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Sermon #B645 - It's
not Going to Get Better
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Ephesians chapter 6 and verse
number 10, the Word of God,
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familiar passage. In Ephesians,
chapter 6 verse 10, the Word of
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God says, "Finally, my brother,
be strong in the Lord, and in
the power of His might.
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Put on the whole-" what
everybody? [Congregation: Armor]
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"Armor of God that you may be
able to stand against the wiles
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of the devil, for we wrestle not
against flesh and blood. But
against principalities, against
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powers, against the rulers of
darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness, in high
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places." Today I just want to
challenge you on the subject,
not long, but it's simply this,
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It's not going to get better.
It's not going to get better.
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God, right now--  In Your own
way, by Your power, move in this
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place. Forgive us for our sins,
anoint us, o God, by Your grace.
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Thank you for what we've
experienced already in worship
and we pray that God,
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now, Your word might come alive.
We promise we'll give You the
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praise, the honor, and the
glory, forgive us of our sins,
and at the Appeal, Lord, move.
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We pray, in the name of Jesus,
let everyone say "Amen"
[Congregation: Amen] and Amen.
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It's not going to get better.
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We're living at a time that is
distinctively different than
anything we've seen before.
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The devil is not playing with
us. Times are getting rough.
Times are getting tough.
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Gone are the days when
AIDS were teacher's assistants.
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Gone are the days when straight
meant not curved or bent.
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Gone are the days where a pot
was something you cooked in,
coke was a cold drink,
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a weed was an unwanted plant
you pulled out of your garden
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and snakes were reptiles
that crawled on the ground.
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We're living in a
different world today.
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With the touch of a computer
key, a message can go
electronically across the world
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in an instant. With the dial of
a number, you can talk to
anybody in the world.
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Many thought that with the
election of '44 we were entering
into a post-racial age,
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that racism was behind us,
but it appears that with the
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election of '45, overt racism
has been incited and encouraged.
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We're in 2019, not 1960,
and racism is arguably worse now
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than it was then, because people
today are given the right to
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hate, the freedom to
fight and the license to kill.
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Children are being separated
from their parents, and held at
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the border. Every day either
there's a mass shooting or
somebody has been killed by gun
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violence. Hurricanes like Dorian
are creating havoc, disorder,
and destruction across the land.
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The proliferation of sexual
variety, sexual activity, and
sexual deviancy is out of
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control. The "Me Too" movement
is increasing, not just far, but
near, and close to home.
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As the old folks used to
say, echoing on the words of my
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favorite writer, "The Spirit of
God is being withdrawn from the
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world." She says in "Testimonies
to the church", volume 9,
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that plagues and judgments are
already falling upon the
despisers of the grace of God.
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That the calamities by land
and sea, the unsettled state of
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society, the alarms of war are
pretentious, which means they're
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threatening. Ellen White says,
"These actions forecast
approaching events of the
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greatest magnitude." She says,
"The agencies of evil are
combining their forces and
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consolidating. They are
strengthening themselves for the
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last great crisis. Great
changes," she says, "are soon to
take place in our world,
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and the final
movements will be rapid ones."
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Please, please, do not look
through the myopic lens of life
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and think that all of what we're
seeing and all that we're
experiencing is coincidental or
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by chance. What
we're experiencing now,
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what we experienced this week is
all a part of Satan's
comprehensive plan to steal,
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kill and destroy. Too many of us
have forgotten that the
spiritual life is not a
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playground, but it's a
battlefield, and because we have
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forgotten this, few of the
Lord's people are armed,
equipped and dangerous.
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Whether we believe it or not,
we're engaged in spiritual
warfare. [Congregation: Amen]
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Understand we're fighting Satan.
We're fighting whom, everybody?
[Congregation: Satan]
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Satan, we're fighting the devil,
if we're ever going to be
successful in the fight,
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we better recognize that we
cannot approach today's battles
with yesterday's methodologies.
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You can't do 8-track ministry in
a Twitter or Instagram society.
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Yes, the devil is the same devil
that mess with our mamas, mess
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with our daddies, mess with
our grandmammas, mess with our
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granddaddies, but the way he's
fighting today is more violent
and vicious than how he fought
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yesterday. Do I have a witness
at this place? Now, as I get
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older, as I get older the
more I realize the importance of
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experience. Everybody say
"experience." Let me break that
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down. When you have experience
in an application for a job
you're applying for,
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you can get employment
opportunities based on your
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experience. That's why the
company you're applying to,
that's why they want to see a
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resume. They want to
look at your background
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because the experience can tell
the interviewer some aspect of
what they get when they get you.
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Young people, that's why you got
to work, that's why you got to
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get a job, because you got
to get some experience on your
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resume, so your prospective
employer can know something
about you, so you can get a job.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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Not only that, any psychologist
will tell you that the best way
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to determine someone's future
behavioris to look at their past
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behavior. Brothers, if she's
divorced the last three men
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she's married, you'll probably
need to find somebody else.
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Ladies, if he's cheated on
the last three women he's dated,
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it's very likely that if you're
woman number four, the odds are
stacked against you.
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It's lunacy to think that a
person can continue to do the
same thing and get a different
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result. Experience is a good
barometer of what to expect for
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the future. Experience can help
you get the job, experience can
help you make a good decision,
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experience can help you
stop from making a bad decision.
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There are assets to experience,
but not only are their assets to
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experience; experience
also has its liabilities.
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Because if you're not careful-
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experience can put you in a box
where you can assume that you
can win the fight before you,
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the same way you won
the fight behind you.
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When experience becomes
tradition, it becomes dangerous.
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When you lock God up in a box,
and you say, "You must always do
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it this way." You lose the
creativity of thought and action
to be able to progress into new
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methods of rescue that God would
have used for you if he could
get you to stop worshiping how
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he did it and start recognizing
that He's the God who it.
[Congregation: Amen]
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You'd be surprised at how God
will give you a new situation
but you'll ruin it with an old
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method. You'll be surprised at
the people who resented the way
their parents raised them,
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but when the heat is on, they
act just like their parents.
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Why? You can be in a new place
but still have an old attitude,
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and if you don't
change your old attitude,
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you will fight in your old
methodology. [Congregation:
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Applause] We're in the fight
against the devil, yes we are,
and we have to fight,
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but we got to know that Satan
has intensified his efforts,
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so the people of God must
also intensify their efforts.
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If Satan has upped the ante,
then the people of God ought to
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up the ante, which means we
can't fight the same way we used
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to fight. We've got to
fight harder, we've got to fight
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smarter, we've got to fight
stronger because it's not going
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to get better. Things in our
world are not going to get
better, they're going to get
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worse. The text says, "Be strong
in the Lord, and in the power-"
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In the what,
everybody? [Congregation: Power]
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Come on, talk to me, in the
what, everybody? [Congregation:
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Power] Power's might,
not our might, but His might,
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which means we must get our
strength to fight from the power
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of God's might. I need somebody
to understand that our power to
fight the devil must come from
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the Lord. We can't
do it by ourselves.
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What's going on in our world
today, we can't overcome
ourselves, we need the Lord,
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and when a believer's faith is
in God, then God's power becomes
that power of the believer.
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You see, if you trust in
yourself, then you are as strong
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as you are, but when you trust
in God, you are as strong as He
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is. Somebody's still not getting
this. [Congregation: Applause]
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I told you this before,
let me reiterate it again.
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I know I can't fly. I know my
last name is Byrd, but I can't
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fly. I tried it as a child. Do
I have a witness in this place?
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Somebody knows what I'm talking
about, you jumped off your bed
talking about, "I believe I can
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fly." You busted
your head on the way down.
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You cannot fly, the law of
gravity is real, do I have a
witness at this place?
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I can't fly, but when I
put myself in an airplane,
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and I yield to
that airplane's power,
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then suddenly I have the ability
to soar 36,000 feet in the air.
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I can't run 75 miles per hour, I
can't even run 5 miles per hour,
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but when I get in that
Mercedes-Benz, and I yield to
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its power, I suddenly have the
ability to achieve speeds I
couldn't achieve on my own.
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When my faith is in God, when my
faith is in His power, then His
strength becomes my strength.
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His power becomes my power,
that's why the Bible says,
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"Now unto Him, that is able
to do exceedingly abundantly and
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above all, we can ever ask or
think, according to the power
that worketh in us.
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Greater is He that is in me,
than He that is in the world."
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And any math teacher will tell
you if you have a greater than
you, must have a less than.
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So whoever the
greater is inside of you,
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then He that is in the world is
less than whoever is inside of
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you. But the text goes on, I'm
almost done. "Put on the whole
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armor of God, that he may be
able to stand against the wiles
of the-" what, everybody?
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The wiles of
the whom, everybody?
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Now, the Greek word for "put on"
in this context is, "panoplya",
which means "put on" and "keep
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on." In other
words, don't take it off.
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Put on the armor and keep it
on, y'all don't hear what I'm
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saying. Put it on and keep
it on, put on and keep on the
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girdle of truth. Put on
and keep on the breastplate of
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righteousness. Put on and
keep on the shoes of the gospel.
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Put on and keep on the shield of
faith, the helmet of salvation,
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carry the sword, which is the
word of God, and you've got to
pray always. [Congregation:
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Applause] Put on the whole armor
of God, so you might be able to
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what? Come on, you might be able
to what? Stand against the wiles
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of the devil. It's not the
time for you to give up on God.
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This is time for us to
put on the whole armor of God.
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That's young people, that's
middle-aged people, that's old
people, that's all people,
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it's time to stand. Speaking
of the church and people leaving
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the church, I meddle a little
bit but I'm going here cause I
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got the mic. I don't know if you
have your head in the sand, but
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we're in trouble. The church is
in trouble. I'm not just talking
about my Oakwood church,
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I'm talking about the
universal church is in trouble,
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particularly when it comes
to our young people leaving the
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church. According to the
national base LifeWay Research,
two-thirds or 66% of American
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young adults between the
ages of 18 and 22 who attended a
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Protestant church regularly for
at least a year as a teenager,
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say they also have now dropped
out of the church. But not only
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that, the number of Americans
between the ages of 18 and 29
who have no religious
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affiliation has nearly
quadrupled in the last 30 years
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from 10% to 39%. When asked why
they're leaving the church,
according to the survey done,
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the young people say-- it
published in January 2019, so
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this is current. Here the
top four answers for the young
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people: Number one, they moved
to college and stopped attending
church. Sounds familiar?
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Number two, church
members seemed hypocritical and
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judgmental. Number three, they
didn't feel connected with
people in the church.
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Number four, they disagreed with
the church's stands on political
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and social issues. I must admit,
I've been to church all my life,
and it baffles me, however,
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that we can have all this
research, all this material, all
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this knowledge, and we see it
happening with our own eyes, see
young people leaving the church,
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but it seems as
if we don't care.
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It's time to stop talking about
it, and it's time to do
something about it.
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I traveled all across
this country, all across this
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division, and if it were not for
migration to the North American
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Division, the North
American Division would be dead.
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I traveled all across, what
you see here is not what's out
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there. I'm looking at our
churches, I'm looking at who's
in our churches, and there are
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no young people. Children's
Story, there are no young
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people. Sabbath School, no
children, and we wonder why our
church schools are dying.
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We have no children in the
church. For a church, "Go preach
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Pastor Byrd." And if something
doesn't happen soon, in the next
10 years, the church is going to
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be dead. You don't like that,
I'm going to preach it anyhow.
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I'm baffled about how some of
us-- because I'm a part of the
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"us", I'm three years from 50
now, got a child in college now,
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Lord have mercy. Some of us
senior church members have
children who grew up in the
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church, but they are no longer
in the church, they no longer go
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to church, but yet we're talking
about we need young people in
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the church. But then we don't
want young people to sing gospel
music in the church.
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That appeals to them and not
us, but yet we want them in the
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church. That's a contradiction.
Let me be clear, everything
young people sing is not my
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preference. But I'd rather them
sing in Church [Congregation:
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Applause] a song that doesn't
compromise what the Bible says,
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even though it may not be my
preference than for them to sing
a song out of the church,
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that compromises
what thus saith the Lord.
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Do I have a witness in this
place? [Congregation: Applause]
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It's time for the people of
God to stand, and I'm going to
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stand. Even if it goes against
the grain, even if it's
unpopular, I'm going to stand.
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We are not fighting each other,
we're fighting the devil which
means I'm not your enemy,
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you're not my enemy, Satan
is the enemy in these fights.
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Not the person seated next
to you but Satan is the enemy.
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Paul says, "For we wrestle
not against flesh and blood.
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But against principalities,
against powers, against the
rulers of the darkness of this
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world, against spiritual
wickedness and high--" What,
everybody? [Congregation: Power]
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Power. There
goes that word again.
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We read it in verse 10, we
read it again in verse number 12
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so let me break down that
word and I'm going to sit down.
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In the Bible there are two types
of power, there's Dunamis power
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and Exousia power. Dunamis is
a miracle-working power, Dunamis
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is dynamite power. Exousia
is authoritative power, it is
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authority power, and Exousia
gives you the authority to have
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the dynamites. You don't know
the power that's in you, you
don't know the power you have in
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you. The devil is not afraid of
you, the devil is afraid of
who's inside of you.
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I say it all the time,
no Christian has ever been
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demon-possessed because if the
Holy Ghost is in you, you can't
be possessed by a demon,
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you can be influenced
but you can't be possessed
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because you're already possessed
by the Holy Ghost and the Holy
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Ghost and the demon can't live
inside you at the same time.
[Congregation: Hallelujah]
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What you're dealing
with is a demonic influence.
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And because you're already
possessed by the Holy Spirit
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you don't let anybody tell you
you're demon-possessed. We're
too loose with that term,
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demonology and demon possession,
we're too loose with that.
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Don't you let anybody tell
you you're demon-possessed. No,
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you're not. You're a child of
the Most High God, you're
possessed by the Holy Ghost,
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you're just
being demon-influenced,
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and to withstand this demonic
influence all you have to do is
yield to the power of the Holy
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Ghost. When you have faith
in God, His power becomes your
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power. Can I give you some good
news? Can I give you some good
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news? You don't have to fight
the devil with your power
because you're not operating in
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your power, you're operating in
God's power, you're operating in
Dunamis, you've got dynamite.
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You're operating in
Exousia, you've got authority.
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You don't have to wrestle with
the devil, you don't have to box
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the devil, all you got to do is
let the power of God fight the
devil. [Congregation: Amen]
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Your identity as a child
of God and your authority over
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spiritual powers, they are not
things you are receiving or will
receive at some time in the
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future. You have them right now
so don't wait until the battle
is over. Shout now.
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You have the power to defeat
darkness now. You have the power
to defeat demons now.
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Satan was defeated 2,000 years
ago, his defeat is not pending,
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his defeat is not in the future,
his defeat has already happened.
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You don't fight for Calvary, you
fight from Calvary so victory is
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mine. Victory is
mine, victory today is mine.
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I told Satan, "Keep and be
behind, victory today is mine."
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The world is not going to
get better but victory is mine.
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The world is not going to
get better but Jesus is mine.
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The world is not going to get
better but Jesus is coming back,
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for the Lord himself
shall descend from heaven with a
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shout, with the voice of the
Archangel the Trump of God and
the dead in Christ are going to
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rise first, then we were to our
lives remains to be called
together with them in the clouds
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to meet the lord of the air,
and so shall we ever be with the
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Lord, and I saw a new
heaven and a new earth.
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For the first heaven and the
first earth, they were passed
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away, and there was no more sea,
and I John saw the holy city.
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The New Jerusalem coming down,
out of heaven as a bride adorned
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for her husband, and I heard a
great voice, John seeing out of
heaven saying, "Behold.
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The tabernacle of God is with
man, and he would dwell with
him, and they shall be his
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people. God himself shall be
their God, and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes.
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There's to be no more death,
neither sorrow, nor crying,
neither shall there be any more
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pain. For the former things are
passed away and all things shall
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become new." It's not going to
get better, all of the evil that
we see in the world is
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interconnected, it is a
part of the great controversy.
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That's why Satan can
promote drama in Huntsville,
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and Satan can have drama in the
Bahamas, that's why Satan can
have drama at the border,
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and then Satan can have drama in
California where all people got
to shoot up this week,
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he can have all this
drama going on at the same time
00:23:47.96\00:23:51.79
because there's something bigger
going on to just you and me.
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There's a great controversy
going on between good and evil.
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Choose who this day
whom you go to serve.
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But as for me and my
house, we will serve the Lord.
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If God be for us,
who can be against us?
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Because greater is He that
is in us, than he that is in the
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world. I'm a soldier in the army
of the LORD. I'm a soldier in
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the army. If I die,
let me die because I--
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[Choir Singing] I
shall wear a crown.
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Our Miami revival
was a special treat.
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Truly the Holy Spirit was in the
place, as over a hundred
individuals were baptized.
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One of these persons baptised
was an old classmate of mine;
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René Castillo. I hadn't seen him
in over thirty years, and when
the appeal was made for baptism,
00:25:42.17\00:25:48.28
René surrendered his life
to the Lord, and was baptized.
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Every word that man
said, man it's just-
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Every time he opened his
mouth I would have an epiphany.
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Everytime he said something, I
already knew it but I had buried
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it. That it was like - almost
like relearning it and I'm like,
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I know that. I
know that.  I know that.
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He did say something, and it's
been going over and over in my
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head. He says-- Lord I hide your
word in my heart, so that I
don't sin against Thee.
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[Sobbing] I feel grateful
because-- I brought one of my
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sons-- for two days and he
actually enjoyed it. I didn't
want to push it on him; you
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know? It is my responsiblity,
according to word of God, to be
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the leader-- the spiritual
leader of my household; and I
have not done that.
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I am so grateful that René had
the opportunity to renew his
relationship with the Lord.
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