.
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We're probably
tempted several times a day.
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That's not a sin.
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It's a sin when you embrace
and fall into the temptation.
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Jesus faced temptation head-on.
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He met it with the Word of God.
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We're going to
say more about that.
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Matthew chapter 4, verse 8,
"Again, the devil took Him up
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to an exceedingly high mountain,
and showed Him all the kingdoms
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of the world and their glory."
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This is an
example of his deception.
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Now, I've been
all over the world,
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and it's just I am so
blessed to be able to travel
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and do my favorite
thing, and talk about God.
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And one of the most incredible
cities--I see my friends
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that have been with me in
India and China over here.
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I'm not going to name them
because I don't want people
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to know.
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But they've been
to Dubai a few times--
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one of the most
incredible cities in the world.
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Someone took me to a
hotel with golden toilet seats.
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Beautiful city.
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Do you know they
don't have any cars in Dubai
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over five years old?
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It's against the
law. They're all new cars.
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It's like oil money everywhere,
most expensive hotels
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in the world, beautiful cities.
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But I've also been to
some cities that are, woo,
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just awful mess.
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The devil did not
show Jesus the bad cities.
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He showed him the good cities,
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said, "Ah, the
beautiful kingdoms of the world,
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they'll all be yours if
you fall down and worship me."
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So, right here, it tells
us what the devil wanted.
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"Worship me."
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The devil wants to be God.
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The Bible also tells us that
"They are the spirits of demons
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performing signs," answer C.
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The devil performs miracles.
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His demons can perform miracles.
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So, when you're trying to find
out if something is true or not,
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do you say, "Well, whoever can
do the most signs and wonders,
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they must be right"?
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No.
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Can the devil do
signs and wonders?
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You remember when in the Bible,
I'm assuming, Moses came in,
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and he threw down his
rod, and it became a serpent?
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And the Pharaoh
summoned his magicians.
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They came in, they
threw down their rods,
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and they became serpents.
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So, the devil has a
certain amount of power
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to create illusions.
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It says here, "He performs great
signs, so that he even makes
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fire come down from
heaven in the sight of men."
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Now, what verse is that?
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Revelation 13.
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This is in the verse about the
beast and the mark of the beast.
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One of the things that the devil
will do to deceive people in the
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last days is signs and
wonders, making fire come down
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from heaven.
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Now, Elijah prayed
and fire came down.
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Three times Elijah
prayed, fire came down,
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three different
times in his life.
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Elijah prayed,
and rain came down.
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But the Bible says that
the devil brought fire down
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from heaven in the story of Job.
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So, the devil has a
certain amount of power
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even over the elements.
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Whenever there's an earthquake
or a storm, everyone says,
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"Why did God do
that? It's an act of God."
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Well, not always, friends.
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I mean, God has biblically
sometimes manipulated the
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weather one way or the other to
save people or to judge people,
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but the devil can, too.
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So, he'll
counterfeit some of the miracles
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and the power of
God to deceive people.
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He's an accuser.
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He's always pointing the
finger like he did at Job,
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"accuser of our
brethren who accused them
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before God day and night."
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Whenever you sin, the
devil will tempt you to sin,
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and then he will
turn you in for sinning.
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He's the
accuser of the brethren,
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Revelation 12, verse 10.
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He's a murderer.
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You read in the
garden of Eden there,
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he's the one who inspired
Cain to murder his own brother,
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and the devil is guilty of
murder all over the planet,
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he and his
forces every single day.
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He's a murderer,
and he's also a liar.
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He's just an outright lair.
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He will tell people things that
just are absolutely untruth,
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and they believe it.
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When is the devil
the most dangerous?
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Now you can look here
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in the book of 2 Corinthians
chapter 11, verse 14.
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"And no wonder!
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For Satan himself is transformed
into an angel of light."
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Didn't Jesus warn us?
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In the last days,
there'll be many false prophets,
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many false Christs that
will do signs and wonders."
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So, got to be on our guard.
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Doug: Don't go
anywhere, friends.
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In just a moment,
we'll be back to complete
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today's presentation.
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and learn some more amazing
facts from the Word of God?
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Doug: I heard an
interesting fact that probably
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one of the most deadly
or dangerous serial arsonist
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was a man named John Orr.
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Between 1984 and
1991, he set approximately
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2000 fires in
southern California.
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What's really interesting
is that his job was he was
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a fire chief in Glendale,
California, and he was the arson
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investigator, and everyone
wondered how he was able
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to solve arson
problems so quickly.
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Because he set many
of the fires himself,
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made himself out to be a hero.
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People died.
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He didn't care.
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He kept setting fires.
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He's now in jail for
several life sentences.
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The Bible talks about,
Jesus said, "Beware of," what?
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"Prophets who come to
you in sheep's clothing.
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Inwardly, they
are ravening wolves."
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The devil works
through religion.
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Did Jesus have a Judas,
even among the apostles?
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He was a thief.
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So, don't be
discouraged if you say,
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"Well, I'm not going to church.
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There's
hypocrites in the church.
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There's all these counterfeit
teachers and preachers out there
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that are, you know,
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they're making
money on religion."
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The devil is trying
to discourage people
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from following Jesus
by all the counterfeits.
00:16:02.69\00:16:05.36
But buried in all the
broken glass is the diamond.
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It's the truth.
00:16:07.96\00:16:09.26
Does Satan know the Bible?
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Ah, yeah, some
people think that, you know,
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if you're being
tempted, you're just supposed
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to take your Bible, and
you wave it at the devil,
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say some words, and
the devil's going to run.
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What?
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You know, the devil will take
your Bible out of your hand,
00:16:26.08\00:16:27.72
and he'll quote it back to you.
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The devil knows the Bible better
than anybody here, including me.
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He's, I'm sure, got
a photographic memory.
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Did he quote the Bible to Jesus?
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He did.
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Matthew 4:5, one
of the temptations,
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it said, "The devil said to Him,
'If you're the Son of God--"
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He took him up to the
pinnacle of the temple.
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"--cast Yourself down.
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For it is written:
'He'll give His angels charge
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concerning thee.'"
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He left out the part that says,
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"to keep you in
all of Your ways."
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You're not going to be
jumping off of temples.
00:16:55.01\00:16:56.31
So, the devil not
only quotes the Bible.
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He knows how to misquote
the Bible or take a verse
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out of context.
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But so many people
out there, they think,
00:17:04.29\00:17:05.82
"Oh, I don't need to
worry about the devil
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because we've got
five Bibles in our house,"
00:17:07.59\00:17:10.43
as though having a Bible
on the nightstand is going
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to protect you.
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No, God doesn't want
the Bible on the nightstand.
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He wants it in your mind, amen?
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"Thy word I have
hidden in my heart,
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that I might not
sin against You."
00:17:22.54\00:17:24.21
You've got to
put it in your heart,
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and that's what you're
doing by coming to this program,
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we're trying to put the
Word of God in your heart,
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and it's going to make an
eternal difference in your life.
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Who on earth does
the devil hate the most?
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You can read about this in
Revelation chapter 12, verse 17.
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"The dragon was
enraged with the woman,
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and he went to make war
with the rest of her offspring,
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who keep the commandments
of God and have the testimony
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of Jesus Christ."
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Now, when it says the
dragon, who's the dragon?
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That's the devil.
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He's enraged with the
woman, and he goes to make war.
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Who's the woman?
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I told you Christ
married the church,
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the bride of Christ.
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The devil hates
Jesus's children,
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and he makes war
with a special group.
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He's not worried about the
ones who take the name of Jesus
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and don't live
at all like Christ.
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He's especially
threatened by the ones
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who have the testimony of Jesus,
00:18:21.13\00:18:23.06
they've got the faith
of Jesus, and they keep
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the commandments of God,
and he makes war against them.
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Now, the devil hates Jesus.
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He cannot reach Jesus right
now, but he wants to hurt Jesus.
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What would hurt you more?
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If someone held you
down and tortured you,
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or if they held your
children down in front of you
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and tortured them?
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Won't that hurt more?
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So, the devil knows
how much God loves us.
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God so loved us, He
sent His Son to save us.
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He wants to hurt God, and
he hurts God by hurting us.
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He knows that evil
hurts us, and he hurts God
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by tempting us to sin.
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What two deadly animals does
the Bible use to portray Satan?
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You can read here,
it says in 1 Peter 5:8,
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"Be sober, be vigilant, because
your adversary the devil,
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he walks about
like a roaring lion,
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seeking whom he might devour."
00:19:14.75\00:19:17.59
So, one of the characters
that is often portrayed
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as the devil is a
lion, and the other one is--
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you'll find this
here in Revelation 12:9.
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"So that great dragon was
cast out, that serpent of old,
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called the Devil and Satan."
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Perhaps you remember
there in the garden of Eden,
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what medium did the
devil use to speak to Eve?
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It was a serpent.
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And when Eve was going about
her pleasant tasks and working
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in the garden, maybe she had
drifted a little bit from Adam.
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He doesn't seem to have
been there at that moment.
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And this beautiful, hypnotic
creature--you know, snakes,
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the way they move can
sometimes be rather hypnotic.
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You'll sometimes see
them go like that before
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they strike at their prey.
00:20:01.93\00:20:03.80
And all of a sudden,
00:20:03.83\00:20:06.10
it's got this
supernatural ability to speak.
00:20:06.13\00:20:08.00
And he says, "Oh,"
he says, "I didn't know
00:20:08.04\00:20:11.14
any of the animals
could speak in the garden."
00:20:11.17\00:20:13.14
He said, "Yeah, well,
I've been eating this fruit,
00:20:13.17\00:20:14.51
and it does
wonderful things for you.
00:20:14.54\00:20:16.71
And did God say that
you're not allowed to eat
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from the trees in the garden?"
00:20:19.35\00:20:21.15
"Oh, no, we can eat
from the trees in the garden,
00:20:21.18\00:20:22.95
but we're not
supposed to eat from this tree,
00:20:22.98\00:20:24.89
not even supposed to touch it.
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He said we'll die."
00:20:26.25\00:20:27.56
And the serpent said, "Die?
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Well, look at me.
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You're not going to die.
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You're going to have
supernatural abilities.
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You'll be like
God if you eat it.
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You'll be even more beautiful."
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And she said, "Well, seems
to be working for the serpent."
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And she took the
fruit, and then she gave it--
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she ate it, probably felt
exhilarated for a little bit,
00:20:46.84\00:20:49.88
as sin often does.
00:20:49.91\00:20:51.21
It's like the little
rush before the hangover.
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Gave it to her husband,
and then they felt the chill.
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Their robes of light went out,
and they saw their nakedness,
00:20:58.89\00:21:01.92
and they're running from God.
00:21:01.96\00:21:04.99
And the fruit got
stuck in Adam's throat,
00:21:05.03\00:21:06.80
and that's why they
call this an Adam's apple.
00:21:06.83\00:21:10.03
Where in the Bible
does it say it was an apple?
00:21:10.07\00:21:13.37
It doesn't say that.
00:21:13.40\00:21:14.70
But have you ever seen
any picture of Adam and Eve
00:21:14.74\00:21:16.30
in the garden where
she's picking a peach,
00:21:16.34\00:21:19.71
pineapple, banana, pear?
00:21:19.74\00:21:24.38
It's always an apple.
00:21:24.41\00:21:25.75
Some traditions
just don't die, right?
00:21:25.78\00:21:27.72
Could've been a coconut.
00:21:27.75\00:21:29.05
No, I'm--it was a unique fruit.
00:21:29.08\00:21:31.62
And so, but the devil
used as medium of a serpent,
00:21:31.65\00:21:36.22
and because both lions
and serpents are, you know,
00:21:36.26\00:21:40.40
they go after prey-- a
serpent is coldblooded.
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And there are
verses in the Bible
00:21:45.13\00:21:47.20
that says that
with the power of God
00:21:47.24\00:21:48.90
that you will be able to conquer
both the lion and the serpent,
00:21:48.94\00:21:52.14
you will tread underfoot.
00:21:52.17\00:21:54.08
And then there's that
verse in Mark chapter 16,
00:21:54.11\00:21:56.81
where Jesus said that
through the power of His Spirit,
00:21:56.85\00:21:58.88
He said you'll be
able to take up serpents.
00:21:58.91\00:22:01.25
Now, what He meant by that
is if you get bit by a serpent,
00:22:01.28\00:22:03.49
you take it up,
it won't harm you.
00:22:03.52\00:22:05.15
This happened to
Paul in the book of Acts.
00:22:05.19\00:22:07.32
It doesn't mean we're
going to go looking for snakes
00:22:07.36\00:22:08.99
and let them bite us and prove
that we have supernatural power.
00:22:09.02\00:22:13.33
But the devil was
symbolized by the serpent.
00:22:13.36\00:22:15.36
What was the curse
that fell on the serpent?
00:22:15.40\00:22:18.13
"You will now
go upon your belly.
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You'll eat the
dust of the ground."
00:22:19.80\00:22:21.67
Now just a little amazing fact
I thought you'd find interesting
00:22:21.70\00:22:24.11
is all over the world, we find
fossil evidence of these giant
00:22:24.14\00:22:28.11
flying reptiles--and even on
serpents--this is a pterosaur.
00:22:28.14\00:22:33.52
That one there,
wing span of 40 feet.
00:22:33.55\00:22:36.89
Its' like a Cessna
airplane, weighed 300 pounds.
00:22:36.92\00:22:40.36
Everything
changed after the flood.
00:22:40.39\00:22:43.12
But there were flying serpents,
and this is part of the reason
00:22:43.16\00:22:45.66
that all over the world, you've
got dragons--not just in China,
00:22:45.69\00:22:50.33
but in all these
different cultures,
00:22:50.37\00:22:51.93
they've got
legends about dragons--
00:22:51.97\00:22:53.84
probably because they saw
some of the fossilized remains.
00:22:53.87\00:22:56.87
Or who knows?
00:22:56.91\00:22:58.27
But the serpent is
often portrayed as a dragon,
00:22:58.31\00:23:00.78
all the way from Revelation
to--or Genesis to Revelation.
00:23:00.81\00:23:05.75
What's the only way
that we can resist Satan?
00:23:05.78\00:23:09.55
"Therefore submit to God.
00:23:09.58\00:23:11.49
Resist the devil,
he will flee from you.
00:23:11.52\00:23:14.76
Draw near to God, and
He will draw near to you."
00:23:14.79\00:23:17.86
When the prodigal
son came to his senses,
00:23:17.89\00:23:19.96
and he began his journey
home, as soon as the father
00:23:20.00\00:23:22.63
saw him coming, the
father ran to meet him.
00:23:22.66\00:23:25.60
If you've been living
in the devil's territory
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your whole life, or if
you've been wandering there,
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if you come to your
senses and you pray and say,
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"Lord, help me to
find my way home,"
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God will run to meet you.
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There's human effort
involved in resisting the devil.
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This is what the verse says.
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"Resist the devil,
and he'll flee from you.
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Draw near to God,
he'll draw near to you."
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Three times, the devil came
to Jesus, and he was resisted.
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How did Jesus fight
the assaults of the devil?
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All three times when
Christ was tempted by the devil,
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Jesus answered and said,
"It is written, it is written.
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Away with you,
Satan, for it is written."
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So, what is our best weapon
to fight against the devil?
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The promises in the Word of God.
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The Word of God
is powerful, friends.
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The Bible says the
Word of God is quick
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and powerful and sharper
than any two-edged sword.
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God brought the
world into existence,
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He created through His Word.
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He said, "Let it
be," and it happened.
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And through the Word
of God, as you read it,
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it has power in your life.
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It gives you determination,
it gives you strength
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that you will
not have otherwise.
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It's like a sword.
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Paul talks about
putting on the armor of God.
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And he says, "Use
the sword of the Spirit,
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which is the Word of God."
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It's Ephesians
chapter 6, verse 17.
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Again, you can
read Hebrews 4:12.
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"The Word of God is
living and powerful,
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and sharper than
any two-edged sword."
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And in Revelation, it
talks about Jesus coming.
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In chapter 19, He's got a
sword coming out of His mouth.
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Now, you realize
Revelation is full of symbols.
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When Jesus comes,
he's not going to have
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a big old dagger
sticking out of His face.
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It's a symbol for
the sword in the mouth is
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what's in His mouth?
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The Word of God, right?
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So, Jesus even comes
conquering with the Word of God
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in His mouth.
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It portrays Him that way.
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How does God feel about
the destruction of the wicked,
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those who follow the devil?
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The Bible says Satan and
those who follow Satan are cast
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into the lake of
fire, Revelation chapter 20.
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Does the Lord enjoy that?
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"Say to them, 'As I
live,' says the Lord--'"
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This is Ezekiel 33:11.
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"'I have no pleasure in
the death of the wicked,
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but that the wicked would
turn from his way and live.'"
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Now listen to the appeal of God.
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"Turn ye, turn ye
from your evil ways!
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For why will you die?"
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The Lord is pleading
with us, "Please turn.
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I'll give you power to turn.
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You'll never be
happy with a life of sin.
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Turn from your
evil ways and live.
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For why will you die?"
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I mean, God has set
before us all two options:
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Jesus or the devil.
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There's no--Christ
said, "If you're not with me,
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you're against me."
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If you have not given your
life to Christ, then don't say,
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"Well, I'm neutral."
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No, you're not neutral.
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Saying no to Jesus is
saying yes to the enemy.
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You're either with
God or you're against Him.
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Moses said, "You want life,
good, and blessing, or death,
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evil, and cursing?"
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Everybody has those two options.
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The only way to have life, good,
and blessing is to put your life
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in God's hands.
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Amen?
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