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Doug: We're continuing with the
second part in a series where
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we're talking about
"When Satan Goes to Church."
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Now, when we're talking about
the devil in church, that always
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sounds like it's a paradox,
it sounds like an oxymoron,
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but the devil
actually started in church.
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The Bible tells us that he was
right there by the throne of God
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from his creation.
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You can read in Ezekiel 28, "You
were the anointed cherub who
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covers; I established you;
You were on the holy mountain
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of God; You walk back and forth
in the midst of fiery stones."
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And that fiery stone is talking
about the blazing stones,
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the glory of God.
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Jesus, who of course lived
before His incarnation, He said,
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Luke chapter 10:18, "I
saw Satan fall like lightning
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from heaven."
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There was a war in heaven and
Satan was cast out of heaven.
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The devil knows about going to
church, and he wants to get back
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to church, did you know that?
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Well, let's talk a little bit
about the disguise of the devil.
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And this was our Scripture
reading last week, Acts 20,
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if you have your Bibles,
Acts 20, verse 29 and 30.
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Paul is giving some admonition
to believers in Asia, he knows
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it's probably the last
time he's gonna see them.
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And he says, "For I know this,
that after my departure savage
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wolves will come in among
you, not sparing the flock,"
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wolves among the flock.
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"Also from among your own
selves men will arise, speaking
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perverse things, to draw away
disciples after themselves."
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Now, you notice something,
Paul says, "After my departure."
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Why after his departure?
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If you look in the previous
verse, I think it's verse 27,
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Paul says, "I have not
neglected to declare unto you
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the whole counsel of God."
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Paul is saying, "As long as I'm
here, I know what the devil's up
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to, I know what he looks like,
and I'm preaching the whole
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counsel of God,
you're gonna be safe.
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But after my departure, there's
other teachers that are going to
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come in, and there's a risk
that you will be confused when
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these wolves come in."
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Matthew 13, Jesus gave them a
parable, "The kingdom of heaven
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is like a man who sowed good
seed in his field; but while men
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slept, his enemy came."
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Now, who's the enemy?
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"The enemy came and he
sowed tares among the wheat."
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Tares, I remember,
first read that and I thought,
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"What's a tare?"
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I thought it was a
rip in your clothes.
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A tare is an old word for a
weed that resembles wheat when
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it's little.
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Do you know that when you were
very young, very, very young,
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your parents could not tell
the difference between you and
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a frog?
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Now, I'm talking about like when
you were a single cell, or even
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if you were two cells.
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And even after a week or two, if
you look at the little embryos
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under a microscope of a frog
or different creatures, they all
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look pretty much the same,
it's hard to tell the difference
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between a little puppy and a
snake when they're really small.
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But then, as they get bigger,
and wheat, when it first springs
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from the ground, looks very
much like tares, and the devil,
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he sows his
tares among the wheat.
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And the servants come to the
master and they say, "It looks
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like there's some
tears sown among the wheat.
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Do you want us
to go pull them up?"
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And the master says, "No, no,
no, because they're so similar,
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you're gonna accidentally
pull up some wheat."
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Sometimes, you and I think
we know the difference between
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the wheat and the tares,
but only God knows the heart.
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If you asked the religious
leaders to pull the weeds out
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of the early church, they would
have got rid of Mary Magdalene
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and Peter right away, right?
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And they would have
probably promoted Judas.
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So we got to be careful when
it comes to separating the wheat
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and the tares because
it's sometimes hard to tell,
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the devil is
sneaky in the church.
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2 Corinthians 11:13-15, "Such
are false apostles, deceitful
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workers, transforming themselves
into the apostles of Christ.
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And no wonder!
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For Satan himself transforms
himself into an angel of light."
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When the devil came to tempt
Jesus in the wilderness, do you
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think that he plopped down
on the ground with bat wings
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and red leotards and a
goatee and Calvin Klein suit?
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No, he looked like a beautiful
angel, he can transform himself
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into an angel of light.
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"And no wonder!"
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It says, "Therefore it is not
a great thing if his ministers
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transform themselves into
ministers of righteousness,
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whose end will be
according to their works."
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So you've got the disguise
of the devil, then you got
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the deceptions of the devil,
that would seem pretty obvious,
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the deceptions of the devil.
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But I want you to notice,
Revelation 12, verse 9, "So the
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great dragon was cast out, that
serpent of old, called the devil
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and Satan, who deceives
the whole world; he was cast
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to the earth, and his
angels were cast out with him."
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So you've got the devil and
his angels that are doing what?
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They're deceiving the
whole world, but it's not just
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the world on the
outside that's being deceived.
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Look in 1 Timothy 4:1.
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"Now the Spirit speaks expressly
saying in the latter times
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some will
depart from the faith."
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These are who?
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People in the faith,
"Giving heed to seducing spirits
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and doctrines of devils."
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It says they will be deceived,
deceiving spirits, not just the
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world being deceived, but people
in the church being deceived,
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by what?
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"Doctrines of devils."
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You know, for every
truth of God, the devil
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has a counterfeit.
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Notice this, Satan
has his own trinity.
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You read in Revelation
16:13, The dragon, the beast and
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the false prophet, where we have
the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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He has his own church,
Revelation 2:9, it's called the,
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"Synagogue of Satan."
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These are exact phrases.
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He's got his own
theology, 1 Timothy 4:1,
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"The doctrines of demons."
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He has his own ministers,
2 Corinthians 11:4-5, and
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verse 15, says they're
called ministers of Satan,
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they've graduated
from his seminary.
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He's got his own
gospel, Galatians 1:9 calls it
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the accursed gospel.
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He's got his own
sacrificial system, Paul says in
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1 Corinthians 10, "The
Gentiles sacrifice...to demons."
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He has his own communion
service, 1 Corinthians 10:21,
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Paul says, "The cup of demons,"
and, "The table of demons."
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He has his own unholy
spirit, I can't call it his own
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Holy Spirit, because he's
obviously not holy, but it says
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that it's the
spirit of an unclean demon.
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He's got his own throne,
given to him by the dragon,
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Revelation 13:2.
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He's got his own worshipers,
look at Revelation 13.
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Devil's got his own complete
system of theology, his church,
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his ministers, and
he deceives people.
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There's so many that
think they're serving the Lord,
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and they're serving the devil.
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Then you got the
dialogue of the devil.
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A hunter was out in the woods
and he encountered a great big
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bear, and he leveled his gun
was, ready to fire, and the bear
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put his hands up in the air.
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He said, "Wait,
let's talk about this."
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Well, the hunter had never
heard a bear talk to him before,
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and the hunter said,
"What's to talk about?"
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He said, "It doesn't
need to end this way."
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He said, "We can negotiate."
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The bear said,
"What do you want?"
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So, the hunter said, "I don't
know how we can negotiate this,"
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he said, "I want a
warm bear-fur coat."
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The bear said, "We
can make that happen."
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Hunter said, "What do you want?"
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He said, "I'm just
hungry, I'm looking for a meal."
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He said, "Well, there's
some rocks here, let's sit down,
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let's talk about it."
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So, the hunter, cautiously,
he went and sat down on the rock
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and the bear sat down
across from him, and they talked
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a little while.
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And then the bear walked away
happy, and left the hunter's gun
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there on the ground.
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They had come to an agreement,
the bear had a full stomach and
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the hunter had a bear-fur
coat, because the bear ate him,
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in case you
didn't figure that out.
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Some people are
still sitting there, going.
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How did it happen?
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They're talking.
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How did we get into trouble?
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Genesis 3, "Now the serpent was
more cunning than any beast of
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the field that
the Lord God had made.
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And he said to the woman,"
"Hi, beautiful, hey there."
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Actually, in the original
Hebrew, it's a greeting like,
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"Hi there."
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He said, "Has God indeed
said, 'You shall not eat from
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every tree in the garden'?"
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"Let's talk about this," he
engaged her to discuss what God
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had commanded, and God
doesn't want us to just dialogue
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about His will as much as
He wants us to obey His will.
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A lot of people think talking
about theology is different from
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living it.
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You don't want to get involved
in a discussion with the devil
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because you can
rationalize anything if you talk
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to the enemy.
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Satan convinced one-third
of the holy angels to trust him
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instead of the Lord.
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Matthew 16:22, Jesus told the
apostles, He said, "I'm going
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to Jerusalem, I'm going to
die, I'll rise the third day."
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Peter said, "Lord,
can we have a word?
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Come over here, I wanna
talk to You a little bit."
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And Peter said, "Jesus, far
be it from You; this shall not
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happen to You!"
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You know what
Jesus said to Peter?
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"Get behind Me, Satan."
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The devil was using even someone
close to the Lord to try to talk
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Him out of going to the cross.
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It reminds us that even
good leaders make mistakes.
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Jude verse 9, there's only
one chapter in Jude, verse 9,
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"Michael the archangel, in
contending with the devil, when
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he disputed."
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You know what a dispute is?
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He wanted to do engagement
him in an argument, a dispute.
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And the devil's saying Michael
is coming to resurrect Moses,
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and the devil said, "No, no,
you can't take him, he sinned,
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he lost his temper, he murdered
someone and hid him in the sand.
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You can't take him."
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And it says that Michael would
not even engage him, he says,
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"The Lord rebuke you!"
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That's it.
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Don't get into a
discussion with the devil.
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Then you've got the derision of
the devil, that's as close as I
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could get to the word
"meanness," the derision.
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You remember the story, Luke
9:51, "Now it came to pass, when
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the time had come for Jesus to
be received up, He steadfastly
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set His face to
go to Jerusalem."
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Jesus is on His way to worship
at the feast, "And He sent some
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of His messengers before Him.
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And they went into a village of
Samaritans, to prepare for Him."
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They said, "It's a long journey,
is there an inn, a place where
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the Master can stay?"
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They said, "Oh, you're going
down to Jerusalem to worship?
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We don't worship in Jerusalem,
we worship in Mount Gerizim.
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If He's going to Jerusalem,
then don't even bother
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stopping here."
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You remember His discussion
with the Samaritan woman?
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The Samaritans did not worship
in Jerusalem, they worshiped at
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a different temple, and they
said, "If He's going to worship
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there, don't even come."
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That made the disciples so
angry, listen to what James
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and John said.
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It said, "They didn't receive
Him, because His face was set
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to journey to Jerusalem.
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And His disciples James
and John," nicknamed Sons of
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Thunder, "They saw this, they
said, 'Lord, do you want us to
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command fire to come down from
heaven and burden them, up just
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like Elijah did?'"
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They had a verse.
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And Jesus said, "You don't
know what manner of spirit you
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are of."
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Well, if it wasn't God's
Spirit, what spirit was it?
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Just think about that, here they
are, two church leaders, and
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they said, "Lord, they're
not treating You right, let's
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get even.
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If we can't wait for them to go
to hell, we're gonna bring hell
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to them, give us the power, we
will call fire down and burn up
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the whole town."
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You can see what Jesus, He had
His hands full, didn't He tried
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to teach these guys?
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You wonder, "How did the church
ever get to the place where,
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a couple of 100 years after
Christ, they were torturing
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people that did
not accept Jesus?
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How did the church get to
the place where they were having
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witch trials, and drowning
and burning people, in the name
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of Jesus?"
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Because the devil knows how to
get into church with people that
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just aren't converted.
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So you got the
derision of the devil.
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I'm gonna pause here, and
now I want to give you some
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of the answers.
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How do you defeat the devil?
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Three things, be consecrated,
be clothed, be courageous, maybe
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I'll add a fourth, be confident.
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Be consecrated, James
4:7, "Therefore submit to God.
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Resist the devil and
he will flee from you."
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One of the most important things
first is submit, surrender to
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God, we do that on our knees.
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You are never stronger, in
fighting the devil, when you are
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on your knees.
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Do you know how hard it is to
sin and pray at the same time?
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If you're praying for victory,
God is gonna empty heaven with
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angels to help you, rather than
see you fall, if you're turning
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to Him.
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Submit to God, you cannot resist
the devil until you submit to
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God, you can't do it
with your brilliance.
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Don't argue with Him, He's a
lot smarter than you, you must
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humble yourself, recognize your
weakness, you're never stronger
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than when you
know how weak you are.
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Submit to the Lord in prayer.
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You know, one time this man had
a son that was a demon possessed
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and the disciples couldn't cast
him out, and they said, "Lord,
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what's the problem?"
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He said, "This kind does
not come out except by prayer
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and fasting."
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So, be consecrated,
secondly, be clothed.
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Now, you know this
one, what do you wear?
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Ephesians 6, verse 10, "Finally,
brethren, be strong in the Lord
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and the power of His might.
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Put on the whole armor of God,
that you might be able to stand
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against the wiles of the devil."
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So, how do we stand?
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Standing is like in a fight,
you're standing, you put on
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the armor of God.
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And then he itemizes what that
is, "We don't wrestle against
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flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers,
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against the rulers of darkness
of this age, against spiritual
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hosts of wickedness
in heavenly places."
00:17:05.92\00:17:08.22
We are fighting a spiritual
battle, we must put on the
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spiritual armor.
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"Therefore take up the whole
armor of God, that you might be
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able to withstand in the
evil day," meaning the day of
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temptation, "Having
done all, to stand."
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And then he itemizes, of
course, the breastplate of
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righteousness, and the helmet of
salvation, and be girdled with
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the truth, and have the
gospel shoes on your feet, and
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the sword of the Spirit,
which is the Word of God.
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And then he says,
"And with all prayer."
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And all those things, of
course, the sword of the Spirit,
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the Word of God, is one
of the most important things.
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This is how Jesus met every
temptation, He said, "It is
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written, it is
written, it is written."
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Alright, well, I said
be consecrated, be clothed,
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be courageous.
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Have you noticed how many times
in the Bible it says, "Rebuke
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the devil," "Resist the devil"?
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We just read where James
says, "Therefore submit to God.
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Resist."
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There's a fight, be courageous,
resist him, sometimes the devil
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must be dealt with head-on.
00:18:05.81\00:18:08.38
Romans 16:20, "And the God
of peace will crush Satan under
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your feet shortly."
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The Bible says, "You will
tread on the serpent, you will
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defeat lions."
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One of the two symbols of the
devil, lions and the serpent.
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And you do those
things, and He can deliver you.
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So, how does the
devil get into the church?
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I wrote a little
poem this morning.
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"How does the
devil enter the church?
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It's not through the windows
or door, it's not through
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the plumbing, the wires
and lights, it's not through
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the vent in the floor.
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He does not climb on the
roof to sneak in the belfry
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in the steeple.
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The answer is clear when
you look in the mirror, he gets
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in the church
through the people."
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It's not the building we're
afraid of, it's how he gets
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into us.
00:19:02.70\00:19:04.57
I just showed you, he got into
James, John, Peter, they all at
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one point forsook Him and fled.
00:19:09.78\00:19:12.21
When Peter said, "Though all men
forsake You, I'll not forsake
00:19:12.25\00:19:14.75
You," but he didn't know
himself, that's why we got to
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humble ourselves.
00:19:17.82\00:19:20.29
I was fascinated with the
story in history of the enigma
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machine, you've heard about the
enigma machine, it was this very
00:19:24.63\00:19:28.93
complicated coding machine.
00:19:28.96\00:19:30.80
It was actually developed for
financial purposes before World
00:19:30.83\00:19:33.74
War II, and adopted by the
Nazis, and modified, and it gave
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them the ability to send
messages to their navy and their
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army, and different
headquarters, coded messages.
00:19:42.88\00:19:47.12
And the recipients needed to
have a codebook and a machine.
00:19:47.15\00:19:50.69
To figure out what these
messages were, their chances
00:19:50.72\00:19:54.22
like were one in
a billion, billion.
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I mean, you could never figure
it out, because the machine had
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a number of wheels and gears
and wires, and buttons that you
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would press, and and they
would change the code with these
00:20:05.23\00:20:09.14
codebooks from day to day.
00:20:09.17\00:20:12.11
Well, the Nazis were destroying
the English in the North
00:20:12.14\00:20:16.18
Atlantic, in the Mediterranean,
they were winning in Africa
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because all these
blitzkrieg surprise attacks.
00:20:18.68\00:20:21.08
And Winston Churchill said,
along with the Polish army,
00:20:21.12\00:20:24.85
they said, "We've got to break
that code, we've got to break
00:20:24.89\00:20:27.26
that code."
00:20:27.29\00:20:28.62
And he had a whole big
team assigned, and they realized
00:20:28.66\00:20:31.29
they needed to get not only
an enigma machine, they needed
00:20:31.33\00:20:34.20
the codebooks.
00:20:34.20\00:20:36.26
Well, what happened, in
October 30, 1942, in the
00:20:36.30\00:20:40.80
Mediterranean, a German,
or rather an English warship
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encountered a German U-boat.
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They brought it to the surface,
because their depth charges had
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so damaged it, it was sinking.
00:20:52.48\00:20:54.82
And the captain of the German
U-boat realized that if he
00:20:54.85\00:20:57.62
wanted to save his crew, they
had to surface, they would risk
00:20:57.65\00:21:00.59
being either killed or
taken prisoner, but they were
00:21:00.62\00:21:02.82
certainly gonna drown, because a
submarine is basically iron, and
00:21:02.86\00:21:07.66
when it loses its air, it sinks
not like a piece of balsa wood,
00:21:07.73\00:21:11.90
it sinks like an anchor.
00:21:11.93\00:21:14.50
So, with whatever ballast they
had left, the captain brought
00:21:14.54\00:21:17.51
the U-boat up, and all of
the sailors of the U-boat,
00:21:17.54\00:21:21.01
the Germans, came pouring out
like ants, jumping into the sea.
00:21:21.04\00:21:26.11
The English captain brought
his ship, his warship, alongside
00:21:26.15\00:21:31.75
the U-boat.
00:21:31.79\00:21:33.09
And he ordered three sailors,
he says, "You've got to get
00:21:33.12\00:21:35.46
in there and get the codebooks,
the war may depend on it,
00:21:35.49\00:21:39.93
lives will depend on
it, we need the codebooks."
00:21:39.96\00:21:43.00
So three sailors jumped
overboard, and they went down
00:21:43.03\00:21:46.30
the conning tower of the
submarine as it's preparing
00:21:46.33\00:21:49.30
to sink, water's pouring
in, and they managed to get out.
00:21:49.34\00:21:52.94
Actually, I've got their names
here, Tony Fasson, 22 years old,
00:21:52.97\00:21:58.55
a 29-year-old first lieutenant,
Colin Grazier, and a 16-year-old
00:21:58.58\00:22:04.45
canteen assistant, Tommy Brown.
00:22:04.49\00:22:08.32
And they were handing the
stuff up the aisles, broke into
00:22:08.36\00:22:11.46
the safe, managed
to get the codebooks.
00:22:11.49\00:22:13.86
And Tommy Brown yelled down from
the the conning tower, where the
00:22:13.90\00:22:16.77
periscope goes up, he says,
"Guys, get out, the water's
00:22:16.80\00:22:19.60
coming in, get out, get out."
00:22:19.63\00:22:20.97
He could tell all the air was
escaping and it was going down
00:22:21.00\00:22:23.47
quickly, and they were going
back for more because they were
00:22:23.51\00:22:27.54
thinking about getting
the information to save their
00:22:27.58\00:22:30.78
comrades, and two of them didn't
make it out, but they did get
00:22:30.81\00:22:35.45
the codebooks.
00:22:35.48\00:22:36.82
Tommy Brown escaped, jumped into
one of the boats, the little
00:22:36.85\00:22:42.12
landing craft that were there,
and that information helped them
00:22:42.16\00:22:48.50
to break the code of the
enemy and it turned the war.
00:22:48.53\00:22:53.20
Now, you have a codebook in the
Bible, Someone has died to make
00:22:53.23\00:22:59.71
it available for you, so that
you could know what the devil's
00:22:59.74\00:23:03.78
tactics are.
00:23:03.81\00:23:05.38
What a shame if
we would ignore it.
00:23:05.41\00:23:08.35
There's one more
little fact I'll give you.
00:23:08.38\00:23:11.49
When they finally broke
the enigma code, some of the
00:23:11.52\00:23:15.56
mathematicians had figured it
out, they were listening to the
00:23:15.59\00:23:17.83
radio transmissions from Germany
and they said, "There is going
00:23:17.86\00:23:21.30
to be a major attack in
the North Sea tomorrow."
00:23:21.33\00:23:25.80
They said, "You know that?"
00:23:25.83\00:23:27.17
They said, "We know
that, we know with 99%."
00:23:27.20\00:23:29.97
And the high brass did not take
them seriously, and there was
00:23:30.01\00:23:33.68
a major attack and several
British ships were sunk because
00:23:33.71\00:23:37.75
they did not listen to the
information they had gotten
00:23:37.78\00:23:40.25
from the codebooks.
00:23:40.28\00:23:42.92
And I wonder how many people
are overcome while we've got the
00:23:42.95\00:23:45.35
Book right in our hands.
00:23:45.39\00:23:47.72
Every temptation,
Jesus said, "It is written,"
00:23:47.76\00:23:51.43
and He was victorious.
00:23:51.46\00:23:53.23
If we would hide God's
Word in our heart, it says,
00:23:53.26\00:23:56.26
"That we might not sin
against Him," we've got the key
00:23:56.30\00:23:59.23
to resist the
onslaughts of the enemy,
00:23:59.27\00:24:02.60
we've got the key
to identify the enemy.
00:24:02.64\00:24:05.31
It's something like a man
who's taking the stagecoach and
00:24:07.14\00:24:12.68
he's trying to get to the one he
loves, but the only way he can
00:24:12.71\00:24:16.05
get to the one he loves is
you got to ride this stagecoach
00:24:16.08\00:24:19.09
through this dangerous canyon.
00:24:19.12\00:24:21.76
And when he buys his ticket,
they give him a little warning,
00:24:21.79\00:24:25.86
they said, "Now we need to let
you know that there is a high
00:24:25.89\00:24:30.07
probability of being attacked by
Indians, and there's quicksand
00:24:30.10\00:24:35.57
along the way, and folks are
gonna try and roll rocks down on
00:24:35.60\00:24:40.84
you at some point along the way,
and some of the people that are
00:24:40.88\00:24:45.21
on the stagecoach, we don't
know who they are, but we think
00:24:45.25\00:24:47.92
they're bandits that
are going undercover."
00:24:47.95\00:24:50.85
You wouldn't want to get
on that stagecoach, would you?
00:24:50.89\00:24:53.66
But then the man who's running
the stagecoach and selling the
00:24:53.69\00:24:56.62
ticket says, "But good news is,
I got a map for you and it tells
00:24:56.66\00:25:00.66
you when the attack will take
place, where the quicksand is,
00:25:00.70\00:25:03.67
where they're gonna roll
the rocks down, and what the spy
00:25:03.70\00:25:08.44
looks like that's
gonna get on the stagecoach."
00:25:08.47\00:25:11.04
You'd feel a lot better if
you had that information, right?
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announcer: Don't
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free offer, it's
sure to be a blessing.
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And thank you for
your continued support
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as we take the
gospel of Jesus Christ
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to the world.
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We hope you'll join
us next week as we delve
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deep into the
Word of God to explore
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more Amazing Facts.
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announcer: This presentation was
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of the Amazing Facts ministry.
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