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Doug Batchelor: Hello,
friends, welcome back to
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"Prophecy Odyssey."
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In our last episode, we learned
that God created a perfect angel
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named Lucifer who became
proud and rebellious and was
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eventually cast out of heaven.
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Today we're going to continue
our eye-opening study of how
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Lucifer became Satan, our
arch enemy, and he's working to
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deceive all people
and twisting the truth.
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We'll also learn how to resist
the devil's temptation and how
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he will soon be destroyed.
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Question number five, what
methods, we need to be aware of
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how the devil operates?
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What methods does
Satan use in his work?
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Well, there's several things.
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Point number A, it's Satan
who deceives the whole world.
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Now, deception is different
from just a blatant lie.
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Deception is the
commingling of truth with error.
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Never is the devil more
dangerous than he'll take
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something that is 85% true.
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Do you know that all religions
have elements of truth?
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But then the devil mixes
in 15% or 5% of poison and he
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attracts--how do
you catch a fish?
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You take a good piece of
bait, you put a hook in it.
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Nothing wrong with the bait.
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It's the hook in it.
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And so the devil, he'll take
something good, but he'll mix in
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something evil, and that's why
as a Christian, you gotta know
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your Bible because the devil
will misquote it, and so many
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people are deceived because they
see some truth in the religion,
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but they don't see where the
poison is, where the danger is.
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So he commingles
truth with error.
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Answer B, He, Jesus was there
in the wilderness 40 days and 40
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nights tempted.
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What else does the devil do?
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Tempting.
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Now, we're all tempted.
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It is not a sin to be tempted.
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We are all tempted
probably many times a day.
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Some of you don't know you're
tempted because you are not even
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trying to resist temptation.
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Do you know, you do not feel the
current in the river if you're
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drifting with the current.
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But as soon as you try to resist
the current and swim upstream,
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you're going to
feel the pressure.
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A lot of the world
says, "I don't get tempted."
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It's because they're doing
everything the devil wants them
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to do.
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Reminds me of an
evangelist named Billy Sunday.
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A man was coming to his
evangelistic meetings and Billy
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Sunday was
preaching against sin.
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And finally this man came
stomping up to the evangelist
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and said, "Pastor Sunday, will
you stop rubbing the cat's fur
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the wrong way?"
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Said, "You keep rubbing
the cat's fur the wrong way."
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And he said, "No, I'm rubbing
the cat's fur the right way.
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The cat needs to turn around."
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And if we find out that we're
going in God's direction, we're
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going to realize that
we're getting resistance from
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the devil.
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Jesus was tempted.
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It's not a sin to be tempted.
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You just don't want to
give in to the temptation.
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Answer, C, they are the spirits
of demons performing signs.
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Can fallen angels perform
signs and wonders and miracles?
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Says in
Revelation that they can.
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Rasputin seemed
to have some power.
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And there are wicked powers
in high places that are often
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manipulating the
leaders of the world.
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King Saul, before he died, he
went to a witch and she conjured
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up an evil spirit that
left him utterly discouraged.
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He committed
suicide the next day.
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Armageddon, Revelation tells
us evil spirits come out of the
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mouth of the beast, the dragon,
and the false prophet to gather
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the kings, the leaders of
the world together to that
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final battle.
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Evil spirits are going to be
involved in deceiving through
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the devil and his angels.
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Answered D, he's
called the accuser.
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Satan is always
standing around accusing.
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Have you read the book of Job.
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He's up there in heaven saying,
"Well, the only reason Job
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follows you is
because you protected him."
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And you read in the book
Zechariah, the devil is pointing
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at the high priest Joshua
and says, "Well, look at his
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dirty garments.
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He can't get into
heaven looking like that."
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And when Michael comes to
resurrect Moses, the devil's
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there, and he says, "Ah,
Moses sinned before he died.
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You can't take him to heaven."
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And the devil
is always accusing.
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The devil will tell you to sin
and then he'll turn you in for
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doing it, did you know that?
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Some people think
that, well, you know,
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the devil tempted me to do this.
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I thought that all of a
sudden I'd get some benefits
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if I sold my soul to him.
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Oh no, he
doesn't care about you.
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Devil's much more powerful than
any of us, but the devil is not
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more powerful of
you and God together.
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You and God are
always a majority, amen?
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You have nothing to be afraid of
if you're linked up with Christ.
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You know, the Bible tells us
that Jesus is the Son of David.
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And if you read in the Bible,
David never lost a battle.
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Sometimes his army
would retreat from him.
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There's one story where everyone
left David except one soldier
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named Eliezer.
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I could never forget his
name, Eliezer, the son of Dodo.
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And everybody retreated,
but David did not retreat and he
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stood and he fought the
Philistines with Eliezer and the
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two of them defeated the army.
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If you are with Jesus the Son of
David, you have nothing to fear.
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Because you'll pick up the sword
of the Spirit and you'll win
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that battle.
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The accuser of our
brethren will be cast down.
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He'll accuse them.
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By the way, people that are
always gossiping and accusing
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other people, you're
not doing the work of Jesus.
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They're doing the
work of the devil.
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Answer E, he is a what?
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A murderer.
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He was the one who inspired
Cain to kill his brother Abel.
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He has no regard for human life.
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Whether you're young or whether
you're old or a baby, people
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say, "Why does God
allow all this death?"
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It breaks God's heart more
than it does that of any human.
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This world has
rebelled against God.
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The devil has claimed this world
as his territory, but God so
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loved the world, He sent His Son
into this world to save as many
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as will come to Him.
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And He will eventually, He's
redeemed those who believe in
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Him and He'll create a new
heavens and a new earth, right?
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But right now there's a war in
this world, and he's also a liar
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and the father of it.
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Question number 6: When is
the devil the most dangerous?
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Answer, 2 Corinthians 11:14,
"For Satan himself transforms
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himself into a" what?
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"An angel of light."
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You know, when Jesus was tempted
in the wilderness and the devil
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came and said, "If you are the
Son of God, turn these stones
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into bread."
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Do you think that the
devil suddenly plopped down on
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the ground, he had bat wings
and red leotards and a goatee
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and a horns and a
pitchfork and said,
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"I've got a
proposition for you."
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Is that how he came to Jesus?
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No, he came as though he
is a messenger from heaven.
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And the devil still does that.
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You know, I'm just going
to be very honest with you and
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Christianity is one of the
most scoffed at religions in the
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world because there are so
many counterfeit Christians
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out there.
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But you do not
counterfeit something that is
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not worthwhile.
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Have you ever seen somebody
hold up a counterfeit $1 bill?
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You know, you give
them a $100 bill in the
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store, they'll
hold it up to the light.
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They'll take a special pen
and they'll look in the front,
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they'll look at the back.
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You ever see them
do that with a penny?
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Why? Not worth anything.
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But God's truth, God's church
is the most valuable thing in
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the world.
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And the devil has
created more counterfeits.
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And how many have surfed through
the channels and you hear
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different preachers from
different backgrounds and
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different perspectives and
some of them they're out there
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begging for money and they're
promising you the world if
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you'll send them money.
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And you're wondering why it
is they're flying around living
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like gods and they're taking
the money from people living on
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Social Security.
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That's the devil.
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Now, have you
noticed this meeting?
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I'll make you a promise.
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We're not going to
beg for your money.
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We're here, people have
sponsored these meetings
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because they want
to get the truth out.
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They believe
Jesus is coming again.
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They want people
to be saved, amen?
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But don't believe everybody
out there that says that just
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because they quote
a scripture or two.
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There's a lot of--Jesus
warned us there are wolves in
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sheep's clothing.
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Paul said, "After my departure,
I know that grievous wolves will
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come in among you, not sparing
the flock to draw away disciples
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after themselves."
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To buy them their Bugatti
and their fancy cars and their
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lifestyle, all in the
name of the Lord, they do it.
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They're wolves, amen.
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Does Satan know the Bible?
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Yeah.
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Just because somebody says,
"Well, I've got the Bible or
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pastor quotes from the Bible
once or twice does not mean that
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they are following the Lord.
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We're putting the
scriptures in your hands.
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We're saying you read it
for yourself, ask any question
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you can.
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In fact, you tell me something
that we're not doing in this
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meeting that we can do to
make it clear that these are
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scriptural presentations.
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We're doing everything we know
how to do to get you to read the
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Bible for yourself and
discover what the truth is.
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I'm not afraid of
the truth, friends.
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I was up in a cave in
the mountains no religious
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preference at all.
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I started reading the Bible.
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I said, "Lord, I want
to know what is the truth."
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I started visiting different
churches--and I also want to add
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there are a lot of good people
in different denominations.
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There are good pastors
in different denominations.
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They're not all
shysters and con artists.
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We just know that there's
some flimflam pastors out there
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also, right?
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And so there's some good sincere
people and I might respect with
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some of their--disrespect some
of their doctrinal positions,
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but I said, "Lord, there's so
much confusion in Christianity,
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but I believe the
teachings of Jesus.
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What is the truth?"
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And up there in the mountains
in a cave over 45 years ago, I
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prayed and said, "Lord, I just
want to know what is the truth."
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And the Lord revealed to me the
things we're sharing with you in
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these meetings and we want
you to study and find it for
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yourself, amen?
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Does the devil know the Bible?
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Better than anyone
here, probably got a
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photographic memory.
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He was the
brightest of all the angels.
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When Jesus was meeting his
temptations by saying, "It is
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written, it is written," the
devil went back, he says, I got
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to regroup, okay, he
wants to use the Bible.
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I'll use the Bible.
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And the devil came to Jesus
again, he said, "If you're the
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Son of God, throw
Yourself down from the temple.
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For it is written, 'He will
give His angels charge of you."
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And he began to
misquote Psalm 91.
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The devil knows enough.
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He left out the part, "He'll
give His angels charge over You
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to keep You in all your ways."
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He says, "Throw yourself down.
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His angels will watch over you."
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But Jesus came back and said,
"You shall not tempt the name.
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You shall not
tempt the Lord your God,"
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quoting from Deuteronomy.
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So you need to know your
Bible so that if the devil has
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ministers that are misquoting or
distorting or reading things out
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of context, you don't
get deceived, friends, amen?
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The devil is an expert at
quoting and misquoting the Bible
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for the purpose
of deceiving people.
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That's why it's essential that
God's people know the scriptures
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for themselves.
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Some people think it's the
pastor's job to read the Bible
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and tell us what it means.
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Oh no, you get into a
lot of trouble like that.
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Man doesn't live by
bread alone, but by what?
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How many of you need
physical food every day?
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Jesus is saying you
need to live by every word.
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You need spiritual food, and
praise God, you live at a time
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where you can have a Bible on
your shelf, you can listen to it
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in your car, you can
read it on your phone.
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There's no excuse for
us not to have the Bible.
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If you're blind,
they've got it in braille.
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I mean, everybody has access
to the Word of God so we're
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without excuse.
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If we say, "Well,
Lord, I didn't know."
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We may be destroyed for lack of
knowledge because we didn't care
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to know.
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But we can know if we want to
know what the truth is, friends.
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Number eight, whom on earth
does the devil hate the most?
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Now we're back in Revelation.
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This is the last verse
from Revelation chapter 12.
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"The dragon," who's the dragon?
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We already know that.
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"Was wroth" or
enraged, "with the woman."
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Now that's a symbol.
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Did we talk about that yet?
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No. Who is the woman?
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The Bible says, "Husbands love
your wives even as Christ loves
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the church."
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The Bible tells us God says that
the daughter of Zion is like a
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delicate and a comely
woman, speaking of his people.
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All through the Bible, Hosea, he
says, "My people, my bride have
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been unfaithful to me."
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So the dragon is wroth
with the woman, but which woman?
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There's some
counterfeit churches out there.
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"And he makes war."
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This is the battle of
Armageddon, "With the rest of
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her offspring," this is talking
about her seed, her descendants.
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"Who keep the commandments
of God and have the testimony of
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Jesus Christ."
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This is the law
and the prophets.
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The devil is especially
threatened with God's people
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that have the
law and the prophets.
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That's the Word of God.
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They are not only reading
the Word, they're walking in the
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commandments of the Lord.
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They're being led by the
spirit of prophecy, friends.
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God wants us to have His
Word and be filled with the Holy
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Spirit, amen?
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That's, you know,
whoever this woman is, you
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want to be part
of that woman, why?
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Because the devil's mad at her.
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If you're making the
devil happy, you're in the
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wrong place.
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You realize, friends, I hope I'm
not scaring you, but in the last
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days, you're going
to make someone mad.
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You just gotta decide who it is.
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You're going to
please and satisfy someone.
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Do you want to please the Lord
and make the devil angry or do
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you want to please the
devil and disappoint the Lord?
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You cannot have it both ways.
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Jesus said, "You're
either with Me or against Me."
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I would rather be
on the winning team
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because I've
read the last chapter.
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I know who wins, amen?
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All right, "The dragon is
wroth with a woman, keeps the
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commandments of God."
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Last prophecy in
the Old Testament.
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Remember the law of Moses.
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Behold, I send you
Elijah the prophet.
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The law and the prophets, God's
people have the Word of God.
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Question number 9, what two
deadly animals does the Bible
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use to portray Satan?
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You can read here in 1 Peter 5,
verse 8, "Be sober, be vigilant:
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because your adversary,"
the word Satan means actually
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adversary, "Your adversary the
devil walks about like a roaring
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lion, seeking
whom he might devour."
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So he's compared in one place to
a lion, and a lion uses stealth.
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You know, a male lion
will even eat its own cubs.
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The females must protect
the cubs from the male lion.
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And the male lions actually
don't do most of the hunting.
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The females do.
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The male lion, he'll go out
upwind from where the zebra or
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the wildebeests are.
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He'll take a chest full of air.
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He'll step out of
the grass, he'll roar.
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He'll make sure they all see him
and then the animals run into
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the mouths of the
females that are hiding in the
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other direction.
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The devil will try to
get you looking this way.
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And you run that way, and that's
exactly where he wanted you
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to run.
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I'm surprised how many people
think the mark of the beast is
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a tattoo.
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Doesn't say that in the Bible.
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Some versions even translate
and he causes everyone to get
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a tattoo.
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Do you really think the devil is
that dumb that in the last days
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he's going to tell everybody to
line up and someone's going to
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have a big old, you know, stamp
and you say come out, we're
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going to put you go...
"666, you don't mind, do you?
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Forehead or the hand,
just trust us, it'll be okay."
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That's what some
people are waiting for.
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"I'm not getting 666
stamped on my forehead.
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I'll be okay.
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The devil wants people to
be deceived, so they're walking
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into the deception,
walking away from the trick.
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He is a deceiver.
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Not only is he like a lion,
the Bible says that he is like
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a serpent.
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"That great dragon
cast out the" what?
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"The serpent of old,
called the Devil and Satan."
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Why a serpent?
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What was the first animal that
the devil used as a medium to
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deceive our parents?
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It was the
serpent that spoke to Eve.
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Said, "Oh, I've
been eating this fruit.
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I know God said
don't eat it, but look
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what the fruit did
for me, I can talk.
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And if you eat it,
you'll be like God."
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What did the devil want?
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To be like God.
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And he implanted his own
desires in our first parents.
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And ever since then, our DNA
has been messed up with sin, but
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Jesus came to
make us new creatures.
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Jesus came as the second Adam.
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And just like the first Adam
fell, the second Adam overcame
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and we can be
overcomers through Christ.
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Little amazing fact, you know,
there's an island not far from
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Sao Paulo, Brazil,
they call it Snake Island.
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And on that island, they've got
so many snakes because they eat
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the sea birds, there's
one snake per square yard.
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Nobody's allowed to go to that
island because among the snakes
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they've got the lancehead pit
viper that 90% of the deaths in
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Brazil are from this one snake.
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It'll kill you right away.
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Devils are--snakes,
rather, are cold blooded.
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The devil is cold blooded.
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He does not care.
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He's got venom.
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But you know the good news,
friends, Jesus said, "As Moses
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lifted up the serpent in the
wilderness, even so, the Son of
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Man must be lifted up that
whoever believes in Him might
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not perish but
have everlasting life."
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Why did Jesus say that?
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The children of Israel
were being killed by a plague of
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venomous serpents.
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Shepherds used to carry staffs.
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I lived in the mountains in the
desert and I had a snake stick.
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And I didn't reach out and just
kill the snake with my hands.
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I killed it with a stick.
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And then you don't pick it up
because you think they're dead
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and they're not, they'll
turn around and bite you.
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And you don't want to step
on the skeleton of a dead snake
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because even the venom can
still pierce your skin with the
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dead fangs.
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So when you kill a snake, you
pick it up and you carry it off
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out of the way of population
off the trail and you bury it.
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And the Hebrews knew a
snake up on a pole meant a
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defeated serpent.
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And Jesus, when He went up
on the cross, through His blood
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that was spilled,  He provided
the anti-venom for the disease
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of sin.
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And He is offering you a blood
transfusion so that you can be
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saved from the power of sin, and
some people think I've tried, I
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don't know how it's possible,
but through Christ, all things
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are possible.
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Now, I've not told you my story,
but I was drinking and smoking
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and using drugs, a thief, living
immorally, and Jesus came into
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my life and He changed me.
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And He can give you
victory and He can change you.
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He can break the
chains and set you free.
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Number 10.
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What's the only way
that we can resist Satan?
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The Bible says,
"Therefore, submit to God.
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Resist the devil and
he will flee from you.
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Draw near to God and
He will draw near to you."
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Do you realize every night that
you tune into these meetings or
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you come to this seminar,
you are drawing near to God.
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What does God promise?
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I will draw near to you.
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I hope you sense He's drawing
near to you right now, friends,
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and He will, and but
you resist the devil.
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The devil's going to say,
"Oh, traffic's too much tonight.
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Please come back Tuesday night.
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We still got some room left.
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Resist the devil and
he will flee from you when
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you're tempted.
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And as you resist, God's power
comes into your life, friends.
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Number 11, how did Jesus
fight the assaults of the devil?
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"Jesus said to him,
'Away with you, Satan!
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For,'" say it with
me, "it is written."
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Friends, there is power in the
Word of God that sets us free.
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Ephesians chapter 6, verse 17,
"The sword of the Spirit, which
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is the Word of God."
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Hebrews chapter 4, verse 12.
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"The Word of God is living and
powerful, and sharper than any
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two-edged sword."
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When David went out against the
giant, and we all faced giants
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of temptation.
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He went out with a stone,
and you know, the stone is a
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symbol of the Word.
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Jesus said, "These words that
I speak to you, if you're wise
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man, you will
build on the rock."
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And David killed Goliath.
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Well, he didn't
actually kill him yet.
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He knocked him out with a
rock, knocked him unconscious.
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It sank into his
forehead, he fell on his face.
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Then David went over and
he pulled out his sword and he
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decapitated the giant.
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You know, you kill a
snake, cut off its head.
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And when the devil comes to you
with temptation, you pull out
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the sword of the Spirit.
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The Bible says, "Thy Word, I
have hidden in my heart that I
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might not sin."
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And when you're tempted to
be discouraged, you quote the
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promises, "God has not
given us the spirit of fear."
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"Your word I've hidden in
my heart that I might not sin
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against You."
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"Put on the whole armor of
God, that you might be able
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to stand."
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Friends, you can stand
against the wiles of the devil.
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Jesus wants us
to resist the devil.
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Number 12, here's a good part.
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What will be the final
fate of Satan and his angels?
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Are we going to be
tempted to eternity?
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Are we always going to
be battling against evil?
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Isaiah 14:15, it says, "You will
be brought down to Sheol, to the
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lowest depths of the pit."
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He wanted the position of God,
the highest, he's going to be
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the lowest.
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And Jesus who took the lowest
position, who humbled Himself,
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will be exalted and His
name will be above every name.
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If you humble
yourself, you'll be exalted.
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You exalt
yourself, you'll be humbled.
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The devil's
principal problem was pride.
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Jesus is motivated by
love, meekness, humility.
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"Take My yoke upon you," He
says, "learn of Me, you will
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find rest unto
your souls," Matthew 11.
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Matthew 25, verse 41, "He will
say to those on the left hand,"
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is the parable of Jesus,
"'Depart from Me, you cursed,
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into the everlasting fire."
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Now, did God prepare that
fire for you and me or who is it
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really prepared for?
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The devil and his angels, but
if you follow the devil and his
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angels, you get the same reward.
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"Depart from Me, you cursed,
into the everlasting fire
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prepared for the
devil and his angels."
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Now, what it means here by
everlasting fire is what that
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fire does is permanent.
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The devil's not coming back.
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The result of that fire is
forever, and those that go to
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that fire, no
resurrection from that friends.
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It's called the
second death in Revelation.
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God is offering you life.
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This time, this
life is your chance.
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This life is your probation.
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"It's appointed unto man once to
die, after that the judgment."
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Don't think, "Well, I'll change
my mind later in my next life
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when I'm reincarnated."
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Oh no, no.
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You got one life, friends, amen.
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Now is your time.
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Today is the acceptable time.
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Don't follow the
devil into his doom.
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"The devil, who deceived
them, was cast into the," what?
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"The lake of fire and brimstone"
where the beast and the false
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prophet are.
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The Bible describes this
punishment as the second death
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from which there
is no resurrection.
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There's no parole.
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Ultimately, the devil and his
angels and all the wicked will
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be consumed in
these eternal flames.
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It's the result of
the fire is eternal.
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Again, you can read in Ezekiel
28:18, "I brought forth a fire
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from the midst of
you," and it does what?
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"It devours you, and I turned
you to ashes upon the earth in
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the sight of all who saw you."
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In the final judgment, you can
read about this in Revelation
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chapter 20, Satan is
going to make one final attempt.
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We have a whole lesson on it.
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To rally the forces
of evil against God.
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And the Bible says that
God demonstrates to the whole
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universe the devil
is beyond repentance.
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He's not going to change.
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Don't wait for
the devil to repent.
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His arms are open wide,
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