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? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
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? all the praise ?
Pastor Byrd: Let's go to James,
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chapter 4, verses 7 and 8.
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James, chapter
4, verses 7 and 8.
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This is a familiar passage.
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James, chapter 4, verses 7
and 8, the Word of God says,
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"Submit
yourselves therefore to God.
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Resist the" whom, everybody?
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Come on, talk to me.
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Resist the whom, everybody?
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Aud: Devil.
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PB: "And he will flee from you.
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Draw nigh to God, and
he will draw nigh to you.
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Cleanse your hands,
ye sinners; and purify
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your hearts, ye
double" what, everybody?
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"Ye double-minded.
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Submit
yourselves therefore to God.
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Resist the devil, and he
will flee from you." Today
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I'm going to preach on
"Devil, Get Off Me." Father
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God, bless us now.
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Get the devil off us.
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Get him out of this
place, oh God, in the name
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of Jesus.
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We be careful to praise
you in advance for what you're
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going to do through your Word.
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Now, God, give us open
hearts, receptive hearts
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and open minds, that we might
be ready to receive your Word
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today.
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In the name of Jesus we pray.
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Let everyone say Amen.
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And Amen.
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Get the devil off me.
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Devil, get off me.
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You hear a lot in Christian
circles about the dangers
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of the devil.
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Now, the devil is a
liar, the devil is a rascal,
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the devil is deceptive.
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The devil made me sick.
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The devil made me broke.
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Anybody know what
I'm talking about?
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The devil did this to
me, the devil did that to me.
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But you know what?
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We give the
devil too much credit.
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Always talking about the devil.
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Always
testifying about the devil.
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And while we ought to
be mindful of the devil so
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we'll know how to fight him,
we shouldn't spend more time
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talking about the devil
than we do talking about God.
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Aud: Amen.
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PB: The devil should
never get more press than Jesus.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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Aud: Amen.
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PB: Greater is he that
is in me than he that is in
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the world.
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I hear people talking all
the time, I'm going to kill
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the devil.
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I'm going to slay that devil.
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Well, God didn't call
you to kill the devil.
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God said, resist the devil.
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James 4:7.
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Submit yourselves
therefore to whom, everybody?
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God.
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Resist the devil and
he will flee from you.
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Did the Bible
say kill the devil?
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Come on, did the
Bible say kill the devil?
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Did the Bible say
run from the devil.
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The Bible didn't
say run from the devil.
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The Bible said, resist
the devil, and the devil will
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run from you.
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The Bible did,
however, say flee fornication.
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Fornication is not the devil.
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Fornication is the
fruit of a devilish act.
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So you're not running
from the devil, but when you
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flee fornication
you're running from you.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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Now, the Bible doesn't spend
too much time talking about
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the existence of the devil,
because it is assumed that
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with wickedness, that
with crime, with sin, natural
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disasters and evil
lurking in the world, that there
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is a demonic presence behind it.
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It is assumed that after
you finish reading the Word
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of God in Genesis,
chapter 3, after you read about
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the fall of man, you will
know there is demonic activity.
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But remember, the
devil is a creative being.
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What kind of being?
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Aud: Creative.
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PB: So don't put the
power of the devil even close
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to the power of who
God is, because the devil
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is a created being.
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The devil was not created
by the devil, but the Bible
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says because of his
own corruption he became
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the devil.
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Now, the devil comes from
the Greek root word diablos.
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Everybody say diablos.
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Aud: Diablos.
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PB: Diablos
where you get separate.
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It's the word
where you get shatter.
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Like you're
shattering glass or something.
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The goal of the devil is
to shatter and separate your
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relationship
between you and God.
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For somebody today,
that's why you're always
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under attack.
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Because the role of the
devil is to diablos you,
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to shatter you, to
separate you from God.
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If the devil never tried to
shatter you or separate you,
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then you already know
which side of life you're
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living on.
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If the devil's not
messing with you, then you
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and the devil must be
running in the same direction.
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Because I guarantee you that
every time you get your life
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straight, the devil's
next move is to try to shatter
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you and separate you from God.
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Today has anyone ever
committed or recommitted
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their live to the
Lord, and you're excited.
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You recommit your life to
the Lord and you're excited.
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Praise the Lord.
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Thank you, Jesus!
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I'm walking now with God.
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I know that my life is
under the influence of the Holy
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Ghost.
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But just as soon as you
give your life to the Lord, just
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as soon as you
throw away all your CDs.
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Oh, you all don't do
that here at school anymore.
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[Laughter] You know, we
used to have week of prayer 20+
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years ago, and the Holy
Ghost would come in a mighty
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way, and then we'd have
a bonfire to throw all our
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tapes way.
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And then two weeks
later we'd go back and buy
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the same tapes we threw away.
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Just as soon as you
throw away all your magazines,
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and you stop doing married
things with single people,
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just as soon as you stopped
gossiping, as soon as you
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take two steps forward,
why is it always that it seems
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like the enemy makes you
take three steps backward?
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It's because his
goal is to shatter you.
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To separate you from God.
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I wish I had time to
remind you today that after your
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greatest spiritual victory,
that's when the devil begins
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to work on you overtime.
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If you don't believe
me, ask Jesus the Christ.
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It was in Matthew,
chapter 4, that he was baptized.
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Then the Bible says he was
led into the wilderness and he
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was tempted by the devil.
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After you give your life
to the Lord, after you walk
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down this aisle, after
you respond to God's voice
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in appeal, after you come
down crying and repenting,
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that's when the devil wants
to know, are you just walking
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the walk, or are you
really talking the talk?
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I remember pastoring in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, home
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of the Crimson Tide, and I
was baptizing an individual in
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Tuscaloosa about 15 years
ago, and I asked the person,
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I said, "What do you
want to hear after you've been
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baptized?" The person said,
"Pastor, I want to hear how
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to keep the devil off me."
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And I believe that it's
that question and that response
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that can be taken
and applied to each
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and every one of us.
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How do I keep the devil off me?
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How do I keep the
devil out of my house?
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How do I keep the
devil out of my dorm room?
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How do I keep
the devil off my job?
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How do I keep the devil out
of my car, because, you know,
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the devil's in some of our cars.
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Riding with us.
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Sitting with us.
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How do I keep the devil off me?
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While, number one, you've
got to understand the devil
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is after your mind.
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Romans, chapter 8,
verses 5 and 7, and Romans 7:23,
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clearly teach that the
center of all spiritual battle
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is in your mind.
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Spiritual battles are
fought, and they must be won
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in the mind if you
want to experience freedom
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in Jesus Christ.
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It was Paul who said in
2 Corinthians, chapter 10,
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verses 4 and 5, "For
the weapons of our warfare
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are not carnal, but mighty
through God to the pulling
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down of strong holds;
Casting down imaginations,
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and every high thing
that exalteth itself against
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the knowledge of God,
and bringing into captivity
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every thought to the
obedience of Christ."
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Understand and
listen to me good today.
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The scope of Satan's
operation is in your mind.
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It's in your thought life.
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Satan will inject a
thought, he will inject an idea
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in imagination in your
mind because he knows if he can
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control your thoughts, he
can control your behavior.
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That's why your body can be
one place with somebody else,
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somebody, but your
mind is with somebody else
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in another place.
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Because if you don't
conquer Satan's temptation right
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at the doorstep of your mind,
you will also begin to think
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his thought over, consider
it as an option, and eventually
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choose to act it out.
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When you repeat acts
over and over and over again
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in your life, when you continue
to do the same things over
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and over again in your life,
understand, they form a habit.
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And before long, if you exercise
a simple habit long enough,
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a stronghold will be
established in your mind.
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Once a stronghold is
established in your mind,
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you have lost the
ability to control your behavior
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in that area, and then you
find yourself doing things you
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have no business doing.
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That's why you've got to resist
the devil from the beginning.
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Not during, not
after, but in the beginning.
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Resist the devil, and
he will flee from you.
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When Satan tempts us
first, where there will be
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an understanding or to
secure some ground us, he tempts
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us first.
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But then his next tempting
will be an assault on us
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from the ground he
has already secured.
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Our victory lies in not
giving him any ground from
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the beginning, because
if you give Satan an inch,
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Satan will take a mile.
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That's why Paul
said in Ephesians 4:27,
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don't give place to the devil.
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Because without a
foothold, Satan cannot operate.
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The devil is after your mind.
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Let me tell you something.
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You cannot stop a bird,
no pun intended, from flying
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over your head.
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Let me say that again.
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You cannot stop a bird
from flying over your head.
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A bird is going to fly
where a bird is going to fly.
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But you can stop a bird
from making a nest in your hair.
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You cannot stop thoughts
from passing through your
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mind, but you can
stop thoughts from nesting
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in you.
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You have to learn how to
engage in positive thinking.
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The more you use your
mind positively, the less your
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thoughts will be out of control.
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What you plant and
grow in your mind determines
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your destiny.
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But too many of us can't
control our thoughts because
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we don't think.
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What do you mean,
Pastor Byrd, we don't think?
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That's a big insulting.
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Well, too many of us are
passive in our thought life.
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We're not
intentional about our thoughts.
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Which gives the devil the
opportunity to insert some
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of his thoughts into our minds.
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When you are
intentional about your thoughts,
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when you're thinking about that
which is honest, true, pure,
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lovely, and of good report,
when your mind is positively
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engaged and your thoughts
are not idle, Satan doesn't
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have ready access to your mind.
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But when your mind is
unoccupied, when your mind
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is idle, when your mind
is unprotected, then that
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passive, open, idle mind is
open to satanic infiltration.
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That's why an idle mind
is the devil's workshop.
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Satan uses a vacant
mind as a dumping ground.
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Some of you need to stay
busy, you need to stay doing
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something so you don't
open up your mind to satanic
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thoughts.
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And let me throw this
in, free of charge: A child
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of God must not be so curious.
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What do you mean, Pastor Byrd?
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Let me put it another way.
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A child of God has to
learn not to be so nosy.
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[Aud. reaction] Just nosy.
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Always poking your head
in somebody else's business.
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Stay in your lane.
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Don't drive in my lane.
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Stay in your lane.
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Some things in life
you don't need to know.
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Some things you don't
even need to go looking for,
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because if you go looking
for it, you just might find
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it, and when you find
it, you might not be able
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to handle it.
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[Aud. reaction]
When you're too nosy,
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somebody's nosy, don't have
no business of ours, so we're
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going to get
business of somebody else's.
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Just nosy.
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Satan will supply you
with some of the many things
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he knows, and when you continue
to accept these thoughts,
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you will become a
pawn in Satan's game.
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But if you resist the
devil, he will flee from you.
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But not only that.
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Number one, you understand
if you want the devil off
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you, that you can't
let him have your mind.
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Number two, if you want
to keep the devil off you,
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you got to know the truth.
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And ye shall know the truth.
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And the truth
shall do what, everybody?
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Aud: Set you free.
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PB: When he, the Spirit
of Truth, comes, he will lead
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and guide you in all
truth, sanctify them through thy
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truth, thy word is truth.
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Stand therefore,
having girded your loins
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with the truth.
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The devil constantly battles
for your mind, and he says,
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if I can get your mind,
then I can mess you up on
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the truth.
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If you don't believe me,
ask Sister Eve in Genesis 3.
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What is truth?
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Truth is the reality of a thing.
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When Satan attacks,
he always comes secretly,
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silently and sneakily.
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Satan never lets
you know he's there.
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Satan doesn't rumble in
like a bull in a bull run,
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but Satan slithers in
like a snake in the grass.
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Satan never says,
hey, everybody, I'm here.
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How you doin'?
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Because that would
arouse your suspicion.
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Satan lies.
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Satan counterfeits.
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For everything God
has as truth, Satan has
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a counterfeit.
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Satan never does anything
in the light, but if you know
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what the reality of the
thing is, it will set you free.
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In other words, if you
know something is of Satan,
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you're freed.
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The power of
Satan lies in deception.
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If Satan cannot
deceive, Satan loses his power.
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The challenge with many
of us is our unawareness
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of the enemy.
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We think we know the devil.
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Well, I know the
devil, I know him, I know
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what he's up to.
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We think we know the devil.
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But we don't know the devil.
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We get in arguments at home.
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We think it's our spouse.
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It's not our
spouse, it's the devil.
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We get in
arguments with our children.
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We think it's our son
or daughter, but it's not
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or son or daughter.
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It's the devil.
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We get into arguments
with our boss, our coworkers,
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and we think it's the boss
man, we think it's the boss
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woman, but it's
not; it's the devil.
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We get in
arguments with our roommates.
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We think our college
roommates are the problem,
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but they're not.
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It's the devil.
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We get into arguments
at church, the pastor this,
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the elder that, the Sabbath
School leader this, the AY
00:15:31.66\00:15:34.96
that, the music this.
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But the argument is
not with that person.
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The argument is with the devil.
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Your enemy is not your brother.
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Your enemy is not your sister.
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Your enemy is not the
person seated next to you.
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Your enemy is the devil.
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The devil just may be operating
his spirit inside the person.
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See the devil for who he is.
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The devil is a liar.
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Seeing is resisting.
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Resist the devil, and
he will flee from you.
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All Satan wants to do
is steal, kill and destroy.
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All Satan wants to do
is divide and conquer.
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It's no mistake that Peter
said, be sober, be vigilant,
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because your adversary the
devil is as a roaring lion,
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seeking whom he may devour.
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Do you know what devour means?
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Devour means it's not
just there to bite you.
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Devour doesn't mean
just to scratch you.
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Devour is to destroy you.
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Understand, friends of mine,
the devil is not your friend.
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If you look into the
mirror and you put in your mind,
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I'd better stop
fooling around, I'd better stop
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playing around, I'd
better stop, because the devil's
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not trying to scratch
me, the devil's not trying
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to bite me, the
devil's not trying to scare me,
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the devil is
trying to destroy me.
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The devil comes with poison.
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To poison your mind with lies.
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And the devil just
doesn't seek to deceive outside
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of the church universal.
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But the devil
tries to deceive inside
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the church universal.
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You see, friends of
mine, in the church universal,
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which means that's
beyond just Oakwood.
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In the church universal,
that means it's beyond
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Seventh-day Adventists.
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But in the church universal,
there are too many folk who
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don't know the truth.
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We come to
church, but we don't know
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what the Bible says.
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We're biblically illiterate.
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We come to church, even
in here, even those of us
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raised up in the church, we
come to church out of habit,
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we don't know a thing
about what the Word of God says.
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We shout and we don't
know what we're shouting about.
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We clap, and we don't
know what we're clapping about.
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Here we go, I listen to
folk all the time, it just blows
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my mind.
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Ooh, that was deep.
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[Laughter] And the person,
excuse the double negative,
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the person ain't said nothing.
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It's my baptized brain
that makes me want to shout.
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It's my sanctified psyche
that makes me lift my hands
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in worship.
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God says they that worship
me must worship me in spirit
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and in truth.
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Read the Bible; a chapter
a day keeps the devil away.
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[Aud response] Know the Word.
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Know the Word.
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Satan is not afraid of
a Bible with dust on it.
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There are so many
people whose minds are poisoned
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to the truth, they want to
hold onto their own thoughts
00:18:30.76\00:18:33.40
and ideas as to how
God ought to operate.
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They feel like because
they've lived their life
00:18:37.16\00:18:39.16
a certain way for so long
that they forgot to show them
00:18:39.16\00:18:42.50
in the Word that their
lifestyle is wrong, or the way
00:18:42.50\00:18:45.20
they live is wrong, or
their thinking is wrong,
00:18:45.20\00:18:47.90
that they now
want to combat God.
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But let me tell
it like it is today.
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Stealing is wrong.
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Thievery is wrong.
00:18:57.66\00:19:01.30
Robbing from God is wrong.
00:19:01.30\00:19:07.36
Smoking is wrong.
00:19:07.36\00:19:10.93
Drinking is wrong.
00:19:10.93\00:19:14.50
Drug abuse is wrong.
00:19:14.50\00:19:18.00
Desecrating
God's Sabbath is wrong.
00:19:18.00\00:19:22.56
Gossip is wrong.
00:19:22.56\00:19:25.00
Having a bad attitude is wrong.
00:19:25.00\00:19:29.16
Talking about people is wrong.
00:19:29.16\00:19:32.86
Adultery is wrong.
00:19:32.86\00:19:35.73
Fornication is wrong.
00:19:35.73\00:19:39.06
Homosexuality is wrong.
00:19:39.06\00:19:42.96
Being barely
dressed in church is wrong.
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[Aud response] We've
got to take off all these
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on-sale and for-sale
signs in God's house.
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It's wrong.
00:19:54.30\00:19:55.40
But people don't like
to talk about what's wrong
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anymore But wrong is wrong.
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Even in the church, don't
let the devil deceive you.
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The Word of God has not changed.
00:20:06.60\00:20:09.00
Our methods may have changed,
but the message is still
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the same.
00:20:12.80\00:20:13.80
Jesus loves you.
00:20:13.80\00:20:15.33
Jesus died to save you.
00:20:15.33\00:20:17.23
Jesus is coming back to get you,
but wrong is wrong, and he's
00:20:17.23\00:20:21.80
not coming back to get wrong,
he's coming back to get right.
00:20:21.80\00:20:25.90
Because ye are a chosen
generation, a royal priesthood,
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a holy nation,
a peculiar people.
00:20:30.23\00:20:33.10
He's called you
out of darkness into
00:20:33.10\00:20:35.10
his marvelous light.
00:20:35.10\00:20:36.36
[Aud response] But
people don't want to accept
00:20:36.36\00:20:39.90
the Word of God anymore.
00:20:39.90\00:20:40.90
They don't want to accept it.
00:20:40.90\00:20:45.20
Post-modernism.
00:20:45.20\00:20:47.10
You believe what you want
to believe, and I'll believe
00:20:47.10\00:20:50.20
what I want to believe.
00:20:50.20\00:20:51.60
Your truth is your
truth, and my truth is my truth,
00:20:51.60\00:20:54.00
and leave me alone.
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Some Christians want
to claim the Old Testament
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is no longer binding.
00:20:57.66\00:20:58.66
And all we gotta do is
follow the New Testament,
00:20:58.66\00:21:01.26
so we don't have to
observe the Sabbath.
00:21:01.26\00:21:02.36
But what they don't
understand is that the Sabbath
00:21:02.36\00:21:04.63
is commanded in the
Old as well as the New,
00:21:04.63\00:21:06.00
and it's still binding.
00:21:06.00\00:21:07.76
We see different movements
in theology today where people
00:21:07.76\00:21:10.96
want to say we're not sinners.
00:21:10.96\00:21:13.20
We're not born in sin,
we're not shaped in iniquity.
00:21:13.20\00:21:16.76
In fact, we were born
good, but we were corrupted
00:21:16.76\00:21:19.50
by our environment.
00:21:19.50\00:21:21.50
Then there are others who
say that all men are good,
00:21:23.03\00:21:27.26
they just have
seizures of immorality.
00:21:27.26\00:21:30.43
But the bottom
line is that it's a lie.
00:21:30.43\00:21:35.33
The devil would want you
to believe about yourself
00:21:35.33\00:21:37.83
that you are spiritually
good, but the Word says
00:21:37.83\00:21:40.23
there are none good.
00:21:40.23\00:21:41.33
No, not one.
00:21:41.33\00:21:43.40
So regardless of who you
are, regardless of where you are
00:21:43.40\00:21:46.80
in life, the truth is,
all of us are sinners saved
00:21:46.80\00:21:49.76
by grace.
00:21:49.76\00:21:50.76
That's the only way
we're going to get to heaven.
00:21:50.76\00:21:53.06
That's the only way
we're going to be saved.
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I would like to
believe that Carlton Byrd
00:21:55.56\00:21:58.10
is a good person.
00:21:58.10\00:21:59.20
I would like to believe that
I was born good and I'm a nice
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person, but that's not
what God has called for.
00:22:02.53\00:22:05.53
There are a whole
lot of folk, church folk,
00:22:05.53\00:22:09.03
that are nice, that are
good, that are pleasing.
00:22:09.03\00:22:14.10
But God says when of that
is through, according to my
00:22:14.10\00:22:18.30
Word, you're still a sinner.
00:22:18.30\00:22:20.26
Because if you're
good and nice and pleasing
00:22:20.26\00:22:22.26
and pleasant and all that stuff,
if you're all of that and can
00:22:22.26\00:22:25.26
get to the Father, then you
don't need my Son, Jesus Christ.
00:22:25.26\00:22:28.26
That he died in vain.
00:22:28.26\00:22:29.43
But I've got a witness in
this place that Jesus said,
00:22:29.43\00:22:32.23
I am the Way, the
Truth, and the Life.
00:22:32.23\00:22:35.93
No man comes to
the Father but by me.
00:22:35.93\00:22:39.23
Don't be deceived and think
that you can just be a good
00:22:39.23\00:22:42.46
person.
00:22:42.46\00:22:43.76
Well, I'm nice.
00:22:43.76\00:22:45.26
I read the Bible.
00:22:45.26\00:22:46.76
I study my
Sabbath School lesson.
00:22:46.76\00:22:48.80
I go to church every week.
00:22:48.80\00:22:50.66
I was born in the church.
00:22:50.66\00:22:52.26
I go to prayer
meeting, I go to dorm worship.
00:22:52.26\00:22:54.66
But I know what I'm talking
about, because that's how
00:22:54.66\00:22:56.66
I used to be.
00:22:56.66\00:22:57.66
I eat a clean, healthy diet.
00:22:57.66\00:22:59.30
In fact, I'm a vegetarian.
00:22:59.30\00:23:01.10
Did you know Hitler
was a vegetarian too?
00:23:01.10\00:23:03.50
[Aud response] And I
learned, God had to knock
00:23:03.50\00:23:07.73
me down to my knees
with a spiritual arrogance.
00:23:07.73\00:23:11.93
You can still bust hell
wide open with a healthy diet,
00:23:11.93\00:23:16.16
clean speech, clean
morals, no drinking, no smoking,
00:23:16.16\00:23:19.63
right into hell.
00:23:19.63\00:23:20.63
Don't be consumed by the devil.
00:23:20.63\00:23:23.63
Don't lighten up on God's truth,
don't compromise God's word.
00:23:23.63\00:23:28.30
No man can get to the
Father but by me, he says.
00:23:28.30\00:23:32.06
There is no other way.
00:23:32.06\00:23:34.03
Buddha can't do it,
Confucius can't do it,
00:23:34.03\00:23:37.23
Mohammed can't do it.
00:23:37.23\00:23:38.90
Only Jesus can do it.
00:23:38.90\00:23:40.93
There is no other name under
heaven whereby we can be saved
00:23:40.93\00:23:44.86
but the name of Jesus.
00:23:44.86\00:23:46.70
Resist the devil, and
he will flee from you.
00:23:46.70\00:23:51.50
[Aud response]
Number three. Number three,
00:23:51.50\00:23:57.00
the devil wants your mind.
00:23:57.00\00:23:59.53
You gotta know the truth.
00:23:59.53\00:24:01.73
But number three, fear not.
00:24:01.73\00:24:06.76
How do I keep the devil off me?
00:24:06.76\00:24:08.76
Fear not.
00:24:08.76\00:24:12.86
Satan wants to plant fear in us.
00:24:12.86\00:24:16.23
Fear is Satan's calling card.
00:24:16.23\00:24:20.53
Fear him and he comes.
00:24:20.53\00:24:23.13
Fear not and he's kept away.
00:24:23.13\00:24:26.00
2 Timothy 1:7 says, "For my
God hath not given us a spirit
00:24:26.00\00:24:31.70
of fear, but a spirit
of love, a spirit of power,
00:24:31.70\00:24:36.73
a spirit of sound mind."
00:24:36.73\00:24:38.23
Let me tell you
something before I take my seat.
00:24:38.23\00:24:41.43
Satan has to obtain one's
consent before he can operate.
00:24:41.43\00:24:48.53
If this consent is
withheld, Satan cannot work.
00:24:48.53\00:24:53.00
We were created
with a free will.
00:24:53.00\00:24:55.76
Without man's consent, Satan
can neither tempt him to sin
00:24:55.76\00:24:59.93
nor attack him at will.
00:24:59.93\00:25:01.66
Resist the devil, and
he will flee from you.
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To resist means to say,
thank you, but I don't want it.
00:25:05.53\00:25:13.10
To resist means to say,
thank you, but I don't want it.
00:25:13.10\00:25:19.40
When gossip comes at you,
thank you, but I don't want it.
00:25:19.40\00:25:26.76
When negativity comes at you,
thank you, but I don't want it.
00:25:26.76\00:25:32.66
When alcohol comes at you,
thank you, but I don't want it.
00:25:32.66\00:25:38.66
Ladies, when that
proposition comes at you,
00:25:38.66\00:25:41.86
thank you, but I don't want it.
00:25:41.86\00:25:44.66
Brothers, when she comes
at you, voluptuous, seductive
00:25:44.66\00:25:50.56
and tempting, how
you doing, Pastor Byrd?
00:25:50.56\00:25:55.16
Thank you, but I don't want it!
00:25:55.16\00:25:57.96
[Applause/Laughter] Whatever
is offered to you by Satan,
00:25:57.96\00:26:01.06
you must always
answer, no thanks.
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CJ: The Breath of Life
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"Help in Daily Living," a
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blessings by renowned Christian
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The book contains four
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and lasting relationships,
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walking a practical daily
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and staying the course of
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until the Lord returns.
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You'll discover the benefits
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of little things, the influence
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life and the joy of the Lord.
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PB: The scope of Satan's
operation is in your mind.
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It's in your thought life.
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Resist the devil, and
he will flee from you.
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Jesus loves you,
Jesus died to save you,
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Jesus is coming back to
get you, but wrong is wrong.
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