Welcome to Battles Of Faith,
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we're your hosts
Ivor and Atonte Myers
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Today we are continuing our
discussion about the beast of
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Revelation 11,
the French Revolution
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and today we're going to be
learning about the philosophy
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of humanism and how it's
affecting our Christian world.
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Yes, we've been discussing
the Beast of Revelation 11
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We have been discussing various
principles like evolution
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and seeing how all this ties
in with what our young people
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are facing today
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For those of you who are just
turning up program who maybe
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have missed some of the programs
before dealing with the French
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Revolution we've been
looking at Revelation 11
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and we've been seeing that
this beast from Revelation 11
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described as the beast
from the bottomless pit or the
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beast from the Abyss rises
up on the scene at a particular
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time in earth history
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we have seen that that time
was during the French Revolution
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and we noticed a
couple of things, Atonte,
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evolution was one of the
principles that arose out of
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the French Revolution and really
got it's, had it's nucleus in
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the French Revolution from a
scientist by the name J.B Lemark
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and that's where Darwin got
his theory of evolution from
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and we've seen that any
spiritual context that principal
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evolution has word against
or is worn rather against
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the two witnesses of
Bible prophecy which we again on
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previous programs represent
the Old and the New Testament
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and we've seen that that
this principle of evolution also
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applies in a spiritual context
to the fact that one of the
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teachings of evolution is
that as the environment changes
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so do the species.
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They adapt.
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It's called the
principle of adaptation
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And in a spiritual context the
enemy of souls is manipulating
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our environment, spiritually
speaking, through music, through
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entertainment to try to
get us to adapt to become like
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the world
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and we plan on evolution,
we had on our last program
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we talked about the fact
the way that he is doing this
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through sexual perversion
manipulating the environment
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through pornography and you
find the principle of sexual
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perversion being spread
through the music of today
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through commercials, television,
various things at that nature
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and today we're going to
touch on yet another aspect,
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arising from the French
revolution found that a beast
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of lawlessness that has
not contribute to society today
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and what many young people are
facing today as they are trying
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to be Christians.
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And many people may not
be familiar with the term of
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humanism, or they heard it, but
they are not really sure what
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that is all about
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Basically humanism
is: you don't need a God,
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you have good
within yourself - correct?
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That's right!
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We go back to the French
revolution and begin to wonder
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how in the world does
this principle of humanism
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tie into the French revolution
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We need to realize that the
French revolution was all about
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rebellion against God.
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According to the prophecy this
beast from the abyss raises up,
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wars against the two witness,
the Old and the New Testament
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and the Bible describes
this place as Egypt and Sodom.
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Again, one of the principles
of Egypt. Egypt was known for
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- biblically speaking -
Egypt has become most popularly
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associated with that statement
from Pharaoh when he said:
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Who is God, that
I should obey Him?
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That's right!
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And we saw this
during the French revolution
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that was a rebellion
against God against the clergy,
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against the church
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and naturally so because
the church of the dark ages
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had so long suppressed the
Bible that people had no real
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conception of what
the Word of God was...
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Or what It really said...
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The only conception was what
they were, what was literally
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practically been shoved
down their throats, so to speak
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and so they finally had
enough and they were rebelled
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against. They said: we don't
want the Bible we don't want God
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and it was from this
environment that we come to
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August Compte who is known
as the father of the religion
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of humanity, or humanism
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and I'm going to read
from American Association
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Humanist Association rather what
their description of humanism
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is. want to put a slide
on and certainly says this:
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So, basically you don't need God
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That's right! And it
says without supernaturalism.
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It's talking about
without any believe of something
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supernatural: God, devil
It's simply a states that as
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human beings we have the
capacity, the capability, the
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ability to live ethical lives,
we can be good within ourselves
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and this was the teaching, in
other words it was a rejection
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of the Bible principles of
what was for years accepted as
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the only ethical only
legitimate way to be ethical
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and now rose this
teaching out of the abyss
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we should add, that says
that humanity was: who is God
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that I should serve Him?
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Well, they are
basically calling themselves God
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That's right!
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Because they say: I
can be ethical on my own.
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That's right!
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It's a natural
thing, so you are a god
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that's right.
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we are going to look at another
slide from the humanism magazine
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and we are going to see
what the humanist magazine has
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to say on humanism.
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It says:
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Now, that is deep!
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That's right. I mean, here you
have the exaltation of culture
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over theology.
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and as if you are thinking,
now you begin to say: Oh,
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wait a minute! I hear
that in Christian circles.
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This is our culture and
this is the way we do things and
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there is a tendency to
lift our culture sometimes above
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God's Word.
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the Word of God. It also
speaks of humanity taking
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responsibility
for it's own destiny.
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That means the
power is within yourself.
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That's right. We
control our destiny.
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It speaks about, you know,
holding culture, holding the
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man himself as the
highest standard of truth
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and this is from
the humanist magazine
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This lets us know that humanism
is really a teaching where
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as man himself becomes God,
becomes the decider of what is
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truth and what is not.
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You know we are doing research
for this program, and I went to
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a website that supports humanism
and there was a story there
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somebody may be thinking, they
couldn't really believe that
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but they do. There
was a gentleman's story.
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He was in Vietnam and he was
in a very combative situation
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where the enemy was shouting
and people were dying all
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around him, and he said I
wouldn't dare call upon God
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to save me.
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That it was up to myself and
my own smart wit and to whatever
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he can do to save himself
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So, I mean they really refuse to
believe in a higher Being who is
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more powerful, who can control
a situation, but they believe
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that they can do it
all within themselves
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Now, what's interesting at
that is that during the French
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Revolution and, I mean you can
look this up in history books
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talks about this statue that
was brought in to one of the
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assembly's during
the French Revolution
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it was a woman. They had
her veiled, a statue woman and
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they pulled this veil off
and said: Behold your new god
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and it was, she was
called the goddess of reason
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The goddess of reason and
they said: This is our new god.
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And what they were simply saying
was that reason had become
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god; their own human
reason had become god.
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And so we find that from that
French Revolution aspect we're
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where the goddess of
reason has now become the ruler
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Each man, let him do
what is right in his own eyes.
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Moving on to August Compte,
the father of modern humanism,
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we see that this principal God
has sprung out from the French
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Revolution, and now it
has permit again society
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We talk about the
change of the environment.
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the manipulation
of the environment.
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and now we're seeing that
there are so many people who are
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living by this principle,
of doing what is right in their
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own eyes, of
worshiping the goddess of reason
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through humanism
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I will decide what is right and
wrong not the Word of God for me
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And it's really
originated with Satan...
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That's right!
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...because we have another
slide looking at Isaiah 14:12
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Satan was the first
one to say I don't need God
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I will, you know,
be like the Most High
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That's right!
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I don't need help...
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It goes on to
say: [Text on screen]
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When people read that verse,
I think often times we hear:
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Satan wanted to be eternal like
God, and he wanted to be all
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powerful like God
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but there is another aspect to
this which I believe is critical
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to understanding
what this verse is saying
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When you think about the
Most High, what is He like?
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someone walk up to you in
the street and, you know, you're
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asking: hey, what
is the Most High like?
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One of the first answers that
come out with is: God is love
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God is kindness, God is merciful
These are the attributes of God.
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The goodness of God.
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And I believe that what
Satan was saying here in Heaven
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was: I can be as good as God.
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I can be holy like God
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without submitting to God.
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In other words he was saying:
hey, God I don't need You
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to tell me what is good. I
don't need a lot to determine
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what is good, because let's
face it Satan grew up and say
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hey, I think I
want to become evil!
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Evil was a mystery to him. He
didn't know what he was at first
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headed when his rebellion
began in his heart, but he was
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attempting to be something that
he could not be without God.
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I will be like the Most High.
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He went out and tried
to expose this principle
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to all the angels, hey we
are free; we don't need a law
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in order to obey God. We don't
need a law in order to be holy
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It reminds me
the story of Korah.
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When Korah had this rebellion
in the time of Moses, he rose up
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and said to Moses:
Moses, all the people are holy.
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Why are you
exalting yourself over them?
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This was a battle
of holiness as it was.
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And Satan was upon the scene
Isaiah 14 says the same thing
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I will be like the most High
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You find the same
principle with Adam and Eve
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When Satan came to Eve, he said:
Listen Eve you really don't need
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God to tell you what is right
and wrong; you can be like God
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knowing what?
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good and evil
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and that's the principle
of humanism right there
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and so, yes, this principle of
humanism: I can be good, I am a
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pretty good
person I pay my taxes
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I don't have God in
my life, but I'm good.
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Right.
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You see, that's that principle
and it originated from Satan
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himself and now it is
spreading throughout our society
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Now, you may be wondering
what does this have to do with
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the entertainment industry
and how is it affecting our
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young people.
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Well, if you pay close attention
to I would say 99% of the movies
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and television
programs out there,
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this whole humanism philosophy
is portrayed through these
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programs and through TV.
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That's right!
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I'll give an example. As a child
as a young teenager we loved
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the Cosby show.
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And looking at the Cosby show
you would think: it was a good
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program; it was a family,
they had family values, they
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laughed, they joked and they
always solved their problems
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at the end of the program,
but the problem with that is
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there was never God mentioned
He was not the center of
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the family unit and
they never talked about Him,
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and so makes you think: oh, you
can have a happy family, solve
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your problems without God...
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That's right!
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The same thing with the movies.
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We were flying to Hawaii
recently to hold some meetings
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and, you know, you can be flying
on a plane without the sound
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you don't have to have the audio
to know what is going on in
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a movie
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and they have a big, gigantic
screen before your feet...
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That's right!
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So, basically the movie was
talking about two people who
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got married and they both had
their different sets of children
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They had a large number of
children, they got married and
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at first the family couldn't
get along, the children didn't
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like each other, and then by
the end of the movie, everybody
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was happy and
was no God involved.
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They solved the
problems on their own.
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So the philosophy or the
teachings or the spirit of
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humanism flows through the
media and then we constantly
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are watching these things,
by beholding we become changed
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Yeah, as I was sitting on that
airplane and every now and then
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I glanced up, so we
were not watching the movie,
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but every now and then I glanced
up and I could follow what was
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going on and, you know, by the
half we do this I began to say
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to myself, you
know, this is humanism
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this is teaching in a
very subtle way that there is
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happiness to be found, we
can solve our problems ethically
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without the least mention of God
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you know, how
many movies are there?
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you know, you think, oh,
good family movie, or you know,
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nice pass time, but even without
with the absence of cursing and
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the principle of humanism seeps
through in a very insidious way
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and you begin to think, you know
these people are all solving
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their problems, the music, these
people are finding love true
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love, oh listen to this song,
this girls is singing about
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how much she is in love
and what a perfect relationship
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they have and you begin to think
well, here I am trying to serve
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God, and I'm, you know, maybe
struggling or not, but these
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people don't have God, and
everything seems to be going so
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good for them.
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They are finding love,
which we know is not the case,
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look what you see in Hollywood
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And I'm not saying it is
impossible, you know to God
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leads people in steps
even when they don't know Him
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but generally speaking, when
we live in a society which says
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Hey, you don't need the
love of God, or God to be good,
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to be ethical, to be right. That
is the principle of humanism
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manipulating the environment
so that it just becomes
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a natural thing. Oh,
you know, who needs God?
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That's right. And our
young people, they watch this
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and eventually they say,
you know what, Mom and Dad,
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I don't feel like I need
to go to church to be good.
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I think I can be a good
person, I'm just going out there
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and live my life and
I really don't need God
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And you see more and more
of that happening and you know
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parents and older people who
are at the church are kind of
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throwing their
hands up in the air
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Like what would we do
with our young people?
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But again Satan is using
the tool of the media to reach
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their hearts and to
change the environment
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that's right!
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The purpose of humanism is
to attempt to make a person feel
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good about themselves
without obedience to God
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And while the Christian
definitely says you know no way
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humanism: we are
not to follow that
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I believe that the devil being
so tricky as he is has even
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mastered what I'd like
to call Christian humanism
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when they not depend upon the
goddess of reason, that statue
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that were depending upon
back in the French revolution
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but we have a god of reason
of our own and we begin to use
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reason over the Word of God
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Well, I like this kind of music
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so I'm just
going to listen to it
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Right...
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what's the matter with it? And
instead of going to the Bible
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I like this kind of
you know, entertainment
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instead of going to
the Bible we are now using
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you find people using
reason over the two witnesses
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The Old and the New Testament
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to get the truth of whatever
the situation is they may be
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asking about
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And the bottom line again
is that Satan's whole point is
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to get us out of the Word of God
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not desire it so we will
not know what His will is
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for our lives and he knows
that Jesus is coming soon and
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he doesn't want us to be ready
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Yeah, you know, one of the
other principles I think about
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just looking at what humanism
does making us feel good without
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or making us feel holy as it
were without submission to God
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I'll tell you what I was
thinking about some of the
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Christian styles of
music that is out there now
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Christian rock and Christian rap
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One of the things that Christian
rock and rap does among many
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other things is that
it helps us to feel holy
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helps; let me rephrase that
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it helps the people who listen
to it to feel good without
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necessarily submitting to
law to order, that kind of thing
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a lot of young people
who listen to Christian rock
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end up saying I don't care what
the church says, I'm going to
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do my own thing, but at
the same time, while expressing
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this rebellious spirit
towards the church of God,
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it is at a same time, hey,
you know what? I am holy because
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this music makes me feel
good this music makes me feel
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all right and therefore you
have this principle of humanism:
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I can be good without following
all these laws that the church
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has laid down
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No, it's not the
church that laid them down;
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it's the Word of God
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But that spirit of humanism
says I'm going to do what I want
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to do. I'm going to do
what is right in my own eyes
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and the Bible actually says
there is a way which seems right
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unto a man, but the end thereof
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the ways are the ways of death
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That's right! And this
didn't just begin recently
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There is also a gentleman
who spoke up around French
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revolution time. His
last name is Voltaire.
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And Voltaire was famous
in his day for his skepticism
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towards the Bible
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And he used drama to
get his point caught.
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That's right! Voltaire was a
dramatist and is just amazing
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as we look at how much has
come out. Let me just say this:
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there is nothing
against French people, you know
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we're talking a lot
about the French revolution,
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but we talking about a
spirit not a group of people
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and through this French
revolution, you got evolution
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popping upon the scene,
you got pornography, popping up
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on the scene, you've
got humanism popping up
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on the scene, and now you
have the use of drama as a tool
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against the Bible and against
Christianity now popping up
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on the scene.
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It had never been used in that
way before and now here it is
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this man Voltaire raises on the
scene and effectively begins to
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use the stage as his stage
to war against Christianity.
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Now you can look, I know
they have a movie coming out
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we don't need to mention
the name of the movie, but it's
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something about Jesus
having an affair with Mary
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and that rumor has been around
but we see movies, the media
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attacking every, you know,
pick up a newspaper, you read
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the popular magazines of the day
news magazines of the day and
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they are all, they are being
used to attack and to criticize
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the Word of God
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but none so effectively as
Hollywood, as the media, as the
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theatre of today.
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That's right, and we need God
and we will never be what God
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wants us to be without Him
and so we can buy into this lie
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into this philosophy and would
really be self consciously, for
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a Christian.
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A Christian will never think
that they would just openly say
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Yes, I can do this on my own but
subconsciously again, as they
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are holding and taking these
things in is changing their mind
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and they are doing these things
as Satan will have them to do
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That's right!
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Philippians 2:5-10 tells
us Let this mind be in you,
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which was also in Christ
Jesus: I believe that is a very
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important verse in light
of what we were talking about
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because the mind of Christ
was a mind that was submitted to
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His Father
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It was a mind that
was submitted to truth
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Submitted to the Word of God.
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And this is the mind that we're
being called to have dwelling
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within us
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Let this mind be in you.
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The devil proposes another
mind It's the mind of humanism
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It's really his mind
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When he said in the beginning
I can be holy, I can be like God
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I can be just as right,
pure and that's why, you know
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understand that's why 1/3
of the angels were deceived
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Not because the devil said:
Hey, guys I want to be evil
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who wants to follow me? No,
he came to them saying: listen,
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we don't need to
follow God in order to be holy
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This is why 1/3 of holy angels
were deceived by his argument
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While he comes with this same
thing today: look you don't need
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God to be right. You can
overcome this by yourself
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you don't need God to determine
what is right and what is wrong
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you can be your own God
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and that's what
humanism proposes
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So we've got the mind of Christ
and we've got the mind of Satan
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which says: hey, you
can be good all by yourself
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and the Bible invites us to
reject that mind, reject that
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thinking.
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How do we get that mind?
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As the devil manipulates the
environment, as he manipulates
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it through the music
which reach the humanism and
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the movies which reach
the humanism, all of a sudden
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we begin to subconsciously
be affected by the environment
00:24:16.28\00:24:21.68
that we are in, and we begin to
think those humanistic thoughts
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and then even
bring it into the church
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I'm, you know, I'm a Christian
but I'm going to do what
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I want to do
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I'm going to live
how I want to live
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And that is a danger that is
facing God's people today, which
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why God again invites:
Let this mind be in you
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which is also in Christ Jesus
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And it's our prayer and our hope
that you're beginning to see
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that really is a battle
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Satan has laid some pretty thick
plans down and there is a lot
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to them there, but God still
is more powerful to give us
00:24:55.08\00:24:58.61
the victory over these
things, but really is a battle
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we cannot just take
things for granted anymore
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Oh, I'll just watch this,
or Oh, I'll just listen to this
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It doesn't have any
effect on me It does.
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He planted these seeds over 100
years ago and they're coming to
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mature now.
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That's right
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He is very patient...
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It is organized confusion
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the word of beast simply meaning
without order, without law
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it's confusion, but
it's organized confusion
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that's sprout out
from the French Revolution
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again we think about the
quote we'll put it up here again
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from Education,
page 228 It says here:
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We talking here about
the world wide dissemination
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in other words the French
revolution did not end with the
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French revolution and many study
this prophecy from Revelation11
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and say that's the French
revolution, that's in the past
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now, that's why we've being
calling it the forgotten beast
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because this, the principles
that led to that revolution
00:26:01.06\00:26:04.83
it was like an experiment
and now the devil says: oh!
00:26:04.86\00:26:08.24
the experiment was
successful now it's time to
00:26:08.27\00:26:11.92
push it out to everybody
00:26:11.95\00:26:13.93
that's right. Now it's
time to try out the real thing
00:26:13.96\00:26:16.48
to try out on a world wide scale
00:26:16.51\00:26:18.82
and imperceptibly our
world is being changed by these
00:26:18.85\00:26:23.50
principles that sprung
out of the French revolution
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and we see it all combined in
science, in the arts in we call
00:26:25.95\00:26:31.12
humanities
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you know, through our
educational system, and again
00:26:32.13\00:26:36.19
it is organized. It's
not confusion only, it is
00:26:36.22\00:26:39.64
organized confusion
00:26:39.67\00:26:41.02
It is a plot, and God is trying
to reveal this plot to His
00:26:41.05\00:26:44.46
people and say:
listen, let this mind be in you
00:26:44.49\00:26:48.85
which was in Christ Jesus
00:26:48.88\00:26:50.33
Don't fall for the
evolutionistic things that are
00:26:50.36\00:26:53.76
happening around you, stand
firm on the rock Jesus Christ
00:26:53.79\00:26:57.71
He is doing this to keep
us away from the two witnesses
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That's right!
00:27:01.14\00:27:02.11
That's the whole point of
the beast that arises from the
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bottomless pit. It's just
to keep you out of the Word
00:27:05.57\00:27:07.80
and you know, people wonder
what's happening to our young
00:27:07.83\00:27:11.00
people?
00:27:11.03\00:27:12.00
Why aren't they here in church?
00:27:12.01\00:27:12.98
Why are they so
into worldliness?
00:27:12.99\00:27:14.99
He has attacked
them on all sides and
00:27:15.02\00:27:17.34
every angle that he possibly can
00:27:17.37\00:27:19.41
Many of them are
suffering from evolution,
00:27:19.44\00:27:22.08
because he is manipulating
the environment around them and
00:27:22.11\00:27:25.28
they are changing, they
are adapting to it without even
00:27:25.31\00:27:27.70
realizing
00:27:27.73\00:27:28.70
and we believe that, you know,
giving you some of these answers
00:27:28.71\00:27:32.23
to what's going on, will
help you better to understand
00:27:32.26\00:27:34.95
and help the young people and
all adults alike to be able to
00:27:34.98\00:27:38.46
serve God, to be in
His Word and to follow Him
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That's right. It is important
we just want to make an appeal
00:27:41.25\00:27:44.42
again as you have listen
to these previous programs and
00:27:44.45\00:27:47.46
seen how much has come from
this revolution, remember that
00:27:47.49\00:27:51.63
we serve a God that is greater
than the enemy and that God
00:27:51.66\00:27:55.25
is simply revealing to us so
that we can better understand
00:27:55.28\00:27:58.52
Lord, what do you want me to do?
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That's right! Well
we're all out of time
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until next time God bless!
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