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01:00 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:11 >>SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT IF YOU'VE GOT A BIBLE, THE DEVIL'S 01:13 GOING TO RUN. THAT'S NOT TRUE. OR THAT THE DEVIL, WHEN HE SEES 01:17 A CHURCH, HE GOES IN THE OTHER DIRECTION. 01:19 NO, THE DEVIL'S NOT AFRAID OF CHURCH, HE'S NOT AFRAID OF 01:22 WORSHIP, HE JUST WANTS TO BE THE OBJECT OF WORSHIP. 01:24 HE WANTS GOD'S POSITION. >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING 01:30 FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD 01:32 THROUGH MEDIA. THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS 01:36 FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT 01:40 BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 01:49 >>ABOUT A WEEK AGO - MAYBE A LITTLE MORE THAN A WEEK AGO - I 01:52 WAS SURFING THROUGH THE RELIGIOUS CHANNELS. 01:56 WE GET ABOUT, OH, A DOZEN DIFFERENT CHANNELS, AND I 01:59 STOPPED TO LISTEN TO A PREACHER - IF I SAID THE NAME MANY HERE 02:03 WOULD RECOGNIZE THE NAME. HE'S BEEN IN THE PRESS, HE'S GOT 02:08 AN INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY - HE'S KIND OF IN THE BALLPARK OF WHAT 02:11 YOU WOULD CALL A PROSPERITY PREACHER. 02:14 AND HE WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW WHERE THERE IS NO LAW THERE IS 02:18 NO SIN AND, SOMEHOW, HE TWISTED THAT AROUND AND I HEARD HIM SAY, 02:27 'IT'S THE DEVIL THAT WANTS YOU TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.' 02:31 (SHOCKED MURMURING) WHAT? AND HE SAID IT TWO OR THREE 02:35 DIFFERENT TIMES 'IF SOMEONE'S COMING AROUND TELLING YOU YOU'VE 02:37 GOT TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - WHERE THERE'S A LAW THERE'S 02:40 SIN - AND SO HE'S TEACHING YOU TO SIN.' I'M GOING, 'WHAT?' 02:46 AND I PRESSED THE RECORD BUTTON AND I THOUGHT, 'MAYBE I DIDN'T 02:48 GET THIS RIGHT,' AND SO I PLAYED IT BACK AND THEN I LATER PLAYED 02:50 IT FOR KAREN A COUPLE DAYS AGO. 02:52 I SAID, 'LISTEN TO THIS.' AND SHE SAID, 'WHAT?' 02:56 (LAUGHTER) BECAUSE HE ALMOST MADE IT SOUND LIKE IT WAS THE 03:00 DEVIL UP THERE ON MOUNT SINAI GIVING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 03:06 AND WHAT REALLY BOTHERED ME IS THAT HE HAD AN AUDIENCE WITH 03:10 THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AND THEY WERE SAYING, 'AMEN.' AND I 03:16 THOUGHT, 'WOW, THE DEVIL'S GOT PEOPLE IN CHURCH - THEY'RE GOING 03:24 THROUGH - THEY'VE GOT A BIBLE AND THEY'RE IN A CHURCH BUILDING 03:27 AND THEY'RE GOING THROUGH ALL OF THE FANFARE AND POMP OF A CHURCH 03:31 SERVICE, BUT THEY'RE TEACHING DOCTRINES OF DEVILS. 03:35 WELL, FROM THAT POINT, IT BEGAN TO EXPAND ON IN MY MIND, AND 03:39 THAT'S WHY I DECIDED TO TALK ABOUT THIS SUBJECT: WHEN THE 03:41 DEVIL GOES TO CHURCH . NOW, NOT ONLY DO I OCCASIONALLY 03:45 WATCH RELIGIOUS PROGRAMMING, I LIKE NATURE PROGRAMMING. 03:48 AND THERE WAS THIS ONE PROGRAM I SAW - I ACTUALLY WATCHED THIS 03:53 ONE EPISODE SEVERAL TIMES - ABOUT THE CUCKOO BIRD. 03:57 NOW, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE ONES THAT GO INSIDE THE CLOCKS 04:01 THAT COME OUT AND TELL YOU WHEN IT'S THE HOUR, I'M TALKING ABOUT 04:03 THE REAL CUCKOO BIRD. AND THEY'VE GOT THEM IN ALL 04:06 DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD, BUT THE THING THAT THE CUCKOO 04:09 BIRD DOES THAT IS A LITTLE BIT MISCHIEVOUS, IS IT LAYS ITS 04:15 EGG IN ANOTHER BIRD'S NEST AND THEN IT MAKES THE OTHER 04:20 BIRD RAISE ITS BABY. A WORN WARBLER COMES BACK, IT 04:25 DOESN'T KNOW - THE EGGS LOOK THE SAME - AND SO IT'S 04:28 SITTING ON THE CUCKOO EGG. AND, ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE CUCKOO 04:32 EGG HATCHES FIRST AND THEN, WHEN IT GOES OUT TO GET FOOD TO FEED 04:36 THE LITTLE CUCKOO CHICK - IT THINKS IT'S HIS CHICK - THE 04:39 CUCKOO CHICK PUSHES THE OTHER EGGS OUT OF THE NEST. 04:44 SO THEY PLANT AN IMPOSTER IN THERE. THEY TAKE OVER. 04:48 THAT'S HAPPENED IN A LOT OF CHURCHES. THAT'S WHY YOU'VE SEEN 04:52 SOME CUCKOO WORSHIP SERVICES - (LAUGHTER) - GOING ON OUT THERE, 04:56 IT'S BECAUSE THE DEVIL DOES GO TO CHURCH. 04:59 WHEN I WAS YOUNG I USED TO THINK, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT TO 05:01 KEEP THE VAMPIRES AWAY, YOU NEED GARLIC AND YOU NEED A CROSS. 05:05 AND YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THESE STORIES BEFORE. 05:08 AND SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT IF YOU'VE GOT A BIBLE, THE DEVIL'S 05:11 GOING TO RUN. THAT'S NOT TRUE. 05:14 OR THAT THE DEVIL, WHEN HE SEES A CHURCH, HE GOES IN THE OTHER 05:17 DIRECTION. NO, THE DEVIL GOES TO CHURCH. 05:22 THE BIBLE'S PRETTY CLEAR - PAUL WARNED US THERE WOULD BE FALSE 05:25 TEACHERS. ACTS CHAPTER 20, VERSE 29, "FOR 05:29 I KNOW THIS" - PAUL SAID - "THAT AFTER MY DEPARTURE SAVAGE WOLVES 05:33 WILL COME IN AMONG YOU, NOT SPARING THE FLOCK. 05:37 ALSO FROM AMONG YOURSELVES MEN WILL RISE UP, SPEAKING PERVERSE 05:42 THINGS, TO DRAW AWAY THE DISCIPLES AFTER THEMSELVES." 05:45 IN MATTHEW 24, JESUS TOLD US, ESPECIALLY IN THE LAST DAYS, ONE 05:48 THING YOU REALLY NEED TO WATCH FOR - HE SAID, 'THERE WILL BE 05:51 MANY FALSE PROPHETS. THERE'LL BE MANY FALSE CHRISTS.' 05:56 HE SAID, 'MANY WILL COME IN MY NAME SAYING I AM CHRIST.' NOW 05:59 THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THEY'RE SAYING THEY'RE CHRIST, THEY'RE 06:01 SAYING THEY COME IN THE NAME OF JESUS SAYING 'JESUS IS CHRIST' 06:03 AND THEN THEY DECEIVE. MANY IN THE CHURCHES - THAT'S 06:08 WHY YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE MANY COME TO CHRIST, THEY'LL SAY, 06:10 'LORD, LORD' AND HE'LL SAY, 'I DON'T KNOW YOU. 06:11 YOU WERE SITTING UNDER THE TEACHING OF WOLVES AND YOU'VE 06:16 BEEN DECEIVED.' MATTHEW 7:15, JESUS SAID, "BEWARE OF FALSE 06:20 PROPHETS, WHO COME TO YOU IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING, BUT INWARDLY 06:25 THEY ARE RAVENOUS WOLVES." 2 CORINTHIANS 11, VERSE 13, 06:31 PAUL SAID, "FOR SUCH ARE FALSE APOSTLES, DECEITFUL WORKERS, 06:34 TRANSFORMING THEMSELVES INTO APOSTLES OF CHRIST." 06:37 THEY TRY TO LOOK LIKE THEY'RE APOSTLES OF CHRIST BUT THEY 06:40 TEACH DOCTRINES OF DEVILS AND THEY OFTEN DO IT TO GET THEIR 06:43 OWN FOLLOWING BECAUSE THEY'RE INTERESTED IN SELF-WORSHIP. 06:47 "THEREFORE IT IS NO GREAT THING IF HIS MINISTERS ALSO TRANSFORM 06:50 THEMSELVES INTO MINISTERS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHOSE END WILL BE 06:54 ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS." SO THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE 06:56 WHO PRETEND TO BE MINISTERS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS SO THAT THEY CAN 07:02 RECRUIT FOLLOWERS OR INTRODUCE FALSE TEACHINGS. 07:05 SO, HOW DO YOU KNOW? IT'S HARD TO TELL WHEN THEY'RE 07:07 WEARING SHEEP'S CLOTHES. SATAN CAN BE TRANSFORMED INTO AN 07:11 ANGEL OF LIGHT - THEY LOOK LIKE ANGELS OF LIGHT. 07:14 HOW DO YOU KNOW? EVERYTHING - WELL, JESUS SAID 07:17 YOU'LL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS, FOR ONE THING. 07:21 AND HE SAID YOU'LL KNOW THEM BY THEIR TEACHINGS. 07:24 IF IT DOESN'T MATCH UP WITH THE WORD OF GOD - AND, OF COURSE, 07:26 THERE'LL BE SIMILARITIES; THERE'LL BE SOME THINGS THAT 07:28 SOUND LIKE THEY'RE BIBLICAL. 07:31 YOU KNOW, IT GOES WAY BACK, EVEN BACK IN THE TIME OF THE APOSTLES 07:35 THEY HAD PROBLEMS WITH WOLVES AMONG THE SHEEP. 07:39 PAUL TALKED ABOUT SOME WHO HAD TURNED ON HIM IN 3 JOHN - THIS 07:46 IS THE THIRD LETTER OF JOHN, VERSE 9 AND 10 - JOHN, THE 07:50 APOSTLE, HE SAYS, "I WROTE TO THE CHURCH, BUT DIOTREPHES, WHO 07:54 LOVES TO HAVE THE PREEMINENCE AMONG THEM, DOES NOT RECEIVE US. 07:57 THEREFORE, IF I COME, I WILL CALL TO MIND HIS DEEDS WHICH HE 08:01 DOES, PRATING AGAINST US WITH MALICIOUS WORDS..." 08:03 HERE WAS A CHURCH LEADER BACK IN THE DAYS OF THE APOSTLE JOHN 08:06 WHO'S TURNING THE PEOPLE AWAY FROM AN APOSTLE. 08:10 THAT'S GOT TO BE PRETTY BAD. JOHN WAS A NICE GUY. 08:12 HE WAS THE APOSTLE OF LOVE. BUT THEY HAD WOLVES GETTING 08:15 INTO THE CHURCH EVEN BACK THEN. PAUL TALKED ABOUT DEMETRIUS, THE 08:20 SILVERSMITH, 'WHO DID ME MUCH EVIL.' HE STARTED OUT 08:23 LOOKING LIKE A BELIEVER. SO, YOU LOOK IN THE GOSPELS AND 08:28 YOU'LL FIND OUT THAT ONE OF THE FIRST MIRACLES THAT JESUS DID 08:31 WAS CASTING OUT A DEVIL, BUT LOOK AT WHERE IT HAPPENS. 08:33 GO TO LUKE CHAPTER 4 - AND YOU'LL ALSO FIND A PARALLEL 08:36 PASSAGE IN MARK CHAPTER 1 - "THEN HE WENT DOWN TO CAPERNAUM, 08:40 A CITY OF GALILEE, AND WAS TEACHING THEM ON THE SABBATHS. 08:43 AND THEY WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS TEACHING, FOR HIS WORD WAS WITH 08:46 AUTHORITY." HE TAUGHT WITH POWER. HE TAUGHT WITH AUTHORITY. 08:50 "NOW IN THE SYNAGOGUE" - JUST IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW, THE WORD 08:54 'SYNAGOGUE' IS THE SAME WORD AS 'CHURCH'; IT JUST MEANS 'THE 08:56 GATHERING PLACE' - "NOW IN THE SYNAGOGUE" - IN THE CHURCH - 08:59 "THERE WAS A MAN WHO HAD A SPIRIT OF AN UNCLEAN DEMON..." 09:02 HE MAY HAVE BEEN ON THE BOOKS FOR YEARS AND NOBODY KNEW THAT 09:05 HE HAD A SPIRIT OF AN UNCLEAN DEMON - IT DOESN'T SAY - "AND HE 09:08 CRIED OUT" - JESUS IS TEACHING AND HE SUDDENLY CRIES OUT AND HE 09:12 GOES INTO A FIT - "LET US ALONE! WHAT HAVE WE TO DO WITH 09:15 YOU, JESUS OF NAZARETH? DID YOU COME TO DESTROY US? 09:18 I KNOW WHO YOU ARE - THE HOLY ONE OF GOD!" 09:21 NOW, WAS HE RIGHT? KEEP IN MIND, THESE FALLEN 09:24 ANGELS, DID THEY KNOW JESUS EVEN BEFORE THE CREATION? 09:28 THEY MAY HAVE KNOWN JESUS FROM MILLIONS OF YEARS. 09:32 WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THE ANGELS EXISTED BEFORE THE 09:34 REBELLION. THEY KNEW WHO JESUS WAS. 09:38 YOU KNOW, JUST BECAUSE THE DEVIL OCCASIONALLY SHARES SOME GOOD 09:41 THEOLOGY DOESN'T MEAN HE'S NOT A DEVIL. I THINK IT WAS 09:46 A.W. TOZIER WHO SAID, 'THE DEVIL IS A BETTER THEOLOGIAN THAN ALL 09:49 OF US, BUT HE'S A DEVIL STILL.' IN JAMES CHAPTER 2, HE SAID, 09:54 "YOU BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ONE GOD. YOU DO WELL. 09:56 EVEN THE DEMONS BELIEVE - AND TREMBLE!" DID YOU KNOW THE 09:59 DEVILS BELIEVE IN ONE GOD? THE DEVILS ARE NOT POLYTHEISTIC, 10:02 THEY'RE MONOTHEISTIC - THEY'RE CORRECT, THERE'S ONE GOD. 10:05 MATTHEW - I'M SORRY, MARK 4:15, IT SAYS, "AND THESE ARE THE ONES 10:09 BY THE WAYSIDE WHERE THE WORD IS SOWN. 10:12 WHEN THEY HEAR, SATAN COMES IMMEDIATELY AND TAKES AWAY THE 10:16 WORD THAT WAS SOWN IN THEIR HEARTS." 10:18 THE DEVIL HATES FOR PEOPLE TO HEAR THE WORD. 10:21 I'LL SAY MORE ABOUT THIS LATER, BUT SOMETIMES THE DEVIL SNEAKS 10:25 INTO CHURCH AND HE USES YOU AND ME. 10:27 ARE YOU ALL AWARE THE DEVIL DOES NOT HAUNT HOUSES? 10:31 I AM NEVER WORRIED ABOUT HAUNTED TWO BY FOURS OR HAUNTED 10:35 CINDER BLOCKS OR HAUNTED CONCRETE. 10:38 THE DEVIL HAUNTS PEOPLE AND HE CAN SOMETIMES EVEN GET INTO YOU 10:43 AND ME AND WHEN THE WORD IS BEING PREACHED THE DEVIL WILL 10:49 TRY TO SNATCH AWAY THE WORD. YOU KNOW THE PARABLE - SOME 10:52 WORDS - SOME SEED FELL ON THE WAYSIDE AND THE RAVENS CAME AND 10:56 SNATCHED IT AWAY - BY THE WAY, THEY WERE CUCKOO BIRDS THEY CAME 10:59 AND THEY TOOK AWAY THE SEED RIGHT AWAY. 11:01 AND, I'LL TELL YOU, ONE OF THE WAYS THE DEVIL SNEAKS INTO 11:05 CHURCH IS WHEN THE PREACHER IS PREACHING THE WORD OF GOD - AND 11:10 HE MIGHT BE PREACHING WITH AUTHORITY - ALL OF A SUDDEN THE 11:14 DEVIL WILL PINCH A BABY AND THE BABY WILL LET OUT A WOLF CALL OR 11:21 PEOPLE WILL START TALKING NEXT TO YOU AND YOU'RE TRYING TO 11:24 EAVESDROP ON THEIR CONVERSATION. WE NEED TO BE REVERENT DURING 11:28 CHURCH BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO BE THE WOLF THAT'S DISTRACTING 11:32 THE PERSON NEXT TO YOU FROM HEARING THE WORD OF GOD. 11:36 AND IF WE'RE ALL FUSSING AND - OR THE DEVIL GETS INTO OUR 11:40 THINKING SOMETIMES AND - SO WHEN THE WORD IS SPOKEN THAT MIGHT 11:44 TRANSFORM YOU, YOU DON'T HEAR IT BECAUSE YOU'RE PREOCCUPIED 11:47 THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE. SO WE'VE GOT TO PRAY THAT GOD'LL 11:50 HELP US TO FOCUS ON THE WORD. NOW, IT SHOULDN'T SURPRISE YOU 11:55 THAT THE DEVIL SOMETIMES GOES TO CHURCH; HE STARTED IN CHURCH. 11:59 LOOK IN EZEKIEL 28, VERSES 12 AND 15 - YEP, THE DEVIL STARTED 12:03 IN CHURCH. IT SAYS, "THUS SAYS THE LORD 12:06 GOD, 'YOU WERE THE SEAL OF PERFECTION, FULL OF WISDOM 12:09 AND PERFECT IN BEAUTY. YOU WERE IN EDEN, THE GARDEN OF 12:12 GOD; EVERY PRECIOUS STONE WAS YOUR COVERING: THE SARDIUS, 12:16 TOPAZ, AND DIAMOND, BERYL, ONYX, AND JASPER,'" - BY THE WAY, 12:19 THOSE ARE THINGS THAT THE HIGH PRIEST WORE ON HIS BREASTPLATE. 12:22 IT'S ALMOST LIKE HE WAS A MINISTER IN GOD'S SANCTUARY, 12:27 WHICH HE WAS - "THE WORKMANSHIP OF YOUR TIMBRELS AND PIPES WAS 12:31 PREPARED FOR YOU ON THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED." 12:33 HE PROBABLY LED THE HEAVENLY CHOIR. 12:35 HE SANG PRAISES TO GOD. THE DEVIL HAS BEEN A PRIEST, HE 12:40 HAS BEEN A CHOIR DIRECTOR - "YOU WERE THE ANOINTED CHERUB WHO 12:43 COVERS;" - YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? 12:44 WHAT'S A COVERING CHERUB? THERE, BY THE THRONE OF GOD, 12:47 YOU'VE GOT THESE TWO ANGELS. HAVE YOU READ ISAIAH 6? 12:50 THEY CRY 'HOLY, HOLY, HOLY' - IT CALLS THEM SERAPHIM THERE - 12:54 CHERUBIM - AND THEY'VE GOT THE SIX WINGS. 12:56 AND THERE BY THE THRONE OF GOD THE HIGHEST, MOST EXALTED 12:59 POSITION NEXT TO GOD HIMSELF IS THE POSITION HELD BY THESE 13:03 COVERING ANGELS - LIKE THEY SAT ON THE ARK - TWO COVERING 13:07 CHERUBS. THAT WAS THE POSITION OF LUCIFER. 13:10 LUCIFER WENT TO CHURCH. HE WAS IN THE INNER 13:12 SANCTUM OF THE CHURCH. HE'S NOT SCARED OF CHURCH. 13:17 ISAIAH 14 - HE WANTS TO BE WORSHIPED. 13:21 YOU READ VERSES 14 - VERSES 12 TO 14 IN ISAIAH 14, IT SAYS YOU 13:25 HAVE DECLARED, "...I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN,...I WILL ASCEND 13:29 [ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS], I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST 13:31 HIGH." YOU SEE, THE DEVIL WANTS TO BE WORSHIPED. 13:35 YOU'RE NOT SURPRISED BY THAT, YOU KNEW - WHAT DID HE SAY TO 13:37 JESUS IN THE WILDERNESS? 'IF YOU'LL JUST FALL DOWN AND 13:39 WORSHIP ME.' THE DEVIL'S NOT AFRAID OF CHURCH. 13:43 HE'S NOT AFRAID OF WORSHIP. HE JUST WANTS TO BE THE OBJECT 13:45 OF WORSHIP IS WHAT HE'S AFTER. AND HE WANTS YOUR WORSHIP. 13:49 >>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS, IN JUST A MOMENT WE'LL RETURN WITH 13:52 TODAY'S PRESENTATION. IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, WE 13:56 SEE IT DESCRIBING TWO WOMEN THAT ARE VERY DIFFERENT. 13:59 ONE IS A PURE WOMAN CLOTHED IN LIGHT; THE OTHER IS BETTER KNOWN 14:03 AS THE SCARLET HARLOT OF REVELATION 17. 14:06 WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THESE TWO WOMEN IN 14:10 PROPHECY AND WHO ARE THEY? WHAT IS THE LITERAL 14:12 MEANING OF BABYLON? WHAT IS ITS ORIGINS? 14:15 WELL, WE HAVE A SPECIAL, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED RESOURCE 14:18 WE'D LIKE TO GIVE YOU THAT ANSWERS ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS 14:21 AND MANY MORE. IT'S CALLED THE OTHER WOMAN . 14:25 THIS RESOURCE, FILLED WITH SCRIPTURE, REVEALS THE IDENTITY 14:28 OF THESE WOMEN IN REVELATION AND WHAT THEY REPRESENT IN THE WORLD 14:31 TODAY. MOST IMPORTANTLY, HOW IT AFFECTS 14:34 YOUR LIFE DURING THE END TIMES. TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE 14:38 PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #178, OR 14:42 VISIT US AT OFFERS.AFTV.ORG . LET'S GET BACK TO TODAY'S 14:47 PRESENTATION AND LEARN SOME MORE AMAZING FACTS ABOUT 14:50 THE WORD OF GOD. >>SO WHAT IS HIS END GAME? 14:55 WHAT IS IT THAT THE DEVIL IS ULTIMATELY SHOOTING FOR? 14:59 THIS IS WHERE I THINK IT GETS VERY INTERESTING: 2 15:03 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 3, "LET NO ONE DECEIVE YOU BY 15:08 ANY MEANS; FOR THAT DAY" - TALKING ABOUT THE DAY OF THE 15:11 LORD AND TALKING ABOUT THE END OF TIME - "...THAT DAY WILL NOT 15:15 COME UNLESS THE FALLING AWAY COMES FIRST." 15:19 I WANT TO PARK RIGHT THERE. 'A FALLING AWAY' - DOES HE MEAN 15:22 A FALLING AWAY IN THE WORLD? NO, THE WORLD FELL WAY 15:24 BACK IN ADAM'S TIME. THE WORLD'S FALLEN. 15:26 IT'S TALKING ABOUT A FALLING AWAY WHERE? 15:28 >>IN THE CHURCH. >>IN THE CHURCH. 15:30 THAT DAY - THE DAY OF THE LORD - THE FINAL EVENTS, THEY'RE NOT 15:32 GOING TO - IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN UNLESS THERE'S A FALLING 15:34 AWAY FIRST. "AND THE MAN OF SIN IS REVEALED, 15:38 THE SON OF PERDITION, WHO OPPOSES AND EXALTS HIMSELF ABOVE 15:42 ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD OR THAT IS WORSHIPED," - HE OPPOSES 15:45 ALL OF GOD'S WORSHIP, WHY? - "SO THAT HE SITS AS GOD IN THE 15:50 TEMPLE OF GOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD." 15:54 DOES THE DEVIL HAVE A PROBLEM GOING TO CHURCH? 15:56 NO, HE WANTS TO GO TO CHURCH AND HE WANTS TO BE WORSHIPED. 16:00 THIS IS HIS END GAME. DANIEL 8:13, "THEN I HEARD A HOLY ONE 16:05 SPEAKING, AND ANOTHER HOLY ONE SAID TO THAT CERTAIN ONE WHO 16:07 WAS SPEAKING, 'HOW LONG WILL THE VISION BE, CONCERNING THE DAILY 16:11 SACRIFICES AND THE TRANSGRESSION OF DESOLATION, THE GIVING OF 16:14 BOTH THE SANCTUARY AND THE HOST TO BE TRAMPLED UNDERFOOT?'" 16:18 THIS IS THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION - THE DEVIL WANTS TO 16:20 TRAMPLE DOWN GOD'S PEOPLE AND HIS PLACE. 16:24 LOOK IN DANIEL 11, VERSE 45, "AND HE SHALL PLANT THE TENTS OF 16:27 HIS PALACE BETWEEN THE SEAS AND THE GLORIOUS HOLY MOUNTAIN;" - 16:32 HIS DESIRE IN THE LAST DAYS IS TO PLANT HIMSELF - TO BE 16:35 ENTHRONED IN THAT HOLY PLACE. YOU CAN ALSO READ IN MATTHEW 16:41 24:15, JESUS WARNED US - AND THIS, BY THE WAY, IS CHRIST'S 16:45 WORDS TALKING ABOUT THE LAST DAYS: "THEREFORE WHEN YOU SEE 16:48 THE 'ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION,' SPOKEN OF BY DANIEL THE PROPHET, 16:52 STANDING IN" - WHAT'S THE REST? "THE HOLY PLACE." 16:57 WHERE DOES THIS ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION WANT TO STAND? 17:00 IN THE HOLY PLACE. WHAT IS THAT HOLY PLACE? 17:03 IT'S THE PLACE WHERE THE BEING RESIDES, WHO WE WORSHIP. 17:10 THE DEVIL WANTS YOUR WORSHIP. WHY WOULD YOU DOUBT THAT? 17:14 WHAT'S THE WHOLE FINAL TEST ABOUT? 17:16 EVERYBODY'S GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION: DO YOU WORSHIP 17:19 THE BEAST OR DO YOU HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD? 17:22 THE DEVIL WANTS TO BE AT THE CENTER OF THE WORSHIP OF THE 17:27 WORLD. HE WANTS GOD'S POSITION. THAT'S WHY HE TOLD JESUS, 'JUST 17:32 FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP ME AND I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU.' 17:36 GO TO MATTHEW 16. GO TO VERSE 13. 17:40 NOW THIS IS WHEN JESUS ASKS THAT BIG QUESTION TO THE APOSTLES: HE 17:46 SAYS, "...'WHO DO MEN SAY THAT I, THE SON OF MAN, AM?' 17:50 SO THEY SAID, 'SOME SAY JOHN THE BAPTIST, SOME ELIJAH, AND OTHERS 17:53 JEREMIAH OR ONE OF THE PROPHETS.'...'BUT WHO DO YOU SAY 17:56 THAT I AM?' SIMON PETER ANSWERED AND SAID, 17:59 'YOU ARE THE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.' JESUS ANSWERED 18:03 AND SAID TO HIM, 'BLESSED ARE YOU, SIMON BAR JONAH, FOR FLESH 18:08 AND BLOOD HAS NOT REVEALED THIS TO YOU, BUT MY FATHER 18:11 WHO IS IN HEAVEN." SO PETER'S FEELING PRETTY GOOD. 18:14 JESUS IS SAYING, 'PETER, YOU HAVE JUST SPOKEN WITH 18:17 INSPIRATION. THE HOLY SPIRIT GAVE THAT TO YOU. 18:22 THIS COMES FROM THE FATHER. YOU HAVE BEEN USED BY THE FATHER 18:25 TO SPEAK WHAT YOU SPOKE.' AND PETER IS LOOKING AT THE OTHER 18:27 GUYS SAYING, 'GOD JUST SPOKE THROUGH ME, GUYS. 18:32 DID YOU CATCH THAT? THAT'S WHAT JESUS SAID. 18:33 I SPOKE UP AND GOD SPOKE THROUGH ME.' AND SO PETER'S FEELING 18:37 PRETTY GOOD. NOW GO DOWN TO VERSE 22 - SAME 18:40 CHAPTER, SAME DAY, WITHIN 20 MINUTES. 18:45 JESUS THEN GOES ON, HE TELLS THE APOSTLES, 'I'VE GOT TO GO TO 18:49 JERUSALEM. I'M GOING TO BE BETRAYED. 18:51 I'LL BE CRUCIFIED, I'LL RISE THE THIRD DAY.' PETER TAKES JESUS 18:54 ASIDE, HE SAYS, 'LOOK, I'M ON A ROLL HERE. 18:56 I'M INSPIRED. I BETTER STRAIGHTEN OUT JESUS.' 18:58 HE TAKES JESUS, HE SAYS, 'LOOK, JESUS, THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA.' 19:00 HE SAID, 'THIS IS NOT MEANT FOR YOU. FAR BE IT FROM YOU.' JESUS 19:03 TURNS TO PETER AND HE SAID, "GET BEHIND ME, SATAN! 19:08 YOU ARE AN OFFENSE TO ME, FOR YOU ARE NOT MINDFUL OF THE 19:11 THINGS OF GOD, BUT THE THINGS OF MEN." 19:13 ALRIGHT, AND THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT POINT, HOW MANY OF YOU 19:16 WOULD WANT TO GO TO CHURCH WHERE PETER WAS THE PASTOR? 19:21 YOU'RE NOT SO SURE BECAUSE HE, YOU KNOW, PETER, HE COULD - ONE 19:24 MINUTE HE SAYS, 'THOUGH ALL MEN FORSAKE YOU, I WILL NOT FORSAKE 19:26 YOU.' THEN HE SAYS, 'I DON'T KNOW HIM. 19:28 NEVER SEEN HIM BEFORE.' PETER WAS - HE DID VACILLATE A LITTLE 19:31 BIT, BUT MY POINT, I HOPE, IS TAKEN THAT SOMETIMES WE CAN ALL 19:36 BE A LITTLE BIT LIKE PETER, WHERE ONE MINUTE THE HOLY SPIRIT 19:40 IS SPEAKING THROUGH US AND THE NEXT MOMENT WE'RE GROWLING LIKE 19:43 A WOLF AT OUR WIFE. ONE MOMENT WE'RE SPIRIT-FILLED - 19:49 WE LOVE THE LORD, WE'RE SINGING HIS PRAISE - THE NEXT MOMENT 19:52 WE'VE GOT A LITTLE BIT OF WOLF IN US AND THE DEVIL SNEAKS INTO 19:55 CHURCH THROUGH US - THROUGH ME. I WANT TO MAKE SURE I'M 20:02 NOT POINTING THE FINGER. IT'S ALL OF US. 20:06 AND I'LL BE TALKING ABOUT A SOLUTION FOR THAT IN A LITTLE 20:09 BIT. THE BIBLE SAYS - ALRIGHT, YOU'VE 20:13 GOT IT CLEAR, THE DEVIL WANTS TO INHABIT THE HOLY PLACE. 20:15 IS THAT RIGHT? >>TRUE. 20:17 >>SO ARE THERE ANY HOLY PLACES IN THE WORLD TODAY? 20:21 AH, YOUR BODY. DON'T YOU KNOW YOUR BODY IS 20:24 A TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT? ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 20:28 THE DEVIL IS NOT INTERESTED IN JUST RESISTING AS MUCH AS 20:35 INFILTRATION. HE'S NOT INTERESTED SO MUCH IN 20:40 HAUNTING HOUSES AS HAUNTING PEOPLE. 20:43 THE BIBLE TELLS US JESUS SHARED A PARABLE, "TWO MEN WENT UP TO 20:47 THE TEMPLE TO PRAY," - THEY'RE BOTH GOING TO THE SAME CHURCH - 20:51 "ONE A PHARISEE AND THE OTHER A TAX COLLECTOR. 20:53 THE PHARISEE STOOD AND HE PRAYED THUS WITH HIMSELF," - I ALWAYS 20:56 THOUGHT THAT WAS FUNNY THE WAY THAT'S WORDED - "GOD, I THANK 20:59 YOU THAT I'M NOT LIKE OTHER MEN - EXTORTIONERS, UNJUST, 21:02 ADULTERERS OR EVEN AS THIS TAX COLLECTOR. 21:05 I FAST TWICE A WEEK; I GIVE TITHES OF ALL THAT I POSSESS." 21:08 AND HE BEGINS TO EXTOL ALL OF HIS GOOD DEEDS FOR GOD. 21:12 WHAT SPIRIT DID HE HAVE? IT'S PRIDE. 21:17 BUT THE PUBLICAN, WHO YOU NORMALLY - IF YOU SAW THESE TWO 21:21 GUYS WALKING TO CHURCH AND YOU SAY, 'WHICH ONE DO YOU WANT TO 21:22 MAKE AN ELDER?' I'D SAY, 'LOOK AT THE PHARISEE. 21:25 HE'S VERY RELIGIOUS - VERY CONSCIENTIOUS - HE KEEPS THE 21:29 LAW, PAYS TITHE, HE DOESN'T CHEAT ON HIS WIFE.' SURE, WE'D 21:34 WANT TO PUT HIM IN CHARGE OF THE CHURCH. 21:37 THAT'S WHY THE DISCIPLES VOTED THAT JUDAS WAS THE MOST LIKELY 21:40 TO SUCCEED. IF YOU LOOK IN THE APOSTLES 21:42 YEARBOOK, RIGHT NEXT TO JUDAS' PICTURE THEY SAID, 'MOST 21:45 LIKELY TO SUCCEED'. THEY WENT TO JESUS 21:49 AND SAID, 'LOOK. WE NEED A GOOD ACCOUNTANT. 21:51 THIS GUY IS GREAT. HE'S SMART, HE'S BRIGHT, HE'S 21:53 SHREWD - WE NEED HIM ON OUR TEAM.' SOMETIMES MAN LOOKS ON 21:56 THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE, GOD LOOKS ON THE HEART. 21:58 PHARISEE SAYS, 'LORD, I THANK THEE I'M NOT LIKE OTHER PEOPLE.' 22:02 WHAT WAS HIS PROBLEM? PRIDE. WHAT DISQUALIFIES YOU 22:06 TO BE USED OF GOD? YOU'RE NEVER MORE LIKE THE 22:09 DEVIL THAN WHEN YOU'RE PROUD. JESUS SAID WE NEED TO BE HUMBLE. 22:14 THE PUBLICAN, WHO YOU WOULD SAY, 'OH, PUBLIC TAX COLLECTOR, WE 22:17 DON'T WANT HIM.' HE BOWS HIS HEAD, HE SMITES ON HIS BREAST, 22:21 HE SAYS, 'LORD HAVE MERCY ON ME A SINNER.' AND THEN JESUS 22:24 CONCLUDES BY SAYING THE PUBLICAN IS THE ONE THAT GOES HOME WITH 22:27 GOD, FORGIVEN. THE PHARISEE, HE WAS SO FULL OF 22:32 HIMSELF, ON THE THRONE OF THE PHARISEE'S HEART IS 22:36 THE PHARISEE, NOT GOD. HE WAS WORSHIPING HIMSELF. 22:42 WE ALL HAVE A LITTLE OF BOTH INSIDE. 22:45 SO HOW DOES THE DEVIL COME TO CHURCH? 22:47 WELL, SOMETIMES HE COMES IN US. SO, WHEN WE COME TO CHURCH, 22:52 DO WE GO TO UPLIFT OUR OWN GOODNESS? 22:55 THE DEVIL LOVES WHEN WE DO THAT. 22:56 DO WE BECOME PREOCCUPIED WITH HOW OTHERS HAVE SLIGHTED US OR 23:00 THEY HAVE OFFENDED US OR THEY DON'T APPRECIATE US? 23:03 WE GET ENGAGED IN GOSSIP. WHEN WE'RE SINGING THE SONGS, 23:07 ARE OUR HEARTS INVOLVED IN SINGING? ARE WE WORSHIPING? 23:12 ARE WE MUMBLING THROUGH THE WORDS FROM MEMORY WHILE WE'RE 23:14 REALLY THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE? 23:18 SOMETIMES THE DEVIL CAN COME AND HE JUST DISTRACTS US FROM WHAT 23:21 GOD MIGHT WANT TO SAY. NOW, I TOLD YOU THAT WE ARE 23:25 TEMPLES, BUT THE BIBLE ALSO TELLS US THAT 23:28 JESUS WAS A TEMPLE. JESUS SAID THAT. 23:33 HAVE YOU READ IN JOHN 2, VERSE 19, "JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO 23:37 THEM, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE, AND IN THREE DAYS I WILL RAISE IT 23:41 UP.'" BUT HE WAS SPEAKING OF THE TEMPLE OF HIS BODY, IT SAYS IN 23:44 VERSE 21. MORE THAN ANYTHING - MORE THAN 23:49 COMING INTO OUR CHURCHES OR GETTING INTO OUR HEADS, WHAT THE 23:52 DEVIL WANTED TO GET INTO WAS INTO CHRIST. 23:55 ALL THROUGH HIS LIFE, THE DEVIL DID EVERYTHING HE COULD TO MAKE 23:59 CHRIST LOSE HIS COOL, LOSE HIS SANCTIFICATION, GET UPSET - TO 24:05 SIN - AND THE TEMPLE OF CHRIST THE DEVIL COULDN'T GET IN. 24:13 AND BECAUSE HE COULDN'T GET IN, HE DID EVERYTHING HE COULD IN 24:16 ANGER TO DESTROY IT. IT'S LIKE BANK ROBBERS THAT GO 24:19 TO A BANK AND THEY TRY TO GET IN THE VAULT AND THEY CAN'T BREAK 24:22 INTO THE VAULT AND THEY'RE SO MAD, ON THEIR WAY OUT, THEY 24:25 START SHOOTING THE PLACE UP BECAUSE THEY'RE INFURIATED THAT 24:30 THEY CAN'T GET TO THAT WHICH THEY WANTED. LOOK AT WHAT THE 24:34 DEVIL DID TO JESUS' BODY. HE TRIED TO GET JESUS TO LOSE 24:37 HIS TEMPER; CHRIST WAS WHIPPED, HE WAS SPAT ON, HE WAS PUNCHED, 24:44 HE WAS PIERCED, HE WAS CURSED. THE DEVIL THREW EVERYTHING HE 24:48 COULD AT HIM TO TRY TO GET INSIDE AND HE COULDN'T. 24:52 CHRIST SAID - IF YOU DOUBT ME - JOHN 14:30 - HE SAID, 'I CAN'T 24:57 TALK WITH YOU NOW FOR THE RULER OF THIS WORLD IS COMING' - AND 25:01 CATCH THIS - 'HE HAS NOTHING IN ME.' 'HE HAS NO FOOTHOLD IN ME. 25:07 HE CAN'T GET INSIDE ME.' THE SOUL OF CHRIST WAS AN 25:11 IMPREGNABLE FORTRESS. NOW, WHAT JESUS HAD HE OFFERS YOU. 25:17 WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO KNOW THAT YOUR SOUL COULD BE PROTECTED? 25:20 >>AMEN. >>DON'T YOU WANT TO HAVE A 25:21 CHURCH WHERE WE'RE ALL LED OF THE SPIRIT? 25:26 THE REASON PAUL WARNED US, HE SAID, 'IN THE LAST DAYS WOLVES 25:31 WILL RISE UP, NOT SPARING THE FLOCK.' I THINK WE'RE LIVING IN 25:35 THOSE DAYS, NOT ONLY WITH ALL THE VARIOUS DOCTRINES OF DEVILS 25:39 AND WINDS OF HERESY THAT ARE BLOWING AROUND, NOT JUST IN THE 25:43 WORLD WITH GOOFY PASTORS THAT SAY THE DEVIL WANTS YOU TO KEEP 25:47 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. THERE'S ALL KINDS OF BIZARRE 25:50 THEOLOGY OUT THERE BUT, EVEN WITHIN OUR OWN CHURCH THE WOLF 25:54 NIBBLES ON THE EDGES AND TRIES TO GET IN. 25:57 I HOPE ALL OF US ARE IN THE WORD, BECAUSE IT'S THE WORD OF 26:00 GOD THAT IS GOING TO BE OUR FORTRESS. 26:02 JESUS IS THE WORD, AMEN? >>AMEN. 26:04 >>HOW DO YOU GET RID OF DARKNESS? 26:07 YOU INTRODUCE THE LIGHT. IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO SAY, 'WELL, 26:11 WE GO TO CHURCH.' THE PEOPLE WHO CRUCIFIED JESUS WENT TO CHURCH. 26:15 MATTER OF FACT, THEY WANTED HIS BODY TAKEN OFF THE CROSS SO THEY 26:17 COULD HURRY HOME AND KEEP THE SABBATH. 26:20 SO IT'S GOOD THAT YOU'RE A SABBATH KEEPER, BUT THAT BY 26:23 ITSELF DOESN'T SAVE US. WE NEED TO HAVE - OUR HEARTS AND 26:26 MINDS AND SOULS NEED TO BE THE ABIDING PLACE OF CHRIST. 26:30 YOU KNOW WHAT KEEPS THE WOLF AWAY? A GOOD SHEPHERD. 26:35 AND, IF JESUS, AS THE BIBLE SAYS, IF HE IS THE SHEPHERD OF 26:39 YOUR SOULS, THEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR. 26:43 >>WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW GOD'S PLAN FOR OUR BROKEN WORLD, AS 26:47 REVEALED IN BIBLE PROPHECY? WANT PRACTICAL, TRUSTED 26:51 SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR BIGGEST CHALLENGES? 26:54 FRESHLY UPDATED AND REDESIGNED, AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY GUIDES 26:58 PROVIDE 27 BIBLE-BASED TOPICAL LESSONS WITH BEAUTIFUL GRAPHICS 27:02 AND STRAIGHTFORWARD ANSWERS THAT ARE ENLIGHTENING, ENCOURAGING, 27:05 AND EASY TO UNDERSTAND. 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