TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF
THEIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT
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AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
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>>IF GOD IS GOOD AND IF GOD
IS LOVE, THEN WHY IS THERE EVIL?
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DID GOD MAKE A DEVIL? WHY WOULD
A GOOD GOD MAKE A BAD DEVIL?
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>>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING
FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO
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SHARING GOD'S
WORD THROUGH MEDIA.
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THIS PROGRAM FEATURES
HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST
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TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE
INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND
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ENJOY THIS EDITION OF
'AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS'.
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>>THERE IS A BATTLE IN LIFE
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL AND A LOT
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OF PEOPLE, WHEN THEY'RE THINKING
ABOUT GOD AND THINKING ABOUT THE
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LOVE OF GOD AND THE GOODNESS
OF GOD, THEY'RE TROUBLED BECAUSE
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THEY THINK 'IF GOD IS GOOD
AND IF HE'S LOVE AND IF HE'S
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ALL-POWERFUL, THEN
WHY IS THERE EVIL?'
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AND THAT IS REALLY THE TITLE
FOR OUR PRESENTATION RIGHT NOW.
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IF GOD IS GOOD AND IF GOD
IS LOVE THEN WHY IS THERE EVIL?
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DID GOD MAKE A DEVIL? WHY WOULD
A GOOD GOD MAKE A BAD DEVIL?
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YOU KNOW, THERE'S A
STATEMENT I'D LIKE TO -
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I'M TRYING TO PUT A
QUOTE - SORT OF SET THE THEME
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AT THE BEGINNING
OF EACH PRESENTATION.
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THIS ONE ACTUALLY COMES FROM
CORRIE TEN-BOOM AND IT SAYS,
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'THE FIRST STEP TO VICTORY IS
RECOGNIZING THE ENEMY.' AND ONE
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OF THE GREAT THINGS THAT
NEEDS TO BE ACHIEVED IN OUR
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DISCOVERING GOD'S ULTIMATE
PURPOSE FOR OUR LIFE IS TO
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UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S AN ENEMY
AND IDENTIFY HIM - UNDERSTAND
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SOMETHING OF WHAT HE'S UP TO.
YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE TO BEGIN BY
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GOING TO A STORY IN THE BIBLE
THAT YOU FIND IN MARK CHAPTER 5
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- MARK CHAPTER 5, VERSE 1 AND
IT SAYS, "THEN THEY CAME TO THE
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OTHER SIDE OF THE SEA, TO
THE COUNTRY OF THE GADARENES.
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AND WHEN HE HAD COME OUT OF THE
BOAT, IMMEDIATELY THERE MET HIM
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OUT OF THE TOMBS A MAN WITH AN
UNCLEAN SPIRIT," - THESE UNCLEAN
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SPIRITS WERE OFTEN SPOKEN OF AS
DEVILS OR DEMONS - "WHO HAD HIS
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DWELLING AMONG THE TOMBS;"
- THIS MAN IS LIVING IN THIS
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HONEYCOMB OF GRAVES ON THE
HILLSIDE - "AND NO ONE COULD
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BIND HIM, NOT EVEN WITH
CHAINS," - HE IS SO THOROUGHLY
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DEMON-POSSESSED THAT HE'S
BREAKING CHAINS - "BECAUSE HE
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HAD OFTEN BEEN BOUND
WITH SHACKLES AND CHAINS.
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AND THE CHAINS HAD BEEN PULLED
APART BY HIM, AND THE SHACKLES
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BROKEN IN PIECES; NEITHER COULD
ANYONE TAME HIM. AND ALWAYS" -
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NOTICE - "ALWAYS, NIGHT AND DAY,
HE WAS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND IN
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THE TOMBS, CRYING OUT AND
CUTTING HIMSELF WITH STONES."
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CUTTING HIMSELF, CRYING - BOY,
IT MUST HAVE BEEN SPOOKY LIVING
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IN THE TOWN NEAR THAT CEMETERY
- TO HEAR THIS VERY SAD CREATURE
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DRAGGING HIS CHAINS, CRYING
OUT, AND SHRIEKING IN THE NIGHT.
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A LITTLE MORE
INSIGHT IS GIVEN BY DR. LUKE.
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TURN IN LUKE CHAPTER 8.
I'LL START WITH VERSE 26.
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LUKE 8, VERSE 26, "THEN THEY
SAILED TO THE COUNTRY OF THE
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GADARENES, WHICH IS OPPOSITE
GALILEE. AND WHEN HE STEPPED
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OUT ON THE LAND, THERE MET
HIM A CERTAIN MAN FROM THE CITY
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WHO HAD DEMONS" -
DEVILS - "FOR A LONG TIME.
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AND HE WORE NO CLOTHES," -
HE MENTIONS THAT AND MARK LEAVES
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THAT OUT - "NOR DID HE LIVE
IN A HOUSE BUT IN THE TOMBS.
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WHEN HE SAW JESUS, HE CRIED OUT,
FELL DOWN BEFORE HIM," - AS MARK
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SAID, HE RAN TO WORSHIP HIM
- HE - "FELL DOWN BEFORE HIM,
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AND WITH A LOUD VOICE SAID,
'WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH YOU,
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JESUS, SON OF THE MOST HIGH
GOD?" - RIGHT AWAY HE KNEW WHO
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JESUS WAS BECAUSE THERE WERE
SOME SPIRITS IN THIS MAN THAT
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KNEW JESUS FROM LONG
BEFORE THE WORLD WAS CREATED -
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"WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH YOU,
JESUS, SON OF THE MOST HIGH GOD?
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I BEG YOU, DO NOT TORMENT ME!
FOR HE" - JESUS - "HAD COMMANDED
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THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT
TO COME OUT OF THE MAN.
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FOR IT HAD OFTEN SEIZED HIM, AND
HE WAS KEPT UNDER GUARD, BOUND
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WITH CHAINS AND SHACKLES; AND HE
BROKE THE BONDS AND WAS DRIVEN
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BY THE DEMON INTO THE
WILDERNESS. JESUS ASKED HIM,
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SAYING, 'WHAT IS YOUR NAME?'
AND HE SAID, 'LEGION,' BECAUSE
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MANY DEMONS" - MANY DEVILS -
"HAD ENTERED HIM." ALRIGHT, DO
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YOU HAVE THE PICTURE IN YOUR
MIND? THE DISCIPLES GET OUT OF
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THE BOAT AND THIS CREATURE
COMES RUNNING OUT OF THE TOMB.
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AND THEY'D ALREADY HAD A ROUGH
NIGHT, THEIR NERVES ARE FRAYED
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AND THEY'RE PROBABLY PULLING THE
BOAT UP ON THE SHORE AND TRYING
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TO DRY THEIR GEAR OUT - IT'S ALL
SATURATED FROM THE STORM - AND
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ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY HEAR THIS
SHRIEK AND IT'S BARELY DAYLIGHT.
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AND FROM THE SHADOWS OF ONE
OF THESE CAVES OR TOMBS IN THE
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HILLS, THIS CREATURE COMES
CHARGING OUT, RUNNING DOWN THE
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HILL - NAKED, DRAGGING CHAINS
THAT ARE MANACLED AROUND HIS
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NECK AND HIS WRISTS AND HIS
ANKLES - AWFUL CLATTER - COVERED
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WITH CUTS - SELF-INFLICTED,
BRUISES, SMELLS LIKE DEATH.
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HE'S BEEN LIVING WITH CORPSES,
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? BIBLE -
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YOU READ ON IN THE STORY -
ON THE HILLSIDES AROUND HIM ARE
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SWINE PIGS - WILD-EYED,
LONG DIRTY HAIR, FOAMING AT THE
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MOUTH, HIS EYES ARE GLARING -
COMES CHARGING DOWN THE HILLSIDE
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TOWARDS THE DISCIPLES AND THE
DISCIPLES ARE PROBABLY THINKING,
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'GREAT, A GOOD TIME TO WITNESS.
I WONDER IF WE HAVE A TRACT
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AVAILABLE THAT WE CAN SHARE WITH
HIM. WE WONDERED IF WE'D HAVE
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ANY WITNESSING OPPORTUNITIES
HERE IN THIS REMOTE REGION.'
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I SUPPOSE THEY WENT JUST
SPRINTING TOWARDS THE BOAT.
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THIS MAN IS FILLED WITH A LEGION
OF DEMONS - THOUSANDS - THERE
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COULD BE UP TO 6,000
SOLDIERS IN A ROMAN LEGION.
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THOUSANDS OF DEVILS HAVE FILLED
THIS MAN. HOW DOES A PERSON
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GET TO THE PLACE WHERE
THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY POSSESSED?
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AND I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE WITH
SOMEONE THAT WOULD SAY, 'YOU
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KNOW, THAT'S THE TERMINOLOGY
THEY USED IN BIBLE TIMES, BUT HE
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PROBABLY ACTUALLY JUST HAD A
LITTLE BIPOLAR DISORDER AND SOME
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CHEMICALS WOULD HAVE
STRAIGHTENED HIM OUT.
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YEAH, THERE ARE PEOPLE
IN THAT CATEGORY, I AGREE.
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AND THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT MAY
JUST NEED SOME COUNSELING AND
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EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE FINE.
THIS IS EXHIBIT A OF SOMEBODY
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WHO IS ABSOLUTELY TOTALLY
THOROUGHLY DEMON POSSESSED.
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AND I HAVE MET PEOPLE THAT I
BELIEVE WERE DEMON POSSESSED.
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THEY HEARD VOICES IN THEIR HEADS
AND - ONE PERSON I TALKED TO,
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THEY'D GO OUT AT NIGHT AND GET
PEOPLE'S PETS AND KILL THEM AND
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JUST - I MEAN, THEY WERE
DEVIL-POSSESSED AND THEY HEARD
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THESE OTHER CONVERSATIONS GOING
ON AND - WHY WOULD GOD MAKE A
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DEVIL TO TORMENT US LIKE THAT
IF GOD IS A GOD OF LOVE? WELL,
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YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE DOESN'T
TELL US THAT GOD MADE A DEVIL.
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GOD MADE A BEAUTIFUL ANGEL
BUT THERE IS AN ENEMY OUT THERE.
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THERE IS THE
ULTIMATE ARCH ENEMY.
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THERE IS THE
ULTIMATE ARCH FIEND.
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HE'S VERY REAL AND NEVER IS THE
DEVIL HAPPIER THAN WHEN PEOPLE
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LAUGH AT HIS EXISTENCE. IF
YOU BELIEVE IN JESUS YOU NEED
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TO BELIEVE IN THE DEVIL, BECAUSE
JESUS ALWAYS SAID THAT HE IS A
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VERY REAL POWER OF BEING.
WE DO NOT WRESTLE AGAINST FLESH
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AND BLOOD BUT AGAINST
PRINCIPALITIES AND SPIRITS AND
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HEAVENLY PLACES.
THAT'S EPHESIANS CHAPTER 6.
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ACTS CHAPTER 26, WHEN CHRIST
CALLED PAUL TO DO MISSION WORK,
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HE SAID, THIS IS WHAT I'VE
CALLED YOU FOR: "TO OPEN THEIR
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EYES, IN ORDER TO TURN THEM FROM
DARKNESS TO LIGHT," - THERE'S
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DARKNESS IN THIS WORLD.
THERE'S A PRINCE OF DARKNESS.
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AND THERE'S LIGHT. JESUS
IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
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TO TURN THEM FROM - NOTICE -
THIS IS ACTS 26:18 - "THE POWER
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OF SATAN TO GOD."
THERE IS NO NEUTRAL GROUND.
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EVERYBODY, JESUS SAID, IS
EITHER WITH ME OR AGAINST ME.
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THERE IS A BATTLE RAGING FOR THE
TERRITORY OF YOUR AFFECTIONS AND
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YOUR SOUL AND YOU GET
TO MAKE THE DECIDING VOTE.
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EVERYBODY - IF YOU DO NOT
CHOOSE JESUS, BY DEFAULT YOU ARE
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CHOOSING THE
ENEMY. THAT'S RIGHT.
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THERE'S NO NEUTRAL POSITION.
THERE'S A BATTLE AND EVERYBODY
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NEEDS TO MAKE A
CONSCIOUS CHOICE.
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AND YOU MIGHT SAY, 'OH, I'M NOT
GOING TO BE A DEVIL WORSHIPER,
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BUT I'M NOT QUITE READY TO GIVE
MY LIFE TO JESUS.' WELL, THEN
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YOU HAVE JUST MADE YOUR CHOICE
BECAUSE IF YOU - 'HE THAT HAS
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NOT THE SON HAS NOT LIFE.' IF WE
DON'T HAVE CHRIST IN US THERE'S
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ONLY ONE OTHER ALTERNATIVE.
IF YOU TAKE AWAY LIGHT,
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WHAT'S LEFT? DARKNESS.
AND IF YOU WANT TO GET THE
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DARKNESS OUT OF A
ROOM WHAT DO YOU DO?
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SHOVEL IT WITH A SNOW SHOVEL?
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OR DO YOU INTRODUCE LIGHT
AND IT DISPELS THE DARKNESS?
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IF YOU WANT TO GET THE DARKNESS
OF THE DEVIL OUT OF YOUR LIFE
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YOU NEED TO INVITE THE LIGHT OF
GOD'S TRUTH INTO YOUR LIFE AND
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THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE,
AMEN? THERE'S A REAL BATTLE
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GOING ON, FRIENDS.
JESUS SAID THERE'S AN ENEMY.
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YOU KNOW THE PARABLE OF
THE WHEAT AND THE TARES?
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CHRIST SAID THERE'S THIS TITANIC
BATTLE GOING ON AND IN THAT
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PARABLE HE SAID - AND THIS IS
MATTHEW 13:28 - WHO WAS IT THAT
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SOWED THE BAD SEEDS - THE WEEDS
- THE TARES - IN THE GOOD FIELD?
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JESUS SAID, 'AN ENEMY HAS
DONE THIS.' GOD MADE A BEAUTIFUL
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WORLD AND HE CREATED TWO
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES IN HIS IMAGE
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AND EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT AND
IT WAS PARADISE AND IT WAS GOOD
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AND THIS IS GOD'S PLAN FOR YOU.
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BUT AN ENEMY HAS
COME TO OUR WORLD.
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OUR PLANET'S BEEN
KIDNAPPED BY THIS VILLAIN.
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AND JESUS SAID THERE'S AN ENEMY
AND YOU'VE GOT TO BE ON YOUR
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GUARD. SO, WHY
WOULD GOD MAKE A DEVIL?
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WHERE DID EVIL COME
FROM? WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?
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WELL, IF YOU READ IN ISAIAH
14, A NUMBER OF PASSAGES SORT OF
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GIVE YOU A LOT OF CLUES AND
YOU PUT THEM TOGETHER YOU GET A
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PRETTY CLEAR
PICTURE OF WHAT'S GOING ON.
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ISAIAH 14:12, "HOW YOU ARE
FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER,
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SON OF THE MORNING!
HOW YOU ARE CUT DOWN TO THE
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GROUND, YOU WHO
WEAKENED THE NATIONS.
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FOR YOU HAVE SAID IN YOUR HEART:
'I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, I
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WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE
STARS OF GOD; I WILL ALSO SIT ON
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THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION ON
THE FARTHEST SIDES OF THE NORTH;
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I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS
OF THE CLOUDS, I WILL BE LIKE
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THE MOST HIGH.'" THERE
WAS THIS VERY POWERFUL ANGEL.
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MATTER OF FACT, HE WAS THE
MOST POWERFUL CREATION OF GOD.
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ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS
GOD CREATED WAS THE PRINCIPLE
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STEWARD OF ALL HIS MINISTERING
SPIRITS - HIS GENERAL.
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HIS NAME WAS LUCIFER. HE
WASN'T ALWAYS THE DEVIL, IF
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YOU KNEW HIM BACK THEN,
YOU WOULD HAVE LIKED HIM.
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SOME PEOPLE LIKE HIM
NOW. BUT HE WAS GOOD.
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HE WAS HOLY. HE WAS PURE.
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GOD DID NOT MAKE A DEVIL, HE
MADE A BEAUTIFUL PERFECT ANGEL.
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BUT BECAUSE HE WAS SO POWERFUL
AND HE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL, AND GOD
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MAKES ALL OF HIS CREATURES FREE,
WHEN LUCIFER SAW ALL OF THE
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OTHER ANGELS WORSHIPING JESUS
AND WORSHIPING GOD AND ADORING
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GOD - HE DID TOO, AT FIRST, BUT
HE BEGAN TO THINK, 'WHY AM I NOT
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GOD? WHY DON'T I HAVE THAT
POWER? HERE I'M ALWAYS #3 OR #4
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AFTER THE FATHER, SON,
AND THE SPIRIT THEN ME.
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WHY CAN'T I CREATE LIKE
GOD DOES? AND JUST, YOU KNOW,
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IT'S HARD TO DESCRIBE WHERE
SOME NEW BACTERIA COMES FROM.
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THERE'S SOME THINGS YOU
JUST CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT.
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THERE IS THE MYSTERY OF
GODLINESS IN THE BIBLE AND
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THERE'S THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY.
HOW, IN A PERFECT UNIVERSE WHERE
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THERE'S AN ALL-POWERFUL GOD
- WHO'S A GOD OF LOVE WHO MAKES
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NO FACTORY DEFECTS THAT
A CREATURE COULD GO BAD.
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AND YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, 'GOD
MUST HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG.
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COULDN'T GOD HAVE PRE-PROGRAMMED
LUCIFER TO JUST SAY, 'I LOVE YOU
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GOD, I LOVE YOU
GOD' AND NEVER QUESTION?
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YEAH HE COULD HAVE, BUT THEN GOD
WOULD NEVER REALLY HAVE LOVE.
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CAN YOU REALLY FORCE LOVE?
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IF YOU ARE FORCING
SOMEONE TO LOVE YOU, IS IT LOVE?
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IF GOD PRE-PROGRAMMED ALL OF HIS
CREATURES LIKE ROBOTS WITHOUT
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ANY INTELLIGENT THOUGHT AND
PROCESS TO CHOOSE TO LOVE HIM
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BECAUSE OF THIS WONDERFUL
MIRACLE OF A DIVINE FREE WILL
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THAT WE HAVE - IF WE DIDN'T
HAVE THAT FREE ABILITY TO SAY 'I
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CHOOSE TO LOVE
YOU', THEN IT'S NOT LOVE.
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AND IN ORDER TO PROVE TO THE
UNIVERSE THAT GOD DID MAKE THESE
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INTELLIGENT CREATURES FREE,
HE EVEN MADE THE ONES WHO HAD
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FREEDOM TO NOT LOVE HIM. DO
YOU SEE HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS?
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YOU CAN'T HAVE REAL LOVE UNLESS
YOU HAVE REAL CHOICE AND GOD
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MADE HIS INTELLIGENT CREATURES
LIKE HIS ANGELS AND PEOPLE WITH
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A REAL CHOICE.
AND LUCIFER PROVED IT.
00:13:33.24\00:13:38.18
HE CHOSE NOT TO LOVE
GOD. HE CHOSE TO LOVE HIMSELF.
00:13:38.21\00:13:41.72
EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD FALLS
INTO ONE OF TWO CATEGORIES:
00:13:41.75\00:13:45.29
YOU'RE EITHER MOTIVATED BY LOVE
FOR GOD OR YOU'RE MOTIVATED BY
00:13:45.32\00:13:47.89
LOVE FOR SELF. JESUS IS LOVE.
00:13:47.92\00:13:53.60
HE IS A LOVE THAT
GIVES AWAY FROM SELF.
00:13:53.63\00:13:56.50
THE DEVIL IS THE POLAR OPPOSITE
OF THAT. HE IS SELF LOVE.
00:13:56.53\00:14:02.37
EVERYTHING ABOUT THE DEVIL IS
ME, ME, ME. HE SAID, 'I WANT TO
00:14:02.40\00:14:06.17
BE HIGHER. I WANT TO EXALT
MY THRONE. I WANT TO BE GOD.
00:14:06.21\00:14:10.68
I WANT TO BE THE MOST HIGH.' AND
SO LET'S SUPPOSE YOU UNDERSTAND
00:14:10.71\00:14:15.22
THAT - YOU MIGHT BE THINKING,
'OKAY, ONCE HE WENT BAD WHY
00:14:15.25\00:14:17.89
DIDN'T GOD JUST TAKE HIS DIVINE
RAY GUN AND GO...AND VAPORIZE
00:14:17.92\00:14:22.09
THE DEVIL?' COULDN'T
THE LORD HAVE DONE THAT?
00:14:22.12\00:14:25.63
SO WHAT IF GOD HAD JUST SAID,
'ALRIGHT LUCIFER, ENOUGH IS
00:14:25.66\00:14:27.83
ENOUGH. I'M GOING TO DESTROY
YOU. AND HE HAD ALREADY STARTED
00:14:27.86\00:14:32.40
TO SPREAD DISTRUST ABOUT
GOD AMONG THE OTHER ANGELS.
00:14:32.43\00:14:35.90
IF GOD HAD DONE THAT WITH
LUCIFER, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IF
00:14:35.94\00:14:40.78
YOU'RE AN ANGEL YOU ALL WALK
AROUND LUCIFER IS SAYING, 'GOD
00:14:40.81\00:14:45.68
IS NOT REALLY FAIR, YOU KNOW,
GOD IS ARBITRARY AND HE'S CRUEL'
00:14:45.71\00:14:49.28
AND WHILE YOU'RE SAYING THAT -
ALL OF A SUDDEN...LUCIFER'S HIT
00:14:49.32\00:14:52.19
BY LIGHTNING AND HE'S JUST
SMOLDERING ASHES ON THE GROUND
00:14:52.22\00:14:55.59
AND YOU'RE THE OTHER ANGELS
WATCHING. YOU'D BE GOING, 'OOH,
00:14:55.62\00:14:59.19
LOOKS LIKE LUCIFER WAS RIGHT.
GOD IS PRETTY SEVERE.' THE OTHER
00:14:59.23\00:15:04.37
CREATURES WOULD NEVER
LOVE AND TRUST GOD AGAIN.
00:15:04.40\00:15:09.10
I MEAN, DO YOU WANT YOUR
CHILDREN TO OBEY YOU BECAUSE
00:15:09.14\00:15:11.37
YOU'RE GOING TO BEAT
THEM TO A PULP IF THEY DON'T?
00:15:11.41\00:15:14.31
I HOPE - YOU DON'T ALL HAVE
CHILDREN - BUT THOSE OF YOU WHO
00:15:14.34\00:15:16.48
ARE ADULTS AMONG - YOU
KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
00:15:16.51\00:15:19.31
YOU WANT THEM TO OBEY BECAUSE
WHAT YOU'RE ASKING IS REASONABLE
00:15:19.35\00:15:22.28
BECAUSE THEY TRUST YOUR LOVE,
THEY HAVE FAITH IN YOU - YOU
00:15:22.32\00:15:25.39
DON'T WANT IT TO ALWAYS BE FEAR
OF TORTURE - JUST SOME OF THE
00:15:25.42\00:15:29.39
TIME. SO GOD COULDN'T DO THAT.
THE LORD HAD TO ALLOW LUCIFER TO
00:15:29.42\00:15:35.86
DEMONSTRATE WHAT THE FRUIT OF
HIS REBELLION WAS GOING TO BE SO
00:15:35.90\00:15:40.27
THAT THIS PROBLEM WITH
NOT LOVING AND TRUSTING GOD
00:15:40.30\00:15:42.87
WOULD NEVER RISE UP
AGAIN. AND YOU AND I ARE
00:15:42.90\00:15:45.31
RIGHT NOW LIVING IN THE
CROSS HAIRS OF THIS REBELLION.
00:15:45.34\00:15:48.41
IN THE EXPANSE OF TIME, WE ARE
LIVING AT THE MOMENT WHERE THIS
00:15:48.44\00:15:53.48
IS BEING DEMONSTRATED - WHERE
OUR WORLD IS A SPECTACLE TO THE
00:15:53.52\00:15:56.69
UNIVERSE AND ANGELS AND UNFALLEN
CREATURES ARE WATCHING WHAT'S
00:15:56.72\00:16:01.59
HAPPENING DOWN HERE BECAUSE
THIS WORLD IS A STAGE OF AN
00:16:01.62\00:16:04.09
INCREDIBLE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD
AND EVIL - BETWEEN LUCIFER AND
00:16:04.13\00:16:08.46
CHRIST - BETWEEN
SELFISHNESS AND LOVE.
00:16:08.50\00:16:13.27
IT'S ALL BEING DEMONSTRATED
AMONG THESE CREATURES MADE IN
00:16:13.30\00:16:16.27
GOD'S IMAGE. BUT
YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW IT'S VERY
00:16:16.30\00:16:18.47
REAL AND EVERY
DAY THERE ARE BATTLES.
00:16:18.51\00:16:21.28
IF OUR EYES COULD BE OPEN RIGHT
NOW WE WOULD SEE THAT IN THIS
00:16:21.31\00:16:23.58
ROOM AROUND US, NOT ONLY
IS THE PRESENCE OF GOD HERE
00:16:23.61\00:16:27.02
DEMONSTRATED THROUGH HIS SPIRIT
AND UNFALLEN ANGELS, I'M QUITE
00:16:27.05\00:16:32.39
SURE THAT THE DEVIL AND
HIS REPRESENTATIVES COME.
00:16:32.42\00:16:34.82
THE DEVIL'S PROBABLY BUSIER WITH
OTHER THINGS, BUT YOU CAN BE
00:16:34.86\00:16:37.09
SURE HIS DEVILS ARE HERE AND IF
IT WASN'T FOR THE ANGELS OF GOD
00:16:37.13\00:16:40.63
PROTECTING AND PREVENTING
- AND GOOD THING THAT THERE'S
00:16:40.66\00:16:44.27
TWO-THIRDS GOOD ANGELS FOR
EVERY ONE-THIRD BAD ANGELS.
00:16:44.30\00:16:48.47
LIFE'S TOUGH ENOUGH AS IT IS,
RIGHT? BUT THERE'S REAL BATTLES
00:16:48.50\00:16:52.67
GOING ON AND IT'S NOT
JUST IN YOUR IMAGINATION,
00:16:52.71\00:16:56.18
IT'S VERY REAL. THE
DEVIL IS A MASTER OF DECEPTION.
00:16:56.21\00:16:59.68
THAT'S WHAT MAKES
HIM ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS.
00:16:59.71\00:17:02.78
YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 12,
VERSE 9, "SO THE GREAT DRAGON
00:17:02.82\00:17:06.22
WAS CAST OUT, THAT SERPENT OF
OLD, CALLED THE DEVIL AND SATAN,
00:17:06.25\00:17:10.03
WHO DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD; HE
WAS CAST TO THE EARTH, AND HIS
00:17:10.06\00:17:13.90
ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH
HIM." HE DECEIVES HOW MUCH?
00:17:13.93\00:17:17.77
THE WHOLE WORLD. MOST
OF THE WORLD IS DECEIVED
00:17:17.80\00:17:21.87
ABOUT WHAT THE
ULTIMATE PURPOSE IS.
00:17:21.90\00:17:24.87
MOST OF THE WORLD IS DECEIVED
ABOUT WHAT TO WORSHIP AND WHO TO
00:17:24.91\00:17:27.51
WORSHIP AND WHO HE
IS AND HOW TO WORSHIP.
00:17:27.54\00:17:30.48
MOST OF THE WORLD IS DELUDED.
AND GOD HAS COME DOWN AND HE HAS
00:17:30.51\00:17:36.28
GIVEN US A BOOK OF TRUTH AND HE
SAID, 'IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE
00:17:36.32\00:17:39.99
DELIVERED FROM THOSE DECEPTIONS
- IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S
00:17:40.02\00:17:42.49
REALLY GOING ON, THEN IT'S
COMING THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD
00:17:42.52\00:17:45.79
THAT CAME THROUGH CHRIST AND THE
HOLY MEN THAT SPOKE MOVED BY THE
00:17:45.83\00:17:50.47
HOLY SPIRIT WRITTEN IN THIS
SACRED BOOK.' GOD HAS GIVEN US
00:17:50.50\00:17:53.77
UNDERSTANDING OF
WHAT THE DEVIL'S UP TO.
00:17:53.80\00:17:58.57
2 THESSALONIANS 2, VERSES 8 AND
9, IT TELLS US, "AND THEN THE
00:17:58.61\00:18:02.28
LAWLESS ONE WILL BE REVEALED,
WHOM THE LORD WILL CONSUME WITH
00:18:02.31\00:18:06.82
THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH AND
DESTROY WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF
00:18:06.85\00:18:09.38
HIS COMING. EVEN
HIM, WHOSE COMING IS AFTER
00:18:09.42\00:18:12.52
THE WORKING OF SATAN WITH
ALL POWER AND SIGNS AND LYING
00:18:12.55\00:18:17.83
WONDERS." THE
DEVIL CAN DO WONDERFUL
00:18:17.86\00:18:20.50
THINGS AND
THEY'RE DECEPTIVE WONDERS.
00:18:20.53\00:18:24.27
THIS VERSE ALSO TELLS US
THAT HE'S GOING TO HAVE AN END.
00:18:24.30\00:18:27.27
IN FACT, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR
US TO REMEMBER THAT JESUS SAID
00:18:27.30\00:18:31.41
THAT THE LAKE OF FIRE IS
PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS
00:18:31.44\00:18:34.38
ANGELS AND ULTIMATELY ALL THAT
FOLLOW THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS.
00:18:34.41\00:18:39.68
THERE'S ONLY TWO CHOICES IN
LIFE. CHRIST SAID THERE ARE TWO
00:18:39.71\00:18:42.32
ROADS - THERE'S A ROAD TO LIFE -
'STRAIGHT IS THE GATE AND NARROW
00:18:42.35\00:18:46.79
IS THE WAY THAT LEADS TO LIFE
AND FEW THERE BE THAT FIND IT.'
00:18:46.82\00:18:50.19
FEW PRIORITIZE LOOKING
FOR THAT ROAD TO ETERNAL LIFE.
00:18:50.23\00:18:53.80
'BROAD IS THE WAY AND
WIDE IS THE GATE THAT LEADS TO
00:18:53.83\00:18:56.10
DESTRUCTION' AND IT'S MANY WHO
ARE GOING DOWN THAT ROAD, NOT
00:18:56.13\00:18:59.27
BECAUSE THE LORD IS TRYING
TO HIDE IT, BUT VERY FEW ARE
00:18:59.30\00:19:03.27
SEARCHING FOR IT. WE'RE
JUST TOO BUSY WITH OTHER THINGS.
00:19:03.30\00:19:07.38
THE DEVIL IS TRYING TO
JUST CREATE A DISTRACTION.
00:19:07.41\00:19:12.48
HOW DO WE OVERCOME THE DEVIL?
1 PETER 5, VERSES 8 AND 9, "BE
00:19:12.51\00:19:17.79
SOBER" - DON'T USE
DRUGS. THAT CLEAR ENOUGH?
00:19:17.82\00:19:21.89
DON'T DRINK - THAT'S THE WORST
DRUG OF ALL - TAKE MY WORD FOR
00:19:21.92\00:19:24.13
IT - AND I USED THEM ALL.
"BE SOBER, BE VIGILANT;" - BE ON
00:19:24.16\00:19:29.86
YOUR GUARD - BECAUSE
YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL, AS A
00:19:29.90\00:19:32.87
ROARING LION, WALKETH ABOUT,
SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR.
00:19:32.90\00:19:37.81
WHOM RESIST" - RESIST THE DEVIL
- "STEDFAST IN THE FAITH," -
00:19:37.84\00:19:42.18
THROUGH YOUR FAITH IN GOD YOU
CAN RESIST THE DEVIL - "KNOWING
00:19:42.21\00:19:46.18
THAT THE SAME AFFLICTIONS ARE
ACCOMPLISHED IN YOUR BRETHREN
00:19:46.21\00:19:48.48
THAT ARE IN THE
WORLD." OTHERS HAVE DONE IT.
00:19:48.52\00:19:50.29
YOU CAN DO IT. YES YOU CAN.
00:19:50.32\00:19:52.42
THAT SAME JESUS WHO HELPED ME
QUIT SMOKING, WHO HELPED ME QUIT
00:19:52.45\00:19:55.22
CURSING, WHO HELPED ME QUIT
STEALING AND DRINKING AND DRUGS
00:19:55.26\00:19:58.63
- THAT SAME JESUS CAN HELP YOU
AND HE CAN HELP ME FINISH THE
00:19:58.66\00:20:01.50
AREAS I STILL NEED HELP. I
BELIEVE THAT GOD CAN HELP YOU
00:20:01.53\00:20:05.30
RESIST TEMPTATION. WE'RE ALL
TEMPTED EVERY DAY. THAT'S RIGHT.
00:20:05.33\00:20:09.47
BECAUSE THERE'S A BATTLE GOING
ON AND YOU NEED TO RECOGNIZE
00:20:09.50\00:20:12.47
THAT TO ACHIEVE YOUR ULTIMATE
PURPOSE. ANOTHER VERSE - JAMES -
00:20:12.51\00:20:16.68
THESE ARE GOOD PROMISES - JAMES
1:7, "THEREFORE SUBMIT TO GOD.
00:20:16.71\00:20:21.52
RESIST THE DEVIL AND
HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU."
00:20:21.55\00:20:24.69
DRAW NEAR TO GOD AND
HE WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU.
00:20:24.72\00:20:28.09
SO ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO
RESIST THE DEVIL IS, AS YOU ARE
00:20:28.12\00:20:31.39
SUBMITTING TO GOD AND DRAWING
NEAR TO GOD - THROUGH PRAYER -
00:20:31.43\00:20:35.36
SURRENDERING YOUR LIFE TO HIM
EVERY DAY - YOU KNOW, IT'S HARD
00:20:35.40\00:20:38.37
TO SIN WHEN YOU KNOW GOD'S RIGHT
NEXT TO YOU AND IF YOU LIVE IN
00:20:38.40\00:20:42.57
THE PRESENCE OF GOD YOU'RE GOING
TO FIND IT'S EASIER TO LIVE A
00:20:42.60\00:20:44.77
DIFFERENT KIND
OF LIFE. SAY 'AMEN'.
00:20:44.81\00:20:48.91
1 JOHN 4:4, "YOU ARE OF
GOD, LITTLE CHILDREN, AND HAVE
00:20:48.94\00:20:52.91
OVERCOME THEM, BECAUSE HE WHO IS
IN YOU IS GREATER THAN HE WHO IS
00:20:52.95\00:20:57.79
IN THE WORLD." IF
CHRIST IS IN YOU, GREATER IS
00:20:57.82\00:21:00.39
HE THAT IS IN YOU THAN
HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD.
00:21:00.42\00:21:03.53
AND AGAIN, 1 JOHN 3:8, "FOR
THIS PURPOSE THE SON OF GOD WAS
00:21:03.56\00:21:07.50
MANIFESTED," - NOTICE THIS -
"THAT HE MIGHT DESTROY THE WORKS
00:21:07.56\00:21:11.27
OF THE DEVIL." CHRIST
IN YOUR LIFE DESTROYS THE
00:21:11.30\00:21:14.27
WORK OF THE DEVIL IN YOUR LIFE.
YOU KNOW, I PROBABLY OUGHT TO
00:21:14.30\00:21:19.57
HEAD BACK TO MY STORY I STARTED
WITH. YOU REMEMBER THE DEMONIAC
00:21:19.61\00:21:25.08
- THAT MAN FILLED
WITH LEGIONS OF DEVILS?
00:21:25.11\00:21:28.12
IT TELLS US THIS MAN WAS
ALWAYS IN THE MOUNTAINS CRYING.
00:21:28.15\00:21:31.32
HE CERTAINLY WASN'T HAPPY -
TORMENTED - THERE IS NO PEACE
00:21:31.35\00:21:35.99
FOR THE WICKED, THE BIBLE SAYS.
IF YOU WANT PEACE, JESUS SAYS
00:21:36.02\00:21:38.69
'COME UNTO ME. I WILL GIVE YOU
REST. I WILL GIVE YOU PEACE' -
00:21:38.73\00:21:44.07
SURROUNDED BY PIGS,
DEATH, CEMETERY, UNCLEAN.
00:21:44.10\00:21:50.37
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THE WONDERFUL
THING IS IN THIS STORY?
00:21:50.41\00:21:53.27
THAT MAN, WHEN HE SAW JESUS LAND
ON THE SHORE, AS MESSED UP AS HE
00:21:53.31\00:21:57.41
WAS WITH LEGIONS OF DEVILS,
WHATEVER WAS LEFT OF THAT MAN
00:21:57.45\00:22:00.52
INSIDE - HE MAYBE HEARD THE
DEVILS TALK AND SAY, 'OH, IT'S
00:22:00.55\00:22:04.19
JESUS, SON OF GOD,
WHAT'S HE GOING TO DO?
00:22:04.22\00:22:05.45
IS HE GOING TO CAST US OUT?'
AND HE THOUGHT, 'THAT'S MY ONLY
00:22:05.49\00:22:08.19
HOPE.' AND WHATEVER HE HAD LEFT
- HE DECIDED TO RUN TO JESUS AND
00:22:08.22\00:22:17.07
THE LORD SAVED THAT MAN AND I
BELIEVE JESUS TOOK HIM DOWN TO
00:22:17.10\00:22:20.87
THE WATER AND WASHED HIM OFF -
KIND OF LIKE A TYPE OF BAPTISM,
00:22:20.90\00:22:23.97
YOU MIGHT SAY. I
THINK WHEN JESUS TOLD THE
00:22:24.01\00:22:25.97
DEMONS TO COME OUT, THE CHAINS
FELL OFF JUST LIKE THEY FELL OFF
00:22:26.01\00:22:28.58
PETER WHEN THE ANGEL
CAME TO HIM IN PRISON.
00:22:28.61\00:22:32.81
I THINK THAT - THE BIBLE TELLS
US THAT WHEN THE PEOPLE FROM THE
00:22:32.85\00:22:36.08
TOWN CAME TO SEE WHAT HAD
HAPPENED - THEY HEARD ABOUT ALL
00:22:36.12\00:22:38.59
THE PIGS THAT WERE LOST - THEY
SAW THE MAN SITTING AT THE FEET
00:22:38.62\00:22:41.69
OF JESUS, CLOTHED
AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND.
00:22:41.72\00:22:45.29
DON'T YOU WANT TO
BE IN YOUR RIGHT MIND?
00:22:45.33\00:22:47.66
WHERE'D HE GET HIS CLOTHES?
00:22:47.73\00:22:50.17
I THINK JESUS TOOK OF HIS ROBE
AND COVERED HIM, JUST LIKE HE
00:22:50.20\00:22:52.67
COVERS YOU WITH
HIS OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:22:52.70\00:22:55.10
THIS IS JUST SUCH A
WONDERFUL STORY. YOU KNOW WHY?
00:22:55.14\00:22:58.87
YOU CANNOT FIND AN EXAMPLE
IN A STORY OF A PERSON WHO IS
00:22:58.91\00:23:01.91
OUTWARDLY MORE
HOPELESS THAN THIS MAN.
00:23:01.94\00:23:04.91
MAYBE HE HAD WASTED HIS
YOUTH - HE JUST GAVE INTO EVERY
00:23:04.95\00:23:08.18
TEMPTATION. HE
THOUGHT LIFE WAS A PARTY.
00:23:08.22\00:23:10.89
AND, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER
YOU LISTEN TO THE DEVIL -
00:23:10.92\00:23:12.89
YOU GET GOOD AT
WHATEVER YOU PRACTICE.
00:23:12.92\00:23:14.49
IF YOU PRACTICE RESISTING
TEMPTATION, YOU GET GOOD AT IT.
00:23:14.52\00:23:17.53
IF YOU PRACTICE GIVING IN
TO TEMPTATION YOU'LL WELD THOSE
00:23:17.56\00:23:20.70
HABITS AND YOU
BECOME GOOD AT THAT.
00:23:20.73\00:23:24.37
AND LITTLE BY LITTLE THIS MAN
PRACTICING - GIVING IN TO THE
00:23:24.40\00:23:27.07
DEVIL - HE GOT TO THE
PLACE WHERE HE COULD NOT SAY NO.
00:23:27.10\00:23:31.21
EVERY DAY WE'RE MAKING DECISIONS
WHO WE'RE GOING TO SERVE.
00:23:31.24\00:23:34.71
NOW FRIENDS, I WANT YOU TO
NOTICE: ON THE SHORE THAT DAY
00:23:34.74\00:23:38.08
THERE ARE TWO ULTIMATE PURPOSES.
YOU SEE YOURSELF IN THE STORY.
00:23:38.11\00:23:43.28
YOU ARE SOMEWHERE IN THE STORY.
00:23:43.32\00:23:45.29
GOD CAME INTO THE WORLD IN
THE FORM OF A MAN - HIS NAME IS
00:23:45.32\00:23:48.02
JESUS - TO SHOW US GOD'S PLAN
FOR YOU. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW
00:23:48.06\00:23:52.19
WHAT THE DEVIL'S PLAN IS FOR
YOU, THAT MAN IS EXHIBIT A OF
00:23:52.23\00:23:55.40
WHAT THE DEVIL DOES WHEN HE
FILLS A MAN. ON THE SHORE THERE
00:23:55.43\00:23:58.80
BY THE BEACH OF
GALILEE WERE TWO INDIVIDUALS.
00:23:58.83\00:24:03.37
THAT MAN CAME TO JESUS AND THERE
WAS JESUS - THE DISCIPLES ALL
00:24:03.41\00:24:05.67
RAN AWAY - THERE
THEY ARE FACING OFF.
00:24:05.71\00:24:07.58
THERE ARE THE TWO ULTIMATE
DESTINIES - BEING LIKE CHRIST'S
00:24:07.61\00:24:13.11
SON - THAT'S A CHRISTIAN - BEING
LIKE GOD'S SON JESUS, RATHER, OR
00:24:13.15\00:24:17.62
BEING LIKE THE
DEVIL. YOU GOT THE PICTURE?
00:24:17.65\00:24:20.89
CHRIST - LOVING, NOBLE,
DIGNIFIED, SELF-POSSESSED,
00:24:20.92\00:24:23.83
POWERFUL OR THIS RAVING LUNATIC?
THAT'S THE DEVIL'S PLAN FOR YOU.
00:24:23.86\00:24:29.86
AND WE GET TO CHOOSE WHICH
PLAN WE WANT FOR OUR LIVES.
00:24:29.90\00:24:34.27
CHRIST'S PURPOSE FOR
YOU IS TO BE LIKE HIM.
00:24:34.30\00:24:37.31
NOW HERE IS THE GOOD NEWS: NO
MATTER HOW FAR FROM GOD YOU MAY
00:24:37.34\00:24:41.31
HAVE WANDERED, YOU CAN COME JUST
LIKE YOU ARE - YOU AREN'T WORSE
00:24:41.34\00:24:44.11
OFF THAN THIS MAN -
AND JESUS WILL ACCEPT YOU.
00:24:44.15\00:24:46.68
DO YOU BELIEVE THAT?
THIS MAN CAME LIKE HE WAS.
00:24:46.72\00:24:49.58
DID CHRIST SAY,
'YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR'?
00:24:49.62\00:24:51.92
IF CHRIST WOULD HEAL AND FORGIVE
AND SAVE THIS MAN, CAN HE SAVE
00:24:51.95\00:24:54.79
YOU? I IDENTIFY WITH THIS STORY
BECAUSE I WAS SOMETHING LIKE
00:24:54.82\00:24:58.63
THAT MAN WHEN I CAME TO JESUS.
I MEAN, I WAS, I WAS A MESS.
00:24:58.66\00:25:03.16
AND IF THE LORD CAN DO IT
FOR ME, HE CAN DO IT FOR YOU.
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