Welcome to Battles of
Faith, we're your hosts,
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Ivor and Atonte Myers.
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On our last program we
discussed how to escape
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from the black hole, we also
talked about Ivor's personal
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testimony on how he
escaped from the black hole,
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the entertainment
industry, specifically,
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the hip-hop industry,
and we also talked about
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revealing Satan's plans,
his personal attacks against us
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and how we can
fight against that.
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We're going to reveal another
one of his tactics today.
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We're talking about
sorcery, and I know many of you,
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when you hear the word "sorcery"
you think of Harry Potter,
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or witchcraft, or
people casting spells on you,
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but we're going to
discuss today that sorcery
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is much more than that.
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That's right, we want to
take it a little bit deeper.
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We discussed in our last program
that Satan had battle plans.
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We wanted our viewers
to know that this program,
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we're not here to focus in
on the Devil's plans alone,
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we want to also focus
in on God's plan for us,
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and how He has a plan, a
way of escape for us from this
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black hole, from
this assault of the enemy,
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that he is
perpetrating on God's people.
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But I want to look at
one of his other battle plans
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that he is successfully
using on many people today,
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and to do that I
invite you to get your Bibles
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and we're going to take a little
trip through the word of God.
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We want to begin
with Genesis 3:15.
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Genesis 3:15 reads this: "I
will put enmity between thee"
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"and the woman, and
between thy seed and her seed;"
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"it shall bruise thy head, and
thou shalt bruise his heel. "
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Atonte, what we have
here is one of the first
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prophecies of the Bible, and
God has basically come to Adam
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and Eve and He said to them:
"Listen, I'm going to give you"
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"a son, a seed, and that seed
is going to bruise the head"
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"of the serpent, and in
turn, the serpent was to bruise"
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"the heel of the seed. "
When you understand this to be
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the conflict that would
take place between Christ
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and Satan, in particular
when He came the first time,
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but ultimately when
He comes the second time.
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There's so much power there
because God is actually saying
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"I'm going to use you to
crush the serpent's head",
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which is Satan, and we
should be, as Christians,
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so excited about that.
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That's right, and we
read that in Romans 16:20.
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If you would read
that for us, Romans 16:20.
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It says:
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This is so interesting because
what it's telling us here is
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that Jesus Christ has
promised that the church
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because this text is
dealing with the church here,
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the church, through the power
of Christ, through the power
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of God, would ultimately
bruise the head of the serpent.
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And that's what you're referring
to when we realize that this
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is part of God's battle plan
for us, not that we should be
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bruised, that our minds
should be bruised, or our heads
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should be bruised by the enemy,
but that we should ultimately
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bruise the head of
Satan. We ought to rejoice,
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we ought to say: "Okay Lord,
I want to become a soldier"
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"of faith, I want to enroll, I
want to enlist in this battle. "
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Satan understands that
the mission of the church,
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the battle plan of the
church is to bruise his head.
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I want you to notice
in Romans 16:20, it says
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"the God of peace. "
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What does that
mean, "the God of peace"?
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When we think about God,
God is trying to bring us back
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into a relationship with Him.
A relationship where there is
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no war between humanity
and God, between those of earth
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and those of heaven.
He's trying to bring us back
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into peace, and we're told
here that it is through peace
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with God that we will
bruise the head of the serpent.
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So Satan's trying to
divert us from that because he
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obviously does not
want his head to be bruised.
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That's right. Now Isaiah 26:3,
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it says there: "Thou
will keep him in perfect"
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"peace, whose mind
is stayed on Thee. "
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So notice the connection
there, God wants His church
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to ultimately, through the
power of Christ, bruise the head
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of the serpent. The
way that we're going
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to do that is through the
power of the God of peace.
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Now, the God of peace
says: "I'm going to give you"
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"My peace, and through that
peace you're going to bruise"
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"the head of the serpent. "
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And he says: "How do
I do that?" Isaiah 26:3:
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"Thou will keep him in perfect
peace, whose mind is stayed"
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- "on Thee. " -
That's right, perfect peace.
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That peace that we get
is through keeping the mind
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stayed on Jesus Christ.
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And that lets you know that
Satan's attack is going to be
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- right there on
the mind. - Exactly.
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Why don't you
look at Ephesians 6:15.
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Okay, now let's
put that together.
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God wants to use
you and I, the church,
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through the power of Christ
He's going to bruise the head
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of the serpent.
How's He going to do that?
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Through the God of peace.
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How's He going to
give us that peace?
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By keeping our minds
stayed on the God of peace.
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What part of the body is to
do the crushing of the head?
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It's the heel, it's the
feet, and the Bible says that
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our feet are to be
shod with the preparation
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of the gospel of peace.
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So now, what is it
that controls the heel?
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Satan knows that the
heel is coming after him,
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what is it that
controls the heel?
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- Our mind. -
Our minds, exactly.
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So here's Satan's principle:
if he can divert the mind
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then he can divert the heel,
and this is why his assault
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is focused upon the
mind, he wants to do everything
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he possibly can to
take our mind, or our focus,
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off of the mission that God
has given us, and to do that
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he'll do anything he can,
and one of the most effective
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tools he's using is
the entertainment industry,
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which brings us to
our definition of sorcery.
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So why don't we go
ahead and look at that.
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We're looking at
Revelation 18:23 and it says:
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Okay, Atonte, you had
mentioned earlier, and we've
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said this before, when you
think of the word "sorcery",
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what comes to
people's minds right up front?
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Harry Potter.
Many parents are upset
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because their children
are reading Harry Potter,
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but on the other
hand, some parents are happy
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because their saying: "Hey,
my child is reading a book"
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"that is 500-600 pages long",
but most people, when they think
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of sorcery, they think of
that character, or they think
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of witches.
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That's right, we're
thinking of Wicca Witchcraft,
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we're thinking of
Potter, we're thinking of Merlin
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the Magician, we may
be even thinking Astrology
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and all these different
things, but when we look at
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the definition of this
word for sorcery in the Bible,
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the Greek word is "pharmakeia".
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Sounds a lot like "pharmacy".
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And that's exactly
what the word means,
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its "pharmacio",
"pharmaceutical".
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It's interesting because
from a pharmacy you get drugs,
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medication, and the definition
word "pharmakeia" is this:
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Anything that
medicates the mind, so remember,
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we were just talking about the
Devil's plan: divert the mind,
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divert the heel.
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And we find that the word here
for pharmacy, or for sorcery,
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is "pharmakeia", which
means "to medicate the mind"
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"so that it will not live out,"
or "it will not follow out"
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"the plan of God in bruising
the head of the serpent".
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We think about that,
what are some of things
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that can medicate the
mind so that it will not follow
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the will, or the law of God.
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Off of the top of my head,
you instantely think of alcohol,
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and marijuana, or any type
of drug that's mind altering.
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That's right, that is one
definition, Biblical definition,
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of the word "sorcery" because
alcohol medicates the mind.
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I'd drive by the
stores and I always wonder,
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when I was younger, why do
they call alcohol "spirits"?
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Never knew that. Well,
after I opened my Bible
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and I saw behind the scenes
and I saw the Devil's battle
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plan, I said: "Oh,
that's why they call is spirits"
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because when you partake
of alcohol, you're opening up
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you mind to be
controlled by evil spirits,
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and the same thing
with drugs, with marijuana.
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When you begin to
smoke, or partake in these kind
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of drugs that alter the
mind, they medicate the mind,
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so that you're unwilling,
you're incapable of following
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God's will.
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I don't think young people,
or people, period, think that
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when they're drinking
alcohol, or smoking marijuana,
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or even smoking cigarettes
or any drugs, that there's
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demons that are actually
accompanying those drugs.
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That's right. You know, Atonte,
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I asked this question a
lot of times, and I ask people:
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"do you know a
sorcerer?" Most people say no.
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Like, I don't
personally know a witch.
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That's right. "You
know, this is 2005... "
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"sorcerer? No I
don't know one. "
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But think about it, if you know
someone who is selling drugs,
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selling these 2 things we just
listed, you know a sorcerer,
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you know someone who
is dabbling in the power
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of the enemy, to help medicate
the mind so that it will not
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follow the will
or the law of God.
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So now we've got
drugs, we've got alcohol,
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but let me ask you
this: can TV medicate the mind
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so that it will not follow
the will or the law of God?
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I say yes.
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Answer is difinitely yes.
As we look at what TV is today,
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now we're not just talking about
any TV, or every TV program,
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obviously 3ABN
is far from sorcery.
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It helps people to
follow the will of God.
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That's right, it's
pulling people towards the will
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of God, but you have programs
out there, and for the most
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part, the media is
saturated with these programs
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that are designed
to pull a person's mind
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from what God has desired
for them, which part of that
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is bruising the head of
the serpent through peaceful
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relationship with Jesus Christ.
It's pulling us away and making
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us at odds with God.
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Right. You
know, it reminds me of
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being in high school and
many of my friends and myself,
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we were watching a particular
program that was designed
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for young girls that were
in high school, I won't mention
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the program, it doesn't
air anymore, but thinking of
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what you were saying,
many people might say:
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"I'm not sure if TV can
actually medicate the mind",
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but when I was in high
school I had many friends
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and none of us had had any
sexual encounters, if you will,
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but we loved this TV
program, we loved it to death,
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so we watched it ever Wednesday.
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We were there watching
this TV program, and at the end
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of the season, the last program,
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and I had never seen
this done before on TV,
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but they actually
allowed, these girls were in it,
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they were sophomores, and
one of them had a boyfriend
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and it was the prom
night, and they actually allowed
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on the program this girl
and her boyfriend to go upstairs
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and to have
their sexual encounter.
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And it was glorified.
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Oh, it was glorified.
Before this time it was always
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very taboo on TV to
allow teenagers to have sexual
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encounters and it to be
Okay. It was like: if they have
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the sexual encounters, it was a
bad thing or you're in trouble,
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that kind of thing, but in
this program, on this show,
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it was okay, it was
glorified. And I can remember
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me and my friends
talking about the program after
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and making a conscience
decision that we would go home
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on our school break and
do the exact same thing.
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It medicated our mind, and we
didn't realize it at the time,
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but it did.
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You know, Atonte, I
think that is so important
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to understand when we're
talking about things like
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the entertainment
industry, the power of the TV;
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it literally has power
to get into a persons mind
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and to put things there
that are diametrically opposed
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to the government of
God and to the will of God
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and to the law of God,
and I think one of the things
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that people don't
realize, when you are dealing
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with something that is
supernatural, you can't just say
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"okay, I'm not
going to do this anymore",
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you're dealing with supernatural
power, your dealing with
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supernatural conflict, and mere
willpower is not good enough,
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it's not going to do
anything to break these habits,
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and that's one of the
reasons why these habits are
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so addictive.
If you're out there
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and you're watching, you're
saying: "I know this is wrong,"
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"but I just can't seem to
have the power to break it",
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well now you understand why.
Ephesians 6 tells us we wrestle
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not against flesh and blood,
but it tells us we're wrestling
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against spiritual wickedness,
against supernatural forces.
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We call this program Battles
of Faith because it takes
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faith to see behind the scenes,
it takes faith to see that which
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is not apparent
to the naked eye.
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So often we say
"what's the matter with TV?"
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"What's the matter with this?"
"What's the matter with that?"
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"I don't see anything wrong
with that", but in the Christian
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conflict we don't walk
by sight, we walk by faith;
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we don't fight by
sight, we fight by faith.
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So it's a supernatural
power that the enemy is using.
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He's planting seeds and thoughts
and the supernatural power
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of his power is there, so
we need a supernatural power,
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but we don't have
it within ourselves.
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Exactly. John 12:32 says:
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"And I, if I be lifted up
from the earth", Jesus speaking,
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"I, if I be lifted up from
the earth, will draw all men"
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"unto Me. " Now
notice that Jesus says
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"if I be lifted up, I'm
going to draw all men unto me. "
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What is the enemy trying to
do? What is his battle plan?
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Divert the
mind, divert the heel.
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If you can draw
them away from Christ,
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if you can draw them through
the media, if you can pull
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them away from their affections
to the Lord, then we have
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the victory.
Jesus says "no, no,"
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"if I be lifted up, I
will draw all men unto Me",
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so you've got these 2 drawing
powers, these 2 drawing forces,
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and I tell you, as Jesus
became a reality in my life,
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and as He was lifted up in
my life, as I saw Him for who He
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really was, that drawing,
that magnet power of the Lord,
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Jesus Christ, just took
my life over; and it drew me,
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it literally drew me
out of the black hole.
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We talk about a black
hole having no bottom,
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no pit; we talk about the black
hole being the entertainment
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industry as a whole,
00:16:09.93\00:16:11.38
Jesus Christ literally lifted
me, spiritually, I should say,
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lifted me out of that
black hole and put my feet
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on the Rock, which
is the Word of God.
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I'm so excited because as
you're talking and it's like
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Satan wants us to not
understand our mission,
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but I'm envisioning young people
getting excited and seeing
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their mission that God has given
them, and the power that goes
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with it, to crush
the serpent's head.
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And Satan gets this
excited about basketball games,
00:16:37.89\00:16:40.60
and the next movie that's
coming out, and this show,
00:16:40.63\00:16:43.31
and all these things,
just to get us to forget
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"hey, you're supposed to be
on a mission to come after me",
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which is Satan, and he gets
us to forget that and if we're
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not on the
mission, it prolongs it
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because it is going to happen,
it's a prophecy, his head
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will be bruised.
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That's right. It's
important to realize
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that when that prophecy
was first spoken to Satan,
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when Satan was told that a
seed was going to come that's
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going to crush your
head, you know what he did?
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When Cain was born, I can just
imagine that Satan was terrified
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- to death. - Trembling.
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"This is him, this is the one
that's going to crush my head",
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but as be watched and he
was able to get into the mind
00:17:14.65\00:17:17.89
of Cain and divert the mind,
he said "Oh, I've got this"
00:17:17.92\00:17:21.13
"all taken care of",
but then along comes Abel,
00:17:21.16\00:17:25.09
and Abel is showing
the characteristics,
00:17:25.12\00:17:27.08
the very character
of God, and he's saying
00:17:27.12\00:17:29.16
"this must be the
one", so what does he do?
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He encourages Cain to kill Abel,
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and on and on,
through the Bible.
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In fact, when that
happened, Eve has another child,
00:17:35.71\00:17:38.93
Seth, Satan's going
"Man, they just keep coming. "
00:17:38.97\00:17:41.89
"If I can't beat them,
I'm going to join them"
00:17:41.93\00:17:44.78
and his mission all along
has been to stop this seed
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from crushing his own
head because he wants to live,
00:17:48.30\00:17:51.72
he wants to have
eternal life, and he can't.
00:17:51.75\00:17:53.70
The fact that Jesus came
and did what He did on Calvary,
00:17:53.74\00:17:58.50
and was lifted up, He said
"This is only the beginning"
00:17:58.71\00:18:02.46
"Satan, I'm going to allow
my people, who you have beaten"
00:18:02.50\00:18:05.94
"for centuries, I'm going to
allow them to get the victory"
00:18:05.98\00:18:09.39
"blow over you. "
What a high calling!
00:18:09.42\00:18:11.91
We don't have the power in
and of ourselves to do that,
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He says: "I will come into
you", in fact, the Bible says
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"let this mind be in you, which
was also in Christ Jesus. "
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So He encourages us, "be
drawn unto Me, come unto Me"
00:18:24.13\00:18:26.89
"all ye that labor, and
I'm going to give you power,"
00:18:26.93\00:18:29.62
"and I'm going to give a mission
and a directive, and I want you"
00:18:29.66\00:18:32.84
"to fulfill that in Me. "
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Satan is so tricky,
using the things of this world,
00:18:35.37\00:18:39.71
the entertainment industry.
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It's like you get so drawn
to it and, again, almost like
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they're hypnotized.
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We can't think about
anything else, we live our life
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to try to be like these people,
we want to dress like these
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people, and our whole mission
is supposed to be to want to be
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like Jesus and to look
like Jesus, and to get the power
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from Jesus so we can
accomplish this mission.
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That's right. We
were talking earlier about
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the fact that this warfare
is a supernatural warfare,
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but you know what's lovely?
That God says, John 1:12,
00:19:09.72\00:19:14.82
it says: "As many as received
Him, to them gave He power"
00:19:14.85\00:19:19.36
"to become the sons of God. "
Being a son of God is not some
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trifling thing. He
says if you truly become
00:19:23.91\00:19:26.51
a son of God, if you truly
receive what I have for you
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I'm going to give you
power, now what kind of power
00:19:29.47\00:19:32.32
is He talking
about? Natural power?
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Supernatural power.
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Let me put my hands up
here, because we're not saying
00:19:36.60\00:19:38.67
supernatural power
means I get to float around,
00:19:38.70\00:19:41.71
or start to do all these
physically impossible things,
00:19:41.75\00:19:45.09
what He's saying is "I'm going
to give you the supernatural"
00:19:45.13\00:19:47.18
"power of love.
I'm going to give you"
00:19:47.21\00:19:48.94
"the supernatural power
of My Son in your life,"
00:19:48.98\00:19:53.78
"working in, and through you,
to over come, to fight against,"
00:19:53.82\00:19:57.34
"to war against
the supernatural foe. "
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You can't use natural
power to fight against something
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that is supernatural.
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It's supernatural power
when a young person who's being
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pulled to be like everybody
else or who's being pulled
00:20:07.43\00:20:10.62
into the black hole, to say "No,
I'm going to be an individual,"
00:20:10.66\00:20:14.08
"I'm following God and
I'm happy in following God,"
00:20:14.11\00:20:17.53
"and I actually think
it's cool to follow God. "
00:20:17.56\00:20:20.91
You need supernatural power
to do that, and that's what God
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wants to give us.
If it seems like we're
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targeting the young
people, we are, because we want
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them to get excited and
to be so excited about Jesus
00:20:30.18\00:20:33.63
and want to do the will
of Jesus and His Father,
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because He has a
mission, it's so exciting.
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That's right. I
consider us young people...
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- We are, I am
young! - because our peers
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are the ones who are out there,
involved in this particular
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industry. Let me
share something else
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with our watchers. 1
Samuel 15:23 gives us
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another definition of the
supernatural, let me read it
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very quickly.
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It says here, 1 Samuel 15:23,
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"For rebellion is as
the sin of witchcraft. "
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Now if you notice in the Bible,
if you have a King James Bible,
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you'll see that the word
"is" and "as" are italicized,
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that means that it's not
there in the original writing,
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so this verse is not saying
that rebellion is something
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similar to witchcraft, it's
saying rebellion is witchcraft.
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The word "witchcraft" here
means "to whisper a spell".
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Think about it, sometimes I'm
just minding my own business,
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going about my day doing
something, and all of a sudden
00:21:42.54\00:21:45.25
some song that I used to
sing back out in the world
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will just pop up in my mind, and
all of a sudden I find myself
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getting ready to sing
this song, and then I'm saying:
00:21:53.96\00:21:56.74
"What was that?
What am I doing?"
00:21:57.04\00:21:58.90
"I'm a Christian now!
No, I'm not going to allow"
00:21:58.94\00:22:01.02
"that song to
come into my mind. "
00:22:01.05\00:22:03.01
Things that we watch
on TV, the Devil will come
00:22:03.53\00:22:05.59
and he will whisper, and
the Devil does have the power
00:22:05.63\00:22:08.80
to whisper.
00:22:08.83\00:22:10.23
So he will come and he
will whisper these things,
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and he will say: "Hey,
why don't you do this?"
00:22:12.70\00:22:14.68
"Wouldn't it be
cool to do that?"
00:22:14.71\00:22:16.61
What we find is that that is
actually a form of witchcraft.
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The amazing thing is we think
that that's our own thought,
00:22:20.00\00:22:23.29
we think we came up with
it on our own, but it's not,
00:22:23.54\00:22:26.69
it's Satan
working sorcery on us.
00:22:26.72\00:22:29.65
That's right. When
you look at the word
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"entertainment", we're
talking about the entertainment
00:22:31.69\00:22:33.57
industry, the word
"entertainment" if we break
00:22:33.60\00:22:35.63
it down,.
00:22:35.66\00:22:37.51
So you put the word
together, it actually means
00:22:45.80\00:22:48.06
"to come in, to posses and to
hold in a state of possession".
00:22:48.10\00:22:53.28
And he does that
through TV 24 hours a day,
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- 7 days a week. -
That's right, he comes in.
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In fact, he did it with Adam
and Eve, he entertained them
00:22:59.70\00:23:02.77
through the medium of a serpent.
00:23:02.88\00:23:04.12
He came in, he took
possession of their minds
00:23:04.16\00:23:07.03
and held them in a
state of possession.
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As we look at the entertainment
industry today, that's exactly
00:23:09.77\00:23:12.81
what's going on.
Through the entertainment
00:23:12.84\00:23:15.26
industry we are being
deceived by the enemy of souls.
00:23:15.30\00:23:21.63
We have statistics that have
let us know that young people
00:23:21.83\00:23:27.69
are watching at
least 5-6 hours of TV a day
00:23:27.72\00:23:31.68
and I'm amazed at that because
most young kids are going
00:23:31.72\00:23:34.48
to school and then they
come home in the evening
00:23:34.51\00:23:36.64
and they're watching
5-6 hours of TV a day.
00:23:36.67\00:23:39.96
That's not including video
games and we're going to talk
00:23:40.00\00:23:43.12
about that in another
program, so if you're a parent
00:23:43.15\00:23:46.15
out there who wants more
information, or struggling with
00:23:46.19\00:23:49.16
your young person, so
addicted to video games,
00:23:49.19\00:23:51.72
we're going to talk
about that on future programs,
00:23:51.75\00:23:54.77
but the point is that
Satan is taking up so much
00:23:54.81\00:23:59.20
of the time of our minds
by us spending so much time
00:23:59.24\00:24:03.60
watching TV, or
secular TV, because I believe
00:24:03.63\00:24:07.08
the same way Satan is
trying to entertain the mind,
00:24:07.12\00:24:10.25
or take us in, God is
trying to do the same thing.
00:24:10.28\00:24:13.38
Christian networks like 3ABN
and other Christian programming
00:24:13.86\00:24:17.08
can be a blessing,
allowing God to come in
00:24:17.11\00:24:20.23
and entertain the mind.
00:24:20.26\00:24:21.64
Let's consider
witchcraft again for a moment.
00:24:21.68\00:24:24.05
We said earlier that the Bible
00:24:24.54\00:24:28.14
likens rebellion to
witchcraft, and it's interesting
00:24:28.18\00:24:32.02
because as we view the
entire entertainment industry:
00:24:32.06\00:24:35.83
rock, rap, when you think about
the 60's, what was the spirit
00:24:35.87\00:24:40.84
that this industry was based on?
00:24:41.19\00:24:43.16
- Definitely
rebellion. - Rebellion.
00:24:43.20\00:24:44.98
Rebellion against established
order, rebellion against this,
00:24:45.02\00:24:47.88
rebellion against that,
the entire hip-hop industry,
00:24:47.91\00:24:50.72
the reason, as a hip-hopper,
I dressed the way that I did,
00:24:51.14\00:24:53.86
it was about rebellion
and what this industry does
00:24:53.89\00:24:57.68
is it induces and it
encourages rebellion.
00:24:57.71\00:25:01.35
Most people don't realize
that that rebellion is really
00:25:01.39\00:25:05.01
against God, so when
we talk about witchcraft
00:25:05.04\00:25:08.09
we're talking about
Satan using these things
00:25:08.12\00:25:12.01
to whisper into our
minds a spell of rebellion,
00:25:12.04\00:25:15.90
we might even
call it black magic.
00:25:15.93\00:25:18.20
And that's what black
magic is; in fact, the defintion
00:25:18.24\00:25:20.65
is this:
00:25:20.68\00:25:22.85
As we go back and we say
"Okay, sorcery simply means"
00:25:34.11\00:25:36.35
"anything that medicates
the mind", you know what
00:25:36.39\00:25:38.60
the Devil does? He
says if you see somebody
00:25:38.63\00:25:40.21
walking down the street with
a magic wand, then that's magic,
00:25:40.25\00:25:43.73
if you see someone with
a chicken's head cut off,
00:25:43.76\00:25:47.34
then that's sorcery, and
all that is really a disguise
00:25:47.38\00:25:50.99
to hide his battle
plans because his battle plans
00:25:51.47\00:25:53.69
really are to get in and
to use all these supernatural
00:25:53.73\00:25:57.48
elements and have us think:
"Oh, this is just natural. "
00:25:57.51\00:26:01.23
"This is just normal. "
Atonte, what is our hope?
00:26:01.26\00:26:04.12
It's interesting, we
go back to Genesis 3:15,
00:26:04.16\00:26:06.99
we're told that the
seed was to bruise the head
00:26:07.37\00:26:12.74
of the serpent. You
know what's beautiful,
00:26:12.77\00:26:14.89
when Jesus Christ came, He
died on a hill named Calvary,
00:26:14.93\00:26:20.57
and in other places
it's called "Golgotha".
00:26:20.82\00:26:22.71
The word "Calvary", it
actually means "cranium".
00:26:23.07\00:26:26.13
And the word "Golgotha", it'll
tell you there that it means
00:26:26.31\00:26:29.69
"the place of the skull",
the question is who's skull
00:26:29.72\00:26:32.53
was it that had that
cross hammered into it?
00:26:32.56\00:26:36.64
None other, I believe,
than the skull of Satan.
00:26:37.64\00:26:40.32
Praise God.
00:26:40.35\00:26:41.64
You know, when Jesus
died, the Bible says there was
00:26:41.68\00:26:43.90
a great earthquake, so that
that skull was broken apart.
00:26:43.94\00:26:49.14
That's right, it was
crushed. The mind of Satan
00:26:49.37\00:26:53.31
was blown that Jesus
Christ would sacrifice Himself
00:26:53.35\00:26:57.26
for us, sinful human
beings, to make a way of escape
00:26:57.40\00:27:01.07
from the black hole, so
that as we look at Christ
00:27:01.10\00:27:04.74
and see what He did
for us on the cross,
00:27:04.77\00:27:06.77
guess what happens to our hard,
rocky, carnal, rocky minds?
00:27:06.81\00:27:11.68
Guess what
happens? They're broken.
00:27:11.71\00:27:14.31
Our hearts break and we say:
"Lord, whatever You want me"
00:27:14.92\00:27:17.94
"to do, that I will
do. " And He begins to pull
00:27:17.97\00:27:20.76
and to draw us, and when we
are drawn because our hearts
00:27:20.80\00:27:23.90
and minds have been broken
by Christ, there's nothing
00:27:23.93\00:27:27.00
the Devil can do to
stop that from happening.
00:27:27.03\00:27:29.55
These are the things that
we should get excited about.
00:27:29.59\00:27:32.10
These are things that
young people should just
00:27:32.13\00:27:34.16
get on fire about because
Jesus has already done it all
00:27:34.20\00:27:37.44
for us, we just have to
accept it, believe in the power,
00:27:37.48\00:27:40.69
and actually do it.
00:27:40.72\00:27:41.75
That's right, and He promises:
"I will give you that power. "
00:27:41.79\00:27:46.20
Remember, we are fighting
against supernatural spirits,
00:27:46.23\00:27:50.16
supernatural power, and
there is no way that we're going
00:27:50.20\00:27:54.10
to get the victory
unless we come fully to Christ
00:27:54.13\00:27:57.95
and say: "Lord, here I
am, empower me, make me wise,"
00:27:57.98\00:28:01.77
"that I can have the victory. "
00:28:01.80\00:28:03.28
Well, our time is all
done now, but until next time,
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God bless.
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