Welcome to Battles of
Faith. We're your hosts, Ivor
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and Atonte Myers.
Today we're going to continue
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our discussion on,
basically, how to have power,
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how to defeat Satan.
This is a battle, once again,
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we're learning
more about how to fight.
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Today this program is entitled
"The science of the tamid",
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and you're probably wondering
"We always hear the weirdest"
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"topics on Battles of Faith.
", the names are little strange,
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but the information is
very powerful. So again, you're
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going to want to grab
your Bible, pen and paper
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and join us as we study
this interesting topic about
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- the tamid. -
That's right, our subject
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today is entitled "The science
of the tamid", and there are
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some out there who have
heard that word before; a lot
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of controversy over that word
in some circles, and there's
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some who have never
heard the word before.
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We want to take a
look at where this word,
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this word is actually a
Hebrew word, but where this word
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is actually found in the
Bible. We're going to go ahead
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and go to the book of Daniel.
Daniel 8, and the context
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of Daniel 8 is a conflict that
is going on between the powers
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of darkness and
the powers of heaven.
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We read of this little horn
in Daniel 8, who's doing some
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really anti-God things, and
in Daniel 8:11, speaking of this
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little horn, in fact, we
can read verse 10, it says:
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[text on screen]
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A couple of things, first of
all, you'll notice that the word
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"sacrifice" here is italicized,
which means that it's not
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in the original writing,
it simply says the daily,
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by this little horn power,
the daily was to be taken away.
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We want to take a look at
this verse and understand its
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significance for us
today, especially young people,
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and especially in the light
of what we are facing today
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as young people, and even
older people, facing the very
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same issues, but we
want to take a look at this.
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And notice again in
verse 10 that this little horn,
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the description of it sounds
a lot like some of the things
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that are described of
the Devil in Revelation 12:
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it waxed great, even to the
host of heaven; cast down some
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of the host, and of the
stars to the ground and stamped
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upon them. In
Revelation 12 we read
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the description of Satan, who
cast a third of the stars down
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from heaven. Now this
verse, in it's primary
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sense is speaking about
the Antichrist, but we're going
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to look behind this Antichrist
and deal with the power behind
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the Antichrist, which is
the Devil. It is the Devil
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who ultimately cast down God's
people, and that's what it means
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here in this context,
"the host". It is the Devil
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that ultimately cast down
God's people to the ground,
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and it is the Devil
that ultimately wants to take
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away the daily. So
we're going to take a look
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at some other places
in Scripture. By the way,
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this word "daily" is the
word in the Hebrew "the tamid".
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So the Devil wants to
take away "the tamid".
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We're going to take a
look at a couple of verses in
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the Old Testament, it's going
to open up to us right away
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what this "tamid" is, and
why the Devil wants to take
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it away so badly. So
let's take a look at the book
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of Exodus, your mind
may automatically go to
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the sanctuary
service, the sanctuary itself.
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This word, "tamid", is
used in context in relationship
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to the sanctuary in various
places, and we're going to be
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taking a look at those
today. We're going to look at
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Exodus 29, and you will
remember that the sanctuary,
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when it was built, God
told Moses to build a sanctuary,
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and inside the sanctuary
there were various articles
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of furniture that all had
a specific role, or lesson
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to teach the people in
terms of the plan of salvation,
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we went over this
in an earlier program.
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But now we're going to try
and figure out, or see where
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this word "daily", or
"tamid" is used in relation to
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the sanctuary.
Again, we can already see
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that there's something about
the sanctuary that the Devil
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wants to take
away from God's people.
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So let's notice in Exodus
29:42, the Bible says here:
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[text on screen]
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This is speaking in reference
to the sacrifices that were
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to take place at the altar
of burnt offerings, and this
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sacrifice of a lamb,
morning and evening, was called
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a "continual sacrifice",
the Hebrew word is the word
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- "tamid". - "The
tamid" can be translated
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- "continual" or "daily".
- And in this context we
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understand that the altar
of sacrifice, in a spiritual
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context, represents
the spirit of sacrifice.
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Christ came and sacrificed
Himself for us, but then He
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requires us to take upon
this spirit of sacrifice,
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that's what the sanctuary's
about, it's the plan of
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salvation for God's
people, and the very first thing
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that we need to have in
our lives is the spirit of
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sacrifice, "am I really willing
to give this up for Jesus? "
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That's the first thing, without
the spirit of sacrifice we can't
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go any further. The
interesting thing about
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this is that this word
"continual burnt offering"
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let's us know that God
doesn't just require us to make
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one decision to sacrifice, it is
to be what kind of a sacrifice?
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A continual, or
daily, sacrifice.
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Now I can begin to see what it
is, ultimately, that the Devil
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would want to take away from
God's people, or from people
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in general, a continual spirit
of sacrifice, of giving up
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of one's self to follow
Jesus. Do you know what?
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As I look at this world
today and all the things that
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the enemy of souls has
done in order to draw our minds
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away from God, I can
begin to see "Oh, he is trying"
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"to take away the continual",
or "the tamid", "the daily",
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"sacrifice, spirit of sacrifice
that you and I are to have. "
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And how's he doing it?
Through the entertainment
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industry; through the
music; through the video games;
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through all those
things; through the environment
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that he is trying to manipulate,
he wants to take away
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this daily
experience of sacrifice from us.
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That's right.
Now for young people
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it may be the entertainment
industry, for older young people
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it may just be a busy schedule,
just overwhelmed and inundated
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in all these many things
that we have to do, that we just
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can't have that spirit of
sacrifice, or that communion
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with God the way that we should.
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That's right, he wants to take
away the daily, so when we learn
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this law of the tamid, this
is another law in the spiritual
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kingdom of God.
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If we walk with God, it
must be a continual walk,
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we must be willing to sacrifice
continually for Christ,
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every day we are called to make
a new decision, it's not a one
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time thing, "once saved
always saved", "once I've made"
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"a decision for Christ,
always a decision for Christ. "
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No. "...that
decision lasts forever". No.
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Everyday we are called to
renew our commitment, in fact,
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morning and evening we are
called to renew this spirit
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of sacrifice, and through all
the things that you mentioned,
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the busyness of life, so many
different things we can look at,
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that seem to interrupt,
or cut off the continual,
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cut off the
daily, cut off the tamid.
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And really, in cutting off
the tamid we are cutting off
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our connection with God,
because it is through that
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spirit of sacrifice that we
ultimately connect with God.
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And you have to make a
conscious decision, I remember
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one morning in my worship,
I think my daughter woke me
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up before I could even worship
and she said "I know you're"
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"going to be mad about this",
and I though, "Okay, she's"
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"starting my day with 'I
know you're going to be mad' "
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and she told me something that
had happened, and at that time
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I actually thought "You
know what, because she said"
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"I'm going to be mad,
I'm not going to get mad",
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and then I went and had my
worship and God spoke to me
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and He said "You have to make a
decision", and it's like a light
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bulb went off, you have to make
a decision to fight back today,
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that Satan's not just
going to have his way with you,
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you have to make a
decision, and we need to make
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conscious decisions every
single morning, spend that time
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with the Lord so that we can
have a continual walk with Him
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throughout the day.
If not, if we just think
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"Well, I woke up as a Christian
this morning, I'm just going"
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"to get up and I'm just
going to face the day", without
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making that conscious decision
to say "Okay Satan, I'm looking"
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"for you, I know you're around
the corner somewhere here"
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"today, and I'm making a
decision to allow God to give"
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"me the grace, the
power to fight you today".
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That's right.
Let's look at Romans 12:1
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because Paul here speaking
to us says: [text on screen]
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We don't want to bring to
God a lame sacrifice, we are
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to be a pure sacrifice, and
this is the sacrifice that God
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calls us to make daily.
So in this context we begin
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to see "Okay, this is what
the tamid is, it is a continual"
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"sacrifice, and I can see
why the Devil wants to take"
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"that away", but he doesn't
only want to take away that,
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look at what else
he wants to take away.
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We're going to go back to
Leviticus 24, and we're going
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to read some of place else
where this word is used again
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in connection with the sanctuary
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In Leviticus 24:2 the
Bible says [text on screen]
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3 times the word "continually"
is used there, and it is
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the word "tamid".
What was the 7 branches
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candle stick representing?
It was representing the fact
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that you and I are to
be lights to a dark world.
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Jesus says in Matthew
5:16: "Let your light so shine"
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"that men may see your Father
in your good works and glorify"
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"your Father,
which is in heaven. "
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So here we see that we are
not only are we to have a spirit
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of sacrifice continually, but
we are also to be letting our
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lights shine continually.
I remember you sharing
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your experience that at some
points you would let your light
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shine before your
real conversion experience,
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your light would shine in
church, but during the weekday
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your light would be in club.
So many people live that life
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of "let the light shine
when it's convenient", but then
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the light goes out, as it were,
because there are other things
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that we want to get involved
in, the Devil is trying to take
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away the tamid, our
responsibility to shine for
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Christ at all
times, and in all places.
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That's right, and again,
we've touched on this many times
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before, but it's such a powerful
force in this world that I don't
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think we can talk about it
enough, but the entertainment
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industry, it's almost like
it's set up there, and to be
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everywhere we turn around,
via radio, via TV, via movies,
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video games, Internet, whatever,
to stop the tamid, to stop
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the daily, to stop that
continual communion with God,
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our Father, and once we make
a decision to follow Christ all
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the way, these things have
to be cut off because Satan
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is trying to use them
to disconnect us from God,
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so if we don't cut them off,
they're going to cut something
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off, and it's going to be
your connection with Jesus,
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and your heavenly Father, which
is so needed for this Christian
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- walk. - That's right.
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We seeing Daniel 8:11 why the
word "sacrifices" is supplied,
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but it's italicized, it's not
there, this is not just talking
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about a daily sacrifice, it's
talking about a daily shining,
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a daily light that
we're to have in our lives.
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Take pornography for example,
when pornography begins to come
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into a person's heart, and
especially a Christian, what
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happens to that person's light?
It begins to flicker and dims
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until it is totally taken out.
The Devil is trying to destroy,
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to take away the tamid, and
he is doing it through ingenious
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ways, and we need to understand
that we must keep our eyes
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focused on Christ, continually
serving Him and say that we will
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allow nothing to come in
and break up this continual
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- connection with Him. -
Nothing! You can't say that,
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nothing at all because is
it like oxygen to the body,
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we have to have that
continual connection with God.
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That's right, now let's
take a look at Leviticus 24,
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same chapter we were in
just earlier, Leviticus 24:8,
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and I'd also like, Atonte, maybe
you can go to Exodus 25:30.
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In Leviticus 24:8, speaking
of the table of shewbread it is
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written here: [text on screen]
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Talking about the bread
upon the table of shewbread,
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[continues to read]
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Here you have the table of
shewbread now being described,
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or being spoken of,
with this word "continual".
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The table was to have
bread upon it continually.
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- Exodus 25:30. - And
it says: [text on screen]
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"Always", same word, "always"
and "continually" are both
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translated as "tamid". A
very important principle here,
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what did we realize, what
did we see from the Word of God
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that that bread
represents? Matthew 4:4 tells us
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"man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word"
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"that proceedeth out
of the mouth of God. "
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So God expects us to have a
continual communion with Him
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through the Word of God.
We are to be studying the Word
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of God continually, feeding upon
the Word of God continually.
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And now we begin to see, "I can
see why the Devil would want"
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"to take away the tamid".
He not only wants to take
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away a spirit of continual
sacrifice, not only does he
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want to take away our continual
shining, but now he wants
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to disrupt our Bible study.
I'm not saying we have to walk
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around every minute of
the day, I've got my Bible,
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and I'm studying, no, but
we have to have the Word of God
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flowing around in us.
When we don't have the Bible
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our mind should be upon the
Word of God, and we don't even
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necessarily have to be
memorizing Scripture, but we
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can be meditating upon Scripture
that we know, and living
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those principles of
Scripture out in us,
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it must be a continual
principle living itself out
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in us, and this is why, again,
the Bible is now up against
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- a lot. - It's competing.
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It's competing with Hollywood,
it's competing with the things
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of the world, and Hollywood,
for many Christians it has
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successfully taken away the
tamid, or rather I should say
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the Devil through Hollywood
has successfully taken away
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the tamid so that
people no longer...
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And you know, we don't
even have to go with Hollywood,
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we can go with work. "I'm
so busy, this is my job, "
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"my occupation, I just don't
have time to study the Bible"
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"like I should. " Going
back to letting your light
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shine, "I don't have time to
really work for God in the way"
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"that I know He's
calling me to work. "
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God may not have called
you to be a pastor, but He is
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definitely calling you to
help out where you can help out.
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I can imagine in so many
churches there's the call
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for help and people are, "Hey,
we're just too busy to help",
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he is taking away the
tamid in a very real sense.
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Now, where does
prayer come into this?
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Because the daily is also
talking about being connected
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to God through prayer,
spending that time in praying
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and meditating, and
communicating with God.
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That's right. Why
don't we take a look
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at Exodus 30, and you're
closer to that verse than I am,
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we're going to
look at Exodus 30:8.
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[text on screen]
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That word
"perpetual" is the word "tamid".
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Here the Bible is now describing
this incense that is to be
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offered up before the
Lord perpetually, always.
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What is God
calling for in this text?
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He is saying that as Christians
we are to have a prayer
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connection with Christ, we are
to be in continual communication
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with Him. How often? Always.
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Now, what does that mean?
That means that I'm not to be
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on my knees every minute of
the day, but while I'm walking,
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while I'm doing my activities,
the Word of God, I should be
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praying, speaking to God
in my mind: "Lord, guide me, "
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"direct me", we should
be meditating upon His word,
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as I've said, but you know what?
I just think, even down to this
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day, I can be
walking through a store
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and there is some old song
that I used to listen to years
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and years ago, and what
happens? For the next 20 minutes
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here I am, wrestling, trying to
get those words out of my mind.
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What happens is that those
words replace our prayer time
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to God. So as we are allowing
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the industry to fill our minds
with its whisperings, with its
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music, with its words,
what happens is that it is like
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interference You know, you
turn on a radio and you try
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to get a connection,
it's static, and that's what
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the Devil is doing, He's pouring
in static so that the connection
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between us and God, the
tamid is taken away, is cut off.
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Why does he want
to cut off the tamid?
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Because he knows that if we're
not connected to God continually
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that that's an open door for him
to come in and either quickly,
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or slowly, through long
processes of time, through
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"evolution", as it were, move
us slowly away and away from
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God, until one day we wake
up and we go "How in the world"
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- "did I get where I am today?
" - You know, we're hoping that
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as young people, many times we
ask "what's wrong with this? "
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and "what's wrong with that? ",
we're hoping that some of these
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principles that we're talking
about here on Battles of Faith
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are helping you understand
that it's not just that one
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thing, whether it's a
TV program, that music,
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or that movie, or whatever
it is that you're asking about,
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but it's really a whole process
of what the enemy is trying
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to do, he's trying to cut off,
or stop, or break, or whatever,
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the continual, the tamid, and
your relationship with Christ.
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So we're hoping that this
is helping you make better
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decisions when you have a choice
on what you're going to listen
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to, what you're going to
watch, when you're going to see
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as far as a movie, I don't
know how many kosher movies are
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out there, not that many at
all, but we're hoping this is
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helping you to make better
decisions on what you're going
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to do as far as entertainment.
Is this going to stop the daily,
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or is it going to enhance it?
"Is it going to draw me closer"
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"to the Lord, or is it
going to pull me further away? "
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That's right. We
want to underscore
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that we must have a
continual connection, a sporadic
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connection is not good enough,
a "now and then" connection is
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not going to do. This
is why the Devil is focused
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in on that tamid because it is
the tamid, it is that endurance,
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that continual communing
with God, those are the ones
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that the Devil hates because
those are the ones that will
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stand as a rebuke to
him in the last days.
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In fact, Revelation 14:12
says "Here is the patience",
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or "the endurance", the word is,
"of the saints, here are they"
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"that keep the commandments
of God, and have the testimony"
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"of Jesus. " No
matter what the Devil does
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to the environment, they have a
continual, they are a constant,
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and the Devil doesn't like
constant Christianity, he likes
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sporadic Christianity, because
then you've got these ups
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and downs, but you have a people
who say "I will be constant"
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"in my prayer life, in
my study, in my sacrificial"
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"spirit, in allowing my
light to shine", and they remain
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constant. It's
interesting that in
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Daniel 7:25 the Bible
speaks again of this little horn
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and it says that this
little horn will try to wear out
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the saints of the Most
High. In its primary sense we're
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talking about physical
persecution, but in its
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secondary sense we're looking
again: who is behind this little
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horn? It is the Devil.
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What is the Devil trying to do?
He is trying to spiritually wear
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out the saints of the Most High,
through the manipulation of
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the environment, through
the manipulation that he uses,
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through movies and music,
through the manipulation of
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the busyness of life, he is
trying to wear out the saints.
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"You coming to prayer
meeting? " "Ahh, worn out. "
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- Don't have time to
pray. - "Don't have time. "
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"Hey, let's pray. "
"Worn out, too tired", as soon
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as I kneel to pray
I'm already asleep.
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He is literally wearing out the
saints, and in a way we're like
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"Hey, that was the Dark Ages".
No, in a physical sense, yes,
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but in a spiritual sense, today
he is wearing out the saints
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of the Most High, he
is taking away the tamid.
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"I have no more time, things
are so chaotic, I'm doing"
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"so much that I don't
have time to walk with God, "
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"I don't have time
to pray with God. "
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Jesus said to Peter
"Could you not watch with Me"
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"one hour? " Then He
said: "Pray always because"
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"the spirit is willing,
but the flesh is weak. "
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We're encouraged: pray always,
because I believe Jesus knew
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what was going to
happen in the last days.
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That's right, and God has
made our minds so wonderfully,
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He has made it so that I
can be talking to Ivor, having
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a conversation with someone,
and still there's a part of my
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brain that can still
be communicating to God.
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So even while we're walking
around, taking care of all
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the many things that we have
to take care of, especially you
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mothers out there that are very
busy, taking care of children,
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and doing all these things,
we can still be doing that
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and communicating with God,
and He still has an open line
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to feed into us, and an open
line for us to go back to Him.
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That way the connection never
has to be broken, even when
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we're busy, even when we're
dealing with a lot of other
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- people. - That's right.
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In Ephesians 6:18 we're told,
after it describes this list
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of things, weapons, that we're
to use in the fight of faith,
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the last thing we're told
is that we should pray always.
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I think if it was in the
Hebrew the word would "tamid".
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Pray "always",
"continually", "daily".
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This is the law of the
daily, this is the law of
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the continual. God
wants us to continually
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be connected with
Him, not here and there.
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If we see that things are
coming into our lives that are
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breaking up the daily and not
giving us the time that we need,
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those things are to be placed
on the altar of sacrifice,
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continually. They are to be put
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upon that altar continually,
"I will always sacrifice this"
00:26:52.14\00:26:56.04
"thing, I will not allow these
things to come in between my"
00:26:56.07\00:26:59.62
"relationship
with God and myself. "
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And you've got to be ready to
persevere because what's going
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to happen is you're going
to say "Okay, I want to start"
00:27:06.77\00:27:09.75
"praying more, I want to have
that continual relationship. "
00:27:09.78\00:27:12.76
Well, be prepared for Satan
to send a whole bunch of static
00:27:12.79\00:27:17.43
into your mind,
busyness, things you have to do
00:27:17.46\00:27:20.22
so you can't
concentrate, you can't focus.
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Persevere, you're
going to have to persevere.
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Or when you kneel down to
pray you can't pray because
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the latest movie you
watched is on your mind.
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The tamid is being taken
away, the static is being thrown
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in there, and that's why
the Bible says that we ought
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to dedicate our minds to Christ,
this way the Devil has no
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avenue to come in and to take a
way our continual love for Him.
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It is our prayer that
the information that you hear
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on Battles of Faith and in other
programs that are uplifting God
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that you will take it into your
heart, take it into your mind,
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make it a part of your
life, and continue to seek God
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with all of your
heart. We're all out of time,
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until next time, God bless.
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