Welcome to "Battles of Faith"!
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We're your host:
Ivor and Atonte Myers.
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On our last program
we've learned about sorcery.
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And we found out that
sorcery is more than just
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witchcraft or Harry
Potter or things of that nature.
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But we actually found
out that sorcery is anything
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that medicates
the mind not to follow
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the will of God.
We also learned that
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sorcery is supernatural
and we have to be connected
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to a supernatural God
if we want to have power
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over it.
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Today we are going
to talk about Star Wars.
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Before we get into
that, I have some stacks
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that I want to read here.
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It says that children
spent more time watching
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television than any
other activity except sleep.
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54% of kids have a
TV in their bedroom.
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44% of kids say they
watch something different
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when they're alone
than with their parents.
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And 25% of them
choose MTV when their parents
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are gone.
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66% of children, ages 10
to 16 surveys, say that their
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peers are
influenced by TV shows.
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And 62% say
that sex on TV shows,
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and movies
influence kids to have sex
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when they are to young.
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Atonte where are
those states from?
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From parents television counsel.
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That's amazing
that this is coming from
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the children themselves.
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And that, most of the
times they're watching things
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when they're not
watching with parents, things
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that they will not
watch when their parents
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are around.
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That was
amazing that in and they
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choose MTV, as
one of the programs.
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But you know it
brings me to another point,
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you know in our
home we have a television
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but we only have
3ABN on that television.
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Because of that reason,
we not even purchase cable
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because yes there are
a few, and I say a few,
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good programs on
cable television,
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but there are far in between and
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it's to much hassle
to try to scan through
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and keep your children
from viewing what it's bad.
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And you don't
know what they're doing
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when you're not home.
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That's right. We
have named this program
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"Battles of Faith".
And one of the biggest
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battles that a
Christian has to face today
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is a battle that's
going on in our culture,
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a battle that's
going on in particular with
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the entertainment industry.
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And we're finding
that it is consuming many
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of our young
children, taking them away
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from God, away from
the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
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and that's why we
want to share what we have,
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our experience,
what we have learned
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with our audience
because we believe that
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it's something
that is definitely
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a plague upon the Church.
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Now this episode is
actually entitled Star Wars.
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That's right!
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And you had a
personal connection with
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Star Wars going up.
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Well I didn't
call it so personal.
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It's interesting
that my code name when
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I was in the
entertainment industry,
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when I was a hip-hop artist,
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my code name was Yoda.
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Yoda, you remember is
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the little funny
looking guy in Star Wars,
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both have bald heads
now, little funny little guy
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in Star Wars that was wise.
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And being wise
always intrigued me.
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When I was out
there in the world
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Yoda was the man of wisdom
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and I said: I want
to be wise like Yoda.
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And so when my
stage name was Yoda red
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because I had red dreadlocks,
my brothers code name
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was Jedi. So it
kind of lets you know
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that we watched a lot of TV.
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And so those
were our code names.
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And it's interesting,
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I've never thought
that the name that I
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have chosen and the concept
that I had been involved in
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Star Wars would have
such a profound effect on me
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and actually become
part of my life as it is now
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talking about Star Wars.
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Well what is Star Wars,
what do we mean when we say
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Star Wars? Let me
show you a text here
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Revelation Chapter 12 and again
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we invite you to
get your Bibles out
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and we're going
through the word of God
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but look at
Revelation Chapter 12.
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Revelation Chapter 12 Verse 7.
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In the Bible says:
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"And there was war in
heaven: Michael and his angels
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fought against the dragon;
and the dragon fought and his
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angels, And prevailed not;
neither was their place found
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any more in heaven".
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I'm gonna read verse 9 as well
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"And the great dragon was
cast out, that old serpent,
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called the Devil, and
Satan which deceived the whole
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world: he was cast out
into the earth, and his angels
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were cast out with him".
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So the Bible here is letting
us know that there was war
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in Heaven that Satan an
his angels were cast out
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of earth, Christ says in
Luke 10:18 that he beheld
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Satan like
lightning fall from Heaven.
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So we are talking
about the fall of Satan.
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And was interesting here
Antonte is that in verse 4
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it's says the same
thing but is uses symbols.
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Notice what is says in
verse 4: "And his tail"
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that is Satan's tail
"drew the third part of the
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stars of heaven and did
cast them to the earth".
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And they call them
stars instead of angels.
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That's right. So this
angels where stars that
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where cast on to the
earth. So we are talking about
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Star Wars. What we
are really talking about?
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We are talking about the war
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that's going on between
unseen forces in this world.
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The war that's going on between
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falling angels
and the holly angels.
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Now Atonte is interesting
because when Satan was cast
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out of Heaven the
reason he was cast out
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according to
Isaiah 14 Verse 12-14
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is that he
wanted to be like God.
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He wanted to be more popular.
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He wanted to be
more popular than God.
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He wanted to be
more famous than God.
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And so we ask a
question, where does the desire
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to be famous,
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to be more
popular than you peers?
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To stand out above
everybody else, come from
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with whom did
that desire originate.
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It was Satan!
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That's right Atonte,
it originated with Satan.
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That desired to be
above his peers, above
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the other stars, or
above the other angels and
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above God himself. It was
a principle that began with
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Satan and it's amazing
because the entire entertainment
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industry is based off of this
principle to be more popular
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more famous, to
outdoing our peers and
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that desire
originates with the enemy.
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I know when I wanted to
become a hip-hop artist my
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desire was to be the
best hip-hop artist group
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out there in the
world. See! And so we have got
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to ask ourselves is
that principle in our hearts.
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Can that principle
even flow into good things.
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Let's say I'm going to
sing for Jesus, but I secretly
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want to out sing the
person that just sang before me.
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That's the same principle
there, I want to out preach the
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person that preach before
me. It's the same principle
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and we've got to check
our hearts that this principle
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is not there. Really
sounds like the spirit
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of competition. That's right.
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Satan was competing with God.
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That's right! I'm
going to be better.
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I'm going to be more
that you can be or that
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what you are. Now
Atonte we read here
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Satan and his angels
where cast out of heaven.
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Ok? Now the question is
where were they cast out?
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On to the earth. They were cast
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out on to the
earth, the Bible says.
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And I find it amazing cause
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when I was in the entertainment
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industry one of the
things that the Lord
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shared with me that really
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brought a conviction was He
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had this dialogue
with me basically about
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this very verses.
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And I remember Him asking me
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where were this stars cast out?
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And I said Lord
they were cast out
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into the earth.
And then He asked me:
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Where is the home of the stars?
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Where is the city of these
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fallen angels. Atonte
the answer blow my mind.
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Los Angeles. Hollywood.
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The capital of this fallen stars
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and I thought Lord have mercy
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this is absolutely amazing.
Could it be that Hollywood
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the capital of the entertainment
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industry is actually the place
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where Satan and his angels
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have the most
influence over the world.
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I believe the answer
is unequivocally, yes!
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Thanks to television he's able
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to go all around the
world. We just recently traveled
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to the country or
island of Jamaica.
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And when we got there I was
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really surprised at how much
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American television was there.
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They may not had have some
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of the other things that we
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have here in America but
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all of our entertainment,
our movies, our television
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our cable system, they had.
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And so if is in Jamaica
it's in many other places
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all around the world, and that's
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how Satan is able to reach the
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masses, all he has to do is set
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up in Hollywood and it reaches
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out to the whole entire world.
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That's right! Now let's look
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on other way that
Satan is influencing
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to this particular
industry the "black hole".
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What I call it the "black hole".
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Today men and women
are calling themselves
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what? Stars!
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Basketball stars,
movie stars music stars,
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television
stars. All these stars.
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And why stars?
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Why stars?
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Because they are
supposedly elevated above
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the rest of humanity.
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They are higher than
the rest of humanity.
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At least that's how we,
people, out in the world
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view them. Oh
those are the stars!
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We treat them that way.
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We treat them that way.
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So we've got to again,
looking and say wait a minute
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is the devil deceiving us here?
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Is he trying to take our
eyes off of the bright and
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morning star
which is Jesus Christ.
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Let's talk about
the word astrology.
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The definition of
astrology is the attempt
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to base one's
future upon the study
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or the observance of the stars.
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I know that
Churches there is no Church
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on this planet, that
says astrology is ok.
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We warn people about astrology.
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Don't read your horoscopes,
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don't look up into the
stars and observe them,
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don't read your
fortune cookie in Chinese
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restaurant. And all
that different things.
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But I want to put
something out there.
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Is it possible that
while we are abstaining
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from the outward
observance of astrology
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is it possible
that we ourselves,
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could be involved
in that satanic science
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called astrology.
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Yes because what
ever the stars do,
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we do. Exactly!
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They set the
trend. That's right!
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People get up and
they dress according to
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stars. They will walk
according to the stars.
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They will guide
their lives and make
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their future
decisions based upon
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an observance of the stars.
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That is astrology.
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And it's amazing as
we look as how astrology
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is taking over.
And not only the world
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but even as we
look across the Church
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we're talking
about denominations,
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all denominations.
We're looking as Satan
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is trapping our
young people into astrology
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and we do not even see it.
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We're not even aware of it.
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That's why I'm going
back to our last program
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sorcery. That's right.
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Going right back to
sorcery, right back to
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medicating the mind
so it will not follow
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the will of God.
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So we get all
involved in observing the stars
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and allow the
stars to dictate to us
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how we going to
dress, how we going to act,
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how we going to live,
how we going to talk, and
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basically Atonte we
have gotten to a place
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in society, in time
where the Devil has such
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a powerful
influence to astrology.
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And it's true
because I can remember
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as a teenager,
getting Ebony magazine
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and Janet Jackson
was on the cover of that
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magazine. And I remember putting
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the magazine on the
counter in the bathroom
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and trying to do my hair,
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just like Janet Jackson.
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Ok she's got the
bang just like this.
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I tried to look
just like Janet Jackson
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because I worshiped her.
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How ever she looks
like that's how I want
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to look like.
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I remember Atonte
being on the stage, come out
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I was looking to the
audience and I see a sea
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of hands. Just doing this.
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The Bible calls
this a form of worship.
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It calls it
idolatry. We know that
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we hear it all the time.
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Janet Jackson, she's my idol or,
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Michael Jackson,
Elvis or who ever it is.
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I don't know. What
ever the name is...
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They will say this is my idol.
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There is a
Commandment in the Bible against
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idolatry God warns over and over
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again. Do not bow down to
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to the stars. Do not bow down
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to those things that are created
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to worship them. And
we are lifting our hands
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we are bowing down,
doing all this things
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and the scary thing is
as I look across again,
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like I said all
Churches, and find
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that more and more of
our young people are becoming
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involved in astrology,
and don't even realize it.
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And Satan is so
conniving, because many of us
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would never, ever
worship demons if they
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were just in their
regular form looking like
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demons we would
never worship them.
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And I'm not saying
that actual stars are
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actual demons.
However, what Satan does is
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he controls them by
doing things that he knows God
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will not want us to
do. And then by beholding
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we become changed. That's right!
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So we are actually
worshiping demons and
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worshipping Satan. That's right!
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But we would say
I'll never worship Satan.
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You know Satan has
in a cunning way made us
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star gazers. A star gazer is one
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who observes the stars.
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One who observes the stars.
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While we will say I will
never, why will I look into
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the sky and worship those stars?
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There's nothing in
them. They were created
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and yet we're looking at
the stars we're allowing the
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stars to dictate us
how we are going to live.
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We are even now
allowing stars to dictate us
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how we are going
to worship. Right!
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And we are going to say
that from another program
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but I'm telling
you, this astrology thing
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is way deeper
than a lot of people
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see and understand, and realize.
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And like we read at the
beginning of the program
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children are spending
more time, watching television
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than any other activity.
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And than you're
hearing parents say:
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I can't control my
children, their behavior
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their attitude,
they're disobedient.
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They're this,
that and the other.
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But we're allowing
them to watch this things
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on television, the
violence on television.
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They're saying that
children are so more
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violent now because
of what they're watching.
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And because of the video games.
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We are going to talk about
that on another program as well.
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I want to direct our
audience to Jude, Verse 1:13.
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And it's
speaking about wicked that
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would come in the last days.
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And in Verse 13 it
says this in particular.
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"Raging waves of the sea,
foaming out their own shame;
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wandering stars, to whom
is reserved the blackness
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of darkness for ever. "
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Star Wars. So this
goes beyond the angels.
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It goes beyond Lucifer but now
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it comes down to us.
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I can be a star.
I can be someone who
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instead of turning
the eyes of people to
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Jesus Christ, I want to turn
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their eyes to myself.
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You know the
definition of a dark star.
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A dark star is
one who does not emit
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light. Dark star is a
star that not emits light.
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Rather it attracts
it. Just like we talked
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about the black
hole. The black hole being
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that star that it's
lost its field, and no longer
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emits light but
rather absorbs it,
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pulls it all to itself.
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Well a dark star,
we know Lucifer was
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a dark star.
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He was a bright
star in the city of God,
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but he was cast
out, he lost his field,
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he lost the Holy Spirit.
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Now he's become a
dark star. All worship
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he wants directly to him.
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Well when we, as
human beings say I want you
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to worship me. And
I'm going to get this
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record deal and I
want you to worship me.
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When I come out I
want you to scream.
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I want you to
lose your mind, and I
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want you to have
pictures with me on the wall,
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and all this
things... We are seeing the very
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same things Satan
said. We're saying I want you
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to worship me. In
that case now we're
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not giving of light
back but we are saying
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I want to attract light,
I want people to worship me.
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And we don't want
to be a dark star.
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See the conflict is not
only between Satan and his
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angels, but
between humanity on earth.
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Those who are good
versus those who are
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attempting to draw attention
away from Jesus Christ.
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That's right and
there's good angels,
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and there's evil
angels. You know, like I said
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earlier, so many
children or young people
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are being entertain by
the evil angels, through
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entertainment.
But God would have it
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that we would allow our
children to be influenced,
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and entertain
by the holy angels.
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That's right!
To teach them to do
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the will of God
and to follow God.
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That's right! You
know, we have been
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talking through this programs
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about sorcery, witchcraft
we are also going to be talking
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about the power
of God to lift us up.
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Christ says if
I've been lifted up, I
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will draw all man on to Me.
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And He wants to draw
us from this black hole,
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but He can't do it,
if we don't give Him
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our minds and our hearts fully.
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We can't have a divided heart.
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We have to make a
decision and our minds
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to say: Lord what
ever you ask me to do,
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that I'm going to do.
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Now Atonte, there
is a phenomenon that's
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sweeping the world
right now, and that phenomenon
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goes by the
name of Harry Potter.
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Right!
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Everybody's in
love with Harry Potter.
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And as you said
earlier, on the programs,
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even some Christians who say: oh
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that's nothing
wrong with Harry Potter,
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it's just a game.
And we'll going to deal
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with that on one of
our incoming programs
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about this issue
of just being a game,
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just having fun.
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But there's
something interesting about
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Harry Potter that's
going to help us in our study
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of "star wars".
Because it is a study
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between good verses evil,
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Biblical good verses evil.
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Ok. Harry has a wand.
And this wand, in this
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story Harry's wand is
made of a particular type
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of tree. And some
of you may have heard
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this or may
understand this just from maybe
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studying of ancient paganism
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or ancient
witchcraft, but Harry's wand
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is made of what's
called the holly tree.
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The holly tree.
Now if you're sitting
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at home and say
holly, that sounds familiar
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let me put it this
way. Harry's wand is made
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out of a wood or
tree called holly wood
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or holly tree.
This particular wood
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the holly tree was one of few
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I think about nine sacred trees
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in witchcraft.
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One of them was the holly tree.
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And the holly tree
which had red berry,
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was used in
particular to cast spells
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of sleep.
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Cast spells of sleep.
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And to make
one's transition into
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death smoother and
easier. Wasn't so violent,
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it was more... gentle.
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Now I thought
about that and understand
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in the origin, of the holy tree.
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You know I thought
to myself is it possible
00:20:14.76\00:20:16.76
Atonte, that the Devil
himself has a magic wand.
00:20:16.86\00:20:19.59
And that magic
wand is Hollywood,
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by which he casts
he's spells of sleep
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to make our passage into death,
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a lot easier, a lot
smoother a lot more enjoyable.
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And it's so
interesting that you said gently
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and a smooth one, because
you know we're talking about
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were television is
today. But television didn't
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start were it is today.
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I mean, when my
mother talks about the
00:20:49.97\00:20:52.28
programs that she use to watch
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and when I've seen old
clippings of the black and white
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it was so innocent.
And they couldn't even
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kiss on television
and you would never even
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hear anything
close to a curse word,
00:21:01.78\00:21:03.98
or anything about
immodesty or anything like that.
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And it's so far
from where it started.
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That's right! My
brother thought me
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how to catch birds
when I was very little.
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And it was really simple.
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What he did was,
he would have a box
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and he would set that
box up and put up a stick
00:21:19.26\00:21:22.52
underneath it, he
would tie a rope around
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the stick, and then
he would place bread
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or put food, some
kind of food underneath
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the box. Now the
birds were smarter than
00:21:30.18\00:21:31.40
that, so they knew not to
fly right underneath the box
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because it was an obvious trap.
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So what we would
do, is we would put
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a bunch of food under
the box and then we would
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make a trail just
leading out into a distance
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and then I can
imagine the birds going
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hey there's some
food down there,...
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and man it looks
dangerous I'm not going to go.
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And one says I'm
going to go down there and
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I'm going to try the
piece that's way out there.
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And he goes down
and he takes that piece
00:21:58.12\00:21:59.11
and guess what's happens?
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Nothing. He's ok.
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And the other see and
say, oh maybe there is no
00:22:02.41\00:22:05.01
danger at all.
00:22:05.15\00:22:06.12
A couple more would
come down and go back up
00:22:06.21\00:22:07.29
and before you know it
there was a line of birds.
00:22:07.33\00:22:09.33
And what was happening was
that they were moving closer,
00:22:09.36\00:22:11.28
and closer and closer,
00:22:11.32\00:22:12.63
My brother is
completely out of sight, but
00:22:12.66\00:22:15.16
when they got
underneath that box,
00:22:15.25\00:22:16.93
all he had to do,
was tug the string.
00:22:17.04\00:22:18.87
And it was already to
late, they could not escape.
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And the entertainment
industry it started of
00:22:23.09\00:22:26.42
purely innocent.
00:22:26.55\00:22:28.10
But as time went on
we have seen that is
00:22:28.49\00:22:32.79
been leading closer
and closer and closer
00:22:32.91\00:22:36.60
to the very foundation
of the principles of Satan.
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Which is why many people,
don't even have a television
00:22:40.34\00:22:43.50
in their homes know,
because there's nothing
00:22:43.62\00:22:46.04
there to watch.
Unless we have satellite
00:22:46.14\00:22:48.16
and can get 3ABN,
what else is there.
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Nothing, only
watch 3ABN. Just kidding.
00:22:50.38\00:22:52.83
Definitely it's
amazing, and it's change so much
00:22:54.71\00:22:57.32
even in the last 15
years. That's right!
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You can figure out
how old we are when
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I make this next
comment. When I was a young
00:23:02.48\00:23:05.37
person in high
school "The Cosby show"
00:23:05.50\00:23:07.82
was the most popular
programs with everybody
00:23:08.23\00:23:12.55
white families, black
families I don't care who
00:23:12.75\00:23:15.24
you were, on
Thursday night at 8 o'clock
00:23:15.43\00:23:17.17
you were home watching Cosby.
00:23:17.20\00:23:18.41
And it was just family issues,
just really wholesome things
00:23:18.84\00:23:22.17
that were going on, and that was
00:23:22.67\00:23:25.11
what everybody was watching.
00:23:25.22\00:23:26.50
Now your sitcoms have
even gotten much worse,
00:23:26.62\00:23:31.32
it's nothing like the
way that it used to be.
00:23:31.69\00:23:33.27
And let me say
this, many of this shows
00:23:34.33\00:23:37.08
look innocent on the
front, but as you look
00:23:37.11\00:23:39.83
into these
programs, you began to see
00:23:40.00\00:23:41.49
even with "The Cosby
show" you began to see
00:23:41.62\00:23:43.30
some of this
things that were going on.
00:23:43.42\00:23:44.92
You know as a
Christian as you are looking at
00:23:45.01\00:23:47.74
this things you're
saying there are some principles
00:23:47.92\00:23:50.89
even in the best
of what Hollywood
00:23:51.01\00:23:52.65
tries to put out,
that makes you go:
00:23:52.82\00:23:55.63
you know, what we
can't even go here,
00:23:55.80\00:23:57.56
we can't even look
at this or look at that.
00:23:57.73\00:23:59.20
And the issue
becomes in this "star war".
00:23:59.39\00:24:02.42
When I was there
watching Star Wars
00:24:03.67\00:24:05.05
there were the
forces of good, there
00:24:05.16\00:24:06.80
were the forces of
evil. The issue in this
00:24:07.00\00:24:08.93
"star war" which is a
real star war, is what
00:24:09.13\00:24:12.27
kind of star am I going to be.
00:24:12.47\00:24:14.00
Because as there
are 2 types of angels
00:24:14.55\00:24:16.91
in heaven so
there're 2 types of people,
00:24:17.23\00:24:19.22
2 types of human stars.
00:24:19.78\00:24:21.02
One human star says
I'm going to draw light
00:24:21.80\00:24:23.95
to myself. But
let's look in the book
00:24:24.10\00:24:26.16
of Daniel.
00:24:26.35\00:24:27.33
Daniel Chapter 12, Verse 3.
00:24:27.61\00:24:32.18
And Atonte this is
powerful because God
00:24:32.78\00:24:35.36
wants us to be stars to.
00:24:35.54\00:24:36.52
Daniel 12, Verse 3
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Notice what it says here!
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"And they that be wise
shall shine as the brightness
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of the firmament; and they
that turn many to righteousness
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as the stars for ever and ever".
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We're talking about
a "star war" Atonte,
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we're talking about
those who have decided that
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they're going to
attract light to themselves
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versus those who have
decided that they're going to
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focus all the
light, on Jesus Christ.
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And this is what the
last day issue is going to be
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revolving around.
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Which star?
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Are we going to be
influenced by Jesus Christ
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or the falling star Satan.
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What star do I want to be?
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A star that attracts
light and attention to myself
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or a star, that is
going out and turning many
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to
righteousness, directing people
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to the word of God,
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directing their
eyes upon Jesus Christ.
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I think so many young
people get so discouraged
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with the Church,
or going to Church
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and turn to the world,
because they feel like there's
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no use for them. Well I see,
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over and over in the
Bible that God is calling
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you to do this work.
He is calling you to be
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that bright star,
being used for Him to tell
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others and to tell them
about the love of Jesus.
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And if they can
only see and get excited
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about that. If they
can only understand their
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mission, and not just
feel like well it's all
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the older people,
or it's the pastor.
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No it's you that God is calling.
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And so the world
looks so attractive because
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the world is
definitely curving everything
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to them. Hey I'll give you power
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this way. Do this.
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I'll give you
power that way. Do that.
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And it's all bad
and it's all evil and
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it's all destructive to them.
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That's right! Now
here is God's promise.
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Listen what God's
saying in Isaiah 60
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Verses 1 and 2.
This is beautiful.
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Isaiah 60: 1-2
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He's telling us,
Christian soldier,
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young people arise.
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We are in a battle.
This is a battle of faith.
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He says I want
you to: arise, shine.
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Notice here Atonte,
we're not pulling glory
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to ourselves
now, but His glory is
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to be seen upon us.
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So Satan comes and he
says: I want you to reflect
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your own glory. I
will give you fame,
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I will give you honor,
I will give you praise.
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Jesus says no, I want
you to reflect the glory
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of God.
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And in so doing, we
will direct people to Him
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and not to ourselves.
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And so again Satan
tries to substitute what
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God's original
plan is. That's right!
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It is our believe,
that when young people
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and old people
Atonte I'm telling you
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there are people
out there in Churches,
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pastors who are
stuck in a black hole,
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and elders who are
stuck in a black hole,
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that once they see
and realize the damage
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they will turn to
Jesus saying: Lord cleanse me
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of this, clean
my heart, forgive me
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and give me that supernatural
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power to be drawn
out of this black hole.
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And God will do it.
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That's right!
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We are out of time
and until next time:
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God bless!
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