Everyone once
believed in the devil,
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a horrible red
demon with pointy horns,
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a long tail and a
pitchfork in his hands.
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This fanciful
creature was invented
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by superstitious religious
fanatics in the Dark Ages.
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Most people
today no longer believe
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in this foolish devil myth.
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Many today have
accepted the original version
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that was taught by the prophets
of the ancient scriptures.
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This is about a
beautiful, super intelligent,
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powerful spirit being
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who eons ago
became the enemy of God
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and the implacable
foe of human being.
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His name is Satan,
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and he is alive and
well on planet earth.
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Welcome back,
ladies and gentlemen.
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Today we're talking
about Satan or Satan?
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the mastermind of evil.
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Now I want you
to take your Bibles
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and turn over
here to Romans 5:12,
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talking about how sin
came into this planet,
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into the human race.
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Verse 12 says, "Therefore,
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just as through
one man, that's Adam,
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sin entered the
world, and death through sin,
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thus death spread to all
men, because all sinned."
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When Adam and
Eve gave into Satan,
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Lucifer, Satan, or the serpent,
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the Bible says,
they opened up the doors
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and a tsunami of sin,
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lawlessness and
death came into the world.
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And the reason that we have
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so much suffering
in the world today
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is because of the perversion
of the gift of choice.
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Why is there suffering?
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Let me talk about
this just for a bit.
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Some suffering is
caused by our own choices.
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We're to blame for
some of our own suffering.
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If a person smokes,
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don't blame God if
you get lung cancer,
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coercion effect.
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Drunkenness, don't blame God
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if you're driving
and you have an accident.
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Drunkenness causes divorces,
diseases, car accidents,
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crimes, especially
rape and premature death.
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So here you got the
law of cause and effect.
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And we should not be
looking at God or even the devil
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and saying, you
know, devil made me do it.
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But most suffering is
the result of the bad choice
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of Adam and Eve.
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And Adam was the representative
of the human race,
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and that's why
the innocent suffer.
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That's why little
babies die of cancer.
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That's why
millions of innocent people
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do get caught up in awful wars.
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And then you have,
finally the anguish of death.
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It's because of the
choice of Adam and Eve.
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Now, people have
asked this question
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and it's a good question.
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Why didn't God make
Satan, Adam, and Eve,
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so they couldn't sin?
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Then we wouldn't
have any problems.
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Well, let's be perfectly
plain on this, my friends.
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God could have made
us so we didn't sin.
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He could have. But
God is not a tyrant.
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You see,
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do you want to be
married to a robot?
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Before you can have
the capacity of love,
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you've got to have the
capacity of freedom of choice.
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And so God made us
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with this awesome
capacity of choice.
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Okay, is Satan the
leader of an army of demons
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or fallen angels?
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Now, the demons
are the fallen angels.
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In the Bible,
there's a story of a man
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who was
possessed by many demons.
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And Jesus cast out the demons
and they ended a herd of swine.
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You can read this
in Luke 8:27 and 30.
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Look at the words.
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"When he
stepped out on the land,
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there met Him a certain man
from the city who had demons,"
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hey, he got demons
inside, "for a long time.
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And he wore no clothes,
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nor did he live in a
house but in the tombs.
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Jesus asked him,
saying, 'What is your name?'
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And he said, 'Legion," at
least a thousand, Legion,"
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because many
demons had entered him.
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And they begged him?
that he would not command them
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to go out into the abyss.'"
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And so, Jesus let them
go into a herd of pigs,
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which is where
they I belonged I guess.
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But here is a clear
case study in the Bible,
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where you've got a
person who's got demons.
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Now do I believe in demons?
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Yes, I do.
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The manifestation of
demons is in its raw form
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most prevalent in
third world countries
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that are pagan countries.
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But it can happen in
first world countries
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like Australia.
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Dr. John Hammond and I
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were invited to
go to a place one day
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in the city of Woy
Woy, just north of Sydney.
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And there was a woman who was...
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Now, folks, this was scary
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because when I
walked into that place,
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the hair on the
back of my neck stood up,
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same with John Hammond.
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This was a woman
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who had been
consulting evil spirits.
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Don't play with the
devil, don't go to seances.
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If you go to a seance,
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you are going on
the devil's ground
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and the devil can get you.
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Now this woman had
got tied up in spiritism
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and all those things,
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and she asked us to come
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because, you can
believe this or not.
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When she got into bed at night,
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she said, "A being
got into bed with her,
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it's called Incubus."
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And she said, the curtain
rods from the living room
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would come off and
sail around the place
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and chase her and the kids.
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And the little kids were
there and they were terrified.
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We prayed for her,
we struggled with her
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most of the night.
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Don't go to a seance.
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Don't watch a television program
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that talks about
consulting the dead.
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It's beyond dangerous.
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What is Satan's agenda?
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Now, He's a mighty
general and he has an agenda.
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Number one, to
deceive and to tell lies.
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He is called
the father of liars.
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Please turn to John 8:44.
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John 8:44, Jesus said,
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"You are of your
father, the devil,
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and the desires of
your father you want to do.
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He was a murderer
from the beginning,
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and does not stand in the truth,
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because there
is no truth in him.
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When He speaks a lie,
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he speaks from
his own resources,
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for he is a liar
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and the father of it."
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The Bible tells us
that Satan is a liar.
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Years ago when the evil empire
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as Ronald Reagan rightly
called the old Soviet Union.
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He was right.
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When they were having
one of their big meetings
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up the Kremlin, had
their committee meeting,
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and they had a new
member of the committee,
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he was from out in Siberia.
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He had a little bit
of decency left in him.
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And the Kremlin leaders
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were proposing to
tell the Russian people
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all these lies,
all this propaganda.
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This young guy
got up and he said,
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"Brother Comrade, excuse
me, but this is not the truth."
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I'm told there
was a stunned silence.
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And then they started to laugh.
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They laughed,
big deep belly laugh,
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they laughed and they laughed,
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they fell off their chairs.
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He's saying, you're
telling lies, comrades.
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Then the chairman got up
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after several minutes
of uncontrolled laughter
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because they were
so red in the face.
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He said, "Brother Comrade,
let me tell you something,
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whatever we say what we
say is the truth is the truth,
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it becomes the truth.
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And if you do
not understand that,
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comrade, soon you'll
be on your way to Siberia.
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What we say is the truth.
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That's why Reagan called it
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the evil empire based on lies.
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Listen to this.
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Lying is the
most deadly of sins.
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A consistent and persistent liar
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is almost irredeemable.
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It is the most hopeless of sins
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because a liar
will come to the place
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where he believes his lies.
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That's how they can
fool lie detector tests.
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A liar...
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Lies destroy marriages,
families, churches and nations.
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Woe to that nation
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whose leaders are liars.
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You hear what I'm
saying, people tell...
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Well doesn't matter
he tells a few lies.
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Oh, we all tell
lies. No, we don't.
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A liar is a bad person.
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You know why I know
that because Jesus said,
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"You are of your
father the devil."
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If you're a liar,
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don't expect to be
saved because you won't be
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unless you repent
and are born again.
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No liars will go to heaven.
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The last great
deception is a big, big lie.
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2 Thessalonians 2:8-12.
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2 Thessalonians 2,
"And then the lawless one,"
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a lawless one against
the law, "will be revealed,
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whom the Lord will consume
with the breath of his mouth
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and destroy with the
brightness of his coming.
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The coming of the lawless one
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is according to the
working of Satan with all power
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signs, and lying wonders,
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and with all
unrighteous deception
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among those who perish,
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because they did not
receive the love of the truth,
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that they might be saved.
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And for this reason
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God will send
them strong delusion,
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that they
should believe the lie,
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that they all may be condemned
who did not believe the truth
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but had pleasure
in unrighteousness."
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The last great
deception is the big lie.
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When antichrist will counterfeit
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the coming of Christ.
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People will say,
"Christ has come."
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A big lie.
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One of the
biggest sins of our age
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is the sin of
talking to the dead.
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Like King Saul went to
talk to the witch of Endor,
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you know the story.
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Satan was behind it,
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and he goes to talk
to the witch of Endor,
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and she brings up this creature
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that is pretending to
be Samuel the Prophet.
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If you are going to a seance,
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and you think you're
talking to your loved ones,
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you are believing the lie.
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That is not your loved one,
it is an impersonating demon.
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Hey.
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He divides, deceives, divides.
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He divided heaven.
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He set one
person against another.
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He's a slanderer, the accuser.
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What's happening
today in America?
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Americans are
fighting each other.
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Revelation 12:9 and 10,"
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So the great
dragon was cast out,
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that serpent of old,
called the Devil and Satan,
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who deceives the whole
world, he was cast to the earth,
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and his angels
were cast out with him.
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Then I heard a loud
voice saying in heaven,
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'Now salvation, and strength,
and the kingdom of our God,
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and the power of
His Christ have come,
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for the accuser of our brethren,
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who accused him
before our God day and night,
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has been cast down.'"
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He's alive and
well on planet earth.
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He's the divider
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and the liar.
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No person who loves his country,
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or his church, or
his family will indulge
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in the sin of
slander or name calling.
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"You are of your
father, the devil," Jesus said.
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Politics around the world as it,
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including
politics in Washington D.C.
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You know, it's true.
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He discourages.
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He leads the soul
into sin, then says
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"You're hopeless, I've got you."
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It is the glory of Christ
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to save the
tempted and the fallen.
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It's the glory of
God to save the brand
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plucked out of the burning.
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Mary Magdalene, the
Bible says had seven demons,
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the town prostitute.
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But her case was not hopeless.
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She was saved by Christ,
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became one of the
chief of the saints.
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He demoralizes.
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And the word demoralize
has got several meanings,
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can mean lower the morale.
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It can mean also to corrupt
or undermine the morals of...
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I refer to the latter.
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Satan's war is
against God's law.
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2 Thessalonians 2, 3 and 4,
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"Let no one deceive you
by any means, for that Day,"
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the day of Christ
return, "will not come
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unless the
falling away comes first
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and the man of sin," the
lawless man, "is revealed,
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the son of perdition,
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who opposes and exalts himself
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above all that is
called God, or that is worship,
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so that he sits as
God in the temple of God,
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showing himself that he is God."
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He goes to church.
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Hey, he goes to church.
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The devil goes to church.
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He's the great deceiver.
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The man of lawlessness,
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he makes war
against the law of marriage.
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He says marriage in
the Bible doesn't count.
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The law of the Sabbath,
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the law of the Ten Commandments,
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the law of love to God and man,
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Karl Barth said these words.
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He said, "When the holy
day becomes the day of man,
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society, and
humanity wither away
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and the demons rule."
00:15:07.27\00:15:11.04
When people give
up the holy day of God
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as America has done
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and every other so
called Christian nation
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around the world,
you know what happens?
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The demons rule.
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And they are ruling now.
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Remember what
happened to the Roman Empire.
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It was destroyed from within.
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It rotted from within.
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And the same will happen to us
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unless we repent.
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He devastates with disasters,
with plagues, pestilences,
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wars, and famines.
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Revelation 11:18.
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Revelation 11:18,
"The nations were angry"
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they are now, "and
Your wrath has come,
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and the time of the dead,
that they should be judged."
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That's the last days.
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"And that you should
reward Your servants,
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the prophets and the saints,
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and those are fear
your name, small and great,
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and should destroy
those who destroy the earth."
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Jesus will come
when people, the nations
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are destroying the earth
and they're doing it now.
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I listen to a sermon preached
by Pastor Charles Stanley
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when he said," Here in America,
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we've been blessed
with the protection of God.
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His hand has been over us.
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That's why we
haven't been destroyed."
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But he said,
"As we turn from God
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and His commandments, God
doesn't send the disasters,
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He withdraws His
hand of protection.
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And then my
friend, the demons rule."
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When did you
last read your Bible?
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When did you last
my friend go to church?
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When did you last
study the Scriptures?
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Remember the
devil is out to get you.
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The Bible says it.
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But the good news is this.
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We have a Savior,
we have a Champion,
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we have a David
who slew Goliath,
00:17:34.85\00:17:38.05
and our David slew
Goliath on the cross.
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And when He died for our
sins, He defeated the devil.
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Look at Genesis 3:15.
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Genesis 3:15,
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"I will put enmity between
you" the serpent "and the woman,
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and between your
seed and her seed,
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he shall bruise your head,"
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Christ is going to crush him,
"you shall bruise his heel."
00:18:02.24\00:18:06.92
The serpent bruised
his heel on the cross,
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but Christ is going
to crush the serpent
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under His feet,
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and it's going to
be a deadly wound.
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We have a strong man
who binds the adversary.
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Look at Luke 11:20-22.
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Luke 11:20-22,
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"But if I cast out
demons with the finger of God,
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surely the kingdom of
God has come upon you.
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When a strong man, fully
armed, guards his own palace,
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his goods are in peace.
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But when a stronger
than he comes upon him
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and overcomes him,
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he takes from him all his armor
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in which he trusted,
and divides his spoils."
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The strong man is Satan,
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but the Bible says
there's a stronger man.
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And if you're
troubled with evil spirits,
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stop going to the seance,
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stop playing with spiritism.
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Read your Bible.
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Cry out for the strong man.
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Now look at Luke 8:22 and 23.
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Luke 8:22 and 23,
"Now it happened..."
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I like you folks to see the text
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"Now it
happened, on a certain day,
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that He got into a
boat with His disciples.
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And He said to
them, 'Let us cross over
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to the other side of the lake.'
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And they launched out.
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But as they
sailed He fell asleep.
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And a windstorm
came down on the lake,
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and they were filled with water,
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and they were in jeopardy."
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So they're out on the lake.
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Jesus is there.
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The Bible tells us
Jesus went to sleep.
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He didn't care
about those things.
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He never worried.
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He trusted in His Father.
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But there comes
a storm out of hell
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and looks like
they're going to drown.
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And if you look
at verse 24 and 25,
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"And they came to Him
and awoke Him, saying,
00:20:10.24\00:20:12.27
'Master, Master,
we are perishing!"
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Had to wake him up.
00:20:14.08\00:20:15.98
"Then he arose,
and rebuked the wind
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and the raging of the water.
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And they ceased,
and there was a calm.
00:20:19.88\00:20:22.28
But he said to them,
'Where is your faith?'
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They were afraid, and marveled,
00:20:24.52\00:20:25.95
saying to one
another,' Who can this be?
00:20:25.99\00:20:28.49
For He commands even
the winds and the water,
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and they obey Him!"
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Listen, look at me.
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Jesus Christ is
Lord over the elements.
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He's Lord over the wind.
00:20:40.64\00:20:42.90
He's Lord over the water.
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He's Lord over our problems.
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He's Lord over the demons
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and He is Lord over Satan.
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He is the stronger
man who comes, you see.
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My friend, thank God,
we have this good news.
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Then the next verse, I
believe, Luke 8:27 and 28,
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we're going to
take them in sequence.
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"When he
stepped out on the land,
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there met Him a certain man
from the city who had demons,"
00:21:13.44\00:21:16.40
you don't believe in it?
00:21:16.44\00:21:17.87
You better now
"demons for a long time.
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Wore no clothes,
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nor did he live in a
house but in the tombs.
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When he saw Jesus, he cried out,
00:21:24.81\00:21:26.98
fell down before Him,
said with a loud voice,
00:21:27.02\00:21:29.52
'What have I to do with you,
00:21:29.55\00:21:31.15
Jesus, Son of the Most high God?
00:21:31.19\00:21:32.82
I beg you, don't torment me.'"
00:21:32.85\00:21:34.19
This is the
devil talking from him,
00:21:34.22\00:21:36.83
talking through him.
00:21:36.86\00:21:38.19
He's a man who's got demons.
00:21:38.23\00:21:42.50
So don't doubt it.
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Verses 29 and 30.
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29 and 30,
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"For He had commanded
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the unclean spirit
to come out of the man."
00:21:49.94\00:21:51.37
You don't believe it?
Better believe it now.
00:21:51.41\00:21:54.08
"It had often seized him,
00:21:54.11\00:21:55.44
he was kept under guard,
bound with chains and shackles.
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He broke the bones and
was driven by the demon
00:21:59.61\00:22:02.42
into the wilderness.
00:22:02.45\00:22:03.79
Jesus asked, him
saying, 'What is your name?
00:22:03.82\00:22:05.95
What is your name?'"
00:22:05.99\00:22:07.99
Look at the next
verse, verse 31-33,
00:22:08.02\00:22:10.83
what is your name?
00:22:10.86\00:22:12.19
"He said, 'Legion,'
00:22:12.23\00:22:14.46
because many
demons had entered him.'"
00:22:14.50\00:22:18.53
Amazing, many demons.
00:22:18.57\00:22:21.47
"And they begged Him
that he would not command them
00:22:21.50\00:22:23.71
to go out into the abyss.
00:22:23.74\00:22:26.01
Now a herd of many swine
00:22:26.04\00:22:27.38
was feeding
there on the mountain.
00:22:27.41\00:22:29.54
So they begged Him
00:22:29.58\00:22:30.91
that He would permit
them to go into the swine,
00:22:30.95\00:22:33.72
and He permitted them.
00:22:33.75\00:22:35.08
Then the demons went
out of the man" hallelujah
00:22:35.12\00:22:39.12
"went into the swine,
00:22:39.15\00:22:40.49
the herd ran
violently down the steep place
00:22:40.52\00:22:42.89
into the lake
and all got drowned."
00:22:42.92\00:22:49.80
What is this telling you?
00:22:49.83\00:22:53.44
Believe, my friend, in
the God who believes in you
00:22:53.47\00:22:57.01
and believe in the scriptures.
00:22:57.04\00:22:59.74
People go, "I
don't, I can't believe."
00:22:59.77\00:23:01.54
Of course, you can believe it.
00:23:01.58\00:23:02.94
Oh, I can't
believe in dark matter,
00:23:02.98\00:23:04.31
I can' believe in
dark... Well, get with it.
00:23:04.35\00:23:07.45
Every scientist believes it.
00:23:07.48\00:23:09.88
We're talking about
stuff that is more real
00:23:09.92\00:23:13.09
than your fingers and your nose.
00:23:13.12\00:23:16.86
Supernatural beings,
00:23:16.89\00:23:18.76
led by a great master general,
00:23:18.79\00:23:24.70
his name is Satan, Satan,
00:23:24.73\00:23:28.10
Beelzebub, the devil.
00:23:28.14\00:23:31.77
Verse 35.
00:23:31.81\00:23:33.54
Verse 35 says,
"Then they went out to see
00:23:33.58\00:23:37.15
what had
happened, and came to Jesus,
00:23:37.18\00:23:39.95
and found the man
00:23:39.98\00:23:41.32
from whom the
demons had departed,
00:23:41.35\00:23:44.75
sitting at the feet of Jesus,
00:23:44.79\00:23:47.29
clothed and in his right mind.
00:23:47.32\00:23:49.72
They were afraid."
00:23:49.76\00:23:52.19
They're really
just astounded, amazed.
00:23:52.23\00:23:55.16
What is God
trying to get through
00:23:58.43\00:24:00.10
into my slow mind?
00:24:00.14\00:24:04.91
That we're in the
midst of a cosmic battle
00:24:04.94\00:24:08.61
that started eons ago,
00:24:08.64\00:24:12.15
that there is evil in the world,
00:24:12.18\00:24:16.58
and is using millions
of people and leaders.
00:24:16.62\00:24:20.82
Maybe you're caught up in it.
00:24:20.86\00:24:24.56
But the good news is this,
00:24:24.59\00:24:27.00
that Jesus on the
cross beat the devil,
00:24:27.03\00:24:33.10
and He's Lord over all
00:24:33.13\00:24:35.44
and even if you
have demon problems,
00:24:35.47\00:24:38.84
Jesus can save you.
00:24:38.87\00:24:40.88
If you take
Jesus into your heart,
00:24:40.91\00:24:44.05
Jesus will save your soul.
00:24:44.08\00:24:47.58
Why don't you do it now,
00:24:47.62\00:24:48.95
say, Lord Jesus,
come into my heart
00:24:48.98\00:24:51.22
I've been a
sinner. I've been liar.
00:24:51.25\00:24:53.89
I've been dabbling in spiritism.
00:24:53.92\00:24:56.39
I've turned from God.
00:24:56.42\00:24:57.76
I've done all
these wicked things.
00:24:57.79\00:25:00.23
Now, Jesus come into my heart."
00:25:00.26\00:25:03.43
And when the big God
comes in, I tell you,
00:25:03.47\00:25:07.10
all the little
gods run for cover.
00:25:07.14\00:25:12.61
Here it is.
00:25:12.64\00:25:14.78
One day soon,
00:25:14.81\00:25:16.31
Satan and his
host of evil angels
00:25:16.34\00:25:18.71
will be destroyed forever.
00:25:18.75\00:25:20.72
They will be cast
into the lake of fire
00:25:20.75\00:25:22.85
and brimstone, that's hell,
00:25:22.88\00:25:24.99
with all who
follow them, all liars.
00:25:25.02\00:25:28.09
Satan is not in charge of
hell, but he's going to hell,
00:25:28.12\00:25:31.86
he will be
destroyed forever in hell.
00:25:31.89\00:25:35.23
He is not immortal.
00:25:35.26\00:25:37.60
And finally, hallelujah.
00:25:37.63\00:25:42.40
There will be a new heaven
00:25:42.44\00:25:44.31
and a new earth for new people,
00:25:44.34\00:25:48.74
and Christ and His
people will reign forever
00:25:48.78\00:25:53.78
and ever and ever.
00:25:53.82\00:25:56.85
Amen.
00:25:56.89\00:25:58.45
Thanks be to God.
00:25:58.49\00:26:02.62
Listen, listen believe in
the Christ who died for you,
00:26:02.66\00:26:08.76
read his word and say today,
00:26:08.80\00:26:13.13
"Lord Jesus,
come into my heart."
00:26:13.17\00:26:17.21
Amen and amen.
00:26:17.24\00:26:20.38
There's only one
thing that really counts
00:26:24.75\00:26:26.78
in this lifetime, your
relationship to Christ.
00:26:26.82\00:26:31.42
And then if you have
00:26:31.45\00:26:32.79
a right
relationship with Christ,
00:26:32.82\00:26:35.19
you want to tell
people about Christ.
00:26:35.22\00:26:38.06
That's why Jesus said,
"Go into all the world,
00:26:38.09\00:26:40.66
and preach the
gospel to every creature."
00:26:40.70\00:26:44.53
By the grace of God,
we're going to do that,
00:26:44.57\00:26:47.34
we are doing that.
00:26:47.37\00:26:49.24
That is why we're
going back to Cuba,
00:26:49.27\00:26:51.74
to this communist
land, to preach Christ.
00:26:51.77\00:26:56.34
We're accepting an invitation
00:26:56.38\00:26:57.95
to go to the vast,
huge city of Manila,
00:26:57.98\00:27:03.12
the capital of the
Philippines, been there before,
00:27:03.15\00:27:06.15
but by the grace of
God, we're going back.
00:27:06.19\00:27:09.69
Please support us.
00:27:09.72\00:27:11.46
Please stand with us
00:27:11.49\00:27:13.96
in the preaching of
the everlasting gospel.
00:27:14.00\00:27:16.60
You say, "How do you do it?
00:27:16.63\00:27:18.13
Who pays the bills?" We do.
00:27:18.17\00:27:20.97
"Do you get any help,
00:27:21.00\00:27:22.34
financial help from the church?"
00:27:22.37\00:27:23.97
No, my friend, we don't,
00:27:24.01\00:27:25.94
but we get a lot
of help from God,
00:27:25.97\00:27:28.94
and from His children.
00:27:28.98\00:27:30.31
Please support
us in the preaching
00:27:30.35\00:27:33.52
of the everlasting gospel.
00:27:33.55\00:27:35.15
It's the most
important work in all the world.
00:27:35.18\00:27:38.25
Everything else
is almost trivia.
00:27:38.29\00:27:41.36
So would you please
write to me, John Carter,
00:27:41.39\00:27:45.99
P.O. Box 1900, Thousand Oaks,
00:27:46.03\00:27:49.33
California 91358.
00:27:49.36\00:27:53.34
Do your best for Jesus.
00:27:53.37\00:27:55.37
Do your best for the gospel.
00:27:55.40\00:27:57.77
And in Australia,
write to me at Terrigal,
00:27:57.81\00:28:01.48
and we promise
you this, every dime,
00:28:01.51\00:28:05.38
every dollar is going to be used
00:28:05.41\00:28:07.82
to win souls to
our Lord, Jesus Christ
00:28:07.85\00:28:11.85
Please write to me today.
00:28:11.89\00:28:16.09
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00:28:16.12\00:28:18.06
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00:28:26.57\00:28:28.57
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00:28:28.60\00:28:31.74
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