Hello and welcome to
Behold the Lamb Presents.
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We are a
ministry whose mission it
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is to prepare a people to meet
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their Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ.
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My name is Chris Shelton
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and I want to thank
you for joining us today.
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Our message today is entitled
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"Waging A Valiant
Warfare Against Sin," part one.
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Like it or not,
this is a battle that
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we are all a part of.
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It is a battle of which
we have all been born into.
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We often don't realize
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the severity of
this spiritual warfare
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until we begin to draw closer
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to our Heavenly Father
and see just a bit clearer
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what sin has cost heaven.
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And those of us
who dwell on the earth,
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waging a valiant
warfare against sin,
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you wouldn't think
would be such a struggle
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until you learn
just a little bit more
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about the definition of sin
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and how we are often conditioned
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that sin is just
simply not so bad.
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So much so that
the majority of people
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love their sinful practices.
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Until, praise the Lord,
conviction of the Holy Spirit
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begins to mold and
reshape their hearts.
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But sadly, once we love
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something that is sinful
for so long in our lives,
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it is not always in our power
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or in our own
strength to overcome it.
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So what steps has Christ left
for each and every one of us?
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What strength
is at our disposal?
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And why may we
must we take up arms
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and valiantly
wage war against sin?
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Stay tuned today as
Pastor Kenny Shelton
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addresses these
questions and much, much more
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in today's message,
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"Waging A Valiant
Warfare Against Sin,"
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part one, but first,
let's listen and be encouraged
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with a piano rendition of,
"God Will Take Care of You"
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by Justin
Nehrkorn as we visit 3ABN.
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Thank you for
joining us once again
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at Behold the Lamb Ministries.
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We appreciate you so very much.
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Again cards and letters,
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your support,
praise God for that.
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We couldn't go on
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and get this
message to the whole world.
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Realize we have
such an opportunity.
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You may have a small group
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opportunity to go
into all the world
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is the gospel commission.
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And God has given us
that privilege and opportunity
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and we thank
Him so much for that
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and again, thank
you for your comments,
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your prayers, and your support.
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Continue to keep it going.
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There's a lot of
work yet to be done,
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signs foretell
that Jesus is coming.
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And we want to
be ready for that.
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We're going to be
talking about today
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before we have prayer,
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waging a valiant
war against what?
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It's sin.
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Sin is the big issue
and how God can help us
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and give us what we need,
that we may gain that victory
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and live the
life of Jesus Christ.
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That scares a lot of people.
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And I pray that
doesn't scare you.
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Right now we're going
to pray as we always do.
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Thank you for
those of you who say,
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I always pray when you pray.
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When I can, I get on my
knees and I pray with you.
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If we're in an automobile
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or whatever, we
still pray along,
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and I really thank you for that.
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Nothing could be
accomplished without prayer.
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Praise God for
that. I'm going to kneel.
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Let's pray together, shall we?
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Loving Father in heaven,
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we thank You again for
the privilege of prayer.
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We invite Thy Holy Spirit.
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O Lord, we pray that You
would come down in abundance,
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clear our minds and
our hearts of all the stuff
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that's happened this week
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and help us to
stay close to you.
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May we hear what we need to hear
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that will draw
us closer to Jesus,
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that will continue to compel us
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to be ready for the hour
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in which we think not
the Son of man shall come.
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Bless us Lord,
we pray to this end,
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fill this place
with Thy Holy Spirit
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and each and every
listener, every watcher,
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we pray to Your
honor and Your glory.
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And we know that
decisions will be made
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for Thee in Jesus' name, amen.
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Probably should
be, not be well for us
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to mention since we are,
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sometime, we're not going to say
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a whole lot about it.
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But we need to realize that
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what the world is going
through right now tells us that
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the coming of Jesus is
soon, even at the door.
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If things are
happening in the world,
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that's unprecedent.
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I mean, it's just
going all the way around.
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Things have happened in
the last few days that...
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But the last
moments will be what?
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We know the last few
moments will be rapid one.
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Things are
happening so quick right now,
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we can't even,
we try to calculate
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what happened yesterday
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and there's
more new things today
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that we try to decipher
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as they say to wrap our minds
around it almost impossible
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of what's
happening and taking place.
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This tells me for
sure the things that Bible
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has prophesied
are coming to pass.
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And as they are happening,
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we can realize then
that even in the future,
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these things
will happen so quick,
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if you're not aware of it,
they say, make your head swim.
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We don't want that,
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we want to be
aware of these things.
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It's unprecedented.
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The shutdown of an
activity going around
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the globe right now.
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There's never been
anything like this.
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And again, whether it's
the beginning of the end,
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only God knows.
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But these are warning,
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these are
judgments that are falling,
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that tell us beyond a shadow
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of a doubt that
He's coming soon.
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These things come upon
the United States so quickly.
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We've seen it several months
in other places of the world.
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But here in the United States,
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it seemed like it has
just happened so quick
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that we just
don't know what to do
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and everybody's
criticized and everybody else.
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No one did it right they say,
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but now we're trying to
come together for the sake
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because it's costing lives.
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You know, the
authorities believe
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that this outbreak can
change society for months.
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You know, we
would love to think.
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Now again, whether
you think that it is,
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we're not trying to
debate whether it's real or not,
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who started it and why
or just did it happen that
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we live in a
world of sin, you know,
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people eating the wrong
things, things happening,
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or does somebody
throw it out there
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in the air as it were,
because people have all kind.
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But you know
what? People are dying.
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Good, bad, like
people are dying,
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and many are going
to Christless graves,
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because they have
not accepted Jesus
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as their Lord and Savior.
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They have no idea because
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you're not hearing it
in the churches as it were.
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There's not any trumpets
being sounded as it were.
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There's not any alarms,
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there's not a
sound of an emergency.
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You're like me, if
you're going down the road,
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and you hear a, you know,
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an ambulance coming
or whatever that siren,
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all of a sudden, it
kind of makes your heart beat
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a little bit faster, doesn't it?
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If you've ever been in one,
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you might relate a
little bit more and you think,
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"Ooh, what's going on?
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What's going on?"
Something is going on here.
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Remember, this can
change society or listen,
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this can change the world
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and it can never go
back the way that it was.
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Did we see that
9/11? Come on, somebody.
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In 9/11, it changed the
world that we live in that
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I was used to,
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that I've been
around for a while.
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I was used to that, and
it's changed drastically.
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And I say just happened,
like, oh, it's all changed.
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And so it's nothing
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for our legislators to pass laws
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and regulations and rules,
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if they think it's
best for this country,
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and they will
say is to protect you
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and to protect me and some,
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my, some laws certainly
have been changed here.
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President Trump himself
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proclaimed a national emergency,
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which it seems
good on the surface,
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absolutely,
because it opens up what?
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Resources, lot more resources
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to help in this
situation, praise God.
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And just to hit it on the head,
not going to law of detail.
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Many schools are closed
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into the millions
and millions of students,
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my, we think about it.
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Sporting events of
every kind has been cancelled,
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which you probably have
never lived in that time before.
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I'm talking about
millions, billions of dollars
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are being lost
because people think
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whether it's or
not, they think that
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this could spread
and we see it spreading
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to where people
are gathered together.
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I wonder if that's why
maybe we have a message
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to give to the world,
that it's time we come,
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ooh, out of the cities
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and began to get
in secluded place,
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don't you believe?
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Living together is what?
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See, this is telling us that
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we're right on, we're on target.
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We're on track right now.
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Because we've been
saying this for years and years
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that we need to
get away as it were
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because of the
colds and the disease
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and different things that,
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that's catchy when you
stay close to one another.
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And so, with all of these things
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that are
shutting down right now,
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and then we find a panic.
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There's a panic going on
for buying goods at the store.
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And when you get there,
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the store shelves,
many of them are empty.
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Many of the store
shelves, it's a panic situation.
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Stock market
fell, my, record levels.
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What is God telling you?
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He's saying you
can't own your money,
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you better count something else.
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It could be gone.
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Many people are losing
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and they lost in
2008 you remember,
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you know, of their retirement.
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They had it all
put back, you know,
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and all of sudden they lost 50%,
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some are 100%.
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God's saying,
"Don't count on the banks."
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Don't count on it
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because the Bible in
the Book of James predicts
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an economic fall.
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There's no doubt
about it. It predicts it.
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Now do we want
to talk about that?
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No. Do we want
to hear about that?
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No. But you know what?
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Head out of the sand and up,
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what did Jesus say
when you see these things
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come to pass, do what?
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Lift up your head because
your redemption draweth nigh.
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You know, how
nice to be to get in
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and do little
things in the pulpit
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and talk about
all the good things
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that are happening in the world.
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We need to talk
about these things
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because it's very prevalent
to God's last day people
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who have ears to hear.
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If you don't have ears to
hear, you're going to laugh out,
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you're going to go on,
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you're going to
try to downplay it.
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If I was you, I
would not do that.
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We may see in the next
week or two how bad things
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can really get
before they get better
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if God so sees fit for that.
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Thousands of cases, you know,
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what, 2,100 more, you
know, in United States here.
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In every, almost every state
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somehow is
involved, deaths, you know.
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One man say,
"Normalcy to be normal is a word
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we may not hear again."
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We may not hear that again.
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And what has replaced that
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which is normal is
fear and uncertainty.
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We're facing
those things right now
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against, you're
saying, well, it's all peace
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and all is well
and all is wonderful.
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Governor Cuomo,
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now what he knows
about it from New York?
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What he does or what he doesn't,
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I'm not going to say
whether he does or not
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what my opinion is,
but he did make a statement
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where he said, "You know what?
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This thing could last."
And what does he know about it?
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He said, "But this thing
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could last at least six
to nine months or more."
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That's quite a time, isn't it?
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Numerous states
have banned gatherings,
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have they not?
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Yes, some consider, listen,
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if it's over 100 people,
uh-uh, we don't want that.
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That's considered large.
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If it's 35 or less right here,
they say if you come together,
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keep your distance
of at least six feet.
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Well, already most of
those blew that one, didn't we?
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Yeah, that's why all the sports
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and all the stuff is
going on from, you know,
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with the
basketball and the football,
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whatever it might
be as it comes around
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in our practices
and baseball right now.
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Spring training is cancelled.
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Again, we're talking about
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millions and millions
of dollars are on the line.
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And when you
think it might get bad,
00:14:03.91\00:14:05.71
when you cancel the Broadway.
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You see, Hollywood then,
just something's going on.
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When you cancel and
close down Disney World,
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something is going on
that people are afraid of.
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But interesting
in Louisiana, right?
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The night life continues on.
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Churches are
supposed to close down
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and not be gathered together.
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But the night life
of drinking and dancing
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and carousing is still going on.
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Kind of interesting, isn't it?
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In Italy, we know that
there's many, many people,
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hundreds and hundreds have died.
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Doctors they say in one article
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are making choices,
whether people live or die.
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Human beings have
to make a decision,
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who's going to live
and who's going to die,
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who they can treat
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because there are
so many pandemics,
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we understand is changing
and it's changing our lives.
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And again, that's just
touching that we talked about
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the front of the
iceberg as it were,
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the things that are
going on in the world
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and more you read about it
more I think it should say,
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I know that Jesus is coming.
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When you have a topic like
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waging a
valiant war against sin,
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a lot of people say
there's no such thing as war.
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We just sit back and we relax,
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and God's going to
take care of everything,
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we don't have to worry
about anything because well,
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we gave our life to
Christ a long time ago.
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I just would
challenge each one of you today,
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I'm going to go over,
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I don't know,
eight or ten texts.
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And just quickly,
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just a few words of those texts,
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and so you're not
able to look them all up,
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but maybe you can jot them down
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and see what
the Bible has to say
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about our condition as a people
and what God expects of us,
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what's going to take place
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1 Corinthians 1:25,
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the Bible simply says,
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"And every man that striveth
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for the mastery
is tempered in" what?
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Now notice what it
says. Everyone who is what?
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Striving for what?
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Could I change a word
here not trying to make it?
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Anyone who's striving
for heaven, isn't that right?
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For mastery to win the
victory over the enemy,
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he's going to have to strive.
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That doesn't sound like
you sit back in a recliner
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and just relax and say,
God's done it all for me.
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I don't have to do anything.
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Well, praise God
for Calvary. Praise God.
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He has done it, right?
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But He expects us to
do something about it.
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Paul speaks about
over and over that
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we have to strive
to enter in the gate.
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1 Peter 2:11, the Bible says,
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"We are to abstain
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from all like
fleshly lusts which,"
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notice the word,
"which war against the soul."
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What does it do?
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These fleshly things right,
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things we see out in
the world right here.
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They war against the soul.
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So we are in a warfare
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and it's a
tremendous rough warfare
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and only those
who gain the victory
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in this warfare is going to,
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heaven is going
to be their home.
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If you just sit
back and do nothing,
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I'm afraid it's not
going to be too late.
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We're not going to
make it to the kingdom.
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2 Timothy 4:7. I love this.
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I've always loved
this passage of Paul,
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when he said as he came
down to the end of his life,
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1 Timothy 4 or 2 Timothy 4:7,
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he said, "I have
fought a good fight."
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Did you get
that? What did he say?
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"I have fought a good fight."
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The Christian is expected
to fight a good fight of faith.
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Your fight, there's things
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that you can do that
God expects you to do.
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Yes, He's done all as far
as, you know, getting to heaven.
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Praise God for Calvary.
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Praise God for the blood,
but He expects you to fight,
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we fight and we'll see
that a little later as we go on,
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how we are to
fight as Christians.
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But he said, "I
fought a good fight."
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I'd love to be able to say that
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with good conscience
at the end of my life.
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I would love to be able
to say and feel good about,
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I've fought a good fight.
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Certainly there was
always more that you could do
00:18:05.08\00:18:07.12
or maybe we should have
done, but I fought a good fight.
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And Paul certainly
fought it. 1 Timothy 6:12.
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He says there in 1 Timothy 6:12,
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he said, "We are to
fight the good fight of" what?
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"Faith." What is our object?
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Our object is to say
there that we need to strive
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and we're going
to have to abstain,
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and we're going
to have to fight.
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And we're going to
have to say at the end,
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I've fought a good fight.
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Hebrews 10:32, it says
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"Ye endured a great
fight of affliction."
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Saying God's people may
have to go through what?
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Affliction and hard
times and this end result of
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every one of those
deals that simply says here,
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we have, we've endured
it by the grace of God.
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We've had to go
through it by the grace of God,
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not getting away
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from here or don't
have to go through it
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or raptured away,
00:18:53.36\00:18:54.70
but we're going to go through it
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what the Bible said here.
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Mark 13:13, I love this
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because it says
that in Mark 13:13,
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"He that endure unto the end,
00:19:03.24\00:19:08.94
the same shall be saved."
00:19:08.98\00:19:10.85
If you want to be
saved in God's kingdom,
00:19:10.88\00:19:12.78
you have to what?
00:19:12.81\00:19:14.15
You've got to endure
this mess that we're in.
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We are in a mess,
whether you want to admit it
00:19:16.95\00:19:19.49
or whether you
don't want to admit it,
00:19:19.52\00:19:21.22
and it is the
beginning of the end.
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I mean, how much
plainer does it need to be,
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it's the beginning of the end,
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and we must endure unto the end.
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Why?
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The furnace of
affliction is being turned up,
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the heat's being turned up.
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Why in this world
that we have to go through
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some of these things
that we're going through,
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you know why?
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Because as a
people, we are not ready.
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Is that fair?
We're not really ready.
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We say, "Oh, we're ready.
Well, I know who Jesus is."
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You've got to know Him better.
00:19:49.15\00:19:50.49
You got to know better
about Christ, then say,
00:19:50.52\00:19:52.55
"Well, I know who He is."
00:19:52.59\00:19:54.29
When God said,
"I'll make it to heaven,"
00:19:54.32\00:19:55.66
because, well, I know
there's another power,
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I know there's a
higher power and He knows me
00:19:57.53\00:19:59.69
and He's going to take
me, it's more than this.
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It's much more than this.
00:20:02.33\00:20:03.67
You're talking about a
relationship with Christ.
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He that endures unto the
end, the same will be saved.
00:20:06.84\00:20:10.67
He who goes through that.
00:20:10.71\00:20:12.04
Remember, as we're going through
00:20:12.07\00:20:13.41
these tests and these trials,
00:20:13.44\00:20:14.88
God is allowing the impurities
in our life to be taken out.
00:20:14.91\00:20:19.01
This is our opportunity.
00:20:19.05\00:20:20.45
Think about it in your own life.
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Think about maybe
what's happened this week.
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Oh, you lost your temper.
00:20:25.62\00:20:27.99
You said something
you shouldn't have said.
00:20:28.02\00:20:29.52
You used some language
you shouldn't have used.
00:20:29.56\00:20:31.66
You looked at something
you know as a Christian
00:20:31.69\00:20:33.29
you shouldn't be looking at.
00:20:33.33\00:20:34.66
You listen to some things that
you shouldn't be listening to,
00:20:34.70\00:20:37.43
because it made you
think and do other things.
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Think of those things,
00:20:41.24\00:20:42.57
that's not going
to happen in heaven.
00:20:42.60\00:20:44.54
And here is the proving grounds,
00:20:44.57\00:20:46.31
can we say that?
00:20:46.34\00:20:47.68
This is the proving
grounds right now for heaven.
00:20:47.71\00:20:50.11
And Jesus made the statement.
He said, you know what?
00:20:50.15\00:20:52.11
"I want this mind to be
in you which was also" what?"
00:20:52.15\00:20:54.92
In Christ Jesus."
00:20:54.95\00:20:56.28
These things that
we've heard all of our life,
00:20:56.32\00:20:57.92
but He meant it.
00:20:57.95\00:20:59.65
It's not just go along
ho-hum, have fun, da-da, da-da.
00:20:59.69\00:21:02.96
He said, I want this
mind, I want you to have my mind
00:21:02.99\00:21:05.79
because if you have my mind,
then you'll think like I do,
00:21:05.83\00:21:07.86
rather than thinking like
00:21:07.90\00:21:09.23
the world thinks and
the way the world acts.
00:21:09.26\00:21:11.93
Remember if you're
doing what the world is doing,
00:21:11.97\00:21:13.84
and you're thinking
like the world is thinking,
00:21:13.87\00:21:15.54
you know, heaven's not,
00:21:15.57\00:21:16.91
I'm going to say heaven's
not going to be your home.
00:21:16.94\00:21:18.74
It's not going to be my
home. It's got to be different.
00:21:18.77\00:21:21.28
We live in a time
when for Pete's sake
00:21:21.31\00:21:23.75
when will God's
people get serious?
00:21:23.78\00:21:26.51
Is it okay to say that?
00:21:26.55\00:21:28.78
I get carried away
sometime. You know what?
00:21:28.82\00:21:31.29
It's almost as if, God help me.
00:21:31.32\00:21:32.65
It's a frustration
to a certain point,
00:21:32.69\00:21:35.02
because I see the end is nearing
00:21:35.06\00:21:36.79
and what are we as
God's people doing about it?
00:21:36.83\00:21:39.43
I'm talking about my own
life, not everybody else.
00:21:39.46\00:21:41.06
There's changes
that's got to be made.
00:21:41.10\00:21:44.47
And when will we make those
rather than to put them off
00:21:44.50\00:21:46.53
and put them off if
you enduring to the end?
00:21:46.57\00:21:49.20
If you go through the
furnace of affliction,
00:21:49.24\00:21:51.77
and you make it through
as it were the lions' den.
00:21:51.81\00:21:54.31
If you make it
through that fiery furnace,
00:21:54.34\00:21:56.61
how will you come out?
00:21:56.64\00:21:57.98
You're going to come out
ready and prepared and perfected
00:21:58.01\00:22:00.22
by the grace of God.
00:22:00.25\00:22:01.62
But we've got to go
through these things,
00:22:01.65\00:22:03.08
the impurities
God says, got to go.
00:22:03.12\00:22:05.75
2 Timothy 3:11,
what persecutions,
00:22:05.79\00:22:10.33
Paul said this, he said,
00:22:10.36\00:22:11.69
what persecutions in 2
Timothy 3:11, I endured."
00:22:11.73\00:22:16.87
What persecutions I endured?"
No one likes persecution.
00:22:16.90\00:22:20.64
No one likes to be ridiculed.
No one likes to be picked on.
00:22:20.67\00:22:23.20
Are we still here, church?
00:22:23.24\00:22:25.04
No one likes to go through that.
00:22:25.07\00:22:26.47
No one wants to hear that.
00:22:26.51\00:22:27.84
But Paul said at
the end of his journey,
00:22:27.88\00:22:29.24
"Oh, what
persecutions I went through."
00:22:29.28\00:22:32.08
Interesting and the
Christian Church says what?
00:22:32.11\00:22:34.25
Well, you don't have to
go through those persecution.
00:22:34.28\00:22:35.62
You wouldn't have to
go through the rough time.
00:22:35.65\00:22:36.99
Paul did.
00:22:37.02\00:22:38.35
And a man of God,
there's no doubt about it.
00:22:38.39\00:22:40.39
Paul is going to
come in my opinion
00:22:40.42\00:22:41.79
in the first resurrection.
00:22:41.82\00:22:43.59
He's going to have eternal life.
00:22:43.63\00:22:44.96
He's going to
spend eternity with God,
00:22:44.99\00:22:46.76
the angels in heaven.
00:22:46.80\00:22:48.13
He's got it made.
00:22:48.16\00:22:49.60
But man, you look at what
he went through on this earth.
00:22:49.63\00:22:52.83
Oh, how many of us
could endured unto the end?
00:22:52.87\00:22:55.87
How many could say,
I fought a good fight?
00:22:55.90\00:22:57.84
How many can say, I was beaten
00:22:57.87\00:22:59.27
and I was shipwrecked
and I was thrown in prison?
00:22:59.31\00:23:01.51
When he come to the end
of his life, Paul could say,
00:23:01.54\00:23:03.91
"I have stayed, stood
fast for Jesus Christ,
00:23:03.95\00:23:07.62
regardless of what
the world threw me,
00:23:07.65\00:23:10.12
through the grace of
Christ, I come across
00:23:10.15\00:23:12.02
more than a conqueror
through Jesus Christ."
00:23:12.05\00:23:14.79
One more, 1 Corinthians 13:7,
00:23:14.82\00:23:20.03
"Hopeth all things,
and endureth all things."
00:23:20.06\00:23:22.66
The Christian is to
hope what? Hope all thing.
00:23:22.70\00:23:25.93
We had this
hope in Christ Jesus.
00:23:25.97\00:23:28.40
You hope with all things
and then you endure all things.
00:23:28.44\00:23:32.21
So if you think you're
going through something
00:23:32.24\00:23:33.64
that somebody else
has not went through,
00:23:33.68\00:23:35.04
you need to think again.
00:23:35.08\00:23:36.95
Many, many
people's going through
00:23:36.98\00:23:38.31
what you have and what I have
00:23:38.35\00:23:39.68
and a whole lot worse.
00:23:39.71\00:23:41.05
But you know what?
00:23:41.08\00:23:42.42
Time will tell as we
near the coming of Jesus.
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Do you think there's war?
00:23:45.52\00:23:46.86
Do you think we have to have
a valiant warfare against sin?
00:23:46.89\00:23:50.73
Absolutely, we do. You know why?
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Let me just end
with this part with this.
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Revelation 12:7-9,
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I'll just give
you a couple lines,
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you read it for yourself.
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The Bible says,
do you like that?
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The Bible says,
there was war where?
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There was war in heaven.
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We think we're not going to have
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a warfare down here?
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Well, absolutely.
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The Bible said
there was war in heaven.
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Michael and his angels
fought. Did you get that?
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They fought the
dragon and his angels,
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the devil fought and
his angels and notice this,
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they were cast out to the earth.
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These things that
you've read so often,
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but put them together.
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War in heaven. Why?
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War of
obedience and disobedience
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and love for God.
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God's character was challenged.
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So when you hear this
message of the last day,
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that we're in the judgment,
we're in His judgment hour,
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we have to realize that
judgment is not just for us,
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that judgment of God,
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in Christ character
there, isn't that right?
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It's about their
character has been challenged.
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It's all about who they
are and devil says they're not.
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War in heaven and
they were cast out.
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So we realized
they were cast out,
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they were cast out to this earth
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so if the war was there,
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he couldn't win it in
there so he's cast out here.
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He's going to continue a
warfare against God's people,
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waging a valiant
warfare against sin.
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Pick three words out of them.
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I'm gonna pick three words out
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and notice what it is,
valiant, warfare and sin.
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Now, let's break it
down just a little bit.
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Valiant means that
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it's something that's
strong, he was valiant.
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He was strong. He was what?
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He was brave. He was courageous.
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God's looking for
courageous men and women
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and young people
today, old people too.
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He's looking for
courageous people.
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He's looking for brave
people who dare to be different
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in this mess of a
world that we live in.
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You dare to say grace
when you're out buying a meal.
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You dare to say praise the
Lord when you hear something.
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You dare to say, well, I
go to church on the Sabbath,
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and not be
hiding around about it.
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You dare to stand
for what Jesus says that
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we need to
stand for in His Word.
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So we're strong and
brave and courageous.
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Notice it, valiant warfare.
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That's the action of waging war,
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conflict of any kind.
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So God says His people
are courageous and bold.
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There's going to be
waging war against the enemy.
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We're not going to just
sit back and take it from him.
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Did you get it?
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I'm talking about
he's on the attack.
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We need to attack the
enemy with the Word of God.
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Remember that, not just on what?
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We talked about defense
that we have to be what?
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We talk offense, right?
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When you play any kind of sport,
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you don't sit back and just take
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whatever the guy's got to do.
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If you're playing ping pong,
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you've got to be able to
go and attack back to him
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so he's just not smashing.
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Okay, you got that
one. Warfare, right?
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And then sin.
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Interesting if you go to
Webster's dictionary first,
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you go to Webster
dictionary about sin.
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It says there,
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"It is the
breaking of the moral law
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or of a moral law."
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Did you get it?
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Even the dictionary said
it's the breaking of what?
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Of a moral law.
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Now what we want to do
is go to the Word of God
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and find a
definition of what sin is.
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Because we are waging a
value warfare against what?
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Sin.
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In 1 John 3:4,
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"Whosoever committeth sin,"
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that means
anybody who commits a sin
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"transgresseth also the law."
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Interesting,
people are saying what?
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Law is done away with.
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In Romans it says,
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"Where there is no
law, there is no sin."
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So if there is no law,
if it's been done away with,
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if one's gone
from it or whatever,
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we like nine we don't
like ten, something is wrong.
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You're not
getting up? You know what?
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You hardly ever, I
just got to stop with that.
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You just cannot hardly
go in any church and listen,
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that pastors will not
read that from other churches.
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They will not read that
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because all of a
sudden, they're catching it.
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Sin, the Bible said is
the transgression of what?
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God's law.
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Transgressing, you break one,
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you break all,
James 2:10 and so on, yes.
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Notice, that's the definition.
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So regardless of
what this group says,
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or what that group says,
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or even the
dictionary says, right,
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Webster's, God said that,
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"Whosoever sin,
you transgress the law,
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for sin is the
transgression of God's law
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in any form or fashion."
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And then we know this,
because when we're waging a war
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right now against sin,
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or we should be as God's people.
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We realize that the
wages of sin is death.
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Have you read that in Scripture?
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Where have you read that?
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You remember in
the Book of Romans?
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Good Romans 6:23.
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Romans 6:23, it says,
"The wages of sin is death,
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but we know the gift
of God is eternal life."
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And I praise God for that.
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So we realize
here the whole issue
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started in heaven
and coming down here
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is dealing with what?
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God's law.
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Transcript of God's character
that the enemy challenges,
00:29:04.71\00:29:08.31
you say know what?
00:29:08.34\00:29:09.68
The devil started this
almost said baloney again.
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Can I say that?
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That's a French word for
I don't know what it did.
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So what they
tell me? This stuff.
00:29:17.95\00:29:20.66
He started the stuff that
we cannot obey God's laws.
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And now what?
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It worked in heaven,
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and now so he
brings it down here
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and tell the
majority of the world,
00:29:29.16\00:29:30.50
well, we can't keep God's laws,
my, we can't keep God's law.
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By the grace of God,
00:29:33.67\00:29:35.00
right by His
strength and His power,
00:29:35.04\00:29:36.74
because Jesus is my example
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and did he or did
he not keep the law?
00:29:38.51\00:29:42.24
Did Jesus? He was perfect.
00:29:42.28\00:29:45.91
He didn't break the
law and even in thought,
00:29:45.95\00:29:49.55
and He was fully
human and fully what?
00:29:49.58\00:29:52.69
Fully divine. Yes, He was.
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But He separated those two.
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He won the fight
against the devil
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in the flesh as it were.
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So He has nothing
that you and I can't have.
00:30:01.80\00:30:04.47
But he won that to say he,
00:30:04.50\00:30:05.97
you can do it if our
mind is stayed upon Christ.
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The reason that we're
not, many times we're weak
00:30:08.50\00:30:10.71
and so vacillating
that we don't want to fight.
00:30:10.74\00:30:13.98
We don't want to wage war.
00:30:14.01\00:30:15.34
We just want to give in
00:30:15.38\00:30:16.71
and do whatever we
think we want to do,
00:30:16.75\00:30:18.21
that we might get away with.
00:30:18.25\00:30:19.88
Sin is transgression
the Bible says of God's law.
00:30:19.91\00:30:23.89
In the Book of Ephesians,
00:30:23.92\00:30:25.25
you want to turn
there quickly with me.
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The Book of Ephesians Chapter 6,
00:30:26.92\00:30:28.42
I'm gonna just read two verses.
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Ephesians 6:12 and 13.
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Ephesians Chapter
6, good, verses what?
00:30:33.16\00:30:36.97
12 and 13, are we there?
00:30:37.00\00:30:39.23
The Bible says,
00:30:39.27\00:30:40.60
"For we wrestle
not against" what?
00:30:40.64\00:30:42.30
"Flesh and blood, but
against principalities
00:30:42.34\00:30:44.67
and against powers, and what?
00:30:44.71\00:30:46.41
"Against, there good, rulers
of darkness of this world,
00:30:46.44\00:30:49.58
against spiritual
wickedness in high places."
00:30:49.61\00:30:53.01
This just tells us that
00:30:53.05\00:30:54.48
we are going to be in a
battle for our very life,
00:30:54.52\00:30:58.15
not just here, but for eternity.
00:30:58.19\00:31:01.62
I mean, think
about what a pathetic,
00:31:01.66\00:31:04.39
we could say a
joke that would be
00:31:04.43\00:31:05.83
if there was
nothing beyond this,
00:31:05.86\00:31:07.73
just to come in this world
00:31:07.76\00:31:09.10
live this mess that
we're living in right now
00:31:09.13\00:31:11.20
and pass away and
there's nothing after this.
00:31:11.23\00:31:15.34
I wouldn't like
that at all, would you?
00:31:15.37\00:31:17.11
There's got to be something
on because of all the mess
00:31:17.14\00:31:19.67
and the warfare and
the stuff that's going on.
00:31:19.71\00:31:21.98
And Jesus telling us
that, Kenny, don't you realize,
00:31:22.01\00:31:24.05
you're wrestling against,
you're fighting against, right?
00:31:24.08\00:31:27.52
Not, it's not against flesh
and blood, but it's spiritual.
00:31:27.55\00:31:31.95
It's the enemy, right?
00:31:31.99\00:31:34.32
The Devil, Satan and his angels,
00:31:34.36\00:31:37.43
and against powers,
00:31:37.46\00:31:38.79
that there's no way that
we can outdo them on our own.
00:31:38.83\00:31:42.86
Did we get it?
00:31:42.90\00:31:44.23
There's no way that you can beat
00:31:44.27\00:31:45.60
the enemy on your own.
00:31:45.63\00:31:46.97
There's no way I
can beat him on my own.
00:31:47.00\00:31:49.44
So he's telling you, its
principalities and powers
00:31:49.47\00:31:51.37
is way too high for
you as human beings.
00:31:51.41\00:31:54.21
You're going to
need some outside help.
00:31:54.24\00:31:56.68
Verse 13, notice what it says,
00:31:56.71\00:31:59.31
"Wherefore taken to
you the whole armor of God
00:31:59.35\00:32:03.39
that you may be
able to withstand," what?
00:32:03.42\00:32:07.02
"In that evil day."
00:32:07.06\00:32:08.79
Could we say that
we are in an evil day?
00:32:08.82\00:32:12.96
How many believe that?
00:32:12.99\00:32:15.13
I believe that we
are in an evil day.
00:32:15.16\00:32:17.23
In fact, I believe
the days are more evil
00:32:17.27\00:32:19.13
than they've ever
been in this world.
00:32:19.17\00:32:21.17
Because we realized as
it was in the days of Noah
00:32:21.20\00:32:23.51
so shall it be when
the Son of man cometh.
00:32:23.54\00:32:25.61
They were doing
all kind of things.
00:32:25.64\00:32:27.51
Now we're doing
even worse things,
00:32:27.54\00:32:29.64
because we have
somewhat same men,
00:32:29.68\00:32:32.28
people in legislative
position that are passing laws
00:32:32.31\00:32:35.28
that are against Scripture.
00:32:35.32\00:32:37.25
Do you see it? And
they claim to be normal.
00:32:37.29\00:32:39.29
Oh, well, we don't do
these kinds of things.
00:32:39.32\00:32:40.69
But we think you
should be able to do that.
00:32:40.72\00:32:42.22
God said in His Word, no.
00:32:42.26\00:32:44.56
What God has said in
His Word, He means no,
00:32:44.59\00:32:47.90
and it is a matter of
obedience, disobedience.
00:32:47.93\00:32:52.20
Whether we liked
it, admit it or not.
00:32:52.23\00:32:54.24
Excuse me, most people
don't want to admit it.
00:32:54.27\00:32:56.94
When you say the word obedience,
00:32:56.97\00:32:58.31
it just turns them off.
00:32:58.34\00:33:00.48
But isn't that what you read
00:33:00.51\00:33:01.84
if you're a reader of Scripture?
00:33:01.88\00:33:03.65
From the beginning to the end
00:33:03.68\00:33:05.01
is simply those
who will be obedient.
00:33:05.05\00:33:08.38
Israel over and
over and over God said,
00:33:08.42\00:33:10.75
"If you would just obey
My," I think He said with tears,
00:33:10.79\00:33:14.29
"If you would
just obey My voice."
00:33:14.32\00:33:16.56
In other words,
if you will just do,
00:33:16.59\00:33:17.93
more than just talking
and say I'm a Christian,
00:33:17.96\00:33:20.43
there has to be some
outward things, right?
00:33:20.46\00:33:22.76
There's fruit.
00:33:22.80\00:33:24.13
What kind of
fruit are we producing
00:33:24.17\00:33:25.50
as a tree of God?
00:33:25.53\00:33:26.87
What are we producing?
00:33:26.90\00:33:28.24
It will tell whether
you are a follower of
00:33:28.27\00:33:29.77
Jesus Christ or you are not.
00:33:29.80\00:33:32.27
The Bible said we
are in this, notice this,
00:33:32.31\00:33:33.98
"Withstand the
evil day having" what?
00:33:34.01\00:33:36.58
"Done," I like
this, "all to stand."
00:33:36.61\00:33:42.55
Have we think
about, ask yourself this.
00:33:42.58\00:33:46.05
Have we done all to stand?
00:33:46.09\00:33:49.76
Have we done all to stand?
00:33:49.79\00:33:52.33
Remember the Bible said to him
00:33:52.36\00:33:53.70
that knoweth to do
good and doeth it not,
00:33:53.73\00:33:56.83
to him it is sin.
00:33:56.87\00:33:59.63
Penalty of sin, right? Is death.
00:33:59.67\00:34:03.47
To him that knoweth to do good.
00:34:03.51\00:34:04.97
So if you know,
and then you refuse,
00:34:05.01\00:34:08.81
that's called sin.
00:34:08.84\00:34:10.61
And if we die at
that point in time
00:34:10.65\00:34:12.25
that sin goes against us,
00:34:12.28\00:34:14.02
the transgression of God's law.
00:34:14.05\00:34:16.45
This is heavy duty stuff
00:34:16.48\00:34:17.82
because there's a
battle to be waged,
00:34:17.85\00:34:19.55
and God wants
to help you and me.
00:34:19.59\00:34:21.99
He wants to help
us, praise God for that.
00:34:22.02\00:34:23.99
He wants to do
something good for us.
00:34:24.03\00:34:27.20
Manuscript 32, time's
going on quickly here.
00:34:27.23\00:34:29.73
This is written in 1900.
00:34:29.76\00:34:32.13
Manuscript 32, 1900.
00:34:32.17\00:34:35.10
It says this because again,
warfare, battle is going on,
00:34:35.14\00:34:38.44
the devil is battling and
fighting for you every day.
00:34:38.47\00:34:41.51
You say, why in this
world am I going through
00:34:41.54\00:34:43.71
what I'm going through?
00:34:43.75\00:34:45.08
God is allowing it because
00:34:45.11\00:34:46.45
He wants heaven to be your home,
00:34:46.48\00:34:48.15
and there's things in your life,
00:34:48.18\00:34:49.52
in my life that needs to go.
00:34:49.55\00:34:52.05
Is that good?
00:34:52.09\00:34:54.09
There's things that
need to go and we realize
00:34:54.12\00:34:56.86
these tests and trials
are God's little workman
00:34:56.89\00:34:59.96
to help purify us and
perfect us for heaven.
00:35:00.00\00:35:03.77
That's why Paul said,
00:35:03.80\00:35:05.13
"Rejoice in
trials and tribulations."
00:35:05.17\00:35:07.24
Man, I find it difficult
when things not going my way,
00:35:07.27\00:35:11.14
okay, to rejoice and be glad,
00:35:11.17\00:35:15.88
rather than to say
He's still working on me.
00:35:15.91\00:35:19.88
He wants these
things out of my life.
00:35:19.91\00:35:21.65
He's allowing this to happen.
00:35:21.68\00:35:23.22
Remember, if I
always get my way,
00:35:23.25\00:35:25.72
my character
will never be tested.
00:35:25.75\00:35:28.62
Your character is tested
when you do not get your way.
00:35:28.66\00:35:32.59
Well, all right, this
is what I wanted to do,
00:35:32.63\00:35:35.26
and they didn't want to do it.
00:35:35.30\00:35:36.63
Well, fully with him.
00:35:36.67\00:35:38.00
It's okay to say that,
Howard, can I say fully?
00:35:38.03\00:35:41.17
Thank you.
00:35:41.20\00:35:44.47
That's why people get on
to me, I can't help myself.
00:35:44.51\00:35:49.48
Think about it.
This is the battle.
00:35:49.51\00:35:54.45
Your character is challenged,
00:35:54.48\00:35:56.28
just like watch
from a baby on up.
00:35:56.32\00:35:59.92
You can see it this
morning, isn't that right?
00:35:59.95\00:36:02.42
When I want to
lift baby out of the...
00:36:02.46\00:36:07.30
When mama goes to lift him out.
00:36:07.33\00:36:11.83
They're already doing what?
00:36:11.87\00:36:13.94
I'm telling you, they
have likes and dislikes
00:36:13.97\00:36:15.80
and if they don't get their way,
00:36:15.84\00:36:17.17
they're going to
let you know about it.
00:36:17.21\00:36:19.91
But you realize what we're told
00:36:19.94\00:36:21.28
as soon as that
character comes across,
00:36:21.31\00:36:23.68
we are to start to change it.
00:36:23.71\00:36:26.85
You say, change it
when the little what?
00:36:26.88\00:36:28.25
Because they've
already got that inside,
00:36:28.28\00:36:30.25
their nature is already there.
00:36:30.29\00:36:32.29
They already have
their likes and dislikes.
00:36:32.32\00:36:35.89
Okay, another subject, right?
00:36:35.92\00:36:41.30
If the curtain,
Manuscript 32, 1900,
00:36:41.33\00:36:46.07
"If the curtain
could be rolled back."
00:36:46.10\00:36:47.90
What curtain is it
talking about here?
00:36:47.94\00:36:51.37
Like what's
going on in the world?
00:36:51.41\00:36:53.14
You see, God is so good
to us, He has a shield on it.
00:36:53.17\00:36:57.18
Are you still there?
00:36:57.21\00:36:58.55
He's not letting us
see all that's going on
00:36:58.58\00:36:59.91
behind the scenes.
00:36:59.95\00:37:01.28
There's a lot of dirty stuff
going on in the world today.
00:37:01.32\00:37:03.79
There's a lot of dirty stuff
00:37:03.82\00:37:05.15
going on in the
high up of the church.
00:37:05.19\00:37:06.86
There's a lot of
dirty stuff going on
00:37:06.89\00:37:08.29
in your Congress.
00:37:08.32\00:37:09.66
There's a lot of dirty
stuff going on behind the scenes
00:37:09.69\00:37:11.69
right now and
plans at the Vatican.
00:37:11.73\00:37:14.13
Just all of it,
00:37:14.16\00:37:15.66
that is to throw it all together
00:37:15.70\00:37:17.03
if you don't care.
00:37:17.07\00:37:18.40
There's some
bad things going on.
00:37:18.43\00:37:19.77
God in His mercy is shielding us
00:37:19.80\00:37:21.60
to a certain
extent from this stuff.
00:37:21.64\00:37:23.17
But He's bringing it
out a little bit at a time,
00:37:23.20\00:37:25.64
because He knows we
can't take it all at once.
00:37:25.67\00:37:27.94
We just can't take it. Why?
00:37:27.98\00:37:29.91
Maybe because we're
not really fortified
00:37:29.94\00:37:31.75
and reborn again
the way we should be,
00:37:31.78\00:37:34.52
to where we can
take when disaster hits.
00:37:34.55\00:37:38.25
When we know that
our Redeemer liveth.
00:37:38.29\00:37:41.46
When we have such a
relationship with Him,
00:37:41.49\00:37:43.86
that we may weep over something
00:37:43.89\00:37:45.39
but we still have faith
to believe that all things
00:37:45.43\00:37:48.16
work together for good
rather than just say it,
00:37:48.20\00:37:51.20
why is it, why don't we live it?
00:37:51.23\00:37:53.57
By the grace of
God help us to live it.
00:37:53.60\00:37:56.60
This is what it's all about.
00:37:56.64\00:37:58.97
If that curtain
could be rolled back,
00:37:59.01\00:38:04.31
that protection that
God has around us, notice,
00:38:04.35\00:38:07.52
"We would see that
the armies of heaven
00:38:07.55\00:38:10.52
are in continual warfare
00:38:10.55\00:38:13.22
with satanic agencies."
00:38:13.25\00:38:16.79
Somebody needs to shout.
00:38:16.83\00:38:18.63
See, I feel like
shouting because you know why?
00:38:18.66\00:38:20.86
Because the enemy
00:38:20.90\00:38:22.83
and his evil
angels are too big for me.
00:38:22.86\00:38:26.10
They're too strong for me.
00:38:26.13\00:38:27.47
They're too smart for
me in the human flesh,
00:38:27.50\00:38:30.31
but not for Jesus.
00:38:30.34\00:38:31.77
He's already
defeated them, right?
00:38:31.81\00:38:33.27
And God wants and throw him out.
00:38:33.31\00:38:34.98
And He's limited them.
00:38:35.01\00:38:38.81
He could tell the
whole host of the evil angels
00:38:38.85\00:38:41.38
and Devil himself,
00:38:41.42\00:38:42.75
remember it, go
stand in the corner
00:38:42.78\00:38:44.12
and stay there
till I count to 10.
00:38:44.15\00:38:48.76
Could He not?
00:38:48.79\00:38:50.13
If He wanted to, I'm doing
it very simple for us here.
00:38:50.16\00:38:52.59
Why? Because God is so powerful.
00:38:52.63\00:38:54.46
Christ is so powerful.
00:38:54.50\00:38:56.23
They've already
defeated the enemy.
00:38:56.26\00:38:57.60
We know he's
defeated at the cross
00:38:57.63\00:38:59.13
but the enemy says no.
00:38:59.17\00:39:00.67
But notice, every day
there's these gigantic battles
00:39:00.70\00:39:03.91
that are going on.
00:39:03.94\00:39:05.27
There is a, notice, a
continual warfare going on.
00:39:05.31\00:39:09.01
What do you think
it is they're fighting
00:39:09.04\00:39:10.41
to who's going to be boss?
00:39:10.45\00:39:11.78
No, it's
fighting over you and me.
00:39:11.81\00:39:15.02
It's not who's
going to run what.
00:39:15.05\00:39:16.45
The devil's already
showing what he's going to run.
00:39:16.48\00:39:19.79
He already knows
what's going to happen to him.
00:39:19.82\00:39:22.02
He calls himself the prince
of this world, he's really not.
00:39:22.06\00:39:25.56
At one time he was
a prince because what?
00:39:25.59\00:39:27.46
Everybody gave in to him.
00:39:27.50\00:39:28.96
He said, "The world's mine."
Christ came and won it back.
00:39:29.00\00:39:31.27
Praise God.
00:39:31.30\00:39:33.07
So the battle is going
on, because God's looking down
00:39:33.10\00:39:36.07
and He's seeing you, and
you, and you, and you, and me,
00:39:36.10\00:39:38.94
that the enemy is just
too big and too strong.
00:39:38.97\00:39:41.14
I'm not trying
to give him praise,
00:39:41.18\00:39:42.51
it's just a fact.
00:39:42.54\00:39:43.88
And I need help and
we need to realize that
00:39:43.91\00:39:45.71
we need help.
00:39:45.75\00:39:48.98
We cannot defeat him on our own.
00:39:49.02\00:39:52.29
Remember, after Satan,
00:39:52.32\00:39:54.16
and these evil angels
were cast out of heaven.
00:39:54.19\00:39:57.16
What did the enemy do?
00:39:57.19\00:39:59.39
That their words about people
00:39:59.43\00:40:00.76
don't like and that was too bad.
00:40:00.80\00:40:03.00
They don't like
the word confederacy.
00:40:03.03\00:40:05.47
The devil, Lucifer and
his angels formed a what?
00:40:05.50\00:40:10.07
Say confederacy, I'll get happy,
00:40:10.11\00:40:12.24
a confederacy
that just simply mean
00:40:12.27\00:40:14.11
a uniting together of some group
00:40:14.14\00:40:16.68
for a common purpose.
00:40:16.71\00:40:19.15
Like we see happening
behind the scenes today,
00:40:19.18\00:40:22.15
in our government
and a lot of other things
00:40:22.18\00:40:23.92
there are
confederacies that are going on.
00:40:23.95\00:40:26.69
There's meetings going on,
00:40:26.72\00:40:28.06
there're secret
things that are going on.
00:40:28.09\00:40:30.49
But God said,
"They will come to light
00:40:30.53\00:40:32.06
and God is watching everyone,
00:40:32.09\00:40:33.43
and God has an answer for
every one of these things."
00:40:33.46\00:40:36.23
See, I'm
thankful and grateful that
00:40:36.26\00:40:37.60
God sees
everything and He knows it.
00:40:37.63\00:40:39.47
He has an answer for
everything in your life
00:40:39.50\00:40:41.30
that you need for
a victory in my life.
00:40:41.34\00:40:43.37
He sees everything
going on in the world,
00:40:43.41\00:40:45.04
and God has an
answer for everything.
00:40:45.07\00:40:46.94
God's taking
things that are bad,
00:40:46.98\00:40:48.74
and He's turning them around
00:40:48.78\00:40:50.11
and making
something good, is He not?
00:40:50.15\00:40:52.21
Because He's in control,
00:40:52.25\00:40:54.08
because this great
battle is going on.
00:40:54.12\00:40:56.79
But notice this, what they did?
00:40:56.82\00:40:58.15
They formed a confederacy
or the devil said to me,
00:40:58.19\00:41:00.22
look at here,
we were thrown out,
00:41:00.26\00:41:01.76
no doubt, he said
that was so unfair.
00:41:01.79\00:41:04.23
We shouldn't
have been thrown out.
00:41:04.26\00:41:05.59
The other ones
should have been thrown out.
00:41:05.63\00:41:06.96
Look, we're cast out
here. But what did he say?
00:41:07.00\00:41:08.50
Let's all join together here?
00:41:08.53\00:41:11.10
We can do more damage
if we all band together.
00:41:11.13\00:41:14.17
How many times
have you heard that?
00:41:14.20\00:41:15.84
A lot of times, is it right?
00:41:15.87\00:41:17.21
There's two or three will
say, "Well, let's band together
00:41:17.24\00:41:18.81
because man will
have more power together.
00:41:18.84\00:41:20.88
When we vote, it's
going to make a difference."
00:41:20.91\00:41:24.21
And so the devil says,
"Okay, let's do all we can.
00:41:24.25\00:41:27.22
And let's do everything that
00:41:27.25\00:41:28.82
we possibly can to mankind."
00:41:28.85\00:41:33.99
Now why?
00:41:34.02\00:41:36.06
He already knows he's smarter,
00:41:36.09\00:41:37.43
and bigger, and more
powerful than we are.
00:41:37.46\00:41:42.20
But he said,
"Wait, let's do everything
00:41:42.23\00:41:43.57
we can to tear man apart,
00:41:43.60\00:41:46.13
everything evil
that we can think of,
00:41:46.17\00:41:48.40
we're going to throw at him."
00:41:48.44\00:41:51.04
Why?
00:41:51.07\00:41:53.38
I think a simple
answer would simply be
00:41:53.41\00:41:55.64
as this is the devil's
only means at striking God.
00:41:55.68\00:42:01.62
Did you get it?
00:42:01.65\00:42:03.05
This is the only means
that Satan has to strike God.
00:42:03.08\00:42:07.39
Why? Because what is it?
00:42:07.42\00:42:09.49
Zachariah? Zachariah?
00:42:09.52\00:42:11.53
Come on somebody,
Zachariah 2:8, isn't it says,
00:42:11.56\00:42:14.10
because when you do what?
00:42:14.13\00:42:16.77
He said, "You are
the apple of my eye."
00:42:16.80\00:42:22.54
And when you strike
the apple of your eye,
00:42:22.57\00:42:24.21
you're striking God.
00:42:24.24\00:42:26.71
And so he says, the
devil says, "We'll strike God.
00:42:26.74\00:42:29.74
We'll get Him,"
because of this love
00:42:29.78\00:42:31.98
that He has for
humanity, for these evil...
00:42:32.01\00:42:35.98
no good.
00:42:39.99\00:42:42.16
Yeah.
00:42:42.19\00:42:44.43
But Jesus said, he has the
love but I don't understand,
00:42:44.46\00:42:46.66
they can't understand that
00:42:46.70\00:42:48.03
because spiritual things
are spiritually discerned.
00:42:48.06\00:42:50.80
But he's saying,
"Well, this got to change.
00:42:50.83\00:42:53.30
We're going to strike
God, we're going to beat Him."
00:42:53.34\00:42:58.41
Just like sometime people
00:42:58.44\00:42:59.77
when they want to
get even with you,
00:42:59.81\00:43:02.94
they may not pick on you,
00:43:02.98\00:43:04.31
they'll pick on
the ones you love.
00:43:04.35\00:43:06.01
Come on somebody.
00:43:06.05\00:43:08.38
The ones that are closest to you
00:43:08.42\00:43:09.82
because it hurts you more
00:43:09.85\00:43:13.12
if you see bad things happen
to somebody then you love,
00:43:13.15\00:43:15.62
than it may be if
it happened to you.
00:43:15.66\00:43:20.06
Yeah, that all came
from the enemy, didn't it?
00:43:20.10\00:43:22.43
Well, let's...
00:43:22.46\00:43:24.93
So what we read in
Ephesians 6:12 and 13
00:43:24.97\00:43:27.64
says there is a real battle
that's going on for the soul.
00:43:27.67\00:43:32.37
It's going to take a real battle
00:43:32.41\00:43:33.88
and there's going to be a winner
00:43:33.91\00:43:35.24
and there's going to be a loser.
00:43:35.28\00:43:37.18
I don't like to be
loser. How about you?
00:43:37.21\00:43:41.02
Anybody here like to be a loser?
00:43:41.05\00:43:44.05
Well, I'm glad no
one raised their hand.
00:43:44.09\00:43:46.72
My, my, my, no.
00:43:46.76\00:43:48.79
Even in things of this
world, we don't want to lose.
00:43:48.82\00:43:51.89
I don't care what it is.
00:43:51.93\00:43:55.16
There's a lot of things
that we don't get involved with
00:43:55.20\00:43:56.93
because we didn't want to lose.
00:43:56.97\00:44:01.10
The 250-pound
weightlifter come up
00:44:01.14\00:44:03.77
and says he wants
to Indian wrestle me.
00:44:03.81\00:44:08.88
I think I'm smarter
than to take him on.
00:44:08.91\00:44:12.08
He can break your arm.
You know what I'm talking.
00:44:12.11\00:44:13.82
The Bible says, "Kenny,
00:44:17.99\00:44:20.29
put on the whole armor of God."
00:44:20.32\00:44:24.83
Think about it, put on
the whole armor of God.
00:44:24.86\00:44:26.93
You realize you don't
have any armor of your own.
00:44:26.96\00:44:30.17
You have nothing in which to
deflect the enemy off of you.
00:44:30.20\00:44:34.40
When he attacks
you without this armor,
00:44:34.44\00:44:36.00
you can't stand
it, you can't take it.
00:44:36.04\00:44:37.84
Why?
00:44:37.87\00:44:39.21
Number one when he attacks you,
00:44:39.24\00:44:40.58
he doesn't want to
give you a black eye
00:44:40.61\00:44:42.18
as it where, he
wants to kill you.
00:44:42.21\00:44:44.08
Is that true?
00:44:44.11\00:44:46.65
In other words, you're only here
00:44:46.68\00:44:48.02
because of God's grace.
00:44:48.05\00:44:49.55
I'm only here
because of God's grace
00:44:49.58\00:44:51.15
because if you
profess Jesus Christ,
00:44:51.19\00:44:53.15
the devil hates you.
00:44:53.19\00:44:55.12
You're the apple,
what? Again, of His eye.
00:44:55.16\00:44:59.03
By God's grace,
you're here every day,
00:44:59.06\00:45:00.50
we say thank You, Lord
that I get up this morning
00:45:00.53\00:45:03.13
I live, I move, I have my being,
00:45:03.16\00:45:04.57
it's all through You.
00:45:04.60\00:45:05.93
I have nothing
which to boast about.
00:45:05.97\00:45:09.70
If it wasn't for God, right,
00:45:09.74\00:45:11.07
and for this armor, we
don't have it our self.
00:45:11.11\00:45:16.14
But notice, God has
prepared armor for me.
00:45:16.18\00:45:21.02
Hello, God has
prepared armor for you.
00:45:21.05\00:45:24.35
But there's one catch.
00:45:24.39\00:45:26.89
You've got to put it on.
00:45:26.92\00:45:28.89
Come on now,
you've got to put it on.
00:45:28.92\00:45:31.93
The armor will do you no
00:45:31.96\00:45:33.29
good standing over
there in the corner.
00:45:33.33\00:45:37.17
When you're going into battle,
00:45:37.20\00:45:38.53
you want to put
all the armor on,
00:45:38.57\00:45:39.90
you don't want to
leave one piece off
00:45:39.93\00:45:41.27
because the enemy will do what?
00:45:41.30\00:45:42.90
He will look for that one
piece that you don't have.
00:45:42.94\00:45:46.17
And so when you have a
weakness in your character,
00:45:46.21\00:45:48.81
the enemy knows that
00:45:48.84\00:45:50.18
because he's studying
you day in and day out.
00:45:50.21\00:45:53.48
That shouldn't
frighten us at all.
00:45:53.52\00:45:54.92
Just know that we
serve one that's greater
00:45:54.95\00:45:56.95
that studying the enemy.
00:45:56.99\00:45:59.75
We have one that
studying the enemy
00:45:59.79\00:46:01.66
and what the enemy is
about to do, God said,
00:46:01.69\00:46:03.43
"I prepared a
way for you, Kenny,
00:46:03.46\00:46:05.09
because I'll not put more on
you than you're able to" what?
00:46:05.13\00:46:07.96
"To bear without
providing a way off."
00:46:08.00\00:46:11.17
This is good news. This is good.
00:46:11.20\00:46:12.93
We're in a battle but royale,
and somebody is going to win
00:46:12.97\00:46:16.00
and somebody is going to lose
00:46:16.04\00:46:17.51
and we don't want to be a loser.
00:46:17.54\00:46:19.11
God said, "You
got to put it on."
00:46:19.14\00:46:22.61
And the armor that
God has made for you
00:46:22.64\00:46:25.01
has been made, you know,
00:46:25.05\00:46:26.51
He's made it with
His heavenly wisdom
00:46:26.55\00:46:29.55
to repel the temptations
that the devil has just for you.
00:46:29.58\00:46:35.22
We realize as we identify
00:46:35.26\00:46:36.62
all those
pieces of armor within,
00:46:36.66\00:46:37.99
they're all
balanced, and they're all good.
00:46:38.03\00:46:39.53
But I'm wondering,
you say in my own mind
00:46:39.56\00:46:41.13
that God knows the
things that I have need of.
00:46:41.16\00:46:44.20
And I need a
certain kind as it were,
00:46:44.23\00:46:46.17
and I need to put it on
00:46:46.20\00:46:47.54
because I have to
repel the devil's,
00:46:47.57\00:46:48.90
that's any temptation.
00:46:48.94\00:46:50.31
That's any
trickery of the devil.
00:46:50.34\00:46:52.71
That's any
deception of the devil
00:46:52.74\00:46:54.88
as he comes against us,
00:46:54.91\00:46:56.31
so that we may be able to stand.
00:46:56.34\00:46:58.68
Isn't that it? Not to sit.
00:46:58.71\00:47:01.55
People come in
church and they sit
00:47:01.58\00:47:03.08
and that's all that they do.
00:47:03.12\00:47:05.39
That's not what God
would have us to do.
00:47:05.42\00:47:06.82
We come in and get our battery,
00:47:06.86\00:47:08.19
spiritual battery charge
and then we go out and just...
00:47:08.22\00:47:13.83
In the name of
Jesus, we go forward.
00:47:13.86\00:47:15.20
Why?
00:47:15.23\00:47:16.56
Because listen, if
the world ever needed
00:47:16.60\00:47:18.23
a word in due
season, it's right now.
00:47:18.27\00:47:21.10
There are so
many that are hurting,
00:47:21.14\00:47:22.50
so many lost jobs.
00:47:22.54\00:47:23.87
And right now, do
you realize again,
00:47:23.91\00:47:25.34
with things that
are happening right now,
00:47:25.37\00:47:27.04
it's going to get worse
00:47:27.08\00:47:28.41
if God doesn't see
fit to get it better.
00:47:28.44\00:47:31.05
We're talking about no jobs.
00:47:31.08\00:47:32.98
We're talking about stuff not
able to come in this country,
00:47:33.01\00:47:35.08
not be able to ship stuff out.
00:47:35.12\00:47:38.25
Yeah, that's right.
00:47:38.29\00:47:39.62
Yeah, we're coming to
the close of probation,
00:47:39.65\00:47:41.26
no mediator, we
need to make sure things
00:47:41.29\00:47:43.19
are right with God right now.
00:47:43.22\00:47:44.99
We understand that we've got to,
00:47:45.03\00:47:47.23
because He's
going to come at you
00:47:47.26\00:47:48.60
at some kind of a trick.
00:47:48.63\00:47:50.17
He's going to come against you
00:47:50.20\00:47:51.53
as some kind of deception,
some kind of temptation.
00:47:51.57\00:47:54.10
But remember, you
stand or you hold out.
00:47:54.14\00:47:57.64
I like that.
00:47:57.67\00:47:59.87
So that we're
able to watch stand,
00:47:59.91\00:48:02.04
or we're able to hold out,
00:48:02.08\00:48:03.91
or we're able to
overcome the enemy,
00:48:03.95\00:48:07.15
because he has thousand,
00:48:07.18\00:48:08.52
a million ways to fool
and to trick somebody like me.
00:48:08.55\00:48:13.42
He has all kinds of ways,
don't think that he's worn out.
00:48:13.46\00:48:17.39
Don't think he's just
going to give up on you and say,
00:48:17.43\00:48:19.23
"Oh, well, I can't get there."
00:48:19.26\00:48:20.60
He's going to work
00:48:20.63\00:48:21.96
until the probation closes till
Jesus comes to try to get rid.
00:48:22.00\00:48:25.37
We're looking, he knows,
let me put this plain here.
00:48:25.40\00:48:27.80
We just have five minutes.
00:48:27.84\00:48:29.17
Come on, somebody, stay with me.
00:48:29.20\00:48:30.67
I feel like going another
hour. I'm just so sorry for you.
00:48:30.71\00:48:33.88
No, I'm sorry for
you. That's the way it is.
00:48:33.91\00:48:35.54
I feel good.
00:48:35.58\00:48:37.81
Because I'm going to
talk to the unstable souls.
00:48:37.85\00:48:40.72
If there be any
unstable soul that's here.
00:48:40.75\00:48:43.89
And you might ask
what is an unstable soul?
00:48:43.92\00:48:47.26
I can go a lot
different direction.
00:48:47.29\00:48:49.92
An unstable soul
could be an individual
00:48:49.96\00:48:52.36
who is easily upset.
00:48:52.39\00:48:54.90
Come on, somebody.
00:48:54.93\00:48:56.26
Somebody that maybe is
easily upset and you know,
00:48:56.30\00:48:59.20
ooh, you know just
how to push their button.
00:48:59.23\00:49:01.37
Yeah.
00:49:04.64\00:49:05.97
You might know that person,
00:49:06.01\00:49:07.34
you know how to push that button
00:49:07.38\00:49:08.71
what really get him all upset.
00:49:08.74\00:49:10.08
But you know what?
00:49:10.11\00:49:11.45
It makes that
person even more unstable.
00:49:11.48\00:49:13.28
It could be that
unstable individual
00:49:13.31\00:49:15.65
is a fickled person.
00:49:15.68\00:49:19.92
The unstable person could
be an unbalanced individual.
00:49:19.95\00:49:24.16
That simply means
they're not stable,
00:49:24.19\00:49:25.79
that means they're changeable.
00:49:25.83\00:49:28.73
Like that, we talk about it...
00:49:28.76\00:49:31.33
They're blown
about by every what?
00:49:31.37\00:49:33.13
Every wind of doctrine.
They're tossed to and fro.
00:49:33.17\00:49:36.77
Listen, God's people need
to be anchored in Jesus Christ.
00:49:36.81\00:49:39.31
We need to be anchored
00:49:39.34\00:49:40.68
on that solid
rock which is Jesus.
00:49:40.71\00:49:42.74
We need not be blown about
00:49:42.78\00:49:44.11
by every wind of
doctrine that's going out
00:49:44.15\00:49:45.95
by all these hot air preachers
00:49:45.98\00:49:47.62
and teachers or
whatever they might be,
00:49:47.65\00:49:49.78
blowing out as hot air that
has nothing in the foundation,
00:49:49.82\00:49:52.75
in the scripture
of the Word of God.
00:49:52.79\00:49:54.36
We need to hang on
to that foundation,
00:49:54.39\00:49:56.16
that Jesus Christ.
00:49:56.19\00:49:58.73
Think about it.
00:49:58.76\00:50:00.10
Not by every wind of doctrine
that comes along that you say,
00:50:00.13\00:50:02.76
well, so and so will say
this, it doesn't seem right
00:50:02.80\00:50:05.17
with the Word but, boy, it
makes a little bit of sense.
00:50:05.20\00:50:08.47
Prove it from the Word of
God or don't grab a hold of it.
00:50:08.50\00:50:12.04
Ephesians 4:14 if
you're talking about
00:50:12.07\00:50:13.88
by being blown around
by every wind of doctrine.
00:50:13.91\00:50:18.08
We must stand
against the enemy now.
00:50:18.11\00:50:22.38
We've got to stand
now, there's no sitting,
00:50:22.42\00:50:24.99
there's no
dropping back right now.
00:50:25.02\00:50:27.26
You know, well, they say in
football in the fourth down,
00:50:27.29\00:50:29.09
you step back and you
punt, this is not time for that.
00:50:29.12\00:50:31.89
Right now, it's time to pass it.
00:50:31.93\00:50:33.26
You see what I mean?
00:50:33.29\00:50:34.63
Get it into the
end zone right now.
00:50:34.66\00:50:36.00
Make a score
right now with Jesus,
00:50:36.03\00:50:37.93
where your name is written
in the Lamb's book of life.
00:50:37.97\00:50:40.54
Why do we stand
against the devil?
00:50:40.57\00:50:42.07
Because my bible tells
me in 1 Chronicles 2:1,
00:50:42.10\00:50:45.97
it says that Satan is
going to stand up against us.
00:50:46.01\00:50:49.34
If he's going to
stand against us,
00:50:49.38\00:50:50.71
we must stand against
him by the grace of God.
00:50:50.75\00:50:54.12
So we must stand
up. We've got to set up.
00:50:54.15\00:50:57.99
We've got to keep up,
00:50:58.02\00:50:59.72
we've got to fight
against this evil thing,
00:50:59.75\00:51:01.86
the evil one which is Satan,
there's no doubt about it.
00:51:01.89\00:51:05.19
His kingdom is a kingdom of sin.
00:51:05.23\00:51:07.16
We need to have
nothing to do with it.
00:51:07.20\00:51:09.80
Therefore the Bible said,
"Kenny, strive against sin,
00:51:09.83\00:51:12.83
fight against
sin, stand against it
00:51:12.87\00:51:15.34
through prayer and
through study of God's Word."
00:51:15.37\00:51:18.24
Strive against sin.
00:51:18.27\00:51:19.61
Hebrews 12:4, the Bible
said," We now going to strive
00:51:19.64\00:51:22.54
is that you are
to resist unto blood.
00:51:22.58\00:51:25.35
You are to what?
00:51:25.38\00:51:26.72
When temptation comes,
and it's about to take you,
00:51:26.75\00:51:28.98
and you think you're not
going to be able to stand it,
00:51:29.02\00:51:30.89
God says, "Pray and I'll
send all the angels of heaven
00:51:30.92\00:51:33.22
there to help you,
to give you the victory.
00:51:33.25\00:51:35.66
And if you have to, you
should be willing to die
00:51:35.69\00:51:39.13
rather than commit a known sin."
00:51:39.16\00:51:41.16
Did you get it?
00:51:41.20\00:51:42.53
That's what the Bible
said in Hebrews when it said,
00:51:42.56\00:51:44.30
resist unto what?
00:51:44.33\00:51:45.67
Resist unto blood.
00:51:45.70\00:51:47.07
That's what
Christ expects for us.
00:51:47.10\00:51:50.07
Did He not do that?
00:51:50.11\00:51:51.77
He resisted the enemy
unto blood, unto Calvary.
00:51:51.81\00:51:55.84
He resisted, He would rather die
00:51:55.88\00:51:57.75
than willingly do
anything that was wrong.
00:51:57.78\00:51:59.85
God help us, God help me
00:51:59.88\00:52:03.05
to have that kind of
relationship with Christ
00:52:03.08\00:52:05.12
and I would resist unto blood.
00:52:05.15\00:52:09.09
That the churches should be
serious about these messages.
00:52:09.12\00:52:12.39
They should be serious about
00:52:12.43\00:52:13.76
our relationship
with Jesus Christ,
00:52:13.80\00:52:15.83
more than we ever
have in times past.
00:52:15.86\00:52:18.37
Quit dillydallying around
and take a stand for Christ.
00:52:18.40\00:52:22.07
Get involved, do something
for the cause of Christ.
00:52:22.10\00:52:25.14
Don't waste another
day, time is of the essence.
00:52:25.17\00:52:28.74
Time is what?
00:52:28.78\00:52:30.11
Time is of the
essence right now.
00:52:30.15\00:52:31.55
You don't have that
much. I don't have that much.
00:52:31.58\00:52:34.65
None of us know if we
have any other time left.
00:52:34.68\00:52:36.52
Right now, today's
the day of salvation.
00:52:36.55\00:52:38.62
We must wage a valiant warfare
against sin and the enemy.
00:52:38.65\00:52:43.53
Why?
00:52:43.56\00:52:44.89
As we close today,
because of what lies ahead,
00:52:44.93\00:52:47.60
not only what
we've been through,
00:52:47.63\00:52:48.96
but what lies ahead right now?
00:52:49.00\00:52:51.50
You can laugh
about it all you want,
00:52:51.53\00:52:53.00
you can raise up
your nose about and say,
00:52:53.03\00:52:54.37
"Oh, well, this right here."
00:52:54.40\00:52:55.74
You're going to be
found without the gates.
00:52:55.77\00:52:57.94
We need to be make sure that
00:52:57.97\00:52:59.31
we're inside those holy
gates of that New Jerusalem.
00:52:59.34\00:53:01.54
Why?
00:53:01.58\00:53:02.91
The Bible said
in Ephesians 5:16,
00:53:02.94\00:53:04.58
"Because the days are evil."
00:53:04.61\00:53:07.88
The days are
what? The days are evil.
00:53:07.92\00:53:10.45
Next 20 seconds we've got,
00:53:10.49\00:53:11.82
I'm going to pray
right now in just closing.
00:53:11.85\00:53:13.19
I'm gonna kneel right now.
00:53:13.22\00:53:14.56
Please pray with me as we close.
00:53:14.59\00:53:15.92
Our Father in heaven,
00:53:15.96\00:53:17.29
thank You for Your
precious Word today.
00:53:17.33\00:53:18.66
We pray Your Holy Spirit
00:53:18.69\00:53:20.03
now taken
possession of each one,
00:53:20.06\00:53:21.73
and may
decisions be made for You
00:53:21.76\00:53:23.10
and for eternity in Jesus' name.
00:53:23.13\00:53:24.67
Amen. Thank you for
joining us. God bless you.
00:53:24.70\00:53:27.77
We look forward
to hearing from you,
00:53:27.80\00:53:29.14
and we'll see you next time.
00:53:29.17\00:53:31.87
Hello, and welcome back.
00:53:31.91\00:53:33.58
You may have heard me
say in times past that
00:53:33.61\00:53:36.41
err is becoming truth
and truth is becoming err.
00:53:36.44\00:53:40.32
This statement is much more
00:53:40.35\00:53:41.98
accurately stated
in today's society
00:53:42.02\00:53:44.75
as err has become truth
00:53:44.79\00:53:47.66
and truth has
become err in the minds of
00:53:47.69\00:53:50.66
so many people
throughout the world.
00:53:50.69\00:53:53.13
What a very sad
state of affairs that
00:53:53.16\00:53:55.63
we find
ourselves living in today.
00:53:55.66\00:53:59.03
Our eternal
salvation, brothers and sisters,
00:53:59.07\00:54:01.47
hangs in the balance
on our properly discerning
00:54:01.50\00:54:05.34
right from wrong
and staying on that
00:54:05.37\00:54:08.24
path of righteousness
00:54:08.28\00:54:10.11
that will lead us
to our heavenly home.
00:54:10.15\00:54:13.11
Allow me in closing today to
read a quote found in the book,
00:54:13.15\00:54:16.75
the Acts of the
Apostles on pages 505
00:54:16.79\00:54:20.32
and then we're
going to jump back to 502.
00:54:20.36\00:54:22.79
It reads, "The law, obeyed,
leads men to deny ungodliness
00:54:22.82\00:54:28.46
and worldly lusts,
and to live soberly,
00:54:28.50\00:54:31.13
righteously and godly
in this present world."
00:54:31.17\00:54:34.37
You can find that in Titus 2:12.
00:54:34.40\00:54:37.01
"But the enemy of all
righteousness has taken
00:54:37.04\00:54:40.08
the world captive
and has led men and women
00:54:40.11\00:54:42.61
to disobey the law.
00:54:42.64\00:54:44.45
As Paul foresaw,
00:54:44.48\00:54:45.91
multitudes have
turned from the plain,
00:54:45.95\00:54:48.52
searching truths of God's
word, and have chosen teachers
00:54:48.55\00:54:52.55
who present to them
the fables they desire.
00:54:52.59\00:54:56.39
Many among both ministers
and people are trampling
00:54:56.42\00:55:00.50
under their feet
the Commandments of God.
00:55:00.53\00:55:02.86
Thus the Creator of
the world is insulted,
00:55:02.90\00:55:05.70
and Satan laughs in triumph
at the success of his devices.
00:55:05.73\00:55:11.34
The Apostle Paul warned Timothy
against the false teachers
00:55:11.37\00:55:15.34
who would seek to gain
entrance into the church.
00:55:15.38\00:55:18.25
This know also, he declared,
00:55:18.28\00:55:21.38
that in the last days
perilous time shall come.
00:55:21.42\00:55:25.72
For men shall be lovers of
their own selves, covetous,
00:55:25.75\00:55:29.29
boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents,
00:55:29.32\00:55:34.10
unthankful, unholy,
having a form of godliness,
00:55:34.13\00:55:38.23
but denying the power thereof:
00:55:38.27\00:55:40.44
from such, Paul says, turn away.
00:55:40.47\00:55:43.74
Evil men and seducers
shall wax worse and worse,
00:55:43.77\00:55:46.64
he continued,
deceiving and being deceived.
00:55:46.68\00:55:49.68
But continue thou in the things
which thou hast learned...
00:55:49.71\00:55:53.05
the Holy Scriptures,
00:55:53.08\00:55:55.12
which are able to make
thee wise unto salvation.
00:55:55.15\00:55:59.25
All Scripture is given
by the inspiration of God,
00:55:59.29\00:56:02.96
and it's
profitable for doctrine,
00:56:02.99\00:56:05.23
for reproof, for correction,
00:56:05.26\00:56:07.16
for instruction
in righteousness,
00:56:07.20\00:56:09.13
that the man of
God may be perfect,
00:56:09.16\00:56:12.20
thoroughly furnished
unto all good works."
00:56:12.23\00:56:15.77
God has provided,
listen, brothers and sisters,
00:56:15.80\00:56:18.57
God has provided abundant means
00:56:18.61\00:56:21.51
for successful warfare
00:56:21.54\00:56:23.78
against the evil
that is in the world.
00:56:23.81\00:56:26.78
The Bible is the armory,
00:56:26.82\00:56:28.85
where we may
equip for the struggle.
00:56:28.88\00:56:31.02
Our loins must be
girt about with truth.
00:56:31.05\00:56:33.62
Our breastplate
must be righteousness.
00:56:33.66\00:56:36.26
The shield of faith
must be in our hand,
00:56:36.29\00:56:39.09
the helmet of
salvation on our brow,
00:56:39.13\00:56:42.06
and with the
sword of the Spirit,
00:56:42.10\00:56:44.07
which is the word of God.
00:56:44.10\00:56:45.97
We are to cut our way through
00:56:46.00\00:56:47.80
the obstructions and
entanglements of sin."
00:56:47.84\00:56:51.47
Friends, after
this message today,
00:56:51.51\00:56:53.81
we hope to hear from you.
00:56:53.84\00:56:55.58
We hope to hear
from you very soon,
00:56:55.61\00:56:57.68
and order this message
which is entitled once again,
00:56:57.71\00:57:01.15
"Waging a Valiant
Warfare Against Sin."
00:57:01.18\00:57:04.35
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