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>>YOU KNOW, IT TELLS US IN
GENESIS THAT IN THE DAYS JUST
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BEFORE THE FLOOD THE THOUGHTS
OF MEN'S HEARTS WERE ONLY EVIL
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CONTINUALLY AND
VIOLENCE FILLED THE LAND.
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AND JESUS SAID, IN THE DAYS JUST
BEFORE HE RETURNED, IT WOULD BE
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AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH.
AND WE CAN SEE THAT IT SEEMS
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LIKE IT'S GETTING THAT WAY NOW.
NOW, YOU EXPECT, WHEN THERE'S A
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FULL-BLOWN WAR AND PEOPLE ARE
ON THE FRONT LINES, THAT YOU ARE
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GOING TO SEE VIOLENCE, BUT WHEN
YOU'RE IN A COUNTRY AND PEOPLE
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ARE TURNING ON EACH
OTHER, THAT'S NOT A GOOD OMEN.
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NOW, I ALREADY HAD CHOSEN
THE SERMON TITLE BEFORE THE
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HEADLINES TOOK THE TURN THEY
TOOK THIS WEEK, DEALING WITH
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SPIRITUAL WARFARE, BUT
IT'S - IT'S ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE
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BECAUSE THERE IS A WAR GOING ON
IN THE WORLD AND WHAT WE THINK
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IS SOMETIMES A WAR IN THE
STREETS, OR A PHYSICAL WAR, IS
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REALLY BEGINNING
WITH A SPIRITUAL WAR.
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THERE'S A BATTLE
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
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>>AMEN. >>NOW,
TODAY'S MESSAGE IS GOING
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TO BE ON SPIRITUAL WARFARE
PART 1 . AND SOME OF YOU MIGHT
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WONDER, 'WELL, PASTOR DOUG, YOU
DIDN'T GIVE US ALL THE ANSWERS
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TO THIS ISSUE.' IT'S BECAUSE
YOU'VE GOT TO COME FOR PART 2.
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AND SO, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TELL
YOU THIS, FRIENDS, BUT WE ARE
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SURROUNDED. YOU ARE
SURROUNDED RIGHT NOW.
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YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY
SOMETHING YOU DON'T SEE.
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NOW YOU THINK I'M TALKING ABOUT
DEVILS. I'M ACTUALLY TALKING
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ABOUT FREQUENCIES. YOU
ARE SURROUNDED RIGHT NOW -
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YOU ARE AWASH - YOU ARE SWIMMING
IN ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIO
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WAVES AND YOU CAN'T SEE THEM.
MATTER OF FACT, THOSE OF YOU
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WHO HAVE SMART PHONES OR APPLE
DEVICES, SOMEBODY JUST CAME OUT
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WITH A NEW APP - THEY'VE
GOT AN APP FOR EVERYTHING.
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IT'S CALLED ARCHITECTURE OF
RADIO AND WHAT THIS APP DOES IS
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IT HELPS YOU VISUALIZE, WHEREVER
YOU ARE, BASED ON GPS SIGNALS
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COMING DOWN TO YOUR PHONE
OR YOUR IPAD WHAT ARE THE RADIO
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WAVES - IT GIVES YOU A
VISUALIZATION OF THE RADIO
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WAVES, TELEVISION WAVES,
FREQUENCIES ALL AROUND YOU.
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AND ITS CREATOR, THE DUTCH
INFORMATION DESIGNER RICHARD
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VIJGEN DEVELOPED THIS SO THAT
IT TAKES THE 7 MILLION TELEPHONE
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CELL TOWERS, 19 MILLION WI-FI
ROUTERS, HUNDREDS OF SATELLITES,
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TELEVISION TOWERS, AND ALL THESE
FREQUENCIES FROM RADIO THAT ARE
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FILLING THE AIR, AND HELPS
YOU MOVE AROUND AND SEE HOW
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BOMBARDED YOU'RE
BEING AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT.
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WOULDN'T THAT BE DISCONCERTING?
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IT'D MAKE YOU, PROBABLY, PUT
ALUMINUM FOIL ON YOUR HEAD AND
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WALK AROUND TRYING
TO PROTECT YOURSELF.
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(LAUGHTER) YOU JUST THINK ABOUT
ALL OF THE RADIO WAVES - AND
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THEN, I'VE THOUGHT BEFORE,
WOULDN'T IT BE INTERESTING FOR
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YOU TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH
ONE OF THE APOSTLES AND TRY TO
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EXPLAIN THAT WE ARE
SWIMMING IN RADIO WAVES?
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TRY AND EXPLAIN IT TO
THOMAS, OF ALL THE APOSTLES.
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SAY, 'YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT,
BUT RIGHT NOW THERE ARE PICTURES
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THAT ARE GOING THROUGH
THE AIR VIA ELECTROMAGNETIC
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FREQUENCIES.'
AND HE'D SAY, 'WHAT?'
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HE WOULD BE AS INCREDULOUS
AT YOUR SUGGESTION ABOUT RADIO
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WAVES AS WE ARE IN OUR
SOPHISTICATED ERA, IF THOMAS
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TOLD US THAT THERE ARE DEMONS
AND ANGELS YOU CAN'T SEE ALL
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AROUND YOU RIGHT NOW.
WHY IS IT, IN OUR CULTURE, WE
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THINK THAT IT'S SCIENTIFIC - I
MEAN, HUNDRED YEARS AGO, IF YOU
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TRIED TO EXPLAIN RADIO
WAVES, PEOPLE WOULD THINK
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YOU'RE A KOOK. BUT WE
KNOW, NOW, THEY'RE THERE.
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SO WHY DO WE FIND IT SO HARD
TO BELIEVE WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS
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THERE'S A WHOLE SPIRITUAL
REALM AND WE JUST DON'T HAVE
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INSTRUMENTS RIGHT NOW TO
DETECT IT, BUT IT'S VERY REAL.
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THERE ARE SPIRITS THAT ARE
AT WAR AROUND US ALL THE TIME -
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GOOD AND EVIL -
THERE IS A BATTLE.
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THERE'S A GREAT
CONTROVERSY THAT IS GOING ON.
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THERE'S A WAR THAT IS GOING
ON AND THEY'RE FIGHTING OVER THE
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TERRITORY OF OUR HEARTS AND
OUR MINDS. AND WE ARE INVOLVED.
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YOU CAN'T SAY, 'WELL, I DON'T
BELIEVE IT SO IT DOESN'T AFFECT
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ME.' WHETHER YOU BELIEVE
IT OR NOT, IT DOES AFFECT YOU.
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AND IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT THEN
YOU'RE ALREADY CAPTIVE BECAUSE
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THERE'S NOTHING THE DEVIL WANTS
MORE THAN FOR YOU TO DISMISS HIS
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REALITY. WELL, IF
WE SAY THERE ARE DEVILS
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OR ANGELS,
WHERE'D THEY COME FROM?
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THEY ARE ORIGINALLY CREATED AS
MINISTERING SPIRITS AND ONE OF
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THE HIGHEST OF GOD'S CREATIONS
WAS THE LEADER OF THE ANGELS WHO
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HAD THE NAME, AS FAR AS
WE KNOW, IT WAS LUCIFER.
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AND HE WAS PERFECT AND IT WAS
A GOOD NAME AND IT MEANS 'LIGHT
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BEARER'. BUT
BECAUSE GOD MAKES ALL OF
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HIS CREATURES FREE AND THEY'RE
INTELLIGENT AND - IN ORDER TO
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LOVE GOD HE GIVES THEM A CHOICE
BECAUSE YOU CAN'T FORCE LOVE.
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LUCIFER BEGAN TO
CHOOSE TO LOVE HIMSELF MORE.
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AND IT PROBABLY
DIDN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT.
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IT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED OVER THE
COURSE OF TEN THOUSAND YEARS.
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YOU KNOW, THEY WERE
CREATED TO LIVE FOREVER.
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WE DON'T KNOW, IT JUST TELLS US
AT SOME POINT HE BEGAN TO WISH
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THAT HE WAS THE MOST HIGH.
BEAUTIFUL ANGEL - POWERFUL,
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INTELLIGENT, TALENTED
- BEGAN TO LOVE HIMSELF.
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AND GRADUALLY HIS LOVE FOR SELF
ECLIPSED HIS LOVE FOR GOD AND
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SEE, GOD DESIGNED US SO THAT
LOVE COMES FROM US AND FLOWS
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OUT. GOD IS LOVE - LOVE IS
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ALWAYS GOING OUT FROM GOD.
THE COMPASS NEEDLE WAS DESTROYED
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IN LUCIFER SO HE
WANTED THE WORSHIP TO COME IN.
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AND HE EVENTUALLY LED A
REBELLION - THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN
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OVERNIGHT, BUT HE BEGAN A
CAMPAIGN AND A REBELLION SAYING
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THAT THE WORLD AND THE UNIVERSE
WOULD BE MUCH HAPPIER IF HE WAS
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IN CHARGE. AND YOU AND I THINK,
'HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?' BUT
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DON'T UNDERESTIMATE - THIS IS A
CREATURE THAT WAS JUST UNDER GOD
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IN POWER AND INTELLIGENCE - AND
HE WAS VERY PERSUASIVE AND VERY
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CUNNING - AND HE'S GOT MOST OF
THE WORLD PERSUADED RIGHT NOW.
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YOU CAN READ ABOUT THIS - IT
TELLS ABOUT WHERE ANGELS COME
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FROM. WHERE DID
DEVILS COME FROM?
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IF YOU LOOK IN REVELATION
12, VERSE 7, "A WAR BROKE OUT IN
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HEAVEN:" - THERE WAS A CONFLICT
- WAR IS THE BEST WORD THAT THE
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WRITER COULD USE TO EXPLAIN
IT IN TERMS WE UNDERSTAND -
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"MICHAEL AND HIS ANGELS FOUGHT
WITH THE DRAGON;" - NOW, YOU
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REALIZE 'DRAGON' IS A
SYMBOLIC WORD FOR WHO?
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>>SATAN. >>THE DEVIL.
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"AND THE DRAGON AND HIS ANGELS
FOUGHT," - MICHAEL, BY THE WAY,
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IS A SYMBOLIC TERM FOR CHRIST.
MICHAEL IS A TERM THAT'S OFTEN
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USED TO DESCRIBE CHRIST
PRIOR TO THE INCARNATION.
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IT MEANS 'THE ONE WHO IS AS
GOD; THE GREATEST MESSENGER' -
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MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL IS NOT AN
ANGEL, LIKE WITH WINGS, IT MEANS
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THE GREAT
MESSENGER WHO IS AS GOD.
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AND IN THE SAME WAY THAT THE
DRAGON IS THE LEADER OF THE EVIL
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ANGELS, IT'S A TITLE FOR THE
DEVIL - MICHAEL IS A NAME FOR
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CHRIST, THE LEADER OF THE
GOOD ANGELS, WHO IS GOD THE SON.
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AND THERE'S THIS WAR AND THE
DRAGON FOUGHT AND HIS ANGELS -
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NOTICE THE DRAGON HAS ANGELS
- "BUT THEY DID NOT PREVAIL, NOR
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WAS A PLACE FOUND FOR
THEM IN HEAVEN ANY LONGER.
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SO THE GREAT DRAGON WAS CAST" -
TO THE EARTH - HE "WAS CAST OUT,
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THAT SERPENT OF OLD, CALLED THE
DEVIL AND SATAN," - NOW, DO WE
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NEED TO WONDER WHO THE DRAGON
IS, OR DOES THE BIBLE TELL US?
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THE SERPENT, THE
DEVIL, AND SATAN -
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ALL ONE AND THE
SAME. MANY NAMES.
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HE'S APOLLYON, BEELZEBUB - I
MEAN, THERE'S ALL KINDS OF NAMES
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YOU CAN FIND FOR THE DEVIL -
"WHO DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD;"
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- HOW MUCH OF THE
WORLD IS DECEIVED BY HIM?
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>>THE WHOLE
WORLD. >>THE WHOLE WORLD.
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"HE WAS CAST TO THE EARTH, AND
HIS ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH
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HIM." NOW, EVIDENTLY, THERE ARE
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MILLIONS - BILLIONS OF
ANGELS THAT GOD HAS MADE.
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THE BIBLE TELLS US GOD,
APPARENTLY, HAS GUARDIAN ANGELS
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FOR EVERY PERSON AND IF THERE
ARE SEVEN-PLUS BILLION - 7.3
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BILLION PEOPLE AND COUNTING,
IN THE WORLD TODAY, AND THEN THE
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BIBLE INDICATES THAT ONE-THIRD
OF THE ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH
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LUCIFER - IT SAYS WHEN LUCIFER
WAS CAST OUT HE DREW ONE-THIRD
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OF THE STARS - THE DRAGON -
TO THE EARTH AND THAT WOULD MEAN
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THERE'S BILLIONS
OF FALLEN ANGELS.
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I THINK WE'D BE SURPRISED -
AND ANGELS WERE NOT ONLY MADE TO
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MINISTER TO OUR WORLD, GOD HAS
THESE MINISTERING ANGELS THAT
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WORKED AND DID HIS
BIDDING THROUGH THE COSMOS.
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AND SO, THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT AN
INNUMERABLE COMPANY OF ANGELS.
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SO THERE ARE VERY MANY, BUT
A THIRD OF THEM FOLLOW LUCIFER
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AND THERE WAS A FINAL CONFLICT.
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AND LUCIFER - THEY FIRST WERE
CAST OUT OF HEAVEN - AND WHEN ON
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THE EARTH HE FINALLY FOUND SOME,
IN OUR FIRST PARENTS, ADAM AND
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EVE, WHO WOULD LISTEN
TO HIM INSTEAD OF GOD.
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GOD SAID, 'DON'T EAT THE
FORBIDDEN FRUIT.' THE DEVIL
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SAID, 'GO AHEAD AND EAT IT.'
WHEN OUR FIRST PARENTS SAID,
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'WE'RE GOING TO LISTEN TO THE
DEVIL'S WORD INSTEAD OF GOD'S
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WORD, THE BIBLE SAYS WHOEVER YOU
OBEY, THAT'S WHOSE SERVANTS YOU
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ARE. THEY
SURRENDERED THE DOMINION OF
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OUR WORLD TO THE DEVIL
AND, FROM THAT POINT ON, SATAN
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WAS CAST TO THIS EARTH. HE
FOUND A BEACHHEAD TO CONTINUE
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HIS REBELLION AGAINST GOD AND
HE TAKES GREAT DELIGHT IN USING
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HUMANS TO MANIPULATE THEM IN HIS
CAMPAIGN AGAINST GOD. YOU CAN
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READ IN ISAIAH 14, SATAN WAS
CAST OUT - "HOW YOU ARE FALLEN
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FROM HEAVEN, O
LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING!" -
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HE WANTED TO BE GOD.
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YOU READ IN 1 JOHN 5, VERSE 19,
"WE KNOW THAT WE ARE OF GOD, AND
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THE WHOLE WORLD LIES UNDER
THE SWAY OF THE WICKED ONE."
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REVELATION WE JUST READ -
HE DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD.
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HERE, JOHN SAYS, THE WHOLE
WORLD LIES UNDER THE SWAY OF THE
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WICKED ONE. AND SO,
WHEN WE SEE ALL THESE
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BAD THINGS HAPPEN IN THE WORLD,
AS YOU SAW ON THE NEWS THIS WEEK
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- PEOPLE ARE OFTEN ASKING
IF THERE'S A GOD, WHY DO SO
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MANY BAD THINGS HAPPEN? I
THINK WE OUGHT TO BE ASKING
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THE QUESTION DIFFERENTLY: SINCE
THE WHOLE WORLD IS UNDER THE
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SWAY OF THE WICKED ONE, WHY
DO SO MANY GOOD THINGS HAPPEN?
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BUT AS THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND
HIS RESTRAINING ANGELS ARE BEING
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DRIVEN FROM OUR WORLD, WE'RE
GOING TO SEE THE RESULTS OF
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THAT. AND THAT'S
WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW.
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PSALM 8, VERSES 4 AND 5, MAN HAS
BEEN MADE "A LITTLE LOWER THAN
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THE ANGELS, AND...CROWNED
HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOR."
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SO ANGELS ARE MORE
POWERFUL THAN PEOPLE.
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THEY ARE CREATED BY GOD - EACH
ONE ORIGINAL - THEY DON'T GIVE
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BIRTH. ANGELS NEITHER
MARRY NOR ARE GIVEN IN MARRIAGE.
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AND SO THERE'S THESE MINISTERING
SPIRITS, THEY ARE INTELLIGENT,
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THEY HAVE INDIVIDUAL WILLS
- SOME CHOSE TO LISTEN TO GOD,
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SOME CHOSE NOT
TO. THEY HAVE NAMES.
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IF GOD HAS GOT A NAME FOR ALL
OF THE STARS IN THE SKY AND HE'S
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NUMBERED THE HAIRS OF OUR HEAD,
THEN THESE ANGELS - GOOD AND BAD
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- HAVE INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERS.
THEY'RE NOT ALL JUST LIKE A
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COOKIE CUTTER COMING
OUT LIKE MODEL T FORDS.
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THEY'RE INDIVIDUALS.
THEY'RE INTELLIGENT.
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AND IN THE SAME WAY GOD
HAS GUARDIAN ANGELS THAT HE'S
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ASSIGNED TO PROTECT US, I
SUSPECT THE DEVIL HAS ANGELS
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THAT ARE ASSIGNED TO BRING
US DOWN AND HE'S MORE CONCERNED
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WITH SOME OF US THAN WITH
OTHERS. AND THEY, MAYBE, STUDY
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OUR WEAKNESSES. NOW, THERE'S A
BOOK THAT WAS WRITTEN - THE BOOK
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IS FICTION AND I DON'T RECOMMEND
EVERYTHING C.S. LEWIS WRITES,
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BUT C.S. LEWIS WROTE A BOOK
CALLED THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS -
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HAVE ANY OF YOU
READ THAT? I READ IT.
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I READ IT WHEN I WAS UP IN THE
CAVE YEARS AGO AND IT DOES - IF
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NOTHING ELSE, IT MAKES YOU THINK
ABOUT THE PLOTTING AND PLANNING
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AND THE INTENSITY OF HOW ANGELS
- FALLEN ANGELS - ARE WORKING TO
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BRING ABOUT THE
OVERTHROW OF EVERY SOUL.
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THE BOOK IS
TRUE IN THAT RESPECT.
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THERE - THERE IS A
WHOLE BATTLE THAT IS RAGING.
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THERE'S A WAR THAT'S GOING ON.
MOST OF US DON'T THINK ABOUT IT.
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JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T THINK
ABOUT RADIO WAVES, DOESN'T MEAN
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THEY DON'T EXIST. THEY'RE
REAL. NOW, WHAT ARE THEIR NAMES?
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NOW, I'M NOT GOING TO NAME
ALL THE DEVILS, BUT SOME OF THE
00:12:44.36\00:12:45.93
NAMES THEY GO UNDER - YOU'VE
HEARD PEOPLE TALK ABOUT DEMONS,
00:12:45.93\00:12:50.27
DEVILS, EVIL SPIRITS, UNCLEAN
SPIRITS, WICKED SPIRITS, FALLEN
00:12:50.27\00:12:59.24
ANGELS, GOBLINS, GREMLINS,
GHOSTS, BOGEYMEN - THERE'S ALL
00:12:59.24\00:13:03.14
KINDS OF THINGS THAT - EVIL
TITLES - THAT PEOPLE ASSIGN TO
00:13:03.14\00:13:07.32
THESE FALLEN ANGELS.
WHY DO I BELIEVE IN THEM?
00:13:07.32\00:13:12.49
WELL, THERE'S THREE PRINCIPLE
REASONS: 1) THE BIBLE AND CHRIST
00:13:12.49\00:13:17.53
PLAINLY SAY THAT THEY
EXIST. SO THAT, RIGHT THERE,
00:13:17.53\00:13:20.80
WOULD BE ENOUGH.
THE BIBLE IS VERY
00:13:20.80\00:13:22.60
CLEAR THAT THEY EXIST. 2)
I SEE THE EVIDENCE OF THEIR
00:13:22.60\00:13:27.07
WORK EVERYWHERE - AND
WE SAW IT AGAIN THIS WEEK.
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THERE IS CONSUMMATE EVIL IN
THE WORLD TODAY THAT JUST GOES
00:13:32.14\00:13:35.78
BEYOND EXPLANATION. 3)
THE GREAT SCHOLARS AND BIBLE
00:13:35.78\00:13:41.25
CHARACTERS RECOGNIZED THEIR
EXISTENCE. AND THOSE WHO READ
00:13:41.25\00:13:46.39
THE BIBLE AND HAVE STUDIED
IT, THEY CAN ALSO SEE THAT IT'S
00:13:46.39\00:13:50.19
PRETTY CLEAR THAT THEY EXIST.
YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE THING, ALSO,
00:13:50.19\00:13:53.63
THAT VIRTUALLY EVERY RELIGION
AGREES ON. THEY HAVE DIFFERENT
00:13:53.63\00:13:57.40
VIEWS ON IT, BUT JUST ABOUT
EVERY RELIGION IN THE WORLD HAS
00:13:57.40\00:14:01.40
SOME EXPLANATION FOR
GOOD AND EVIL, ADMITTING THAT
00:14:01.40\00:14:06.27
THERE ARE GOOD AND EVIL POWERS -
THEY'VE GOT THE GREAT SPIRIT AND
00:14:06.27\00:14:09.64
THEY'VE GOT THE EVIL SPIRIT AND
THEY - YOU KNOW, IN THE GREAT
00:14:09.64\00:14:13.58
PANTHEON OF GOD THEY HAD
THE GOOD GODS AND THEY HAD THE
00:14:13.58\00:14:16.45
MENACING GODS AND - AND EVEN
IN THE RELIGION OF ISLAM THEY'VE
00:14:16.45\00:14:22.62
GOT THIS 'JIN'
CALLED 'THE DEVIL'.
00:14:22.62\00:14:25.39
THEY'VE GOT AN EXPLANATION
FOR THESE EVIL FORCES.
00:14:25.39\00:14:28.43
NOW, IT IS INTERESTING THAT IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT YOU CAN ONLY
00:14:28.43\00:14:33.90
FIND ONE OR TWO EXAMPLES OF
SOMEONE WHO IS DEMON POSSESSED.
00:14:33.90\00:14:37.84
KING SAUL WAS ONE. IN
THE EPISTLES OF THE APOSTLES,
00:14:37.84\00:14:46.18
THEY ALMOST NEVER
ADDRESS DEMONIC POSSESSION.
00:14:46.18\00:14:52.52
YOU DO FIND IT RECORDED IN THE
BOOK OF ACTS, BUT WHEN YOU'RE IN
00:14:52.52\00:14:56.66
THE GOSPELS, THE STORY OF JESUS'
MINISTRY - IT REACHES A FEVER
00:14:56.66\00:15:01.23
PITCH AND IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE
THE PREACHING OF CHRIST WAS SUCH
00:15:01.23\00:15:06.90
AN IRRITATION TO THESE DEVILS
THAT THEY JUST STARTED OOZING
00:15:06.90\00:15:09.90
OUT OF THE WOODWORK WHENEVER
JESUS WENT THROUGH A TOWN.
00:15:09.90\00:15:12.94
HE WAS A LIVING
TESTIMONY THAT THEY ARE DOOMED.
00:15:12.94\00:15:17.31
SO THEY ARE REAL.
WHAT IS THE GOAL OF THE
00:15:17.31\00:15:22.05
DEVIL AND HIS FALLEN ANGELS?
YOU REALIZE THE DEVIL IS JUST -
00:15:22.05\00:15:25.72
HE IS THE SUPREME FALLEN ANGEL.
AND OFTEN WE'LL SAY, 'WELL, THE
00:15:25.72\00:15:29.56
DEVIL IS TEMPTING ME.'
DO YOU THINK IT'S THE DEVIL
00:15:29.56\00:15:31.43
PERSONALLY TEMPTING YOU?
HE'S OFTEN OPERATING THROUGH
00:15:31.43\00:15:35.26
ONE OF HIS FALLEN ANGELS.
QUITE FRANKLY, SINCE THE DEVIL
00:15:35.26\00:15:38.10
IS NOT ALL KNOWING, THE DEVIL
DOESN'T KNOW ALL YOUR NAMES.
00:15:38.10\00:15:42.17
HE'S PROBABLY DELEGATED THAT TO
SOME OF HIS - AND HE - THE BIBLE
00:15:42.17\00:15:46.64
TALKS ABOUT THERE'S AN
ORGANIZATION AMONG THE ANGELS,
00:15:46.64\00:15:49.88
GOOD AND BAD - THEY'RE
ORGANIZED IN THEIR WORK.
00:15:49.88\00:15:52.68
THERE'S A HIERARCHY
AMONG THE ANGELS, GOOD AND BAD.
00:15:52.68\00:15:56.95
AND THEY'RE ORGANIZED LIKE AN
ARMY IS ORGANIZED AND THERE ARE
00:15:56.95\00:16:01.42
SOME SERGEANTS AND PRIVATES
ASSIGNED TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
00:16:01.42\00:16:06.23
SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THAT - IN
THE BOOK OF ACTS - I THINK IT'S
00:16:06.23\00:16:09.90
CHAPTER 19 - THESE EXORCISTS -
THESE SONS OF SCEVA WERE TRYING
00:16:09.90\00:16:13.17
TO CAST OUT DEVILS AND THEY
HEARD HOW PAUL WAS CASTING OUT
00:16:13.17\00:16:16.14
DEVILS IN THE NAME OF JESUS.
THEY THOUGHT, 'WELL, WE'LL TRY
00:16:16.14\00:16:18.41
THAT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE
JUST SAY THE WORD 'JESUS' LIKE
00:16:18.41\00:16:20.28
ABRACADABRA AND IT'LL WORK.' SO
THEY FOUND THIS DEMON POSSESSED
00:16:20.28\00:16:23.21
MAN AND THEY SAID, 'IN THE NAME
OF JESUS, WHO PAUL PREACHES, WE
00:16:23.21\00:16:27.68
CAST YOU OUT.' AND THE DEVIL
SAID SOMETHING INTERESTING.
00:16:27.68\00:16:30.42
YES, DEVILS TALK THROUGH PEOPLE
IN THE BIBLE - WE'LL GET TO THAT
00:16:30.42\00:16:33.15
LATER. THE DEVIL
SAID, 'I KNOW JESUS.'
00:16:33.15\00:16:37.59
BECAUSE THEY KNEW JESUS BEFORE
THE FALL - HE WAS THEIR CREATOR.
00:16:37.59\00:16:40.56
ALL THINGS THAT WERE
MADE, WERE MADE BY CHRIST.
00:16:40.56\00:16:42.36
THOSE FALLEN ANGELS WERE ONCE
GOOD ANGELS AND JESUS MADE THEM
00:16:42.36\00:16:46.77
AND THEY REBELLED. HE
SAID, 'I KNOW JESUS AND I
00:16:46.77\00:16:50.21
KNOW PAUL, BUT' -
HE SAID, 'WHO ARE YOU?'
00:16:50.21\00:16:54.54
IN OTHER WORDS, 'THERE ARE A
LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE, THEY'RE
00:16:54.54\00:16:56.88
JUST SO SWALLOWED UP WITH THE
DARKNESS OF THE WORLD THAT THE
00:16:56.88\00:17:00.12
DEVIL DOESN'T
EVEN FRET ABOUT THEM.
00:17:00.12\00:17:02.98
IT MAKES YOU WONDER, DO YOU WANT
TO PRAY THAT YOU CAN LIVE A LIFE
00:17:02.98\00:17:05.52
THAT THE DEVIL
WILL TAKE NOTICE OF?
00:17:05.52\00:17:07.76
THAT'S ONE OF
THOSE TRICK QUESTIONS.
00:17:07.76\00:17:09.52
DO YOU WANT TO LIVE A LIFE THAT
IS GOING TO BE SO GODLY THAT THE
00:17:09.52\00:17:14.73
DEVIL WILL KNOW
WHO YOU ARE? >>AMEN.
00:17:14.73\00:17:17.43
>>AND THE RIGHT ANSWER WOULD
BE 'YES', BUT WHEN YOU SAY THAT,
00:17:17.43\00:17:20.77
THEN YOU THINK, 'I DON'T
WANT ANY MORE ATTENTION FROM THE
00:17:20.77\00:17:23.74
DEVIL,' RIGHT? NOW
HOW MANY OF YOU WILL ADMIT
00:17:23.74\00:17:27.51
THAT YOU ARE DEMON HARASSED?
YOU SEE PEOPLE RAISING THEIR
00:17:27.51\00:17:34.32
HAND, THEY'RE GOING, 'DEMON
HARASSED' - I DIDN'T SAY 'DEMON
00:17:34.32\00:17:37.69
POSSESSED' IF YOU NOTICE THAT.
IF SOMEONE SAID, 'I'M DEMON
00:17:37.69\00:17:41.69
POSSESSED' EVERYONE'S GOING
TO MOVE AWAY FROM THAT PERSON.
00:17:41.69\00:17:43.96
(LAUGHTER) DEMON HARASSED - IF
IT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER, JESUS
00:17:43.96\00:17:48.83
WAS DEMON HARASSED.
PAUL WAS DEMON HARASSED.
00:17:48.83\00:17:52.70
PAUL SAID SATAN
SENT A THORN IN HIS SIDE.
00:17:52.70\00:17:55.50
AND SO, ALL OF US, IF YOU'RE
TRYING TO BE A CHRISTIAN, WE'RE
00:17:55.50\00:18:00.11
DEMON HARASSED. YOU KNOW, A
DEAD FISH WILL FLOAT DOWNSTREAM.
00:18:00.11\00:18:05.58
IT TAKES A LIVE FISH TO GO
UPSTREAM AGAINST THE CURRENT.
00:18:05.58\00:18:09.22
AND IF YOU'RE TRYING TO LIVE A
CHRISTIAN LIFE, YOU'VE GOT TO BE
00:18:09.22\00:18:12.25
ALIVE AND YOU'RE GOING
TO MEET WITH RESISTANCE.
00:18:12.25\00:18:17.36
SO DON'T FEEL BAD TO SAY,
'THE DEVIL CAUSES ME PROBLEMS,
00:18:17.36\00:18:21.86
BECAUSE IF YOU'RE ALIVE,
YOU'RE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH
00:18:21.86\00:18:24.20
TEMPTATION. WE'RE
GOING TO TALK ABOUT - THIS
00:18:24.20\00:18:25.70
IS SPIRITUAL WARFARE
- YOU'RE INVOLVED IN IT.
00:18:25.70\00:18:27.60
YOU'RE GOING TO FEEL THIS
CURRENT THAT IS PUSHING YOU AWAY
00:18:27.60\00:18:31.04
FROM GOD ALL THE TIME.
IT'S LIKE A GRAVITY THAT IS
00:18:31.04\00:18:35.01
TRYING TO KEEP YOU DOWN.
AND GOD GIVES US COUNSEL IN HIS
00:18:35.01\00:18:38.88
WORD TO KNOW HOW TO DEAL
WITH THE ENEMY. BUT, YOU KNOW
00:18:38.88\00:18:41.78
IF YOU'RE GOING TO
FIGHT ANY ENEMY, YOU NEED
00:18:41.78\00:18:43.32
TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
AND WHENEVER I SHARE A MESSAGE
00:18:43.32\00:18:46.29
LIKE THIS, I ALWAYS FEEL
CONFLICTED, BECAUSE I DON'T
00:18:46.29\00:18:51.93
LIKE TALKING ABOUT THE DEVIL.
I - HE LOVES TO GET ATTENTION.
00:18:51.93\00:18:57.23
HE IS CONSUMED WITH SELF, BUT I
HAVE TO DO IT BECAUSE THE BIBLE
00:18:57.23\00:19:03.17
DOES IT AND IT IS A VERY REAL
PROBLEM THAT WE NEED TO CONSIDER
00:19:03.17\00:19:07.34
AND TO BE AWARE OF. SO
WHAT IS THE GOAL OF SATAN?
00:19:07.34\00:19:12.11
WHAT'S HE AFTER, ANYWAY?
00:19:12.11\00:19:13.68
IF I WAS TO SUMMARIZE IT, I'D
SAY THE MAIN GOAL OF THE DEVIL
00:19:13.68\00:19:16.25
IS TO ERASE THE IMAGE OF GOD
FROM MAN, TO SEPARATE US FROM
00:19:16.25\00:19:21.12
JESUS - HE WANTS TO INFLICT AS
MUCH SUFFERING AND MISERY ON THE
00:19:21.12\00:19:25.49
HUMAN RACE AS HE CAN AND
THEN POINT THE BLAME TO GOD.
00:19:25.49\00:19:28.76
AND HE SAID, 'YOU
MADE THESE CREATURES.
00:19:28.76\00:19:29.86
LOOK HOW MISERABLE THEY
ARE. IT'S BECAUSE OF YOUR LAW.
00:19:29.86\00:19:31.97
IT'S BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU'VE
DONE.' THE DEVIL IS A MASTER -
00:19:31.97\00:19:34.40
THE DEVIL WILL TELL YOU TO DO
SOMETHING WRONG AND THEN HE'LL
00:19:34.40\00:19:36.24
TURN YOU IN FOR DOING IT.
MY BROTHER DID THAT TO ME ONCE.
00:19:36.24\00:19:42.01
WE WERE PLAYING IN MY FATHER'S
PARKED CAR - MY FATHER HAD A
00:19:42.01\00:19:45.95
LINCOLN CONTINENTAL AND,
YOU KNOW, WE'RE PRETENDING WE'RE
00:19:45.95\00:19:50.82
DRIVING AND WE DIDN'T - THE KEYS
WEREN'T IN THE CAR - AND THEN I
00:19:50.82\00:19:55.06
REMEMBER MY BROTHER SAID - I
DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, I WAS LIKE
00:19:55.06\00:19:56.96
FOUR OR FIVE YEARS OLD - I
WAS STILL IN CALIFORNIA - AND MY
00:19:56.96\00:20:00.30
BROTHER SAID, 'DOUGIE,' HE SAID,
'PULL THAT PEDAL' OR 'PUSH THE
00:20:00.30\00:20:06.84
PEDAL' AND I WENT TO DO IT AND
HE SAID, 'WAIT A MINUTE.' AND HE
00:20:06.84\00:20:10.44
GOT OUT OF THE CAR.
(LAUGHTER) AND SO I PULLED THE
00:20:10.44\00:20:16.71
PEDAL AND I GUESS IT WAS
THE EMERGENCY BRAKE AND THE CAR
00:20:16.71\00:20:19.85
STARTED ROLLING
BACK DOWN THE DRIVEWAY.
00:20:19.85\00:20:22.38
IT DIDN'T ROLL VERY FAR - AND
MY BROTHER WENT RUNNING IN THE
00:20:22.38\00:20:24.92
HOUSE AND SAID, 'DOUGIE'S
PLAYING WITH THE CAR AND IT'S
00:20:24.92\00:20:28.26
ROLLING AWAY.'
AND I GOT PUNISHED.
00:20:28.26\00:20:31.06
I SAID, 'HE TOLD ME TO DO IT
AND THEN HE TURNED ME IN.' YEARS
00:20:31.06\00:20:35.50
LATER MY STEP-BROTHER AND I, WE
GOT A CUP FROM MY BROTHER AND IT
00:20:35.50\00:20:38.53
SAID, 'LITTLE ANGEL' BECAUSE WE
ALWAYS GOT IN TROUBLE AND HE WAS
00:20:38.53\00:20:40.67
ALWAYS THE LITTLE
ANGEL - 'I DIDN'T DO IT!
00:20:40.67\00:20:42.20
THEY WERE THE ONES
DOING IT.' BUT HE WAS ALWAYS
00:20:42.20\00:20:43.81
TELLING US WHAT TO.
SO WHAT ARE THE TOOLS
00:20:43.81\00:20:47.71
OF SATAN'S
TRADE? WELL, HE'S GOT A
00:20:47.71\00:20:51.75
PRETTY GOOD TOOL BOX.
REVELATION 16:14, "FOR THEY
00:20:51.75\00:20:56.75
ARE SPIRITS OF
DEMONS, WORKING MIRACLES."
00:20:56.75\00:21:00.22
REVELATION TELLS US
THAT THESE FALLEN ANGELS,
00:21:00.22\00:21:03.76
THEY CAN DO SIGNS
AND WONDERS AND MIRACLES.
00:21:03.76\00:21:06.36
THERE ARE A LOT OF RELIGIONS
THAT GAIN THEIR CREDIBILITY
00:21:06.36\00:21:09.60
BECAUSE FALLEN ANGELS DID SIGNS
AND WONDERS AND BROUGHT PEOPLE
00:21:09.60\00:21:12.53
IN AND IT WAS ALL THE DEVIL
THAT WAS MANIPULATING PEOPLE.
00:21:12.53\00:21:17.34
SO SATAN DOES HAVE A
CERTAIN AMOUNT OF POWER.
00:21:17.34\00:21:19.94
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS READ THE
BOOK OF JOB, WHICH, BY THE WAY,
00:21:19.94\00:21:21.94
WE ALL DID TOGETHER NOT TOO LONG
AGO. 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9, "THE
00:21:21.94\00:21:27.18
COMING OF THE LAWLESS ONE
IS ACCORDING TO THE WORKING OF
00:21:27.18\00:21:30.25
SATAN, WITH ALL POWER,
SIGNS, AND LYING WONDERS."
00:21:30.25\00:21:36.19
NOW, WHEN THE LORD BROUGHT THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT,
00:21:36.19\00:21:38.76
IT TALKED ABOUT GOD DID MANY
SIGNS AND WONDERS - MIRACLES
00:21:38.76\00:21:42.66
HAPPENED - BUT
THESE ARE LYING WONDERS.
00:21:42.66\00:21:46.07
THE DEVIL CAN PERFORM MIRACLES
AND HE OFTEN DOES THAT TO
00:21:46.07\00:21:49.64
DECEIVE. YOU CAN
READ, ALSO, IN THE BOOK
00:21:49.64\00:21:52.31
OF JOB, CHAPTER 2, VERSE 7 -
THE DEVIL CAN BRING SICKNESS.
00:21:52.31\00:21:57.61
"SO SATAN WENT OUT FROM THE
PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AND STRUCK
00:21:57.61\00:22:00.52
JOB WITH PAINFUL BOILS FROM THE
SOLE OF HIS FOOT TO THE CROWN OF
00:22:00.52\00:22:04.75
HIS HEAD." A LOT
OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
00:22:04.75\00:22:06.72
MADE SICK BY THE DEVIL.
NOW, OF COURSE, THERE'S SOME
00:22:06.72\00:22:10.09
SICKNESS THAT OBVIOUSLY
COMES WITH AGE OR SICKNESS THAT
00:22:10.09\00:22:13.09
MAY COME WITH BACTERIA.
THERE'S SOME NATURALLY-INDUCED
00:22:13.09\00:22:15.46
SICKNESS, AND THEN THERE
ARE SUPERNATURAL AILMENTS.
00:22:15.46\00:22:20.14
LUKE 13:16 - JESUS HEALED A
WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN BENT OVER FOR
00:22:20.14\00:22:23.81
18 YEARS. LISTEN TO
HOW CHRIST DESCRIBED
00:22:23.81\00:22:26.01
IT: "SO OUGHT NOT THIS WOMAN,
BEING A DAUGHTER OF ABRAHAM,
00:22:26.01\00:22:29.51
WHOM SATAN HAS BOUND
FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS," -
00:22:29.51\00:22:32.18
SATAN HAS BOUND HER - "BE LOOSED
FROM THIS BOND ON THE SABBATH?"
00:22:32.18\00:22:37.12
AND JESUS HEALED HER AND SHE WAS
STRAIGHTENED FOR THE FIRST TIME
00:22:37.12\00:22:39.59
IN 18 YEARS - SHE HAD
BEEN ALL HUNCHED OVER.
00:22:39.59\00:22:42.89
KAREN TELLS ME
I'M LOSING MY POSTURE.
00:22:42.89\00:22:46.63
SHE SAYS I NEED A HEALING.
BUT I THINK MINE'S JUST AGE.
00:22:46.63\00:22:51.23
NOW THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
DEMON HARASSMENT AND DEMON
00:22:51.23\00:22:55.44
POSSESSION - AS I MENTIONED.
ALL OF US ARE HARASSED - WE'RE
00:22:55.44\00:22:59.51
ALL TEMPTED - BUT THE BIBLE SAYS
THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE POSSESSED
00:22:59.51\00:23:02.84
AND IT'S VERY CLEAR AND WE'LL
TALK ABOUT THAT IN A MOMENT.
00:23:02.84\00:23:06.51
SOME OTHER THINGS THAT THE DEVIL
DOES, JUST GENERALLY SPEAKING -
00:23:06.51\00:23:09.12
AND I'LL GIVE YOU A
SCRIPTURE FOR EACH ONE OF THESE.
00:23:09.12\00:23:11.29
IF YOU WANT, LATER, I CAN POST
MY NOTES ONLINE AND YOU'LL HAVE
00:23:11.29\00:23:13.89
THE REFERENCES. THE DEVIL
DECEIVES AND HE PERSECUTES -
00:23:13.89\00:23:18.33
REVELATION 12:9 AND 13; HE
MAKES WAR AGAINST GOD'S PEOPLE.
00:23:18.33\00:23:23.97
IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER, YOU'RE THE
SPECIAL TARGET OF HIS ANGER -
00:23:23.97\00:23:28.60
HIS WRATH. HE
FALSELY ACCUSES - MATTER OF
00:23:28.60\00:23:32.74
FACT, THE WORD 'DEVIL' MEANS
'SLANDERER' - HE SLANDERS -
00:23:32.74\00:23:36.51
HE'S CALLED THE ACCUSER OF
THE BRETHREN. YOU MAY REMEMBER
00:23:36.51\00:23:38.45
THERE IN THE BOOK
ZECHARIAH, IT TALKS ABOUT SATAN
00:23:38.45\00:23:40.52
STOOD THERE BY THE HIGH PRIEST,
POINTING HIS FINGER AND ACCUSING
00:23:40.52\00:23:44.19
BECAUSE HIS GARMENTS
WERE FILTHY. HE'S A MURDERER.
00:23:44.19\00:23:48.76
JESUS SAID, IN JOHN CHAPTER
8:44, HE'S THE FIRST MURDERER
00:23:48.76\00:23:52.49
WHO INSPIRED CAIN
TO KILL HIS BROTHER.
00:23:52.49\00:23:54.66
THE DEVIL WAS BUSY THIS WEEK
- HE INSPIRES THAT VIOLENCE.
00:23:54.66\00:23:58.60
HE PROMPTS BETRAYAL.
WHAT WAS IT - SATAN ENTERED
00:23:58.60\00:24:02.50
JUDAS AND JUDAS
WENT OUT AND SOLD JESUS.
00:24:02.50\00:24:05.91
THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS.
HE TRAPS AND HE ENSNARES
00:24:05.91\00:24:09.54
THROUGH A VARIETY OF WAYS.
2 TIMOTHY 2:26, 1 PETER 5:8.
00:24:09.54\00:24:15.48
HE BRINGS DISEASE. WE TOUCHED
ON THAT. HE IMPRISONED - HE
00:24:15.48\00:24:20.79
IMPRISONS - LUKE - I'M
SORRY, REVELATION 2:10.
00:24:20.79\00:24:23.83
HE'LL POSSESS OR HINDER A
PERSON - LUKE 22:3 THROUGH 5;
00:24:23.83\00:24:28.03
1 THESSALONIANS 2:18. HE
CAN APPEAR AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT.
00:24:28.03\00:24:31.73
NOW, WHEN THE DEVIL CAME TO
TEMPT JESUS IN THE WILDERNESS -
00:24:31.73\00:24:34.40
I'M ASSUMING YOU ALL KNOW THE
STORY YOU CAN FIND IN MATTHEW
00:24:34.40\00:24:36.91
AND MARK - OR MATTHEW AND LUKE -
AND HE SAID, 'IF YOU'RE THE SON
00:24:36.91\00:24:43.08
OF GOD, TURN THESE STONES INTO
LOAVES OF BREAD.' DO YOU THINK
00:24:43.08\00:24:47.42
THAT THE DEVIL PLOPPED DOWN
ON THE GROUND THERE IN FRONT OF
00:24:47.42\00:24:50.79
JESUS, SNAPPING HIS POINTED RED
TAIL, WEARING HIS RED LEOTARDS
00:24:50.79\00:24:56.06
AND HIS BAT WINGS AND HIS GOATEE
- GOATEES ARE COMING BACK IN
00:24:56.06\00:25:01.23
STYLE. IS IT JUST
ME OR ARE MORE AND
00:25:01.23\00:25:03.00
MORE PEOPLE GROWING BEARDS?
AND, YOU KNOW, I GROW A BEARD.
00:25:03.00\00:25:07.40
I LIKE GROWING A BEARD BECAUSE I
DON'T HAVE TO SHAVE, BUT PEOPLE
00:25:07.40\00:25:10.54
TELL ME I LOOK LIKE A
SINISTER MINISTER WHEN I DO.
00:25:10.54\00:25:13.64
(LAUGHTER) AND - BUT IT'S GRAY
NOW, SO IT DOESN'T LOOK NEAR
00:25:13.64\00:25:17.58
AS DIABOLICAL
AS IT USED TO LOOK.
00:25:17.58\00:25:20.28
BUT, THEY'VE GOT THIS IDEA
HE'S GOT THE HORNS - DO YOU SEE
00:25:20.28\00:25:25.22
ANYTHING IN THE BIBLE THAT
PORTRAYS THE DEVIL THAT WAY?
00:25:25.22\00:25:28.96
IN SOME OF OUR GRAPHICS - OUR
ARTWORK - YOU MAY SEE THE DEVIL,
00:25:28.96\00:25:31.43
YOU KNOW, IS PICTURED AS THE
TYPICAL THING, BUT IT'S JUST -
00:25:31.43\00:25:34.00
IT'S JUST AN ARTIST'S CONCEPT.
00:25:34.00\00:25:35.56
NO, THE DEVIL WAS A BEAUTIFUL
ANGEL AND WHEN HE APPEARED TO
00:25:35.56\00:25:38.43
JESUS DURING THAT GREAT
TEMPTATION, HE PROBABLY CAME
00:25:38.43\00:25:40.74
LOOKING LIKE AN ANGEL
SENT FROM GOD TO BRING RELIEF.
00:25:40.74\00:25:43.77
ANGELS DID COME TO HELP JESUS
IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE.
00:25:43.77\00:25:48.44
ANGELS DID COME AND TAKE CARE OF
ELIJAH IN THE WILDERNESS WHEN HE
00:25:48.44\00:25:51.98
WAS HUNGRY AND TIRED. AND
SO, IT'S LIKE THE ANGEL CAME
00:25:51.98\00:25:55.58
AND SAYS, 'I HAVE
BEEN SENT FROM HEAVEN.
00:25:55.58\00:25:57.19
NOW, IF YOU'RE THE SON OF GOD,
JUST DO ONE LITTLE MIRACLE HERE
00:25:57.19\00:25:59.29
AND LET'S PROVE THAT YOU STILL
BELIEVE.' AND HE WAS SO SUBTLE.
00:25:59.29\00:26:02.99
I MEAN, YOU AND I SOMETIMES MISS
WHAT WAS GOING ON THERE, BUT IT
00:26:02.99\00:26:05.19
WAS A REAL TEMPTATION. HE
CAN APPEAR AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT.
00:26:05.19\00:26:08.73
NOW, IF HE CAN APPEAR AS AN
ANGEL OF LIGHT DURING CHRIST'S
00:26:08.73\00:26:12.00
TIME, CAN HE STILL DO IT TODAY?
WHAT DO YOU THINK - GOD CAME TO
00:26:12.00\00:26:17.04
EARTH IN THE FORM OF A MAN
- THE INCARNATION IS JESUS.
00:26:17.04\00:26:21.48
BEFORE THE END OF THE WORLD,
SATAN IS SAVING HIS MASTERPIECE.
00:26:21.48\00:26:24.51
YOU KNOW, AT THE END OF THE SHOW
YOU'VE GOT THE BIG CRESCENDO -
00:26:24.51\00:26:26.38
THE CLIMAX - AND THE
FINAL MASTERPIECE OF SATAN'S
00:26:26.38\00:26:30.02
MASQUERADE IS GOING TO BE HE
WILL COME, NOT JUST AS AN ANGEL
00:26:30.02\00:26:34.72
OF LIGHT, BUT HE WILL COME AND
APPEAR TO BE THE DAZZLING CHRIST
00:26:34.72\00:26:38.16
HIMSELF. AND
MUCH OF THE WORLD IS
00:26:38.16\00:26:42.26
GOING TO BE SWEPT UP IN
THAT. SO THERE'S A WAR GOING ON.
00:26:42.26\00:26:45.97
WE NEED TO KNOW
HOW TO RECOGNIZE THAT.
00:26:45.97\00:26:49.07
HE CAN CALL FIRE
DOWN FROM HEAVEN.
00:26:49.07\00:26:50.97
ISN'T THAT ONE OF THE
SIGNS IT SAYS IN REVELATION 13?
00:26:50.97\00:26:54.08
HIS DEMONS WILL - CAN SOMETIMES
POSSESS EVEN PASTORS AND PEOPLE
00:26:54.08\00:27:00.98
CAN BE BOUND. HE'LL
BLIND PEOPLE TO THE TRUTH
00:27:00.98\00:27:04.92
- 2 CORINTHIANS 4:3 AND 4.
NOW, THIS IS ALL SORT OF AN
00:27:04.92\00:27:09.19
INTRODUCTION TO
SOMETHING I WANT YOU TO NOTICE.
00:27:09.19\00:27:11.43
IF I WERE TO ASK YOU, 'WHAT
WAS THE FIRST MIRACLE OF JESUS?'
00:27:11.43\00:27:14.60
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?
>>TURNED WATER TO WINE.
00:27:14.60\00:27:16.43
>>TURNING WATER TO
WINE. WHERE DO YOU READ THAT?
00:27:16.43\00:27:20.30
GOSPEL OF JOHN, CHAPTER 2
- THE WEDDING AT CANA, RIGHT?
00:27:20.30\00:27:24.87
THAT'S THE GOSPEL OF JOHN.
AND I BELIEVE THAT WAS THE FIRST
00:27:24.87\00:27:28.98
MIRACLE OF CHRIST, BUT WHEN
YOU READ LUKE AND MARK IT'S NOT
00:27:28.98\00:27:33.98
LISTED AS THE FIRST MIRACLE.
JOHN SAYS IT WAS THE FIRST
00:27:33.98\00:27:37.15
MIRACLE, BUT WHEN YOU READ
MARK AND LUKE, THE FIRST MIRACLE
00:27:37.15\00:27:41.06
LISTED - THE WEDDING AT CANA WAS
OVER - WAS CASTING OUT A DEVIL.
00:27:41.06\00:27:47.83
YOU CAN LOOK IN MARK CHAPTER
1, VERSE 22 - OR 21, "THEN THEY
00:27:47.83\00:27:52.47
WENT INTO CAPERNAUM," - THIS
IS AFTER HE HAD - KEEP IN MIND,
00:27:52.47\00:27:55.74
JESUS GOES IN THE WILDERNESS
- HE'S BAPTIZED, HE GOES IN THE
00:27:55.74\00:28:01.08
WILDERNESS - HE'S TEMPTED BY
THE DEVIL AND AFTER HE SUCCEEDS
00:28:01.08\00:28:05.15
AGAINST FIGHTING THE DEVIL
IN THE WILDERNESS, HE GOES TO
00:28:05.15\00:28:08.45
CAPERNAUM AND HE BEGINS TO
PREACH - AFTER THEY KICK HIM OUT
00:28:08.45\00:28:11.39
OF HIS HOME CHURCH IN NAZARETH
- AND SOMEONE STANDS UP, WHEN
00:28:11.39\00:28:14.79
CHRIST PREACHES, WHO WAS
POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL - "AND
00:28:14.79\00:28:18.09
IMMEDIATELY ON THE SABBATH
HE ENTERED THE SYNAGOGUE AND
00:28:18.09\00:28:20.63
TAUGHT. AND THEY
WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS
00:28:20.63\00:28:22.70
TEACHING, FOR HE TAUGHT
THEM AS ONE HAVING AUTHORITY,
00:28:22.70\00:28:25.17
AND NOT AS THE SCRIBES.
NOW THERE WAS A MAN IN THEIR
00:28:25.17\00:28:28.04
SYNAGOGUE WITH AN UNCLEAN
SPIRIT." - YOU WONDER, WOULD
00:28:28.04\00:28:34.48
THEY HAVE NOTICED THAT MAN
HAD AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT IF CHRIST
00:28:34.48\00:28:38.28
HADN'T BEEN PREACHING THE WORD.
BUT WHEN JESUS BEGAN PREACHING
00:28:38.28\00:28:42.12
THE WORD, ONE OF THE WAYS THAT
EVIL SPIRITS ARE CAST OUT IS
00:28:42.12\00:28:48.29
THROUGH THE PROCLAMATION OF
THE WORD. YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN
00:28:48.29\00:28:54.36
TELEVISION PROGRAMS BEFORE WHERE
THERE'S A MINISTER AND PEOPLE
00:28:54.36\00:28:56.90
ARE COMING UP FRONT AND THE
MINISTER, MAYBE, IS LAYING HANDS
00:28:56.90\00:28:59.40
ON THEM AND THEY'RE SHAKING AND
WRITHING AND FLOPPING AROUND ON
00:28:59.40\00:29:03.34
THE FLOOR - NOW I'M NOT SAYING
THAT THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN, I'VE
00:29:03.34\00:29:05.74
SEEN THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT
MOST OF THE TIME WHEN PEOPLE ARE
00:29:05.74\00:29:10.55
BEING HARASSED BY THE DEVIL OR
EVEN POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL, IT
00:29:10.55\00:29:13.38
IS SO SUBTLE THAT NO ONE
AROUND YOU WOULD EVER KNOW.
00:29:13.38\00:29:18.05
WHEN A PERSON LIKE MARK CHAPTER
5 IS POSSESSED WITH A LEGION OF
00:29:18.05\00:29:25.13
DEMONS - HE'S GOT 2,000 DEMONS
IN HIM - WELL, THEN THEY START
00:29:25.13\00:29:31.50
TO TEAR OFF THEIR CLOTHES
AND BREAK CHAINS AND THEY'RE
00:29:31.50\00:29:35.40
SCREAMING AND CUTTING THEMSELVES
WITH STONES AND RUNNING AROUND
00:29:35.40\00:29:37.94
LIKE A MANIAC AND LIVING IN A
TOMB. WHEN YOU GET 2,000 DEMONS,
00:29:37.94\00:29:41.68
IT'S HARD TO HIDE. BUT
SUPPOSE IT'S ONLY 1,000 DEMONS.
00:29:41.68\00:29:46.35
WELL, THEY'D PROBABLY BE STILL
REALLY DIFFICULT TO GET ALONG
00:29:46.35\00:29:48.85
WITH. WHAT IF YOU
CUT THAT DOWN TO 100
00:29:48.85\00:29:51.92
DEMONS? WELL, THEY
MIGHT BE ABLE TO WALK
00:29:51.92\00:29:55.76
UP AND DOWN THE STREETS AND YOU
WOULDN'T SPOT THEM RIGHT AWAY.
00:29:55.76\00:29:58.56
GET IT DOWN TO JUST FOUR
OR FIVE. YOU MIGHT EVEN GET TO
00:29:58.56\00:30:02.90
WHERE YOU CAN HOLD A POSITION
IN THE CHURCH AND PEOPLE WOULD
00:30:02.90\00:30:04.97
NEVER KNOW. YOU
HEAR WHERE I'M GOING WITH
00:30:04.97\00:30:08.07
THIS? >>YES.
00:30:08.07\00:30:09.37
>>IT IS - I THINK WE
MISUNDERSTAND - THERE ARE PEOPLE
00:30:09.37\00:30:11.27
WHERE THE DEVIL'S GOT HOOKS
IN THEM AND IT'S A THIN LINE
00:30:11.27\00:30:14.34
BETWEEN HARASSMENT AND
POSSESSION, BUT SOME PEOPLE ARE
00:30:14.34\00:30:16.61
BOUND BY THE DEVIL. AND, IF
IT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER, MARY
00:30:16.61\00:30:20.62
MAGDALENE, WHO WAS THE
FIRST PERSON THAT JESUS REVEALED
00:30:20.62\00:30:23.05
HIMSELF TO WHEN HE ROSE FROM THE
DEAD, HAD SEVEN DEVILS CAST OUT
00:30:23.05\00:30:26.86
OF HER. AND SHE BECAME
ONE OF HIS FIRST DISCIPLES.
00:30:26.86\00:30:33.53
AND SO - SHE FOLLOWED HIM
AND SHE FELL BACK INTO SIN.
00:30:33.53\00:30:36.40
HE CAST OUT THE DEVIL, SHE FELL
AGAIN. HE CAST OUT THE DEVIL -
00:30:36.40\00:30:38.80
I THINK IT HAPPENED
SEVEN DIFFERENT TIMES.
00:30:38.80\00:30:40.67
IF YOU READ THE BOOK DESIRE
OF AGES IT SAYS SEVEN DIFFERENT
00:30:40.67\00:30:42.87
TIMES SHE HEARD HIS
VOICE CASTING OUT DEVILS.
00:30:42.87\00:30:48.21
AND SO, HERE'S THIS MAN, HE'S IN
CHURCH, BUT THE PREACHING OF THE
00:30:48.21\00:30:52.31
GOSPEL - AND, YOU KNOW, HE -
YOU CAN READ ABOUT THIS IN LUKE
00:30:52.31\00:30:55.95
CHAPTER 4:33, "...THERE WAS
A MAN WHO HAD A SPIRIT OF AN
00:30:55.95\00:30:59.25
UNCLEAN DEMON." AND,
YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME
00:30:59.25\00:31:01.09
PASTORS WHO SAY, 'NOW SOME
OF THESE DEMONS ARE UNCLEAN AND
00:31:01.09\00:31:03.19
THEY'RE REALLY THE BAD
ONES.' ALL DEMONS ARE UNCLEAN.
00:31:03.19\00:31:07.10
THERE ARE NO CLEAN DEMONS.
AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT MEANS 'THE
00:31:07.10\00:31:11.17
BAD SPIRIT' -
THAT'S ALL IT'S SAYING.
00:31:11.17\00:31:12.93
FOR THE JEWISH MIND YOU HAD
CLEAN FOODS AND UNCLEAN FOODS;
00:31:12.93\00:31:16.30
YOU HAD THE GOOD ANGELS
AND THE UNCLEAN SPIRITS.
00:31:16.30\00:31:19.31
SO THERE ARE SOME CHARISMATIC
PASTORS OUT THERE THAT SAY, 'AND
00:31:19.31\00:31:22.31
THIS ONE WAS REALLY BAD BECAUSE
HE WAS AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT AND HE
00:31:22.31\00:31:25.45
MAKES PEOPLE LEAVE THEIR ROOMS
MESSY.' THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT'S
00:31:25.45\00:31:28.95
TALKING ABOUT.
AGAIN, LUKE - FIRST MIRACLE
00:31:28.95\00:31:35.26
- MARK - FIRST MIRACLE.
SO RIGHT AFTER DEFEATING THE
00:31:35.26\00:31:39.03
DEVIL IN THE WILDERNESS,
HE NOW ENCOUNTERS A DEVIL
00:31:39.03\00:31:42.43
IN THE CHURCH.
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:31:42.43\00:31:45.27
WHAT'S THAT MAN
DOING GOING TO CHURCH?
00:31:45.27\00:31:47.50
DO DEVILS GO TO CHURCH? >>YES.
00:31:47.50\00:31:50.91
>>DID JESUS HAVE A
JUDAS AMONG THE APOSTLES?
00:31:50.91\00:31:53.38
>>AMEN. >>DID
HE KNOW THERE WAS A
00:31:53.38\00:31:55.34
JUDAS AMONG THE APOSTLES? >>YES.
00:31:55.34\00:31:57.81
>>AND, ULTIMATELY, SATAN
POSSESSED JUDAS BECAUSE IT SAYS,
00:31:57.81\00:32:02.15
'SATAN ENTERED HIM'
THERE AT THE LAST SUPPER.
00:32:02.15\00:32:06.92
HE HAD - HE HAD BEEN CLINGING
TO THAT SECRET SIN OF GREED AND
00:32:06.92\00:32:10.96
PRIDE AND HE WOULDN'T LET IT GO.
CAN THE DEVIL QUOTE THE BIBLE?
00:32:10.96\00:32:18.10
IN THE WILDERNESS DID SATAN
QUOTE THE SCRIPTURES TO JESUS?
00:32:18.10\00:32:20.67
>>YES. >>YES HE DID.
00:32:20.67\00:32:22.80
SIR WALTER SCOTT SAID, 'A SORT
OF CREEPING COMES OVER MY SKIN
00:32:22.80\00:32:26.68
WHEN I HEAR THE
DEVIL QUOTE SCRIPTURE.'
00:32:26.68\00:32:29.94
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SURF
THROUGH RELIGIOUS CHANNELS AND
00:32:29.94\00:32:32.95
YOU'LL SOMETIMES SEE
SILVER-TONGUED DEVILS QUOTING
00:32:32.95\00:32:36.22
SCRIPTURE AND THEN THEY MISQUOTE
AND THAT'S WHAT THE DEVIL
00:32:36.22\00:32:38.92
DID WITH JESUS
IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:32:38.92\00:32:40.49
HE PROPERLY QUOTED PART OF IT
AND THEN HE LEFT SOMETHING VERY
00:32:40.49\00:32:43.63
IMPORTANT OUT SO THE WHOLE
THING WAS TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT -
00:32:43.63\00:32:46.09
TRYING TO USE THE SCRIPTURES
TO SAY HE'S SUPPOSED TO JUMP OFF
00:32:46.09\00:32:48.10
THE TEMPLE - AND THE DEVIL STILL
DOES THAT TODAY - MISQUOTES
00:32:48.10\00:32:52.40
SCRIPTURE. >>AMEN.
00:32:52.40\00:32:54.74
>>MARK 1:24 - BACK TO THAT STORY
IN MARK WHERE JESUS CAST OUT THE
00:32:54.74\00:32:58.24
DEVIL - AND WHEN JESUS
TOLD THE DEVIL TO COME OUT, THE
00:32:58.24\00:33:01.48
DEMON-POSSESSED MAN
RESPONDED, "LET US ALONE!"
00:33:01.48\00:33:05.01
SO DOES THAT MAN
HAVE MORE THAN ONE DEVIL?
00:33:05.01\00:33:07.62
AGAIN, HE'S IN
CHURCH - "LET US ALONE!
00:33:07.62\00:33:10.69
WHAT HAVE WE TO DO
WITH YOU, JESUS OF NAZARETH?
00:33:10.69\00:33:13.52
DID YOU COME TO DESTROY
US? I KNOW WHO YOU ARE" - IT'S
00:33:13.52\00:33:16.86
INTERESTING, HE GOES BETWEEN
US AND I - "I KNOW WHO YOU ARE -
00:33:16.86\00:33:19.69
THE HOLY ONE OF GOD!'" SO DID
THEY KNOW WHO HE WAS? THEY DID.
00:33:19.69\00:33:27.50
THEY RECOGNIZED THAT HE HAD A
WHOLE DIFFERENT SPIRIT ABOUT -
00:33:27.50\00:33:29.84
SEE, KEEP IN MIND, WHEN ADAM AND
EVE SINNED, SOMETHING CHANGED.
00:33:29.84\00:33:35.41
ADAM AND EVE WERE
CLOTHED WITH GARMENTS OF LIGHT.
00:33:35.41\00:33:38.71
WHEN GOD MADE ADAM AND EVE,
COULD ADAM AND EVE - BEFORE SIN
00:33:38.71\00:33:42.35
- COULD THEY SEE
THAT SPIRITUAL REALM?
00:33:42.35\00:33:46.35
WERE ADAM AND EVE - WERE ANGELS
PLAYING PEEK-A-BOO SO THEY
00:33:46.35\00:33:49.29
COULDN'T SEE
THEM, WITH ADAM AND EVE?
00:33:49.29\00:33:51.03
OR COULD THEY SEE GOD?
THEY COULD LOOK ON GOD.
00:33:51.03\00:33:54.20
THEY TALKED TO
HIM IN THE GARDEN.
00:33:54.20\00:33:55.10
NOW, IF YOU CAN SEE
GOD, CAN YOU SEE ANGELS?
00:33:55.10\00:33:57.07
>>YES. >>YOU WOULD THINK.
00:33:57.07\00:33:59.00
BUT WHEN THEY SINNED AND THOSE
GARMENTS OF LIGHT FADED AND
00:33:59.00\00:34:02.57
EVAPORATED, I BELIEVE THAT THEY
LOST A WHOLE DIMENSION - THERE'S
00:34:02.57\00:34:07.88
A SPIRITUAL REALM ALL AROUND
US - LET ME PROVE THAT TO YOU.
00:34:07.88\00:34:12.41
WHEN ELISHA WAS IN THE CITY
OF DOTHAN, IN THE SECOND BOOK OF
00:34:12.41\00:34:16.42
KINGS, AND THE ASSYRIAN KING
SENT AN ARMY TO SURROUND THE
00:34:16.42\00:34:20.12
CITY DURING THE NIGHT, AND
ELISHA'S SERVANT GOT UP - HE SAW
00:34:20.12\00:34:24.59
THE ARMY THAT HAD GATHERED THERE
TO, OSTENSIBLY, CAPTURE ELISHA,
00:34:24.59\00:34:28.83
AND HE WAS TERRIFIED AND HE WOKE
UP ELISHA AND SAID, 'MASTER,
00:34:28.83\00:34:31.90
ALAS! WHAT SHALL WE DO?'
00:34:31.90\00:34:33.30
AND ELISHA LOOKED AND HE
SAW THAT THE WHOLE CITY WAS
00:34:33.30\00:34:35.34
SURROUNDED BY THIS ARMY THAT WAS
MOUNTED OF ASSYRIAN SOLDIERS,
00:34:35.34\00:34:40.81
BUT HE WASN'T WORRIED. AND
HIS SERVANT WAS WONDERING WHY.
00:34:40.81\00:34:43.98
AND ELISHA PRAYED AND SAID,
'LORD, OPEN HIS EYES.' AND THE
00:34:43.98\00:34:48.38
LORD OPENED THE EYES OF
HIS SERVANT AND HE SAW, IN THE
00:34:48.38\00:34:51.99
MOUNTAINS SURROUNDING
THE ASSYRIAN ARMY, THAT WAS
00:34:51.99\00:34:55.26
SURROUNDING THE LITTLE TOWN
OF DOTHAN, GOD HAD THE MOUNTAIN
00:34:55.26\00:34:58.86
FULL, IT SAYS, OF CHARIOTS AND
HORSES OF FIRE - GOD'S HOSTS -
00:34:58.86\00:35:06.33
HIS HOLY ANGELS WERE COMPLETELY
SURROUNDING ELISHA - PROTECTING
00:35:06.33\00:35:09.94
HIM FROM THE ASSYRIAN ARMY
WAS NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.
00:35:09.94\00:35:13.48
>>AMEN. >>AND
YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD IT
00:35:13.48\00:35:15.98
SAID, 'THEY THAT BE
WITH US ARE MORE THAN THEY
00:35:15.98\00:35:19.68
THAT BE WITH THEM. AND
JESUS, WHEN HE WAS GOING TO
00:35:19.68\00:35:22.15
THE CROSS AND PETER PULLED
OUT HIS SWORD, HE SAID, 'PETER,
00:35:22.15\00:35:24.99
PUT YOUR SWORD AWAY.
DON'T YOU KNOW THAT I COULD
00:35:24.99\00:35:26.25
SPEAK TO MY FATHER AND HE WILL
SEND TWELVE LEGIONS OF ANGELS?'
00:35:26.25\00:35:30.19
- THE MAN WHO WAS
POSSESSED ONLY HAD ONE LEGION.
00:35:30.19\00:35:33.33
JESUS SAID, 'I CAN CALL
FOR TWELVE LEGIONS OF ANGELS.
00:35:33.33\00:35:37.17
AND SO, THIS IS GOING ON AROUND
US ALL THE TIME - ANGELS -
00:35:37.17\00:35:40.20
MINISTERING SPIRITS OF GOD
ARE TAKING OUR PRAYERS BACK AND
00:35:40.20\00:35:42.84
FORTH. OFTEN WHEN
YOU'RE PROTECTED AND
00:35:42.84\00:35:45.41
YOU NEARLY HAVE A CAR ACCIDENT
YOU SAY, 'JESUS SAVED ME.' WELL,
00:35:45.41\00:35:48.58
JESUS DID SAVE YOU, BUT HOW
DID HE DO IT? THROUGH AN ANGEL.
00:35:48.58\00:35:53.21
AND SO, THE ANGELS ARE THE
ONES WHO ARE REALLY ON THE FRONT
00:35:53.21\00:35:57.15
LINES AROUND US.
THERE IS A SPIRITUAL BATTLE
00:35:57.15\00:36:00.52
GOING ON AROUND US AND YOU AND
I CAN RESPOND IN WAYS THAT WILL
00:36:00.52\00:36:06.90
HELP US BE VICTORIOUS
IN THOSE BATTLES OR WE CAN
00:36:06.90\00:36:09.33
BE EASILY OVERCOME. BUT
THE DEVIL GOES TO CHURCH.
00:36:09.33\00:36:13.13
YOU CAN SEE THAT HERE.
THIS MAN WENT TO CHURCH.
00:36:13.13\00:36:15.44
JAMES 2:19, "YOU
BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ONE GOD.
00:36:15.44\00:36:19.37
YOU DO WELL. EVEN THE
DEMONS BELIEVE - AND TREMBLE!"
00:36:19.37\00:36:23.11
NOW THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I
THOUGHT MORE ABOUT THIS WEEK -
00:36:23.11\00:36:26.45
EVIL ANGELS ARE NOT
HAPPY. THEY'RE JUST UNHAPPY.
00:36:26.45\00:36:31.72
WHY ARE THEY UNHAPPY?
THEY HAVE BEEN CAST OUT OF
00:36:31.72\00:36:34.06
HEAVEN AND THEY KNOW
THEY'RE NEVER GOING BACK.
00:36:34.06\00:36:36.42
THEY DON'T LIKE YOU BECAUSE
YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO GET BACK.
00:36:36.42\00:36:41.26
WE ARE SEPARATED
FROM GOD, ALSO, YOU KNOW?
00:36:41.26\00:36:43.43
BUT BECAUSE OF THE MERCY OF
CHRIST, WE HAVE A PROBATIONARY
00:36:43.43\00:36:46.53
TIME. THE FALLEN ANGELS HAD A
PROBATIONARY TIME - THEY USED IT
00:36:46.53\00:36:49.07
UP. IT'S GONE. THEY'RE - THEY'VE
COMMITTED THE UNPARDONABLE SIN.
00:36:49.07\00:36:53.51
I'VE ACTUALLY HEARD PEOPLE ASK
ME BEFORE, 'PASTOR DOUG, NOW IF
00:36:53.51\00:36:57.61
THE DEVIL REPENTS' - THEY'RE
OPTIMISTIC - 'WOULD GOD FORGIVE
00:36:57.61\00:37:04.35
HIM?' NOW HE'S NOT GOING TO
REPENT - DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH.
00:37:04.35\00:37:08.59
HE HAS COMMITTED
THE UNPARDONABLE SIN.
00:37:08.59\00:37:10.39
HE HAS COMPLETELY LOST HIS
CAPACITY TO REPENT, AS HAVE ALL
00:37:10.39\00:37:14.10
OF THE FALLEN ANGELS -
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO REPENT.
00:37:14.10\00:37:16.67
THEY ARE SEALED. THEY
ARE DOOMED. THEY ARE KEPT IN
00:37:16.67\00:37:21.57
EVERLASTING CHAINS OF DARKNESS
WAITING FOR THAT FATEFUL DAY.
00:37:21.57\00:37:24.84
THEY DON'T KNOW WHEN, BUT
THE BIBLE SAYS, 'WOE UNTO THE
00:37:24.84\00:37:27.61
INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH
FOR SATAN HAS COME DOWN TO YOU
00:37:27.61\00:37:29.91
HAVING GREAT WRATH' - THIS
IS REVELATION 12 - 'BECAUSE HE
00:37:29.91\00:37:32.75
KNOWS HIS TIME IS SHORT.' THE
DEMONS TREMBLE - THEY KNOW THEIR
00:37:32.75\00:37:37.45
DAY OF JUDGMENT IS COMING.
CHRIST IS GOING TO SAY, 'DEPART
00:37:37.45\00:37:40.36
YE CURSED, INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE
PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS
00:37:40.36\00:37:44.83
ANGELS.' THEY KNOW THAT IT IS
NOT GOING TO END WELL FOR THEM.
00:37:44.83\00:37:49.90
AND SO, THEY'RE JUST LIKE,
YOU KNOW, SOME KIND OF MANGY
00:37:49.90\00:37:53.27
PIT BULL THAT'S OUT THERE TRY
- NOW SOME OF YOU ARE GOING TO
00:37:53.27\00:37:55.54
COME UP TO ME LATER AND SAY,
'I'VE GOT A PIT BULL, DON'T SAY
00:37:55.54\00:37:58.94
THAT.' BUT THEY'RE JUST TRYING
TO TEAR AND RIP AS MANY AS THEY
00:37:58.94\00:38:03.14
CAN ON THEIR WAY DOWN. IT'S
- THEY'RE LIKE THESE SUICIDE
00:38:03.14\00:38:07.55
BOMBERS. THEY DON'T CARE WHAT
HAPPENS TO THEM ANYMORE, THEY'RE
00:38:07.55\00:38:11.55
JUST TRYING TO TAKE AS
MANY WITH THEM AS THEY CAN.
00:38:11.55\00:38:14.49
SO THEY KNOW THEY'RE DOOMED AND
HE'S COME DOWN WITH GREAT WRATH
00:38:14.49\00:38:17.73
TO TRY AND CAUSE AS
MUCH MISERY AS HE CAN.
00:38:17.73\00:38:20.80
NOW, HAVING SET THE STAGE AND
HOPEFULLY YOU'VE GOT A PICTURE
00:38:20.80\00:38:24.17
THAT THE DEVILS ARE REAL -
THEY'RE OUT THERE - AND WHAT
00:38:24.17\00:38:26.43
THEY'RE LIKE. JESUS
GIVES US A DIVINE MANDATE.
00:38:26.43\00:38:30.77
YOU READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN MARK
6:12 - HE SENT OUT THE DISCIPLES
00:38:30.77\00:38:36.75
AND "SO THEY WENT OUT AND
PREACHED THAT PEOPLE SHOULD
00:38:36.75\00:38:40.28
REPENT. AND THEY
CAST OUT MANY DEMONS,
00:38:40.28\00:38:44.55
AND ANOINTED WITH OIL MANY
WHO WERE SICK, AND HEALED THEM."
00:38:44.55\00:38:50.73
YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, 'WELL,
PASTOR DOUG, NOW ARE WE GOING TO
00:38:50.73\00:38:53.09
START A SMALL GROUP MINISTRY
HERE AT GRANITE BAY CALLED 'THE
00:38:53.09\00:38:56.83
EXORCISM MINISTRY'? WHO
WOULD LIKE TO LEAD THAT GROUP?
00:38:56.83\00:39:04.07
I THINK THAT MAKES US
ALL - INCLUDING ME - A LITTLE
00:39:04.07\00:39:05.87
UNCOMFORTABLE, BUT I HAVE TO
FAITHFULLY PROCLAIM THE WORD TO
00:39:05.87\00:39:09.08
YOU, FRIENDS, AND TELL YOU THAT,
AT LEAST IN THE TIME OF CHRIST,
00:39:09.08\00:39:12.28
HE SENT THE DISCIPLES OUT AND
THEY WERE CASTING OUT DEVILS.
00:39:12.28\00:39:16.79
NOW, DO - WE
BELIEVE IN PREACHING?
00:39:16.79\00:39:17.92
NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS, 'THEY
PREACHED THAT PEOPLE SHOULD
00:39:17.92\00:39:19.29
REPENT.' DO WE BELIEVE IN THAT?
00:39:19.29\00:39:20.42
>>YES. >>DO WE DO THAT?
00:39:20.42\00:39:22.42
AND THEN YOU JUMP AND IT SAYS,
'THEY ANOINTED MANY WHO WERE
00:39:22.42\00:39:25.13
SICK, WITH OIL.'
DO WE BELIEVE IN THAT?
00:39:25.13\00:39:27.30
DO WE DO THAT? NOW WHAT'S
IT SAY JUST BETWEEN THERE?
00:39:27.30\00:39:30.33
THEY CAST OUT MANY
DEMONS. YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING,
00:39:30.33\00:39:33.84
'WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?'
DO YOU THINK THAT'S STILL
00:39:33.84\00:39:36.77
PART OF THE MESSAGE? IT IS.
00:39:36.77\00:39:39.91
WHAT IT MEANS AND HOW
THEY DID IT WILL SURPRISE YOU.
00:39:39.91\00:39:43.45
AND THAT'S ACTUALLY GOING TO BE
MORE OF PART 2, SO - BUT IT IS
00:39:43.45\00:39:47.98
VERY CLEARLY
TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE.
00:39:47.98\00:39:49.65
JESUS SAID - MATTHEW 10:8 -
LISTEN, THIS IS WHAT HE SAID
00:39:49.65\00:39:52.09
WHEN HE SENT OUT THE APOSTLES,
"HEAL THE SICK, CLEANSE THE
00:39:52.09\00:39:55.69
LEPERS, RAISE THE
DEAD, CAST OUT DEMONS.
00:39:55.69\00:39:59.46
FREELY YOU HAVE
RECEIVED, FREELY GIVE.
00:39:59.46\00:40:01.83
NOW WE HAVEN'T SEEN TOO MANY
DEAD RAISED LATELY, BUT I HAVE
00:40:01.83\00:40:06.03
SEEN PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN
BROUGHT FROM DEATH TO LIFE
00:40:06.03\00:40:08.54
THROUGH THE POWER
OF THE GOSPEL. >>AMEN.
00:40:08.54\00:40:11.41
>>SO WHEN YOU PREACH THE
GOSPEL, THE DEAD ARE RAISED.
00:40:11.41\00:40:14.11
I DO BELIEVE THAT BEFORE CHRIST
COMES BACK AGAIN - YOU KNOW,
00:40:14.11\00:40:17.95
WHERE SIN ABOUNDS, GRACE ABOUNDS
- AND, AS WE NEAR THE END AND
00:40:17.95\00:40:20.95
WE'RE GOING TO SEE AN INCREASE
OF DIABOLICAL POWERS, SIGNS, AND
00:40:20.95\00:40:25.12
WONDERS, GOD IS GOING TO POUR
OUT THE SPIRIT ON HIS PEOPLE AND
00:40:25.12\00:40:28.92
WE WILL, ONCE AGAIN, BEGIN TO
SEE THE SAME KIND OF POWER AND
00:40:28.92\00:40:32.39
MIRACLES THAT
YOU SAW AT PENTECOST.
00:40:32.39\00:40:34.50
GOD HASN'T CHANGED. >>AMEN.
00:40:34.50\00:40:36.53
>>AND IF YOU SAW THAT KIND
OF DEMONSTRATION OF THE POWER OF
00:40:36.53\00:40:38.67
GOD DURING THE FORMER RAIN AT
PENTECOST, WHEN ALL THESE SIGNS
00:40:38.67\00:40:41.97
AND WONDERS AND MIRACLES
TO CREATE A GREAT REVIVAL, WHY
00:40:41.97\00:40:45.34
WOULD WE THINK THAT GOD'S GOSPEL
IS GOING TO END WITH A WHIMPER
00:40:45.34\00:40:49.01
OF HIS POWER? OF
COURSE HE'S GOING TO POUR OUT
00:40:49.01\00:40:51.65
HIS SPIRIT AND THERE'S GOING
TO BE GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS - AND
00:40:51.65\00:40:54.52
I THINK THE
DEAD'LL BE RAISED AGAIN.
00:40:54.52\00:40:56.35
I THINK THERE WILL BE
MIRACULOUS HEALING OF THE SICK.
00:40:56.35\00:40:59.42
>>AMEN. >>NOT
ONLY THAT - WHICH COMES
00:40:59.42\00:41:01.06
FROM GOOD MEDICAL MINISTRY.
MARK 16:17 - THIS IS THE GREAT
00:41:01.06\00:41:05.66
COMMISSION - JESUS
SENDS OUT THE APOSTLES.
00:41:05.66\00:41:07.76
YOU KNOW THE GREAT COMMISSION IN
MATTHEW, LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAYS
00:41:07.76\00:41:10.43
IN MARK 16, VERSE 17, "AND THESE
SIGNS WILL FOLLOW THOSE WHO
00:41:10.43\00:41:14.37
BELIEVE: IN MY NAME THEY WILL
CAST OUT DEMONS; THEY WILL SPEAK
00:41:14.37\00:41:19.01
WITH NEW TONGUES;" NOW WE KNOW
THAT THEY SPOKE WITH TONGUES.
00:41:19.01\00:41:24.35
WE KNOW THAT THE DISCIPLES WENT
OUT AND THEY CAST OUT DEVILS.
00:41:24.35\00:41:26.92
AND THE QUESTION IS: IS THAT
TO BE PART OF IT? HERE'S WHAT I
00:41:26.92\00:41:31.39
THINK: THE REASON - YOU
NOTICE WHAT I SAID EARLIER?
00:41:31.39\00:41:36.42
OLD TESTAMENT - VERY LITTLE
ABOUT DEMONIC POSSESSION -
00:41:36.42\00:41:39.83
IT'S THERE - IT DOESN'T TALK
ABOUT - THE JEWISH PRIEST DIDN'T
00:41:39.83\00:41:43.53
SAY, YOU KNOW, COME FOR - WE'VE
GOT A SPECIAL SACRIFICE FOR
00:41:43.53\00:41:46.23
BEING DELIVERED FROM DEMONS.
00:41:46.23\00:41:48.40
AND ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT
SACRIFICES FOR LEPROSY AND ALL
00:41:48.40\00:41:50.47
THESE DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT
YOU DON'T READ A LOT ABOUT IT.
00:41:50.47\00:41:53.54
KING SAUL AND MAYBE A COUPLE OF
OTHERS - BALAAM WAS POSSESSED -
00:41:53.54\00:41:56.68
AND THEN YOU GET TO THE EPISTLES
- THEY DON'T TALK A LOT - IT IS
00:41:56.68\00:42:02.15
IN THE BOOK OF ACTS IN THE
GOSPELS, BUT WHEREVER YOU SEE
00:42:02.15\00:42:04.99
THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL,
YOU SEE THE RESISTANCE OF THE
00:42:04.99\00:42:09.29
DEVILS, BECAUSE THE PREACHING OF
THE GOSPEL IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE
00:42:09.29\00:42:14.20
MEANS OF CASTING
OUT THE DEVIL. >>AMEN.
00:42:14.20\00:42:18.00
>>IT IS THE WORD - WHAT DID
JESUS USE AGAINST THE DEVIL?
00:42:18.00\00:42:22.37
>>IT IS WRITTEN.
>>WHEN SATAN CAME TO CHRIST IN
00:42:22.37\00:42:24.81
THE WILDERNESS AND HE TEMPTED
HIM - THOSE THREE PRIMARY
00:42:24.81\00:42:26.91
TEMPTATIONS - HE MET
EVERY TEMPTATION BY SAYING,
00:42:26.91\00:42:30.95
'IT IS WRITTEN. IT IS WRITTEN.
00:42:30.95\00:42:32.68
IT IS WRITTEN.' AND
FINALLY, THE DEVIL HAD TO LEAVE.
00:42:32.68\00:42:36.62
AND IT'S THE POWER OF THE WORD,
STILL, THAT DOES THAT - THAT
00:42:36.62\00:42:39.82
MAKES THAT DIFFERENCE.
SO WE HAVE A DIVINE MANDATE:
00:42:39.82\00:42:46.13
SATAN AND HIS DEVILS CAN
CAUSE PHYSICAL REACTIONS.
00:42:46.13\00:42:50.77
I WANT YOU TO NOTICE, QUICKLY,
MARK 1:25 - WHEN JESUS REBUKED
00:42:50.77\00:42:54.70
THE DEVIL THERE IN THE
SYNAGOGUE, HE SAID, 'BE QUIET
00:42:54.70\00:42:58.11
AND COME OUT OF HIM.' THE DEVIL
WAS TALKING AND I SHOULD MENTION
00:42:58.11\00:43:02.38
RIGHT HERE - NO, I'LL SAY THAT
IN A MOMENT - WHEN THAT HAPPENED
00:43:02.38\00:43:08.22
IT SAYS, "...THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT
HAD CONVULSED HIM AND CRIED OUT
00:43:08.22\00:43:12.49
WITH A LOUD VOICE,
HE CAME OUT OF HIM."
00:43:12.49\00:43:14.09
THERE WAS A
CONVULSION. HE WAS WRITHING.
00:43:14.09\00:43:17.69
MARK 9:26, "THEN THE
SPIRIT CRIED OUT, CONVULSED HIM
00:43:17.69\00:43:21.10
GREATLY, AND CAME OUT OF HIM.
AND HE BECAME AS ONE DEAD, SO
00:43:21.10\00:43:25.57
THAT MANY SAID, 'HE IS DEAD.'
BUT JESUS TOOK HIM BY THE HAND
00:43:25.57\00:43:28.87
AND LIFTED HIM
UP, AND HE AROSE."
00:43:28.87\00:43:31.04
THERE WAS A GREAT BATTLE
THAT TRANSPIRED, SOMETIMES.
00:43:31.04\00:43:34.21
WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE
BORN AS A NATION AND THEY CAME
00:43:34.21\00:43:38.95
OUT OF EGYPT, DID THEY COME WITH
JUST, YOU KNOW, WAVING HANKIES
00:43:38.95\00:43:44.99
AND EVERYTHING WAS FINE? OR
WAS THERE A GREAT CONVULSION?
00:43:44.99\00:43:50.63
WAS THERE RESISTANCE? DID
THE PHARAOH CHASE AFTER THEM?
00:43:50.63\00:43:54.30
DID HE TRY TO HANG ONTO
HIM AND CLAW THEM TO KEEP THEM?
00:43:54.30\00:43:58.27
WHEN YOU ARE BREAKING FREE -
WHEN THERE IS A NEW BIRTH - DO
00:43:58.27\00:44:03.30
WOMEN SOMETIMES GO
THROUGH CONTRACTIONS?
00:44:03.30\00:44:07.21
THEY MAY BE WALKING AROUND
DURING THEIR PREGNANCY WITH A
00:44:07.21\00:44:09.98
ROSY GLOW - AFTER MORNING
SICKNESS - BUT THEN THAT DAY
00:44:09.98\00:44:16.58
COMES WHERE THERE'S GOING TO BE
A BIRTH AND THEIR BODIES - LET'S
00:44:16.58\00:44:20.42
FACE IT - A LITTLE HUMAN IS
GOING TO COME OUT OF ANOTHER
00:44:20.42\00:44:22.52
HUMAN - THAT'S KIND OF
A STRANGE THING TO HAPPEN.
00:44:22.52\00:44:25.53
AND THERE'S A CONVULSION
THAT HAPPENS AND WHEN PEOPLE ARE
00:44:25.53\00:44:30.17
BEING DELIVERED FROM THE DEVIL
AND THEY ARE BEING BORN AGAIN,
00:44:30.17\00:44:33.27
THERE'S A BATTLE. PEOPLE WANT
TO BE SAVED WITHOUT ANY KIND OF
00:44:33.27\00:44:36.64
STRUGGLE. AND WHEN YOU'RE TRYING
TO GIVE UP THE OLD WAYS AND TAKE
00:44:36.64\00:44:40.44
ON A NEW WAY OF LIFE,
THERE'S OFTEN A BATTLE.
00:44:40.44\00:44:43.51
AND THE DEVIL WILL TIGHTEN HIS
GRIP AND I RESENT, SOMETIMES,
00:44:43.51\00:44:48.12
WHEN PASTORS TELL PEOPLE 'JUST
COME FORWARD, SAY THIS PRAYER,
00:44:48.12\00:44:50.92
AND EVERYTHING'S GOING TO
BE FINE.' IT'S NOT HONEST.
00:44:50.92\00:44:53.99
YOU MIGHT FEEL A STRUGGLE
BECAUSE YOU'VE GONE FROM BEING
00:44:53.99\00:44:56.73
THE, YOU KNOW, COMPLIANT
SLAVE OF THE DEVIL, TO BEING HIS
00:44:56.73\00:44:59.66
ENEMY, AND YOU'RE GOING TO MEET
WITH SOME RESISTANCE AND PEOPLE
00:44:59.66\00:45:04.10
NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR
THAT AND DISCIPLED AND TAUGHT.
00:45:04.10\00:45:06.63
SO THERE'S A PHYSICAL REACTION,
OFTEN, WHEN PEOPLE ARE BEING
00:45:06.63\00:45:09.20
DELIVERED. DEMONS
MAY SPEAK THROUGH PEOPLE
00:45:09.20\00:45:13.17
- LUKE 8:30, "JESUS ASKED HIM,
SAYING, 'WHAT IS YOUR NAME?'"
00:45:13.17\00:45:16.28
THIS IS THE ONLY TIME WHEN
JESUS ACTUALLY ADDRESSED THE
00:45:16.28\00:45:18.51
DEMON - "AND HE SAID, 'LEGION,'
BECAUSE MANY DEMONS HAD ENTERED
00:45:18.51\00:45:22.85
HIM." GO TO LUKE
4:33, "NOW IN THE
00:45:22.85\00:45:26.39
SYNAGOGUE THERE WAS A
MAN WHO HAD A SPIRIT OF
00:45:26.39\00:45:27.72
AN UNCLEAN DEMON. AND
HE CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD
00:45:27.72\00:45:30.73
VOICE, SAYING, 'LET US
ALONE! WHAT HAVE WE TO DO WITH
00:45:30.73\00:45:33.09
YOU, JESUS OF NAZARETH?
DID YOU COME TO DESTROY US?
00:45:33.09\00:45:36.40
I KNOW WHO YOU ARE -
THE HOLY ONE OF GOD!'
00:45:36.40\00:45:38.67
BUT JESUS REBUKED HIM, SAYING,
'BE QUIET, AND COME OUT OF HIM!'
00:45:38.67\00:45:42.14
AND WHEN THE DEMON HAD
THROWN HIM" - THERE YOU HAVE A
00:45:42.14\00:45:44.81
CONVULSION AGAIN - "WHEN THE
DEMON HAD THROWN HIM IN THEIR
00:45:44.81\00:45:47.84
MIDST, IT CAME OUT OF
HIM AND DID NOT HURT HIM."
00:45:47.84\00:45:50.68
IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS HURTING
HIM BUT HE ENDED UP BEING OKAY.
00:45:50.68\00:45:53.88
"THEN THEY WERE ALL AMAZED AND
SPOKE AMONG THEMSELVES SAYING,
00:45:53.88\00:45:56.32
'WHAT A WORD IS THIS? FOR
WITH AUTHORITY AND POWER HE
00:45:56.32\00:46:00.22
COMMANDS THE UNCLEAN
SPIRITS AND THEY COME OUT.'"
00:46:00.22\00:46:02.99
SO THERE'S A KEY RIGHT
THERE. HE SPOKE THE WORD -
00:46:02.99\00:46:06.56
>>AMEN. >>AND
THE DEMONS CAME OUT.
00:46:06.56\00:46:10.30
I'M ALWAYS SUSPICIOUS OF PASTORS
THAT SAY THEY'VE GOT A MINISTRY
00:46:10.30\00:46:13.87
OF EXORCISMS AND THEY HAVE A
BUSINESS CARD THAT SAYS, 'DEMONS
00:46:13.87\00:46:16.94
ARE US' AND WE CAST OUT DEVILS,
CALL OUR NUMBER, WE'LL COME OVER
00:46:16.94\00:46:20.08
AND' - YOU KNOW, I JUST DON'T
SEE ANY OF THE DISCIPLES IN THE
00:46:20.08\00:46:23.55
BIBLE LOOKING FOR
PEOPLE DEMON POSSESSED.
00:46:23.55\00:46:27.02
THEY ENCOUNTERED IT AND THEY
DEALT WITH IT. AND I'VE SEEN IT.
00:46:27.02\00:46:31.45
YOU KNOW, I - IN SOME OF THESE
COUNTRIES WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF
00:46:31.45\00:46:35.99
PAGAN WORSHIP AND - I REMEMBER
WHEN I WAS IN INDIA AT A
00:46:35.99\00:46:38.69
MEETING, A LADY JUST BEGAN
TO SHRIEK AND WRITHE AND THE
00:46:38.69\00:46:41.73
PASTORS ACTED LIKE, 'OH
YEAH, WE'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE.
00:46:41.73\00:46:44.77
SHE'S DEMON POSSESSED.' AND THEY
WENT AND THEY GATHERED AROUND -
00:46:44.77\00:46:46.87
THEY ACTUALLY HAD TO HOLD HER
DOWN AND THEY PRAYED FOR HER.
00:46:46.87\00:46:48.74
SHE SETTLED DOWN - SHE GOT UP
AND SAT DOWN - LOOKED LIKE SHE
00:46:48.74\00:46:51.27
WAS - HAD HER SENSES
THROUGH THE REST OF THE MEETING.
00:46:51.27\00:46:54.98
I THOUGHT, 'WOW, HOPE
THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN.'
00:46:54.98\00:46:57.28
(LAUGHTER) I HAD IT HAPPEN IN
AFRICA - CAMEROON - JUST A LADY
00:46:57.28\00:47:02.38
OUT OF CONTROL - AND THEY
ACTUALLY LIFTED THE LADY UP OVER
00:47:02.38\00:47:04.52
THEIR HEADS - THEY HAD TO
CARRY HER - SEVERAL PASTORS.
00:47:04.52\00:47:06.42
IT'S LIKE, 'OH YEAH, HERE WE GO
AGAIN.' I GUESS THEY DEAL WITH
00:47:06.42\00:47:08.49
IT QUITE A BIT. THEY
CARRIED HER BEHIND THE
00:47:08.49\00:47:10.76
STAGE, THERE WAS THIS BIG RUCKUS
BACK THERE AND THEY - WHILE I'M
00:47:10.76\00:47:12.89
PREACHING SHE - WHILE SHE HEARD
THE WORD THIS DEMON JUST ENTERED
00:47:12.89\00:47:16.77
THIS PERSON AND JEAN
SAYS HE'S SEEN IT TOO, YEAH.
00:47:16.77\00:47:21.00
AND PRAYED FOR HER AND, AGAIN,
HER CALMNESS WAS RESTORED.
00:47:21.00\00:47:26.91
SO IT'S VERY REAL AND, YOU KNOW,
IN OUR CULTURE, WE JUST - WE
00:47:26.91\00:47:31.18
DON'T - I'VE HAD PEOPLE COME
UP TO ME BEFORE THAT JUST HAD AN
00:47:31.18\00:47:34.32
INTENSITY AND HATRED - WHILE
I WAS PREACHING THEY INTERRUPTED
00:47:34.32\00:47:38.29
THE SERMONS AND YOU JUST KNEW
- I SAID, 'THE DEVIL IS IN THAT
00:47:38.29\00:47:41.12
PERSON.' AND THEY JUST - THEY
WANT TO DO YOU VIOLENCE BECAUSE
00:47:41.12\00:47:46.46
THEY'RE CONVICTED BY THE WORD.
SO HERE'S - I'M GOING TO END
00:47:46.46\00:47:52.17
SECTION 1 BY ASKING THIS: CAN WE
WIN THE BATTLE AGAINST THE DEVIL
00:47:52.17\00:47:57.27
IN THIS
SPIRITUAL WARFARE? >>YES.
00:47:57.27\00:47:59.34
>>LET ME GIVE
YOU A FEW PROMISES.
00:47:59.34\00:48:00.68
I'LL GIVE YOU MORE
LATER. COLOSSIANS 1:13, "HE HAS
00:48:00.68\00:48:04.71
DELIVERED US FROM THE POWER
OF DARKNESS AND CONVEYED US INTO
00:48:04.71\00:48:09.52
THE KINGDOM OF THE
SON" - HE WILL OR HE HAS?
00:48:09.52\00:48:11.95
>>HAS. >>YOU CAN
- THE KINGDOM OF GOD
00:48:11.95\00:48:14.42
IS AT HAND - YOU CAN LEAVE
THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS THAT
00:48:14.42\00:48:17.13
ENCOMPASSES THIS WORLD
- THE WHOLE WORLD IS IN
00:48:17.13\00:48:19.13
DARKNESS, WE READ. 1
JOHN 2:13, "I WRITE TO YOU,
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YOUNG MEN, BECAUSE YOU
HAVE OVERCOME THE WICKED ONE."
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CAN WE OVERCOME
THE WICKED ONE? >>YES.
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>>1 JOHN 4:4, "YOU ARE OF
GOD, LITTLE CHILDREN, AND HAVE
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OVERCOME THEM, BECAUSE HE WHO IS
IN YOU IS GREATER THAN HE WHO IS
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IN THE WORLD." AND WHO IS
HE TALKING ABOUT THAT'S IN THE
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WORLD? IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE
DEVIL - BUT HE THAT IS IN YOU IS
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GREATER THAN THE ONE WHO
KEEPS THE WORLD IN DARKNESS.
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SO YES, YOU CAN OVERCOME.
HOW DO WE DEFEAT THE DEVIL?
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NOW THIS IS JUST THE FIRST PART
- PSALM 119, VERSE 11, "YOUR
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WORD I HAVE HIDDEN IN MY HEART,
THAT I MIGHT NOT SIN AGAINST
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YOU." JAMES 4:7,
"THEREFORE SUBMIT TO GOD.
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RESIST THE DEVIL AND
HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU."
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HOW DO YOU
SUBMIT TO GOD? >>PRAYER.
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>>YOU PRAY, YOU SAY, 'LORD, I
AM WILLING TO MAKE YOU LORD AND
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COMPLY WITH YOUR WORD. I
AM GOING TO BE YOUR SERVANT.
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YOU ARE GOING TO BE MY LORD.'
INSTEAD OF SUBMITTING TO THE
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DEVIL AS YOUR LORD, YOU
SUBMIT TO GOD AS YOUR LORD.
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A WILLINGNESS TO OBEY
WHO YOUR NEW MASTER IS.
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IF YOU SUBMIT TO THE LORD, "DRAW
NEAR TO GOD AND HE WILL DRAW
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NEAR TO YOU." THE
DEVIL FLEES FROM YOU.
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"CLEANSE YOUR HANDS, YOU
SINNERS; AND PURIFY YOUR HEARTS,
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YOU DOUBLE-MINDED." YOU
KNOW, IN THE LORD'S PRAYER,
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WHEN IT SAYS,
'DELIVER US FROM EVIL'?
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YOU KNOW WHAT IT
ACTUALLY SAYS IN THE ORIGINAL?
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YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN THE
NEW KING JAMES AND SOME OF THE
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OTHER TRANSLATIONS - IT
LITERALLY SAYS, 'DELIVER US FROM
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THE EVIL ONE.' NOW, THE FACT
THAT THE LORD'S PRAYER SAYS,
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'GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY
BREAD' IMPLIES THAT EVERY DAY WE
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NEED TO BE PRAYING THAT GOD WILL
DELIVER US FROM THE EVIL ONE,
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BECAUSE EVERY DAY WE
ARE HARASSED BY THE DEVIL.
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AND I'LL GIVE YOU ONE MORE.
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1 PETER 5:8 AND 9, "BE SOBER, BE
VIGILANT; BECAUSE YOUR ADVERSARY
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THE DEVIL WALKS ABOUT LIKE A
ROARING LION" - LIONS LIKE TO
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SNEAK UP THROUGH THE BUSHES
- "SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR.
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RESIST HIM, STEADFAST IN
THE FAITH, KNOWING THAT THE SAME
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SUFFERINGS ARE EXPERIENCED BY
YOUR BROTHERHOOD IN THE WORLD."
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CHRISTIANS EVERYWHERE ARE
STRUGGLING WITH TEMPTATION AND
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MANY ARE BEING VICTORIOUS AND
YOU CAN BE VICTORIOUS - IS WHAT
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HE'S SAYING.
PETER SAYS, 'RESIST HIM
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STEADFAST' WHAT
DID WE START WITH?
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STAND, THEREFORE, WITH THE ARMOR
OF GOD BECAUSE YOU DON'T WRESTLE
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AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD BUT
BY - AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES AND
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POWERS. JESUS FOUGHT
THE DEVIL WITH THE WORD.
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NOT TOO LONG AGO NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC DID A SPECIAL ON THE
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ALASKAN BULL MOOSE AND I DON'T
KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER SEEN ONE -
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IF - YOU'VE GOT TO BE VERY
CAREFUL; SOME OF THESE TOURISTS,
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THEY'LL SEE A BIG BULL MOOSE OUT
THERE ON THE ROAD IN ALASKA AND
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THEY GO, 'OH, I WANT TO GET
A PICTURE.' AND MORE PEOPLE ARE
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KILLED BY MOOSE
IN ALASKA THAN BEAR.
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AND YOU'VE JUST GOT TO BE REAL
- ESPECIALLY DURING THE MATING
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SEASON. WHAT THE
BULL MOOSE DO IS, YOU
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KNOW, WHOEVER IS THE ALPHA MOOSE
- IS THAT WHAT THEY CALL THEM?
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THEY'VE GOT THE BIGGEST RACK
OF HORNS - THEY FIGHT WITH THE
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OTHER MOOSE AND THEIR PRINCIPLE
WEAPON IS THESE MASSIVE RACKS
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THAT THEY HAVE AND IF, DURING A
BATTLE, IF ONE OF THE MOOSE - IF
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HIS RACK ISN'T WELL DEVELOPED
AND STRONG AND IT SNAPS OFF,
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IT'S OVER. HE IS
GOING TO HAVE TO SUBMIT.
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AND WHAT THEY SAID IN THE
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ARTICLE IS
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THE MOOSE ARE REALLY WINNING
THE BATTLE BEFORE THE BATTLE
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DEPENDING UPON HOW THEY
FEED THROUGH THE SPRING AND THE
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SUMMER. THOSE
ONES WHO FEED ON THE
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BEST AND MOST NUTRITIOUS FOOD,
DEVELOP THE BIGGEST RACKS AND
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THE MOST MASS SO THAT THEY CAN
WIN THE BATTLE. I MEAN, THAT'S
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KIND OF HOW IT IS WITH US - I
DON'T MEAN TO COMPARE YOU WITH A
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BULL MOOSE, BUT IT'S FEEDING NOW
ON THE WORD THAT PREPARES US FOR
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THE TIMES OF
TRIAL THAT COME. >>AMEN.
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>>IF WE ARE FEEDING OUR SOULS,
THAT'S GOING TO BE THE KEY TO
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OUR VICTORY. >>AMEN.
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>>AND SO, IN THESE NEXT COUPLE
OF PRESENTATIONS, WE'RE GOING TO
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BE TALKING ABOUT
SOMETHING VERY REAL, FRIENDS.
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WE ARE ENTERING THE LAST
DAYS AND WE'RE GOING TO FEEL
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SPIRITUAL BATTLES AND GOD HAS
GIVEN US THE TOOLS SO THAT WE
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DON'T NEED TO BE
OVERCOME. >>AMEN.
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>>HAS THE DEVIL
BEEN HARASSING YOU?
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MAYBE SOME OF YOU ARE WONDERING
IF YOU'RE POSSESSED IN SOME AREA
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- HE'S GOT YOU - HE'S GOT A HOLD
ON YOUR LIFE AND YOU WANT TO BE
00:52:55.27\00:52:58.64
FREE. THE KEY IS
GOING TO BE FOUND
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IN THE WORD - IN CLAIMING
THE PROMISES OF GOD AND HE
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WILL GIVE YOU STRENGTH. (MUSIC)
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>>AMONG THE PEOPLE
LIVING IN THE TROPICS, FOR
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THOUSANDS OF YEARS, THE COCONUT
HAS BEEN A VIRTUAL TREE OF LIFE.
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THE PEOPLE USE IT FOR FOOD, FOR
CLOTHING, FOR WATER, FOR TOOLS,
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SOAP - IT DOES
JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING.
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THE COCONUT HAS ALSO
SAVED A LOT OF LIVES.
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DURING WORLD WAR II, PILOTS THAT
WERE SHOT DOWN OR SAILORS THAT
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WERE STRANDED ON PACIFIC
ISLANDS, THEY LIVED FOR MANY
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MONTHS ON NOTHING OTHER THAN THE
COCONUT TREES THAT WERE ON THEIR
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ISLANDS. YESSIR, THE
COCONUT IS A TREE OF LIFE.
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ONE OF THE AMAZING THINGS ABOUT
THE COCONUT IS THEY'RE DESIGNED
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SO THEY'RE ACTUALLY
ABLE TO FLOAT ACROSS OCEANS.
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COCONUTS CAN GO THOUSANDS
OF MILES AFTER MANY MONTHS, BE
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WASHED UP ON SOME DESERTED SANDY
BEACH, THEN THEY TAKE ROOT,
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SPROUT, COME TO LIFE, AND
THEY'LL DEVELOP A WHOLE NEW
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ECOSYSTEM, HOLDING ISLANDS
IN PLACE THROUGH A HURRICANE.
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WHEN THE ANCIENT POLYNESIAN
TRAVELERS CROSSING OCEANS SAW AN
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ISLAND WITH COCONUT
TREES, THEY KNEW THERE WAS HOPE.
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IT'S AMAZING HOW, IN VIRTUALLY
NO TIME AT ALL, THOSE LIVING ON
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PACIFIC ISLANDS KNOW HOW TO MAKE
BASKETS AND ALL KINDS OF TOOLS
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FROM THE LEAVES
OF THE COCONUT TREE.
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THE COCONUTS EVEN SERVE
DIFFERENT PURPOSES AT DIFFERENT
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TIMES IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT.
THE YOUNGER, GREEN COCONUTS,
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THEY'RE FULL OF WATER
AND THAT'LL KEEP YOU ALIVE.
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YOU CAN EVEN MAKE YOUR
UTENSILS FROM THE COCONUT.
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MY SPOON IS PART OF THE
GREEN SHELL AND HERE, THIS IS A
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COCONUT JELLY -
MAKES GOOD FOR BREAKFAST.
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THE MORE MATURE COCONUTS, THAT'S
WHERE YOU GET THE MEAT - BUT YOU
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WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE
NOT BAD AND THE WAY THAT YOU
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TEST THIS IS YOU CAN
HEAR THE WATER INSIDE.
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HERE, BRING THAT MIC
OVER HERE. CAN YOU HEAR IT?
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THAT'S A GOOD ONE.
HOW ABOUT WE TAKE A BITE?
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NOW THAT MAKES A MEAL THAT
WILL REALLY FILL YOU UP AND IT
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CLEANS YOUR
TEETH AT THE SAME TIME.
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THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE, JESUS USES
A NUMBER OF METAPHORS TO REMIND
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US THAT EVERYTHING WE
NEED TO SURVIVE COMES FROM HIM.
00:55:16.81\00:55:20.18
HE SAYS THAT
HE'S THE LIVING WATER.
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JESUS TELLS US THAT
HE IS THE BREAD OF LIFE.
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HIS ROBE COVERS US
WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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HE IS OUR GOOD
SHEPHERD THAT PROTECTS US.
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JESUS IS THE LIVING VINE THROUGH
WHICH WE GET OUR LIFE AND OUR
00:55:29.92\00:55:33.13
NOURISHMENT. YOU
MIGHT SAY JESUS IS LIKE THE
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COCONUT TREE - A TREE OF LIFE.
YOU KNOW, THE FIRST FEW VERSES
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IN THE BIBLE TELL THAT GOD
PROVIDED A TREE OF LIFE FOR MAN
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SO THAT HE COULD LIVE FOREVER.
BUT, BECAUSE OF SIN, MAN WAS
00:55:43.17\00:55:46.41
SEPARATED FROM THAT
TREE AND FROM THE GARDEN.
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BUT THROUGH TRUSTING IN JESUS
AND TRUSTING IN HIS SACRIFICE ON
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THE CROSS, WE ONCE AGAIN WILL
HAVE ACCESS TO THE TREE OF LIFE
00:55:52.08\00:55:55.55
AND HAVE ETERNAL LIFE
WITH HIM IN THE KINGDOM.
00:55:55.55\00:55:58.05
BUT THIS IS ALL MADE POSSIBLE
BECAUSE WE TRUST IN JESUS,
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WHO IS THE REAL TREE OF LIFE.
00:56:01.19\00:56:03.46
JESUS SAID, 'UNLESS YOU EAT
MY FLESH AND DRINK MY BLOOD, YOU
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HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU.' BUT
WHEN WE ACCEPT CHRIST AS OUR
00:56:06.13\00:56:08.83
SACRIFICE, AND WE ALLOW HIM TO
CLEANSE US AND FILL US WITH HIS
00:56:08.83\00:56:11.90
SPIRIT, WE BECOME NEW CREATURES
AND WE CAN BE WITH HIM IN
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SHARING THE GIFT OF
EVERLASTING LIFE WITH OTHERS.
00:56:15.30\00:56:18.07
MATTER OF FACT, WE COULD DO THAT
RIGHT NOW BY TOSSING A COCONUT
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OUT AND PRAYING THAT IT LANDS
ON A DESERTED BEACH. (MUSIC)
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>>AMAZING FACTS BEGAN IN 1965
WITH A GOD-INSPIRED CONCEPT.
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>>HELLO, THIS IS JOE CREWS
AND THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST
00:56:53.31\00:56:56.71
FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU.
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>>EACH RADIO BROADCAST WOULD
BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM
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SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY,
FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT
00:57:02.35\00:57:06.52
TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS
FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE.
00:57:06.52\00:57:10.33
THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT
SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON
00:57:10.33\00:57:13.96
BEGAN EXPANDING TO
INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS.
00:57:13.96\00:57:17.10
IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED
THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS
00:57:17.10\00:57:21.44
GROWING OUTREACH
EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING
00:57:21.44\00:57:24.57
EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES
FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD.
00:57:24.57\00:57:28.84
IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE
00:57:28.84\00:57:32.61
MINISTRY, ADDING THE
BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO
00:57:32.61\00:57:36.12
PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY
TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON
00:57:36.12\00:57:39.99
MULTIPLE
NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD.
00:57:39.99\00:57:43.19
FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION
OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE
00:57:43.19\00:57:47.96
BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE
EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A
00:57:47.96\00:57:51.53
TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE
GLOBE, AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND
00:57:51.53\00:57:55.17
WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH
THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
00:57:55.17\00:57:57.87
EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE - THE
MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S CHURCH
00:57:57.87\00:58:02.51
SEE A RICH HARVEST OF SOULS.
00:58:02.51\00:58:06.05
AMAZING FACTS: GOD'S
MESSAGE, OUR MISSION.
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(MUSIC)
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